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"There is one political party in this country, and that is the party of money. It has two branches, the Republicans
and the Democrats, the chief difference between which is that the Democrats are better at concealing their scorn for the average
man."
-- Gore Vidal
“The Democrats are the foxes, and the Republicans are the wolves – and they both want to devour you.” So what does that
make Libertarians? Avian flu viruses?”
-- Leonard Pinkney
The race is no contest when you own both horses. That is why no matter which political party is in power nothing
really changes other than the packaging. The puppets who drink at the champagne fountains of the powerful do the bidding of their
masters. The people are superfluous to the process.
Politically the most Wetern countries including the USA are oligarchies disguised as liberal democracies. The USA is essentially a single party state -- it is governed
by the Neoliberal Party with two factions "soft neoliberals" (Democratic Party) and "hard neoliberals" (Republican Party). Existence
of "Pepsi" and "Coca-Cola" parties is enforced by "First after the post rule"
and is just a sophisticated variant of "divide and conquer" strategy. It could have been used by the USSR leadership instead of
one party system. Intelligence agencies play important role in selection of two candidate for Presidential elections, representing
a hidden third, "Inner Party," which is exerting significant control on the selection of candidates and in case of
Trump was engaged in derailing first his candidacy and then his Presidency
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Pennsylvania 's
top election official has decertified the voting system of rural Fulton County for future elections, saying
that an election assessment by a third party had violated the Keystone State's election code,
according to a release on Wednesday.
Acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid, an appointee of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf,
informed the Fulton County Board of Elections that she "did not arrive at this decision
lightly."
Wake Technology Services Inc. (Wake TSI), a software company based in West Chester,
Pennsylvania, had carried out an election assessment that involved its workers visiting Fulton
County in December 2020 and in early February.
The company in May released a report that concluded the election was "well-run" and did not
indicate any signs of fraud in Fulton County. However,
five "issues of note" were uncovered , three of which are related to Dominion Voting Systems ,
whose electronic voting system was used in the county for the 2020 election.
"While these may seem minor, the impact on an election can be huge," Wake TSI said of the
five issues. At the time, Dominion disputed the report's findings.
The Pennsylvania Department of State said in a statement on Wednesday that
Wake TSI's access to the Fulton County's voting system "undermined the chain of custody
requirements and strict access limitations necessary to prevent both intentional and
inadvertent tampering with electronic voting systems."
It added that the "unauthorized access" prevents the vendor -- Dominion -- from "affirming
that the system continues to meet state and federal certification standards."
Fulton county officials had allowed Wake TSI to "access certain key components of its
certified system, including the county's election database, results files, and Windows systems
logs," and to "use a system imaging tool to take complete hard drive images of these computers
and other digital equipment," the department noted.
"These actions were taken in a manner that was not transparent," Degraffenreid said in her
letter to Fulton County officials on Tuesday. She said the access given to Wake TSI has
caused Fulton County's voting system to be "compromised," and that neither the county, state
officials, nor Dominion could now "verify that the impacted components of Fulton County's
leased voting system are safe to use in future elections."
"I have no other choice but to decertify the use of Fulton County's leased Dominion
Democracy Suite 5.5A voting system last used in the November 2020 election," Degraffenreid
wrote.
The Fulton County Board of Elections and Wake TSI did not immediately respond to requests
for comment.
The Pennsylvania Department of State previously said that a risk-limiting audit of the 2020
election has confirmed the state's election results.
The
Pennsylvania Capital-Star reported that Fulton County needed to pay $25,000 to lease new
equipment for its municipal elections in May, because Dominion refused to let the county use
the voting machines that Wake TSI had accessed. According to the outlet, Dominion told the
county that it violated its contract in letting a unaccredited and non-certified company
inspect the machines.
Wake TSI's assessment in Fulton County was "set" by Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano, a
Republican, according to a Dec. 31, 2020 document
signed by the company that was obtained and published by the Arizona Mirror and The Washington
Post. Wake TSI said in its report that Mastriano and Pennsylvania Sen. Judy Ward, also a
Republican, "were aware of our efforts."
The document also said that Wake TSI was "contracted to Defending the Republic," a nonprofit
founded by lawyer Sidney Powell, who has alleged that widespread fraud occurred in the 2020
election.
Mastriano earlier this month
issued letters to York, Tioga, and Philadelphia counties requesting that they voluntarily
submit information and materials by July 31, to enable what he calls a "forensic investigation"
of the 2020 and 2021 elections. He told The Epoch Times that he seeks for an investigation that
would be "a big deep dive, like we saw in Arizona, but even deeper."
Wake TSI was also involved in the election audit still underway in Arizona's Maricopa County
up until
its contract expired in May. The audit in Maricopa County was ordered by the Arizona state
Senate's Republican majority. Dominion machines in Maricopa County will also be
replaced .
Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican, said the machines were not tampered with
during the audit and questioned the Board of Supervisors' decision to get new machines.
"If their experts can't prove the machines have not been tampered with, then how does the
[Secretary of State's office] or County Elections certify the machines before every audit to
make sure the machines haven't been tampered with?" she asked in June.
Money is the most important fuel in the world economy today. Those who monopolize money
production become de facto OWNERS that control & steal human labor, resources, profits
... in perpetuity. Any nation not speaking out against monetary imperialism, hegemony &
dominance, is COMPLICIT in its crimes.
"Americans have a choice. Either continue to quarrel over trivialities or wake up, really
wake up, to the reality being planned and do something about it.
The future is shaped by investment choices. Not by naughty speech, not even by elections,
but by investment choices. For the people to regain power, they must reassert their command
over how and for what purposes capital is invested. And if private capital balks, it must be
socialized. This is the only revolution – and it is also the only conservatism, the
only way to conserve DECENT human life. It is what real politics is about."
"The true equation is 'democracy' = government by world financiers."
– J.R.R. Tolkien
Update (2130ET): Tucker Carlson responded to today's 'unmasking' - namely an Axios report
which accuses him of trying to set up an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"I'm an American citizen, I can interview whoever I want - and plan to," said the Fox News
host.
Presented without further comment, along with Carlson's sit-down with journalist Glenn
Greenwald, who broke the Edward Snowden revelations about domestic spying and other illicit
activities conducted by the US government.
Last week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said in a bombshell broadcast that an NSA
whistleblower had approached him with evidence that the National Security Agency
has been spying on his communications , with the intent to leak his emails to the press and
'take this show off the air.'
Today, Carlson told Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo that the emails have in fact been leaked
to journalists - at least one of whom has contacted him for what we presume is an upcoming
article on their contents.
"I was in Washington for a funeral last week and ran into someone I know well, who said '
I have a message for you ,' and then proceeded to repeat back to me details from emails and
texts that I sent, and had told no one else about. So it was verified. And the person said
'the NSA has this,' and that was proven by the person reading back the contents of the email,
'and they're going to use it against you.'
To be blunt with you, it was something I would have never said in public if it was wrong,
or illegal, or immoral. They don't actually have anything on me, but they do have my emails.
So I knew they were spying on me, and again, to be totally blunt with you - as a defensive
move, I thought 'I better say this out loud.'"
"Then, yesterday, I learned that - and this is going to come out soon - that the NSA
leaked the contents of my email to journalists in an effort to discredit me. I know, because
I got a call from one of them who said 'this is what your email was about.'
So, it is not in any way a figment of my imagination. It's confirmed. It's true. They
aren't allowed to spy on American citizens - they are. I think more ominously, they're using
the information they gather to put leverage and to threaten opposition journalists, people
who criticize the Biden administration. It's happening to me right now..."
" This is the stuff of banana republics and third-world countries ," replied Bartiromo.
As of July 2, 2021 out of 4456 total deaths attributed to vaccination (of them 1890 after
vaccination with Pfizer), it looks like there were at least 36 death of people aged less then 30
years after vaccination with Pfizer vaccine (out of 61 total). Around 136 millions were fully
vaccinated,.
Other sources list higher figure (6113)
CDC- 6,113 DEAD Following COVID-19 Injections ("Besides the 6,113 deaths reported, there are
5,172 permanent disabilities, 6,435 life threatening events, and 51,558 emergency room visits."
)so my method of extracting those data from VAERS database might be wrong or not all death are
reported to VAERS.
Another 5 young people were crippled but survived (67 total).
Each year, more than 165 million Americans get the flu shot. There were 85 reported
deaths following influenza vaccination in 2017; 119 deaths in 2018; and 203 deaths in
2019
Between mid-December 2020 and April 23, 2021, at which point between 95 million and 100
million Americans had received their COVID-19 shots, there were 3,544 reported deaths
following COVID vaccination, or about 30 per day
In just four months, the COVID-19 vaccines have killed more people than all available
vaccines combined from mid-1997 until the end of 2013 -- a period of 15.5 years
As of April 23, 2021, VAERS had also received 12,618 reports of serious adverse events.
In total, 118,902 adverse event reports had been filed
In the European Union, the EudraVigilance system had as of April 17, 2021, received
330,218 injury reports after vaccination with one of the four available COVID vaccines,
including 7,766 deaths
In a May 5, 2021, Fox News report, Tucker Carlson asked the question no one is really
allowed to ask: "How many Americans have died after taking the COVID vaccine?"
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Then there's not selling Syria the latest S#00 system to help keep Israel out of Syrian
skies. That tells me he's using Syria for personal / State gain and that is where he's wrong.
That's what makes him just another politician.
I totally get it, there are things that are puzzling to those of us in the audience,
watching the moves from afar.
An advanced S-300 or S-400 system could paint every F-16 as it took off from Israel. This
would be a red line for Israel and would bring in Uncle Shmuel.
Syria (and by extension Russia) has been allowing Israel to overfly her territory and bomb
Hezbollah installations.
It's puzzling – why would you allow a foreign power to bomb your territory, especially
if you have S-300's. The answer must be that Syria and Russia are holding back on purpose for
reasons only known to them. I can speculate, in that they don't want to give away military
capability unless the war goes hot.
Think about the situation now, as opposed to the 90's. Russia's military has been
modernized; Military physical fitness is up by 30% (better nutrition?); Foreign exchange is in
good shape; the economy is modernizing; food production is up – so Russia is no longer
food insecure; oil can be extracted at prices that Saudi cannot compete with; the Artic route
is opening up; national economy is more diversified thanks to the western sanctions; Yamal LNG
will be fueling Asia; Nordstream will be fueling Europe.
"... De Garay explained that after receiving the second coronavirus vaccine dose, her daughter started developing severe abdominal and chest pains. Maddie described the severity of the pain to her mother as "it feels like my heart is being ripped out through my neck." ..."
"... The Ohio mother added her daughter experienced additional symptoms that included gastroparesis, nausea, vomiting, erratic blood pressure, heart rate, and memory loss. "She still cannot digest food. She has a tube to get her nutrition," De Garay said to Carlson. "She also couldn't walk at one point, then she could I don't understand why and [physicians] are not looking into why...now she's back in a wheelchair and she can't hold her neck up. Her neck pulls back." ..."
"... De Garay said she had joined a Facebook support group to help people cope with the unexpected events happening from the coronavirus vaccine trial, and she said it was shut down. "It's just not right," she said. ..."
"... Sen. Ron Johnson , R-Wis., has sent letters to the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna seeking answers about adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine following a June 28 press conference with affected individuals. The conference in Milwaukee included stories from five people, including De Garay ..."
"... The Wisconsin senator noted that some adverse reactions were detailed in Pfizer's and Moderna's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization (EUA) memorandums following early clinical trials ..."
"... Those reactions included nervous system disorders and musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders for the Pfizer EUA memo. The Moderna EUA memo included reactions such as nervous system disorders, vascular disorders and musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders, according to Johnson's letter. ..."
"... You missed the whole point! The issue is that the government is not acknowledging and and not reporting these side effects of the vaccine. Instead they are lying about the safety. If you are young, you are much more likely to get sick and injured by the vaccine than COVID. ..."
"... anyone under 25 should not get the vaccine because the percentages are about the same or worse having a negative impact from the vaccine versus the actual virus. ..."
"... With the Covid19 mortality rate among the children why even vaccinate? As a Chemist / Biochemist I learned that there is always unintended consequences. ..."
"... Vaccines may have long term effects that are not known today. ..."
"... The CDC's generic guidelines for getting a vaccine for any reason are very restrictive, first being, the disease you're getting vaccinated against has to pose a real, immediate danger. CV-19 poses virtually no danger whatsoever to kids under 14. Of all the deaths of children 14 and under in the last 18 months only .8% of them had a case of CV-19. That's 367 deaths out of over 46,000. (Data from CDC website) Forcing them to take an experimental vaccine that they absolutely don't need is criminal. As a parent, allowing your child to take the vaccine without spending a few hours doing some research is criminally negligent. This is like some terribly warped Kafka novel but it's real. ..."
Mother Stephanie De Garay joins 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' to discuss how her 12-year-old
daughter volunteered for the Pfizer vaccine trial and is now in a wheelchair.
An Ohio mother is speaking out
about her 12-year-old daughter suffering extreme reactions and nearly dying after volunteering
for the Pfizer coronavirus
vaccine trial.
Stephanie De Garay told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Thursday
that after reaching out to multiple physicians they claimed her daughter, Maddie De Garay,
couldn't have become gravely ill from the vaccine.
"The only diagnosis we've gotten for her is that it's conversion disorder or functional
neurologic symptom disorder, and they are blaming it on anxiety," De Garay told Tucker Carlson.
"Ironically, she did not have anxiety before the vaccine."
De Garay explained that after receiving the second coronavirus vaccine dose, her daughter
started developing severe abdominal and chest pains. Maddie described the severity of the pain
to her mother as "it feels like my heart is being ripped out through my neck."
The Ohio mother added her daughter experienced additional symptoms that included
gastroparesis, nausea, vomiting, erratic blood pressure, heart rate, and memory loss. "She still cannot digest food. She has a tube to get her nutrition," De Garay said to
Carlson. "She also couldn't walk at one point, then she could I don't understand why and
[physicians] are not looking into why...now she's back in a wheelchair and she can't hold her
neck up. Her neck pulls back."
Carlson asked whether any officials from the Biden administration or representatives from
Pfizer company have reached out to the family. "No, they have not," she answered.
"The response with the person that's leading the vaccine trial has been atrocious," she
said. "We wanted to know what symptoms were reported and we couldn't even get an answer on
that. It was just that 'we report to Pfizer and they report to the FDA.' That's all we
got."
After her heartbreaking experience, the Ohio mother said she's still "pro-vaccine, but also
pro-informed consent." De Garay mentioned she's speaking out because she feels like everyone
should be fully aware of this tragic incident and added the situation is being "pushed down and
hidden."
De Garay said she had joined a Facebook support group to help people cope with the
unexpected events happening from the coronavirus vaccine trial, and she said it was shut
down. "It's just not right," she said.
"They need to do research and figure out why this happened, especially to people in the
trial. I thought that was the point of it," De Garay concluded. "They need to come up with
something that's going to treat these people early because all they're going to do is keep
getting worse."
Sen. Ron
Johnson , R-Wis., has sent letters to the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna seeking answers
about adverse reactions to the COVID-19vaccine
following a June 28 press conference with affected individuals. The conference in Milwaukee
included stories from five people, including De Garay.
The Wisconsin senator noted that some adverse reactions were detailed in Pfizer's and
Moderna's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization (EUA) memorandums
following early clinical trials.
Those reactions included nervous system disorders and musculoskeletal and connective tissue
disorders for the Pfizer EUA memo. The Moderna EUA memo included reactions such as nervous
system disorders, vascular disorders and musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders,
according to Johnson's letter.
Pfizer and Moderna did not immediately respond to inquiries from Fox News about Johnson's
letters.
J jeff5150357 6 hours ago
My daughter had the same thing happen to
her after getting a flu vaccine 9 years ago. Within days of getting it, she went from being as
healthy as an ox to years of awful, unexplained illness. The short version is they concluded
that she had a severe adverse reaction to the vaccine, but from the delivery chemicals, not the
flu content itself. Formaldehyde was the likely major cause. Now she is getting ready to begin
college and is being required to get the Covid vaccine by her university and the NCAA for
athletics. It is causing her, my wife and I horrible anxiety and we feel like we are being
railroaded into something that could be very dangerous for her. Any discussion or concern
expressed on social media is immediately blocked. I know from years of working in the research
grants office at Yale University that the big pharma industry is powerful and will go to great
lengths to control the narrative. What I don't understand is why mainstream media and social
media are so willing to help them these days!
jeff5150357 4 hours ago
While the college experience is great for a young adult. I would look at getting a degree
online. Her future earnings will be based on her merit, not where she went to school. If
someone was telling me what to do with my personal health, and I was uncomfortable with their
prescription, I would follow my instincts.
LoraJane92649 jeff5150357 5
hours ago
If her flu vax is well documented she should be able to get a waiver. Hopefully you
have an able bodied family physician or medical team to advocate on your behalf.
G gunvald 7 hours ago
You know when you take it that there can be adverse
reactions. So, in that sense, you are informed. Any one of us could be the odd person. That
said, I have a problem with any child getting these vaccines, especially when most people
recover from the disease. It's one thing for me as an elderly person to make the decision to
take it as covid affects the elderly person more and I wanted to avoid that ventilator. Most of
my life has been lived and that's how I evaluated it. This will always come down to putting it
in God's hands.
TheTruthAsItIs gunvald 6 hours ago
You missed the whole point! The
issue is that the government is not acknowledging and and not reporting these side effects of the
vaccine. Instead they are lying about the safety. If you are young, you are much more likely to
get sick and injured by the vaccine than COVID.
D DontDestoryUSA
gunvald 4 hours ago
It's not being informed when you are forced to take a vaccination that they
clearly had trouble with past vaccination sounds like a lawsuit for the university is on the
horizon. With a big pay day
Tony5SFG 7 hours ago
"Ohio
mother said she's still "pro-vaccine, but also pro-informed consent." " And as a pediatrician
for over 40 yrs (retired now) and a 10 year member of my medical school's Institutional Review
Board (which had to approve all human research), THAT is a problem I have been bringing up As
far as requiring all young people, such as entering or in college, to get the vaccine Children
are a protected class and the informed consent for research on them is much more strenuous than
for adults And, requiring young people to take these new vaccines is the equivalent of doing
research on them. The issue of myocarditis is quite troubling. And while it has been seen in
natural infections, I have not yet seen an adequate risk - benefit evaluation regarding risking
natural infection versus vaccination And people say that the myocarditis is not severe, no one
can be sure of the long term effects of a young person getting it. The vaccines that we give
children have been used for decades and the risks/benefits have been well established
D DallasAmEmail Tony5SFG 6 hours ago
A friends daughter who just went through internship as
Physicians assistant based on the percentages in age groups believes anyone under 25 should not
get the vaccine because the percentages are about the same or worse having a negative impact
from the vaccine versus the actual virus. Yes, older age groups the percent having negative
impact from the virus is much greater than the vaccine, so yes older age groups should get the
vaccine. What really is bothersome is when Youtube removes Dr. Robert Malone video who helped
create the mrna vaccine express concern that normal testing has not happened and be cautious
about taking it, especially for the young.
marinesfather601 Tony5SFG 5
hours ago
With the Covid19 mortality rate among the children why even vaccinate? As a Chemist /
Biochemist I learned that there is always unintended consequences.
Hilltopper9 7 hours ago
Vaccines may have long term effects that are not known
today. The same could be said of all the chemicals we apply to our body daily through shampoos,
hair dyes, body lotions, and suntan lotions. Life's a gamble. It's up to each individual to
make the best decisions possible given the facts available.
A akbushrat
Hilltopper9 6 hours ago
The CDC's generic guidelines for getting a vaccine for any reason are
very restrictive, first being, the disease you're getting vaccinated against has to pose a
real, immediate danger. CV-19 poses virtually no danger whatsoever to kids under 14. Of all the
deaths of children 14 and under in the last 18 months only .8% of them had a case of CV-19.
That's 367 deaths out of over 46,000. (Data from CDC website) Forcing them to take an
experimental vaccine that they absolutely don't need is criminal. As a parent, allowing your
child to take the vaccine without spending a few hours doing some research is criminally
negligent. This is like some terribly warped Kafka novel but it's real.
F
Fauxguy930 Hilltopper9 5 hours ago
☢️ N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine is a
nitrosamine that has butyl and 4-hydroxybutyl substituents. In mice, it causes high-grade,
invasive cancers in the urinary bladder, but not in any other tissues. It has a role as a
carcinogenic agent. Ingredient in all shots. How did a carcinogen get FDA approved, oh it was
an emergency.
R RussellRika 6 hours ago
I have a
twelve year old, and not a chance I'd allow her to volunteer for any vaccine trial, and
especially not this one. She very much wanted to get a vaccine, until she started reading about
some of the adverse reactions. Sorry, but I'm a child, the benefit does not outweigh the risk.
MrEd50 6 hours ago
I took the vaccine because I'm 60 years old and work with special ed kids. My 18 year old child
refuses to take it and I support him on this. COVID shouldn't be an issue for most of us.
"Objective judgement is our jugement about the people we do not like ;-)"
In view of the fact that Delta (Indian) variant can infect vaccinated with the first
generation of vaccines people Fauci statement "when you get vaccinated, you not only protect your
own health, that of the family, but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the
spread of the virus throughout the community." i obviously wrong.
Delta Covid-19 Variant Can Infect Vaccinated People
Those who don't get their news from mainstream media have been aware of Anthony Fauci's
connection to "gain of function" research for months. Now, mainstream media is picking it up so
the White House is scrambling.
For months, there wasn't a day that went by when Dr. Anthony Fauci wasn't doing multiple
interviews spreading fear of Covid-19, demanding people take the various "vaccines," and
changing his talking points from moment to moment on a slew of healthcare-related issues. We
saw a clear change last week when the White House's chief doc seemed to fly under the radar for
the first time since Joe Biden took office.
It all comes down to "gain of function" research that is almost certainly the cause of the
Wuhan Flu. Developed in the Wuhan Virology Lab, Covid-19 either escaped or was intentionally
released. While many in academia still hold onto the notion that the pandemic was started by
bats, they do so simply because it hasn't -- and likely cannot -- be completely ruled out as
long as the Chinese Communist Party has a say in the matter. But many are now accepting the
likelihood that it came from the Wuhan Virology Lab as a result of "gain of function"
research.
We also now know that Fauci has been a
huge proponent of this research and he participated
in funding it at the Wuhan Virology Lab.
More evidence is emerging every day despite the bad doctor's protestations. And when I say
"we also now know," that's to say more mainstream media watchers know. Those who turn to
alternative media have known about Fauci's involvement with the Wuhan Virology Lab for a
while.
They've been trying to cover their tracks. A bombshell revelation from The
National Pulse yesterday showed they realized this was going to be a problem long before
Rand Paul
or Tucker Carlson started
calling Fauci out.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology scrubbed the U.S. National Institutes of Health as one
of its research partners from its website in early 2021. The revelation comes despite Dr.
Anthony Fauci insisting no relationship existed between the institutions.
Archived versions of the Wuhan lab's site also reveal a research update – "
Will SARS Come Back? " – appearing to describe gain-of-function research being
conducted at the institute by entities funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci's National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
On March 21st, 2021, the lab's website listed six U.S.-based research partners:
University of Alabama, University of North Texas, EcoHealth Alliance, Harvard University, The
National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States, and the National Wildlife
Federation.
One day later, the page was revised to contain just two research
partners – EcoHealth Alliance and the University of Alabama. By March 23rd,
EcoHealth Alliance was the sole partner
remaining .
The Wuhan Institute of Virology's decision to wipe the NIH from its website came amidst
heightened
scrutiny that the lab was the source of COVID-19 – and that U.S. taxpayer dollars
from the NIH may have funded the research. The unearthing of the lab's attempted coverup also
follows a heated
exchange between Senator Rand Paul and Fauci, who attempted to distance his organization
from the Wuhan lab.
Beyond establishing a working relationship between the NIH and the Wuhan Institue of
Virology, now-deleted posts
from the site also detail studies bearing the hallmarks of gain-of-function research
conducted with the Wuhan-based lab. Fauci, however, asserted to Senator Paul that "the NIH
has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of
Virology."
There is still a tremendous gap between those who know the truth about Fauci and those who
still think he's just a smart little guy who tells Joe Biden what to do when it comes to Covid.
As we've documented multiple times in the past, there seems to be a cult of personality
surrounding Fauci, or as many have called it, Faucism. He is practically worshipped as a savior
by millions who believe everything he says even if he contradicts something he had said in the
past.
Today, he was interviewed on CBS News during "Face the Nation." It was a softball interview,
as always, and at no point was "gain of function" research discussed. Instead, John Dickerson
tried to sound smart and Fauci gave him kudos in an odd back-and-forth promoting vaccines.
JOHN DICKERSON : So, if- if a person is deciding whether or not to get vaccinated, they
have to keep in mind whether it's going to keep them healthy. But based on these new
findings, it would suggest they also have an opportunity, if vaccinated, to knock off or
block their ability to transmit it to other people. So, does it increase the public health
good of getting the vaccination or make that clearer based on these new findings?
DR. FAUCI : And you know, JOHN, you said it very well. I could have said it better.
It's absolutely the case. And that's the reason why we say when you get vaccinated, you not
only protect your own health, that of the family, but also you contribute to the community
health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community. And in other words,
you become a dead end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus
is not going to go anywhere. And that's when you get a point that you have a markedly
diminished rate of infection in the community. And that's exactly the reason, and you said it
very well, of why we encourage people and want people to get vaccinated. The more people you
get vaccinated, the safer the entire community is.
JOHN DICKERSON : And do you think now that this guidance has come out on relaxing the
mass mandates if you've been vaccinated, that people who might have been hesitant before will
start to get vaccinated in greater numbers?
DR. FAUCI : You know, I hope so, JOHN. The underlying reason for the CDC doing this was
just based on the evolution of the science that I mentioned a moment ago. But if, in fact,
this serves as an incentive for people to get vaccinated, all the better. I hope it does,
actually.
Don't let the presence of this interview fool you. It was almost certainly scheduled before
the "gain of function" research discussion hit the mainstream. But as Revolver News reported
today, we should start seeing less and less of Fauci going forward.
What happened to the almighty Dr. Fauci? Last week he was on TV telling all of us that life
wouldn't get back to normal for at least another year or so, and this week he's pretty much
gone. So what happened?
Well, a lot, actually. The biggest turn for Fauci involves 3 little words: Gain of Function.
It was this past week when the "gain of function" dots were publicly connected to the good
doctor. This is nothing new for those of us on the right. Here on Revolver, we've covered
Fauci's gain of function research extensively and the evidence against him is very damning.
A couple of months ago Fox News Host Steve Hilton blew the lid off of Fauci's macabre
obsession (and funding) of research involving the manipulation of highly contagious viruses.
Hilton laid the groundwork, but it was Senator Rand Paul who called out Fauci and his ghoulish
research face to face during a Senate hearing.
But even more notable, is that the CDC just updated their guidelines on mask-wearing and
essentially ended the pandemic -- a pandemic that Fauci has been the proud face of for over a
year now -- and when that announcement hit, he was nowhere to be found. And his absence didn't
go unnoticed.
Yes indeed, you'd think that Fauci would have been front and center to discuss the CDC's new
guidelines the moment the news hit. The "Golden Boy" taking yet another victory lap. After all,
Fauci never misses a moment in the spotlight. But he was not hitting the airwaves with the
typical fanfare.
It is still very possible that Fauci can make a resurgence. His fan-base is up there with
Meghan Markle and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, though even more devoted than the divas'. Unlike
other useful idiots, the White House will not be able to detach easily from Fauci, nor do they
want to. At this point, they're telling him to lay low and avoid any interviews in which they
do not have complete control over the "journalist" involved. John Dickerson has been a Democrat
Party pawn for decades.
Behind the scenes, they're already planning on ditching him. It will be done with all the
pomp one would expect for one of their heroes and will be used to mark the end of the
"emergency" in the United States. He'll still be promoting vaccines and will try to stay in his
precious limelight, but Democrats are ready to move on and open up the country. It has just
been too politically suicidal to persist with their lockdown mentality.
The key to seeing Fauci's narcissistic reign end is for patriots to continue to hammer him
on his involvement with developing Covid-19. His beloved "gain of function research" needs to
be explained to any who will listen. Then, maybe, Fauci will go away.
Sounds like a great book for Tucker to recommend to that Army Chief of Staff!
Notable quotes:
"... I call it ROLE -- The Racism Of Low Expectations. This phenomenon has done ten times more to damage Black lives than can be attributed to CRT or institutionalized racism. ..."
"... A subset of ROLE is MVT. This is Manufactured Victimhood Theory. This comes about from influential Black "leaders" who, instead of teaching Blacks the truth about how to live good lives (work hard, develop skills, etc.), they told them to apply as their life strategy "say you are a victim." ..."
Recently the Joint Chiefs of Staff remarked that the US military should teach CTR to our
military essentially because they shoild teach all theories.
That doesn't make sense to me but I would like to put another theory into the public
sphere. I call it ROLE -- The Racism Of Low Expectations. This phenomenon has done ten times
more to damage Black lives than can be attributed to CRT or institutionalized racism.
A subset of ROLE is MVT. This is Manufactured Victimhood Theory. This comes about from
influential Black "leaders" who, instead of teaching Blacks the truth about how to live good
lives (work hard, develop skills, etc.), they told them to apply as their life strategy "say
you are a victim."
I am hoping that ROLE and MVT will become part of all aspects of American life -- all
levels of education, the military, businesses, the media, etc.
If the goal really is to improve Black lives, ROLE and MVT should be the rage over the
next few years.
Tom F
John Callahan 4 hours ago
Corporate America 'makes money critiquing itself.' The rest of us pay the price in
diminished freedom.
Wokeism is fascism dressed up in new clothes- the censorship, demonization of
groups and individuals and the physical violence against people and property remain the same.
Corporate America has one overriding interest- making money. Paying the left (and yes,
fascism is of the left) through critiquing itself and token monetary donations is a get out
of jail free card for Corporate America.
"Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily
subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it."
- Thomas Sowell
Dom Fried 4 hours ago
It will end the same. Almost, because there will be nobody to stop it.
Ed Baron 3 hours ago
Very well said, John. Fascism is a fundamental element or subset of Leftist or Marxist
thought. It demands conformity of the individual to the new "woke" state and it punishes any
who dissent. It's not incidental that American Leftists, including FDR, loved Mussolini prior
to WWII. That bromance has been washed clean, and attributed instead to the Right. Such a
typical transference technique used by Marxist.
Alex Guiness
I interpret your supposition 'White male global warming', as meaning White Males are
particularly flatulent hence are producing Green House Gases with their diets of greasy meats
(some on sticks), carnival funnel cakes, corn dogs, Philly cheese-steaks, Popeyes fried
chicken, all washed down with Bud Light. Would it kill them to have a salad now and then? How
can their spouses stand to be around them unless they are also consuming the same foods.
Imagine what it must be like at a sermon in a Lutheran Church, the whitest church of all.
They leave the doors open else a spark could set the whole place ablaze.
carol Perry
Thanks for today's chuckle Alex.
Alex Guiness
read my smurfs comment. i just posted it
Lynn Silton
Mr. Ramaswamy is right in every way! I don't belong to the Woke Church. I'll never join.
America is an inspirational country as is all it's written declarations. We, the people rule.
No religion can overrule it. We will not allow religious 'honor killings.' They are murder
here. We will not allow Wokism here it is the murder of our hopes and dreams which belong to
everybody regardless of appearance. I don't even know how appearance (of all things) became a
religion. The whole thing is so sick, people of all shades are speaking out and we will put
this crazy idea down. Here, we marry across all appearances. New people are often different
in appearance than parents. Woke will die of that alone. That's why we have an immigration
'problem' . People love our constitution and Declaration of Independence. People love that
they rule here, not the government. That's our creed and promise. Help protect it!!
VAERS data: "5,888 deaths", "19,597 hospitalizations", "43,891 urgent care", "58,800
office visits", "1,459 anaphylaxis", "1,737 Bell's palsy", "2,190 heart attacks" and "652
miscarriages". CDC says data is "unreliable". You choose who to believe.
WarrenLiz 16 hours ago
Over 15,472 dead from Jab in 27 EU countries, about half of Europe's 50 countries.
The EudraVigilance database reports that through June 19, 2021 there are 15,472 deaths
and 1,509,266 injuries reported following injections of four experimental COVID-19
shots:
The answer to Carlson's question is because.. it's a money grabbing death cult!.
Natural immun system is destroyed... just wait till next flu season or the next virus
they relase and see what death numbers we see!
racing_flowers 17 hours ago
Isn't it curious that the 3 big pharma Corps (think Vacc pushers) and the big 2 MSM
Corps are BOTH controlled by Blackrock Partners Hedge Fund...
Nona Yobiznes 18 hours ago remove link
Them going after the children makes me deeply suspicious. Nobody under 50, unless
they're made of blubber, dies from this. In 2020, there was practically zero excess death
for people younger than 70 years old in Sweden. These are their official statistics. For
the vast majority of people it's basically a flu you get for a couple days and you're over
it. What the **** is all this about? If the vaccine is only really good for preventing
hospitalizations, and doesn't stop you from spreading or from catching variants, what in
the hell are we giving kids vaccines when they are more likely to die from the regular flu?
It's freaky, and it stinks.
In the later years of an abusive relationship I was in, my abuser had become so confident in
how mentally caged he had me that he'd start overtly telling me what he is and what he was
doing. He flat-out told me he was a sociopath and a manipulator, trusting that I was so
submitted to his will by that point that I'd gaslight myself into reframing those statements in
a sympathetic light. Toward the end one time he told me "I am going to rape you," and then he
did, and then he talked about it to some friends trusting that I'd run perception management on
it for him.
The better he got at psychologically twisting me up in knots and the more submitted I
became, the more open he'd be about it. He seemed to enjoy doing this, taking a kind of
exhibitionistic delight in showing off his accomplishments at crushing me as a person, both to
others and to me. Like it was his art, and he wanted it to have an audience to appreciate
it.
I was reminded of this while watching a recent Fox News appearance by Glenn Greenwald where he
made an observation we've discussed here
previously about the way the CIA used to have to infiltrate the media, but now just openly
has US intelligence veterans in mainstream media punditry positions managing public
perception.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/jU58mrEpPvU
"If you go and Google, and I hope your viewers do, Operation Mockingbird, what you will
find is that during the Cold War these agencies used to plot how to clandestinely manipulate
the news media to disseminate propaganda to the American population," Greenwald
said .
"They used to try to do it secretly. They don't even do it secretly anymore. They don't
need Operation Mockingbird. They literally put John Brennan who works for NBC and James
Clapper who works for CNN and tons of FBI agents right on the payroll of these news
organizations. They now shape the news openly to manipulate and to deceive the American
population."
In 1977 Carl Bernstein published an article titled " The CIA and the Media " reporting
that the CIA had
covertly infiltrated America's most influential news outlets and had over 400 reporters who
it considered assets in a program known as
Operation Mockingbird . It was a major scandal, and rightly so. The news media are meant to
report truthfully about what happens in the world, not manipulate public perception to suit the
agendas of spooks and warmongers.
Nowadays the CIA collaboration happens right out in the open, and the public is too
brainwashed and gaslit to even recognize this as scandalous. Immensely influential outlets like
The New York Times uncritically pass on CIA disinfo which is then spun as fact by cable news
pundits . The sole owner of The Washington Post is a CIA contractor ,
and WaPo has never once disclosed this conflict of interest when reporting on US intelligence
agencies per standard journalistic protocol. Mass media outlets
now openly employ intelligence agency veterans like John Brennan, James Clapper,
Chuck Rosenberg, Michael Hayden, Frank Figliuzzi, Fran Townsend, Stephen Hall, Samantha
Vinograd, Andrew McCabe, Josh Campbell, Asha Rangappa, Phil Mudd, James Gagliano, Jeremy Bash,
Susan Hennessey, Ned Price and Rick Francona, as are known
CIA assets like NBC's Ken Dilanian, as are
CIA interns like Anderson Cooper and CIA applicants like
Tucker Carlson.
They're just rubbing it in our faces now. Like they're showing off.
And that's just the media. We also see this flaunting behavior exhibited in the US
government-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a propaganda operation geared at
sabotaging foreign governments not aligned with the US which according to its own founding
officials was set up to do overtly what the CIA used to do covertly. The late author and
commentator William Blum
makes this clear :
[I]n 1983, the National Endowment for Democracy was set up to "support democratic
institutions throughout the world through private, nongovernmental efforts". Notice the
"nongovernmental"" part of the image, part of the myth. In actuality, virtually every penny
of its funding comes from the federal government, as is clearly indicated in the financial
statement in each issue of its annual report. NED likes to refer to itself as an NGO
(Non-governmental organization) because this helps to maintain a certain credibility abroad
that an official US government agency might not have. But NGO is the wrong category. NED is a
GO.
"We should not have to do this kind of work covertly," said Carl Gershman in 1986, while
he was president of the Endowment. "It would be terrible for democratic groups around the
world to be seen as subsidized by the C.I.A. We saw that in the 60's, and that's why it has
been discontinued. We have not had the capability of doing this, and that's why the endowment
was created."
And Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, declared in 1991:
"A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."
In effect, the CIA has been laundering money through NED.
We see NED's fingerprints all over pretty much any situation where the western power
alliance needs to manage public perception about a CIA-targeted government, from Russia to
Hong
Kong to Xinjiang to the
imperial propaganda operation known as Bellingcat.
Hell, intelligence insiders are just openly running for office now. In an article titled "
The CIA
Democrats in the 2020 elections ", World Socialist Website documented the many veterans of
the US intelligence cartel who ran in elections across America in 2018 and 2020:
"In the course of the 2018 elections, a large group of former military-intelligence
operatives entered capitalist politics as candidates seeking the Democratic Party nomination
in 50 congressional seats" nearly half the seats where the Democrats were targeting
Republican incumbents or open seats created by Republican retirements. Some 30 of these
candidates won primary contests and became the Democratic candidates in the November 2018
election, and 11 of them won the general election, more than one quarter of the 40 previously
Republican-held seats captured by the Democrats as they took control of the House of
Representatives. In 2020, the intervention of the CIA Democrats continues on what is arguably
an equally significant scale."
So they're just getting more and more brazen the more confident they feel about how
propaganda-addled and submissive the population has become. They're laying more and more of
their cards on the table. Soon the CIA will just be openly selling narcotics door to door like
Girl Scout cookies.
Or maybe not. I said my ex got more and more overt about his abuses in the later years of
our relationship because those were the later years. I did eventually expand my own
consciousness of my own inner workings enough to clear the fears and unexamined beliefs I had
that he was using as hooks to manipulate me. Maybe, as humanity's consciousness continues to
expand , the same will happen for the people and their abusive relationship with the
CIA.
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The voting measure has inflamed Republicans, who accused Democrats of engaging in
demagoguery.
"This bill is brazen," said Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), ticking off a list of provisions in
the Democratic bill that he called damaging, including one that would shrink the Federal
Election Commission to five from six members, which he said would enable the president to turn
the agency into a weapon against political rivals. Mr. Cruz accused Democrats of "deliberately
inflaming racial tensions" by attacking policies like requiring voter identification that
Republicans say are designed to protect the integrity of the vote.
... ... ...
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.), the sponsor of the Senate bill, a version of which
cleared the House in March , told CNN on Monday that there are ways to advance voting
legislation that would involve changing the filibuster, which requires three-fifths of the
Senate, or currently 60 members, to end debates and vote on most legislation.
"Fifty members getting into a room and deciding how we go forward will be kind of another
stage of how we proceed," Mr. Merkley said later on a call with activists.
The pressure-cooker environment in which the debate lands was highlighted by nascent
campaigns inside and outside the Capitol. Republicans are calling attention to a provision in
the Democrats' bill that would allow signatures in lieu of voter identification cards, saying
such a policy could be abused and would weaken trust in the validity of elections. A Monmouth
University poll released Monday found that 80% of Americans support requiring voters to show
photo identification to cast ballots.
Meanwhile, the progressive group Just Democracy is running ads aimed at Ms. Sinema,
suggesting that she is weak on voting policy because she hasn't come out in support of ending
the filibuster to make voting legislation possible.
Ms. Sinema is up for re-election in 2024. Her state is currently roiled by
an audit of votes cast in 2020 in Maricopa County, which Mr. Biden won, and is defending
some of its voting rules at the Supreme Court.
Ending the filibuster may get Democrats everything that the want for another 18 months. But
they will not be able to keep the legislation that they have passed.
As soon as control of both chambers and the White House passes to the other party, they
very quickly will repeal each and every bit of legislation that had been passed by the
Democrats.
At that point, Republicans will be able to pass absolutely everything that they want,
probably for 18 months.
By ending the filibuster we will get national laws that change with every change of
administration.
Aren't we better off, keeping the filibuster, so that nothing is ever accomplished by
either party? Deadlock.
Deadlock pleases politicians and the primary voters in their party, but it frustrates the
80% of Americans who are moderates. They want Congress to act to deal with the country's
problems. But deadlock it will be.
Weaver "China seems to have defined "communism" as a rejection of democracy."
What is democracy? In the west, it has become apparent that whoever controls the media
controls democracy. We elect rulers. We do not get any say in formulating many laws as in
each new law being put to a referendum. China voted with its feet during the revolution. Many
culture elect or otherwise have local leaders who everyone in the community knows and the
community leaders decide on or elect who has positions at the next level of governance and so
forth. In that way, China is very democratic beginning at the grass roots level.
The Chinese government have done a huge amount in bringing millions of people out of poverty,
creating better living conditions for its people. When there is constantly and increase in
prosperity at all levels, even if some prosper more than others, the people have an
optimistic outlook.
Democracy at a national level where voters do not personal know the candidate requires
accurate information to enable an informed vote. In that way, democracy in the west is non
existent - it is an illusion but the sheeple cling to it.
Compared to the so called west, China government is very much of the people for the
people.
@ Peter AU1 (# 23), name a democracy that isn't a suzerainty. We don't elect rulers. We
elect puppets that have been selected by the rulers. Who owns the media? Who creates majority
of money in your nation?
"The true equation is 'democracy' = government by world financiers."
– J.R.R. Tolkien
"Democracy" is a temporary phase of history which allows the Global Financial Syndicate to
take control from the earlier generation of dominant power players: the monarchies.
Long ago and far away, a group of very clever paleo-banksters figured out a way to stop
those annoying periodic slave revolts... eventually it came to be known as "the two party
system" (democracy/Republic) and it's working like a charm...Rulers make the slaves fight
each other.
World Financiers & Banksters ENSLAVEMENT plan using democracy:
– Create a REVOLUTION & steal a region
– Create a Private CENTRAL BANK (First Bank of the USA, BoE-1694)
– Fund & control new rich individuals (Kleptocrats)
– Fund & control political PARTIES & MEDIA
– Nationalize the central bank (the Fed, BoE-1946)
Enslave & control people by DOMINANCE over economic & political powers & call
it a DEMOCRACY. An interesting FRACTAL emerges when one analysis the formation of
democracies.
What we have is "representative" democracies designed by the economically powerful solely
for their interests and in this sense would always be functioning anti-democratically. In a
money democracy (where the fundamental element of influence is the unit of money), the
political and legal system is influenced and shaped by systems of power to protect and
enhance those systems of power.
"There are none so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The
truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They
feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes."
– Goethe
Your understanding of democracy and the prevalent Chinese understanding of democracy are
divergent.
It is true that all of the political decisions in China are made by the communists; the
CPC. But do note that the CPC has almost 100 million members . These are not simply
voters like political parties have in the US, who just align themselves with a party
and vote for it every couple years. These 100 million members of the CPC are actual
decision-makers.
Of course, that is a lot of work and responsibility and not everyone in China wants to
commit that much of their life to politics. With that said, how much of your life do
you commit to politics? Does your biennial vote actually carry any weight, and do you take
full responsibility for the consequences of it? Of course not on both points.
Those Chinese people who choose to do so live democracy. You, on the other hand,
just play a shallow democracy game that is little more than a reality TV show like
Survivor . Does Trump get voted off the island? Clinton? Sanders? That is your choice.
Does America slaughter some more dark skinned people in the Global South? Do the banks get
bailed out with your wealth? These things you get no say in.
Communists don't oppose democracy. They oppose the crappy reality TV "The Democracy
Show!™" sham that westerners love to hate.
I look on it as somewhat of a mixed group. Fellow travelers do the same thing but for
different reasons. Finance, anglo supremacy ect. Amongst the vassal states in same cases
straight out corruption as in selling their service es to the highest bidder, amongst the
five-eyes, the elite in particular, in the current events of trying to bring down Russia and
China, continued anglo dominance of the world is a very big driver. The anglosphere has been
a dominant force in the world for close to 500 years and many are truly afraid of this
ending. The cant envisage a world that is dominated by cultures other than anglo or
anglo/europe.
"... ...the prerogative to define extremism includes the power to attempt to banish certain ideas from acceptable discourse. The report warns that "narratives of fraud in the recent general election"¦ will almost certainly spur some [Domestic Violent Extremists] to try to engage in violence this year." ..."
"... If accusations of 2020 electoral shenanigans are formally labeled as extremist threats, that could result in far more repression (aided by Facebook and Twitter) of dissenting voices. ..."
...the prerogative to define extremism includes the power to attempt to banish certain ideas
from acceptable discourse. The report warns that "narratives of fraud in the recent general
election"¦ will almost certainly spur some [Domestic Violent Extremists] to try to
engage in violence this year."
If accusations of 2020 electoral shenanigans are formally labeled as extremist threats, that
could result in far more repression (aided by Facebook and Twitter) of dissenting voices.
How will this work out any better than the concerted campaign by the media and Big Tech last
fall to suppress all information about Hunter Biden's laptop before the election?
The Biden administration is revving up for a war against an enemy which the feds have chosen
to never explicitly define . According to a March report by Biden's Office of the Director of
National Intelligence, "domestic violent extremists" include individuals who "take overt steps
to violently resist or facilitate the overthrow of the U.S. government in support of their
belief that the U.S. government is purposely exceeding its Constitutional authority." But that
was the same belief that many Biden voters had regarding the Trump administration. Does the
definition of extremism depend solely on which party captured the White House?
The report notes that the "Department of Defense is reviewing and updating its definition of
prohibited extremist activities among uniformed military personnel." Bishop Garrison, the chief
of the Pentagon's new Countering Extremism Working Group, is Exhibit A for the follies of
extremist crackdowns on extremism. In a series of 2019 tweets, Garrison, a former aide to
Hillary Clinton,
denounced all Trump supporters as "racists." Garrison's working group will "specifically
define what constitutes extremist behavior" for American soldiers. If Garrison purges Trump
supporters from the military, the Pentagon would be unable to conquer the island of Grenada.
Biden policymakers also intend to create an "anti-radicalization" program for individuals
departing the military service. This initiative will likely produce plenty of leaks and
embarrassing disclosures in the coming months and years.
The Biden report is spooked by the existence of militia groups and flirts with the fantasy
of outlawing them across the land. The report promises to explore "how to make better use of
laws that already exist in all fifty states prohibiting certain private "˜militia'
activity, including"¦state statutes prohibiting groups of people from organizing as
private military units without the authorization of the state government, and state statutes
that criminalize certain paramilitary activity." Most of the private militia groups are guilty
of nothing more than bluster and braggadocio. Besides, many of them are already overstocked
with government informants who are counting on Uncle Sam for regular paychecks.
As part of its anti-extremism arsenal, DHS is financing programs for "enhancing media
literacy and critical thinking skills" and helping internet users avoid "vulnerability
to"¦harmful content deliberately disseminated by malicious actors online." Do the feds
have inside information about another Hunter Biden laptop turning up, or what? The Biden
administration intends to bolster Americans' defenses against extremism by developing
"interactive online resources such as skills-enhancing online games." If the games are as
stupefying as this report, nobody will play them.
The Biden report stresses that federal law enforcement agencies "play a critical role in
responding to reports of criminal and otherwise concerning activity." "Otherwise concerning
activity"? This is the same standard that turned prior anti-terrorist efforts into
laughingstocks.
Fusion Centers are not mentioned in the Biden report but they are a federal-state-local law
enforcement partnership launched after 9/11 to vacuum up reports of suspicious activity.
Seventy Fusion Centers rely on the same standard"""
If you see something, say something """that a senior administration official invoked in a
background call on Monday for the new Biden initiative. The Los Angeles Police Department
encouraged citizens to snitch on "individuals who stay at bus or train stops for extended
periods while buses and trains come and go," "individuals who carry on long conversations on
pay or cellular telephones," and "joggers who stand and stretch for an inordinate amount of
time." The Kentucky Office of Homeland Security recommended the reporting of "people avoiding
eye contact," "people in places they don't belong," or homes or apartments that have numerous
visitors "arriving and leaving at unusual hours," PBS's Frontline reported. Colorado's Fusion
Center "produced a fear-mongering public service announcement asking the public to report
innocuous behaviors such as photography, note-taking, drawing and collecting money for charity
as "˜warning signs' of terrorism," the ACLU complained.
Various other Fusion Centers have attached warning labels to gun-rights activists,
anti-immigration zealots, and individuals and groups "rejecting federal authority in favor of
state or local authority." A 2012 Homeland Security report stated that being "reverent of
individual liberty" is one of the traits of potential right-wing terrorists. The Constitution
Project concluded in a 2012 report that DHS Fusion Centers "pose serious risks to civil
liberties, including rights of free speech, free assembly, freedom of religion, racial and
religious equality, privacy, and the right to be free from unnecessary government intrusion."
Fusion Centers continue to be bankrolled by DHS despite their dismal record.
The Biden report promises that the FBI and DHS will soon be releasing "a new edition of the
Federal Government's Mobilization Indicators booklet that will include for the first time
potential indicators of domestic terrorism""related mobilization." Will this latest publication
be as boneheaded as the similar 2014 report by the National Counterterrorism Center entitled
"Countering Violent Extremism: A Guide for Practitioners and Analysts"?
As the Intercept
summarized , that report "suggests that police, social workers and educators rate
individuals on a scale of one to five in categories such as "˜Expressions of
Hopelessness, Futility,' "¦ and "˜Connection to Group Identity (Race, Nationality,
Religion, Ethnicity)' "¦ to alert government officials to individuals at risk of turning
to radical violence, and to families or communities at risk of incubating extremist
ideologies." The report recommended judging families by their level of "Parent-Child Bonding"
and rating localities on the basis in part of the "presence of ideologues or recruiters."
Former FBI agent Mike German commented, "The idea that the federal government would encourage
local police, teachers, medical, and social-service employees to rate the communities,
individuals, and families they serve for their potential to become terrorists is abhorrent on
its face."
The Biden administration presumes that bloating the definition of extremists is the surest
way to achieve domestic tranquility. In this area, as in so many others, Biden's team learned
nothing from the follies of the Obama administration. No one in D.C. apparently recalls that
President Obama perennially denounced extremism and summoned the United Nations in 2014 to join
his "campaign against extremism." Under Obama, the National Security Agency
presumed that "someone searching the Web for suspicious stuff" was a suspected extremist
who forfeited all constitutional rights to privacy. Obama's Transportation Security
Administration relied on
ludicrous terrorist profiles that targeted American travelers who were yawning, hand
wringing, gazing down, swallowing suspiciously, sweating, or making "excessive complaints about
the [TSA] screening process."
Will the Biden crackdown on extremists end as ignominiously as Nixon's crackdown almost 50
years earlier? Nixon White House aide Tom Charles Huston explained
that the FBI's COINTELPRO program continually stretched its target list "from the kid with a
bomb to the kid with a picket sign, and from the kid with the picket sign to the kid with the
bumper sticker of the opposing candidate. And you just keep going down the line." At some
point, surveillance became more intent on spurring fear than on gathering information. FBI
agents were
encouraged to conduct interviews with anti-war protesters to "enhance the paranoia endemic
in these circles and further serve to get the point across that there is an FBI agent behind
every mailbox," as a 1970 FBI memo noted. Is the Biden castigation campaign an attempt to make
its opponents fear that the feds are tracking their every email and website click?
Biden's new terrorism policy has evoked plenty of cheers from his Fourth Estate lapdogs. But
a
Washington Post article fretted that the administration's report did not endorse enacting
"new legal authority to successfully hunt down, prosecute, and imprison homegrown extremists."
Does the D.C. media elite want to see every anti-Biden scoffer in the land put behind bars?
This is typical of the switcheroo that politicians and the media play with the terms
"terrorists" and "extremists." Regardless of paranoia inside the Beltway, MAGA hats are not as
dangerous as pipe bombs.
The Biden report concludes that "enhancing faith in American democracy" requires "finding
ways to counter the influence and impact of dangerous conspiracy theories." Bu t permitting
politicians to blacklist any ideas they disapprove won't "restore faith in democracy."
Extremism has always been a flag of political convenience, and the Biden team, the FBI, and
their media allies will fan fears to sanctify any and every government crackdown. But what if
government is the most dangerous extremist of them all?
Comments for this article are pretty instructive about the particular strata of US population
mindset right now. Reminds the mood of dissidents in the USSR.
Tucker Carlson dropped several bombshells on his show Tuesday night, chief among them was
from a Revolver News report that the FBI was likely involved in organizing the Jan. 6 Capitol
'insurrection,' and were similarly involved in the kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor
Gretchin Whitmer .
" Why are there so many factual matters that we don't understand about that day? " asked
Carlson.
" Why is the Biden administration preventing us from knowing? Why is the administration
still hiding more than 10,000 hours of surveillance tape from the US capitol on January 6th?
What could possibly be the reason for that - even as they call for more openness... they could
release those tapes today, but they're not. Why?"
Carlson notes that
Revolver News has dissected court filings surrounding the Capitol riot, suggests that
unindicted co-conspirators in the case are likely to have been federal operatives.
We at Revolver News have noticed a pattern from our now months-long investigation into 1/6
-- and in particular from our meticulous study of the charging documents related to those
indicted. In many cases the unindicted co-conspirators appear to be much more aggressive and
egregious participants in the very so-called "conspiracy" serving as the basis for charging
those indicted.
The question immediately arises as to why this is the case, and forces us to consider
whether certain individuals are being protected from indictment because they were involved in
1/6 as undercover operatives or confidential informants for a federal agency.
Key segment from Tucker:
"We know that the government is hiding the identity of many law enforcement officers that
were present at the Capitol on January 6th, not just the one that killed Ashli Babbitt.
According to the government's own court filing, those law enforcement officers participated
in the riot - sometimes in violent ways . We know that because without fail, the government
has thrown the book at most people who were present at the Capitol on Jan. 6. There was a
nationwide dragnet to find them - and many are still in solitary confinement tonight. But s
trangely, some of the key people who participated on Jan. 6 have not been charged ."
Look at the documents , the government calls those people 'unindicted co-conspirators.'
What does that mean? Well it means that in potentially every case they were FBI operatives
... in the Capitol, on January 6th."
"For example, one of those unindicted co-conspirators is someone government documents
identify only as "person two." According to those documents, person two stayed in the same
hotel room as a man called Thomas Caldwell - an 'insurrectionist.' A man alleged to be a
member of the group "The Oathkeepers." Person two also "stormed the barricades" at the
Capitol on January 6th alongside Thomas Caldwell. The government's indictments further
indicate that Caldwell - who by the way is a 65-year-old man... was led to believe there
would be a "quick reaction force" also participating on January 6th. That quick reaction
force Caldwell was told, would be led by someone called "Person 3," who had a hotel room and
an accomplice with them . But wait. Here's the interesting thing. Person 2 and person 3 were
organizers of the riot . The government knows who they are, but the government has not
charged them. Why is that? You know why. They were almost certainly working for the FBI. So
FBI operatives were organizing the attack on the Capitol on January 6th according to
government documents. And those two are not alone. In all, Revolver news reported there are
"upwards of 20 unindicted co-conspirators in the Oath Keeper indictments, all playing various
roles in the conspiracy, who have not been charged for virtually the exact same activities
and in some cases much, much more severe activities - as those named alongside them in the
indictments."
Revolver , meanwhile, has important questions about January 6th
In the year leading up to 1/6 and during 1/6 itself, to what extent were the three primary militia groups (the Oath Keepers,
the Proud Boys, and the Three Percenters) that the FBI , DOJ , Pentagon and
network news have labeled most
responsible for planning and executing a Capitol attack on 1/6 infiltrated by agencies of the
federal government, or informants of said agencies?
Exactly how many federal undercover agents or confidential informants were present at the
Capitol or in the Capitol during the infamous "siege" and what roles did they play (merely
passive informants or active instigators)?
Finally, of all of the unindicted co-conspirators referenced in the charging documents of
those indicted for crimes on 1/6, how many worked as a confidential informant or as an
undercover operative for the federal government (FBI, Army Counterintelligence, etc.)?
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has demanded an explanation from FBI Director Christopher Wray:
We recommend you read the entire
Revolver piece, which includes the fact that at least five individuals involved int he
"Whitmer Kidnapping Plot" were undercover agents and federal informants .
_Rorschach 7 hours ago
Just remember folks
a Klan meeting is always 33 FBI agents
and 2 ACTUAL white supremacists
Dragonlord 7 hours ago
No CIA? I am disappointed.
_Rorschach 7 hours ago (Edited)
Glowies are never at the meetings
theyre busy planting bombs for the false flag afterwards
Misesmissesme 6 hours ago
90% of "terrorists" would never commit acts of terror if the US Guv wasn't coercing them
to commit said acts. The wrong people are in jail.
Wonder who in government started the ball rolling on 9/11 before it got away from
them?
Sedaeng PREMIUM 6 hours ago
it never got away from them! They directed through and afterwards... Patriot act just
'happened' to be on standby just in case? ha!
Not Your Father's ZH 6 hours ago (Edited)
Amid this chronic Machiavellian conniving, here are creatures who know how to act
right:
"Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from
people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record; while on the
banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry
and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the
banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks of the river." ~ Will
Durant, "The Story of Civilization"
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a
monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss , the abyss also gazes into you." - Friedrich
Nietzsche
"Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow.
There is no humor in Heaven." ― Mark Twain
thomas sewell 6 hours ago
everything in the USA is bull sheet. its all polluted with mind fook.
the last 1+ year has gone beyond any psycho drama i could ever imagine.
krda 5 hours ago
Didn't Brennan issue the 9/11 hijackers' visas?
zedwork 1 hour ago
Yes, but no planes. That would have been way too risky when you can just add them into
the live feed later using CGI.
Bob Lidd 1 hour ago
You mean like what happen in the 1993 WTC bombing.....??
How there hasn't been a day of reckoning yet is beyond me.
SexyJulian 6 hours ago
And stacks of bricks.
E5 5 hours ago
The FBI does not have the right to commit a crime. They chose to run an operation they
should disavow all agents involved and they know it. Arrest them.
With Wray out there spreading fear about the Great White Supremacy Threat, you can bet
the FBI is working overtime to make something newsworthy happen. Remember folks: 3
"militia" = 2 FBI informants + 1 patsy
Until the JFK murder/coup is brought to light, you can bet it's all hoax, including
Trump being an 'outsider'. He's not. He did everything Israel told him to do.
GhostOLaz 3 hours ago
America's perception of the FBI comes from TV "programs", not history or reality.
Joiningupthedots 1 hour ago
"Why is the administration still hiding more than 10,000 hours of surveillance tape from
the US capitol on January 6th?"
For the same reason the UK government wont release the Skripal Tapes from Salisbury,
UK.......LMAO.
Its an inside job........OBVIOUSLY!
Faeriedust 2 hours ago
So. Incidents are being staged and then used as excuses for more draconian State
security powers. How is this different from the behavior of known historical groups such as
the SS and the KGB? How can this be interpreted except as the actions of a totalitarian
State?
Sizzurp PREMIUM 6 hours ago
Scary stuff. They manufacture their own crimes to suit their political narrative and
agenda. This is straight out of the Nazi playbook.
Garciathinksso 6 hours ago
this is SOP for FBI, long rich history of manufacturing crimes and low, mid and high
level corruption . Prior to that the BOI was even worse.
JaxPavan 7 hours ago remove link
The chickens coming home to roost.
This was a "color revolution" by us, against us. And, it was designed to fail. Like a
freakish side show.
Why? Let off political steam. Keep all the people in their respective aisle of the
democan and republicrat uniparty bus. Distract political attention away from the full
****** plandemic lockdowns. Keep the rest of the world agape for a few more years thinking
things will fall apart on their own, while their resources are extracted. . .
Jam 47 minutes ago
This scam getting some press now is better late than never, but not by much. Some of
these media types being all surprised by this must have lived pretty sheltered lives and
are lacking any street smarts. This set up was obvious since day one, this is the same
bunch that won't call out these crooks for rigged elections.
Oxygen Likes Carbon 48 minutes ago
It should be painfully clear that with the level of surveillance in 2021, nobody can
walk into high security governmental building, without being arrested. Let alone organize a
mass demonstration then go into Capitol Building during the day, while the politicians
being there, to take ... selfies.
... without some help, or coordination from some governmental services.
anti-bolshevik 7 hours ago (Edited)
Replace 'unindicted co-conspirators.' with Agent Provocateurs.
The entire chain-of-command that authorized / planned / executed / gave material support
to this Operation should be indicted and prosecuted.
In this course of its investigation, researchers at Fordham discovered that EVERY
SINGLE ONE of the 138 terrorist incidents recorded in the USA between 2001-2012 involved
FBI informants who played leading roles in planning out, supplying weapons, instructions
and even recruiting Islamic terrorists to carry out terrorist acts on U.S. soil.
Enraged 56 minutes ago
With FBI Director Comey, Assistant Director McCabe, and FBI agent/covert CIA agent
Strzok acting against President Trump, this should be considered treasonous, and hopefully
they will be prosecuted.
The question is who authorized the latest actions on January 6 since Comey, McCabe, and
Strzok were fired.
Conductor "Corn Pop" Angelo 38 minutes ago
I can think of two to start with. Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi. Both refused
additional security even after being told that the latest intel suggested there was going
to be a protest at the capital building on Jan 6th. The two were offered National Guard
troops, in addition to Capital Police, to help out, but refused. IIRC, both the Senate and
House Sgt at Arms lost their jobs over this, too
Make it three, Mayor Bowser had the same intel and did nothing
Andro1345 7 hours ago
These are old tricks by the FBI. They have been just as bad as the CIA for years.
So many instances going back so far. They plan things, set it up, help to encourage and
supply sheep to do these things. If I had someone trying to encourage me to get on board
something similar my first guess would be a government operative, seriously.
WeNamedTheDogIndiana 1 hour ago
I attended protests after the election, and it was obvious to be that the rallies at our
state capitol were infiltrated by FBI/deep state stooges. A number of them were talking
civil war, and said it too boldly in my opinion, and then many of them were carrying AKs,
when that was not necessary.
The only rally that I attended that seemed uncorrupted was the first protest in DC a few
weeks after the election.
taketheredpill 7 hours ago
Don't be shocked if the FBI funded some of the trips, hotels etc.
And for sure the FBI operatives "wound up" the participants...
But you won't find out for 10 years.
Alfred 7 hours ago
Not just infiltrated.
The FBI actually creates the organizations they then infiltrate.
Someone goes on a good rant here or there, can expect to be befriended by someone of
like mind. Thereafter that someone undergoes radicalization and then organization via FBI
sting ops. They get funding, they get resources, they get ready, they get busted.
Ha! It's all shake-n-bake, baby!
ProudZion 6 hours ago
...The proud boys was led by a FBI agent....
Mad Muppet PREMIUM 1 hour ago
They're called Agents Provacateurs and it's nothing new. The Government always initiates
the violence they say they want to prevent.
Ms No PREMIUM 1 hour ago remove link
"Informants" is a very misleading title. They aren't out there ferretting info of people
up to no good. It's more an infiltration and steering game and always has been.
They are basically agents without the boundaries of law. Good front guys too. They will
keep them out of trouble and protect them if they can but if it gets too hot they are
expendable and even easily patsied. It's all actually actually technically illegal because
even when they do real informant work it's actually entrapment.
We used to be protected from these things and now you see the reason behind that.
Nothing is new it just has different names and since it's always avoided by media, some of
it doesn't even have proper names, at least for the public.
It's basically false flag color revolution operations.
QuiteShocking 6 hours ago (Edited) remove link
The USA's standing in the world is vastly diminished by the continue lies and
mischaracterizations of what happened on Jan 6th by the democrats. The police officer died
from a stroke and not from the rioters. The unarmed white woman was executed by capital
police and no one was held responsible. The democrats have continued to blatantly lie and
mislead on what really happened on Jan 6th for political gain...
Max21c 7 hours ago
We recommend you read the entire
Revolver piece, which includes the fact that at least five individuals involved int
he "Whitmer Kidnapping Plot" were undercover agents and federal informants .
People were already aware that the FBI kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor
Gretchen Whitmer was an FBI thing from the start and all throughout. Just as many if not
most of these things are as they involve the secret police creating the plots and then
unraveling the plots they've created and managed and orchestrated all along the way.
Angular Momentum 7 hours ago
The states need to outlaw entrapment in cases like that. The FBI moles need to be
punished as severely as the dupes.
junction 7 hours ago
The FBI and the CIA apparently fund the so-call White Supremacist organizations. Your
tax dollars at work. Meanwhile, total silence for a decade from the FBI as Jeffrey Epstein
ran a transnational white slavery operation out of his Manhattan mansion, aided by the
Israeli Mossad.
Max21c 7 hours ago
The intelligence community and secret police community were well aware of what was going
on with the Epstein operation. It's not just the US side either as the UK and Israelis were
aware of it also.
Uncle Sugar PREMIUM 7 hours ago (Edited) remove link
Trump is better than Xiden, but
He left Chris Wray running the FIB
He didn't prosecute Comey, Brennan, anyone
He pushed the "Vax"
He spent worse than a drunken sailor
Conclusion - He's not the answer
OldNewB 6 hours ago
He should have pardoned Snowden.
otschelnik 7 hours ago
Well looks like the DOJ is bringing back the Obummer spygate team. John P. Carlin who
was head of DOJ/National Security Division is now deputy AG. He let the FBI give 4 civilian
contractors access to the NSA database for 702 inquiries, which Admiral Rogers stopped.
Also back is Lisa Monoco who oversaw the FISA warrants for Carter Page, and now she's going
to be heading up Garland's domestic terror task force.
That's all very ominous.
Farmer Tink 4 hours ago
I didn't realize that Carlin was back. He tried to defend his actions in the annual
report to the FISA court but Adm. Mike Rogers, on whose watch the NSA found out what the
DOJ was doing, carried the day. I also didn't realize that Lisa Monaco was the one in
charge of those illegal Page warrants. It's just sickening that they are being rewarded.
Thanks for the info.
glenlloyd 2 hours ago (Edited)
With such a high percentage of those 'involved' in the "insurrection" (said loosely
here) and the so called Whitmer kidnapping being from FBI / CIA / other intelligence
agencies AND those same people end up apparently being in leadership roles in these groups
that are supposedly going to be doing the kidnapping and insurrecting, then it's really
hard not to come to the conclusion that the fault was with the FBI et al.
It just seems like the FBI et al were way more involved in this than they should have
been, if you're going to suggest that it was the others that are to blame. The tough pill
to swallow is the claim that it was the people the FBI et al infiltrated and coerced into
do these things, that are to blame.
Things really do stink with this.
newworldorder 5 hours ago
How are these actions are not "entrapment."
InfiniteIntellRules 5 hours ago
I will stop, just too many tales of FBI corruption. Last 1
Under COINTELPRO, FBI agents infiltrated political groups and spread rumors that loyal
members were the real infiltrators. They tried to get targets fired from their jobs, and
they tried to break up the targets' marriages. They published deliberately inflammatory
literature in the names of the organizations they wanted to discredit, and they drove
wedges between groups that might otherwise be allied. In Baltimore, the FBI's operatives in
the Black Panther Party were instructed to denounce Students for a Democratic Society as "a
cowardly, honky group" who wanted to exploit the Panthers by giving them all the violent,
dangerous "dirty work." The operation was apparently successful: In August 1969, just five
months after the initial instructions went out, the Baltimore FBI reported that the local
Panther branch had ordered its members not to associate with SDS members or attend any SDS
events.
EVERY MAJOR EVENT. EVERY SINGLE TIME.
heehaw2 6 hours ago
All happened under Trumps watch. He said he was going to lead the March to Capital
building, then totally disappeared.
MrNoItAll 7 hours ago
Got to hand it to them. Those Fed guys sure know how to stage a riot to get media
attention and shape public opinion. How else could they explain why all the guard troops
were needed in D C. When getting them there could have been the primary goal of this staged
event.
lightwork 7 hours ago
In the early 70's it seemed that a government informant/ mole was instrumental in the
activities of virtually every left wing group in the country. It became common knowledge
that whomever was most vocal and advocated the most activist positions was usually "that
guy". It was effective since paranoia caused most groups to disintegrate.
otschelnik 8 hours ago remove link
Probably more snitches than that.
Oath Keeper Thomas Caldwell who is one of the lucky few released but still charged is a
former FBI contractor who had top secret security clearance according to his lawyer.
Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio who was arrested 2 days before the riot for vandalism (burning
a BLM banner), had been an informer to the FBI and law inforcement in Florida, according to
his lawyer.
They forgot Antifa and BLM in their list of groups.
State sponsored terrorist groups favored by Liberal Elites and their secret police are
generally omitted and immune.
heehaw2 6 hours ago
George Bush Senior, then head of CIA was in Dallas when JFK was assinated. Ol George
announced as President the New World order
QE49er 6 hours ago
Reichstag Fire style false flag.
Ruff_Roll 6 hours ago
It makes perfect sense that FBI or government supported operatives were acting as agents
provocateurs on 1/6, organizing and instigating the riot, and subsequently let off as
"unindicted co-conspirators." Pelosi was probably in on it, too.
TheySayIAmOkay 7 hours ago
This is the biggest "duh" ever. Of course the government is involved. Just like they
were in 9/11. Just like they were stealing the election. Just like they are in at least
some of these mass shootings (the FBI was warned about the Parkland shooter multiple
times). Just like they will be in the next big incident that massively strips rights from
the people.
The Deep State is real. And it is the upper echelons of the FBI, DHS, CIA, ATF, etc.
They are the shadow government that wags the tail. They can do whatever they want and
nobody can do anything about it. Do you think if Ted Cruz or Nancy Pelosi killed someone
they'd get away with it? No. They are figures. The limits of their power can be stripped
with a single, stupid, scandal. How about John Brennan? I have absolutely no doubt in my
mind he could. Because who will hold him accountable? Nobody in the CIA or FBI went down
for not listening to the FBI agent about the 20th hijacker. Mueller got PROMOTED! He's deep
state. Brennan was regional chief of the CIA in Riyadh leading up to 9/11. He got...
PROMOTED! Deep state.
3-fingered_chemist 7 hours ago
The fact the Capitol had essentially zero security the day all members were present to
tally the EC votes and people still think this wasn't faked?
Jim in MN 7 hours ago
Speaking as someone who actually attended the earlier 'Stop the Steal' rally in DC, I
said at the time that the Jan. 6th event didn't smell right and felt like a setup.
Recommended that folks stay away, expect trouble and stay frosty at that time.
Note that the FBI was/is also deeply involved in the BLM riots. AKA a criminal
conspiracy to destabilize US civil order. Of course a lot of mayors and police chiefs are
also involved in that criminal conspiracy.
The more you know.....
jammyjo 7 hours ago
FBI is making contact with unstable people, and do nothing but keep them on a list of
"assets" to be activated when needed.
Patmos 7 hours ago
Gives new meaning to false narrative. More than just spin, they actually create the
events themselves. Not quite a false flag, because nothing really happened.
Is anyone involved going to stand up and say no? Or have they all just decided to
reserve themselves to being corrupt little b!tches?
Feck Weed 7 hours ago
FBI is the US domestic secret police force for the Globalist Empire. Nationalism is the
enemy of the globalists...
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introduced himself as former head of pandemic policy for the Gates Foundation.
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The Premonition that Venkayya was, in fact, the founding father of lockdowns. While working for
George W. Bush's White House in 2005, he headed a bioterrorism study group. From his perch of
influence "" serving an apocalyptic president" he was the driving force for a dramatic change
in U.S. policy during pandemics.
He literally unleashed hell.
That was 15 years ago. At the time, I wrote about the changes I was witnessing, worrying
that new White House guidelines (never voted on by Congress) allowed the government to put
Americans in quarantine while closing their schools, businesses, and churches shuttered, all in
the name of disease containment.
I never believed it would happen in real life; surely there would be public revolt. Little
did I know, we were in for a wild ride"¦
The Man Who Lit the Match
Last year, Venkayya and I had a 30-minute conversation; actually, it was mostly an argument.
He was convinced that lockdown was the only way to deal with a virus. I countered that it was
wrecking rights, destroying businesses, and disturbing public health. He said it was our only
choice because we had to wait for a vaccine. I spoke about natural immunity, which he called
brutal. So on it went.
The more interesting question I had at the time was why this certified Big Shot was wasting
his time trying to convince a poor scribbler like me. What possible reason could there be?
The answer, I now realized, is that from February to April 2020, I was one of the few people
(along with a team of researchers) who openly and aggressively opposed what was happening.
There was a hint of insecurity and even fear in Venkayya's voice. He saw the awesome thing
he had unleashed all over the world and was anxious to tamp down any hint of opposition. He was
trying to silence me. He and others were determined to crush all dissent.
This is how it has been for the better part of the last 15 months, with social media and
YouTube deleting videos that dissent from lockdowns. It's been censorship from the
beginning.
For all the problems with Lewis's book, and there are plenty, he gets this whole backstory
right. Bush came to his bioterrorism people and demanded some huge plan to deal with some
imagined calamity. When Bush saw the conventional plan" make a threat assessment, distribute
therapeutics, work toward a vaccine" he was furious.
"This is bulls**t," the president yelled.
"We need a whole-of-society plan. What are you going to do about foreign borders? And
travel? And commerce?"
Hey, if the president wants a plan, he'll get a plan.
"We want to use all instruments of national power to confront this threat," Venkayya
reports having told colleagues.
"We were going to invent pandemic planning."
This was October 2005, the birth of the lockdown idea.
Dr. Venkayya began to fish around for people who could come up with the domestic equivalent
of Operation Desert Storm to deal with a new virus. He found no serious epidemiologists to
help. They were too smart to buy into it. He eventually bumped into the real lockdown innovator
working at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico.
Cranks, Computers, and Cooties
His name was Robert Glass, a computer scientist with no medical training, much less
knowledge, about viruses. Glass, in turn, was inspired by a science fair project that his
14-year-old daughter was working on.
She theorized (like the cooties game from grade school) that if school kids could space
themselves out more or even not be at school at all, they would stop making each other sick.
Glass ran with the idea and banged out a model of disease control based on stay-at-home orders,
travel restrictions, business closures, and forced human separation.
Crazy right? No one in public health agreed with him but like any classic crank, this
convinced Glass even more. I asked myself, "Why didn't these epidemiologists figure it out?"
They didn't figure it out because they didn't have tools that were focused on the problem. They
had tools to understand the movement of infectious diseases without the purpose of trying to
stop them.
Genius, right? Glass imagined himself to be smarter than 100 years of experience in public
health. One guy with a fancy computer would solve everything! Well, he managed to convince some
people, including another person hanging around the White House named Carter Mecher, who became
Glass's apostle.
Please consider the following quotation from Dr. Mecher in Lewis's book: "If you got
everyone and locked each of them in their own room and didn't let them talk to anyone, you
would not have any disease."
At last, an intellectual has a plan to abolish disease" and human life as we know it too! As
preposterous and terrifying as this is "" a whole society not only in jail but solitary
confinement" it sums up the whole of Mecher's view of disease. It's also completely wrong.
Pathogens are part of our world; they are generated by human contact. We pass them onto each
other as the price for civilization, but we also evolved immune systems to deal with them.
That's 9th-grade biology, but Mecher didn't have a clue.
Fanatics Win the Day
Jump forward to March 12, 2020. Who exercised the major influence over the decision to close
schools, even though it was known at that time that SARS-CoV-2 posed almost risk to people
under the age of 20? There was even evidence that they did not spread COVID-19 to adults in any
serious way.
Didn't matter. Mecher's models" developed with Glass and others" kept spitting out a
conclusion that shutting down schools would drop virus transmission by 80%. I've read his memos
from this period" some of them still not public" and what you observe is not science but
ideological fanaticism in play.
Based on the timestamp and length of the emails, he was clearly not sleeping much.
Essentially he was Lenin on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution. How did he get his way?
There were three key elements: public fear, media and expert acquiescence, and the baked-in
reality that school closures had been part of "pandemic planning" for the better part of 15
years. Essentially, the lockdowners, over the course of 15 years, had worn out the opposition.
Lavish funding, attrition of wisdom within public health, and ideological fanaticism
prevailed.
Figuring out how our expectations for normal life were so violently foiled, how our happy
lives were brutally crushed, will consume serious intellectuals for many years. But at least we
now have a first draft of history.
As with almost every revolution in history, a small minority of crazy people with a cause
prevailed over the humane rationality of multitudes. When people catch on, the fires of
vengeance will burn very hot.
The task now is to rebuild a civilized life that is no longer so fragile as to allow insane
people to lay waste to all that humanity has worked so hard to build.
China's Foreign Ministry blasted the resurgent interest in the Covid-19 lab-origin theory,
noting that the journalist behind a report about Wuhan scientists falling ill is the same one
who peddled lies that led to the Iraq War.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin took aim at Michael R. Gordon, a national
security correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and one of the authors of the report that
added fuel to speculation about Covid-19's lab origin.
"Not long ago, Michael R. Gordon, an American journalist, by quoting a so-called
"˜previously undisclosed US intelligence report,' hinted [at] a far-fetched connection
between the "˜three sick staff' at the Wuhan lab and the Covid-19 outbreak," Wang said
at a briefing on Friday.
"Nineteen years ago, it was this very reporter who concocted false information by citing
unsubstantiated sources about Iraq's "˜attempt to acquire nuclear weapons,' which
directly led to the Iraq War," he charged, referring to the 2003 US invasion.
The WSJ
piece , published on May 23, cites "a previously undisclosed US intelligence report" as
saying that three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell seriously ill in
November 2019 with symptoms "consistent" with Covid-19 as well as a seasonal flu.
The report got picked up by other mainstream media, which recently began shifting their
coverage on Covid-19's origins from outright dismissing theories that the virus was man-made
to admitting that a lab leak remains a possibility.
Furthermore, I wouldn't personally point to Gordon as the source for the "Wuhan Lab Leak
Hypothesis" "" I would point to the Jewish neocon Josh Rogin.
Rogin, like Gordon, spent years promoting various atrocity hoaxes in the Middle East and
pushing wars for Israel, and is the original source for the version of the "Wuhan Lab theory,"
that is currently circulating, writing a
Washington Post column promoting the hoax on April 14, 2020.
The point of course is that everywhere you look, there are neocons "" most of them Jewish ""
promoting this Wuhan Lab stuff. They are the absolute source of the claim "" they and a Falun
Gong Hong Kong CIA feminist woman, Li-Meng Yan.
She is claiming to be a "whistleblower," despite the fact that she in no way meets the
definition of that term. The term necessarily implies insider knowledge "" usually, a
whistleblower is an employee or former employee of the organization they are blowing the
whistle on.
Though none of the media promoting her says it outright, there is an implication that she
worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. She did not. She worked at a university in Hong Kong
when she was funded by Steve Bannon to write a paper making the claim that the supposed
coronavirus is a Chinese bioweapon.
Bannon has recently been associated with Guo Wengui, a billionaire who was exiled from China
for fraud and various crimes. In June of last year, Bannon declared that Guo is now the real
ruler of China in a bizarre video on a boat.
While they were on the boat in front of the Statue of Liberty saying they were going to
"overthrow the government of China," they flew planes around with signs announcing their new
government.
No one understood what was going on, and even Fox News
reported on "confusion" regarding the banners and the livestream on the boat. The
livestream has since been deleted, and there is no news from the Federal State of New China.
But there is a Wikipedia page documenting this
incredibly strange event.
Guo also runs a fake news website (I use that term in the most literal sense) where he
published the Hunter Biden footjob videos.
The point is: this is a very weird operation, and it is absurd to take a person funded by
these people seriously, as Tucker Carlson shamefully has.
(I'm not attacking Tucker over this, he's overall great and is sometimes just really slow on
the uptake, unfortunately "" but it is shameful to get involved with a Hong Kong woman who was
literally given money by Steve Bannon and his "Federation of New China" group to write a fake
science paper.)
To pretend that she is a whistleblower, to pretend that political organizations funding
papers with a predetermined outcome is serious science, is non-serious behavior.
The first time I heard the Wuhan lab leak theory it was being promoted by neocon extremist
Tom Cotton. It was then promoted by neocon extremist Mike Pompeo, who was then in the process
of trying to start a war with China. Now, it is being promoted by the Jews of CNN.
There is no one involved in claiming that the supposed coronavirus came from a Chinese lab
who doesn't have vested interests in starting a war with the Chinese. This goes for all of
these Jews, as well as Steve Bannon, who has actually declared "overthrowing the government of
China" (his words) to be his goal.
It's very obvious to see how people who want a war with China would use this hoax, and it is
great that China is making the link to the Iraqi WMD hoax. It truly is the same thing.
The United States is a country with a lot of problems. None of those problems are the fault
of China. China is not promoting gay sex to children, they are not flooding us with millions of
brown people, they did not steal our election, they did not take all of our freedoms and
collapse the economy.
Our enemies are domestic and they are Jewish. Any attempt to fear-monger and attack China is
intended as a distraction from what is going on in this country, and intended to stoke a
war.
Furthermore, this "lab leak" nonsense is designed to get people to continue to believe in
this coronavirus hoax.
Though none of the media promoting her says it outright, there is an implication that
she worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. She did not. She worked at a university in
Hong Kong when she was funded by Steve Bannon to write a paper making the claim that the
supposed coronavirus is a Chinese bioweapon.
Bannon has recently been associated with Guo Wengui, a billionaire who was exiled from
China for fraud and various crimes. In June of last year, Bannon declared that Guo is now
the real ruler of China in a bizarre video on a boat.
This style of presentation is updated "internet culture" gonzo that stands on the
shoulders of Hunter Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and in a sense Mark Twain.
That fact that today's Anglospheric system no longer has a place within itself for this
type of "dominant narrative-jamming" creativity, and to write like this means one has chosen
to become a hunted outcast, means this culture is in a death spiral. It's no longer a
self-renewing organism, but simply a collection of isolated biomass units used and thrown
away by the masters.
"Nineteen years ago, it was this very reporter who concocted false information by citing
unsubstantiated sources about Iraq's "˜attempt to acquire nuclear weapons,' which
directly led to the Iraq War," he charged, referring to the 2003 US invasion.
Either the neo-cons thought no one would notice or the noe-cons didn't notice
themselves.
I'm leaning towards the latter, especially with sloppy drunk Steve Bannon and a "Falun
Gong Hong Kong CIA feminist woman" in the mix. Is this really the best they can do?
These times we're living in are absolutely surreal. Not surprised though, we've been doing
this for a long time now. Alas, a great many of my fellow White Americans will fall for it
completely & be all in for a war with China. None of them ever even contemplating what
that would mean for us & the world. But, these are the same people who boast "we're
number one" when we rank at or near the bottom in positive stats for all developed nations,
beset with crippling societal ills. The same people who think we can vote ourselves out of
this mess & Trump will win in "˜24 & somehow save the day. The same people who
think our best days are ahead when our productivity base has been utterly gutted, our
infrastructure is collapsing & our ability to maintain it & the skill set needed to
sustain that productivity/infrastructure is slipping away. The same people who boast of "muh
freedoms" when their freedoms & their children's future is being pulled from right under
their feet. The same people who think we'll always be on top even when every example of
history shows that every empire in history has collapsed. We're racing toward a cliff but
they still think "god" is on their side & won't let it happen or we'll stay on top
because, well, "we're America"..
Utter denial & abject delusion seem to be a central aspect of our people..
" There is no one involved in claiming that the supposed coronavirus came from a Chinese
lab who doesn't have vested interests in starting a war with the Chinese. This goes for all
of these Jews, as well as Steve Bannon, who has actually declared "overthrowing the
government of China" (his words) to be his goal."
" History often repeats itself, first as a tragedy and second as a farce"
Karl Marx.
The tragedy of the WMD of Iraq follows many other tragedies that got young Americans to
spill their blood for the sake of special interests making a killing as war profiteers. The
farce of " China spread the Corona virus will the biggest tragedy to hit America if the
waning bald eagle tries to poke the rising dragon.
Andrew Anglin, is one of the few American journalists who stand boldly for the truth. Not
bad for someone labelled a Neo Nazi by Wikipedia.
"The problem of empires is that they think they are so powerful that they can afford
small inaccuracies and mistakes. "But problems keep piling up. And, at some point, they are
no longer able to cope with them. And the United States is now walking the Soviet Union's
path, and its gait is confident and steady."
The current consensus that Covid was likely a Wuhan lab leak was triggered by an article
by Nicholas Wade, a former science writer for the NY Times and an impeccably
establishmentarian journalist. Previous attempts by right wingers or maverick scientists to
advance this hypothesis were ignored or scorned by the establishment press. Wade could not be
so easily dismissed. His article, plus the release of emails by Fauci acknowledging the
possibility of a lab-created virus (which he publicly ridiculed) and the revelation that
Fauci had funded bat research at Wuhan, have changed the game entirely. My own suspicion is
that the Biden administration is preparing to throw Fauci under the bus and has signaled the
press that he is now fair game. He has served his purpose and can now be used as a scapegoat.
It is unlikely that the Wuhan release will ever be definitively proven. It is more important
to realize that this research is not restricted to Wuhan or China and that steps should be
taken to shut down all such research world-wide, including the USA, lest we have a succession
of these disasters.
The USA has been using bio-warfare for 200 years plus and can NEVER be trusted not to
carry on such research. It controls c.200 labs, worldwide, where research into pathogens and
vectors, particularly arthropods, and the collection of pathogens, is carried out. It used
biological agents in Korea in the early 50s, and against Cuba (African Swine Fever and
dengue) in the 70s, and God knows where else, and against its own people, most infamously the
Tuskegee syphilis abomination. And it is responsible for SARS CoV2, you can be sure.
The West has been trying to bring down China since they tried to turn them all into opium
addicts. Americans were complicit with the British in this and many of the so-called deep
state players made their money from the opium trade. Apparently the same families control the
present day drugs trade and the laundering of the profits from it; the so-called drug cartels
are mostly minor actors well below those who run the operation at the top. Members of the
cartels are often sacrificed but those at the top remain the same.
@Ber t we have is the Josh Hawley demand to declassify everything related to Covid from
day-1, and since he made that proposal, it has been crickets from everyone else, which is
again indicative that no one in the power elite has any incentive or goal to do more than
batter their usual targets.
All that said "" the best practices at this stage of overwhelming deception is to start
with what we can in fact establish and prove as actual plain fact, and proceed from there. If
you start from what you suspect or theorize, you will soon be enmeshed in fevered
propositions ("missiles hit the pentagon on 9/11") that crap all over the genuine facts and
do nothing but hand-craft a made-to-order, wild goose chase. This is very welcome by those
who want to control the entire denouement, to serve their own agenda.
"¦ many other tragedies that got young Americans to spill their blood for the
sake of special interests making a killing as war profiteers.
Agree the main thrust of your post, Joe.
It is also worth remembering that very many innocent souls in countries across the world
have been going about their daily lives when they were attacked, maimed and killed, their
houses destroyed, infrastructure wrecked etc by those same young Americans. Some countries at
this very hour are occupied and are being looted by the same.
Perhaps not a comfortable thought for Americans to add in as they see their country now
descending into certifiable lunacy.
But what goes around does have a habit of coming around, sooner or later.
@Anon t Ron Unz has been saying from the beginning. If you look at it geostrategically,
this is most plausible conclusion. They released the virus in China but those who created it
suffered a massive blowback and even worse China came out of it even stronger than ever
before. They were hoping China would crumble but instead got stronger while they weakened.
That's why they are fanning out a major Anti-China propaganda campaign to contain her now
openly with an overwhelming support of western citizens. This frenziness displayed by western
politicians is the reflection that China is on the verge an unstoppable economic powerhouse
within a few years and they need to put the brakes right now. It is an implicit admission of
desperation. The tussle between China and the US is going to dramatically intensify.
A country can't bring another country down by giving it "Most Favored Nation Trading
Status".
Then sending all it's major corporations there to make big deals.
And how has it served the United States where practically every item, pill in the US is
"Made in China"?
The American people were sold out decades ago in order for the 1% and their Congressional
lackeys to make major bucks. We were even working with them to create a deadly virus!
If we take ZH commentariat opinions as a representative sample of the US conservatives
opinion, Fauci days are now numbered. And not only because he over 80.
Speaking to Laura Ingraham, Paul asserted that "The emails paint a disturbing picture, a
disturbing picture of Dr. Fauci, from the very beginning, worrying that he had been funding
gain-of-function research. He knows it to this day, but hasn't admitted it."
The Senator also urged that Fauci's involvement has not been adequately investigated because
in the eyes of Democrats "he could do no wrong".
Paul pointed out that Fauci was denying that there was even any funding for gain of function
research at the Wuhan lab just a few weeks back, a claim which is totally contradicted by his
own emails in which he discusses it.
"In his e-mail, within the topic line, he says "˜acquire of perform research.' He was
admitting it to his non-public underlings seven to eight months in the past," Paul
emphasised.
The Senator also pointed to
the email from Dr. Peter Daszak , President of the EcoHealth Alliance, a group that
directly funded the Wuhan lab gain of function research, thanking Fauci for not giving credence
to the lab leak theory.
Ingraham asked Paul if Fauci could face felony culpability, to which the Senator replied "At
the very least, there is ethical culpability," and Fauci should be fired from his government
roles.
Earlier Paul had reacted to Amazon pulling Fauci's upcoming book from pre-sale:
In softball interviews with MSNBC and CNN Thursday, Fauci dismissed the notion that his
emails show any conflicts of interest, and claimed that it is in China's "best interest" to be
honest about the pandemic origins, adding that the US should not act "accusatory" toward the
communist state.
Roger Stone was given 9 years for lying to Congress. Fauci should be on the same
hook.
truth or go home 2 hours ago (Edited) remove link
Looks like Fauci is going the way of Gates, but he won't be arrested, because he is
doing the bidding of the overlords.
What could he be arrested for? Let's see: Misappropriation of government funds, lying to
a senator under oath, covering up a criminal operation, operating a conspiracy to deceive
the people of the United States.
Seems like Rand is willing to nail Fauci to the wall, but he is not willing to go after
the big kahuna - the entire hoax - the fake vaxxes, the fake lockdowns, the fake "cases",
the fake death count, the elimination of flu...
Lucky Guesst 10 hours ago
Fauci is owned by big pharma. All the major news channels have at least one big pharma
rat on the board. MSM continues to push the vaccines. They are all in bed together and need
busted up if not taken out.
SummerSausage PREMIUM 15 hours ago
2012- Fauci says weaponized virus research may produce a pandemic but it would be worth
it.
Jan 9, 2017 NIAD memo recommends lifting ban on funding weaponized virus research. Fauci
controls the funds.
Jan 4, 2017 - CIA/FBI/DNC - under Obama's direction are told, essentially, to get
Trump.
Obama is behind release of this virus, creating pandemic panic and lockdown to
facilitate stealing the 2020 election.
OBAMA must be investigated.
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CheapBastard 10 hours ago
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak
it."
~ Anonymous
serotonindumptruck 17 hours ago remove link
Call me a pessimist, but I predict no accountability, no malfeasance, no criminal
charges will be filed against Fauci.
We've all witnessed similar criminal behavior being perpetrated by the wealthy elite
which result in no consequences.
Why should this be any different?
(((They))) now know that (((they))) can lie to us with impunity, and get away with
it.
alexcojones 16 hours ago
New Nuremberg Needed Now.
Fauci in the witness chair.
"So, Dr. Fauci, your decisions, your outright lies, led to thousands, perhaps millions
of unnecessary deaths."
Baric & Batwoman published their chimeric coronavirus with ACE2 receptor access in
2015. Funded by Fauci, of course.
Kevin 3 hours ago (Edited)
That document only shows that Gain Of Function research exists - not that the deaths,
falsely attributed to covid are due to the product of that research.
What self-respecting, lab-created, killer virus, supposedly so deadly that it warrants
the shutting down of the entire planet, is incapable of doing any more damage than the flu
does every year?
In the case of the UK, and according to its own official figures, it hasn't even been
able to do that compared to its history of seasonal flu.
So, 2020 was just a blip compared to the past and most of that blip in increased deaths
was due to the insane policies imposed rather than any lab-created Fluzilla. If you
subtract the deaths that occurred due to:
1. Kicking seniors out of hospital and dumping them into nursing homes where they died
because they no longer got the treatment they needed but where they could infect the other,
previously healthy residents.
2. The many tens of thousands of people who had life-saving surgeries and procedures
cancelled.
3. The huge increase in suicides.
..... I doubt there would even be that blip.
If those historically, insignificant 2020 death figures are due to a lab-created,
chimeric coronavirus then that's an epic fail of the scientists and an enormous waste of
money for their education and the G.o.F. research.
However, it has conned enough idiots into believing that there was a Fluzilla in 2020
and got them to beg for jabs that might be how a lab created, chimeric coronavirus with
ACE2 receptor access gets into their bodies and kills them.
The new con that it was a leaked GoF bio-weapon that caused the 2020 'pandemic' is just
a lie upon a lie.
But it will persuade many of the gullible and fence-sitters to get jabbed because they
will have accepted (subconsciously), that the Fluzilla must have existed last year and that
the only way to combat such a bio-weapon is to jab themselves with poison. Ironically, that
will create in their bodies what they fear most.
Befits 9 hours ago remove link
No, you are not thinking clearly. The Covid death numbers were clearly and horrifically
inflated
1) The CDC changed how death certificates were recorded. Co-morbidities ( cancer,
congestive heart failure, COPD for example) that co- morbidity was listed as cause of death
in part one of the death certificate for 2 decades until the CDC changed death
certificates. If that person had for example a flu At that time ( cough, stuffy nose etc)
it might be listed as a contributing factor ( part 2 of death certificate) person died of
co- morbidity but flu was a contributing factor. The CDC reversed these to make sure Covid
was the cause of death- but truth was people died with Covid not from Covid.
2) 95% of Covid listed deaths actually died of co- morbidities- with Covid not from
Covid. The CDC published that only 5% of " Covid " deaths had only Covid- the other 95% had
on average 4 co- morbidities. In other words their cause of death was co- morbidity not
Covid.
3) personal experience. I was a nurse. A close friend's brother had cancer for 7 years-
in and out of remission. He was " diagnosed with Covid via PCR, almost no symptoms but for
a slight cough and runny nose in March 2020. In April his cancer came back his liver shut
down and he was dead by May 2020. He died from liver cancer but his death was recorded as
Covid 19 simply because he had tested positive 60 days before on a Covid PCR test. This is
the fraud the CDC perpetrated.
4) Hospitals received greatly enhanced financial renumeration if a patient was "
diagnosed" with Covid. Compare hospital reimbursement ( Medicare) for a hospitalized Covid
patient v influenza patient - similar symptoms- on or off respirator. Bottom line the
medical system was financially rewarded for diagnosing " Covid" v influenza. Indeed the
hospital did not even have to confirm a " Covid diagnosis with the fraudulent PCR test to
diagnose Covid- just " symptom" based.
5) The PCR test can not diagnose any viral illness- simply by amplification cycles (30
plus) you can " find" Covid from a dead, partial RNA fragment. As Kary Mullis, Nobel prize
inventor of PCR testing said PCR testing is NOT a diagnostic tool. Hospitals and docs,
universities and public health departments, corporations, the CDC, FDA, used false PCR
testing to financially enrich themselves while destroying the lives and livelihoods of
millions inc careers of medical truth- tellers.
Fauci, the CDC, and the FDA knows all of this. Crimes v humanity trials must be
undertaken v every medical person- from Big Pharma, CDC, FDA, Doctor, nurse, hospital
administrator, public health official, corporate leader etc who used this Covid plandemic
for personal benefit or whom through their actions harmed another.
SoDamnMad 17 hours ago
Watch Tucker Carlson's expose on "Why they lied for so long" At 3:29 he goes into Peter
Danzak getting 27 "scientists" to write in the Lancet that the Covid virus didn't come from
the Wuhan Lab but rather from nature (with the HIV spliced into the genome). But he also
tells individuals at UNC NOT to sign the letter so that their gain-of-function research
isn't tied into this. His e-mail goes to Ralph Baric, Antoinette Baric, as well as Andre
Alison and Alexsei Chmura at EcoHealthAlliance who Fauci got the money to for funding GOF
Chinese research.
Fauci is 80. Why was he allowed to stay on so long?
He controls $32 billion in annual grants that all US scientists and researchers depend
on.
There's a whole lot more corruption to explore.
CatInTheHat 8 hours ago remove link
This whole thing feels CONTRIVED
Why does this even matter anymore?
China is NOT the problem here and focusing on CHINA DISTRACTS from a few things
here.
1 FORT DETRIK. A nefarious US BIOWEAPONS lab that Fraudci worked at for 20 years. FD
also works in conjunction with DARPA
2. Whenever it's WAPO or Buzzfeed (FFS!) who breaks a story related to the Rona, I am
convinced that the elite have called them up to DISTRACT the public from something more
important. Maybe that Fort Detrik was the source of the virus transferred to China via the
US MIC/CIA and the Wuhan military games in China in Nov of 2019. 2 weeks later the first
cases showed up at Wuhan.
3. This VACCINE has now killed over 5000 people and since the rollout for children
between 12-16, several hundred have now been hospitalized with MYOCARDITIS OR
PERICARDITIS.. In Israel a study conducted as the vax rolled out in YOUNG MEN, it was
revealed that one in 3,000 was suffering from MYOCARDITIS within 4 days of the jab.
MSM is now reporting on adolescents in several states hospitalized with INFLAMMATION.
... Which they blame on RONA. FUNNY how every one of those states have rolled out the jab
for CHILDREN
WE are being massively LIED too.
Also, Biden's press secretary PSAKI LIED when she said, today, that 63% of the
population has had the jab.
Wrong. Only 41% of the US population has had BOTH jabs. Anti gun Biden is now offering
guns in exchange for a vax in Virginia. And anti marijuana Biden offering MJ in AZ for
those who take the jab. Why the desperation?
For more perspective on the massive deaths piling up due to this jab, in 1976, when 50
people were killed after the Swine flu jab IT WAS PULLED FROM THE MARKET.
Many thousands who have not had the jab are reporting illness after being in close
contact with those who are vaxxed.
Lots and lots to DISTRACT from
WAKE UP PEOPLE!!
ableman28 10 hours ago
True story....one of my VC firms investments was approached by the defense department to
create a wearable lapel style detector for chemical and biological weapons that would work
in very low concentrations giving people time to put on their CBW gear. Our investee said
sure, we'll take a crack at it, but where are we going to get all the biological and
chemical agents to test it with. The DOD response was don't worry, we have everything
you'll need. And they did.
The US bio weapons program was supposedly terminated by Nixon in 1969. And our official
policy is that we don't research or stockpile such things. ********.
Armed Resistance 15 hours ago (Edited) remove link
This virus was engineered at Ft. Detrick. It's the same place that made the
military-grade Anthrax the deep state sent to Tom Daschle and others in government post
9/11 to gin up more fear.
This was a Fauci-coordinated deep state bio weapon they released in Wuhan to kick off
the scamdemic and the "great reset". Releasing it China gave some cover to the deep state
and the people there are under total control of the state. The rest is just filler. Always
about more control.....
BeePee 15 hours ago
The virus was not engineered at Ft. Detrick.
You are a CCP troll.
Sorry you have such a low pay grade job.
Armed Resistance 15 hours ago (Edited)
Anybody who Questions the deep state is a CCP troll? Look in the mirror. You're the one
running cover for these satanists! You rack up downvotes like Jordan did points! ZH'ers can
spot a troll a mile away son.
louie1 PREMIUM 14 hours ago (Edited)
The US way is to put the perpetrators in charge of the inuiry to control the outcome.
Dulles, Zellick, Fauci
Mighty Turban of Gooch 11 hours ago
Our government is corrupt. As long as the Democrats and the MSM have Fauci's back, he
has nothing to worry about no matter what he's done.
He's just a typical lying bureaucrat and lying to the public thru the media outlets, as
we have seen countless times now by countless government 'officials', is not a crime. Lying
under oath however is. But now days we see these guys get away with that too without
consequence.
So don't hold your breath. There is absolutely nothing that can take these guys out.
Even if they throw one of their own under the bus, the best you can ever hope for is a
resignation as criminal charges would never happen.
dustinthewind 16 hours ago (Edited)
"The CDC Foundation operates independently from CDC as a private , nonprofit 501(c)(3)
organization incorporated in the State of Georgia."
"Because CDC is a federal agency , all scientific findings resulting from CDC research
are available to the public and open to the broader scientific community for review."
"The Board of Directors of the CDC Foundation today named Judith A. Monroe, MD, FAAFP,
as the new president and CEO of the CDC Foundation . Monroe joins the CDC Foundation from
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), where she leads the agency's Office
for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support."
Gates is the largest private donor of the CDC and WHO. Gates is part of the World
Economic Forum who controls Fauci which using US taxpayers funds did gain of function
studies first in the US and caught moved to China where it was intentionally leaked to
blame the Chinese. John Kerry is also part of the WEF and is their man in Washington
calling the war mongering narrative against both China and Russia. Gates funded Imperial
College and Ferguson to write the code that was fake and used by many countries to justify
lockdowns. Gates is the largest ag landowner and wants to ban meat. Who just got hacked and
now it is blamed on Russia? Boris is destroying the UK and after a call from Gates gave 500
million pounds to vaccinate third world countries and lockdowns. Both fathers were tied to
Rockefeller Institute. Rand, connect the dots!
Fauci is under attack globally and has shown himself to be unreliable and should be
fired "" PERIOD! All the emails that have come out from an
FOIA request are interesting, and it shows he has information that was credible
concerning a leak from the lab in Wuhan. Let me make this PERFECTLY clear! This was NOT a
DELIBERATE leak by the Chinese government. If China wanted to really hurt the West, the
technology is there where a virus can be used as a delivery system, and as such, it can be
designed to attack specific genetic sequences meaning that it could target just Italian,
Greeks, English, Germans, or whoever.
COVID-19, based upon everything I see from our model and reliable sources, was created
in a lab and was DELIBERATELY unleashed to further this Great Reset. I BELIEVE someone from
this agenda bribed a lab technician to release it in the local community. China did NOT
benefit from this pandemic. The only ones who benefitted were the World Economic Forum
(WEF) consortium, which I know sold stocks and bonds ahead of the crash. They are also in
league with the World Health Organization (WHO), and the head of the WHO is a politician
and not even a doctor. That is like putting me in charge of surgery at a hospital. How can
Tedros Adhanom be in such a position with no background in the subject matter? Tedros appears at the World
Economic Forum and has participated in its agenda. The WHO should be compelled to turn over
ALL emails and communication ASAP. My bet is they pull a Hillary"¦Oh sorry. They
were hacked by Russians who destroyed everything.
The World Economic Forum is at the center of everything. When will someone investigate all
of these connections right down to creating the slogan, Build Back Better? Of course, they
will call this a conspiracy theory so they can avoid having to actually investigate
anything. My point is simple: produce the evidence and prove this is just a conspiracy
theory.
'John Kerry's Think Tank Calls for War With Russia Over Climate Change'
" America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent
national security threat it is."" John Kerry
Recently-appointed Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has announced his
intention of dealing with the pressing issue of global warming as a national security
concern. "America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent
national security threat it is," the 76-year-old former Secretary of State wrote. "I am
proud to partner with the President-elect, our allies, and the young leaders of the climate
movement to take on this crisis." Kerry is a founding member of the Washington think tank,
the American Security Project (ASP) , whose board is a who's who of retired generals,
admirals and senators.
For the ASP, the primary objectives were:
A huge rebuilding of the United States' military bases,
Countering China in the Pacific,
Preparing for a war with Russia in the newly-melted Arctic.
The ASP recommends "prioritizing the measures that can protect readiness" of the
military to strike at any time, also warning that rising sea levels will hurt the combat
readiness of the Marine Expeditionary Force. Thus, a rebuilding of the U.S.' worldwide
network of military bases is in order.
Fort Detrik a US BIOWEAPONS lab working in tandem with the Wuhan lab. The US is the
leader in BIOWEAPONS research and has 100's of labs across the US and in other
countries.
FRAUDCI having worked at FD for 20 years.
MommickedDingbatter 12 hours ago
Without Nuremberg trials 2.0, this is all meaningless.
Nycmia37 16 hours ago remove link
Follow the science, lol. Just ask yourself who controls the science?? Big drug pharmas,
people is so stupid they believe in everything doctors tell them. The vast majority are on
the field to get rich and enjoy from the big bonuses and trips they get paid in order to
promote a drug. If they speak out they get called a conspiracy person. Nobody cant go
against this mafia because they have the total control, media, politicians, government. We
the people have to self educate about health and finance otherwise we will become zombies
like the majority of people.
SoDamnMad 7 hours ago remove link
Here are the 27 starting with Peter Daszak who signed THE LANCET letter saying ," We
stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not
have a natural origin. "
Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance, New York
Charles Calisher, Colorado State University
Dennis Carroll, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Texas
Fauci is protected at the very highest levels of the oligarchy. So regardless of these
revelations nothing serious will ever happen to him. At worst, he will step down and retire
to his villa in the south of France. Then the controlled MSM will refuse to mention him
again.
Clearing 17 hours ago
Gee, while you're at it, sue Fauci in his individual capacity. He doesn't get immunity
for lying. See below:
In the United States, qualified immunity is a legal principle that grants government
officials performing discretionary (optional) functions immunity from civil suits unless
the plaintiff shows that the official violated "clearly established statutory or
constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known". It is a form of
sovereign immunity less strict than absolute immunity that is intended to protect officials
who "make reasonable but mistaken judgments about open legal questions" extending to "all
[officials] but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law " Qualified
immunity applies only to government officials in civil litigation, and does not protect the
government itself from suits arising from officials' actions.
DemandSider 3 hours ago (Edited)
"PCR is separate from that, it's just a process that's used to make a whole lot of
something out of something. That's what it is. It doesn't tell you that you're sick and it
doesn't tell you that the thing you ended up with really was going to hurt you or anything
like that," Mullis said.
-Nobel Prize winning inventor of PCR being used as a "test" to perpetuate the scamdemic.
Mr. "small government" Rand Paul is only making it worse.
Almachius 2 hours ago
Never mind Fauci. White Supremacists are the greatest threat to America.
Obiden said so.
And Obiden is an honourable man.
Fiscal Reality 14 hours ago
Fauci doesn't give a crap what happens. He got his book deal payoff. He's praying to get
fired so he can cash in on his taxpayer funded pension and get a $10 million contract with
CNN.
2types PREMIUM 13 hours ago
Amazon pulled his book from presale so says the article. Probably in his best interest
to keep his mouth shut right now. Anything he says can and will be used against him. On
second thought.... maybe that's why water carrier Bezos suspended sales?
Abridged version. See the original for full version.
Notable quotes:
"... In October 2014, the Obama administration imposed a moratorium on new funding for gain-of-function research projects that could make influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses more virulent or transmissible. But a footnote to the statement announcing the moratorium carved out an exception for cases deemed "urgently necessary to protect the public health or national security." ..."
"... the review process shrouded in secrecy. "The names of reviewers are not released, and the details of the experiments to be considered are largely secret," said the Harvard epidemiologist Dr. Marc Lipsitch, whose advocacy against gain-of-function research helped prompt the moratorium. ..."
"... In May 2014, five months before the moratorium on gain-of-function research was announced, EcoHealth secured a NIAID grant of roughly $3.7 million, which it allocated in part to various entities engaged in collecting bat samples, building models, and performing gain-of-function experiments to see which animal viruses were able to jump to humans. The grant was not halted under the moratorium or the P3CO framework. ..."
"... Shi Zhengli herself listed U.S. government grant support of more than $1.2 million on her curriculum vitae: $665,000 from the NIH between 2014 and 2019; and $559,500 over the same period from USAID. At least some of those funds were routed through EcoHealth Alliance. ..."
"... EcoHealth Alliance's practice of divvying up large government grants into smaller sub-grants for individual labs and institutions gave it enormous sway within the field of virology. The sums at stake allow it to "purchase a lot of omertà" from the labs it supports, said Richard Ebright of Rutgers. ..."
"... now the spin doctors come around pointing the finger at china. Sure, china may have done the experimentation and research, but where did the funding, research resources, training, and direction come from? ..."
"... The US banned bioweapon development (in the US) and moved it to China with Fraudci in charge so that they could do human experiments and make lots of money on GMO "vaccines" And now the US is trying to spin the story and put the blame on China ..."
As the NSC tracked these disparate clues, U.S. government virologists advising them flagged
one study first submitted in April 2020. Eleven of its 23 coauthors worked for the Academy of
Military Medical Sciences, the Chinese army's medical research institute. Using the
gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, the researchers had engineered mice with humanized
lungs, then studied their susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2. As the NSC officials worked backward
from the date of publication to establish a timeline for the study, it became clear that the
mice had been engineered sometime in the summer of 2019, before the pandemic even started. The
NSC officials were left wondering: Had the Chinese military been running viruses through
humanized mouse models, to see which might be infectious to humans?
In October 2014, the Obama administration imposed a moratorium on new funding for
gain-of-function research projects that could make influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses more
virulent or transmissible. But a footnote to the statement announcing the moratorium carved out
an exception for cases deemed "urgently necessary to protect the public health or national
security."
In the first year of the Trump administration, the moratorium was lifted and replaced with a
review system called the HHS P3CO Framework (for Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and
Oversight). It put the onus for ensuring the safety of any such research on the federal
department or agency funding it. This left the review process shrouded in secrecy. "The names
of reviewers are not released, and the details of the experiments to be considered are largely
secret," said the Harvard epidemiologist Dr. Marc Lipsitch, whose advocacy against
gain-of-function research helped prompt the moratorium. (An NIH spokesperson told Vanity
Fair that "information about individual unfunded applications is not public to preserve
confidentiality and protect sensitive information, preliminary data, and intellectual
property.")
Inside the NIH, which funded such research, the P3CO framework was largely met with shrugs
and eye rolls, said a longtime agency official: "If you ban gain-of-function research, you ban
all of virology." He added, "Ever since the moratorium, everyone's gone wink-wink and just done
gain-of-function research anyway."
British-born Peter Daszak, 55, is the president of EcoHealth Alliance, a New York
City–based nonprofit with the laudable goal of preventing the outbreak of emerging
diseases by safeguarding ecosystems. In May 2014, five months before the moratorium on
gain-of-function research was announced, EcoHealth secured a NIAID grant of roughly $3.7
million, which it allocated in part to various entities engaged in collecting bat samples,
building models, and performing gain-of-function experiments to see which animal viruses were
able to jump to humans. The grant was not halted under the moratorium or the P3CO
framework.
By 2018, EcoHealth Alliance was pulling in up to $15 million a year in grant money from an
array of federal agencies, including the Defense Department, the Department of Homeland
Security, and the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to 990 tax exemption
forms it filed with the New York State Attorney General's Charities Bureau. Shi Zhengli herself
listed U.S. government grant support of more than $1.2 million on her curriculum vitae:
$665,000 from the NIH between 2014 and 2019; and $559,500 over the same period from USAID. At
least some of those funds were routed through EcoHealth Alliance.
EcoHealth Alliance's practice of divvying up large government grants into smaller sub-grants
for individual labs and institutions gave it enormous sway within the field of virology. The
sums at stake allow it to "purchase a lot of omertà" from the labs it supports, said
Richard Ebright of Rutgers. (In response to detailed questions, an EcoHealth Alliance
spokesperson said on behalf of the organization and Daszak, "We have no comment.")
In July, the NIH attempted to backtrack. It reinstated the grant but suspended its research
activities until EcoHealth Alliance fulfilled seven conditions, some of which went beyond the
nonprofit's purview and seemed to stray into tinfoil-hat territory. They included: providing
information on the "apparent disappearance" of a Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher, who
was rumored on social media to be patient zero, and explaining diminished cell phone traffic
and roadblocks around the WIV in October 2019.
Ebright likened Daszak's model of research -- bringing samples from a remote area to an
urban one, then sequencing and growing viruses and attempting to genetically modify them to
make them more virulent -- to "looking for a gas leak with a lighted match." Moreover, Ebright
believed that Daszak's research had failed in its stated purpose of predicting and preventing
pandemics through its global collaborations.
It soon emerged, based on emails obtained by a Freedom of Information group called U.S.
Right to Know, that Daszak had not only signed but organized the influential Lancet
statement, with the intention of concealing his role and creating the impression of scientific
unanimity.
Under the subject line, "No need for you to sign the "Statement" Ralph!!," he wrote to two
scientists, including UNC's Dr. Ralph Baric, who had collaborated with Shi Zhengli on the
gain-of-function study that created a coronavirus capable of infecting human cells: "you, me
and him should not sign this statement, so it has some distance from us and therefore doesn't
work in a counterproductive way." Daszak added, "We'll then put it out in a way that doesn't
link it back to our collaboration so we maximize an independent voice."
Baric agreed, writing back, "Otherwise it looks self-serving and we lose impact."
Baric did not sign the statement. In the end, Daszak did. At least six other signers had
either worked at, or had been funded by, EcoHealth Alliance. The statement ended with a
declaration of objectivity: "We declare no competing interests."
Daszak mobilized so quickly for a reason, said Jamie Metzl: "If zoonosis was the origin,
it was a validation of his life work . But if the pandemic started as part of a lab leak, it
had the potential to do to virology what Three Mile Island and Chernobyl did to nuclear
science." It could mire the field indefinitely in moratoriums and funding restrictions.
In a CNN interview on March 26, Dr. Redfield, the former CDC director under Trump, made a
candid admission: "I am of the point of view that I still think the most likely etiology of
this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory, you know, escaped." Redfield added that he
believed the release was an accident, not an intentional act. In his view, nothing that
happened since his first calls with Dr. Gao changed a simple fact: The WIV needed to be ruled
out as a source, and it hadn't been.
After the interview aired, death threats flooded his inbox. The vitriol came not just from
strangers who thought he was being racially insensitive but also from prominent scientists,
some of whom used to be his friends. One said he should just "wither and die."
Peter Daszak was getting death threats too, some from QAnon conspirators.
Inside the U.S. government, meanwhile, the lab-leak hypothesis had survived the transition
from Trump to Biden. On April 15, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told the House
Intelligence Committee that two "plausible theories" were being weighed: a lab accident or
natural emergence.
Even so, lab-leak talk was mostly confined to right-wing news outlets through April,
gleefully flogged by Tucker Carlson and studiously avoided by most of the mainstream media. In
Congress, the Energy and Commerce Committee's Republican minority had launched its own inquiry,
but there was little buy-in from Democrats and the NIH didn't provide responses to its lengthy
list of demands for information.
The ground began to shift on May 2, when Nicholas Wade, a former New York Times
science writer known in part for writing a controversial book about how genes shape the social
behavior of different races, published a lengthy
essay on Medium. In it, he analyzed the scientific clues both for and against a lab leak,
and excoriated the media for its failure to report on the dueling hypotheses. Wade devoted a
full section to the "furin cleavage site," a distinctive segment of SARS-CoV-2's genetic code
that makes the virus more infectious by allowing it to efficiently enter human cells.
Within the scientific community, one thing leapt off the page. Wade quoted one of the
world's most famous microbiologists, Dr. David Baltimore, saying that he believed the furin
cleavage site "was the smoking gun for the origin of the virus." Baltimore, a Nobel Laureate
and pioneer in molecular biology, was about as far from Steve Bannon and the conspiracy
theorists as it was possible to get. His judgment, that the furin cleavage site raised the
prospect of gene manipulation, had to be taken seriously.
Weedlord Bonerhitler, 1 hour ago
Gain of function research is weaponization. We are under attack by a biological weapon
designed in a laboratory to kill people. We are, in effect, at war.
KickIce, 1 hour ago, (Edited)
With who, Washington DC? FWIW, that would be my pick.
ted41776, 1 hour ago
Yes, except "we" moved this "research" to china many years ago to speed up the weaponization
of bioweapons. the original researchers came to the us from nazi Germany after WW2 (Project
Paperclip). it wasn't moving fast enough here because of that whole experimenting on humans
thing was looked down upon here in the US (at least in the past). so "we" hired china what "we"
couldn't do domestically on "our" own.
And now the spin doctors come around pointing the finger
at china. Sure, china may have done the experimentation and research, but where did the
funding, research resources, training, and direction come from?
gregga777, 1 hour ago
Gain of function research is weaponization
It's also insane. Hey, look at what we did! We made smallpox* in our gene sequencing
laboratory. Oops! It's release into the 'wild' was an unfortunate accident.
Anyone engaged in the research & development of making viruses or bacteria more lethal
or the resurrection of presumably extinct pathogens (e.g., smallpox*) are International War
Criminals. They should be arrested and placed on trial in a suitable jurisdiction. At the very
least they should be barred forever from working in any kind of even remotely related
laboratory research.
*The complete gene sequence of smallpox is apparently freely available over the
Internet.
is an example of GOF engineering that bat lady Shi Zhengli participated in, engineering
chimeras of SARS and SARS like coronaviruses and splicing with HIV to make it more
transmissible to humans.
Pax Romana, 1 hour ago
10 page article could have been condensed into one sentence: Fort Detrick -> Canadian Lab
-> Wuhan -> Spooks -> Election Fraud -> Vax -> State Control
ted41776, 1 hour ago
The US banned bioweapon development (in the US) and moved it to China with Fraudci in charge
so that they could do human experiments and make lots of money on GMO "vaccines" And now the US is trying to spin the story and put the blame on China
no, this covaids was MADE IN THE USA even if it was produced and manufactured in China under
US funding, direction, and supervision
brian91145, 1 hour ago
100% right that is the truth that everyone will know very soon
ted41776, 1 hour ago, (Edited)
not sure if it will make any difference
911: US training and funding bin laden for over a decade? WMDs, they got WMDs! pools of
molten metal caused by... kerosene (jet fuel)? building 7...
we gotta get that f||cker bin laden though
bammy arming cartels (fast and furious) and guns they got from him used to kill americans
(including cops and border patrol)? crickets
there is no election fraud, after seeing them spend 4 years trying to overthrow a president
who allegedly used fraud and russian collusion to get elected?
and on and on and on, the neverending 24/7 stream of lies and distortion
unfortunately, truth has become pretty worthless in this sick reality most people live
in
konputa, 1 hour ago
Designed in the US, manufactured in China. We've known this since early 2020.
CheapBastard, 1 hour ago
(((Vanity Fair))) has the same editorial weight that Teen Vogue has.
The article is meant to obfuscate the truth, not clarify it.
CheapBastard, 51 minutes ago, (Edited)
The author carefully avoids inconvenient but important truths including::
Fauci funded the Wuhan bioweapons lab thru NIH (proven by emails) Fauci lied repeatedly from
day#1 about the characteristics and origin of the deadly virus (also proven by emails) the
WHO lied repeatedly about the origin the involvement of Gates in this entire fiasco
S.Parker, · 1 hour ago
Fort Detrick, USA
Handful of Dust, · 4 minutes ago
· Bumbler-in-Chief Biden in the White House Backs 'Incredible' Dr. Anthony Fauci;
Refuses Comment on Explosive Emails Exposing the Lies & Deceit
Its a book! Damn Tylers it will take me days to read. · The Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 states:
"Whoever knowingly develops, produces, stockpiles, transfers, acquires,
retains, or possesses any biological agent, toxin, or delivery system for use as a weapon, or
knowingly assists a foreign state or any organization to do so, shall be fined under this title
or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both."
Weedlord Bonerhitler, 1 hour ago
Don't need a next leak. Just need time for the leaky vaccines to do their work. A
vaccine that doesn't stop transmission and merely reduces symptoms, is not a vaccine, but an
evolutionary pressure upon the virus.
This is Marek's disease, found in chickens. A few decades ago, it was fairly
benign, but then it was treated with a vaccine that merely reduced symptoms to a minimum
without stopping the virus. Now, after evolving over a few decades while butting heads with
that leaky vaccine, it's so deadly to chickens that any unvaccinated flocks tend to be wiped
out by it, making vaccinating every chicken on Earth a necessity.
This is our future. They want people completely dependent on their vaccines to
survive.
"... Through a collaboration with Danish intelligence, the United States has conducted targeted espionage against senior politicians and officials in Norway, Sweden, Germany and France. That was one of the conclusions in an explosive report made by four employees of the Danish intelligence service (FE), according to Danmarks Radio (DR). ..."
"... Last year, NRK reported that the Danish-American spy cooperation was aimed at targets in Norway, but it was then unknown who the surveillance was aimed at. The new information indicates that the extent of espionage against Norway was far greater than previously known. ..."
Through a collaboration with Danish intelligence, the United States has conducted targeted espionage against senior politicians
and officials in Norway, Sweden, Germany and France. That was one of the conclusions in an explosive report made by four employees
of the Danish intelligence service (FE), according to Danmarks Radio (DR).
NRK mentions the Danish public broadcaster's findings as part of an international collaboration with Danmarks Radio, SVT, NDR,
WDR, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Le Monde.
Over several months, DR has met nine people with access to classified information from the intelligence service. All information
in the case has been confirmed to DR by at least two, often several, independent sources.
Last year, NRK reported that the Danish-American spy cooperation was aimed at targets in Norway, but it was then unknown
who the surveillance was aimed at. The new information indicates that the extent of espionage against Norway was far greater than
previously known.
NRK and DR do not know which Norwegian politicians and officials have been subjected to targeted espionage, but as one of DR's
sources says:
- It would not have been interesting for an intelligence service to spy on municipal politicians.
Tesla completely transformed the automotive landscape when it introduced the Roadster, pioneering the mass-market electric car and
reinventing
the car as we know
. It sold the first widely-available EV, and it did it with a product that you could easily live with every
day. The company has done more to further the electric game than anyone else and deserves total credit for making EVs a part of the
discussion when it comes to the future of the automobile.
Tesla
has
changed the world. It's also doomed.
The last mainstream automaker to be launched from scratch in the United States was Saturn, a heavily subsidized child of the GM
family. Even with those deep pockets, it failed. History is littered with dead automotive brands. The list of deceased automakers is
also replete with visionary leaders who pioneered new tech and aimed to dominate the luxury market.
The automobile game is tough. The dirty secret is
that the big brands only make around 6% margin on every car they sell
This is all to say: we've been here before. Hudson, Tucker, DeLorean (
twice!
),
Packard, and more. The stories here are all different in their specifics, with some succumbing to shady government dealing, others
losing to price wars. While the immediate causes of their failures might be unique, the fact that they failed certainly is not.
The consumer automobile game is devilishly tough. The dirty secret of the car making world is that the big brands only make around
6% margin on every car they sell. That's a pathetic amount of profit when compared to other well-known brands like Nike, Apple, or
Disney. Shoes, upscale electronics, and entertainment (as well as scores of other industries) all offer double the profit margins,
faster production times, less regulation, and fewer unionized workforces. Building cars is dumb. Car companies make billions of
dollars in profits because they sell so many cars, not because each car is so profitable. And therein lies the rub for Tesla.
Why Tesla is doomed
The only way to be successful at car manufacturing is to do it at a very large scale. You have to sell hundreds of thousands, if not
millions of cars per year to be stable. In 2018,
Tesla
shifted a total of 245,240 cars
. The
Tesla
Model 3
also became the best-selling luxury automobile in United States; last year was fantastic for Tesla. It also took the
company to the very brink of imploding.
Scaling up production lines and capacity is the activity that is killing Tesla, but scaling up further is the only thing that can
save it. The company is at the low point of a "production valley" where becoming capable of building 300,000 cars has made them
wildly unprofitable, but the only way to get to profit is to build even more capacity to enable it to make 700,000 – 1,000,000 cars.
Tesla could potentially have, or raise, the billions needed to do this. It could, that is, if the company could concentrate on doing
one thing at a time.
Tesla's worst enemy is Elon Musk. The serial entrepreneur has an affliction that many serial entrepreneurs have: Shiny Thing
Syndrome. Mr. Musk loves to chase after new challenges and novel projects. Tesla is currently producing 3 different cars, wall
chargers, charging stations, electric semi-trucks, photovoltaic roofs, and spearheading autonomous technology. Throw in the odd
flamethrower
,
underground
tunnels
, and a new
insurance
product
(not to mention
Space
X
), and you see a leader not focused on doing the hard work of pushing his company through a crisis of scale, but a man obsessed
with moon-shots and new projects.
Scaling up production is the activity that is
killing Tesla, but scaling up further is the only thing that can save it
It should be noted that Musk has never operated any business at this scale before. Running a nimble online service such as Paypal is
a very different thing than running a multinational car manufacturer -- especially one that is exclusively pursuing new technologies.
Quite frankly, Musk is not qualified to be CEO of Tesla any longer, and the mismatch of his skills to the company's needs could not
be worse timed for Tesla.
In the next 12 months, practically all other major global auto manufacturers have plans to release their own electric cars. Tesla
ate their lunch last year when it became the best-selling luxury car, but at that time, it was the only EV game in town. More
worryingly, the most common Tesla owner complaints happen to be the areas that traditional car companies excel at:
Fit
and finish
,
service
infrastructure
, and execution on timelines. When Porsche announced its
Taycan
electric sedan
, its #1 source of reservations was from current Tesla owners. This is a surefire sign that the Tesla customer
base is eager to upgrade to something better.
China, the world's largest car market, and the savior of many global brands, cannot save Tesla. Indeed, the current trade war
between the U.S. and China is
hurting
Tesla more
than any other car company. The current price for a Tesla Model 3 in China is approximately $73,000, with roughly
$30,000 of that price being the result of China's import tariffs. In January, Elon Musk broke ground on a Gigafactory in China, and
the total investment in the project is expected to exceed $4 billion,
according
to Goldman Sachs
. That is an amount of money Tesla, quite frankly, doesn't have to spend. After a disastrous first quarter 2019,
the company quickly raised $2.35 billion in stock and debt. Even with this recent cash infusion, Musk told employees the company
would be
out
of cash in 10 months
if spending continued at current levels.
The end of Tesla
Tesla will not go bankrupt. It cannot go bankrupt. At the moment, the company is still well-placed to raise another funding round
and could likely even do as many as three more funding events before investors stop lining up. Failure for Tesla won't happen
tomorrow, but it is coming. More and more evangelists are changing their tunes as competition in EVs gets fiercer. Wall street is
losing patience with broken promises and erratic CEO behavior. And the everyday consumer is finding more electric car options that
tempt their dollar now that Tesla is not the only game in town. No, Tesla's end will not happen tomorrow, nor will it be a dramatic
collapse.
Telsa is too valuable a brand to disappear in a cloud of Chapter 11 smoke. Again, history bears this out. The vast majority of
automotive brands from years past were acquired or absorbed into larger brands, where some succeeded brilliantly (Dodge) and others
slowly morphed into something unrecognizable (Hudson). Arguably, the Tesla brand is the most valuable piece of Tesla's balance sheet
as other manufacturers have caught up with their hard technology (batteries, chargers), and are rapidly chasing down their soft
technology (
Autopilot
).
The Tesla brand is global in reach, and still viewed favorably overall by the public.
The endgame for Tesla is an acquisition. It is the way of the automotive jungle -- the circle of corporate life, as it were. The
unknowable part at the moment is exactly who will acquire Tesla, as the list is quite long. Another car company is the reflexive
bet, but Silicon Valley and Chinese auto manufacturers are all likely bidders as well. Apple
already
offered to buy Tesla
back in 2013 for more than the company is worth at the time of this story. The field of suitors is wide
open, and the eventual winner could well come as a surprise to the everyday public.
Regardless of who steps up to the plate, it will be very surprising if the transaction is labelled as an acquisition. No -- this will
be a "merger" or "partnership" to protect egos and that all-important Tesla brand (again, the most valuable asset on their books).
Any upcoming news of a partnership with a Toyota or a Mercedes should not be seen as a life preserver thrown out in good faith, but
a wholesale pirate sacking of the company. Musk will quietly slip away to chase his shiny things, popping in for product launches
and tweetstorms, but the adults will be put in charge and set a profitable course. What happens after that, no one can know.
Before the pitchforks come out, make no mistake: The world is a better place for Tesla having existed. Electric cars are no longer
made out of old Porsche 914s by a guy in a shed. We are moving toward an electric future, all thanks to underdog Tesla. The world,
and Americans especially, are enamored with an underdog story. But more often than not, the underdog loses. That's why they are
underdogs. In the best of worlds, Tesla can influence Mercedes or a Chinese company from the inside to really nail electric cars and
make them the most affordable option for consumers. I hope that comes to pass for all our sakes.
This is a very short book, almost an essay -- 136 pages. It was published in October 2004, four years before financial crisis of
2008, which put the first nail in the coffin of neoliberalism. It addresses the cultural politics of neo-liberalism ("the
Great Deception")
Notable quotes:
"... By now, we've all heard about the shocking redistribution of wealth that's occurred during the last thirty years, and particularly during the last decade. But economic changes like this don't occur in a vacuum; they're always linked to politics. ..."
"... Ultimately, The Twilight of Equality? not only reveals how the highly successful rhetorical maneuvers of neoliberalism have functioned ..."
"... The titles of her four chapters--Downsizing Democracy, The Incredible Shrinking Public, Equality, Inc., Love AND Money--summarize her argument. ..."
"... Her target is neoliberalism, which she sees as a broadly controlling corporate agenda which seeks world domination, privatization of governmental decision-making, and marginalization of unions, low-income people, racial and sexual minorities while presenting to the public a benign and inclusive facade. ..."
"... Neo-liberalism seeks to upwardly distribute money, power, and status, she writes, while progressive movements seek to downwardly distribute money, power, and status. The unity of the downwardly distribution advocates should match the unity of the upwardly distribution advocates in order to be effective, she writes. ..."
"... "There is nothing stable or inevitable in the alliances supporting neoliberal agendas in the U.S. and globally," she writes. "The alliances linking neoliberal global economics, and conservative and right-wing domestic politics, and the culture wars are provisional--and fading...." ..."
"... For example, she discusses neoliberal attempts to be "multicultural," but points out that economic resources are constantly redistributed upward. Neoliberal politics, she argues, has only reinforced and increased the divide between economic and social political issues. ..."
"... Because neoliberal politicians wish to save neoliberalism by reforming it, she argues that proposing alternate visions and ideas have been blocked. ..."
By now, we've all heard about the shocking redistribution of wealth that's occurred during the last thirty years, and
particularly during the last decade. But economic changes like this don't occur in a vacuum; they're always linked to politics.
The Twilight of Equality? searches out these links through an analysis of the politics of the 1990s, the decade when
neoliberalism-free market economics-became gospel.
After a brilliant historical examination of how racial and gender inequities were woven into the very theoretical underpinnings
of the neoliberal model of the state, Duggan shows how these inequities play out today. In a series of political case studies,
Duggan reveals how neoliberal goals have been pursued, demonstrating that progressive arguments that separate identity politics and
economic policy, cultural politics and affairs of state, can only fail.
Ultimately, The Twilight of Equality? not only reveals how the highly successful rhetorical maneuvers of neoliberalism have
functioned but, more importantly, it shows a way to revitalize and unify progressive politics in the U.S. today.
Mona Cohen 5.0 out of 5 stars A Critique of Neoliberalism and the Divided Resistance to It July 3, 2006
Lisa Duggan is intensely interested in American politics, and has found political life in the United States to have been "such
a wild ride, offering moments of of dizzying hope along with long stretches of political depression." She is grateful for "many
ideas about political depression, and how to survive it," and she has written a excellent short book that helps make sense of
many widely divergent political trends.
Her book is well-summarized by its concluding paragraph, which I am breaking up into additional paragraphs for greater
clarity:
"Now at this moment of danger and opportunity, the progressive left is mobilizing against neoliberalism and possible new or
continuing wars.
"These mobilizations might become sites for factional struggles over the disciplining of troops, in the name of unity at a
time of crisis and necessity. But such efforts will fail; the troops will not be disciplined, and the disciplinarians will be
left to their bitterness.
"Or, we might find ways of think, speaking, writing and acting that are engaged and curious about "other people's" struggles
for social justice, that are respectfully affiliative and dialogic rather than pedagogical, that that look for the hopeful spots
to expand upon, and that revel in the pleasure of political life.
"For it is pleasure AND collective caretaking, love AND the egalitarian circulation of money--allied to clear and hard-headed
political analysis offered generously--that will create the space for a progressive politics that might both imagine and
create...something worth living for."
The titles of her four chapters--Downsizing Democracy, The Incredible Shrinking Public, Equality, Inc., Love AND
Money--summarize her argument.
She expected upon her high school graduation in 1972, she writes, that "active and expanding social movements seemed capable
of ameliorating conditions of injustice and inequality, poverty, war and imperialism....I had no idea I was not perched at a
great beginning, but rather at a denouement, as the possibilities for progressive social change encountered daunting historical
setbacks beginning in 1972...."
Her target is neoliberalism, which she sees as a broadly controlling corporate agenda which seeks world domination,
privatization of governmental decision-making, and marginalization of unions, low-income people, racial and sexual minorities
while presenting to the public a benign and inclusive facade.
Neo-liberalism seeks to upwardly distribute money, power, and status, she writes, while progressive movements seek to
downwardly distribute money, power, and status. The unity of the downwardly distribution advocates should match the unity of the
upwardly distribution advocates in order to be effective, she writes.
Her belief is that all groups threatened by the neoliberal paradigm should unite against it, but such unity is threatened by
endless differences of perspectives. By minutely analyzing many of the differences, and expanding understanding of diverse
perspectives, she tries to remove them as obstacles towards people and organizations working together to achieve both unique and
common aims.
This is good book for those interested in the history and current significance of numerous progressive ideological arguments.
It is a good book for organizers of umbrella organizations and elected officials who work with diverse social movements. By
articulating points of difference, the author depersonalizes them and aids in overcoming them.
Those who are interested in electoral strategies, however, will be disappointed. The interrelationship between neoliberalism
as a governing ideology and neoliberalism as a political strategy is not discussed here. It is my view that greater and more
focused and inclusive political organizing has the potential to win over a good number of the those who see support of
neoliberalism's policy initiatives as a base-broadening tactic more than as a sacred cause.
"There is nothing stable or inevitable in the alliances supporting neoliberal agendas in the U.S. and globally," she
writes. "The alliances linking neoliberal global economics, and conservative and right-wing domestic politics, and the culture
wars are provisional--and fading...."
Reading this book adds to one's understanding of labels, and political and intellectual distinctions. It has too much jargon
for my taste, but not so much as to be impenetrable. It is an excellent summarization and synthesis of the goals, ideologies, and
histories of numerous social movements, both famous and obscure.
Duggan
articulately connects social and economic issues to each other, arguing that neoliberal
politics have divided the two when in actuality, they cannot be separated from one another.
In the introduction, Duggan argues that politics have become neoliberal - while politics
operate under the guise of promoting social change or social stability, in reality, she argues,
politicians have failed to make the connection between economic and social/cultural issues. She
uses historical background to prove the claim that economic and social issues can be separated
from each other is false.
For example, she discusses neoliberal attempts to be "multicultural," but points out that
economic resources are constantly redistributed upward. Neoliberal politics, she argues, has
only reinforced and increased the divide between economic and social political issues.
After the introduction, Duggan focuses on a specific topic in each chapter: downsizing
democracy, the incredible shrinking public, equality, and love and money. In the first chapter
(downsizing democracy), she argues that through violent imperial assertion in the Middle East,
budget cuts in social services, and disillusionments in political divides, "capitalists could
actually bring down capitalism" (p. 2).
Because neoliberal politicians wish to save neoliberalism by reforming it, she argues that
proposing alternate visions and ideas have been blocked. Duggan provides historical background
that help the reader connect early nineteenth century U.S. legislation (regarding voting rights
and slavery) to perpetuated institutional prejudices.
"The true equation is 'democracy' = government by world financiers."
– J.R.R. Tolkien
"Welcome to an Orwellian Brave New World!
Orwell's (1984) words were prescient. Huxley (Brave New World) was a school teacher of
Orwell's at Eton College. They both attended elite symposiums in the 1920s and 30s where all
of this was discussed in complete seriousness sort of like early versions of Bilderberger
meetings. So the accuracy of their books was no accident they actually KNEW what was being
planned. Huxley just emphasized the more SOCIALIST elements while Orwell emphasized the more
FASCIST elements they were both right, because both aspects were always part of the plan.
It's obvious that the Rulers always intended to use both approaches as part of their CONTROL
structure.
Looking at their personal lives and backgrounds, it appears that Orwell was trying to warn
us. Huxley was much more of a British upper crust blue blood. He seemed to be in agreement
with what the Rulers were planning, and along with his brother Julian he was actually helping
them. They both knew what was coming.
Were they used as textbooks by the Rulers? It's just that the general public aren't as
worried about controlling the masses as the Rulers' are."
"Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence -- those are the three pillars of
Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse."
– Aldous Huxley
Ouch, Huxley chops at the roots. This quote is profound. If you were to connect dots what
do you see?
"She's done as a member of leadership. I don't understand what she's doing," one former
House GOP lawmaker told The Hill of Cheney's ongoing attacks on former President Trump. " It's
like political self-immolation. You can't cancel Trump from the Republican Party; all she's
done is cancel herself. "
Cheney has repeatedly attacked Trump for 'inciting' the Jan. 6 'insurrection' despite
telling supporters to protest peacefully and then go home following the breach of the
Capitol.
GOP leaders hope that purging Cheney from the leadership ranks will move Republicans
beyond their civil war over Trump" one that's raged publicly since the Jan. 6 attack on the
Capitol" and allow the party to unite behind a midterm campaign message that President Biden
and the Democrats are too liberal for the country. - The
Hill
"There are still a few members that are talking about things that happened in the past, not
really focused on what we need to do to move forward and win the majority back next year,"
according to Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), the minority whip. "We're going to have to be unified
if we defeat the socialist agenda you're seeing in Washington."
A victory by Stefanik would mark a symbolic shift back towards Trump by leading Republicans
- as the former president remains highly engaged this election cycle and has threatened to
politically obliterate any remaining GOP opposition.
"By ousting her, what we're saying is: We are repudiating your repudiation of the Trump
policies and the Trump agenda and her attacks on the president," according to Rep. Andy Biggs
(R-AZ), adding " President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. And when she's out
there attacking him, she's attacking the leader of the Republican Party ."
Cheney has already survived one challenge to her leadership post, in February, after she
infuriated conservatives by voting to impeach Trump for inciting the Capitol rampage on Jan.
6. With the backing of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), she easily kept
her seat as conference chair, 145 to 61 by secret ballot.
With McCarthy and Scalise fed up with Cheney and now backing Stefanik, the 36-year-old New
Yorker is expected to prevail in Wednesday's contest" a would-be victory for leaders who have
failed to unite the conference behind a post-Trump strategy in the early months of the Biden
administration. - The
Hill
... ... ...
Cheney isn't the only House Republican facing backlash for taking on Trump. Earlier in the
week, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), one of seven Republican senators who voted this year to
convict Trump, was booed and called a traitor at the Utah GOP state convention, where he
narrowly beat back an effort to censure him.
On Friday, the Ohio Republican Party Central Committee voted to censure Rep. Anthony
Gonzalez (R-Ohio), Cheney and the eight other House Republicans who backed Trump's
impeachment in January. The Ohio GOP also formally called for Gonzalez's resignation.
... ... ...
Catullus 51 minutes ago
I don't care if Trump runs again just as long as these gross establishment Republicans
are thrown out on their asses
JoeyChernenko PREMIUM 39 minutes ago (Edited)
Romney is a real traitorous worm. Did you hear him say Biden is a good man with good
intentions when the Utah crowd was booing his worthless hide? And we need to make sure the
Bush dynasty remains out of power.
Anath 51 minutes ago remove link
the cheney family is pure evil. that is all.
chinese.sniffles 52 minutes ago
Why Would Wyoming choose Chenney, after all that evil that **** brought upon America. If
there was no ****, Obama would never get elected.
chunga 47 minutes ago remove link
Cynics suspect primaries are also rigged.
Basecamp3 PREMIUM 50 minutes ago
Comstock is a traitor that never read the Navarro Report which goes into detail of
how the election was stolen. Also, ousting Cheney has zero risk. She is stupid, weak, and
her own constituents hate her.
overbet 50 minutes ago
which has caused some GOP leaders to fear alienating female Republican voters,
particularly educated suburbanites who will be key votes in the 2022 elections.
The female republicans I know are smarter than that. All of them
Grave Dancer 22 38 minutes ago remove link
Liz's sociopath dad **** got hundreds of thousands killed based on a total fraud lie of
a war. And Liz has a problem with Trump because he tweets some unfiltered stuff once in a
while? Freaking kidding me? ay_arrow
GhostOLaz 37 minutes ago
Don't blame Liz, she has a legacy of treason to protect, Daddy removed the only secular
anti Communist govt in the middle East which protected Christains and religious
minorities...
gaaasp 20 minutes ago (Edited)
Women could wear pants and not be burkahed up in Syria and Libya and Iraq before
Bush/Clinton/Obama/Trump sent troops.
chunga 49 minutes ago
I don't want to give up on the process but the GOP has a lot of work to do.
nmewn 39 minutes ago
The thing about "us" is, when we find them we jettison them. Cantor was another one. She
voted to impeach an outgoing President who's trial she knew would be held AFTER he was out
of office and again just an average American citizen holding no federal office at all.
She is either incompetent, stupid (or both) or a cancer the GOP can live with excised
from the body.
Make_Mine_A_Double 40 minutes ago
Peggy Noonan really came out the closet in this weekend's WSJ with editorial of Liz
Chaney against the House of Cowards.
They are 2 of the same. We've had these demsheviks in the ranks for decades. Noonan
takes it in the anoose at dem cocktail parties and is Team Mascot for the RINOs.
Tucker finally exposed that filth Luntz. McCathry is actually living with him in one of
his apartments - I assume it's not platonic in nature.
This is why Trump could never even the bottom of the swamp....g.d. RINOs need to purged
with the extreme prejudice.
the Mysterians 40 minutes ago
War pig.
in deditionem acceptos 48 minutes ago
Liz will survive the vote. Too much graff from the MIC to get her out. McCarthey could
of got her out in Feb if he wanted. Wonder what honey pot he's dipping into?
A Girl In Flyover Country 43 minutes ago
She won't survive the Wyoming voters, though.
Cogito_ergosum 52 minutes ago (Edited)
She is protecting her dad who was part of the inside gang that carried out the...
demolition of the twin towers on 911...
Flying Monkees 37 minutes ago (Edited)
BS. The tribe's fingerprints were all over 9/11 as documented in extensive detail by
Christopher Bollyn.
JoeyChernenko PREMIUM 53 minutes ago
Don't any of these evil families ever just fade into oblivion? Bush, Cheney, Clinton,
Obama, etc.
beavertails 50 minutes ago
Extending and pretending there are choices when there aren't any. The MIC got this. The
"Prez" is just show to sell ads and steal, I mean raise fiat from the gullible.
More Hacks, More Baseless Accusations Against Russia
In January police in various countries took down the Emotet bot-network that was at that
time the basic platform for some 25% of all cybercrimes.
Based on hearsay Wikipedia and other had falsely attributed Emotet to Russian actors.
The real people behind it were actually
Ukrainians :
The operating center of Emotet was found in the Ukraine. Today the Ukrainian national police
took control of it during a raid (video). The police found dozens of
computers, some hundred hard drives, about 50 kilogram of gold bars (current price
~$60,000/kg) and large amounts of money in multiple currencies.
Now the U.S. is accusing Russia of somehow having part in another cybercrime :
President Joe Biden said Monday that a Russia-based group was behind the ransomware attack
that forced the shutdown of the largest oil pipeline in the eastern United States.
The FBI identified the group behind the hack of Colonial Pipeline as DarkSide, a shadowy
operation that surfaced last year and attempts to lock up corporate computer systems and
force companies to pay to unfreeze them.
"So far there is no evidence ... from our intelligence people that Russia is involved,
although there is evidence that actors, ransomware is in Russia," Biden told reporters.
"They have some responsibility to deal with this," he said.
Three days after being forced to halt operations, Colonial said Monday it was moving
toward a partial reopening of its 5,500 miles (8,850 kilometers) of pipeline" the largest
fuel network between Texas and New York.
Biden however is badly informed. There is no evidence that DarkSide has anything to do with
Russia. It is, like Emotet, a commercial
'ransomware-as-a-service' criminal entity that wants to make money and does not care about
geopolitics.
Yes, a version of the DarkNet software does exclude itself from running on system with
specific
language settings :
The DarkSide malware is even built to conduct language checks on targets and to shut down if
it detects Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Armenian, Georgian, Kazakh, Turkmen, Romanian, and
other languages ...
That is a quite long list of east European languages and Russian is only one of it. Why the
authors of DarkNet do not want their software to run on machines with those language settings
is unknown. But why would a Russian actor protect machines with Ukrainian or Romanian language
settings? Both countries are hostile towards Russia. To claim that this somehow points to
Russian actors is therefore baseless.
The Kremlin has once again pointed out the importance of cooperation between Moscow and
Washington in tackling cyberthreats amid a cyber-attack on Colonial Pipeline, a US company.
"Russia has nothing to do with these hacker attacks, nor with the previous hacker attacks,"
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Preskov assured reporters on Tuesday.
"We categorically reject any accusation against us, and we can only regret that the US is
refusing to cooperate with us in any way to counter cyber-threats. We believe that such
cooperation - both international and bilateral - could indeed contribute to the common
struggle against this scourge [known as] cyber-crime," Peskov said.
The U.S. seems notoriously bad at attributing computer hacks. It claims that the recent
SolarWinds attack which intruded several government branches was also done by Russia. But that
attack
required deep insider knowledge and access to SolarWinds' computers
and processes :
The recently discovered deep intrusion into U.S. companies and government networks used a
manipulated version of the SolarWinds Orion network management software. The Washington borg
immediately attributed the hack to Russia. Then President Trump attributed it to China. But
none of those claims were backed up by facts or known evidence.
The hack was extremely complex, well managed and resourced, and likely required insider
knowledge. To this IT professional it 'felt' neither Russian nor Chinese. It is far more
likely, as Whitney Webb finds, that
Israel was behind it .
Indeed - the programmers of an Israeli company, recently bought up by SolarWinds, had all
the necessary access for such a hack. However the U.S. sanctioned Russia over the SolarWinds
hack without providing any evidence of its involvement.
If the U.S. continues to blame Russia without any evidence for each and every hack there may
come a time when Russia stops caring and really starts to hack into or destroy important U.S.
systems. The U.S. should fear that day.
Posted by b on May 11, 2021 at 17:31 UTC |
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Thanks b. I don't think Russia is going to escalate destructive attacks any time soon.
There's no upside.
They might even be reluctant to reveal their capabilities in the Ukraine.
For the moment, mockery is the best remedy while they up their game.
@ b who ended with
"
If the U.S. continues to blame Russia without any evidence for each and every hack there may
come a time when Russia stops caring and really starts to hack into or destroy important U.S.
systems.
"
How can you write such assertions that vary from the approach that both Russia and China
are taking?....strong defense but no offense.
Now if empire tried to hack into a Russian or Chinese system/network then appropriate
takedowns of malicious systems/networks would seem logical....and I expect they know
how...but will not do it on the basis of another avenue of empire lies and deceit.
You should have titled the post "Killing Two Birds With One Stone".
This pipeline is huge, running from Texas through the Southeast and all the way up to New
England. It's condition is beyond awful with multiple leaks along the route some of which
lose more than a million gallons per month and much more than can be determined since some of
the gasoline / jet fuel went into the aquifers. These faults have been well known for decades
and although some of the areas are heavily populated no remediation was done. The local
outcry recently caught the attention of the press when kids reported a gasoline smell along
the pipeline route to the police. The locals demanded the pipeline be closed for repairs and
sought answers from state officials and Federal authorities as to why this situation was
allowed. To blame the Russians for the closure of the pipeline which results in a surge in
prices and limited availability of gas for the summer is an absolute stroke of genius.
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/ncdeq-colonial-pipeline-spill-huntersville/275-70e16fb6-c945-4634-b933-3975d0573f2e
It is odd that certain elements of the us intelligence community, along with negative
factions within the us political establishment, continue to absolutely refuse to enter into
verifiable and mutually binding international agreements on cyber security with exactly the
nation states that they accuse (without evidence) of malicious activity in the same sphere,
while at the same time operating in this field in an openly declared hostile manner under the
secrecy deemed necessary for 'national security'.
> In a recent book, Luke Harding, an investigative reporter at The Guardian, described how Mr. Steele had dispatched his "collector"
to surreptitiously approach a real estate broker, Sergei Millian, who was a peripheral figure in the Trump/Russia saga. "Millian
spoke at length and privately to this person, believing him or her to be trustworthy "" a kindred soul," Mr. Harding wrote.
But the trouble for Mr. Harding, who is close to both Mr. Steele and Mr. Simpson, was that he wrote those lines before the
release of the F.B.I. interview of Mr. Danchenko.
In the interview, the collector said that he and Mr. Millian might have spoken briefly over the phone, but that the two
had never met.
Mr. Harding did not respond to requests for comment. <
Here are Ten Things We Have Learned During the Covid Coup.
1. Our political system is hopelessly corrupt. Virtually all politicians are hopelessly corrupt. No political party
can be trusted. They all can be, and have been, bought.
2. Democracy is a sham. It has been a sham for a very long time. There will never be any real democracy when money and
power amount to the same thing.
3. The system will stop at nothing to hold on to its power and, if possible, increase its levels of control and exploitation.
It has no scruples. No lie is too outrageous, no hypocrisy too nauseating, no human sacrifice too great.
4. So-called radical movements are usually nothing of the sort. From whatever direction they claim to attack the system,
they are just pretending to do so, and serve to channel discontent in directions which are harmless to the power clique and even
useful to its agendas.
5. Any "dissident" voice you have ever heard of through corporate media is probably a fake. The system does not hand
out free publicity to its actual enemies.
6. Most people in our society are cowards. They will jettison all the fine values and principles which they have been
loudly boasting about all their lives merely to avoid the slightest chance of public criticism, inconvenience or even minor financial
loss.
7. The mainstream media is nothing but a propaganda machine for the system... ...and those journalists who work for
it have sold their sorry souls, placing their (often minimal) writing skills entirely at the disposition of Power.
8. Police are not servants of the public... ...but servants of a powerful and extremely wealthy minority which seeks
to control and exploit the public for its own narrow and greedy interests.
9. Scientists cannot be trusted. They will use the hypnotic power of their white coats and authoritative status for
the benefit of whoever funds their work and lifestyle. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
10. Progress is a misleading illusion. The "progress" of increasing automation and industrialisation does not go hand
in hand with a progress in the quality of human life, but in fact will "progressively" reduce it to the point of complete extinction.
Irrelevant how much the Western peoples hate China. China is not Iran, Afghanistan, Russia or some other random Third World
country, it is above the pay grade of Western public opinion.
However, it is true China is not up to the level achieved by the Soviet Union. It still has a military disproportionately weak
compared to its economic might. That problem will still take some three or more decades to solve, but it is being worked on.
This headline by the NYT (in the upper right corner of the Home Page) reflects the West's frustration with Israel. In the first
part, they try to tell the reader that the Israeli are waging a war of equals, and not genociding, the Palestinians (and that
the USA has nothing to do with it). In the second part, it laments the bad timing by the Israelis, who interrupted their propaganda
warfare operation against China on the "Uighur genocide" campaign.
It urges Israel to clean the mess as quick as possible in order for the anti-China propaganda campaign to resume.
In the case of the COVID-19 vaccines, the above statement is literal, as the USA has, so far, exported zero - I repeat, zero
(not rounding down) - vaccines so far.
Meanwhile, China has already exported 250 million doses and counting (last time I checked, a week ago) - more than the entire
Indian production (India had just exported some 60 million doses).
The inner contradictions of capitalism in plain sight.
On the one side, you have to give people money so they can keep themselves quarantined. On the other side, capitalism requires
people to keep working or to keep searching for work in order to pull down wages, thus increasing the rate of surplus value. That's
why conservatives are usually in favor of the Christian charity, that gives only food and shelter, but not cash, to the unemployed,
but not of wage raises and unemployment benefits - the fact that you're paid in cash and not in kind makes all the difference
in the world in the capitalist system.
Unemployment benefits only help capitalism is it is low enough just to keep one physically alive and in constant search for
jobs. That way, he/she incorporates the industrial reserve army, which brings wages down. The problem with the USA is that wages
were already so low before the pandemic that those USD 600.00 checks made 35% (!!) of its recently unemployed recipients richer
than when they were employed. Logically, those 35% don't want to go back to work, as their lives are objectively better now than
they were before the pandemic, and that's why the Republican congressmen and senators are pressuring Biden (as they pressured
Trump) to outright extinguish those checks.
P.S.: the top rated commentary in the article ("Great generations of Americans came here 100 years ago...") by the time I typed
this is hilarious, shows the delusion of the average American towards their own system almost perfectly. The other comments are
also very funny. The narrative that "there are a lot of jobs available, but no one is skilled enough/wants it" is used by the
capitalists every time there's an economic crisis, just search your favorite newspaper for the years of 1980-1982, 1975 etc. etc.
and you'll see the same bullshit being preached over and over again.
Talks about apartheid as the only possible synthesis between a Jewish theocratic state and a liberal bourgeois state, which
I mentioned in the past two threads about the subject.
As I said before, the system is unstable and is doomed to fail. Either Israel abandons its Zionist project and gives up the
idea of being an 100% Jewish state and thus becomes a liberal bourgeois state or it will continue to wither and degenerate until
it falls to a civil war.
It would've been the first if not for a providential last grasp effort by NASA, who used the resources it had and didn't have
to pull that off, by a few months.
The tendency, however is clear. NASA will soon cease to exist as we know it and essentially become the State façade of SpaceX.
The USA's space program will then be entirely dependent on the genius of Elon Musk.
--//--
Cuban vaccines (Abdala and Soberana 02) continue advancing on their trials:
If you had read and understood the Mars 3 link I provided you would have learned that it wasn't a rover either. Which the first
rover was has already been told. End of story.
Posted by: Norwegian | May 16 2021 18:37 utc | 37
Yes, but no. Mars 3 actually had a rover on board, PROP-M. To quote Wikipedia:
"The Mars 3 lander, a so called Passability Estimating Vehicle for Mars, was designed and manufactured in Mobile Vehicle Engineering
Institute by a team of approximately 150 engineers, led by Alexander Kemurdzhian. The vehicle had a small 'Mars rover' on board,
which was planned to move across the surface on skis while connected to the lander with a 15-meter umbilical cable. Two small
metal rods were used for autonomous obstacle avoidance, as radio signals from Earth would take too long to drive the rovers using
remote control. The rover carried a dynamic penetrometer and a gamma ray densitometer."
... although it seems it never was deployed because of the communication failure, so it cannot count as the first rover to
function on Mars.
(nytimes.com)
371 Posted by msmash on Monday May 24, 2021 @04:00PM from the how-about-that dept. Florida
on Monday became the first state to regulate how companies like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter
moderate
speech online , by imposing fines on social media companies that permanently bar political
candidates in the state. From a report:
The law, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, is a direct response to Facebook's and Twitter's
bans of former President Donald J. Trump in January. In addition to the fines for barring
candidates, it makes it illegal to prevent some news outlets from posting to their platforms
in response to the contents of their stories. Mr. DeSantis said signing the bill meant that
Floridians would be "guaranteed protection against the Silicon Valley elites."
"If Big Tech censors enforce rules inconsistently, to discriminate in favor of the
dominant Silicon Valley ideology, they will now be held accountable," he said in a statement.
The bill is part of a broader push among conservative state legislatures to crack down on the
ability of tech companies to manage posts on their platforms. The political efforts took off
after Mr. Trump was barred after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Lawmakers around the
country have echoed Mr. Trump's accusations that the companies are biased against
conservative personalities and publications, even though those accounts often thrive online.
More than a hundred bills targeting the companies' moderation practices have been filed
nationwide this year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Many of the
bills have died, but a proposal is still being debated in Texas.
"... The Global Financial Syndicate will use all kind of distractions to mask the MONETARY power and divide the populace to continue its control & dominance through monetary imperialism. The world is a playground for "evil spirits." ..."
One need to understand the STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT correctly, clearly, and comprehensively
to live & light our world. What is your strategic construct of the national and
international control system?
The Global Financial Syndicate will use all kind of distractions to mask the MONETARY
power and divide the populace to continue its control & dominance through monetary
imperialism. The world is a playground for "evil spirits."
How does the Financial Empire increase its control & POWER over a region? It likes
turning each region into its suzerainty and an Animal Farm (Top-Down Control Structure -
Democracy/Republic/...) internally by controlling its money supply through the
central-private banking system.
Global Financial Empire's strategy:
– Capture LANDS
– Constitutionalize to control the suzerainty & LIVES
– Create LOANS through private creation of money by the private banking system
(Credit/Debt) & give preferential access-terms to kleptocrats (Kleptocrats/Finance --
> Business/Media -- > Politicians/Bureaucrats -- > people)
– Conserve control & power through Consumerism - lifestyles (Labor &
Leisure)
Monetary Power = Lands x Lives x Loans. The key CONTROL elements of the Financial Empire
within a suzerainty are:
– credit/debt - LOANS
– consumerism/desires - LIFESTYLE
– circuses/distractions. - LOST & trivial
When it comes to the international realm it seeks following freedoms:
– freedom of capital movement,
– freedom of trade,
– freedom to provide services, particularly financial
– freedom for warfare
The Global Financial Syndicate controls, finances and corrupts policies such as those in
the U$A administration by its financing the substitution of national leaders with employees
of the Financial Syndicate, such as Biden, Draghi, Yellen, Juncker, Macron,... Globalization
is meant to establish the global financial syndicate's rule everywhere, hierarchically from
top to bottom, in contrast to the democratic right of citizens to self-determination and the
responsibility of governments towards their citizens.
Who wants to make us all, whether we be nations or individuals, slaves to debt?
After Russiagate the credibility of CIA is below zero. So this looks like a part of
propaganda compaign against China.
"Yet somehow Tony Fauci didn't know this Can we really believe that? No, of course, we
can't," Carlson continued, adding "right around the time those Chinese researchers became the
world's first COVID patients, the government of Thailand contacted the CDC and Tony Fauci's
office to say its intelligence service had picked up 'biological anomalies' around the lab in
Wuhan. In other words, there had been a leak."
ay_arrow
AUS-AUD 8 hours ago (Edited)
If fauci funded the wuhan lab then the US funded the wuhan lab.
popeye 6 hours ago
There has been no new credible information released in the past two months pertaining to
the origin of SARS-Cov-2. US Intelligence is not a credible source (lying & deception
are the tradecraft of espionage). All I see is media narrative spin based on conjecture
that you can guarantee has political origins.
Yet Americans, who complain incessantly about the dishonesty of their media, credulously
swallow the narrative fed to them without analysis or critique. Stupid. You think you are
independent rebels, when you are in reality manipulated sheep, and oh so easily
manipulated.
Lets be clear - ZH is now a part of the narrative machine.
SurfingUSA 4 hours ago (Edited)
Can't make inferences????
The Wuhan lab is just the fall guy here.
The virus,
the lab (or Army games) release,
the election impact ...
ALL either Made in the (((USA))) or close to it.
Justin Timberbieber 8 hours ago
Yep, just the CCP. No western involvement whatsoever.
E5 8 hours ago
Until you trace the scientists back to UNC. Then you see that the actual virus they
accelerated came from the US.
Heimdall - Torwart von Assguard 6 hours ago
AND Canada
Ted K. 6 hours ago
The Winnipeg lab of the fully infiltrated Canada is indeed a piece of the puzzle.
Herdee 5 hours ago
And Ft. Detrick
RedNemesis 6 hours ago (Edited)
Okay. They accelerated and released a virus obtained from the US. So is the US
responsible for a country turning yellow cake uranium mined in Nevada into a nuclear
weapon?
truth or go home 5 hours ago
Yes, if the US gives them the recipe and then pays them to develop it.
And if the US did that to get around a law that makes it illegal to do makes it even
worse - which is exactly what happened.
SteveNYC 7 hours ago
I'm going with the "populism" route. Stopping populist governments in their tracks has
always proven reason enough for panic and overkill from TPTB:
- USA
- Brazil
- India
<< Primary targets.
Heimdall - Torwart von Assguard 6 hours ago
Poland
Hungary
Venezuela
Brazil
popeye 6 hours ago
Most Americans have never left their country, many have never left their state, and few
seem to have an education. You can't expect them to know much about anything outside the
US. Basically a flat earth mentality - "the world consists only of what I can see".
junction 8 hours ago
The only certainty is that all the major facts are lies.
Jolt 5 hours ago
You're on the right track, "junction", but be aware that the virus is just an ordinary
flu/corona virus that isn't deadly for the vast majority of humans. The real culprit, the
biggest tool for creating the worldwide "emergency" is the PCR test, which is 100%
fraudulent. This is by design, thanks to the pharmaceuticals.
williambanzai7 PREMIUM 8 hours ago remove link
No Tucker, if you just want to blame the whole thing on China you are missing the
punchline: Fauci
tion PREMIUM 8 hours ago (Edited) remove link
It's all an assortment of narratives and partial truths. Tucker points the finger at
China without mentioning how Fauci was funding Gain of Function work at the Wuhan lab. Here
is just one example of people from that lab using an HIV splice to increase
transmissibility of a pathogen to humans.
In this study, we investigated the receptor usage of the SL-CoV S by combining a human
immunodeficiency virus-based pseudovirus system with cell lines expressing the ACE2
molecules of human, civet, or horseshoe bat. In addition to full-length S of SL-CoV and
SARS-CoV, a series of S chimeras was constructed by inserting different sequences of the
SARS-CoV S into the SL-CoV S backbone. Several important observations were made from this
study. First, the SL-CoV S was unable to use any of the three ACE2 molecules as its
receptor. Second, the SARS-CoV S failed to enter cells expressing the bat ACE2. Third,
the chimeric S covering the previously defined receptor-binding domain gained its ability
to enter cells via human ACE2, albeit with different efficiencies for different
constructs. Fourth, a minimal insert region (amino acids 310 to 518) was found to be
sufficient to convert the SL-CoV S from non-ACE2 binding to human ACE2 binding ,
indicating that the SL-CoV S is largely compatible with SARS-CoV S protein both in
structure and in function.
Journal of Virology, February 2008
And by the way let's not pretend that dear Donald aka President Kushner's FIL didn't
also know about Fauci's questionable involvement with unethical gain of function research
at this lab before appointing him and the PEPFAR mafia to head the Covid taskforce, putting
the foxes in charge of guarding the hen house so to speak.
TheAlmightyCorndawg 8 hours ago
Which is precisely why Tucker is Operation Mockingbird.
Billy the Poet 7 hours ago (Edited)
Then show me solid evidence that what you say is true. You do have film of Tucker
working with the CIA, right?
2+2 ≠ 5 8 hours ago remove link
Huh?
Tucker has NEVER "supported the election hoax".
In fact, Tucker is one of the very few on MSM to continually call for proper voting
audits of the 2020 election, and he repeatedly highlights the obvious fraud that took
place.
ay_arrow
GoodyGumdrops 8 hours ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Election fraud has been happening in the US
for decades.
The only thing new this time around is they decided to mock the American people openly,
so that they can never claim ignorance again about the corruption.
The plandemic is the real worldwide atrocity being played out right now before our
eyes.
asteroids 8 hours ago
The heads of the NIH and the CDC have been caught lying. Therefore both agencies have NO
credibility and have lost the trust of the people. ...
Flying Monkees 8 hours ago
Imagine being a total POS like Fauci who would destroy the freedom and liberties of his
fellow Americans just so he can line his own pockets...
Auditors for a 2020 election investigation being carried out in Windham, New Hampshire, are
saying that some of their latest findings are "large enough to account for discrepancies" in
the election results.
Auditors said they found "experimental confirmation that if the contest is undervoted, a
fold through a vote target can create a vote."
"Something we strongly suspect at this juncture, based on various evidence, is that in
some cases, fold lines are being interpreted by the scanners as valid votes," Mark Lindeman,
part of the audit team,
told WMUR .
Harri Hursti, another auditor, said on Twitter that testing proved folded ballots were
misinterpreted by machines.
"Test decks proved that foldings across a vote targets is misinterpreted as additional
phantom votes or subtracts votes due to false overvotes," he wrote in a post.
Auditors finished the hand recount on May 21. The audit began
on May 11.
AccuVote didn't respond to a request for comment about the audit authorization by the Epoch
Times. The AccuVote machines' intellectual property are owned by Dominion Voting Systems.
Windham's four state representative seats were all won by Republicans on Election Night. The
presidential election was not an item for this audit.
Democrat candidate Kristi St. Laurent, who lost by a narrow margin of 24 votes, requested an
audit ( pdf ) claiming
that the machines were improperly programmed, and that double voting was involved.
As a result, New Hampshire's Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, signed a bill last month that gave authorization
for forensic analysis and a comprehensive recount of the 2020 election votes in Windham related
to optical scanning AccuVote machines.
An automatic recount was done, resulting in St. Laurent losing 99 more votes after a hand
recount. Meanwhile, four Republicans gained about 300 votes each.
The other three Democrats gained between 18 and 28 votes.
The audit team said that more issues could be involved besides folded ballots being
misinterpreted.
"The fold effect is large enough to account for discrepancies, but might not be all that's
going on," the team said on Twitter on May 22.
"75 folded ballots voted straight Republican. Only 48 votes recorded for them. Folds
generated overvotes. This is machine used on Election Day [for] most absentee ballots."
Another machine was found to have "an even more dramatic problem" by the auditors, who said
that only 28 percent of the votes for Republican candidates were counted.
"The work is not completed yet. While the folding seems to be a strong contributor it
clearly is not the only factor," Hursti said on Sunday.
"For example: We have observed vastly different error rates on two machines processing the
same ballots. Work continues."
One of the things that makes Wi-Fi work is its ability to break big chunks of
data into smaller chunks and combine smaller chunks into bigger chunks, depending on the needs of the network at any given
moment. These mundane network plumbing features, it turns out, have been harboring vulnerabilities that can be exploited to send
users to malicious websites or exploit or tamper with network-connected devices, newly published research shows.
In all, researcher Mathy Vanhoef found a dozen vulnerabilities, either in the
Wi-Fi specification or in the way the specification has been implemented in huge numbers of devices. Vanhoef has dubbed the
vulnerabilities
FragAttacks
,
short for fragmentation and aggregation attacks, because they all involve frame fragmentation or frame aggregation. Broadly
speaking, they allow people within radio range to inject frames of their choice into networks protected by WPA-based encryption.
Bad news
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Serious flaw in WPA2 protocol lets attackers intercept passwords and much more
Assessing the impact of the vulnerabilities isn't straightforward. FragAttacks allow data to be injected into Wi-Fi traffic, but
they don't make it possible to exfiltrate anything out. That means FragAttacks can't be used to read passwords or other sensitive
information the way a previous Wi-Fi attack of Vanhoef, called
Krack
,
did. But it turns out that the vulnerabilities -- some that have been part of Wi-Fi since its release in 1997 -- can be exploited to
inflict other kinds of damage, particularly if paired with other types of hacks.
"It's never good to have someone able to drop packets into your network or target your devices on the network," Mike Kershaw, a
Wi-Fi security expert and developer of the open source Kismet wireless sniffer and IDS, wrote in an email. "In some regards,
these are no worse than using an unencrypted access point at a coffee shop -- someone can do the same to you there, trivially -- but
because they can happen on networks you'd otherwise think are secure and might have configured as a trusted network, it's
certainly bad news."
He added: "Overall, I think they give someone who was already targeting an
attack against an individual or company a foothold they wouldn't have had before, which is definitely impactful, but probably
don't pose as huge a risk as drive-by attacks to the average person."
While the flaws were disclosed last week in an industry-wide effort nine months
in the making, it remains unclear in many cases which devices were vulnerable to which vulnerabilities and which vulnerabilities,
if any, have received security updates. It's almost a certainty that many Wi-Fi-enabled devices will never be fixed.
Rogue DNS injection
One of the most severe vulnerabilities in the FragAttacks suite resides in the
Wi-Fi specification itself. Tracked as CVE-2020-24588, the flaw can be exploited in a way that forces Wi-Fi devices to use a
rogue DNS server, which in turn can deliver users to malicious websites rather than the ones they intended. From there, hackers
can read and modify any unencrypted traffic. Rogue DNS servers also allow hackers to perform
DNS
rebinding attacks
, in which malicious websites manipulate a browser to attack other devices connected to the same network.
The rogue DNS server is introduced when an attacker injects an
ICMPv6
Router Advertisement
into Wi-Fi traffic. Routers typically issue these announcements so other devices on the network can
locate them. The injected advertisement instructs all devices to use a DNS specified by the attacker for lookups of both IPv6 and
IPv4 addresses.
In an email, Vanhoef explained, saying, "The IPv6 router advertisement is put
in the payload (i.e. data portion) of the TCP packet. This data is by default passed on to the application that created the TCP
connection. In the demo, that would be the browser, which is expecting an image. This means that by default, the client won't
process the IPv6 router advertisement but instead process the TCP payload as application data."
Vanhoef said that it's possible to perform the attack without user interaction
when the target's access point is vulnerable to
CVE-2021-26139
,
one of the 12 vulnerabilities that make up the FragAttacks package. The security flaw stems from a kernel flaw in NetBSD 7.1 that
causes Wi-Fi access points to forward
Extensible
Authentication Protocol (AP) over LAN
frames to other devices even when the sender has not yet authenticated to the AP.
It's safe to skip ahead, but for those curious about the specific software bug
and the reason the video demo uses a malicious image, Vanhoef explained:
To make the victim process the TCP payload (i.e. data portion) as a separate
packet, the aggregation design flaw in Wi-Fi is abused. That is, the attacker intercepts the malicious TCP packet at the Wi-Fi
layer and sets the "is aggregated" flag in the Wi-Fi header. As a result, the receiver will split the Wi-Fi frame into two
network packets. The first network packet contains part of the original TCP header and is discarded. The second packet
corresponds with the TCP payload, which we made sure will now correspond to the ICMPv6 packet, and as a result, the ICMPv6
router advertisement is now processed by the victim as a separate packet. So proximity to the victim is required to set the
"is aggregated" Wi-Fi flag so that the malicious TCP packet will be split into two by the receiver.
The design flaw is that an adversary can change/set the "is aggregated" flag
without the receiver noticing this. This flag should have been authenticated so that a receiver can detect if it has been
modified.
It's possible to perform the attack without user interaction when the
access point is vulnerable to CVE-2020-26139. Out of four tested home routers, two of them had this vulnerability. It seems
that most Linux-based routers are affected by this vulnerability. The research paper discusses in more detail how this
works -- essentially, instead of including the ICMPV6 router advertisement in a malicious TCP packet, it can then be included in
an unencrypted handshake message (which the AP will then forward to the client after which the adversary can again set the "is
aggregated" flag etc).
Punching a hole in
the firewall
Four of the 12 vulnerabilities that make up the FragAttacks are implementation
flaws, meaning they stem from bugs that software developers introduced when writing code based on the Wi-Fi specification. An
attacker can exploit them against access points to bypass a key security benefit they provide.
Besides allowing multiple devices to share a single Internet connection,
routers prevent incoming traffic from reaching connected devices unless the devices have requested it. This firewall works by
using network address translation, or NAT, which maps private IP addresses that the AP assigns each device on the local network
to a single IP address that the AP uses to send data over the Internet.
The result is that routers forward data to connected devices only when they
have previously requested it from a website, email server, or other machine on the Internet. When one of those machines tries to
send unsolicited data to a device behind the router, the router automatically discards it. This arrangement
isn't
perfect
, but it does provide a vital defense that protects billions of devices.
Vanhoef figured out how to exploit the four vulnerabilities in a way that
allows an attacker to, as he put it, "punch a hole through a router's firewall." With the ability to connect directly to devices
behind a firewall, an Internet attacker can then send them malicious code or commands.
In one demo in the video, Vanhoef exploits the vulnerabilities to control an
Internet-of-things device, specifically to remotely turn on and off a smart power socket. Normally, NAT would prevent a device
outside the network from interacting with the socket unless the socket had first initiated a connection. The implementation
exploits remove this barrier.
FURTHER READING
Microsoft practically begs Windows users to fix wormable BlueKeep flaw
In a separate demo, Vanhoef shows how the vulnerabilities allow a device on the Internet to initiate a connection with a computer
running Windows 7, an operating system that stopped receiving security updates years ago. The researcher used that ability to
gain complete control over the PC by sending it malicious code that exploited a
critical
vulnerability called BlueKeep
.
"That means that when an access point is
vulnerable, it becomes easy to attack clients!" Vanhoef wrote. "So we're abusing the Wi-Fi implementation flaws in an
access
point
as a first step in order to subsequently attack (outdated)
clients
."
Getting your fix
Despite Vanhoef spending nine months coordinating patches with more than a
dozen hardware and software makers, it's not easy to figure out which devices or software are vulnerable to which
vulnerabilities, and of those vulnerable products, which ones have received fixes.
This page
provides the status for products from several companies. A more comprehensive list of known advisories is
here
.
Other advisories are available individually from their respective vendors. The vulnerabilities to look for are:
Design flaws:
CVE-2020-24588
: aggregation attack (accepting non-SPP A-MSDU frames)
CVE-2020-24587
: mixed key attack (reassembling fragments encrypted under different keys)
CVE-2020-24586
: fragment cache attack (not clearing fragments from memory when (re)connecting to a network)
Implementation
vulnerabilities allowing the injection of plaintext frames:
CVE-2020-26145
: Accepting plaintext broadcast fragments as full frames (in an encrypted network)
CVE-2020-26144
: Accepting plaintext A-MSDU frames that start with an RFC1042 header with EtherType EAPOL (in an encrypted
network)
CVE-2020-26140
: Accepting plaintext data frames in a protected network
CVE-2020-26143
: Accepting fragmented plaintext data frames in a protected network
Other implementation
flaws:
CVE-2020-26139
: Forwarding EAPOL frames even though the sender is not yet authenticated (should only affect APs)
CVE-2020-26146
: Reassembling encrypted fragments with non-consecutive packet numbers
CVE-2020-26147
: Reassembling mixed encrypted/plaintext fragments
CVE-2020-26142
: Processing fragmented frames as full frames
CVE-2020-26141
: Not verifying the TKIP MIC of fragmented frames
The most effective way to mitigate the threat posed by FragAttacks is to
install all available updates that fix the vulnerabilities. Users will have to do this on each vulnerable computer, router, or
other Internet-of-things device. It's likely that a huge number of affected devices will never receive a patch.
The next-best mitigation is to ensure that websites are always using HTTPS
connections. That's because the encryption HTTPS provides greatly reduces the damage that can be done when a malicious DNS server
directs a victim to a fake website.
Sites that use HTTP Strict Transport Security will always use this protection,
but Vanhoef said that only about 20 percent of the web does this. Browser extensions like
HTTPS
everywhere
were already a good idea, and the mitigation they provide against FragAttacks makes them even more worthwhile.
As noted earlier, FragAttacks aren't likely to be exploited against the vast
majority of Wi-Fi users, since the exploits require a high degree of skill as well as proximity -- meaning within 100 feet to a
half-mile, depending on the equipment used -- to the target. The vulnerabilities pose a higher threat to networks used by high-value
targets such as retail chains, embassies, or corporate networks where security is key, and then most likely only in concert with
other exploits.
When updates become available, by all means install them, but unless you're in
this latter group, remember that drive-by downloads and other more mundane types of attacks will probably pose a bigger threat.
Promoted Comments
When I'm networking I always assume the network I'm connected to is completely compromised, so all my devices use these things
and are properly firewalled in which case these attacks are pretty much worthless.
While only new versions of Android support DoT out of the box on the system level, Google has recently added the support for
DoH to Chrome, so in case your device is running an older version of Android you might want to enable DoH in Chrome to feel
safe.
And as for Firefox it's had the support for DoH for years. I've gone as far as to set network.trr.mode to 2 in about:config to
be extra safe. 3 is even better:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Trusted_Recursive_Resolver
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Vk @30
..why the necessity of populist POTUSes arose in the USA in the first place?
Perhaps it might be useful to examine the case of the first Western populist of the modern
era: Louis Napoleon. It's been a while since I read Marx's 'The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis
Napoleon' but the short (hopefully not too vulgar) version is that the French ruling class
was too divided (between different flavours of Royalist and Republicans, finance capitalists
and industrialists etc) for any faction to provide a coherent class project to move France
forward and either co-opt or repress the working people of France.
The workers were also divided and not yet ready to articulate a revolutionary project of
their own. With France caught between its imperialist rival Great Britain and an awakening
Germany, and the threat of revolution working to focus their minds, the French Ruling class
came up with a way out of the impass: a populist leader who could stand above the social
divisions and 'Make France Great Again'.
Bonaparte's nephew Louis Napoleon was by most accounts a mere grifter and stuffed-shirt,
but he had name recognition and the ambition to play the part. The gambit was wildly
successful in rolling back the gains the workers had made in 1848 and resulted in the 'second
empire' that reinvigorated French imperialism. Well, wildly successful until Louis went up
against against a rising power (Prussia/Germany) and the second empire folded like a house of
cards.
When Trump was first elected it seemed probable that we were dealing with another
'Bonapartist'. With the ruling class floundering after the 'GFC' of 2008-11 and the crisis of
US imperialism after the rise of China and defeat in Ukraine and Syria, some faction of the
ruling class was seeking to put the pieces back together under a new strongman. But in this
case the attempt was a resounding failure in unifing the ruling class.
The weakness of the US working class may be the key to understanding the failure of
Trumpism. While French workers of 1850 may have struggled to create a unified revolutionary
project of their own, they were organised and poliicised enough to provide the muscle in
removing the Monarchy in 1848 and were a constant threat to French ruling class power. The US
working class of 2016 was none of these things. Without the threat of revolution there was no
incentive for the dominant ruling class factions to devolve some of their power to a
strongman.
The ruling class attack on Trumpism seems to have consolidated the power of the dominant
factions of the ruling class under the Democratic party, while hopelessly dividing the
working class between those who support the strongman and those that tail after the ruling
class attacks on him. So while Trumpism has failed to create a reborn and unified US empire,
it has accomplished the next best thing: disorienting and demoralising the greatest threat to
that empire. Perhaps it will take a diastrous collision with a rising power to change that.
For France's second empire it was Germany and resulted in the Paris Commune. For the US,
China and ?
@ S.P. Korolev | May 18 2021 5:26 utc | 69 with the nice description of Trump's Populist
failing
Thanks for that...nicely done and, yes, the China/Russia axis is the challenge to the US
faced axis....I keep calling it a civilization war because that it the only result I see
meaning we have evolved from barbarism and haven't gone extinct trying...
Commenter vk is the MoA ideologue troll that should go create her own web site and stop
polluting this one, IMO, and that of others on an ongoing basis....see the latest Week in
Review Open Thread about Ivermectin for example.
vk is the main reason I scroll to the bottom of each comment to find the author before
reading
I think Trump is a man for the moment. He is not particularly intelligent. He is not
particulary honest. He is not a natural leader. He loves to play to the gallery.He can be
dominated.He is weak. He is disingenuous.He is rich. I don't think he can ever be called a
self made man. He was chosen to do the job by those more connected and powerful than him.
Remember you always get the leader that you deserve.
It's finally dawning on people that we have been subjected to a UNIPARTY for the past
several decades. They are all in the same club, they only pretend to be for different
policies. Bush (either one) never closed the border or took significant, meaningful steps to
stop illegal immigration, to note just one uniparty position.
That's why most GOP members hate Trump. He's ruining their graft operation. They are ALL
getting rich off of throwing American under the bus with China. They don't want it to stop,
but Trump threw a wrench into the gears of their operation. That is why they are desperate to
keep him out of office. They even conspired on the Jan 6th operation along with the Covid
response measures to torpedo the economy.
There is a lot of house cleaning to be done on the GOP side of the aisle in 2022.
They have a lot of work to do. There is a suspicion among cynics like myself that GOP
bossmen conspired with DNC to rig 2020 for the opposition.
Moribund Mitch was congratulating Catatonic Joe while the election was still contested and
GA runoff polls were still open. Mike Pence folded up like a ten dollar suitcase.
SurfingUSA 7 hours ago remove link
"Suspicion" ????
Those facts are locked down. See the following GOP champions of Domino Ion Voting with
documented roles in getting the equipment and obstructing investigations:
Note Domino Ion election management is to an extent a front for the CCP.
chunga 7 hours ago
The recount thing in AZ is a stunt as far as I'm concerned. Nobody ever bothered to
question suitcase girl. It is inexplicable.
YuriTheClown 7 hours ago
Don't do the China thing. That is the Republican version of Russia! Russia! Russia!
While I am sure China spreads the cheese around we all know it's the Giewash Mob banking
cartel that is firmly in control. The Cartel can shut off Chinese Cheese in a heart beat when
desired. They just like using other people's money.
19331510 3 hours ago
Main street does not want perpetual wars, why do you think Trump was elected for a second
time?
Miniminer1 8 hours ago
CNN and the msm will keep putting her on TV like she's important and telling their few
viewers she might be president and will go after evil trump and thereby keeping the
brainwashing alive . Keep fighting for justice president trump!!!
No_Pretzel_Logic 7 hours ago
CIA News Network is 100% Deep State operated.
I can flip to that channel anytime of day and within 120 seconds I am pointing at the TV
and saying, "Liars!"
It is almost completely Pravda-programming and remains a real threat to this country. Same
with MSDNC.
YuriTheClown 7 hours ago
You watch TV????
aegis551 8 hours ago
Cheneys is a neocons and a globalist. Hopefully the good people of Wyoming can see that
and kick this POS to the curb.
Paul Bunyan 8 hours ago
Darth Cheney is not pleased the GOP has discredited his daughter. I am sure he and the
Bushes will be doing everything they can to keep Trump from running in '24.
SPACE-CADET 8 hours ago
Little Bush killed 10,000 americans and over 1 million Iraq.
He retired to Texas with a cushy pension.
Paul Bunyan 8 hours ago (Edited)
Never mind the pension. The Bushes are American royalty and British royals before it. His
mother Barbara is a Pierce, as in the former POTUS and NYC banking dynasty. Everyone knows
CIA asset George Sr. Then there is patriarch Prescott who was a Senator, a banker with the
Harrimans ( THE bank that funneled Nazi money through Wall Street) and a Scull and bonesman
(as was GHWB and GWB). Then there is Uncle Bert Walker, where both names Herbert and Walker
come from. This man traces both names back to British royalty, where both the Herberts and
Walkers ruled on the British courts for hundreds of years. So for pensions, these families
have power and wealth that can not be imagined.
YuriTheClown 7 hours ago
Nah. As per Eustace Mullins ( a national treasure his recordings )
Bushes served Harrimans
Harrimans served Rothschilds
Bushes are high functionaries
arby63 7 hours ago
They all hated Trump because he wasn't in the club. This scum Cheney is a name I've had to
endure for 40 years.
Thats why they hated Trump. He wasn't one of them.
Dominion said in a statement to news outlets on Thursday that it would comply with the
audit, but Cyber Ninjas, the firm hired by the Arizona Senate to conduct it along with three
other companies, is not accredited by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
" Releasing Dominion's intellectual property to an unaccredited, biased, and plainly
unreliable actor such as Cyber Ninjas would be reckless, causing irreparable damage to the
commercial interests of the company and the election security interests of the country ,"
Dominion said. "No company should be compelled to participate in such an irresponsible
act."
Cyber Ninjas did not respond to a request for comment.
Maricopa County officials previously said that they did not have passwords to access
administrative functions on Dominion Voting Systems machines that were used to scan ballots
during the election, according to the Senate's audit liaison, former Republican Secretary of
State Ken Bennett.
"They've told us that they don't have that second password, or that they've given us all the
passwords they have," Bennett told One America News at the site of the audit in Phoenix last
week.
Both routers or router images and access to election machines were part of the materials the
state Senate subpoenaed late last year. A judge in February ruled that the subpoenas were valid
and should be obeyed.
Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican,
recently threatened to subpoena county officials if they didn't stop their noncompliance
with the subpoenas, but
backed off the threat in a letter on May 12.
Instead, she asked Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers, also a
Republican, to cooperate voluntarily by attending an upcoming meeting at the state Capitol to
go over the audit issues.
Fann said auditors have found discrepancies in the ballot count, including one batch that
was supposed to be 200 but only numbered 165. She also said the audit teams found an entire
database directory from an election machine had been deleted, and that the main database for
the election management system software was not located anywhere on the machine, suggesting
that the main database for all data related to the 2020 election had been removed.
Sellers on Thursday indicated he would not attend the meeting and disputed the
allegations.
Deleting files off the server "would be a crime -- and it is not true," he said.
"After reviewing the letter with County election and IT experts, I can say that the
allegations are false and ill-informed. Moreover, the claim that our employees deleted election
files and destroyed evidence is outrageous, completely baseless, and beneath the dignity of the
Arizona Senate," he added, calling for an immediate retraction of statements senators and their
liaison team made on social media and to the press.
The Board of Supervisors, which held a closed-door emergency meeting on Friday, plans on
holding a public meeting on Monday to address the matter.
Fann, an Arizona Senate Republican Caucus spokeswoman, and the liaison team did not
immediately respond to requests for comment.
Auditors, meanwhile, began packing up on Thursday evening because the audit will take a
break due to scheduling conflicts.
The audit has been taking place at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum on the state fairgrounds
in Phoenix. High school graduations are scheduled to take place at the building beginning May
15.
Hand counting stopped at 7 p.m. on Thursday and workers began collapsing tables and
preparing to move ballots to another location.
About 500,000 of the nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County in the 2020 election
have been counted in the audit, according to Bennett.
The Arizona Senate signed an extension to their original agreement that allows auditors to
store materials in the Wesley Bolin Building, which is also on the state fairgrounds, from May
12 to May 23.
The approximately 19,000-square foot building has a large open floor plan and two large
roll-up doors, according to the Arizona State Fair website.
"Due to temperatures during the summer months, this building is not recommended for use
between May through September," the site states.
Bennett told The Epoch Times in a previous interview that the materials will be secure and
that the site at which they'll be stored can be tracked online via 24-hour streaming, just like
the audit itself.
" There's no deadline for the audit ," Bennett said. " The goal is not speed; the goal is
accuracy and completeness. "
The audit teams can resume occupancy of the coliseum on May 23 and use it until June 30,
according to a copy of the extended agreement obtained
by The Epoch Times .
The original scope of work document from Cyber Ninjas said reviewing voter registration and
votes case would take approximately 20 days and that work would be conducted remotely. The vote
counting phase would take about 20 more days, it said, while the electronic voting system phase
would take some 35 days.
But all three of those phases could be carried out simultaneously, according to the firm. An
additional week was said to be required after completing everything else to finalize
reporting.
How would Liz Cheney, Kristina Peterson (writer of this column) or anyone else ( including
William Barr) know whether Trump is correct or not.? The obfuscation created by governors,
legislatures and judges made the process inscrutable. I personally believe it more likely
than not that Trump is correct.
The repetitive use of the term of "baseless" does not make it so. No one can possibly ever
know. The Supreme Court had the opportunity to examine it. Justices Thomas and Alito were
correct, the court should have taken the Texas case. Cheney obviously hates Trump. That's
what motivates her -- not some higher cause.
How would Liz Cheney, Kristina Peterson (writer of this column) or anyone else ( including
William Barr) know whether Trump is correct or not.? The obfuscation created by governors,
legislatures and judges made the process inscrutable. I personally believe it more likely
than not that Trump is correct.
The repetitive use of the term of "baseless" does not make it so. No one can possibly
ever know. The Supreme Court had the opportunity to examine it. Justices Thomas and Alito
were correct, the court should have taken the Texas case. Cheney obviously hates Trump.
That's what motivates her -- not some higher cause.
How would Liz Cheney, Kristina Peterson (writer of this column) or anyone else (
including William Barr) know whether Trump is correct or not.? The obfuscation created
by governors, legislatures and judges made the process inscrutable. I personally
believe it more likely than not that Trump is correct.
The repetitive use of the term of "baseless" does not make it so. No one can
possibly ever know. The Supreme Court had the opportunity to examine it. Justices
Thomas and Alito were correct, the court should have taken the Texas case. Cheney
obviously hates Trump. That's what motivates her -- not some higher cause.
"The true equation is 'democracy' = government by world financiers."
– J.R.R. Tolkien
Please name a democracy that isn't a SUZERAINTY.
"Democracy" is a temporary phase of history which allows the Global Financial Syndicate to
take control from the earlier generation of dominant power players: the monarchies. Most
democracies are a suzerainty externally and an Animal Farm internally.
World Financiers' ENSLAVEMENT plan using democracy:
– Create a REVOLUTION & steal a region
– Create a Private CENTRAL BANK (First Bank of the USA, BOE-1694)
– Fund & control new rich individuals (Kleptocrats)
– Fund & control political PARTIES & MEDIA
– Nationalize the central bank (the Fed, BOE-1946)
Enslave & control people by dominance over economic & political powers & call
it a democracy. An interesting FRACTAL emerges when one analysis the formation of
democracies.
This pattern of creating a private central bank and then nationalizing it, has been
repeated in the UK, U$A, New Zealand, France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Estonia, Romania,
India, Argentina, El Salvador, Indonesia, Angola, Haiti...
Which countries Central Banks are still private?
"Those who create and issue money and credit direct the policies of government and hold in
the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people."
– Reginald McKenna, former Chancellor of Exchequer, England
No doubt the US/UK deep state, now more than ever, are busy trying to sow conflict and
division in Eurasia, to divide-and-rule Mackinder's "World Island" and hence the world.
Paul alleged that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had used a middle-man to funnel
money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology via EcoHealth Alliance - which worked with the lab on
bat coronavirus projects.
Paul specifically referenced so-called "gain-of-function" research which in this case has
been focused on how to make animal viruses more transmissible to humans - specifically bat
coronaviruses .
"Government scientists like yourself who favor gain of function research," Paul
began...
...only to have Fauci interject "I don't favor gain of function research in China," adding
"You are saying things that are not correct."
Paul pushed back - continuing:
"[Those who favor gain of function] say that COVID-19 mutations were random and not
designed by man."
"I do not have any accounting of what the Chinese may have done," Fauci shot back, adding
that he's in favor of further investigation, but that the NIH had nothing to do with the
origins of COVID-19.
"We have not funded gain of function research on this virus in the Wuhan Institute of
Virology," he added.
"No matter how many times you say it, it didn't happen."
More from Sen. Paul via Twitter:
Senator Rand Paul @RandPaul ·
May 11, 2021 Dr Fauci dissembled or tried to hide his long time support for
'gain-of-function' research which creates super-viruses that jump from animals to humans.
ohm 4 hours ago (Edited) remove link
You can't sit on your thumbs and run year long investigations and background checks
while thousands are dying .
But that's just the point, thousands were not dying . Instead of seeking out opposing
viewpoints, he relied on the bogus Ferguson model that predicted 2 million deaths presented
by Fauci and Birx. Plenty of qualified opposing voices were out there - John Ionnides of
Stanford for instance. Trump needs to own up to his mistakes and vow not to repeat them.
nodhannum 3 hours ago
How many renminbi do they pay you comrade...as in be "han" or be gone. I've been to a
number of seminars given by Fauci back in his HIV days but he is a lying sob now. It's
getting hard for the fellow to cover hisw *** now even with the Maserati marxists in power
here.
"We are not prepared for a pandemic," Biden tweeted on Oct. 25, 2019, saying the country
needs leadership that "mobilizes the world to stop outbreaks before they reach our
shores."
this_circus_is_no_fun 4 hours ago
At first Fauxi denied the allegation. Then, after Paul cornered him with facts, Fauxi said
something like "this is why we did that". So, he admitted that he did what he was denying
just a few seconds before . He is literally incapable of telling the truth. I guess he's not
called Fauxi for nothing.
adonisdemilo 5 hours ago
Fauci has known from day one what's going on and going wrong. He's up to his neck in it
and taking a good look at his body language under questions from Rand Paul, HE'S CONTINUING
TO LIE.
chinese.sniffles 5 hours ago
Dr. Fauci:
Have you or your team send or granted permission for work projects to Wuhan or China?
What were those projects?
Why did you send them?
Why did you not do these projects in the USA?
Were any of these projects illegal in the USA?
etc. simple line of questioning, let him perjure himself.
thezone 5 hours ago
Fauci (the politician) knew to not write a check out to the lab directly. It was great to
hear Dr Paul bring up EcoHealth. A shell company to facilitate.
surfer4444 5 hours ago
Exactly, blame it on the sub contractor....an old game and the elite are using it well
radical-extremist 5 hours ago remove link
Fauci knows full well the story in the Democrat State News media will be about how he was
ATTACKED by Rand Paul, and not about him lying under oath about funding the Wuhan Lab.
chiquita 5 hours ago
This information has been out for a while if you follow War Room, Steve Hilton, and some
other sources. Peter Navarro has been hammering at Fauci relentlessly for the last few months
and now the MSM is going after Navarro, trying to discredit him. Gee, I wonder why when it
looks like the truth about Fauci is falling apart.
What a mess_man 4 hours ago (Edited)
Tucker blew this wide open last night. Of course lots of us here knew all this many months
ago. Fauci is lying through his teeth here, and both he and Daszak are deep in the Chicom's
pockets. As Tucker said, in a functioning world there would be a criminal investigation.
Instead Biden and Co. kiss his *ss and make him our foremost authority on Covid and vaccines.
Clown world for sure.
Meatballs 3 hours ago (Edited)
Actually, Saagar beat Tucker to the punch. Either way, the unraveling has begun.
Don't let the bioweapon profiteer, Daszak, off the hook.
Both greedy psychopaths should hang for their crimes against humanity.
Furthermore, we have no business sharing infectious disease technology with China, even if
they could run a lab properly.
Itinerant 4 hours ago
This story is about 14 months old, though not for the MSM.
Actual documentation of the grants from the NIH via the Eco Alliance have been circulating
in the public domain for all that time. In it they exactly describe the gain-of-function
research that is being outsourced to China, the viruses involved, the methods, the type of
experiments, and the aims of the research ... exactly and technically.
There is no room for caveats, or 'allege' or interpretation or anything like that.
The evidence is rock hard and crystal clear.
toady 4 hours ago
Yet there are no prosecutions.
dogbert8 5 hours ago remove link
Finally, the unmasking (pun intended) of Fauci has started.
bsdetector 5 hours ago
Just listened to the questions and answers. Fauci qualifies his answers with information
that was not sought in the questions. His answers change the character of his denials... "we
did not fund GOF research on this virus in the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
OK Dr. Fauci, please identify the viruses that you did fund for GOF research at the
Institute.
Jack Mayorhaufer 5 hours ago
master gaslighters once they reach certain status and paygrade on the Hill
novictim 2 hours ago remove link
"I don't know how many times I can say it? We did not fund gain of function research to be
done in the Wuhan Institute of Virology ...(under his breath) because we funded Eco Health
Alliance/Peter Daszak which granted the research funding to do gain of function research in
the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
CleeTorres 2 hours ago
A simple internet search shows Fauci is lying about funding for this research. But he
knows the media won't do their jobs.
Onthebeach6 2 hours ago (Edited) remove link
Let me assist Dr Fauci with the truth.
Why US outsourced bat virus research to Wuhan
Dr Christina Lin
April 2020
"A U.S. NIH-funded $3.7 million project was approved by Trump's Covid-19 advisor Dr.
Anthony Fauci in 2015, after the Obama White House imposed a ban on 'monster-germ' research.
In October 2014, the federal government declared a moratorium on gain-of-function research to
weaponize viruses related to influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe
acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). As a result, the research was outsourced to China's Wuhan
Institute of Virology, which is currently at the center of scrutiny for the Covid-19
pandemic."
Fauci looks very nervous . Perhaps why he has been so adamant about constantly moving the
goalposts? If you were guilty of something wouldn't you keep changing the focus and appear to
be very helpful and concerned?
Max21c 3 hours ago (Edited) remove link
Which people in & around the National Security Council, CIA, and Pentagon are involved
in this attempt to gain access, penetrate and spy on the PLA Biological Weapons/Warfare
programs via funding mechanisms route? Which people had contact with this institute and
programs and what if anything did the spy games produce?
When are they in Washington going to establish civilian rule over the US military and CIA
and National Security Council?
When are they going to knock off these silly spy games and spy world operations off and
stop this nonsense which produces zero positive results?
What did the gangsters on the Intelligence/Spy Committees in Congress know? What did the
gangsters atop the Pentagon, CIA, National Security Council know?
Which Washingtonian assholes are going to go to prison for this boomerang disaster?
How many other groups similar to "EcoHealth Alliance" operate as part of the US/UK
intelligence "community" and what other stupid stuff are the idiots mixed up in?
TheRapture 3 hours ago remove link
There is a great deal of evidence (NIH, State Dept grants to offshore USA bioweapons
research, Bat Lady was the protege of Dr. Ralph Baric at UNC who has been doing coronavirus
bioweapon research for more then twenty years, initial and simultaneous infections in Wuhan
at different locations suggesting an intentional release, etc., etc., etc.) And of course,
Trump had motive, opportunity and means to stage a false flag to destroy China's economy and
damage China's political relations with other countries.
It is likely the USA, no doubt using a CIA proxy, released SARS-CoV-2 in simultaneously in
multiple locations in Wuhan. The evidence is substantial. But most Americans can't bring
themselves to stare down that particular rabbit hole.
WorkingClassMan 3 hours ago
I'd rather an honest CCP commie ruling the roost than those traitors anyway.
"If I had but one bullet and were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the
traitor have it."
― Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, For My Legionaries
sarret PREMIUM 3 hours ago
Fauci is such a liar, pulling school kid mentality out of a hat to answer serious
questions. Likely in his mind he knows it all to be true but since the correct name is
中国科学院武汉病毒研究所
then unless you say that name, or the exact name of the exact subsidiary that was funding or
was being funded, then it is not correct and therefore he can answer the question incorrectly
without calling himself a liar internally and without saying what the error was in the
question that led him to be able to this.
In all respects he just disregards the spirit of the question when he knows full well that
he is in the wrong, but denies it every single time based on some concocted fabrication in
his mind that the question is not precise enough to nail him to the cross.
Completely disingenuous, can't trust a word he says.
Fish Gone Bad 4 hours ago
Lawyer speak:
We have not funded gain of function research on this virus
They funded all kinds of gain of function on all kinds of permutations of the virus, just
not THIS virus.
radical-extremist 5 hours ago remove link
Fauci is also responsible for the deaths of hundreds of men in San Francisco by covering
up Bath Houses as the origin of the spread of AIDS...for Mayor Diane Feinstein's political
career. No one dares talk about this today.
the Mysterians 5 hours ago
"I did not have sex with that woman!"
Flying Monkees 5 hours ago (Edited)
What could possibly be the reason for gain-of-function research if not bio-warfare?
These evil, irresponsible, arrogant a-holes need to pay.
Posa 5 hours ago
The Eco-Alliance grant from Fauci's NIAID states
We will use S [ie the Spike Protein that makes the SC-2 virus highly infectious] protein
sequence data, infectious clone technology, in vitro and in vivo infection experiments and
analysis of receptor binding to test the hypothesis that % divergence thresholds in S
protein sequences predict spillover potential.
That has been interpreted as a commitment to Gain of Function research on the Spike
Protein which is the key to turning SARS into a virulently transmissible pathogen.
surfer4444 5 hours ago remove link
Exactly...im just baffled how this PoS can blatantly lie to a Senate committee and get
away with it...there is zero accountability in our government...end times
Posa 5 hours ago
Fauci can lie because his audience is a convention of lazy, cowardly , illiterate dunces.
If Rand Paul were serious he would have had the damn grant in front of him and read the same
quotes as I provided in this post. PAul would have held these hearings last year when his
Party controlled the Senate.
Posa 4 hours ago
NOTE: This post was censored by The Hill. Typical free speech in America.
George Bayou 5 hours ago
"11 labs in the US create these super-viruses in the US and one of them collaborated with
Wuhan Virology Inst -- Fauci has supported NIH funds for all these labs!"
Why is this a-hole still working?
notfeelinthebern 4 hours ago (Edited)
Yap, yap,. yap. Another dog and pony show and the show is painfully old. They parade
personage after personage before congress and ask lots of questions. The swamp rats in the
hot seat lie by omission and with sleight of hand answers and when done with the act walk
away with smug faces....The show must go on.
George Bayou 5 hours ago
Here's an interesting article on Dr. Baric and what he was doing, mutating virus using
serial passaging so that the virus are able to infect a completely different species:
Take, for instance, this paper from 1995:
"High Recombination and Mutation Rates in Mouse Hepatitis Viruses Suggest That
Coronaviruses May Be Potentially Important Emerging Viruses." It was written by Dr. Ralph
Baric and his bench scientist, Boyd Yount, at the University of North Carolina. Baric, a
gravelly voiced former swim champion, described in this early paper how his lab was able to
train a coronavirus, MHV, which causes hepatitis in mice, to jump species, so that it could
reliably infect BHK (baby-hamster kidney) cell cultures. They did it using serial
passaging: repeatedly dosing a mixed solution of mouse cells and hamster cells with
mouse-hepatitis virus, while each time decreasing the number of mouse cells and upping the
concentration of hamster cells. At first, predictably, the mouse-hepatitis virus couldn't
do much with the hamster cells, which were left almost free of infection, floating in their
world of fetal-calf serum. But by the end of the experiment, after dozens of passages
through cell cultures, the virus had mutated: It had mastered the trick of parasitizing an
unfamiliar rodent. A scourge of mice was transformed into a scourge of hamsters. And there
was more: "It is clear that MHV can rapidly alter its species specificity and infect rats
and primates," Baric said. "The resulting virus variants are associated with demyelinating
diseases in these alternative species." (A demyelinating disease is a disease that damages
nerve sheaths.) With steady prodding from laboratory science, along with some rhetorical
exaggeration, a lowly mouse ailment was morphed into an emergent threat that might
potentially cause nerve damage in primates.
GeneKelly 5 hours ago remove link
"We have not funded gain of function research on this virus in the Wuhan Institute of
Virology,"
Sociopaths can lie without registering on a detector by simply defining terms differently
in their cerebral cortex and then answering -- from their perspective truthfully -- "no"
because the question doesn't match their internal definition.
So Fauci wasn't funding "gain of function". He was actually funding "increasing the
virulence of pathogens" or "enhancing the pathogens' ability to infect different
species".
Rand and others will have to ask the question a hundred ways to force Fauci to spill the
beans.
DeeDeeTwo 1 hour ago remove link
Tucker finally called Fauci a "criminal" at least twice and said, "In any functioning
society Fauci would be investigated."
Txjac 5 hours ago
Fauci also owns the patents on the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines
Everybody All American 5 hours ago remove link
How is it that only one Congressman dare questions Dr. Fauci? One tough questioner. These
cowards all need to hang for the crimes they are allowing. If they think we are just going to
sit back and watch this man for much longer lead us they are sadly mistaken.
Downhill from here 5 hours ago
Being an MD, Paul has some credibility on the topic. At least educationally and by
training, Fauci and Paul are peers.. More than likely other R's are letting him take
point.
replaceme 5 hours ago (Edited)
I forgot, that's the same dr daszak that sent the letter to the lancet saying that covid
didn't come from Wuhan, and that he had no reason to falsely say this. THAT Dr daszak. Got
it.
"We [NIH/Fauci] did not fund gain of function research to be done in Wuhan." What the
weasel didn't say is that the NIH did in deed fund Dr Baric who was working in collaboration
with Wuhan with gain of function experiments on the SARS virus. Baric worked with Ft Dettrick
and Univ NC researchers who in turn were collaborating with Canada and Wuhan.
Fauci can parse words but he's a traitor and ought to be held responsible along with all
others involved with this.
scraping_by 5 hours ago (Edited) remove link
One amendment to the story --
Carlson was quoting a story by Nicholas Wade, former science editor to the NYT. Published
in Medium. So it's not just a talking head repeating newsroom copy, as in CNN.
zorrosgato 14 minutes ago remove link
Fauci is part of a flawed system and don't be fooled in believing he is part of any
solution. His endorsing of impractical mask mandates along with mandatory vaccinations of the
population, using unproven genetically engineered drugs is proof enough.
"... you make the best point: you have to have something seriously "wrong" with your mind to want a job with these spooks in the first place. you can't spell "sociopath" without "c-i-a". ..."
I asked Google (and thus Wikipedia) what cisgender means?
cisgender /sɪsˈdʒɛndə/ adjective
Denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender
corresponds with their birth sex. "this new-found attention to the plight of black trans folks by primarily cisgender allies
is timely and necessary"
On the same page as the search result is a teaser headline:
"How An (the) Ad About Cisgender Backfired Spectacularly"
I've formed the opinion that the BIC (the Billionaires In Charge) want societies atomised
to reduce the likelihood of a revolution involving rope, and nooses. So guess how surprised
I'm not that the BIC's loyal servants/savants, the CIA, are attempting to popularise such
vacuous tosh as yet another addition to the LBGTQUERTY "landscape?"
you make the best point: you have to have something seriously "wrong" with your mind to
want a job with these spooks in the first place. you can't spell "sociopath" without
"c-i-a".
both the bold - and to a lesser extent the italics - are terms people use to sound
interesting when they're not. especially the tendency toward self-diagnosis that westerners
have; "i'm not dumb with no attention span ...i have " ADHD " or "i don't have
low self esteem or work-related anxiety based on the inner knowldge of how inept i am...i
have " imposter syndrome ".
the woke types tend to be this kind of malleable and empty vessel...which is what the
"company" wants.
Thanks for bringing this issue to the main page in a brief article, b. I linked to
this
article, "CIA & The Woke Totalitarian Generation" , on the Week in Review thread, but
it generated no additional comment despite its being one of several recent essays on the
issue of the contrived Wokeism "culture" that Alastair Crooke's written about on several
occasions over the past months and Pepe Escobar made the focus of his most recent essay.
Crooke argues that Wokeism is the peculiar and singular outcome of the American Malaise
prominently exposed by Christopher Lasch in his 1994 Revolt of the Elites , which
we've seen in the trenches as the war being waged against the State and citizenry by the
Neoliberal Rentier Class that was explained well in this Renegade Inc
interview from last year .
The Outlaw US Empire is clearly trying hard to get its
Neoliberal vassals to adopt the Woke insanity, which proves beyond doubt Putin's assertion
that the Liberalism of the West has died or worse evolved into something profane and
loathsome.
This is starting to look really like staging of "Brave new world..." Today's society is
closer to Huxley's "Brave New World" than to Orwell's "1984". But there are clear elements of
both. If you will, the worst of both worlds has come true today.
In 1949, sometime after the publication of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four , Aldous
Huxley, the author of Brave New World (1931), who was then living in California, wrote to
Orwell. Huxley had briefly taught French to Orwell as a student in high school at Eton.
Huxley generally praises Orwell's novel, which to many seemed very similar to Brave New
World in its dystopian view of a possible future. Huxley politely voices his opinion that his
own version of what might come to pass would be truer than Orwell's. Huxley observed that the
philosophy of the ruling minority in Nineteen Eighty-Four is sadism, whereas his own version is
more likely, that controlling an ignorant and unsuspecting public would be less arduous, less
wasteful by other means. Huxley's masses are seduced by a mind-numbing drug, Orwell's with
sadism and fear.
The most powerful quote In Huxley's letter to Orwell is this:
Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant
conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs
and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting
people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.
Aldous Huxley.
Could Huxley have more prescient? What do we see around us?
Masses of people dependent upon drugs, legal and illegal. The majority of advertisements
that air on television seem to be for prescription drugs, some of them miraculous but most of
them unnecessary. Then comes COVID, a quite possibly weaponized virus from the
Fauci-funded-with-taxpayer-dollars lab in Wuhan, China. The powers that be tragically deferred
to the malevolent Fauci who had long been hoping for just such an opportunity. Suddenly, there
was an opportunity to test the mRNA vaccines that had been in the works for nearly twenty
years. They could be authorized as an emergency measure but were still highly experimental.
These jabs are not really vaccines at all, but a form of gene therapy . There
are potential
disastrous consequences down the road. Government experiments on the public are
nothing new .
Since there have been no actual, long-term trials, no one who contributed to this massive
drug experiment knows what the long-term consequences might be. There have been countless
adverse injuries and deaths already for which the government-funded vaccine producers will
suffer no liability. With each passing day, new side-effects have begun to appear: blood clots,
seizures, heart failure.
As new adverse reactions become known despite the censorship employed by most media outlets,
the more the Biden administration is pushing the vaccine, urging private corporations to make
it mandatory for all employees. Colleges are making them mandatory for all students returning
to campus.
The leftmedia are advocating the "shunning" of the unvaccinated. The self-appointed
virtue-signaling Democrats are furious at anyone and everyone who declines the jab. Why? If
they are protected, why do they care? That is the question. Same goes for the ridiculous mask
requirements . They protect no one but for those in operating rooms with their insides
exposed, yet even the vaccinated are supposed to wear them!
Months ago, herd immunity was near. Now Fauci and the CDC say it will never be achieved? Now
the Pfizer shot will necessitate yearly booster shots. Pfizer
expects to make $21B this year from its COVID vaccine! Anyone who thinks this isn't about
money is a fool. It is all about money, which is why Fauci, Gates, et al. were so determined to
convince the public that HCQ and ivermectin, both of which are effective, prophylactically and
as treatment, were not only useless, but dangerous. Both of those drugs are tried, true, and
inexpensive. Many of those thousands of N.Y. nursing home fatalities might have been prevented
with the use of one or both of those drugs. Those deaths are on the hands of Cuomo and his
like-minded tyrants drunk on power.
Months ago, Fauci, et al. agreed that children were at little or no risk of getting COVID,
of transmitting it, least of all dying from it. Now Fauci is demanding that all teens be
vaccinated by the end of the year! Why? They are no more in danger of contracting it now than
they were a year ago. Why are parents around this country not standing up to prevent their kids
from being guinea pigs in this monstrous medical experiment? And now they are " experimenting
" on infants. Needless to say, some have died. There is no reason on Earth for teens, children,
and infants to be vaccinated. Not one.
Huxley also wrote this:
"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they
will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be
able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' -- this is the height
of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats ."
Perhaps this explains the left's hysterical impulse to force these untested shots on those
of us who have made the decision to go without it. If they've decided that it is the thing to
do, then all of us must submit to their whims. If we decide otherwise, it gives them the
righteous right to smear all of us whom they already deplore.
As C.J. Hopkins has
written , the left means to criminalize dissent. Those of us who are vaccine-resistant are
soon to be outcasts, deprived of jobs and entry into everyday businesses. This kind of
discrimination should remind everyone of ...oh, Germany three quarters of a century ago. Huxley
also wrote, "The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other
sets of people are human." That is precisely what the left is up to, what BLM is planning, what
Critical Race Theory is all about.
Tal Zaks, Moderna's chief medical officer, said these new vaccines are "hacking the
software of life." Vaccine-promoters claim he never said this, but he did. Bill Gates called
the vaccines " an operating
system " to the horror of those promoting it, a Kinsley gaffe. Whether it is or isn't
hardly matters at this point, but these statements by those behind the vaccines are a clue to
what they have in mind.
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love
their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears , so to speak, producing a kind of
painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their
liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.
This is exactly what the left is working so hard to effect: a pharmacologically compromised
population happy to be taken care of by a massive state machine. And while millions of people
around the world have surrendered to the vaccine and mask hysteria, millions more, about 1.3
billion, want no part of this government vaccine mania.
In his letter to Orwell, Huxley ended with the quote cited above and again here because it
is so profound:
Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant
conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs
and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting
people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.
Huxley nailed the left more than seventy years ago, perhaps because leftists have never
changed throughout the ages. 61,497 173
Fat Beaver 14 hours ago (Edited)
If i am to be treated as an outcast or an undesirable because i refuse the vax, i will
immediately become someone that has zero reverence for the law, and i can only imagine 10's
of millions will be right there with me.
strych10 14 hours ago
Welcome to the club.
We have coffee in the corner and occasional meetings at various bars.
Dr. Chihuahua-González 13 hours ago
I'm a doctor, you could contact me anytime and receive your injection.
Fat Beaver 13 hours ago (Edited)
I've gotta feeling the normie world you think you live in is about to change drastically
for the worse...
sparky139 PREMIUM 10 hours ago
You mean you'll sign papers that you injected us *wink *wink? And toss it away?
bothneither 2 hours ago
Oh geez how uncommon, another useless doctor with no Scruples who sold out to big Pharma.
Please have my Gates sponsored secret sauce.
Unknown 6 hours ago (Edited)
Both Huxley and Orwell are wrong. Neoliberalism (the use of once office for personal
gains) is by far the most powerful force that subjugates the inept population. Neoliberalism
demolished the mighty USSR, now destroying the USA, and will do the same to China. And this
poison dribbles from the top to bottom creating self-centered population that is unable to
unite, much less resist.
Deathrips 15 hours ago (Edited) remove link
Tylers.
You gonna cover Tucker Carlsons show earlier today on FOX news about vaxxx deaths? almost 4k
reported so far this year.
Is the population of india up in arms or is the MSM?
Nelbev 10 hours ago
Facebook just flagged/censored it, must sign into see vid, Tuck also failed to mention
mRNA and adenovirus vaxes were experimental and not FDA approved nor gone through stage III
trials. Beside deaths, have blood clot issues. Good he mentioned how naturally immune if get
covid and recovered, better than vaccine, but not covered for bogus passports. Me personally,
I would rather catch covid and get natural immunity than be vaccinated with an untested
experimental vaccine.
Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya; Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche; Dr. Ron Brown; Dr. Ryan Cole; Dr.
Richard Fleming; Dr. Simone Gold; Dr. Sunetra Gupta; Dr. Carl Heneghan; Dr. Martin Kulldorff;
Dr. Paul Marik; Dr. Peter McCullough; Dr. Joseph Mercola; Dr. Lee Merritt; Dr. Judy Mikovits;
Dr. Dennis Modry; Dr. Hooman Noorchashm; Dr. Harvey Risch; Dr. Sherri Tenpenny; Dr. Richard
Urso; Dr. Michael Yeadon;
Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya; Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche; Dr. Ron Brown; Dr. Ryan Cole; Dr.
Richard Fleming; Dr. Simone Gold; Dr. Sunetra Gupta; Dr. Carl Heneghan; Dr. Martin Kulldorff;
Dr. Paul Marik; Dr. Peter McCullough; Dr. Joseph Mercola; Dr. Lee Merritt; Dr. Judy Mikovits;
Dr. Dennis Modry; Dr. Hooman Noorchashm; Dr. Harvey Risch; Dr. Sherri Tenpenny; Dr. Richard
Urso; Dr. Michael Yeadon;
His making of the gamma and delta workforce was quite prescient. We are seeing it play out
now, we all know gammas and delta. There was a really good ABC tv movie made in 1980 Brave
New World. Excellent show, it shows the Alphas and names them Rothchild and so on. Shows what
these people specifically want to do to the world. I wonder if the ruling psychopaths
actually wait for science fiction authors to plan the future and then follow their
script.
Mineshaft Gap 10 hours ago
If Huxley were starting out today no major publisher would touch him.
They'd tell him Brave New World doesn't have a diverse enough of cast. Even the mostly
likable totalitarian guy named Mustapha turns out to be white! A white Mustapha. It's soooo
triggering. Also, what's wrong with a little electronic fun and drug taking, anyway? Lighten
up , Aldous.
Meanwhile his portrait of shrieking medieval Catholic nuns who think they're possessed in
The Devils of Loudun might remind the leftist editors too uncomfortably of their own recent
bleating performances at "White Fragility" struggle sessions.
Leftists reacted with fury after Fox News host Tucker Carlson said people who wear masks
outside should be mocked and that parents who made their kids wear them were engaging in "child
abuse."
Carlson noted that masks were "purely a sign of political obedience like Kim Il-Sung pins in
Pyongyang" and that the only people who voluntarily wear masks outside are "zealots and
neurotics."
He then asserted that the tables should be turned on Biden voters who have been harassing
conservatives for almost a year for not wearing a mask in public.
"The rest of us should be snorting at them first, they're the aggressors – it's our
job to brush them back and restore the society we were born in," said Carlson.
"So the next time you see someone in a mask on the sidewalk or on the bike path, do not
hesitate. Ask politely but firmly, ' Would you please take off your mask? Science shows there
is no reason for you to be wearing it. Your mask is making me uncomfortable, " he added.
"We should do that and we should keep doing it until wearing a mask outside is roughly as
socially accepted as lighting a Marlboro on an elevator."
The Fox News host went on to call mask wearing "repulsive" while asserting that forcing
children to wear masks outside should be illegal.
"Your response when you see children wearing masks as they play should be no different from
your response to seeing someone beat a kid in Walmart. Call the police immediately. Contact
Child Protective Services. Keep calling until someone arrives," Carlson said.
"What you're looking at is abuse, it's child abuse, and you are morally obligated to attempt
to prevent it," he added.
As expected, Carlson immediately began trending on Twitter, with hysterical leftists
hyperventilating over Tucker once again challenging their cult. Many called for the Fox News
host to be fired while others ludicrously described him as a "national security threat."
As we
highlighted yesterday , even Dr. Fauci now admits that the risk of vaccinated people
spreading COVID outside is "minuscule," and yet some health professionals are pushing for the
mask mandates to be made permanent.
The transmission of COVID-19 outdoors is almost non-existent, making mask mandates merely a
political tool of population control.
In a recent open letter to the German government and state premiers, five leading members of
the Association for Aerosol Research (GAeF) wrote, "The transmission of SARS-CoV-2 viruses
takes place indoors almost without exception. Transmission outdoors is extremely rare and never
leads to cluster infections as can be observed indoors."
Why the us government did not fund this type of mask for all is telling what the overall
strategy is.
Controlling you, your neighbor, and others that think for themselves.
Its not about the virus
Robert Neville 7 hours ago
Actually, M95 masks filter out 95% of particles over 4 microns in diameter in perfect
conditions. In the real world it is much less effective than that. Viruses are generally less
than one micron in size so they are ineffective for most viruses. Also, the masks are so hard
to breath through that some version have an exhale valve so they do nothing to protect others
if you are infected. Most masks don't protect your eyes. The only thing that works is a space
suit that is decontaminated before you remove it. The rest is virtue siganling.
Properly fitted n95's do protect against virus and the science proves it.
Dickweed Wang 10 hours ago (Edited)
This is an excerpt from the "Stanford Study" from November 2020 (that's been making the
rounds in the alternative media and conservative media space recently) about the uselessness
of masks in preventing "the virus":
A meta -analysis among health care workers found that compared to no masks, surgical
mask and N95 respirators were not effective against transmission of viral infections or
influenza-like illness based on six RCTs [28] . Using
separate analysis of 23 observational studies, this meta -analysis found no protective
effect of medical mask or N95 respirators against SARS virus [28] . A recent
systematic review of 39 studies including 33,867 participants in community settings
(self-report illness), found no difference between N95 respirators versus surgical masks
and surgical mask versus no masks in the risk for developing influenza or influenza-like
illness, suggesting their ineffectiveness of blocking viral transmissions in community
settings [29] .
It's predictable that the usual suspects have come out of the woodwork to "fact check" and
disparage the entire paper (do an internet search for 'Stanford Mask Paper' and you'll see
what I'm talking about). Their main criticism is 'that wasn't published by Stanford', while
they totally ignore the claims made in the paper. When you look at the people and
organizations doing the fact checking it really shows that the entire mask issue is a
political/control ploy. Here's the link to the entire paper if anyone is interested:
Unsurprisingly, the rich have gotten richer, and their preferred asset classes are the most
protected by the tax code.
Just one of many first-order economic problems in the US. Wealth, once entrenched –
most particularly when it is unearned and inherited – will never be voluntarily
disgorged. The beneficiaries would rather give up democracy, give up the Rule of Law, rather
than see their privileged status compromised.
From comments: " Tucker is right on this one. If you wear a mask outside you truly are a
moron. You may as well add goggles and a butt plug." ... "Don't forget about those solo drivers
with masks on!", "Maskers are stupid scared virtue signalers"
As an anti-mask militant for quite a while now I've been going out of my way to ask people
with masks on outdoors why they're wearing one (I've really tried to be polite but it's
getting increasingly hard to do that). In literally hundreds of instances I haven't gotten a
straight answer yet. It's stunning that people are so gullible but it shows what the power of
propaganda really is. 99% of that is coming from teevee, which truly rots your brain.
Capt Tripps 10 hours ago remove link
They are signaling the submission to a tyrannical state. That submission makes us all less
free.
safelyG 10 hours ago
mister tucker is wrongeddy wrong wrong.
we must all wear multiple masks. indoors. outdoors. at work. at play. while we sleep.
while we bathe. while we eat. while we sing praises unto the most high.
and we must remain 8 feet apart, one from the other. at all times.
and report our whereabouts and our contacts and our body temperature. to the
authorities.
get your vacines!
lovingly,
bill n melinda
radical-extremist 10 hours ago
When Tucker Carlson says to tell people to take off their masks and call CPS on parents
who mask their children he's trolling the Left. And because the Left has no sense of humor or
irony or hypocrisy...they're of course OUTRAGED, which was his point.
Realism 10 hours ago remove link
I like it best when hiking outside, in 75 degree weather with a nice breeze, you see
people put up their mask as they walk by
Pure comedy, it's hard to understand the stupidity if you think you'll get any disease
much less Covid walking by someone
And importantly, would you really be hiking if you had Covid LOL
aztrader 10 hours ago
Mask wears see it as a badge of honor because they "care" about other people. In reality,
it's a badge of Stupidity and ignorance.
Prince Velveeta 10 hours ago (Edited) remove link
California is an open-air mental ward. I was just out there and the collective idiocy is
astounding. People jogging with masks on , exaggerating their breathing as they pass you in
some competitive virtue signaling event. I witnessed some idiot jogging up the hill past my
family member's house, with a bandana on his face, being sucked into his mouth as he's
gasping for air.....
Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic
Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news media to manipulate the
information Americans were consuming about their nation and the world. Nowadays, there is no
meaningful separation between the news media and the CIA at all.
Analysis: US
blinks first on Russia-Ukraine tensions
Journalist Glenn Greenwald just highlighted an interesting point about the reporting by The
New York Times on the so-called
“Bountygate†story the outlet broke in June of last year
about the Russian government trying to pay Taliban-linked fighters to attack US soldiers in
Afghanistan.
“One of the NYT reporters who originally broke the Russia bounty story
(originally attributed to unnamed ‘intelligence
officials’) say today that it was a CIA claim,†Greenwald
tweeted .
“So media outlets - again - repeated CIA stories with no questioning:
congrats to all.â€
Indeed, NYT’s original
story made no mention of CIA involvement in the narrative, citing only
“officials,†yet this latest article speaks as though it had
been informing its readers of the story’s roots in the
lying, torturing , drug-running , warmongering Central
Intelligence Agency from the very beginning. The author even writes “The New
York Times
first reported last summer the existence of the C.I.A.’s
assessment,†with the hyperlink leading to the initial article which made no
mention of the CIA. It wasn’t until later that The New York Times began reporting that the CIA
was looking into the Russian bounties allegations at all.
The Daily Beast , which has itself uncritically published many articles
promoting the CIA “Bountygate†narrative, reports the
following:
It was a blockbuster
story about Russia’s return to the imperial “Great
Game†in Afghanistan. The Kremlin had spread money around the longtime central
Asian battlefield for militants to kill remaining U.S. forces. It sparked a massive outcry
from Democrats and their #resistance amplifiers about the treasonous Russian puppet in the
White House whose admiration for Vladimir Putin had endangered American troops.
But on Thursday, the Biden administration announced that U.S. intelligence only had
“low to moderate†confidence in the story after all.
Translated from the jargon of spyworld, that means the intelligence agencies have found the
story is, at best, unproven â€" and possibly untrue.
So the mass media aggressively promoted a CIA narrative that none of them ever saw proof of,
because there was no proof, because it was an entirely unfounded claim from the very beginning.
They quite literally ran a CIA press release and disguised it as a news story.
In totalitarian dictatorships, the government spy agency tells the news media what stories
to run, and the news media unquestioningly publish it. In free democracies, the government spy
agency says “Hoo buddy, have I got a scoop for you!†and the
news media unquestioningly publish it.
In 1977 Carl Bernstein published an article titled “ The CIA and the Media
†reporting that the CIA had
covertly infiltrated America’s most influential news outlets and had
over 400 reporters who it considered assets in a program known as
Operation Mockingbird . It was a major scandal, and rightly so. The news media is meant to
report truthfully about what happens in the world, not manipulate public perception to suit the
agendas of spooks and warmongers.
Nowadays the CIA collaboration happens right out in the open, and people are too
propagandized to even recognize this as scandalous. Immensely influential outlets like The New
York Times uncritically pass on CIA disinfo which is then spun as fact by cable news
pundits . The sole owner of The Washington Post is a CIA contractor ,
and WaPo has never once disclosed this conflict of interest when reporting on US intelligence
agencies per standard journalistic protocol. Mass media outlets
now openly employ intelligence agency veterans like John Brennan, James Clapper,
Chuck Rosenberg, Michael Hayden, Frank Figliuzzi, Fran Townsend, Stephen Hall, Samantha
Vinograd, Andrew McCabe, Josh Campbell, Asha Rangappa, Phil Mudd, James Gagliano, Jeremy Bash,
Susan Hennessey, Ned Price and Rick Francona, as are known
CIA assets like NBC’s Ken Dilanian, as are
CIA interns like Anderson Cooper and CIA applicants like
Tucker Carlson.
This isn’t Operation Mockingbird. It’s so much worse.
Operation Mockingbird was the CIA doing something to the media. What we are seeing now is the
CIA openly acting as the media. Any separation between the CIA and the news media, indeed even
any pretence of separation, has been dropped.
This is bad. This is very, very bad. Democracy has no meaningful existence if
people’s votes aren’t being cast with a clear
understanding of what’s happening in their nation and their world, and if
their understanding is being shaped to suit the agendas of the very government
they’re meant to be influencing with their votes, what you have is the most
powerful military and economic force in the history of civilization with no accountability to
the electorate whatsoever. It’s just an immense globe-spanning power
structure, doing whatever it wants to whoever it wants. A totalitarian dictatorship in
disguise.
And the CIA is the very worst institution that could possibly be spearheading the movements
of that dictatorship. A little research into the many, many horrific
things the CIA has done over the years will quickly show you that this is true; hell, just
a glance at what the CIA was up to with the
Phoenix Program in Vietnam will.
There’s a common delusion in our society that depraved government
agencies who are known to have done evil things in the past have simply stopped doing evil
things for some reason. This belief is backed by zero evidence, and is contradicted by
mountains of evidence to the contrary. It’s believed because it is
comfortable, and for literally no other reason.
The CIA should not exist at all, let alone control the news media, much less the movements
of the US empire. May we one day know a humanity that is entirely free from the rule of
psychopaths, from our total planetary behavior as a collective, all the way down to the
thoughts we think in our own heads.
May we extract their horrible fingers from every aspect of our being.
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America's founders had a word for this state of affairs: aristocracy. We might call it oligarchy, rule of the wealthy and the few. The founders understood that concentrations of power in either government or the economy are dangerous, threatening the rule of the people. That's why they curbed monopolies and strictly limited the corporate form, largely confining its use to educational institutions and churches and sometimes public-works projects. They wanted the people to govern the nation, not an elite, whether that elite resided in government or business. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. America's founders had a word for this state of affairs: aristocracy. We might call it oligarchy, rule of the wealthy and the few. The founders understood that concentrations of power in either government or the economy are dangerous, threatening the rule of the people. That's why they curbed monopolies and strictly limited the corporate form, largely confining its use to educational institutions and churches and sometimes public-works projects. They wanted the people to govern the nation, not an elite, whether that elite resided in government or business. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. America's founders had a word for this state of affairs: aristocracy. We might call it oligarchy, rule of the wealthy and the few. The founders understood that concentrations of power in either government or the economy are dangerous, threatening the rule of the people. That's why they curbed monopolies and strictly limited the corporate form, largely confining its use to educational institutions and churches and sometimes public-works projects. They wanted the people to govern the nation, not an elite, whether that elite resided in government or business. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. It's time America recovered the founders' political economy. We need a new era of trustbusting, an agenda to break up Big Tech and the other concentrations of woke capital that threaten to turn the U.S. into a corporate oligarchy. The aim should be simple: Give working Americans control again over their government and their society. In short, protect our democracy. NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP
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We are living in an age of monopoly power. Since the 1990s, two-thirds of American industry has become more
concentrated. In 1995 the nation boasted 60 major pharmaceutical companies. By 2015 they had merged to form just
10. Big banks grow bigger while top airlines control ever larger shares of revenue. The credit-card market is now
effectively a duopoly, and online it's no better. Google and
Facebook
control
more than 60% of digital advertising.
Big-business consolidation strips Americans of economic opportunity. In today's corporate economy, small and new
businesses struggle. New-business formation is barely half what it was in the 1970s, and the pandemic has further
privileged the largest players at the expense of local and family enterprises. Concentrations of
market
power
also mean a smaller share of gross domestic product for labor, which leads to flat wages for workers. As
the market power of big U.S. corporations has increased, business investment has declined, meaning less spending
on innovation and less productivity growth.
Not surprisingly, corporate monopoly leads to political power. It has always been thus. The giant railroads of the
19th century tried to bully and buy entire legislatures, including the U.S. Congress. Today, Major League
Baseball -- exempt from antitrust laws -- and a cohort of megacorporations such as Delta and
Coca-Cola
are
trying to order about states on election integrity, while Google, Facebook and
Twitter
decide
which citizens may say what in the public square.
Nike
lectures
the nation on social justice while it is suspected of profiting from forced labor overseas, as the
Congressional-Executive Commission on China noted in its March 2020
report
.
Welcome to the woke economy, led by concentrated woke capital. Do as these companies say or face cancellation.
Americans weren't content to let monopolists run the country a century ago, and we shouldn't be today.
I propose three measures. First, break up Big Tech. The tech companies are the most powerful corporations in the
country and likely in American history. They control what Americans read and what they say, what Americans share
and what they buy. The Big Tech companies are the railroad monopolies, Standard Oil and the newspaper trust rolled
into one, and tech CEOs are our robber barons. Congress should enact new bars on industry consolidation that will
prevent the dominant tech platforms from simultaneously controlling separate industries and services. Google, for
example, shouldn't be able to own the world's dominant web-search platform and run the cloud. That's too much
power and it's bad for competition.
Second, cut the other megacorporations down to size. We can start by banning mergers and acquisitions for
corporations larger than $100 billion. No exceptions. There is no good reason for a corporation to buy its way to
the size of a small country. Vertical integration, in which one company buys up an entire supply chain -- think
Amazon
marrying
Whole Foods with its Prime shipping network -- should also receive antitrust scrutiny.
Third, give courts a new standard to evaluate anticompetitive conduct. For years, courts have asked whether an
alleged monopolist harms consumer welfare. In other words, does the business behavior in question drive up
consumer costs? That's a fine question, but trustbusting isn't about consumer prices alone. The tech companies
insist that most of their services are free, even as they extract monopoly rents in other ways, like taking
private consumer data without consent.
Trustbusting is about promoting robust competition. It's competition that helps workers, spurs innovation and
ultimately preserves the power of the ordinary citizen. Our founders understood that competition, not monopoly, is
a friend to liberty.
Republicans were once the party of trustbusters. They should be again. The left is increasingly willing to cheer
on the new monopolists -- so long as they push the left's agenda on cultural and other issues. In the face of this
new alliance between big government and big business, conservatives must recover the wisdom of the founders'
vision: liberty, not monopoly.
Mr. Hawley, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Missouri. He is
author
of
"The Tyranny of Big Tech," forthcoming May 4.
Of course they act like this, 'cause they are republics ruled by money and think they are
racially superior -- as opposed to those states that send vaccines almost for free to other
needy nations: Cuba, China and (in part) Russia.
It bugs me how even well-informed critics of North Atlanticist regimes and their foreign
policies write and talk of them as "western democracies". The "Founding Fathers" of the USA
feared nothing more than 'democracy' -- by which they thought of ancient Athens, or the
ancient republic of San Marino or some Swiss Cantons. What they wanted was a republic in the
mold of Ancient Rome, Venice, or like the Netherlands before Wilhelm of Orange, i.e. roled by
rich men's clubs and throuh inherited wealth, be that from land ownership, slave-holding or
from commercial gains and prate privatering -- plus of course exploiting colonies and
controlled marketing opium and its derivats (plus cocaine).
None of the present-day Atlanticist nations call themselves "democracies" in their name or
constitutions. Only Greece does -- and only because they don't have the romance word
"republic" in their language.
In observation of these linguistic and political facts, the governments of Central Europe
east of NATO: China, Viet-Nâm and Chosôn ("North Korea") all called themselves
"people's republics" -- as opposed the the states further west that were ruled by the elected
representatives of Capital and Big Banking.
The social engineers at the World Economic Forum -- seizing on the opportunities presented
by mass fear over COVID-19 and the choking lockdowns on economies and societies worldwide --
have an authoritarian vision for the future of humanity, carefully choreographed from on high
at the top levels of the global power structure.
Unaccountable, unelected entities are hard at work constructing this brave new world through
a shadowy process they have ominously dubbed the " Great Reset ":
"The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and
reset our world."
A sea change, just now coming into clear focus, is afoot. Without grassroots pushback from a
united populist front, as the
former CDC director recently forecasted , "nothing is ever going back to normal" –
ever.
Addressing the globalist Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
group advocating "free trade" – a misleadingly labeled concept which means nothing more
than corporate profiteering across borders to capitalize on cheap labor and instantiating
dystopian
corporate sovereignty into law while bleeding the working classes in rich nations dry
– Canadian Prime Minister expounded on the ethos of the "Great Reset":
"This pandemic is truly a global challenge. And not just because every country in every
corner of the world has been affected: because there is no part of society, no industry, no
aspect of daily life that has not changed . This is our chance to build back societies that are
fairer and economics that are more resilient ."
All of which begs the questions:
Who decided on these changes?
What populations in the Western "democracies" were permitted to exercise popular will in
a vote on these changes?
For whose benefit are these "Great Reset" policies enacted?
"The most promising [Global Reset] ideas will be taken up within existing IMF and World Bank
processes as well as at the G7 and G20 Leader Summit This pandemic has provided an opportunity
for a reset . This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to re-imagine economic
systems ."
The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the G7 and G20 are unelected,
non-representative international bodies run by and for the interests of the global elite at the
expense of the working classes in every country on Earth.
Debt slavery, slave wages, hollowed-out middle
classes in the US Rust Belt , corporate tyranny, environmental catastrophe, and destruction
of human rights are the rotten fruits of globalism.
Normal people have no seat at the table nor any voice in the decisions by these global
behemoths. At its core, the international regime is fundamentally anti-democratic and,
increasingly, anti-human.
-- -- -- -- -- -- –
The real agenda of the ruling class -- as it has been for decades since globalized trade and
politicization began in earnest -- is to further remove power from everyday people and place it
into the hands of distant corporations and internationalized bureaucracies:
"We have to do more. We have to diversify our supply chains. We need to deepen our
cooperation with different parts of the world we look for new iterations of multilateral
structures as people are looking at a transforming world."
At the current crossroads in American -- and indeed, global -- history, reform is no longer
a viable solution; on the contrary, reform is a fool's errand. World trade, and even more so
world government, is a death machine :
"Globalization now connotes economic dislocation, increasing inequality, unwanted
immigration, and a vehicle for the transmission of disease. The pandemic has emphasized the
dangers rather than the benefits of efficient linkages between markets, laying bare the dangers
of complex global supply chains where any node can become a 'choke point', and the risks of
overspecialization or the concentration of technological knowledge and/or production capacity
in a single country or region."
"Choke point" indeed. The task before us -- the only possible solution to the corporate,
technocratic, medicalized, authoritarian nightmare we are hurdling toward at breakneck speed --
is our own populist, ultra-localized rendition of the "Great Reset" or the "Great UpSet." Some
suggest that we are not uprising but rather "upwising" – arming ourselves with knowledge
to carry out a peaceful reinstatement of public power.
The DC Swamp – not to mention the lurking global behemoths like the United Nations
– is beyond reform. There is no salvation to be found in these institutions. Congress
members don't represent average people – how could they ? Average people don't make small
talk with them at Georgetown cocktail parties. Average people don't finance their campaigns.
Average people don't give them lucrative positions in the never-ending revolving lobbying door
after they conclude their terms.
We must insist, by our own means, on restoring control over our own communities. We must
work to rebuild intimate human bonds at levels below abstraction – ones in which we are
invested spiritually and financially:
"While local government is closest to voters, turnout in local elections is low; it is
highest in national elections . Despite the pivotal importance of local politics getting out
the vote is the toughest problem that party and labor leaders face."
The only way to reverse course is to decentralize. Decouple from the toxic corporate-state
ties that bind and enslave your local community. Reconnect with your neighbors. Shop locally
and, whenever possible, sell locally.
Flout immoral laws imposed by far-off authorities. Target and eliminate national and
international influence from bloated government and transnational corporations with no
allegiance to you, your family, or community. Their claims to authority are illegitimate,
non-representative, malevolent, and, increasingly, even genocidal.
Destroy what destroys; nourish what nourishes.
The time has come to #UNRIG not just our elections, but our entire economy and society to
restore control to the local level, with the people, the only place it has ever rightfully
belonged.
Robert David Steele, alt-right white male and former US spy as well as founder of the Open
Source Everything movement, has joined with Kevin Jenkins and others to launch ARISE USA! The
Resurrection Tour , that will visit all 50 US states from 15 May to 6 September and could
transform into a global movement, Arise.World.
In partnership with Sheriff Richard Mack, founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs movement
that challenges federal and state abuse of power, as well as other icons of freedom, they are
building the definitive organic pro-human movement from the ground up – the only way to
build anything of value.
Join the tour as a Founding Citizen at BigBatUSA.org ; learn about election fraud and reform options at
UNRIG.net .
Ben Bartee is a Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Contact him via
Armageddon Prose .
"... As has happened with epochal champions of generational transformation and change in U.S. history before her, Gabbard’s eclipse in Hawaii could lead to her comeback in a far more spectacular form. ..."
As has happened with epochal champions of generational transformation and change in U.S.
history before her, Gabbard’s eclipse in Hawaii could lead to her comeback
in a far more spectacular form.
Forget that old fraud Bernie Sanders; Tulsi Gabbard and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are the
best hopes progressives in United States now have for saving and renewing Democratic values and
a functioning political system. And watch Senator Ted Cruz to eventually unify a resurgent
nationalist Right.
In my 2015 book “
Cycles of Change †I predicted both the nationalist insurgency of Donald Trump
in the Republican Party and the progressive one unexpectedly spearheaded by Senator Bernie
Sanders in the Democratic Party that lastingly transformed U.S. politics in the 2016 election
cycle.
The Big Lie (of Josef Goebbels) proportions that Russia influenced or decided the shock
outcome of the 2016 presidential election in reality was cooked up by defeated Democratic
candidate Hillary Clinton â€" a bungling loser of historic proportions
â€" on the very same night she was still reeling from her rejection at the Javits
Center in Brooklyn after the results came out.
Since then, the old Republicans and Democratic Establishments alike have since eagerly clung
to the Big Lie because it offers them an excuse to deny and ignore what really happened: The
American people for once fitfully rose to express their ringing rejection â€" on
both sides of the political divide â€" of the ruinous policies of free trade,
globalization and ludicrous pretensions to World Empire to which they had been subjected for
the previous 70 years.
However, President Donald Trump was ruthlessly opposed, undermined, betrayed, slandered and
blocked on his honorable and responsible foreign policy and national security goals to restrain
NATO improve relations with Russia and pull U.S. combat forces out of both Iraq and Afghanistan
over the following four years and by the time of the next national election in 2024, he will be
78 â€" as old as Joe Biden is now. Undoubtedly the efforts to destroy and discredit
Trump will continue unabated from now until then.
Trump should not yet be ruled out by any means but he has already played the role of being
the Prophetic Precursor of the new and coming Political Age, as I pointed, out in
“Cycles of Change,†my overview of more than 200 years of U.S.
political history, published in 2015.
That “prophetic†pioneering role wa splayed by General John
Fremont in 1856 for Abraham Lincoln four years later; by New York Governor Al Smith, the
“Happy Warrior†in 1928 for the epochal election victory of
Franklin D. Roosevelt four years later; and by Senator Barry Goldwater in 1964 for the eventual
presidency and new political era of Ronald Reagan starting in 1980-81.
Who will be the coming leader of the conservative/nationalist Right in 21st century America?
The most likely candidate so far by far is Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who ran unsuccessfully
against Trump in 2016 before learning for himself the policies and priorities of the coming
Political Age.
On April 14, Cruz, renowned for having easily the most brilliant legal mind in the U.S.
Congress, eviscerated Kristen Clarke, President Biden’s nominee to head the
Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department when she appeared before the Senate Judiciary
Committee.
On the Democrats’ side, Independent Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont
is now a twice-busted flush: Both in 2016 and 2020, the Democratic presidential nomination was
his for the asking: He in real terms decisively and humiliatingly exposed first Hillary Clinton
and then Joe Biden â€" both heirs of the worthless and despicable Bill Clinton and
Barack Obama administrations they served so energetically for so long.
However, on both occasions, Sanders froze up at the crucial moments of decision when the
nomination was twice stolen from him by vote manipulation (in 20216) and political chicanery
(in 2020) before his eyes. When it comes to the High Noon moment of any political showdown,
Sanders will always fold â€" just as he always has.
On the Democrats’ side, the contest for leadership superficial appears
more open, but two dynamic young women in reality easily lead the field.
Right now, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, †AOC†,
who was supporting herself as a bartender before she won the Democratic nomination for her
district and then the congressional election in shock outcomes in 2018, is by far in the lead.
This is not even primarily because of AOC’s passionate advocacy of a Green
New Deal, which indeed makes absolutely no industrial or economic or financial sense the closer
one looks at it: It is because she is genuinely charismatic, genuinely aggressive and fearless
in her public appearances.
The more that America’s progressives â€" admittedly an
exceptionally slow-witted lot â€" wake up to the fact that Bernie Sanders will never
lead them to real power or victory in anything, the higher AOC’s star
rises.
She is already, at only age 31, the real leader of the Progressive Caucus in the Democratic
Party and she is half a century younger than 81-year-old Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi only won her precious House majority in November 2018. Yet already, she is watching
it vanish before her eyes.
Worse for Pelosi is sure to come: It is perfectly feasible that even before next
year’s congressional midterm elections, a handful of congressional special
elections could throw control of the House to current Republican Minority Leader Kevin
McCarthy, who loathes Pelosi and her ancient creaking clique of cronies with a never-burning
passion. Then, Pelosi’s fading clout will be totally gone and AOC with her
passion and a new generation of radicals riding the Winds of Change with her will take over
Democratic Party in Congress far earlier than any of the Old Fogeys on either side dreams.
AOC must therefore be seen as the frontrunner for the new age: But if she fails to measure
up and establish national credibility, the other most likely future presidential hopeful for
the Democrats is another forceful, beautiful and exceptionally intelligent young lady hardly
older than the New York congresswoman is: That is former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard from
Hawaii, who was effectively squeezed out from her own congressional seat on the idyllic Pacific
island by the machinations of the old Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi gang of rotting old
politicos.
However, as has happened with epochal champions of generational transformation and change in
U.S. history before her, Gabbard’s eclipse in Hawaii could lead to her
comeback in a far more spectacular form.
She may move to California â€" a vastly superior political base to her home in
Hawaii for national U.S. politics. Also, her outstanding military record, highly unusual for a
young rising female Democrat of the current generation and her mastery of defense and national
security issues potentially gives her a far more potent and impressive credibility across the
American continent than AOC.
For Ocasio-Cortez’s appeal is like a laser beam: It is undoubtedly
powerful but also quite narrow, centered on the East and West Coasts and to a far lesser
degree, the much smaller progressive enclaves in major metropolitan areas across the
country.
Gabbard by contrast has the potential to reach deep into the Heartland. She was carefully
kept out of most of the nationally televised political debates for the 2020 presidential
nomination by her own party’s leaders. They were terrified of her.
However, Gabbard was an absolute knockout in the debates when she got a word in edgewise.
And she proved effortlessly able especially to demolish then-Senator and now-Vice President
Kamala Harris. That could prove of priceless importance to the national credibility of the
Progressive movement if, as appears likely Harris succeeds Biden into the White House in 2024,
or even sooner.
However, Gabbard has also shown the potential to move dramatically from one extreme of the
political chessboard to the other, much like a bishop moved a diagonal right across the
board:
In January 2021, she launched her own podcast called “This is Tulsi
Gabbard†and she has appeared a number of times on the conservative-leaning Fox
News Channel since she left Congress, focusing her outspoken attacks on Pelosi and House
Judiciary Committee Chair and leading Pelosi crony Congressman Adam Schiff. It is not
inconceivable to see her as an eventual running mate for the nationalist right on a Republican
ticket led by Senator Ted Cruz in 2024 or 2028. (In 2028, she will still be only 47).
Cruz and AOC are truly powerful potent emerging forces on the Right and Left of U.S.
politics. Gabbard has the intriguing potential to completely transform the picture on either
side. Between them, they offer hope that the new forces awakened by Trump and Sanders may
triumph yet.
“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these
people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in
the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between
them.†â€" Thomas Jefferson
The trial was pointless .
We knew the outcome . We knew
the threat. Convict Derek Chauvin of murder, or cities will burn . Jurors
surely knew they would be doxxed if they didn’t vote to convict; one
potential juror was
dismissed after he dared mention this fear.
There is a debate to be had about police conduct. I’m not going to back
the blue unconditionally after Charlottesville
, Ashli Babbit , and
the ruthless
manhunt for January 6 rioters. Derek Chauvin would have carried out the same orders against
us. However, what Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd isn’t even close to
what happened to white
man Daniel Shaver , gunned down in a hotel hallway by a police officer who was later
acquitted and was paid for his mental suffering . This is about race, not police. I expect police will crack
down further on law-abiding
whites while ignoring black crime .
The howls for Derek Chauvin’s head were primal. I
haven’t heard such cries of triumph since O.J. Simpson was
acquitted .
Of course, Derek Chauvin was hardly a champion of white identity . In 2018, the
Twin Cities Pioneer Press gave a fawning profile to his then-wife, Hmong
refugee Kellie Chauvin. She called her husband a “gentlemanâ€
and “just a softie.†Less than two years later, just three days
after George
Floyd’s death , she divorced him. Her lawyer
told journalists about her “utmost sympathy†for
Floyd’s family.
What’s so striking about the Derek Chauvin case is that it could have
happened anywhere. Every police officer (or white person who lives in a black neighborhood)
knows about the sob stories, the wailing, the lying, and the sudden switch from threats to
begging and back again when blacks face cops. Floyd himself had
tried this soft-shoe routine when he was arrested in 2019. Derek Chauvin and his three
colleagues had probably seen far worse.
Whether a routine arrest like this becomes a cause depends on countless factors. If
the teenager Darnella Frazier had not
taken a video , nothing would have happened. Even with body cam footage, I suspect there
would have been no case. Without a simple image to rouse the simple masses, no one would have
cared.
The sanctification of George Floyd makes this even more surreal. The #MeToo movement took
down powerful men who had made inappropriate jokes or crude gestures decades ago, but a
criminal who spent his last moments on earth trying to rip-off shopkeepers and lying to police
has become a holy
figure , complete with literal claims of miracles. George Floyd’s life
and death were practically a caricature of what the crudest
“racist†would conjure out of a hateful imagination. A white man
with his record would have been treated exactly the
same , but because Floyd was black, journalists made him a saint. Most people let
others
build their reality . Post-white America has a new faith .
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld, author of The Bible of Unspeakable Truths and The Joy
of Hate , said that even if Derek Chauvin wasn’t guilty of all charges,
he
thought the verdict was a good thing. “I want a verdict that keeps this
country from going up in flames,†he explained. That’s the
bravery of American conservatives for you. While the country didn’t
“go up in flames,†there were some troubling signs last night
that worse is to come.
The guilty verdict didn’t calm the streets. It didn’t
even calm the politicians. The President of the United States
said that “this can be a moment of significant change.â€
Kamala Harris , whose
parents are immigrants,
intones that this won’t “heal the pain that existed
for generations.†Barack and Michelle Obama
want “true justice,†which requires “that
we come to terms with the fact that Black Americans are treated differently, every
day.†(I don’t think they mean affirmative action.) Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez said the verdict
wasn’t justice and doesn’t want people to think the
system works. Empty-headed celebrities
demand that more be done.
Rep. Tlaib represents Detroit ,
where the already-ruined city saw a huge
increase in homicides and shootings in 2020, just another part of what was undoubtedly the
largest
single-year increase in the murder rate in American history. Almost all the added victims
were black. “The community†doesn’t seem to
care, so there’s no reason politicians should.
Let’s hear no wailing about “black lives.â€
The main victims of the crime wave are black, with victims including
children , partygoers , and funeral guests
. Voters who elect
progressive prosecutors don’t seem to care any more than the
“community†does. Do they prefer bloodshed to good police
work?
Vox
tells us BLM has led to a reduction in “police homicides†in
areas where there were protests. Of course, at least some of these homicides would have
been justified use of force. Yet the very same research Vox cites says that between 2014 and
2019, there were “somewhere between 1,000 and 6,000 more homicides than
would have been expected [absent protests]†in those places. Even if we accept the
unhinged premise that police suddenly stopped gunning down blacks for no reasons, the result of
BLM was thousands of dead blacks â€" and nice houses for the
movement’s co-founder .
Still, it’s not about blacks. It’s about us. Rudyard
Kipling, a poet who wouldn’t get far in our affirmative
action world , wrote :
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: â€"
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet
you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.â€
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
We paid the Dane-geld. We’ve shamefully paid it to people with far less
nobility and courage than the Vikings. The Minnesota protester screaming that riots worked is
right. They worked because they had media backing. If others ran the press, the Cannon
Hinnant case alone could have changed everything. Instead, most whites
haven’t heard of it, nor about the others of
our race butchered every
year .
Our loss of identity leaves us vulnerable to moral blackmail. Whites seem to be in a
permanent state of shellshock. White conservatives want to be left alone, with Tucker Carlson
saying
that what the nation needs “more than anything†is
“a moment to catch our national breath.†Really? Conservatives
know something is wrong, but don’t dare recognize the real problem.
Republicans who collaborate with this rotten system have
shut down even halting steps towards white
identity .
Meanwhile, over the last decade, white liberals have radically changed their views on race
and actively discriminate against
whites . It’s more correct to say that new views were
inserted into their brains through hysterical media coverage of police shootings. Those who
call themselves “very liberal†are hopelessly deluded. A
majority think that
police gun down over 1,000 unarmed black men a year â€" almost 100 times the actual
number.
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/5Bf07CnmFidD/
Statistics can’t compete with sob-stories, and stories give people
meaning. I believe many Americans get their moral purpose for life from them.
There are also specific benefits in keeping the system going. Activists and politicians
build careers. Blacks get a chance of hitting the “
ghetto lottery †(assumed they aren’t killed) and becoming
heroes. It’s a strong incentive to turn a petty scam into an epic showdown.
Journalists who want to lead a social revolution or just get clicks (or both) fall right in
line.
Even as this is written, there is a case in Columbus, Ohio that could be our next George
Floyd-style passion play. Officers arrived at a chaotic brawl and shot a black girl. Body cam
footage shows the girl trying to stab someone before she was shot. Nonetheless, the image the
Associated Press
uses for the story is a Black Lives Matter protest. It looks like yet another case of a
degenerate “community†causing chaos, attracting the police, and
causing a racial confrontation.
The police are going to lie. I’m so thankful that someone from the
family was actually on the scene,†[Aunt] Bryant said . . . .
“The police are going to lie. The police are going to cover up for
themselves. They don’t care. At this point, I feel like
they’re just out to kill Black people. They’re not here
to protect and serve. That isn’t happening. That’s been
over a long time ago. They’re not here to protect and serve.
They’re here to kill Black folks.
Like many other whites, I’m exhausted. Unlike Tucker Carlson , I don’t
think we need a chance to catch our breath or pursue change more slowly. We need radical
change.
Every confrontation between a white officer and a non-white criminal is a potential
riot . The process is corrupt
because judges, jurors, and politicians know that the mob has a veto over the verdict. The rule
of law is dead.
The answer is separation . Without it, this will never
stop.
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/2vb9uMyWhLuW/
The strange reality is that there is almost no difference now between being a notorious
white advocate or any white guy. Derek Chauvin went, in just one day, from a heartwarming
“softie†who married a Hmong refugee to the embodiment of white
supremacy. A few days ago, it was a
soldier who stopped a black guy from accosting women. He had to be chased from his home.
Tomorrow it could be you.
You could try to stop a crime. You could fight back against an assault. Maybe you just look
at someone the wrong way. Maybe you do nothing at all. But if you
donated $10 to a cause the media don’t like â€" or even if
you didn’t â€" you could be the mark for the next great hate
hoax.
I write this reluctantly. Many of us become white advocates kicking and screaming, afraid to
see the truth. We all get here through experience
, usually painful.
However, no matter how far you run, how earnestly you plead, what you say, or even whom you
marry, you will always be white to those with power. That means many despise you. At some
point, you must decide to stand or kneel, and a society that kneels before the memory of a
George Floyd is not one worth serving or saving.
Whites created this country. They sustain it. Without whites, there is no America. America
is an extension of Western Civilization, white civilization, on this continent. Whites
pay to support
people who hate, curse, and sometimes kill us. We gain nothing. They owe everything. What they
have, we gave them, through weakness, folly, and good
intensions .
We deserve reparations for trillions wasted in a 60-year effort to babysit a population that
pays us back with violence and hatred. Most importantly, we deserve liberation from this
albatross that prevents any kind of real national life. Almost any price would be worth paying
if we could be sovereign and free, something our ancestors took for granted.
All the quasi-theological abstractions about “privilege†and
“critical theory†melt away before one immutable truth: They
need us; we don’t need them. Until we have the will to say so, all of us
â€" including you â€" are just one “viralâ€
incident away from ruin.
Don’t know who Gregory Hood is but I do know after reading all of his
essays, that he is the most erudite writer on race issues. I find him fair and balanced
basically sticking to the relevant issue of what ever he is writing about.
“Almost any price would be worth paying if we could be sovereign and
free…â€
This essay is superb…but worryingly, only as far as it goes. What,
very specifically, is the separation plan, and what is the price that might have to be paid
and IS worth paying, and what is the price that is NOT worth paying? The action-plan cannot
be safely specified, because we have already come too far for one to safely specify it.
Already. And worse is to come.
Besides individual ramifications, there is this. In Trump vs. Hawaii, Justice Roberts
declined to overrule Korematsu (the Japanese-internment case). He wrote that Korematsu had
been “overruled by history.†Group internment remains the law
of the land.
And yes, I am too cowardly to speak-out. Again. I was an undergraduate at an elite
University exactly when (late 60s) and where this all started. I (and my friends, and
like-minded faculty members and administrators) were all too cowardly to speak out, and take
action, then. Too much to lose. I apologize to the younger generations.
American Renaissance is a joke. No mention of the (((real problem))) at all. Until we can
discuss and point to the (((instigators))) of our present day horror, we will achieve
nothing. The funny and ironic thing about all of this is, (((they))) will suffer as much as
any White at the hands of the Frankenstein’s monster they created. I guess
Whites can take some small comfort in those just desserts.
The U.S. had a good run while it lasted. My plan is to move on. Whites really should
consider leaving. Problem is when we establish a new area they will just come to move in on
us all over again.
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld, author of The Bible of Unspeakable Truths and The Joy of
Hate, said that even if Derek Chauvin wasn’t guilty of all charges, he
thought the verdict was a good thing. “I want a verdict that keeps this
country from going up in flames,†he explained. That’s the
bravery of American conservatives for you.
This is how greed-driven “Jews†(Gutfeld is a partially
Hebrew, greed-driven Globalist and stooge for Conservatism Inc) have destroyed the neoconned
American right, and ultimately the nation. Having no soul or backbone, brushing it all under
the carpet in deference to the Golden Calf markets, Satanic Hebrews like Gutfeld will appease
the irrational mob all day long, and then just prior to collapse, invoke their
“Jewish†heritage and flee to Israel.
This us why they are known as Judenrats , and have always been.
And “liberal†Judenrats are even worse, but had
trouble penetrating the GOP until the ((neocons)) came along and sold it on easy-money
wars.
Anything for a buck, no matter how Satanic. Morality never enters into the equation.
They’re only destroying animal goyim nations, after all.
Whites don’t need blacks, browns or Jewish parasites.
The day we refuse to be intimidated and believe the lies is the day we get our countries
back.
Demand that Congress exercise their constitutional power over money creation.
National strike.
Something.
We need to turn this cancer around rather than waiting for the ship to hit the iceberg. That
will be the financial collapse lurking. It is the perfect opportunity for radical reform
including constitutional admendments. It will be a blessing in disguise: angry masses looking
for soneone to blame. Tptb will try to throw US to the angry masses but we throw them.
@steinbergfeldwitzcohen
y intractable endemic racial frictions in the USA are being systematically nurtured and
nourished by malign agents embedded in the American governmental and media frameworks.
The behaviour and loyalties of your Senator Maxine Waters makes this abundantly clear,
beyond any ambiguity or doubt.
So there is a cancer, for sure, eating away at the American Republic.
To extend the analogy, the danger with any cancer is permitting it to get past the point
of no return, after which the host cannot possibly recover and is inevitably consumed.
So you better find a cure soon, preferably something holistic which feeds the healthy
constituents and promotes healing at the same time as extinguishing the poisonous
infections.
Otherwise Team America may suffer a tragic and permanent demise.
Don’t forget that Jews own the media and the politicians. The culture
of vicitmhood, cancel culture, “wokeness,†race-baiting and
multi-racialism all either originate in the Jewish community or are strongly supported by
Jews. Jews brought down white, Christian Russia in 1917 and they are in the process of doing
that here. Jews hate us Christian whites and that fact is reflected in their media.
“All the quasi-theological abstractions about
“privilege†and “critical
theory†melt away before one immutable truth: They need us; we
don’t need them. Until we have the will to say so, all of
us…â€
Us who? White liberals don’t want you & don’t
need you & never will accept you, let alone agree any hare-brained scheme to
‘separate’ or have a racial homeland. And
they’re using Blacks to tell you that.
And until we have the will to say so, nothing will result from DOA dreams about a separate
state for “usâ€. A separate quasi-theological state abstraction
based on race will melt away in immutable reality as quickly as the communist belief in a
dictatorship of the proletariat abstraction. You have to make it here; there is no
“us†anymore. Get ready for 2022 or civil war as you will, but
there’s no escape to la-la land.
In the 1960 census, Minnesota was 98.8% white. In 1973, Time magazine ran an article on
the “Good Life in Minnesota.†It really was. We led the nation
in education. In 1960, there were 1,400 violent crimes in the State. Now, it is 13,000 to
14,000. What happened? We had mass migration from Chicago. Our Minnesota socialists offered
generous welfare benefits that attracted Chicago’s blacks and resettled
many refugees from failed countries, like Somalia, to the State. The State went from low
crime, highly educated, to much crime, much disorder, and a feeling we now live in a 3rd
world country. Today, we have armed soldiers with machine guns on the corners of the streets
in Minneapolis. You’d think the woke monsters that censure our news and
who form the Chauvin jury would awake from their idiocy, but instead, they censure the facts,
portray cops as the bad guys, portray drug abusing criminal degenerates like George Floyd as
saints.
It looks like blacks are now untouchable. This can only cause them to increase their
savage ways.
Realistically, wouldn’t it be better if every white person that wanted
to be armed could do so, and do so without a gov’t permission slip? The
reason we can’t pack a piece is because the gov’t says
the police will protect us. I know that’s a lie, do you?
Get rid of street cops like Chauvin because they are the ones that
aren’t there to protect us and end up in Floyd type situations. We should
be demanding our Constitutional rights to carry a weapon if we want to AND have the laws
changed so if we take out some POS there’s nothing to worry about.
Just think if a shop keepers in Portland put a shotgun round through their window through
the same hole made by the brick some antifa or blm POS threw. All the rioting and destruction
would have been cut off in seconds as these miscreants scatter. That’s the
only way to handle the low life trash that currently has immunity via a justice system that
is broken.
Eliminate street cops. Demand our Constitutional rights. Tell the gov’t
to change the laws that allow for deadly force when attacked by some miscreant.
No, Whites cannot police them, just like we cannot educate them. That’s
why the only acceptable solution is to expel them from White countries. Any other course of
action will mean the end of civilization because their presence is incompatible with
civilized life. Fuck them all and their cuckservative fans.
The politician most responsible for pitting ordinary men and women
against each other, ruining marriage among ordinary people, then
accusing someone else of "having no soul" is ironic.
It's the Orwellian narrative: "We have enemies overseas." Enemies
that aren't real enemies because we really don't actually want to
start a war with them but we need to put on a show to keep the
people distracted from looking at who are the real enemies inside
their own country.
...The current political class running the US loathes the average American, and it matters
not what side of the isle you sit on. They hate us. They also have their assets squirreled
away offshore. One question to ask is our demise something the international financial class
wants for their reset or one world?
One question to ask is our demise something the international financial class wants for
their reset or one world?
Posted by: Old and Grumpy | Apr 17 2021 22:25 utc | 44
I guess we should just see when there's large movement of patents and technologies
transfers to the next capital finance powerhouse. As it is right now i can see US financial
elite are doing everything it can to keep their monopolies and current order as is trying to
sabotage emerging China+Russia led new economic initiatives.
The US moneyed elites would like it very much at home where they don't have to fear forceful
government crackdown on themselves and having their wealth seized.
Just remind you that Venezuelan gold are swiped by it's local British government as soon as
they have the pretext. It can happen to them too in China and Russia where local prominent
houses already emplaced in position of power.
My guess is they got too used to game the Democratic process in the US that they do not
want it to come back functional anytime soon without minding too much of the long term
effects of dumbed down populaces.
Hundreds of corporations, including Starbucks, Amazon, and Netflix, have signed a letter signaling their opposition to election
integrity efforts in numerous states, promising to oppose any related legislation they deem "discriminatory."
The effort, led by former American Express chief executive Kenneth Chenault and Merck chief executive Kenneth Frazier, both of
whom recently
led
a
group of black business leaders urging corporations to take a stand against election integrity efforts, has corporations vowing
to stand against "any discriminatory legislation," representing what the
New
York Times
deemed
"the
broadest coalition yet to weigh in on the issue."
"We stand for democracy," the statement
reads
.
"A beautifully American idea, but a reality denied to many for much of this nation's history. As Americans, we know that in our
democracy we should not expect to agree on everything":
However, regardless of our political affiliations, we believe the very foundation of our electoral process rests upon the
ability of each of us to cast our ballots for the candidates of our choice. For American democracy to work for any of us, we
must ensure the right to vote for all of us. We all should feel a responsibility to defend the right to vote and to oppose any
discriminatory legislation or measures that restrict or prevent any eligible voter from having an equal and fair opportunity
to cast a ballot.
"Voting is the lifeblood of our democracy," the statement continues, calling on Americans to take a "nonpartisan stand for this
most basic and fundamental right of all Americans."
Signers include Bank of America, Amazon,
Estée
Lauder
, Eventbrite, General Motors, Netflix, Starbucks, Synchrony, Nordstrom, PayPal, Peloton, Pinterest, United Airlines,
Twitter, Under Armour, and more.
Some, such as Coca-Cola and Delta, which spoke out after Georgia passed its election integrity law, did not add their names to
the list, nor did Home Depot
, as the
Times
reported:
Coca-Cola and Delta, which condemned the Georgia law after it was passed, declined to add their names, according to people
familiar with the matter. Home Depot also declined, even though its co-founder Arthur Blank said in a call with other business
executives on Saturday that he supported voting rights. Another Home Depot co-founder, Ken Langone, is a vocal supporter of
Mr. Trump.
Coca-Cola and Delta declined to comment. Home Depot said in a statement on Tuesday that "the most appropriate approach for us
to take is to continue to underscore our belief that all elections should be accessible, fair and secure."
JPMorgan Chase also declined to sign the statement despite a personal request from senior Black business leaders to the
chief executive, Jamie Dimon, according to people briefed on the matter. Mr. Dimon has publicly declared that he supports
Black Lives Matter and made a statement on voting rights before many other companies, saying, "We believe voting must be
accessible and equitable."
"It should be clear that there is overwhelming support in corporate America for the principle of voting rights," Chenault said.
While the statement does not list specific state election efforts, it follows the debate over Georgia's recently signed election
integrity law, which the left has
inundated
with
misinformation, including the false claims it eliminates "Souls to the Polls," thereby suppressing minority votes. In reality,
the law expands ballot access in several ways, including by
increasing
the
mandatory days for early weekend voting.
"The nuts and bolts of [the law] are this, it makes it easy to vote and hard to cheat," Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R)
said
during
a March appearance on
Breitbart
News Daily
:
The biggest -- probably the top four things to me -- is it replaces a signature match with a voter ID on absentee ballots. It
secures ballot drop boxes around the clock It also requires poll workers to continue tabulating ballots until all votes are
counted and then it actually -- contrary to what the national media and those that are profiting off of this whole exercise of
not being truthful with people -- expands voting access, especially on the weekends.
A Rasmussen Reports survey
released
last
this week revealed a majority of likely voters, or 60 percent, believe it is more important to make sure there is no cheating in
elections rather than prioritizing making it "easier for everybody to vote." Additionally, a majority of likely voters, including
a majority of black voters,
reject
the
notion that voter ID laws are discriminatory against some voters.
" voters still overwhelmingly support laws requiring that voters show identification before casting a ballot.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 75% of Likely U.S. Voters believe voters should be
required to show photo identification such as a driver's license before being allowed to vote. Only 21% are opposed to such a
requirement. (To see survey question wording,
click
here
.)
"Support for voter ID laws has actually
increased
since 2018
, when 67% said voters should be required to show photo identification such as a driver's license before being
allowed to vote.
Eighty-nine percent (89%) of Republicans support voter ID requirements, as do 60% of Democrats and 77% of voters not affiliated
with either major party."
Comment: In Virginia it was not necessary to present identification at a polling place untl about 20 years ago. This was a relic
of an older time when most Virginia communities were quite small and it was expected that one or more people would recognize
acitizen at the polling station,
IMO the time has come when national ID cards would be a good thing. The trick would be to make it as tamper proof as possible. pl
I recently got a new driver's license, the kind that complies with airport security in order to be able to fly. And boy, my
county Department of Motor Vehicles office was absolutely TOUGH, real hard asses, when it came to the documentation required to
qualify for such a license. I had to go back THREE TIMES with various documents in order to satisfy them and meet their criteria
EXACTLY, with no exceptions. So did my husband. I would hope that any national ID, if ever mandated, would be obtained by
fulfilling similarly rigorous standards and conscientious processing. I bet it would set off leftists and libertarian-leaning
rightists BIG TIME though, for different reasons: leftists would want lax standards and libertarians would oppose the notion
per
se
.
Well yeah, "demos" are running all this having robbed any meaning from that traditional
labor/common man viewpoint (think FDR) thus in full cahoots with the global cabal which is
gates and all the other devils, which must be stopped. Too long to list, here is astonishing
summary big food/pharma/chemical/oil/$
I wrote a post on the above-mentioned subject but I deleted it. I will not discuss the
demonisation of White heterosexual Males in all its forms for fear of cancellation. I will
instead leave you with my conclusions – which are consistent with The Walrus Law;
Governments achieve the reverse of their stated objectives.
Conclusion 1. No white male corporate manager is going to risk their career by engaging in
any of the following actions:
– Mentoring female subordinates.
– Taking one on one meetings with any female.
– Participating in any but the most innocuous social functions with female subordinates
and certainly not where alcohol is present.
– In fact avoiding any one on one situation with a female.
– It also stands to reason that women will not be employed or promoted if sufficient
excuse can be found. There wasn't a glass ceiling. There is now.
Why? Because a female subordinate can now permanently end a males career in a microsecond by
the act of alleging any impropriety thanks to #metoo. No proof is required.
Conclusion 2. The British/ European/ American class system is coming back with a vengeance.
Young men and their parents will confine their search for partners and social interactions, to
females of the same social strata, values, financial resources and background as their own.
This is not a guarantee of marital harmony, It does however decrease the likelihood of a male
being accused of relationship and career destroying improprieties twenty years after the
alleged event. You can forget marrying 'for love' outside your social class.
Conclusion 3. Male behaviour in the upper and middle classes is indeed going to change. We
will witness the return of the Chaperone for males. We will witness the end of many mixed sex
parties and entertainments because of the ever present threat of denouncement. Expect single
sex private schools to flourish. Co -education is an invitation for a young males career to be
finished before it even starts – all it takes these days is an allegation made perhaps
years and years after the alleged "event". The first a young male will know about it is when he
is arrested and handcuffed.
Conclusion 4. The nature of families is going to change. We are going to see the return of
stereotyped roles. Case in point? As a Grandfather I have decided I will have nothing more to
do with the informal upbringing of grand daughters – there is too much risk that if they
go off the rails in puberty or get involved in drugs, mental illness, etc. they will
conveniently blame sexual abuse by a relative as the cause. That means I will never allow
myself to be alone with them or be responsible for them ever and the rest of the family know
it. Period. The personal risk is just too great
I have examples to back up each conclusion but I will not share them with you.
I have not addressed the American race and firearm based issues but I would expect that
changes to firearm laws and characterisation of various behaviors as "extremist' will also have
the same opposite effect from what Government intended.
Indeed. I suspect that if I were of dating age (and single) today I would go on to die
celibate. A minority of women have made engaging with the entire gender entirely too
dangerous.
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We are an adaptive bunch; witness how successful Prohibition was, or the alleged 'War on
Drugs'. Look at how Trumps border wall was rapidly shot to hell with a few acetylene
torches and some hinges – making really nice gates for the coyotes to run people
through.
It's interesting that there is no actual, physical way that the number of guns out here
'in the wild' is even known, much less can be seized. Guns can be seized by the
ATF/FBI/etc. making a huge raid on a single family and killing them all as examples –
but once that card is played, the ante will be upped and things will not be as easy for
them. The gun grabbers are literally about 200 years too late, as the gun cow is long out
of the barn.
The Covidian Cult is waning finally – in spite of the push by the globalist CDC,
WHO, Big Pharma, MSM and many others. It's hard to push fear of dying when there is nothing
to base it on any longer.
So now we are back to Ukraine, where Biden is both well known and well connected. Russia
will swat anything approaching her borders, and may swat hard. I would not be surprised to
see our puny couple of ships in their sea crippled electronically, again. But Russia
doesn't want what NATO and Biden are serving for dinner.
It's the same old SSDD of world ending disasters to keep everyone afraid of everyone
else while the big wheels in government are sending contracts out to their family members
and their various foundations using money leveraged against our grandkids.
57 genders; women cannot be approached without opening yourself to legal actions and yet
they are all in the military and government positions in far larger percentages than people
realize. Our local school principal was recently accused of "inappropriate conduct" with a
female teacher who is so obese she requires an electric scooter to move her bulk about.
Having actually seen this female, it was obvious to me, as a man with normal appetites,
that approaching her would have resulted in disgorgement of the previous meal and not
engorgement of anything.
It's human nature that when you forbid something unilaterally, it becomes more
attractive to many, just for the sake of flouting convention. Perhaps that is what the
morbidly obese teacher is striving for?
We are entering the Land of Unintended Consequences, and there is no way but
through.
High profile attorney means possible troubles for Dominion and its lobbyists. such layers ten
not leave a single stone unturned, which is not in Dominion best interest. Emails will definitely
be subpoenaed and judging from the behaviour of one Dominion executive they were not too
careful.
I kel the joke "Are their lawyers also going to argue that no reasonable person would believe
Fox news?"
Fox News has hired two high-profile defense attorneys to combat a $1.6 billion lawsuit filed
against it by voting technology company Dominion.
The media outlet disclosed in a court filing that it had Charles Babcock and Scott Keller
for its defense. Fox News confirmed the hirings to The Hill.
... ... ...
Fox News Media told The Hill after Dominion filed its suit that it is "proud of our 2020
election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism, and will
vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court."
And yet discovery will be very interesting, and Fox News is now pitted against Dominion,
and their best way to defend themselves is to show that the criticisms were legitimate...
Fox can now subpoena anything relevant from Dominion, and Dominion has to comply or be
criminally prosecuted...
There is not much to discover with Dominion. It mainly functions like a windows 10
computer. so it is hackable. It is very easy to install fraudulent software on these
machines
See Harryi Hursti KILL CHAIN: THE CYBERWAR ON AMERICA'S ELECTIONS and look at his
affidavit See "Investigators for Attorney DePernoReportedly Discover Modem Chips Embedded in
Michigan Voting System Computer Motherboards" via today on theGatewayPundit
When testifying before the MI legislature, the Dominion CEO recommended that a full
forensic audit be ordered if voters suspect that these machines were connected to the
internet.
On Dec 1 election officials deleted the electronic voting data in violation of state
la
Sidney Powell lit a fuse. She woke the Republicans and others who want election integrity,
so the Democrats won't be able to steal any more. At least not with the same tactics
Lou Dobbs might have gotten confused once. I believe he said that an affidavit that
criticized Smartmatic had instead criticized Dominion. However, there are so many problems
with Dominion, I would consider it to be an immaterial mistake. After all these machines
appear to be unusable:
[Vote counting machines] "presents serious system security vulnerability and
operational issues that may place plaintiffs and other voters at risk of
deprivation of their fundamental right to cast an effective vote that is
accurately counted," U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg wrote in a Oct 2020
Electionic vote counting machines were banned in France, Ireland and the in
the Netherlands via Gateway Pundit because they were unreliable.
The Gateway pundit could be sued if they make false statements.
via Twitter:
Elections Canada @ElectionsCan_E
· Nov 16
Elections Canada does not use Dominion Voting Systems. We use paper ballots counted by
hand in front of scrutineers and have never used voting machines or electronic tabulators to
count votes in our
100-year history. #CdnPoli
It is very easy to install fraudulent software on these machines See Harryi Hursti on
seeKILL CHAIN: THE CYBERWAR ON AMERICA'S
ELECTIONS and look at his affidavit
The actual claim is here (400+ pages):
www DOT documentcloud DOT org/documents/20527880-dominion-v-fox-news-complaint
These lawyers have their work cut out for them. As explained in the claim, Dominion
contacted Fox multiple times after the first accusations. They provided Fox with independent
assessments and other evidence that their systems were sound. Fox ignored it, never mentioned
this and continued presenting that Dominion systems were fraudulent (and stated that as a
fact, not as an opinion).
Once again, FOX News will likely claim that they are an entertainment network, not a
news agency ... and therefore they should not be expected to propagate facts on their
broadcasts.
Dominion fights as its image was damaged and it has deep pockets. But how valid are their
claim is for the court to decide. In no way they are as clean as they pretend. Their connection
Dem party operatives is probably provable beyond reasonable doubt. The whole story with Dominion
replacing Diebold on this business is murky to the extreme.
Roger Parloff · Contributor Tue, April
13, 2021, 5:06 AM · 22 min read
... "Instantly," said Steven
Bellovin , a professor of computer science at Columbia University with almost 40 years of
experience in computer networking and security. That's how long it took him to realize, he said
in an interview, that a certain purported spreadsheet that I showed him was "not just fake, but
a badly generated fake by someone who didn't know what they were doing."
The spreadsheet, together with an animated film that was said to illustrate its data, formed
the crux of a nearly two-hour "docu-movie," called "Absolute Proof," which aired at least 13
times last February on the One America News Network. The movie, presented in a news magazine
format, was hosted, co-produced, and relentlessly flacked by Mike Lindell, the irrepressible
CEO of MyPillow, Inc. It purported to furnish absolute proof that the 2020 presidential
election was stolen from then-President Donald Trump in an international cyberattack exploiting
vulnerabilities in voting-machine software that had been intentionally designed to rig
elections.
Dominion Voting Systems, which makes voting technology, filed a $1.3 billion defamation suit
against Lindell and his company in late February -- the third of four massive cases it has
filed since the election -- in part because of "Absolute Proof," which referenced Dominion more
than 40 times. (An in-depth analysis of Dominion's suits over bogus election-fraud claims, as
well as one brought by a rival voting-device company, Smartmatic, is provided in an earlier
story I wrote
here .)
I have just finished reading a couple of weighty tomes with similar themes: Dark Money by Jane
Mayer is about how some nominally right-wing libertarian sociopaths, (i.e. the Kochs and their
coterie) seek to control American politics through various 'charitable' think tanks and stealth
infiltration of top ranked universities; and
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, which is about how some nominally
left-wing(ish) libertarian whiz kid sociopaths seek to control the whole world through social
media.
My main take away is that libertarian ideology is just shorthand for narcissistic
entitlement and psychopathic greed.
...Some Republicans the past few years have talked of breaking from the two-party system and
starting a third. But that's not the way to go. Better to strengthen the system that for more
than a century and a half has seen us through a lot of mess. In its rough way the two-party
system, even without meaning to, functions as a unifying force: At the end of the day, for all
our differences and arguments, you have to decide if you were a constituency of Team A or Team
B. The parties, in their rough and inadequate way, had to be alive to your interests. Things
proceeded with a sense, an air, of majority rule. With a third party you can win the presidency
with 34%. That won't help national unity. And this being America, once we have a third party
we'll have a fourth and a fifth, and everything will be chaos, with a loss of any feeling of
general consensus.
Two parties are better for the country, and better for the Democrats. A strong Republican
party keeps them on their toes. As Oscar Hammerstein once said, liberals need conservatives to
hold them back and conservatives need liberals to pull them forward. One side should stop the
other when it goes too far, or boost it when it fails to move. Hammerstein was a cockeyed
optimist, but this isn't a bad time for that.
... ... ...
...I left the Republican Party at some point in the 2000s. I didn't like a lot of what I was
seeing. I began to say, honestly, that I was a political conservative but not a Republican.
Readers could see it in my work, and I heard from them a lot. I reregistered to vote in a
Republican primary in New York City, and have kept it that way, maybe for reasons of
orneriness.
But I've done a lot of mourning over it the past 15 years, shed literal tears over the GOP.
There were a lot of break points. Iraq was one: If that wasn't the country club at work, what
was? People to whom nothing much bad had ever happened, so they expected good fortune to follow
their decisions. Immigration was another, with the elite decision makers of the party not
caring at all how the unprotected see and experience life. It was a total detachment from their
concerns accompanied by a claim of higher compassion. Sarah Palin was another. I felt her
choice as a vice presidential candidate degraded a good insight, that an ability to do the show
business of politics is important -- FDR, JFK and Reagan knew that -- but you can't let
politics degrade into only showbiz; you need the ability to think seriously about
issues. It is wrong to reduce politics to a subset of entertainment. There were more.
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Patrick Jan SUBSCRIBER 12 minutes ago
Conservatives dominate the state governments and federal judiciary, and Republicans hold 50%
of the Senate and 49% of the House. Despite his many flaws, Trump lost the presidential
election by a mere 43,000 votes spread across 3 states. The GOP is hardly "shattered". On the
contrary, the country hasn't been this evenly divided in a long time.
Trump's populist conservative platform and fighting energy have made net gains for the
GOP. Trump's checkered personal life and lack of self-discipline have had the opposite
effect. So let's find a leader who maintains the Trump platform without the Trump
self-sabotage. How about Ron DeSantis?
Joan Lardin SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago
My late father used to say:
"oh what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive."
All Republicans have to do to rehabilitate themselves and people's faith in
their party is speak truth about the Big Lie.
The truth will set them free.
But they can't or won't do it. They are held in the thrall of a six time bankrupt, lying
NY City conman. They are consummate cowards and panderers.
Jesse G SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago
The "Big Lie" is being perpetrated by the Biden Administration and Democrats right in front
of your face. Lying about the border, lying about jobs, lying about infrastructure, lying
about voting laws. Everything's a lie. I'm curious what your father would think about this
new level of deception.
Gregory Caswell SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago
Money, Media Hacks and Socialist Union Educators have succeeded, over the years, and more
completely recently, to brainwash our youth, and our ever more naive, less thoughtful, more
fearful, overly occupied, and wee witted population, into believing they would far better
off, under a Socialist Dictatorship than a Democratic Republic! I do believe that will change
over the next four years, when the new 'woke" will have thoughtfully awakened from the
nightmare that is growing daily, through lies and disinformation from our Left-Wing Pelosian
Politician's and the Administration, bolstered by our Majority Media Outlet Hacks, each and
every day! We are, and appear to be to other Nations, quite naive in our Foreign affairs! We
have more illegals gaining entrance and more citizen jobless than ever, and the Government
handouts will of necessity cease, with many opportunities having failed, and employment and
pay less than before! They are greasing the slope, and making it much steeper!
The column is extremely week and fragments are republished here for the sole purpose to
critique/
I think Dean Baker is very superficial here. Dominion is a corporation business model of
which is based on lobbying Congress and states. It is definitely closely connected to the
Democratic Party apparatchiks. This is a very questionable model. So now it tried to present
being White Knight defending itself again absurd claims like Hugo Chaves claim. This does not
change the nature of their business. In reality this is two dirty persons struggling in a mud
peat.
Also the key question remains unanswered: are Dominion machines do any good to the USA voting
system? If yes, then defending itself makes some positive sense. If not, why bother?
...Hugo Chavez, the former president of Venezuela who has been dead for eight years, figures
prominently in many of the stories. Nonetheless, many Fox News viewers believe them.
For a voting machine manufacturer, the claim that your machines are rigged is pretty much a
textbook definition of a damaging statement. Therefore, Dominion should have a pretty solid
case.
Sullivan doesn't dispute any of this, instead, she points out that libel or defamation suits
can also be used against news outlets doing serious reporting. She highlights the case of
Reveal, a nonprofit news outfit that is dedicated to investigative reporting. Reveal was nearly
forced out of business due to the cost of defending itself against a charity that it exposed as
being run by a cult. Sullivan's takeaway is that defamation lawsuits can be used as a weapon
against legitimate news organizations doing serious reporting.
Sullivan is right on this point, but wrong in understanding the implications. Every
civil course of action can be abused by those with money to harm people without substantial
resources. There are tens of thousands of frivolous tort cases filed every year, but would
anyone argue that we should deny people the right to sue a contractor that mistakenly sets
their customer's house on fire? The same applies to suits for breach of contract. If I pay
someone $10,000 in advance to paint my house and they don't do it, should I not be able to sue
to get my money back?
... ... ...
The reality is that our legal system can be abused by the powerful to harm those with
less power. That is the result of the enormous disparities of income and power in this country,
and the inadequate shields against abuse in the legal system...
The Jewish Anti-defamation league is after Tucker Carlson. That's as bad as it gets. They
have more money than God.
Anti-Defamation League chief Jonathan Greenblatt "Tucker must go"...."white supremacist
tenet that the white race is in danger by a rising tide of non-whites" that is "anti-Semitic,
racist and toxic."
This guy is nothing but a f * c king crook and a gangster. They just paid a fine of a
BILLION dollars for manipulating the Gold Market. And they even give time for this shyster to
even speak?
jamesblazen62 10 hours ago remove link
Dimon is in greed's grasp and he can't escape. He's had 2 brushes with death (cancer and
emergency heart surgery). You'd think a billionaire with more money than he can ever need or
want has something better to do in his life than conniving for more money and playing big
corporate games of manipulation and deceit.
Evil-Edward-Hyde 50 minutes ago
J P Morgan is a crime Syndicate.
They constantly Break the Laws.
No Problem for Them,
They Just Pay The Fines.
Their secret is they make much much more money on the scam did they have to pay in
fines.
FiscalBatman 1 hour ago remove link
It's amazing how out of touch these guys are. They just don't get it. Dimon will be
swaying back and forth with the rest of them at this rate
The Competent Man 8 hours ago remove link
This is NOT a boom.
When was the last time houses went for above asking price, ever, with 20 million out of
work?
All of this 'boom' is nothing but asset inflation.
And also by the level of degeneration of the US neoliberal elite. Healthy elite would never
resort to "Wokism" in the attempt to crush populism and deflect anger directed on banksters, tech
moguls and politicians
Political populism, a common lament for Dimon, was also criticized.
" Americans know that something has gone terribly wrong, and they blame this country's
leadership: the elite, the powerful, the decision makers - in government, in business and in
civic society," he wrote.
"This is completely appropriate, for who else should take the blame?"
That fuels populism on the right and left, he said.
"But populism is not policy, and we cannot let it drive another round of poor planning and
bad leadership that will simply make our country's situation worse."
The lengthy letter touched on many perennial policy bugbears like the need for "proper
immigration policies" - ie making it easier for tech companies and others to hire skilled labor
from abroad - while the CEO also wrote that " affordable housing remains out of reach for too
many Americans."
At one point, Dimon offered a defense of the dollar's status as the world's reserve
currency, arguing that the Chinese yuan isn't "fully convertible" like its American
counterpart, and warned of the possibility of capital controls and prohibitions against assets
like gold and cyptocurrency.
But the CEO was very candid about China...
"China's leaders believe America is in decline... The Chinese see an America that is
losing ground in technology, infrastructure and education – a nation torn and crippled
. . . and a country unable to coordinate government policies (fiscal, monetary, industrial,
regulatory) in any coherent way to accomplish national goals."
"Unfortunately," Dimon writes, "there is a lot of truth to this."
Warning of the real risks of stagflation, the banker warned
"...the United States could be perceived as a place that is inhospitable to capitalism and
capitalists," and he advised readers to think about "currency diversification, country
diversification, and asset class diversification."
And
as SovereignMan's Simon Black notes , Dimon then lists goes on to provide a wide-ranging
laundry list of problems that have been building for years in the United States– "I'll
give some examples, but if I tried to address them all this letter would become a book."
Dimon cites "a litigation and regulatory system that is costly, crippling small
businesses with red tape and bureaucracy ".
" terrible infrastructure planning and investment"
"huge waste and inefficiency at both the federal and state levels"
a lack of "effective immigration policies"
"we fail to properly fund pension obligations "
" income equality has gotten worse"
"social safety nets [are] poorly designed"
" 30% of Americans don't have enough savings to deal with unexpected expenses that total
as little as $400"
"Veterans [hospitals] . . . are broken"
"Almost all institutions – governments, schools, media and businesses – have
lost credibility in the eyes of the public. And perhaps for good reason: Many of our
problems have been around for a long time and are not aging well."
"Politics is increasingly divisive, and government is increasingly dysfunctional "
He also rails against the education and healthcare systems, saying:
"Our education and health issues come together in this alarming statistic: Seventy percent
of today's youth (ages 17-24) are not eligible for military service , essentially due to a
lack of proper education (basic reading and writing skills) or health issues (commonly
obesity or diabetes)."
Dimon goes on to explain that all of these problems "may explain why, over the last 10
years, the U.S. economy has grown cumulatively only about 18%. "
"Some think that this sounds satisfactory, but it must be put into context: In prior sharp
downturns (1974, 1982 and 1990), economic growth was 40% over the ensuing 10 years."
The country ultimately needs to "move beyond our differences and self-interest and act for
the greater good," Dimon said. "The good news is that this is fixable."
Of course, a strong economic rebound is good for JP Morgan, and waxing about the threat
posed by Big Tech could help the CEO push for less regulation even under a Democratic
Administration. Is Dimon once again just talking his book?
"... Do Mr. Biden and his people claim that the dogmatic and occasionally hysterical certitude of the woke is sufficient warrant to turn the country upside down? ..."
"... If the 2020 election meant anything, it confirmed the irreconcilable differences -- a standoff of the cobra and mongoose. The election certainly didn't give Mr. Biden marching orders from the American people to open the southern border to all comers, or to redesign the natural order of biology (in regard to gender identity and all the social arrangements that have flowed from the difference between the sexes since time immemorial), or to change the country in a hundred other ways, bundling it off on an expedition to the far left fringes of reality and grievance. What the new administration proposes may be less a transformation than a hijacking. Half the country doesn't want to be reinvented -- not on Mr. Biden's terms. ..."
"... He and his people have gone into business with a bogus, echo-chamber mandate: They manipulate a media illusion of unanimity, and presume to impose a moral narrative. The Bolsheviks, a tiny but ferociously focused minority, proceeded in this way in 1917. ..."
While Trump was rejected by electorate (Biden got 7 million votes more -- mainly in costal
states and large cities), Biden was elected only because of extention of mail-in voting and
because he was not Trump. Now people regret their choice, while main-in voting "irregularities"
deprive Biden administration of the legitimacy. Moreover due to Biden neocon foreign policy and
pandering to woke Bolsheviks, many people have "post-election remorse," But in two-party system
you can do nothing about it: the train already left the station.
Now the Biden administration, headed by a man a few years too old to be a boomer, entertains
ambitions to take a great leap forward. But wait. Does a transformation require a mandate? By
what mandate does the Biden administration undertake the work of irrevocably altering American
society? Do Mr. Biden and his people claim that the dogmatic and occasionally hysterical
certitude of the woke is sufficient warrant to turn the country upside down?
There was no mandate in the outcome of the last election. November 2020 merely confirmed
that the U.S. remains split precisely down the middle, 50-50, as it has been for more than 20
years, since the deadlock of Al Gore and George W. Bush and the hanging chads of Florida.
If the 2020 election meant anything, it confirmed the irreconcilable differences -- a
standoff of the cobra and mongoose. The election certainly didn't give Mr. Biden marching
orders from the American people to open the southern border to all comers, or to redesign the
natural order of biology (in regard to gender identity and all the social arrangements that
have flowed from the difference between the sexes since time immemorial), or to change the
country in a hundred other ways, bundling it off on an expedition to the far left fringes of
reality and grievance. What the new administration proposes may be less a transformation than a
hijacking. Half the country doesn't want to be reinvented -- not on Mr. Biden's terms.
He and his people have gone into business with a bogus, echo-chamber mandate: They
manipulate a media illusion of unanimity, and presume to impose a moral narrative. The
Bolsheviks, a tiny but ferociously focused minority, proceeded in this way in 1917.
... ... ...
Mr. Morrow is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His latest book
is "God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money."
Peter Von Nessi SUBSCRIBER 29 minutes ago "A man of his age --
fearing that he may amount to nothing more than the great Obama's onetime sidekick -- is apt to
react to the surprise of waking up in the White House by pandering to the flashiest ideas of
the young people and their hero Bernie Sanders. Mr. Biden can, for a moment, forestall death if
he veers way left and makes his mark, however chaotically."
I think the author gives too much credit to Biden and not his handlers. After all Pinocchio
was made of wood. When was the last time you saw a piece of wood think....about anything? SHOW
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N Neil Steinhoff SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago Joe did not know which state he was in, what office
he was running for and said 150 million Americans have died of Covid Here is an update from
Joe. "I have been in government for 180 years". "I wake up every morning, look at Jill, and say
'where the he- are we?'" on February 17, 2021. What could possibly go wrong? Greg Caldwell SUBSCRIBER 58 minutes ago (Edited) Mr. Ferrara: Many
people voted for Joe's ideas because he claimed to be more of a centrist while he was running
for office. I know of quite a few people who voted for Joe (1) because he wasn't Trump, and;
(2) he claimed he would govern from the middle-left.
Those people are now saying they didn't vote for anything he has done to the jobs, to
energy, nor do they buy his lies about Covid Relief (only 9% of over $1.9T actually went to
Covid); the Infrastructure bill (of which only 7% actually has anything to do with our
infrastructure); or, finally the repeated outright lies about the Georgian Voting Law. People
who voted for him are paying attention and many are not happy.
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M Melissa Firestone SUBSCRIBER 49 minutes ago Vote counting continued on and on in pivotal
states in 2020. That's why 2016 was so different than 2020. And in 2020, pivotal states were
decided by less than 21,000 votes - WI, AZ, and GA. And PA and MI were more competitive than
the polls showed going into election night. Votes continued to be counted days after the
election and as we know in some cases weeks. That's why this wasn't a mandate for Biden. It was
a rejection of Trump by the marginal voter - the ones who in tight elections determine
outcomes. The same was true for Trump when he won - Hillary was so hated by so many voting
blocks the Republicans could have run any of their potential nominees and would have won.
G George Nesterenko SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago Claiming the WH, and both chambers of Congress
is, in deed a mandate.
The only measure by which the election was 'close' was the electoral college. By the number
of.. you know... actual people... there was no, and is no contest. That's is also, indeed, a
mandate.
And as demographics shift, the mandate deepens. Which is why the GOP is so adamant against
preventing a DC or Puerto Rico statehood. An unpopular, shrinking minority is desperately
holding on to any iota of power. Not 'half the country', as Mr. Morrow repeats on several
occasions.
A national rebirth is desperately needed. Although I doubt it will happen under Biden, we
can at least get on our way.
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W william marx SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago Mr. Nesterenko, even if President Biden won by several
million votes, which I am not disputing, the fact that former President trump drew over 80
million votes suggests that the country is divided. Add to that a 50/50 split in the Senate and
a slim Dem majority in in the House leads to a conclusion that there is no mandate. Until both
parties stop shoving things down the other party's throat, we will not move forward.
J Jerry Beukelman SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago So you voted for a man who has no idea where he is?
Good for you. Would you like to lay odds on when the next press conference will be? I'll take,
never. Joe is one and done, they won't risk putting him on stage again, it is too obvious he
isn't all there. Another year or two, the Biden family can make some more cash, Nancy gets her
way till the House turns. And Harris can step in. That will be fun. A woman who polled 7% in
her own state during the primary can take control. God help us.
J jim markey SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago Trump and the GOP claimed Trump received a mandate in
2016 even though he lost the popular vote by 3 million.
Biden beat Trump by 7 million popular votes and a 4.45% popular vote spread.
That's much more of a mandate than Trump had.
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M Melissa Firestone SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago You didn't see vote counting continuing on and on
in pivotal states in 2016. In 2016 the election was decided very early and key States that
hadn't voted Republican in more than two decades voted for Trump. That's why 2016 was so
different than 2020. And the pivotal states were decided by less than 21,000 votes - WI, AZ,
and GA. And PA and MI were more competitive than the polls showed going into election night.
That's why this wasn't a mandate for Biden. It was a rejection of Trump by the marginal voter -
the ones who in tight elections determine outcomes. The same was true for Trump when he won -
Hillary was so hated by so many voting blocks the Republicans could have run any of the
nominees and he would have won. ike thumb_up 12 Reply reply
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M Michael Wilson SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago Yet American voters chose them over a dictatorship
led by Trump. If you don't like the results of having a 0-3 lose, then come up with a candidate
and agenda Americans want. Like thumb_up 4 Reply reply Share
link Report flag Rob Joseph SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago "I won't insult your intelligence by
suggesting that you really believe what you just said". William F. Buckley
At no time was Trump even close to a dictator. Trump wanted to push power to the states.
Exactly how is that dictatorial? However, the current crop of dems want to centralize power to
the federal government, so exactly who is the totalitarian party?
M Mac Moore SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago Nedd writes, "Biden has an approval rating approaching
55 percent. Trump never got above 50%."
Now, that's funny. What was the polled question? Was it, "do you approve of men joining
women's sports and bathrooms?". Or, was it, "do you approve of thousands of migrant lives being
destroyed by an open border that puts them at risk and children in peril?" Or, 'do you approve
of re-education classes that mandate that one much denounce their whiteness or be banned from
Gov't employment?" or "do you approve of Biden killing thousands of good paying oil pipeline
jobs?" Like thumb_up 5 Reply reply Share link Report
flag Rob Joseph SUBSCRIBER 1 hour ago The gallup poll is from March 1. Let's
see what the new poll numbers are now after his spending spree and botched immigration policy
(Oh I'm sorry, what immigration policy). I couldn't stand Trump, but biden makes him look like
a statesman. He will divide the country further until there is no more US.
L Linda Briscoe SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago The election of2020 was not a mandate of Democratic
policies. The mandate was to be shed of Donald J Trump. We accomplished that, I hope. Now the
challenge is to wrench control of the Democratic Party out of the hands of the radical few, and
back into the hands of the moderate many.
The idea of a Silent Majority may not be new, but I believe it is as relevant as it ever
was. Most people don't focus a lot of their time on politics. They're too busy just trying to
make a living, creating or nurturing a loving family, and trying to create a home they enjoy
and can be proud of. A living wage, a liveable home of their own, and a loving family; that's
the real American dream. Royal Martin SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago President Biden;
"Just imagine all those young voters coming across our southern border that I can impress
with open arms."
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J James Bruning SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago How are Biden and the progressive Democrats getting
away with this charade? True, the liberal press provides cover by not reporting or fairly
reporting the egregious blunders of the Biden administration, but that does not explain why
most American voters are viewing Biden as someone who is honest and deserving of trust. They
know he is an unaccomplished "geezer" so in the absence of a coordinated, unified "push back"
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M Melissa Firestone SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago How are the "getting away with" this??? We voted
them in...and the "news" media is NOT news anymore. It is another arm of the Democrat/Socialist
movement. Biden lied during the debates, but he wasn't shy about his true objectives - they
were posted right on his web site. Like thumb_up Reply reply
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M Melissa Firestone SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago "What the new administration proposes may be
less a transformation than a hijacking. Half the country doesn't want to be reinvented -- not
on Mr. Biden's terms."
Couldn't have said it better myself. People are not liking what they are seeing with Biden
in office. Just today I had a conversation with a phlebotomist who put it in very easy to
understand terms. "They are just dictating what we can and can't do, what we can and can't buy,
that we have to take care of illegal citizens, while we have millions who are never going to
recover from the impacts of shutting down our economy - that's not a free country." She's 100%
correct yet clearly not an "expert," just a consumer. But she can see more nonsensical policy
implications coming. Specifically she mentioned unaffordable utility bills with going to 100%
green energy and that she didn't want to be "forced" to buy an electric car. I don't believe
she's alone in seeing what's coming with Dem control...and it isn't good
S Sherrill Schein SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago As bad and vacuous as Biden is, what will follow
him will be much worse, starting with Kamala Harris. Louis XIV, who preceded the French
Revolution and Biden both share the same argument to try to retain their thrones. "After me,
the deluge." ke thumb_up 3 Reply reply Share link
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M Michael Barbour SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago Biden is neither a moderate or a unifier and even
his Covid policies are mostly just an extension of what was started by the previous WH
administration. I didn't like Trump either, but Biden's actions and policies are hastening the
decline of the U.S.
M Michael OFarrell SUBSCRIBER 3 hours ago Biden, or whoever is actually in charge, is
giving this country away. It will the younger generation that will pay the price. Like
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M Mark A. Rosasco SUBSCRIBER 3 hours ago "A whole generation with a new explanation" ,
history definitely rhymes.
According to John Kenneth Galbraith, financial memory is usually about 20 years, then
lessons need to be re-leaned the hard way, either with financial euphoria or I would say with
tax polices that promote economic growth.
"... It is unbelievable how much the media can lie. I don't even know what I should believe any more. ..."
"... Why does our mainstream media cheer on these politicians instead of denouncing them? The answer: They're working together. They stick to these elites. How can it be that our mainstream media is always demanding that German soldiers should be sent on new military adventures in foreign countries, even though the majority of the population is clearly against this? The answer Our alpha journalists are nothing more than the long arm of the NATO press office. We will also go into great detail to prove this in this book. How can it be that our mainstream media continues to celebrate mass immigration from all over the world as "enrichment," even though the majority of Germans would rather close the borders to certain migrants today rather than tomorrow? The answer Industry and the financial elite want it this way, because a massive influx of cheap labor serves their interests. ..."
"... if the citizens aren't in charge, then who is? Could it be a group of opinion makers, a group of the most important and influential heavyweights from industry, finance and politics who are pulling the strings behind the scenes and controlling our thinking through the mainstream media? ..."
The actress Hildegard Knef once said to me, "It is unbelievable how much the media can lie.
I don't even know what I should believe any more." We met in August 1997, at the Bremen-based
talk show Nach Neun (Three after Nine).** We drank a glass of wine after the show in a local
hotel. Indignantly, Hildegard Knef related the liberties journalists had taken in reporting
about her life. She said, "Only one thing is true about journalists: they are in the business
of lying."
A few months before that and nearly 5600 kilometers away from Bremen, I heard
something similar while I was on a trip in Ethiopia. This time I was talking with Karlheinz
B6hm, the actor who played Emperor Franz Joseph at Romy Schneider's side in the "Sissi" film
trilogy about Empress Elisabeth of Austria. I visited him in the highlands of Ethiopia.
Hildegard Knef and Karlheinz Bohm - two legends of the German cinema - no longer trust the
German media. This gave me a lot to think about. After all, 'Thou shalt not bear false
witness," was one of the highest moral commandments at one time. Alas, now we consider
journalists to be the greatest liars out there.
Udo Lindenberg, a German rock music legend,
didn't have the best opinion of the media cither. We had a chance to discuss this in a
television studio's gfreenroom. Likewise the journalist Peter Scholl-Latour, whom I met many
times in war zones around the world since the late 80s. He liked to paraphrase Hiram Johnson's
old adage saying, "The first thing that falls by the wayside in war is the truth."
When I was
younger, these comments by Hildegard Knef, Karlheinz Bohm, Udo Lindenberg and Peter
Scholl-Latour seemed like conspiracy theories to me. Are they really? Later on, I started to
hear things like this more frequently, for example, from my friend, Professor Wilhelm Hankel, a
man who always seemed like a father to me. He was the man who developed the German treasury
bills.
The Truth - A Journalist Exclusive?
How can it be that our mainstream media celebrate the European Union and the euro currency
as a project for the future, even though millions of people throughout Europe are critical of
the EU and the euro? Jean-Claude Juncker, longtime head of Luxembourg's government and the
current President of the European Commission, tells us how this works:
"We decide on something, put it out there and wait and see what happens. If no one
kicks up a fuss, no rioting in the streets, since most people haven no clue what's been
decided, we continue, step by step, until there is no turning back. "
Why does our mainstream media cheer on these politicians instead of denouncing them? The
answer: They're working together. They stick to these elites. How can it be that our mainstream
media is always demanding that German soldiers should be sent on new military adventures in
foreign countries, even though the majority of the population is clearly against this? The
answer Our alpha journalists are nothing more than the long arm of the NATO press office. We
will also go into great detail to prove this in this book. How can it be that our mainstream
media continues to celebrate mass immigration from all over the world as "enrichment," even
though the majority of Germans would rather close the borders to certain migrants today rather
than tomorrow? The answer Industry and the financial elite want it this way, because a massive
influx of cheap labor serves their interests.
This list of piercing questions could go on forever. However, the most important question
behind all of it is: Who is really governing Europe? It surely isn't the citizens of the EU,
because what's going on in Europe has little to do with democracy. It is more of an illusion of
democracy, a well-crafted illusion. Still, if the citizens aren't in charge, then who is?
Could it be a group of opinion makers, a group of the most important and influential
heavyweights from industry, finance and politics who are pulling the strings behind the scenes
and controlling our thinking through the mainstream media?
The Dems and Republicans are two heads of the same hydra, voting for one or the other is a
charade played on the American people and is irrelevant to the discussion at hand. The US is
a state run for the benefit of the economic elite that owns the media and from which the
political elite is chosen/sponsored and which is aligned with the military elite. Presidents
will come and go, policy pretty much stays the same, its the same as CEOs of corporations -
if they don't follow profit maximization they will be booted out.
The US elites all went to the same schools (or military academy) where they were
inculcated with "American Exceptionalism" and the need for "America to be the Global
Policeman", ending up with mediocrities such as Blinken and Pompeo that thrash around as the
world moves to multipolarity and the US becomes just another important nation. It will take
at least decades for the US elite to get their heads around this, the British still haven't
as seen by their wasting of resources on showy projects such as the two useless aircraft
carriers (know as "targets" by submariners and missile batteries) to assuage its "size"
envy.
Voting for either imperialist party in the US will make little difference in policy toward
Ukraine or in most any foreign policy situation. Only the timing of a given aggression is
changed. I didn't vote at all in the last election because it is just obvious that we are
screwed now. The menagerie of imperialist monkeys in Biden's government is bound to do
something in the spirit of maximum hubris. It will require only one more chest-swelling act
of bellicose madness, something "kinetic" and terminally stupid.
Roger @28 said;"The Dems and Republicans are two heads of the same hydra, voting for one
or the other is a charade played on the American people and is irrelevant to the discussion
at hand. The US is a state run for the benefit of the economic elite that owns the media and
from which the political elite is chosen/sponsored and which is aligned with the military
elite. Presidents will come and go, policy pretty much stays the same, its the same as CEOs
of corporations - if they don't follow profit maximization they will be booted out."
Absolutely.
@ 22 should read the above, and check out Gazza @ 24, to see who has who surrounded...
Oh, and quit dreaming about Trump, liberal, him and Biden work for the same people..
Apparently it was "You pissed on my rug!". I guess if they update that book and article,
they'll include Trump characterizing Justin as "weak and dishonest" - which I would say,
based on his 7 years as PM, is blunt but accurate.
I think you're right that any US concessions are just a reprieve. That
non-agreement-capable thing. Freeland and Justin don't care, they're looking forward to
getting rich after leaving office, like the Clintons, Obama, etc. as a reward for their
service to plutocracy.
William Gruff @19, Hoarsewhisperer @16, agreed. That, it seems to me is the root of the
problem. Our politicians are for sale to the highest bidders. It's no longer democracy, but
full-fledged plutocracy with a veneer of "democracy" that's visibly cracked and flaking off
to anyone but the willfully blind.
solo @38, good point. Saudi Arabia also sided with China on Xinjiang:
Importantly, the Crown Prince said Saudi Arabia 'firmly supports China's legitimate
position on the issues related to Xinjiang and Hong Kong, opposes interfering in China's
internal affairs under any pretext, and rejects the attempt by certain parties to sow
dissension between China and the Islamic world.'
Plainly put, Saudi Arabia has undercut the current US campaign against China regarding
Xinjiang. It is a snub to the Biden administration.
Stefani
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One of the greatest challenges facing democratic societies in the 21st century is the loss of faith in public
institutions.
The internet has been a marvelous invention in lots of ways, but it has also unleashed a tsunami of misinformation and
destabilized political systems across the globe. Martin Gurri, a former media analyst at the CIA and the author of the
2014 book
The
Revolt of the Public
, was way ahead of the curve on this problem.
Gurri spent years surveying the global information landscape. Around the turn of the century, he noticed a trend: As the
internet gave rise to an explosion of information, there was a concurrent spike in political instability. The reason, he
surmised, was that governments lost their monopoly on information and with it their ability to control the public
conversation.
One of the many consequences of this is what Gurri calls a "crisis of authority." As people were exposed to more
information, their trust in major institutions -- like the government or newspapers -- began to collapse.
Gurri's book became something of a cult favorite among Silicon Valley types when it was released and its insights have
only become more salient since. Indeed,
I've
been thinking more and more about his thesis in the aftermath of the 2020 election and the
assault
on the US Capitol
on January 6. There are lots of reasons why the insurrection happened, but one of them is the
reality that millions of Americans believed -- really believed -- that the presidential election was stolen, despite a
complete lack of evidence. A Politico poll conducted shortly after the election found that
70
percent
of Republicans thought the election was fraudulent.
That's what a "crisis of authority" looks like in the real world.
And it's crucial to distinguish this crisis from what's often called the "epistemic crisis" or the "post-truth" problem.
If Gurri's right, the issue isn't just
that
truth suddenly became less important; it's that people stopped believing in the institutions charged with communicating
the truth. To put it a little differently, the gatekeeping institutions lost their power to decide what passes as truth
in the mind of the public.
I reached out to Gurri to explore the implications of his thesis. We talk about what it means for our society if
millions of people reject every claim that comes from a mainstream institution, why a
phenomenon
like QAnon
is fundamentally a "pose of rejection," and why he thinks we'll have to "reconfigure" our democratic
institutions for the digital world we now inhabit.
A lightly edited transcript of our conversation follows.
Sean Illing
Have elites -- politicians, corporate actors, media and cultural elites --
lost
control of the world?
Martin Gurri
Yes and no. It's a wishy-washy answer, but it's a reality.
They would have completely lost control of the world if the public in revolt had a clear program or an organization or
leadership. If they were more like the Bolsheviks and less like QAnon, they'd take over the Capitol building. They'd
start passing laws. They would topple the regime.
But what we have is this collision between a public that is in repudiation mode and these elites who have lost control
to the degree that they can't hoist these utopian promises upon us anymore because no one believes it, but they're still
acting like zombie elites in zombie institutions. They still have power. They can still take us to war. They can still
throw the police out there, and the police could shoot us, but they have no authority or legitimacy. They're stumbling
around like zombies.
Sean Illing
You like to say that governments have lost the ability to dictate the stories a society tells about itself, mostly
because the media environment is too fragmented. Why is that so significant?
Martin Gurri
When you analyze the institutions that we have inherited from the 20th century, you find that they are very top-down,
like pyramids. And the legitimacy of that model absolutely depends on having a semi-monopoly over information in every
domain, which they had in the 20th century. There was no internet and there was a fairly limited number of information
sources for the public. So our ruling institutions had authority because they had a very valuable commodity:
information.
So I was an analyst at the CIA looking around the world at open information, at the global media. And I can tell you, it
was like a trickle compared to today. If a president, here or somewhere else, was giving a speech, the coverage of it
was confined to major outlets or television stations. But when the tsunami of information hit around the turn of the
century, the legitimacy of that model instantly went into crisis because you now had the opposite effect. You had an
overabundance of information, and that created a lot of confusion and anarchy.
Sean Illing
I'm curious how you weigh the significance of material factors in this story. It's not just that there's more
information, we've also seen a litany of failures in the 21st century -- from Hurricane Katrina to the forever wars to
the financial crisis and on and on. Basically, a decade of institutions failing and misleading citizens, in addition to
the deepening inequality, the deaths of despair, the fact that this generation of Americans is doing materially worse
than previous ones.
How big a role has this backdrop of failures played in the collapse of trust?
Martin Gurri
I would say that what matters is less the material factors you mention than the public's perception of these factors.
Empirically, under nearly every measure, we are better off today than in the 20th century, yet the public is much
angrier and more distrustful of government institutions and the elites who manage them. That difference in perception
arises directly from the radical changes in the information landscape between the last century and our own.
With few exceptions, most market democracies have recovered from the 2008 financial crisis. But the public has not
recovered from the shock of watching supposed experts and politicians, the people who posed as the wise pilots of our
prosperity, sound and act totally clueless while the economy burned. In the past, when the elites controlled the flow of
information, the financial collapse might have been portrayed as a sort of natural disaster, a tragedy we should unify
around our leadership to overcome. By 2008, that was already impossible. The networked public perceived the crisis
(rightly, I think) as a failure of government and of the expert elites.
It should be a truism that material conditions matter much less than expectations. That was true during the Great
Depression and it's true today. The rhetoric of the rant on the web feeds off extreme expectations -- any imperfection in
the economy will be treated as a crisis and a true crisis will be seen as the Apocalypse.
Take the example of Chile. For 40 years, it had high economic growth, rising into the ranks of the wealthiest nations.
During this time, Chile enjoyed a healthy democracy, in which political parties of left and right alternated in office.
Everyone benefited. Yet in 2019, with many deaths and much material destruction, the Chilean public took to the streets
in revolt against the established order. Its material expectations had been deeply frustrated, despite the country's
economic and political successes.
Sean Illing
Just to be clear, when you talk about this "tsunami" of information in the digital age, you're not talking about more
truth, right?
Martin Gurri
As
Nassim
Taleb
pointed out, when you have a gigantic explosion of information, what's exploding is noise, not signal, so
there's that.
As for truth, that's a tricky subject, because a lot of elites believe, and a lot of people believe, that truth is some
kind of Platonic form. We can't see it, but we know it's there. And often we know it because the science says so.
But that's not really how truth works. Truth is essentially an act of trust, an act of faith in some authority that is
telling you something that you could not possibly come to realize yourself. What's a
quark
?
You believe that there are quarks in the universe, probably because you've been told by people who probably know what
they're talking about that there are quarks. You believe the physicists. But you've never seen a quark. I've never seen
a quark. We accept this as truth because we've accepted the authority of the people who told us it's true.
Sean Illing
I'm starting to hate the phrase
"post-truth"
because
it implies there was some period in which we lived in truth or in which truth was predominant. But that's misleading.
The difference is that elite gatekeeping institutions can't place borders on the public conversation and that means
they've lost the ability to determine what passes as truth, so now we're in the Wild West.
Martin Gurri
That's a very good way to put it. I would say, though, that there was a shining moment when we all had truth. They are
correct about that. If truth is really a function of authority, and if in the 20th century these institutions really had
authority, then we did have something like truth. But if we had the information back then that we have today, if we had
all the noise that we have today, nothing would've seemed quite as true because we would've lacked faith in the
institutions that tried to tell us.
Sean Illing
What does it mean for our society if an "official narrative" isn't possible? Because that's where we're at, right?
Millions of people will never believe any story or account that comes from the government or a mainstream institution.
Martin Gurri
As long as our institutions remain as they are, nothing much will change. What that means is more of the same -- more
instability, more turbulence, more conspiracy theories, more distrust of authorities. But there's no iron law of history
that says we have to keep these institutions the way they are. Many of our institutions were built around the turn of
the 20th century. They weren't that egalitarian or democratic. They were like great, big pyramids.
But we can take our constitutional framework and reconfigure it. We've done it once already, and we could do it again
with the digital realm in mind, understanding the distance we once had between those in power and ordinary citizens is
gone forever. It's just gone. So we need people in power who are comfortable in proximity to the public, which many of
our elites are not.
Sean Illing
I do want to at least point to an apparent paradox here. As you've said, because of the internet, there are now more
voices and more perspectives than ever before, and yet at the same time there's a massive "herding effect," as a result
of which we have more people talking about fewer subjects. And that partly explains how you get millions of people
converging on something like QAnon.
Martin Gurri
Yeah, and that's very mysterious to me. I would not have expected that outcome. I thought we were headed to ever more
dispersed information islands and that that would create a fragmentation in individual beliefs. But instead, I've
noticed a trend toward conformism and a crystallizing of very few topics. Some of this is just an unwillingness to say
certain things because you know if you said them, the internet was going to come after you.
But I think Trump had a lot to do with it. The amount of attention he got was absolutely unprecedented. Everything was
about him. People were either against him or for him, but he was always the subject. Then came the pandemic and he
simply lost the capacity to absorb and manipulate attention. The pandemic just moved him completely off-kilter. He never
recovered.
Sean Illing
But we're in a situation in which ideas, whether it's QAnon stuff or anything else, are getting more hollow and more
viral at the same time -- and that seems really bad moving forward.
Martin Gurri
I'm not quite that pessimistic. You can find all kinds of wonderful stuff being written about practically every aspect
of society today by people who are seeing things clearly and sanely. But yeah, they're surrounded by a mountain of viral
crap. And yet we're in the early days of this transformation. We have no idea how this is going to play out.
There has always been a lot of viral crap going around, and there have always been people who believe crazy stuff,
particularly crazy stuff that doesn't impact their immediate lives. Flat earthers still get on airplanes, right? If
you're a flat earther, you're not a flat earther enough to not get in an airplane and disrupt your personal life. It's
not really a belief, it's basically giving the finger to the establishment.
Sean Illing
It's a pose.
Martin Gurri
Yeah, it's a pose of rejection. QAnon is a pose of rejection. There are very many flavors of it, but what they have in
common is they're saying all these ideas you have and all the facts you're cramming in my face -- it's all a prop for the
powerful and I'm rejecting it.
Sean Illing
It's an important point because a lot of us treat QAnon like it's some kind of epistemological problem, but it's not
really that at all. It's actually much more difficult than that. And even if we set aside QAnon, the fact that the vast
majority of Republicans still believe the 2020 election was fraudulent speaks to the breadth of the problem.
Martin Gurri
Right, it's a problem of authority. When people don't trust those charged with conveying the truth, they won't accept
it. And at some point, like I said, we'll have to reconfigure our democracy. Our politicians and institutions are going
to have to adjust to the new world in which the public can't be walled off or controlled. Leaders can't stand at the top
of pyramids anymore and talk down to people. The digital revolution flattened everything. We've got to accept that.
I really do have hope that this will happen. The boomers who grew up in the old world and can't move beyond it are going
to die out, and younger people are going to take their place. That will raise other questions and challenges, of course,
but there will be a changing of the guard and we should welcome it.
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The West is declining because the elite production system has failed. The worst type of
mediocre grinders are pulling the levers of power. The plebes are revolting because
immigration, taxes, inflation and the tenuous over-complication of society (fragility) has
positioned a great deal of people in precarious positions. Might as well loot Target.
I don't agree with it. Violence is the inverse of the type of impulse control necessary
for a functioning society.
But impulse control is gone from our overlords as well. So long noblesse oblige. The
plebes loot Target while the gentry loots the treasury. Race blindness is a courtesy for
civilized people. Ignore the social implications because the enemy has no race. They are
global elites with no homes and no loyalty. They may not be sending their best but our worst
are sending out the invitations.
We can't go on ignoring the class violence hollowing out the West. The elites today are
actively trying to make everyone poorer. Not themselves, obviously. How is that going to
induce cops out of the donut shops? The culture wars are making me a retarded Marxist.
Marxist in the class conflict sense. Retarded in the spergy libertarian view that economics
and politics are intertwined to create the type of society that, as Menken says, we deserve
good and hard.
Actually, it is the ***American people*** who are fucked. The little people that is.
Fucked on behalf of Israel/Neocons, the MIC, the Neolibs, and the other "owners" of the
country.
The good news is that when the above have thoroughly looted the country, and the rest of
the world sheds the by then worthless US dollar, and the City on the Hill becomes the
Toothless Slum on the Hill,
On Dec. 22, Coomer filed a
defamation suit in Denver state court , seeking unspecified damages, against Oltmann and 14
others, including the Trump Campaign; Giuliani; Powell; the One America News Network (OAN); OAN
chief White House correspondent Chanel Rion; Newsmax Media; Newsmax contributor Michelle
Malkin; The Gateway Pundit website; and radio and podcast host Eric Metaxas.
At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in the year 1787,
Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The University of Edinborough) had this to
say about "The Fall of The Athenian Republic" some 2,000 years prior:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of
government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that
they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the
majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public
treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal
policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has
been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the
following sequence:
From Bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
You might familiarize yourself with how the national government funds its spending. It
creates new dollars every time it pays a bill. No debt required. So why do we have all this
public debt if it was unnecessary to begin with? It lines the pockets of the One Percent who
buy the safest bonds in the world to insure their immense fortunes. It's a subsidy. The rich
have the best socialism in the world. Right here in the USA.
Quite correct. We should use the terms: Blue Corporate Socialist party and Red Corporate
Socialist party when referring to them. The primary function of both parties is to provide
welfare to corporations and those who own them.
"... I'm surprised Republicans haven't done as much to sink the Libertarian Party. ..."
"... The Ballot Marking Devices section in essence legalizes election theft.) ..."
"... The dems carried AZ and PA AFTER they got the Greens removed from the ballot in both states. It tells you all you need to know about the Democratic Party and "free elections". ..."
H.R.1 (the " For the People Act ") is the
enormous election law reform bill just passed by the House and sent to the Senate. (The PDF has
791 pages.)
Black Agenda Report describes the 2019 version as "a sleazy ghetto ice cream truckload of
empty promises."
Associated Press uses more measured language:
House Resolution 1, which touches on virtually every aspect of the electoral process, was
approved on a near party-line 220-210 vote. It would restrict partisan gerrymandering of
congressional districts, strike down hurdles to voting and bring transparency to a murky
campaign finance system that allows wealthy donors to anonymously bankroll political
causes.
The stakes in the outcome are monumental, cutting to the foundational idea that one person
equals one vote, and carrying with it the potential to shape election outcomes for years to
come. It also offers a test of how hard President Joe Biden and his party are willing to
fight for their priorities, as well as those of their voters.
This bill "will put a stop at the voter suppression that we're seeing debated right now,"
said Rep. Nikema Williams, a new congresswoman who represents the Georgia district that
deceased voting rights champion John Lewis held for years. "This bill is the 'Good Trouble'
he fought for his entire life."
To Republicans, however, it would give license to unwanted federal interference in states'
authority to conduct their own elections -- ultimately benefiting Democrats through higher
turnout, most notably among minorities.
Establish automatic voter registration at an array of state agencies; Establish same-day
voter registration; Allow online voter registration; Allow 16- and 17-year-olds to
pre-register so they'll be on the rolls when they turn 18; Allow state colleges and
universities to serve as registration agencies; Ban states from purging eligible voters'
registration simply for infrequent voting; Establish two weeks of in-person early voting,
including availability on Sundays and outside of normal business hours; Standardize hours
within states for opening and closing polling places on Election Day, with exceptions to let
cities set longer hours in municipal races; Require paper ballots filled by hand or machines
that use them as official records and let voters verify their choices; Grant funds to states
to upgrade their election security infrastructure; Provide prepaid postage on mail ballots;
Allow voters to turn in their mail ballot in person if they choose; Allow voters to track
their absentee mail ballots; Require states to establish nonpartisan redistricting
commissions for congressional redistricting (possibly not until the 2030s round of
redistricting); Establish nonpartisan redistricting criteria such as a partisan fairness
provision that courts can enforce starting immediately no matter what institution is drawing
the maps; End prison gerrymandering by counting prisoners at their last address (rather than
where they're incarcerated) for the purposes of redistricting; End felony disenfranchisement
for those on parole, probation, or post-sentence, and require such citizens to be supplied
with registration forms and informed their voting rights have been restored; Provide public
financing for House campaigns in the form of matching small donations at a six-for-one rate;
Expand campaign finance disclosure requirements to mitigate Citizens United ; Ban
corporations from spending for campaign purposes unless the corporation has established a
process for determining the political will of its shareholders; and Make it a crime to
mislead voters with the intention of preventing them from voting.
There's certainly a lot of good stuff here (though as readers know, I loathe early voting,
since it can only increase voting for Party, not candidate, and would prefer a system that
maximized in-person voting, with Election Day a national holiday, and hand-marked paper ballots
hand-counted in public. But I recognize this is an outlier's position). Whether the bill will
pass is, of course, another matter, given the
filibuster . In fact, the bill (
as BAR points out ) seems designed to have its various sections lifted out and turned into
standalone bills. From
Axios :
Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21 and a longtime proponent of campaign finance
reform, says Democrats have a 3 -- 5 year strategy for enacting the key elements of H.R. 1
.
So, we'll see. In this post, I will focus on concerns more familiar to NC readers: H.R.1's
shocking[1] legitimation of the Washington Post's McCarthyite PropOrNot debacle; its
institutionalization of Ballot Marking Devices (which are not the same as "hand-marked paper
ballots"), and its provisions to cripple third party formation and growth. I don't know if
these issues are deal-breakers for anyone, or anyone who matters, but I do know that the
mainstream has not raised them.
Legitimizing PropOrNot
From the
text of the bill , "Subtitle C -- Strengthening Oversight of Online Political Advertising,
SEC. 4203. FINDINGS":
(2) On November 24, 2016, The Washington Post reported findings from teams of independent
researchers that concluded Russians '' exploited American-made technology platforms to
attack U.S. democracy at a particularly vulnerable moment * * * as part of a broadly
effective strategy of sowing distrust in U.S. democracy and its leaders."
Frankly, I'm gobsmacked to find this quotation from WaPo codified as a Congressional Finding
and embodied in statutory language[2]. For those who came in late, I'll unpack my
gobsmackedness, beginning by quoting Craig Timberg's WaPo story, "
Russian propaganda effort helped spread 'fake news' during election, experts say, " which
was oddly[3] placed in the Business Section:
Two teams of independent researchers found that the Russians exploited American-made
technology platforms to attack U.S. democracy at a particularly vulnerable moment , as
an insurgent candidate harnessed a wide range of grievances to claim the White House.
One of those "teams" was PropOrNot:
PropOrNot's monitoring report, which was provided to The Washington Post in advance of its
public release, identifies more than 200 websites as routine peddlers of Russian propaganda
during the election season, with combined audiences of at least 15 million Americans. On
Facebook, PropOrNot estimates that stories planted or promoted by the disinformation campaign
were viewed more than 213 million times.
[A shady website, PropOrNot,] has compiled a blacklist of websites its anonymous authors
accuse of pushing fake news and Russian propaganda. The blacklist includes over 200 outlets,
from the right-wing Drudge Report and Russian government-funded Russia Today, to Wikileaks
and an array of marginal conspiracy and far-right sites. The blacklist also includes
some of the flagship publications of the progressive left, including Truthdig, Counterpunch,
Truthout, Naked Capitalism, and the Black Agenda Report , a leftist African-American
opinion hub that is critical of the liberal black political establishment.
It became apparent soon after that the Post had itself fallen for shoddy information. The
story relied heavily on a report by PropOrNot, an anonymous internet group that bills itself
as "Your Friendly Neighborhood Propaganda Identification Service, Since 2016!" While its
study claimed to show how a deliberate Russian effort had unduly influenced American public
opinion, it included in its calculations non-fake, left-wing sites like Naked Capitalism and
Truthdig, among others.
A number of those sites have objected to being included on PropOrNot's list, and some of
the sites, as well as others not on the list, have publicly challenged the group's
methodology and conclusions. The Post, which did not name any of the sites, does not
itself vouch for the validity of PropOrNot's findings regarding any individual media outlet,
nor did the article purport to do so [wowsers]. Since publication of The Post's story,
PropOrNot has removed some sites from its list.
So the story was . what? Some goons made a list the Post won't vouch for? Swell reporting
standards there[4]. You can't spell "McCarthy" without including " Marty ," I guess. And there the matter rested,
just one of those stupidities that our famously free press routinely emits. One might have
supposed it forgotten. Until the story appeared in the text of a bill House Democrats
passed!
(I) The voting system shall require the use of an individual, durable, voter-verified
paper ballot of the voter's vote that shall be marked and made available for inspection and
verification by the voter before the voter's vote is cast and counted, and which shall be
counted by hand or read by an optical character recognition device or other counting device.
For purposes of this subclause, the term 'individual, durable, voter-verified paper ballot'
means a paper ballot marked by the voter by hand or a paper ballot marked through the
use of a nontabulating ballot marking device or system , so long as the voter shall
have the option to mark his or her ballot by hand.
This language is extremely broken. Hand-marked paper ballot advocate Jenny Cohn suggests a
revision:
Los Angeles County's horrid VSAP system uses QR codes (
discussed at length here ). Here is why QR codes are both unauditable and (if the ballot
marking devices are hacked) enable election fraud by insiders:
Voter makes selections on touch-screen (software, hence buggy and insecure), selections
are stored (ditto) and printed out (ditto) on a page with a human-readable receipt reflecting
(one assumes) the touchscreen selections, and the ballot itself, which is the QR code, which
is not human-readable. The page is then scanned (ditto) and QR code is then tabulated
(ditto). The sleight of hand is, of course, the ballot itself. A human may think that their
reciept, which they can read to check that it matches what they selected on the touch screen,
also matches the QR code, which they cannot. But there's no reason on earth to think that!
And the unreadable QR code, since that is what is tabulated, is the ballot! Take the matter
out of the delusional digital realm. Suppose voting worked like this: You voted by
hand-marking a yellow paper ballot. You then handed the yellow paper ballot to an official
who, behind a screen so you could not see, marked a blue ballot that you could not read,
sealed it so you could not read it, and then handed the blue ballot back to you and told you
to put it in the ballot box, that's your vote. Does that make any sense? That is how a
"Ballot Marking Device" works.
In essence, ballots printed out by Ballot Marking Devices are not hand-marked ; the
digital (i.e., the hackable) interposes itself at every point: At the touchscreen, at the
printer, at the reader. And because the printed-out QR code is what is counted, the QR code
is the ballot . And since the QR code is not human-readable, voting is not transparent to
the slightest degree.[5] (The VSAP post describes many other problems with ballot marking
devices, but this is the most important.)
H.R. 1 contains a poison pill designed to reduce political competition and voter choice by
weakening minor parties, at exactly a time where, according to a recent Gallup poll,
support
for a third party is at an all-time high .
Ever since then-presidential candidate Barack Obama shunned the federal public
matching funds program in 2008 , among all parties' general election candidates, only
Green Party presidential nominees have applied for and qualified for these funds. H.R. 1
would solve this minor party/Green Party "problem" by raising the threshold to qualify for
matching funds beyond the realistic ability of Greens (and other minor party nominees) to
reach.
This move to disempower minor parties and their voters is cloaked within the promise of a
new and improved matching funds program, designed to entice major party candidates to opt
into the program, with the promise of substantially increased funding.
The current donation threshold to qualify for a 1:1 match is to raise at least $5,000 in
each of at least 20 states, in donations no larger than $250 each. The public already
supports funding minor party candidates under this formula. Green candidates Jill Stein
(2012, 2016) and Howie Hawkins (2020) each qualified for matching funds in the last three
cycles.
The new H.R. 1 threshold would replace the existing 1:1 match program with a 6:1 match,
but would
simultaneously increase the minimum amount of donations by 500% to a minimum of $25,000
in each of 20 states. It would also increase the minimum number of contributions to reach it
by 625%, by subtlety lowering the size of donations that can count toward reaching the
threshold from $250 to $200. This would make it even harder on minor party candidates -- who
are mostly excluded from candidate forums and media coverage and have a far smaller base of
well-funded donors to draw from -- by disqualifying 20% of the $250 donations they are able
to raise.
The real-world effect of eliminating the existing 1:1 threshold would be to eliminate a
matching funds threshold that is demonstrably reachable by minor party candidates and replace
it with a category reachable likely only by top-tier major party candidates. This
sleight-of-hand will lead people to think Democrats are for increased public funding, but
apparently only for themselves.
I was part of Jill Stein's campaign team in 2015-2016, and I can tell you we barely met
the old threshold in about 22 states. It was a near thing. Eliminating those federal matching
funds for a Green Party presidential campaign would mean all but certain erasure of the Green
Party from the ballot in a good dozen or more states for 2020, and maybe a dozen more in
2022. Since most states also require a presidential and/or US Senate nominee to appear at the
top of the ballot, HR 1 would prohibit the Green Party from running any local candidates in
states where a defunded Green Party's vote drops below a certain level, and it will plummet
if Green campaigns, which which accept no funding from corporations will be far less able to
hire staff or contractors and to perform the necessary functions of a campaign.
Hard to believe that Democrats would do such a thing deliberately, but here we are.
Conclusion
So these are the three flaws that I can see in H.R.1. Whether these flaws should be
sufficient to sink the bill, I don't know. Readers?
NOTES
[1] It does not speak well of our national security goons that this material still lives in
their institutional memory.
[2] A foreshadowing of RussiaGate, perhaps. It turns out that anonymous sources don't need a
layer of indirection, like a shady website. You can just quote them, and nobody calls you on
it.
[3] Timberg's story dropped on Thanksgiving Eve. We were told at the time by sources in a
position to know that his piece made it into the paper without being vetted by the national
security desk at which he once worked, which led to some fiery internal email exchanges at
WaPo.
[4] On the begrudging and sluggishly inserted Editor's Note, CJR
commented :
[T]he editor's note vaults into verbal gymnastics in an attempt to simultaneously
rationalize and distance itself from an obviously flawed primary source. Any data analysis is
only as good as the sum of its parts, and it's clear that PropOrNot's methodology was
lacking.
The Post, of course, was merely reporting what PropOrNot said. Yet it used declarative
language throughout, sans caveat, lending credence to a largely unknown organization that
lumps together independent left-wing publications and legitimately Russian-backed news
services. The Post diminished its credibility at a time when media credibility is in short
supply, and the non-apologetic editor's note doesn't help.
A Post spokeswoman declined to comment further on the episode, saying that the editor's
note speaks for itself.
Indeed!
[5] The hacker's exploit would make it so the human readable part of the ballot read as if
the voter voted for candidate A; but the QR code, that which, being tabulated, is the actual
ballot, would be for candidate B, or whatever else the hacker wanted it to be, like a spoiled
ballot.
I'm surprised Republicans haven't done as much to sink the Libertarian Party.
They can't really do that at this point. One effect of Obama and the Dems' criminal
complicity with Wall Street after the 2008 GFC was the Tea Party's rise as a reaction to that,
which in turn enabled Charles Koch -- a libertarian, NOT a Republican -- to pour money into
supporting Tea Party candidates.
As a result, Koch may effectively have a hold on a majority of the competent political
operators in the Republican party now. Thus, when Trump won in 2016, he was compelled to hire
people straight out of the Koch machine -- Pence, Kellyanne Conway, Pompeo, McCarthy, and
approximately 60 percent or more of the Trump administration's rank and file have CVs directly
attaching them to the Kochtopus if you investigate (and whenever an old-school Republican left,
the Koch people would move one of their one into that position as, forex, when Pompeo replaced
Tillerson).
One presumes Trump was too stupid to have figured this out. Anyway, Koch overall now has a
more sophisticated political machine than the Republican party as a whole. It's easy to assume
Charles Koch is some kind of standard evil capitalist Richie Rich born with a silver spoon in
his mouth. In fact, he's highly intelligent with two MIT master's engineering degrees, one in
nuclear and one in chemical engineering, and his companies were among the first American
companies to integrate computers into their operations back in the 1970s. Thus, when you heard
all the squawking about Cambridge Analytica, and the Mercers and Steve Bannon subverting
democracy, the reality is that Koch has operated an electoral data-collection and targeting
company called i360 doing all the things Cambridge Analytica was accused of for the last decade
and a half. It's far more sophisticated than anything the Republican Party has in-house and the
Koch machine uses it to support candidates it approves of even at a loss.
Why don't you hear about this and how does Koch get away with it? Because, again, he's a
libertarian, not a Republican, and thus the Koch machine gives money to Democratic politicians
and organizations, too.
So what happens with an undeniable win of an unapproved party happens? Will the reformers of
the correct "losing party" just accept it?
Also, seeing the security state's apparatchiks in Congress, along with the Nevada Democratic
Party's pettifactors and pettifoggers, and the national nomenklatura or high priests with their
following of fanatical believers concerned citizens doing a good job is heart
warming.
Finally seeing competent ruling in action is good; we must keep those unwashed
proles along with the displaced disposables in their proper places.
I am in awe of the Democratic Party physical congress of the American people during
the last forty years. Why, they are almost as good as the Republicans.
> I guess I just don't understand the urgency, here.
The urgency is Republican efforts at the state level, most (all?) of which have the effect
of making it harder to vote and restricting the franchise. It's all pretty bad, but it's
possible that H.R.1 could make it worse. (The Ballot Marking Devices section in essence
legalizes election theft.)
The dems carried AZ and PA AFTER they got the Greens removed from the ballot in both states.
It tells you all you need to know about the Democratic Party and "free elections".
Just another political party trying to get a leg up on the other one. Nothing to see
here.
Some outlets in the designated free-speech zone bleachers on the farther side of the stadium
have taken notice of this year's statement; from the nearer side, not so much yet that I've
seen. But here's hoping. And thanks to NC for coming straight at this fraud repeatedly. (Thanks
too for knocking the props out from under the PropOrNot provision.)
" Since most states also require a presidential and/or US Senate nominee to appear at the
top of the ballot, HR 1 would prohibit the Green Party from running any local candidates in
states where a defunded Green Party's vote drops below a certain level, " I don't believe that
that claim is correct. It is certainly not true in Massachusetts (where I am a former
Libertarian State Party Chair) and does not match my knowledge of New York, New Hampshire, or
California.
The Libertarian Party Presidential candidate has almost always ignored Federal campaign
funds for the nominating campaign. The last LP campaign to take Federal nominating funds
appears to have lost money on the deal. The Libertarian Party has repeatedly had a Presidential
candidate on the ballot in every state, thanks to the efforts of its donors and volunteers.
The Green Party's difficulty (and the difficulty faced by the third Third Party, the
Constitution Party, which appears to have been forgotten here) is that it is small, a third or
a half the size of the Libertarian Party, and therefore lacks the resources it needs. It does
not help the Greens that they have sometimes worried about causing the Democratic Presidential
candidate to lose. Libertarians as a group do not have this concern. While the other two major
parties are not the same, neither of them is viewed by Libertarians as being desirable people
to hold office.
The analogy presented about BMDs is not very apt, for two reasons:
1. If both the human-readable receipt and the QR code are scanned, this provides
after-the-fact auditability. 2. Although QR codes aren't human-readable, they're very easily readable by a personal device
that everyone carries around in their pocket. This provides in-the-moment auditability, with
unpredictable, distributed auditors.
The combination of those two factors make life extremely difficult for any attacker: if even
one person happens to check that their QR code matches their receipt and discovers it doesn't,
it's going to trigger an audit of the entire system, and the attack will be discovered.
The analogous system described, with the sealed blue ballot, provides no in-the-moment
auditability, and if we are to assume that the yellow ballot is thrown away, no after-the-fact
auditability.
There is no requirement that what you see when you scan the QR code will make any sense to
the voter. A bunch of race/candidate code pairs not necessarily in an order compatible with the
paper ballot and perhaps encrypted
"Ban corporations from spending for campaign purposes unless the corporation has established
a process for determining the political will of its shareholders"
So it's ok for a corporation to donate if it's shareholders approve. Do the donations have
to mirror the political will of the shareholders? Is a simple majority sufficient? What if it
has two-class share structure?
That's before getting to the two big issue: firstly, the tax advantage of making campaign
(or any political donation) through a corporation as I can't deduct a contribution, but I'm
pretty sure that a corporation can. In addition and more importantly, what about all of the
other stakeholders?
Why not simply prohibit any campaign contributions from corporations?
I can see it now -- Corporation X asks its shareholders to support political donations to
candidate Y. You as a shareholder must confirm your support or the C Suite might have to find
something else to do with all that cash that was going to be distributed as dividends. And if
you fail to mail in your proxy at all, they'll just take that as tacit agreement of
support.
Did every Democrat in Congress just write down their favorite wish and they collected them
all into a single bill? Do they actually want it to pass the Senate? Surely they don't
all want some controls on corporate campaign spending!
We do need national standards for some of those bullet points that enable voters and help
make machine voting more secure. That would be difficult enough without all the other baggage
in the bill.
Maybe there will be a deal in the Senate -- Democrats get to use their excuses for losing in
2016 to suppress third parties and dissenting views, and Republicans use theirs in 2020 to
suppress the voters.
If a bill does pass would be interesting to understand which pieces they cared about enough
to make severable from the whole before the lawsuits start.
In any case, they really need to pass the voting rights bill HR 4/S 4263 to restore the full
protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, before we get mired in some "3-5 year strategy" for
HR 1.
A duopoly of power exists in the electoral-legislative-executive industrial complex.
Anything that stifles outside competition is a feature, not a bug.
Don't overlook this clause: " so long as the voter shall have the option to mark his or her
ballot by hand."
That means BMDs exist only along side of current hand marking, never in place of hand
marking. Most voters will mark by hand so few BMDs will be purchased, likely only one per
precinct. That will cause a waiting line for the BMD and result in its non-use by any voter
capable of making direct marks by hand.
The ability to steal an election with QR codes via BMDs will be so remote that it won't be
worth the trouble to attempt it.
Do you not remember the issues with provisional ballots in the Democrat primaries? Having
the "option" to hand mark a ballot doesn't mean it will be easy to exercise that option, and in
fact you may be outright lied to by the volunteers running the polling booth and told you don't
have that option.
I have always known the Republican party to be disegenuous in the extreme, untrustworthy and
authoritarian. I long thought Dems to be milquetoast anodyne. Since 2015 however I have come to
be even more opposed to the Dem party than the Republican party, this HR 1 being an example of
how they have become authoritarian in the extreme while hiding behind preening moral
superiority.
I have been wondering too though, with the spate of election reform bills in Republican
controlled states, why I have not heard any calls to outlaw Dominion and the like?
Clearly both parties want to "fix" the system in their (nefarious) favor.
With the spate of election reform bills in Republican controlled states, why I have not heard
any calls to outlaw Dominion and the like? Clearly both parties want to "fix" the system in their
(nefarious) favor.
The analogy presented about BMDs is not very apt, for two reasons:
1. If both the human-readable receipt and the QR code are scanned, this provides
after-the-fact auditability.
2. Although QR codes aren't human-readable, they're very easily readable by a personal
device that everyone carries around in their pocket. This provides in-the-moment
auditability, with unpredictable, distributed auditors.
The combination of those two factors make life extremely difficult for any attacker: if
even one person happens to check that their QR code matches their receipt and discovers it
doesn't, it's going to trigger an audit of the entire system, and the attack will be
discovered.
The analogous system described, with the sealed blue ballot, provides no in-the-moment
auditability, and if we are to assume that the yellow ballot is thrown away, no
after-the-fact auditability.
There is no requirement that what you see when you scan the QR code will make any sense
to the voter. A bunch of race/candidate code pairs not necessarily in an order compatible with
the paper ballot and perhaps encrypted
It would be good to get rid of electronic voting machines.
I like paper ballots. It might not really do anything to discourage corporate influence to
simply ask the corporations to represent all of the politics of their employees. That is a
murky requirement at best. But it is (citizen's united) currently a blatant form of
gerrymandering.
Most of this is just paper trail stuff, however the real election theft seems to happen
long before the ballots are even printed. How did we get a clearly senile president? He was
the chosen candidate in a "party" process that is not the least bit answerable to the general
electorate. Or even to its own electorate.
What better example of election malpractice is there than Joe Biden? So, obviously, the
national committees of the opposing political parties need some restrictions here. They could
be subjected to tighter regulation.
Their influence could be diluted by allowing many more political parties to participate in
both primary and general elections. We need regulations that promote transparency on all the
sausage-making before a party candidate is chosen. We also need transparency on the king
makers, whether corporate or political.
Who is backing the candidate? HR1 doesn't really scratch the surface. It basically just
encourages people to get out and participate in a very corrupted institution.
A duopoly of power exists in the electoral-legislative-executive industrial complex.
Anything that stifles outside competition is a feature, not a bug.
Don't overlook this clause: "so long as the voter shall have the option to mark his or her
ballot by hand."
That means BMDs exist only along side of current hand marking, never in place of hand
marking. Most voters will mark by hand so few BMDs will be purchased, likely only one per
precinct. That will cause a waiting line for the BMD and result in its non-use by any voter
capable of making direct marks by hand.
The ability to steal an election with QR codes via BMDs will be so remote that it won't be
worth the trouble to attempt it.
Do you not remember the issues with provisional ballots in the Democrat primaries? Having
the "option" to hand mark a ballot doesn't mean it will be easy to exercise that option, and in
fact you may be outright lied to by the volunteers running the polling booth and told you don't
have that option.
I have always known the Republican party to be disingenuous in the extreme, untrustworthy
and authoritarian. I long thought Dems to be milquetoast anodyne. Since 2015 however I have
come to be even more opposed to the Dem party than the Republican party, this HR 1 being an
example of how they have become authoritarian in the extreme while hiding behind preening moral
superiority.
I have been wondering too though, with the spate of election reform bills in Republican
controlled states, why I have not heard any calls to outlaw Dominion and the like? Clearly both
parties want to "fix" the system in their (nefarious) favor.
Both parties seem intent on delegitimizing the U.S. electoral processes. I sense growing
unrest and discontent with our political processes and government. The myth of free elections
is an important pressure relief for venting popular discontent. I believe the actions of our
Elite are becoming increasingly arrogant and imprudent.
Hope that more people start cancelling cable TV and boycotting companies like Twitter,
Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Amazon and others to counter the censorship, bias and
corruption.
I don't think the corrupt politicians of either party will pay attention until We The
People unite behind basic principles and become an economic force. Money talks and it can be
used to make positive change in contrast to all the bad things it is also used for.
ACTION PLAN FOR IMMEDIATE CHANGE to counter the corruption , censorship and surveillance
by media/tech/finance giants and politicians:
1)Cancel Cable TV (All channels should be made available individually so consumers don't
have to give money to channels they don't want to)
2)Do Not donate money to politicians & consider boycotting companies that give them
money or pay them for speeches.
Some might decide to boycott Facebook,Twitter,Apple,Amazon,Microsoft, Google and Netflix for
censorship or corruption issues alone.
3)Bank with small local banks & invest with small brokerages & insist your
employer/pension fund do the same.
Buy from small local merchant stores and use cash when possible.
4)Demand a pardon for Julian Assange & Edward Snowden and other
whistleblowers/truthtellers
5)Join Pro freedom social networks like MINDS and Gab ,where freedom of speech and truth
are respected.
Follow Zero Hedge and Project Veritas for pro truth/freedom news.
6)Use web browsers like Dissenter,Tor or Brave rather than Chrome or Safari when you surf
the web.
Use search engines like Quant or DuckDuckGo rather than Google or Bing for web searches.
Use an email service like ProtonMail rather than Gmail.
Save important online videos/articles/posts to your PC hard drive or phone.
Post videos to Bitchute and LBRY rather than youtube
Shop online at Overstock and smaller independent retailers rather than Amazon/Wayfair
7)Use Linux operating systems like Linux Mint,Debian or others on your computer rather
than Windows, Mac or Chrome OS (Almost any PC can be switched to Linux).
Use a Linux based smartphone like PINEPHONE or a "dumbphone" rather than Google Android or
Apple iPhone.
Avoid buying a "smart" TV as it is smarter to buy a "dumb" TV with no operating system
pre-installed.
Use a Linux mini PC with wireless keyboard on your TV for web browsing/computing/gaming/video
streaming rather than amazon fire tv/roku/google chromecast/apple tv/microsoft xbox/nvidia
shield.
8) Do NOT support the phony "War on Drugs" which causes more crime,death,murder,gang
violence,incarcerations,enriching criminals while millions of people still use illegal drugs
anyway.
9) Support a new foreign policy where We The People worldwide unite behind and promote the
principles of truth/freedom/goodwill/integrity/humility/Non-Aggression Principle/Golden Rule
and focus on winning hearts and minds.
10) Support a worldwide effort to voluntarily help others in the hope that it will win
over more people to these principles.
If you buy anything from that TREASONOUS Amazon you should be run out of your neighborhood
when the truck shows up.
andrew h nelson 2 hours ago
Institutional corruption. And that's why they are sitting behind a barb wire fence around
Washington D.C. OBTW, walls seem to work when these idiots want one.
newworldorder 5 hours ago
And there we people of the USA have it all. Brazen in our face political and
institutionalized corruption with no consequences for the Senior US Bureaucracy. If that does
not say it all, - nothing else will.
Hope and Change? For the "connected elite," - it's a done deal. You are either in the club
or you are not.
The key is the collapse of neoliberalism and this topic Tabbi tries to avoid. Which makes this article junk with a couple of
interesting, thought provoking quotes.
The "
collapses of faith in traditional hierarchies of power
" should peropery called the "deletimization of the elite."
and the situation the result due to it "the revolutionary situation" when the elite can't rule "as usual" and "Deplorables" does not
want to live "line usual" anymore. Actually Marxists wtore quite a bit about revolutionary situation, although the fact
tht they assign mystique stiat of "future hegemon class" to proletariat undermines much of their writings.
I entered Martin Gurri's world on August 1, 2015. Though I hadn't read
The
Revolt of the Public
, at the time a little-known book by the former CIA analyst of open news sources, I hit a
disorienting moment of a type he'd described in his opening chapter. There are times, he wrote, "when tomorrow no longer
resembles yesterday the compass cracks, by which we navigate existence. We are lost at sea."
Gurri's book is about how popular uprisings are triggered by collapses of faith in traditional hierarchies of power
.
I felt such a collapse that day in Waterloo, Iowa, covering the Republican presidential primary
.
The
first debate was five days away and the man expected to occupy center stage, Donald Trump, held a seemingly
inexplicable
six-point lead
.
Two weeks before, on July 18th, Trump lashed out against former Republican nominee John McCain. Even McCain's critics
considered his physical and mental scars from years as a Vietnam war prisoner to be unassailable proofs of his patriotic
gravitas, but the service-evading Trump was having none of it. "I don't like losers," he said, adding, "He's only a war hero
because he was captured." It was the universal belief among colleagues in campaign journalism that this was an unsurvivable
gaffe, a "Dean scream" moment. We expected him to apologize and wash out. Instead, he called McCain a "dummy" and kept a
firm
grasp
on
the lead.
... ... ...
Elections in the pre-Trump era had been stale rituals. As recently as 2013, Chris Cillizza of the
Washington
Post
called them "
remarkably
scripted and controlled
." Donors, party chiefs, and pundits could concoct contenders through sheer alchemy, mesmerizing
the public with incantations like "electability." But in Iowa that summer, one "electable" Republican candidate after another
-- from Jeb Bush to Scott Walker to Marco Rubio -- flopped in public appearances, savaged as phonies on social media. Walker,
the betting favorite among reporters, saw his campaign deflated when his online strategist, Liz Muir, started
tweeting
her real feelings
about Iowa (including the classic, "#agsubsidies #ethanol #brainless").
I'd spent weeks crisscrossing the state in search of even one piece of evidence that conventional wisdom still had predictive
power in Republican politics, finding none. Now, here was Christie, reduced from being lionized in a
Time
cover
story as a favorite and a "
guy
who loves his mother and gets it done
," to being nobody at all, a clown standing alone in a park. The realization that no
one was in control of the campaign show anymore was jarring even to me, a critic of the old gatekeeping ritual.
In the introduction to
The Revolt of the Public
, Arnold Kling speaks of a different
"Gurri moment": when Dan Rather's 2004 expose about George W. Bush's military service was blown up by an amateur blogging
under
the name "Bucklehead
." In the past, a media titan like CBS could only be second-guessed by another major institutional
power. In "Rathergate," both the network and one of its most iconic celebrities were humiliated by a single individual, a
preview of the coming disorientation.
The thesis of
The Revolt of the Public
is that traditional centralized powers are
losing -- have lost -- authority, in large part because of the demystifying effect of the Internet.
The information
explosion undermined the elite monopoly on truth, exposing long-concealed flaws. Many analysts had noted the disruptive power
of the Internet, but what made Gurri unique is that he also predicted with depressingly humorous accuracy how traditional
hierarchies would respond to this challenge: in a delusional, ham-fisted, authoritarian manner that would only confirm the
worst suspicions of the public, accelerating the inevitable throw-the-bums-out campaigns.
This assessment of the motive
for rising public intransigence was not exactly welcomed, but either way, as Kling wrote, "Martin Gurri saw it coming."
Gurri also noted that public revolts would likely arrive unattached to coherent plans, pushing society into interminable
cycles of zero-sum clashes between myopic authorities and their increasingly furious subjects. He called this
a
"paralysis of distrust," where outsiders can "neutralize but not replace the center" and "networks can protest and overthrow,
but never govern." With a nod to Yeats, Gurri summed up: "The center cannot hold, and the border has no clue what to do about
it."
Why
would he want to be Arkansancided (or what ever Barry's team calls it)?
Oldwood
29 minutes ago
Obamanated.
YuriTheClown
17 minutes ago
Taibbi is a camp follower. He always seems to be on the spot a year or two late.
But at least he gets there unlike so many others.
Estimated_Fractal
PREMIUM
1 hour ago
I
read the book last week. At times you'll feel like he's pro liberal and times when he sounds pro
conservative. It's not a political book. It's about the deluge of information, in the age of being
online, and how the public have just as much information, if not more than the elites. This creates a
crisis of authority. I'm trying to sum it up. You should just go read it.
how the public have just as much information, if not more than the elites.
Except the information online is filtered by the elites. So theres that.
Patmos
36 minutes ago
MSM outlets no longer have the scoop, because the internet beats them to it. MSM outlets no longer
are the gatekeepers, because the internet exposes their lies. Their authority is neutered. It's why
people who still follow the MSM parade around like little nutless b!tches.
Isn't Life Gland
30 minutes ago
Yet they slap each other on the back with Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes which nowadays is the
equivalent of showing what sellout snakes and intelligence bitches they really are.
fightapathy
23 minutes ago
remove
link
Happy memories of Trump stomping on Mad Dog McCain's face.
Thank you, Matt!
I Write Code
1 minute ago
Exactly, whatever myths the MSM told themselves about "Maverick", if half the stories about McCain
were ever true, he should never have been elected to anything, unfit. Before his brain exploded he
was a sweet guy, but never stable, and maybe not even before the POW bit. Taibbi is really shocked
when Trump only barks out what everyone already knows, namely the TRUTH?
Isn't Life Gland
45 minutes ago
(Edited)
I
tried to read the "rest of the report"...subscription required.
Oh,
and F*CK John McCain..good riddance
Slaytheist
57 minutes ago
Taibbi is the left's Ben Shapiro. He will use logical arguments to concede certain facts, but never
those that threaten the establishment he critiques so tirelessly.
I Write Code
7 minutes ago
remove
link
The thesis of
The Revolt of the Public
is
that traditional centralized powers are losing -- have lost -- authority, in large part because of the
demystifying effect of the Internet.
Gurri might be right or wrong, I dunno, about how it stood in 2015 - but Taibbi here only shows how
utterly clueless he and the entire MSM have been since 2015. They had maybe half a clue from 2008-2015.
Maybe two-thirds of a clue from 1992 through 2007. But since 2015 they have not even wanted a clue,
they've decided to do without.
HOW
ABOUT THIS, THE PUBLIC HAD EVERY RATIONAL RIGHT TO BE REVOLTED BY THE ACTIONS OF THE ELITE AND THE
CLUELESSNESS OF THE PRESS after 2015. I don't know how or why the MSM had their heads cut off at that
point, but Taibbi shows this to be the case - BRAGS about it being the case.
LouTurks
PREMIUM
32 minutes ago
This is nothing new. What has happened is there is a new medium the computer so info can now be shared
without the ruling consent. Last time it was the printing press. Ideas could be shared acrossed distences.
Thomas Locke and his likes could print ideas and sent them far and wide.
But
sadly US is going towards a French style revolt instead of the splendid experiment we now have and have
destroyed by our own ignorance.
While Joe Biden has faced some mild Congressional pushback for bombing the Iraq-Syria border, Tulsi Gabbard says her former
colleagues are ignoring the larger issue:
the ongoing US dirty war on Syria
.
After a decade of proxy warfare that empowered Al Qaeda and ISIS,
the US is now
occupying one-third of Syria and imposing crippling sanctions
that are crushing Syria's economy and preventing
reconstruction.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/mBdO1Rc9ctU
Watch:
Featuring video clips from -- Tulsi Gabbard,
former Democratic Congressmember; President Joe Biden; Brett McGurk, National Security Council coordinator for the Middle
East and North Africa; Martin Dempsey, former Joint Chiefs chairman; Rob Malley, Special Envoy for Iran; John Kerry,
Special Envoy for Climate & former Secretary of State; former President Donald Trump; Alena Douhan, UN Special Rapporteur
on Sanctions; Dana Stroul, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East; Vice President Kamala Harris.
While Gabbard has been vilified for her stance on Syria, many top White House officials – including Joe Biden himself –
have already acknowledged the same facts that she has called out.
Aaron Maté plays clips of Biden and
some of his most senior aides
admitting
to
the horrific realities of the US dirty war on Syria, and argues that Gabbard only stands apart in being wiling to criticize
it
.
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Garciathinksso
1 hour ago
(Edited)
Dems had a
perfectly fine candidate in Gabbard, no surprise she was shunned and ignored by her own party
newworldorder
1 hour ago
Democrats wanted fake males like Beto and but-plug Pete, instead of a Female USNG Officer.
BarnacleBill
22 minutes ago
Tulsi understood exactly what goes on over there - the utter cruelties and uncaring slaughters that are
responsible for the contempt with which the USA is held by the civilised people of the world. The wars
are - as I wrote in one of my personal journal/blog posts some years ago - a war against women. (Link
below) The women in mind were - and are still today - unarmed non-combatants, who are murdered
deliberately in order to punish their menfolk and to traumatise their children. It is as disgusting as
the German camps of the 1940s, and will be remembered in the same way by the survivors in their homes
eighty years from now. They will never forget.
Just to point out - Tulsi Gabbard made it all the way through the Democrat Primaries, and won more
votes and delegates than Kamala Harris (who dropped out before even the first primary), yet Harris
somehow became the presumptive co-President with Dementia Joe.
Yes, Virginia, it was a color revolution
thezone
1 hour ago
She'll probably be called a Russian Agent for criticizing the supreme ruler. Oh wait, that already
happened.
You_Cant_Quit_Me
1 hour ago
Biden is a warmonger who has no problem sending your sons and daughters off as target on a phantom war
madashellron
42 minutes ago
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God
Bless Tulsi. She is one of the only politicians speaking of these grave Crimes Against Humanity, the US
is engaged in Syria.
One
final note. The Syrian envoy from Russia. Publicly warned Israel. If they continue attacking Syria.
Russia will have no choice but to start shooting down Israel's Jets. Since this warning almost a week
ago. Israel has not attacked Syria.
rwe2late
1 hour ago
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Not
only Syria.
The
US
every day
now attacks
foreigners with about 50 bombs and missiles, possibly much more, mostly in secrecy, and in half dozen or
more countries.
The
US admitted to 27,923 bombs in 2018, and 17,281 bombs in 2019. In 2020, the totals were made secret.
Not ever included were attacks by helicopters, gunships, or strafing.
"the U.S. military and its allies are engaged in
bombing and killing people in other countries on a daily basis. The U.S. and its allies have dropped more
than 326,000 bombs and missiles on people in other countries since 2001."
Tulsi, sometimes I think there's a chance for you, then you go and blow it by retreating back to your
Democratic brethren and vote the party line. You can't have it both ways.
novictim
59 minutes ago
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It's critical that the fairly elected Assad regime be deposed ASAP and ISIS linked militants become the
governance force. Why? Because China Joe did not win the US Presidential Election and, thus, any fairly
elected leader is a threat to the US Deep State establishment.
Master Jack
1 hour ago
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A
better question is:
Can
anyone explain why the US is involved in so many military conflicts that the government refuses to call
wars?
King of Kalifornia
1 hour ago
Here's a hint.
The US killed 2million plus people, spent over a trillion dollars, and lost thousands of their own
attacking Iraq.
Richard J. Daley, also known as King Richard I, ran the most honest elections Chicago has
ever had. Which is not saying much. Prior to Richard the basic system was City Hall told ward
bosses what the numbers would be night before, ward bosses passed orders to precincts.
Precincts did as told. It was notorious that African American precincts always turned out big
numbers for the machine even though polling places never opened the doors.
I could tell quite a few stories about my own adventures in voting in Chicago in more
recent years. Main reason to vote was until very recently a voters receipt was good for a
free drink at many taverns. Also the precinct captain often kept track of who showed and who
neglected to show. Only the truly delusory ever believed in an honest count. In 1960 there
would have been few places in US where anyone expected an honest count. And fewer where that
expectation came to pass.
More Americans, and in particular the "deplorable" ones, need to read that article.
One can safely bet that they will not take away from it what the Grauniad intended. I cannot
believe the authors of that article think they can win sympathy from the scores of millions
of Americans opposed to the establishment crackdown, "cancelling" , and labeling of
them as "domestic terrorists" .
The phones rang on Friday.... More than 50 [agents of American imperialism] across Hong
Kong received a call from the authorities: they were to report to police on Sunday.
What? Masked stormtroopers didn't kick in their doors at 3:00AM and drag them naked out of
bed as happens in America to "insurrectionists" "? They just got a call to show up in
court the next week? Let me play a sad song for them on the world's smallest violin!
Four people were arrested in
Texas
last
month on 150 counts of voter fraud dating back to the 2018 Medina County Primary Election,
according to reports.
The Texas attorney general's Election Fraud Unit on Feb. 11 arrested Medina County Justice of the Peace Tomas Ramirez, and
earlier detained Leonor Rivas Garza, Eva Ann Martinez and Mary Balderrama on election fraud allegations, News4SA reported.
According to a
release
from
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office,
the case involved allegations of vote
harvesting at assisted living centers in Medina County in the 2018 Medina County Primary Election.
Ramirez faces one count of organized election fraud, one count of assisting voter voting ballot by mail, and 17 counts of
unlawful possession of a ballot or ballot envelope, according to the news outlet.
Balderrama is charged with one count of organized election fraud, nine counts of illegal voting, two counts of unlawful
possession of ballot or ballot envelope, one count of mail ballot application, two counts of unlawfully assisting voter
voting by mail, two counts of tampering with government record, and eight counts of election fraud.
Garza faces a single count of organized election fraud, two counts of illegal voting, eight counts of unlawful possession
of a ballot or ballot envelope, two counts of election fraud and four counts of fraudulent use of an absentee ballot by
mail.
Martinez is charged with a single count of organized election fraud, nine counts of illegal voting, 28 counts of unlawful
possession of ballot or ballot envelope, three counts of purportedly acting as an agent, five counts of tampering with
government record, 14 counts of election fraud, and four counts of fraudulent mail ballot application,
according
to News4SA
.
The Texas attorney general's office didn't immediately respond to a request for comment by The Epoch Times.
In a separate incident, Raquel Rodriguez, a Texas woman who bragged about being able
to deliver thousands of votes for tens of thousands in cash was arrested in January on charges including election fraud and
illegal voting.
Rodriguez
was
filmed
during an undercover project by Project Veritas,
an investigative journalism nonprofit. She was
recorded in footage released last year that she could deliver "at least 5,000" votes "county-wide" for $55,000 in cash and
that it would hire her "entire team." She acknowledged what she was discussing could land her prison time.
Based on the footage, Paxton, a Republican, opened an investigation. That probe led to the arrest, Paxton announced on Jan.
13.
Rodriguez faces a prison sentence of up to 20 years if convicted.
The
high courts claimed that Trumps cases had no validity. But yet they refuse to see things like this.
Corruption...corruption..corruption in the high courts.
BarneyFife714
7 minutes ago
Can't we just all agree please that voting our way out of tyranny is a pipe dream now?
KekistanisUnite
10 minutes ago
Alright how about some arrests in AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, WI?
Can we see who is taking care of whom and at whose expense!
There are those who are plugged into the government pay wagon, and there are the
others....the bifurcation of a nation.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the
voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that
moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the
public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy,
always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has
been 200 years." DeToqueville
A Pale Horse 35 minutes ago
Stolen elections are expensive
Nuke_Guru PREMIUM 1 hour ago
$1.9 Trillions comes out to about $6000 per person. But a family of four gets $1400. Where
is the other $22,600? Check Chuck and Nancy's pockets.
I've been saying this same thing for months. Trump's policies were widely popular. It was
Trump's personality that did him in along with a lot of help from a pandemic, the FBI and the
media.
The democrats are going to push way too far left for the country to stomach. You do not
have to be a hard core conservative to think that it is unfair for girls to compete against
trans girls or some guy that claims to identify as a girl and nor is any liberal father going
to be thrilled with his 13 yr old daughter sharing a locker room with one.
Pretty sure that if we took a vote more than 90% of adults in this country would agree
that the government should not be able to step in and override a parents decision not to
provide puberty blockers to their child or that children should even be given puberty
blockers. BUT that is what is being nominated by the Biden team.
Trump tried to get us out of Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq but the dems fought him tooth and
nail right along with the hawks in the republican party. WHO KNEW the dems would become the
war hawks? Biden sent more troops into Syria on his first day. Now he is trying to figure out
how to get out of the withdrawl in Afghanistan and Germany.
All these "green" energy policies are going to lead to higher costs for electricity, gas,
home heating oil, natural gas and they are gonna do it while unemployment is high.
Going to push for $15 minimum wage that they KNOW is going to kill a lot of jobs while
unemployment is already obscenely high.
BTW Trump voters were overall higher earning than Biden voters. That they had fewer
college degrees tells me two things. First, that the average Trump voter is not a toothless
redneck but a professional tradesman or small business owner. It also tells me that a college
degree aint worth the paper its printed on if your looking just at earning potential.
Point is .the democrats are going to tick off a lot of people. Pass the minimum wage and
those that get the increase will love you but those that lose their jobs will hate you and
small business owners across the country will detest you. Do not pass it and the left will
never forgive you.
Yep, I think the democrats are going to have a very very hard time and they are going to
end up turning on each other. I also think that Trumpism without Trump has a very good
future.
Dont get me wrong, Trump will be around. He will attend rallies, raise money, drive the
media nuts and the democrats insane but he will not run again. He is going to just create
headaches for the media, the democrats, the never Trump republicans and enjoy the heck out of
it. But he will not be a candidate.
The 'New Democrats' have stolen the nouveau riche from the Republicans, and the nouveau
riche are fantastically richer than the old money. The NewDems have also abandoned poor
people. The only way forward for the Repubs is to corral the poors.
The way to do it? Retarget the Christian Right from abortion to usury. 1 out of 7
Americans has a debt collector after them. Everybody, even this atheist, knows the story
about Jesus throwing moneylenders out of the temple.
If Trump wants to get any traction in 2024, he's got to weld the Repubs back together.
Usury is a great strategy.
Trapped in the empty luxury and petty court intrigues of Versailles, the French ruling
class could only see their own imagined beauty and illusions of power reflected in mirrors.
They were ignorant and blind to the despair and rage building up against them among the
ordinary people of France.
Today, old Reagan Free Market, minimum government Republicans and tree-hugging, coal,
oil and natural gas-hating and abortion-loving romantic Green Democrats who hold the
politics of Washington and its media in an iron (and rusting) grip are the true heirs of
those decadent French aristocrats. Their Mainstream Media has become a 21st century
Cybernetic Hall of Mirrors 2.0. Across the Atlantic the dark and doomed Spirit of
Versailles has migrated from the outskirts of Paris to Brussels where it now resides in the
European Commission.
History has repeated itself on a colossally larger scale.
Populism is a term used in neoliberal Newspeak instead of the term "mass social protest" and
it is used by neoliberal propagandists and neoliberal MSM in order to smear the rejection of
neoliberalism by the vast swats of the US population. Generally this social movement (and it is
a social movement) is about the resistance to neoliberalism and globalization.
When the term "populism" moves on front pages of neoliberal MSM and into papers like this
one that, first of all, means the process of de-legitimization of the ruling (in our case
neoliberal) elite reached at a moderately dangerous for the elite stage which requires some
"active countermeasure" not just passive suppression in MSM and ostracism.
The typical charges of corruption, the control of government by financial oligarchy,
outsourcing and offshoring of manufacturing jobs as well and suppression of wages and
redistribution of wealth up are just icing on the cake. The core is the rejection of
neoliberalism, the rejection of accumulation by dispossession – gangster capitalism in
other words. Which is politely called "redistribution of wealth up" in the neoliberal MSM.
Trump during his 2016 election campaign (and only during it; he governed like Bush III )
voiced some concern that are typically associated with this mass rejection of neoliberalism and
instantly became kind of de-facto leader of the movement. But, in reality, he was yet another
"full-blown BS artist" as Tucker called him.
So Trumpism or "national neoliberalism" is not exactly populism – it is more of the
attempt to hijack and channel the protest in a way beneficial for the "nationalist" part of
national oligarchy and military-industrial complex like happened in Germany in late 20th
– early 30th. Only this time "national neoliberalism" card is played instead of "national
socialism". And what is interesting is that intelligence agencies, which typically are viewed
as a part of the military-industrial complex, fought Trump and this movement tool and nail. The
Russiagate gang of Brennan-Comey-McCabe was not an accident.
Please note that the social base of Trump movement are not so much blue collar unionized
workers but owners of small business and contractors. They stick to Trump as their leader
despite blatant betrayal of their interests on his part. that does not exclude part of blue
collar workers but if you look at the social composition of the Jan 6 meeting participant I do
not see many blue color workers in it. But is did included some former police officers, which
is pretty telling and makes it superficially looks like Germany 2.0.
And rapid construction of barbed fence and National Guard sleeping on Capitol floors is
another testament that neoliberal elite took this threat seriously.
Some context to the 2016 to 2020 Trump interruption to Business as Usual:
The United States in 2016 was long lost as republic. Politically it had been transmuted
into something for which there is no simple traditional title. Oligarchy and plutocracy and
tyranny and corporatocracy and insane asylum and stupidocracy, with disproportionate Jewish
presence at levers of influence and power, still fails to capture the whole adequately.
This – whatever descriptive we give it – political conglomeration aka the
'United States' had residual elements of Empire – 1000 ish military bases and uncounted
numbers of biological warfare related facilities outside its borders. It still militarily
occupied Japan and Germany and Italy and South Korea and many other countries.
Doctrine promoting 'full spectrum domination' – that is, the intention of achieving
global totalitarian control – was still hanging in the air and influencing behaviour.
The Federal Reserve dollar was still the dominant international currency. The United States
was still a heavyweight in the IMF and UN Security Council. Many countries remained de facto
vassal to it (Canada, Australia, Norway )
At home a police state had been in place for generations, but the mass media and
educational system steadfastly refused to call a spade a spade. The mass media had
comprehensively for generations been a mind warping propaganda system. Publicly execute JFK
and RFK. In response the political and judicial system and the media have been comatose or
lying to the people for half a century.
The treasonous false flag 9/11 2001 is carried out, and again, the mass media tell lies
and censors and the political system is silent or complicit in buttressing the official lies.
More police state measures are implemented, and mass murdering wars of aggression abroad are
initiated. The more general 'war on terror' war of terror is launched, which is actually
merely the old policy of subversion, robbery, murder etc abroad given a new title and a
refurbished rationale (from fighting communists to fighting terrorists).
Meanwhile at home the middle class and the blue collar workers and the infrastructure are
in steady decline. 40 % of Americans are living hand to mouth while billionaires proliferate.
Tens of millions are on anti depressants, while tens of millions more are morbidly obese or
beset with chronic serious health problems. Etc. Growing basket case.
Meanwhile David Rockefeller famously confesses that he and his family (and fellow
'intellectual elite' and banking exemplars) have been working against the best interests of
America and towards the goal of world government. Sort of a Rockefeller Pinky and the Brain
syndrome, but not a cartoon, a real intention, steadily worked towards. He writes that all we
need is the "right big crisis" and voila, we will have it!!: World Government. The New World
Order.
Then something happened. Whatever folly and genius and everything in between Donald J.
Trump possesses, whatever his intentions conscious or unconscious might have been, he in 2o16
won election over the selection of the Powers that BE. They tried to steal the election, but
the tide for Trump was too strong.
In the wake of this political rookie's election, while he may have been naive, and
foolish, and made any number of questionable moves, he was also facing the entire phalanx of
the global establishment.
One of his first acts was to announce that he was going to drain the swamp, and all the
many powerful swamp creatures took this as an unforgivable and deeply threatening public
challenge. So a four year unending attack on Trump by FBI, DOJ, mass media, former CIA,
European politicians, tech giants, and the American political establishment ensued.
Equally guaranteed to create a massive effort by the PTB was his rhetoric on behalf of
national sovereignty and against globalism – The Rockefeller-esque extended pipedream.
One of his first acts was to cancel the TPP, which had threatened a further erosion of
national sovereignty on behalf of the power of transnational corporate and financial
power.
Another fundamental really priceless contribution that Trump made was to continually and
pointedly jeer at and identify the "fake news": The NYT and CNN were subjected to the public
humiliation of a sitting President continually accurately describing them.
Trump's willingness to call out the mass media propaganda and brainwashing system that the
CIA under largely Jewish auspices (or vise versa?) had intensely inflicted on the American
people for decades was an indispensable act of rebellion. American politics and media is
dependent upon the pretense that it is legit. Trump's message was: there's something deeply
wrong here: Fake news and the Swamp.
Trump also at least gave frequent voice to the desirability of reducing American military
activity and presence abroad, and stands in contrast to his Nobel Peace Prize winning
predecessor Barry ( aka B.O.) Soetoro (Libya destroyed) and George Bush the Latter (Iraq and
Afghanistan attacked) and Clinton (Serbia attacked). Trump as comparatively a deplorable
peacenik.
So then we have the COVID- psyop, creating de facto world medical martial law, which is a
kind of sick facsimile to Rockefeller's pipe dream. And also, dislocating, disorienting,
social and economic turmoil and pain. Trump was placed at the center of that storm,
surrounded by ghoulish Fauci and the CDC and the Bill Gates contaminated WHO.
Then the looters and burners and rioters were let loose. And the underlying goal was to
have Americans so sick of it all and Trump could be blamed and surely he would be thrown out
of office.
But even so, no. He wins in a huge landslide. And the Swamp goes all out and installs a
pathetic creature in Trump's place. This story is not over .
Biden began his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in June 2019 at a
Manhattan hotel,
telling wealthy donors that "nothing would fundamentally change" under his presidency.
After one month in office, it appears as if that is one campaign promise he is likely to
keep.
The U.S. will also continue its wars on Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
We are left to guess where, not if, Biden will start another one.
Posted by b on February 19, 2021 at 18:46 UTC | Permalink
I always thought that Biden's campaign slogan should have been a modification of Obama's
"Hope and Change" slogan.
Biden's campaign slogan should have been: "No Hope and No Change."
And, contrary to the 1960s-1970s, it will now have to start to win those wars, otherwise
the wealth will stop flowing.
I believe the objective now is to prevent wealth from flowing East. This means
that the definition of 'winning' the war may not be the one we intuitively may think of.
An obvious example which illustrates the strategy is the one of a functioning, promising
nation with the highest standard of living on the African continent turned into a devastated
stretch of rubble.
Another example is the success the empire is having in Syria. With large chunks of
confiscated land and a state of durable smoulder everywhere else, we shouldn't expect the
Eastern bloc to extend westward to the Mediterranean anytime soon. Nor should the empire fear
the regional actors gaining sufficient economic and political mass to ever make an impression
on the world podium and demand the return of occupied territories and repatriation of all
refugees as required by law.
"We are left to guess where, not if, Biden will start another one."
Given the context of the past 20 years including the Bush, Obama and Trump presidencies
and current geopolitical realities, I doubt Biden starts a war on par with Libya, Syria,
Afghanistan and most certainly not on the level of Iraq. They will have to try hard to grow
and harvest so-called low hanging fruit if they intend to engage in any real, direct,
shooting military engagements much less invasions/occupations. I'm not saying that can't or
won't happen - and I predicted a much wider scale military confrontation with Iran if Trump
was re-elected. Maybe not an all out invasion which would never sell back home and would be a
military and societal folly of epic proportions. But Trump did try with Soleimani, tanker
seizures, and standard militaristic posturing and prodding, not to mention brutal
sanctions.
Biden isn't as beholden to Israel (which isn't saying much since the rest of the gov't is)
or Saudi Arabia (there is a "damning" report coming soon on the Kashogghi murder which
allegedly ties it directly to MBS...duh) and most countries which are even possible military
targets that represent a "threat" to US or Israeli interests have been thrown into chaos and
instability (which was the real goal). China, Russia, North Korea, and even Iran are off the
table in my opinion.
Guess we'll have to wait and see. While the US corporate media were the main cheerleaders
for the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, they sold Obama's wars much more subtly, often
intentionally ignoring or burying stories that were contrary to that administration's image.
That is the kind of treatment I expect from them for Biden if and when he starts a new
war.
The Harris/Biden presidency will not start any more wars just like the Trump presidency
because we are in the throes of a civilization war already and it escalated to MAD phase in
late Obama days.
Yes, there can be border skirmishes but no more invasions like Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
Russia has said that Iran is a strategic partner of Russia and I believe both China and
Russia are protecting Venezuela to some degree.
The process of taking sides in this civilization war continues and as the membership of
those sides firms up, the firming events at some point will precipitate the final
act......extinction or capitulation.......I hope I get to see the final act and maybe
experience a bit of the denoueument period.
It sure looks to me like empire is in crash and burn mode but we haven't reached the final
act of this shit show yet.
Posted by: Jackrabbit | Feb 19 2021 21:02 utc | 26
Of course. That goes without saying at MoA. Those who frequent this site understand the
brutality of sanctions and embargoes. We also know they are acts of war. But I don't think
that's what b meant when he said: "We are left to guess where, not if, Biden will start
another one." If so, what other countries are left to sanction? Keep in mind that "another
one" means one that isn't currently sanctioned/sabotaged - which Biden will of course
continue doing. So what countries do you think might be on their radar for new brutal
sanctions?
Closest thing I can think of when it comes to war under Biden would be Reagan/Bush/Clinton
(incl. Hillary)style coups and "behind the scenes" support for right wing death squads in
Central and South America. Otherwise, I think the Biden administration sits back and supports
Israel's invasion or destruction of Lebanon.
Come on, you can do better:
"its wars"?
How about "Its unlawful, war crime, extra-constitutional wars of aggression".
The US military: most expensive, losingest military in human history. Hasn't won a war since
1945 unless you count Panama and Grenada.
So Biden is saying he Made America Great Again ? Just by successfully scamming the
election? Even if he never delivered at least Trump's MAGA referenced jobs and industry and
economic growth. Biden's MAGA is just about tone and empty posturing. Which one attempted to
deal with reality and which one is just delusion? I'll leave that as an exercise for the
reader!
Really, why would anyone be surprised that a candidate who did nothing to win the
Presidency should similarly do nothing once elected?
Posted by: c1ue | Feb 19 2021 21:15 utc | 30
Ouch!!
Many a true word is spoken in jest...
...
It'll be easy for the Biden Admin to start a new war with Jewed-up John (Assad Must Go) Kerry
as USA's Climate Czar. The Climate Czar has a big say in Energy Policy which Trump
interpreted as Stealing Oil. Kerry's appointment is unlikely to have been an accident.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Feb 19 2021 21:47 utc | 35
"...which Trump interpreted as Stealing Oil."
LOL
So are you saying that Trump didn't "steal oil" in and around Syria or are you simply
commenting on his campaign messaging and not his proven history of stealing (no quotes needed
and anyone can find the information) oil?
"Biden's Post-Trump NATO Reset Points to Failing U.S. Global Power in Multipolar
World."
Key snippet:
"American hegemonic ambitions required to satisfy its corporate capitalism are dependent
on a zero-sum geopolitics. The globe must divided into spheres of influence as in the earlier
Cold War decades. There must be antagonism to thwart genuine cooperation which is anathema to
American capitalism. Indeed, it can be said that the Cold War never actually ended when the
Soviet Union dissolved more three decades ago. America's imperialist ideology continued under
new guises of 'fighting terrorism', 'democracy promotion and nation building', or more
recently 'great power competition' with Russia and China.
"The bottom line is that NATO is more important than ever for enabling Washington's global
power ambitions given the demise of American capitalism and the rise of China and Eurasia.
NATO provides a crucial political cover for what would otherwise be seen as naked American
imperialism ." [My Emphasis]
IMO, the socio-political-economic set of crises within the Outlaw US Empire will deter
BidenCo from going to war elsewhere, especially if Dollar Hegemony's to be salvaged or at
least delayed from ending soon. The one big change that Hudson will raise in his rewritten,
third edition of Super Imperialism will be the Outlaw US Empire's loss of ability to
have the world finance its Imperialism as was the case until 2008. That's why Stoltenberg's
cost-sharing proposition is being warmly received in DC.
The Texas has been returning for 7 days the stone age . IF Germany wants destroy the
Nordstream II project for American gas.. I wish they see what is happening in TEXAS.
We are left to guess where, not if, Biden will start another one.
He actually started one already. It's called a war against his own people (~ half of the
population, to be precise).
There is no need for a democratically elected president, for whom the majority of voters
honestly voted, to sit behind several rows of high barbed wire fences guarded by thousands of
soldiers. And if this happens, then not everything is okay. Not okay at all.
I think there's a hyrid war on all countries that have:
a large Shia or Palestinian population;
a socialist/anti-oligarch orientation;
are simply not willing to be assimilated into the Empire;
allied with country(s) that fall into the above categories.
I count at least a dozen countries (along with the stateless Palestinians) that qualify.
And lets not forget the war on whistle-blowers, "populist movements", "conspiracy
theorists" and other domestic dissidents. Example: white nationalists are fine when
they support Trump's expanded military budget and denunciation of socialism but become an
evil threat when they rail against his total support for Israel or demand answers as to why
they are being de-platformed/canceled.
Those who claim (directly or indirectly) that Trump didn't start any new wars are
(knowingly or unknowingly) minimizing the outrage of the Empire's many, and ongoing, hybrid
wars for total global domination.
Tannenhouser (#3) said 'Actually lends credence to the theory that there aren't 2 parties
anymore ... Soon to b 3 parties just like Canada. Then u will have 3 parties doing
squat....except for donors.'
Might be true for the US one day, but here in Canada our third party is a centre-left
alternative to the two centre-right parties...
Why would anyone be surprised that a candidate who did nothing to win the Presidency should
similarly do nothing once elected? by: c1ue @ 30 <= based on the laws, decisions and lies
in years since 1788 it seems obvious to me the less the USA does, the greater will be
America.
I get what you're saying but I don't think the war is against one half versus another
half. In my view the real war is from the top against all below.
~~
On the US domestic scene, I happened to notice today that the Administration signed off on
extending foreclosure forbearance until midsummer, but didn't extend the eviction moratorium
past March.
I'm on the side of mortgage holders (i.e. small landlords), and forbearance is useful, but
no extension for tenants? They are determined to clean the weak off the rolls, aren't
they?
That's a 3-month margin for landlords to evict tenants, rehab the property and get it
rented again at a a higher rent. Tight, but doable for small landlords (whom I regard as
little different from the rest of the poor, by the way - rentier philosophies
notwithstanding).
~~
What the US always does supremely well is knock the weakest portion of society into the
gutter through financial manipulations (recessions) and then sweep them all into a memory
hole so they don't exist anymore. Those who survive don't notice the carnage and it is never
mentioned, so life goes on as if there's a working economy.
There's a subliminal tacit agreement in US society, I think, not to mention the ones who
fell by the wayside, in case this should plunge the economy into another fall. No one dares
to talk about the weak who are lost. Some of the survivors glory in their survivorship, while
others I suspect are simply afraid to call the airstrike down on themselves. No negative
thinking, lest the magic runs out.
But it keeps the economy running, for a bit longer.
In light of the Romanoff recent articles, I think this dynamic fits the national psyche
somewhere.
@jim46. The orange house in Canada is in cahoots w whatever party happens to be in power at
any given moment. It spouts
virtuous rhetoric at every opportunity, and then does what ever blue or red house tells it
to. ALL three parties in Canada serve the same interests, and it isn't yours or mine. Ever.
Look no further than each parties stance on Palestine. All three are beholden to Non
sovereign interests. The Red house handed 2 elections to the Blue house under Harper by
fielding unelectable candidates. Dion 1st and then Ignatieff. The blue house has done the
same, second unelectable candidate being O'tool. The NDP is left in rhetoric only. Under its
previous leader it may have had a chance at leading federally. Jagmeet hasnt a hope here, and
he knows it, which why he pretends to be relevant with virtue signaling. Its all Kayfabe just
like the states.
Im not sure if the NCP counts as center left in any meaningful way compared to the
Liberals or Progressive Conservatives. Nowadays, the NDP are mostly "Liberals" who weren't
cut-throat enough to cut it in the Liberal Party. The Greens are at least slightly different
from the Liberals & Conservatives in that they are fanatical in their devotion to "Green"
policies. However, I would hesitate to call the Greens "leftist", as they every bit as
Neo-liberal in their economic policies as the Liberals & Conservatives (just with a green
veneer slapped on top) and pro-war as well, i remember during the last election I was
considering voting green and saw their foreign policy boiled down to keep trying to overthrow
of Assad and the mass settlement of Syrian refugees into Canada. Call me old fashioned, but
I've always felt that sinking ships so you can praise yourself for rescuing the lifeboats is
a repugnant morality. Perhaps one day Canada will have a political party worth voting for,
but until that day I will keep casting my vote for Putin
I agree with Kadath that the Greens, under Annamie Paul, are neoliberal and not at all
antiwar. Ms Paul seems to unquestioningly accept all the Sinophobic and Russophobic
propaganda peddled in our Canuckistan media. I was really hoping that Dimitri Lascaris would
win the leadership but "Democratic" (DNC) style rigging, including by the outgoing leader,
ensured that Dimitri would not succeed Elizabeth May.
Thanks for your posts, that's what I see too. They found another slice of the salami. I've
seen a few other rhetorical touches that suggest they are heading towards less "kinetic"
options, and Iran is aware of the situation. They took the bait. Psaki has said that is all
we are going to do before talking. Zarif says "we agree", but all the stuff Trump did must be
undone. Which would seem like a congenial choice for Biden to consider. But I don't suppose
everybody is going to take this lying down. But this all does suggest a dose of reality is at
work, which would be nice. I notice the Bidenites want China and Russia in the talks
too.
Munich Security Conference 2021(video conference): SleepyJoe, no comment, he can't remember
his speech anyway.
Obvious stoned Stoltenberg reports about NATO's low-carbon warfare! LOL!
U.v.d.Lying, no comment! Sic!
Looks like dancing vampires: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n5s6he1feg
Lisa Fritz Kabarett, sorry German only.
This so-called rare earth (RE) element shortage is a false narrative pumped out by the
fake media, controlled by the US -asset-liquidating vulture GloboCapitalists.
There are lots of mothballed US/North American RE mines/deposits that were shut
down/abandoned/undeveloped, for cheaper Chinese sourced (cheaper labor/dirty coal
energy-powered/pollution friendly) RE mined resources.
The Vulture GloboCaps just don't want to pay the extra out-of-pocket to mine RE
domestically.
That would cut into their profit margins...[just like in Texas...]
Well, NATO is sending 3,500 new troops to... Iraq.
increasing its invasion force from 500 troops to 4,000. So maybe that's an indicator where
the next 'war zones' are going to be: Iraq and Syria... Again
Gotta keep a hold on that Syrian oil and the better part of the Syrian northeast as well,
which can easily be used as a springboard (along with the al-Tanf area) to mount/support
either frequent ISIS and/or al Qaeda, etc attacks on the Syrian government and people.
And after endless debate, the simple question is; How much improvement in the lives of
workers across America, will Biden's owners let him tinker with? After all is said and done,
that's the key to any president's term.
We'll see. Take a deep breath and pay attention to what's done, not what's said,
especially in the empire's MSM.
So true. Radoslav Dimitrov captured the reality so well in his concept of "Empty
Institutions" designed not to make any real policy progress, but rather to provide
performative political art on a regular basis to distract from the actual lack of real
progress. I have linked to his paper below:
Below is a quote from Biden's speech to the Munich conference....at least he agrees with my
civilization war context....
"
"We are in the midst of a fundamental debate about the future direction of our world. Between
those who argue that -- given all of the challenges we face, from the fourth industrial
revolution to a global pandemic -- autocracy is the best way forward and those who understand
that democracy is essential to meeting those challenges."
"Historians will examine and write about this moment. It's an inflection point. And I
believe with every ounce of my being that democracy must prevail."
"
When is the world going to call BS on the democracy term applied to a society that has its
money system controlled by a cult of private individuals? The longer humanity continues to
live the myth/lie of democracy in the West, the more likely our species will go extinct
because we are unable to evolve beyond barbarism as our form of social organization.
No offense to anyone (or their imaginary friends),
But,
What are these silly bitches going to do when the music stops?
Seriously? https://youtu.be/AULRSOK1KPQ
...
Just sayin'...
div> The world is like an onion, it has layers. Where Trump attacked
everything Obama, Biden is attacking everything Trump plus his supporters and, while the MSM is
mostly silent on this, about half the USA is gearing up for a civil war. Meanwhile the
international wars have been increasing, just not so visibly. Don't forget the digital wars,
the apparent biological wars, the propaganda wars, the food wars, and etc. And while most
people just recognize the shooting wars the oligarchs, through the
military-industrial-congressional complex and other world governments, are playing a global
game of Monopoly against each other where even superpowers are but pawns. WWIII started years
ago, it's just that most people don't recognize it as such because it's not state actors
calling the shots, it's oligarchs who are, in essence, ghosts because we can't see them.
Posted by: Glenn S Olson , Feb 20 2021 4:17 utc |
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The world is like an onion, it has layers. Where Trump attacked everything Obama, Biden is
attacking everything Trump plus his supporters and, while the MSM is mostly silent on this,
about half the USA is gearing up for a civil war. Meanwhile the international wars have been
increasing, just not so visibly. Don't forget the digital wars, the apparent biological wars,
the propaganda wars, the food wars, and etc. And while most people just recognize the
shooting wars the oligarchs, through the military-industrial-congressional complex and other
world governments, are playing a global game of Monopoly against each other where even
superpowers are but pawns. WWIII started years ago, it's just that most people don't
recognize it as such because it's not state actors calling the shots, it's oligarchs who are,
in essence, ghosts because we can't see them.
Posted by: Glenn S Olson | Feb 20 2021 4:17 utc |
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"And while most people just recognize the shooting wars the oligarchs, through the
military-industrial-congressional complex and other world governments, are playing a global
game of Monopoly against each other where even superpowers are but pawns. WWIII started years
ago, it's just that most people don't recognize it as such because it's not state actors
calling the shots, it's oligarchs who are, in essence, ghosts because we can't see them."
This is obvious to anyone paying attention, so, you'd think more folks would get it.
"The wave of enthusiasm regarding the Biden administration has not washed over me," he says.
"I'm glad Trump is out, but at the very same time I'm very worried that Trumpism is going to
get stronger. I'm very worried that the Democratic Party is in the process of turning in on
itself, of divisions between the establishment figures, those who were effectively supported by
Wall Street to become senators or congressmen or presidents for that matter and the
socialists.
"The clash is already there, the blame game has begun. While the Trumpists are more united
than ever, they're going to be aided and abetted by two things. First, the [financial] slump
which is unavoidable given the pandemic, they will be blaming it on the system and the swamp
that has taken over again and a false but real sense that they have, false in the sense that
it's untrue but real in the sense they do feel it, that they were robbed of the election.
"So this combination, solidity on the Trumpist side, political economy which is
strengthening their feeling and their unity and the fragmentation of the Democratic side which
is only going to get worse as we're moving towards the congressional elections two years from
now. That for me is the great danger."
Varoufakis doesn't believe that the Biden-Harris ticket will improve outcomes for the poor
or radically redistribute wealth. Nearly eight million Americans, many of them children and
minorities, have fallen into poverty since May last year as the pandemic took its toll,
according to Columbia University research .
Opinion -- there are Trumpers who like Trump. There are also Trumper who are broadly
against the level of corruption today and "1984" materializing before them. They believe that
the deep state exists and that the two primary political parties are one and the same; their
differences being cosmetic only
Didn't vote for Trump, but in a blue state it wouldn't matter with vote bundling (sans
Nebraska & Maine), but this post resonates. Basically we're in political exile, both
Party's are corrupt and most spend their time calling donors and/or taking lobby monies for
their Party dues in exchange for their vote. The only politician I can stand is Massie, who's
not even allowed in the RNC building, and actually walks-the-walk on issues, and me as a Vet,
Massie doesn't vote for unending war (NDAA).
I would imagine that to be Thomas Massie. You may not know the name but he was one of the
few who stood against that CARES Act last March. He copped lot of flak from Trump and John
Kerry at the time which means that he must have been right-
This was interesting. I wish YV had defined the term "Trumpism". I haven't seen it defined
anywhere; it's used to smear voters, but I haven't seen it defined.
Imo, it's the rising populism (in the good sense) in the US trying to stop financial
predations by the banks and Wall St. speculators, stop trade deals that undercut US wages and
off shore jobs, again regulate and breakup the new monopolies – especially the tech
monopolies whose rents attach to nearly everything now. That's my definition. I wonder what
YV's definition is. It's happening in the US, in the UK (Brexit), in France (jillet jaunes),
and in other Western countries where the bottom70-80% of the populations – the once
large and financially stable middle class – has been economically undermined for the
past 30 years by govt policy and deregulation. Its a reasonable, sane response to seeing your
childrens' and grandchildrens' life chances and life expectancies fall at the same time
billionaires are getting richer and richer.
But calling the idea that this economic destruction needs to be addressed, calling it
"Trumpism" smears the entire idea there's something badly out of balance that needs to be
addressed. Calling it "Trumpism" dismisses these ideas as unimportant and maybe even slightly
unhinged.
So, again, I wish YV had defined "Trumpism" as he understands it. Otherwise, the argument
sounds a bit like "these crackpots are a worry, how can we keep the crackpots under control"?
Shorter: over half the country has real, long term, ongoing financial grievances against the
current system, but I'll use this dimissive name for them and still expect everyone to take
half the country's financial and health care grievances seriously. It doesn't work that way,
imo.
trump will be a weapon against any populism, at all.
think the next election had problems? the primary? you must be a moron and a trumper.
think the economy is rigged for the powerful, and ruinous for everyone else? damned trumpy
racist moron.
on and on on just about every real problem we face, there is a rebuttal there in trump that
will dismiss it out of hand no matter the glaring evidence that the problem is real.
just as the Left appeared to be getting it's shit together, the Powers have their out.
see Haydar Khan's part 2: https://thescrum.substack.com/p/the-great-reset-part-2
of course, dismissing the myriad problems or doing them in such a way that they are
ineffective, if very profitable will only make them worse, and that will eventually have
consequences.
From the great reset – an attempted corporate coup: "The recent social media
cancellation of former president Donald Trump is certainly a demonstration of private
corporations serving as private trustees of society."
Agreed that Newsweek should have pressed Mr Varoufakis to define his key term. 'Trumpism'
seems to defy succinct definition, however. Possibly its vagueness counts as an advantage in
ideological discourse? Still I think the Wikipedia article on 'Trumpism' is a pretty good
place to get a start on understanding it. I noticed that it actually suggests the existence
of more than one 'Trumpism' in the US, and as covers it/them as an international phenomenon.
It also makes clear what a wide variety of assessments of it have already emerged. It
provides a rather vast bibliography. More provocative, in the good sense of
thought-provoking, are the several definitions offered up by contributors to Urban
Dictionary. They emphasize its reliance on deception to market itself. Personally I think it
may make more sense to understand 'Trumpism' as a mode of political discourse – a means
of advancing a certain political agenda, apparently a means especially amenable to social
media though I very much doubt one engendered by its parameters – than as any
particular agenda as such.
that wiki page is a pretty good read in itself, and provides a launch pad for further
digging.
and, i hadn't realised that Bob Altemeyer was still around and on the case.
his main book was one of the most important in trying to understand the people i've been
embedded in for all my life. https://theauthoritarians.org/options-for-getting-the-book/
re: the wiki, the sections on "Methods of Persuasion" and "Social Psychology" are
particularly good, and link to a lot of names familiar to me from my own research
project/field study into the american right, circa 2002-2014~.
by comparison, just about the entire canon of interpretation of the trump phenomenon by
NYT, WaPo, etc etc is useless unless you are after a mirror image emotional
response/catharsis, rather that actually trying to understand what why and how.
we'll be dealing with this mess for a long time to come.
Thank you Amfortas! I too hadn't realized Bob Altermeyer was still writing – he
hadn't added anything new in quite a while so I figured he had retired and I hadn't been
checking.
1. America first
2. white supremacy
3. pandering to religious fundamentalists
4. pandering to gun enthusiasts and right wing militias
5. marking people and groups as enemies of the people
6. decrying so called hostile elites
7. creating alternative 'facts' and imaginary realities
8. xenophobia
9. misogyny
10. politics of force, inside and outside
a. Campaigning against more trade deals like TPP and TPIP (NAFTA on steroids)
b. Campaigning on ending the endless wars and bringing troops home
c. Campaigning on bringing back on shore manufacturing and good jobs.
d. Campaigning on closing the US/Mexico border and stopping the inflow of the cheapest
labor possible undercutting wages of already very low paid workers here.
e. Campaigning on lowering military tensions with Russia
(not that he did these things, but he campaigned heavily on economic issues and reducing
military adventurism, both important to the middle class/working class in 2016. Not sure what
the 2020 message was.)
1. America first. True. Is this so bad?
2. White supremacy. False. Very few of these characters exist, although they're much in
demand from the left.
3. Pandering to religious fundamentalists. False, although substitute "appealing" for
"pandering" and it's true.
4. Pandering to gun enthusiasts and right-wing militias. Sigh, true, although there's nothing
wrong with gun enthusiasts, broadly speaking.
5. Marking people and groups as enemies of the people. False, I think. Needs to be more
specific, though.
6. Decrying so-called hostile elites. True if you omit the "so-called."
7. Creating alternative "facts" and imaginary realities. Sigh, True.
8. Xenophobia. Mostly false. It's not fear of others, it's mostly a plea to at long last shut
off the firehose of wage-crushing immigration.
9. Misognyny. Mostly false. Trump has certainly had his moments, but many women were happy to
serve in the Trump administration, and I'm not seeing evidence of misogyny among his
backers.
10. Politics of force, inside and outside. True to a small degree but not nearly as
characteristic of Trumpists as of leftists, who destroyed thousands of buildings and
businesses last summer, and the media, which have cheerfully allied themselves with our
internationally murderous intelligence community.
flora, I'm thinking your "populism in the good sense" aligns with the political science
textbook definition of a populist, at least the economic component of that definition: a
populist is an economic liberal (one who generally believes that government should play a
role in the economy to protect the 99% by regulating and otherwise reining in large and
powerful private sector interests, especially big business).
The textbook definition says that a populist is also a cultural conservative (one who
believes that government should play a role in our private/social/cultural lives by promoting
traditional values). (I am not sure you are meaning to discuss this cultural aspect of a
populist; I'm just providing the textbook definition.)
I am thinking that arkansasangie (above) is also describing populism in the same way
("Trumper(s) who are broadly against the level of corruption today and "1984" materializing
before them. They believe that the deep state exists and that the two primary political
parties are one and the same; their differences being cosmetic only" (if by the "deep state"
she might mean a government that has been captured by and serves the interest of corporate
elites, eg, globalization, market monopoly, empire, etc.).
And I am thinking Amfortas the hippie's "feedstore people" are, likewise, (economic
liberal) "populists" (who could have "been won by a new New Deal"). (Having enjoyed many of
Ath's posts, I'm guessing they are also cultural conservatives.)
I do think that some if not most "Trumpists" are populists. But what I think is
interesting is how they are being managed (as in how the Koch brothers (created and) managed
Tea Party "populists").
Conservatives are reactionary – they react to change. It seems to me that one of the
ways they react is by co-opting the changes taking place, dressing them up and claiming at
least some aspect of those changes as their own. I find myself thinking about the Social
Gospel of Christ. Or Adam Smith's "free markets". Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for
freedom (transformed into idpol?). I think all of us understand that this is largely what is
happening today with the term "populism".
Thomas Frank would agree ("The People, No") https://tcfrank.com/product/the-people-no/
And he would speak to the manipulation – he would as "What's the Matter with
Kansas?"
While Janet Yellen advocates pouring money into the covid/economic crisis now because it
will be cheaper in the long run (and we know from various indications that the term could be
a decade) and post-Trump the trade deficit is no longer talked about since nobody's counting
– nobody's buying as much – except RVs and groceries and the stats show a
vertical drop down in commercial activity and a vertical shot up in bankruptcies and closings
and while Klaus Schwab talks about the great capitalist reset from shares to stakes but not
to sovereign states, China is busy establishing the new silk road and consolidating its
neighbors into cooperative economic behavior. I don't even want to know what that combined
CO2 footprint is. Cooperative economics has really already been precluded here in the West
– we can't turn back that clock. So, Biden is looking for an excuse to go to war. He is
wasting no time letting Russia and China know. It's possible that when Yellen says spend
whatever is necessary now she is being encouraged by Biden and the militarists who will
receive much of that financial aid whether we actually go to war or not. It would be so
idiotic and wasteful it is hard to imagine that even that dope Biden would march us off to
war. So when YV talks about "financial engineering for a better world" it sounds too Klaus
Schwab to embrace at face value. I don't see how a switch from shareholders to stakeholders
is going to change western capitalism significantly unless there is a financial separation
between old capitalism and new capitalism. That being the West and China. And the big problem
there is that capital seeks its best return. Otherwise it's not capital for long. So either
direction we are looking, (neoliberalism or socialism) financial engineering will have to
restrain capital, hence "capitalism" will be a euphemism. Which it has been for a long time,
but who's even noticing? It's possible that "war" as we knew it is also a thing of the past
and when Biden salivates for war he'll have to be content to just do "war engineering" to
achieve the necessary separation from China. It's all so meta. The irony is that the thing
called "sovereignty" is the only tool we have to organize all this neoliberal and/or social
protection. And the big one – the environment? Still no details.
Why isn't capitalism working as it should?
You need to identify where real wealth creation occurs in the economy to get it working
well.
Houston, we have a problem.
Mankind first started to produce a surplus with early agriculture.
It wasn't long before the elites learnt how to read the skies, the sun and the stars, to
predict the coming seasons to the amazed masses and collect tribute.
They soon made the most of the opportunity and removed themselves from any hard work to
concentrate on "spiritual matters", i.e. any hocus-pocus they could come up with to elevate
them from the masses, e.g. rituals, fertility rights, offering to the gods . etc and to turn
the initially small tributes, into extracting all the surplus created by the hard work of the
rest.
The elites became the representatives of the gods and they were responsible for the bounty of
the earth and the harvests.
As long as all the surplus was handed over, all would be well.
The class structure emerges.
Upper class – Do as little as they can get away with and get most of the rewards
Middle class – Administrative/managerial class who have enough to live a comfortable
life
Working class – Do the work, and live a basic subsistence existence where they get
enough to stay alive and breed
Their techniques have got more sophisticated over time, but this is the underlying
idea.
They have achieved a total inversion, and got most of the rewards going to those that don't
do anything.
The last thing they needed was "The Enlightenment" as people would work out what was really
going on.
They did work out what was going on and this had to be hidden again.
The Classical Economists had a quick look around and noticed the aristocracy were
maintained in luxury and leisure by the hard work of everyone else.
They haven't done anything economically productive for centuries, they couldn't miss it.
The Classical economist, Adam Smith: "The labour and time of the poor is in civilised countries sacrificed to the maintaining
of the rich in ease and luxury. The Landlord is maintained in idleness and luxury by the
labour of his tenants. The moneyed man is supported by his extractions from the industrious
merchant and the needy who are obliged to support him in ease by a return for the use of his
money. But every savage has the full fruits of his own labours; there are no landlords, no
usurers and no tax gatherers."
There was no benefits system in those days, and if those at the bottom didn't work they
died.
They had to earn money to live.
The classical economists could never imagine those at the bottom rising out of a bare
subsistence existence as that was the way it had always been.
Economics was always far too dangerous to be allowed to reveal the truth about the
economy.
How can we protect those powerful vested interests at the top of society?
The early neoclassical economists hid the problems of rentier activity in the economy by
removing the difference between "earned" and "unearned" income and they conflated "land" with
"capital".
They took the focus off the cost of living that had been so important to the Classical
Economists as this is where rentier activity in the economy shows up.
The landowners, landlords and usurers were now just productive members of society again.
Economists do identify where real wealth creation in the economy occurs, but this is a
most inconvenient truth as it reveals many at the top don't actually create any wealth.
Confuse making money and creating wealth and this problem goes away and we can get back to
the traditional order.
Upper class – Do as little as they can get away with and get most of the rewards
Middle class – Administrative/managerial class who have enough to live a comfortable
life
Working class – Do the work, and live a basic subsistence existence where they get
enough to stay alive and breed
What happens when you confuse making money and creating wealth?
We are forty years in, just look around.
When you equate making money with creating wealth, people try and make money in the
easiest way possible, which doesn't actually create any wealth.
In 1984, for the first time in American history, "unearned" income exceeded "earned"
income.
The American have lost sight of what real wealth creation is, and are just focussed on making
money.
You might as well do that in the easiest way possible.
It looks like a parasitic rentier capitalism because that is what it is.
You've just got to sniff out the easy money.
All that hard work involved in setting up a company yourself, and building it up.
Why bother?
Asset strip firms other people have built up, that's easy money.
The private equity firms have found an easy way to make money that doesn't actually create
any wealth.
Letting private equity firms ransack your economy is not really a good idea, even though they
do make lots of money.
Bankers make the most money when they are driving your economy into a financial
crisis.
They will load your economy up with their debt products until you get a financial crisis.
On a BBC documentary, comparing 1929 to 2008, it said the last time US bankers made as much
money as they did before 2008 was in the 1920s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAStZJCKmbU&list=PLmtuEaMvhDZZQLxg24CAiFgZYldtoCR-R&index=6
At 18 mins.
The bankers loaded the US economy up with their debt products until they got financial crises
in 1929 and 2008.
As you head towards the financial crisis, the economy booms due to the money creation of bank
loans.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/2014/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy.pdf
The financial crisis appears to come out of a clear blue sky when you use an economics that
doesn't consider debt, like neoclassical economics.
UK bankers started to make a lot of money after 1980.
Oh no.
What happened in 1979?
The UK eliminated corset controls on banking in 1979, the banks invaded the mortgage market
and this is where the problem starts.
The transfer of existing assets, like real estate, doesn't add to GDP, so debt rises faster
than GDP until you get a financial crisis.
Before 1980 – banks lending into the right places that result in GDP growth
(business and industry, creating new products and services in the economy)
Debt grows with GDP
Bankers don't make much money
After 1980 – banks lending into the wrong places that don't result in GDP growth
(real estate and financial speculation)
Debt rises faster than GDP
Bankers make lots of money
2008 – The financial crisis
Banks – What is the idea?
The idea is that banks lend into business and industry to increase the productive capacity of
the economy.
Business and industry don't have to wait until they have the money to expand. They can borrow
the money and use it to expand today, and then pay that money back in the future.
The economy can then grow more rapidly than it would without banks.
Debt grows with GDP and there are no problems.
The banks create money and use it to create real wealth.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/2014/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy.pdf
They took the focus off the cost of living that had been so important to the Classical
Economists as this is where rentier activity in the economy shows up.
What will happen?
Now everyone trips up over the cost of living, even the Chinese.
It is well hidden.
Someone from the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) has just seen the equation.
Disposable income = wages – (taxes + the cost of living)
Two seconds later ..
They realise the UK's high housing costs push up wages, and are actually paid by the UK's
employers reducing profit.
UK's high housing costs make UK labour very expensive compared to elsewhere in the world, and
it makes it very expensive to do anything in the UK.
Employees get their money from wages.
Employers pay the UK's high housing costs in wages reducing profit.
You can pay wages elsewhere that people couldn't live on in the West.
To maximise profit you will need to off-shore.
Why was China always going to be the winner in an open, globalised world?
Maximising profit is all about reducing costs.
Western companies couldn't wait to off-shore to low cost China, where they could make higher
profits.
China had coal fired power stations to provide cheap energy.
China had lax regulations reducing environmental and health and safety costs.
China had a low cost of living so employers could pay low wages.
China had low taxes and a minimal welfare state.
China had all the advantages in an open globalised world.
It did have, but now China has become more expensive and developed Eastern economies are
off-shoring to places like Vietnam, Bangladesh and the Philippines.
China trips up over the cost of living.
Davos 2019 – The Chinese have now realised high housing costs eat into consumer
spending and they wanted to increase internal consumption. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNBcIFu-_V0
They let real estate rip and have now realised why that wasn't a good idea.
The equation makes it so easy.
Disposable income = wages – (taxes + the cost of living)
The cost of living term goes up with increased housing costs.
The disposable income term goes down.
They didn't have the equation, they used neoclassical economics.
The Chinese had to learn the hard way and it took years.
They have let the cost of living rise and they want to increase internal consumption.
Disposable income = wages – (taxes + the cost of living)
It's a double whammy on wages.
China isn't as competitive as it used to be.
China has become more expensive and developed Eastern economies are off-shoring to places
like Vietnam, Bangladesh and the Philippines.
I worked the other way.
I looked at the world around me and worked back to find the cause.
We got some stuff from Ricardo, like the law of comparative advantage.
What's gone missing?
Ricardo was part of the new capitalist class, and the old landowning class were a huge
problem with their rents that had to be paid both directly and through wages. "The interest of the landlords is always opposed to the interest of every other class in
the community" Ricardo 1815 / Classical Economist
What does our man on free trade, Ricardo, mean?
Disposable income = wages – (taxes + the cost of living)
Employees get their money from wages and the employers pay the cost of living through wages,
reducing profit.
Employees get less disposable income after the landlords rent has gone.
Employers have to cover the landlord's rents in wages reducing profit.
Ricardo is just talking about housing costs, employees all rented in those days.
Low housing costs work best for employers and employees.
In Ricardo's world there were three classes.
He was in the capitalist class.
The more he paid in labour costs (wages) the lower his profits would be.
He was paying the cost of living for his workers through wages, and the higher that was, the
higher labour costs would be.
There was no benefits system in those days and those at the bottom needed to earn money to
cover the cost of living otherwise they would die. They had to earn their money through
wages.
The more he paid in rents to the old landowning class, the less there would be for him to
keep for himself.
From Ricardo:
The labourers had before 25
The landlords 25
And the capitalists 50
.. 100
He looked at how the pie got divided between the three groups.
The capitalist system actually contains a welfare state to maintain an old money, idle
rich in luxury and leisure. In the UK we still have an aristocracy, so it is hard to
forget.
The Classical economist, Adam Smith: "The labour and time of the poor is in civilised countries sacrificed to the maintaining
of the rich in ease and luxury. The Landlord is maintained in idleness and luxury by the
labour of his tenants. The moneyed man is supported by his extractions from the industrious
merchant and the needy who are obliged to support him in ease by a return for the use of his
money."
There were three groups in the capitalist system in Ricardo's world (and there still
are).
Workers / Employees
Capitalists / Employers
Rentiers / Landowners / Landlords / other skimmers, who are just skimming out of the system,
not contributing to its success
The unproductive group exists at the top of society, not the bottom.
Later on we did bolt on a benefit system to help others that were struggling lower down the
scale.
Fox News ' Tucker Carlson said on the
Thursday night episode of his program that his show has been targeted for cancellation.
Carlson said
that "in the last several weeks, and particularly in the last 24 hours, the call to take
this show off the air by groups funded -- for real -- by the Ford Foundation, or by George
Soros, by Michael Bloomberg, by Jeff Bezos, has become deafening, going after our advertisers,
going after the companies that carry our signal into your home."
What's more, he added, there has been a "cowardice and complicity" on behalf of the "entire
media class in all of this," suggesting that eventually, reporters at legacy news outlets will
be targeted as well.
Writing for Fox News' website, Carlson added that it may be part of a larger campaign to
silence Fox News and other media, noting that some legacy news outlets have dedicated resources
calling for the channel to be taken down. One columnist for The New York Times, he added, "has
written three separate columns demanding that someone yank this news channel off the air
immediately" and on Wednesday, "suggested that 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' was somehow guilty of
terrorism and violence, something that we've opposed consistently for four years."
"Fox is the last big organization in the American news media that differs in even the
smallest ways from the other big news organizations. At this point, everyone else in the media
is standing in crisp formation, in their starched matching uniforms and their little caps,
patiently awaiting orders from the billionaire class. And then there's Fox News off by itself,
occasionally saying things that are slightly different from everyone else," Carlson wrote
.
He added: "These are craven servants of the Democratic Party. They are feline, not canine.
All of their aggression is passive aggression."
Here is the site of Matthew DePerno, one the lawyers in the video. He needs financial aid to
keep up the Absolute Truth about the fraudulent 2020 election.
Time
has published an
explainer
piece
offering a fascinating insight into how the presidential election was won. It's titled "The Secret History of the Shadow
Campaign that Saved the 2020 Election."
The fascinating part is what it tells us about the brazenness of the left in general and the corrupt, mendacious MSM in particular:
they are now heavy-hinting that they cheated but want you to know that it's all OK because they were doing it to not to destroy
democracy but to preserve and enhance it.
Here's the key paragraph:
That's why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever
dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to
influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the
election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system's fragility in order to ensure that
democracy in America endures.
Do you see what they just did there?
The Democrats (and their sympathisers) didn't
rig
the
election. They just
fortified
it
by taking care to ensure the right guy won rather than the wrong guy won, regardless of what those pesky voters might misguidedly
have wanted.
Could this have anything to do, you wonder, with President Trump's upcoming impeachment trial?
My suspicion that Time's piece is both pre-emptive strike and damage limitation exercise. It anticipates the possibility that Trump
will provide evidence in support of his claim that the election was "stolen."
This evidence will be much harder to brush under the carpet in the Senate.
I'm reminded here of an old article from the
Times
(of
London), which
described
the
process whereby political projects are advanced by stealth.
It is at first denied that any radical new plan exists; it is then conceded that it exists but ministers swear blind that it is
not even on the political agenda; it is then noted that it might well be on the agenda but is not a serious proposition; it is
later conceded that it is a serious proposition but that it will never be implemented; after that it is acknowledge that it will
be implemented but in such a diluted form that it will make no difference to the lives of ordinary people; at some point it is
finally recognised that it has made such a difference, but it was always known that it would and voters were told so from the
outset.
This is where we are headed now with the"'stolen" election. Columnists who blithely assured us that the election was above board may
now begin to finesse their position.
"OK, so maybe it was rigged," they will start to concede. 'But isn't that always the case with elections? And anyway it's a done
deal now."
Sorry, my bad -- that use of the word "rigged" was a complete slip of the tongue.
What I meant to say is that the presidential election was "fortified." And what's not to like about that, eh?
The United States of America is now a classic oligarchy. The clarity that it has brought to
our situation by recognizing this fact is its only virtue...
"Either the Constitution matters and must be followed . . . or it is simply a piece of
parchment on display at the National Archives."
- Texas v. Pennsylvania et al.
T exas v. Pennsylvania et al. did not deny setting rules for the 2020 election contrary to
the Constitution. On December 10, 2020, the Supreme Court
discounted that . By refusing to interfere as America's ruling oligarchy serves itself, the
court archived what remained of the American republic's system of equal justice. That much is
clear.
In 2021, the laws, customs, and habits of the heart that had defined the American republic
since the 18th century are things of the past. Americans' movements and interactions are under
strictures for which no one ever voted. Government disarticulated society by penalizing
ordinary social intercourse and precluding the rise of spontaneous opinion therefrom. Together
with corporate America, it smothers minds through the mass and social media with relentless,
pervasive, identical, and ever-evolving directives. In that way, these oligarchs have
proclaimed themselves the arbiters of truth, entitled and obliged to censor whoever disagrees
with them as systemically racist, adepts of conspiracy theories.
Corporations, and the government itself, require employees to attend meetings personally to
acknowledge their guilt. They solicit mutual accusations. While violent felons are released
from prison, anyone may be fired or otherwise have his life wrecked for questioning
government/corporate sentiment. Today's rulers don't try to convince. They demand obedience,
and they punish.
Russians and East Germans under Communists Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker in the 1970s
lived under less ruling class pressure than do today's Americans. And their rulers were smart
enough not to insult them, their country, or their race.
In 2015, Americans could still believe they lived in a republic, in which life's rules flow
from the people through their representatives.
In 2021, a class of rulers draws their right to rule from self-declared experts' claims of
infallibility that dwarf baroque kings' pretensions. In that self-referential sense, the United
States of America is now a classic oligarchy.
The following explains how this change happened. The clarity that it has brought to our
predicament is its only virtue.
Oligarchy had long been growing within America's republican forms. The 2016 election posed
the choice of whether its rise should consolidate, or not. Consolidation was very much "in the
cards." But how that election and its aftermath led to the fast, thorough, revolution of
American life depended on how Donald Trump acted as the catalyst who clarified, energized, and
empowered our burgeoning oligarchy's peculiarities. These, along with the manner in which the
oligarchy seized power between November 2016 and November 2020, ensure that its reign will be
ruinous and likely short. The prospect that the republic's way of life may thrive among those
who wish it to depends on the manner in which they manage the civil conflict that is now
inevitable.
From Ruling Class to Oligarchy
By the 21st century's first decade, little but formality was left of the American republic.
In 1942, Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism,
Socialism, and Democracy described the logic by which government and big business tend to
coalesce into socialism in theory, oligarchy in practice. But by then, that logic had already
imposed itself on the Western world. Italy's 1926 Law of Corporations -- fascism's charter --
inaugurated not so much the regulation of business by government as the coalescence of the
twain. Over the ensuing decade, it was more or less copied throughout the West.
In America, the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act's authors had erected barriers against private
oligopolies and monopolies. By maintaining competition between big business, they hoped to
preserve private freedoms and limit government's role. But the Great Depression's pressures and
temptations led to the New Deal's rules that differed little from Italy's. No matter that, as
the Supreme Court pointed out in Schechter Poultry v. U.S . , public-private
amalgamation does not fit in the Constitution. It grew nevertheless alongside the notion that
good government proceeds from the experts' judgment rather than from the voters' choices. The
miracles of production that America brought forth in World War II seemed to validate the
point.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had come to understand large organizations that feed on
government power and dispense vast private benefits, was not shy in warning about the danger
they pose to the republic. His warning about the " military-industrial
complex " that he knew so well is often misunderstood as a mere caution against militarism.
But Ike was making a broader point: Amalgams of public and private power tend to prioritize
their corporate interests over the country's.
That is why Eisenhower cautioned against the power of government-funded expertise. "The
prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by federal employment, project allocations, and
the power of money is ever-present and is gravely to be regarded," he said, because "public
policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite." Government money
can accredit a self-regarding elite. Because "a government contract becomes virtually a
substitute for intellectual curiosity," government experts can end up substituting their power
for truth.
The expansion of government power throughout the 1960s and '70s in pursuit of improving
education, eradicating poverty, and uplifting blacks created complexes of public-private power
throughout America that surpassed the military-industrial complex in size, and above all in
influence.
Consider education. Post-secondary education increased fourfold, from 9 percent of Americans
holding four-year degrees in 1965 to 36 percent in 2015. College towns became islands of wealth
and political power. From them came endless "studies" that purported to be arbiters of truth
and wisdom, as well as a growing class of graduates increasingly less educated but ever so much
more socio-politically uniform.
In the lower grades, per-pupil expenditure (in constant dollars) went from $3,200 in 1960 to
$13,400 in 2015. That money fueled an even more vast and powerful complex -- one that includes
book publishers, administrators, and labor unions and that has monopolized the minds of at
least two generations. As it grew, the education establishment also detached itself from the
voters' control: In the 1950s, there were some 83,000 public school districts in America. By
2015, only around 13,000 remained for a population twice as large. Today's parents have many
times less influence over their children's education than did their grandparents.
Analogous things happened in every field of life. Medicine came to be dominated by the
government's relationship with drug companies and hospital associations. When Americans went to
buy cars, or even light bulbs and shower nozzles, they found their choices limited by deals
between government, industry, and insurance companies. These entities regarded each other as
"stakeholders" in an oligarchic system. But they had ever less need to take account of mere
citizens in what was becoming a republic in name only. As the 20eth century was drawing to a
close, wherever citizens looked, they saw a government and government-empowered entities over
which they had ever less say, which ruled ever more unaccountably, and whose attitude toward
them was ever less friendly.
The formalities were the last to go. Ever since the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215 A.D.,
the rulers' dependence on popular assent to expenditures has been the essence of limited
government. Article I, section 9 of the U.S. Constitution enshrines that principle.
Congressional practice embodied it. Details of bills and expenditures were subject to public
hearings and votes in subcommittees, committees, and the floors of both Houses. But beginning
in the early 1980s and culminating in 2007, the U.S government abandoned the appropriations
process.
Until 1981, Congress had used "continuing resolutions" to continue funding government
operations unchanged until regular appropriations could be made. Thereafter, as congressional
leaders learned how easy it is to use this vehicle to avoid exposing what they are doing to
public scrutiny, they legislated and appropriated ever less in public, and increasingly put
Congress' output into continuing resolutions or omnibus bills, amounting to trillions of
dollars and thousands of pages, impossible for representatives and senators to read, and
presented to them as the only alternative to "shutting down the government." This -- now the
U.S government standard operating procedure -- enables the oligarchy's "stakeholders" to
negotiate their internal arrangements free from responsibility to citizens. It is the practical
abolition of Article I section 9 -- and of the Magna Carta itself.
In the 21st century, the American people's trust in government plummeted as they -- on the
political Left as well as on the Right -- realized that those in power care little for them. As
they watched corporate and non-profit officials trade places with public officials and
politicians while getting much richer, they felt impoverished and disempowered. Since the
ruling class embraced Republicans and Democrats, elections seemed irrelevant. The presidential
elections of 2008 and 2012 underlined that whoever won, the same people would be in charge and
that the parceling out of wealth and power among stakeholders would continue.
Americans on the Right were especially aggrieved because the oligarchy had become culturally
united in disdain for Western civilization in general and for themselves in particular. The
cultural warfare it waged on the rest of America inflamed opposition. But it also diluted its
own focus on solidifying profitable arrangements.
By 2016, America was already well into the classic cycles of revolution. The atrophy of
institutions, the waning of republican habits, and the increasing, reciprocal disrespect
between classes that have less in common culturally, dislike each other more, and embody ways
of life more different from one another, than did the 19th century's Northerners and
Southerners precluded returning to traditional republican life. The election would determine
whether the oligarchy could consolidate itself. More important, it would affect the speed by
which the revolutionary vortex would carry the country, and the amount of violence this would
involve.
The Trump Catalyst
By 2015, the right side of America's challenge to the budding oligarchy was inevitable.
Trump was not inevitable. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) had begun posing a thorough challenge to
the "stakeholders" most Americans disrespected. Candidate Trump was the more gripping showman.
His popularity came from his willingness to disrespect them, loudly. Because the other 16
Republican candidates ran on different bases, none ever had a chance. Inevitably, victory in a
field so crowded depended on when which minor candidate did or did not withdraw. There never
was a head-to-head choice between Trump and Cruz.
Trump's candidacy drew the ferocious opposition it did primarily because the entire ruling
class recognized that, unlike McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012, he really was mobilizing
millions of Americans against the arrangements by which the ruling class live, move, and have
their being. Since Cruz's candidacy represented the same threat, it almost certainly would have
drawn no less intense self-righteous anger. Nasty narratives could have been made up about him
out of whole cloth as easily as about Trump.
But Trump's actual peculiarities made it possible for the oligarchy to give the impression
that its campaign was about his person, his public flouting of conventional norms, rather than
about the preservation of their own power and wealth. The principal consequence of the ruling
class' opposition to candidate Trump was to convince itself, and then its followers, that
defeating him was so important that it legitimized, indeed dictated, setting aside all laws,
and truth itself.
Particular individuals had never been the oligarchy's worry. In 2008, as Barack Obama was
running against Hillary Clinton and John McCain -- far cries from Trump -- he pointed to those
Americans who "cling to God and guns" as the problem's root. Clinton's 2016 remark that Trump's
supporters were "a basket of deplorables," -- racists, sexists, homophobes, etc. -- merely
voiced what had long been the oligarchy's consensus judgment of most Americans. For them,
pushing these Americans as far away as possible from the levers of power, treating them as less
than citizens, had already come to define justice and right.
Donald Trump -- his bombastic, hyperbolic style, his tendency to play fast and loose with
truth, even to lie as he insulted his targets -- fit perfectly the oligarchy's image of his
supporters, and lent a color of legitimacy to the utterly illegitimate collusion between the
oligarchy's members in government and those in the Democratic Party running against Trump.
Thus did the FBI and CIA, in league with the major media and the Democratic Party, spy on
candidate Trump, concocting and spreading all manner of synthetic dirt about him. Nevertheless,
to universal surprise, he won, or rather the oligarchy lost, the 2016 election.
The oligarchy's disparate members had already set aside laws, truth, etc. in opposition to
Trump. The realization that the presidency's awesome powers now rested in his hands fostered a
full-court-press #Resistance. Trump's peculiarities helped make it far more successful than
anyone could have imagined.
"Dogs That Bark Do Not Bite"
Applying this observation to candidate Trump's hyperbole suggested that President Trump
might suffer from what Theodore Roosevelt called the most self-destructive of habits, combining
"the unbridled tongue with the unready hand." And, in fact, President Trump neither fired and
referred for prosecution James Comey or the other intelligence officials who had run the
surveillance of his campaign. He praised them, and let himself be persuaded to fire General
Michael Flynn, his national security advisor, who stood in the way of the intelligence
agencies' plans against him. Nor did he declassify and make public all the documents associated
with their illegalities.
Four years later, he left office with those documents still under seal. He criticized
officials over whom he had absolute power, notably CIA's Gina Haspel who likely committed a
crime spying on his candidacy, but left them in office. Days after his own inauguration, he
suffered the CIA's removal of clearances from one of his appointees because he was a critic of
the Agency. Any president worthy of his office would have fired the entire chain of officials
who had made that decision. Instead, he appointed to these agencies people loyal to them and
hostile to himself.
He acted similarly with other agencies. His first secretary of state, secretary of defense,
and national security advisor mocked him publicly. At their behest, in August 2017, he gave a
nationally televised speech in which he effectively thanked them for showing him that he had
been wrong in opposing ongoing war in the Middle East. He railed against Wall Street but left
untouched the tax code's "carried interest" provision that is the source of much unearned
wealth. He railed against the legal loophole that lets Google, Facebook, and Twitter censor
content without retribution, but did nothing to close it. Already by the end of January 2017,
it was clear that no one in Washington needed to fear Trump. By the time he left office,
Washington was laughing at him.
Nor did Trump protect his supporters. For example, he shared their resentment of being
ordered to attend workplace sessions about their "racism." But not until his last months in
office did he ban the practice within the federal government. Never did he ban contracts with
companies that require such sessions.
Thus, as the oligarchy set about negating the 2016 electorate's attempt to stop its
consolidation of power, Trump had assured them that they would neither be impeded as they did
so nor pay a price. Donald Trump is not responsible for the oligarchy's power. But he was
indispensable to it.
#TheResistance rallied every part of the ruling class to mutually supporting efforts.
Nothing encourages, amplifies, or seemingly justifies extreme sentiments as does being part of
a unanimous chorus, a crowd, a mob -- especially when all can be sure they are acting safely,
gratuitously. Success supercharges them. #TheResistance fostered the sense in the ruling class'
members that they are more right, more superior, and more entitled than they had ever imagined.
It made millions of people feel bigger and better about themselves than they ever
had.
Logic and Dysfunction
Disdain for the "deplorables" united and energized parts of American society that, apart
from their profitable material connections to government, have nothing in common and often have
diverging interests. That hate, that determination to feel superior to the "deplorables" by
treading upon them, is the "intersectionality," the glue that binds, say, Wall Street
coupon-clippers, folks in the media, officials of public service unions, gender studies
professors, all manner of administrators, radical feminists, race and ethnic activists, and so
on. #TheResistance grew by awakening these groups to the powers and privileges to which they
imagine their superior worth entitles them, to their hate for anyone who does not submit
preemptively.
Ruling-class judges sustained every bureaucratic act of opposition to the Trump
Administration. Thousands of identical voices in major media echoed every charge, every
insinuation, non-stop and unquestioned. #TheResistance made it ruling-class policy that Trump's
and his voters' racism and a host of other wrongdoing made them, personally, illegitimate. In
any confrontation, the ruling class deemed these presumed white supremacists in the wrong,
systemically. By 2018, the ruling class had effectively placed the "deplorables" outside the
protection of the laws. By 2020, they could be fired for a trifle, set upon in the streets,
prosecuted on suspicion of bad attitudes, and even for defending themselves.
Because each and every part of the ruling coalition's sense of what may assuage its
grievances evolves without natural limit, this logic is as insatiable as it is powerful. It is
also inherently destructive of oligarchy.
Enjoyment of power's material perquisites is classic oligarchy's defining purpose. Having
conquered power over the people, successful oligarchies foster environments in which they can
live in peace, productively. Oligarchy, like all regimes, cannot survive if it works at
cross-purposes. But the oligarchy that seized power in America between 2016 and 2020 is engaged
in a never-ending seizure of ever more power and the infliction of ever more punishment -- in a
war against the people without imaginable end. Clearly, that is contrary to what the Wall
Street magnates or the corps of bureaucrats or the university administrators or senior
professors want. But that is what the people want who wield the "intersectional" passions that
put the oligarchy in power.
As the oligarchy's every part, every organ, raged against everything Trump, it made itself
less attractive to the public even as Trump's various encouragements of economic activity were
contributing to palpable increases in prosperity.
Hence, by 2019's end, Trump was likely to win reelection. Then came COVID-19.
The
COVID Fortuna
The COVID-19 virus is no plague. Though quite contagious, its infection/fatality rate (IFR),
about 0.01 percent, is that of the average flu, and its effects are generally so mild that most
whom it infects never know it.
Like all infections, it is deadly to those weakened severely by other causes. It did not
transform American life by killing people, but by the fears about it that our oligarchy
packaged and purveyed. Fortuna , as Machiavelli reminds us, is inherently submissive to whoever
bends her to his wishes. The fears and the strictures they enabled were not about health -- if
only because those who purveyed and imposed them did not apply them to themselves. They were
about power over others.
COVID's politicization began in February 2020 with the adoption by the World Health
Organization -- which is headed by an Ethiopian bureaucrat beholden to China -- and upon
recommendation of non-scientist Bill Gates, of a non-peer-reviewed test for the infection. The
test's chief characteristic is that its rate of positives to negatives depends on the number of
cycles through which the sample is run. More cycles, more positives. Hence, every test result
is a "soft" number. Second, the WHO and associated national organizations like the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control reported COVID's spread by another "soft" number: "confirmed cases." That
is, sick persons who tested positive for the virus.
When this number is related to that of such persons who then die, the ratio -- somewhat
north of 5 percent -- suggests that COVID kills one out of 20 people it touches. But that is an
even softer number since these deaths include those who die with COVID rather than of it, as
well as those who may have had COVID. Pyramiding such soft numbers, mathematical modelers
projected millions of deaths. Scary for the unwary, but pure fantasy.
For example, the U.S. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), which modeled the
authoritative predictions on which the U.S. lockdowns were based, also predicted COVID-19
deaths for Sweden, which did not lock down. On May 3, the IHME predicted that Sweden would
suffer 2,800 COVID deaths a day within the next two weeks. The actual number was 38. Reporting
on COVID has never ceased to consist of numbers as scary as they are soft.
Literate persons know that, once an infectious disease enters a population, nothing can
prevent it from infecting all of it, until a majority has developed antibodies after
contracting it -- so-called community immunity or herd immunity. But fear leads people to
empower those who promise safety, regardless of how empty the promises. The media pressed
governments to do something . The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan screamed: "don't panic is
terrible advice." The pharmaceutical industry and its Wall Street backers salivated at the
prospect of billions of government money for new drugs and vaccines. Never mind the little
sense it makes for millions of people to accept a vaccine's non-trivial risk to protect against
a virus with trivial consequences for themselves. All manner of officials yearned to wield
unaccountable power.
Because the power to crush the general population's resistance to itself is the oligarchy's
single-minded focus, it was able to bend fears of COVID to that purpose. Thus, it gathered more
power with more consequences than the oligarchs could have imagined.
But only President Trump's complaisance made this possible. His message to the American
people had been not to panic, be mindful of the scientific facts -- you can't stop it, and it's
not that bad -- while mitigating its effects on vulnerable populations. But on March 15, Trump
bent, and agreed to counsel people to suspend normal life for two weeks to "slow the spread,"
so that hospitals would not be overwhelmed. Two weeks later, the New York Times crowed that
Trump, having been told "hundreds of thousands of Americans could face death if the country
reopened too soon," had been stampeded into "abandoning his goal of reopening the country by
Easter." He agreed to support the "experts'" definition of what "soon" might mean. By
accrediting the complex of government, industry, and media's good faith and expertise, Trump
validated their plans to use COVID as a vehicle for enhancing their power.
Having seized powers, the oligarchs used them as weapons to disrupt and disaggregate the
parts of American society they could not control.
The economic effects of lockdowns and social distancing caused obvious pain. Tens of
millions of small businesses were forced to close or radically to reduce activity. More than 40
million Americans filed claims for unemployment assistance. Uncountable millions of farmers and
professionals had their products and activities devalued. Millions of careers, dreams that had
been realized by lifetimes of work, were wrecked. Big business and government took over their
functions. Within nine months, COVID-19 had produced 28 new billionaires .
Surplus and scarcity of food resulted simultaneously because the lockdowns closed most
restaurants and hotels. As demand shifted in ways that made it impossible for distribution
networks and processing plants to adjust seamlessly, millions of gallons of milk were poured
down drains, millions of chickens, billions of eggs, and tens of thousands of hogs and cattle
were destroyed, acres of vegetables and tons of fruit were plowed under. Prices in the markets
rose. Persons deprived of work with less money with which to pay higher prices struggled to
feed their families. This reduced countless self-supporting citizens to supplicants. By
intentionally reducing the supply of food available to the population, the U.S. government
joined the rare ranks of such as Stalin's Soviet Union and Castro's Cuba.
But none of these had ever shut down a whole nation's entire medical care except for one
disease. Hospitals stood nearly empty, having cleared the decks for the (ignorantly) expected
COVID flood. Emergency rooms were closed to the poor people who get routine care there. Forget
about dentistry. Most Americans were left essentially without medical care for most of a year.
Human bodies' troubles not having taken a corresponding holiday, it is impossible to estimate
how much suffering and death this lack of medical care has caused and will cause yet.
The oligarchy's division of all activity into "essential" -- meaning permitted -- and
"nonessential" -- to be throttled at will -- had less obvious but more destructive effects.
Private clubs, as well as any and all gatherings of more than five or 10 people, were banned.
Churches were forbidden to have worship services or to continue social activities. The "social
distancing" and mask mandates enforced in public buildings and stores, and often on the
streets, made it well-nigh impossible for people to communicate casually. Thus, was that part
of American society that the oligarchy did not control directly disarticulated, and its members
left alone to face unaccountable powers on which they had to depend.
Meanwhile, the media became the oligarchy's public relations department. Very much including
ordinary commercial advertising, it hammered home the oligarchy's line that COVID restrictions
are good, even cool. These restrictions reduced the ideas available to the American people to
what the mass media purveyed and the social media allowed. Already by April 2020, these used
what had become near-monopoly power over interpersonal communications to censor such
communications as they disapproved. Political enforcers took it upon themselves even to cancel
statements by eminent physicians about COVID that they judged to be "misleading." Of course,
this betrayed the tech giants' initial promise of universal access. It is also
unconstitutional. (In Marsh v. Alabama , decided in 1946, the
Supreme Court barred private parties from acting as de facto governments). Since these
companies did it in unison, they also violated the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act. But the ruling
class that had become an oligarchy applauded their disabling whatever might be conducive to
conservatives' interests and inconvenient to their own candidates.
Private entities wielding public powers in coordination with each other without having to
observe any of government's constitutional constraints is as good a definition of oligarchy as
there is. Oligarchy had increasingly taken power in the buildup to the 2020 election. In its
aftermath, it would try to suffocate America.
Sovereignty of the Vote Counters
The oligarchy's proximate objective, preventing the 2020 presidential election from
validating the previous one's results, overrode all others. The powers it had seized under
COVID's cover, added to the plethora that it had exercised since the 2016 campaign's beginning,
had surely cowered some opposition. But as November 2020 loomed, no one could be sure how much
it also had energized.
Few people were happy to be locked down. It was a safe bet that not a few were unhappy at
being called systemically racist. The oligarchy, its powers notwithstanding, could not be sure
how people would vote. That is why it acted to take the presidential election's outcome out of
the hands of those who would cast the votes and to place it as much as possible in the hands of
its members who would count the votes.
Intentionally, traditional procedures for voting leave no discretion to those who count the
votes. Individuals obtain and cast ballots into a physical or electronic box only after showing
identification that matches their registration. Ballot boxes are opened and their contents
counted by persons representing the election's opposing parties. Persons registered to vote
might qualify to vote-by-mail by requesting a ballot, the issuance and receipt of which is
checked against their registration. Their ballots are counted in the same bipartisan
manner.
The Democratic Party had long pressed to substitute universal voting by mail -- meaning that
ballots would be sent to all registered voters, in some states to anyone with a driver's
license whether they asked for them or not and regardless of whether these persons still lived
at the address on the rolls or were even alive. The ballots eventually would arrive at the
counting centers, either through the mail, from drop boxes, or through "harvesters" who would
pick them up from the voters who fill them out, and who may even help them to fill them out.
Security, if any, would consist of machine-matching signatures on the ballot and on the
envelope in which it had come. The machine's software can be dialed to greater or lesser
sensitivity.
But doing away with scrutiny of ballots counted by representatives of the election's
contenders removes the last possibility of ensuring the ballot had come from a real person
whose will it is supposed to represent. Once the link between the ballot and the qualified
person is broken, nothing prevents those in charge of the electoral process from excluding and
including masses of ballots as they choose. The counters become the arbiters.
Attorney General William Barr pointed out the obvious: Anyone, in America or abroad, can
print up any number of ballots, mark them, and deliver them for counting to whoever is willing
to accept them and run them through their machines. Since the counters usually dispose of the
envelopes in which ballots arrive -- thus obviating any possibility of tracing the ballot's
connection to a voter -- they may even dispense of the fiction that there had ever been any
signed envelopes. That is especially true of late-found ballots. Who knows where they came
from? Who cares to find out?
Only in a few one-party Democratic states was universal vote-by-mail established by law.
Elsewhere, especially in the states sure to be battlegrounds in the presidential election,
mail-in voting was introduced by various kinds of executive or judicial actions. Questions of
right and wrong aside, the Constitution's Article II section 1's words -- "Each State shall
appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct " -- makes such actions
unconstitutional on their face. Moreover, in these states -- Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan,
and Wisconsin -- the counting of votes in the most populous counties is firmly in the hands of
Democratic Party bosses with a well-documented history of fraud.
To no one's surprise, the 2020 presidential election was decided by super-majorities for the
Democratic candidate precisely from these counties in these states. Yes, Trump's percentage of
the vote fell in certain suburbs. But Trump received some 11 million more votes in 2020 than
four years earlier, and nearly doubled the share of votes he received from blacks. The
Democrats' gain of some 15 million votes came exclusively from mail-in ballots, and their
victory in the Electoral College came exclusively from the supermajorities piled up in these
corrupt counties -- the only places where Trump's share of the black vote was cut by
three-quarters. Did people there really think so differently?
This is not the place to recount the list of affidavits sworn under penalty of perjury by
persons who observed ballot stuffing, nor the statistical anomaly of successive batches of
votes that favored Biden over Trump by precisely the same amounts, of un-creased (i.e., never
mailed) ballots fed into counting machines, nor the Georgia video of suitcases of ballots being
taken from under tables and inserted into counting machines after Republican observers had been
ousted. Suffice it to note that references to these events have been scrubbed from the
Internet. It is more important to keep in mind that, in America prior to 2020, sworn affidavits
that crimes have been committed had invariably been probable cause for judicial, prosecutorial,
or legislative investigations. But for the first time in America, the ruling class dismissed
them with: "You have no proof!" A judge (the sister of Georgia's Stacey Abrams) ruled that even
when someone tells the U.S. Postal Service they have moved, their old address is still a lawful
basis for them to cast a ballot. Certainly, proof of crime is impossible with such judges and
without testimony under oath, or powers of subpoena.
Just as important, Republicans in general and the Trump White House in particular bear heavy
responsibility for failing to challenge the patent illegality of the executive actions and
consent decrees that enabled inherently insecure mail-in procedures in real-time, as they were
being perpetrated in key states. No facts were at issue. Only law. The constitutional
violations were undeniable.
Pennsylvania et. al. answered Texas's late lawsuit by arguing it demanded the invalidation
of votes that had been cast in good faith. True. But Texas argued that letting stand the
results of an election carried out contrary to the Constitution devalued the votes cast in
states such as Texas that had held the election in a constitutional manner. Also true. Without
comment, the Supreme Court chose to privilege the set of voters on the oligarchy's side over
those of their opponents. Had the lawsuit come well before the election, no such choice would
have existed. Typically, the Trump Administration substituted bluster for action.
The
Oligarchy Rides its Tigers
Winning the 2020 election had been the objective behind which the oligarchy had coalesced
during the previous five years. In 2021, waging socio-political war on the rest of America is
what the oligarchy is all about.
The logic of hate and disdain of ordinary Americans is not only what binds the oligarchy
together. It is the only substitute it has for any moral-ethical-intellectual point of
reference. Donald Trump's impotent, inglorious reaction to his defeat offered irresistible
temptations to the oligarchy's several sectors to celebrate victory by vying to hurt whoever
had supported the president. But permanent war against some 74 million fellow citizens is a
foredoomed approach to governing.
The Democratic Party had promised a return to some kind of "normalcy." Instead, its victory
enabled the oligarchy's several parts to redefine the people who do not show them due deference
as "white supremacists," "insurrectionists," and Nazis -- in short, as some kind of criminals
-- to exclude them from common platforms of communication, from the banking system, and perhaps
even from air travel; and to set law enforcement to surveil them in order to find bases for
prosecuting them. Neither Congress nor any state's legislature legislated any of this. Rather,
the several parts of America's economic, cultural, and political establishment are waging this
war, uncoordinated but well-nigh unanimously.
Perhaps most important, they do so without thought of how a war against at least some 74
million fellow citizens might end. The people in the oligarchy's corporate components seem to
want only to adorn unchallenged power with a reputation for "wokeness." For them, causing pain
to their opponents is a pleasure incidental to enjoying power's perquisites. The Biden family's
self-enrichment by renting access to influence is this oligarchy's standard.
But the people who dispense that reputation -- not just the professional revolutionaries of
Antifa and Black Lives Matter, but "mainstream" racial and gender activists and self-appointed
virtue-crats, have appetites as variable as they are insatiable. For them, rubbing conservative
America's faces in excrement is what it's all about. A Twitter video viewed by 2.6 million
people urges them to form "an army of citizen detectives" to ferret out conservatives from
among teachers, doctors, police officers, and "report them to the authorities." No doubt,
encouraged by President Biden's characterization of opponents as "domestic terrorists," any
number of "authorities" as well as private persons will find opportunities to lord it over
persons not to their taste. This guarantees endless clashes, and spiraling violence.
Joseph Biden, Kamala Harris, and the people they appoint to positions of official
responsibility are apparatchiks, habituated to currying favor and pulling rank. They have
neither the inclination nor the capacity to persuade the oligarchy's several parts to agree to
a common good or at least to a modus vivendi among themselves, never mind with conservative
America. This guarantees that they will ride tigers that they won't even try to dismount.
At this moment, the oligarchy wields an awesome complex of official and unofficial powers to
exclude whomever it chooses from society's mainstream. Necessarily, however, exclusions cut
both ways. Invariably, to banish another is to banish one's self as well. Google, Facebook, and
Twitter let it be known that they would exclude anything with which they disagree from what had
become the near-universal means of communication. They bolstered that by colluding to destroy
their competitor, Parler. Did they imagine that 74 million Americans could find no means of
communicating otherwise? Simon and Schuster canceled a book by Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
critical of communications monopolies. Did its officials imagine that they would thereby do
other than increase the book's eventual sales, and transfer some of their customers to Hawley's
new publisher ? The media effectively suppressed inconvenient news. Did they imagine that
this would prevent photos of Black Lives Matter professionals in the forefront of the January 6
assault on the U.S. Capitol from reaching the public?
In sum, intending to relegate conservative America to society's servile sidelines, the
oligarchy's members drew a clear, sharp line between themselves and that America. By telling
conservative Americans "these institutions and corporations, are ours, not yours," they freed
conservative America of moral obligations toward them and themselves. By abandoning
conservative America, they oblige conservative America to abandon them and seek its own
way.
Clarity, Leadership, and Separation
To think of conservative America's predicament as an opportunity is as hyperbolic as it was
for Machiavelli to begin the conclusion of The Prince by observing that "in order to know
Moses' virtue it was necessary that the people of Israel be slaves in Egypt, and to know the
greatness of Cyrus's spirit that the Persians be oppressed by the Medes, and to know the
excellence of Theseus, that the Athenian people be dispersed, so at the present, in order to
know the virtue of an Italian spirit it was necessary that Italy reduce herself to the
conditions in which she is at present . . ."
Machiavelli's lesson is that the clarity of situations such as he mentions, and such as is
conservative America's following the 2020 election, is itself valuable. Clarity makes illusions
of compromise untenable and points to self-reliant action as the only reasonable path. The
people might or might not be, as he wrote, "all ready and disposed to follow the flag if only
someone were to pick it up." But surely, someone picking up the flag is the only alternative to
servitude.
What, in conservative America's current predicament, might it mean to "pick up the flag?"
Electoral politics remains open to talented, courageous, ambitious leadership. In Florida and
South Dakota, Governors Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem have used their powers to make room for
ways of life different from and more attractive than that in places wholly dominated by the
oligarchy. Texas and Idaho as well attract refugees from such as California and New York by
virtue of such differences with life there as their elected officials have been able to
maintain. Governmental and corporate pressures on such states to conform to the oligarchy's
standards, sure to increase, are opportunities for their officials to lead their people's
refusal to conform by explaining why doing this is good, and by personally standing in the way.
They may be sure that President Kamala Harris would not order federal troops to shoot at state
officials for closing abortion clinics or for excluding men from women's bathrooms.
For more than a generation, a majority of Americans have expressed growing distrust of, and
alienation from, the establishment. The establishment, not Donald Trump, made this happen. That
disparate majority, in many ways at cross purposes with itself, demands leadership. Pollster
Patrick Caddell's in-depth study of the American electorate, which he titled "We Need Smith," showed how the themes that
made it possible for the hero of the 1939 movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" to prevail
against the establishment then are even more gripping now and appeal to a bigger majority.
Trump was a bad copy of Mr. Smith.
More than ever, an audience beyond the 74 million Americans who voted for Trump hungers for
leadership. The oligarchy came together by ever more vigorously denigrating and suppressing
these deplorables. Already before the 20th century's turn, the FBI and some elements in the
Army and the Justice Department had concluded that they are somehow criminal, and that
preparations should be made to treat them as such. The official position of the administration
taking power after the 2020 election is that domestic terrorism from legions of "white
supremacists" is the primary threat facing America. No wonder those so designated for outlawry
demand protection.
The path to electoral leadership is straightforward. Whoever would lead the deplorables-plus
must explain their cause to friend and foe, make it his own, and grow it by leading successful
acts of resistance.
Increasingly, conservative Americans live as if under occupation by a hostile power. Whoever
would lead them should emulate Charles de Gaulle's 1941 basic rule for la résistance :
refrain from individual or spontaneous acts or expressions that produce only martyrs. But join
with thousands in what amount to battles to defeat the enemy's initiatives, weaken his grip on
power, and prepare his defeat. Thus, an aspirant to the presidency in 2024, in the course of
debunking the narrative by which the oligarchy seized so much power over America, might lead
millions to violate restrictions placed on those who refuse to wear masks. Or, as he pursues
legislative and judicial measures to abolish the compulsory racial and gender sensitivity
training sessions to which public and private employees are subjected, he might organize
employees in a given sector unanimously to stay away from them in protest. They can't all be
fired or held back.
Such a persuasive prospective president, or president, could finish the process that,
beginning circa 2010, initiated the process of reshaping the Republican Party into something
like Caddell's Mr. Smith would have personified.
Electoral politics, however, is the easy part. Major corporations, private and semi-private
institutions such as schools, publishing houses, and media, are the oligarchy's deepest
foundations. These having become hostile, conservative Americans have no choice but to populate
their own. This is far from impossible.
Sorting ourselves out into congenial groups has been part of America's DNA since 1630, when
Roger Williams led his followers out of Massachusetts to found Providence Plantations. In the
19th century, the Mormons left unfriendly environments to establish their own settlements.
Since 1973, Americans who believe in unborn children's humanity have largely ceased to
intermarry with those who do not. Nobody decided this should happen. It is in the logic of
diverging cultures.
As American primary and secondary education's dysfunction became painfully apparent, parents
of all races have fled the public schools as fast as they could. Businesses have been fleeing
the Rust Belt for the Sun Belt for generations. When Democratic governors and mayors used COVID
to make life difficult in their jurisdictions, people moved out of them. When Twitter's
censorship of conservatives became undeniable, Parler added customers by the hundreds of
thousands each day. Facebook and Twitter's stock lost $50 billion in a week. Much more
separation follows from the American people's diverging cultures.
As conservative America sorts itself out from oligarchy's social bases, it may be able to
restore something like what had existed under the republic. Effectively, two regimes would have
to learn to coexist within our present boundaries. But that may be the best, freest,
arrangement possible now for the United States.
There's really almost no difference between the Republican and the Democratic party where
their difference revolves around what I would call societal or ethical issues, which are not
unimportant but they're not social or political issues. You have this kind of, well, Freud
called fratricide, centered around the narcissism of minor difference. That's essentially what
we're seeing. It's essentially sweeping up because we're all All of our profiles are available,
our own proclivities and habits and prejudices and then feeding it back to us.
Chris Hedges:
The danger of this is that you're creating a wider, wider divide where people can no longer
communicate, where nothing is based on verifiable fact or truth and I fault the left as much as
the right for this. The whole obsession with Russia [gate 00:14:04], the whole attempt to blame
the election of Trump on Moscow was really a deflection away from the complicity that the
Democratic party had in the dispossession of the working class and that's very frightening.
Chris Hedges:
Of course, we're watching now the Biden, people around Biden ratchet up a new cold war. If
you go back and remember when Biden's campaign was faltering he blamed Right after the Nevada
caucus where Bernie Sanders shellacked him, I mean, got more than double the votes that he did.
I think he got about 20%, Bernie got almost 50%. He blamed it He said, well, that's of course
because the Russians want Bernie Sanders. This goes back to Clinton during the 2016 blasting
Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate as a Russian asset, a line she repeated
during the democratic primaries this year trying to tar representative Tulsi Gabbard again as a
Russian asset.
Chris Hedges:
I think that it's clear from the Biden appointments and we can go through them if you want,
but it's clear from the Biden appointments that we're going to get more of the same. The fact
is most Americans on both sides of the political spectrum do not want more of the same. I worry
that what they will do is what ruling parties always do and that is essentially create an
enemy. They can't go after China because Silicon Valley will never let them and because China
frankly is too powerful so they'll go after Russia, which is much weaker. You've already seen
it with this kind of cyber attack or when Hunter Biden's laptop was discovered with all sorts
of damaging emails and apparently pictures of him smoking crack and having sex or whatever.
Again, that was an attempt to tar this as Russian disinformation.
Chris Hedges:
Again, if you look at even the New York Times when they talk about the John Podesta emails,
these were the, he was Hillary Clinton's campaign chair which were published by WikiLeaks, it's
described as disinformation. Well, as a journalist, this is very frightening. It's not
disinformation. Those emails were true. Nobody has ever challenged the veracity of those
emails. On the one hand, we've seen a kind of savaging of the country by rapacious global
corporate entities which are supranational and have no loyalty to the nation state at all.
Ralph Nader correctly calls them traders. Coupled with a breakdown of a media system, which
sets one demographic against another.
Chris Hedges:
I'll just close by saying that we must never forget that Donald Trump received the second
highest vote count in any presidential race in American history, 74 million voters and Biden
got about 80. Now, this is after one of the most disastrous presidencies in American history,
flagrant corruption, inaptitude, racism, appointing conspiracy theorists, et cetera. He
increased his vote count by And not being able to handle the pandemic, although it's not
completely his fault. The for-profit healthcare system is not designed to handle a national
health crisis, it's designed to make money which and that is going to be a problem under
Biden.
Chris Hedges:
But so he increases vote count by 11 million votes and that has to be a huge flashing red
light. Watching the Biden administration go back to more of the same, it has apparently
rebuffed Bernie Sanders' desire to be Secretary of Labor or they just refuse to allow
Ocasio-Cortez to be on the Energy Committee because of the Green New Deal, the Energy and
Commerce Committee because of her support of the Green New Deal, it's clear and also because
most, I mean, [inaudible 00:18:15] all of the nominees including Neera Tanden, this former
Clinton aide who has been picked to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget and who
spent the last nine years running the Democratic party's think tank the Center for American
Progress has just been as openly ridiculed, Sanders and Sanders supporters.
Chris Hedges:
That's where we are and it's a decades long march. It's not something that was caused by a
particular election cycle. These are structural, major structural dilemmas that I see no party
addressing in a real way. You're watching Giuliani and Trump attempt to use the same kind of
conspiracy theories, the Venezuelan software designed by Hugo Chavez who died in 2013 for
corrupting the election. I mean, just it's as ludicrous as blaming the Kremlin for Trump's
rise. But this is a characteristic of two parties that refuse to confront their own
responsibility for where we are and a media that no longer informs, but essentially caters to a
particular demographic and demonizes the other demographics. Then we didn't talk about the
climate crisis, which is of course, a emergency is the right word. All of these things come
together and I think that the lesson from both this election and the pandemic is that we are
losing control both as a nation and as a species.
Rob Johnson:
So control in part How would I say, because as you and Matt Taibbi discussed in your show on
contact that the journalists have now been intimidated, they're afraid to share with the
American people what's the crux of the issue and as a result, all of these kind of false
explanations become the bloodstream of conversation and people can intuitively sense that
people aren't addressing what fuels their despair. How do you explain that? I mean, I
understand what you're talking about, these will be corporate structure and the media, et
cetera, but the outrage particularly white working class felt, Donald Trump seemed to speak to
that when he'd say the system is rigged or he'd show videos of Hillary Clinton before giving a
speech, before Lloyd Blankfein and Goldman Sachs or what have you, but what's going on now
that's, which I might call kept Trump's votes so high. What did the Democrats not do in the
campaign that inhibited them from winning in a landslide?
Chris Hedges:
Well, they could have won in a landslide if they address the real issues in poll after poll,
everybody, what Republican, Democrat feels that Wall Street is out of control, that they should
be more heavily regulated and taxed. These endless wars have no support. This insane pillaging
of resources by the defense industry. I mean, in a normal society the architects of failed wars
and failed policies should be at best dismissed and probably even put on trial. There certainly
should be the kinds of investigations that a functioning democracy engages in.
Chris Hedges:
We saw that with Watergate, we saw that with a church committee, all of that's gone. It was
Feinstein actually, I'm not fan of Feinstein, but it was Feinstein who attempted to investigate
the CIA torture program and the CIA hacked her own computers, the Senate computers and there
was this moment where she just came out, kind of white as a ghost and realized that there was
going to be no control over the kind of dark intelligence agencies whose budgets are dark. We
don't even know how much, we have to guess how much these intelligence agencies are being
allotted.
Chris Hedges:
The system is rigged in this sense, if corporate money was removed from the election and
political process then figures like Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer or even Mitch McConnell
wouldn't exist. They are products of this money. They are the servants to this billionaire
class, to these corporate entities and their power comes from being able to anoint and fund the
candidates that they choose that will do the bidding of corporate power and without that money
they vanish, without that money Bernie Sanders clearly would have been the nominee in 2016.
Chris Hedges:
Remember Bernie did not take corporate money. This was a true grassroots effort and I have
criticism of Sanders, but this was a true grassroots effort. But the oligarchic elite was quite
open that Bernie Sanders would never be the nominee. There was all sorts of dirty tricks in
both 2016 and 2020 using the DNC as a vehicle to support the Clinton campaign quite openly. In
2016, they openly stole the Nevada caucus. They denied independence in many States, the right
to vote in Democratic primaries, although we should remember the taxpayer pays for the
primaries. They erased all sorts of people from the roles they use super delegates and these
tactics were all in place again.
Chris Hedges:
The Democratic party, I think, committed kind of suicide. I think that the Biden
administration will see the ground for a competent fascist and the only thing that saved us
from a coup d'etat, which the Trump administration clearly it was and is trying to orchestrate
is just their disorganization and their ineptitude, but putting a competent fascist like Mike
Pompei or Tom Cotton linked to the Christian right. I am a seminary graduate and I'm glad you
mentioned James Cone, my close friend and the greatest theologian in America since Reinhold
Niebuhr, these people are This Christian right, this prosperity gospel is heretical and I don't
say that lightly. I have a deep church background. My father was a minister. My mother was a
seminary graduate, although she was a professor, I at one point could read the Bible in Greek.
I mean, I know it.
Chris Hedges:
The failure of the liberal church to denounce these people for who they were in the name of
tolerance and dialogue has been disastrous. The Christian right, 81%, the last figure I read
support Trump. They have acculturated the Christian message to the worst aspects of American
capitalism and American imperialism. This kind of heretical belief that the white race is
blessed to kind of bring the Christian society and of [inaudible 00:26:19] remember that Jesus
wasn't white, the Romans were white, Jesus was a person of color. That's the first of many
lies. That Islam and I spent seven years in the Middle East, I'm an Arabic speaker and have a
deep, deep respect for Islam, is kind of satanic religion.
Chris Hedges:
That's where both the etiology and the infrastructure, the patina, will come from. That
Christian fascism will be the veneer and Trump brought these people really into the epicenter
of power, Mike Pence, Betsy DeVos, Bill Barr, Carson, they all come out of this and then of
course we've got six of nine Supreme Court justices who have all been anointed, are products of
the Federalist society including this cultist Amy Coney Barrett. We've got 20% of federal
judgeships were appointed during the Trump administration, but Trump just turned it all over to
the Federalist society and most of these appointees were rated as unqualified by the American
Bar Association.
Chris Hedges:
I think in the kind of meltdown that's happening, we are laying the groundwork for kind of
Christianized fascism and I think that if the Democratic party attempts to go back to what they
call normal and I think at this point it's very clear from the Biden appointments which are
drawn almost exclusively from the circles of the Democratic party and the corporate elite and
these are the people that created the Orchestrated the social inequality, the trade deals, the
militarized police, Biden was one of the prime movers behind that along with the doubling of
our prison population, now the largest in the world, he repeatedly called for cuts to social
security, so wholesale surveillance, all of this came out of Biden and the Democrats and the
appointees that he has brought forward for his new administration are rooted completely in that
corporate elite and in that ideology and that's what I find very dangerous and very
frightening.
Rob Johnson:
The how would I say, I remember where you were talking about Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer
or whatever that, or Mitch McConnell they're depending on the money, without the money, they
wouldn't be there. My sense is that the system is so designed to favor money over votes as a
currency for decision-making that almost every elected official faces that pressure. Is it and
when we talk about different policies, not working on climate change, excessive financial
deregulation, pharmaceutical monopolies, stock buybacks, aren't all of these symptoms of that
malfunctioning system where money and concentrated wealth and the non-enforcement of antitrust
which further concentrate as wealth. Aren't these the contributing factors that render each
politician vulnerable to defeat if they don't cope with this. That's what needs to be reformed
at the core-
Chris Hedges:
They're not going to reform it because if they reform it, they're going to lose power and
Pelosi and Schumer they're quite aware of this. On the one hand, the Democratic party Look,
imagine if the Democratic party campaigned on a universal healthcare, a guaranteed minimum wage
for all, forgiveness of student debt, complete moratorium on foreclosures and evictions, an end
to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a government jobs program. I mean, they would sweep the
elections, but of course they wouldn't have their corporate backers like Lloyd Blankfein. I
mean, Blankfein, which comes out of the criminal organization of Goldman Sachs, Blankfein made
it very clear, he was the former CEO during the elections that if And this was, he was quoted
the New York Times, along with other high profile Democratic donors, that if Sanders was the
nominee, he would vote for Trump.
Chris Hedges:
What does that say? It says that the billionaire class, of course they prefer Biden and
Silicon Valley and Wall Street. At the end of the campaign pumped we don't know how much,
because it was through super PACS, but significant sums of money into anti Trump ads on behalf
of Biden because Biden restores the kind of gravitas and decorum and civility that was lacking
in the Trump administration. But the fact is they can live with either, they prefer Biden and
they got Biden over Trump. But what they weren't ever going to accept was Sanders.
Chris Hedges:
Even though I find Sanders political platform quite moderate, Sanders did not go after the
defense industry. Sanders was very hesitant to call out the Democratic party in any real way
and I was outside the appropriately named Wells Fargo Center in 2016 when Sanders got up to
endorse the nomination of Hillary Clinton, I was there with Cornel West. We were with a group
of several thousand homeless people demanding housing as a human right. A few hundred Sanders'
delegates, mostly young walked out of the hall chanting, "This is what democracy What does
democracy look? This is what democracy looks like." Cornel who's amazingly prescient as always
said to me, "Bernie missed his historical moment."
Chris Hedges:
I think that's right. I think that And I spoke to Bernie Sanders about it. I did an event
with the night before the climate march with Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein and Seattle City
Council woman Kshama Sawant who Amazon is determined to remove from the city council in
Seattle. Bernie Kshama and I were pushing particularly Kshama was pushing Bernie to run as an
independent arguing correctly that the Democratic party was never going to allow him to get the
nomination and Bernie said, well, I don't want to end up like Nader.
Chris Hedges:
I thought that was a very revealing comment because Bernie went wrong. He understood that if
he defied the Democratic party establishment, of course he would no longer be able to caucus
with the Democratic party and get seniority through the Democratic party. But the Democratic
party would also go after him in Vermont and make sure that he was not reelected to the Senate.
If you defy those corporate interests, they're pretty ruthless. George McGovern was one of the
last to do it when he took on the animal Ag industry and they made sure that his Senate seat
was taken from him in South Dakota after of course the oligarchic class, Democratic and
Republican conspiring in 1972 when he got the nomination with the Republican and Democrats
conspiring to destroy the McGovern campaign, which they did.
Chris Hedges:
Bernie wasn't wrong but we're never going to build a significant resistance movement in an
election cycle and I know because I've worked with Ralph, I was Ralph speech writer. I know all
of the impediments, the two parties, both parties, but in particular the Democratic party throw
up to third-party candidates, locking them out of the debates, constantly challenging voter
lists, not because they think they're fraudulent but because it runs up legal bills, at one
point Ralph's legal bills were over a million dollars, Patty Smith and I were going around
trying to raise money for him to pay it.
Chris Hedges:
I think that was and that Sanders, I think chose his career over and I don't I think unlike
most politicians I sense that Bernie is honest and I think that his commitment to the working
class is real, I don't think it's fake like John Edwards and all these other people. But I
think in the end, he just did not want to confront the monolith because he knew how destructive
that monolith would be to him and to his career and he's not wrong but I think that also makes
him kind of morally and temperamentally unfit to lead this fight.
Rob Johnson:
I'm reminded of a quote from our friend James H. Cone in his book, God of the Oppressed,
where he says the only meaningful Christian response is to resist unjust suffering and to
accept the painful consequence of that resistance. Now, in Bernie's case, he's not necessarily
a Christian, but the point is that in such a misaligned system, as you're describing, if you
don't accept the painful consequences of the resistance, then the resistance is not formidable
and then things continue to [carine 00:36:04] further and further off course deepening despair
and produce the kind of authoritarian lurches that we've seen periodically throughout
history.
Rob Johnson:
The question is and I can see from your title of your book, America: The Farewell Tour, or
some of your recent articles that I guess I would conjecture that you probably don't believe
that the energy, the will of resistance can overcome the tools or the power of the other side
and that we are headed towards that danger zone again. Actually, we've kind of been in it.
Trump was a symptom of that in the minds of many people, but it feels to me like we're How
would I say?
Rob Johnson:
Cornel West and I were texting on the day when it was announced that Biden won in
Pennsylvania which looked like would clinch sufficient electoral votes to win. In our
interaction, we kind of said this is an eerie day because what we're doing is celebrating the
return to power, the thing that caused what we are celebrating is leaving and that As you've
underscored, I think the real danger here is with systemic malfunction of this depth and degree
and resilience, how are we going to get back to the structures of what you call democratic
capitalism?
Chris Hedges:
Well, that's exactly right. But it also has a very negative effect in terms of the promotion
of the kind of liberal, with a small L, the liberal democratic values that you and I and Cornel
care so deeply about. When you have a liberal class and I think at this point to define the
liberal class we would call them the professional managerial class that is predominant on the
two, on the East Coast and the West Coast, that is tolerant in terms of its attitudes towards
different sexual orientations and race and that kind of stuff. But that has largely profited
from the ravages of neo-liberalism. I think that they want to endow it with this kind of patina
of civility.
Chris Hedges:
The problem is that all of the issues they claim to care about and to fight for, they
surrender every election cycle to support figures like Clinton or Biden or Obama who in power
have essentially betrayed all of those issues. That is eviscerating the credibility of the
liberal elite. That's a fundamental component to the rise of any totalitarian movement. That
was true in Yugoslavia. You had an ineffectual self-identified democratic liberal elite after
the death of Tito in 1980, in that kind of decade long period before the war began but it was
just ineffectual. It wasn't able to actually carry out or respond in a meaningful way. There
was economic devastation in Yugoslavia, it's a longer story, but Tito had gotten a lot of
loans. Mostly they knew he could never pay them back because he was a buffer state and then
they wanted The Western banks wanted the loans paid, they couldn't pay them, widespread factory
closures, the economy went into a tailspin hyperinflation, et cetera.
Chris Hedges:
I think that Ralph's understanding when he decided to run for president and that was one I
agreed with was that the only tactic that could force the Democrats to adopt part of these kind
of progressive agendas and save ourselves from this slow motion corporate coup d'etat was to
defect. That if five, 10, 15 million people unquoting Ralph left the Democratic party behind a
third-party candidate, a progressive third-party candidate, this would be the only chance we
would have for effective political change. That didn't happen for many reasons and here of
course is where we are. I would recommend, I don't know if you know it, Richard Rorty's last
book, Achieving Our Country. I think it was written in 1998.
Rob Johnson:
I've read it.
Chris Hedges:
1998 and he nailed it. I'm just going to read this paragraph. He's talking precisely about
this process. Many writers on socioeconomic policy have warned that the old industrialized
democracies are heading into a Weimar-like period. One in which populist movements are likely
to overturn constitutional governments. Edward Luttwak for example, has suggested that fascism
may be the American future. The point of his book, The Endangered American Dream, is that
members of labor unions and unorganized unskilled workers will sooner or later realize that
their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being
exported. Let's just as a caveat, remember that wages in real terms have declined since the
70s, production has risen by 77%. If wages had kept pace with production, the minimum wage
would be $20 an hour. Then I'm going back to Rorty.
Chris Hedges:
Around the same time, they will realize that suburban white collar workers, themselves
desperately afraid of being downsized are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide
social benefits for anyone else. At that point, something will crack. The non suburban
electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strong man to
vote for, someone willing to assure them that once he is elected the smug bureaucrats, tricky
lawyers, overpaid bond salesman, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the
shots. A scenario like that of Sinclair Lewis' novel It Can't Happen Here may then be played
out may then be played out. For once such a strong man takes office, nobody can predict what
will happen. In 1932, most of the predictions made about what would happen if Hindenburg named
Hitler chancellor were wildly overoptimistic.
Chris Hedges:
One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past 40 years by Black
and Brown Americans and by homosexuals will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come
back into fashion. The N word and kike will once again be heard in the workplace. All the
sadism which the academic Left has tried to make unacceptable to its students will come
flooding back. All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their
manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet.
Chris Hedges:
I recommend that book and Sheldon Wolin's Classic Democracy Incooperated to political
profits, contemporary where they both died recently. Well, Rorty not so recently. Wolin a
couple years ago. If you go on YouTube, I have the last interview Wolin gave, it's a three hour
interview he gave to me the year before he died. These political philosophers astutely saw the
danger in what was coming and the consequences and here we are.
Rob Johnson:
Oh, Wendy Brown who's been a guest on this podcast was a student of Sheldon Wolin's and-
Chris Hedges:
That's right. Do you know who else was a student of Sheldon Wolin? Cornel West.
Rob Johnson:
That's right.
Chris Hedges:
Cornel dedicated his second book to Sheldon Wolin. When Sheldon-
Rob Johnson:
I'm sorry to interrupt. But my own research director Tom Ferguson was also at Princeton and
did some work with Sheldon Wolin.
Chris Hedges:
Wolin told me there came point when no member of the Princeton Political Science Department
was even speaking to him because he called neo-liberalism out in the 80s and immediately
[inaudible 00:44:38]. Interestingly about Wolin is that he's quite lyrical writer, he's quite a
fine writer. He's a brilliant philosopher, but he's also a very good writer. He was writing for
publications like The New York Review of Books and others, but he saw what was coming and he
said he just got blanked out, he couldn't get published.
Rob Johnson:
Yeah. Now, I remember talking with Chalmers Johnson a little bit about knowing Wolin and in
his admiration.
Chris Hedges:
Well, Johnson is another one. Johnson's trilogy is another one, [inaudible 00:45:12] empire,
also very, very smart books. We had our There were members of our intellectual class who didn't
sell out and were honest enough to warn us but we didn't listen and now we're in really deep
trouble.
Rob Johnson:
Well, in your most recent article, the great delusion, you referred to a European scholar,
[Stephens Shwaig 00:45:38] and I thought it was very interesting, the mindset that he portrayed
in What was it called? The world of yesterday.
Chris Hedges:
[inaudible 00:45:48] memoir. Well, [Shwaig 00:45:52], so there was a handful of great
intellectuals, many of them Jewish like Shwaig, Joseph Roth was another one, they were close
friends, who certainly saw number one, the folly of world war one, a suicidal folly of world
war one, for which they immediately became pariahs. Shwaig wrote this great play, Jeremiah,
this anti-war play that could only be performed in Switzerland that issued these kinds of
warnings and how you turn on the prophet.
Chris Hedges:
The biblical prophet Jeremiah who's warning Jerusalem about the eventual when it happens,
the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians is just ignored and ridiculed and persecuted and there
are plots against his life. I'm talking about the biblical story, he's attacked for
demoralizing the people and then by the time the Babylonian army swarms into Jerusalem and the
Jews go into exile, Jeremiah like Julian Assange is in prison so they're there and another
great figure like that would be Jane Addams in the United States go back and look at her,
Randolph Bourne, that when things become difficult it's the intellectual class, the majority of
the intellectual class either remain silent or becomes complicit.
Chris Hedges:
Because you mentioned earlier, much earlier, in the talk about journalists. Well, what they
are is careerists. I worked at The New York Times, there were never rules written on the walls
of The New York Times, but you learn very quickly those stories which would get you promoted
that the hierarchy of The Times wanted in the newspaper and those stories that didn't. If you
persisted with stories they didn't want, you became a management problem and then you got
pushed out.
Chris Hedges:
I was friends with Sydney Schanberg who of course won the Pulitzer in Cambodia and also
friends with [Deff Braun 00:47:46] who was eventually after being in a concentration camps run
by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge worked for The New York Times. But Sydney, when he came back
went after the developers who were destroying Manhattan, Manhattan's been destroyed. I used to
go to the village as a boy with all the bookstores and the artists, it's all gone replaced by,
I don't know, blue navy or gap or whatever these It's just been sucked dry, the cultural life
of the city and Schanberg saw it and he went after it and these developers were friends of the
publisher and he was fired and he ended up the rest of his career was writing columns for The
Village Voice and News Tech.
Chris Hedges:
The journalists, I think that are left are largely, are very cynical that they are
careerist, [George Parker 00:48:43], all these kinds of figures and they are the ones whose
voices you hear, Jeffrey Toobin who's been removed from the airwaves for exposing himself on a
zoom video for watching porn, but Toobin and I debated at the Oxford Union over Snowden and he
was calling for Snowden's extradition and imprisonment along with Julian. But if you stand up
for I mean, I have a huge admiration for Snowden and Julian. I know Julian, I visited him
several times at the embassy. If you stand up for them, then you're just locked out. Your voice
is not going to be heard. I think careerism has really been quite insidious.
Chris Hedges:
Also I would also say about the media [inaudible 00:49:31]. What is balance? Balance becomes
inviting a Republican operative, Giuliani on one side and a Democratic operative Van Jones on
the other or I don't know who, George Stephanopoulos, I don't know who these people are, I
don't own a television, but on the other and they both lie but you just give them equal time to
lie. I think it certain I mean, I don't have a much respect for the intellectual wattage power
of most of the people on television, but some of them have to know that they're lying.
Chris Hedges:
But if you give four minutes to Republican lies and four minutes to Democratic lies, you've
done nothing to actually inform. In fact, you've misinformed the American public but that
becomes what is defined as objective or neutral journalism. But it's really, at this point, all
a burlesque, it's all vaudeville as Taibbi points out, political coverage is quite consciously
modeled after ESPN with the graphics and the scores and the polls and the numbers and the
tactics and the strategies and the good looking host and two people from one team and two
people from another team, but there's nothing to do with politics or civic life.
Rob Johnson:
I remember talking with Gillian Tett who wrote for the Financial Times and I was asking her
about this Institute for New Economic Thinking then what kind of guidance she would give me.
She said at the time, "Rob, what you need to do is study the silences because the map of the
silences and what's not said will tell you where power resides." I remember H.L. Mencken wrote
a piece in the 1920s called The Dismal Science and he said, and you and I can laugh a little
bit, the only people he trusted less than theologians were economists because they could see in
the future what the consequences would be if they espoused a view that took on power or
affected the material conditions of trustees and members of the board, et cetera, at the major
universities.
Rob Johnson:
He said, these people are not free and it sounds a little bit like what you say about the
journalists, but it also reminds me of the [inaudible 00:51:52] quote that you use in your most
recent article where he says one of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every
civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds it's partial and universal values
most convincingly and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the
decay which leads to death has already begun. In my senses, when things are unsustainable and
in part because of concentrations in power, people become afraid and they go silent or they
compose false consciousness to which you might call, avoid confrontation with what looks like
it could become inevitable.
Chris Hedges:
Yeah, I think that's exactly right. I mean, I would defer to you in terms of economists, but
the whole ideology of neo-liberalism as a layman never made any economic sense to me at all. I
look at neo-liberalism in Marxian terms, I'm not a Marxist, although I think Marx's analysis of
capitalism is important. I don't This whole Hegelian idea of the proletariat, I think it's kind
of utopian, but the whole idea of neo-liberalism which reaches back to these real outliers,
like Hayek and Milton Friedman and this third rate novelist [Anne Rin 00:53:15], it was really
As Marx would argue it's, it was just the ideology that perpetuated the interests of the ruling
elites. It's not that it ever made economic sense nor was it really designed to and this of
course is David Harvey's argument in his book, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, which I think
is correct. If you wanted to advance within the university, in an economics department, then
you better subscribe to that mantra whether it makes economic sense or not is irrelevant, but
you know more about this than I do.
Rob Johnson:
Yeah. That whole kind of libertarian energy certainly has played a big role in the ideology
of Silicon Valley which is in some ways kind of ironic given the extent to which Silicon
Valley's prosperity was spawned by government direction and government grants through DARPA and
the NSA and places like that and so, yes, well, it's become quite severe. Then the inability of
enforcement as you talked about has facilitated a concentration because there is no any trust
and now more and more outlets, including the New York Post, as you and Matt Taibbi discussed
can get barred just by decisions from a handful of people.
Chris Hedges:
Yeah. Well, that's very [inaudible 00:54:43]. I've been hit with these algorithms which
began a couple of years ago supposedly going after Left Wing sites because of this was There
was this anonymous website called PropOrNot, Propaganda or Not, then Washington Post put it on
the front page and they just listed every Left Wing site. All of which either runs my stuff or
I write for as being part of the Russian propaganda campaign, Black Agenda Report,
Counterpunch, Truthdig, on and on and on. Then that gave them the ability to use algorithms to
shut us out which they have used and that's not conjecture. We all went on strike at Truthdig
when the publisher tried to fire Bob Scheer who now runs his own little side Scheerpost which
we all defected to, we were all fired.
Chris Hedges:
But the year before they ran They got the data to put together a graph which showed
referrals through impressions. You type in Let's say you went into Google and type imperialism
and I had written an article about imperialism recently, then that should have come up along
with anything else about imperialism but that becomes erased. Referrals to the articles that I
had written on the site by impressions in that graph over a 12 month period declined from over
700,000 to below 200,000 and I'm sure it's below that now. Taibbi of course is I think been the
best on this, but yes, on the Hunter Biden laptop issue which they tried to dismiss again as
Russian disinformation, nobody's challenged. Nobody in the Biden campaign challenged the
authenticity of what was on that laptop. When The New York post reported it, which is what a
journalist should do, they Well, Twitter locked them out of their own account. There was a
concerted effort by the digital platforms and the traditional mainstream media to bury the
story.
Chris Hedges:
Now, why is there collusion between Google, Facebook and organizations like The New York
times? Because they lock out the dissonance and the alternative voices like mine and they
redirect people to the mainstream outlets like MSNBC or the Washington Post or the one owned by
Jeff Bezos or The New York Times. There is a kind of commercial interest on the part of these
outlets in embracing this kind of open censorship and you have seen it articles by Rouse and
others in The New York Times that laud this uncontrolled, unexamined effort on the part of
these digital platforms, unaccountable to essentially impose censorship and as Matt says it
used to be that if you committed libel you had to go to court and you had to pay, that's all
gone.
Chris Hedges:
These digital platforms know everything about us. We know nothing about them and they have
the power to essentially reshape the narrative. As I think the Democratic party under Biden
becomes more and more beleaguer because the policies they're clearly going to implement don't
have populous support, this censorship will become more pronounced. That's my fear. I know that
is Matt Taibbi's fear, that we just saw Glenn Greenwald leave The Intercept because the editors
attempted to censor Well, they did censor his story on what was on Hunter Biden's laptop and
that's not conjecture because Glenn released all of the traffic back and forth and what did
Naomi Klein and Betsy Reed and all these people at The Intercept do, they didn't respond to the
textual evidence that Glenn released and they went after It was character assassination. They
accused him of wanting to make more money on Substack and being a man child, I don't know if
that's the exact phrase Betsy Reed used.
Chris Hedges:
I found that utterly appalling as someone who walked out of The New York Times over because
they were trying to muzzle me over my criticisms of the invasion of Iraq. I can tell you it's
extremely difficult without independent money and neither Glen nor I have it to leave a stable
well-paid staff position for the unknown. What he did was quite courageous so yeah, I think
that there are people with integrity, Matt and Glen being two, Robert Scheer, they're out
there. But let's not be naive. They're not only very marginalized, but in increasingly targeted
and [inaudible 00:59:36].
Fox News is facing a rise of the machines, voting machines that is, as election software
firm Smartmatic is suing the network, three of its anchors and lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney
Powell for allegedly false claims of fraud.
The defamation lawsuit , which was
filed on Thursday in New York state court in Manhattan, seeks $2.7 billion in damages. In
addition to Fox and the two lawyers, Smartmatic names Fox hosts Lou Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro and
Maria Bartiromo as defendants, saying they falsely claimed that the company's technology was
used to help 'steal' the November 3 election from former President Donald Trump.
Florida-based Smartmatic said the defendants knew the election wasn't rigged, "but they
also saw an opportunity to capitalize on President Trump's popularity by inventing a story.
Defendants decided to tell people that the election was stolen from President Trump and Vice
President (Mike) Pence." The company added that "without any true villain, defendants
invented one. Defendants decided to make Smartmatic the villain in their story."
Moreover, Smartmatic said its software was used in just one jurisdiction in the November 3
election – Los Angeles County. Democrat Joe Biden won California by more than 5 million
votes. Trump made allegations of election fraud in decisive swing states where Biden had narrow
margins of victory, such as Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
The Trump experiment is over, and the strange journey that the last five years have been is
now at an end. There are already lots of assessments being made about the meaning of Trump's
presidency, but most of them are from either liberal or conservative viewpoints. It also needs
to be evaluated from the viewpoint of the Dissident Right -- those of us such as myself who
fall outside what is usually called "Right-wing" in today's mainstream. And no group had more
dramatic ups and downs with Trump than the Dissident Right did.
I imagine my experience with Trump was the same as that of many other people reading this.
When he first announced his candidacy in 2015, I was initially dismissive and didn't even think
he'd make it to the primaries. It was when I saw him in the Republican debates that I decided
that, first, he was preferable to the other candidates in both parties; and second, that he
actually had some good positions, such as on immigration and non-interventionism. I never
really put my faith in the guy -- I always thought people who hailed him as the "God Emperor"
were being naïve -- but I could see that he was the least bad option among his many
competitors (and "least bad" is all I ever look for when contemplating the American political
scene). As his campaign developed, the signs were more and more encouraging -- mainly because
Trump was free to just talk without having to deliver on anything he was saying.
No one was more flabbergasted than me when Trump actually managed to win, and like many
people I allowed myself to become giddily optimistic for a few months after the election. I was
proud of the fact that Michigan, where I vote, was one of the states that had dramatically
swung over into Trump's column after having been solidly Democrat for decades, but it confirmed
for me that the white working class, which remains Michigan's backbone despite the weakening of
the American auto industry, had finally come to see more or less eye-to-eye with the Dissident
Right on many issues. I had suspected this even before the election, but it was nice to see it
confirmed in reality.
Perhaps, I thought, as an outsider and maverick, Trump could actually bring about some real
change in Washington, especially with the help of genuine populists like Steve Bannon. But
those hopes were soon dashed by the bombing of Syria only two and
a half months after he took office, which seemed to herald the gradual rolling back of the
entire agenda he had campaigned on. By 2018, with Bannon out, Bush leftover John Bolton as
Secretary of State, the President himself embroiled in the seemingly endless Russia
investigation, and the promised Wall nowhere to be found, it looked like the Swamp had subdued
Trump after all.
Still, I never for a moment felt that the support the Dissident Right gave to Trump in 2016
had been a mistake. There was no question that Trump, as poor as his performance was from our
perspective, was nevertheless preferable to what we know Hillary would have enacted. (In the
run-up to the 2016 election, when people would ask me why I was voting for Trump, I would say,
"I know exactly what Hillary will do; I can't say with any certainty what Trump will do, but
he's at least saying some of the right things.") And whenever Trump spoke his own mind -- which
he made sure to do often -- he usually stayed on message, even though we always knew that the
reality would end up being different from his words. (Remember when he promised to abolish
birthright citizenship in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections?) For us, I think the
epitaph we can write on the tombstone of his presidency is "It could have been worse."
I don't know what Trump really believed while President, and quite honestly I don't care; it
was his words and his actions that mattered, and even if it was all a cynical ploy, his impact
on American politics and culture is undeniable. It became a tired cliché, but it was
nevertheless true that Trump moved the Overton window further to the right in a way that isn't
likely to be undone anytime soon. Many issues that were virtually nonexistent except at the
margins of American political discourse before 2015 are now front and center. Some dislike
Trump for his personality and failings, feeling that these contributed to his lack of
achievement as President. While this is justified, it's indisputable that only someone like
Trump, who was independently wealthy and already held celebrity status among the white working
class, could have made the breakthrough as an outsider that he did. And even if he didn't
succeed in remaking Washington, he nevertheless weakened the Washington Establishment during
his tenure. Most importantly, it's always best when the Washington elite remains so divided and
gripped by internal conflicts that it can't pursue its evil designs on the rest of us, and
Trump turned the heat up in Washington beyond where it had been at any time since the Civil
War.
We also shouldn't overlook the fact that Trump was continually embattled with the Washington
Establishment, the opposition, the mainstream media, and on many occasions even his own party
from the day he took office. It also shouldn't be forgotten that when Trump took office, his
party controlled the executive branch and Congress, and yet the President still had to fight
every step of the way to pursue his agenda -- often unsuccessfully. James O'Meara once
commented that Trump was in fact a third-party candidate who managed to hijack one of the two
major parties. This was true, and many Republicans in the House never lost sight of that,
showing that their true loyalties lay with maintaining the Establishment rather than with
supporting their erstwhile leader's agenda.
We can't ignore the short, spectacular life of the Alt-Right, either. Those of us who had
been on the Dissident Right for many years prior, and who understood that the only way to bring
America into line with genuinely Rightist principles would be to transform the country from its
very foundations on issues such as citizenship, immigration, and capitalism, always saw Trump
as merely a stepping stone to something grander and better. And indeed, although this fact has
vanished into the mists of prehistory, before the 2016 election "Alt-Right" merely referred to
anyone on the Right whose views fell outside those of the Republican Party; even Steve Bannon
infamously told Mother Jones in 2016 that Breitbart was "the platform of the
Alt-Right," a statement I imagine he came to regret later. I myself was happy to accept the
label at first. And like many, I was naïve enough to think that the Alt-Right could make
use of the mainstream media rather than the other way around.
Once they realized that a Trump presidency was a reality, the mainstream media quickly
understood that the "Alt-Right," which was a nebulous phenomenon with no clear leadership or
goals, could be used to discredit Trump and populism more generally. Its decentralized nature
and lack of an organizational structure were in one sense a strength in that it was more
difficult to pin down and target it; but at the same time, anyone ranging from libertarians to
outright neo-Nazis could claim the mantle or be designated "Alt-Right" by clever journalists.
As such, it was perfect from their perspective as a means of attacking the populist Right as a
whole, since they spun the ridiculous narrative that the Alt-Right was somehow vaguely
responsible for getting Trump elected. The fact is, of course, that there was never any
relationship between what was called the Alt-Right and the Trump administration, but the Alt
Right's media-appointed leaders were hungry for attention that the media was more than happy to
provide -- and the rest is, regrettably, history.
It might have been possible to develop an alternative movement in late 2016 and 2017 that
could have piggybacked on Trump's success while laying the groundwork for a genuinely
innovative form of the American Right more in keeping with genuine Right-wing principles, and
yet that could still have appealed to ordinary Americans. It quickly became apparent, however,
that those individuals who found themselves thrust into the Alt-Right spotlight lacked the
character, maturity, and judgment to make it happen. Being wizards at winning followers for
websites, podcasts, and social media was no proper education to prepare them for entering the
arena of actual politics. Granted, they were confronting forces far beyond what any marginal
group could be expected to compete with; but by adopting tactics that had failed for George
Lincoln Rockwell half a century earlier and standing shoulder-to-shoulder with actual Nazis and
Klansmen, they played the role of cartoon Nazis that the media had cast them in to a tee. After
being led into the trap that was Charlottesville, the Alt-Right's tombstone was written and
Trump was never again able to plausibly deny that he was a white supremacist. We must persist
in our efforts, but the fact remains that the Alt-Right's spectacular and tragically
unnecessary failure will continue to hamper us for many years to come.
Despite our disappointment, we must still acknowledge that President Trump accomplished some
goals that deserve our thanks. It must be granted that throughout his tenure, despite the
constant accusations of warmongering by his opponents, he didn't start any new wars.
There were a few close calls, of course, particularly with Syria and Iran, but none of
America's enemies called his bluffs despite provocation and things remained at the level of
low-intensity conflict. It is certainly true that when it comes to foreign policy, Trump did
much more for Israel than he did for America, but he nevertheless made strides toward ending
the conflicts he had inherited and never bowed to the pressure to start new ones. As a
corollary to this, no Islamist terror attacks occurred within the United States during Trump's
tenure apart from the shooting at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, which puts him above both
Bush and Obama in that category. (It struck me as odd that Trump didn't play this up more in
his second campaign.)The most glorious moment of Trump's presidency for me, however, remains
his refusal to denounce the Alt-Right in the notorious press conference that he held three days
after Charlottesville. While it certainly wasn't the unequivocal defense of White Nationalism
that the media has made it out to have been ever since, the fact that he refused to issue the
standard denunciations of the Alt-Right that he had doubtless been asked to deliver stands for
me as a rare moment of principle for President Trump. In the end, it meant nothing in practical
terms, but it's one of the few clear examples we have that there was something deeper to his
presidency than mere egotism. It's also a sign of how much worse things were to get over the
subsequent years that he failed to show the same spirit when dealing with those of his
supporters who stormed the Capitol, opting for submissiveness rather than the spirit of
defiance that had characterized his campaign and the early days of his term.
Additionally, Trump's strident Euroskepticism forced Europe for the first time since the
Second World War to consider pursuing greater independence from NATO and the US and to perhaps
even solely pursue its own interests in foreign policy yet again, rather than serving as
America's lapdog on many issues and continuing to rely on the US for defense. It remains to be
seen if this trend will persist or reverse now that Trump is gone, but we can hope that more
forward-looking European politicians will continue thinking in terms of preparing for a
post-American global order.
We should also bear in mind that the Trump administration established good relations with
Right-wing populist parties in Europe in a way that would have been unimaginable under any
other presidency. The present governments of Hungary and Poland, in particular, enjoyed
friendly relations with Washington for the first time and will sorely miss Trump now that
Biden has made it clear that he intends to return to a confrontational policy with them.
(At the same time, it's worth noting that some European politicians on the Right I have spoken
with said that they preferred a Trump defeat, since they feel that Trump and American politics
more generally have become an obsessive distraction for the European Right and that his removal
would allow Europeans to focus on their own problems again.)
Domestically, Trump could hardly be considered a success on his signature issue,
immigration, although he wasn't entirely a failure, either. We certainly didn't get anything
like the sort of sweeping and radical changes on immigration that many of us had hoped for in
the beginning. Indeed, the Trump administration did not pass a single new piece of
immigration-related legislation. By some metrics , in
fact, certain types of immigration remained the same or increased during Trump's tenure. In
those currents where it decreased, some of it appears to have occurred as a result of the
pandemic rather than due to any political action. And of course, the Wall remains mostly
unbuilt and now surely faces cancellation.
At the same time, Trump did fortunately withdraw the US from the United Nations'
ethnomasochistic Global Compact on Migration. He did make limited
progress in a few other areas as well , particularly making it more difficult for
"refugees" to come to the US and for illegal immigrants to remain there. And he did put a stop
to some of the more troubling immigration policies that have emanated from both parties in the
past, such as the push for amnesties for illegals, and called a temporary moratorium on visas
for "guest workers" in response to the pandemic.
The issue that could be regarded as his second-biggest signature issue was opposing
globalization and helping ordinary working Americans; bringing industry back home was a
constant theme of his first campaign. In the end, however, Trump remained largely ineffectual
in this area. We should thank him for ending the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). But the treaty he signed to replace the
former, the
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement , is only slightly better than its precursor. The
other nations which were part of the TPP ended up signing the virtually identical Comprehensive
and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which the US has not signed
but which it remains eligible to join at any time. In other words, the Trump administration
didn't do much to halt the drumbeat of globalization.
When it comes to the Dissident Right, Trump offered little but empty rhetoric. Despite
occasionally talking about establishing controls over Big Tech to prevent their blatant
censorship of non-conformist views that challenge the neoliberal narrative, no action was ever
taken in this direction. Apart from his Charlottesville press conference, neither did Trump
ever take a stand in defense of white advocates, and he often went in the other direction,
such as in September , when he promised to declare the "Ku Klux Klan" a terrorist
organization (thus opening the door for any Dissident Right groups to be targeted given the
lack of an easily identifiable unified KKK organization), calling for Juneteenth to be declared
a federal holiday, and promising $500 billion in aid to black communities.
Thus, President Trump achieved modest successes at best, and even those issues on which he
won victories can be easily reversed by the Biden administration -- and in some cases they are
already doing so. But such is the ephemeral nature of politics in a liberal democracy.
On the plus side, the Republican Party now finds itself in its direst predicament since the
1940s, if not before, as a result of Trumpism taking root within it. The conflict between
populists and neoliberals within its ranks, which now threatens to come to a head as a result
of Trump's second impeachment, may very well end the party for good, or at least result in a
split -- either outcome of which might perhaps open the door for a more genuinely Right-wing
party to fill the void it will leave behind. Only time will tell, but if it happens, it will be
a parting gift from Trump to have achieved what once seemed impossible, back when the
Republican Party was nothing more than the party of multiculturalism and globalism plus Jesus
and low taxes.
President Trump's most important contribution is that he lit the flame that genuinely
started the fire of Right-wing populism in America after previous attempts such as Pat
Buchanan's campaigns and the Tea Party ( yech ) had guttered out without raising the
temperature in Washington by even a degree. Whether that flame can continue burning now that
he's gone remains to be seen, but we can still hope that it was the start of a trend rather
than a temporary deviation. If American populism is to survive, it will clearly stand on the
Right; the Left has already amply demonstrated in its underhanded suppression of more populist
Democratic candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard that they will not tolerate the
rise of any form of Leftism that doesn't conform to the Washington Elite's expectations.
Now, Unpresident Biden and the entire Democratic Party apparatus, emboldened by their
largely successful efforts to discredit the Right as a whole by blaming it in its entirety for
the Capitol occupation, believe themselves to be in a place where they can reshape American
politics according to their own agenda without any regard for the other side whatsoever. As
they've done continuously since the 2016 election, the Democrats always choose to double down
on their extremist rhetoric rather than doing any soul-searching about how they might have
contributed to bringing the situation about, nor about how they might be able to seek some sort
of compromise with the other side. They are too self-righteous to be capable of critical
reflection.
The Capitol "coup," harebrained as it was, certainly does not even begin to compare to the
Democrats' -- and some Republicans' -- efforts to undermine the Trump administration and the
will of the American electorate at every turn over the past four years, which to my mind much
more accurately fits the definition of a coup. It will be the task of the Dissident Right --
and hopefully the Right more generally, if they have the stones -- to do to the Left exactly
what they have been doing to us by throwing endless obstacles in their path, denying their
legitimacy, and constantly calling them to account for their injustices and excesses at every
possible opportunity.
The Democrats are not as strong as they believe. Even most liberals only supported Biden
grudgingly and purely out of expediency. Unpresident Biden is America's Brezhnev -- his health
and stamina failing, he is merely an old Establishment tool who has been resurrected in an
attempt to prop up an order that everyone knows is on its last legs. A telling video from the
inauguration shows Biden passing a contingent of Marines on guard duty, who any sitting
president is supposed to salute, being the Commander-in-Chief. Biden just shambles past them
without a gesture, oddly mumbling "salute the Marines" under his facemask. The quite plausible
theory that has been making the rounds is that Biden was being instructed on what to say and do
through an earpiece, and that he mistakenly repeated an instruction to salute the Marines
rather than actually doing it. This seems a good metaphor for his entire administration. (If
you're wondering who is on the other end of Biden's earpiece, it might perhaps be one of the
many Jews with whom he has packed his cabinet -- such a number that makes Trump's pandering
to the Jewish lobby seem tame in comparison. What happened to diversity? Does the White House
need affirmative action for whites nowadays?)
Like the late Soviet Union, however, Washington Inc. will project images of power in order
to conceal the reality of their order's decrepitude. That is surely the motive behind the
deployment of 26,000 soldiers to Washington, DC -- more than the number currently stationed in
Iraq and Afghanistan combined -- in response to the supposed Right-wing "threat." It isn't
about security, it is a show of force to prove to America that they are back and that they
intend to keep Washington and propagate their policies by any means necessary. Further, I
predict that the US will engage in some significant military action within the next year to
make a similar show of force on the world stage, flexing its muscles to prove that America
intends to resume its role as the world's policeman.
Starting from before the inauguration, the Left has been making their intention to declare
war on anything authentically white or Rightist clear. But while it was very easy for the
Establishment to muzzle the few thousand adherents of the Alt-Right, it will be much more
difficult for them to silence the 75 million Americans who voted for Trump -- in many cases not
because they loved Trump but simply because they wanted to prevent the return of the ruling
clique that had been governing our country entirely unopposed for decades before Trump's
rise.
In the final analysis, the most important lesson to be taken away from the Trump
administration is that the last five years were never about Trump himself. American populism
didn't start with him and it won't end with him. Samuel Francis was already predicting the rise
of a populist figure like Trump in the 1990s, even heralding a " revolution from the Right
" in a way that seems extremely prescient today. What the Capitol occupation
showed is that the populist current has grown beyond Trump's ability to channel and contain
it. As a result -- maybe -- we have an opportunity to transcend him and construct something
real out of the movement he energized, and do it better.
The real news of the last few months was the fact that 11 million more Americans voted for
Trump in 2020 over 2016, despite the ongoing demographic changes and despite all of his flaws
and failures. There is nothing that more aptly proves that it wasn't all merely about him than
this. American populism isn't dead. White America isn't dead. That's why I didn't use a photo
of Trump himself to illustrate this post, but rather one of his supporters -- ordinary
Americans, who were the real motor behind these changes in the political landscape.
I can't say at present what will come next for the Dissident Right. I'm not sure who will,
or even could, emerge to form the leadership of a post-Trump populist movement. Perhaps those
who follow the American political scene more closely than I do might have an inkling of who is
waiting in the wings that might be qualified to take charge. One thing that is certain is that
these new leaders must be completely disconnected in every public way from the fiasco that was
the Alt-Right. That brand is dead. But hopefully what is best in the Dissident Rightist milieu
can still inform whatever follows in our, and Trump's, footsteps.
With Trump's wings clipped, ordinary white Americans are looking for a leader. Here's hoping
they can finally get the one they deserve.
Well Lets see interesting year Biden wins ,Pennsyllvanis by 25,000 more votes than
Registered voters. He wins Wisconsin by 17,000 more votes than voters, their were two states
with over 300,000 combinred votes that were from people who did not exist, But according to
the courts all the way up to the supreme court who said it was legal, needless to say i no
longer, trust the supreme court
Trump succeeded in two things, both for the Jewish cause: advanced the Zionist interest in
Israel, and put back the opposition to the liberal-neocon Jewish establishment in America.
How is that in any way a "win" for authentic America Firsters?
I was proud of the fact that Michigan, where I vote
No real dissident votes. When one votes, he is buying into the scam that continually
produces the next savior and continually produces nothing but more repression.
A real dissident understands he is getting reamed and won't cooperate in his own demise. A
dissident has a brain that actually thinks. A voter is a mindless spectator in the endless
game of politics purposely designed to provide a false sense of control for people too stupid
to understand the system offers them no control.
Trump was a little bit better choice than the other candidates. And they were really,
really, really bad. I was not disappointed in Trump because I never expected much out of him.
RIP Donny!
It's always amazing to see how many right-wingers have invented a country for themselves
called "this country", which is everywhere, has no population, but lives in their minds
anyway. All for the sake of a chimera called "the white working class".
How is it an imaginary class which is actually a minority, and that has no history
anywhere is also going to rule over a continent of 50 States with 300+ million people?
I called it the day he rode down the escalator. I was happy he won, but not happy with his
performance. Even so, I voted for him again, because the alternative was much worse.
Trump ran on a Democrat 1980 platform: manufacturing jobs, family values, everything the
Democrats were before homosexuals, Scientism, and "people of color" changed the party. Hardly
"right wing," but given today's politics, who knows what the labels mean anymore. Contrary to
the New York Times, he was not a racist or a fascist. He pandered more to blacks and
Hispanics than he did to Whites. His pardon of two negro rappers just before he left office
was disgusting. Allowing that Kardashian whore into the Oval Office was likewise disgusting.
And his Jewish in-laws were nauseating.
He was not my ideal candidate, but, as I said, the alternative was far worse. As for the
future, I will not vote again. We are unlikely to ever see a promising leader that Whites can
follow.
While it is true that Trump didn't start the war with Syria, that honor belongs to
our 44th White President, make no mistake: we are at war with Syria and should not
be.
Can everybody please stop calling it "immigration"? And start calling it "illegal alien
invasion"? Immigration is not the problem although the H1B visa program is a disaster for
American workers, just a way to import cheap mostly Indian labor and it needs a
moratorium.
I think the author is far too generous in his assesssment of Trump. The only positive
thing I can see was that he didn't start any new wars, only maintained the ones that was
although the blatant zionist provocation of Iran was unforgivable.
It all started the first day after the election when Trump et al decided that they would
not be going in opposition to their own party. That was his first mistake. His econd mistake
mistake was not hiring people loyal to him and Bannon's vision and third mistake was being a
dumbfuck who let himself be led into the most stupid things by the corrupt -- - Kushner who
had way too much influence over everything, yes everything, in the administration.
Ultimately Trump was a bloviating buffoon (Although that was known to anybody reasonable
before the election) with a degree of narcissism never seen in a white goy in politics before
that was only thinking about himself the whole time, without any convictions at all.
He squandered the first two years on going along with the GOPe agenda and ultimately the only
people who got anything out of his presidency was blacks/criminals, the left (Because he
riled them up and poked them while never using the force of the state to shut them down, even
dropping his own voter fraud investigation halfways and crying on twitter that somebody
should do something about so many different things when he was the President – an
absurd thing to do), the rich 1 % elite and Jews (But i repeat myself).
If Russia anneses Crimea, which was a part of the country until the 1950s or 60s, it's a
crime against humanity. If Israel annexes the West bank it's only good and right.
Why? Because Jews run the USA and Trump did nothing at all to stand up to them in any real
way that gave any results (And I mean implicitly, not explcitly of course).
As mr Morgan said, its not about Trump, it is American Populism rising, and betrayed once
again. I
Israel got the most!
Four years wasted, and no organizing but ludicruos fringe alt-right queers, and nazi-fan
boys!
This should be about the ordinary people, 75 million, long since betrayed by the democrats
calling them "deplorables" and "fly-over-people".
Organize now!
Pick up Tulsi Gabbard and forget about Bernie Sanders!
Create a movement and form resistance, before they jab you out in space!
One case that's not making news in the Democrat Party's mainstream media is a
decision made by a Virginia judge on Monday. The
judge ruled that last-minute changes made by election officials to allow absentee ballots
with missing or illegible postmarks to be counted is illegal.
Washington Examiner- "This is a big win for the Rule of Law," said Public Interest Legal Foundation President J. Christian Adams, who represented
Frederick County electoral board member Thomas Reed in the case. "This consent decree gives Mr.
Reed everything he requested -- a permanent ban on accepting ballots without postmarks after
Election Day and is a loss for the Virginia bureaucrats who said ballots could come in without
these protections."
The case was over a Virginia Board of Elections rule issued in August that allowed mail-in
ballots without a postmark to be received up to three days after the November election.
The new Virginia Board of Elections rule notified county election boards that any
ballots "received by the general registrar's office by noon on the third day after the election
but does not have a postmark, or the postmark is missing or illegible" should not be rendered
invalid. The elections board decided a week later that those ballots should be counted. One win
for Virginia voters who care about election integrity. It's a pity this practice wasn't stopped
BEFORE the ballots were tabulated in the November election.
I also noticed two months ago how quickly the vital questions concerning the mail-on ballots
got diverted into some wild goose-chase involving voting machine software from Venezuela.
Another attempt at side-tracking the investigation and drumming up support for 'régime
change'?
As far as the Q-Anons themselves are concerned, I always sympathized with them to a large
extent, even though I thought their 'theories' were a little off. Most of them are good people
by nature, but perhaps just a little too credulous. I agree with Larry here: put your faith in
God, not man. When analyzing the events of this world, stick to evidence and logic as much as
you can. At the end of the day, hope is just another drug--hopium--that can skew your judgment
... which is just what the enemy wants.
But I have to admit that I still like the Q-Anon motto: 'Where we go one, we go all'
(WWG1WGA). I'd like to rehabilitate it for general use by us deplorables, if I may. ;-)
True, Biden and his picks to run his foreign policy team are aggressive warmongers .But to
compliment Donald Trump for ANYTHING is completely absurd .Both these politicians are rotten
to the core .But as I've remarked before, it seems that OFF-G would be overjoyed to keep
Trump in power .And that shows how OFF-G has in many respects gone from being a responsible
Left-Wing site to the Far-Right.
The acronym ought to be ISUS or USIS. Of course, al-Tanf is a terrorist base, the
terrorists primarily being forces of the Outlaw US Empire and its main accomplice.
Accepting that as fact, we must then determine WHY? What is the overall aim?
If Hudson's correct about the overall geopolitical aims of the Parasitical Neoliberal
Fascists running the Outlaw US Empire and its NATO vassals, then we've known the answer for
quite awhile. The following is what Hudson has distilled it to:
"All economic systems seek to internationalize themselves and extend their rule
throughout the world. Today's revived Cold War should be understood as a fight between
what kind of economic system the world will have . Finance capitalism is fighting
against nations that restrict its intrusive dynamics and sponsorship of privatization and
dismantling of public regulatory power . Unlike industrial capitalism, the rentier aim
is not to become a more productive economy by producing goods and selling them at a lower
cost than competitors. Finance capitalism's dynamics are globalist, seeking to use
international organizations (the IMF, NATO, the World Bank and U.S.-designed trade and
investment sanctions) to overrule national governments that are not controlled by the
rentier classes . The aim is to make all economies into finance-capitalist layers of
hereditary privilege, imposing anti-labor austerity policies to squeeze a dollarized
surplus .
" Industrial capitalism's resistance to this international pressure is necessarily
nationalist , because it needs state subsidy and laws to tax and regulate the FIRE
sector . But it is losing the fight to finance capitalism, which is turning to be its
nemesis just as industrial capitalism was the nemesis of post-feudal landlordship and
predatory banking. Industrial capitalism requires state subsidy and infrastructure
investment, along with regulatory and taxing power to check the incursion of finance
capital . The resulting global conflict is between socialism (the natural evolution
of industrial capitalism) and a pro-rentier fascism, a state-finance-capitalist reaction
against socialism's mobilization of state power to roll back the post-feudal rentier
interests ." [My Emphasis]
The situation in Syria and Iraq represent the kinetic edge of what's mostly a Cold War
globally. It's noted that some of the Parasitical organizations have powers equal to some
nation-states and that the main underlying aim is the weakening of governments's abilities
to regulate them. The pandemic has weakened a great many nations while the Parasites have
grown stronger as they get massive transfusions from the Fed. Thus it seems very plausible
that given their motive, the Parasites spawned the pandemic, not this or that government.
We watched as those forces operated independently of Trump by disobeying his orders, and
now we have further understanding of why the so-called Forever Wars. We can also understand
the real motive for 911 was the destruction of evidence at Building 7 and the Pentagon that
would've gravely injured the Parasites while also providing a covering reason for launching
the Forever Wars. IMO, the only way the Outlaw US Empire will leave the areas it occupies
is if its physically ousted--Korea, Japan, Europe, Afghanistan, Southwest Asia. It ought to
be possible to now see how Full Spectrum Domination can be obtained without a military
conflict, as well as the real reasons behind the demonization of China and Russia.
Both Putin and Xi told Davos and the Parasites that they're committed to their
development path which is completely at odds with what the Parasites desire. IMO, the
global masses would agree with both and join them if they knew what they said. We can also
see why the attack on the Ummah, which is the Islamic global collective that adheres to the
values that promote the collective, not the Parasites that would feed on it. And we just
witnessed how the Parasites are able to quickly counter any concerted effort to disciple
them, which also served the purpose of outing Big Tech as an enemy of the collective. Cold
War or Class War? The difference between them is close to indistinguishable.
How can a U.S. citizen even respond? U.S. Intel agency secrets. CENTCOM's treason, the
nation's complicity in another eternal war for Israel. It's just too sad to comment about.
Maybe voting and the law will fix this mess.
Posted by: PavewayIV | Jan 29 2021 11:31 utc | 2
I think maybe its time to rethink is it actually the nation state of Israel, OR is it
that the Nation State of Israel is the same as the Nation State of the USA, a warrior, pawn
and get it done group that both holds captive its citizens by rule of law and that serves
the will and wishes of the Oligarch..
Oligarchary has gone global. They are in control of the top of nearly all governments
and they privately own (92% owned by just 6 entities) the media (the ninth tier in the 9
tier model) At the top and at the bottom they have what it takes to keep divided the
populations so the deplorable cannot effectively organize. Until someone comes up with a
way to overcome the divided nation,nothing effective is likely to surface. Nation states
are the pawns, the war machine (leg breakers) that keep the Oligarch familes wealthy..
forget the nation state as the center of power, the nation state is not, the center of
power is invisible, the nation state is just the war machine, and law making machine and
the wealth extraction machine the oligarch depend on to keep their wealth and to deny the
deplorable their chance at the good life.
One of the biggest challenges to democracy lay in the copyright and patent monopolies.
these monopolies are creatures of the rule of law, without law there can be no privately
owned monopolies. as of Oct 1, it is reported that 90% of the balance sheets of the traded
companies is either patents or copyrights. that only leaves 10% for physical assets. Rule
of law, without effective input from those who are the governed, is the enemy of the
deplorable and the supression of Democracy, Independence of mind, thought and deed.
If you removed the laws that enable copyright and patents, overnight some mighty big
corporate enterprises would be broke.
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There are exemptions under FOIA regarding trade secrets and we
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shall
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take any and all action necessary or appropriate to assert "
potentially
applicable exemptions from disclosure
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"... Blatantly frauding the election against Trump wasn't enough and they have to hold show trials and even label the "Deplorables" as terrorists to get back to where they expected to be after the election in 2016. This is why the establishment feels they have to go forward with the second impeachment, and it is why the public is being treated to the spectacle of hysterical, over-the-top hyperbole from the establishment mass media about the threat of imaginary white supremacists and Capitol building insurrectionists. ..."
"... If Trump WAS a "champion" of the right he would've mauled the establishment via prosecutions (that never came) and true 'America First' actions. Instead, we see Biden just picking up where Trump left off. ..."
Part of the reason the establishment ushered Trump into the race in 2016, apart from
thinking that would guarantee Clinton a win, was the intention to socially/culturally
marginalize the "Deplorables" and crush their morale when their "champion" was
brutally humiliated by losing the election bigly. Though Trump winning against all
expectations set back the establishment's plans for rolling out its more "inclusive"
formulation of capitalist exploitation, they are now fully committed to picking up the pieces
of their plans and trying to run with them as if the previous four years never happened.
The
only difference in their plans is that Trump actually was president, so the establishment has
to work much harder at shaming and humiliating the "Deplorables" into subjugation.
Blatantly frauding the election against Trump wasn't enough and they have to hold show trials
and even label the "Deplorables" as terrorists to get back to where they expected to
be after the election in 2016. This is why the establishment feels they have to go forward
with the second impeachment, and it is why the public is being treated to the spectacle of
hysterical, over-the-top hyperbole from the establishment mass media about the threat of
imaginary white supremacists and Capitol building insurrectionists.
Of course the establishment's plans will not work any better now than they did in 2016,
but it should be fun to watch them continue to cluelessly flounder about.
Part of the reason the establishment ushered Trump into the race in 2016, apart from
thinking that would guarantee Clinton a win ...
Firstly, "the establishment" is very broad. I think those who "select" the President is a
much narrower group of power people and the interests they represent. If there's one thing
that they have in common, it is this: their outlook is EMPIRE-FIRST, and the interests they
represent benefit from the Empire.
The Presidency is the lynchpin of the Empire.
There's evidence that Hillary was meant to lose to Trump:
as sheepdog, Bernie all but guaranteed that Hillary would win the Democratic
nomination;
Hillary, a seasoned campaigner made egregious "mistakes" that angered key voter groups
- mistakes that no seasoned campaigner in a 'must win' campaign would do: she snubbed
blacks (she was very cold to BLM); alienated progressives (bringing Debra Wasserman-Schultz
into her campaign); and declared that non-progressive whites were "deplorables."
In the closing weeks of the campaign, she also refused to campaign in the THREE STATES
that SHE KNEW would decide the election.
After Russia stood up to USA in Syria and Ukraine, Kissinger wrote a WSJ Op-Ed (August
2014) that all but called for MAGA! He argued for a return to America's global
leadership/dominance. 10 months later Trump entered the race as the ONLY MAGA!
candidate.
= ... was the intention to socially/culturally marginalize the "Deplorables" and crush
their morale when their "champion" was brutally humiliated ...
But Trump was hardly a "champion" of the Tea Party Republicans in 2015-16. He was just a
billionaire poser that was paying lip service to them. Many weren't sure they could trust him
but he was sure as hell better than Hillary. The popular right's embrace of Trump mostly came
after the election as propaganda from Qanon and others spun every action of Trump's as
heroically fighting the good fight.
= The only difference in their plans is that Trump actually was president ...
And therein lies the rub! If Trump WAS a "champion" of the right he would've mauled the
establishment via prosecutions (that never came) and true 'America First' actions. Instead,
we see Biden just picking up where Trump left off.
Looks like Dominion now can capitalize on Jan 6 events...
Notable quotes:
"... The lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court in Washington, DC on Monday. The massive 107-page document lists over 50 statements from Giuliani which he made on Twitter, his podcast, in the media, and during legislative hearings about Dominion – one of the largest companies selling voting machines used in the US. ..."
"... To illustrate the damage presumably done by Giuliani, the lawsuit provides a long list of screenshots from assorted internet uses, primarily from Twitter, fuming at Dominion and accusing it of facilitating the election "steal." The voting machines and sharp spikes in vote counts in favor of Joe Biden, widely attributed to the system, have been among the centerpieces of conspiracy theories for the pro-Trump crowd in the aftermath of the turbulent election. ..."
"... The lawsuit also highlights Giuliani's role in the January 6 Capitol Hill riot, accusing him of stirring up the violence. The document quotes Giuliani's address at the pro-Trump rally shortly before the violence, when he urged supporters to engage in "trial by combat." ..."
Donald
Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems over claims of fraud
during the 2020 US presidential election. The company is seeking $1.3 billion in compensatory
and punitive damages.
The lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court in Washington, DC on Monday. The massive
107-page document lists over 50 statements from Giuliani which he made on Twitter, his podcast,
in the media, and during legislative hearings about Dominion – one of the largest
companies selling voting machines used in the US.
Giuliani, like many other prominent supporters of former President Donald Trump, has
repeatedly pointed the finger at the company as one of the main culprits behind Trump's
election loss. Dominion has been accused of being part of an alleged plot to fix the election
in favor of the Democrats, which, alongside mass mail-in voting, allegedly facilitated the
"steal" of Trump's presumed 'victory'.
Dominion has accused Giuliani of waging a "viral disinformation campaign" and
repeatedly producing "defamatory falsehoods" about it. It also claimed the allegedly
false statements from Trump's lawyer have stirred up a storm of death threats against its
employees.
To illustrate the damage presumably done by Giuliani, the lawsuit provides a long list of
screenshots from assorted internet uses, primarily from Twitter, fuming at Dominion and
accusing it of facilitating the election "steal." The voting machines and sharp spikes
in vote counts in favor of Joe Biden, widely attributed to the system, have been among the
centerpieces of conspiracy theories for the pro-Trump crowd in the aftermath of the turbulent
election.
The lawsuit also highlights Giuliani's role in the January 6 Capitol Hill riot, accusing him
of stirring up the violence. The document quotes Giuliani's address at the pro-Trump rally
shortly before the violence, when he urged supporters to engage in "trial by
combat."
The company is seeking at least $1.3 billion in compensatory and punitive damages from
Giuliani, demanding a trial by jury, according to the court documents.
The lawsuit against Giuliani largely resembles the one against another pro-Trump lawyer,
Sidney Powell, filed by the company earlier this month. Powell has been accused of waging a
"viral disinformation campaign" as well, with Dominion seeking the same eye-watering sum
of 1.3 billion in damages from her.
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"Election results in a county in Michigan had to be corrected to show that President Trump
won by nearly 2,000 votes after voting software gave 6,000 of his votes to Biden ." Which
probably never would have been check if Antrim County wasn't such a Red county. Hard to find
fraud when you refuse to look for it.
LeRuscino2 Sue Brown 11 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 11:08 AM
Exactly - Scream & shout 1st like MH-17 & when it's settled & Guiliani wins
nobody will know or even remember.
Banalucki 3 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 07:46 PM
so classic americana - the business that created an electronic voting "process" that
eliminates chain of custody protection, signatures and voter ID is suing Rudy for "fraud"...
Thomas51 2 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 08:26 PM
Political actions of any lawyer should bear consequences
VonnDuff1 2 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 08:01 PM
SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Policy) and nothing more. Unless you throw in
Kangaroo Courts with Monkey Judges.
Trekker 8 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 02:36 PM
Good to put Giuliani away once and for all for all the damage he has caused.
GottaBeMe Skeptic076 7 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 03:39 PM
They'll have to audit the computer code finally. And they'll have to do it using machines in
swing states that haven't been touched since November. Otherwise it's them saying one thing,
Giuliani saying something else.
Pete Wagner 7 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 03:11 PM
I guess that means they've destroyed all the damning evidence and have their judge briefed,
paid off, and ready to rule.
Sue Brown 12 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 10:53 AM
Typical USA style, don't defend yourself . . . when wronged = SUE!!!!
Enki14 9 hours ago 25 Jan, 2021 01:54 PM
Methinks this is a publicity stunt as they would not want a jury of Powell's peers to see the
evidence Patrick Byrne PH.D. has amassed and the hundreds of witnesses that would be called
to testify on Powell's behalf. Methinks they managed to destroy the evidence on their hard
drives and thus feel the evidence would be viewed as circumstantial. However the pathways are
real, were tracked and saved.
"... Let's see, Sanders's net worth is how much again? And, let's see, after The Machine denied him the Dem nomination in both 2016 and 2020, it took him how long to endorse and sign on and generally drop trou, bend over, and grab his aged ankles? ..."
"... Yep, there's a real anticapitalist revolutionary firebrand, all right. ..."
"... I agree with Reactionary Utopian's view of Sanders, who revealed himself to be a grovelling lackey of the establishment with the way he campaigned for the harpy, signed on to the absurd anti-Russian propaganda initiative, and showed that he was only controlled opposition. The fact is, the propaganda combined with the fraud, perfected as a result of the medico-fascism discussed by Hopkins enabled the steal. The usage of the provocation discussed in the main article completed the consolidation of what is a new model of a fascist regime. This followed Goebbels' playbook usage of the Reichstag fire provocation as the Nazi regime was consolidating power. ..."
Back in 2016, the American people, sick to the gills of global capitalism and its
increasingly oppressive woke ideology, elected an unauthorized, narcissistic ass-clown to
the highest office in the land.
Well, if the American people had really been sick of global capitalism they would have
voted for Sanders. He may not be perfect, but he made a lot more sense as an anti-capitalist
candidate than Trump. Trump has done nothing to curb global capitalism during his
administration. Being narcissistic and clownish is probably of minor importance and beside
the point, and bringing it up seems more like obfuscation. Trump was the status quo every bit
as much as Hillary. He was demonized for one simple reason: there are two parties in America.
And Trump didn't make it especially hard for them.
Well, if the American people had really been sick of global capitalism they would have
voted for Sanders. He may not be perfect, but he made a lot more sense as an
anti-capitalist candidate than Trump.
Ah, thanks, I needed a good laugh today. Let's see, Sanders's net worth is how
much again? And, let's see, after The Machine denied him the Dem nomination in both 2016 and
2020, it took him how long to endorse and sign on and generally drop trou, bend over,
and grab his aged ankles?
Yep, there's a real anticapitalist revolutionary firebrand, all right.
I agree with Bras Cubas that if the American people were really sick of global capitalism
they would have voted for Sanders. The fact is, they did, and the methods of fraud developed
to deprive Sanders of his victory were a sort of rehearsal of the methods used to sideline
Trump. There was quite a bit of fraud in 2016; ballot harvesting, and the manipulation of
postal votes, etc. but Trump unexpectedly did too well for it to work. They also did not have
the virus as an excuse to go full monty on the fraud.
I agree with Reactionary Utopian's view of Sanders, who revealed himself to be a
grovelling lackey of the establishment with the way he campaigned for the harpy, signed on to
the absurd anti-Russian propaganda initiative, and showed that he was only controlled
opposition. The fact is, the propaganda combined with the fraud, perfected as a result of the
medico-fascism discussed by Hopkins enabled the steal. The usage of the provocation discussed
in the main article completed the consolidation of what is a new model of a fascist regime.
This followed Goebbels' playbook usage of the Reichstag fire provocation as the Nazi regime
was consolidating power.
Kudos again to Hopkins on this article and all of the preceding ones. As an additional
fact, we should discuss the mask deal. It is the first time in history that any regime of any
description has actually restricted the right to breathe, which at the end of the day is
limiting the right to live. The present regime for that reason seems even more odious than
the Nazi regime in that aspect.
P.S. Bernie was a rabid socialist(communist), and many in America wanted no part of
that.
Sanders is neither socialist nor communist. He's a con man. The overwhelming majority of
dumbed down America thinks socialism is communism, and actually think that finance capitalism
is friendly to them.
Democrats introduce their first bill in the House: H.R.1 – The bill that will destroy
America. Nationwide mail-in voting, banning restrictions on ballot harvesting, banning voter
ID, criminal voters,DC Statehood roadwork, it's all in here.
1) Internet-only registration with electronic signature submission.
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"(a) Requiring Availability Of Internet For Online Registration. -- Each State, acting
through the chief State election official, shall ensure that the following services are
available to the public at any time on the official public websites of the appropriate State
and local election officials in the State, in the same manner and subject to the same terms and
conditions as the services provided by voter registration agencies under section 7(a):
"(1) Online application for voter registration.
2) Banning the requirement to provide a full SSN for voter registration.
SEC. 1005. PROHIBITING STATE FROM REQUIRING APPLICANTS TO PROVIDE MORE THAN LAST 4 DIGITS OF
SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. (a) Form Included With Application For Motor Vehicle Driver's License.
-- Section 5(c)(2)(B)(ii) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C.
20504(c)(2)(B)(ii)) is amended by striking the semicolon at the end and inserting the
following: ", and to the extent that the application requires the applicant to provide a Social
Security number, may not require the applicant to provide more than the last 4 digits of such
number;".
Note that motor voter registration is how thousands of illegal became registered voters
in California and Nevada.
(2) DEFINITION. -- The term "automatic registration" means a system that registers an
individual to vote in elections for Federal office in a State, if eligible, by electronically
transferring the information necessary for registration from government agencies to election
officials of the State so that, unless the individual affirmatively declines to be registered,
the individual will be registered to vote in such elections.
4) 16 year olds required to be registered to vote.
(d) Treatment Of Individuals Under 18 Years Of Age. -- A State may not refuse to treat an
individual as an eligible individual for purposes of this part on the grounds that the
individual is less than 18 years of age at the time a contributing agency receives information
with respect to the individual, so long as the individual is at least 16 years of age at such
time. Nothing in the previous sentence may be construed to require a State to permit an
individual who is under 18 years of age at the time of an election for Federal office to vote
in the election.
"(1) REGISTRATION. -- Each State shall permit any eligible individual on the day of a
Federal election and on any day when voting, including early voting, is permitted for a Federal
election --
"(A) to register to vote in such election at the polling place using a form that meets the
requirements under section 9(b) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (or, if the
individual is already registered to vote, to revise any of the individual's voter registration
information); and
"(B) to cast a vote in such election.
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6) Grants ($25M) for using minors in election activities.
(1) IN GENERAL. -- The Election Assistance Commission (hereafter in this section referred to
as the "Commission") shall make grants to eligible States to enable such States to carry out a
plan to increase the involvement of individuals under 18 years of age in public election
activities in the State.
7) More children voters.
"(k) Acceptance Of Applications From Individuals Under 18 Years Of Age. --
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"(1) IN GENERAL. -- A State may not refuse to accept or process an individual's application
to register to vote in elections for Federal office on the grounds that the individual is under
18 years of age at the time the individual submits the application, so long as the individual
is at least 16 years of age at such time.
8) Prohibiting attempts to clean voter rolls of non-residents.
It's this whole section, but in particular, this part below basically says nobody is
allowed to request voter rolls to be cleaned up. ie: making it illegal to do what Tom Fitton
was doing.
"(1) REQUIREMENTS FOR CHALLENGES. -- No person, other than a State or local election
official, shall submit a formal challenge to an individual's eligibility to register to vote in
an election for Federal office or to vote in an election for Federal office unless that
challenge is supported by personal knowledge regarding the grounds for ineligibility which is
--
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9) Murderers and rapists can vote.
(1) NOTIFICATION. -- On the date determined under paragraph (2), each State shall notify in
writing any individual who has been convicted of a criminal offense under the law of that State
that such individual has the right to vote in an election for Federal office pursuant to the
Democracy Restoration Act of 2021 and may register to vote in any such election and provide
such individual with any materials that are necessary to register to vote in any such
election.
10) Mandatory early voting.
Note that I personally like early voting in Florida, but putting it here anyway.
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"(1) IN GENERAL. -- Each State shall allow individuals to vote in an election for Federal
office during an early voting period which occurs prior to the date of the election, in the
same manner as voting is allowed on such date.
11) THE BIG ONE – NATIONWIDE VOTE BY
MAIL, BAN ON BALLOT PROTECTION MEASURES, LEGALIZED LIMITLESS BALLOT HARVESTING.
"SEC. 307. PROMOTING ABILITY OF VOTERS TO VOTE BY MAIL.
"(a) Uniform Availability Of Absentee Voting To All Voters. --
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"(1) IN GENERAL. -- If an individual in a State is eligible to cast a vote in an election
for Federal office, the State may not impose any additional conditions or requirements on the
eligibility of the individual to cast the vote in such election by absentee ballot by mail.
"(2) ADMINISTRATION OF VOTING BY MAIL. --
"(A) PROHIBITING IDENTIFICATION REQUIREMENT AS CONDITION OF OBTAINING BALLOT. -- A State may
not require an individual to provide any form of identification as a condition of obtaining an
absentee ballot, except that nothing in this paragraph may be construed to prevent a State from
requiring a signature of the individual or similar affirmation as a condition of obtaining an
absentee ballot.
"(B) PROHIBITING REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE NOTARIZATION OR WITNESS SIGNATURE AS CONDITION OF
OBTAINING OR CASTING BALLOT. -- A State may not require notarization or witness signature or
other formal authentication (other than voter attestation) as a condition of obtaining or
casting an absentee ballot.
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"(2) PERMITTING VOTERS TO DESIGNATE OTHER PERSON TO RETURN BALLOT. -- The State --
"(A) shall permit a voter to designate any person to return a voted and sealed absentee
ballot to the post office, a ballot drop-off location, tribally designated building, or
election office so long as the person designated to return the ballot does not receive any form
of compensation based on the number of ballots that the person has returned and no individual,
group, or organization provides compensation on this basis; and
"(B) may not put any limit on how many voted and sealed absentee ballots any designated
person can return to the post office, a ballot drop off location, tribally designated building,
or election office.
12) Banning voter ID.
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"(1) IN GENERAL. -- Except as provided in subsection (c), if a State has in effect a
requirement that an individual present identification as a condition of receiving and casting a
ballot in an election for Federal office, the State shall permit the individual to meet the
requirement --
"(A) in the case of an individual who desires to vote in person, by presenting the
appropriate State or local election official with a sworn written statement, signed by the
individual under penalty of perjury, attesting to the individual's identity and attesting that
the individual is eligible to vote in the election; or
13) Roadwork for DC statehood and territory statehood.
I suspect that GloboCap will eventually – and in a very controlled fashion –
allow some normalcy to resume, once they're finished with the lesson of Covid lockdowns and
once they're convinced that the "domestic terrorist" propaganda is sufficiently internalized
by enough people to sustain a subtle but pervasive level of distrust, paranoia, and
suppression of dissent.
Thus, the illusion of democracy will return and the booboise will once again be permitted
their panem et circenses – sportsball matches, concerts, pubs, in-person
schooling, and art fairs – as long as GloboCap feels convinced that those things will
no longer be fertile ground for spreading populism.
The carrot will return, but the stick will now always be hanging like the sword of
Damocles.
I see occasional mentions of Goebbels, and his words about propaganda, like this from you,
Hoppy.
But Goebbels was just a baby in his mother's arms relative to our voter "democracy" for
which, unlike the original Athenian democracy, which beyond general assembly had
representatives elected by lot, has representatives elected by voters who are already victims
of propaganda.
The word "democracy" as used today it itself pure propaganda. Again and again America
commits naked aggression against distant countries while shouting "Democracy!" Totally fake,
pure propaganda, making Goebbels look like a child.
"... One of the authors cited Wall Street, banks and voting as examples of guaranteed fraud, because it's so easy – naive stupidity on our part knows no bounds. That includes me! It all took place under CIA watch! ..."
So what? Has there been any legal action actually being done against Dominion and the
election? How about some simple audited vote recounting? As I recall in 2016 Jill Stein had
both audits and recounts beginning two weeks after the election. Donald Trump hasn't done
anything other than golf.
Whining is just meant to stir us up because the deep staters really
want the right white wing to go hot. Can you imagine how sad they would be if their planned
color flag revolution violent stage mean't they would have to kill off some of their
miscreant human assets? All that work down the drain because of some damn stubborn white
people.
For the record, I really want to be wrong on this.
First, I want to thank a commenter on another site last week who provided a link to Gary
North's report on computerized electoral fraud – talk about making ballot stuffing easy
and hard to prove!
So I posted this thread in DaLimbraw Library – https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2020/11/beyond-shameful-why-it-all-developed.html?m=0
– it shows that it goes back decades to the 60's. In fact, DaBastahds who understood
computer systems were salivating to start computerized voting fraud almost immediately and
improved their techniques constantly to this day.
Shit, any dummy with basic coding skills could probably do it! North has documented
examples.
One whistleblower, for example, asserts that Pat Buchanan was gypped in the 96 AZ primary in
favor of Dole – computerized 'glitches'?
We've all heard 'Garbage in-garbage out' – if you think about it, considering the
intelligence of the average voting dumbquat, it would be impossible NOT to have computerized
fraud – undetected!
Most of us trust those screens we stare at – forgetting totally that we're being
programmed to trust them – while being manipulated.
Did you ever notice the 'coincidence' of computer dependent fraud in three institutions?
One of the authors cited Wall Street, banks and voting as examples of guaranteed fraud,
because it's so easy – naive stupidity on our part knows no bounds. That includes
me!
It all took place under CIA watch!
How can you conduct a successful audit or recount when the secret ballots were separated
from the envelops they came in when they were opened? There is no way to tell who the
individual voters voted for. That's why democrats insisted on mail-in ballots, using the
(deadly?) corona virus as their excuse. It seems that voting at the polls on election day is
for republican chumps. BTW, Jill Stein's recounts in 2016 went nowhere.
"... "The debate over whether or not there was fraud should occur. We never had any presentation in court where we ever looked at the evidence..." ..."
"... '75% of Republicans want to look at election integrity,' Paul responds. Stephanopoulos responds by saying that those 75% agree with him because they were "fed a big lie" from the President. ..."
"... Paul pushed back, telling Stephanopoulos: "You immediately say everything's a lie instead of saying there's two sides to everything. Historically what would happen is if I said I thought there was fraud, you'd interview someone else who said there wasn't. But now you insert yourself in the middle and say that the absolute fact is that everything I'm saying is a lie." ..."
"... You gotta ask the question of Rand here though, even as a lone voice of reason that Rand Paul is he and the Trump supporting Senators failed the Republic. They needed to push forward and introduce the Election Fraud evidence after the Jan. 6 planned interruption of the evidence hearing. Why didn't the Election fraud evidence get its day in front of Congress? The Fraud needed to be part of the historical record, and it was not. ..."
"... South Philly judge of elections admits he took bribes to stuff the ballot box for Democratic candidates ..."
"... The problem is that there are only a few decent human beings in the Republic leadership who are not entirely in the pocket of the RNC, which is entirely in the pocket of the globalists. ..."
"... The MSM has given up the pretense of being journalists. They are full-fledged propagandist attack dogs and proud of it. ..."
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) took to ABC on Sunday morning with George Stephanopoulos to discuss
election integrity of the 2020 election, in a discussion which immediately devolved into an
inquisition during which Paul was repeatedly pressed to disavow clams that the election was
stolen.
Paul not only pushed back -- he put Stephanopoulos in his place, accusing the host of
'inserting yourself in the middle' and 'forgetting who you are as a journalist.'
Stephanopoulos began by asking Paul to admit the "election was not stolen" -- to which Paul
responded by saying "The debate over whether or not there was fraud should occur. We never had
any presentation in court where we ever looked at the evidence..."
Paul continued: "There were several states in which the law was changed by the Secretary of
State and not the state legislature. To me those are clearly unconstitutional and I think
there's still a chance those do finally work their way up to the Supreme Court."
"No election is perfect," Stephanopoulos shot back , telling Paul there were "86 challenges
filed by President Trump, all were dismissed". As Paul tries to argue that many cases were
dismissed for lack of standing and not due to examination of evidence, Stephanopoulos responds:
" Can't you just say the words 'this election wasn't stolen'? "
'75% of Republicans want to look at election integrity,' Paul responds. Stephanopoulos
responds by saying that those 75% agree with him because they were "fed a big lie" from the
President.
Paul pushed back, telling Stephanopoulos: "You immediately say everything's a lie instead of
saying there's two sides to everything. Historically what would happen is if I said I thought
there was fraud, you'd interview someone else who said there wasn't. But now you insert
yourself in the middle and say that the absolute fact is that everything I'm saying is a
lie."
"You're saying there's no fraud and it's all been investigated and that's just not true,"
Paul continues, with Stephanopoulos arguing at the same time. Paul then goes into specifics,
detailing irregularities in states in like Wisconsin. "I plan on spending the next two years
going around, state to state, fixing these problems," Paul continues. "Let's have an open
debate. It's a free country!"
"There has been no thorough examination of all states to see what problems we had and see if
we could fix them," Paul says, responding to Stephanopoulos' claims that Bill Barr pronounced
there was "no widespread election fraud".
"There's two sides to every story," Paul says. "Interview someone on the other side, but
don't insert yourself into the story to say we're all liars."
"You're forgetting who you are as a journalist if you think there's only one side," Paul
says. "A journalist would hear both sides and there are two sides to this story."
Election integrity aside, Paul has been a vocal critic of the Biden administration in recent
days . On Saturday,
we noted Paul's interview with Fox host Sean
Hannity, where he pummeled the Biden administration's decision to push for a $15 minimum wage
increase that could put 4 million people out of work - leading the Kentucky Republican to
exclaim:
"'Why does Joe Biden hate Black teenagers?' ... Why does Joe Biden want to destroy all of
these jobs?"
Paul comments come amid ramblings from various leftist economists who insist that there's no
impact on employment from such a drastic minimum wage hike...
...common sense (and historical experience) for anyone who has ever run an actual business
is that raising costs on the lowest-skilled workers in your organization will ripple all the
way up, forcing either higher prices to the end-user (eradicating the 'living wage'
improvement) and or forcing layoffs as management hold margins and reduce costs (the
least-skilled first).
Historically speaking, the black unemployment rate is twice that of whites , while minimum
wage increases - as we've shown repeatedly over the last week - correlate with spikes in job
losses just about every single time.
That's not an "alternative" fact, that's the awkward reality of 'unintended consequences'
from nanny-state intervention write large for the last 70 years.
Paul also blasted Biden for
canceling the Keystone XL oil pipeline:
"It's kind of a strange beginning to an administration," Paul said. "You're going to put your best foot forward and the first thing you say is, 'This is how
I'm going to kill jobs' ... 'I'm going to kill thousands of jobs of the Keystone pipeline
with ending it.'"
Explanation : There are multiple ways to commit election fraud using Dominion systems but
the most efficient manner is the full spectrum two-step process.
First at the adjudication step -- effectively covered in the data scientists' presentation
on Georgia video -- massive ballot flipping and with the previous ballot images deleted, no
trail remains.
Secondly at the tabulator stage (GEMS software, covered in detail in the Fractional Magic
video) ----- so ballots which were not adjudicated, and in some counties 90% went to the
adjudication process, proceeded to the tabulation step where they could be
fractionalized.
Boing_Snap 20 minutes ago
You gotta ask the question of Rand here though, even as a lone voice of reason that Rand
Paul is he and the Trump supporting Senators failed the Republic. They needed to push forward
and introduce the Election Fraud evidence after the Jan. 6 planned interruption of the
evidence hearing. Why didn't the Election fraud evidence get its day in front of Congress? The Fraud needed to be part of the historical record, and it was not.
nmewn 2 hours ago (Edited)
George Stephanopoulos: "There was not enough fraud to..."
Oh. So thats how the Leftardian brain works! Thank you Georgie boi. You now admit to voter fraud whereby legitimate votes were cancelled out by the fraud but
it is your opinion that there was not enough fraud for it to matter. Never again do I want to hear this little runt of the litter yapping "Every vote
matters!"
Feck Weed 2 hours ago
That's the fallback, the "widespread" qualifier.
Cheapie 1 hour ago
Yes, "Mostly honest election."
dark_matter 15 minutes ago
Just like mostly peaceful protestors as the buildings burn.
Zero-Hegemon 2 hours ago
Yes, "just enough" fraud to cover for Traitor Joe, but NOT ENOUGH to warrant a look into
the allegations. You got his number.
Samual Vimes 2 hours ago
South Philly judge of elections admits he took bribes to stuff the ballot box for
Democratic candidates
Public schools have zero tolerance for 'bullying' (that definition has been broadened to
irrelevance) or acting out for grade schools kids who barely have the ability to control
themselves... but SOME election fraud is ok. Shining examples of values-driven integrity.
FluTangClan 2 hours ago
Stephanopoulos is Bill Clinton's lapdog. He's not a journalist. He's a democratic party
operative and always has been. He's a warmonger dwarf. He was there for banging interns with cigars. He was there for Vince
Foster...
I would say Rand Paul is one of the few Republicans who is not corrupted. He's not perfect
either, but he seems to be one of a handful who tries to do something he promised to his
voters. As you point out, the problem isn't that there are a few RINOs. The problem is that
there are only a few decent human beings in the Republic leadership who are not entirely in
the pocket of the RNC, which is entirely in the pocket of the globalists.
Wards 1 and 2, all districts, 'normal' results with Trump around 5-15% (he officially won
12% of the black vote and 18% of the black male vote nationwide).
Ward 3 district 1.....and the next few hundred districts in Wards 3, 4, 5, etc.....98%+
D.
Stolen votes. Mostly black men's votes.
Then do Detroit. Same thing, a 'buffer page' or two of normal looking results and then bam
98+% D.
Simple corruption, simple cheating.
NOW we can talk about the chain of custody of the mail-in 'thingies' and the security of
the electronic systems.....but only if you can admit the bald truth in the DNC machine
cities.
The MSM has given up the pretense of being journalists. They are full-fledged propagandist attack dogs and proud of it.
Handful of Dust 2 hours ago (Edited)
One problem Georgie and his Demorat pals have, is the 100 million people who listened to
the State Legislative hearings with Rudy where hundreds of witnesses came forward with
credible evidence of fraud. Then there are the video segments of evidence of fraud. Then you have a dozen of the world's top forensic data people coming from all over
including forensic teams from Wall Street who testified "there is zero probability Biden
could have gotten those numbers."
Inconvenient facts that provide overwhelming proof of fraud. That's why Dems are still in
a tizzy and have 50,000 soldiers and police protecting His Majesty Biden...but this is not
going away from what Rand Paul says.
"Da peeples love me so much I need 15 platoons of soldiers for protection," Pol Pot yelled
to the rabble below his bullet-proof, bomb-proof balcony.
Rattling Bones 2 hours ago
How come Stephanopoulos can't say the words 'there was no Russian collusion'?
Demologos 2 hours ago
He enjoys his nice fat paycheck for looking the other way.
That Old Magic 2 hours ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not
understanding it ." ― Upton Sinclair
philmannwright 2 hours ago
George is not a journalist puhlease everyone knows that. He is the el chapito of the dem
media
FluTangClan 2 hours ago
Thank you. He was on Bill Clinton's staff. He was a happy part of bombing Iraqi babies,
bombing Yugoslavia, bombing phkn Sudan based on internet searches. He has zero credibility.
His credibility is buried with Vince Foster.
adr 2 hours ago (Edited)
They can never allow the evidence to be presented because it is overwhelming proof of
fraud. If there was no fraud, then there would be no harm in having evidence presented in
court. The absolute proof of fraud is the number of adjudicated ballots. Were 68% of people in
Georgia really incompetent enough to not know how to fill out a ballot.
The other irrefutable fact is that the state of PA did not follow an order from the US
supreme court to separate ballots received after election day. Also in Philadelphia election
officials destroyed the envelopes so they could not be matched with ballots.
Even if Biden really did win those two states, which he didn't, the actions of the
election supervisors invalidated the election. The only recourse was to have a new election
in disputed states.
headless blogger 1 hour ago (Edited)
Plus, Paul is not the best person to make the case for the American people on election
integrity, as he isn't even an attorney. He can't debate the issue properly which allows the
Psy-ops operators like Steph to out maneuver him.
People need FACTS, which so far the election integrity researchers are not providing in a
logical and chronological format. The PSY OPS operation that pulled off the Coup, are smooth
operators and are now able to clean up any loose ends with their media.
What needs to happen is an independent investigation that can present the findings in a
way that people understand. As it is, they keep screaming election fraud, but aren't providing details in an orderly
manner so nobody can really get a grip on what happened.....
....which is the hallmark of a psy-ops operation; they don't want you to be able to
process what happened logically and chronologically.
yerfej 43 minutes ago
No, they have implemented a very good long term strategy to take over the positions of
power. Academia is a good example where they own it and now have the ability to pollute minds
rather than get students to look at all sides of the equation. That doesn't do anyone outside
of the elites any good. Reality is its not a left vs. right thing, its the common people vs.
the elites.
rkb100100 2 hours ago
"No election is perfect" - that'll be carved on the countries tombstone.
Lost in translation 1 hour ago
Blows my mind that people forget so quickly how he turned - or just overlook it - and
continue in the foolish belief "Rand is one of the good guys!"
People reveal themselves in a crisis. Rand certainly did...
TruthAbsolute 1 hour ago
of course there was election fraud...and the democrats have set up a system that protects
them well. All the way up to the judicial system and if not their judge then families are
threaten. There is is no integrity in politics, these people are not honest or very, very few
of them! They are not working for the people but ultimately for themselves and their life
treasure chess! USA has become very Evil minded!
Jam 1 hour ago remove link
Nice to see Paul not backing down, someone in politics still has a backbone and can tell
it like it is besides Trump.
They should iether explain proven anomalies or shut up Jan 23, 2021
The burden of proof remains upon those claiming the election was honest to provide
irrefutable evidence to support the claim.
Presidential vote fraud is immaterial, anyway, because the US Constitution empowers each
State Legislature to assign Electoral College Electors any way they so choose. If State
Legislatures choose their Electors according to the fake results from fake elections, that is
their Constitutional right to do so. Even if the States pass laws to the contrary, if they
choose not to prosecute their own lawbreaking, the outcome is the same: whatever the State
Legislatures want or tolerate irregardless of votes from the People. Constitutionally,
Presidential elections are decided by votes of the People for their respective State
Legislators, you remember, those nameless, low-paid, locally elected State Representatives and
State Senators. 1 0 Reply
Bill Beeby , Jan 23, 2021 9:41 AM
Trump was the perfect catalyst for this to happen it would seem and he is well out of it.
Old Joe has some tough times ahead and compared to Trump he is a pushover.
@83. The world just witnessed TOTAL collusion between big business and a so called left
government, right here in the USof A. Did u really just come here and say fascism is from the
right only. Wow dude yer seriously bent. Happy to be wrong. If u didnt say that then please
explain what you ment.
The Illusion of Democracy: Government by the Rich for the Even RicherPart 17 of
'Elephants in the room' series By Rod Driver Global Research, January 22,
2021 Region: Europe ,
USA Theme: History
"Democracy has little meaning when big business rules the life of the country through its
control of the means of production, exchange, transportation, and communication, reinforced by
command of the press, press agents and other means of publicity and propaganda". (US
philosopher John Dewey(1))
Different systems of government have been tried in different countries over the years, but
it is sometimes said that democracy is the least-worst method of running a country.(2)
Democracy is supposed to mean 'rule by the people', where everyone has a say in how their
country is run, and having real influence over decisions that affect their lives. In theory,
everyone has an equal voice in shaping policy. There was a time, between approximately
1950-1970, that democracy in Britain and the US seemed to be working. In Britain the government
created the National Health Service. The US made significant progress with civil rights. The
gap between the rich and the poor (inequality) in both countries decreased tremendously.
However, wealthy people and business leaders did not like the high taxes, which peaked at 98%
in the UK, so they worked hard behind the scenes to change things. In the 1980s US President
Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher began a trend that is still
continuing. They gave more and more power to big companies, and took less and less tax from the
rich. Inequality in both countries has returned to levels that we have not seen since early
last century,(3) and life for poor people has become harder and harder. This post and the next
one will explain the main problems with US and British democracy.
Political Capture
In practice, it is not too difficult for wealthy and powerful people and organisations to
create a system that gives the appearance of democracy but does not really give ordinary people
much say. Having a vote once every few years is not genuine democracy if the candidates are too
similar. In his book entitled 'Tragedy and Hope', Carroll Quigley explained that what America
needed was a system where:
"The two parties should be almost identical so that the American people can 'throw the
rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in
policy"(4)
This has been called 'faux' (false) democracy.(5) The US and Britain are good examples of
this. The US has the Democratic and the Republican parties. Britain has the Labour and the
Conservative parties. For some years now there has been little difference on key policies
between the two main parties in each country.(6) Supposedly left-wing parties have moved
further and further to the right. This means that many of their policies are intended to
benefit big companies and the rich. The British parties became so similar that the former
Labour leader, Tony Blair , and the former Conservative leader, David Cameron , were described
as clones of each other.(7) In the US, Wikileaks released emails showing that the Democrats'
Presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton , was paid over $600,000 for 3 speeches to Goldman
Sachs bankers explaining that her true policies, in favour of big business, and her public
statements, are not the same.(8) This is called political capture.
In both countries there have also been few practical differences in foreign policy. In
particular, both parties in each country have committed war crimes. The Russian leader, Stalin,
said after World War Two that the Labour party were more conservative than the Conservatives
when it came to preserving the British ruling class's interests abroad.(9) Iraq was destroyed
when Labour were in power, Libya was destroyed when the Conservatives were in power. In the US,
a former official of the National Security Agency compared US President Bush (Republican) and
his staff to the Corleone mafia family from the movie The Godfather.(10) Obama (Democrat) was
just as criminal and started multiple wars. The same applies to all recent presidents,
whichever party they are from. Even President Carter (Democrat), who was thought to be much
more moderate about foreign intervention, was President when Afghanistan was de-stabilised by
the CIA in 1979, leading to the creation of al-Qaeda (see earlier post on terrorism).
The extent of political capture has recently become clearer, as evidence has shown that the
people who run the UK Labour Party, and the people who run the US Democratic Party,
deliberately worked against politicians who wanted a fairer society. In the US they rigged the
internal elections to make sure that Bernie Sanders did not become their Presidential
candidate. In Britain, Jeremy Corbyn successfully became the leader of the Labour Party, but
insiders actively undermined him when he tried to become Prime Minister.
The existing form of government in the US should really be called plutocracy, which means a
country governed by the wealthy. The same is true, to a slightly lesser extent, in Britain.
Various commentators have indicated that the extreme form of capitalism we have today, known as
neoliberalism, where excessive wealth is concentrated into a few hands, and the rich have
significant influence over politics, is incompatible with genuine democracy.(11)
Companies write our laws
Many laws are heavily influenced by big companies. (This was discussed in the previous post
on lobbying). Some laws are even written by corporate lawyers. As one commentator wrote about
the US:
"Monsanto writes agricultural and food policy; ExxonMobil writes energy and foreign policy
and Goldman Sachs writes financial policy for the federal government."(12)
Up until 2016 there was an attempt to create what was known as the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade
and Investment Partnership).(13) This was an immensely powerful set of regulations being made
by, and for the benefit of, big business. This was described as a trade agreement, but it is
more accurate to call it an agreement about the rights of investors. A key part of the TTIP is
that an international company could sue a government because they might lose profits in the
future due to new laws. The system would bypass existing legal systems, and be heard in a
secret court that is heavily biased towards the companies. The effect of this would be to stop
governments introducing new legislation to protect the environment, worker rights, safety
standards or food standards. Public pressure stopped the TTIP, but similar rules already exist
in some trade agreements, and they have seriously affected the ability of governments to
regulate corporations. Corporate lobbyists will continue to pursue this type of agreement,
which is intended to undermine democracy.
Many senior regulators come from the companies that are being regulated. These people see
the world from the point of view of those companies. In 2008 there was a global financial
crisis. It became clear that banks were engaged in widespread fraudulent activity that created
serious instability. The main financial regulators in Britain and the US did not see their role
as 'policing' corrupt financiers. They saw their role as enabling financiers to achieve their
goals. The government had deliberately structured the regulator in this way. Experts from
business helped the government write the laws and regulations in the first place. This is known
as regulatory capture. Following the crisis, it was widely expected that new laws would be
introduced to limit the activities of banks and other financial companies. Whilst there have
been some changes, rules that might seriously limit the ability of banks to defraud everyone
have not been introduced.
In the US, up until 2017, the internet companies were regulated by the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC). There was regular criticism of the FCC that it had been
captured by the biggest companies that it was supposed to regulate.(14) Those companies
successfully lobbied politicians to change the system so that in future, some parts of their
business will be regulated by a different regulator that has significantly less power, and less
expertise, than the FCC.(15) The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is notorious for failing
to properly regulate pharmaceutical companies,(16) and Donald Trump re-structured the
Environmental Protection Agency (FDA) deliberately to serve corporate interests.(17)
The propaganda role of the media in perpetuating the illusion of democracy
There have been a number of recent scandals in Britain where contributors making generous
political donations were given honours, such as Knighthoods.(18) The media rightly criticised
this. However, this is a good example of how media propaganda works. They criticise a trivial
aspect of the system, but do not discuss the much deeper problems with the whole political
system, which is much more important than the knighthoods.
Any observer of US politics can see that the two parties are extremely similar and that the
elections in the US have become a form of theatre, where the media turn elections into an
immense spectacle lasting for years, knowing that there is little difference between the two
main parties on the key issues. The same is now true in Britain. The mainstream media play an
essential role in 2 main ways. Firstly, they maintain the charade that we live in a genuine
democracy and rarely discuss the problems with the system explained in these posts. Secondly,
they destroy the reputations of anyone who challenges the system, such as Jeremy Corbyn or
Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange, by repeatedly smearing them.
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Rod Driver is a part-time academic who is particularly interested in de-bunking
modern-day US and British propaganda. This is the seventeenth in a series entitled Elephants In
The Room, which attempts to provide a beginners guide to understanding what's really going on
in relation to war, terrorism, economics and poverty, without the nonsense in the mainstream
media.
The option of stopping the rise of Trumpism by changing the system has been taken off the
table. Instead, people are being asked to debate the pros and cons of giving more powers to
that same corrupt system which created Trump.
The US political/media class have been pushing hard for more authoritarian policies
to stave off the threat of "domestic terrorism" in the wake of the Capitol riot.
President Biden, who was already
working on rolling out new domestic terrorism policies well before January 6, confirmed after the riot
that he is making these new measures a priority. Political internet censorship is becoming
increasingly normalized , anti-protest
bills are being passed , and now we're
seeing liberals encouraged to form "digital
armies" to spy on Trump supporters to report them to the authorities.
And an amazingly large percentage of the US population seems to have no problem with any of
this, even in sectors of the political spectrum that should really know better by now.
"What else can we do?" they reason. "What other solution could there possibly be
to the threat of dangerous fascists and conspiracy theorists continuing to gain power and
influence?"
Well there's a whole lot that can be done, and none of it includes consenting to sweeping
new Patriot Act-like authoritarian measures or encouraging monopolistic Silicon Valley
plutocrats to censor worldwide political speech. There's just a whole lot of mass-scale
narrative manipulation going on to keep it from being obvious to everyone.
The way to stem the tide of Trumpism (or fascism, or white supremacism, or Trump cultism, or
whatever term you use for what you're worried about here) is to eliminate the conditions which
created it.
Trump was only able to launch his successful faux-populist campaign in the first place by
exploiting the widespread pre-existing opinion that there was a swamp that needed draining, a
corrupt political system whose leadership does not promote the interests of the people.
Conspiracy theories only exist because the government often does evil things and lies about
them with the help of the
mass media, forcing people to just guess what's happening behind the opaque wall of government
secrecy.
People only get it in their heads that they need a trustworthy strongman to overhaul the
system if the system has failed them.
People who are actually interested in ending Trumpism would be promoting an end to the
corruption in the political system, an end to the opacity of their government, an end to their
uniquely awful electoral
system , and an end to the neoliberal policies
which have been making Americans poorer and poorer with less and less support from the
government which purports to protect them.
But these changes are not being promoted by the US political/media class, because the US
political/media class speaks for an empire that depends on these things.
Without corruption, the plutocratic class couldn't use campaign donations and corporate
lobbying to install
and maintain politicians who will advance their interests.
Without government secrecy, the oligarchic empire could not conspire in secret to advance
the military and economic agendas which form the glue that holds the empire together.
Without a lying mass media, people's consent could not be manufactured for wars and a system which does not serve
their interests.
Without widespread poverty and domestic austerity, people could not be kept too busy and
politically impotent to challenge the massive political influence of the plutocrats.
So the option of stopping the rise of Trumpism by changing the system is taken off the
table, which is why you never hear it discussed as a possibility in mainstream circles. The
only option people are being offered to debate the pros and cons of is giving more powers to
that same corrupt system which created Trump, powers which will be under the control of the
next Trumpian figure who is elevated by that very system.
You're not going to prevent fascism by creating a big authoritarian monster to stomp it into
silence, and even if you could you would only be stopping the fascism by becoming the fascism.
To stop the rise of fascism you need to actually change. Drastically. Believing you can just
make it go away without changing your situation is like believing you can avert an oncoming
train by putting your hands over your eyes.
There is no valid argument against what I am saying here. Saying the powerful won't allow
any positive change is just confirming everything I'm saying and confirming the need to remove
the powerful from power. Saying that ending corruption, government secrecy and injustice would
just be giving the terrorists what they want would be turning yourself into a bootlicker of
such cartoonish obsequiousness there aren't words in the English language adequate to mock
you.
Yes, change is desperately needed. Yes, the powerful will resist that change with everything
they have. But the alternative is letting them plunge the world into darkness and destruction.
We're going to have to find a way to win this thing .
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Paul Ericson 1 day ago 22 Jan, 2021 09:59 PM
Trumpism doesn't really exist, because Trump doesn't really subscribe to all the mythical
traits his enemies claim for him. He did however expose the ground-level Americans' resentment
of corporate USA and radical liberal USA working them over and wanting to make patsies of them.
I'm quite happy to support a real Trumpism if it ever comes along, just as I support Putin.
Neither are ideal but are at least appreciative of the instincts of the worker and the patriot.
jayjm1138 Paul Ericson 13 hours ago 23 Jan, 2021 03:33 PM
Very well stated. The so-called "Trumpism" was just people rallying around one figure who was
outside of the establishment dictatorship. Trump was far from perfect, but he proved that the
establishment will not tolerate anyone who goes even slightly against them. Those who did not
support Trump have no right to complain about authoritarianism now. Trump warned them what was
coming and they did not care.
Jewel Gyn 1 day ago 23 Jan, 2021 12:44 AM
Politics is about saying what voters want to hear but do otherwise after you won. This is
bipartisan and folks must realise the policies are often not for people but to perpetrate the
narratives disguised as pro US.
By 8 January 2021, Mitch McConnell had determined he would not permit the Senate to try
Trump until 19 January 2021 or later. He ruled that the Senate could not convene for special
session unless all 100 Senators formally agreed; he maintained that ruling consistently,
through 19 January 2021. By 10 January 2021, House majority Whip James Clyburn suggested the
House may not deliver articles of impeachment to the Senate until after Biden has been in
Office 100 days.
Not until today, 20 January 2021, did Pelosi deliver articles of impeachment to the Senate.
The same day, McConnell said: (a) the Senate will receive the House managers at noon ET
Thursday, 21 January, when the managers will present and exhibit the articles; (b) at 2:00 PM
21 January, Chief Justice John Roberts will be escorted into the Senate chamber and swear in
all senators; (c) the impeachment articles' trial will begin Tuesday, 26 January.
Until 20 or 21 January, the Senate majority would remain Republican; and a GOP-majority
Senate would not only acquit Trump but also impeach, strongly, the articles of impeachment. So,
why did Mitch McConnell block early Senate trial? Two possible intersecting reasons:
has
said Trump fed the "mob" lies to provoke the mob to use violence to prevent Congress's
certification of Biden's election.] (b) If trial occurs (as it will) when the Democrats
control the Senate, a conviction might seem a Democrat-framed lynching -- not the GOP's
traitorous assassination of Trump's "populism" and his political career.
I do not suggest such reasons are wise, logical, or even rational, but possibly real.
McConnell is a crafty, dissembling, unscrupulous pseudo-aristocrat, but no Socrates or
Aristotle.
"Liberal" and "moderate" Democrats, never-Trump Republicans,"The Squad, " the "Deep State"
-- the nation's whole jumble of psychopathic and otherwise-psychically-ill "Elite," "woke,"
anti-"White"/anti-male/anti-meritocracy/sexually-deviant members -- all share one mantra :
Trump and populism are evil, inimical to "Democracy" and the "culture," "morality," and "public
interests" of the U.S. Populism must be extinguished. Never again may Trump "hold and enjoy any
Office or honor, Trust or Profit under the United States" [U.S. Constitution Article I § 3
clause 7].
Why ought anyone care?
I voted twice for Trump, the second time (2020) merely because he was the lesser evil. In
2016, Trump promised more than a few moves that would have bettered the nation, e.g.
,
Trump meant and honored some promises -- at least partly. But others -- (a), (b), (f), (h),
(i), and (k) -- were bad jokes. His Israel policy was evil. He railed against growing
impairment of free speech. But his concern was mostly his own freedom of expression; and he
failed to do anything substantial toward restoring the general public's freedom of speech. He
continued, and worsened, Obama's persecution of Julian Assange and Bradley ["Chelsea"] Manning.
Edward Snowden remains exiled. Trump has pardoned or commuted sentence of tens of nefarious
criminals, but not Assange, Manning, or Snowden.
Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, George W Bush, and Obama supported the
illegal "state" called Israel. But Trump lifted Israel-support, and, concomitantly, anti-Iran
policy to insane levels. Trump's Israel-related domestic policy included design of blocking or
impeding first-amendment-protected speech and assembly that opposes Israel's genocidal
persecution of Palestinians. Trump rendered formal equation of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism
and sought to outlaw the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement.
So, why ought we care whether, after Trump is not President, the Senate tries the articles
of impeachment of Trump and rules that Trump shall not "hold and enjoy any Office or honor,
Trust or Profit under the United States"? Why ought we care even whether simply the Senate
tries the articles of impeachment but acquits Trump?
Trump's 2016 election suggested a true populist might become President -- not a closet
"Elite," but one who would resist the Elites and the Deep State, not surround himself with
snakes of the swamp. If the Senate tries Trump and rules that Trump shall not "hold and enjoy
any Office or honor, Trust or Profit under the United States" because Trump and his supporters
exercised their First Amendment freedom of speaking and assembling to support populism and
protest a corrupt election, speech and assembly freedoms will cease and near-certainly no
capable, electable populist will run for the Presidency.
But that consideration is subsumed in another, greater, more vital, fundamental
concern. We have a federal Constitution. Every federal legislator and judge promises, by oath,
not to act contrary to that Constitution. Every federal judge must promise this: "I solemnly
swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right
to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform
all the duties incumbent upon me under the Constitution and laws of the United States."
...You live in a totalitarian state with arbitrary power.
Your government has three branches: CIA, CIA, and CIA. They infest every other corner of
your government with spies. Until you can accept this you will be an irrelevant muppet
writing bullshit.
... ... ...
4. Every jew ever involved in health care fraud over the past 100 years
If you might be a Trump supporter, just stop. Trump was an incompetent fraud. And Biden
(well his handlers really), will be very competent and will soon make you feel the sting of
systemic punishment.
Everyone can claim some African ancestry. Suggest you get familiar with the process real
quick
Back in 1987, as a young political science major, my constitutional law professor made us
attend a lecture by a visiting scholar on the 200th anniversary of the Constitutional
Convention. I cannot remember who the lecturer was, but I do recall one phrase he used that
has stuck in my mind ever since: the Constitution only works if we have a "constitutional
frame of mind." In other words, the Constitution reflected the culture and the attitudes of
its authors. Today, elites in both parties could give a damn about the Constitution. They
simply ignore the Constitution when it suits them -- or, conversely, use it as a club to
bludgeon their enemies when it suits them.
Today we are reduced to parsing the language of the Constitution because nobody is really
committed to the upholding the culture and the attitudes that informed it when it was
written. Therefore it has become meaningless.
The president must dance to the tune of the bankers and assorted oligarchs who actually
control the US. They enjoy confusing the common people with changing rhetoric and theater,
but at the end of the day, the president is little more than a figurehead, and the policies
remain largely the same. Many do not realize that the Obama administration deported some
2,750,000 illegals.. Under Trump it was only 935,000. Foreign wars? Police brutality? the
rich getting richer? Prison industrial complex? decimation of the middle class? endless
currency debasement? these things are consistent regardless, because they represent the
interests of the actual rulers. The red candidate throws a bone to the "conservatives", the
blue candidate throws a bone to the socialists, but the policy makers continue from one
administration to the next. The last president who tried to stand up to the powers that be
was JFK . and look what they did to him.
Tucker Carlson said Monday or Tuesday night on his show that McConnell warned Trump not to
pardon Assange, and he held the impeachment over Trump's head.
Swampington has gone rogue. I have a feeling that during much of Trump's presidency the
threat of impeachment loomed large, and maybe worse.
Look at Sessions, recusing himself and cowering in the corner. Barr comes in and does
diddly squat. The Durham investigation was a very long joke.
Two years of the Mueller Commission (when everybody in the know knew it was a pack of
lies), spying, leaking, abuse of the FISA Court, Kavanaugh, impeachment over Ukraine, Covid,
Antifa, BLM, stolen election ..never-ending chaos.
These corrupt clowns will do whatever the hell they please. They are the law now. If they
do end up following the law, it will only be because the destruction they've caused already
will be deemed to be enough.
With the federal judiciary's corrupt or cowardly treatment of legitimate
election-result challenges, the federal judiciary has shown it has abnegated its
constitutional duty and will incline to commit impeachable offenses to avoid resisting the
Elites' and the Deep State's subjugation of the People. The Supreme Court has shown that
five or more pseudo-aristocrat judges (two Democrats, three or more Republicans) align with
the Elites and the Deep State. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is correct. The People are
suffering a revolution wrought by the "Establishment" (of the Elites and the Deep
State).
I would say that they are more cowardly than corrupt.
They know that if they supported Trump's legitimate (good evidence) questioning of the
election result, they would personally be in big trouble, so the Supreme Court is really not
a Supreme Court at all – it's a piece of establishment window dressing – same as
the rest of the hollowed out US Democratic institutions.
Real power in the US lies with the ZioGlob deep state and their MSM, the military
(whichever way they turn), and the 72 million US gun owners (whatever they decide to do).
There's also the aspect of real military power outside the US (Russia and China) that could
be brought to bear, and would be potentially decisive. Accepted that some of these are
TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) scenarios but that seems to be how it is.
Genuine Democracy isn't coming back to the US any time soon.
@Beavertales at, do you really think Trump will discuss anything that went on in private?
He is not the type to write a memoir.
And some of the most bizarre decisions he made while POTUS were as a result of "advice"
from his favourite daughter Ivanka and her repellant husband. Ann Coulter has an article
where she lists the boneheaded decisions Trump made on "advice" from the two incompetent
rich-kids..
This short video is very indicative of the stupidity of Ivanka: she is so stupid, that she
can't even see the contempt these politicians have for her, and sticks around like a bad
smell:
[French Government Posts Video Of Ivanka Trump At G-20 Summit | NBC News]
McConnell must, not maybe, must be the first person to go if the Republican Senate has any
chance of surviving in a way that serves conservative interests. He has been positively of
Zero support to president Trumps four years in office, only giving lip service to the
interests of the issues the presidents supporters wanted addressed.. For four long years,
McConnell was an expert at bringing every advance, or potential advance in conservative
interests to naught. He however, had no problemo at all in taking advantage of President
Trumps popularity with conservative voters, when his re-election was in doubt. Maybe his
middle name should be Mitt.
@anonymous ChiComs -- from whence In Laws $ all arises . McConnell shows the country is
totally sold out to the ChiComs and in fact "governed" by them -- the rest of Congrassholes
are about the same with various "spies" working them, having sex with them, and screwing us
-- the USA is an occupied country via IsraHell and the Chinese Communists -- very, very bad
days are ahead and most in the USA are moron mask wearers who actually believe the filthy
pieces of cloth do something for their "health" contrary to all actual 41 Medical Studies to
date which state the opposite -- truly Maskholing was an IQ test and the country failed to
reach even the level of "Moron". Easy to steal an election when dealing with Maskhole Morons.
Sad all are being pulled down by them .
@Aardvark you are charged by the Feds you will be railroaded, innocence means zero once
you are charged and all the "Judge" cares about is getting you to plead guilty and move the
case, you will be grossly overcharged to force this to happen and the Judge will glare at you
and let you know he hates you if you go forward -- unless you are a Leftist Political hack or
"activist" then you will be cut loose and probably never even charged ."justice" Roberts is
the "model" -- his rulings in Obamacare etc. show he has no care for the actual "law" at all
-- all the other Federal "judges" follow his example .The best thing that could happen to the
USA is for the end of the Federal Courts, DOJ, and FBI -- all are Enemies Of The People --
get involved with them and find out.
@FoSquare The works of Plato and Aristotle have had much influence on the modern view of
the "sophist" as a greedy instructor who uses rhetorical sleight-of-hand and ambiguities of
language in order to deceive, or to support fallacious reasoning. In this view, the sophist
is not concerned with truth and justice, but instead seeks power.
Societies that value truth but recognize the difficulties involved in discovering it also
put value on freedom of expression. Those interested in power for its own sake, not so much.
Unfortunately the power mongers always have the advantage of moral certainty. For them Alinsky
and the Protocols are the only bibles.
@Anon olling 90% of the mass media of mindfuckery, mesmerization and mass megalomania and
finally, the CIA financed and directed "Social Media", the greatest enemy of our First
Amendment rights;;; those nefarious forces nearing absolute control over the federal regime in
the Di$trict of Corruption have now fully succeeded in driving the last nail into the coffin of
the Constitution AND the Bill of Rights, the enabling precondition for establishment of the
federal system.
Behind the scenes, roaring and howling with fits of schadenfreude laughter; the ultimate
shotcallers, those OWNER$ of the Federal Reserve and most other major international banking
institutions, are rubbing their greasy palm$ with total glee by having pulled off the greatest
heist in world history.
Former President Trump is playing his final scene today, making ready to hand over the
lead part of a government like reality show to the mentally infirm Joe Biden. Biden, with
history of pathological lying and a trail of crimes and associations with other crimes had no
actual chance of winning a real election, but real elections are now only part of America's
history. Trumped & Dumped: The Psychological Operation Scrambles to Survive | Jack Mullen
https://blog.thegovernmentrag.com/2021/01/21/trumped-dumped-psychological-operation-enters-phase-two/
@Old and Grumpy wn individual of blackmail able importance -- was discovered in one of
Ep$tein's logs).
Anyone notice how the Joint Chiefs of $taff for the U$ armed forces put out a notice to all
military personnel that they must not participate in acts of sedition prior to the coronation
of the Kamal's Foote/Biding administration.? Since the days of their attempted Operation
Northwoods false flag scheme to attack Cuba, which was vetoed by JFK (among his other sins
against the Deepe$t $tate); the proof was already in the pudding that the JC$ is dirty and our
military is compromised by their chains of command from the top-down -- which is the way the
enemies of We The People choose to employ their nefarious control system over one and all --
excepting, of course, the Elite$ themselves.
@Mefobills of savvy self-promoter and foil for Hillary. That would explain a lot,
especially Hillary's (and the Democrats) absolute hatred of Trump and his supporters. That his
shtick worked is testament to both his talent for self-promotion and our dislike of Hillary.
Guess she miscalculated
In any case, it became obvious that either the fix was in, when he refused to back Flynn and
appointed swamp creatures to fill his administrations' posts, or Trump was a fool. But that's
not to say he wasn't useful in exposing the media and deep state's contempt, hatred and fear of
us -- deplorables all -- by personifying it in their attacks on him.
The question that matters now, for populists, is how do we avoid the leadership trap?
For the most part, our entire legal profession has been taken over by an overeducated,
inexperienced crowd of people who are not able to deal in "Letter" and "Spirit" of law. They're
prisoners of the letter of the law because their only background is of the spoken and written
word.
while I don't believe in the existence of US domestic terrorists, I do believe that millions
of US citizens are convinced that the vote was stolen. These people are understandably
disgusted and angry. Many might be desperate or even despondent. Let's call them the
"deplorables" and consider it a badge of honor. Well, these deporables won't take DC by force,
but they will never trust a Dem or GOP politician again, and neither will they ever trust the
corporate media. One of the blessings in disguise of this stolen election is that the GOP and
Fox News have shown their true faces, and their faces are evil, stupid and ugly. 4 years ago
millions of US citizens did not so much vote for Trump as much as they voted against Hillary
whom they (correctly) saw as a symbol and metaphor for the entire "deep state", or "swamp" or
"ZOG" or whatever other expression you prefer.
These deplorables first trusted Obama ("change we can believe in") and, later, Trump
(MAGA). Now they know that both sides are equally evil and false.
In the past, both factions of the Big Money Party had safety valves (Tea Party, Occupy
Wall Street, Rand Paul, Tulsi Gabbard, Bernie Sanders, etc.). I think that now the two parties
are literally standing naked and boy is that an ugly sight!
Third, and this point I primarily address to my readers in the USA and that will force me to
make a sidebar primarily directed at them:
[Sidebar: the planet can be divided into 2 rough parts: ZONE A full controlled by the
AngloZionist Empire and, ZONE B, which includes everybody else. The vast majority of Americans
are only really aware of Zone A. Why? For the following reasons:
and speaking
Spanish knows that totally false this belief is, of course. But few non-Hispanic Americans
ever speak in Spanish to the Hispanics in the USA (FYI – I do). Anglos generally seem
to have a hard time with languages Sadly, most Americans are not educated by their parents,
their religious leaders, their communities, or their schools. Most Americans get most of
their education from watching TV. Since all the US TV channels offer almost the exact same
mix of vulgar entertainment, propaganda and commercials, this "education" resulted in a huge
amount of massively dysfunctional families and communities. This addiction to a flickering
screen (be it the Idiot Tube or You Tube – same difference) gives them a very short
attention span and a limited ability to process large amounts of written information, which
is what is needed to be able to analyze a situation]
As a direct consequence of these factors, most Americans live in a "mental space" where Zone
B simply does not exist, and when it is mentioned, it is invariable in the "same old
clichés" mode.
Finally, considering all of the above, it is truly a miracle that the deplorables completely
ignored a massive brainwashing campaign (waaaay worse than anything the Commies or the Nazis
ever came up with!) against "Trump the New Hitler" and still voted for him twice, both in 2016
and 2020! It really goes to show that most Americans quietly but passionately hate the regime
in DC and that they use every opportunity they get to at least to try to change their country
and their lives by means of voting. Makes you wonder what these "disobedient" deplorables will
do the next time around now that voting became clearly a waste of time, don't it?]
Now here is the good news: Zone B does exist! In fact, it is huge, rich, truly diverse and
it has long figured out that both the AngloZionist Empire and even the USA as we knew them have
basically died, all that's left from it is some residual momentum and many bad habits by
ignorant, arrogant and delusional US politicians.
Why is that so important?
Because if we allow the Great Satan (actually a very good and exact expression, I think that
it fits the new regime perfectly, I will use it more often) to convince us that reality is all
contained in Zone A, we could really fall into despair. Yeah, the USA is screwed, and so is all
of the EU. As for US colonies like AUS or NZ, not only are they screwed (say by siding with the
USA against a much, MUCH more powerful China), they also seem to have a morbid desire to
outstupid even the USA in terms of crazy laws and insane ideological positions (say on COVID,
for example). But all this in ONLY true inside Zone A. Very few people in Zone B still believe
that the USA matters a great deal. Most of them already know otherwise, even if this is never
reported by Zone A media.
There is even more good news: neither the (rump) AngloZionist Empire nor the (rump) USA
represent any credible threat to most countries in Zone B . Oh sure, US politicians can call
Russia a "gas station masquerading as a country" or a "regional power", the truth is that the
united West has completely failed to break, or even meaningfully hurt Russia, despite 46
sanction packages (that's just by Trump, not counting the "change we can believe in" crook).
Heck, even COVID only marginally hurt Russia (which, unlike the flag-waving pseudo-patriotic
crap spewed by western politicians took COVID seriously, very seriously in fact, as early as
March and prepared the country for no less than two major outbreaks, both which happened, and
both which Russia successfully dealt with; this is why the EU is now in full COVID-hysteria
mode, while Russia does not bother to impose any lockdowns at all!).
Now let's place two US propaganda items side by side and take a look, ok?
The USA has the
most powerful economy on the planet. Russia is the #1 adversary of the USA (at least according
to the Dems, the GOP places China as #1 and Russia only as #2)
Do you see the problem?
If the USA is so powerful, how is it that it failed to crush Russia? What about Iran? Or,
in extremis , Venezuela? Yet, even the the last case, the "best" this supposed World
Hegemon did was send a few clueless ex-special ops to get caught and give case of hysterical
laughter to the entire Latin American continent!
And these folks want to take on China or Russia?!
Peuhleeze!
So here is the other very good news: Zone A presents no real threat to Zone B!!!
Yes, of course, the USA can still nuke China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela or some other country.
But let's look at the consequences of such a strike:
comprador regime in Bogota will not
survive such a war and Colombia will also "fall". Against any other Zone B country: the US
successfully nukes this/these country/countries only to find itself being treated like a
pariah by the entire planet (including quite a few US colonies), including the real military
powers. NATO and the EU will also collapse is that happens (the US being their cornerstone).
The bottom line is that while the US triad is still fully functional and capable of waging a
full-scale nuclear war against any adversary (including Russia and, even more so, China), the
truth is that all this triad really achieves is making it impossible for another nuclear power
to use nukes against the USA. Which is not minor or irrelevant, the problem here being that the
US nuclear triad provides with with exactly zero help when trying to deal with any adversary
not using nukes (either because this adversary choose not to use nukes due to the effective
deterrence of the US nuclear triad or simply because it has no nukes in the first place).
As I have mentioned in the past, the US submarine force is, along with the nuclear triad,
the other truly effective and powerful force which the US can count on in case of war. However,
other than launching large numbers of outdated and, therefore, easily countered cruise missiles
there is little this force can do to assist a US ground (or, for that matter) air operation
against anything but a very weak adversary. The problem with so-called "sub-peer" adversaries
is that they have relatively few lucrative targets to strike with cruise missiles (think
Venezuela here). Most of these subpeer adversaries do not have the air defenses needed to deal
with any halfway determined US missile and bomb attack and the US can quickly destroy whatever
air defenses such "sub-peer" countries have. So yes, I admit it. If tomorrow the USA wants a
"short and triumphant war", say to boost morale or distract from internal problems, they could
still attack countries like, say, Antigua and Barbuda or Santa Lucia, but such a farce will
hardly would qualify as "brilliant victory" of the "best armed forces in the galaxy", now would
it? Or maybe would, who knows? Ff the united propaganda machine wants to present that as a
triumph for US forces, like they did with the Grenada invasion (one of the worst military
operation in history!) they can do that, of course. But that would only serve to further
ridicule that propaganda machine since 2021 is not 1983, there are now millions of deplorables
out there who will never buy this kind of silly nonsense.
Besides, considering how the joint efforts of the USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia (the
"Axis of Kindness") completely failed to deal with the Houthis, my money would not be on any US
invasion force in the Caribbean (with the possible exception of a re-invasion of Haiti or the
Dominican Republic, but these are already US protectorates, what would be the point?!).
Why does all that matter so much?
Because the Dems are clearly up to no good. Next, not only will we see a wave of repression
against free speech internally, but the Dems are already making noises about, you guessed it,
China and Russia (again!) and, when that inevitably yield exactly zero results, they will turn
to "hate on" Iran and Venezuela again. But even these comparatively weaker countries are now
very much capable of making Uncle Shmuel pay an immense price in blood and hell to pay in terms
of political blowback on to many fronts to count.
The "power" of a nation (or a coalition of nations) can be measured using very many
different type of metrics, but the three most common ones would probably be: economic power,
military power and political power. If we use those three to compare Zone A to Zone B, it would
be reasonable to posit the following:
people worldwide have
long switched their support for Zone B countries. The recent triumph of the people of Bolivia
over their oppressors is a very telling sign of this trend.
And here is the key factor to keep in mind: there is nothing, absolutely nothing, the
Biden/Harris Admin can do to change these trends. It is simply too late and when the initiation
of the internal collapse of the USA, these trends will only accelerate .
Yes, the bad guys did win, but only over Trump and his clueless pseudo-allies (did they
betray him faster than he betrayed them, or was it the other way around?), but they only won
one a battle against the deplorables and they have won exactly nothing against Zone B.
The Dems are now busy with vengeance in all its forms. They also relish in humiliating Trump
and those who dared to support him. This is the political equivalent of torturing people in
basements, not winning glorious battles. But they don't realize that, they are too vain, too
ideologically hateful, and too cowardly to understand that.
Still, brainwashing, like torture (including mental torture!), is real. In this case, this
is a battle for the minds of the deplorables who now have to be beaten down into a catatonic
state of total submission and compliance. The Dems are using lies, their favorite weapon, but
their assault is real, nonetheless. And this is the battle which we, those who opposed
imperialism, have to fight – the battle for the minds of the people in Zone A: we need to
show them that the pseudo-reality of Zone A has no real existence outside the Idiot Box and the
vapid rhetoric of US decision makers.
We have to mentally prepare for a sharp increase in the amount and scope of the lies the US
propaganda machine will be telling us (if you thought the last 4 years were bad, prepare for
much, much worse; good example
here ). And, of course, expect LOTS of false flags, especially to demonstrate the reality
of the alleged danger coming from the "domestic terrorists". That will all go down against a
background of a full-spectrum attack on free speech, dissent and any form of actual (as opposed
to pretend) thought, really.
The irony is, of course, that the coming witch hunt (it will be way worse than Salem or
McCarthy) will be waged in the name of diversity and ostensibly against "hate". In reality, of
course, what the regime wants is to crush real diversity because the leaders of the US
Nomenklatura absolutely hate everything besides their sorry selves. Like all ideologues,
what these folks want is 1) total power and 2) total uniformity. All those rejecting these
modern dogmas will be branded has criminals, terrorists, heretics, racist and, of course,
Russian and Chinese agents.
And that is why this regime will also fail.
Conclusion: diversity WILL win. The REAL diversity, of course!
Our planet is wonderfully diverse, especially outside the uniformity sector of Zone A. There
IS a Zone B out there, and the leaders of Zone A will be defeated by our real common and shared
humanity (and their hatred for us!). Somewhere between Obama and Trump, the world has moved on,
and it is now very busy dealing with the immense challenges and opportunities facing it in Zone
B. And no, neither Russia nor China is busy trying to sabotage or undermine the USA – US
leaders are doing that much better job of that than any Russian or Chinese ever could . So why
even bother (and nevermind the risks!)?
We cannot predict what will happen next, there are simply too many variables to do that. But
what we can do is predict with a great degree of confidence that the new regime in power in DC
will do no better than all the other regimes which came to power by means of color revolutions
in the past couple of decades. There is no hope left for the Empire, as for the USA, there will
be plenty of hope left for them, but only after a long and painful process of collapse and
rebirth (both of which are inevitable by now). The truth is that US is not that unique as
empires go, sorry, it is just your typical arrogant and narcissistic empire which will collapse
just as all the other arrogant and narcissistic empires in history have collapsed, mostly under
their own obscene weight . And those poor souls who sincerely believe that China (or Russia)
want to replace the USA simply don't understand that these two countries already have been
empires, it was a disaster, thank you very much, and they have no desire to repeat their past
mistakes. This desire for non-exceptionalism and normalcy will, with time, also become the
object of a large social consensus in the USA. And, with time, the USA will finally be welcomed
into a truly free Zone B or, should I say, a Zone-free world.
When I see President Trump, I feel pity, sadness, and grief. I pity him because he has
no future and will be go down in history as America's most hated man.
And in exactly which historical document will he go down as this?
A half a century ago, the media tried to tell us that Richard Nixon was the most warped
and corrupt political leader of the late twentieth century without using those exact words,
of course, because those exact words were a lie, but that was the distinct message it tried
to convey. It sort of worked for a couple of decades, but only with a definable segment of
the population. That's because political pathos can only stay alive for so long. And
historical figures can only be defined solely by their failings and political enemies for so
long.
Despite gaffs and missteps that likely cost him his reelection, Trump wasn't "the guy who
let us down" but instead, the William Jennings Bryan of the 21st century right leaning
populist movement. Like Bryan, he changed the nature of his political party forever. Unlike
Bryan, he at least got to be president once, but -again- like the Democrat game changer out
of Nebraska 100 years ago, he never was the right person to lead the movement to it's
promised land. Instead, he was the tip of a spear that the opposition said it could never be
gored by but was.
Trump's loss has a very bright silver lining in the admittedly dark cloud of looming far
left authoritarianism. Ultimately, the self-aggrandizing Trump could really do little more
than make his opponents really angry, but he also made his supporters aware of just how
numerous and (more importantly) potent they are. The movement now needs leadership that's
more cognizant of the political world they live in and capable of more coherent strategies
that will move it forward hopefully strategies that can offer more than tweets.
But what did President Trump actually do as President? Not much. In 2016, after the most
remarkable, unlikely, and miraculous campaign in American history, President Trump governed
like a normal Republican. He did not deport illegals, make English the official language,
or tax remittances to Mexico. He did not abolish birth-right citizenship. He was not a
"white nationalist." He did not even eliminate race-based discrimination against whites and
Asians.
The establishment's hate for what Trump legitimised saying – that media news is
often fake, it's ok to fight globalism, it's ok to defend your own culture, we should
disentangle from wars – is Trump's enduring badge of honour, despite Trump's flaws
and how he disappointed
There was another aspect to Trump that provides possible inspiration for emerging
political aspirants: he could at any time go 'alarmingly' and sometimes effectively 'off
script', and furthermore, sometimes wield his 'outrageous remarks' repeatedly.
Going 'rogue' is the great heresy within the context of a western (at least) political
establishment that considers remaining 'on message', – sticking to the script, no
matter how dishonest or absurd the message – to be the basic principle of successful
party power politics.
And there was the moon's problem in sunlight: The political establishment near and far,
used to being celebrated in noxious ceremony, trained actors just about all, but trained to
avoid spontaneity like the plague, were suddenly cast into the dismal light of seeming boring
and predictable by comparison.
Trump's forays into rogue utterance sometimes included unmentionable truths that become
memes. Trump's swamp is now far more identifiable, and sometimes more accurately now referred
to as a cesspool. The fake news universe has been hauled out of their previously
self-satisfied abode in the mass media heavens and had their addiction to dishonesty more
fully exposed. In desperation the fallen angels have cobbled together an army of fake fact
checkers, to identify truth tellers as the real fake news, but their audience nevertheless
yawns and dwindles.
From J1234 at comment 129:
[Trump has] also made his supporters aware of just how numerous and (more importantly)
potent they are. The movement now needs leadership that's more cognizant of the political
world they live in and capable of more coherent strategies that will move it forward
hopefully strategies that can offer more than tweets.
The COVID monstrosity has also given countless millions of people opportunity to
re-evaluate a lot in their lives and learn a lot, and so a politically more cognizant
deplorable/independent political confluence may result.
"... "We will never give up. We will never concede, it doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved", ..."
"... "We will never give up. We will never concede, it just doesn't happen." ..."
"... " Biden's America Would Be A Dystopian Hellhole ", ..."
"... Trump has not signed the Insurrection Act. ..."
"... 'trust the plan' is a never ending story psyop ..."
"... 'best is yet to come' .. ..."
"... to beam back to the mothership. ..."
"... the humans are out to get them ..."
"... it happening you watch just donate ..."
"... without symptoms. ..."
"... Amnesty run by US State Department representatives, funded by convicted financial criminals, and threatens real human rights advocacy worldwide. ..."
"... Yes yes yes – as if we didn't fucking know! ..."
"... YOU MEAN TO DESTROY THE NHS AND YOU WILL REPEAT THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER UNTIL IT IS DONE! ..."
The Trump Era is over after the incumbent announced in the day after
Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol that "My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly
and seamless transition of power", which was widely interpreted by friends and foes alike as
the tacit concession that he previously promised never to provide a little more than 24 hours
prior during his speech at the
Save America Rally .
At that event, he literally said that "We will never give up. We will never concede, it
doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved", yet completely changed his
tune following the day's tumultuous events and after mysteriously "going dark" for over 24
hours, during which time some speculate that he was forced by his enemies in the permanent
military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (" deep state ") to give
up the fight.
BETRAYING HIS BASE
This totally devastated his supporters who elected him primarily
for the purpose of executing his chief promise to "drain the swamp" that all of them so
deeply despise. They truly believed that he could irreversibly effect significant long-term
change to the way that America is run, something which Trump himself also sincerely thought he
could do as well, but he ultimately lacked the strength time and again to take the decisive
steps that were necessary in order to do so.
Thus, he ended up getting swallowed by the same "swamp" that he attempted to drain, which is
licking its lips after feasting on the political carcass that he's since become as a result of
his capitulation. For as much hope as he inspired in his supporters and the respect that many
of them still have for him, most of them are profoundly disappointed that he gave up and didn't
go down fighting.
That's not to say that the vast majority of them expected him to forcefully resist Biden's
impending inauguration, but just that they never thought they'd see the day where he publicly
capitulated after carefully cultivating such a convincing reputation among them as a fighter
who literally said a little more than 24 hours prior that "We will never give up. We will
never concede, it just doesn't happen."
This prompted an ongoing soul-searching process among the most sober-minded of them who
aren't indoctrinated with the cultish Q-Anon claims that Trump still has a so-called "master
plan" that he's preparing to implement after this latest "5D chess" move. It's over, the Trump
Era has ended, and the "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) movement that he inspired is now at
risk of being declared a "
domestic terrorist " organization in the coming future.
TRUMP'S MOST FATAL POLITICAL
MISCALCULATION
" Biden's America Would Be A
Dystopian Hellhole ", like the author predicted a few months ago, and all of Trump's
supporters know that. Some had already resigned themselves to its seeming inevitability after
his efforts to legally reverse the contested results of the latest elections failed for a
variety of reasons that most of them attribute to the "swamp's" corruption, but they
nevertheless remained as positive as possible after having believed that their hero would go
down with them to the end.
None ever thought twice about his promise to "never give up, never concede", and they even
expected him to have to be escorted from the White House on 20 January, yet his tacit
concession is forcing many of them to re-evaluate their views about him in hindsight. Not only
is he going out with a whimper on the "deep state's" terms, but he never fully "drained the
swamp".
Trump's most fatal political miscalculation is that he thought that he could change the
system from the "inside-out" after symbolically -- yet importantly, not substantively -- taking
control of it as America's first modern-day "outsider" President. He immediately switched from
an "outsider" to an "insider" shortly after his inauguration by capitulating to the "deep
state's" demands that he fire former National Security Advisor Flynn, which was his "original
sin" that paved the way for all that would later follow.
Trump the self-professed "deal-maker" thought that he could strike a "compromise" with his
enemies through these means, but all that he did was embolden them to intensify their fake
news-driven efforts to oust him and continue sabotaging him from within through many of the
same "swamp" creatures that he naively continued to surround himself with.
RINOS + MSM =
TRUMP'S DEFEAT
The most reviled among them in the eyes of his base is "Javanka", the popular portmanteau of
Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his daughter Ivanka. He continued listening to these
"Republicans In Name Only", or RINOs as many MAGA members describe them, as well as many others
such as those who still sit in Congress but pretended to be his friend just to win
re-election.
Furthermore, the influence that his former reality TV career had on him resulted in Trump
remaining obsessed with how his enemies might malign him in the Mainstream Media (MSM) for any
decisive moves that he took to smash the "deep state". This weakness of character proved to be
his greatest personal flaw since he should have followed his instincts instead of submitting to
the egoistic desire to be "liked" by his foes.
So influenced was he by the MSM that his enemies were able to employ the most basic
"reverse-psychology" tricks to manipulate him into "playing it safe" in his struggle against
the "deep state". They fearmongered since even before he entered office that he'd turn into a
so-called "dictator", yet he never seriously contemplated any such authoritarian moves in that
direction despite always having the possibility of utilizing the immense powers vested in him
by the Constitution to do so if he sincerely wanted.
His MAGA supporters passionately pleaded that he should have turned into his enemies' worst
nightmare by declaring at least limited martial law in response to the decades-long Hybrid War
of Terror on America finally going kinetic last summer after Antifa and "Black Lives
Matter" (BLM) orchestrated nationwide riots to oust him.
TRUMP'S THREE GREATEST
FAILURES
Bewildering his base, Trump also failed to revoke Article 230 despite now-proven fears that
it would empower Big Tech to censor him and
his supporters , nor did he thwart the Democrats' mail-in ballot and Dominion voting system
schemes which they argue ultimately led to them stealing the election.
Just as concerning was his decision to not stop the Democrat Governors from locking down
their populations for political reasons under the convenient pretext of COVID-19. The author
addressed all of these issues in his analysis published shortly after the election about why "
The Anti-Trump Regime
Change Sequence Is Worthwhile Studying ". Trump could have legally exercised
near-"dictatorial" powers to avert all of this and thus save America as his supporters see it,
yet time and again he failed to gather the strength needed to do so due to his deep personal
flaws.
THE HYBRID WAR ON AMERICA IS OVER
While Trump was unquestionably victimized by the "deep state" during his entire time in
office, he's no longer as much of a martyr as he used to be after suddenly giving up the fight
following Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol. He surrendered to the shock of his base, was
subsequently swallowed by the "swamp", and is now being mercilessly destroyed in an ominous
sign of what awaits the rest of the MAGA movement in the Biden-Kamala era.
Had he gone down fighting to the end and "never gave up" like he promised, then it would be
an altogether different story, but instead his over-hyped "deal-making" instincts got the best
of him at the very last minute and he foolishly thought that he could save himself by
capitulating to their demands. The "deep state" is now showing their "thanks" by censoring him
from social media and pushing for his impeachment.
The MAGA movement always believed that the country has already been at "war" for years even
though most couldn't articulate the hybrid nature of it like the author did in his piece last
summer about how " The Hybrid War Of Terror
On America Was Decades In The Making ".
They truly felt that Trump shared their threat assessment after he was viciously attacked by
the "deep state" from the second that he stepped onto the campaign trail, but it turned out
that he underestimated the threat even though his enemies never did. To the "deep state" and
their public Democrat proxies, this was always a "war" in its own way, which they never shied
away from expressing.
The supreme irony is that while Trump lambasted the "weak Republicans" in his Save America
Rally speech, he himself ultimately epitomized that very same weakness by later
surrendering.
THE "DEEP STATE" WON
His opponents know no limits and believe in classic Machiavellian fashion that "the ends
justify the means", whereas he thought that he could play by the rules -- and not even all of
them as was early explained by pointing out his refusal to employ the near-"dictatorial" powers
vested in him by the Constitution -- and still come out on top.
His naïveté will go down in history since it's what's most directly responsible
for him failing to fully recognize the seriousness of the "deep state's" no-holds-barred war on
him and the rest of America.
As a born-and-raised New Yorker, Trump perfected the art of slick talking, so much so that
he even managed to dupe his base into believing that he shared their threat assessment about
the decades-long Hybrid War of Terror on America. They fell for this charade since they
desperately wanted to believe that there was still some hope left.
There isn't, though, since the war is over and the "deep state" won once and for all. The "
Great Reset "/"
Fourth Industrial Revolution " brought about by
World War C is
barreling forward at full speed ahead, and practically every domestic accomplishment that Trump
has to his name will likely be reversed by Biden-Kamala during their first year in office,
especially since the "deep state's" Democrat proxies control all branches of government now
(remembering that the Supreme Court's supposed "conservative supermajority" really just
consists of RINOs as was proven by their refusal to hear his team's convincing election fraud
cases).
In fact, the only real "master plan" was that of the "deep state", which effectively
thwarted every one of Trump's moves and ultimately turned his supporters' "last hurrah" of a
mostly peaceful rally into the nail that'll now be hammered into the MAGA movement's
coffin.
It's extremely suspicious that the US Capitol was so poorly defended despite there being an
ongoing session of Congress on such an historic day and after weeks of preparation to ensure
the site's safety ahead of Trump's long-planned Save America March.
It's even more baffling that some of the police officers removed
the barricades and even
opened the doors to some of the protesters, which in hindsight suggests that the "deep
state" wanted to tempt the most "overly passionate" among them (to say nothing of suspected
provocateurs) into storming the site as the pretext for what followed.
The whole point in passively facilitating this scenario through the masterful exploitation
of crowd psychology was to lay the basis for a comprehensive nationwide crackdown against the
MAGA movement on the grounds that it's now "proven" to be a "domestic terrorist" group.
That explains the push behind impeaching Trump less than two weeks before he himself
acknowledged just the other day that he'll be leaving office after ensuring the "transition of
power".
Had he not surrendered, then he probably would still be a martyr to most of the MAGA
movement, but now he's just a palace hostage awaiting his highly publicized political execution
as the opening salvo of the "deep state's" Democrat-driven reprisals against his supporters in
the name of "defending against domestic terrorism". That, not whatever Q-Anon imagines, is the
real "master plan", and it succeeded.
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
Trump was swallowed by the "swamp" because he lacked the strength to drain it. Every MAGA
member needs to accept this harsh truth no matter how painful it might be. Time and again, he
failed to muster up the strength needed to meaningfully fulfill what many sincerely believed to
be his destiny.
This was due to his fatal political miscalculation of transforming from an "outsider" into
an "insider" in a doomed-to-fail attempt to change the system from within. He continued relying
on RINOs despite their proven unreliability. Trump's obsession with how his foes portrayed him
in the MSM also led to him never seriously countenancing the use of the near-"dictatorial"
powers vested in him by the Constitution to save America.
He pathetically surrendered after the "deep state's" "master plan" succeeded, and now he
can't even go down in history as a martyr.
Originally published on One World Press Jan
20, 2021 2:08 PM
Trump was part of the show nothing more nothing less. They had the goods on him for decades.
He made Izzrail grate again. That was about it. Notice Jizzlaid Maxwell, the Mossad kiddy
victim procurer watching her mark in the background of the video below from 92 as the king of
bankruptcy eyes the broads and "struts" his stuff.
Meanwhile Kill Bill Gates gets to poison Planet Sheeple and nobody ever questions his
association with Mossad kiddy porn snuff director, Epstein or Kill Bill's sojourns on Pedovore
Island. Anyone remember the CIA Operation Brownstone"? It's global and it's Satanic.
How could Trum 'drain the swamp' when he lives in the swamp. contributes to the swamp and
essentially is part of the swamp.
This story is sh!te. Trump is a swamp dweller.
Trump is just the same as all the other oligarchs and would be oligarchs. He is a rich,
privileged, white entrepreneur. His propaganda campaign in which he claimed to be on the side
of the poor and unemployed whites is just about the biggest lie which has been swallowed
wholesale since Goebbles was whitewashing the Nazi regime.
How you fools here can fall for this tripe has me absolutely beat.
Aethelred , Jan 13, 2021 10:17 AM
Trump in his political ineptitude resembles Jimmy Carter, an idealist incapable of
wielding power. Neither man had the gumption, nor the charisma (much the same thing) to win
over the apparatchiki. Both vain and selfish men (like all politicians), neither inspired
sufficient love nor fear to gather support, unlike Reagan or Clinton, both of whom exuded
calm confidence. Trump differs from Carter in that Trump's social incapacity manifests in
bombast, and Carter's in staged humility. Neither could convince the ruling classes, and so
were ushered away.
The elevation of Biden, an aged hack, is a signal the republic is finally overturned. The
feds not only can convict but now can elect and govern through a ham sandwich.
Blather , Jan 13, 2021 8:21 AM
Does the author know how to read Trump's speech or is he so BIAS as not to see?
Trump DID NOT capitulate. Read careFOOLY. It can go both waze.
ZenPriest , Jan 12, 2021 8:50 PM
Trump was never going to drain the swamp. He was a clown put in place by America's
masters, to keep an endless supply of material for their media and to stir up hatred among
citizens.
It's funny because citizens should be uniting against the puppeteers. Or they would be if
they knew they even existed, or knew they were being played.
S Cooper , Jan 13, 2021 2:47 AM Reply to
ZenPriest
"Quite a number already know this. That number keeps growing with each passing day. Got
Debs?"
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and
I'm here to help." Remember that line? That was Ronnie Raygun back in 1986, with one of his
(or his ghost writers') versions for 'draining the swamp' then, getting government off our
backs, and blah, blah, blah. Agitprop thrown the masses so the corporate state could get down
to bizzness as usual in dispossessing 'we the people' by rolling back government programs for
social welfare and building up wealth and power for elites via the MIC and Wall Street
(complementary to Iron Bitch Thatcher's neoliberal programs for a greater fascism in
Britain).
Hardly anything original, such marketing ads. Politricking fronts of the ruling class have
been campaigning before and after getting into office with noble lies of populism covering
for their brands of treachery as long as the fraudulence of capitalist democracy and
representative government have been around. In the post-WWII era of Pox Americana, the U$
CEOs for the Fortune 500 routinely have disguised their institutional role in managing the
empire under cover of brands of reform that keep promising power to the people with one hand
while taking it away with the other.
But when it comes to the greatest show on earth, it's the words attributed to P.T. Barnum
that there's a sucker born every minute (or at least every election season) which ring
truest. So now we've got the ringmasters retiring the Donald and installing good ole Creepy
Joe to 'build back better' on behalf of the Great Reset. That's after Swamp Thang has played
his part as dictator of distraction overseeing such achievements as the greatest robbery of
the commons in human history and launch of technofascism under Operation Warp(ed) Speed, all
thanks to a global coup with which he's been entirely complicit. And his manufactured base of
true believers still carry on with the covidiocy as much as the controlled opposition of the
faux left.
The more things change, the more they stay the same (only worse!).
Chris , Jan 12, 2021 5:14 PM
The Q group are patriots with access to a quantum computer able to untangle timelines from
a possibility/probability vortex.
Their movement was designed to awaken many individuals with key roles to play in the real
Operation Warpspeed.
The majority of these folks had some connection to the military or other branches of
government including the police.
In 2012 nearly all technology, ancient or more modern, was suddenly rendered non
functional.
The Mayans were obviously dead right with their calender.
The race was on to gain absolute supremacy in the prediction game.
All major stakeholders have access to quantum computing, but the US has the upper hand.
The true value of quantum computers lies not in the task of pure number crunching, but in its
ability to predict probabilities of complex situations.
The quantum computer exposes the most probable timelines and delivers the results in
numerical form that correspond to actual events and dates/times .
Igby MacDavitt , Jan 12, 2021 3:43 PM
"The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you're going to lose, because somebody
has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do
wins."
― I.F. Stone
Laurence Howell , Jan 12, 2021 12:42 PM
President Trump has declared a State of Emergency in the District of Columbia.
White House
OW look the fruitcakes and cult follower spent another new moon being juiced , Trump
has not signed the Insurrection Act. BUT BUT BUT
Cult of BIG disclosure keep watching.donate huge Arrests and stay tuned keep watching
it happening – keep watching- it happening soon, BIG disclosure huge Arrests . it
Happening soon psyop AND distraction
Simple simon and Q nonsense told another lie to the sheep
Laurence Howell , Jan 12, 2021 12:16 PM
President Trump has signed the Insurrection Act.
YouDontCareAboutGrandma , Jan 12, 2021 12:47 PM Reply to
Laurence Howell
Proof? And don't link to Simon Parkes' YouTube channel. He's provided no evidence
whatsoever for his claims. He says he talks to aliens and "Q" on the telephone.
Gosh, evrn more baffling and scarey and reminescent of 1963, never seen footage of the
murder of Ms. BABBIT showing collusion between police and antifa agitators, taken by an
independent Japanese reporter!
Great article but consider how many thousands of people the Islamist extremist, Erdogan of
Turkey, had to fire and imprison, to dismantle the positive Deep State structure Attaturk put
in place to keep that country secular? Functioned admirably for many years.
DimlyGlimpsed , Jan 12, 2021 1:06 AM
Dems enthusiatically voted from Bill Clinton, Obama, Hillary and Biden. All corrupt and
compromised. Repubs voted for Bush Jr., Romney, and Trump. All corrupt and compromised. Both
accuse the other of corruption, dishonesty and hypocrisy. Both are right, of course.
Reality, though, is not possible to perceive when limited to a diet of mainstream news.
Neither is it a trivial task to navigate the rough seas online disinformation.'
Unless one is privy to big-picture high-level (and secret) information, one is left to
attempt to identify and assemble a complex jigsaw puzzle using one's own sleuthing and
intuition skills.
Common people without inside knowledge can still interpret the world, however. War is evil,
and those who advocate war have been seduced by evil. Kindness and generosity are among the
highest values. On the other hand, those who are selish and cruel pollute our world. Etc,,
etc.
Let us keep in mind that the most evil cloak themselves in the garb of peace, kindness and
generosity, in order to dine on sheep who wishfully and willfully refused to judge behavior
rather than be seduced with addictive slogans. Let us also keep in mind that no leaders can
remain in power without the compliance of the rest of us.
Any of should be able to recognize Joe Biden as evil. His "track record" is one of
corruption, budget cutting, war and authoritarian legislation. And Trump? One of the great
mysteries of human civilization is that Trump, the ultimate swap creature, was elected by
promising to "clean the swamp".
That is fairly accurate but Trump did push back against America's China Class and the CCP
-- more than you can say for commies like the Bidens, Obamas, Clintons, Bushes, etc.
Trump's America First Hoax: Trump is an Israeli agent. He put #Mossad asset #JaredKushner
in charge of infiltration of US Intelligence and Defense. Bidens are Chinese agents? Charles
Kushner (Jared's father), is an agent of #AnbangInsurance, a Chinese Communist front
group.
Jams O'Donnell , Jan 13, 2021 6:54 PM Reply to
REvail
All US presidents, vice-presidents, chiefs of staff, etc are Israeli agents, or more
accurately, are in effect the same thing.
Jams O'Donnell , Jan 13, 2021 6:53 PM Reply to
Sgt_doom
"commies like the Bidens, Obamas, Clintons, Bushes, etc."
If you think that the above mentioned capitalist clowns are "commies", then you really,
REALLY, need to get an education, because clearly you don't know your arse from your
elbow.
Igby MacDavitt , Jan 12, 2021 3:46 PM Reply to
DimlyGlimpsed
"Trump, the ultimate swap creature " I do not think you have any idea what the 'swamp' is
to make such a claim.
Otherwise, a great post.
Lost in a dark wood , Jan 12, 2021 12:40 AM
Note: I drafted this as a response, but the person is not worthy of a reply, so I'll post
it here instead.
--
I've always said that Q is a deep-state operation. It's the NSA, military intelligence,
etc. It's just a different deep state to the CIA/MI6 deep state. And I've always said that
people should at least know what "the plan" is. They should know what it is because it's by
far the most coherent explanation for what is happening now, and for what has happened over
the last four years.
A couple of years ago I thought a deal had been struck between the opposing factions, and
it was all going to be wound down. But I changed that view after the Covid911, attempted
colour revolution. The overwhelming view on this site, from contributors and posters, was
that Trump would fall in June 2020. I was one of only a handful of people saying Trump would
survive.
I can't predict the details of what's happening now, but I think Trump will survive this
because:
a) he has the ammunition
b) it would make no sense to go this far and not see it through
c) even though it seems to be going to the precipice, it still fits a coherent plan
I've only recently started following Simon Parkes, but in his latest update he claims to
have spoken to the real Q. Of course, as anybody who's been following Q posts would know,
this would breach the "no outside comms" principle.
I'm not at all impressed. Appeared on the scene coincidental with Gen McInerney and all
the misinformation about "hammer and scorecard" which was a blatant distraction from clear
and convincing evidence of election fraud.
Parkes does far too much, "I could have told you beforehand but then I'd have had to kill
you."
Your on the ball wow from 1 psyop to another Now your following simon charlatan
parkes.
HE gets excepted into the Q nonsense and trump Savior psyop and becames one of there star
leaders over night.
Do you not do basic checks on who you start to worship?? or do they have to say code words
like Q and trump maga and its like there chosen to lead you.
Negative, far too silly and cartoonish and tracks back to a Filipino Maoist group directed
by the CCP!
Asylum , Jan 11, 2021 7:34 PM
We've been manipulated into fighting against each other over trivial differences to divert
us from the fact that we're all in the same boat.
Lost in a dark wood , Jan 11, 2021 6:33 PM
Andrew Korybko: "That, not whatever Q-Anon imagines, is the real "master plan", and it
succeeded."
Okay, I'm trying to figure this out. With regard specifically to this thread, are we
allowed to post direct links to Q posts? For instance, Q has stated explicitly that there is
no "Qanon" (#4881). Instead, there is Q and there are anons. I personally think this is
debatable, and that Qanon is a collective name for a highly amorphous movement and method of
enquiry. Furthermore, that movement and method predates Q and was to some extent co-opted by
Q. The movement will also outlive Q, though it may retain the name. As a movement, Qanon
stands in opposition to the hierarchical, hive-mind vacuity of the Rationalists and
Neo-Platonists. In short, Qanon is Blakean. Welcome to Jerusalem!
We do not want either Greek or Roman models if we are but just & true to our own
imaginations, those Worlds of Eternity in which we shall live forever; in Jesus our Lord.
– William Blake https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Milton_(excerpts)/Preface
Q Alerts is back up so I'll try again. The following is a critical part of "the plan".
--
Q (Oct 17, 2020):
I'm going to bring the whole diseased, corrupt temple down on your head. It's gonna be
Biblical.
Enjoy the show! https://qalerts.app/?n=4884
Please – can we have more of Andrew Karybko. I've seen him on Peter Lavelle. For
such an acutely well informed young chap about international politics, he demonstrates an
equally rigorous understanding about Trumps psyche.
Andrew Korybko is probably one of the best geo-political analysts I've come across and his
depth of knowledge across all continents shines through. A very warm and engaging person.
He runs a site called OneWorld Press. Recently accused by mainstream media and The Daily
Beast of being GRU agents. Well if it is, they are most measured and balanced in the history
of intelligence services.
Your be saying that on the way to the concentration camps!!! 'trust the plan' is a never ending story psyop
Similar to the 'best is yet to come' ..
you trumpsters have your own Down Syndrome language.
WWG1WGA, another bunch of devotees similar to a cult who will not except there guru is a
oppressor
mikael , Jan 11, 2021 1:09 PM
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the
things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."Reinhold Niebuhr
Pardon moi for the lenght.
I dont know whats with people this days, the shere avalange of bollocks is baffling, the
inability to conect the dots to what was, the past, to the present is making me think there
must be something, hehe, with the narrative, or should we say in this uh . conpiracy tinfoil
hat wearing days, in the tap water, and the rethotic, about Trump, I have my issues, and I
have never been quiet about them, but then to whine about things when most of it have been
inplace before Trump came into the WH, incl children in gages to wars, Obamalama started more
wars than any other American president ever, with Hitlary the Beast from Little Rock beside,
after Her husband stole Social sec and now, witch could be massive, is completely eradicated
out of existence, and the sactions, etc, most of them are just continuations of existing
systems, we can always blame Trump for something, but please, do know the difference and dont
just throw bollocks because of the people whom wanted change, when Obamalama said it, you
belived, and what happened, again, he pissed upon you all, and have since laughed all the way
to the bank, the economic crashes, the insane austeritys, the bailins and outs, you name it
to color revolutions.
This isnt to defend Trump, for me, He was more an castrat, singing but otherwise balless, but
also tied, unable to move, and been relentlessly attacked by those that defenses the past
witch in no way was better.
Then we have the eh .. storming?, and if you look at videos, what sticks out is, what
storming, some gass clouds, yea, means what, an Cop throving an gass can, but take an look
for your self, it was never in any way what the MSM wants you to belive, and the army of
people crawling all over the sites wants you to persive, along with profanitys about people
whom did suported Trump, because they hoped for change, you cant attack them, maybe for been
a bit naive, but one thing shal be the thing Trump did, exposed them all, in an way witch is
unpresedented despite His flaws, nobody have done that in this level, He exposed them all,
and if you havent gotten it yet, you have an problem, nobody else, incl the people whom did
their duty as free citizens of the USA, did the protesting.
Rioting, again, what riot, the worst thing I can come up with, after watching some videos, is
minore, a window, probably by the AntiFags/BLMs/eh leftards?, and one man whom ran off with
an piece of the furiture, nothing else, and if I drag that further, maybe the stormers should
have wiped their shoos off before entering the Hill, stepping on the fine carpets on the
floor in the hallway, what an horrible crime, right.
What storming, do you see anything, do enlighten us.
So, I know I am pushing the attention span to the limit.
BUT, I have thru the years found out that Americans, not that I want to call em stupid, but
regarding world poltics, more infantile, naive, brainwashed to such an extent thru the
decades/centurys of propaganda, where the various Gov always have had an enemy, it have
variated, from muslims etc to what it have become to day, domestic terrorism aka
conservatives whatever that means, and not only in the MSM but also thru an army of so called
Alternative MSM, witch have feed upon this narratives and played upon this, but overall, gone
the same erant as the Gov wanted them to go, and witch have resulted in wars upon wars, and
stil some want more wars, like the broad attack line on Iran, just to give you one ex to the
strangling of others, like western sahara to the Palestinians.
Then we have the new enemy, in mainly the so called alternative ugh .. rightwinged? whatever
whom sommehow manages to blame everything on socialism, yea, apart from the weather because
thats Putins fault, despite that, I found Putin to be an scoundrel, the Russian Gov rotten to
its core, that dont mean I hate Russians but there will always be those that cant
differentiate at all.
Whom is the "enemy" Americans, socialism, China, Russia, Iran, huh.
I have saxed this from P. L. Gonzalez.
Social media networks, payment processors, airlines, hotels, streaming services, and online
vendors are strangling people based on ideology but TPUSA is still complaining about
"socialism." Burn your money or donate it to TPUSA, it's the same thing.
Yup, briliantly summarised everything in some few lines, and why, do you refuse to see
them when they are right infront of your very own eyes, and yet, you blame some imaginary
enemy witch have nothing to do with this coup, its an class war, its the oligarcs, the robber
barons, witch have an army of buttspreaders in the capitol Hill to their abuse, and this
bitches do whatever they are told, do notice how the RepubliCONs threw you under the buss, is
that to the Chines fault.
So, I hope the Americans whom stil have some parts of their bran fuctional, can notice the
difference, in Norway we have the same problem, but we are an so called socialistic nation,
but we are held hostages by the same pack of scums that is plundering your nation and
resources, and have nothing but contempt for everyone of us, and an Gov that do whatever they
want and whom are we then to blame, the Hottentots, Maoris, communism is an tool for social
unrest, and when they have done their job, thrown under the buss, because the PTB wants us to
fight each others, as long we do, they will win.
Unite and you have an chanse, if not, well, I am old, and my life span expectanse isnt that
long anymore and I will not have to live in the totalistaian regime that comes, but the sole
reason for me to even bother, is for our children, and their children.
And to all of you whom went to the protest, you have my deepest respect.
It truly is an war, against the dark forces.
You all need to take an stand.
Be the light.
peace
Igby MacDavitt , Jan 12, 2021 3:53 PM Reply to
mikael
We have the same problem worldwide. Singling out and scorning the Americans is simply
divisive. It has always been the People against the Oppressors. The Americans are people and
have Oppressors bearing down on them like the rest of us. There is a cancer that needs to be
removed lest it devour us all.
Chris , Jan 11, 2021 10:57 AM
The overtone of Korybko's writing is excessively defeatist. When the "Deep State" applies
such overt tools to steal the U.S. election, imposes censorship, labels millions of American
citizens as potential "domestic terrorists", silences the still incumbent U.S. President,
resorts to provocation, deprives Americans of essential liberties through Covid, curfews or
other bogus emergencies, then it means that the establishment behind the "Deep State" is
scared. Scared not as much of Donald Trump as scared of You – the People. I know it
since I live in a central European country with a very bitter experiences with dicatorship.
When the power starts to resort to an open forgery and uses coercion or force it reveals its
weakness, not strength. Its power derives only from the passive attitude of majority of
population, nothing more. What this so called 'liberal elite' in America hopes for is to
return to the good old days, when the whole Middle America remained voiceless, silent,
isolated, without any leadership or political representation. Now it is their objective to
'legally' separate the 'progressive America' from the 'populist' one and they might even
inspire separation, violence or secessionist moves to achieve it. But MAGA movement must not
play this delusional vision of retreat to entrench in false sense of local security. That's
what the 'Deep State' wants to achieve – to herd the popular opposition into their home
arrests and their privacy soon to be possibly separated by walls, sanitary wards, wired
fences or a new Indian reservation. Americans would never win their Independence by acting in
defense only, by retreating to 'wait and see' tactics as Korybko suggests. What must be done
is to recapture Your state institutions that have been stolen and turned into a travesty of
American political tradition. Before that happens a common awareness is needed that those who
appear to rule as a new 'government' are just a tiny bunch of criminals who try to impress
the whole world that their power has no limits, that they monopolised the mass media and
economy, that they are invincible. Do not let this delusion of 'Deep State' victory to
dominate Your outlook. Yes, I agree that Trump failed as a leader in a time of crisis but
MAGA (or however we call it) but all the people who really care for America need to maintain
representation, authority and leadership. They shouldn't accept a comfortable fantasy that
sooner or later the 'Deep State' would crumble under its own weight and then by some miracle
a new movement would be born. If Trump indicates that 'its only the beginning' then his
supporters should join him in any action he offers. All Republican politicians, conservative
or libertarian societies, local communities, state legislatures or any other active group
must be engaged in this action. Struggle for political freedom always involves risk and
mistakes. Trump certainly made a lot of them. But it is the People who are sovereign, not any
office, institution or technological dicatorship. When the Constitution, the congressional
debate and civil liberties are ruined by 'elite' it is the responsibility of the People to
act in emergency to restore law, order and liberty. The 'Deep State' perfectly understands
that after the four years of Trump and the emergence of trumpism as a social-political fact
there can not be any turning back to the business as usual. Not under normal and peaceful
circumstances. That's why they are so frightened and act in panic. That's why they impose
health and security 'emergencies' to incapacitate the population, to make it superfluous and
useless. We saw it in totalitarian regimes.
The world needs the U.S. not as an imperial power but as an example of well established
social contract, human liberty and hope for a better future. The European 'elites' are in
revolt against their people too but here we won't have a chance for any anti-establishment
president to support us. That's why in Europe we still believe that not all has been lost in
America.
Laurence Howell , Jan 11, 2021 12:17 PM Reply to
Chris
Lt. General Thomas Mcinerney,
"special forces imbedded in Antifa rioters have Nancy Pelosi's laptop"
laptop always the laptop it on the laptop he/she left the laptop at
it etc etc et was found there# etc etc etc bullshit
laptop psyop used as much as the immaculate passport psyop found at the scene of crime in a
burning inferno it aimed at idiots
Laurence Howell , Jan 12, 2021 10:37 AM Reply to
Asylum
Are you saying that Hunter Biden's laptop and the released information that it contains is
of no value?
Conflating 911 with the current conspiracies is not helpful. This would need an article of
longer length and written by an unbiased observer which you are not.
Instead of saying etc. etc. bullshit, why not explain why this is your position?
Or does this not fit in with your soundbite posting?
Jacques , Jan 11, 2021 9:41 AM
Historically speaking, the problem with the "deep state" is essentially that the current
system has corrupted itself to a point where it is so far from what is claimed, or perhaps
appears to be, that there is no way to fix it from within by rebuilding it, by "draining the
swamp".
Klaus "Cockroach" Schwab et al understand this, hence the Great Reset, a new vision for
the future. Of course, they want a future for themselves, but that's another story.
Even if Trump were entirely sincere in his effort to "drain the swamp", he had nothing to
offer apart from some vague anachronistic concept of Making America Great Again. What the
fuck is that supposed to mean anyway, eh? The only thing he had behind him was populism which
in itself is an empty concept.
Like it or not, a change will only come if people formulate a new philosophy, ideology,
and if the new ideology is proposed and embraced on a broad scale. Ideally in a non-violent
fashion.
Right now, there is fuck all, people are still stuck on all sorts of left-right bullshit
dichotomies, (fake) democracy, the games that have been played for decades if not hundreds of
years.
If you ask me, it would be nice if the ideology of the future was loosely based on Hayek's
spontaneous order.
If Trump can pull something off this week or early next, the new plan is already waiting
in the wings. It's called Nesara/Gesara. It's a new economic system not based on a debt based
system.
rechenmacher , Jan 12, 2021 3:45 PM Reply to
Thom1111
Heard that one before. Fraud.
Thom1111 , Jan 12, 2021 7:09 PM Reply to
rechenmacher
It's a real framework plan, it's just whether it can be implemented is the question.
Igby MacDavitt , Jan 12, 2021 3:57 PM Reply to
Jacques
"Like it or not, a change will only come if people formulate a new philosophy, ideology,
and if the new ideology is proposed and embraced on a broad scale. Ideally in a non-violent
fashion."
Sure. So we the people have had centuries or more to figure the answer out. Repeating the
dilemma is not enlightening. Idealism has no voice with tyrants.
ZenPriest , Jan 11, 2021 8:53 AM
All this talk of the 'deep state' yet no one can name them. Lol.
Thom1111 , Jan 11, 2021 3:04 PM Reply to
ZenPriest
you must have been born yesterday. In America it's the alphabet agencies but obviously all
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The 6 January protest march clearly shows that the majority of Trump voters had already
given up on Trump so did not join the protest. There was originally talk of a possible one
million people attending, it didn't get anywhere close. If half the nation was still behind
Trump, this was a very puzzling showing.
Trump just did not have what it takes, or was not really trying, to ruthlessly cut out the
cancer of corruption in government. History will show that he was a weak leader who allowed
the deep state to distract him to the extent that he never did anything of note other than to
reveal, through no action of his own, how extreme is the corruption that he had promised to
drain.
The Democrat distractions, paid for by their oligarch owners, showed the world that
extreme corruption is running the USA. Even the most loyal Democrats must be puzzled by the
current purges and threats of extreme centralised thought control, the arrogance of the swamp
now that it has gotten rid of the peoples' man.
To his credit, I am still willing to believe that Trump tried to do the right thing.
Although the author is trying to place Trump as a coward who resigned, going back on his
word, I think this is not how his original supporters see him. From what I can see, the
majority of his original supporters still support him and see him as a figurehead, but they
recognise that he doesn't have the skills to do the job. He is not a coward, he did not cave
in, he recognised, probably because of the low protest numbers, that he did not have what is
takes to continue the fight, he could see that his base had already given up on him. He is
still a figurehead in the patriot movement. He may have lost the far right, but he still has
a lot of centre-ground supporters.
I disagree with your claim that the majority of supporters had already given up on him. It
was the middle of the week. People have jobs. It was a significant turn out. People
understand what is at stake. I would not place the blame for failure on Trump. He is amazing
in so many ways.
I just don't understand here how anybody can believe Trump was sincere in wanting to
change anything: he's a narcissistic bully in it for his own benefit and that of his
offspring. Fighting corruption??? Come on!
Igby MacDavitt , Jan 12, 2021 4:06 PM Reply to
Carmpat
The mere fact that hundreds and hundreds of treasonous actors throughout government and
business have been clearly and openly revealed through the process started by Trump is a damn
good start.
"What is going in DC right now is like what went on at Jonestown after Jim Jones went
crackers. Except instead of cyanide laced Kool-Aid they are going to use 'Doc' Billy Eugenics
EUTHANASIA DEATH SHOT to off the 'faithful'. If only Billy and they would just off themselves
and leave the rest of the World out of it."
" EUTHANIZE the World! Corporate Fascism and Eugenics forever."
"Time now for Na n zi Pelosi, Chuckie 'Upchuck' Schumer and all the rest of the war
criminal gang of CORPORATE FASCIST FABIAN EUGENICISTS to beam back to the
mothership. They see insurrections, rebellions and conspiracies everywhere. They believe
the humans are out to get them . They are going full Jim Jones. "
"Also Nasty Na n zi should lay off the hooch. It is beginning to have a deleterious and
harmful effect upon the sad thing's cognitive faculties and behavior."
Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 10:35 PM
I *Hope* they name the next Carrier after him – USS Donald J. Trump – CVN
83
😉
Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 10:38 PM Reply to
Sgt Oddball
- Nickname: – 'Big Don'
Voxi Pop , Jan 10, 2021 9:57 PM
https://worldchangebrief.webnode.com INSURRECTION
ACT "PROBABLY" SIGNED –
Military In Control of the US, Under Commander In Chief Trump/
Updates Will Follow Throughout The Day
Cal , Jan 10, 2021 9:56 PM
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Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 9:26 PM
"Captain America's been torn apart,
Now he's a court jester with a broken heart,
He said, "Turn me around and take me back to the start",
"I must be losing my mind!" Are you blind?!
– I've seen it all a *Million Times* "
You are going to be very surprised. See what happens.
David Meredith , Jan 10, 2021 9:08 PM Reply to
Sukma Dyk
I was just about to post a comment saying: It's not over yet, but you beat me to it! Well
done.
John Smith , Jan 11, 2021 6:17 PM Reply to
Sukma Dyk
Why the secrecy? If you know summit then spill.
Jacques , Jan 10, 2021 8:49 PM
I don't know what Trump's intentions were, and I couldn't care less.
From where I'm standing, it appears that he was elected on a wave of populism, which
seemed to be an alternative to the "liberal democracy" fakery, the swamp. An interesting
presentation of that was here ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA50BE7d1X8
). IMHO, Bannon kicked Frum's butt in that debate.
It would appear that populism was a big enough threat for the "swamp" to unleash four
years of a hate campaign against Trump, possibly, probably culminating with COVID. Hard to
believe that it was a coincidence.
Be it as it may, and allowing for the possibility that this or that or the other thing has
been staged this way or that way, Trump's presidency has certainly set things in motion,
woken up people. Had somebody more slick been elected, the transition to the dystopia that
seems to be in the pipeline would probably have been less noticeable, perhaps not noticeable
at all. With the shitshow that has been going down since last February, all of a sudden there
is a public debate. Perhaps misinformed, perhaps mislead, but there is a debate nevertheless.
Will it result in something positive? Hard to say, hopefully.
Bottom line, Trump's presidency has been historically a good thing.
YouTube_censors_unfortuna , Jan 11, 2021 10:05 AM Reply to
Jacques
Covid 19 was DECIDED? But of course, yes, it's just a detail .. lol
Researcher , Jan 10, 2021 8:45 PM
Turns out the Viking Guy aka QAnon Shaman aka Jake Angeli aka Jacob Anthony Chansley aka
Actor and self proclaimed "Super Soldier" pals around with Bernard Kerik and Rudy Giuliani
when he takes time off from memorizing the latest NSA script:
Lost in a dark wood , Jan 10, 2021 9:42 PM Reply to
Researcher
Oh look, a photo at some sort of book-signing type event. I'll file it alongside the one
of Oswald and Mother Teresa.
Lost in a dark wood , Jan 11, 2021 4:37 PM Reply to
Researcher
BTW: if that's what Bernard Kerik looks like when he's "palling around", you definitely
wouldn't want to fall out with him!
James Meeks , Jan 10, 2021 10:10 PM Reply to
Researcher
Haven't you figured out yet that QAnon is an intelligence agency psyop based in the type
of magical thinking that will get you killed and lose the nation? If not, you really aren't
qualified to participate in what is currently hitting us. The enemy has your number. This is
obviously a photo op staged by the security state to feed the false narrative created around
QAnon.
Researcher , Jan 10, 2021 11:23 PM Reply to
James Meeks
Can you read? Read what I wrote again. Read it enough times until you understand.
QAnon = Q Group NSA
Nothing is hitting you except the Democrats and Republicans together against the citizens.
That's not new.
"If there was a non WAR RACKETEER CORPORATE FASCIST in SHAM DEMOCRACY USA for whom to vote
and the REPUBLICRATS did not FAKE the counts and rig the SHAM elections WE THE PEOPLE might.
Where is a Eugene Victor Debs when the world needs one?"
"Soon that is not going to be an issue, however. There will be no need for SHAM ELECTIONS
after Billy EugenIcs and the CORPORATE FASCIST FABIAN EUGENICISTS cull all the untermenschen
and useless eaters with their EUTHANASIA DEATH SHOT."
"Just can not give up the opportunity for a good lead up (segue'). In good faith and in
all seriousness, thanks for providing it."
Cmiller , Jan 12, 2021 5:27 AM Reply to
Researcher
Masonic handshake
Dayne , Jan 10, 2021 8:40 PM
Peasants in 19th-century Russia clung to a notion of the Czar as a benevolent, fatherly
figure. Even when he rained misery and oppression down on them, it was only because he was
"misinformed", "surrounded by bad guys", etc.
It makes sense: Those were desperate, illiterate people living in misery. Hoping against
hope was all they had. But why would anyone in 2021 think of Trump in essentially the same
way is beyond me. An entrenched military-industrial-media-psychiatric-intelligence system,
hundreds of years in the making and with untold trillions in funding, just stood by as a
Robin-Hood-type hero and people's champion rose to take the Oval Office? Sorry. Trump might
as well sprout wings and fly.
Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 10:10 PM Reply to
Dayne
Thanx for your comment, Dayne – I've been trying to put this into words, and as I'm
autistic, I could frankly, literally *Sperg'-out* over this, right now
- TL:DR version is this, tho': – Ever wonder why 'Populism' is such a dirty word for
the establishment and their MSM bullhorn? – The argument I've heard thus far generally
goes like the South Park underpants gnome's plan for world domination: – Phase 1:
Popular Uprising (aka: 'Civil Unrest') Phase 2: ? . Phase 3: Fascist 'Strongman' Dictatorship
– Why is that?
- Also that we're *Too Stoopid*(/ie: Self-Absorbed) – Like the Mud-Pickin' peasants
in Monty Python' Holy Grail
- I would suggest 2 reasons for this:
- 1.) The Davostanis (Global Banksters/Oligarchs) never *merely* back the *winning horse*
in the race, – In fact they back *every* horse that they *allow* to run (ergo: Trump
was an Establishment-groomed *Stalking Horse* )
- 2.) The Davostanis (again), have *long since* seen to it that *most everyone*, from
birth onwards, is psychologically conditioned, first with childhood myths and fairy-tales
about Charming Princes and Fair Princesses, then with religio-spiritual 'adult' myths and
fairy-tales about (In Judeo-Christian terms) Messianic, White-Knight champion/rescuer types
who, if *we would only* put our lives and our *Utmost Faith* in their holy, heaven-sent
hands, would *Save Us All* from all the terrible, terrible *Mess We've All Made* for
ourselves down here on Earth, by collectively *Shitting The Bed*
*Obviously*, this is *All* just so much *Childish Nonsense*, and, more to the point, a
*Writ-Large Con-Job*
- Cutting to the chase: – The 'Great-Man' theory of history is *Bunk* – Always
*Has Been*, always *Will Be*
If you're still "Holding Out For A Hero", I invite you to stare *Long And Hard* into the
nearest available mirror, *Take A DEEP Breath*, and then go out and *Elect Yourself* to the
office – *Better Yet*, elect your family, elect your friends, elect your neighbors,
elect *Everyone*
- And then let's *Do This Shit* – *Together*!
James Meeks , Jan 10, 2021 10:23 PM Reply to
Dayne
It could have something to do with the fact that Biden is backed by every billionaire
member of the Davos gang of criminals getting ready to use this event, coupled with medical
martial law, to stage the "great reset" scheme. A wet dream of Malthusian eugenecists like
Faucci & Gates, since it includes a drastic reduction in world population aka genocide of
the elderly, vulnerable, poor and non compliant. This Globalist Technocracy will be led by
un-elected bankers and corporate CEO's effectively ending any form of Democracy planet wide.
MSM mockingbirds are completing the programming of the public to make Casey's statement to
Reagan ring true" We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the
American public believes is wrong."
Ow look Simon one trick pony parkes been laughed at and ridiculed and busted for his many
many many many lies and it happening you watch just donate psyop
gets excepted into the Q nonsense and trump Savior psyop and became s one of there
leaders!!!
doesn't anyone go back 5 years and do basic check on thsoes they watch and then make idols
of them.
fools follow fools
Mike , Jan 10, 2021 8:15 PM
Trump was never going to be Ameica's hero. He was played to depict America as a fascist,
racist, neo-nazi country that needs to be saved by the Left aka Joe Biden/Kamala Harris. The
Left can now "save us all" from the "damage" caused by the MAGA movement and Trump. They can
do this through heavily increased mass surveillance and what is essentially imprisonment, to
make sure that we don't fall victim to the "domestic terrorism" that is represented by Trump
and his fan base.
David Meredith , Jan 10, 2021 9:10 PM Reply to
Mike
saved by the left? The left has been selling out the US to the globalist agenda for the
last 20 years (in power or out). Trump is not finished restoring America to a country that
doesn't sell out to China.
"Left-Center-Right" seems that paradigm is a tad askew. It is more like a top to bottom
pyramid [scheme/racket]. The CORPORATE FASCIST OLIGARCH MOBSTER PSYCHOPATH SLAVE MASTERS
sitting on their gold platinum thrones at the very top of the tower/pyramid and all their
prole slave victims, WE THE PEOPLE (HUMANITY) in the mud at the base. The PSYCHOS will say or
do anything to get the prole slaves at each others throats. IF WE ARE FIGHTING AMONG
OURSELVES WE ARE NOT FIGHTING THEM."
Well, being saved by the left was a sarcastic comment. And Trump is clearly done with
"restoring America" because it was never his to restore, let alone him conceding to the left
after the Capitol "riots".
falcemartello , Jan 11, 2021 3:53 AM Reply to
David Meredith
@ David
The left is as left as my right GONAD
Martin Usher , Jan 10, 2021 10:12 PM Reply to
Mike
Biden/Harris "the left"? Surely you're joking? These two are conservatives, in another
timeline they'd be Republicans. What they have going for them is they, like many Americans,
believe in the Constitution of the United States, about what the country is and what its
trying to acheve. It strives to build "a more perfect union".
This the fundamenal error many people made about the Deep State. I've no doubt that
there's a fom of Deep State out there, an ingrained conservative streak in the bureaucracy,
because there is in all bureaucracies. But the real Deep State is all of us, its every last
person who believes in the system, in the American form of democracy and the principles upon
which the nation was founded. There are innumerable personal interpretations of exactly what
this means but the sum total is the United States.
Trump, MAGA and the modern GoP represent 'capture', the idea that the capture of the state
can be turned to personal profit. In doing so Trump and his enablers degraded the notion of
what the US is and why it exists. This is what's caused the backlash, its not 'the left' or
'socialism'.
Sgt Oddball , Jan 10, 2021 10:54 PM Reply to
Martin Usher
"Biden/Harris "the left"? Surely you're joking?"
- The proverbial 'Overton Window' has, at this point, collapsed to a quantum singularity,
about a nothingth of a planck length wide
- Prepare for *Teh Great Suck*!
Peanut butter wolf , Jan 10, 2021 8:11 PM
You seriously think Trump was genuinly elected? All the points you make show obviously he
was a puppet and psy-op of the deepstate from the very beginning.
The deepstate won because they never had an enemy, they created him from the start, with or
without him knowing we dont know, but anyone on that level is on a need to know basis anyway.
It's clear that his every move is steered with the goal to bring down rogue antiestablishment
sentiments.
And it worked very well. Radical left antiestablishment is suddenly prodemocrats and
radical right antiestablishment is totally disillusioned and just became domestic
terrorists.
Trump wasn't supposed to win in 2016. The deep state probably wanted liberal Jeb Bush or
Rubio or Cruz in there. Trump destroyed all the competition in the GOP primaries. Remember,
Trump wasn't picked by the deep state to be their guy. He financed his own campaign. He was a
major burr in their saddle. The Trump phenomenon is real and he proved it with a landslide
victory that was stolen.
Martin Usher , Jan 12, 2021 6:16 PM Reply to
Thom1111
What 'landslide'? The numbers tell a very different story. Trump should have won a second
term but he didn't because of two things, one being the grass roots efforts of Democrats to
motivate voter groups despite systematic road blocks being placed in those groups' path and
the other -- a important one -- being that there's quite a lot of life long Republicans out
there that cannot stand Trump.
Trumpism is like a cult in many ways. One feature is that those who 'believe' find it
difficult to come to grips with the fact that they might hold a minority view. They're used
to being embattled, that's a signature feature of such groups (they're always fighting for
something against an implacable enemy, preferably an unseen one) but its just inconceivable
that they're really a fringe group. The events of last Wednesday have probably done more to
promote Democrat candidates than anything else this cycle; fortunately for the most part the
election was over so all they lost were the two Senate seats.
PS -- May I draw your attention to an old Beatles song -- "Revolution"? (I'd also suggest
an even old song "Trouble Coming" from the Mothers of Invention.)
Voz 0db , Jan 10, 2021 7:58 PM
Under the CURRENT MAIN SYSTEM – The Monetary System – there is no "drain the
swamp"!
James Meeks , Jan 10, 2021 10:29 PM Reply to
Voz 0db
Then you're going to love the technocrats "social credits" scheme such as China currently
imposes on it's population.
Voz 0db , Jan 11, 2021 10:43 AM Reply to
James Meeks
China developed that system with the HELP of the Western Corporations, so that in a near
future the tech will be deployed in the western Plantations. OPERATION COVIDIUS is just the
1st of many operations that will create the FEAR & PANIC conditions among the herds of
modern western moron slaves, that will make it really easy for THEM to deploy that tech.
Why do you think China was the chosen one to practice a "city lockdown" during EVENT 201
planning?
Why do you think China was on the news of western countries while they were executing the
lockdown and then no more China news?
China is also under the Shadow of the SRF & Billionaires at least for now. The only
thing China is trying to achieve is to shift the POWER of the SRF into Chinese Families,
nothing more.
maxine , Jan 10, 2021 7:48 PM
What has Off-G come to? .One must be truly mad to imagine that D. tHRUMP
"SINCERELY" thought ANYTHING EVER, let alone "changing the way America is run" .He's
incapable of comprehending what the word "SINCERITY" means .Sorry the author has lost his
hero.
OffG publishes articles and anybody who wants to can comment on them.
It does not push, or imagine, any group philosophy other than to support us all in a deep
distrust of what the mainstream media ram down our throats every day, and to give us space to
express our personal disgust in our own way.
We are not going to imagine what you would like us to imagine merely on your say-so
either, although you are quite free to tell us what your personal recommendations are.
OffG has never been pro-Trump, and we are all aware that the alternative is far from being
any better.
Perhaps you would like to tell us what is really bugging you, given that you have
never been under any pressure even to show up here At the very least, you could stay on
topic:
So, what about the swamp, and who you think is most likely to succeed in draining it ?
Carol Jones , Jan 10, 2021 8:53 PM Reply to
wardropper
Hear Hear!
Gezzah Potts , Jan 10, 2021 10:26 PM Reply to
wardropper
Spot on W👍
YouTube_censors_unfortuna , Jan 10, 2021 7:40 PM
Trump's racist fan base supported America's bogus War of Terrorism against blameless
Muslim countries, did they not? What goes around, comes around.
I think you are getting fan bases mixed up. Trump inherited these conflicts from Bush,
Iraq 2002 invasion & Obama's 2015 invasion of Syria and it was Trump that threatened to
end the propping up of the endless war industry. In fact that played the major role in why
Trump had to be removed at all costs including selling treason and vote rigging as Democracy
to be defended against "domestic terrorists".
YouTube_censors_unfortuna , Jan 11, 2021 9:45 AM Reply to
James Meeks
Did America's white patriots oppose the demonisation of Muslims as being terrorists who
did 9/11 or did they participate in this US government fiction?
No, at least half of the patriots are and were aware that 9/11 was an inside job.
Geoffrey Skoll , Jan 10, 2021 7:25 PM
Right! The Donald was too weak and too stupid. A smarter president got shot for his
troubles, but the rulers knew they didn't have to resort to that against the Donald. He was
obsessed with his mirror. All those meeting between Ike and JFK, what do you think they were
talking about?
Sounds like you came to Off Guardian thinking it was the Guardian and expected to find a
group of like minded consumers of security state propaganda in a Trump bashing fest.
Do u relly guys think Trump was a hope for all pf us? I am still amazed that
people(including off-guard) still thinks in terms of left vs right, good vs bad, and all that
narrative. I am afraid that nnarrativ has never been true. It is part of the game of "the
matrix" to keep us entertained in shows programmed for tth masses, division, polarizaiomn,
saviours and "heros". In my opinion it is time for a deep shift. Continuing to hope that some
guy will save us all, it is just seeing a tree but not being able to see the woods. While
some keep waiting for somebody to save us, they are moving forward with their plans really
fast. But no problem guys. Sooner or later the rrality will knock on you door, and you will
have to decide if you are going to be a slave or a free human. And it will be all about what
you decide. No american hero or any messiah will do it for you.
Sophie - Admin1 , Jan 10, 2021 9:50 PM Reply to
MANUEL
We have warned against accepting the Left/Right paradigm many times. This is NOT an
editorial and therefore is not 'the voice of OffG'.
Some visitors here need to up their sophistication level to the point they understand we
publish a SPECTRUM of dissident opinion that we consider merits discussion or a wider
audience, without necessarily agreeing with all of it.
"Some visitors here need to up their sophistication level to the point they understand
we publish a SPECTRUM of dissident opinion "
- Yep, well that's as may be, but Andrew Korybko's position is *Lame As All Hell* –
Every establishment talking point *Covered* – just from the 'Contrarian' side
- Trump was an 'Outsider' who 'Became' an 'Insider'?! – Aww Puh-lease! – He
was a *Stalking Horse
- "He didn't have the *'Strength'* to 'Drain The Swamp'(tm)"??!?! – *No-One*
*Indivudal* in all Creation could've
- Do you think we're *Children*?!
Asylum , Jan 11, 2021 3:26 PM Reply to
Sgt Oddball
been on this site a whole while now not seen any articles discussing trump failures
James Meeks , Jan 10, 2021 11:06 PM Reply to
MANUEL
We are all aware that we are the playthings of the rich and powerful but all you're doing
is stating what most of us already know. What is your solution? So tell us please what you
are doing to that makes you feel free and not a slave? Are you living off the grid? Not using
currency? What is it you're doing that makes you different from those of us you claim are not
facing reality? I think many people, myself included, who have no love for Trump see that he
is being denounced by every billionaire member of the Davos gang of criminals as a threat to
world order and the economy while they shut down the planet with medical martial law and
create an authoritarian Globalist Technocratic dictatorship ending Democracies worldwide and
targeting "domestic terrorists" who oppose them.
George Mc , Jan 10, 2021 6:35 PM
The steps on how to destroy all of the services, public and private though
focussing on the NHS:
Seize on a moderate flu variant. Build it up to be the blackest
death since the black death. Seize on all the old people who die anyway and claim their
numbers as an indication of the carnage. For anyone still hesitant, introduce hypocritical
emotional blackmail about "the most vulnerable" in our society to shame everyone into the
game On the basis of those appropriated death figures, endlessly circulate fear porn –
enhanced by the fact that the symptoms of this apocalyptic virus are indistinguishable from
the regular flu or even the common cold. Get everyone to steer clear of everyone else. Close
down all "inessential" work plus communal gathering places to ensure everyone is isolated
before the droning monolithic message you are pumping out. Introduce even more draconian
measures for anyone who "has" the bug – effectively barring them even (especially) from
care work. Prioritise the new bug cases so that they have access to hospital facilities
– while anyone with other (real) illnesses are barred to "protect" them! This fills up
the hospitals with hypochondriacs with the common cold. Introduce the notion that some may
carry the bug without symptoms. Introduce a new test which can determine who has the
symptomless bug. On the basis of those magical symptomless bug test kits, bar the
essential workers from supporting the vulnerable – in order to "protect the
vulnerable"! Constantly report on how the NHS is collapsing – which it is, being filled
up with folks with the cold and turning everyone else away, and also being deprived of
essential workers who tested positive for the symptomless bug. Just stand back and watch it
all collapse whilst continuing to report on it with increasing horror!
George Mc , Jan 10, 2021 6:41 PM Reply to
George Mc
PS the list is not exhaustive. I didn't even touch on the phony Left/Right divide.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL , Jan 10, 2021 7:18 PM Reply to
George Mc
EXCERPTS FROM THE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORTS INTO COVID-19 AND CARE HOMES.
A must read.
The Department of Health and Social Care . adopted a policy, that led to 25,000 patients,
including those (known to be) infected (with Covid-19, and also those who were) possibly
infected with Covid-19 (but) had not been tested, being discharged from hospital into care
homes between 17 March and 15 April -- exponentially increasing the risk of transmission to
the very population most at risk of severe illness and death from the disease. (This, while
being denied) access to testing, (being denied) personal protective equipment, (while having)
insufficient staff, and limited (and confusing) guidance.
There was and is no great "American democracy" to be restored after Trump. As the
mainstream political scientists Martin Gilens (Princeton) and Benjamin Page (Northwestern) had
shown six years into Barack Obama's presidency, the nation had for many decades become
"an oligarchy" where wealthy "elites" and their corporations "rule" and
"ordinary citizens have virtually no
influence over what their government does."
That was clear during Obama's corporatist "Hope" and "Change" presidency,
which gave Americans what commentator William Greider memorably called "a blunt lesson about
power, who has it and who doesn't." Americans, Greider wrote , "watched
Washington rush to rescue the very financial interests that caused the catastrophe. They
learned that government has plenty of money to spend when the right people want it. 'Where's my
bailout,' became the rueful punch line at lunch counters and construction sites
nationwide." Then Americans beheld Obama embrace "entitlement reform" (nice-sounding
cover for attacking Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security benefits) and pass a health
insurance reform (the so-called Affordable Care Act) that only the big insurance and drug
companies could love.
The Biden team has no more intention of acting sincerely on the Democratic Party's standard
manipulative populist-sounding campaign rhetoric in the wake of the Trump nightmare and the
2020-21 Covid-19 Recession than did the Obama White House in the wake of the George W. Bush
nightmare and the 2007-08 Great Recession.
Biden's cabinet picks are loaded with neoliberal center-right operatives
inherited from the fake-progressive Obama administration. They hail from the same Wall
Street backgrounds and corporate and imperial think tanks that
staffed the George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama
administrations.
The "diversity" that CNN and MSNBC applaud in Biden's cabinet and agency picks is all
about the race, ethnicity, and gender of his elections. It does not extend to ideology to
include genuinely progressive Democrats in the mold of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez. Under the faux-transformative cloak of identity, these are ruling-class
personnel trained and doctrinally committed to oppose the decent, humane, progressive,
social-democratic, and environmentally sane policies favored by the nation's silenced progressive
majority -- Single Payer health insurance, seriously progressive taxation, the abolition of
parasitic student debt, free public college, a doubling of the federal minimum wage, the
re-legalization of union organizing, and a planet-saving Green New Deal. As liberals fawn over
the many female, nonwhite, and gay people holding top positions, the Biden administration will
be a monument to the persistent rule of the nation's un-elected and interrelated dictatorships
of money and empire.
This follows in accord with the near-octogenarian Biden's promise to super-wealthy campaign
donors at a posh Manhattan hotel last year. Pledging not to "demonize anybody who has made
money," Biden told a gathering of tuxedo-wearing financial parasites that the rich were not
to blame for the nation's savage inequalities (so extreme that the top tenth of the upper US
One Percent had more wealth than the nation's bottom 90 percent by the end of the Obama years).
"Nothing will fundamentally change" and nobody's wealth or income would have to be
reduced if he became president, Biden
said . "I need you badly," he added.
njab 18 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 08:58 AM
What exactly is "left"? The author doesn't talk about being "anti-war" for example. And
frankly, some of the "left" policies, especially related to LGBQXYZ, I find abhorrent. What
is needed is neither "left" nor "right" but something that benefits the MAJORITY of the
population and not just a few fringe groups.
Ohhho HypoxiaMasks 12 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 03:11 PM
Americans is the most confused nation on Earth! They confuse plutocracy with democracy,
propaganda with news, debt with wealth, individualism with freedom, corruption with
influencing, bullying with leading, war with peace and looting with help!
ColdFacts 1justssayn 4 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 11:22 PM
trump is fake anti-establishment, he had 4 years and did not pardon Assange or Snowden, did
not expose corrupt elites, he did not declassify anything "interesting", even now with
exposed election fraud all he did was to file some pseudo lawsuits which were dismissed by
corrupt establishment owned courts.
rubyvolt 16 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 10:41 AM
'MuriKKKa is run by those who OWN it. Their muscle is the US military. Its fodder, the
citizens. The PEOPLE of this nation have no say and can't get into the streets as most of us
have been so poisoned and brainwashed that independent thought is not possible.
jjikss 13 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 02:03 PM
There is no such thing as "democratic empire". You either believe that majority decides or
you believe that power decides. America is undoubtedly an empire ( over 600 offshore military
bases), so the democracy part is just a form of " double think" that comes straight from
George Orwell's vision.
Vikiiing 19 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 08:08 AM
The election process could be fixed to be fair but neither party wants that. US elections
could be modelled after any scandanavian system to get rid of corruption, but there's big
money to be made keeping it corrupt.
DeadRassputin 8 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 07:05 PM
The working class elected Trump as an outsider in the hope he could curb the corruption that
was becoming apparent in the Federal Government. Second term they tried to elect him again,
however the career politicians were having none of that. MSM propaganda blitz plus social
media censorship added to unverifiable mail in ballots, and rigged counting machines sealed
the deal.
Khanlenin DeadRassputin 7 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 07:42 PM
Even though he never stopped stuffing millions into the pockets of the super rich, he did
offer some improvement to the economic conditions of the working classes which had been
stagnating since the 1970's Obama and Clinton had made sure any improvements in productivity
and technology were all going to benefit the top financial elites. Having an unstable ego, he
kept throwing grenades at everything he didn't understand. In the case of Iranian government
officials, the grenades were real
Khanlenin DeadRassputin 7 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 07:42 PM
Even though he never stopped stuffing millions into the pockets of the super rich, he did
offer some improvement to the economic conditions of the working classes which had been
stagnating since the 1970's Obama and Clinton had made sure any improvements in productivity
and technology were all going to benefit the top financial elites. Having an unstable ego, he
kept throwing grenades at everything he didn't understand. In the case of Iranian government
officials, the grenades were real
Joaquin Montano 12 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 02:54 PM
"There's no great 'American democracy' to be restored after Trump, ..." We used to say
"America is the best democracy money can buy". Not even that anymore. It is so disfunctional
it isn't worth the money ...
westernman 13 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 02:29 PM
Some 40 trillion dollars that the rich are stashing away in offshore fictitious bank accounts
if taxed even at 1% will more than pay for all social services like single payer health
insurance, student loan forgiveness, free college education and much much more. Correct Obama
was a faux progressive, he would take one step forward and two back. I agree that Biden seems
to be painting a diverse race cabinet portfolio but skin color is no guarantee at all of pro
working people ideologies.
Hasse1 14 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 12:59 PM
In reality (with hard evidence) Trump is NO different from his predecessors. In fact, if you
compared him with other U.S. presidents, Trump was less violent and caused the death of less
people than Clinton, Bush, Obama or Biden. Just to mention the latest few.
Khanlenin Bill Spence 6 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 08:57 PM
"general welfare" or "the welfare of the generals" You're correct. When ordinary citizens
opposed the invasion of Iraq, they showed that they did not have the expertise needed to make
the decisions in the best interest of the welfare of the generals (or Standard Oil).
czerenkob 13 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 01:40 PM
In the USA democracy is talked about, but not practiced.
SheepNotHuman 9 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 06:14 PM
Democracy a dreamy concept for children only. There is no such thing as Democracy when money
buys the elections and votes remain secretive. America was never a Democracy, from day one
it's a fraud. The first president old George Washington was a blood relative of the UK Royals
and his 50 secret society brothers set up America for 200 + years of fraud. Guess what, the
royals still run things folks. We on the other hand will only be remembered as man or woman
if we turn a blind eye to truth and care nothing for honesty. Some less than human! Now as
people catch on to the facts that they have been played their whole life long while they
pretend and live in the matrix the Deep State must act to clean us out. It's called Agenda
2030 schemed up by the evil WEF. Don't get tested and don't get vaccinated. Now my awakened
ones it's your turn!
shadow1369 15 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 11:48 AM
The US haas been mythologising its nature from day one, all is fraud and pretence there.
Ohhho 14 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 01:15 PM
All of it is just a bunch of nonsense by a naive American. All that "great republic" and
"democracy" garbage! Their dear POTUSes are just puppets to the Global financial oligarchy
that "bought them all and in the darkness bound them"! So they underestimated Trump and let
him slip by, big deal! Everything is back to normal baby, hallelujah!
athineos Ohhho 13 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 01:50 PM
Correct! US has been an Oligarchy since it's Founding when the theft and rape of the land of
the INDIGENOUS AMERICAN PEOPLE by the European Colonizers was being undertaken to benefit the
few as always. Now it has moved into its advanced cancerous stage where the middle class will
be completely assimilated into the poor class to bring about the New Feudal era of the NEW
WORLD ORDER.
Sovietski 10 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 05:18 PM
Biden's sole election slogan/promise has been: "I'm not Trump" He's a millionaire and
4-decade career political dinosaur. Of course nothing will change!
The_Chosenites 14 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 01:03 PM
Biden will spend most of his time as the Donald did. It will be Biden the Blind lead around
by his Israelis guide dog Bibi. Biden will be consumed with middle east policy and defeating
the enemies of Israel, allowing Israels continued expansionist policies. The American people
may have lost the election but there is always a clear winner!
IslandT 3 hours ago 20 Dec, 2020 11:45 PM
Trump administration is a complete failure, when Trump comes to power he has basically
started war on so many fronts and attacks so many swamp people which is the main reason why
so many top level people hate him and causes him to lost the presidency! The swamp in US
senate is simply too deep and there is nothing Trump can do about it, when he leaves the
office, the swamp people will come back and continue their party, those generals or officials
Trump puts on the important positions will be overthrew by Joe Biden, those rules that set by
Trump will also get overwritten by Joe Biden, basically it is a complete waste of time for
Trump to do all those unproductive works. Also the Mexican-US border wall will also be
stopped under Biden as well. If both the democrat and republican not realize they need to
change then there is nothing much a President can do to change the entire situation. US is in
the ending stage of it's empire and we will see de dollarisation after Trump steps down,
think about this, what will happen if other nations want US to buy their currency with the US
gold reserves so the American can buy their raw material or finished product? How much gold
reserves does the US actually has and how much money does the US owns the foreign countries
and how much gold does the us has to pay to foreign nations if de dollarisation actually
happen? Do you people realize that Mike Pompeo has just turned into Swamp people as well,
there goes the last hope for the American!
"... Oh, yes, you really did it this time! You stormed the goddamned US Capitol. You and your racist, Russia-backed army of bison-hat wearing half-naked actors have meddled with the primal forces of GloboCap, and now, by God, you will atone! ..."
"... No, do not try to minimize your crimes. You entered a building without permission! The building where America simulates democracy! You walked around in there waving silly flags! You went into the Chamber, into people's offices! One of you actually put his filthy populist feet up on Pelosi's desk ON HER DESK! This aggression will not stand! ..."
So, welcome to 2021! If last week was any indication, it is going to be quite an exciting year. It is going to be the year in
which GloboCap reminds everyone who is actually in charge and restores "normality" throughout the world.
or at least attempts to restore "normality," or the "New Normality," or the "Great Normal Reset," or "The New Normal War on Domestic
Terror" or whatever they eventually decide to call it.
In any event, whatever they call it, GloboCap is done playing grab-ass. They have had it with all this "populism" malarkey that
has been going on for the last four years.
Yes, that's right, the party is over, you Russian-backed white supremacist terrorists! You Trump-loving, anti-mask grandmother
killers! You anti-vax, election-fraud-conspiracy theorists! You deviants who refuse to follow orders, wear your damn masks, vote
for who they tell you, and believe whatever completely nonsensical official propaganda they pour into your heads!
Oh, yes, you really did it this time! You stormed the goddamned US Capitol. You and your racist, Russia-backed army of
bison-hat wearing half-naked actors have meddled with the primal forces of GloboCap, and now, by God, you will atone!
No, do not try to minimize your crimes. You entered a building without permission! The building where America simulates democracy!
You walked around in there waving silly flags! You went into the Chamber, into people's offices! One of you actually
put his filthy populist feet up on Pelosi's desk ON HER DESK! This aggression will not stand!
OK, before I go any further with this essay, I need to explain to my regular readers (in case it wasn't already clear) that I've
decided to forswear every word I've ever written, and all my principles, and my common sense, and join the remainder of my old leftist
and liberal friends in the orgy of online hate and outrage they are currently mindlessly indulging in.
I'm already in enough trouble as it is for not playing ball with their "
apocalyptic plague ," and whatever else I
am, I am certainly no martyr, and I have a career in the arts to consider, so I have decided to listen to my inner coward and join
the goose-stepping global-capitalist mob, which is why this column sounds slightly out of character.
See, back in the old days, before my conversion, I would have made fun of my liberal friends for calling this "storming" of the
Capitol a "coup," or an "insurrection," and for demanding that the protesters be prosecuted as "domestic terrorists."
I probably would have scolded them a bit for taking to the Internet and spewing their hatred at
the unarmed woman
shot dead by the police like a pack of soulless, totalitarian jackals.
I might have even made a reference to that infamous scene in Schindler's List where the crowd of "normal" German citizens
all laugh and jeer as the Jews are marched away to the ghetto by the Nazi goons.
But, now that I have seen the light, I see how bad and wrong that would have been. Clearly, trespassing in the US Capitol is a
crime that should be punishable by death. And comparing contemporary American liberals to the "good Germans" during the Nazi era
is so outrageous that well, it should probably be censored.
In fact (and I hope my liberal friends are still reading this), the police should have shot the entire lot of them! All these
Russian-backed Nazi insurrectionists should have been gunned down right there on the spot, preferably by muscle-bound corporate mercenaries
and CIA snipers in Black Hawk helicopters with big Facebook and Twitter logos on them!
Actually, anyone who trespassed in the Capitol Building (which is like a cathedral), or just came to the protest wearing a MAGA
hat, should be hunted down by federal authorities, charged as a "domestic white-supremacist terrorist," frog-marched out onto Black
Lives Matter Plaza, and shot, in the face, live, on TV, so that everyone can watch and howl at their screens like the
Two Minutes
Hate in 1984 . That would teach these "insurrectionists" a lesson!
Or they could shoot them in one of those corporate-branded stadiums! We could make it a weekly televised event. It's not like
there is any shortage of Trump-supporting "domestic terrorists." They could use a different stadium every week, deck the place out
with big "New Normal" banners, play music, make speeches, the whole nine yards. Everyone would have to wear masks, of course, and
strictly adhere to social distancing. Folks could bring the kids, make a day of it.
How am I doing so far, leftist and liberal friends? No? Not fanatical and hateful enough?
OK, so what is it going to take to convince you that I have changed my tune, got my mind right, and am totally on board with the
New Normal totalitarianism? Trump? Sure, I can do Trump. I hate him! He's Hitler! He's Russian Hitler! He's Russian White Supremacist
Hitler!
Yes, I know I've spent the last four years pointing out that he isn't actually Hitler, or a Russian agent, and that he's really
just the same ridiculous, narcissistic ass clown that he has always been, but I was wrong. He's definitely Hitler, and a Russian
agent! He is certainly not just a pathetic old huckster without a single powerful ally in Washington who could not stage an actual
coup if Putin nuked every blue state on the map.
No, I soil myself in fear before his awesome power. Never mind that he's just been banned by
Facebook ,
Twitter , and
numerous other corporate platforms , and made a fool of by the corporate media, the international political establishment, the
Intelligence agencies, and the rest of GloboCap since the day he took the oath of office.
Forget the fact that, although he holds the nuclear launch codes in his tiny little hands and is Commander in Chief of the US
military, the most he could do to challenge his removal was file a buttload of hopeless lawsuits and sit around in the Oval Office
eating cheeseburgers and tweeting into the night.
No, none of that means a thing, not when he still has the power to "embolden" a few dozen pissed-off Americans to storm (
or calmly walk ) into the Capitol and
take selfies sitting in the Vice President's Chair!
Look, the point is, I hate him. And I hate his supporters. I hate everyone who doesn't hate him and his supporters. I hate everyone
who won't wear a mask. I hate the Republicans. I hate the Russians. I hate everyone who won't get the vaccine. My God do I hate them!
I am so full of hatred and mindless rage that it is making me crazy. I am so consumed with self-righteous hatred, propaganda, and
manufactured hysteria that, if Rachel Maddow, or Chris Hayes, or whoever, told me that it was time to round them all up, these "domestic
terrorists," these "insurrectionists," these "conspiracy theorists," these "anti-mask extremists" (and anyone else who won't obey
us), and put them on trains and send them to camps, I'd probably be OK with that.
How am I doing, liberals? Am I back in the club? Because, I get it. I swear! I'm cured! Praise God! I'm ready to pitch in and
do my part. I believe in GloboCap's final victory! I'm willing to work, if our leaders order me, ten, twelve, or fourteen hours a
day, and give all I have for GloboCap victory! I am ready for total ideological war an ideological war more total and radical than
anything I can even imagine!
Sure, our imaginary enemies are formidable (and this war will probably last forever or at least until the end of global capitalism),
but, in the words of one our greatest liberal heroes, George W. Bush, "bring it on!"
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by Bloomsbury Publishing and Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. His dystopian novel,
Zone 23 , is published by Snoggsworthy,
Swaine & Cormorant. Volume I of his
Consent Factory Essays
is published by Consent Factory Publishing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amalgamated Content, Inc. He can be reached at
cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org
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The USA is now the proverbial Whale in a Swimming Pool: it is big, powerful and impressive
- but can't hide its moves anymore and has little to none margin for any maneuver.
The American Center-wing is ossifying, or, in Cold Warrior terminology (Arthur
Schlesinger Jr.), is losing its "vitality". It is entering a stage where it must "burn the
village in order to save it".
... it seems the answer is that Germany plays the role in Europe that the US plays in the
world and both are satisfied with that role even though neo-liberalism, austerity and
war-mongering are leading us to inhumanity and disaster.
Like i said before elsewhere Biden would capitalize on what Trump has put forth and take
the infamy and blame for instead of moving in the opposite directions of whatever Trump
criticized for in foreign policy. That means be it trade war with China, renege on climate
deals, strong arming NATO and EU countries, or giving everything Israel wants nothing stop
Biden from maintaining what has been put in place.
At most they'll just make excuse on why they had to maintain the policies they themselves
criticized Trump for without changing direction.
He said Joe Biden's strong conviction was that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a "bad idea"
and that the administration would use "every persuasive tool" to convince partners,
including Germany, to discard the project.
That is pretty much a declaration of war against countries in Europe. Stay
away,
America's
disarray is its own woes, not other countries' opportunity The Financial Times lives in
a world where the USA doesn't have more than 2,000 operational nukes, doesn't control the
financial system (SWIFT), doesn't issue the universal fiat currency (Dollar Standard),
doesn't have a big fucking navy, doesn't enjoy absolute ideological hegemony etc. etc.
...Tronald's foreign policy has been a disaster, even if he has supposedly not sparked a
new war. Let's not talk about all the secret operations, multiplied drone attacks, state
terrorist assassinations, etc. And the new administration is now continuing this...
They've stopped thinking, become utterly predictable.
They just go through the motions. They know that they can't win-achieve their long held
objectives-but they can't stop repeating themselves, including their past errors. They are
not allowed to. The US ruling caste-servants of the ruling class- are only allowed to
operate within very narrow boundaries. They aren't allowed to take radical measures when
faced with new crises- they are confined within ever diminishing political circles. The
duopoly has become an obvious One Party system. And its politics are those of the Gilded
Age-150 years old and still going strong.
The only solution to America's problems is defeat so complete that it cannot be denied
even by the least perceptive. Anyone with money to spare should be buying popcorn
futures.
...Biden is an elderly figurehead. Trump's mistake was being openly bullying and vulgar
instead of underhanded. Already, the EU ( as cowardly vassals ) are falling into line on
Iran and Russia.
...Paul Craig Roberts is correct. There has not been a regime change, there has been a
revolution and treating policies of this "president" as if he is more than a figurehead
being run by oligarchs is foolish in the extreme.
They've stopped thinking, become utterly predictable.
One could say this about the American people who have been herded into two camps so that
the Center can rule. Here's an example: One of Biden's first executive actions is to
include undocumented residents in the Census. This will please the Left immensely and
outrage the Right. But the Census is conducted every 10 years and it was completed in 2020.
So Biden's action is actually meaningless. How many people will actual notice this? Very
few.
It is funny/sad to see the Post Trump Stress Disorder victims are already rationalizing
and making excuses for the war that the establishment drones they voted for will be
starting, and those drones are not even sworn in to office yet. They know that they voted
for war yet their plastic, Hollywood "identities" are so intertwined with their assumed
self-evident moral superiority that they are compelled to defend the evil they are
responsible for even before it is committed. For them, doing nothing crudely is far worse
than murdering millions accompanied by lofty and emotive platitudes.
Meet the Filthy Rich War Hawks That Make up Biden's New Foreign Policy Team
"I expect the prevailing direction of U.S. foreign policy over these last decades to
continue: more lawless bombing and killing multiple countries under the cover of "limited
engagement," – Biden Biographer Branko Marcetic
by Alan Macleod November 13th, 2020
https://www.mintpressnews.com/filthy-rich-war-hawks-make-joe-biden-foreign-policy-team/273039/
Neera Tanden – Reduce US Deficits by Raiding the Economies of Countries We Have
Destroyed:
Neera Tanden, Biden's Pick for Budget Office: Now Is Not the Time To 'Worry About Raising
Deficits and Debt'
by Robby Soave https://reason.com/2020/11/30/neera-tanden-biden-omb-debt-deficit/
She once suggested that if Americans care about the deficit so much, maybe we should make
Libya pay for it.
| 11/30/2020
( Ariana Ruiz/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom )
Trump ripped the mask off US foreign policy and exposed it for what it is - ugly Zionism
and outrageous Jewish supremacy. Trump did many foreign policy changes previous incumbents
and their handlers wanted to do but were constrained by the optics and international
opinion.
I agree the Biden administration will continue the same tired old foreign policy, only
with the mask back on. Of course the media won't notice the similarities, but the public
will. No matter how fervently the managers tinker with the edges it is events that drive
changes and change people.
I just listened to President Biden's speech. It was a good one, even a great one. Thinking
about what Plato means by the 'noble lie' it was a noble speech, and there wasn't much of a
lie about it.
b finished the posting with
"
While Trump had continued the wars the U.S. waged when he came into office he did not start
any new ones. Since Joe Biden first entered the Senate 47 years ago he has cheered on every
war the U.S. has since waged. It would be astonishing to find four years from now that he
did not start any new ones.
"
Prepare to be astonished. Biden isn't going to start any new wars for the same reason
that Trump didn't......MAD
Humanity has been in the MAD phase of the civilization war we are in since the Obama era
push back in Syria.
Biden's chest beating will not be as "impressive" as Trump's but the trajectory is the
same.
The new chief says to tighten the circle of wagons, but those accused of besieging the
Outlaw US Empire's wagon train stopped attacking and moved on long ago. Meanwhile,
supplying the wagon train continues to take resources away from dealing with very real
domestic problems. The upshot is China will continue to pull away and increase its lead
geoeconomically, and together with Russia will continue to solidify and strengthen the
Eurasian Bloc. Very soon, the EU is going to be faced with a very stark choice--to join the
Eurasian Bloc and thus stave-off economic atrophy or continue to allow its brand of
Neoliberal Parasites to eat and risk rupture, perhaps not in 2021 but before 2030.
The key is that the false narrative that was initiated in 1945 and bolstered in 1979
continues to be treated as gospel despite its path to certain ruin. I noted there were no
questions asked about the international call for a Bretton Woods 2.0 that would end dollar
hegemony and Petrodollar recycling, while removing the one source of coercion behind its
illegal sanctions.
The only possible target of opportunity I see is Venezuela as the frack-patch is about
to fold-up shop and fuel prices cause domestic inflation to soar -- Here in Oregon, gas
prices have gone up 50cents/gal since the first of the year--25%. The oil being the obvious
target now the the lower-48 has definitely peaked.
@ 32 juliania... you are the eternal optimist! there is something admirable about that!..
however you have to contend with a lot of cynical people who think like it's business as
well, as b's post notes..... you might not like to hear this, but nothing is going to
change under biden... big wheels set in motion and biden is not interested in the least in
changing any of it... neither was trump as some of his fanbots are coming to see too...
political speeches are just so much b.s... juliania - as the saying goes, talk is cheap, it
is actions that count.... watch peoples actions, not their talk... biden can talk a good
line, but that has nothing to do with his actions... top of the day to you!
@34 Invading Venezuela and 'taking the oil' won't be easy though there is a possibility
Colombia will help out. Which means the total disruption of South America. More economical
to just buy the stuff.
"It is funny/sad to see the Post Trump Stress Disorder victims are already rationalizing
and making excuses for the war that the establishment drones they voted for will be
starting, and those drones are not even sworn in to office yet. They know that they voted
for war yet their plastic, Hollywood "identities" are so intertwined with their assumed
self-evident moral superiority that they are compelled to defend the evil they are
responsible for even before it is committed. For them, doing nothing crudely is far worse
than murdering millions accompanied by lofty and emotive platitudes."
Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 20 2021 16:16 utc | 26
Tnx for expressing this in a much nicer and polite way then i would have written. And
yes, yes it is sad/amusing to watch NPC`s turn into pretzels to explain away their
cognitive dissonans ,utter foolishness and stupidity.
But a long list is unnecessary to show that no important institution in America any
longer believes in the liberties and protections guaranteed by the US Constitution or in
democracy itself.
The "important institutions" such as the banks and corporations never believed in the
liberties and protections that most people seem to imagine were guaranteed by the US
Constitution or in democracy itself. In fact, the war of independence was fought for the
liberty of the members of those classes to screw over the yeomen of the nation, and they did.
The constitution, in fact, was a successful effort on their part to consolidate the gains won
thereby and to control, if not eliminate, democracy under the guise of guaranteeing liberty
and democracy to the masses.
The essential effect of the AM Rev or rebellion or whatever you want to call it was not to
remove the chains around our necks but to merely change the owners of the chains and the
constitution codified, legitimized, and even sanctified the act.
There will be no true rebellion until most people realize that the whole thing was a pious
fraud from the start and that the pathetic antics we see today, such as pictured above, are
little more than ridiculous sideshows designed to mock, entertain, and distract us with more
fake drama while our owners wring what little is left out of us before moving on to the next
victims.
As a matter of fact, it was never a "people's Constitution" only about five percent of
the white male population voted as to whether the Constitution should be accepted or
rejected. As it was, it only got by by the skin of its teeth and by some very clever
management on the part of its proponents. The whole thing, in conception, formulation, and
realization, was
the work of a small group of enthusiastic young men of property and position [who] were not
wise enough to foresee the unimaginable -- but inevitable.
-Ralph Adams Cram, Nemesis of Democracy – PDF – , The American Review,
December 1936, pp. 129-141
For details, this is chock full of evidence to support the contentions stated above, and
is darn good work despite the fact that the author was a Libertarian.:
The United States is the Constitution. If the Constitution is set aside and not
followed, the United States is a different entity.
That's true as it goes. However, the US constitution is an objective failure. How so? It
has miserably failed in its own stated goals, which appear in its preamble.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish
Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general
Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and
establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Shall we look at the stated goals one by one?
Forming a more perfect Union
Total failure. This country is badly divided in terms of politics and regional interests.
And that's to say nothing of the civil war in which the northern states used their industrial
might to crush the liberty of the southern states.
Establishing justice
The courts are dominated by utterly ruthless liberal activists, many of whom are hostile
aliens descended from European ghetto dwellers.
Insuring domestic tranquility
Negroes riot at will. Enough said.
Providing for the common defense
The only things the military-industrial complex provides are fabulous profits for the Deep
State, a proxy army for Israel, and low-paid jobs for yahoos stupid enough to believe they
are fighting for "freedom".
Securing the blessings of liberty
There is no liberty except for leftist White haters.
For ourselves and our posterity
Of course, these rather dubious blessings are now being bestowed on everyone but the
actual posterity of the framers. They are to be demonized, dispossessed, and finally
exterminated.
A different but related way to look at the issue is simply this: we have come to our
present dire straits under this constitution. Therefore, it is a failure. Continued belief in
the "genius of world's oldest democratic constitution" and such claptrap is not rational but
religious. And the religion that belief pertains to is not only arrantly stupid but
self-genocidal. Democracy is the god that failed. It failed where it was first tried, ancient
Athens. It failed in pre-imperial Rome. It has failed here and it has failed in every
contemporary country foolish enough to emulate the US. And it will fail when arrogant idiots
of the same ilk as those who came up with the US constitution pay no heed to the lessons of
the past and try it again it in the future.
Democratic erosion has various causes. Some blame power-hungry executives who don't want to
give up power. The question, here, is why democratic institutions aren't able to stop
power-hungry elites who would concentrate power and economic resources.
Suzanne Mettler and Robert Lieberman, in their book " Four Threats ," also highlight excessive
executive power but then add political polarization, racism and nativism, and economic
inequality that prompts the wealthy to mobilize to protect their position.
War and militarism exacerbate all those things. But more than that, war and militarism are
antipodal and undermining of democratic norms, institutions and practices.
At the beginning of the post-9/11 wars, we worried about the effects on our civil liberties
and democracy. But after nearly 20 years, we've almost forgotten about these wars and have
underappreciated their effect on our democratic institutions and values.
The urgency of war is often used to justify the concentration of executive power and
deference to the executive in times of national emergency. In the United States, the trend
toward the concentration of power in the executive was accelerated in the George W. Bush
administration. John Yoo, working for President Bush, argued the legal basis for what he called
the unitary executive theory where, in war, the president's powers are essentially unchecked
. Other officials excused secrecy and torture because the United States was at war. President
Trump has continued in that tradition, acting as if the laws and the rule of law do not apply
to him.
President Dwight Eisenhower is usually given credit for pointing out the dangers of a
military industrial complex. Eisenhower rejected massive conventional forces quite explicitly
because he sought to prevent the United States from becoming a garrison state: If the U.S. were
to do so, Eisenhower said , "we
might as well stop any further talk about preserving a sound U.S. economy and proceed to
transform ourselves forthwith into a garrison state."
Militarization is a perennial concern. James Madison warned in the Federalist Papers in 1795 that "Of all
the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and
develops the germ of every other. No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual
warfare." Madison worried that "war is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement" that
could increase public debt and lead to a "degeneracy in manners and morals." George Washington,
in his 1796 farewell
address , urged Americans to protect their union and "avoid the necessity of those
overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to
liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
In war, fear is often part of the equation -- and fear may be deliberately heightened,
threats inflated. We have been living in fear for nearly two decades. When humans are fearful,
they tend to pay more attention to fearful information and think less critically. This can
bolster groupthink dynamics among decision-makers who otherwise might provide horizontal checks
and accountability for leaders. Trump's
Muslim travel ban was, if anything, rooted in fear of another terrorist attack and racial
animus.
Elements of our political culture also have been militarized. And, as Kathleen Belew's
research shows, veterans also
flock to the white power movement and paramilitary organizations. Veterans are often at the
forefront of these movements -- including the Air Force veteran who was killed
trying to get into the chambers of the House of Representatives on Jan. 6 and another
Air
Force veteran who was recently arrested. Active duty
military personnel also were present.
Militarized right-wing extremism emulates the military, even if the actors aren't veterans
themselves. It is no accident that many who marched in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 at the
Unite the Right
rally , who occupied the Michigan State
Capitol in 2020, and who stormed the U.S. Capitol wore military-style uniforms, khaki
camouflage and bulletproof vests.
In sum, we don't just have a right-wing violence problem. We have a democracy problem fueled
by a war problem.
Neta C. Crawford is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Boston
University and co-director of the Costs of War Project .
Trump the Manchurian Populist
He made a joke of foreign policy restraint (his restraint is worse than Obama's 'war') and he
ruined the career of good people like McGregor. McGregor is now toxic because of Trump.
Trump's domestic policies failed. He gave us $8T of new debt.
Operation Warp speed had a warp core
breach . What happened to the 300M doses we were supposed to have in Jan, we only have
30M doses, where did the reserve go?
Yeah, this "America First" so-called "populist" also weaponized space, doubled-down on
Israel and ME idiocy, supported a coup in Venezuela (including seizing Venezuelan State
assets), cut taxes (yet again), and lied about the seriousness of the virus.
Oh, and no pardon for Assange or Snowden to support whistle-blowers and independent
journalism that keep the Deep State (that Trump supposedly fights) in check.
"... No examination of Neoliberalism's utter failure to deliver benefits to the masses while expropriating the wealth they produced for delivery to the class of Financial Parasites. At least the writers at Global Times get it right: ..."
Global
Times reports on an essay published by the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung (Check it out b or other German barflies) deeming " China's system, although
'authoritarian,' is 'very successful .'" [My Emphasis]
"It explained that as long as a society can reach the following goals - improving social
welfare, increasing consumption choices, safeguarding domestic security, promoting education,
and providing good healthcare - people will support and trust the system even if their
influence in the decision-making process is limited. Such can 'in part ensure the legitimacy'
of the social system....
"But the authors' introspection stopped from digging problems as they tried to shift blame
to the rise of populism in the US."
No examination of Neoliberalism's utter failure to deliver benefits to the masses
while expropriating the wealth they produced for delivery to the class of Financial
Parasites. At least the writers at Global Times get it right:
"Populism, which helped crown Donald Trump, is being blamed today. Yet it all started
from the widening gap between rich and poor. When German scholars use the US populist
government as a scapegoat, they overlooked the real question - without addressing the
growing inequality in a Western system, will there be a second Trump in the future?" [My
Emphasis]
The fatal thrust is delivered in the two closing paragraphs but still omit naming the
actual culprit, which is the ideology of Neoliberalism:
"The article raised the support and trust of people when it comes to judgment over the
legitimacy of a society. In this regard, data speak louder than words. According to a poll
conducted in 2020 by US-based global public relations and marketing consultancy firm Edelman,
95 percent of Chinese trust their government while the US government only saw an approval of
48 percent .
"What other excuses will the Western world have to question the legitimacy of the Chinese
system? If the West, especially the US, the beacon of democracy, actually senses the crisis
and does not wish to lose the competition, it should stop burying its head in the sand." [My
Emphasis]
The problem isn't heads being buried in sand; rather, it's the design of the ideology to
exploit and degrade a nation's masses so they're left with relatively nothing compared to the
nation's Financial Parasites, all so the latter will always have their Free Unearned
Lunch.
Thanks for the link to the Rostislav Ischenko article. Are you making the translations of
these Russian analyses? I'm grateful to whomever is doing them - the translators are the
heroes of the information war. By the way, I think plenty of people here would recognize
Ischenko's name and would be glad to know about his articles if you link another in future -
it could easily get missed the way you linked it.
~~
Ischenko has some interesting things to say about the US dystopia from a Russian
perspective. He speaks of the oligarchs no longer needing a home country - which we've
discussed here before - and that they may now feel powerful enough to take on any country in
the world.
All of this, Russia should watch with careful interest.
The American oligarchy no longer needs a strong state. They need power over its remnants.
... As I wrote above, the actions already taken and the future actions of the Democrats are
destroying American statehood. However, the American oligarchy felt itself global and
became so insolent that it is no longer afraid of being left without a state behind its
back, hoping that if they had enough of their own resources to seize America, then they
would have enough to defend their interests in a changing world.
Why is it important for us to thoroughly understand what is happening in the United
States? Because the left-liberal (including pseudo-communist) movements around the world
are guided by the financial oligarchy...They really work to destroy the state.
[...]
Whatever they think, de facto they are doing it in the interests of the trans-national
oligarchy, the global financial capital, which is ready to devour the corpses of the USA,
Russia, China, the EU and others, just as it is now devouring the corpse of Ukraine. Strong
bureaucratic republics hinder them in this regard. They don't need strong states. They
want tiny debris.
That is why the internal political struggle in the United States is not just an
interesting spectacle for us, but a scientific experimental base for the struggle for our
statehood against international financial capital (transnational globalist oligarchy) and
its left-liberal mercenaries.
I think this is the overarching view of what's happening in the US and the world today.
Oligarchic power and riches are now so great and so globally mobile that nation-states are
simply getting in the way of the plunder.
~~
In my opinion, the very rich of this world actually do have a solution to climate change
and resource depletion, and they didn't have to think very hard to see what to them is
obvious. As they break up societies to make the plunder easier, they also imperil millions
and ultimately billions of people, who will quickly die and relieve the burden on planetary
resources.
This is why chaos is success for them. There is no plan to save anything except their own
riches. Everything and everyone else can fade away. We spoke of steady-state economies the
other day, and the very rich are now prepared to live in one - their own. New world order is
a red herring anymore. They don't want to rule anything. They just want it all to go
away.
They, the rich, have come up with the obvious, brilliant solution to all recent problems
of this world. We the people are the largest ingredient of these planetary problems.
Obviously, we'll have to go. And as this happens, the rich will exuberantly - with great zest
- increase their own wealth from the very crumbling of former societies.
Hillary Clinton & Nancy Pelosi suggest Putin ORDERED Trump to launch Capitol siege in
unhinged interview
Sad news (for American society), but not surprising.
I can only repeat that democratic elites (although the Republicans are far from ideal either)
are mentally unstable, they have serious brain problems. In the direct/medical sense of the
word. There is no joke or metaphor here.
Their bizarre manic obsession with Putin/Russia is striking. These people have
invented/artificially created for themselves some kind of alternative reality, where Russia
"threatens them", where "Putin wants to undermine world democracy", where "Putin can order
Trump to storm the Capitol" and other such nonsense of a sick imagination. Frankly, I am
somewhat alarmed that the Americans are consistently choosing a leadership suffering from
such a serious mental disorder.
These people created a Big Lie about Russia, believed in it themselves, act (make
political decisions, official statements, etc.) on the basis of this Big Lie, and who can
give a guarantee that one day they will not press the nuclear button when the mass of their
inadequate action (based on a Big Lie) will exceed the critical threshold?
All this wild hysteria with inauguration - an unprecedented 26,000(!) thousand soldiers,
several lines of fences, barbed wire, absolutely insane statements by the Democrats, frenzied
censorship, repression against disloyal - only confirms the illegality of the seizure of
power by the Democrats. They know very well that in reality they would not have won the
elections without falsifications. They have essentially carried out a coup. After the seizure
of power, their regime is unstable and is in danger for several weeks/months. To
strengthen/stabilize their regime, they resort to all these insane actions and statements.
The disagreement of the disloyal must be suppressed in the bud, not to be allowed to grow
into stable resistance.
The very fact that Trump (and millions of his supporters) resisted until the end, refusing
to accept the election results, is, if you will, a moral delegitimization of the power of the
Democrats. Probably, this is one of the reasons for the brutal hatred of the Democrats
towards the outgoing president, expressed in the ridiculous decision on a second impeachment.
And this is the reason for the need for 26,000 soldiers to protect the "elected president"
from essentially his own people.
A good recent
article by a Russian political scientist examines opposition to Trump from the
perspective of the interests of the American oligarchy.
"... In a two-Party dictatorship, the important truths are kept away from being publicized on either side, Eric Zuesse writes. ..."
"... Mission accomplished ..."
"... Nice work, Mr. Putin. ..."
"... According to a US intelligence community report, Russia's chief goal in interfering in the 2016 election in support of Trump against Democrat Hillary Clinton was to "undermine public faith in the US democratic process." Four years on, there have been two impeachments and an insurrection against the US legislature. Millions believe Trump's lies that he was illegally ejected from power, and doubt Biden's legitimacy. ..."
"... Conspiracy theorists have seats in Congress. There are serious questions about whether one of the country's great political parties is now anti-democratic. The Covid-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in a federal system that grants vast power to the states. And America's self-appointed role as an exceptional nation and beacon of democracy is in the gutter. ..."
"... Most of the disorienting events of the last few years can be blamed directly on Trump and his particular skill at tearing at the social, racial and political divides that are just below the nation's surface. So the ex-KGB man in the Kremlin hardly deserves all the credit. But Russia, China and other autocratic nations are gaining much from Washington's agony. They're already using it to promote their own closed and totalitarian societies as models of comparative order and efficiency -- and to beat back brave local voices calling for democracy and human rights. ..."
"... In an effective declaration of victory for Russia's espionage offensive against the US more than four years ago, Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of the Russian Parliament, slid home the knife. "Following the events that unfolded after the presidential elections, it is meaningless to refer to America as the example of democracy," he said. ..."
"... "We are on the verge of reevaluating the standards that are being promoted by the United States of America, that is exporting its vision of democracy and political systems around the world. Those in our country who love to cite their example as leading will also have to reconsider their views." ..."
In a two-Party dictatorship, the important truths are kept away from being publicized on
either side, Eric Zuesse writes.
Throughout history, aristocrats, and their flaks such as their 'news'-media, cast blame
downward, away from themselves who collectively control the government, and onto, instead, some
minority or other mass group, who can't even plan or function together so as to be
able to control the government.
The U.S. has a two-Party aristocracy, as is clear from the "Open Secrets" list of the 100
biggest political donors in the 2020 U.S. Presidential and congressional campaigns, the
"2020 Top Donors to Outside Spending Groups" . Those are only these individuals' publicly
acknowledged expenditures, none of the dark political money, which, of course, is donated
secretly. At the top there, of the donors' lists, is Sheldon Adelson (who just died, on January
11th in California, and was buried in Israel), who spent far more than anyone in all of U.S.
history had ever spent in any campaign cycle, $215 million, which amount far exceeded even
the $82 million that he had spent in 2016,
which in 2016 was second only to Thomas Steyer's $92 million (the previous all-time highest
amount donated in any campaign year). Adelson gave exclusively to Republicans, whereas Steyer
gave exclusively to Democrats. Steyer in 2020 gave $67 million, which -- though he was running
for President in 2020, and hadn't been running in 2016 -- was only 73% of his 2016 donations,
in that year, when he had been the nation's top political donor. He was only the 5th-biggest
donor in 2020, instead of #1.
The second-biggest donor in 2020 was the liberal Republican Michael Bloomberg, who ran in
the Democratic Presidential primaries in order to defeat the only progressive in that contest,
who was Bernie Sanders. Bloomberg spent $151 million of his own funds for that purpose. In
2016, he had spent
$24 million in order to help Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders, and then try to beat
Donald Trump.
The third-biggest in 2020 was Timothy Mellon, the son of Paul Mellon and grandson of
Andrew Mellon .
Timothy Mellon gave $70 million, all to Republicans.
In 2020, the top ten donors, collectively, spent $776 million to own their chunk of the U.S.
Government. The second group of ten (#s 11-20) donated only $187 million; and, so, the top
twenty together donated $963 million, just shy of $1 trillion. All 80 of the other top-100
donors, together, gave around $370 million, so that the total from all 100 was around
one-and-a-third trillion dollars. 47 gave to Republicans; 53 gave to Democrats.
The smallest publicly acknowledged donor among the top 100, Foster Friess , gave $2.4 million, all to
Republicans.
Most of these 100 donors are among America's approximately 700 billionaires; and, even the
ones who aren't are serving and doing business with the billionaires, and therefore are to some
extent dependent upon having good relations with them, not being enemies of any
billionaire. All of these 100 are, obviously, also dependent upon the governmental decisions
that the public officials whom they have purchased will be making, not only regarding
regulations and laws, but also regarding foreign policies. For example, Friess merged his
company into Affiliated Management Group, which "is a global asset management firm"
that "has grown to approximately $730 billion." Virtually all of the top 100 political
donors are internationally invested, and their personal wealth is therefore affected by
American foreign policies, in ways that the personal wealth of the rest of the population is
not.
When the U.S. invades a foreign country, or issues sanctions against a foreign country, it
benefits some American investors, not only in corporations such as Lockheed Martin and
ExxonMobil, but even in some foreign-headquartered corporations. America's spending around half of the entire world's military expenses
gives an enormous competitive boost to America's billionaires, which is paid for by all U.S.
taxpayers. It takes away money that would otherwise go toward the rest of the U.S. population
-- people who might even become crippled or killed by their military service for the benefit of
America's billionaires. Marketing this military service to thepublic, as "national defense" --
even at a time when no nation has invaded or even threatened to invade America after
1945 -- is good PR for America's wealthiest families, regardless of whether it's of any benefit
whatsoever to other Americans. Because of the success of this PR for the military, Americans
consider the U.S. military to
be America's best institution -- far higher than any other part of the U.S. Government or
any non-governmental institution, such as churches, the press, or the medical system. The U.S.
Department of Defense is, also, by far, the
most corrupt of all Departments of the U.S. federal Government . This fact is carefully
hidden from the U.S. public, so as to keep the public admiring the military.
Billionaires use their media, and their scholars, to point the finger of blame, for the
problems that the public does know about, anywhere else than against themselves; and, though
the billionaires have political differences amongst themselves, they are unified against the
public, so as to continue the gravy train that they all are on.
In order for the aristocracy not to be blamed for the many problems that they cause upon the
public, their first trick is to blame some minority or some other vulnerable mass within the
public. Or else to blame some 'enemy' country. But if and when such a strategy fails, then,
they and their media blame the middle class or "bourgeoisie," in order to fool the leftists,
and also they blame the "communists" and the poor, in order to fool the rightists. That's a
two-pronged PR strategy -- one to the left, and the other to the right. Since the aristocracy
is always, itself, fundamentally conservative, they would naturally rather blame the leftists
as being "communists," than to blame the middle class and poor, because to do the latter would
place the public's ideological focus on economic class, which then would threaten to expose the
billionaires themselves as being the actual economic "elite" who are the public's real enemy
(and as being the elite against which the propaganda should instead be focused). Blaming the
middle class and poor might work amongst their fellow-aristocrats, but if tried amongst the
public, it would present the danger of backfiring. Consequently, there is a return to the days
of Joseph R. McCarthy, but this time without communism. Thus, here is how the White House
correspondent for a Democratic Party 'news'-site, CNN, closed his 'news'-analysis, on January
14th, under the headline "Washington's
agony is a win for autocrats and strongmen" :
Mission accomplished
Nice work, Mr. Putin.
According to a US intelligence community report, Russia's chief goal in interfering in
the 2016 election in support of Trump against Democrat Hillary Clinton was to "undermine public
faith in the US democratic process." Four years on, there have been two impeachments and an
insurrection against the US legislature. Millions believe Trump's lies that he was illegally
ejected from power, and doubt Biden's legitimacy.
Conspiracy theorists have seats in Congress. There are serious questions about whether
one of the country's great political parties is now anti-democratic. The Covid-19 pandemic
exposed weaknesses in a federal system that grants vast power to the states. And America's
self-appointed role as an exceptional nation and beacon of democracy is in the gutter.
Most of the disorienting events of the last few years can be blamed directly on Trump
and his particular skill at tearing at the social, racial and political divides that are just
below the nation's surface. So the ex-KGB man in the Kremlin hardly deserves all the credit.
But Russia, China and other autocratic nations are gaining much from Washington's agony.
They're already using it to promote their own closed and totalitarian societies as models of
comparative order and efficiency -- and to beat back brave local voices calling for democracy
and human rights.
In an effective declaration of victory for Russia's espionage offensive against the US
more than four years ago, Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of the Russian
Parliament, slid home the knife. "Following the events that unfolded after the presidential
elections, it is meaningless to refer to America as the example of democracy," he
said.
"We are on the verge of reevaluating the standards that are being promoted by the United
States of America, that is exporting its vision of democracy and political systems around the
world. Those in our country who love to cite their example as leading will also have to
reconsider their views."
That's propaganda from "leftist" (i.e., Democratic Party) billionaires. A good example of an
independent American journalist who has been fooled by Republican Party billionaires to blame
some amorphous mass of "leftists" is Sara A. Carter's 12 January 2021 youtube "Rudy Giuliani talks big
tech censorship" , blaming America's problems on "the government," or "the bureacracy,"
and, of course, especially on Democrats. At 10:15 there, she said "My mother fled from
Cuba." Carter, as a conservative, is so obsessed with her visceral hatred of "communism," that
she interpreted America's dictatorship as being communists, instead of as being billionaires --
of both Parties: actually, fascists. In a two-Party fascist dictatorship , she fears the leftists. This is typical of
propagandists on the conservative side. But propagandists on the liberal side (such as the CNN
correspondent exemplified) are no better, just different.
Both propaganda-operations cast blame away from the real culprits.
In a two-Party dictatorship, the important truths are kept away from being publicized on
either side. What the public sees and hears, instead, is political theater, merely
tailored to different audiences.
"... Here we are in Weirdsville, USA where most people, whether of the left, right, or center, are hypnotized by the flickering screens. That's what movies do. That's what long planned psychological operations do. That's what digital technology allows corrupt rulers and the national security state with its Silicon Valley partners in crime to do. ..."
"... We now live in a screen world where written words and logic are beside the point. Facts don't matter. Personal physical experience doesn't matter. Clear thinking doesn't matter. Hysterical reactions are what matter. Manipulated emotions are what matter. Saying "Fuck You" is now de rigueur, as if that were the answer to an argument. ..."
"... It's all a movie now with the latest theatrical performance having been the January 6, 2021 stage show filmed at the U.S. Capitol. A performance so obvious that it isn't obvious for those hypnotized by propaganda, even when the movie clearly shows that the producers arranged for the "domestic terrorists" to be ushered into the Capitol. They let the "Nazis" in on Dr. Goebbels orders. Thank God Almighty they were beaten back before they seized power in their Halloween costumes. ..."
"... Now who could have given that order to the Capitol and D.C. police, Secret Service, National Guard, and the vast array of militarized Homeland Security forces that knew well in advance of the January 6 demonstration? Who gave the stand-down orders on September 11, 2001, events that were clearly anticipated and afterwards were described by so many as if they were a movie? Surreal. Dreamlike. ..."
"... To accept that Trump and Biden are scripted actors in a highly sophisticated reality TV movie is a bit of "reality" too hard to bear. Exposing them and their minions doesn't hurt at all. There's no business but show business. ..."
"... "A magician is only an actor," ..."
"... "an actor pretending to be a magician." ..."
"... "Will wonders ever cease," ..."
"... On a conscious level, however, many people continue to rationalize their grasp of what is going on in the United States as if ..."
"... The demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol have defiled the seat of American democracy .My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation ..."
"... still cling to the belief that he is the man they believe in and was going to "clean the swamp" but was sabotaged by the "deep state." Biden supporters, driven by their obsessive hatred for Trump and the ongoing delusions that the Democratic Party, like the Republican, is not thoroughly corrupt, look forward to the Biden presidency and the new normal when he can "build back better." For both groups' true faith never dies. It's very touching. ..."
"... As I have written before, if the Democrats and the Republicans are at war as is often claimed, it is only over who gets the larger share of the spoils. Trump and Biden work for the same bosses, those I call the Umbrella People (those who own and run the country through their intelligence/military/media operatives), who produce and direct the movie that keeps so many Americans on the edge of their seats in the hope that their chosen good guy wins in the end. ..."
"... But if that is so, why, despite Trump and Biden's superficial differences – and Obama's, Hillary Clinton's and George W. Bush's for that matter – have the super-rich gotten richer and richer over the decades and the war on terror continued as the military budget has increased each year and the armament industries and the Wall Street crooks continued to rake in the money at the expense of everyone else? These are a few facts that can't be disputed. There are many more. So what's changed under Trump? We are talking about nuances, small changes. A clown with a big mouth versus traditional, "dignified" con men. ..."
...Life today seems like a dream, doesn't it? Surreal to the point where everything seems
haunted and betwixt and between, or this against that, or that and this against us... Or a Luis
Buñuel film. The logic of the irrational. Surrealistic. A film made to draw us into an
ongoing nightmare. Hitchcock with no resolution. Total weirdness, as Hunter Thompson said was coming
before he blew his brains out. A life movie made to hypnotize in this darkening world where
reality is created on screens, as Buñuel said of watching movies:
This kind of cinematographic hypnosis is no doubt due to the darkness of the theatre and
to the rapidly changing scenes, lights, and camera movements, which weaken the spectator's
critical intelligence and exercise over him a kind of fascination.
Here we are in Weirdsville, USA where most people, whether of the left, right, or
center, are hypnotized by the flickering screens. That's what movies do. That's what long
planned psychological operations do. That's what digital technology allows corrupt rulers and
the national security state with its Silicon Valley partners in crime to do.
We now live in a screen world where written words and logic are beside the point. Facts
don't matter. Personal physical experience doesn't matter. Clear thinking doesn't matter.
Hysterical reactions are what matter. Manipulated emotions are what matter. Saying "Fuck You"
is now de rigueur, as if that were the answer to an argument.
It's all a movie now with the latest theatrical performance having been the January 6,
2021 stage show filmed at the U.S. Capitol. A performance so obvious that it isn't obvious for
those hypnotized by propaganda, even when the movie clearly shows that the producers arranged
for the "domestic terrorists" to be ushered into the Capitol. They let the "Nazis" in on Dr.
Goebbels orders. Thank God Almighty they were beaten back before they seized power in their
Halloween costumes.
Now who could have given that order to the Capitol and D.C. police, Secret Service,
National Guard, and the vast array of militarized Homeland Security forces that knew well in
advance of the January 6 demonstration? Who gave the stand-down orders on September 11, 2001,
events that were clearly anticipated and afterwards were described by so many as if they were a
movie? Surreal. Dreamlike.
As with the events of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent anthrax attacks, the recently
staged show at the Capitol that the mainstream media laughingly call an attempted coup
d'état will result in a new "Patriot Act" aimed at the new terrorists – domestic
ones – i.e. anyone who dissents from the authoritarian crackdown long planned and
underway; anyone who questions the vast new censorship and the assault on the First Amendment;
anyone who questions the official narrative of Covid-19 and the lockdowns; anyone who suggests
that there are linkages between these events, etc.
Who, after all, introduced the Omnibus
Counterterrorism Act in 1995 that became the template for the Patriot Act in 2001 that was
passed into law after September 11, 2001? None other than former Senator Joseph Biden .
Remember Joe? He has a new plan.
Of course, the massive Patriot Act had been written well before that fateful September day
and was ready to be implemented by a Senate vote of 98-1, the sole holdout being Democratic
Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin. In the House of Representatives the vote was 357-66.
For those familiar (or unfamiliar) with history and fabricated false flags, they might want
also to meditate on the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964 that gave Lyndon Johnson his seal of
approval to escalate the war against Vietnam that killed so many millions. The vote for that
fake crisis was 416-0 in the House and 88-2 in the Senate.
In the words of Mark Twain:
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat
myself.
Harry Houdini, the magical performer who was able to escape from any trap, any nightmarish
enclosure, any lockdown, once said,
It's still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really hurts a
performer.
The question has been answered. It doesn't hurt at all, for phoney events still mesmerize
millions who are eager to suspend their disbelief for the sake of a sad strand of hope that
their chosen leaders – whether Biden or Trump – are levelling with them and are not
playing them for fools. To accept that Trump and Biden are scripted actors in a highly
sophisticated reality TV movie is a bit of "reality" too hard to bear. Exposing them and their
minions doesn't hurt at all. There's no business but show business.
Houdini knew well the tricks used to deceive a gullible audience hypnotized by theatrics.
"A magician is only an actor," he said, "an actor pretending to be a
magician." This is a perfect description of the charlatans who serve as presidents of the
United States.
Life today seems like a dream, doesn't it? "Will wonders ever cease," said Houdini,
as he closed his shows.
When I was a child I had a repetitive dream that I was trapped in a maze. Trying to escape,
all I could hear as I tried desperately to find an exit was a droning sound. Droning without
end. The only way I could escape the maze was to wake up – literally. But this dream
would repeat for many years to the point where I realized my dreams were connected to my actual
family and life in the U.S.A.
Then, when I was later in the Marines and felt imprisoned and was attempting to get out as a
conscientious objector, the dream changed to being trapped in the Marines, or the prison I was
expecting if they didn't let me go. Even when I got out of the Marines and was not in prison,
the dreams that I was continued.
It took me years to learn how to escape.
I mention such dreams since they seem to encapsulate the feelings so many people have today.
A sense of being trapped in a senseless social nightmare. Prisoners. Lost in a horror movie
like Kafka's novel The Castle in which the
protagonist K futilely seeks to gain access to the rulers who control the world from their
castle but can never reach his goal. But these are dreams and The Castle is
fiction.
On a conscious level, however, many people continue to rationalize their grasp of what
is going on in the United States as if what they take to be reality is not fiction.
Trump supporters – despite what are seen by them as his betrayals when he said on January
7 that
The demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol have defiled the seat of American
democracy .My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power.
This moment calls for healing and reconciliation
still cling to the belief that he is the man they believe in and was going to "clean the
swamp" but was sabotaged by the "deep state." Biden supporters, driven by their obsessive
hatred for Trump and the ongoing delusions that the Democratic Party, like the Republican, is
not thoroughly corrupt, look forward to the Biden presidency and the new normal when he can
"build back better." For both groups' true faith never dies. It's very touching.
As I have written before, if the Democrats and the Republicans are at war as is often
claimed, it is only over who gets the larger share of the spoils. Trump and Biden work for the
same bosses, those I call the Umbrella People (those who own and run the country through their
intelligence/military/media operatives), who produce and direct the movie that keeps so many
Americans on the edge of their seats in the hope that their chosen good guy wins in the
end.
It might seem as if I am wrong and that because the Democrats and their accomplices have
spent years attempting to oust Trump through Russia-gate, impeachment, etc. that what seems
true is true and Trump is simply a crazy aberration who somehow slipped through the net of
establishment control to rule for four years. A Neo-Nazi billionaire who emerged from a TV
screen and a golden tower high above the streets of New York.
This seems self-evident to the Democrats and the supporters of Joseph Biden, and even to
many Republicans.
For Trump's supporters, he seems to be a true Godsend, a real patriot who emerged out of
political nowhere to restore America to its former greatness and deliver economic justice to
the forgotten middle-Americans whose livelihoods have been devastated by neo-liberal economic
policies and the outsourcing of jobs.
Two diametrically opposed perspectives.
But if that is so, why, despite Trump and Biden's superficial differences – and
Obama's, Hillary Clinton's and George W. Bush's for that matter – have the super-rich
gotten richer and richer over the decades and the war on terror continued as the military
budget has increased each year and the armament industries and the Wall Street crooks continued
to rake in the money at the expense of everyone else? These are a few facts that can't be
disputed. There are many more. So what's changed under Trump? We are talking about nuances,
small changes. A clown with a big mouth versus traditional, "dignified" con men.
Trump's followers were betrayed the day he was sworn in, as Biden's will be shortly unless
they support a crackdown on civil rights, the squelching of the First Amendment, and laws
against dissent under the aegis of a war against domestic terrorism.
I'm afraid that is so. Censorship of dissent that is happening now will increase
dramatically under the Biden administration.
Now we have the "insurrection," also known as an attempted "coup d'état," with
barbarians breaching the gates of the sacred abode of the politicians of both parties who have
supported bloody U.S. coups throughout the world for the past seventy plus years. Here is
another example of history beginning as tragedy and ending as farce.
But who is laughing?
If you were writing this script as part of long-term planning, and average people were
getting disgusted from decades of being screwed and were sick of politicians and their lying
ways, wouldn't you stop the reruns and create a new show?
Come on, this is Hollywood where creative showmen can dazzle our minds with plots so twisted
that when you leave the theater you keep wondering what it was all about and arguing with your
friends about the ending. So create a throwback film where the good guy versus the bad guy was
seemingly very clear, and while the system ground on, people would be at each other's throats
over the obvious differences, even while they were fabricated or were minor. This being the
simple and successful age-old strategy of divide and conquer.
I realize that it is very hard for many to entertain the thought that Trump and Biden are
not arch-enemies but are players in a spectacle created to confound at the deepest
psychological levels. I am not arguing that the Democrats didn't want Hillary Clinton to win in
2016. I am saying they knew Trump was a better opponent, not only because they could probably
defeat him and garner more of the spoils, but because if he possibly won he was easily
controlled because he was compromised. By whom? Not the Democrats, but the "Deep State" forces
that control Hillary Clinton and all the presidents. A compromised and corrupt lot.
The Democrats and Republicans were not in charge in 2016 or in 2020. Their bosses were. The
Umbrella people. Biden will carry out their orders, and while everyone will conveniently forget
what actually happened during Trump's tenure, as I previously mentioned, they will only
remember how the Democrats "tried" to oust this man in the black hat, while Biden will carry on
Trump's legacy with minor changes and a lot of PR. He will seem like a breath of fresh air as
he continues and expands the toxic policies of all presidents. So it goes.
Looks like Trump is elevated well beyond his standing and abilities. He proved to be mediocre politician who got into
the prepared trap and endangered and then betrayed his supporters.
Notable quotes:
"... Four years ago the Anglo-American deep state concluded that liberal democracy is no longer guaranteed to keep them in power. The new threat comes from populist like Trump. Instead of democracy they decided to turn to totalitarianism. The first step was a totalitarian media regime . ..."
"... LMFAO. Trump is no threat. Listen to his farewell speech . Summary: bend over and salute the flag. ..."
Four years ago the Anglo-American deep state concluded that liberal democracy is no longer
guaranteed to keep them in power. The new threat comes from populist like Trump. Instead of democracy they decided to turn to totalitarianism. The first step was a
totalitarian media regime .
The Antrim County Clerk and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson have stated that the
election night error (detailed above by the vote "flip" from Trump to Biden, was the result
of human error caused by the failure to update the Mancelona Township tabulator prior to
election night for a down ballot race. We disagree and conclude that the vote flip occurred
because of machine error built into the voting software designed to create error.
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's statement on November 6, 2020 that "[t]the correct
results always were and continue to be reflected on the tabulator totals tape .. . ." was
false.
The allowable election error rate established by the Federal Election Commission
guidelines is of 1 in 250,000 ballots (.0008%). We observed an error rate of 68.05%. This
demonstrated a significant and fatal error in security and election integrity.
The results of the Antrim County 2020 election are not certifiable. This is a result of
machine and/or software error, not human error.
The tabulation log for the forensic examination of the server for Antrim County from
December 6, 2020consists of 15,676 individual events, of which 10,667 or 68.05% of the events
were recorded errors. These errors resulted in overall tabulation errors or ballots being
sent to adjudication. This high error rates proves the Dominion Voting System is flawed and
does not meet state or federal election laws.
These errors occurred after The Antrim County Clerk provided a re-provisioned CF card
with uploaded software for the Central Lake Precinct on November 6, 2020. This means the
statement by Secretary Benson was false. The Dominion Voting System produced systemic errors
and high error rates both prior to the update and after the update; meaning the update (or
lack of update) is not the cause of errors.
In Central Lake Township there were 1,222 ballots reversed out of 1,491 total ballots
cast, resulting in an 81.96% rejection rate. All reversed ballots are sent to adjudication
for a decision by election personnel.
It is critical to understand that the Dominion system classifies ballots into two
categories, 1) normal ballots and 2) adjudicated ballots. Ballots sent to adjudication can be
altered by administrators, and adjudication files can be moved between different Results
Tally and Reporting (RTR) terminals with no audit trail of which administrator actually
adjudicates (i.e. votes) the ballot batch. This demonstrated a significant and fatal error in
security and election integrity because it provides no meaningful observation of the
adjudication process or audit trail of which administrator actually adjudicated the
ballots.
A staggering number of votes required adjudication. This was a 2020 issue not seen in
previous election cycles still stored on the server. This is caused by intentional errors in
the system. The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no
transparency or audit trail. Our examination of the server logs indicates that this high
error rate was incongruent with patterns from previous years. The statement attributing these
issues to human error is not consistent with the forensic evaluation, which points more
correctly to systemic machine and/or software errors. The systemic errors are intentionally
designed to create errors in order to push a high volume of ballots to bulk
adjudication.
Antrim County failed to properly update its system. A purposeful lack of providing basic
computer security updates in the system software and hardware demonstrates incompetence,
gross negligence, bad faith, and/or willful non- compliance in providing the fundamental
system security required by federal and state law. There is no way this election management
system could have passed tests or have been legally certified to conduct the 2020 elections
in Michigan under the current laws. According to the National Conference of State
Legislatures - Michigan requires full compliance with federal standards as determined by a
federally accredited voting system laboratory.
Significantly, the computer system shows vote adjudication logs for prior years; but all
adjudication log entries for the 2020 election cycle are missing. The adjudication process is
the simplest way to manually manipulate votes. The lack of records prevents any form of audit
accountability, and their conspicuous absence is extremely suspicious since the files exist
for previous years using the same software. Removal of these files violates state law and
prevents a meaningful audit, even if the Secretary wanted to conduct an audit. We must
conclude that the 2020 election cycle records have been manually removed.
Likewise, all server security logs prior to 11:03 pm on November 4, 2020 are missing.
This means that all security logs for the day after the election, on election day, and prior
to election day are gone. Security logs are very important to an audit trail, forensics, and
for detecting advanced persistent threats and outside attacks, especially on systems with
outdated system files. These logs would contain domain controls, authentication failures,
error codes, times users logged on and off, network connections to file servers between file
accesses, internet connections, times, and data transfers. Other server logs before November
4, 2020 are present; therefore, there is no reasonable explanation for the security logs to
be missing.
On November 21, 2020, an unauthorized user unsuccessfully attempted to zero out election
results. This demonstrates additional tampering with data.
The Election Event Designer Log shows that Dominion ImageCast Precinct Cards were
programmed with new ballot programming on 10/23/2020 and then again after the election on
11/05/2020. These system changes affect how ballots are read and tabulated, and our
examination demonstrated a significant change in voter results using the two different
programs. In accordance with the Help America Vote Act, this violates the 90-day Safe Harbor
Period which prohibits changes to election systems, registries, hardware/software updates
without undergoing re-certification. According to the National Conference of State
Legislatures - Michigan requires full compliance with federal standards as determined by a
federally accredited voting system laboratory.
The only reason to change software after the election would be to obfuscate evidence of
fraud and/or to correct program errors that would de-certify the election. Our findings show
that the Central Lake Township tabulator tape totals were significantly altered by utilizing
two different program versions (10/23/2020 and 11/05/2020), both of which were software
changes during an election which violates election law, and not just human error associated
with the Dominion Election Management System. This is clear evidence of software generated
movement of votes. The claims made on the Office of the Secretary of State website are
false.
The Dominion ImageCast Precinct (ICP) machines have the ability to be connected to the
internet (see Image 11). By connecting a network scanner to the ethernet port on the ICP
machine and creating Packet Capture logs from the machines we examined show the ability to
connect to the network, Application Programming Interface (API) (a data exchange between two
different systems) calls and web (http) connections to the Election Management System server.
Best practice is to disable the network interface card to avoid connection to the internet.
This demonstrated a significant and fatal error in security and election integrity. Because
certain files have been deleted, we have not yet found origin or destination; but our
research continues.
Because the intentional high error rate generates large numbers of ballots to be
adjudicated by election personnel, we must deduce that bulk adjudication occurred. However,
because files and adjudication logs are missing, we have not yet determined where the bulk
adjudication occurred or who was responsible for it. Our research continues.
Research is ongoing. However, based on the preliminary results, we conclude that the
errors are so significant that they call into question the integrity and legitimacy of the
results in the Antrim County 2020 election to the point that the results are not certifiable.
Because the same machines and software are used in 48 other counties in Michigan, this casts
doubt on the integrity of the entire election in the state of Michigan.
"... After winning the 2016 election Trump caved early and caved often and governed like a neocon, while Sanders let himself get cucked by the DNC in 2016 and folded like a cheap suit during his 2020 campaign. ..."
"... So both of these clowns proved they are no threat to the establishment but it's in the establishment's interest to portray them as dangerous interlopers who threaten the stability of the nation. Why? Because it keeps the "rebellion" in house. As long as the electorate believes a Democrat or Republican POTUS can address their grievances the establishment can sigh in relief knowing that they are still in control. ..."
...Fact is, Trump was never the savior you wanted him to be. Had president Trump respected
candidate Trump's promises he'd at least be a man of his word. But he didn't do that of
course. Trump is a rhetorician (or a windbag, take your pick) and if you focus intently on
his words only while downplaying his actions, you might be able to convince yourself into
believing he is more than a prolific bullshitter.
Fox News is the "conservative" MSNBC. It swings from the GOP's nutsack (as you have
apparently just discovered) and in fact pioneered that style of outrage "journalism." The
American elite need to keep people believing in the two-party duopoly. Fox plays its roll by
keeping its viewers in the Republican fold. Hate the Democrats? Vote GOP! is the message. If
you think MSNBC is trash, why would you cut Fox News any slack? They perform the same
function.
Here's a conspiracy theory for you. What if Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are both
controlled opposition? Start with their affiliation. The supposedly "independent" Sanders is
effectively a Democrat and the supposedly "insurgent" Trump is effectively a Republican. The
media has been in TDS mode for four years and when it looked like Sanders might have some
bipartisan appeal he was quickly slapped down by liberal pundits and commentators.
But what if all that outage is mostly theater designed to get voters believing that
Trump/Sanders are antiestablishment insurgents who present a "real difference" from stale
Democrat/Republican politics? The outrage and slap downs gives the impression that the
establishment really really hates these guys and lets the people who support them think that
they are supporting principled antiestablishmentarians.
The establishment may not like Trump or Sanders very much but as long as they are
controllable they are preferable to a strong third party candidate or a mass revolt against
the duopoly. After winning the 2016 election Trump caved early and caved often and
governed like a neocon, while Sanders let himself get cucked by the DNC in 2016 and folded
like a cheap suit during his 2020 campaign.
So both of these clowns proved they are no threat to the establishment but it's in the
establishment's interest to portray them as dangerous interlopers who threaten the stability
of the nation. Why? Because it keeps the "rebellion" in house. As long as the electorate
believes a Democrat or Republican POTUS can address their grievances the establishment can
sigh in relief knowing that they are still in control.
I don't know if Trump and Sanders are deliberately controlled opposition. But as a theory
it's more plausible than The Saker's undying trust in Trump as a principled POTUS who was
derailed by crafty internal and liberal opposition. If only Trump had been left alone to
govern without undue interference he would be a real hero and America would be saved. Give me
a break, The Saker, you can't have it both ways. Either the Empire and everything it stands
for is rotten, in which case supporting anyone running on a GOP/Democrat ticket is a fool's
errand, or it's not, in which case you can trust the system, roll up your blog and find a new
hobby.
What The Saker and other commentators that serve up predictable and unchallenging opinions
tailored for a specific audience do is provide entertainment. It's stuff for the faithful to
read and collectively reaffirm their beliefs while tsk-tsking at all the fools who "just
don't get it." Occasionally they provide comedic interludes like this piece where The Saker
discovers that Fox News is actually a corporate outlet that supports an established political
party and promotes the sanctity of the American duopoly. lol Thanks for the midweek chuckle,
my dude.
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagence,
they have two of them.
– Julius Nyerere (former socialist president of Tanzania)
"... Although there may not be tanks on the streets and a dictator inciting crowds from his bully pulpit, the end result has been pretty much the same. ..."
"... it is important to put aside the notion that fascism is a purely right-wing phenomenon, complete with a chauvinistic demagogue haranguing a frenzied crowd. The new dictator on the block is not some fanatical Fuhrer, but rather Silicon Valley, the fountainhead of technological advancement and the formidable fortress of liberal ideology. In other words, fascism is an ideology that moves fluidly along the political spectrum, although some say the ideology grew out of European progressivism. ..."
"... Liberal Fascism ..."
"... Many years earlier, the late political theorist Hannah Arendt described the Nazi Party (which stands for, lest we forget, the 'National SOCIALIST German Workers' Party') as nothing more than "the breakdown of all German and European traditions, the good as well as the bad basing itself on the intoxication of destruction as an actual experience." That sounds like a pretty accurate description of the cancel culture mentality that has now gripped the 'progressive' left with an almost demonic possession. ..."
"... We are living Orwell's 1984. Free-speech no longer exists in America. It died with big tech and what's left is only there for a chosen few. ..."
"... Big Tech began its slide towards marked fascist tendencies thanks to one of the greatest hoaxes ever foisted upon the American public, known as Russiagate. One after another, Silicon Valley overlords were called before Congressional committees to explain "how and why Russian operatives were given free rein to tamper with 2016 U.S. election," in favor of the populist Donald Trump, no less. ..."
"... Strangely, violence has never shocked the progressive left, so long as the violence supported its agenda. ..."
"... While all forms of 'cancel culture' (which seems to be part of a move to build American society along the lines of the Chinese 'social credit system,' which rewards those who toe the party line, and punishes those who fall out of favor) are egregious and counterintuitive to American values, perhaps the most astonishing was the cancellation of Republican Senator Josh Hawley's book deal with Simon and Shuster. ..."
"... In conclusion, it would be a huge mistake for the Democrats to believe that they are safe from the same sort of corporate and government behavior that has now dramatically silenced the conservative voice across the nation. The United States has entered dangerous unchartered waters, and by all indications it would appear that the American people have inherited a 'soft' form of fascism. ..."
Although there may not be tanks on the streets and a dictator inciting crowds from his
bully pulpit, the end result has been pretty much the same.
Most Americans can probably still remember a time when U.S. companies were in business with
one goal in mind – providing a product or service for profit. It was a noble idea, the
bedrock of capitalism, in which everyone stood to gain in the process.
Today, the monopolistic powers now enjoyed by a handful of mighty corporations, which are no
longer shy about declaring their political bent, have tempted them to wade into the deep end of
the political pool with deleterious effects on democracy. Indeed, corporate power wedded to
government is nothing less than fascism.
In presenting such a case, it is important to put aside the notion that fascism is a
purely right-wing phenomenon, complete with a chauvinistic demagogue haranguing a frenzied
crowd. The new dictator on the block is not some fanatical Fuhrer, but rather Silicon Valley,
the fountainhead of technological advancement and the formidable fortress of liberal ideology.
In other words, fascism is an ideology that moves fluidly along the political spectrum,
although some say the ideology grew out of European progressivism.
Jonah Goldberg argued in his 2008 book, Liberal Fascism , that even before World
War II "fascism was widely viewed as a progressive social movement with many liberal and
left-wing adherents in Europe and the United States." Many years earlier, the late
political theorist Hannah Arendt described the Nazi Party (which stands for, lest we forget,
the 'National SOCIALIST German Workers' Party') as nothing more than "the breakdown of all
German and European traditions, the good as well as the bad basing itself on the intoxication
of destruction as an actual experience." That sounds like a pretty accurate description of the
cancel culture mentality that has now gripped the 'progressive' left with an almost demonic
possession.
It should be shocking to Republicans and Democrats alike that the Commander-in-Chief of the
United States is banished from all of the main social media platforms – Twitter, Facebook
and YouTube – denying him the ability to communicate with his 75 million constituents, or
one half of the electorate. This is real and unprecedented violence being committed against the
body politic and far more worrisome than any breach of federal property, as loathsome as such
an act may be.
The Capitol building is, after all, ultimately a mere symbol of our freedoms and liberties,
whereas the rights laid down in the U.S. Constitution – the First Amendment not least of
all – are fragile and coming under sustained assault every single day. Why does the left
refuse to show the same concern for an aging piece of parchment, arguably the greatest
political document ever written, as it does for a piece of architecture? The answer to that
riddle is becoming increasingly obvious.
We are living Orwell's 1984. Free-speech no longer exists in America. It died with big
tech and what's left is only there for a chosen few.
Big Tech began its slide towards marked fascist tendencies thanks to one of the greatest
hoaxes ever foisted upon the American public, known as Russiagate. One after another, Silicon
Valley overlords were called before Congressional committees to
explain "how and why Russian operatives were given free rein to tamper with 2016 U.S.
election," in favor of the populist Donald Trump, no less.
After this made for television 'dressing down', the Big Tech executives at Google, Facebook,
Twitter and others got busy reconfiguring their software algorithms in such a way that
thousands of internet creators suddenly lost not only a lifetime of hard work and their
sustenance, but their voice as well. This is the moment that Big Tech and the Democrats began
to really march in lockstep. A new dark age of 'McCarthyism' had settled upon the nation, which
gave the left unlimited powers for blocking user accounts they deemed "suspicious," which meant
anyone on the right. Now, getting 'shadow banned,' demonetized and outright banned from these
platforms has become the new dystopian reality for those with a conservative message to convey.
And the fact that the story of 'Russian collusion' was finally exposed as a dirty little lie
did nothing to loosen the corporate screws.
Incidentally, as a very large footnote to this story, Big Tech and Big Business have not
dished out the same amount of medieval-style punishment to other violators of the public peace.
The most obvious example comes courtesy of Black Lives Matter, the Soros-funded social-justice
movement that has wreaked havoc across a broad swath of the heartland following the death of
George Floyd during an arrest by a white police officer.
Both BLM and Trump supporters believe they have a very large grudge to bear. The former
believes they are being unfairly targeted by police due to the color of their skin, while the
latter believes they are not getting fair treatment by the mainstream media due to 'Trump
Derangement Syndrome', and possibly also due in part to their skin color. But at this point the
similarities between BLM and Trump voters come to a screeching halt.
Taking it as gospel that America suffers from 'systemic racism' (it doesn't, although that
is not to say that pockets of racism against all colors and creeds doesn't exist), dozens of
corporations jumped on the woke bandwagon to express their support for Black Lives Matter at
the very same time the latter's members were looting and burning neighborhoods across the
nation. Strangely, violence has never shocked the progressive left, so long as the violence
supported its agenda.
Here are just some of the ways the corporate world responded to charges that America was a
racist cauldron ready to blow, as reported by The Washington Post: "Jamie Dimon, chief
executive of JPMorgan Chase, knelt
alongside employees during his visit to a Chase branch. Bank of America
pledged $1 billion to fight racial inequality in America. Tech companies have
invested big dollars in Black Lives Matter, the Center for Policing Equity, Colin
Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camp and other entities engaged in racial justice efforts " And
the list goes on and on.
Of course, private corporations are free to express their solidarity with whatever group
they wish. The problem, however, is that these monopolistic monstrosities have an overwhelming
tendency to pledge allegiance to liberal, progressive values, as opposed to maybe steering
clear of politics altogether. Nowhere was Corporate America's political agenda more obvious
than in the aftermath of the siege of the Capitol building on January 6, which led to the death
of five people.
Corporate America missed a very good opportunity to keep quiet and remain neutral with
regards to an issue of incredible partisan significance. Instead, it unleashed a salvo of
attacks on Trump supporters, even denying them access to basic services.
Aside from the most obvious and alarming 'disappearing act,' that of POTUS being removed
from the major social media platforms, were countless lesser names caught up in the
'purge.'
One such person is conservative commentator and former baseball star Curt Schilling, who
says that AIG terminated his insurance policy over his "social media profile," which was
sympathetic to Donald Trump,
according to Summit News.
"We will be just fine, but wanted to let Americans know that @AIGinsurance canceled our
insurance due to my "Social Media profile," tweeted Schilling.
"The agent told us it was a decision made by and with their PR department in conjunction
with management," he added.
While all forms of 'cancel culture' (which seems to be part of a move to build American
society along the lines of the Chinese 'social credit system,' which rewards those who toe the
party line, and punishes those who fall out of favor) are egregious and counterintuitive to
American values, perhaps the most astonishing was the cancellation of Republican Senator Josh
Hawley's book deal with Simon and Shuster.
"We did not come to this decision lightly," Simon & Schuster said in a statement over
Twitter. "As a publisher it will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voices and
viewpoints: At the same time we take seriously our larger public responsibility as citizens,
and cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat."
The so-called "threat" was a photograph of Hawley raising a fist to the crowd that had
assembled outside of the Capitol building before it had breached the security perimeter. It
seems that corporations may now serve as judge, jury and executioner when it comes to how
Americans behave in public. Is it a crime that Hawley acknowledged a crowd of supporters who
were at the time behind the gates of the Capitol building? Apparently it is.
By the way, the name of the Hawley's book? 'The Tyranny of Big Tech'. How's that for
irony?
In conclusion, it would be a huge mistake for the Democrats to believe that they are
safe from the same sort of corporate and government behavior that has now dramatically silenced
the conservative voice across the nation. The United States has entered dangerous unchartered
waters, and by all indications it would appear that the American people have inherited a 'soft'
form of fascism.
Although there may not be troops and tanks on the streets and a dictator inciting crowds
from his bully pulpit, the end result has been pretty much the same: the brutal elimination of
one half of the American population from all of the due protections provided by the U.S.
Constitution due to an unholy alliance between corporate and government power, which is the
very definition of fascism. Democrats, you may very well be next, so enjoy your victory while
you still can.
... the US citizens themselves have called into question their country's conformity with the
main criterion of democracy – the ability of the state to ensure fair and transparent
expression of the people's will in general.
This is an urgent issue the United States has to deal with. The nation is divided, the fault
line running between people of different value orientations, which reflect on the electoral
choice between Republicans and Democrats. There is a clear "value divide" between conservative
Americans and those who promote change in traditionalist attitudes, between "law-abiding"
Americans and those who support active street protest, between those employed in high-tech
industry and those left out of the technological revolution. Besides, the election race laid
bare the tensions between the federal government and state and local governments. Accusations
against the federal government of exceeding its authority in using force to suppress riots have
exposed cracks in American federalism, which the central government (regardless of party
affiliation) prefers to conceal as far as possible.
There have also been large-scale violations of the election law. The United States still has
no standard procedures for voter registration, voter identification, ballot issuance and
submission. According to the nonprofit organization Judicial Watch, by September 2020, 29
out of 37 states had 1.8 million more registered voters than actual eligible voting-age
citizens. This is largely due to the fact that there is no such concept as a domestic
passport or some kind of residence registration in the US, so when shifting their place of
residence, people often fail to remove themselves from the voter list. In addition, there were
occasions of people who had long since died having voted for one of the candidates. However,
courts found no evidence that such cases had been widespread – they were often down to
the fact that other family members have similar names, which led to errors in the voter
records. Statistics show that there were 153 million registered voters in the US in 2018,
with more than 20 million entries in the voter rolls being out of date. According to the
California Globe, an NGO, there were nearly half a million such entries in California alone in
2020. In this context, a large-scale campaign was launched urging voters to update their data
in the voter lists.
The most acute situation arose as a result of the mass postal voting, which brought Joe
Biden a reported majority during the counting of ballots. It is not even that Democrats created
a controversial opportunity to gain votes from a passive part of their electorate, using the
pandemic as an excuse. They encouraged a more active use of the mail-in voting procedure, which
had been widely used only in some states during previous campaigns. According to Donald Trump,
this paved the way to uncontrolled machinations.
Thus, on the eve of voting day, the Democratic Party allegedly attempted to change the
procedure for counting postal ballots in the states of Wisconsin, Indiana, North Carolina,
Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Alabama in order to considerably lengthen the
period of their acceptance. This made it possible to relax the monitoring requirements for
vote-counting. Consequently, once the voting was over, the Republicans almost immediately
announced that they were filing lawsuits in connection with violations registered in 40
states.
Lawyers representing the Republicans found it unsound that so many states had continued
to count the votes for several days after voting day. They had some serious questions as to the
legitimacy of accepting the late ballots. Nevertheless, courts rejected most of the filed
lawsuits even in Republican states.
All of this is hardly consistent with those norms of democracy that Washington arrogantly
imposes on other countries. For instance, US officials in the OSCE constantly point to the need
for the OSCE participating states to comply with the recommendations by the OSCE Office for
Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) drawn up based on the results of its election
observation activities. In the meantime, the US itself fails to act on the relevant
recommendations, blatantly violating the provisions of para. 8 of the 1990 Document of the
Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE and para. 25 of the
1999 Charter for European Security stipulating the obligation to invite observers for
monitoring national elections.
Since 2002, the ODIHR election observation missions in the US have recommended in their
final reports that international observers be provided with access to all states at the federal
level. However, that is not what we see in reality. Besides, the archaic US electoral system is
such that the US federal government has no powers to establish procedures even for federal
elections as this is the prerogative of the states. Just as when America was a farmers'
republic with a population of 3.5 million, the president is still elected by the states, which
inform the Congress of their decisions through the electoral college.
During the popular vote in 2016, the ODIHR did not have access to polling stations in 17
states. The international observers, who showed legitimate interest in the elections on the
voting day, faced threats of arrest and indictment. In the 2020 popular vote, the number of
"inhospitable" states reached 18. Only five states and the District of Columbia have legal
provisions in place ensuring international election observation. In all other states, it
remains at the discretion of the local authorities and is quite unpopular.
The lengthy disputes over the election results in courts (and, at the end of the day,
electing a new president there) is yet another fact demonstrating how inefficient and outdated
this voting system is. In the 2000 campaign, the votes cast for George W. Bush and his
Democratic opponent, Al Gore, in Florida were recounted multiple times. It was the Supreme
Court that had the last word, ruling that the vote recounting should stop, which meant the
victory of George W. Bush – even though many Americans still doubt the validity of that
decision. But at the time, such a timely consensus between the Republicans and the Democrats
was exactly what was needed to quickly stabilize the situation.
The enormous costs associated with such a voting system have by now practically erased
the word "consensus" from the vocabulary of the American political elite. Just recently, no
one could imagine – not even in their worst nightmares – that all these partisan
differences would lead to the storming of the Capitol, whose first foundation stone was laid by
the first US president, George Washington. The attack carried out by pro-Trump protesters while
the Congress was counting votes not only appalled national governments all over the world but
provoked bloodshed in the country, which was only recently seen by many as the gold standard of
democracy. It was hard to believe that the events resembling so much Ukraine's Maidan and other
color revolutions that unfolded in recent years across a wide range of countries, including
those in the post-Soviet space, were broadcasted live from the United States all over the
world.
The techniques previously used by Washington for democratization of other countries
backfired. The cold civil war that had been raging in the US for a few months reached its
climax. And while the world is condemning the attack on the Capitol, anxiously waiting for what
is to come next, it is as yet unclear how the Republicans and the Democrats are supposed to
find common ground. The social polarization keeps growing. The long-forgotten spirit of
McCarthyism is again felt in the air. And there is no one who could answer the question:
are there a person and a timeless value that could unite the nation. The situation that has
been brought about by a chain of events predetermined by the archaic voting system can lead to
new waves of violence and unrest. On the other hand, the American political system has proved
its flexibility over the course of centuries. I am sure this time it will cope, too.
There is one more critical issue which, in the context of the outdated American electoral
system, has moved extremely high up the agenda. I am talking about the unprecedented role in
public politics of social networks and new media, and, accordingly, of private IT companies
that own those platforms. Conventional American media, whose activities are regulated by laws
and fall within the First Amendment, have traditionally – and always officially –
taken the side of a certain candidate and yet deemed it necessary to give coverage to
statements made by the opponent during election and post-election campaigns. The social
media, however, are beyond any special regulations and work on the basis of user agreements.
And it was them that unleashed the media war without rules! And that war is waged against one
single person.
During the vote counting, Trump's posts on Twitter, where he has over 85 million followers,
were flagged as potentially misleading and later even hidden. The events in the Capitol
resulted in the unprecedented and permanent suspension of Trump's accounts on all social media
– where he has a total of about 200 million followers. Noteworthy is that the tone of the
posts that provoked the suspension of Trump's accounts was not much different from his
narrative of the preceding weeks. Next, they blocked tens of thousands of supporters of the
incumbent president across all kinds of platforms which used to be viewed as forums for a
full-fledged discussion.
For America, just as for the rest of the world, this level of corporate censorship is a
truly extraordinary phenomenon. A question arises: who are those supreme judges that decided
that they, of their own volition and based on their own rules – but, in fact, guided by
their political preferences, can deprive the country's president of the opportunity to
communicate with an audience of many millions? Whether Trump is good or bad, he is his
country's national, and, furthermore, an official who enjoys the trust of nearly half of
Americans. Thus, it turns out that several technological corporations located in California got
an appetite for power and thought it possible to juggle with news and facts to suit their own
political preferences. This is but a blatant censorship!
Dictating their own terms, they have sought to substitute for state institutions,
encroaching on their mandates, aggressively imposing their views on a great number of people,
leaving them no other choice; while the 75 million of Trump's voters and hundreds of millions
of his subscribers were left out of their "choice." These were simply labeled as insecure.
Isn't it, indeed, a spectre of cyber totalitarianism that is gradually overwhelming society,
taking away from it (and potentially the entire world) the opportunity to see the reality for
what it is? But even if Donald Trump leaves politics for good and the tech giants wipe out his
digital footprint, the minds will remain hugely polarized. This is yet another problem stemming
from the US's outdated voting system, and it will push governments of different countries into
action to prevent the same scenario in their own states.
Given the special place of the US in the architecture of international relations, all this
makes us try and guess the impact of the elections on the "classical" world politics as well as
economy. It is crystal clear that the elections influence direct trends in global development.
Everything else, with certain reservations, can be regarded as an internal affair of the US
itself. Yet outward effects are our common issue. Let me remind you that George W. Bush's
victory back in 2000 caused significant, though short-term, volatility on stock markets. It is
equally possible after the current shock, which of course provides considerable grounds for
concern. But the long-term stability of the US dollar will be largely determined by the
resilience of institutions for the protection of property rights, the demand for American goods
and services in the global market, as well as the predictability and independence of the
Federal Reserve System (FRS), which underpins the confidence in the US dollar. US dollar
volatility will abruptly increase only if US manufacturers lose a considerable share of the
world market or investors doubt the existing safeguards for the protection of assets, the
relevance and soundness of the FRS's long-term policy. Since this is impossible in the near
future, it seems of much more interest to us what Joe Biden's economic policy will look like.
And this is often shaped based on the thesis "just not the way Trump would have it." It's some
sort of a tradition: the same way, the 45th president without hesitation reversed the 44th
President Barack Obama's directives on all tracks.
It is obvious that the development of a national legal and political system is the sovereign
choice of a state itself, though many countries (and first of all the US) are seeking to impose
their model of development on the world as the most effective. Certainly, there is no legal and
political system that can be called the monument of "classical" democracy. It is constantly
developing and improving. The question is, how relevant and timely the models that are offered
as a replacement for those that have lost their progressive potential are. And here what we
need is a combination of sound conservatism and well-timed new laws. Both artificial
preservation of and constant experimentation with political and legal realities pose a danger.
The post-Soviet nations have the examples of both, state regimes sometimes transiting from the
presidential system to parliamentary and back once every two or three years.
Governments in many countries are posing questions about the policy continuity of such an
important actor in world affairs as the US. The 2016 elections shattered the century-long
tradition of continuity of the administrations, particularly in foreign policy issues. This
time, again, the US' stance on a range of key issues depends on the election results. Where
shall we witness a reverse in policy, a getting-around to approaches adopted by Barack Obama
and his predecessors' administrations? Let us take a look at the critical issue of fighting
against the coronavirus. The 2020 candidates' opposing viewpoints regarding the danger of
Covid-19 will lead to an expanded scope and increased stringency of pandemic-related measures
implemented in the US as one of the main short-term effects of the election outcomes. This will
influence the lives and health of Americans as well as the well-being of citizens in
neighboring countries and the US' allies. The polarization among citizens themselves, when you
could tell with great certainty by the presence or absence of a mask which party the voter has
voted for, was grotesque indeed.
The two candidates have adopted very different approaches when addressing relevant economic
issues inside the country, which have a direct influence on the entire world. One should note,
among many other things, that Donald Trump repeatedly commented on the FRS' activities that lay
outside the mandate of the head of state. This caused a certain dollar skepticism in view of a
possible loss by the FRS of its actual independence of the executive power, which triggered a
discussion on the excessive dependence of trade on the US dollar even among the US' allies in
the EU. The reaction of American markets and the actual recognition by Donald Trump of his
defeat was clearly reflected, for example, in the S&P 500. November 2020 turned out the
best November for the main US stock market index. And for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the
month was the best since 1987. The indices were undoubtedly influenced by the positive news
about vaccines against Covid-19, but the growth began immediately after the election results
were announced.
Support for international organizations (WHO, WTO, and others) turned into a bargaining chip
in the presidential election results issue. For decades, the US has increased its weight in
these organizations. And until recently, the attitude toward them has not depended on a certain
administration in the White House. These elections will inevitably lead to the restoration of
the US' full membership and the development of cooperation within international organizations
such as the WHO and the WTO. The outgoing administration has been notorious for its abrupt and
hardly predictable demarches regarding its participation in such associations, which certainly
destabilized their work. Yet the US's financial support is crucial and very significant for
them.
Even more important is the US' participation in international arms agreements, such as the
Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START III)
and the Treaty on Open Skies (OST), as well as in different integration alliances, climate
accords and many others. As in the case of international organizations, the US is trying to
restore to a certain extent its image as a reliable strategic partner. Election pledges to
extend the START III treaty with Russia which Biden called "an anchor of strategic stability
between the United States and Russia," sound very optimistic. The president-elect is an
advocate of arms reduction and has been involved in drafting the INF Treaty since the Soviet
era. One of the election campaign themes was that the US should not withdraw from the Open
Skies Treaty, the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Agreement – processes
that have been set in motion in recent years.
By the way, the withdrawal of the US from the Paris Agreement and its expected new accession
to it is one of the clearest and most recent examples of political turmoil. There is now a
tectonic change in the very basis of economic activity. A new economic order is taking shape.
States and individual companies are reshaping their models to be carbon neutral, carrying out
rigorous assessment of their business chains starting from suppliers in some countries to
consumers in others. Global investors are rethinking their strategies. International
organizations are shaping new reporting standards that will obviously apply globally. Finally,
most recently the UN Secretary General called on all nations to rethink their tax strategies by
cutting taxes on income while raising taxes on carbon. All of these factors are of global
importance. And the US position, or rather its floundering, can obviously create new global
imbalances. Although everyone will adapt to them after a while, because, as T. Dreiser wrote,
"you have to take things as they are and use them to your best advantage."
Building relations with their allies, especially in NATO, is another basic factor that
directly influences the trajectory of international development. The Biden administration which
is largely made up of the key figures from the Obama administration has already assured its
European partners that full cooperation within the North Atlantic Alliance will be restored.
The US is expected to drop its claims about the disproportionately small contribution of
Europeans to NATO funding and the imbalance in military budgets, which have been repeatedly
voiced by the Trump administration. Time will show to what extent the trust of the US European
allies will be regained. But it is clear that the US foreign policy somersaults over a
relatively short period of time will not go unnoticed.
Even on the issue of interaction with China the candidates have managed to take generally
opposing positions. Although both share the opinion that China is America's main competitor. As
part of the election campaign, Biden's rhetoric toward China was significantly more peaceful in
comparison to Trump's promises and actions. However, trade restrictions imposed by the Trump
administration may remain in place in the new circumstances if the situation requires so. The
experience of the Jackson-Vanik amendment and other sanctions laws shows that such restrictions
can persist for a long time, even after the reason for their imposition has disappeared.
We expect it is highly likely that the United States will consistently pursue an
anti-Russian policy. In recent years, the trajectory of relations between Washington and Moscow
has been steadily going downhill, no matter who was at the helm in the White House. There was
indeed some hope of reversing the negative dynamics during the Trump presidency. After all,
back in 2016, it seemed that relations between the two countries could not be any worse than
those under B. Obama. However, the following years have dispelled this illusion. The Trump
administration consistently strengthened the systemic confrontation between Washington and
Moscow, continued its sanctions policy against our country wishing, inter alia, to force it out
of the energy markets, and reduced our diplomatic contacts to a minimum. And this was done
against the background of D. Trump constantly speaking about the desire to "get along with
Russia." His words did not matter much, however, as numerous restrictive measures in
Congress were supported by both Democrats and Republicans.
Biden has not yet said anything positive about Russia. On the contrary, his rhetoric has
always been openly unfriendly, harsh, even aggressive. He has repeatedly stated that "Russia
is the biggest threat to the United States in terms of undermining our security and
alliances." Nothing more, nothing less. Moreover, the Democrats' team includes politicians
who hold similar views and have no interest whatsoever in improving relations between Moscow
and Washington.
Russia, on the contrary, is ready to work with any US president, ready to restore
cooperation in a wide range of areas. However, we can hardly expect any reciprocal steps from
the new American administration. Our relations are likely to remain extremely cold in the
coming years. And right now we do not expect anything but the continuation of a tough
anti-Russian policy. But perhaps Biden will revisit the issues still on our joint agenda, for
example arms control.
I have listed only a few areas which will obviously be among those deserving special
attention. Most importantly: the unpredictability of further US actions in the international
arena, a kind of toxicity of this country even for its allies and partners is a result of
serious social upheavals that American society faces. This internal and external instability is
largely due to a clumsy, hopelessly outdated voting system that has seen no major changes since
the 18th century up to the present. And the last election turned out to be not a political
competition of ideas that the US had always prided itself on, but rather a confrontation
between two campaigns of hatred.
We do not want the US to have problems. And for practical reasons: such problems create
waves of instability all around that overflow us as well. The problems of the United States can
only be solved by the Americans themselves along with the good governance of the country. One
of the founding fathers of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, rightly noted that "the
whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." Any election is the most
important test of such honesty. Of course, only Americans themselves can decide whether to put
aside their national selfishness and launch the voting system reform, and, consequently, the
reform of political life, or not. So far, there has been no real move toward this. Nor even the
slightest hint of a desire to change anything. And the international community is already
paying too high a price for the US' reluctance to change.
Dmitry Medvedev served as Russia's president from 2008 to 2012 and prime minister from
2012 to 2020. He has been deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation
since January 2020.
apothqowejh 8 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 09:04 AM
An interesting underlying premise of the article is that government is actually about
enacting policy. It appears to me, living in the cheap seats, that the purpose of government,
while ostensibly about policy, is really to rob its subjects blind while concealing the theft
and crushing dissent.
jake234 15 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 02:31 AM
The former president of Russia is able to write an essay. Whether you agree with him or not,
the sentences in this article have weight; and you have to mull what he says over in your
mind. Compare this with the soundbites of US presidents.
Observatory jake234 6 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 11:10 AM
President Medvedev has been and apparently somehow remains an idealist/naive man as confirmed
by the essay above. Just a babe in the woods of politics.
TheFishh jake234 9 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 08:01 AM
The rhetoric of US presidents has deg
Ligov 10 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 07:23 AM
Given that America is the most influential state in the world, that is, it practically
influences everything that happens in the world, then obviously everyone around the world is
not indifferent to what is happening in America, especially in its dominant group, the
aspen's nest. And what happens there, as all honest people in the world, including the
Americans, guess, are clearly dubious things. To stir up this hornet's nest is a noble cause.
And the success of this business will determine the well-being of the whole world. May honest
Americans striving to clean up their homes feel the support of the world.
Hassam275 16 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 01:32 AM
Its been said that American elected officials are like passengers on a train who come and go,
yet the conductor is the non elected establishment politicians loyal to foreign agendas who
are extensions of special interest lobbies. That is why policy never changes, though the
illusion of democracy is maintained. Now that a large number of citizens caught on to this
scheme, the propaganda arm of the establishment, the media, attempts to brand these citizens
racists or traitors in an attempt to use fear and shame as thought control. This only makes
the masses more enraged and the unfortunate ones are the law enforcement officers who are
stuck protecting the establishment. Also unfortunate are the politicians who actually care
about their constituents whose lives are also endangered. So violence isnt the way out. The
deep state must be exposed.
MotorSlug conformista 5 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 12:10 PM
the US has never been a democracy, that's the last thing the rich, white, land and
slave-owning framers wanted. they were scared to death of equality and human rights. France
and Russia today have a better grasp on reality than you do
costelmagik 15 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 02:14 AM
America 2.0, after election and before it is just suggest the fast approaching the end of the
Empire ,a lot worse then before the election considering the division between Americans , the
fraud through the election and the economic and financial collapse which in his last legs.
Jonathan E 9 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 07:41 AM
The American population has an 'uphill battle' to acquire a functional democracy because they
are under the 'heel' of a powerful Plutocracy which has firm control of a powerful Media.
GottaBeMe 6 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 11:19 AM
"According to the nonprofit organization Judicial Watch, by September 2020, 29 out of 37
states had 1.8 million more registered voters than actual eligible voting-age citizens." US
democracy is a sham.
MiloDiddlbomb Andy0 2 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 02:52 PM
Actually I lived just outside NYC during 9/11 I had to go to NYC the week after and what
struck me was the absolute silence. NYC is normally crazy noisy but for a couple months you
didn't even hear a car horn. The actual divide openly happened when Trump looked like he
actually had a shot at winning. And in my opinion it wasn't Trump himself but the fact that
an outsider might get let in. Then the political machine started to create this insanity we
now have. In a way you are right. What Trump brought into the sunlight was the hate middle
America had for 20+ years of war. The people on the coast as a rule have nothing to do with
the military since the draft ended - The majority of military people have been coming from
Middle America. Plus the fact that any of the wars could have been easily won - except where
the future in that? More money is made just dragging them out in stalemate. A lesson learned
in Vietnam where it became obvious the money was in keeping the conflict going. Generals
don't care. Most have never seen one day of combat.
Ibmekon 13 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 04:11 AM
"We do not want the US to have problems." Oh yes we bloody well do ! They will not dismantle
their empire witout the collapse of the dollar. Even today the gravy boat of Democrats are
fighting to keep thousands of their army of occupation in Afghanistan - against the wishes of
their own electorate and President.
Bjarne Örn Hansen 17 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 12:33 AM
First of all, americans aren't too smart. That the US had a backup system to put a finger on
the election scale, should have been obvious to anyone with an iq above 0. No power, let's
the mob decide it's future. It will always have an ace up its sleeve ... but using this
system, should be done in emergency only and should one time deal, done at the peril of the
politicians using it. What americans do from here, should be restore the union and remove all
politicians and parties that were involved ...
9/11 Truther Bjarne Örn Hansen 15 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 02:32 AM
The majority of American schools, colleges, and mainstream media are specifically designed to
result in people who "aren't too smart". The " thumb on the election scale" is phase #2.
Gio Con 1 hour ago 16 Jan, 2021 04:36 PM
So basically, the US needs to update its method of screwing the people.
In fact, the strengths and shortcomings of the US voting system could be regarded as a
purely domestic issue. But there is one problem. Elections in this country, especially when
there is a transfer of power from one political force to the other, can trigger significant
changes in the global economic development, seriously affecting the existing institutions of
international law and global security system.
Many US leaders have at various times admitted, including to me personally, " It is true
that our system is not perfect, but we are used to it and it is convenient for us ." The
problem is that the rest of the world finds it increasingly "inconvenient" to work with
such a country, as the US becomes an unpredictable partner. This unpredictability gives other
states, regional associations and military political organizations cause for concern. It would
be nice if the US political establishment realized this responsibility.
Let us take a closer look. At first, everything seems quite presentable: alternative
candidates, primary elections, and live TV debates. But this is a façade, a nice stage
set which determines the spectacularity of the event and, naturally, the preferences of the
voters. In the US electoral system, a candidate who wins a relative majority in a particular
state – even by a slight margin – almost always gets all the electoral votes for
that state. Therefore, in traditionally liberal or conservative states, votes cast by those who
support the other party virtually disappear, being reduced to zero. As far as recent history is
concerned, Democratic nominees Albert Gore (2000) and Hillary Clinton (2016) lost the election,
despite having won the most votes.
Since the existing system awards all the electoral votes to the winner, a candidate who won
by a small margin in states with a total of 271 electoral votes may win an election, despite
having lost by a landslide in other states. In theory, even a candidate who won the popular
vote by more than 100 million ballots may still lose the election in the electoral vote.
On top of that, there is another significant shortcoming in the Electoral College system,
where an elector has a right to cast their vote – sometimes without any serious
consequences – for someone other than the candidate they have pledged to represent in
accordance with the will of the voters. Instances of faithless voting by electors have occurred
with regular frequency. For example, in 2016 two Texas electors refused to cast their vote for
Donald Trump, although such incidents have never changed the outcome of a presidential
election. Now, pending the official results of the election, the winner-take-all principle
– rather fairly – has come under a new wave of criticism. Even Hillary Clinton, who
ran against Donald Trump in the 2016 election, has called for abolishing the Electoral College
and selecting a president by the winner of the popular vote, same as every other office.
Otherwise, there is a difficult situation where tens of millions of voters do not believe that
the outcome of the election reflects the actual will of the people.
Sites and people who posted Hugo Chavez nonsense should pay the price. Which is good.
Also capabilities to produce weighted votes does not mean that it was deployed. But if it is
present it serve as a Damocles sword over the integtiry of election, as you never can be sure
whther is was somehow activated or not. And so far there is no convincing facts that it was
deployed. Looks like most common method was staffing of mail-in ballots by corrupt staff.
But Dominion tabulators do create concentration of ballots in one place, which automatically,
completely by the fact of creating the "critical mass" of ballots in one place facilitates larger
scale fraud . From this point of view they can be regarded as catalysts. That' is
undisputable.
The way sysadmin roles were assigned by Dominion, how such activity is controlled, and what
people are selected is open to review as those people automatically become powerful players in
the election process and are outside usual safeguards, which were developed for traditional
systems. In no way they can be controlled by election observers. That's the fact.
In case the machines were internet connected all Dominion employees with access to them also
become election players. As well as all interested intelligence agencies.
Conservative
blog American Thinker has issued an apology in response to Dominion Voting Systems' lawyers
accusing them and others of defamation for pushing claims their technology helped rig the
presidential election.
In a Friday statement written by editor
and publisher Thomas Lifson, American Thinker admitted their stories on conspiracy theories
surrounding Dominion machines being rigged in Joe Biden's favor were based on "discredited
sources who have peddled debunked theories about Dominion's supposed ties to Venezuela, fraud
on Dominion's machines that resulted in massive vote switching or weighted votes, and other
claims falsely stating that there is credible evidence that Dominion acted
fraudulently."
Lifson called the statements "completely false" and added that "Industry experts
and public officials alike have confirmed that Dominion conducted itself
appropriately."
The company went on to apologize for any "harm" their stories caused the company
and their employees.
"We also apologize to our readers for abandoning 9 journalistic principles and
misrepresenting Dominion's track record and its limited role in tabulating votes for the
November 2020 election. We regret this grave error," they added.
The apology also names Andrea Widburg, R.D. Wedge, Brian Tomlinson, and Peggy Ryan as
specific contributors who have covered conspiracy theories surrounding Dominion.
On the same day as the apology, the conservative blog also shut down its comment section,
but provided no solid reason as to why.
Pieces published by American Thinker presented theories that the machines deleted
pro-Trump votes and that it was tied to outside foreign and political groups, common theories
that have been pushed by President Trump, his legal team, and supporters.
Dominion has taken more aggressive action recently against accusations against them, even
suing Trump lawyer Sidney Powell for defamation to the tune of $1.3 billion.
The company's legal team has also targeted other right-wing media, warning Fox News
recently that action is "imminent" in response to numerous statements made on the
network by anchors and guests like Trump counsel Rudy Giuliani. They also sent letters to
individual anchors for Fox and Newsmax demanding they "cease and desist" making
defamatory statements about the company and its alleged role in rigging the presidential
election, an act they say has no proof to back it up.
In response to the threatened litigation, Fox News aired a segment multiple times shooting
down voter fraud claims linked to Dominion.
Newsmax, meanwhile, released a statement clarifying many conspiracy theories linked to
Dominion and Smartmatic, another vote counting system threatening legal action.
How one defines systemic fraud? Actually the role on Internet giants in 2020 election
represent systemic fraud. Also is not "simple fraud" not enough for DOJ to take a look. Or
"simple, one time fraud" now is welcomed by DOJ?
Main-in ballot fraud looks systemic to me with documented well coordinated efforts to weaken
protections on the part of DNC lawyers.
The situation with the observers suppression is a real scandal painting the USA as a banana
republic.
US
Attorney General Bill Barr told AP that the Department of Justice has not seen evidence of
fraud on a scale that could change the outcome of the election, but President Donald Trump's
attorneys claims it never even looked.
"To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different
outcome in the election," the agency quoted Barr as saying on Tuesday. He said both
federal prosecutors and the FBI have been looking into specific complaints but found nothing
that would change the media consensus that Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump earlier this
month.
Trump's lawyers, led by Rudy Giuliani, have launched a series of legal challenges in
places like Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia, challenging large amounts of
mail-in ballots they say weren't properly verified. They've also claimed votes were cast by
dead people, observers weren't allowed to observe the counts, and other
irregularities.
Barr said there was only one claim of systemic fraud – that voting machines were
programmed to shift millions of votes – "and the DHS and DOJ have looked into that,
and so far, we haven't seen anything to substantiate that." While he did not name any
names, this was a claim made by Sidney Powell, an attorney not directly affiliated with the
president's legal team, in her lawsuit in Georgia.
"With all due respect to the attorney general, there hasn't been any semblance of a
Department of Justice investigation," Giuliani responded on Tuesday, accusing the DOJ of not
interviewing any of their sworn witnesses and refusing to audit voting machines or subpoena
officials.
Barr did tell AP that most of the complaints about the election ought to be handled by
state and local officials conducting audits, rather than making a federal case out of
everything.
"There's a growing tendency to use the criminal justice system as sort of a default
fix-all, and people don't like something they want the Department of Justice to come in and
'investigate,'" he said.
Within days of the election, Barr had authorized the DOJ to follow up on "substantial
allegations" of irregularities with the vote, arguing it was "imperative that the
American people can trust that our elections were conducted in such a way that the outcomes
accurately reflect the will of the voters."
Democrats, US mainstream media and social media platforms have been united in insisting
there had been no "widespread" voter or election fraud, labeling all of Trump's claims
to the contrary as "baseless" or "disputed."
In the reality the USA is not falling apart. It is neoliberalism that is falling apart and
this is just how common people feel during the collapse of neliberalism.
"79% of Americans think the US is falling apart" those not accounted for are possibly
homeless or illiterate and don't have the opportunity of putting their view forward.
RTaccount 1 day ago 15 Jan, 2021 02:22 PM
There will be no peace, no unity, and no prosperity. And there shouldn't be.
TheFishh RTaccount 1 day ago 15 Jan, 2021 03:38 PM
The US regimes past and present have worn out their bag of tricks. A magician is a con-man.
And the only way they can entertain and spellbind the crowd with their routines is if
everyone just ignores the sleight of hand. But people are starting to call the US out for the
tricks it is pulling, and that's where the magician's career ends.
SJMan333 23 hours ago 16 Jan, 2021 01:02 AM
America as a whole is now reaping the fruits of its decades of exceptionalism complex.
Through its propaganda machine, Americans as individuals and collectively as a society, have
been brainwashed into believing that laws, rules and basic human decency do not apply to
themselves. These are only sweetened poisons for them to shove down the throats of other
lesser countries, especially those in Africa, Latin America, Middle East and Asia ((bluntly
put, non-white countries)) when it suited America's global resource thievery and daylight
wealth grabbing. Habitualized into bullying every other countries with no resistance,
Americans are now showing their ugly faces on each other. The same exceptionalism delusion
"the laws apply to you, not me'' is driving every American (except the colored Americans
probably) to blame all the ills of the country on everyone else except himself. Nancy Pelosi
advocated total lock-down but treated herself to a total grooming in a hair saloon is just
one example. For the sins it has committed over the decades, I guess the time is right for
USA to have a dose of its own medicine. Except in this case, America never thought it
necessary to develop an antidote.
"I don't know or care anything about Dominion voting machines"
Why not? Take a look at Patrick Byrne's summary of evidence for massive election fraud
involving the Dominion machines, on his blog over at DeepCapture.
It will explain how a man who sheltered in his house, did not campaign, drew no more than
six or seven or twenty-five people to his events, got seven million more votes than a man who
drew up to thirty thousand people at his rallies.
...An expert witness in Georgia was able to hack into Dominion in front of the legislative
committee in less than a minute. "We're in." In Dominion, and on the internet.
Dominion machines can do anything! They can assign a weight of 1.5 per single vote to
one candidate, and .75 per vote to the other, and can adjust as necessary. They can assign
batches of "adjudicated" ballots to the candidate of your choice. They can just switch votes
from one candidate to the other in increments of several thousand, let's subtract 29,000
votes from candidate a and add them to b's column. They can allow access by a third party to
the administrator's identity and password so the third party can enter and participate
directly in tabulation of the votes.
And more. If your disfavored candidate is winning by a landslide and your 1.5/.75 ratio
isn't working, you can put in a USB card and adjust accordingly.
If you're desperate you can upload tens of thousands of votes in a single drop which all,
every one, go to your preferred candidate. And you can do it in one hour on a machine which
can only handle a few thousand votes per hour, fed in manually.
For anybody who listened to state hearings in one or more state if is clear that there was widespread fraud. And its importance
is much larger then the question who won the elections
Notable quotes:
"... Multiple methods of attack on the election outcome have been prepared, all methods well planned, tried and perfected in the string of color revolutions around the World. Because those attacking Trump are the same as those who have been doing the "regime changes" in the vulnerable countries over the past 30 years. ..."
"... The playbook/manual is fully symmetrical – it always addresses both possible outcomes – if their side does not manage to steal the election then they incite an insurrection and oust the winner (the Viktor Yanukovych outcome). ..."
"... It is funny how few people appear to understand that Hunter's laptop was not just a suppressed election decider then an important reason for Biden's suitability – the insurance of ensurance, the media ready Kompromat. ..."
"... Finally, it is very important to keep in mind that none of what transpired would have been possible in a healthy country ..."
"... Maybe it was hostility towards Trump's supporters rather than hostility towards Trump. Trump is a reliable pro-immigration ultra-Zionist rabidly pro-LGBT liberal. The views of a large proportion of Trump's supporters are diametrically opposed to Trump's own views, but his supporters aren't smart enough to figure that out. ..."
"... whatever else Trump may be, he's no white nationalist. But again his supporters can't figure stuff like that out. ..."
"... In extreme situations, it's more important to win than to play by the rules. – This is the moral reasoning **** of the fraudsters. The basic equation they applied is so simple that it hurts (and therefore: worked perfectly well – in all of the West) ..."
"... In the Art of Winning Elections it did not take a genius to develop this solution – the lowest number of night-suitcases (filled with ballots) for the highest number of elector votes . ..."
"... In my mind the election was already unfair when you have the entire MSM and the Internet social media companies rooting for one candidate while attacking the other and banning/censoring the voices of his supporters under various pretexts. Both candidates and their supporters, should have been given equal exposure but I don't know how that could be achieved in practice. ..."
"... At a minimum the circumstantial evidence of vote counts being stopped in swing states along with gerrymandered rules was highly suspicious. To claim a mandate on such a close election while losing house seats is absurd but the Republicans bungling the Georgia Senate run off over $2K checks and a sycophantic MSM ensures they will. ..."
"... We are to believe Biden won 507 counties, the least EVER, but won the most votes ever. Trump won 74 million votes, beating Obama's 69 million in 2008, the previous all-time high. Trump won over 2500 counties. ..."
"... Strange that all these presidential elections are always neck and neck. Just because there are two parties does not mean that election after election the vote will boil down to one or two "swing states" and a few thousand votes. Statistically, it just doesn't make sense. ..."
"... This is strong evidence, if not proof, that these elections are scripted from beginning to end ..."
"... The convenient thing about postal votes is that they make it possible to wait until the opponent's votes are all in and counted – then send in just enough postal votes to tip the balance. It's rather like an auction in which one bidder gets only the one bid, and then a rival can offer $1 more. ..."
"... Well said. I'm sure that it's no coincidence that DJT has been involved with televised wrestling over the years. Every great contest requires a memorable "heel" to engage the spectators. In televised snooker in the UK, final matches often are over best of 35 frames. It's unusual for them not to go to the last ball of the final frame. Got to have a little drama. ..."
"... The point is, it is the average intellect, moral and civic weight of the involved constituencies that allows or doesn't allow what shouldn't be allowed in a real democracy. You don't have actual democracy below a lower threshold of intellect and moral and civic worth of all the main involved parties. ..."
"... When you consider Donald Trump's grotesque antics, his entirely unpresidential behavior, evident falsehoods and blatantly corrupt actions – together with the systematic media blitz taking every opportunity to show him in the worst possible light; it is quite astounding that he received as many votes as he did. Far, far more than could be accounted for by simply ascribing them to his 'deplorables'. ..."
"... I think Trump's greatest legacy will be that he ripped away the curtain and the masks fell and we all got to see just how nefarious and rigged the system is, from federal judges to our intelligence community to the FBI/DOJ to Congress to the media ..."
"... Dominion machines can do anything! They can assign a weight of 1.5 per single vote to one candidate, and .75 per vote to the other, and can adjust as necessary. They can assign batches of "adjudicated" ballots to the candidate of your choice. They can just switch votes from one candidate to the other in increments of several thousand, let's subtract 29,000 votes from candidate a and add them to b's column. They can allow access by a third party to the administrator's identity and password so the third party can enter and participate directly in tabulation of the votes. ..."
"... They won the election the old way: they stole it fair and square. ..."
"... If you like your bourgeois job and want to keep it, you will support the narrative. ..."
"... All of the comments on here that analyze DJT's strengths and weaknesses miss the point. I personally think he made some very poor choices; but, to inappropriately paraphrase Carville, it's the fraud, stupid. ..."
"... Occam's Razor should be applied- instead of the nonsense of Chavez having an interest in voting software; voting machines being manipulated; truckloads of paper ballots being moved across state lines- my favorite; etc. ..."
"... t would be very easy to have individuals in a nursing home or even an adult day care center for mentally (dementia) incapacitated adults sign ballots. There are numerous day care centers in New York City, federally funded, where individuals could be coaxed to sign ballots. Just say Trump will close the day care center -- especially where interpreters must be provided because the individuals cannot understand English due to varying stages of mental incapacity. ..."
"... I wonder how many people have watched the twenty hours or so of state legislature hearings related to the election. Can people just not be bothered? These were historic hearings of huge importance, but I assume they didn't get much coverage in the MSM. I think most of them were livestreamed only by small right-wing networks. ..."
"... What were the results of the 2016 election? Billary received 65 million to Trumps 62 million. Gotcha. So we have roughly 127 million who showed up to vote that time. (Wonder how many of those were legit.) So ONLY 4 years later, Joe "I Look Like I'm Drugged" Biden ALLEGEDLY received 80 million and Trump received 74 million. Okay, that is a turnout of 154 million votes. So if I believe in this fairy tale, I was supposed to believe that in ONLY 4 years the vote count increased by an alleged 27 million. Hell, a lot of our most populous states do not even have that many people. ..."
"... Laws don't say a little bit of fraud is OK, because the fraud committed on or by a business didn't cause bankruptcy. Either there was fraud, or there wasn't. ..."
"... That several courts refused to hear cases for lack of standing, is patently ridiculous. If a candidate has no standing, who does? In an election, everybody has standing because they are affected by the result, and by virtue of Citizens United , corporations do as well. ..."
"... Watch this recent interview of Chris Hedges by Jimmy Dore about the root causes of our current woes. Hedges speaks off the cuff in words that sound as polished, powerful and precise as the language in tracts considered to be classics. His Pulitzer clearly was not found in a Cracker Jack box. ..."
Before the election I polled all my friends who would win. The majority of both left and right oriented said that it would
be Trump. I said, yes Trump would win a fair election, but he will lose on who is counting. Multiple methods of attack on
the election outcome have been prepared, all methods well planned, tried and perfected in the string of color revolutions around
the World. Because those attacking Trump are the same as those who have been doing the "regime changes" in the vulnerable countries
over the past 30 years. Trump never had a grain of chance against this mighty machinery. Corrupt local governors and blackmailed
and co-opted all levels of judiciary, targeted lawlessness, threats and examples of violence and future civil war if the other
side wins, censorship, eviction of election observers, night-time suitcases of ballots, one-sided main sewerage media.
All pure déjà vu – this is exactly how the color revolutions work – the art of winning elections. The US bombers arrive
only if the "peaceful transition of power" (aka the stealing of election and post-election) fails. In the color revolution manual,
there is also a chapter on prevention of resistance to the stolen election – thus the msm and congress screeching like castrated
pigs against Trump's imaginary incitement of insurrection (pure psychological projection). I was always sure that Trump is too
much of a cheap demagogue and hot air filled balloon to be able to initiate a real insurrection.
The playbook/manual is fully symmetrical – it always addresses both possible outcomes – if their side does not manage to steal
the election then they incite an insurrection and oust the winner (the Viktor Yanukovych outcome).
... ... ...
In political terms, in the 2016 election a quasi-populist candidate slipped through. This will never happen again because state
laws will be enacted with built-in mail voting and electronic voting machines. Competent or incompetent populists will never get
through again. This will ensure that the choice will always be only between the approved, controllable candidates with plenty
of skeletons in wardrobes and dirty laptops in their closets. It is funny how few people appear to understand that Hunter's laptop
was not just a suppressed election decider then an important reason for Biden's suitability – the insurance of ensurance, the
media ready Kompromat.
Finally, it is very important to keep in mind that none of what transpired would have been possible in a healthy country
: election of Trump without enough Kompromat to have to invent the dumbest Putin's puppet meme and the consequent exposure
of the manipulative Deep State, the sulfuric acid for the brain MSM and the high-techs fakers. These are all the Hegels' seeds
of destruction in action.
One thing to ask is why was this huge effort made to oust Trump?
Maybe it was hostility towards Trump's supporters rather than hostility towards Trump. Trump is a reliable pro-immigration
ultra-Zionist rabidly pro-LGBT liberal. The views of a large proportion of Trump's supporters are diametrically opposed to Trump's
own views, but his supporters aren't smart enough to figure that out.
In extreme situations, it's more important to win than to play by the rules. – This is the moral reasoning **** of the
fraudsters. The basic equation they applied is so simple that it hurts (and therefore: worked perfectly well – in all of the West):
Trump = Hitler.
**** If I might go with Sigmund Freud here, I'd say: – Their rationalizations instead of "their moral reasoning".
I prefer this model, and it's not being discussed: Someone was making BIG money off of those programs and policies leftover
from Obama. Trade with China? Care to mention one BIG company who peddles Chinese wares? Maybe two or three of them, perhaps?
"Follow the money", is what Deep Throat told Woodward. If we do that with our darling Deep State? Just ask yourself, who stood
to benefit from four years of Hillary, pray tell? There's your answer.
The Deep State regime stole this election in exactly the same states where Trump successfully campaigned in 2016 to win against
Clinton. In the Art of Winning Elections it did not take a genius to develop this solution – the lowest number of night-suitcases
(filled with ballots) for the highest number of elector votes .
Thanks for a balanced assessment. In my mind the election was already unfair when you have the entire MSM and the Internet
social media companies rooting for one candidate while attacking the other and banning/censoring the voices of his supporters
under various pretexts. Both candidates and their supporters, should have been given equal exposure but I don't know how that
could be achieved in practice.
Trump was severely hamstrung by the role played by the MSM and the social media. In a real democracy this state of affairs
should not be allowed: where the rich and powerful who control the media have an unequal say and overwhelming influence compared
to the ordinary voters.
Now we have Ruby Freeman, heretofore only on video rolling out suitcases in Fulton County, now on AUDIO discussing her $100
an hour election heist gig and the "Secretary of State" is mentioned at 2:02 by her boss Ralph Jones:
There is a small element of illogic in the numbers part of the argument, namely in using 2 different metrics to make that argument.
(I agree with the corruption part of the argument covered by Glenn Greenwald. It's censorship in action).
As I've done before, I'll reiterate, I'm no fan of Biden or Trump. In fact I'm worried about the war cabinet Biden already
seems to be assembling just as I still worry about the crazed maniac Pompeo for the next few days left in the current administration.
But here's the point and it is a very subtle one: to say it was a tight race and only 1 in 7,000 Americans had to change their
vote is a bit misleading. In the absurd Electoral College, winner take all the state system (which is far more scandalous in my
view), we take one state at a time. If we accept the vote count, Biden won over 7,000,000 more votes more than Trump, a margin
of victory of 4.4%. Not very close.
Therefore, if it were a one person one vote nationwide system, 2.2% would have to change their minds, meaning 1 out of every
45 Americans.
But it's a state by state margin that we're after. Thus more to the point would be to take each individual state and its margin.
So if we took Georgia as one example, the margin of Biden's lead was 11,779 votes out of 4,935,487 votes cast for Biden and Trump
(we disregard all the third party votes in this argument). 5,890 voters would have to "change their minds". Out of the Biden/Trump
overall vote, that's 1 out of 838 Georgian voters.
To apply a different system, overall US vote count, to one state, Georgia, is using which system you prefer to come up with
an illusionary 1 out of 7000 Americans, not applying the same metric down the line. It's a separate state by state system, not
a nationwide vote. You have to stay consistent to be accurate in this method of argumentation.
Very technical, yes. What about mail-in voting? What is the evidence that this is by definition rigged or manipulated? Mailed
ballots have a paper trail like in-person ballots. Presumably someone could steal your ballot from your home and vote on your
behalf, but this can be traced and found out. At least one state, Washington, doesn't even have in-person voting at all. Does
that mean all of their votes are fraudulent?
What about voter suppression? Shouldn't that be factored in? That seems to happen a lot more often in red states than blue
states. What about Trumps attempts to sabotage the US Postal System? Doesn't that bother anybody who supports him? What about
his refusal to commit to the results prior to Election Day? (He did the same in 2016 by the way). This only added to his
opponents concern about his dictatorial tendencies.
Finally, in all the arguments I've seen anywhere, I haven't seen anyone lay out which states use those ridiculous electronic
voting machines which leave no paper trail. That should be the other real scandal and those should be immediately banned in every
state. Get rid of those and the Electoral College and we might have a fair system.
Oh, and get rid of a system that is eternally dominated by 2 parties as well, whether through run off elections or even better,
proportional representation. The latter that would be truly more democratic.
why was this huge effort made to oust Trump? What did they want him to do that he wouldn't do? Was he an impediment to the
increase of control over the average person? Did not want to start up another action against Syria? Would not attack Iran without
having a coalition of NATO countries lined up? Was against total outsourcing to China? Not confrontational enough against Russia?
Perhaps he gave the deplorables dangerous ideas about them having some rights. If that question could be answered then we'd
know what is coming.
He humiliated the upper echelons of society so thoroughly via his 2016 campaign and victory.
@anon Because Trump
inflames white nationalism, which is anathema to the Jews.
There is evidence that Trump himself is a Jew, and a fanatic Zionist at that, so his self-serving incitement of white nationalism
(whose causes he did little to implement, unlike his steady support for every imaginable Israeli cause, tbe more outrageous the better,
short of war with the "usable" nukes he had had developed for the purpose, that Russia warned him away from) was especially galling
to the top Jews such as the Rothschilds for whom Israel is nothing sentimental, just one more piece in their chess game for world
power.
And thank you for this site which is a beacon of free speech and dissent against our vile, corrupt, incompetent ruling class.
In all the post election rancor little attention has been brought to how razor thin the margin actually was. And with you being
a vociferous critic of Trumps boorish antics and insane foreign policy the candor on this issue is appreciated.
At a minimum the circumstantial evidence of vote counts being stopped in swing states along with gerrymandered rules was highly
suspicious. To claim a mandate on such a close election while losing house seats is absurd but the Republicans bungling the Georgia
Senate run off over $2K checks and a sycophantic MSM ensures they will.
And after abetting barbaric violence and anarchy for months the Democrats will now use trespassing in their "Sacred Temple"
to unleash a crackdown by the national security state and unprecedented censorship and social-credit run by woke-corporate oligarchs.
Interestingly (And as many predicted) it appears they will reopen the economy and declare "victory" over Covid shortly after
Bidens inauguration. Clearly the bizarre excesses of the lockdowns and dynamiting of the economy were calculated to undermine
Trump and consolidate wealth and power from the start.
The question is what exactly this "new normal" will be and how far they're willing to go in order to purge the Trumpists and
populist right. It will be easy to garner support for the latter but if the daily disruptions and financial shocks continue the
system will collapse.
A new, large scale war would be a useful distraction but it's hard to imagine the U.S sustaining one in its current state much
less against capable adversaries like China and Russia.
Then again, arrogant, idiotic, catastrophic policy blunders are the defining feature of this ruling class for the last 30 years
so I wouldn't put it past them given the madness we've seen already.
In effect, America's media and tech giants formed a united front to steal the election and somehow drag the crippled Biden/Harris
ticket across the finish line.
adjustment
via a plastic bag put over their heads. If they were lucky.
There was no real contest. Because? A. Control of the mainstream media was so one sided. And that is where we are at now here
in USA. Imagine, a standing President of the USA has been banned and censored by all the "American" mainstream media giants. Actually,
you do not have to imagine. It just happened: Big Tech and MSM has openly torpedoed the First Amendment and US Constitution. So
we know where they are coming from. It's also kind of disappointing how most of our "representatives" are dealing with this.
The only cause other than himself on which Trump has been consistent is serving Israel. One of the only two major policies
of Obama's that he didn't reverse was support of Israel, though he took it to yet another level. The other one was
increasing military spendings. Obama never cut military spending. My money is on Biden never doing it either, and also
that he will take support of Israel to yet another level. I hope I'm wrong.
On the election night I was listening to two of our New Zealand reporters who were reporting the incoming results. I remember
quite clearly after results had been coming in for a while they remarked: "well that's it another four years of the same". That
were their exact words. That must have been before the postal votes came in, which suddenly changed the picture completely to
Biden's advantage. Postal votes I believe were introduced for the first time in 2020 because of the Corona pandemic. It's believed
that postal votes can be more easily tampered with. Postal votes are expected to remain during future elections I believe.
We are to believe Biden won 507 counties, the least EVER, but won the most votes ever. Trump won 74 million votes, beating Obama's 69 million in 2008, the previous all-time high. Trump won over 2500 counties.
Clarice Feldman at the Americanthinker.com noted that many residences
had multiple votes from the current occupants plus previous occupants (apartment complexes) in this election, because old voter
rolls aren't purged in a timely manner. The same addy might have 3 previous residents voting, plus the same individual voters
legitimately voting at their new addresses.
My advice for whites is this .we will probably be getting in new wars for neocons now, so you might wanna think twice before
signing up for the military. You may find your twenties being used up in multiple deployments in foreign miserable places.
Strange that all these presidential
elections are always neck and neck. Just because there are two parties does not mean that election after election the vote will
boil down to one or two "swing states" and a few thousand votes. Statistically, it just doesn't make sense.
Of course the media loves these nail-biter elections because it drives up their viewership. Every election we get the same
old farcical "debates", scandals and continual ridiculous sound bites. This is strong evidence, if not proof,
that these elections are scripted from beginning to end, even up to and including the "march to the Capitol" and the
ensuing "insurrection".
Exactly. "Spin". He also appears to be entirely ignorant of the fact that the constitution states that each states electors,
and the procedure for choosing them, must be accomplished via the state[s] legislatures, and that in all 6[?] swing states that
recorded early morning, miraculous turn-around votes from Trump to Biden, that that particular constitutional procedure had been
entirely , and very conveniently, ignored:
The Lobby wants Syria by any means, up to a direct confrontation with the Russian Federation. The Jewish hatred for Iran is boundless
(same for Russia – take note, Americans). Zionists care not about human lives.
"I don't know or care anything about Dominion voting machines, whether they are controlled by Venezuelan Marxists, Chinese
Communists, or Martians. But the most blatant election-theft was accomplished in absolutely plain sight".
Cui bono? Obviously the main group profiting from the fraudulent election was the Democratic Party and its supporters. So why drag in foreign governments? Most of them are all too well aware that it's very dangerous to attract the attention of
the USA for good or bad. Like trying to save a drowning whale.
So their sensible strategy is to stand back at a safe distance and watch the monster perish in its own poisons, hoping it doesn't
lash out and harm them in its dying struggles.
The convenient thing about postal votes is that they make it possible to wait until the opponent's votes are all in and counted
– then send in just enough postal votes to tip the balance. It's rather like an auction in which one bidder gets only the one
bid, and then a rival can offer $1 more.
Ridiculous if you want a fair election. But nobody who matters wants or expects anything of that kind. A proper political machine
gets everything cut and dried well in advance.
Trump was unpredictable and, to a degree, uncontrollable. He had to go.
Well said. I'm sure that it's no coincidence that DJT has been involved with televised wrestling over the years. Every great contest requires
a memorable "heel" to engage the spectators. In televised snooker in the UK, final matches often are over best of 35 frames. It's unusual for them not to go to the last
ball of the final frame. Got to have a little drama.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch the rancher counts the silver dollars.
...If ego or narcissism can explain it, so be it. I'll go with insane or suffering from dementia. Any 'drain the swamp' or 'fix
the system', MAGA or "build back better" argument would appeal only to retards. Re-visit Carroll Quigly's succinct description
of political parties in the USA in Tragedy and Hope, pages 1247-1248 (hardcover) or Google same.
I'm beginning to believe that a different species is holding sway and we are the proverbial Eloi.
The point is, it is the average intellect, moral and civic weight of the involved constituencies that allows or doesn't allow
what shouldn't be allowed in a real democracy.
You don't have actual democracy below a lower threshold of intellect and moral and civic worth of all the main involved
parties.
We could in other words say: there will be as much real democracy as is desired by the average citizen, where to desire it
is not to blandly say "I agree with democracy".
It is funny how few people appear to understand that Hunter's laptop was not just a suppressed election decider then an
important reason for Biden's suitability
Yes, few people understand that all regime-approved candidates are people able to be blackmailed for a precise reason, and
not at all by chance. What about Hegel though?
@obvious Globalist
NWO creeps stole the election, they spent 4 years trying to overthrow the 2016 election by coups aided and abetted by the Globalist
Mainslime Media, FBI etc. -- you missed all that of course? .
They also PUBlICLY previewed, as they did the COVID Agenda, stealing
the election a couple months before, gamed and planned it in various outcomes .Anyone who can't see what is up is either willfully
ignorant, lying, or "stupid" as you say.
No decent person is in favor of the Agenda of Harris/Biden serving the NWO "Great
Reset" to crush the Peons -- you must see yourself as above the coming carnage -- I have news for you -- your not.
We'll know we're in an actual civil war when different branches of the military, or units within a branch are fighting each
other or when the police are fighting the military. Don't hold your breath of course because every cop and soldier in America is a traitor and they're all on the same team.
What I still find unfathomable is the fact that the steal was so obvious: so in your face but yet the big media, big tech,
federal and state law enforcements, spooks, judges, big GOP politicians etc still behave like nothing ever happened. Trump and
his supporters are now labeled domestic terrorists and lawfare is about to be unleashed on them. It's surreal.
Had the Orange heeded his MAGA base rather than his (((rat-in-law))) he'd still be President. There was certainly
election fraud; enough of the betrayed base stayed home to make it effective. Trump was a p -- y all four years and got what
he deserved. He was always a stop-gap time-buying non-solution...
...issues can no longer be discussed openly, the reliability of elections in the USA is the most important issue that faces us. The
people will accept an honest winner in a serious election. Nothing is as cleansing to our natural divisions as the result of a
well-contested election, in the knowledge that, in a reasonable interval, the same offices will be up for new contests.
Nothing is as damaging to our peace of mind as knowing that one side won fairly, but was robbed of governing. I thank Ron Unz for writing and publishing such a reasonably argued essay on the matter. It is the gold standard for 2020 election
analyses.
This is sad people. Was talking to a friend and even his 80 something year old mother commented on how decrepit Sleazy Joe
looks and walks. I was watching him deliver "his speech" last night and the guy had a hard time reading a few sentences off the
teleprompter without stammering and stuttering.
After an embarrassing and truly cringe worthy "speech" Biden is seen walking off. The dude can barely walk...
For eighty million who cast their ballots for the old geezer, it's mostly out of economic necessity; however, for the seventy
plus million people who are Trump supporters, it's a fight for their country and more importantly, culture.
Brought to you by the same people who gave us the Weimar Republic, only twice as vicious and vindictive this time because they
know what they did wrong last time -- they weren't vicious and vindictive enough.
When you consider Donald Trump's grotesque antics, his entirely unpresidential behavior, evident falsehoods and blatantly corrupt
actions – together with the systematic media blitz taking every opportunity to show him in the worst possible light; it is quite
astounding that he received as many votes as he did. Far, far more than could be accounted for by simply ascribing them to his
'deplorables'.
And, even if Biden did, in fact, just manage to win – presenting himself as a force of reason, stability and sanity – a great
mass of voters sensed something in him that they distrusted even more than in Trump. That was a stunning rejection – of almost
the same magnitude as Hillary's in 2016!
You're right, and Ron Unz is right. Had Trump retained his white male voters of 2016, the Democrats likely couldn't have pulled
off the steal. But in the end Donald Trump was a mere salesmen selling a con.
...If you had told people in France in 1785 or Russia in 1913 that within a few short years about a quarter of their population
would be slaughtered in revolutionary turmoil and many more displaced, they would have dismissively laughed in your face believing
– as do we – that their civilizations were far too advanced for such nonsense.
Let us hope such a horrific fate is not in store for all of us as the Great Reset is imposed on us all given how western civilization
has clearly failed to the point where some sort of profound, substantive reform is inevitable.
Given that the foundation of this Reset comprises so much ill-will, deception, theft and coercion, it is unlikely that this
new paradigm will benefit the millions of people it will soon dominate.
Another
can of worms, there would be additional Congressional hearings over it, etc. At the time Trump was still in the middle of the
Muller investigation. That special prosecutor investigation tied up Trump until March 2019.
I firmly believe that no man in human history could have taken on and fought Deep State, the Swamp, the Establishment, media,
GOPe, et al., as valiantly as Trump. Even in his 70's the man has superhuman energy, fortitude, and strategizing. I think Trump's
greatest legacy will be that he ripped away the curtain and the masks fell and we all got to see just how nefarious and rigged
the system is, from federal judges to our intelligence community to the FBI/DOJ to Congress to the media
"I don't know or care anything about Dominion voting machines"
Why not? Take a look at Patrick Byrne's summary of evidence for massive election fraud involving the Dominion machines, on
his blog over at DeepCapture.
It will explain how a man who sheltered in his house, did not campaign, drew no more than six or seven or twenty-five people
to his events, got seven million more votes than a man who drew up to thirty thousand people at his rallies.
...An expert witness in Georgia was able to hack into Dominion in front of the legislative committee in less than a minute. "We're
in." In Dominion, and on the internet.
Dominion machines can do anything! They can assign a weight of 1.5 per single vote to one candidate, and .75 per vote to the
other, and can adjust as necessary. They can assign batches of "adjudicated" ballots to the candidate of your choice. They can
just switch votes from one candidate to the other in increments of several thousand, let's subtract 29,000 votes from candidate
a and add them to b's column. They can allow access by a third party to the administrator's identity and password so the third
party can enter and participate directly in tabulation of the votes.
And more. If your disfavored candidate is winning by a landslide and your 1.5/.75 ratio isn't working, you can put in a USB
card and adjust accordingly.
If you're desperate you can upload tens of thousands of votes in a single drop which all, every one, go to your preferred candidate.
And you can do it in one hour on a machine which can only handle a few thousand votes per hour, fed in manually.
If things get out of control you can call a halt to the vote count, send the observers home, and haul out the extra ballots
stashed under the table skirt. But it's best to be mindful of the video cameras. Which they were not.
Really, read about it: Patrick Byrne, DeepCapture, "Evidence That The 2020 Election Was Rigged." Lays out the various ways
by which it was done, then appends evidence using graphs, memos from election administrators, and statistical analysis.
He's no Trump supporter either, is a committed libertarian, and has never voted for either a Democrat or Republican presidential
candidate in his life. He thinks Barack Obama graced the presidency and that Michelle Obama was a class act as First Lady.
Also: The Chinese government acquired Dominion for $400 million in the fall of 2020.
Finally, does anyone think the Dominion case against Sydney Powell potentially offers an opportunity for the evidence of electoral
fraud to be aired in public?
While it's an effective rhetorical tactic by our fearless leader Unz, there's no reason to be agnostic about CIA ballot-stuffing.
That's as blindingly obvious as their censorship.
The ballot-stuffing shows only the most cursory measures to conceal it, consistent with a command structure that exercises
precision control over media attention. CIA can censor adverse information on their candidate's trading in influence and abuse
of function. So naturally CIA dumped votes in statistically absurd proportions, trusting to their Mockingbird media to short-circuit
public inquiry. When you have arbitrary Nazi-grade life-and-death power, as CIA does, it's hard not to get sloppy. They don't
give a fuck that you saw what they did there, cause shut up.
Spot on about postal votes; it's my only slight disagreement with Ron's take on the affair.
These votes were being received for days, if not weeks before the deadline and could have been (and probably were) counted as
they came in. The gross imbalance between Trump and Biden votes in these after-hours counts, along with the sudden spikes obvious
on many graphs, is proof, imo, of the cheat. In order to get ahead of the narrative, the 'rats said it would happen, and, lo,
it did.
If the regime can't provide for trustworthy elections, it can't expect to be regarded as legitimate. Probably by design; they
don't need us.
Navarro's three reports do a good job of summarizing most of the possible vote fraud. He's a Harvard PhD so more than qualified
to pull all the date together etc. They use many graphics and are easy and fast to read.
In this post-Republic new reality, no Court will take a case in which Discovery reveals any sort of election fraud. The election is over and it's now verboten to revisit it. Don't be surprised if
archive.org is forced to delete thousands of articles about it. Orwellian times
Incumbent Donald Trump lost Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin by such extremely narrow margins that a swing of less than 22,000
votes in those crucial states would have gotten him reelected. With a record 158 million votes cast, this amounted to a
victory margin of around 0.01% . So if just one American voter in 7,000 had changed his mind, Trump might have received
another four years in office. One American voter in 7,000
Margins of general vote do not matter. Biden won Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin by much higher margins than 0.01%. In Arizona
Biden won by 0.3% of all votes in Arizona and in Georgia by 0.2%. These are small margins but probably comparable to margins in
swing states in 2016 where Trump won.
@Garliv It's for
your own good, of course. I once read an article written by someone who had a chance to hang out with the rich, powerful, famous,
etc. and gain some perspective on their thinking. They really do believe that it's their role to shape the future for the
proles. I know someone who's just like that.
If you like your bourgeois job and want to keep it, you will support the narrative.
All of the comments on here that analyze DJT's strengths and weaknesses miss the point. I personally think he made some very
poor choices; but, to inappropriately paraphrase Carville, it's the fraud, stupid.
Occam's Razor should be applied- instead of the nonsense of Chavez having an interest in voting software; voting machines being
manipulated; truckloads of paper ballots being moved across state lines- my favorite; etc.
The mail in ballots could be sent to a nursing home or to individuals, who are very old, and these individuals could be instructed
by a relative to sign their name.
I frequently explain to individuals, whose first language is not English, the papers, which they are signing. I explain their
401K and retirement plan withdrawals.
It would be very easy to have individuals in a nursing home or even an adult day care center for mentally (dementia) incapacitated
adults sign ballots. There are numerous day care centers in New York City, federally funded, where individuals could be coaxed
to sign ballots. Just say Trump will close the day care center -- especially where interpreters must be provided because the individuals
cannot understand English due to varying stages of mental incapacity.
The day care center is a racket. I believe the reimbursement rate under Medicaid-Medicare is $120 per day. Plus, the transportation
fee - approximately $40 per person each way. These centers flourish in cities, such as New York City, Newark, Philadelphia, etc. I have yet to hear anyone mention that Nancy Pelosi's father was Mayor of Baltimore, Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. And Baltimore is
one city that it totally devastated by drugs, prostitution, crime, etc.
Now for the important question. Did Nancy Pelosi have $12 pints of ice cream in her office?
But I wonder how many people have watched the twenty hours or so of state legislature hearings related to the election. Can
people just not be bothered? These were historic hearings of huge importance, but I assume they didn't get much coverage in the
MSM. I think most of them were livestreamed only by small right-wing networks.
Servant of Gla'aki 39, Hapalong 101 anent Willke: Willke sold a million books in less than two months. He was more of a media
phenom than Trump, much hotter at the time of the election. They were going to make a movie of One World. And his message was
more populist, too – basically, fuck your US national interest, we want peace and freedom. He just came out and said what everybody
thought, Oh boy, now that we won the war, we'll get the peace and freedom that we fought for! So he didn't need a Sheldon or a
Gina to rig elections and install him.
Dulles was squirming around under rocks at that time (he cut his teeth at the League of Nations founding,) even before he and
his ultras got their Gestapo in Foggy Bottom, and they arranged Hillary-style party machinations to push Willke aside.
Now of course there's a second line of defense, the CIA proprietaries that steal the election directly:
Diebold and its brass-plate acquirers. CIA set them up to ratfuck Kerry and Maduro and sheep-dipped them to ratfuck Trump.
The whole world knows the USA is a ridiculous fake democracy, a totalitarian CIA pariah state voting alone against peace, development
and human rights. (Just look at the 2nd Committee vote on A/C.2/75/L.4/Rev.1) The USA is North Korea with an ugly leisure squad.
It's the beltway that deserves our fire and fury. Just wipe it out with WMD and start again.
What were the results of the 2016 election? Billary received 65 million to Trumps 62 million. Gotcha. So we have roughly 127
million who showed up to vote that time. (Wonder how many of those were legit.) So ONLY 4 years later, Joe "I Look Like I'm Drugged"
Biden ALLEGEDLY received 80 million and Trump received 74 million. Okay, that is a turnout of 154 million votes. So if I believe
in this fairy tale, I was supposed to believe that in ONLY 4 years the vote count increased by an alleged 27 million. Hell, a
lot of our most populous states do not even have that many people.
Like I say, I concede that Biden might have had about 60-65 million LEGIT votes to Trump's MINIMUM of 74 million. Hmm, so that
means that total vote count would be 134-139 million. Hmm, sounds more reasonable to me. Numbers are not adding up folks.
...Laws don't say a little bit of fraud is OK, because the fraud committed on or by a business
didn't cause bankruptcy. Either there was fraud, or there wasn't. If there was, then the results of the election in those areas
are null and void. The certification of those results expands the fraud to the state level.
That several courts refused to hear cases for lack of standing, is patently ridiculous. If a candidate has no standing, who does?
In an election, everybody has standing because they are affected by the result, and by virtue of Citizens United , corporations
do as well.
In an ideal world, we would be discussing how we can ensure the integrity of our elections, so that both substantively and
the appearance of integrity is upheld. Instead, we are trying to get citizens jailed (right & left) for protesting the sanctity
of a system in which both sides know is corrupt. There is no question in Dems mind that Bush stole the election in 2000, so why
is it any different now that the shoe is on the other foot.
Our oligarch rulers know very well that they rig elections, it has been documented under LBJ, not to mention the long list
of coups all over the world organized by the intelligence agencies over the past 50 years, these are historical facts. But rather
than citizens being able to focus on the real problem, we are beating the crap out of our fellow citizens for something we know
all know is real; and pointing to the other side as the source of the corruption. This is exactly why the rich stay rich and the
poor stay poor.
Mr. Unz, who is always well informed, highly organized and impeccably lucid, gives a credible and succinct analysis of the
dumpster fire that is American politics, indeed of this country's leadership across the board. It creates mostly chaos and suffering
every time it meddles in our affairs these days, certainly over the long run but especially in its current crash program to impose
tyranny over the many so the few can take whatever they want whether they require it or not.
Watch this recent interview of Chris Hedges by Jimmy Dore about the root causes of our current woes. Hedges speaks off the
cuff in words that sound as polished, powerful and precise as the language in tracts considered to be classics. His Pulitzer clearly
was not found in a Cracker Jack box.
He ain't buying that Trump alone was the fount of all our sorrows or that a deceiving sycophantic
grifter like Joe Biden is the fix for anything. There were many bad actors, both GOPers and Dems, both office holders and offstage
string-pullers, who have contributed to the coming collapse of this country, which decapitating Trump will not prevent. Joe just
happens to be the useful idiot who will be left holding the bag when the end comes, which won't be long now. Factoring in Kamala's
possible ascension to the throne will change nothing. Like Joe, she's just a cluck there to take the same orders.
@Carroll Price
...Trump also flew on the Lolita express. If after all the broken promises that Trump made
to his Maga followers anyone still thinks that he is an outsider is, frankly, an idiot.
Trump is a lifetime actor and the entire election was just one big show.
One way we will know if Trump really was a threat to the swamp and an outsider will be what happens after Jan 20. If Trump
ends up dead or impoverished and in prison then we will know that he was a real threat. If he flies off into the sunset, perhaps
even starting a media company, then we will know that it was all one big vaudeville act.
The Navarro report provides detailed proof on how elections in multiple states were
stolen. (1)
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Given that all rational human beings understand, as a matter of objective proven fact,
that the election was stolen Where do we go from here?
The slender & extreme, authoritarian, Leftoid margin in the House is certain to be a
circular firing squad of internecine discontent. What little they pass will contain more pork
than an industrial pig farm. It will be a matter of months before the U.S. Economy is tanked
by SJW illegitimacy and misrule.
Much like the GOP beat Gerrymandering, with lead time the GOP will beat Fultoning (named
after the Atlanta County). The GOP is sure to take the House in the 2022 elections.
How many times will Biden & Harris be Impeached, shamed, and forced to undergo public
trial in the Senate? There will have to be multiple trials to establish for the historical
record that Biden/Harris Coup plot was vastly more criminal than Nixon, Clinton, and
Trump.
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I guess he is correct in that. Good luck USAians, I trust you will stay healthy and find a
third or fourth party because at this rate the turnout will be so low that the duopoly might
have to rig the elections to make it seem credible.
A central rule of a color revolution is to avoid an "orderly transition". The new regime
must have a revolutionary mandate instead of a democratic one. Only then can it operate
outside the constitution and outside the law.
The plan here is to declare not only Trump illegitimate but his whole administration
illegitimate. The new regime can then undo all of Trump's executive decisions. There is no
need to "stuff" the Supreme Court with extra judges. Simply declare Trump's appointments null
and void.
Anyone who thought voting in Biden was going to end the circus is sadly mistaken. The refusal
of a large section of the population to recognize Trump as President has merely set the tone
for a large portion of the population to think of Biden as illegitimate. If Biden uses
domestic terrorism legislation to try to control the opposition it won't end well. Bring on
the lions and Christians and any other unpopular section of the country.
A half century of downward mobility -- crippling of the real economy in which productivity
was rewarded -- and neglect causing deterioration of infrastructure (including meeting basic
human needs like health care), have brought the U.S. to a state of collapse.
Almost everyone seems to sense this and we feel powerless to rectify the situation through
accepted channels, thus some people believe they have a 'patriotic' duty to use other means.
The combination of disenfranchised minorities and disgruntled middle class becomes dangerous
(to the established order) as soon as both groups realize they can't win by blaming and
fighting each other.
We haven't reached that stage yet, judging from the comments I've read in the mainstream
media, however it's just a matter of time until they do. The divide-and-rule political game
keeps people attached to ideology of left vs right until it becomes clear that we all lose by
adhering to this mode of thinking.
The war racket and a whole range of other exploitative financial policies are driven by
the top echelon of elites, who also control the narratives through media propaganda.
Their game is failing and they're resorting to draconian control measures to prop it up,
but this can't continue much longer.
As I see it, the collapse of the Western financial system could happen suddenly or
gradually, or it could bring the ultimate destruction of human civilization. In any case, I
believe our degradation of the natural world will be the real catalyst leading either to
human extinction; or else if we're lucky and smart enough, will induce us to massively
downsize our population and industrial activity in order to let the ecosystem heal
itself.
Giraldi's current essay hits on numerous points already brought forth by b and barflies,
and IMO is a very well balanced look at the outcome and possible road that lies ahead.
The citation he opens with IMO gets to the heart of the matter of what's been building
since the 2000 election and its Judicial Coup:
"In a recent article Catholic University professor Claes G. Ryn wrote [Link at
original]
"Few people are really open to persuasion in any case -- not just on political subjects
but on any subject about which they care and on which they have adopted certain views.
Diehard partisans for a certain outlook will refuse to have their beliefs questioned, and
so will many others. They will be no less dismissive of a document challenging their
opinions if it is full of footnotes and appendixes. Such a document will, indeed, make them
resist it even more. As for the relatively few people who are truly open-minded, they will
not find another person's observations dispositive. They will, as they should, want to
consider the evidence on a contested matter for themselves."
We experience the above daily here at MoA. IMO, economic reality will alter the equation
once the eviction and foreclosure restrictions end unless some very enlightened legislation
is proposed and enacted.
Rep Jason Crow (Dem Colo) "I had a lot of conversations with my Republican colleagues. ...
A couple of them broke down in tears ... saying that they are afraid for their lives if they
vote for this impeachment."
The only thing they (RINO's, the non Trumpers) are afraid of loosing is their seat on the
gravy train express. They are afraid of loosing their seat at the sleaziest brothel in the
world, totally bought and controlled by powerful interest groups and foreign governments with
Israel being by far the biggest one that controls that chamber. There, fixed it for you Mr.
Crow. Rep Crow could well end up eating crow when this is all over.
IMO a large number of his supporters like Pat Lang don't care much for him or his policies
specially his Israel first policies, majority are America first conservative nationalist they
will look for someone else to lead and reorganize, that's when this divide will become
dangerous and scary. IMO that is the only reason they really didn't damage the building or
even hide themselves behind mask they are not afraid of being identified.
That is even more scary for those who hope there wouldn't be a civil uprising challenge the
establishment .
"The hostility the Democrats have show will create a huge backlash. Do they really
believe that can suppress 74 million Trump voters?"
They don't have to suppress 74 million Trump voters. They don't have to suppress
any of the Trump voters. They just have to hold on to the 81 million Democratic
voters, and will probably be joined by a relative handful of Republicans who, out of disgust
and anger at Trump, will cross over and join the Democrats.
Of course, if the mass of everyday, relatively uninvolved Democratic voters finds out the
truth about the true past and about the true intents and purposes of the Biden-Harris
wrecking crew, it's possible that some small percentage of them will stop voting and/or
switch to minor parties, but it's unlikely that such a small desertion will swing any
election to the Republicans, especially if the Biden administration is smart enough and
loose-fisted enough to toss a few financial crumbs to the mass of unfortunates who are
staring homelessness and starvation in the face.
One result of the eight-year Obama administration was a small group of Democrats who did
exactly that -- they walked away while the vast majority of registered Democrats ignored
Obama's long list of crimes and misdemeanors and pretended not to see or to know of his lies
and betrayals of the working class. So the principled deserters are already gone, and those
left in the party are hard-core, thick-headed party-above-principle-in-all-things grifters
and groupies who will stick to the party through all manner of thick and thin circumstances.
They're not going to participate in any "backlash."
The Democrats have proven themselves complete idiots for years and years and years. The
Republicans are batshit crazy. The last election from the Democratic POV was to remove what
they perceive as an existential threat to 'democracy' which is another word for 'deep state.'
It is no wonder the rush to judgment to confirm what they already believe about DJT. Critical
thinking and common sense are not attributes the elite political class possess. They are all
vainglorious grifters.
The USA is FUBAR and none of the king's horses and none of the king's men etc. etc.
etc.
The Trump supporters do not care that he is a murderer and a scoundrel as well as yet
another US President that started yet another war against a Muslim country.
They think that US can survive a centuries-long war against Islam.
That is a major flaw in their estimation of US power and fragility of what they have in
the United States.
1.2 billion Muslims, 1.2 billion Chinese, and a 130 million Russians believing that the
United States is their enemy.
No amount of domestic political change in the United States can address this.
In 1976, a 17-year old American boy could travel alone in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan,
etc. without any fear; he would be welcome because of the correct foreign policy of the
United States.
Americans have lost that and are discussing the deck arrangements on Titanic.
In 1976, a 17-year old American boy could travel alone in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc.
without any fear; he would be welcome because of the correct foreign policy of the United
States.
In Laos, Vietnam or Cambodia the "correct foreign policy of the United States" was in full
display. The US was always a murderous monster. The only difference is that it has turned on
itself.
"The Trump supporters do not care that he is a murderer and a scoundrel as well as yet
another US President that started yet another war against a Muslim country."
As you know this is not unique to trump supporters for as long as I have experienced this
a fundamental group think in America. Americans from early school days are thought the you
are "special" and "indispensable "
And "exceptional" they are thought never to accept or believe defeat never agree or accept
"mistake" never agree or accept "lack of knowledge " this not just Trump is the entire
nation' by now this group think is injected in sole of the nation on hourly bases. This
people are just beginning to doubt or question their government' sincerity and its design
while middle easterners never trust the government. It will eventually become more difficult
for US governments to govern under the mistrust that is building up. New honest deal will be
needed.
Not so. The presidents team only filed 7 cases. the rest were third parties.
Of the 7 2 found rule changes should not have been done (PA, WI) but no judge was going to
overturn results.
The dems weaponized mail in voting to benefit Biden. Were signatures checked in GA, PA,
WI, MI?
One researcher found Fulton County, GA did 106,000 adjudications with a staff so small at
an average rate of 30 seconds per adjudication they would have taken until jan 5 to do HALF
of them.
When pressed on how this could be possible the GA secretary of State and Fulton County had
no answers.
The Supreme Court also refused to hear both an original jurisdiction case AND a case by
the President's own team in December which would have ruled on the constitutionality of PA's
mail in ballots done without amending the state constitution.
The Trump administration denounced or threatened trade agreements and "jaw-boned" particular
manufacturers without tangible or lasting results for young workers. It continued drone warfare
and bombing runs, exacerbating refugee problems. Its ham-handed actions relating to visa and
green card holders with vested rights partially wasted its "trump card" on immigration. Its
deregulatory and tax proposals had little appeal to its three new constituencies, and in its
kindness to fund managers, it forgot Bernard De Jouvenel's maxim that "the wealth of merchants
is resented more than the pomp of rulers."
There are still available, either to a Republican Party cleansed of Trump or to the Biden
administration, my 11 proposals of a populist nature, none very expensive. Since the Trump
administration was a milder version of what Hermann Rauschning in the 1930s called "A
Revolution of Nihilism," any effort to enlarge its constituency of malcontents was forsworn.
Accordingly, these ideas are re-tendered:
1. Completely relieving workers under the age of 25 of payroll taxation, as in Germany and
Holland. Over the long term, this would render them the most employed, rather than the most
unemployed, age cohort. Because they make up at most 10 percent of the labor force, and
typically enjoy barely half of average earnings, relieving them of 12.4 percent payroll taxes
would require an increase in general payroll tax rates of, at most, 5 to 10 percent of one
percent.
2. A revived Civilian Conservation Corps, a cause promoted only by Senator Bernie Sanders,
with its focus on low-tech infrastructure projects and services, including such neglected
fields of activity as soil conservation, reforestation, disaster relief, reclamation of
abandoned mine sites, creation of new national parks in Appalachia, hydrology, desert
agriculture, creation of footpaths and youth hostels, and training as practical nurses and
nursing assistants.
3. Making the services of the United States Employment Service, a largely moribund adjunct
of the unemployment system, available to all workers under the age of 25.
4. Tax credits, like those in Germany, Finland, and Japan, to encourage the installation of
second kitchens in owner-occupied housing, thereby fostering the creation of low-cost housing
in the form of accessory apartments, duplex houses, and mother-in-law flats. This is a far more
economical method of generating new low-cost small units than subsidized housing, and
restrictions to owner-occupied homes would eliminate the fears and controversies accompanying
public housing proposals.
5. Limited incentives, in the form of handbooks and nominal tax credits, to foster the
creation of cooperative old-age clubs on the Japanese pattern to assist the elderly in
remaining in their own homes, removing pressures on Medicaid.
6. Promotion of model state and local legislation and tax incentives for the creation of
land readjustment and land assembly districts on the postwar Japanese, Korean, and German
pattern, to foster private redevelopment of blighted urban and inner-suburban areas.
7. Support for a revived TEAM Act providing for the organization of single-plant works
councils, with the authority to negotiate local pay and productivity deals, work rules, and
employee grievances. Legislation to this effect sponsored by the Dunlap Commission appointed by
Labor Secretary Robert Reich and including several former Democratic secretaries of labor was
vetoed by President Clinton at the behest of the United Auto Workers. Since private-sector
union membership has declined by 60 percent since Clinton's veto, even Democratic congressmen
might now support it, to the great benefit of the low-income work force in non-union chain
establishments.
8. An orderly de-criminalization of marijuana on the Canadian pattern, accompanied by an
educational campaign stressing its de-motivating characteristics and enlisting schools and
colleges in its discouragement through selective drug testing, as in the military and adult
work force. This will eliminate nearly a million arrests a year and defund much of the
underworld that is the youth employer of first resort in depressed areas.
9. An effort to revive depressed downtown areas in small towns and cities with incentives
for the creation of Business Improvement Districts, together with enhanced enforcement of
antitrust, predatory pricing, and bribery laws against offending large retailers.
10. Relief for credit unions and community banks from the more oppressive Sarbanes-Oxley and
Dodd-Frank regulations without holding them hostage to secure unjustified deregulation for
larger banks.
11. Grant of work permits to undocumented workers without criminal records and with long
records of American employment upon payment by them, their families, employers, or
philanthropies of large ($5,000) application fees, the proceeds to be dedicated to a fund for
law enforcement, housing, and nurse practitioner programs addressing migration in its Central
American and other source countries. As with women's suffrage prior to 1920, the question of
enfranchisement should be left to the States, pursuant to Article I, Sections 2 and 4 of the
Constitution.
It may be objected that measures to relieve the young are of limited political appeal, since
they do not vote in large numbers. They do not, but their mothers do. And many of the other
measures will provide citizens with a greater sense of control over their own lives.
While much of this agenda may not appeal to gradgrind Republicans who appreciate the price
of everything and the value of nothing, nor to those whose idea of an infrastructure program is
aid to a contracting class and its representatives on K Street, some might be led to follow a
vagrant thought of former speaker Paul Ryan. It will be recalled that he uttered the only
memorable words of the 2012 Republican Convention when he declared that "college graduates
should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at faded Obama
posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life."
George W. Liebmann, a Baltimore lawyer, is the author of various books on public policy and
history, including Solving Problems Without Large Government: Devolution, Fairness, and
Equality (Praeger, 1999), reprinted as Neighborhood Futures (Transaction Books, 2003).
I would modify Item#1 and Item#3 to not just encourage employment for those under 25 but I
would:
1) exclude all (legal, illegal or visa workers from programs to encourage their
employment.
2) such programs should also include the difficult to employ like the disabled
3) such programs should also include the difficult to employ over 50 job seeker.
I especially support Item 4 (small studio apartments or granny flats)
I oppose Item#7 It is much to dangerous for such worker councils to be usurped by our
leftist Marxist woke culture, political activist, social justice, cancel culture, diversity,
inclusivity, cross sectional race theorists, etc. which will translate into a hostile
anti-white, anti-male, anti-Christian, anti-marriage, anti-family, anti-chrildren,
anti-American corporate enforced ideology. If you thought the left's false accusations of
rape on campus and the lefts false accusations of race hatred on campus, it you thought false
accusations of Jesse Smollett in Chicago were an example of ruining an individuals life on
hearsay then wake until these work councils get taken over by leftist activists and watch
what they do to innocent working class employees who just want to do their job but don't
follow the leftist narrative.
I oppose Item#11. We lost 250,000 jobs due to COVID (the chinese bat flu stew). Our
unemployment rate is 6.7%. At the same time we are losing jobs our legal immigration rate is
steady at 1 million per year. No, I do not support illegal immigration, legal immigration,
refugees, asylum seekers, economic migrants, temporary work or education visas. No western
nation can continue to relieve the problems of over population by mass immigration. It is not
fair to the citizens of the US or any other western/westernized country.
I don't disagree with very much here though as a practical matter I will point out a
mistaken assumption that seems to underlie #5:
Re: Limited incentives, in the form of handbooks and nominal tax credits, to foster the
creation of cooperative old-age clubs on the Japanese pattern to assist the elderly in
remaining in their own homes, removing pressures on Medicaid.
I assume that is about nursing homes, but those are almost always a last resort when the
patient is so seriously disabled that they cannot possibly live independently and their
medical needs surpass the abilities of family members to care for them.
Also, I don't think that youth unemployment is the big bugaboo with deindustrialization.
Young people are a good deal more flexible, and have fewer financial commitments, than older
people after all. Rather the disemployment of middle aged (and older) blue collar workers is
the larger problem. These people expected to be in the same job (or type of job) for life and
they had the rug pulled out from under them and found themselves with few prospects. Some of
them ended up in low paying service jobs, some lived off a still-employed spouse, some went
on SSDI, and some few even ended up homeless.
Most of these barely sound conservative. One-company workers' councils violate NLRB rules,
for reasons probably having to do with Clinton's veto; these days they would vastly increase
the number of workers in organized setting.
The marijuana suggestion contains bits of the old War on Drugs: forced drug testing of
workers, and propaganda that focuses on marijuana rather than the dangers of any kind of
excess substance use/addiction. *Free employers to pursue a drug-free work place
rather than a drug-free work force. *Any govt-sponsored statements on drugs should be
based on facts and even-handed research, not the whoring that scientists have done for the
last 50 years, and should include the tonic effects of both a mild buzz and deep psychedelic
experience.
As a moderate Democrat, most of these ideas appeal to me. As someone who has paid
attention for decades, I see no chance in hell of any of these things happening [during Biden
administration], especially if proposed by a Democrat. As an optimist, I wish moderate
Republicans could join moderate Democrats in making such things a possibility. As a realist,
I don't think America is capable of solving any problems right now, especially tough ones. As
an American, it saddens me.
Most of the ideas are excellent. I would add much greater funding for vocational education
at the secondary and post-secondary level. Our public schools are far too focused on
preparing students for college with insufficient training for those ill suited for or
uninterested in seeking a university education.
The lack of affordable housing is a major obstacle for twenty somethings to get out of
their childhood home and begin the process of family formation. We need tax incentives to
build limited equity cooperative apartment buildings, resident-owned mobile/modular home
parks and small bungalow-style houses.
I like the proposal for worker councils but employee ownership is an even better idea.
Workers owning a share in their business should be strongly encouraged by public policy at
all levels.
It wasn't a single speech by Trump just before events unfolded that led to the violence of
January 6 during which five people died. Many of the same people now pointing fingers at Trump
bear responsibility for the tragedy themselves. So, in the spirit of Zola
I accuse the Washington establishment of reducing the concept of democracy itself to little
more than a convenient pretext for foreign invasion of countries that don't align with
America's interests. You've perverted the concept for the average foreigner of target countries
that have seen little more than enduring chaos and destruction borne of ' democracy '.
So why should the average American trust in the notion when you cry about 'democracy' itself
being attacked by a mob?
I accuse the Democratic Party of spending the past four years since Trump was legitimately
elected trying to disenfranchise the near-63 million Americans who cast their ballot in his
favor by portraying them as useful idiots of a foreign power (namely Russia), rather than
people who simply wanted someone in charge who wasn't going to kowtow to the insidious
corruption in Washington.
I accuse the Republican Party of placing its own personal interests over those of the
citizens by enabling – or even cheerleading – Trump's behavior when it risked
becoming a liability for his presidency, for the party, and for the hopes of millions of
average Americans who voted for him.
I accuse Big Tech – specifically, social media giants – of rank hypocrisy. The
more extreme and buzzworthy the comments on your platforms by Trump and his most fervent
supporters, the more money it has made you. And now you have the gall to admonish and blacklist
Trump and his supporters while pretending that it's all such a shock. You played just as much a
role in all of this as they did. Own it. And to clarify, are you in favor of free speech, or
strictly speech that squares with the prevailing political winds and social pressures at any
given time?
I accuse right-leaning ideological talking heads of self-serving pandering to your audience
of consumers – by screaming about unproven 'election fraud', for example – rather
than providing rational analysis and credible information that might have helped to make your
case to a wider audience beyond the handful of radical extremists who didn't exactly need
convincing in the first place.
I accuse left-leaning pundits of hysteria rather than constructive opposition, and reducing
any pushback against your agenda or positions to some form of bigotry.
I accuse the mainstream media of obvious and inherent bias against President Trump from the
very outset of his presidency, which has ultimately served to radicalize his base and further
erode the average American's faith in the important work of the free press.
I accuse the sanitary fascists who emerged over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic and who
acted like anyone prioritizing their own solvency and ability to feed their families over
various, ever-changing restrictions of questionable effectiveness was some kind of terrorist.
Many members of the mob that showed up on Capitol Hill felt that they had little left to lose.
And it's in part because of you.
I accuse Wall Street, and the politicians whom it has purchased through lobbying efforts, of
failing to see how globalization would ultimately disenfranchise the average American worker by
exporting jobs and driving down wages. You, too, contributed to the frustration seen in that
mob that congregated in Washington from the four corners of America.
Finally, I accuse President Donald Trump of failing to grow into his presidency, of allowing
his own ego to get in the way of his promises, of seemingly prioritizing the interests of
friends and associates, and of failing to convert his considerable rhetorical power into
lasting achievements and a legacy in which his voters and supporters could take pride.
Every one of these people hold responsibility for catalyzing the events of January 6. Unless
those who remain standing when the dust settles on this fiasco change their ways, America is in
for a long, rough ride.
This is about the consolidation of power after questionable election; Capitol ransacking is
just a pretext for represssions. If it did not occur they would find another one.
Notable quotes:
"... (5) the term "domestic terrorism" means activities that -- (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended -- (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States. ..."
"... Why all the talk about "domestic terrorism"? I suspect it's because people can't stand the idea that the Trump mob could be guilty of nothing more than trespassing. Time reports sadly that there are no laws against domestic terrorism, but lists the charges it wants brought: seditious conspiracy, which carries a 20-year maximum sentence, homicide, assault, interstate travel in aid of racketeering, restricted-area violations, vandalism, and trespassing. ..."
"... The authorities promise to hunt the rioters -- many of whom just walked through an open door -- to the ends of the earth as if they were Osama bin Laden. The contrast with the handling of BLM and antifa rioters is stark. ..."
Joe Biden has the people who took over the Capitol on Jan. 6 figured out. In just two days,
he had them pegged for "a bunch of thugs, insurrectionists, white supremacists, and
anti-Semites, and it's not enough." Not enough? He also said they were "domestic terrorists."
Curiously, there is a federal definition of domestic terrorism, but it isn't a crime. There
is now tremendous pressure to change that, and depending on what kind of law takes shape, there
could be huge implications for dissidents.
For now, this
definition from 18 U.S. Code § 2331 is worth studying:
(5) the term "domestic terrorism" means activities that -- (A) involve acts dangerous to
human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended -- (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to
influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the
conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur
primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
Does this apply to the Capitol takeover? Domestic terrorism must be an illegal act
"dangerous to human life" and meant to influence policy. The Trump supporters wanted to
influence policy alright, but what does "dangerous to human life" mean? The
Michigan Penal Code says it is "that which causes a substantial likelihood of death or
serious injury."
That wouldn't include trespassing, breaking and entering, or even scuffling with the police.
Anyone who may have
killed Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick would meet the definition of a "domestic
terrorist," but the circumstances of his death are still not clear. It may be there wasn't a
single "textbook" domestic terrorist at the Capitol that day. Lefties are gloating
over the death of Ashli Babbitt, but the only thing she did that was "dangerous to human life"
was stop a bullet.
Why all the talk about "domestic terrorism"? I suspect it's because people can't stand the
idea that the Trump mob could be guilty of nothing more than trespassing. Time reports
sadly that there are no laws against domestic terrorism, but lists the charges it wants brought:
seditious conspiracy, which carries a 20-year maximum sentence, homicide, assault, interstate
travel in aid of racketeering, restricted-area violations, vandalism, and trespassing.
Sure enough, the Justice Department has set up a task force
to file sedition and conspiracy charges . The investigation is said to be "one of the most
expansive criminal investigations in the history of the Justice Department." The authorities
promise to hunt the rioters -- many of whom just walked through an open door -- to the ends of
the earth as if they were Osama bin Laden. The contrast with the
handling of BLM and
antifa rioters is stark.
Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security,
has another idea . "Given the heinous domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol," he
wants everyone involved put on the No-Fly List. Rep. Jason Crow, a member of the House Armed
Services Committee, wants the US Army Secretary to track down and
court martial every soldier who entered the Capitol. A court
martial requires a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, usually for a serious
felony. Police departments in
Virginia ,
Washington , and
Pennsylvania are
scouring their rosters , looking for officers who went to the rally, whether they entered
the Capitol or not. Will they be fired?
Wikipedia describes John McCain's daughter Meghan as a
"columnist, author, and television personality." She wants the rioters sent to Guantanamo :
"They should be treated the same way we treat Al-Qaeda" -- yet another American frustrated by
the lack of a law against domestic terrorism.
... ... ...
... [neoliberal] Lefties were of course
pleased that "white supremacists" can
now officially be "terrorists." This is very important for any potential new law because
the occupation of the Capitol has unleashed a wave of vitriol against "white supremacy," even
though there is no evidence the Trump supporters had the slightest racial motivation. NBC News
ran this
headline : "'Vintage white rage': Why the riots were about the perceived loss of white
power." Politico
tells us "there's a term for what happened at the Capitol this week: 'whitelash'." The
Atlantic
explained that "the Capitol riot was an attack on multiracial democracy." The
Guardian 's
headline was "Insurrection Day: When White Supremacist Terror Came to the US Capitol."
Black Congressman Hank Johnson
told Al Sharpton that the black Capitol policeman who killed Ashli Babbitt had
singlehandedly put down a lynch mob: If he hadn't shot her, "I have no doubt that some of us
who look like me would've been hanging from the railings of the 3rd floor, onto the House
floor, swinging like . . . strange fruit." Nancy Pelosi said that
the people who entered the Capitol "have chosen their whiteness over democracy," whatever that
means.
This perfectly matches the views of Richard Durbin, ranking member on the Senate
Subcommittees for Defense and for the Constitution. In 2019, he introduced the Domestic Terrorism
Prevention Act , which called white supremacy "the most significant domestic terrorism
threat facing the United States." The act was only about 3,000 words but used "white
supremacist" 12 times, "neo-Nazi" six times, "far-right" eight times, and "hate crime" 10
times. It was silent on any other kind of domestic terrorism. Sen. Durbin says he will
reintroduce the bill right away in light of the Capitol takeover.
There is no telling what laws could pass in this fevered environment, but it's important to
note what Mr. Durbin's 2019 bill did and did not do. It did not make domestic terrorism a crime
or authorize the designation of "domestic terrorism organizations," which would mean jailing
Americans as if they were Al-Qaeda members and seizing assets without notice. What it
did
do was set up special offices in the FBI, Justice Department, and Homeland Security "to
analyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity and . . . take steps to prevent domestic
terrorism." It's anyone's guess what those "steps" were supposed to be.
The bill also required the three agencies to "review each hate crime incident reported
during the preceding year to determine whether the incident also constitutes a domestic
terrorism-related incident," though it didn't say to what end.
Sen. Durbin loves to quote FBI Director Christopher A. Wray's testimony
before Congress in 2019: "A majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we've investigated
are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacy . . . ."
However, the bill used the definition of "domestic terrorism" from 18 U.S. Code § 2331
cited above, which is ideologically neutral. That means Black Lives Matter and antifa commit
vastly more "domestic terrorism" than all the "white supremacists," "neo-Nazis," and "far-right
extremists" combined. Anyone who shouts "Defund the police," "Justice for Breonna Taylor,"
"Black lives matter," or even "I can't breathe" is trying to "influence the policy of a
government." If, in that context, someone commits an illegal act "dangerous to human life," he
is a domestic terrorist. Since the
death of George Floyd , there have been countless dangerous-to-human-life acts of arson and
aggravated assault; even attempts to
stop ambulances from bringing wounded officers to emergency rooms. If "white supremacists"
were organizing freeway shutdowns, they would surely count as "dangerous to human
life."
The levels of hypocritical hysteria dominating the corporate airwaves and most electronic
media, together with an even more amplified level among the pro$titicians in the Di$trict of
Corruption means they are scared.
They suddenly feel vulnerable. Are they as vulnerable as the people of Yemen who are being
bombed daily and starvation blockaded by the $audi crime clan with the full. assistance of
those D.C. Pro$titician$? Are they as vulnerable as those half million!!! deliberately
starved Iraqi children whom Madelein Albrietstein declared to be "worth it" in forwarding the
I$raeli agenda?
Could it just simply be that they are themselves guilty of crimes against humanity and in
violation of their oaths to protect the Constitution of the United States from all enemies
foreign and DOMESTIC? The little gal under the streetlight with high heels, short skirt and
low-hanging purse in the midnight hour at least provides a desired service. Can the same be
said for the Pro$titicians on the Hill overlooking Urination'$ Capitol?
As for the media whores and pre$$titute$, being myself a recovering journalist; there is
good reason to believe that I have correctly identified them.
I don't see how it can't be recognized that Trump set-up his own supporters by luring them
to DC.
Going to Wash DC to protest wasn't going to change the vote outcome in Congress and any
fool could anticipate Antifa types would show up (apparently Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell and
DC Mayor were advised they were planning to come and riot. So Trump had to have known
too.)
Now, neither POTUS or Congress members will publicly identify the organized Antifa thug
element. So, Trump supporters, and by extension Repubs, are being widely labeled as "domestic
terrorists'. While Trump releases another video today lecturing about violence which
implicates HIS supporters by no mention of the other elements there.
Congressman Hank Johnson told Al Sharpton that the black Capitol policeman who killed
Ashli Babbitt had singlehandedly put down a lynch mob: If he hadn't shot her, "I have no
doubt that some of us who look like me would've been hanging from the railings of the 3rd
floor, onto the House floor, swinging like . . . strange fruit.
This statement is quite stupid but Johnson has said worse in the past:
During a House Armed Services Committee hearing on March 25, 2010[40] concerning the
U.S. military installation on the island of Guam, Johnson said to Admiral Robert F.
Willard, Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, "My fear is that the whole island will become
so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize", to which Admiral Willard replied,
"We don't anticipate that."
The great thing about language in the 21st century is it means whatever you want it to
mean, sort of like Alice in wonderland. A terrorist is whatever they deem to be a terrorist;
anyone who does not go along with their agenda. "building back better" means repression and
censorship. "the new normal" means global corporate government and the great reset agenda.
"global pandemic" means a plandemic that kills one in a million healthy young people. etc.
Facts and information do not matter to these people; it is 1984. This struggle will be
decided by force, as logical arguments are useless to those who deny the basic axioms of
reality and existence (almost all libtards and most rinos). I think in a way it is a good
thing that things are getting worse for the average middle american. Things will need to get
much worse before they get better as more than half the people are still totally asleep. Of
the minority that are awake, most of us have too much to lose right now . But we need to
organize and prepare to take action soon or we will be bled to death by a thousand cuts as
they have been doing for a while now. What kind of a world will our children inherit if we
stay silent and apathetic?
O MY GOD!
All the discussions around Trump reminded me of Hitler after Stalingrad.
After the defeat at Stalingrad, the Germans waited 2 years for Hitler to use the secret
weapon and win the war. The German army suffered defeat after defeat, the Russian communists
were searching for Hitler's body through Bunkers and the Germans still waited for the
super-secret weapon to save them.
Two months after the election, Trump's team suffered defeat after defeat. Trump is waiting
for jail, but his supporters are convinced that Trump still has a secret weapon with which
will win the election.When you wake up to reality. Trump is a false Messiah and he he doesn't
have a super-secret-weapon.
You have to fight your self for justice and truth and not wait for someoneelse to fight for
you while you button porn, tiktok or chat smalltalk on Facebook.
I can't forget what Mother Teresa said 30 years ago: "Don't wait for a leader because he
won't come. Be your own leaders."
You all are for sure. I just changed my party registration and I'm now a proud Democrat. I
don't want to be denied jobs, loans, transportation, and possibly freedom and life itself for
the sake of a country that has collectively decided to destroy itself.
And that's what false flag with Capitol ransacking accomplished. It fives Clinton/Obama/Biden
clique card blank for suppressing the dissent
This false flag operation like shooting protesters by snipers during Ukrainian Maydan is a
logical end of American Maidan and pursued the same goals -- deposing the current president,
hijacking political power and consolidating it via repressions.
Notable quotes:
"... That is why we are witnessing the fussy, aggressive actions of the Democrats - a ridiculous re-impeachment of the president, who will leave the White House in a week, the most severe censorship and suppression of dissent. There is no need for the real winners of fair elections to behave like that, as they are aware of their legitimacy and are confident in themselves (relying on the real, not imaginary, support of the majority of the population). ..."
From the "Biden Exploits His Capitol Gains" article:
Joe Biden's own language certainly sounded less like a magnanimous winner uniting his
people than like that used by autocrats and dictators to hold onto power, argues Diana
Johnstone.
Diana Johnstone's opinion is quite reasonable. In fact, a "creeping"/"bureaucratic" coup
d'etat took place in the United States. And it wasn't Trump at all, but Biden & Co. The
fact that "Joe Biden's own language sounded like that used by autocrats and dictators to hold
onto power" is further confirmation of this.
If you are in the majority and you win the election honestly, then there is no need to act
the way the Democrats did. The current aggressive rhetoric of Biden (and other Democrats) is
evidence that the elections were stolen/falsified. Biden knows this very well, and therefore
his language is as cruel, irreconcilable and repressive as possible. After the illegitimate
elections, the task is to consolidate own's power and suppress all those who reject what
happened. In fact, this is what happened in Ukraine after the Maidan 2014.
That is why we are witnessing the fussy, aggressive actions of the Democrats - a
ridiculous re-impeachment of the president, who will leave the White House in a week, the
most severe censorship and suppression of dissent. There is no need for the real winners of
fair elections to behave like that, as they are aware of their legitimacy and are confident
in themselves (relying on the real, not imaginary, support of the majority of the
population).
Globalization has made the United States a hollow giant. It has produced an enormous
wealth gap, and this inequality is producing a breakdown in social cohesion. They have faced
crisis before in the form of political polarization, economic hardship and racial tensions,
but the situation now is a combination of every one of the mentioned before amplified by
orders of magnitude by the pandemic.
The power of the MIC, Wall Street and Big Tech along with their MSM minions acting in a
concerted way is the only thing preventing an implosion of the country. Either that or the
notion of "American Exceptionalism" is truly implanted in the hearts and minds of the people,
whether they realize it or not.
There will be a wipe out of Trumpists and one party Dem state ala California. The Rep
party will divide itself into Trumpists and establishment fighting each other.
The clear changes in the culture of the US population, which is found by numerous surveys,
back up this assessment of the situation.
Trump's biggest fault is that he managed to corrupt many naturally isolationist rank and
file republicans into "I have the biggest dick" imperialism and China/Iran hysteria. He tried
to save the US Empire, corrupted MAGA into Make America Rule the World Again, and for that he
paid the price.
He was triggered by the US decline in the world (Murica is no longer number 1, how can
this be!) and tried to prop up the Empire that will eat him later.
If he tried to run on anti-imperial isolationit platform he still had a chance. But that
required better relations with China, Russia, Iran and others, something impossible for a US
rightoid massively triggered about Murica not being "number 1".
Too many people believe what they choose to read. The constantly reinforced world view of
us vs them. I remember when Obama had a real mandate and both houses of Congress his first
two years. His big 'socialist' victory - a corporate run for-profit healthcare system which
is the laughing stock of the world and oh yeah he expanded the 911 Forever War.
What did Trump do in four years? Nothing. The government of the USA is failed. The
dissatisfaction with the Establishment goes way beyond the QAnon crowd.
The idea that there are actually two opposing political ideologies in the USA is Big Lie
101.
Is there anything more pathetic than competition between two political mafias hiding as some
sort of disagreement over principle?
Notable quotes:
"... Absolutely his instinct to rebalance the economic relationship with China was correct. But he's too stupid to do it in a way that actually benefits or improves the US long term. Every once in a while with him there was hint of a good instinct but he never followed through because his base instincts always win out. ..."
"... The cries of censorship are asinine. Real censorship of diverging opinions was accomplished decades ago. Banning Donald trump from twitter isn't censorship. They didn't ban the POTUS account (they did delete tweets when he tried to use it), they banned his personal account because he's an asshole who broke the rules. Republicans have been telling me about the sanctity of property my whole life. Now they change their minds? ..."
It's all just farts in a jar. The trajectory was set decades ago and the political
oligarchy and gerontocracy aren't going to let go of that trajectory. Trump was only a
"populist" insofar as it was a means for him to be popular. In reality, he's a dishonest,
craven asshole. If he was a populist he would have responded to Covid way differently. What
he is, however, is a nationalist. Those are dangerous because they don't think clearly.
Absolutely his instinct to rebalance the economic relationship with China was correct.
But he's too stupid to do it in a way that actually benefits or improves the US long term.
Every once in a while with him there was hint of a good instinct but he never followed
through because his base instincts always win out.
The cries of censorship are asinine. Real censorship of diverging opinions was
accomplished decades ago. Banning Donald trump from twitter isn't censorship. They didn't ban
the POTUS account (they did delete tweets when he tried to use it), they banned his personal
account because he's an asshole who broke the rules. Republicans have been telling me about
the sanctity of property my whole life. Now they change their minds?
The empire is in terminal decline. Trump doesn't change it. Biden doesn't change it. Who
controls Congress doesn't change it. Because all of them are beholden to the declining empire
and/or they believe in America's myths (they are nationalists). A failed color revolution run
by people who don't want to accept an election result just says real loud that the empire is
falling.
@pretzelattack "alaff, there's no evidence the election was stolen"
Why do people treat this like a court of law with a presumption of innocence? - "if there
is no proof of wrongdoing, it must have been fair and honest".
Suppose someone demanded that you prove the election was honest? Could you do it? I know I
couldn't.
It's not hard to imagine a system where you could prove that, however. It would require voter
ID's, much stricter chain of custody for ballots and the ability for a voter to check how
their vote was recorded and challenge it, if necessary. This is all perfectly possible
technologically. If I can return something to a store 6 months after I bought it without a
receipt and have them look up the visa purchase, we should be able to do this. The reason, of
course, is that the political parties don't really want honest elections.
The whole thing reminds me a bit of that line in "The Sting" - "what do you expect me to
do? challenge him in front of everyone for cheating better than me?"
Where I'm going is this: why _should_ I believe the election was honest? I simply don't
know if it was, or wasn't. There won't be real confidence in elections until we provide
better means of validating the results that are available to everyone. Simply saying "there
was no evidence of fraud" won't be enough.
Mass protests generally have two distinct but intertwined goals: 1) to "make a statement,"
and 2) to inflict a cost. To state the obvious, mass protests occur because a group of people
are unhappy about something, and they want something to change. Change only occurs, in a large
bureaucratic nation like ours, if a loud "message" is conveyed, or if the price of non-change
becomes too high. If thousands of Trump voters are mad as hell because they believe the
election was stolen, and if they want to protest, they can either make their message heard and
then hope for the best (not much hope there), or they can attempt to punish the thieves
-- that is, make them incur some cost for their malfeasance.
What did the mob achieve on Wednesday? We already knew their message -- Trump won the
election, and it was stolen. We know they have support across the country; even our biased
media admit to some 74 million Trump voters, of whom 70% to 80% (depending on the poll) think
the election was stolen. But then what? "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it." And
then what? The message is impotent. It has no consequence.
If 'the message' was doomed to impotence, inflicting 'a cost' was much more tangible, and
much more achievable. By forcing their way into the Capitol building, a motivated and
reasonably prepared mob could have caused tremendous damage. If -- and I stress the conditional
here -- if they wanted to inflict damage, they had a golden opportunity. They had guns,
presumably hidden, and far outnumbered the handful of guards. Any firefight would have been
over quickly, with the mob victorious. Security guards, staffers, even congressmen would have
been easy prey, for kidnapping, injury, or worse. But this did not happen.
... ... ...
Notice how congressmen, left and right, responded to the event. All were indignant. All were
outraged. All condemned the "senseless violence" of the crazed mob and the "attempted
overthrow" of American democracy. All of them: left, right, and center; Democrat and
Republican; Trump supporter or not. All of them condemned it.
Again: Why? The answer here is clear: All congressmen, of all stripes, have a vested
interest in sustaining the system, more or less in its current form . This is obvious. They
are all 'winners' in the system. It has made them all rich, famous, and powerful. Yes, they
fight for relative power and relative influence, but this is largely a sham. The
Republican-Democrat battles are only there to give the impression of real competition. Instead,
in reality, we have a deep and radical monopoly -- a monopoly of pro-corporate, pro-capitalist,
pro-war, pro-Israel, and pro-Jewish individuals. On these things, they all agree. I've been
saying as much for many years: We should focus not on what divides the two parties, but on
what unites them . This is far more revealing.
... More than anything, Trump was a symbol: a symbol of resistance, of defiance, and of an
'in your face' attitude. But nothing more. The Trump presidency was all show, no substance. It
was, and is, hardly worth dying over.
And by 'media,' I mean all media. Consider what our beloved Tucker Carlson had
to say , speaking at the beginning of his show on the very first day after the protest:
Political violence begets political violence. That is an iron law that never changes. We
have to be against that, no matter who commits the violence or under what pretext, no matter
how many self-interested demagogues assure us the violence is justified or necessary. We have
a duty to oppose all of this, not simply because political violence kills other people's
children, but because in the end it doesn't work.
No good person will live a happier life because [Ashli Babbitt] was killed in a hallway of
the Capitol today. So our only option, as a practical matter, is to fix what is causing this
in the first place. You may have nothing in common with the people on the other side of the
country -- increasingly, you probably don't -- but you're stuck with them. The idea that
groups of Americans will somehow break off into separate peaceful nations of like-minded
citizens is a fantasy. That will not happen. There is no such thing as 'peaceful separation';
there never has been, and there won't be.
The two hemispheres of this country are inseparably intertwined, like conjoined twins.
Neither can leave without killing the other. As horrifying as this moment is, we have no
option but to make it better, to gut it out.
The entry of the Capitol building was spontaneous. Nobody saw it coming.
In the immediate aftermath, the media didn't know whether to promote it or bury it. It
took hours and days for the narrative to coalesce on orders from the top.
As it was happening, the media was gob-smacked. The 'insurrection' narrative didn't truly
get going until the protest was long over.
It's real tiresome to do this but people need to be reminded that Ziocorporate conman
fraud Trump and his MAGA brand are a product of the same lot that governs the Democrats, and
that he was never on his constituency's side:
And it's necessary because if there's a chance to unite even a small group of people after
realising how they're being had, then there's a chance for a small change to snowball into
something larger. And it should not stay on the white side of the divide, it's not like the
plandemic's been killing the economy for whites only. No "populist anti-Deep State patriot"
or national leader goes around endorsing other countries' politicians, much less Israel's,
the purest manifestation of corporate bankster power acting in unison with neocolonial
globalism, a trait shared by Biden and Trump.
Actions should be peaceful, because entities like the Pentagon and CIA have an absolute
monopoly on violent repression...
One Christian fellow I listened to said that Antifa were definitely there. He took video
of them walking down the street. That just proves to me that even Antifa knew they were no
threat, otherwise they wouldn't have been mingling among thousands and thousands of Trump
supporters.
The fellow said that from what he could see, the Trump protesters were unarmed, well
behaved, smiling, and content with waving their flags. He said they are proud patriots and
would never think of destroying art work or smashing up the Capitol Building.
He said on the 15 to 20 previous trips he's made to the Capitol Building, the pop-up metal
barriers have always been up, but no barriers were up on January 6th. He said on a previous
trip he had stepped onto the grass to take a picture and was quickly told by an officer to
"get off the grass". But on January 6th, the sidewalks were blocked off, forcing people onto
the grass.
We've seen the video of what looks to be an Antifa member breaking a window, only to be
stopped by a Trump supporter.
No, these were salt of the earth people who were no threat to Antifa OR the spineless
politicians. They knew this, but they've played it up for all it's worth.
Amazon includes a couple accurate blurbs on the product description page:
This short book is wicked, truthful, and entertaining. The author, after outlining a
step-by-step procedure for bringing about a coup, analyzes modern (post–Second World
War) coups, and points out why some succeeded and others failed. ( New Yorker )
An extraordinarily competent and well-written work, displaying very wide knowledge of
the ways in which coups, both successful and unsuccessful, have actually been organized. (
Times Literary Supplement )
You don't do a "coup" by invading the congressional discussion bunker in a nominal
democracy. You do a "coup" by ordering up CIA-organized troops to take over communication
centers as checkpoints secured by APCs go up everywhere as congresscritters are frogmarched
to a nearby stadium. The CEOs and salaried Wokers of the social meedja companies would swear
enthusiastic allegiance to the new powers. Antifa would be issued clean shirts, ties and
government-approved truncheons. Then a grand proclamation that there will be a convention to
work towards national unity. Ooops, that last part actually happened.
If there had been a coup, it would 100% evident.
If there had been fair elections, it would 100% evident.
The event was, variously, a "coup," an "insurrection," or at minimum, "a riot." Protesters
were "right-wing extremists" and even "domestic terrorists" who were attacking "the very
basis of American democracy."
A coup?
An insurrection?
Attacking the very basis of American democracy?
The only reason the crowd was there in the first place was to protest against the people
committing those crimes through election fraud. Hopefully at least the crowd has figured out
that the Republicans and Trump are not on their side...
Jazzhand McFeels of https://therightstuff.biz/ has written a very interesting
article on Dissident Mag about some sudden changes in the administration that could explain
this thing.
If the attack on the Capitol was already so clumsy and ineffective, how could those same
people succeed in the much more difficult task of seccession?
You're assuming that the phony attack was planned by the people who would be involved in a
secession movement. I haven't seen any evidence that it was.
Cui Bono? The Key to 6 January is what did NOT happen. The two houses of congress had gone
off to hear, separately, in public broadcast, evidence from objecting congressmen that there
was massive electoral fraud to criminally deliver the election to Biden. MSM transmitted the
opening statements to the debate by McConnell and Schumer. These two said that there was no
election fraud. MSM then pulled away when the other congressmen started presenting the view
that there WAS fraud. Although MSM was not going to carry what the people are not supposed to
know, and filled in instead with their own propagandists and the Party Line, the proceedings
examining election fraud would have been seen by some of the public through the internet
streams and C-Span. This was clear evidence which the courts should have heard, but refused to
hear. BUT, instead of Congress publicly hearing evidence, the hearings abruptly STOPPED. Why?
The Capitol police, following instructions, opened the barricades and waved the demonstrators
to come in. The demonstrators were guided to the spot where the Deep State assassin was
waiting. A person was shot. After that, there were NO MORE discussions of election fraud. Biden
was confirmed without the airing of evidence of fraud. 6 January was a simple, but elegant,
Deep State SETUP. A psyop. The American people have been, once again, deceived. Once everybody
submits to vaccination there will never again be disputed elections, just like in the third
world.
Correction: The media said that the policeman "collapsed when he got back to the Precinct.
.that he MAY have been hit with a fire extinguisher." It was not reported as fact. No other
subsequent report abouthow he died albeit it should have been established by now.
The second poilce officer who the media says was "killed" by the "riots" was a man who we
heard nothing about on the date of the event, but who, five days later, committed suicide. The
suicide story is not speculation. It was given as a fact. They call this suicide a "killing"
because of the riots. It is more likely a police officer shooting his mouth off about these
lies,who, five days later was suicided.
This summer and fall at least a dozen police officers were killed. Many more were injured.
One got his eye knocked out. Many were very gravely injured. The government officials applauded
their killers, posted bail for them, and every step of the way government officials "incited
the violence".
Trump made a speech in front of his supporters laying out the evidence of the election
fraud. He was complaining about the election fraud, a fraud that was never scutinized or
investigated by anyone except his own lawyers and a few other lawyers, like Sidney Powell. They
want to impeach him for publicly complaining about their stealing the election from him. It's
like someone getting their home stolen, and when the victim publicly complains, he is
threatened with arrest.
Again, they fundament their impeachment grounds on the "insurrection" of January 6, but
again, like the election fraud, no one has scrutinized or conducted the most cursory
investigation of it The fact that we still don't know how that policeman died is telling. The
speculations made about him getting hit by a fire extinguisher are still floating around when
at this point, it should be an established fact how he died. The dopiest doctor in this country
would be able to diagnose a trauma to the head or body, if there were any physical trauma of
that kind.
Two people died from natural causes. Yet, no details are given. One woman, age 34 and
overweight was said to have been "trampled by the mob." Minutes after her death her family and
closest friends were bad mouthing her, saying that she was mentally unstable, a conspiracy
theorist, and "had problems in the past." She just died shortly before, and that was their
public statements about their dearest friend and family member.
Ashli Babbits death was a provocative act that would have encouraged Trump supporters to
turn on the police. It is no coincidence that those around her breaking windows, and screaming
that she was dead when she was not, also provoked the crowds of Trump supporters. They are seen
clearly on the video near Ashli not only breaking windows but changing their clothes after they
had done so to hide their identification. This is clearly seen on the video. One guy provoking
the crowds, breaking windows and screaming that Ashli was dead when she was not, was clearly
Antifa, proven to be Antifa by video evidence. Yet, after January 6, he was interviewed by CNN.
Clearly, the Antifa provocateur was not arrested by the Washington police or the FBI, but at
least 6 Trump supporters were arrested for breaking curfew after 6 p.m. when all that happened
at the Capitol was over. Those six were the first arrested – for breaking curfew. I do
not find it a coincidence that both Ashli Babbitt and those breaking the windows around her,
and screaming that she was dead when she was not, all acted to provoke the crowds and were all
proven to be Antifa members. Was it coincidence that Ashli Babbitt's getting shot also acted as
an unwitting provocateur, along with the Antifa members around her in the Capitol that day? Or
was both Ashli and Antifa working for our security agencies that day, all playing their roles
as agents provocateurs.
Why wouldn't the DOJ and FBI investigate the election fraud? Was it because the government
did it? That would be a good reason not to investigate. Sidney Powell has produced an affidavit
from a Serb who said it was the CIA who oversaw the manipulation of the US voting machines from
Serbia, a country completely taken over by the CIA. He also writes about Hunter Biden's
clandestine trip there in August 2020 to meet with these people.
Whoever didn't develop a sense of humor with your Ziocorporate fraud reality TV show
president posing as patriot anti-deep maverick ain't gonna do it now.
Yes, the coup and insurrection had ALREADY happened.
The coup and insurrection happened when the Democrats AND Republicans rigged the election.
Democratic state courts and election officials changed voting laws, and Republican state
legislatures looked the other way.
You are wrong on so many counts. The event was not spontaneous, that is quite clear when the
guards let the protesters in and they mostly went inside peacefully while a handful of rioters
did minimal damage. Some Antifas, yeah, for sure. But someone stole Pelosi's computer or did
they? That smacks of a plan. It achieved the objectives of the groups on the inside. The
marchers that went inside had to have been, for the most part, surprised that they were
welcomed. Did you see how they walked in between the purple ropes? Took photographs and
selfies, some of these with the guards? Did you see the videos of some of the protesters
stopping the people trying to break the glass windows? ...
I see "anti-Semitism" has made it to the floor during these impeachment hearings. LMAO. I
would guess that 97% of Trump's base is the muh Israel crowd and Trump is as pro-Israel,
pro-Jewish as it gets.
Even more laughable is Maxine Waters standing up and decrying violence. I guess Maxine has a
very selective memory. All these demsheviks and the gay guys over at CNN who had no problem
with Antifa/BLM are now staunch advocates for the Constitution and have a problem with riots.
How in the hell do these cretins live with themselves? Have these hypocrites no shame? It can't
be said enuff that Antifa/BLM's and (((the leftoids))) fingerprints are all over these riots.
This is the new 9-11, folks, don't believe your lying eyes. Look at some of those scraggly
people busting windows and attacking cops? Do they look like the average Trump voter? Do these
young punks scaling the walls look like the average Trump voter?
The democratic party is now pretending to "call out" the "white supremacists" in Congress.
Even if there were "white supremacists" in Congress, they would be not one bit different from
"brown supremacists", "black supremacists","yellow supremaicsts", if by "supremacists" is meant
politicians that belong to the Hispanic caucus, Black caucus or Asian caucus , ALL of whom
claim to be looking out for the welfare of their respective group.
This is of course what is going on here. The democratic party politicians, Pelosi, Schumer,
Biden and the whole left has been race baiting against white people as a default manner of
doing politics for over sixty years now. It is the fault of the FAUX REPUBLICAN PARTY, that has
been posing as conservatives who many whites believe "have their backs", against the hate and
shenanigans the anti-white left perpetrates. THEY ARE WRONG. We see plainly now, that what the
U.S. has is a uni-party, that is left and far left and includes good old Republican RINO's, but
the left and far left is used by the elite to keep and gain control of the U.S. for their own
agenda. The idea now operating is to belittle, denigrate and cow white folks as never before,
because many of the protesters at the recent "event", scared the living bleep out of the
politicians who have simply not been representing them. The corporations and tech moguls,etc.
are not taking the side of the left because they are "better" citizens or politicians than
people on the right side of the political spectrum. They take the side of the left because that
is where these corporations know that the radical Americans are, the ones that burn, loot and
murder and therefore can be used to divide the nation for the big corporations and tech
moguls,etc. Any honest person that considers what happened at the so called violent
demonstration in D.C. knows that compared to the violence that ANTIFA, BLM and other groups
perpertrated on innocent Americans last summer, knows perfectly well that there is no
comparison. The anti-white left, enabled by the democratic party and the news media, IN SERVICE
OF THE U.S. ELITE. BURNED, LOOTED AND MURDERED THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA for months, WITHOUT A
SINGLE WORD FROM PELOSI, SCHUMER, BIDEN HARRIS, ETC.
The simple fact is that these D.C. politicians were scared shitless by some plain American
citizens, who finally felt they needed to meet these representatives that keep ignoring and
abusing them. The wrong people are being blamed here.
Before reading this article, the reader might consider the fact that there was NO COUP, by
the accepted meaning that the word "coup" denotes. Now, if the fake news media and the
democratic party want to explain the event by bending the facts and actual events to fit their
own interpretation of it, that's a problem due to their dishonesty.
FoxNews finally showed its true face during the election steal when it declared that
Trump had lost the election long before any evidence in support of this thesis
materialized.
For those that paid attention to Fox News, especially daytime and weekend Fox News its
true face has been obvious for some time.
It is now abundantly clear that with a few exceptions (notably Tucker Carlson), FoxNews
is very much on the same page as CNN and the rest of them.
While Carlson is not the worst on Fox News he is not a friend. His obsession with the
China bad narrative is over the top. He is playing the GOP Inc side of the Deep State
coin.
The A block last night was Carlson reiterating over and over, that he and Fox News were
against violence like that at the Capitol. He stated that violence from the left was also
wrong but that violence from the right was not the answer of course like most articles on
this blog, he didn't say what the answer was.
"... I have, for some time, been mis-naming the Nomenklatura as the Politburo, with the commune being the many tentacled international banking cartel. ..."
FoxNews finally showed its true face during the election steal when it declared that Trump
had lost the election long before any evidence in support of this thesis materialized. It is
now abundantly clear that with a few exceptions (notably Tucker Carlson), FoxNews is very much
on the same page as CNN and the rest of them. So what just happened and what is taking place
now?
Americans have been brainwashed into calling things they don't like, or don't understand, as
"Socialist" or even "Marxist". The sad reality is that most Americans sincerely believe that
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Bernie Sanders are "socialists", and when they see modern movies
ridiculously filled with "minorities" and gender fluid freaks – this is a case of
"cultural Marxism" (a totally meaningless term, by the way!). This is all utter nonsense,
neither Marxism nor Socialism have anything to do with BLM, Antifa, Nancy Pelosi or Chuck
Schumer (in fact, Marxism places a premium on real law and order!). I can't take the time and
space here to discuss Marxism, but I do believe that there is one analytical tool which we can
borrow from Marxist thought to try to make sense of what just happened in the USA. Let's begin
by asking a simple question:
If "the mob" did not win, who did?
Most certainly not the abstract concept of "law and order". For one thing, it is now
abundantly clear that some cops deliberately let a (rather small) subset of protestors not only
across police lines but even inside the Capitol Building itself. That is not exactly law and
order, now is it? Furthermore, it is now also clear that Ashli Babbitt was very deliberately
shot by an (apparently black) cop who was then quickly hidden away from sight by the
authorities. Not exactly law and order either.
Neither did the abstract concept of "democracy" win anything that day. Many protesters were
recorded saying that the Capitol building belonged to the people, not to the people working in
it on behalf of the people. They are right. But even if we accept the notion that those who
entered the building were trespassing, the massive crackdown on free speech which immediately
followed the events at the Capitol is a clear sign that "democracy" did not win that day. More
about that later.
So who won?
Well, look who is celebrating and who is now demanding that punitive and even repressive
measures be taken against Trump supporters:
here
and
here ) The Russia-hating Lobby Antifa/BLM/etc The many freaks of nature leading
various "minorities" Big Tech megacorporations a la Google and Amazon
The list is longer, of course, and it includes pretty much all the folks afflicted with the
now famous Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).
Our list looks like a cocktail of very different actors, but is that really the case?
I submit that if we look closely at this list of possible "winners" we can quickly see that
we are dealing with a single social category /group whose "diversity" is only apparent.
Here is what all these groups have in common:
They are numerically small, definitely a
minority They are very wealthy They are very close to the real centers of power They share the
same narcissistic (Neocon) ideology of self-worship They are driven by the same hate-based
ideology of revenge They don't care about the people of the USA They want to dismantle the US
Constitutional order
On the basis of these common characteristics, I believe that we can speak about a social
class united by a common ideology .
Now, of course, in the plutocratic oligarchy (which the United States in reality is), the
notion of "class" has been declared heretical and it has been replaced by identity politics
– the best way for a ruling class to (a) hide behind a fake illusion of pluralism and (b)
to divide the people and rule over them.
I have already written about what I consider to be a US version of the Soviet Nomenklatura , a
special ruling class which was official in the (comparatively much more honest) Soviet system
but which is always hidden from sight by the rulers of the United States.
The actual word we use are not that important: Nomenklatura , class, caste,
establishment, powers that be, deep state, etc. – they all approximate the reality of a
small gang of self-declared "elites" (as opposed to the "deplorables") ruling with total
impunity and no checks and balances mitigating their de facto dictatorship. Some
well-intentioned people began speaking about the "1%" – which is not bad, even if the
actual figure is even smaller than just one percent. Others used "Wall Street" (as in the
"occupy WS" movement), again – not a bad attempt to describe the problem. Whatever the
terms you chose, what is certain is that this entity has what Marx would call a " class
consciousness " which produces a single " class ideology " characterized by an
extremely strong sense of "us versus them" .
By the way, while I disagree with any notion that the US Nomenklatura is Marxist or
Socialist in any way, I very much agree that these "elites" are displaying an ideological
zeal very similar to what Trotskysts or Nazis typically exhibit, especially when confronted
with the "deplorables" or, like FoxNews says, the "mob" (the Polish word " bydło " – cattle
– very accurately renders this contempt for the masses).
In fact, they see us all as their "class enemy" . And they are quite correct, by the
way.
Their ideology is messianic, racist, violent and hate filled while the members of this US
Nomenklatura see themselves as the cream of the crop, the "chosen people", whose
"destiny" is to rule over the "dark and primitive" "mob".
This contempt for the "mob" is something which self-described "liberals" always try to
conceal, but which always comes out, be it in 1917 Russia or in 2021 USA. There is a weird
logic to this, by the way. It goes something like this: " we are clearly superior to the
plebes, yet these plebes seem to reject that notion, these plebes are therefore a "dark mob"
which absolutely needs to be strictly ruled by us ". The underlying assumption is that
plebes are dangerous, they can always riot and threaten "us". Hence the need for a police
state. QED.
We all remember how the Clinton gang was mega-super-sure that Hillary would easily defeat
Trump. And just to make darn sure that the US "plebes" don't do anything stupid, the US legacy
corporate ziomedia engaged in probably the most hysterical candidate bashing propaganda
operation in history only to find out that the "deplorables" did not vote as they were told to,
they voted for "Trump The New Hitler" instead.
What a truly unforgivable affront of these serfs against the masters which God, or Manifest
Destiny, placed above them!
And just as their pseudo-liberal colleagues from the past, the US liberals decided that this
vote was a slap in their face which, of course, is quite correct (I still believe that most
votes for Trump where not votes for Trump, but votes against Hillary); it was, so to speak, a
gigantic "f**k you!" from the revolting serfs against their masters. And class consciousness
told the US Nomenklatura that this was an anti-masters pogrom , a US "
Jacquerie "
if you wish. This "revolt of the serfs" had to be put down, immediately, and it was: Trump
caved to the Neocons in less than a month (when he betrayed General Flynn) and ever since the
US Nomenklatura has been using Trump as a disposable President who would do all
the crazy nonsense imaginable to please Israel, and who would then be disposed off. And yet it
is now quite clear that the US "deplorables" voted for the "wrong" candidate again! Hence the
need for a (very poorly concealed) "election steal" followed by a "test of loyalty" (you better
side with us, or else ) which eventually resulted in the situation we have today.
What is that situation exactly?
Simply put, this time the USNomenklaturahas truly achieved total
power. Not only do they control all three of the official branches of government, they now
also fully control the 4th one, the "media space", courtesy of the US tech giants which now are
openly silencing anybody who disagrees with the One And Only Official Truth As Represented By
The Propaganda Outlets. This is the very first time in recent US history that a small cabal of
"deep insiders" have achieved such total control of all the real instruments of power. The bad
news is that they know that they are a small minority and they realize that they need to act
fast to secure their hold on power. But for that they needed a pretext.
It is hardly surprising that after successfully pulling off the 9/11 false flag
operation, the USNomenklaturahad no problems whatsoever pulling off the
"Capitol" false flag.
Think about it: the legally organized and scheduled protest of Trump supporters was
announced at least a week before it had to take place. How hard was it for those in charge of
security to make sure that the protesters stay in one specific location? At the very least,
those in charge of security could have done what Lukashenko eventually did in Mink: place
military and police forces around all the important symbolic buildings and monuments and say
"you are welcome to protest, but don't even think of trying to take over any government
property" (that approach worked much better than beating up protesters, which Lukashenko
initially had tried). Yet what we saw was the exact opposite: in DC protesters were invited
across police lines by cops. Not only that, but even those protesters which did enter the
Capitol were, apparently, not violent enough, so it had to be one of the cops to shoot an
unarmed and clearly non-dangerous woman, thereby providing the "sacrificial victim" needed to
justify the hysterics about "violence" and "rule of law".
And the worst part is that it worked, even Trump ended up condemning the "violence" and
denouncing those who, according to Trump, did not represent the people.
The hard truth is much simpler: the "stop the steal" protestors did not commit any real
violence! Yes, they broke some furniture, had some fights with cops (who initially were
inviting people in, only to then violently turn against them with batons, pepper sprays and
flash-bang grenades). Some reports say that one cop was hit by a fire extinguisher. If true,
that would be a case of assault with a deadly weapon (under US law any object capable of being
used to kill can be considered a deadly weapon when used for that purpose). But considering the
nonstop hysteria about guns, the NRA and "armed militias", this was clearly not a planned
murder. Finally, a few people died, apparently from natural causes, possibly made worse by the
people trampling over each other. In other words, the Trump supporters did not kill anybody
deliberately, at most they can be accused of creating the circumstances which resulted in
manslaughter. That was not murder. Not even close. Want to see what a planned murder looks
like? Just look at the footage of the Ashli Babbitt murder by some kind of armed official. That
is real murder, and it was committed by a armed official. So which side is most guilty of
violating laws and regulations?
Furthermore, no moral value can be respected unless it is universally and equally applied.
Which, considering that the US deep state has engaged in a full year of wanton mass violence
against hundreds of innocent US citizens makes it unbelievably hypocritical for the US liberals
to denounce "the mob" now. Frankly, the way I see it, all the US liberals should now "take a
knee" before the pro-Trump protestors and declare that this was a "mostly peaceful" event
which, objectively speaking, it was .
Won't happen. I know.
What will happen next is going to be a vicious crackdown on free speech in all its
forms . In fact, and just to use a Marxist notion, what comes next is class warfare
.
We have all seen Pelosi and the rest of them demanding that Trump either be removed by Pence
and the Cabinet (25th A.), or they will unleash another impeachment. First, if impeached, Trump
won't be able to run in 2024 (which the liberals fully realize is a major risk for them). But
even more important, is to humiliate him, make him pay, show him once and for all "who is
boss"! These people thrive on revenge and victory is never enough to appease them, they simply
hate anybody who dares oppose them and they want to make an example of any and every serf who
dares to disobey them. That is why they always send "messages", no matter how inchoate: they
want to bully all the deplorables on the planet into total subservience.
But they won't stop with just Trump. Oh no! They will also go after all those serfs who
dared defy this Nomenklatura and who objected to the wholesale repudiation of the US
Constitution. For example, in a truly Orwellian move, the NY State Bar now wants to disbar
Giuliani for acting as Trump's lawyer (not a joke, check here ). Which,
considering that Trump already lost several lawyers to such tactics should not come as a
surprise to anybody: apparently, in the "new 2021 Woke-USA", some are more entitled to legal
representation than others.
Don't expect the ACLU to protest, by the way – equal protection under the law is not a
topic of interest to them. Here are a few screenshots take off their website , so see for yourself.
Clearly, the priority for the folks at the ACLU is to destroy Trump and anybody daring to
take up his defense.
One one hand, this is truly an absolute disaster, because when the US ruling
Nomenklatura agrees to drop any past pretenses of objectivity, or even decency, things
will definitely get ugly. On the other hand, however, this immense "coming out" of the US
Nomenklatura is, of course, unsustainable (just look at history, every time these folks
thought that they had crushed the "plebes", the latter ended up rising and showing their
supposed "masters" to the door; this will happen here too).
Last, but not least, let's keep another crucial thing in mind: even if you absolutely hate
Trump, you really should realize that it is not just "the vote" which was stolen, it was the
entire US Constitutional order . While we often focus on the SCOTUS, we should not remember
the many lower courts which showed a total absence of courage or dignity and which caved in to
the hysterical demands of the US Nomenklatura . It is impossible to have a country under
the rule of law when the courts shy away from their obligation to uphold the said rule of law
and, instead, place political expediency above the letter and spirit of the law.
Furthermore, when concepts such as "legal" and "illegal" lose any objective meaning, how can
any action be considered illegal or punishable?
Here is, just as an example, the Oath of Office taken by all Supreme Court Justices:
(emphasis added)
"I, [NAME], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect
to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich , and that I will
faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as [TITLE]
under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God."
And this is what each member of the US Armed Forces swears: (emphasis added)
"I, (state name of enlistee), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend
the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ; that
I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the
President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to
regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. (So help me God)."
It does not take a genius to figure out that the SCOTUS is now in the hands of a small cabal
of people who clearly are "domestic enemies" of the US Constitution.
Finally, here is what the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence states: (emphasis
added)
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty
and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,–That
whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
People to alter or to abolish it , and to institute new Government, laying its foundation
on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely
to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long
established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all
experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a
long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
I don't think that there is any need to further beat this dead horse and I will simply
summarize it as so:
The regime which will soon replace the Trump Administration is an illegal occupation
government, with strong ties to foreign interests (and I don't mean China or Russia here!),
which all those who served in the US military have taken an oath to oppose; this is precisely
the kind of occupation regime which the Founding Fathers foresaw in their Declaration of
Independence . Furthermore, the rule of law has clearly collapsed, at least on the
federal level, this should give the states more freedom of movement to resist the decrees of
this new regime (at least those states still willing and able to resist, I think of TX and FL
here). The leaders of this US Nomenklatura understand this, at least on some level, and we
should expect no decency from them; neither should we expect any mercy. Revenge is what
fuels these ideology- and hate-filled people who loathe and fear all the rest of humanity
because nobody is willing to worship them as our "lords and masters ". But this is also
the beginning of their end.
Conclusion: now we are all Palestinians!
True, no "mob" won on the Capitol, unless we refer to the (disgraced, hated and useless)
Congress as "the mob". And, of course, neither did "the people" or the protesters. The only
real winner in this entire operation was the US deep state and the US Nomenklatura . But
they did not win any war, only the opening battle of a war which will be much longer than what
they imagine in their ignorance.
I have said it many times, Trump really destroyed the USA externally, in terms of world
politics. The Dems have done the same thing, only internally. For example, Trump is the one who
most arrogantly ignored the rule of law in international affairs, but it was the Dems who
destroyed the rule of law inside the USA. It was Trump who with his antics and narcissistic
threats urbi et orbi who destroyed any credibility left for the USA as a country (or
even of the the AngloZionist Empire as a whole), but it was the Dems who really decided to
sabotage the very political system which allowed them to seize power in the first place.
What comes next is the illegal rule of an illegitimate regime which came to power by
violence (BLM, Antifa, Capitol false flag). This will be a Soviet-style gerontocracy with
senile figureheads pretending to be in power (think Biden vs Chernenko here). Looking at the
old, Obama-era, names which are circulated now for future Cabinet positions, we can bet on two
things: the new rulers will be as evil as they will be grossly incompetent, mostly due to their
crass lack of education (even Nuland and Psaki are back, it appears!). The Biden admin will be
similar to the rule of Kerensky in "democratic" Russia: chaos, violence, lots and lots of
speeches and total social and economic chaos. The next crucial, and even frightening, question
now is: what will replace this US version of a Kerensky regime?
It is way too early to reply to this question, but we should at least begin to think about
it, lest we be completely caught off guard.
But until then, "domestic terrorism" will, once again, become the boogeyman we will be told
to fear. And, as all good boys and girls know, the best way to deal with such a horrible
"domestic terrorism" threat is to dismantle the First and Second Amendments of the
Constitution. Having corrupt kangaroo courts on all levels, from the small claims level to the
Supreme court, will greatly help in this endeavor. Of course, there will be resistance from the
deplorables who still love their country and their Constitution.
But no matter how long this takes (might be decades) and how violent this confrontation
becomes (and, it will, if only because the regime vitally needs more false flags to survive!),
what will happen with this occupation regime is what happened to all of them throughout history
(could that be the reason why history is not taught anymore?).
As the Russian poet and bard, Vladimir Vissotski, wrote " it is impossible to trample
upon souls with boots " (сапогами
не вытоптать
душу). Now we are all Palestinians. And we, like they, will win!
"Americans have been brainwashed into calling things they don't like, or don't understand,
as "Socialist" or even "Marxist". The sad reality is that most Americans sincerely believe
that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Bernie Sanders are "socialists", and when they see modern
movies ridiculously filled with "minorities" and gender fluid freaks – this is a case
of "cultural Marxism" (a totally meaningless term, by the way!). This is all utter nonsense,
neither Marxism nor Socialism have anything to do with BLM, Antifa, Nancy Pelosi or Chuck
Schumer (in fact, Marxism places a premium on real law and order!)."
"class" has been declared heretical and it has been replaced by identity politics
– the best way for a ruling class to (a) hide behind a fake illusion of pluralism and
(b) to divide the people and rule over them
It's a neat bait and switch scheme, identity being substituted for class. Billionaires can
now be hailed as people's champions by instituting 'gender-fluid' toilets and forcing their
peons to kneel. Who knows how much force they'll be willing to use against the deplorables
but probably it would know no limit. The shock and awe unleashed against foreign countries
could now be instituted domestically with things like the Phoenix Program being tried here,
among other things. Anything but relinquish power.
The old war-lovers are coming back in. Although he was considered belligerent the new
regime will be worse. War is probably part of the future agenda. Solidifying it's grip upon
the domestic population may be the precursor to embarking upon an unpopular and certain to be
costly war against Iran or perhaps even some clash with Russia.
From the I Ching: "Large ambitions coupled with meager talent will seldom escape
disaster."
The fervid machinations of the current crop of "self"-glorifying wannabes will not, as The
Saker reminds us here, be any exception to the rule, either. They're hardly the first bunch
of feckless opportunists to take a run at "full spectrum dominance" .aiming to trap Life
Herownself within the suffocating CONfines of their own little nut'shell.
The rampant insanity symptomatic of their virulent "self"-sickness, as it runs its
inevitable course, looks like being somewhat more than usually trying for the rest of us,
though .given all the electro-mechanical and institutional enhancement available to them, for
intensifying the degenerative effects of their folly. At the same time, our best response
will be just what we all know is always organically and in all Ways imperative for our Kind,
anyhow. All our precious attention is best devoted to taking care of the Earth and each
other. Our unconditional affection is best lavished on this Living Creation, all our
Relations, and The Great Spirit whose gift it is.
It is an Oligarchy of bond holders. I'm using the word bond as an stand-in for debt
instruments, or any sort of claim on productivity. Bond/Bondage/Debt are all closely related
concepts.
The entire Western World is inter-connected double-entry balance sheets.
One side of the balance sheet is "assets" and the other is "liabilities." One person's
liability is another persons asset.
It is best to view the western world as a balance sheet, especially as private bank credit
is the dominant money type of the west. Private banking and debt spreading has metastasized
like a cancer, and is now consuming the host. Debt instruments and finance paper are being
serviced in the finance sector with QE and 'CARES' act shenanigan's, which pays these finance
"assets."
If you want to call the bond holders in finance and elsewhere as a nomenklatura, go ahead
– but it obscures reality. These people are a class, a class of usurers, who are
"taking" wealth in sordid ways by gaming the system.
All through history, plutocracy has arisen out of the population because debts were not
annulled, or land was enclosed.
Oligarchs of various types are harvesting the world through various means, including the
growth of debt claims. These claims grow exponentially, and outside of nature's ability to
pay. The derivative bubble wants to be paid. What cannot go on, will not.
The balance sheet is not really balanced, one side (the debt instrument holder) is making
exponential claims on debtors.
Moritz Hinsch from Berlin collected what Socrates (470-399 BC) and other Athenians wrote
about debt, and the conference's organizer, Prof. John Weisweiler, presented the new view
of late imperial Rome as being still a long way from outright serfdom. The 99 Percent
were squeezed, but "the economy" grew – in a way that concentrated growth in the
hands of the One Percent . In due course this bred popular resentment that spread in
the form of debtor revolts, not only in the Roman Empire but that of Iran as well, leading
to religious reforms to limit the charging of interest and self-indulgent greed in
general.
By now Nazi references are getting thread-bare. We actually need to examine how the
national socialists operated because their situation is analogous to today.
I very much agree that these "elites" are displaying an ideological zeal very similar to
what Trotskysts or Nazis typically exhibit
National Socialism arose as a reaction to finance capitalism's excesses. The very things
we are seeing today, were present in Weimar Germany. The country was being bought up, and the
people were being denied their birthright. Self-indulgent greed of an arising Oligarchy was
smashed by the National Socialists to then re-balance German civilization.
Nazi zeal restoring civilizational balance is quite something different than leftist
bolshevism.
I have, for some time, been mis-naming the Nomenklatura as the Politburo, with the
commune being the many tentacled international banking cartel. It's the same crowd that
funded the original Bolsheviks.
IMO they are only "Neo" by virtue of the old ones having died, but I'm not going to split
hairs. We all know it is those whose loyalty is to a shitty little country on the
Mediterranean.
@Anonymous ties
extract, which makes politicians whores for their donor class. The donor class is the
"holders of debt instruments" as I explained earlier. Or, they can be part of the military
industrial complex, to then whore for more taxpayer dollars. In all cases it is for self
aggrandizement. By the same reasoning, press-titutes are whores for their paymasters.
The easy money is taken in by usury or other sordid schemes; then donated/recycled into
politicians, to then keep the game going. Average laboring people don't have this surplus
wealth to donate.
There is nothing special about Dominion. The key question is whether computer based voting
machines have the right to exist or not. Do they do any good or they are just unnessery and ripe
with potential of new forms of fraud overhead, driven by unscrupulous lobbists? That is the
question.
The ides of using consumer (or small business office, if you wish) class software and
hardware in those machines is also open to review. Military class Sever have special OS (Trusted
Solaris, OpenBSD, etc), special mechanism to prevent manipulation of binaries (md5 checksums,
mirroring on non violate media, etc), special means to prevent abuse by rogue sysadmins (dual
sysadmin mode necessary to become root, special access rules excluding areas that should not be
manipulated (AppArmor), etc. Windows based servers an, desktops and tables are consumer class
devices that can't be secured on public network to say nothing about election network where
multiple powerful actors (including intelligence agencies; both foreign and domestic ) have
strong stimulus to interfere. This is a struggle for power and it is typically dirty.
Venezuela is a weak point for Powell. As for "there was no widespread fraud in the election"
your mileage may vary. Mail-in fraud almost certainly was "widespread" as in practiced in many
battleground states. Weakening mail-in voting laws was a part of the scheme. What role direct
manipulation of votes by appointed administrators (several at each precept and counting center
(centralize counting is ripe area for fraud, especially good, old injection of votes, just due to
total amount of votes processed), If they can act along without and external control this created
several interesting questions, which needs to be answered by relevant tech investigations.
Ability to scan the same batch of ballots several times, as several election observers
complained, also needs to be blocked, and this is not an easy thing to do.
I have impression that when invalid ballot is adjudicated by the administrator a new ballot
is printed. It looks like adjudication does not leave any paper trial or set of images to
compare. That means that recount will not detect any manipulation. If true, that opens a wide
field for manipulation of votes by rogue administrators including setting scanner to jekect more
votes then nessesary creaing a pool of votes to manipulate. .
She has claimed that the company was created in Venezuela to rig elections for the late
leader Hugo Chavez and that it has the ability to switch votes.
There was no widespread fraud in the election, which a range of election officials across
the country including Trump's former attorney general, William Barr, have confirmed. Republican
governors in Arizona and Georgia, key battleground states crucial to Biden's victory, also
vouched for the integrity of the elections in their states. Nearly all the legal challenges
from Trump and his allies have been dismissed by judges, including two tossed by the Supreme
Court, which includes three Trump-nominated justices.
The company said there "there are mountains of direct evidence that conclusively disprove
Powell's vote manipulation claims against Dominion -- namely, the millions of paper ballots
that were audited and recounted by bipartisan officials and volunteers in Georgia and other
swing states, which confirmed that Dominion accurately counted votes on paper ballots."
Dominion said that when it formally told Powell her claims were false and asked her to
retract them, she "doubled down," using her Twitter account with more than 1 million followers
to amplify the claims.
US
President Donald Trump has been banned from most social media platforms, supposedly for
inciting riots at the Capitol. But with no one capable of holding the tech behemoths to
account, even fervent Trump-haters should worry.
Twitter permanently banned the president from its platform on Friday, following in the
footsteps of Facebook, Snapchat, Twitch, and other platforms that used Wednesday's riot at the
Capitol as an excuse to do what much of Silicon Valley has wanted to do for years.
But it wasn't Trump's on-platform conduct that was the problem, according to Twitter –
it was "how [his tweets] are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter," a post
on the company's blog declared on Friday. The platform then interpreted two seemingly innocuous
tweets – regarding not attending Democrat President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration and
giving his fans a "GIANT VOICE long into the future" – as a call to arms directed
at his supporters, far out-crazying the so-called "conspiracy theorists" Twitter has
also sought to deplatform.
Logically speaking, it's impossible for anyone – especially a public figure like Trump
– to control how his words are being interpreted, or even who's reading them to begin
with. For Twitter to translate the president's praise of his supporters and promise not to
attend his successor's inauguration into a call for violence requires a full-on break with
reality.
But platforms like Twitter, and especially Facebook, have been declaring all-out war on
reality for years now, merely ramping up hostilities in the wake of the Capitol riot. On
Facebook, even just sharing footage of Wednesday's riot was off-limits, as was posting Trump's
speech to his supporters. Any call for further protests, no matter how peaceful, was also
targeted for removal.
These platforms' notorious echo chambers have no room for dissenting narratives, whether it
concerns the Capitol protests or the growing contingent of Covid-19 dissenters crying foul as
lockdowns drag on (and cases go up) with no end in sight. And while a Trump-scale individual
may be able to create their own means of addressing the people, thousands of others have been
wiped out over the past year for political or public-health wrongthink.
The narrative managers are unlikely to stop at wiping their ideological nemeses off the
internet, either.
Perhaps emboldened by social media's iron-fisted approach to building its own alternate
reality, New Jersey assemblyman Paul Moriarty has been lobbying cable TV providers to stop
carrying conservative channels like Newsmax, OANN, and Fox News.
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley (R) had a book deal revoked for
challenging the results of November's elections.
Social media, once sold as a tool for promoting democracy and giving ordinary people a voice
they previously lacked, revealed its true identity over the course of 2020. Whether attempting
to delete records of an entire event, as Facebook has done with the Capitol protests, or
memory-holing inconvenient
facts about the Covid-19 pandemic, the 'new and improved' reality crafted by the media
establishment provides the ideal foundation for the police state being constructed around the
human mind.
The average person might go through life unaware this invisible thought-barrier is even
there – but anyone who steps out of line is quickly zapped back into obedience. And if
they refuse to cooperate even then? Deplatforming, in an age where face-to-face contact has
gone the way of the dodo, is the modern equivalent of 'disappearing' dissidents in broad
daylight.
Indeed, these platforms have merged with government in too many ways to count here. Those
who express political 'wrongthink' online aren't just disappeared from the digital public
square – they can be barred from supposedly apolitical apps like AirBnB, or even
denied the use
of their bank accounts.
The US constitution does not permit the government to punish individuals who aren't even
suspected of committing a crime. Nor does it permit the suppression of lawful speech or allow
authorities to paw through private citizens' lives in the hope of turning up something
incriminating. But private corporations – as the neoliberal center never tires of
reminding us – can do what they like, including depriving Americans of their First and
Fourth Amendment rights. Such capabilities explain why Washington has looked the other way for
so many years while Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Amazon became preposterously huge, insanely
profitable monopolies.
But the joke's on the government, in this case. With hundreds of billions of dollars at
their disposal, and a user-base trained to embrace their mental slavery with a positively
Pavlovian response, Big Tech seems to have realized it no longer has to pretend to play nice
with Big Government.
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"... What struck me was the behavior of most of the House's invaders: they for the most were pranksters. For them it was Halloween; not the storming of the Bastille! ..."
"... This is all pretty mild stuff. Useful to see that Washington is not so different to Kiev. With the Biden presidency you can certainly add the USA to the list of countries ruled by governments put in place by colour revolutions ..."
"... The images that arise from this event will remain iconic. It possibly was a shaperoned event, but the plan, that anger would be wide-spread and destruction abundant did not materialize. This is evident in the bizarre, concocted, pre-written M5M media reports. It was a trap, but it backfired. ..."
"... The French police official said they believed that an investigation would find that someone interfered with the deployment of additional federal law-enforcement officials on the perimeter of the Capitol complex; the official has direct knowledge of the proper procedures for security of the facility. ..."
"... someone interfered with the proper deployment of officers around Congress ..."
"... I was surprised but pleased to see Americans demonstrating their contempt for the hostile elite government we live under. Assault against Democracy? BS. ..."
"... But nobody should delude themselves into thinking that Donald Trump is a patriot who will die for the cause. Hell, he already threw the people risking their lives and liberty protesting the fraudulent election under the bus. It is long past time the whores in Washington become acutely aware of the contempt sane Americans have for them. I do not support violent protests, but I do support a mass demonstration of people expressing their total and absolute contempt for the traitorous whores who rule over us. ..."
But for me, I was no less happy to see the Republicans on the run. After all, it is they who
have been stoking the anger and resentment of populist Americans, secure in their belief that
they had conjured a monster they completely controlled and that they could endlessly exploit
for their own purposes no matter what they did. Well, that monster turned around and bit them
on their fleeing asses on Wednesday. The "people," whom they love to claim they represent, went
from being an ideological abstraction to an angry mob after they felt cheated and decided to
take matters into their own hands. It's important to remember that,
according to reports , what first inspired the protesters to descend on the Capitol was
when word reached them that Pence had refused to challenge the certification of the Electoral
College result. They weren't just angry at the Democrats; they were angry at the whole lot of
them.
... For me, the Capitol occupation was a spontaneous and dramatic expression of the white
working class' frustration with the Washington establishment and an indication that they won't
tolerate a return to business as usual. The Democrats -- and more than a few Republicans --
blocked and worked against Trump's agenda from the day he took office. Stealing the election
was merely the final prong in their assault on him and on the wishes of ordinary Americans. If
Washington doesn't begin to take populist demands seriously, violence is inevitable.
... This means they have to stop attributing the fact that working-class whites aren't on
board with their agenda to the influence of scapegoats like Trump or conspiracy theories and
instead finally recognize that our nation's yeomanry have legitimate grievances that won't go
away just because Trump does.
For its part, the American Left, which now has Biden as its figurehead, really has no moral
authority whatsoever to condemn the Capitol occupation given that they've been bending over
backward to excuse the violence of BLM and Antifa for years now. Remember "punch a Nazi"?
Not that these are in any way comparable to what happened in the Capitol; BLM and Antifa
violence has resulted in
dozens of deaths , rapes, other violence, and untold billions in property damage across the
United States. The Capitol protesters, by contrast, were mostly peaceful and caused very little
serious damage (if there had been extensive damage it seems unlikely the House would have been
able to reconvene so quickly). Most importantly, they were not attacking innocent bystanders'
private property. There also doesn't seem to have been much looting apart from a few items
taken as pranks; compare this to the scenes we witnessed from Minneapolis last
spring , when we saw black rioters stripping entire shopping centers down to their
frames.
The Left, of course, will never accept this logic; for them, the occupation was the next
Charlottesville, if not the next 9/11 -- but we have to never cease from reminding them of
their hypocrisy. In looking at the photos of politicians scurrying for cover as the protesters
began to break into the House chamber, I was reminded of the mockery that Trump took from
Democratic politicians back in May when word got out that he had been briefly sent to the
emergency
bunker beneath the White House after it had been besieged by BLM rioters . There's also a
delicious irony in the fact that some of the politicians who have been calling for police
departments to be defunded were hiding behind these very same police when their constituents
came calling.
On Wednesday, the world heard the voice of American populism. It wasn't Trump's voice; it
was that of the American people. And perhaps, just perhaps, the people are beginning to rule.
This isn't about Trump anymore -- it didn't start with Trump and it certainly won't end with
him. As for myself, all I can say is that, for the first time in a while, on that day I
actually felt proud to be an American.
Mostly some good and correct points in this article. Yes, Antifa was there, and Capital
police expected them. Yes, Washington's corrupt Capital police also did welcome surprised
Trump supporters into the building and even to the area where Ashli was assassinated. How do
you think there were no less than 5 videos of the murder from 4 angles? Trump supporters were
flabbergasted, nonviolent and wondering for the most part how they got so far.
But the END RESULT was a bizarre attempt to REMOVE TRUMP IMMEDIATELY – by any means
(25th or impeach – neither will succeed). Do you really think that end result is the
product of chance or circumstance? Do you really think Pelosi is foaming at the teeth because
she truly believes Trump is ready to enter the launch codes (give me a break)?
In point of fact, because the civilized legal process has been completely exhausted, we
now reach the military option, as in executive order on foreign interference in US elections.
This means, in the end, a military tribunal convened to prosecute treason. This is the reason
certain conspirators are soiling their Depends undergarments.
But how it will end when you have the global banking interests of "the Guardians" as a
foe, with their 10 trillion in play? This is a 5th generation world war unlike any before it.
Humanity is at stake.
Congress hasn't had any clothes for years. It was difficult to imagine anything that could
make Americans despise congress more. But look at this.
(You need Tor Browser Bundle to see it, and if you don't have it, Why the fuck not?)
Physically cowering in fear of the people they've fucked for all these years.
This is the single most compelling evidence for CIA LIHOP. This quirky peasant uprising
and its public happiness scared congress much more than CIA's anthrax attacks. Now congress
will do what they're told, take their AIPAC bribes and hide behind high walls.
It's the USA [neoliberlaism] that has no clothes...
Congress has no clothes because it's the best little whorehouse in America.
By the way, Twitter banning Trump is a great thing. Mass purge is actually better for
us.
The problem with limited purges was that most cons and patriots still stuck with Big Tech
because there was still enough freedom and conservative material available. But when Big Tech
goes whole hog and censors so many people, it will force a Techession(tech-secession or
techxodus) among millions and millions of people, and this will make Alt Tech far more
viable. Indeed, Alt Tech can turn into counter-tech and the Big Other Tech.
People who were too lazy to get off their butts and join Alt Tech will now have no
choice.
Big Tech could maintain monopoly as long as they just banned people like Alex Jones. But
when they ban the president and so many of his followers, they are forcing the creation of
the Big Other Tech, and that will end the monopoly.
The people's anger is real. Trump is a false prophet. He's nothing but a Jew loving
blowhard, a con man with a below average IQ. He campaigned on draining the swamp but staffed
his entire cabinet with nothing but swamp creatures, because he *is* the swamp. He's just
been cast aside because the puppet masters have found an even more corrupt puppet that they
can extort. The patriots who have been protesting the election deserve someone better, a real
deal like Kris Kobach.
This election exposes just how corrupt this country has become, from top to bottom, not
just the Executive branch and the legislative branch, but even the judiciary branch is now
completely corrupt from the very top, the Chief Justice of SCOTUS. Jews now have firm control
on every institution of import in this country, from Wall Street to Hollywood, DC to SV and
everywhere in between, media, academia, publishing industry, healthcare, everything. Patriots
now have our backs against the Wall. There's no place else to turn to. We either fight our
way out or die.
The Roman empire lasted 1,000 years, from 500BC to 500AD. In the first half, Rome was
ruled by elected emperors, and in the second half, by unelected emperors. Rome ruled for 500
years, peaked for 200, and fell for 300 years. It was a long, slow death. America was on the
ascendance for 300 years, peaked for 50 years (1945-1995), and has been on a decline the last
25 years. The next 75 will be a long, slow, increasingly painful death as we eventually get
swallowed whole by huns and visigoths.
"But the END RESULT was a bizarre attempt to REMOVE TRUMP IMMEDIATELY – by any
means (25th or impeach – neither will succeed). Do you really think that end result is
the product of chance or circumstance? Do you really think Pelosi is foaming at the teeth
because she truly believes Trump is ready to enter the launch codes (give me a
break)?"
Strange they are unable to wait for less than two weeks for inauguration. These people are
truly evil. It's like what did Trump ever do to them that is so personal?
What struck me was the behavior of most of the House's invaders: they for the most
were pranksters. For them it was Halloween; not the storming of the Bastille!
Were I an investor I'd be buying up stocks in private security firms. Just today I viewed
a video of that hideous old quean, Lindsay Graham plodding and plunging through an airport
passageway on the way (presumably) to his home in South Carolina. All the way he was being
harassed, shouted at and called a "traitor" for his RINO collusion in the takedown of the
Trumpster.
Then there is the case of Mike Pence. After his refusal to call the question on the
Constitutional approach to denying any confirmation of electors from either party, making way
for either a compromise (as was reached in a similar kerfuffle in the 1876 showdown between
Democrat Samuel Tilden and Republican Rutherfraud Hayes) or to call for new elections in the
challenged and conflicted swing states; Pence has been broadly excoriated as a traitor who
weaseled his way out of supporting the president's back-up plan.
Next, we fast-forward to those photos of Congressional prostiticians cowering behind their
seats as the "deplorables" streamed into the sacred chambers of the people's house. A lot of
guilty consciences in that zoo. They well know they either sold out for hefty campaign
contributions and money under the table or are being blackmailed through the workings of
Epstein, Maxwell and Wexner on behalf I$rael's Mo$$ad or maybe a dozen other intel agencies,
most specifically Britain's MI-6 and the shot-callers (think 11-22-63 in Dallas) who rule
through other deep state organs, the CIA.
Private security agencies will be getting a.lot of calls from terrified prostiticians and
many others who have been working for the enemies of WE THE PEOPLE. Consider those talking
heads on boobtoob noose who are paid handsomely for constant repetition of a false reality
paradigm which has entrapped all those suburban soccer moms who were mind-controlled into
voting for the Kamala's Foote/Biden ticket. Awakeners by the millions have been curing
themselves of the boobtoob noose habit. Do you think the teevee presenters are sleeping
peacefully these days and soon about to enjoy high times at fancy resorts and pricey
restaurants?
How about professors and other academics who get the call to appear as talking-heads on
PB$ and spread erudite sounding barf and garbage as fast as they spread their legs for all
those shekels and the public recognition?
Are gated communities with patrolling guards and cameras galore, places where powerful
movers and shakers tend to live will those havens (or those high-rise apartment suites
surrounding Central Park -- or placid neighborhoods in Georgetown or Bel-Air–) likely
to feel safe from now on?
Private Security services. That's where I'd invest. The "Deplorables" are pissed off at
the stolen election and even more so at the political duopoly constituting government of the
prostiticians, by the deep $tate bureaucratic Administrators and for the plutocratic
oligarchs.
As of January 6th, 2021 the status of our country devolved into a totally ruptured
republic. Democracy? Fuggidaboutit.
About 95% of the US media, and about 70% of US politicians are corrupt deep-state
globalists (which makes them implicitly treasonous). The source of their deep-state globalist
power is central banking, usury, and enslaving us goyim with debt and "the love of money".
The last president who was not a treasonous globalist was Reagan (although most of his
cabinet were globalists including VP Bush). President Trump has been constantly under attack
by this deep-state globalist cult because he is not an obedient member of their club and has
been irreverently exposing their hand.
Nothing will change: the US and the rest of the western civilization will eventually
succumb to this cancerous globalist corruption unless the cancer is removed. This is not
about politics: it's about removing the cancerous corruption before the cancer destroys its
host.
Thank God President Trump has exposed their hand and has got the ball rolling. Now it is
up to us: to step up and continue the populist movement that he started.
This truly is the end of the Banana Empire. I say "God bless Trump" only because he set
into motion the end of this tyranny; like Kerensky he was largely clueless as to the extent
of the rot.
This is the beginning of the end. Best case scenario the United States returns to
democracy.
No matter what the cause, there was evidence of agents provocateurs present who inflamed
the violence, and the reaction, calling those who opposed the regime candidate "terrorists"
is going to lead to more serious unrest, particularly if as appears likely, kangaroo courts
begin rounding up people for trial. The thing is, close to a majority already suspect that
the fix was in in November, and the fact the same methods of fraud were successfully employed
in Georgia's senate races inflamed the anger. Proof of agents provocateurs is abundant. Even
the guy dressed up in a viking suit whose photograph is run with the article apparently was
an antifa figure.
Since the regime's coordinated reaction is attempting to turn this into a sort of
Reichstag fire to eliminate opposition to a consolidated deep state fascist regime, we are in
for turbulent times. I suspect the tacticians, despite what the author says, actually are
hoping for a serious response before the opposition can effectively organize, and the regime
operatives are too arrogant to care about the economic consequences, and the likelihood that
the numerous vassal states may use the instability as a means of securing a greater degree of
independence from the yankee imperium.
This is all pretty mild stuff. Useful to see that Washington is not so different to
Kiev. With the Biden presidency you can certainly add the USA to the list of countries ruled
by governments put in place by colour revolutions
The best way for Trumps place in history to be magnified and consolidated would be for
them to imprison him and take away all of his assets (he'd become like a mini Jesus), though
I am guessing this is the only reason he has not been assassinated, yet.
The images that arise from this event will remain iconic. It possibly was a shaperoned
event, but the plan, that anger would be wide-spread and destruction abundant did not
materialize. This is evident in the bizarre, concocted, pre-written M5M media reports. It was
a trap, but it backfired. I for one likely would have ransacked the place. I must admit
I am impressed with their disinterest in marauding. It was an important event, cherish its
iconic imagery, for darkness, subversion and false flags will take our guns away and reduce
the flame of patriotism to pilot size soon.
I've seen at least two videos of the Capitol police opening steel fences at one point and
doors at another point only two stand aside and calmly allow protesters to pour in. Looked
more like an invitation than an invasion. Obviously they had orders to stand back at those
points.
What a wonderful moment to see all the Congressional rabble hitting the decks.
Next time the protesters should bring a guillotine!
Key word, there, "dramatic." And it apparently makes no difference how corny it is
(goofball with the horns and even Trump himself) or how idiotic, (the masked moron response
to COVID and installing senile Joe on the throne).
Drama is a force that gives empty heads meaning, or at least a bit of entertainment while
our owners mock and manipulate us at their adolescent pleasure.
I would have enjoyed it more – had 2 million armed Iraqis, Afghanis, Syrians,
Libyans, Yemenis, Ukrainians, and others , that have had their countries wasted by the USA ,
storm the Capital and get even with those that voted and supported those murderous
invasions.
If he's out in 11 days anyway, why the push to impeach? Pure spite?
It has been suggested that if the Dems could get DT impeached before his time is up then
they could attach legislation to his verdict stating that he could never run for any office
again.
Some on the Left are terrified that he will come back in 2024 and the same 75M Maga people
will be waiting to sweep him back in office.
IMO in 2024 KH as Prez is a sure thing -- -people will be shamed into voting for her to
avoid being called a racist AND a sexist.
Realizing that not only his political but also his personal future might be in jeopardy,
Trump was quick to concede the election and promise a peaceful transition of power --
showing that when things get tough, it's his own hide that he's thinking of.
"Trump was quick to concede the election" -- That's the part I somehow missed hearing over
here in central Europe, perhaps because not all the relevant news is reported here. Would the
author quote the words the president used to do that?
Conceding the election, as I understand it, is something he could have done any time since
Nov. 3, making our shadow government very happy. Since mainstream media spent the next two
months loudly demanding that he "concede the election", they must also have missed those
magic words.
Conceding the election not only acknowledges a valid election was held but also makes
monkeys out of the skeptical people who voted for Trump and answered his call to rally in
Washington Jan. 6. Are you saying that?
Or does conceding a U.S. election now equate to saying the election was rigged and it
looks like not a damned thing we can do about it?
A fitting end to the Trump movement, seeing as there was never anything in terms of a
structure to organise the political base except for a ludicrous conspiracy prank (i.e.
'Qanon'). The whole thing has been a diversionary venture to corral dissent and neutralise
it. It might 'feel good to see patriots in the Capitol Building' but -shorn of any genuine
movement, all that really amounts to is .well feelings .
Real populism looks quite different surely, and so do real insurrections. There was no
'invasion', the security was stepped down and they opened the doors for the crowd to walk in.
A spectacle to advance an agenda.
I must admit as an American abroad that I felt a little Schadenfreude -- having watched
the left burn America through the summer, it was about time the populists got a crack at it
-- but I had this nagging feeling this would end very unpleasantly for all; there's an old
adage that if you take a shot at the crown, you'd better not miss. That feeling was confirmed
as CNN started trumpeting this as being an insurrection, which was picked up by the politicos
in short order. It's hard to dismiss out of hand that this was a false flag because the
leftists almost immediately had the language and narrative and an action plan in hand to
finally put the populist genie back in the bottle. Then again, maybe they're just quick on
their feet.
If this was planned, as some above suggest, then I'm really disappointed at the lack of
thought given to this. Taking the Capitol was never going to seriously result in a change of
government in a country that has been practising Continuity of Government exercises for
three-quarters of a century, and at best would only be a symbolic protest. Having taken the
Capitol, this was never going to end well for those participating in the frolic, as we will
see in the coming weeks as more average Joes and Janes are dragged into court (do you think
Buffalo-boy will stand in the dock?). So why not make the best of what was going to be a shit
sandwich anyway?
Instead of walking through the halls of the Capitol, taking selfies, and then going home
when "asked" to leave, they should have taken a page out of Occupy Wall Street and settled in
for the long hall. The left would have shown up with pre-printed signs, some of which would
have looked amateurish enough to seem authentic. Where were these guys' signs?
They should have filled every seat in "the Peoples' House" with real people holding signs
saying "We are the People" with a few thousand more people sitting peacefully in all the
corridors and steps and waiting passively for the the police or military to carry them away.
That would have taken days, if not weeks, and would have put a serious damper on the
inevitable inauguration.
Politicians and their fellow bureaucrats have opened the door to the real barbarians;
corporate fascism, influence of special interest lobbies in Congress, foreign entanglements
(Israel) , endless war, unaccountable government within the ever expanding sixteen
Intelligence Agencies, secrecy in place of democracy, the authority to print currency handed
over to oligarchs at the Federal Reserve Board, who are, in reality a collection of banksters
and financiers- not an agency of the federal government as the organizations' name would have
all of us believe.
If there ever was a time for revolution and dissolution of a thoroughly corrupted
government (for every western Occident country) the time is now.
The corporate-fascist infection began under Ford the stumbler, he opened the door to The
NeoCons followed by Reagan the Union buster who did everything he could to dismantle FDR's
social democracy programs such as the CCC (infrastructure support), the social security
safety net. Reagan had a close association with the barbarism of Thatcher, she had a set of
horns much larger than that, so called "insurrectionist" buffoon who's face was plastered all
over newsprint today. Chavez was correct and I add, that a waft of sulfurous odor behind
Thatcher was shared by both Bushes. Strategies dedicated to endless war, endless predation(s)
for dwindling resources rather than embracing a philosophy that nourishes support for human
ingenuity and mutual trust between nations. Instead, adopting long range and global
domination plans outlined by Admiral Cebrowski and his assistant, Thomas P. M. Barnett, who
announced a new map of our world-according to the Pentagon that is. Visit Dr Henry Gaffney Jr
of the CNA Corporation.
ASIDE: This is what happens when an entire people allowed a post World War II dream to
die. The Kennedy Brothers dream of a new demilitarized era, and Western European style
Marshal Plan for third world countries who desired to attach themselves to the tail of our
kite (voluntarily) -Rest in peace John and Robert, I'll never let their guilt, control
freakishness or rapacity to go free !
Rusting bridges, potholed autobahns, with an emphasis on who owns them, not when
maintenance or repairs will be forthcoming-by extortion no doubt. Gaunt, vitamin deficient
citizenry, homelessness, epidemic drug addictions, who needs "society" haven't you heard?
Thatcher said there's no such thing as society!
Thus it seems improbable to me that the Deep State was willing to sacrifice the sense
of American invulnerability it projects across the globe simply in order to discredit the
populist movement when there are many other, less self-harming methods it could use
instead.
America's aura of invulnerability has been gone since September 11th 2001. Civil airliners
flown by a ragtag crew of "Islamists", if you believe the official story, smashed into the
WTC and the Pentagon. No fighter aircraft made any attempts to intercept them: they were
completely unhindered in their actions. The Deep State were willing to let thousands of
civilians die in order to achieve its own purposes.
Letting a couple of hundred people occupy the Capitol building for a short period of time
seems very minor in comparison.
Surely one of the first rules of the exercise of Power is to scrupulously avoid
demonstrating that you are a low grade coward. Now that the entire US Congress has been
videoed cowering in craven fear before an unarmed crowd, whose only "crime" is to seek
redress for a stolen election, there are going to be serious consequences.
How many foreign agents, and foreign powers, are now coming to the realization "hey, these
guys are bunch of pussies?" How many criminal organizations, in the USA or abroad, formerly
operating with some restraint, will now be freed from any restraint? And how many citizens of
the Republic, formerly circumspect to the Public Offices in our country, will now proceed to
operate with complete contempt of sniveling cowards in Public Office who seek to rule us?
The absolute lowest level of Degeneracy demonstrated by the Political Class is not in
their systematic sexual degeneracy, nor their relentless and despicable Negroaltry, nor their
thievery of anything they can steal, nor their relentless, pervasive, and relentless
dishonesty even when they would be much better served by the truth, but precisely in their
pervasive fear of everything Decent, including decent Americans.
So here we are, in the land of the Zoo Monkey Shit-eaters, faced with the only choice that
will ever have any real meaning for the rest of our lives:
What struck me was the behavior of most of the House's invaders: they for the most were
pranksters. For them it was Halloween; not the storming of the Bastille!
True.
Just another PR stunt that benefits nobody except the globalists.
The US have no clothes After decades and decades of warmongering & murdering innocent
people around the globe in the name of "democracy" (what a hypocritical sick joke!!!) to
steal and loot other nation's territories and resources now the true face of the USA is
visible to All: the face of a horrendous tyrannical evil monster serving not the american
people but the interests of a few billionnaires, master puppeteers in the dark. We knew it
all along: u are not a democracy and you are not an example to anyone.
All the contrary, you are an example of what not to be or what not to become.
You are and always have been a kleptocracy or something worse.
(wikypedia: Kleptocracy (from Greek κλέπτης
kléptēs, "thief", κλέπτω kléptō, "I
steal", and -κρατία -kratía from
κράτος krátos, "power, rule") is a government whose
corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to appropriate the wealth of their nation,
typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds at the expense of the wider
population.)
One of the few among us who still is in possession of a functioning brain..
What should we expect in 2021?
So far, it looks like this year is going to be plagued by more of the same brand of
madness, mayhem, manipulation and tyranny that dominated 2020.
Frankly, I'm sick of it: the hypocrisy, the double standards, the delusional belief by
Americans at every point along the political spectrum that politics and politicians are the
answer to what ails the country, when for most of our nation's history, politics and
politicians have been the cause of our woes.
Consider: for years now, Americans, with sheeplike placidity, have tolerated all manner
of injustices and abuses meted out upon them by the government (police shootings of unarmed
individuals, brutality, corruption, graft, outright theft, occupations and invasions of
their homes by militarized police, roadside strip searches, profit-driven incarcerations,
profit-driven wars, egregious surveillance, taxation without any real representation, a
nanny state that dictates every aspect of their lives, lockdowns, overcriminalization,
etc.) without ever saying "enough is enough."
@Realist black
shirt thugs never went to prison. Antifa/blm are the shock troops for elitists like George
Soros, who are seeking to impose a new order, a global, neo-feudal system run solely by them
and solely for their benefit.
Antifa/blm are part of the machinery for achieving this neo-feudal vision, as are the
USA's Democrat-Republican establishment, DSMIC, and MSM. They will be dealt with when the new
order is achieved, just as Hitler dealt with the SA when they had served their purpose. All
populists, especially Trump supporters are an immediate threat to our would-be feudal
masters. Their eradication is a compelling necessity. There will be no mercy.
The French police official said they believed that an investigation would find that
someone interfered with the deployment of additional federal law-enforcement officials on the
perimeter of the Capitol complex; the official has direct knowledge of the proper procedures
for security of the facility.
someone interfered with the proper deployment of officers around Congress
It is routine for the Capitol Police to coordinate with the federal Secret Service and the
Park Police and local police in Washington, DC, before large demonstrations. The National
Guard, commanded by the Department of Defense, is often on standby too.
On Wednesday, however, that coordination was late or absent.
The National Guard, which was deployed heavily to quell the Black Lives Matter protests in
2020, did not show up to assist the police until two hours after the action started on
Wednesday, according to The Associated Press.
This is coordinated among different levels . ( think of 911 and lack of responses
preparedness and abuses of the drill )
Trump is a psycho who has convinced the low IQ white of him being a savior facing off deep
state which is against the poor white and which doesn't want Trump get elected . So the
election must be stolen .
And what's not good about fighting a thief or stealing ?
I was surprised but pleased to see Americans demonstrating their contempt for the
hostile elite government we live under. Assault against Democracy? BS. Perhaps there is
some fight left in the American people?
But nobody should delude themselves into thinking that Donald Trump is a patriot who
will die for the cause. Hell, he already threw the people risking their lives and liberty
protesting the fraudulent election under the bus. It is long past time the whores in
Washington become acutely aware of the contempt sane Americans have for them. I do not
support violent protests, but I do support a mass demonstration of people expressing their
total and absolute contempt for the traitorous whores who rule over us.
Pelosi, Schumer et al. want to pretend this was the burning of the Reichstag, so they can
take "appropriate" measures. They want to act with haste.
Pelosi and Schumer fear that people will realize, after looking at how for years Obama and
the left stoked racial hatred, which resulted in riots, murder and arson causing billions in
damage, this is, by comparison, a nothing-burger. Thus, haste is the order of the day.
"It's the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for women
to deny the very biological existence of women," former Democratic presidential candidate
Tulsi Gabbard, who just might be the last Democrat in DC with a functioning brain, told
Tucker Carlson. "Instead of doing something that could actually help save people's lives,
they are choosing instead to say 'You can't say mother or father.'"
I would ask for an 'Amen!' at this point, but, thanks to the clown work of lawmaker
Emanuel Cleaver, who ended his congressional prayer opening of the very unsexy 117th
Congress with the words "amen and awoman," even that simple gender-free term (which simply
means 'so be it') is now tainted with foul political intrigue.
With these sort of unforgivable stunts under the belt, the Democrats should be very
grateful they have perfected the art of 'winning' elections, otherwise they would probably
vanish from the political landscape simply out of lack of doing anything positive for the
nation. Indeed, the term 'Democrat' may be on the way out faster than that of 'male' and
'female.'
A Republic is, by definition, an oligarchy. We just refuse to acknowledge what it truly
is. Put some lipstick on the pig.
But ours is not a pure Republic because we do have democratic referendums all of the time
where the people get to make laws that a majority want. We need more of them.
We don't have any at the federal level but there is nothing that prohibits them. Under
Amendment 10 all powers not granted to the federal government are granted to the states and
the people . The implication is that powers left to the people can be exercised by
referendum. Referendums are really the only check on oligarchy.
Different topic but, this is good. Normally, I'm too impatient for videos however, this
former CIA station chief does a great job explaining how the electronic election theft
flowed.
"... "There was no transition because they came after me trying to do a coup. They came after me spying on my campaign. They started from the day I won and even before I won. From the day I came down the escalator with our First Lady. They were a disaster. They were a disgrace to our country. And we've caught 'em. We've caught 'em all. We've got it all on tape. We've caught 'em all." ..."
"There was no transition because they came after me trying to do a coup. They came after me spying on my campaign. They
started from the day I won and even before I won.
From the day I came down the escalator with our First Lady. They were a disaster.
They were a disgrace to our country. And we've caught 'em. We've caught 'em all. We've got it all on tape. We've caught 'em all."
"... Unlike most democracies, the USA is dominated by just two parties that use propaganda to fight for control of the power that Government provides. Republicans stand firmly by Milton Friedman, openly and honestly promoting the best interests of the ruling class and against FDR's New Deal that had transformed the quality of life for hundreds of millions of workers. Republicans are a minority but well organized, well funded and speak with a disciplined message. ..."
"... The Democrat Party leadership has the same agenda because both parties operate in a completely privatized communication system which demands enormous sums of cash to participate. Like everything else in America the two parties can be characterized as businesses that use BS to collect money to give to the mass media, in their endless struggle for political power. Although there are many regional variations across time and geographic regions, Democrats tend to hold a 5% advantage over Republicans, but both parties are rightly held in distain by the 40% of voters who consider themselves to be "independent". Independent or not most elections force American voters back into a choice between Democrat or Republican. ..."
I first became aware of Paul Craig Roberts (PCR) during the depression of 2008 when events
led to my armchair education in economics. PCR contributed to my education along with Michael
Hudson, Steven Keen, Jospeph Stiglitz and others. I learned that economics is an inexact
science full of falsehoods that serve the ruling class in their war against the working
class. A primary falsehood promoted by the Nobel prize winning economist Milton Friedman is
that unregulated free markets produce the greatest prosperity for the greatest number of
people. Friedman's Chicago School of economics, which dominates US policy under the guise of
freedom and democracy, has actually spread poverty, death and destruction for hundreds of
millions of people throughout the world. Friedman's logic seemingly justifies exploitation of
the working class by the ruling class in the great class war defined by Marx. Most Americans
have benefited from these policies in so far as they were imposed on third world countries
even though they are currently suffering as they have been incrementally imposed on our
domestic population, leading to a growing popularity for political outliers like Donald Trump
and Bernie Sanders.
Unlike most democracies, the USA is dominated by just two parties that use propaganda
to fight for control of the power that Government provides. Republicans stand firmly by
Milton Friedman, openly and honestly promoting the best interests of the ruling class and
against FDR's New Deal that had transformed the quality of life for hundreds of millions of
workers. Republicans are a minority but well organized, well funded and speak with a
disciplined message.
The Democrat Party leadership has the same agenda because both parties operate in a
completely privatized communication system which demands enormous sums of cash to
participate. Like everything else in America the two parties can be characterized as
businesses that use BS to collect money to give to the mass media, in their endless struggle
for political power. Although there are many regional variations across time and geographic
regions, Democrats tend to hold a 5% advantage over Republicans, but both parties are rightly
held in distain by the 40% of voters who consider themselves to be "independent". Independent
or not most elections force American voters back into a choice between Democrat or
Republican.
Trump is not a leader, populist or intellectual thinker. His only concern is himself and
his immediate family. He spends his time tweeting, golfing while eating and promoting junk
food. He seeks immediate profits for himself and his donors in a political system which pays
out 10:1 on investments in successful political candidates, where pay back is realized in tax
benefits. Trump is a successful self promoter who has a few good ideas and the most
substantial following of any Republican politician. But his behavior is too erratic to ever
bring his good ideas to fruition, or you could simply say ge is too lazy to bother.
ump used populist issues, Republican gerrymandering, Republican voter caging and purging
to overcome popular vote losses in 2016 but not 2020. Since 2000 American democratic voting
systems have rightly suffered a credibility gap, which Greg Pallast has documented but is
largely ignored by the mass media and Government which prefers to imagine us as the greatest
democracy ever. Trump has been able to use these problems to sow doubts about the credibility
of the 2020 outcome, even though our voting systems have been much improved on since
2000.
A Princeton Study documented that the USA operates more like an Oligarchy than a Democracy
by studying who benefited from 2000 pieces of legislation. The exclusive beneficiaries of all
that legislation by Democrats and Republicans are the wealthiest Americans that fund the
majority of duopoly activity. This fact helps to explain how wealth is being concentrated
into fewer and fewer hands..
You have to look back as far as Eisenhower and Kennedy to find Presidents dedicated to
promoting the general welfare, one of our constitutional mandates. Since that period,
election results have trapped the US population in a neoliberal economic system where the
vast majority of elected officials are mere figureheads. Biden and Harriss's record is no
exception to that rule. The "establishment" can be characterized as the military industrial
complex, ruling class, .001% or in a variety of other ways. I am not sure how PCR defines
that term, but they write and enforce the laws we all live by:
The use of money, the mass media and propaganda to vilify individuals and wage class war
is a great American past time. That is how Johnson attacked Goldwater and Bush 41 attacked
Dukakis. It is hardly unique to Trump's situation and if anything Trump is a master media
manipulator and name caller.
The history of man is the history of man's enslavement of other men usually under some
form of capitalism. When white people gained certain technological advantages over other
people, they used that technology ruthlessly to gain wealth. This is not unique to white
western culture, but it is an undeniable aprt of human history. Abraham Lincoln said that
capital cannot be accumulated without the contribution of labor, and therefore labor deserves
the first consideration. But we live in a world controlled by capitalists and the only thing
worse than being exploited by capitalists is not being exploited by them
Since the New Deal, the US has been on a path determined by the Friedman school of
economics. This has included the shuttering of mental health hospitals. As a result there are
many white psychotic males running around in a country with more individual guns than the
Chinese Army possesses. There is a real need to control access to these weapons, regardless
of the meaning of the original intent of the second amendment. One legitimate interpretation
of the term "militia" was white armed conscripts used to persistently intimidate and lynch
black slaves which far outnumber wealthy plantation owners. That said hunting is a legitimate
use of firearms even if slavery and war are impossible to justify.
Like Reagan, Trump has fomented racial and gender conflict as a successful political
strategy in a country which still is largely white, even though that proportion is
unsustainable. Whether the Covid-19 epidemic serves a similar political function can be
debated. However, as long as the US and other major powers operate bio-weapons and nuclear
weapons labs life on earth faces unnecessary risks. This website has documented that the 1918
"Spanish Flu" epidemic was most likely started in Kansas from a Rockefeller funded biological
research lab. The post 9-11 anthrax attack through the SU mail was almost certainly a
deliberate attack by a misguided rogue scientist in one of our labs. Bio-weapons and Nuclear
labs should be shut down through international agreements, the initiation of which began
during the Kennedy Presidency. But, unfortunately, the reverse is happening. Trump has even
suggested we should be more willing to use nuclear weapons to get our way, as long as we are
building them.
Overpopulation of the world is a serious problem. Global warming and US war mongering has
created tens of millions of refugees which must immigrate or die. Increases in population
densities everywhere decreases the quality of our lives and needs to be controlled. But to do
so effectively we must attempt to address the underlying causes of mass immigration. Most
people would prefer to live in te culture they were raised in as long as they can make a
decent living.
Under J Edgar Hoover, blacks, liberals, socialists and communists were enemy number one.
Our country has a long history of using the police to contain unrest in the working class.
While Hoover was the most extreme, you are still far more likely to suffer death or other
injury promulgated by the State if you are poor and considered to be part of any of the
groups Hoover vilified. Occupy Wall Street and Black lives Matter protestors were treated
much more brutally than any right wing extremists in support of Trump. Compare the caution
exercised by police during the Ted Bundy grazing conflict standoff and its aftermath with the
Black Panthers and PCR's assertions do not hold up.
Maarten "merethan" , Jan 8, 2021 11:43 AM Reply to
Leo Washington
Election fraud is more of a tradition than incident. Remember how we used to joke about
"This presidency is brought to you by Diebold"? That was around the 2000's referring to Bush
Jr., and Diebold is the vote machine manufacturer. That's just 20 years ago mate.
Calling election fraud a hilarious idea shows a good lack of historical perspective.
Yeah, fair enough. Can we see some proof of this election fraud, then? And by 'proof', I
don't mean 'someone said'. Because I can't help thinking that if there had been any proof,
then every single 'lawsuit' would not have been laughed out of court. Or are the judges
involved in this massive left-wing conspiracy, too? Jan 8, 2021 7:27 PM Reply to
Leo Washington
Proof is all the problem: There's no proof of a fair election either. The current system
was, in the old days, the only way to ensure votes were anonymous which is a requirement for
having everyone express their true beliefs and allegiances, absent of any group pressure.
I'm all for enhancing this with cryptographic signatures and a public ledger. Such that
everyone can validate their own vote and totals but not the one made by their spouse or
neighbor specifically.
That would bring us a lot closer to the proof you are asking for, because right now we got
none in either direction. Other than the media saying so and twitter banning you for daring
to post any questions.
Two trailing democract candidates brought to the lead at the same time and in the same
proprtion by mail-in votes that are 100% democrat – what are the odds? (~0% in a
straight election, ~100% in a bent election).
I would have the same view if the R and D attributions were reversed. The election was
fixed.
The main point is that the fraud is so evident. Multiple witnesses. Examination of two
machines. Not just a smoking gun with no witnesses. The government is too afraid to confront
it out of fear of backlash. The backlash from not doing anything will be worse. Democrats
keep wanting to unify now that Trump is out. They have done nothing but hinder him and our
country because of lies being levied against him. No doubt the man has flaws but that is not
justification for what they did during his presidency. And now the evidence of the steal.
Combine that with trying to remove him to keep him from running again The shit just keeps
getting deeper and deeper while they beg for unity. All of the sudden mayors across the
country are vowing to bring back law and order now that Trump is out. I could go on and on. I
cannot express how deeply the anger goes and it is not getting any better as Democratic
leaders continue with derogatory statements all of which are lies. This is classic bullying
and kicking someone who is down. It is truly a recipe for disaster.
A lawyer for Dominion held a press conference on Friday claiming that claims that the
allegations against them are "false."
"These false allegations have caused catastrophic damage to this company. They have
branded Dominion, a voting company, as perpetrating a massive fraud," Tom Clare, the attorney
representing Dominion, said in a press conference over Zoom. "Those allegations triggered a
media firestorm that promoted those same false claims to a global audience. They've made the
company radioactive and destroyed the value of its once thriving business and has put
Dominion's multiyear contracts in jeopardy."
Smartmatic has also said that they will be filing lawsuits against people who questioned
their technology and the "media outlets that gave them a platform."
To win the lawsuit, Dominion must prove that Powell was acting in "actual malice," and not
sincere belief that they helped to rig the election against the president.
I read the filing and THIS looks like read trouble for Powell. Unlike her incoherent
filings, Dominion methodically rips apart Powell's false claims and more importantly
establishes a timeline showing malicious intent which is the key in defamation. They show how
she knowingly repeated falsehoods when it would benefit her financially.
@SolontoCroesus
exercise -- [is] a man by the name of Norm Eisen. . . .
". . .a key architect of nearly every attempt to delegitimize, impeach, censor, sue and
remove the democratically elected 45th President of the United States – is a tale that
winds through nearly every facet of the color revolution playbook. There is no purer
embodiment of Revolver's thesis that the very same regime change professionals who run Color
Revolutions on behalf of the US Government in order to undermine or overthrow alleged
"authoritarian" governments overseas, are running the very same playbook to overturn Trump's
2016 victory and to pre-empt a repeat in 2020. "
@Nisbe hey
made out okay rail about the elite now that they've been given the bum's rush as a function
of the global speculative rentier economy.
Your closing emission encapsulates the deluded mentality of Drumpfers.
I'll grant that Trump Derangement Syndrom is real, but that was the whole point of Drumpf.
He's such an odious cretin that sentiment replaced all reason in a US electorate that exists
on a political spectrum running from the right to the far-right, with ginned-up "moral"
issues creating the divide, rather than quarelling over the dominance of economic equality or
economic freedom in society.
Does it matter that a few people know what the score is? It's nearly fifty years since
Operation Nickel Grass, when the US flew A-4 and F-4 aircraft right to Israel to shore up the
colonial project, along with C-5 loads of TOW missiles, M60 tanks, etc., and people still
think there is a representative democracy in the US.
Actually Tucker Carlson is one of those people and props to the guy for telling us working
class Whites what "our elite white leader trash" have always thought about us. Of course
Tucker won't dare mention the Jew, but at least he clues us in on white traitor trash that
claim to be superior by avoid being seen near chain restaurants and hotels.
Of course we KNOW that the Jew and his elite shabbos goy only think of the common Black
and Brown foot soldiers as pets as well, these cats are the real Supremacists. These
(((elitists))) will dump the Black and Brown grunts for the Yellow ones, believe that as
well.
"... You do know a guy name Milton Friedman was the architect for Reagan economics? For the record we are currently living thru long term dystopia effects of Reagan economics. ..."
Biden and Kamala are mere figureheads put in office by a stolen election. Any agenda they
think that they have is irrelevant. Here is the Establishment's agenda:
First: Prevent any political organization of the "Trump Deplorables." Any who attempt to
form a real opposition party will be made an example of. In America it is child's play to frame
up anyone. We saw the show in Russiagate, and Trump will now be exhausted with endless frameups
as the Establishment pursues him into oblivion. If the President of the United States can be so
easily framed up, an unknown political organizer in the red states can be disposed of at
will.
... ... ...
Fourth: The Establishment will increase its fomenting of racial and gender conflict in order
to keep Americans too divided to resist its increasingly odious control measures, whether they
be the use of Covid to suppress freedom of movement and association, charges of being a foreign
agent in order to suppress free speech as in the Assange case, or round up and internment of
Trump Americans trying to organize a political party that represents the people instead of the
Establishment.
Modern weapons in the hands of the state are devastating. Mass spying and control techniques
that exist today go beyond those in dystopian novels such as Orwell's 1984 . Free speech
is a thing of the past. Free speech no longer even exists in universities. As I write Twitter,
Facebook and the presstitutes are suppressing the free speech of the President of the United
States, and the President of the United States is powerless to do anything about it.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/533027-twitter-locks-trumps-account-for-at-least-12-hours?rnd=1609978506
The Establishment's control over the media means that no charge against President Trump is
too extreme to cause a protest. The enormous support shown for Trump in Washington on January 6
with estimates of participants ranging from 200,000 to 2,000,000 was easy for the Establishment
to turn into a liability by infiltrating the rally.
It was naive for President Trump and his supporters not to realize that infiltration was
guaranteed as it was necessary for the Establishment to turn massive support into a massive
liability. This would achieve two purposes. One purpose was to terminate the challenge to the
electors in the Senate, and it succeeded. Here, for example, is Republican Senator Mike Braun
from Indiana dropping his intent to object to the electors from the swing states where the
election was stolen: "I think that today change things drastically. Yeah, whatever point you
made before that should suffice. Get this ugly day behind us," he said. Even Rand Paul was
intimidated: "I just don't think there's going to be another objection. I think it's over at
that point."
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/533033-gop-senators-hopeful-theyve-quashed-additional-election-challenges?rnd=1609980353
Here is Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler whose reelection to the Senate was stolen from her
acquiescing in Trump's and her own stolen elections: "When I arrived in Washington this
morning, I fully intended to object to the certification of the electoral votes. However, the
events that have transpired today have forced me to reconsider and I cannot now, in good
conscience, object," Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.).
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/533052-congress-affirms-biden-win-after-rioters-terrorize-capitol
The other purpose served was to insure that Trump would not go out as a president whose
reelection was stolen but as an insurrectionist. And it has succeeded.
Internationally Trump was denounced by NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg for not
respecting democracy. "The outcome of this democratic election must be respected," declared
Stoltenberg. Stolen or not it is democracy to be rid of Trump. https://www.rt.com/usa/511743-uk-france-nato-condemn-capitol/
British prime minister Boris Johnson declared that the US is the world symbol of Democracy
and that it is vital there is a peaceful and ordered transfer of power, as if there was an
actual insurrection taking place and an election not stolen.
The French President Macron declared: "What happened today in Washington, DC today is not
American, definitely." In other words, it is unamerican to protest a stolen election that the
Establishment refuses to address. [I watched presentations by independent experts to the
Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan legislatures that proved beyond all doubt the presidential
election was stolen. Half of the professional presenters were people of color.]
Republican senators themselves, former members of Trump's cabinet, and a former chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff jumped on Trump with both feet. The no longer Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell said that Trump's "unhinged thugs" "tried to disrupt our democracy. They
failed. This failed insurrection underscores how crucial the task before us is" to restore
Establishment control.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/533039-mcconnell-after-rioters-storm-capitol-they-tried-to-disrupt-our-democracy
Republican Senator Richard Burr from North Carolina said: "The President bears
responsibility for today's events by promoting the unfounded conspiracy theories that have led
to this point."
Trump's Secretary of Defense James Mattis told the presstitutes that "Today's violent
assault on our Capitol, an effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule, was fomented by
Mr. Trump. His use of the presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect
for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in
infamy as profiles in cowardice."
General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Trump administration
said Republicans "who have continued to undermine a peaceful transition in accordance with our
Constitution have set the conditions for today's violence."
The presstitutes had a field day with misleading and lying headlines. One of the worst
offenders was The Hill , formerly a source of real news on what was going on in
Congress, but today a highly partisan Trump-hating source of Establishment propaganda.
With the American Establishment's foreign puppets, Republicans, Trump's own cabinet members,
military leaders, and the presstitutes speaking with one voice setting up President Trump as an
insurrectionist threat to democracy, the Democrats' wild charges seemed credible.
Democrat Senator Schumer from New York, the new Senate Majority Leader, Democrat House
Speaker Pelosi, and a large number of Democrat members of Congress, together with the New York
Times, have called for Trump's impeachment or his removal from office by invoking the 25th
Amendment. Here is the new Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) making the case:
"What happened at the U.S. Capitol yesterday was an insurrection against the United States,
incited by the president. This president should not hold office one day longer," Schumer said
in a statement.
Here is Adam Smith, Democrat from Washington state and chairman of the House Committee on
Armed Services, calling for Trump's removal from office: "President Trump incited &
encouraged this riot. He & his enablers are responsible for the despicable attack at the
Capitol. VP Pence and the Cabinet should invoke the 25th amendment to remove Trump, otherwise
Senate Republicans must work with the House to impeach & remove him.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/533136-house-armed-services-chair-calls-for-removing-trump-from-office
For the New York Times , it doesn't not suffice to remove Trump from office. He must
be prosecuted as well.
To understand the extraordinary hatred of President Trump by the Establishment, listen to
his inaugural address. He described the Establishment accurately as a force arraigned against
the American people, a force that he intended to dismantle and restore America to the American
people. This was a revolutionary challenge, a reckless one as Trump is a populist, not a
revolutionary leading a determined movement. Moreover, Trump was so uninformed about Washington
that he never succeeded in appointing anyone to his government, other than General Flynn (an
immediate casualty of the Establishment) who agreed with his agenda of normalizing relations
with Russia, bringing the troops home from the Middle East, ending NATO, and bringing the jobs
home that American corporations had exported to China. Here was Trump unarmed taking on the
American Establishment. This was an act of suicide as it has turned out to be.
People who think in terms of party politics have no likelihood of understanding the
situation. The struggle is not Democrats vs. Republicans. or red states vs. blue states. It is
the Establishment against the people. If you have any doubt about this, note that the US
National Association of Manufacturers, always a throughly Republican organization, agrees with
Schumer and Pelosi that Trump must be removed from office. Here is the organization's
statement: "Vice President Pence, who was evacuated from the Capitol, should seriously consider
working with the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to preserve democracy."
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/532988-democratic-lawmakers-call-for-pence-to-invoke-25th-amendment-remove
The National Association of Manufacturers want Trump out because they are the ones responsible
for China's rise, the US trade deficit and the destruction of half of the US middle class. All
the goods and services imported from offshored production count as imports. It is the offshored
production that is responsible for America's trade deficit, not China.
The presstitutes throughout the Western world have intentionally misrepresented the January
6 rally in Washington in support of Trump. The rally had to be misrepresented, because no one
in politics today anywhere in the Western World can demonstrate such massive support other than
Donald Trump. No one turned out for Biden or Kamala during the presidential campaign. Their
events, soon cancelled, had no attendees. Yet, they won the election? What saps people are. Who
turns out for Merkel, Macron, Boris Johnson. No one even knows who the leaders are in the rest
of the Western World.
Trump could not be permitted to leave office with such a massive showing of support -- a
terrible embarrassment to the corrupt scum who "speak for the people." So the support had to be
discredited by turning it into an insurrection ordered by Trump against Democracy, a holy word
that is observed nowhere in the Western World.
Here is a description of agitators who suddenly appeared and provoked the entrance into the
Capitol by a few Trump supporters who, unlike the rioters in Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit,
Seattle, Portland, Atlanta and elsewhere, did not behave as rioters and did no damage. The
report is from a person present not as a Trump supporter but as a person to film the event. The
report was sent to NYU professor Mark Crispin Miller. I have left the person's name off so that
he doesn't get investigated by the FBI:
"I was in Washington, D.C. today filming the Trump rally and related events. I also ran
across your post concerning the Capitol demonstration tonight. Perhaps this short account
will help you assess what others are saying in a small way.
"I was also at the Capitol before the crowd appeared setting-up my camera on a stone wall
around the perimeter of the back of the capitol (the rear facing Constitution Avenue). Then I
waited for President Trump's speech to end and for supporters to walk-up Constitution Avenue
to the Capitol. I was located at the precise location where supporters first rushed up the
slope towards the back of the Capitol after casting aside a section of the first Capitol
perimeter barrier. Supporters gathered roughly at the center of the back of the capitol, but
a circle began to grow around the perimeter as the crowd grew larger. I had no sense that the
growing crowd intended to rush the Capitol.
"After a large crowd emerged at the perimeter a man in perhaps his late 30's or early 40's
showed-up, pacing quickly to his left then to his right before the crowd, and essentially
began hurling insults at the crowd challenging their political wisdom. He excoriated the
crowd for thinking that their attendance would be taken seriously by members of congress.
(Hard to say that he was wrong about that, whoever he was). I cannot recall his precise
words, but for a very short period he engaged in a shouting exchange with supporters, and
suddenly supporters pushed aside the first barrier and rushed towards the back of the
Capitol. Others on the northern edge of the perimeter followed suit. But the first rush was
right at the center of the back of the Capitol. I followed the rush to the bottom of the
Capitol back steps, and began filming again from atop an inner perimeter stone wall.
"The police, so it appeared, were a little surprised by the rush, and this gave supporters
an opportunity to race up the steps. One or two men even made it as far as the steps leading
up to the scaffolds on the south side of the Capitol before police arrested them. By this
time, five or ten men had climbed to the top of the tall steel tower structure facing the
Capitol. Then the police erected and lined-up behind a new barrier perimeter at the foot of
the Capitol steps. Police at the top of the Capitol steps aimed rifles down on the crowd
(perhaps rubber bullet rifles, I could not tell). The crowd began arguing with police and
pressing hard against the new barrier. The police sprayed men pressing directly against the
barrier with tear gas from time to time causing them to retreat. "Meanwhile, the men at the
top of the tower began rallying the crowd to challenge the new barrier (over bull horns) by
filling any gaps between the barrier and the stone wall that I was using as a filming vantage
point. Another man worked the crowd with a bull horn immediately in front of me and also
encouraged supporters to climb over the inner perimeter stone wall (my filming vantage point)
and create a wall of pressure on the new barrier at the bottom of the Capitol back steps.
"After about 30 minutes to an hour I dropped to the bottom of the stone wall to reload my
camera when suddenly the barrier gave way and police attempted to fortify it by blasting tear
gas into the area between the stone wall and the barrier. I was hit by the gas myself and
struggled back over the stone wall in order to breathe. The gas threw many crowd members into
a panic. And I was nearly trampled as I struggled to lift my camera and heavy gear bag over
the wall after two women began pulling desperately on the back of my coat to pull themselves
up and over the moderately high wall in retreat.
"After the second perimeter barrier gave way, the men with the bull horns began working
the crowd very hard to fill-up with Trump supporters the steps of the Capitol and the
scaffolding on both sides of it. At this point one of the calls, which the men with bull
horns repeated from time to time in order to encourage people to climb the Capitol steps was
"this is not a rally; it's the real thing." Another frequent call was "its now or never."
After about a two hour effort peppered with bull horn calls of this nature the entire back of
the Capitol was filled with Trump supporters and the entire face of the Capitol was covered
with brilliant small and very large Trump banners, American flags, and various other types of
flags and banners.
"Sometime after the rush on the back of the Capitol, people were apparently able to enter
the Capitol itself through the front. But I was not witness to anything at the front or
inside the Capitol.
"One clearly bona fide Trump supporter who had apparently entered the Capitol himself was
telling others emotionally and angrily (including press representatives of some sort, even a
foreign newsman) that he witnessed someone inside the Capitol encouraging violence whom he
strongly suspected was not a legitimate Trump supporter (apparently on the basis that the man
showed no signs at all of Trump support on his apparel). I did not pay that close attention
to his claims (for example the precise claim of the violence encouraged) because, naturally,
I had not yet read your post and it had not occurred to me that professional outsiders might
play a role in instigating particular violent acts in order to discredit the event.
"I overheard one Trump supporter (who followed the rush on the Capitol himself) say aloud,
"I brought many others to this rally, but we did not sign on for this" as he watched matters
escalate.
"Still, from my seat, I would say that large numbers of very legitimate Trump supporters
felt that it was their patriotic duty to occupy the Capitol in light of their unshakable
beliefs that (1) the 2020 election was a fraud, (2) that the vast majority of the members of
congress are corrupt and compromised, and (3) that the country is in the throes of what they
consider a "communist" takeover (although many use the expression "communism" as a synonym
for "totalitarianism"). They are also convinced that the virus narrative is a fraud and an
essential part of an effort to undermine the Constitution –in particular the Bill of
Rights. They have a very real fear that the country and the very conception of any culture of
liberty is on the verge of an irreparable collapse. For most (if not a very large majority)
rushing the Capitol was a desperate eleventh hour act of partiotism –even of the order
of the revolution that created our nation. Some Trump supporters sang the Star Spangled
Banner and other patriotic songs as others climbed the Capitol steps. They also demonstrated
a measure of respect for the Capitol itself. I saw no attempt by anyone to deface the Capitol
simply for the sake of defacing it.
"The incontrovertibly compromised press has called this event a riot. But from what I saw
and heard this would indeed be a gross and intentionally misleading oversimplification at
best. At least from the standpoint of supporters, if their Capitol event was a riot, then so
was the Boston Tea Party. It also seems to me that some professional help (very aware of deep
sentiments) might have come from somewhere to make sure that the party happened."
When I was on the Stanford University faculty, I remember rich and pampered Stanford
students occupying the university president's office in a protest either against the Vietnam
war or the name of the Stanford Football Team (Stanford Indians) and destroying the papers in
the president's files of his life's work. Despite the liberalism of the university president,
the presstitutes regarded the protest justified and well intentioned.
The rioters and looters who rampaged through many of America's major cities suffered no
media condemnation, only support and encouragement. This is because, unlike Trump, Antifa and
Black Lives Matter are financed by and controlled by the Establishment and thus represent no
threat.There is no FBI investigation or intended prosecution of any of the rioters who
destroyed billions of dollars of property in America's cities.
But the Trump supporters provoked into entering the Capitol are in for it says the
Establishment figure Trump, in yet another of his mistakes, put in charge of the FBI.
It is difficult to defend Trump when he consistently puts in charge of his security agencies
and Department of Justice members of the Establishment who hate his guts.
Here is Trump's appointee describing the people who elected the man who appointed him:
"The violence and destruction of property at the U.S. Capitol building yesterday showed a
blatant and appalling disregard for our institutions of government and the orderly
administration of the democratic process," Wray said in a statement.
"As we've said consistently, we do not tolerate violent agitators and extremists who use
the guise of First Amendment-protected activity to incite violence and wreak havoc," he
continued. "Such behavior betrays the values of our democracy. Make no mistake: With our
partners, we will hold accountable those who participated in yesterday's siege of the
Capitol."
Wray announced that the bureau "has deployed our full investigative resources" and is
working with law enforcement partners "to aggressively pursue those involved in criminal
activity" on Wednesday.
"Our agents and analysts have been hard at work through the night gathering evidence,
sharing intelligence, and working with federal prosecutors to bring charges," he said.
He requested the public send in any information about Wednesday's events to the FBI, noting
"We are determined to find those responsible and ensure justice is served."
Notice that Wray, the Establishment's servant, not the servant of the rule of law, aligns
the First Amendment with "violent agitators and extremists" and thus discredits the First
Amendment as a tool of insurrection.
Everyone who was not at the US Capitol building on January 6, which is the entire world
except the Trump supporters, has been brainwashed, by a corrupt, despicable collection of media
whores serving an Establishment of Oligarchs, that Donald Trump intended an insurrection, but
it was defeated. By Whom?
It was Trump who called out the National Guard and who told his supporters to leave the
Capitol and to go home.
What kind of people can present this as an insurrection that requires Trump's removal from
office and prosecution? The answer is totally evil people who have not only the United States
but the entire Western World in their clutches.
The Western World is dead. It is now Mordor.
Trump appointees realize that, unless they add to his orchestrated embarrassment and setup
by resigning, they are targeted for reprisals. Seeing permanent unemployment facing him, US
Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger has resigned in response to Donald Trump's
handling of the crisis on Capitol Hill. "Other people named as likely to abandon the sinking
Trump ship are National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien and Deputy Chief of Staff Chris
Liddell." https://www.rt.com/usa/511769-white-house-officials-resign/
Everyone everywhere is participating in Trump's destruction. The English language Russian
press loves embarrassing America. The fun and games leaves the world in ignorance of the
extraordinary consequences of what the stolen election and demonization of Trump and his
supporters means. The end of the Western World is a big event, and it will affect everyone.
Addendum: Here is an example of the lies the presstitutes constantly deliver. Every
prestitute organization reports that Trump incited a mob of his supporters this week to storm
the U.S. Capitol: "House Democrats are racing toward impeaching President Trump for a second
time after he incited a mob of his supporters this week to storm the U.S. Capitol and halt
Congress's constitutional duty to certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory." https://thehill.com/homenews/house/533340-democrats-poised-to-impeach-trump-again
Clearly, the dumbshits at The Hill, Bloomberg, and everywhere else let their hatred of Trump
run away with them. What would be the point of halting the certification process? It could only
be a temporary halt. The National Guard ordered in by Trump would clear the Capitol and the
process would go forward, as it did. If Trump intended to halt the certification by having
supporters occupy the Capitol, why did he call in the National Guard and tell his supporters to
leave the Capitol? Clearly The Hill's presstitutes are devoid of reasoning ability. What Trump
wanted to happen was to have the electors from the stolen swing states rejected by Congress on
the basis of the evience. It was an unlikely thing to happen, but Trump had no choice but to
exhaust the legal means available.
Trump was too conflicted to lead a populist revolt. He was too mobbed up with wealthy
Zionists and right-leaning factions of the Jewish establishment. Now they'll quickly throw
him under the bus. He's finished, and politically homeless. Not even the Deplorables will
want anything to do with him, given the fact that he betrayed them time and again.
Trump might have been a populist leader had he immediately abandoned his Jewish handlers,
fully adopted the white right, the military and veterans, Christians, Constitutionalists,
small business, Main Street, America First industry and working class, etc. and oriented his
entire administration in their direction. But given that New York Jews were part of his
family, that wasn't going to happen.
A true populist will eventually emerge from the People, and do what Trump should have done
but lacked the guts and integrity to do. And the Deep State will do all it can to strangle
him in the cradle, but will fail, because like Golden Calf Hebrews from the Bible, or like
Cyclops if you prefer Greek fables, it and its sycophants are sick, blind and insane now
beyond any possibility for redemption, intoxicated by their own narcissism.
How long the white knight will take to emerge is hard to say, but he's eventually coming.
Count on it.
The US always had an establishment. So does every country. And in the past, there were
patriotic American establishments that cared about the people. What happened? Jews took over
as the new masters and severed the ties between white elites and white masses. White elites
now exist to serve Jews than to represent the American People.
Elites are formed by social selection. Fish rots from the head. As Jews at the top favor
the most craven and venal goy cucks for promotion, the result is that the elites get filled
up more and more with venal and craven people. And as people don't want to admit they're
craven and venal, they convince themselves that they're on the side of angels and 'liberal
democracy' even though all they do is serve Wall Street, spread worship of sodomy, and push
for Wars for Israel.
When social selection to the top is predicated on patriotism and national unity, a better
kind of people make it to the top. But when selection is based on obeisance to Jews and all
their agendas(anti-white politics, globo-homo degeneracy, magic negro worship, and etc), then
the result is the elites that the US has today.
There was a time when someone like Pat Buchanan and Paul Craig Roberts could serve in the
US government or work in elite industries. But today, even the most 'right-wing' Republican
would rather be dead than be seen anywhere near such individuals.
The Trumpet hasn't been a victim of any "color revolution", he's been the catalyst for the
US Ziocorporate regime's new phase of "democratic" government:
What's so populist about the Trumpet besides his speechwriters' style? He barely repealed
Bombamacare's forced payment of premiums to corporate health peddlers, but not before
doubling down on the Obama/Biden-backed war on Yemen and giving Ziodi Arabia's royal Salafi
headchoppers $400 billion more in weapons, among other pearls of "populist anti-swamp"
policies.
People had to occupy their local and state capitols, not the federal Ziocorporatists'
temple of corporate governance masquerading as public office. Why even leave your own
property unguarded to go fight for some billionaire with a tad too much fake tan, or for his
walking corpse president-elect "rival" for the other side of that same coin, though I doubt
anyone would fight for Kameltoe Biden without being paid in advance.
Great Reset was coming with Trump as it is with Biden either way, there wasn't any time to
be an ignorant partisan tool. Things won't be getting any easier now. Even Mexico with its
CIA/DEA-managed druglord wars is looking tame in comparison.
Trump is a moderate and inherently self-contradictory populist, not a phony populist, but
a flawed populist, and in terms of complete program a meager populist. But give him credit,
his tepid, flawed brand of populism has been spectacularly – popular – with tens
of millions of Americans, and countless others around the planet.
One of his advantages has been that the political leadership stage in not just the United
States but in the 'West' is occupied largely by corrupt pathetic figures who do political
theater, scripted, banal, dishonest political puppetry on behalf of transnational agendas and
powers that be, and their personal advantage. Trump populist program has included giving
priority voice to the 'outdated' concepts of national sovereignty and national interest. He
has been an implicit and explicit critic of the global 'full spectrum domination' American
establishment agenda.
In the land of political midgets a person of even modest stature seems a giant.
But more importantly, Trump is actually a great and singular revolutionary, not in normal
terms, of political ideology, or political program, but in terms of the ability to change and
animate public perceptions. His has been a needed revolution in terms of style and substance:
he has been by far the most effective critic on Earth of and enemy of the mass media mind
control system, a system indispensable to establishment power and agenda.
To the political class and the politically minded who demand and depend upon and find
their comfort in adherence to normal ritualistic banality and bromides, Trump's bombastic out
of bounds style is outrageous, he tossing shocking mental hand grenades like confetti on the
nation, his ejaculations sometimes truthful sometimes false, but often refreshing
entertainment for some and outrageous for others.
Recall for example when he merely stated the obvious about the annual joint military
exercises at the borders of North Korea: he described them as provocative. Howls of foreign
policy outrage over this lapse from scripted normality. How dare Trump utter a simple truth
contradicting our investment of decades of on message propaganda on the subject.
And truth – even little bites of truth – is the great nemesis – the
forbidden fruit that must not be allowed to be shown let alone bitten by the public –
of the corrupt system of public mind control and public exploitation and subjugation.
As response to his fundamental, effective if not outright deadly attack on the mind
control system, and for his espousal of national sovereignty over transnational hegemony, he
has been under continual establishment attack since – actually even before – his
2016 inauguration. Public belief in the veracity of mass media's reliability when it comes to
fairness and accuracy has never been as low.
And something else has happened during the last four years: the public perception of the
ethical rot, the stench, of the cesspool that the establishment occupies has grown greatly.
Beyond Pizza gate and Jeffrey Epstein, there is a greatly increased public opinion and
suspicion and perception that elite power is dependent upon and suffused with and tainted
with that which goes beyond mere typical variations of corruption: that there exists
widespread hitherto unthinkable unspeakable evil that preys on children and innocence.
But now, with the obvious massive coordinated election fraud that was engineered against
what was in fact one of the – if not the – greatest landslide presidential
victories in American history, another great service has been rendered by Trump. And this
service goes far beyond his particular case: The legitimacy of all US elections since the
advent of electronic voting machines is now cast into doubt. That is, the entire US political
class, state, local and federal, has had their legitimacy appropriately undermined. And the
call for election procedures which ensure reasonably fair elections will now be ongoing.
Funny how the MSM apparently missed Trump commuting Jonathan Pollard's sentence and
allowed him to fly back to Israel where he disembarked from his plane and kissed the
ground.
I think it might have been George W. Bush who was considering pardoning Pollard and the
various intelligence agencies told him there would be a mutiny if he did. And he didn't.
But now ..crickets?
Pollard should have been in federal prison for life with no parole or executed.
But Trump won't pardon Assange for being a journalist or Snowden for alerting the American
people we are all being surveilled 24/7?
"People who think in terms of party politics have no likelihood of understanding the
situation. The struggle is not Democrats vs. Republicans. or red states vs. blue states. It
is the Establishment against the people."
My dear Mr. Roberts, you hit the nail on the head.
Thanks PCR. My exact thoughts. Definitely DC rally was infiltrated with sole intention of
discrediting Trump and his supporters. And the chorus of "leaders" from US vassals like UK,
Germany, France and others is proof of well choreographed scheme. Where were they when
BLM/Antifa with clear support of Dem politicians rampaged through US cities including DC
itself?
I wonder whether people of the US would still consider voting as one of the most important
civic duties. This election steal has shown that even with a landslide win, the establishment
will get its way. Sad.
I watched presentations by independent experts to the Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan
legislatures that proved beyond all doubt the presidential election was stolen.
That the counting was manipulated electronically was proven for me by Shiva Ayyadurai
(MIT) in his interesting video showing the statistically impossible change in voting trend in
the early morning counting.
It is difficult to defend Trump when he consistently puts in charge of his security
agencies and Department of Justice members of the Establishment who hate his guts.
This is a real oddity. At the outset he had a good selection of very loyal people to
choose from – but he dumped them all in favour of Establishment people who have
predictably backstabbed him – even his own Vice President. The only explanation that I
can find is that he doesn't really sympathize with the Deplorables at all (certainly never
spends any time with them) and was just using them as an alternative route to a top
Establishment position. The surprise was that the Establishment then rejected him, despite
his best efforts to ingratiate himself.
What's undeniable, is that the ZioGlob US is starting to look, socially and economically,
like an international basket case. Much of the ROW (Rest Of the World) is moving to separate
from it as fast as possible – ref. trade agreements/international payments/currencies
etc.
The filthy old swindler could have easily won re-election if he had done even one tiny
thing for the vast demographic making under $34k per year (the median wage) i.e. the working
poor. He could have pushed for a federally mandated $15/ hour minimum wage. He could have
pushed for a universal basic subsidized medical plan instead of trying to take one away. How
about federal money for a new system of trade schools and vocational training institutes?
Instead, he signed off on massive tax cuts for himself and his wealthy jew sponsors. He
signed off on trillions of dollars for his wall street pals, goosing the stock market into
the stratosphere. The old coot played golf while half the nursing home population was wiped
out by the wu-wu. He started a pointless trade war with China after listening to three of the
dumbest jews on the planet: Munchkin, Krudlow, Koshner jews so stupid they couldn't figure
out how to cheat rubes at a corner furniture store. Endless demagoguery, fake religiosity,
phony nationalism, counterproductive race baiting, shameless nepotism, constant lying .but
then what else would you expect from a former WWE wrestling promoter?
This was a "False Flag" as evidenced by Speaker's Pelosi's 'Purple" dress as she elbow
bump's Pence after he did his dirty deed for the Coup.
Look the whole 'Kabuki' was a set up with Capitol Building guards opening the way for
crowds to mill forward after the professional black block antifa gang made the first assault
on police lines and subsequently forced entry
Trump had told people at the rally to be peaceful and we know that message has been
censored.
The Republican Party has been exposed, and all seems like all is lost as it appears, as is
the case that the whole fraud has been accomplished in the open, but I think the wrestling
match is not over, which is why impeachment and or 25th Amendment is what seals the coup, or
unseals sealed indictments, full disclosure and the Seals.
As a lawyer, I am convinced the election was stolen from Trump. I am absolutely stunned at
the total denial of this fact by all and sundry in the Establishment and by the citizenry in
both the USA as well as the West who believe the weaponized press and media. In addition the
Roman Catholic Church has now officially joined this political Establishment.
Post-modernism and multiculturalism have come home to roost.
Truth has been banished from the Western Establishment. What an achievement!
Whether they realize it fully or not, there is nowhere else but Hell that bids them on.
From the real God-fearing understandings of Reality, the anti-Christ/Dajjal now rule the
world.
MAGA couldn't be allowed to Continue.
MAGA had to be cut down.
MIGA couldn't Persist with MAGA. Unfortunately, Trump was a MIGA Player First before being a
MAGA Leader.
Catholics couldn't Persist with MAGA – they gained a POTUS and a SCOTUS Seat this Round
– with a mostly Catholic SCOTUS refusing to hear Electioneering Case Arguments.
OpenBorders wouldn't happen with MAGA.
DNC couldn't Persist with MAGA.
GOP_NeverTrumperz couldn't Persist with MAGA.
McConnell+Chao couldn't Persist with MAGA.
MSM couldn't Persist with MAGA
OffShoring couldn't Persist with MAGA.
FB/TWTR couldn't Persist with MAGA.
This article is above brilliant. Nobody can see the situation as clearly as PCR.
I am glad that Trump is gone. There will be no more somebody for MSM to serve as punching
bag.
It is unbelievable to me that Trump did withstand such a deluge of abuse from MSM and
Democrats and deep state. Trump did not have any real support from his coworkers. he was
standing alone.
I agree with Mr. Roberts; a bit of anger increased by the repeat of the "steal" in
Georgia, and a large dollop of agents provocateurs, including the famous viking with an
American flag, created an incident being blown up by the real fascisti, the establishment, as
a new Reichstag fire to set up a permanent dictatorial regime based in Washington. They are
in your face and probably hope for unrest because its suppression will consolidate this
odious regime. The only hope is that temporary instability will instigate a loss of control
over the vassal states and/or economic collapse caused by the authoritarian lockdown policies
will weaken the yankee state enough so that it loses influence. Otherwise, unfortunately, Dr.
Roberts' view of the future unfortunately looks accurate to me.
@Abdul
Alhazred the Capitol Police. She told him that a lot of people feel the police didn't do
enough the day before. He told her that at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning he was told to go
home, along with his fellow policemen. He thought this odd, considering there was going to be
a huge rally taking place that day, but off he went home. After hearing of the breach on the
news, he subsequently returned, but he did this on his own; he hadn't been asked to return.
Makes you wonder if they didn't intentionally short-staff the Capitol Police that day in
order to ensure the outcome they got. Made it much easier for the agent provocateurs to get
through.
The leftwing, or the fraud that passes for one, thinks it is now in the money. This is a
naive expectation. The Establishment is in charge, and there will be no leftist agendas
unless they serve the Establishment. If Antifa and BLM cut up, their funding will be cut
off, and the presstitutes will be sicced on them.
I don't believe this is quite true. The attempt by establishment in the US to use
non-Whites and radical leftists for their own ends brings to mind the attempt by the
establishment of the Weimar Republic to use the Nazis in the same way. When you put
power-hungry people in charge of the levers of power, you shouldn't expect them to pull those
levers according to your instructions.
Trump was so uninformed about Washington that he never succeeded in appointing anyone to
his government, other than General Flynn (an immediate casualty of the Establishment) who
agreed with his agenda of normalizing relations with Russia, bringing the troops home from
the Middle East
I was totally opposed to the railroading of Flynn, and while it is true that he
represented a breath of fresh air on Syrian and Russian issues, unfortunately, he–like
pretty much everyone else in Washington–is an Iran-hawk. Thus, I doubt he was actually
in favor of a total ME pull-out, though it is probably true that he would have pulled us out
from Syria if he could have.
Because of his brash, entertaining style of hitting back against the entire
MSM, it seems so much easier now to spot the stringpullers and start connecting the dots. Why
does the media speak with one voice always in support of the Establishment? Why is everything
portrayed by them so falsely and one-sidededly? Who is benefitting from the trajectory being
so relentlessly pushed by them? I see Trump's legacy as having awakened a sleeping giant,
despite the many ways he betrayed the ideals of his moving inauguration speech. How will the
Establishment's coming suppression of free speech for the purpose of attempting to put this
genie back in the bottle be resisted?
Schulosi know that the 25th Amendment move could easily be foiled by Trump long enough to
run out the clock. What they really want and it is being loudly telegraphed in the media is
for Congress to go the Impeachment/removal/bar from future Federal office route as a
dubiously legal Bill of Attainder to prevent Trump from ever again ascending to the pinnacle
of power. Mr. Biden's remarks yesterday seem to suggest Mr. Trump is not going to get the
same professional courtesy that Mr. Trump showed to the Obama regime saboteurs who worked
from well before the 2016 and well into the Trump administration to bring it down.
Trump has been entertaining, much like the old train wreck shows in days of old, but now
he has to accept that his brand has been thoroughly derailed...
The mainstream media and the Harris/Biden gang won't leave Donald Trump and his family
peace until he is destroyed. Craig Roberts described in his excellent article that the script
transforms the US into a "benign" dictatorship. There won't ever be fair and democratic
elections in the so-called beacon of democracy. The Democrats, their Billionaire instigators,
and their storm troopers such as BLM and ANTIFA will transform the US into a living hell for
whites. The brainwashing of the public and the President's framing has been started with
Trump's victory over a corrupt and criminal Hillary Clinton in 2016. In retrospect, it will
look like a child's play what's in the offing for the country in the future.
What happened on Capitol Hill was people power. The phony US political class supported
people power in Georgia, Serbia, Belarus, Ukraine, Venezuela, Moldova, Iran, Hong Kong, to
name a few, not to forget the so-called color revolutions and the Arab spring that were
instigated and organized by George Soros' "Open Society," the CIA and their Western
intelligence supporters.
On every American, Gender ideology will be forced on them. If it doesn't work, reeducation
camps such as in North Korea will be welcome them.
Don't be naïve. Israel's self-proclaimed 'guardian,' Chuck Shumer, is now Senate
Majority Leader. The zio-state will do just fine. Wish I could say the same about my own
country.
I am not surprised by this. In fact, nothing that happens surprises me anymore. I expect
bad things to happen in a world like this.
Perhaps I can understand the thinking of Trump supporters such as the ones in the above
image. They believe that the electoral process has been subverted and that an election that
should have been Trump's has gone to Biden instead. They are outraged. They are rioting and
revolting in response. Unfortunately, these people are misguided.
1, Trump is a Snake and has been a HORRIBLE President. Why fight to defend him? I could
see defending him if he actually did something for America but he did nothing but Tweet. He
does not deserve another four years of the same.
2. The entire American political process is owned by Jewish interests. It was this way
long ago and it is certainly this way now. Whoever wins serves Jewish interests and the Jews
make damn well sure of it. Nobody who is hostile towards Jews stands of chance of getting in
the White House. Only Jewish puppets become President. So stop crying Trump supporters and
wake the fuck up.
3. There are reasons to Revolt against the System but this is not one of them. If you are
going to revolt, revolt for the right reason, not in defense of a lying Jewish scumbag like
Trump.
4. Trump is directly to blame for this violence. He incited his followers to do this and
then he accepts no blame for it afterwards. Very typical behavior for a lying narcissist like
Trump who wraps himself in the American Flag when he is really just a selfish Bastard who
wants to remain in the White House for his own Egotistical reasons.
5. As a former Trump supporter, all I can tell current Trump supporters is that you have
to wise up and realize that the man you are supporting is not worthy of being supported. You
have to wake up to Trump as I had to wake up. He is not who he says he is. He is a liar and
deceiver who plays on your ignorance and uses your Patriotism to get you to support him
personally. See through his con game.
6. I suspect that this rioting in Washington D.C. is not spontaneous but has been
carefully planned in advance by the Jews who use Trump Supporters the same way as they use
Antifa. Its all controlled opposition being used to sway the opinion of the American public
in a direction that the Jews will use in their favor to further divide Americans from each
other. IMO the above image was Staged meaning that these riots were planned and executed in
the same way as the George Floyd riots were. Never trust a lying scheming Jew not to be
one.
I agree with the writer of this comment and his criticism of Coulter. US subservience to
Israel began under harry Truman, who recognized Israel in 1948 with this comment: "I have
600,000 Jews and no Arabs." We have seen academia, politics, and industry all become
pro-Zionist despite Washington's comment in his Farewell Address that the US should not
became attached to any foreign nation or permanently hate any foreign nation. The hated
nation has become Russia, and the Democrats have blamed Russia for Trump. But it was
Americans who voted for Trump, and fortunately the EC went in his favor. No wonder Hillary
wants to abolish it.
After all of Trump's promises to "drain the swamp" and "make America great again" he's
managed only to usher in a post-democratic America. In typical Trump style he incited his
supporters and after promising to lead them not only abandoned them but disavowed them and
sent in the troops to quell them.
On the 20th Joe Biden will be inaugurated as president of the corpse of America.
Considering the shameful circumstances of his "victory" it will be fitting that he wears a
mask for the occasion.
@SamwiseGamgee
roy (the ones that, until recently, were independent and therefore a threat).
So, obviously from my last point, I'm not denying their destructive power. Not at all.
It's only too easy to see. I'm denying their ability to manage themselves now that there is
absolutely no obstacle to that power. No obstacle in the West, that is.
They might be partners in crime with The CCP. But it's a dependent relationship and in no
way a friendly one. No one kisses the ass of a friend. Say what you want about The CCP, it
does not, unlike the now completely defeated host populations of the West, strike one as
being all that into power-sharing.
As a final going away present Agent Orange turns on his own supporters. This fraud has no
right to complain about stolen elections or how Pence let him down. None of our problems will
be solved by voting.
You do know a guy name Milton Friedman was the architect for Reagan economics? For the
record we are currently living thru long term dystopia effects of Reagan economics.
Well I'm now depressed, and I voted for the color flag revolution. I didn't predict this
milquetoast one. The storming of the capital was kinda lame, although it did make me laugh.
Guess when you control both sides you really don't need to go hot. The deep staters must be
thrilled they could protect their left wing assets with this one by using Qtards instead.
However there are a lot of things that make you "hmm?". My favorite being the black cop and a
Maga protester doing a slow walk up some stairs with a guy above them taping everything. Odd
but hilarious. Speaking of odd, where were all the Proud Boys? Seems they went poof to live
another day.
Sadly the peculiar and unnecessary murder of Ashli Babbit seems to give Qanon life after
Trump with a martyr. Give the deep state credit they do think ahead. Guess I have cheered
myself up, apparently they aren't done with us yet. My guess is they still need us to keep
the lights on and sewer systems running. Also burly white dudes seem to be the preferred
choice for private security.
So CIA wins again. They stole the election and stuck Biden's reanimated corpse in there.
And now they'll shake him around like a Barbie and make him talk while they blow shit up.
All Trump did was tease them about killing JFK and knocking down the WTC, which everybody
already knows. And Trump wouldn't sit still for their brainwashing briefings, at first. Trump
was no Nixon, turning CIA inside out with Schlesinger at DCI. Trump had no one in congress
like Pike or even Church.
Back then CIA purged Nixon. Don Gregg threatened congress with martial law. And that was
nothing. Look what the ratfuckers at Langley were willing to do to get Trump out. They framed
Flynn to cut him off from Turmp. They took SARS-COV-2 off the shelf and used it on us,
destroyed the economy and killed us, 300 thousand of us and counting. They infected the whole
world to cover their tracks, killed 1.7 million human beings so far. CIA did everything they
could to start a war with Russia and called Trump a Russian agent, making shit up to frame
him too.
Now we see how CIA controls us. We know now that there is nothing CIA won't do to stay in
power. It's like Zappa said: when they were ready, they took away the stage set and left us
looking at a blank brick wall. It's like Rockefeller said: They Control it. All of it.
At this point, anybody who won't face this totalitarian state is not worth listening to
for a second, they're not worth a pound of warm shit. Prouty told you fifty years ago, the
whole world knows who runs this country. CIA.
So just cut the shit. Face facts. They stormed the wrong capitol. We can't escape. We need
the outside world to free us.
...Trump is a populist, not a revolutionary. And when faced with a revolution moment he
had no clue what else to do. I believe Trump supporters, the Deplorables, are the real
substantive patriots. They are sensible and want a stable America. Unfortunately their
opponents the Dems/Leftists and all other assorted groupings just want to win even if they
burn the whole of US. These people worship god of mammon and nothing else...
It seems to me the intent of the Trump supporters was merely to occupy the Capitol and
according to those who were interviewed "make their voices heard". I think those were the
words of Ashli Babbitt about an hour before she was gunned down by a black cop as well as a
few other interviews I came across.
That's neither intent to commit treason nor sedition. At most they are guilty of
trespassing on federal grounds which apparently is now a grievous federal offense if you hold
right of center political opinions. The person who killed a Capitol police officer and those
who destroyed property have some additional legal problems but that's still a far cry from
sedition.
But let's reverse all this and say that Trump was accused of stealing the election from
Joe Biden because of the suspicious and massive ballot dumps 95-100% for Trump in all
battleground states between 1am and 6:34am after election day along with other
irregularities. Then when legal remedies were sought the corrupt state and federal courts
refused to hear or allow discovery in the vast majority of them using "laches", standing and
other pretexts.
Radical left mobs would have stormed the capitol building and it would be encouraged and
supported by the media and all Democrats. Chris Cuomo or some other leftist shitlord would be
telling us that "this is what happens when Republicans steal an election." Republicans would
be so intimidated that they would probably overturn the election in favor of Joe Biden.
If a female black Biden protester was shot by a white Capitol cop then it would be "say
her name" and the white cop would be immediately fired and probably in FBI custody for a hate
crime. Blacks would destroy D.C. again while authorities did little.
@Katrinka PCR
thinks Trump is the victim of a color revolution when in fact Trump is leading a color
revolution.
The basis of a color revolution is a claim of a fraudulent election, this was the case in
Ukraine, Venezuela, and Belarus. It is Trump who claimed the election was fraudulent, and if
you follow StormFront you'll know that the Trumpers are now claiming that the entire voting
process in the US is a fraud and worthless.
In the US it is Trump and Trumpers like PCR who are now ripping apart the fabric of US
society, on the basis of endless allegations of a fraudulent election that evaporate with a
moments scrutiny.
The owners of America have decided. You plebes will do as you are told and the owners will
do what they want.
Trump's owners, the military industrial complex and the zionist lobby, have thrown him
under the bus. Bummer dude but you don't get to be "the one". It is so easy to manipulate ego
maniacs.
What deal did they cut with Biden's owners (media (all 6), med-mafia (pharma on top), tech
and CIA+lawfare (DOJ, FBI, IRS))?
1) Biden will NOT end the sanctions against Iran. He may say "we'll negotiate" but it will
drag on forever.
2) The MIC gets to keep the "civilian special forces" and most importantly control of the
NSA.
So after doing all the dirty work Trump gets thrown under the bus. LMAO. Will he be a
broken man like LBJ or Nixon or will he drift off into irrelevance like most of the rest?
transformation of the United States from a democracy accountable to the people to an
oligarchy of entrenched vested interests.
That transformation happened decades ago. The only difference is, in 2020 (both before the
elections and in November massive fraud) the beast showed its ugly mug more clearly than
before.
I haven't heard much about this charge being made by Maria Zack that an affidavit was
delivered yesterday concerning a whistleblower that allegedly was delivered to Kemp, Meadows.
It's about frankfurt and dominion software shenangians. I figured Lin Wood would know about
it if theres' anything here, but he's suspended from twitter.
"...the election wasn't "stolen". Down ballot republicans outperformed Trump. That's a
really, really difficult way to steal an election..." Lex@85
The Republicans steal elections regularly. They do so by suppressing votes from poor and
black areas, by disenfranchising millions of 'felons' (few of whom are actually guilty of
felony) and gerrymandering House seats. Of course they also gerrymander electoral districts
in the States too, which allows them to keep control.
The Democrats are no better. In fact they wrote the book on the arts of
disenfranchisement, from Gerry to Daley. Their specialty is ballot box stuffing.
The big difference is that this year the Republicans were confident that the usual
measures, which in the South include suppression of the black vote by intimidation,
(something that shows in the low level of black participation in rural areas and small
towns-where everyone knows what everyone else is doing and most employers are white) would do
the trick. It generally does because the Democrats are not really interested in taking power
at the State level or, for that matter, in Congress where-as the stimulus cheque and defence
budget votes showed- they find it embarrassing when they have to choose their oligarch
sponsors over their 'base. Obama was obviously relieved when in 2010 the Republicans swept
the mid term elections and took the "Change" he had been elected on off the agenda. After
that he just cruised through his last six years governing like his hero Reagan.
It is one of the most potent myths being manufactured by the media that the election this
year was fair. It wasn't. The need for reform, beginning with the re-empowerment of the Civil
Rights Act enforcement mechanisms, is something that must be imposed on the Democrats, who
will fight against it because their control over the southern black vote depends on the
maintenance of the current system.
And then there are the obvious and major Constitutional changes needed- the closing of the
Electoral College system; the Senate, where it is possible for something like 20% of the
electorate to control the majority of the 100 seats, has to be changed. Its current position
is that of the British House of Lords in 1832.
All the sound and the fury of this very suspicious looking 'riot' shouldn't be allowed to
block out the reality which is that, Trump or Biden, nothing is changed. The Biden
administration is likely to be every bit as bad as Trump's, only the media will love it.
In the real world there is frustration. And it is entirely justified-living standards are
plummeting and pessimism about the future is prevalent. But revolutions don't come from anger
they come from reform movements stymied: when people realise that the only hope of any change
is complete change-revolution- and feel ready to take the reins of power into their own
hands, that is when revolutions occur.
"Realise" is the key word. Political consciousness means understanding of reality, not belief
in weird and unsupportable theories whether they involve God or The Jews or oligarchical
cabals intent on buying up small businesses by inventing pandemics or secret moves to smuggle
microchips into brains to turn humanity into zombies. And the reality is that we live in a
capitalist empire dominated by the determination of the exploiting class to protect its
system from the threat, long understood but only ever realised episodically, of democracy. Of
equality. Of liberty and treating each other as the siblings, parents and children that we
all are.
"... Democrats decisively outraised their opponents, giving them a critical edge. Ossoff outraised Perdue by $138 million to $89 million while Warnock received $124 million to Loeffler's $92 million. With over 98% of the votes counted, Warnock has been declared the winner, with 50.6% of the vote. Ossoff, meanwhile, is all but assured of winning as well, and has already declared victory. ..."
"... Thus, both contests have conformed to political scientist Thomas Ferguson's "Golden Rule" of politics: that the party that spends the most almost always wins the election. Ferguson's 1995 thesis , "The Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems," argued that elections are essentially contests between rival big businesses and that the two political parties compete to serve those who pay them, not the public. Nearly 20 years later, a University of Princeton study of 1,779 policy issues found that, ..."
"... Economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence." ..."
"... Data from the Center for Responsive Politics shows that, since 2000, the candidate spending the most money has won between 70% and 98% of their races in the House or Senate ..."
"... the real winners in this election were corporate America, who could not lose, whoever won. ..."
In order to beat GOP incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in the Georgia Senate
elections, Democrats had to spend big, raising hundreds of millions of dollars in the
process.
The two Georgia Senate elections -- called today for the Democrats -- were easily the most
costly in history, amounting to nearly $830 million in total ($468 million for the race between
Democrat Joey Ossoff and Republican David Perdue and more than $361 million for the special
election between Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock and Republican Kelly Loeffler.
The Democrats' massive war chest came in no small part from hefty contributions from
corporate America. According to data from the Center for
Responsive Politics , tech companies rallied around the Democratic challengers, plying the
two campaigns with millions of dollars. Alphabet Inc., Google's parent organization, was the
largest single source of funds, their PACs, shareholders, or employees donating almost $1
million to Ossoff's campaign alone with other big tech companies cracking his top ten, all with
hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of donations from the like of Apple, Microsoft, Amazon,
Facebook, and AT&T. The rest of the top ten were made up by universities.
The Republican candidates also relied on large corporations for much of their funding.
Perdue's biggest donors included Delta Airlines, Home Depot, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of
America, while Loeffler was generously supported by oil and chemical giant Koch Industries as
well as a number of financial institutions like Ryan LLC and Blackstone Group.
However, Democrats decisively outraised their opponents, giving them a critical edge.
Ossoff outraised Perdue by $138 million to $89 million while Warnock received $124 million to
Loeffler's $92 million. With over 98% of the votes counted, Warnock has been declared the
winner, with 50.6% of the vote. Ossoff, meanwhile, is all but assured of winning as well, and
has
already declared victory.
Thus, both contests have conformed to political scientist Thomas Ferguson's "Golden
Rule" of politics: that the party that spends the most almost always wins the election.
Ferguson's 1995 thesis , "The Golden
Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political
Systems," argued that elections are essentially contests between rival big businesses and that
the two political parties compete to serve those who pay them, not the public. Nearly 20 years
later, a University of Princeton
study of 1,779 policy issues found that,
Economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial
independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest
groups have little or no independent influence."
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Empirical evidence seems to support this notion. Data from the Center for
Responsive Politics shows that, since 2000, the candidate spending the most money has won
between 70% and 98% of their races in the House or Senate
The 2020 election was already by far the most expensive in history, even before the Georgia
numbers were added into the mix. The sums of $468 million and $361 million are comfortably
higher than any of those from two months ago, the most expensive of which was the $299 million
contest in North Carolina between Thom Tillis (Republican) and Cal Cunningham (Democrat).
Many were heralding the Democratic upset in Georgia as the start of a new era and a victory
against racism and hate. "The votes of Black people have been suppressed in this nation for a
very long time. This is the dawning of a new day," said Bernice King, daughter of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Warnock, who will become the state's first black senator, agreed.
"Tonight we proved that with hope, hard work, and the people by our side, anything is possible
All of us have a choice to make; will we continue to divide, distract and dishonor one another,
or will we love our neighbors as we love ourselves?" he said in his victory speech.
Yet while corporations continue to have such an outsized role in funding both major
political parties, it is unclear whether substantive change is even possible. The debate over
whether this represents a victory for racial justice can be had, but what seems unmistakable is
that the real winners in this election were corporate America, who could not lose, whoever
won.
Feature photo | Senate candidate Jon Ossoff introduces President-elect Joe Biden in Atlanta,
Jan. 4, 2021, as he campaigns for Raphael Warnock and Ossoff. Carolyn Kaster | AP
"... A Twitter user named Joe Oltmann had tweeted a few screenshots of a Facebook user posting Antifa manifestos and songs about killing police. The Facebook account belonged to Eric Coomer, and Oltmann claimed it was the same Eric Coomer who is the Director of Product Strategy and Security for Dominion Voting Systems. Within hours of Oltmann posting the information, however, the Facebook page of Eric Coomer was taken down, so I was unable to verify that Antifa Coomer and Dominion Coomer were the same person. By the end of the day, Joe Oltmann's Twitter account was suspended as well. I had followed his feed throughout the day. I can say with certainty that he posted nothing remotely offensive or provocative. I have no doubt whatsoever that Twitter suspended him for posting the screenshots of Coomer's Facebook page. Interesting. ..."
"... Of course none of this proves any fraud took place, but we deserve some answers ..."
"... Having potentially tens of millions of people doubting results in a half-dozen different states thanks to the same company running machines in all of them is an unprecedentedly serious problem, whether or not their doubts are well-founded. ..."
"... platforms like Twitter and WordPress would do well to consider that censorship of people discussing Dominion and its employees is likely to have the opposite effect that they think it will ..."
"... in Georgia the voter signature validation was usurped for mail in ballots, allowing anyone with a mail in ballot to vote. ..."
"... There are ample undercover videos of union postal workers selling mail in ballots. ..."
"... The secretary of state usurped the law in Georgia, telling polling places to ignore the requirement to verify signatures of mail in ballots. The signatures are compared to the drivers license database. The democrats (Stacey Abrams) worked with the secretary of state to have such voting controls removed so the system could be easily frauded. ..."
"... if you think the cost of recounts is high, wait till you get a load of the cost of the electorate's lack of confidence in the election process. That cost will be measured in human lives. ..."
"... But the Russians! Not my President. Resistance. Years of investigations into gossip columnist Steele's paid report to the Democrats. ..."
Whether or not the company's machines were misused, it poses structural risks, and
suppressing criticism will make Trump supporters even more dubious
t is unlikely that many of the 73 million people who cast ballots for Donald Trump in 2020
will ever accept the legitimacy of his loss. Who could convince them? If the media sources
demanding Trump's concession held any sway with Trump's voters, they would not have been his
voters. They do not know for sure that the election was stolen, but they do know with apodictic
certainty that the media would lie to them if it was. So if Donald Trump says the election was
stolen, that's good enough for the Deplorables.
Yet even the President's most faithful must have flinched at his recent tweet accusing a
leading manufacturer of voting machines of committing election fraud on a mass scale.
It is hard to overstate the irresponsibility of broadcasting such a serious accusation
without proof. It shocked me, and my startle response has become pretty desensitized over the
last four years. Sure, it turned out Trump was right when he accused the Obama administration
of spying on his 2016 campaign, but this is different. Dominion Voting Systems is not staffed
with Obama appointees, after all. I decided to poke around a bit to see what, if anything,
could possibly be behind Trump's wild accusation.
A Twitter user named Joe Oltmann had tweeted a few screenshots of a Facebook user posting
Antifa manifestos and songs about killing police. The Facebook account belonged to Eric Coomer,
and Oltmann claimed it was the same Eric Coomer who is the Director of Product Strategy and
Security for Dominion Voting Systems. Within hours of Oltmann posting the information, however,
the Facebook page of Eric Coomer was taken down, so I was unable to verify that Antifa Coomer
and Dominion Coomer were the same person. By the end of the day, Joe Oltmann's Twitter account
was suspended as well. I had followed his feed throughout the day. I can say with certainty
that he posted nothing remotely offensive or provocative. I have no doubt whatsoever that
Twitter suspended him for posting the screenshots of Coomer's Facebook page. Interesting.
Searching around some more, I found that Dominion Coomer is an avid climber who used to post
frequently on climbing message boards under his own name. He confirmed it himself in a post
where he mentioned getting his nuclear physics Ph.D from Berkeley in 1997. Dominion's Eric
Coomer received his nuclear physics Ph.D from Berkeley in 1997. In another post on the same
message board, Coomer gave out his email address. It was his old campus address from the
Berkeley nuclear physics department. I plugged that email address into the Google machine, and
things got weird.
I found Eric Coomer had a long history of posting on websites for skinheads. He was a heavy
user of a Google Group for skinheads, and seems to have possibly been a content moderator for
papaskin.com. Only these aren't the neo-Nazis our mothers warned us about. These skinheads call
themselves SHARPs, or Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice. Think of them as a sort of punk rock
Antifa. In 2012, roughly 18 SHARPs attacked a smaller group of suspected racists in a Chicago
restaurant with bats and batons. That same year, three neo-Nazis were charged for the 1998
double murder of two SHARPs in Nevada.
Given that Dominion's Director of Security and Strategy, Eric Coomer, was an enthusiast of a
street fighting anti-racist skinhead culture going back at least into the 1990s, it seems very
likely that Joe Oltmann was correct in identifying him as the Facebook user recently endorsing
Antifa and posting anti-police rhetoric. I shared this information on a few message boards to
let other people run with it. Within hours, Papa Skin, a skinhead website which had been up for
over 20 years, was taken offline. (Whoever took it down missed the FAQ page, you can find it
here http://www.papaskin.com/faq/faqs.html ).
Of course none of this proves any fraud took place, but we deserve some answers. One need
only imagine if it was Joe Biden contesting the election results, and the Director for Strategy
& Security at a major voting machine provider turned out to be a Proud Boy with decades of
involvement in extremist, even violent, right wing political groups. Democrats would rightly
point out that this person endorses engaging in illegal behavior to achieve political goals.
They would ask how such a person ended up in such an important position of public trust, and
what it might say about the procedures in place to ensure Dominion's responsibilities are
handled in good faith.
Another reality of the Dominion fiasco, whether or not there was any fraud using its
machines, is the structural risk created by having the same company run machines in more than
two dozen states. If there were glitchy machines causing a dispute in one state, like
Democrats' claims about Diebold machines in Ohio in 2004, and even if that dispute led to
competing slates of electors, that is something the American political system has seen and
withstood before. Having potentially tens of millions of people doubting results in a
half-dozen different states thanks to the same company running machines in all of them is an
unprecedentedly serious problem, whether or not their doubts are well-founded.
Moreover, platforms like Twitter and WordPress would do well to consider that censorship of
people discussing Dominion and its employees is likely to have the opposite effect that they
think it will: Twitter bans, site removals, and wiping of bios from websites are only going to
make Trump's hardcore supporters think Dominion has something to hide. You can't make
disagreements go away by banning one side and pretending there is unanimity.
Darryl Cooper is the host of the MartyrMade podcast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
You may have to work on your awareness. And a full audit of the whole process is definitely a
lot more than some random spot.
The list you just linked showed that most states conduct routine audits of races.
The only states that don't seem to are deep red ones.
Spot audits are a valid way of discovering errors. If every state had to do full recounts for
every single race, the cost to taxpayers would be enormous and wasteful.
...Places like Georgia where Ds destroyed the system by actually eliminating audit... they just
run exactly the same fake ballots through they ran the first time... & they had a
'signature verification' & they didn't even turn the machine on.
There are three obvious methods of election fraud occurring in 2020
1) canvasing, where those canvasing voters holding mail in ballots are convincing them to
change their vote from republican to democrat, then paying them with what amounts to
trinkets. (flash light, pocket knife, tee shirt, those sorts of things)
2) Voting machine weighted votes, which occurs in republican heavy precincts using the Banzhaf Power Index. This system counts votes in decimals less than and greater than one for
each vote. An example would be weighting republican votes where each republican vote would
count 0.75, meaning 4 voters are necessary to achieve a vote of 3. (1.5 + 1.5 = 3), the
weighted scale increases as the number of votes increase. This is known as vote
redistribution. In essence a system such as this cold require(at 0.25) 200k republican votes
to equal 50k democrat votes
3) Mail in ballots which are rife with fraud of many types
That's not reality for SCOTUS. They don't make those kinds of rulings. What I would expect
from a majority opinion if they believed there was substantive fraud that was sufficient to
overturn the election results, would go like this: "Based upon the quantity and quality of
indicia for illegal ballots being counted, it is the opinion of the court that states X,Y,Z,
etc., cannot certify their election results based upon the election held on 3 NOV 20.
Accordingly, this case is remanded to the respective state legislatures for cure."
So what can the state legislatures do in accordance with Article II and the 12th
Amendment? They can try to do a revote, but that is nearly impossible given the time
constraints required by law. They can in many of these states appoint electors independently
of the vote held on 3 NOV 20. Keep in mind, not every state permits such a role for the
legislature. I don't see that happening, since the **perception** will be that they
disenfranchised all of the state's voters. The only logical outcome is all of those
respective states will not be able to certify their elections. As such, the 12th Amendment is
instructive here. At that point, Congress will decide who becomes president. This also
happened in the 1801 and 1825. Each state delegation gets exactly **one** vote. Since
republicans control 26 of the 50 state delegations, you can guess how that vote might
tilt.
Isn't that preciously what your radical Dem brothers and sisters are up to hoping to snag
the Senate via Georgia on Jan 4th so that a one party America exists indefinitely? You are
"projecting" what your ilk is actually hoping to accomplish. 'Jeepers', yeah jeepers is
right. Nice try though.
You may want to read the complaint and resulting law suit filed by Lin Wood related to
Georgia mail in ballots. It eliminates your assumptions with fact. Yes, in Georgia the voter
signature validation was usurped for mail in ballots, allowing anyone with a mail in ballot
to vote.There are ample undercover videos of union postal workers selling mail in ballots.
Further there are many cases where mail in ballots were requested then the voter showed up at
the polls to physically vote. The voter indicating they had never requested a mail in ballot.
Plenty of documented cases, all you need do is look past you keyboard and tater chip
bag...
The secretary of state usurped the law in Georgia, telling polling places to ignore the
requirement to verify signatures of mail in ballots. The signatures are compared to the
drivers license database. The democrats (Stacey Abrams) worked with the secretary of state to
have such voting controls removed so the system could be easily frauded.
Audits will work if cross auditing is randomly performed and auditors have the authority
to either close the polls or invalidate the poll count based upon their discoveries.
Austin Texas = Kelly Reagan Brunner who was working at a Supported Living Center for
senior citizens has been arrested and charged with more than 100 counts of voter fraud. (She
was canvassing and changing votes).
Erie county elections, Poll worker posts on twitter about him throwing out Trump
votes.
7 Wards in Milwaukee report more votes than actual registered voters
Republican poll watchers prevented from entering Detroit poll counting center. official
states COVID 19 as their reason.
MIT scientists find objective evidence of vote tallies being forced negatively away for
the statistical mean by vote software. This was discovered in several states.
And on and on and on .........a landslide of objective evidence.
I'll tell you what Prof., if you think the cost of recounts is high, wait till you get a
load of the cost of the electorate's lack of confidence in the election process. That cost
will be measured in human lives.
But the Russians! Not my President. Resistance. Years of investigations into gossip
columnist Steele's paid report to the Democrats.
How could anybody with a brain in their head have ever taken Steele seriously? OK, he did
speak to a Yank who was once a Russian.
There was also a news aggregator run by Russians just as there are others run by other
humans. Only racists think that free speech should be restricted to Yanks.
[email protected]
Have you not been paying attention? The Dems states threw all election safeguards/checks
and balances in the garbage like the USPS workers did, and some claim poll workers did. Experts have done audits of the voting in swing states/counties and found highly
improbable vote counts......So.......
The one and only difference between Democrats and Republicans is that one or the other, depending on the circumstance, prefers
to drive the handcart to hell we are riding on a little slower, or faster if you prefer. The destination remains the same. They
both use the same gang of armed goons to enforce their insanity.
"... So, IMO, as far as swamps go, Trump only wants a straight orange one, ..."
"... People who wrote the 'Verschärfte Vernehmung' rules in nazi Germany were, if caught, sent to jail or hanged. Yoo and Gonzales, in contrast, got well paid academic jobs, no prosecution at all - instead they advise Trump. It's a nightmare to think that such people now train (and worse than that - influence) students today. ..."
IMO that's an ugly and likely criminal demand. But then, Trump has a coat of arms, with the
motto "Numquam concedere" (Never concede). Obviously.
Mr. Raffensperger said that the votes, as counted, liked by Trump or not, are correct and
have been counted three times already. Well, living in alternate reality, Trump doesn't
care.
Given Trump's personal of style, he's in for being insulted as a swamp RINO, disloyal to
Trump personally and ... (if he was a woman) also ugly, facelift wreck, fat and stupid. Also,
Trump is likely to support any competitor to him, as long as he, she or it has one head and can
breathe.
Good luck for him. He'll need it since as a result of such enthusiastic trumperey
Raffensperger now needs body guards, police protection and had a number of death threats. Some
nut encouraged by stuff like that may just kill him.
As for Assange, those who would like vengeance on him can live easy with that since the UK
prison conditions are about as comfortable as Guantanamo, though without wall slamming,
waterboarding and that other physical and psychological desruction enhanced
interrogation-ery.
People who wrote the 'Verschärfte Vernehmung' rules in nazi Germany were, if caught,
sent to jail or hanged. Yoo and Gonzales, in contrast, got well paid academic jobs, no
prosecution at all - instead they advise Trump. It's a nightmare to think that such people now
train (and worse than that - influence) students today.
"... From 4 November 2020, the day after the election, until he left office on 23 December, Attorney General William Barr did nothing about electoral problems. The DOJ could have started grand juries in multiple suspect states when anamolies began to appear the week of the election, but did zero. When President Trump nominated Barr on 7 December 2018, I was very surprised, because of some of Barr's prior legal positions and associations. But that is another story. ..."
"... At the time of the 2020 election, mail-in and absentee voting had been greatly expanded, which has led to massive problems and some discussion. But the biggest danger which has received little exposure in mass media is in electronic voting and counting machines. In an electronic voting machine, the hidden electronic processes become the ballot -- not "your ballot" -- and the tabulation of ballots is also done by hidden electronic processes. No audit trail is possible. If a machine prints out a receipt with a bar code on it, that is not a ballot and it cannot be part of an audit. An audit requires original documents and items for every step in a process. ..."
"... The voting machine companies like to say their computer software code is "proprietary" and cannot be made public, and the stupid state and local governments seem to go along with it. Even if software source code is revealed in secret to a state agency, it can be changed later to permit fraud, and the governments will not know it. ..."
"... The problem of electronic voting machines was started and promoted nationwide in 2002 by Congress in the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) [3]. It promised states federal tax money if the states would implement some of its laughable "standards". Around 2004 or so, a group in San Antonio talked to me about the machines and a legal case, and I drafted a lawsuit paper to file and obtained an expert witness. But then the county's governing body offered them some money to educate voters about electronic voting machines, and they decided to not proceed with a case. At that time, the county election administration had electronic machines, and a maintenance contract that was expensive, but nothing remotely like the racket that exists today. Electronic voting machines are big business. Georgia paid at least $100 million for the Dominion voting machines it used in the 2020 elections, and New Jersey may pay from $60 to $80 million dollars or more to update its voting machines [4]. ..."
"... Peter Navarro is an Assistant to President Trump and Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, where he has consistently tried to rebuild domestic manufacturing and jobs, and cancel existing bad policies that favored China over U.S. jobs and industry. He has written two excellent booklets about problems with the 2020 presidential election. "The Immaculate Deception: Six Key Dimensions of Election Irregularities", and "The Art of the Steal: Volume 2 of the Navarro Report" [5] ..."
"... Election management systems, starting with Diebold, were it appears, specifically designed to do just that; manage elections. That this started in the export market as a foreign policy tool and has now come home to roost is all too symptomatic of other such dark practices, such as the information warfare and PSYOPS we are seeing much in evidence in what is left of politics in America. The resultant corrosive effect on democracy is near terminal - how many Trump supporters will believe a Warnock win was fair? ..."
"... As of this writing it looks like the election theft system put in place in Georgia is working as planned to ensure a Uniparty victory for the Democrats. The GOP will of course blame Trump and his supporters and go back to rolling in the grift over to Landslide Joe and the woman who couldn't win a single delegate. ..."
When using electronic voting machines you do not vote. Election workers do not count the votes.
Everybody knows that a valid election has three parts: qualified, eligible voters are listed; an eligible voter expresses a legal
vote on a ballot; and the votes are counted accurately. For a small organization or club, this is easy. All the candidates and voters
are in one room and everybody knows everyone else. Each member writes the name of their choice on a piece of paper and folds it over,
the votes are put in a box, and then the votes are opened and counted in front of everybody. Everything is done in the same room.
A local, state, or national election has the same parts, but with many more voters, and voting and counting locations, it is spread
out over a much bigger area. Many things are a system, including your cardiovascular system [1]. But since an election as a system
is created by people, it is amateurish and simple compared to the sophisticated cardiovascular system. Despite its simplicity, there
is little or no "transparency", today's trendy term. Because of human nature and the money and authority available through a government,
an enormous incentive is created to rig and cheat in an election.
Documents attached to various lawsuits, other information, and the blocking of public examination of ballots and electronic voting
and counting machines are showing huge problems and fraud in the November 2020 general election in an amount that can affect the
result. But those with the authority to do the most the fastest are so far doing nothing, from the federal Department That Calls
Itself Justice (DOJ), to local District Attorneys.
The Attorney General and the U.S. Attorneys in the 94 federal districts have a lightening bolt in their hands. Federal grand jury
subpoenas are nationwide in scope. A grand jury does not just issue formal criminal charges, it can also investigate, under the age-old
rationale that "the public is entitled to every man's evidence". Unlike the FBI, which is required by policy to have a factual "predicate"
before it can open an investigation, a grand jury is in no way limited. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1992 made clear that "the grand
jury can investigate merely on suspicion that the law is being violated, or even because it wants assurance that it is not" [2]--
"The grand jury's functional independence from the Judicial Branch is evident both in the scope of its power to investigate criminal
wrongdoing and in the manner in which that power is exercised. Unlike [a] [c]ourt, whose jurisdiction is predicated upon a specific
case or controversy, the grand jury can investigate merely on suspicion that the law is being violated, or even because it wants
assurance that it is not. It need not identify the offender it suspects, or even the precise nature of the offense it is investigating.
The grand jury requires no authorization from its constituting court to initiate an investigation, nor does the prosecutor require
leave of court to seek a grand jury indictment. And in its day-to-day functioning, the grand jury generally operates without the
interference of a presiding judge. It swears in its own witnesses, and deliberates in total secrecy" [citations in this passage are
omitted].
From 4 November 2020, the day after the election, until he left office on 23 December, Attorney General William Barr did nothing
about electoral problems. The DOJ could have started grand juries in multiple suspect states when anamolies began to appear the week
of the election, but did zero. When President Trump nominated Barr on 7 December 2018, I was very surprised, because of some of Barr's
prior legal positions and associations. But that is another story.
At the time of the 2020 election, mail-in and absentee voting had been greatly expanded, which has led to massive problems
and some discussion. But the biggest danger which has received little exposure in mass media is in electronic voting and counting
machines. In an electronic voting machine, the hidden electronic processes become the ballot -- not "your ballot" -- and the tabulation
of ballots is also done by hidden electronic processes. No audit trail is possible. If a machine prints out a receipt with a bar
code on it, that is not a ballot and it cannot be part of an audit. An audit requires original documents and items for every step
in a process.
The voting machine companies like to say their computer software code is "proprietary" and cannot be made public, and the
stupid state and local governments seem to go along with it. Even if software source code is revealed in secret to a state agency,
it can be changed later to permit fraud, and the governments will not know it.
The problem of electronic voting machines was started and promoted nationwide in 2002 by Congress in the Help America Vote
Act (HAVA) [3]. It promised states federal tax money if the states would implement some of its laughable "standards". Around 2004
or so, a group in San Antonio talked to me about the machines and a legal case, and I drafted a lawsuit paper to file and obtained
an expert witness. But then the county's governing body offered them some money to educate voters about electronic voting machines,
and they decided to not proceed with a case. At that time, the county election administration had electronic machines, and a maintenance
contract that was expensive, but nothing remotely like the racket that exists today. Electronic voting machines are big business.
Georgia paid at least $100 million for the Dominion voting machines it used in the 2020 elections, and New Jersey may pay from $60
to $80 million dollars or more to update its voting machines [4].
Before the 2008 general election, I wrote an editorial about problems with electronic voting machines to the main newspaper in
Bexar County, Texas, which had a population at that time of about 1,622,899. It was accepted for publication, but then I was told
that a person higher up at the paper ordered it killed and that it not be published, because it was "too controversial".
Two years ago I wrote an article on the issue, emphasizing that the electronic machines were more of a problem than the hot issue
of the day, voter identification cards. But since then, I have changed my opinion because absentee and mail-in voting have greatly
expanded to the point where voter ID and verification is now just as big a problem as the electronic voting and counting machines
are.
Peter Navarro is an Assistant to President Trump and Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, where he has
consistently tried to rebuild domestic manufacturing and jobs, and cancel existing bad policies that favored China over U.S. jobs
and industry. He has written two excellent booklets about problems with the 2020 presidential election. "The Immaculate Deception:
Six Key Dimensions of Election Irregularities", and "The Art of the Steal: Volume 2 of the Navarro Report" [5]:
Congress is to meet on Wednesday, 6 January 2021 to count electoral votes from the meetings of the Electoral College on 14 December
2020. The National Archives is involved first [6]
"The Office of the Federal Register (OFR) is a part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and, on behalf
of the Archivist of the United States, coordinates certain functions of the Electoral College between the States and Congress.
Acting as an intermediary, it reviews the Certificates of Ascertainment and Vote before Congress accepts them as evidence of official
State action in preparation for the counting of electoral votes in Congress".
The National Archives Internet website also has information from its work on the 2020 election, and links to the certificates
of each Electoral College meeting from the states [7].
Some members of Congress are posturing or squirming as problems with the election have not gone away in favor of business as usual.
But resistance on the big day of 6 January to voting fraud requires that the member put his or her name to a writing objecting to
the electoral votes from the six most problematic states: Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada.
But under the cover provided by media publicity, the vapid statements of 12 Senators are loaded with mushy language. Senator Josh
Hawley (Repub. Missouri) says he will:
"... object to highlight the failure of some states, including notably Pennsylvania [but not others?], to follow their own
election laws .... He will call for Congress to launch a full investigation of potential fraud and election irregularities and
enact election integrity measures" [8].
Republican Senators Ted Cruz (Texas), Ron Johnson (Wisconsin), James Lankford (Oklahoma), Steve Daines (Montana), John Kennedy
(Louisiana), Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee), and Mike Braun (Indiana), and Senators-Elect Cynthia Lummis (Wyoming), Roger Marshall
(Kansas), Bill Hagerty (Tennessee), and Tommy Tuberville (Alabama) in their statement bloviate for 12 paragraphs before saying--
"Accordingly, we intend to vote on January 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not 'regularly given' and 'lawfully
certified' (the statutory requisite), unless and until that emergency 10-day audit is completed" [9].
They then say,
"We are not naive. We fully expect most if not all Democrats, and perhaps more than a few Republicans, to vote otherwise".
Yes, you are not naive, but you are con-men and con-women. You declare that:
"Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct
an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the
Commission's findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed".
So, Senator Ted Cruz et. al. You think you are going to set up a commission, after detailing in writing its "investigatory and
fact-finding authority", and carefully audit the "election returns" in the form of millions of votes. All in 10 days, by the 20th
of January.
And you 12 bulls**t artists said an audit would be only of "election returns", and would not include a forensic examination of
thousands of electronic voting machines, when so far their manufacturers, along with governors and state election officials, have
constantly worked to block any examination or monitoring of them. In case you Senators do not know it, computer software on an electronic
voting machine operates secretly with zero transparency.
U.S. Representative Mo Brooks (Repub. Alabama) stepped up to the plate and has been in the forefront challenging the election
results and the resulting Electoral College votes. He has said that more than 36 members of the House have signed to dispute the
voting results in the six states in question.
Brooks then exposed the 12 strutting senators plus Senator Kelly Loeffler (Repub. Georgia) as snakes in the grass, since as of
the time of his writing, only three have actually signed onto an objection, and that was to only one state apiece and not to all
six states: Cruz has objected to Arizona, Hawley has objected to Pennsylvania, and Loeffler has objected to Georgia [10].
The only solution is for all votes to be on paper ballots that are counted by hand, and for Congress to repeal the Help America
Vote Act.
The subject known as industrial engineering deals with designing the physical actions that are to be used to do a particular task.
The military and intelligence agencies have developed procedures to create, handle, and transmit information in a secure way. High
resolution cameras are now inexpensive with multiple features and can be used in vehicles [11]. You can carefully select a print
shop to print the ballots, with controls and cameras to monitor their placement at polling places.
These resources can create a legitimate paper-based election system, and will not cost $100 million or more for electronic machines
for one state.
The German Constitutional Court declared electronic voting machines illegal in March 2009 [12].
Congress is the culprit pushing and providing money to promote electronic voting machines starting with the HAVA law in 2002.
Politicians and bureaucracies do not want to admit they were wrong or made a mistake.
When electronic voting machines are used, voters no longer mark their ballots. Local election officials no longer count them.
Devices created and programmed out of public view do it. No genuine recount or audit is possible. Any fraud is undetectable, or almost
so after a time-consuming examination.
The perfect crime, except it is not a crime.
It is all legal, or so the U.S. Congress has tried to say.
And no voting procedures -- including the use of electronic voting and counting machines -- were changed before the runoff elections
for two U.S. Senators in Georgia on 5 January.
A few things still trouble me that don't appear in any later dicussions of this topic, including this very good one:
The fact just about every other European country and other industrialized nations now prohibit 'electronic voting" in their
federal elections, due to inherent ability to corrupt outcomes. Claims "electronic voting" undermines election integrity and thereby voter trust. Which they seem to value more than the US.
Hilary Clinton's recovered email around the time of the Haiti earthquake where she touts the use of Dominion Voting Systems
to someone else, because she assured them they provide "very happy results".
An excellent post Mr Willmann. I wholeheartedly agree with your views on electronic vote counting, the words "voting" and "machine"
must be separated, for good.
Election management systems, starting with Diebold, were it appears, specifically designed to do just that; manage elections.
That this started in the export market as a foreign policy tool and has now come home to roost is all too symptomatic of other
such dark practices, such as the information warfare and PSYOPS we are seeing much in evidence in what is left of politics in
America. The resultant corrosive effect on democracy is near terminal - how many Trump supporters will believe a Warnock win was
fair?
As your personal experience attests, interest in free and fair elections can be trumped by cold hard cash. And rather than
be innocently unaware of the implications of introducing electronic voting, at least some state authorities seem to have been
suspiciously desperate to get systems put in with no regard for conducting the appropriate due diligence.
The "much bigger area" you describe is a logistical headache, but last I checked liberty wasn't easily achieved. In the recent
Federal elections I am reading that this area may extend out all the way to Rome. More on that will come out soon perhaps.
I too was puzzled by Barr & the DOJ's inaction wrt evident widespread election fraud...
As of this writing it looks like the election theft system put in place in Georgia is working as planned to ensure a
Uniparty victory for the Democrats. The GOP will of course blame Trump and his supporters and go back to rolling in the
grift over to Landslide Joe and the woman who couldn't win a single delegate.
The Capitol building was placed on lockdown, with senators and members of the House locked
inside their chambers, as Congress began debating President-elect Joe Biden's victory. President
Trump addressed supporters near the White House before protesters marched to Capitol Hill.
...the action hardens the bitter partisanship in Congress and is bound to leave millions of
voters questioning the legitimacy of Biden's victory in the November presidential election.
... More than a thousand people gathered at a park south of the White House before dawn on
Wednesday. At least three separate pro-Trump rallies are expected in Washington. Lawmakers have
been given security instructions, including using underground tunnels between chambers in the
Capitol and to nearby office buildings. The city of Washington has activated the National
Guard, and many local businesses boarded up their doors and windows in anticipation of possible
violence
The lawmakers objecting on Wednesday are poised to form the core of the anti-Biden group in
the new Congress, where they will likely urge GOP leaders to refuse any deals with a president
they consider illegitimate.
... Josh Hawley, a Republican of Missouri, was the first senator to indicate that he would
join the effort to challenge the results. Since then, several other senators, including Ted
Cruz of Texas and GOP Republicans elected to the chamber for the first time in November, have
indicated they would support the effort unless there is an investigation of the voting
process.
@ v | Jan 6 2021 21:18 utc | 37 who wrote
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Some MAGA nutter has just announced that the Kansas State Capitol has been taken over.
"
The interesting thing to me has always been that if you get the nutters on both sides of
the mythological left/right to say how they feel about the private bankers, you know, the
top/bottom reality we live in, they both agree that private banking is bad. But we can't have
that coming to the fore especially in the face of the China example of public banking.
So its MAGA, USA, MAGA, USA, MAGA, USA forever, or until another narrative gripping
opportunity comes along or is manufactured.
US Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is calling out her party for pushing through a
new code of conduct that essentially denies women exist by requiring gender-neutral language in
Congressional rules.
"It's the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for
women to deny the very biological existence of women," Gabbard said on Monday night in an
interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
New guidelines introduced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday and passed Monday by
Congress in a party-line vote endeavor to "honor all gender identities" by making all
pronouns and references to familial relationships gender-neutral. For instance, "seamen"
has been changed to "seafarers," and House rules have been scrubbed of such words as
"father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister.""Aunt" and "uncle" will be
replaced by "parent's sibling." Lawmakers also must inculcate such words as
"parent-in-law,""stepsibling" and "sibling's child" to replace
"mother-in-law,""stepsister" and "niece.""He" or "she" references to House
members are instead "such member,""delegate" or "resident commissioner."
"It's mind-blowing because it shows just how out of touch with reality and the struggles
of everyday Americans people in Congress are," Gabbard said. "Also, their first act as
this new Congress could have been to make sure that elderly Americans are able to get the COVID
vaccine now , but instead of doing something that could actually help save people's lives,
they're choosing instead to say, 'Well, you can't say mother of father in any of this
congressional language.' It's astounding."
Congress also has made permanent its Office of Diversity and now requires all committees to
discuss in their oversight plans how they will address "inequities on the basis of race,
color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age or
national origin." Committees also must "survey the diversity of witness panels at
committee hearings to ensure we are hearing from diverse groups of experts as we craft
legislation."
Gabbard has run afoul of Democratic Party orthodoxy repeatedly in the past two years,
opposing the impeachment of President Donald Trump, speaking out against election fraud,
opposing regime-change wars and blasting the controversial Netflix movie 'Cuties' as "
child porn ." She
embarrassed party favorite Kamala Harris, now vice president-elect, in a Democrat presidential
debate in 2019, and the Iraq War veteran called former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the
" queen of warmongers
" after Clinton suggested that she's a Russian asset.
Gabbard, who didn't seek a new term in Congress, was attacked as a "transphobe" and
"bigot" after introducing a bill last month to limit participation in women's sports to
biological females. The movement to "deny the existence of biological women – it
defies common sense, it defies basic, established science, it just doesn't make any sense,"
she told Carlson on Monday.
"No wonder they called you a Russian spy," Carlson replied. "It's dangerous to
have you in the Democratic Party. I'm sorry you're leaving [Congress]."
Republicans praised Gabbard's latest contradiction of Democrat talking points. "Can we
please trade Mitt Romney for her?" one Twitter user asked. Brazilian entrepreneur Daniel
Gonzalez called her "the best Democrat since JFK."
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) was among the many Republicans who
opposed Pelosi's rules changes. "This is stupid," he said. "Signed, a father, son and
brother."
I think George Soros has the right idea using minimal bux to take of the justice system. You
go down to the state level and finance the state election committees and the courts - Kim Foxx
in Chicago, George Gascon in LA, Kim Gardner in St. Louis, Dana Nessel in Michigan.
Then they sell Dominion voting machines and fix the election.... pure genius.
Is Mitch McConnell a shadow lobbyist for Dominion?
Notable quotes:
"... In July, McConnell blocked two bills, one that would provide $775 million to "bolster election security," along with requiring a physical paper trail of every single ballot cast in the country, and a second that would mandate political candidates, their staff members, and their families, to notify the FBI if any foreign government offered to assist them. ..."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) quashed two election integrity bills in July
last year after receiving thousands in donations from Dominion lobbyists.
In July, McConnell blocked two bills, one that would provide $775 million to "bolster
election security," along with requiring a physical paper trail of every single ballot cast in
the country, and a second that would mandate political candidates, their staff members, and
their families, to notify the FBI if any foreign government offered to assist them.
"... It is difficult to know or to ensure that the ballots are actual ballots from registered voters. For example in the early hours of the morning of November 4 large ballot drops occurred in Michigan and Wisconsin that wiped out Trump's lead. State officials have reported that people not registered -- probably illegals -- were permitted to vote. Postal service workers have reported being ordered to backdate ballots that suddenly appeared in the middle of the night after the deadline. These techniques were used to erase Trump's substantial leads in the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia. ..."
"... Digital technology has also made it easy to alter vote counts. US Air Force General Thomas McInerney is familiar with this technology. He says it was developed by the National Security Agency in order to interfere in foreign elections, but now is in the hands of the CIA and was used to defeat Trump. Trump is considered to be an enemy of the military/security complex because of his wish to normalize relations with Russia, thus taking away the enemy that justifies the CIA's budget and power. ..."
"... The military/security complex favors the disunity that the Democrat Party and media have fostered with their ideology of Identity Politics. ..."
"... I would take it a little further and say that voting by mail is a method of vote fraud. The supposed safeguards are easily circumvented, as some whistleblowers have illustrated with ballots being brought forth in large numbers after election day without postmarks and postal workers being ordered to stamp them with acceptable postmarks. ..."
"... Eisenhower is always lauded for his MIC warning. Frankly he ticks me off. Thanks for the warning AFTER you were in some position to mitigate. ..."
"... the most likely source of fraud that is hard to detect, is ballot harvesting. This should be outlawed as it violates the idea of a secret ballot. Somebody comes to the home of a disinterested voter and makes sure he votes (of course they will never admit to hounding the person) and "helps" them with the ballot. If the voter cannot be cajoled into voting the correct way, you merely throw his ballot in the trash. ..."
"... Living in an urban setting I often had to visit apartment buildings. Without fail, there was always a pile of undeliverable mail in the lobby under the mailboxes. ..."
"... His farewell address was just flapdoodle; it wasn't really dredged up till the 70s. Eisenhower spent eight years spreading tripwires and mines and then said "Watch out." Thanks buddy. ..."
"... As the German newspaper editor Udo Ulfkotte revealed in his book, Bought Journalism, the European and US media speak with one voice -- the voice of the CIA. The very profitable and powerful US military/security complex needs foreign enemies. ..."
"... inventive creative new ways to deceive.. first it was election machines, then mail in votes. ..."
"... The phrase "there's no evidence" is just a public commitment to ignore any evidence, no matter how blatant or obvious. ..."
"... Paper ballots as ascribed by Tulsi Gabbard legislation is the only safe option for elections. Kudos to Tulsi! ..."
"... Everyone knew about the potential for voter fraud to occur, but the entire system is corrupt, including Trump who has allowed the massive corruption within the system that was present when he entered office to persist and grow because he is a wimpy, spineless, coward, that was too afraid to make any waves and take the heat that he promised his voters. ..."
"... Why anyone voted for Trump in 2020 confounds me. I voted for him in 2016 and he has turned out to be one of the worst presidents in history. ..."
"... Trump in his cowardess and dishonesty knew that the ailing economy would harm his chances of being re-elected, so he allowed the health scare scamdemic to occur and destroy the livelihoods, lives, and businesses of hundreds of millions of Americans because he is a psychopath. Trump did not do what he promised. Trump made America worse than it has ever been since the end of slavery. ..."
"... Trump has also demanded the extradition of Assange after telling his voters that he loved wikileaks. Trump is a two-faced, lying, fraud. It has been his pattern. He consistently supports various groups and people like Wikileaks, Proud Boys, and others and panders to them and voters and tells people that he loves them, and then every time without fail when the heat is on, Trump says," I really don't know anything about them." ..."
"... "I know nothing." Trump saying "I know nothing." defines his presidency and who he is as a person, a spineless, pandering, corrupt, two-faced, narcissist, loser, and wimp! ..."
A few months ago it looked like the re-election of Trump was almost certain, but now there was a close race between Trump
and Biden? What happen during the last months?
In the months before the election, the Democrats used the "Covid pandemic" to put in place voting by mail. The argument was used
that people who safely go to supermarkets and restaurants could catch Covid if they stood in voting lines. Never before used on a
large scale, voting by mail is subject to massive vote fraud.
There are many credible reports of organized vote fraud committed by Democrats. The only question is whether the Republican establishment
will support challenging the documented fraud or whether Trump will be pressured to concede in order to protect the reputation of
American Democracy.
It is difficult to know or to ensure that the ballots are actual ballots from registered voters. For example in the early
hours of the morning of November 4 large ballot drops occurred in Michigan and Wisconsin that wiped out Trump's lead. State officials
have reported that people not registered -- probably illegals -- were permitted to vote. Postal service workers have reported being
ordered to backdate ballots that suddenly appeared in the middle of the night after the deadline. These techniques were used to erase
Trump's substantial leads in the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia.
Digital technology has also made it easy to alter vote counts. US Air Force General Thomas McInerney is familiar with this
technology. He says it was developed by the National Security Agency in order to interfere in foreign elections, but now is in the
hands of the CIA and was used to defeat Trump. Trump is considered to be an enemy of the military/security complex because of his
wish to normalize relations with Russia, thus taking away the enemy that justifies the CIA's budget and power.
People do not understand. They think an election has been held when in fact what has occurred is that massive vote fraud has been
used to effect a revolution against red state white America. Leaders of the revolution, such as Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
are demanding a list of Trump supporters who are "to be held accountable." Calls are being made for the arrest of Tucker Carlson,
the only mainstream journalist who supported President Trump.
In a recent column I wrote:
"Think what it means that the entirety of the US media, allegedly the 'watchdogs of democracy,' are openly involved in participating
in the theft of a presidential election.
"Think what it means that a large number of Democrat public and election officials are openly involved in the theft of a presidential
election.
"It means that the United States is split irredeemably. The hatred for white people that has been cultivated for many years,
portraying white Americans as "systemic racists," together with the Democrats' lust for power and money, has destroyed national
unity. The consequence will be the replacement of rules with force."
Mainstream media in Europe claim, that Trump had "divided" the United States. But isn`t it actually the other way around,
that his opponents have divided the country?
As the German newspaper editor Udo Ulfkotte revealed in his book, Bought Journalism , the European and US media speak with
one voice -- the voice of the CIA. The very profitable and powerful US military/security complex needs foreign enemies. Russiagate
was a CIA/FBI successful effort to block Trump from reducing tensions with Russia. In 1961 in his last address to the American people
President Dwight Eisenhower warned that the growing power of the military/industrial complex was a threat to American democracy.
We ignored his warning and now have security agencies more powerful than the President.
The military/security complex favors the disunity that the Democrat Party and media have fostered with their ideology of Identity
Politics. Identity politics replaced Marxist class war with race and gender war. White people, and especially white heterosexual
males, are the new oppressor class. This ideology causes race and gender disunity and prevents any unified opposition to the security
agencies ability to impose its agendas by controlling explanations. Opposition to Trump cemented the alliance between Democrats,
media, and the Deep State.
It is possible that the courts will decide who will be sworn into office at January 20, 2021. Do you except a phase of uncertainty
or even a constitutional crisis?
There is no doubt that numerous irregularities indicate that the election was stolen and that the ground was well laid in advance.
Trump intends to challenge the obvious theft. However, his challenges will be rejected in Democrat ruled states, as they were part
of the theft and will not indict themselves. This means Trump and his attorneys will have to have constitutional grounds for taking
their cases to the federal Supreme Court. The Republicans have a majority on the Court, but the Court is not always partisan.
Republicans tend to be more patriotic than Democrats, who denounce America as racist, fascist, sexist, imperialist. This patriotism
makes Republicans impotent when it comes to political warfare that could adversely affect America's reputation. The inclination of
Republicans is for Trump to protect America's reputation by conceding the election. Republicans fear the impact on America's reputation
of having it revealed that America's other major party plotted to steal a presidental election.
Red state Americans, on the other hand, have no such fear. They understand that they are the targets of the Democrats, having
been defined by Democrats as "racist white supremacist Trump deplorables."
The introduction of a report of the Heritage Foundation states that "the United States has a long and unfortunate history
of election fraud". Are the 2020 presidential elections another inglorious chapter in this long history?
This time the fraud is not local as in the past. It is the result of a well organized national effort to get rid of a president
that the Establishment does not accept.
Somehow you get the impression that in the USA – as in many European countries democracy is just a facade – or am I wrong?
You are correct. Trump is the first non-establishment president who became President without being vetted by the Establishment
since Ronald Reagan. Trump was able to be elected only because the Establishment thought he had no chance and took no measures to
prevent his election. A number of studies have concluded that in the US the people, despite democracy and voting, have zero input
into public policy.
Democracy cannot work in America because the money of the elite prevails. American democracy is organized in order to prevent
the people from having a voice. A political campaign is expensive. The money for candidates comes from interest groups, such as defense
contractors, Wall Street, the pharmaceutical industry, the Israel Lobby. Consequently, the winning candidate is indebted to his funders,
and these are the people whom he serves.
European mainstream media are portraying Biden as a luminous figure. Should Biden become president, what can be expected
in terms of foreign and security policy, especially in regard to China, Russia and the Middle East? I mean, the deep state and the
military-industrial complex remain surely nearly unchanged.
Biden will be a puppet, one unlikely to be long in office. His obvious mental confusion will be used either to rule through him
or to remove him on grounds of mental incompetence. No one wants the nuclear button in the hands of a president who doesn't know
which day of the week it is or where he is.
The military/security complex needs enemies for its power and profit and will be certain to retain the list of desirable foreign
enemies -- Russia, Iran, China, and any independent-inclined country in Latin America. Being at war is also a way of distracting
the people of the war against their liberties.
What the military/security complex might not appreciate is that among its Democrat allies there are some, such as Representative
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who are ideological revolutionaries. Having demonized red state America and got rid of Trump (assuming
the electoral fraud is not overturned by the courts), Ocasio-Cortez and her allies intend to revolutionize the Democrat Party and
make it a non-establishment force. In her mind white people are the Establishment, which we already see from her demands for a list
of Trump supporters to be punished.
I think I'm not wrong in assuming that a Biden-presidency would mean more identity politics, more political correctness
etc. for the USA. How do you see this?
Identity politics turns races and genders against one another. As white people -- "systemic racists" -- are defined as the oppressor
class, white people are not protected from hate speech and hate crimes. Anything can be said or done to a white American and it is
not considered politically incorrect.
With Trump and his supporters demonized, under Democrat rule the transition of white Americans into second or third class citizens
will be completed.
How do you access Trump's first term in office? Where was he successful and where he failed?
Trump spent his entire term in office fighting off fake accusations -- Russiagate, Impeachgate, failure to bomb Russia for paying
Taliban to kill American occupiers of Afghanistan, causing Covid by not wearing a mask, and so on and on.
That Trump survived all the false charges shows that he is a real person, a powerful character. Who else could have survived what
Trump has been subjected to by the Establishment and their media prostitutes. In the United States the media is known as "presstitutes"
-- press prostitutes. That is what Udo Ulfkotte says they are in Europe. As a former Wall Street Journal editor, I say with complete
confidence that there is no one in the American media today I would have hired. The total absence of integrity in the Western media
is sufficient indication that the West is doomed.
Never before used on a large scale, voting by mail is subject to massive vote fraud.
I would take it a little further and say that voting by mail is a method of vote fraud. The supposed safeguards are easily
circumvented, as some whistleblowers have illustrated with ballots being brought forth in large numbers after election day without
postmarks and postal workers being ordered to stamp them with acceptable postmarks.
It really seems to me that there would be no democrat majorities in Congress or in so many state legislatures without vote
fraud.
Worse than the fraud available with vote by mail is the voting of people normally who don't bother to vote. Think of how stupid
and uninformed that average American voter is. Now realize how much more stupid and uninformed the non-voter is, only now he votes.
However, the most likely source of fraud that is hard to detect, is ballot harvesting. This should be outlawed as it violates
the idea of a secret ballot. Somebody comes to the home of a disinterested voter and makes sure he votes (of course they will
never admit to hounding the person) and "helps" them with the ballot. If the voter cannot be cajoled into voting the correct way,
you merely throw his ballot in the trash.
I have little doubt that there have been massive "irregularities", particularly in the so-called battleground states, that
are at play in "stealing" the election.
...The favourite phrase these days is "no evidence of wide spread voter fraud". Let's break that down. Only 6 states have been
challenged for vote fraud. In the big scheme of things, 6 states is not wide spread, even if there is massive vote fraud within
those 6 states. That the vote fraud is not widespread, implies that some vote fraud is acceptable, and that the listener should
ignore it. Last and most importantly, in the narrowest of legalistic terms, testimony or affidavits are not evidence. Testimony
and affidavits become evidence when supported by physical evidence. An affidavit with a photograph demonstrating the statement
would be evidence.
Another phrase is something like "election officials say they have seen no evidence of voter fraud". I have yet to hear a reporter
challenge the "seen no evidence of " part of the statement, regardless of the subject, by asking if the speaker had looked for
any evidence. They won't, because they know damn well no one has.
That is how the liars operate. Not so different from Rumsfeld's "plausible deniability".
Living in an urban setting I often had to visit apartment buildings. Without fail, there was always a pile of undeliverable
mail in the lobby under the mailboxes.
The envelopes were mostly addressed to people who had moved out or died. If ballots were sent to these people based on incorrect
voter rolls, then these too would likely have been left sitting on the floor or on a ledge for anyone to take.
It doesn't take a leap of faith to know what a Trump-hating leftist would do when no one is looking. This moral hazard was
intentionally created by Dems, who know that urban dwellers are transient and lean left politically.
Eisenhower is always lauded for his MIC warning. Frankly he ticks me off. Thanks for the warning AFTER you were in some
position to mitigate.
Ike's a mystery. Why did he NOT question Harry Truman's commitments to NATO, the UN, and all that rubbish? Ike was a WWII guy.
He knew Americans hated the UN in 1953 as much as they hated the League of Nations after WWI. But he let it all slide and get
bigger.
His farewell address was just flapdoodle; it wasn't really dredged up till the 70s. Eisenhower spent eight years spreading
tripwires and mines and then said "Watch out." Thanks buddy.
Well, agree on your points however, on the other side of the ledger, he never understood the stupidity of the Korean war (that
he could have ended) and majorly up-ramped CIA activities in all manner of regime change (bay of pigs anyone?). Almost a direct
path to our foreign policy now (and now domestic policy)
He did deploy the military assistance advisory group to Vietnam in 1955. This is considered the beginning of U.S. involvement
in the war. This allowed the French to moonwalk out the back door leaving us holding the bag. In fairness this was Johnson's war
however. Eisenhower did cut the military budget as a peace dividend to fund interstate system and other domestic projects. In
today political spectrum he would be considered a flaming liberal.
As the German newspaper editor Udo Ulfkotte revealed in his book, Bought Journalism, the European and US media speak
with one voice -- the voice of the CIA. The very profitable and powerful US military/security complex needs foreign enemies.
What intrigues me is the ultimate political goal of the UN and the WEF when they anticipate a single global government centered
at the UN and the absence of nation-states.
So what is the MIC going to do when there are no existential threats of competing nation-states? Or will the MIC re-engineer
religious wars between the various religious groups, secular and theological? It seems the aspirations of the WEF and its fellow
travellers preclude the occurrence of future armed conflicts.
Of course one needs capitalistic economies to produce the ordnance and materiels for the engineered social factions to war
with each other. Yet if the Greens have their way, there will be no mining period.
More likely is the possibility that none of them actually understand what they are doing. As Nassim Taleb is alleged to have
remarked, 99% of humans are stupid.
The total absence of integrity in the Western media is sufficient indication that the West is doomed.
It's because Western media is completely under the control of Jews, the world's foremost End Justifies Means people. The Fourth
Estate has become the world's most powerful Bully Pulpit. There are still a few good ones though, brave souls they are: Kim Strassel
of WSJ, Daniel Larison of The American Conservative , Neil Munro of Breitbart.
The rest are more or less lying scums, including everyone on NYTimes, WSJ, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, MSNBC, Fox News (minus
Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo), The Economist , and let's not forget the new media: Google, Facebook, Twitter. The
world would be a much better place without any of them.
@Beavertales
-- with either vote flipping on machines or having the totals that paper ballot scanners tabulate adjust via a pre-programmed
algorithm. Many elections have already been stolen this way.
Nancy Pelosi claims that Biden's victory gives the Democrats a "MANDATE" to alter the economy as they see fit with 50.5%.
This proves that Biden will NOT represent everyone – only the left! I have warned that this has been their agenda from day one.
Now, three whistleblowers from the Democratic software company Dominion Voting Systems, alleging that the company's software stole
38 million votes from Trump. There are people claiming that Dominion Voting Systems is linked to Soros, Dianae Finesteing, Clintons,
and Pelosi's husband. I cannot verify any of these allegations so far.
We are at the Rubicon. Civil War is on the other side. There should NEVER be this type of drastic change to the economy
from Capitalism to Marxism on 50.5% of the popular vote. NOBODY should be able to restructure the government and the economy on
less than 2/3rds of the majority. That would be a mandate. Trying to change everything with a claim of 50.5% of the vote will
only signal, like the Dread Scot decision, that there is no solution by rule of law. This is the end of civilization and it will
turn ugly from here because there is no middle ground anymore. As I have warned, historically the left will never tolerate opposition.
Yes, the theft is blatant. But what are you, us, going to do about it? We really can't do much as the Office of the President
Elect requires us to wear masks. For our safety.
"in the narrowest of legalistic terms, testimony or affidavits are not evidence. Testimony and affidavits become evidence when
supported by physical evidence. " Correct – but they also can become evidence by verbal testimony. ie "I saw the defendant hit
the victim with a rock"
Not only have they stolen the election but when Joe Biden and other democrats claim that President Trump caused the deaths
of hundreds of thousands of Americans because of his handling of Covid 19, they are in sane. No world leader could stop the spread
of this respiratory virus. However, Joe Biden and democrats have caused the deaths of hundreds of white people, while whipping
up weak minded people to kill many whites. Biden and the democrats are criminals. Any one who is white, man or woman, that supports
the democratic party is enabling a criminal organization to perpetrate violence on white people, including murder.
Since the article was from a German magazine it's understandable that there is no mention of "the one who shall not be named".
No mention of the people behind the Lawfare group, the same people behind the impeachment, the same people providing financial
and ideological support for the BLM/Antifa, the same people that own the media that spewed lies for 5 years and censored any mention
of the Biden family corruption, no mention of the people behind this Color Revolution, the same people who promoted the mail in
voting and those that managed the narrative for the media on election night to stop Trump's momentum.
For the public consumption the election will be described in vague terms, like this article, blaming special interests and
institutions like the FBI, CIA and MIC without naming names as if an institution, not the oligarchs and chosen pulling the strings,
are somehow Marxist, anti-white or anti-Christian.
The interviewer quotes the Heritage Foundation does anyone even care what they say? The English Tavistock Institute by way
of the CIA which the British molded from the OSS created programs for the Heritage Foundation as well as the Hoover Institute,
MIT, Stanford University, Wharton, Rand etc. These "rightwing think tanks" were created to counter the CIA's "leftwing think tanks"
at Columbia, Berkeley etc. Thank you British Intelligence.
Steve Bannon was just interviewing someone (can't remember his name). Apparently there are about 200 to 300 IT professionals/engineers
working on these so-called "glitches" (not glitches at all) which mysteriously "disappeared" thousands of Trump votes. Then they'd
dump phony Biden votes into the mix. These IT professionals are going to follow the trail.
I've also heard that Dominion Voting Systems played a big part in this scam by using algorithms. One Trump lawyer said that
big revelations are coming.
We're going to have to be patient and just wait.
"The inclination of Republicans is for Trump to protect America's reputation by conceding the election."
I honestly think it's more like the old established Republicans (corporate bought) want Trump to lose because that is what
their campaign donors want (Big Pharma, Wall Street, etc.) They are part of the elite, and the elite (both the Democrats AND Republicans)
want Trump gone so they can continue their crony capitalist looting. They've got to appear like they're behind Trump, but I don't
think they are. Of course, that's not all Republican representatives.
Sounds like they've been rigging elections for awhile now. I bet they just messed up with Hillary. I think that's why she was
so upset. She had it, but they screwed up and didn't supply enough ballots.
@KenHinventive creative new ways to deceive.. first it was election machines, then mail in votes. next it will be magic carpet
voting. But the votes don't count, cause it is the electoral college that elects the President.
Trump also lost a significant number who did not understand Trump was an Israeli at heart, they thought he was a uncoothed
NYC red blooded American.
As far as white, black or pokadot color or any of the religions ganging up against Trump I don't think that happened, the fall
out into statistically discoverable categories is just that, fall out, not those categories conspiring to vote or not vote one
way or the other.
PCR seems to have trouble seeing a difference between the counting of perfectly proper votes which Pres Trump's post office
delivered late which may or may not be allowed by law which can be determined in court, and fraud like the dead voting or votes
being forged.
The fraud is all so transparent but no one in the power elite seems to give a crap whether the public catches on or not these
days. They know that the entire media which creates the false matrix of contrived "truth" that we all live in will back them to
the hilt because they are actually just one more working part in the grand conspiracy. We all know that when "O'Brian" says 2
+ 2 equals 5 we must all believe it, or at least say we do. We interface with "O'Brian's" minions on a daily basis but we don't
know the ultimate identity of "O'Brian" (in the singular or multiple). Many guesses are made, but they hide that from us fairly
well with the aid of their militaries and "intelligence" agencies (aka secret police in other times and places).
For example in the early hours of the morning of November 4 large ballot drops occurred in Michigan and Wisconsin that wiped
out Trump's lead.
In a very similar vein, it is the same thing that happened to Bernie Sanders during the primary's. Joe was down and out, and
Bernie was enjoying the lead and then "Bam!" Overnight Joe is back on top.
Well, fool me once,,,,,, .,and blah, blah whatever Bush said .
Dr Roberts has referenced in the interview a UR article that goes into considerable detail about the massive electoral fraud
by the Democrats and their partners. You've obviously not bothered to read it.
You're like one of those MSM hacks who denies electoral fraud without making any attempt to look at the evidence.
@Begemot
And it's almost always a closer race than anyone would have guessed beforehand -- which I also find suspicious. How likely is
it that the majority of presidential elections over the last century were decided by more or less even numbers of voters from
each party, between more or less evenly matched candidates?
Really seems like they've perfected the art of putting on rigged political shows that you can't quite believe in, but don't
have anything really solid to back up your suspicions. It's like the "no evidence of fraud" canard -- anything solid enough to
show obvious manipulation is explained away as the exception, rather than the tip of a very deep iceberg
Like the false accusations about Russia, delegitimizing the presidential election as fraud is turning out to be much ado
about nothing.
Let's review. The Democrats perpetrated the phony 2016 Russian influence fraud, and now the Democrats are perpetrating the
phony 2020 election victory.
The common elements are Democrats perpetrate fraud.
IMO this is a simple remedy to settle the election fraud mess or we will be arguing about this 20 years from now .from the
American Thinker.
The candidates on the ballot must have an opportunity to have observers whom they choose to oversee the entire process so
the candidates are satisfied that they won or lost a free and fair election.
That is not what happened in the 2020 election. That is the single most important and simple fact that needs to be understood
and communicated. The 2020 election was not a free and fair election, because poll-watchers were not allowed to do their essential
job. The 2020 election can still be a free and fair election with a clear winner, whoever that may be, but time is running
out.
In every instance where poll-watchers were not allowed to observe the process, those votes must be recounted. They must
be recounted with poll-watchers from both sides present. If there are votes that cannot be recounted because the envelops were
discarded, those votes must be discarded. Put the blame for this on the officials who decided to count the votes in secret.
Consider it a way to discourage secret vote counts in the future.
The pandemic has not been fearful enough to close liquor stores, and it in should not be used as excuse to remove the poll-watchers
who are essential to a free and fair election. If we must have social distancing, then use cameras.
Certainly, there are other issues with the 2020 election. There may be problems with software, and there are issues like
signature verification and dead people voting. Everything should be considered and examined, but no other issue should distract
from the simple fact that both sides must be able to view the entire process. If one side is not allowed to view the vote-counting,
then that side should be calling it a fraud. We should all be calling it a fraud.
...Trump had control of the Senate, the House and of course the Executive between his inauguration in January of 2017 and the
Midterm Elections of 2018, a total time period of 1 year and 10 months. What did he do during this time? He deregulated financial
services and passed corporate tax cuts.
At the end of the day, being emotionally invested in US elections is no different to being emotionally invested in Keeping
up with the Kardashians , that is to say your life wouldn't be that different if your don't follow either.
The Democrats Have Stolen the Presidential Election
The Deep State Has Stolen the Presidential Election. FIFY. But they have been in control for decades they just don't care who
knows now. They are taking final steps to make their control impervious to attack.
This is the reason that the establishment latched on to the Eisenhowerian bon mot but entirely memory hole Trumman's
far more explicit warning a freaking month after a sitting president is shot like a turkey in Dallas: it white washes CIA and
NSC .
The place to begin, and it's mind-blowing when you think about it this way, is that nothing was resolved on election night.
Not who will take the oath on January 20th. Nor which party will control the Senate. Nor even who will be Speaker and which party
will control the House.
Suffice it to say, a still raging factional struggle has simply moved to a greater degree behind the curtain.
I noted this movie reference on another thread here:
If your father dies, you'll make the deal, Sonny.
-- "The Godfather"
My point being, you're foolish if you ascribe certainty as to outcome at this point.
Being rid of Trump has been as close to a dues ex machina for the establishment as imaginable since he took the oath. This
ineluctable observation elicits no end of foot-stomping by those who assume it necessarily says anything positive about the man.
With every persistent revision of the script they wrote for him, all ending with his political demise at least, Trump has not
just survived but grown stronger. While the Democrats turned our elections into something only seen in a third-world shit hole,
Trump legitimately drew 71M votes from Americans.
That's a lot of air in the balloon. Believe me, filth like Russian mole Brennan may think everything is finished once they
get rid of terrible, awful Trump, but those above his pay grade know better.
Like him or hate him, Trump is the only principal not wholly or largely discredited. He was saved from destruction during his
first term by the Republican base moving to protect him. That was the import of his 90-95% approval among them, destroy him and
you destroy the Republican Party.
Now, despite -- or perhaps, because of -- everything they've done, that base now includes a significant number of Democrats
and independents. Trump is merely a vessel for an American majority attached to this constitutional republic thingie we've got
going.
Don't get lost in the details. This isn't a puzzle you can solve by internet sleuthing. The plan they executed -- to steal
sufficiently to make the outcome inevitable by the morning after the election at the latest -- failed. This was evident early
on Election Day (e.g. fake water main breaks in Atlanta) and necessitated their playing their Fox/AZ card and shutting down the
count at least until they had removed Republican monitors.
"In 22 states, Republicans will hold unified control over the governor's office and both houses of the legislature, giving
the party wide political latitude -- including in states like Florida and Georgia."
"Eleven states will have divided governments in 2021, unchanged from this year: Democratic governors will need to work with
Republican legislators in eight states, and Republican governors will contend with Democratic lawmakers in three."
The Democrats have: Joe Biden, and a slim majority in the House of Representatives which they are almost certain to lose in
two years.
What the Republicans are going to do is everything we hate, but they will pretend they were "forced" to do it by the Democrats
– the Democrats being the minority party.
Who else could have survived what Trump has been subjected to by the Establishment and their media prostitutes. In the United
States the media is known as "presstitutes" -- press prostitutes. That is what Udo Ulfkotte says they are in Europe.
Left and right.
(What you small brains do not understand is this.)
Democrats enabling the elite to invest in far east (lower wage costs, higher profits) did abandon the working class in America.
Democrats by this act did throw away the working class as a dirty rug.
Democrats with their TPP exporting most of the production to far east would totally destroy working class in USA. Trump's first
act was to cancel this insanity. Democrats are insanely delusional.
Democrats were left. Left is a party that supports the working people.
So here switch occurred. Democratic party now represent the elite, and Republicans now represent the working people.
(The irony of the fate)
The headline for PCR's article is a prediction, not yet established, and incomplete.
There is an ongoing massive attempt to steal the Presidential election as well as to steal an unknown number of House and Senate
seats, and who knows what else.
The 'game' is still on. Many tens of millions of citizens – actual total unknown but possibly in numbers unprecedented in American
history – voted for Trump. Republican candidates for office generally had strong support, but again, the actual percentage of
support is unknown but presumably larger than now 'recorded'.
There are also the many millions who ardently supported Trump, know that Biden is illegitimate, deeply corrupt, and the precursor
to perils unknown. Their determination and backbone and intelligence will now be tested.
There is the electoral college process; there are the state legislators that have a say in the process; there is the Supreme
Court.
There is also the possibility of pertinent executive orders that mandate transparent processes in the face of, say, apprehended
insurrection via fraudulent voting processes.
There is also the matter of how millions of 'deplorables' with trucks and tractors and firearms and other means to make their
point will react to obvious massive election travesty.
The conjunction of the COVID global scamdemic/plandemic, with crazed Bill Gates and kin lurking in the background with needles,
'peaceful' protesters in many cities setting fires and looting with near impunity, and a mass media that is clearly comprehensively
committed to a demonic degree of dishonesty and manipulation, and lunatic levels of 'identity politics' ideology, are among the
elements setting the stage for what may be an historical watershed.
The American Revolution in the 18th century, against the British Crown's authority, came about after years of simmering anger
and sporadic resistance against British injustice. At some point there was a 'tipping point'. When Germany invaded and occupied
Norway early in the 2nd WW, an effective resistance quickly formed in reaction, where death and torture were the known willing
risk. Two years before, those forming the resistance would have been just going on with their lives.
Who's Afraid of an Open Debate? The Truth About the Commission on Presidential Debates. The CPD is a duopoly which allows the
major party candidates to draft secret agreements about debate arrangements including moderators, debate format and even participants.
Ben Swann explains how the new coalition of EndPartisanship org is working to break the 2 party hold on primary elections,
which currently lock around 50% of voters out of the process.
I am currently watching an interview with SD Governor Kristi Noem, who went on ABC to challenge George Stenopolosus' claim
that there is no fraud in this election. She pointed out that there has been many allegations, including dead people voting in
PA and GA, she says we don't know how widespread this is, but we owe it to the 70+ million people who voted for Trump to investigate
and ensure a clean and fair election. She said we gave Al Gore 37 days to investigate the result in 2000, why aren't we giving
the same to Trump?
She is extremely articulate and sounds intelligent and honest, and what's more courageous to come forward like this. I hope
she runs for president in 2024, I'd vote for her.
Am I the only one who sees something profoundly spiritual happening in front of our eyes?
Yes. In reality, 5% of White men sent Trump packing. That doesn't match the GOP negrophile narrative where "based" Hindustanis
join the emerging conservative coalition to make sure White people can't get affordable healthcare in their own countries, though.
So we'll have to watch you parasites spool up this pedantic "fraud" nonsense until the fat orange zioclown gracelessly gets dragged
out.
Good post. You will gain more insight from this background on the speech and drafting.
Jan 19, 2011 Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech Origins and Significance US National Archives
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address, known for its warnings about the growing power of the "military-industrial
complex," was nearly two years in the making. This Inside the Vaults video short follows newly discovered papers revealing that
Eisenhower was deeply involved in crafting the speech.
Great article. Thanks. Agree with you about the big stealing being electronic. Trump tweeted out yesterday that over 2 million
votes were stolen this way. For him to say this, they must have evidence.
Dinesh D'Souza said he hopes that when this matter comes before the Supreme Court that they will tackle once and for all what
constitutes a legal vote.
Some pretty big names are involved with this Dominion Voting. It will be interesting to see what Trump's team of IT experts
discover re the use of algorithms to swing the vote.
Why (Oh, why) did Trump had to go? Because Trump is an enema to the Deep State. He was threatening to expose the biggest lie
of the last 100 years – the supposed "liberalism" of US...
The author refers to a body of overwhelmingly persuasive evidence of voter fraud that can be specified and quantified to provide
proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in criminal cases, not to mention hands down proof in civil cases requiring only a preponderance
of the evidence to establish guilt. Furthermore, the Democrats' easily documented, elaborate efforts at concealing the vote counting
process by shutting down the counting prior to sneaking truckloads of ballots in the back door is by itself powerful circumstantial
evidence of their guilt. You have no idea what "evidence" means, either in general usage or in its strictly legal sense.
The election cannot be trusted at all, just based on the insane entitled emotional state of the Globalist establishment alone.
The system as-a-whole cannot be trusted, for the same reason. They are actively corrupting it in every way they can, and fully
believe (as a matter of religious conviction) that they are right to do so.
That's one of the Jew/Anglo Puritan Establishment's new catch-phrases. There's also "no evidence" that Joe Biden acted in a
corrupt manner in Ukraine, even though he admitted to it on tape. There's "no evidence" that Big Tech is biased against conservative
plebians, despite their removing conservative plebians' published content arbitrarily and with no State compulsion to do so.
The phrase "there's no evidence" is just a public commitment to ignore any evidence, no matter how blatant or obvious.
This newly discovered legal standard goes beyond "preponderance of the evidence" or even "guilt beyond a reasonable doubt"
to establish absolute certainty as the standard.
Just the obvious and necessary complement of the Bob Mueller standard for Russian collusion, don't you think -- "could not
(quite) exonerate"? /s
They went for a softer approach in KY in 2019. The first-term Repub Gov had a Yankee's forthrightness so they just latched
onto comments he made regarding the underfunded teachers pension program and amped-it to high heaven getting teachers all in a
frightful frenzy.
In that solidly Red state, with all other prominent offices on the ballot (AG, SoS, etc.) going overwhelmingly Repub
, somehow the Repub Gov loses to the Dem by around 5000 votes. The "teachers pension" narrative was rolled-out as the reason.
(Btw, it seems that Dominion, or another type, software was used to switch the votes in that race. I've seen video about it.)
@Orville
H. Larson out how the winds are blowing. There is nothing good about it.
Why not this:
-- ONLY in-person voting over a 2-day period, a Sat and Sun, with polls being open from 6AM to 9PM both days.
-- Exceptions are the traditional requested absentee ballot where the voter can be authenticated.
-- Paper ballots must be used at the polls and no single box of 'Straight Vote by Party' is offered.
-- Some kind of SIMPLE scanning tabulator could be used of the ballots and with it NOT being connected to the internet.
There is far too much cheating opportunity built into our current system. That's intended, of course. It needs to end!
Because you don't get it. You are missing the big picture. It was well known that these systems had the ability to be hacked
as soon as they were implemented. It is also a well known fact that massive mail in ballots increases the likelihood that corrupt
individuals are more likely to get away with election fraud.
Everyone knew about the potential for voter fraud to occur, but the entire system is corrupt, including Trump who has allowed
the massive corruption within the system that was present when he entered office to persist and grow because he is a wimpy, spineless,
coward, that was too afraid to make any waves and take the heat that he promised his voters.
Why anyone voted for Trump in 2020 confounds me. I voted for him in 2016 and he has turned out to be one of the worst presidents
in history.
Trump in his cowardess and dishonesty knew that the ailing economy would harm his chances of being re-elected, so he allowed
the health scare scamdemic to occur and destroy the livelihoods, lives, and businesses of hundreds of millions of Americans
because he is a psychopath. Trump did not do what he promised. Trump made America worse than it has ever been since the end of
slavery. Jeremy Powell said today that the economy is dead and will never recover.
The only injustices that Trump gave a damn about were the injustices against himself and his family, and has committed countless
injustices against the entire country and world during his term. Trump is a corrupt narcissist. The facts prove it. Trump is such
a corrupt narcissist that he was willing to destroy the entire economy based on scientific fraud, high crimes, and treason to
use as political cover for his own incompetency which is the most offensive and disgusting diabolical act ever perpetrated on
the entire country.
Trump has also demanded the extradition of Assange after telling his voters that he loved wikileaks. Trump is a two-faced,
lying, fraud. It has been his pattern. He consistently supports various groups and people like Wikileaks, Proud Boys, and others
and panders to them and voters and tells people that he loves them, and then every time without fail when the heat is on, Trump
says," I really don't know anything about them."
"I know nothing." Trump saying "I know nothing." defines his presidency and who he is as a person, a spineless, pandering,
corrupt, two-faced, narcissist, loser, and wimp!
Why would anyone vote for him the second time around after a record of pathological incompetency and pathological corruption?
What's to approve of about him? Go ahead, investigate voter fraud it if is permitted, and if it isn't then ask yourselves why
it is that a system that enables election fraud is in place, and ask yourselves who had the ability to change it and, who had
the ability to benefit from it!
A transcript of President Donald Trump's call with Brad Raffensperger is shown below, via
the Washington Post:
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows: Okay. Alright. Mr. President, everyone is on the
line. This is Mark Meadows, the chief of staff. Just so we all are aware. On the line is
secretary of state and two other individuals. Jordan and Mr. Germany with him. You also have
the attorneys that represent the president, Kurt and Alex and Cleta Mitchell -- who is not the
attorney of record but has been involved -- myself and then the president. So Mr. President,
I'll turn it over to you.
President Donald Trump: Okay, thank you very much. Hello Brad and Ryan and everybody. We
appreciate the time and the call. So we've spent a lot of time on this, and if we could just go
over some of the numbers, I think it's pretty clear that we won. We won very substantially in
Georgia. You even see it by rally size, frankly. We'd be getting 25-30,000 people a rally, and
the competition would get less than 100 people. And it never made sense.
But we have a number of things. We have at least 2 or 3 -- anywhere from 250 to 300,000
ballots were dropped mysteriously into the rolls. Much of that had to do with Fulton County,
which hasn't been checked. We think that if you check the signatures -- a real check of the
signatures going back in Fulton County -- you'll find at least a couple of hundred thousand of
forged signatures of people who have been forged. And we are quite sure that's going to
happen.
Another tremendous number. We're going to have an accurate number over the next two days
with certified accountants. But an accurate number will be given, but it's in the 50s of
thousands -- and that's people that went to vote and they were told they can't vote because
they've already been voted for. And it's a very sad thing. They walked out complaining. But the
number's large. We'll have it for you. But it's much more than the number of 11,779 that's --
the current margin is only 11,779. Brad, I think you agree with that, right? That's something I
think everyone -- at least that's a number that everyone agrees on.
But that's the difference in the votes. But we've had hundreds of thousands of ballots that
we're able to actually -- we'll get you a pretty accurate number. You don't need much of a
number because the number that in theory I lost by, the margin would be 11,779. But you also
have a substantial numbers of people, thousands and thousands, who went to the voting place on
November 3, were told they couldn't vote, were told they couldn't vote because a ballot had
been put on their name. And you know that's very, very, very, very sad.
We had, I believe it's about 4,502 voters who voted but who weren't on the voter
registration list, so it's 4,502 who voted, but they weren't on the voter registration roll,
which they had to be. You had 18,325 vacant address voters. The address was vacant, and they're
not allowed to be counted. That's 18,325.
Smaller number -- you had 904 who only voted where they had just a P.O. -- a post office box
number -- and they had a post office box number, and that's not allowed. We had at least 18,000
-- that's on tape, we had them counted very painstakingly -- 18,000 voters having to do with
[name]. She's a vote scammer, a professional vote scammer and hustler [name]. That was the tape
that's been shown all over the world that makes everybody look bad, you, me and everybody
else.
Where they got -- number one they said very clearly and it's been reported that they said
there was a major water main break. Everybody fled the area. And then they came back, [name]
and her daughter and a few people. There were no Republican poll watchers. Actually, there were
no Democrat poll watchers, I guess they were them. But there were no Democrats, either, and
there was no law enforcement. Late in the morning, early in the morning, they went to the table
with the black robe and the black shield, and they pulled out the votes. Those votes were put
there a number of hours before -- the table was put there -- I think it was, Brad, you would
know, it was probably eight hours or seven hours before, and then it was stuffed with
votes.
They weren't in an official voter box; they were in what looked to be suitcases or trunks,
suitcases, but they weren't in voter boxes. The minimum number it could be because we watched
it, and they watched it certified in slow motion instant replay if you can believe it, but slow
motion, and it was magnified many times over, and the minimum it was 18,000 ballots, all for
Biden.
You had out-of-state voters. They voted in Georgia, but they were from out of state, of
4,925. You had absentee ballots sent to vacant, they were absentee ballots sent to vacant
addresses. They had nothing on them about addresses, that's 2,326.
And you had dropboxes, which is very bad. You had dropboxes that were picked up. We have
photographs, and we have affidavits from many people.
I don't know if you saw the hearings, but you have dropboxes where the box was picked up but
not delivered for three days. So all sorts of things could have happened to that box,
including, you know, putting in the votes that you wanted. So there were many infractions, and
the bottom line is, many, many times the 11,779 margin that they said we lost by -- we had
vast, I mean the state is in turmoil over this.
And I know you would like to get to the bottom of it, although I saw you on television
today, and you said that you found nothing wrong. I mean, you know, and I didn't lose the
state, Brad. People have been saying that it was the highest vote ever. There was no way. A lot
of the political people said that there's no way they beat me. And they beat me. They beat me
in the . . . As you know, every single state, we won every state. We won every statehouse in
the country. We held the Senate, which is shocking to people, although we'll see what happens
tomorrow or in a few days.
And we won the House, but we won every single statehouse, and we won Congress, which was
supposed to lose 15 seats, and they gained, I think 16 or 17 or something. I think there's a
now difference of five. There was supposed to be a difference substantially more. But
politicians in every state, but politicians in Georgia have given affidavits and are going to
that, that there was no way that they beat me in the election, that the people came out, in
fact, they were expecting to lose, and then they ended up winning by a lot because of the
coattails. And they said there's no way, that they've done many polls prior to the election,
that there was no way that they won.
Ballots were dropped in massive numbers. And we're trying to get to those numbers and we
will have them.
They'll take a period of time. Certified. But but they're massive numbers. And far greater
than the 11,779.
The other thing, dead people. So dead people voted, and I think the number is close to 5,000
people. And they went to obituaries. They went to all sorts of methods to come up with an
accurate number, and a minimum is close to about 5,000 voters.
The bottom line is, when you add it all up and then you start adding, you know, 300,000 fake
ballots. Then the other thing they said is in Fulton County and other areas. And this may or
may not be true . . . this just came up this morning, that they are burning their ballots, that
they are shredding, shredding ballots and removing equipment. They're changing the equipment on
the Dominion machines and, you know, that's not legal.
And they supposedly shredded I think they said 300 pounds of, 3,000 pounds of ballots. And
that just came to us as a report today. And it is a very sad situation.
But Brad, if you took the minimum numbers where many, many times above the 11,779, and many
of those numbers are certified, or they will be certified, but they are certified. And those
are numbers that are there, that exist. And that beat the margin of loss, they beat it, I mean,
by a lot, and people should be happy to have an accurate count instead of an election where
there's turmoil.
I mean there's turmoil in Georgia and other places. You're not the only one, I mean, we have
other states that I believe will be flipping to us very shortly. And this is something that --
you know, as an example, I think it in Detroit, I think there's a section, a good section of
your state actually, which we're not sure so we're not going to report it yet. But in Detroit,
we had, I think it was, 139 percent of the people voted. That's not too good.
In Pennsylvania, they had well over 200,000 more votes than they had people voting. And that
doesn't play too well, and the legislature there is, which is Republican, is extremely activist
and angry. I mean, there were other things also that were almost as bad as that. But they had
as an example, in Michigan, a tremendous number of dead people that voted. I think it was, I
think, Mark, it was 18,000. Some unbelievably high number, much higher than yours, you were in
the 4-5,000 category.
And that was checked out laboriously by going through, by going through the obituary columns
in the newspapers.
So I guess with all of it being said, Brad, the bottom line, and provisional ballots, again,
you know, you'll have to tell me about the provisional ballots, but we have a lot of people
that were complaining that they weren't able to vote because they were already voted for. These
are great people.
And, you know, they were shellshocked. I don't know if you call that provisional ballots. In
some states, we had a lot of provisional ballot situations where people were given a
provisional ballot because when they walked in on November 3 and they were already voted
for.
So that's it. I mean, we have many, many times the number of votes necessary to win the
state. And we won the state, and we won it very substantially and easily, and we're getting, we
have, much of this is a very certified, far more certified than we need. But we're getting
additional numbers certified, too. And we're getting pictures of dropboxes being delivered and
delivered late. Delivered three days later, in some cases, plus we have many affidavits to that
effect.
Meadows: So, Mr. President, if I might be able to jump in, and I'll give Brad a chance. Mr.
Secretary, obviously there is, there are allegations where we believe that not every vote or
fair vote and legal vote was counted, and that's at odds with the representation from the
secretary of state's office.
What I'm hopeful for is there some way that we can, we can find some kind of agreement to
look at this a little bit more fully? You know the president mentioned Fulton County.
But in some of these areas where there seems to be a difference of where the facts seem to
lead, and so Mr. Secretary, I was hopeful that, you know, in the spirit of cooperation and
compromise, is there something that we can at least have a discussion to look at some of these
allegations to find a path forward that's less litigious?
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger: Well, I listened to what the president has
just said. President Trump, we've had several lawsuits, and we've had to respond in court to
the lawsuits and the contentions. We don't agree that you have won. And we don't -- I didn't
agree about the 200,000 number that you'd mentioned. I'll go through that point by point.
What we have done is we gave our state Senate about one and a half hours of our time going
through the election issue by issue and then on the state House, the government affairs
committee, we gave them about two and a half hours of our time, going back point by point on
all the issues of contention. And then just a few days ago, we met with our U.S. congressmen,
Republican congressmen, and we gave them about two hours of our time talking about this past
election. Going back, primarily what you've talked about here focused in on primarily, I
believe, is the absentee ballot process. I don't believe that you're really questioning the
Dominion machines. Because we did a hand re-tally, a 100 percent re-tally of all the ballots,
and compared them to what the machines said and came up with virtually the same result. Then we
did the recount, and we got virtually the same result. So I guess we can probably take that off
the table.
I don't think there's an issue about that.
Trump: Well, Brad. Not that there's not an issue, because we have a big issue with Dominion
in other states and perhaps in yours. But we haven't felt we needed to go there. And just to,
you know, maybe put a little different spin on what Mark is saying, Mark Meadows, yeah we'd
like to go further, but we don't really need to. We have all the votes we need.
You know, we won the state. If you took, these are the most minimal numbers, the numbers
that I gave you, those are numbers that are certified, your absentee ballots sent to vacant
addresses, your out-of-state voters, 4,925. You know when you add them up, it's many more
times, it's many times the 11,779 number. So we could go through, we have not gone through your
Dominion. So we can't give them blessing. I mean, in other states, we think we found tremendous
corruption with Dominion machines, but we'll have to see.
But we only lost the state by that number, 11,000 votes, and 779. So with that being said,
with just what we have, with just what we have, we're giving you minimal, minimal numbers.
We're doing the most conservative numbers possible; we're many times, many, many times above
the margin. And so we don't really have to, Mark, I don't think we have to go through . . .
Meadows: Right
Trump: Because what's the difference between winning the election by two votes and winning
it by half a million votes. I think I probably did win it by half a million. You know, one of
the things that happened, Brad, is we have other people coming in now from Alabama and from
South Carolina and from other states, and they're saying it's impossible for you to have lost
Georgia. We won. You know in Alabama, we set a record, got the highest vote ever. In Georgia,
we set a record with a massive amount of votes. And they say it's not possible to have lost
Georgia.
And I could tell you by our rallies. I could tell you by the rally I'm having on Monday
night, the place, they already have lines of people standing out front waiting. It's just not
possible to have lost Georgia. It's not possible. When I heard it was close, I said there's no
way. But they dropped a lot of votes in there late at night. You know that, Brad. And that's
what we are working on very, very stringently. But regardless of those votes, with all of it
being said, we lost by essentially 11,000 votes, and we have many more votes already calculated
and certified, too.
And so I just don't know, you know, Mark, I don't know what's the purpose. I won't give
Dominion a pass because we found too many bad things. But we don't need Dominion or anything
else. We have won this election in Georgia based on all of this. And there's nothing wrong with
saying that, Brad. You know, I mean, having the correct -- the people of Georgia are angry. And
these numbers are going to be repeated on Monday night. Along with others that we're going to
have by that time, which are much more substantial even. And the people of Georgia are angry,
the people of the country are angry. And there's nothing wrong with saying that, you know, that
you've recalculated. Because the 2,236 in absentee ballots. I mean, they're all exact numbers
that were done by accounting firms, law firms, etc. And even if you cut 'em in half, cut 'em in
half and cut 'em in half again, it's more votes than we need.
Raffensperger: Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is
wrong. We talked to the congressmen, and they were surprised.
But they -- I guess there was a person named Mr. Braynard who came to these meetings and
presented data, and he said that there was dead people, I believe it was upward of 5,000. The
actual number were two. Two. Two people that were dead that voted. So that's wrong.
Trump: Well, Cleta, how do you respond to that? Maybe you tell me?
Trump attorney Cleta Mitchell: Well, I would say, Mr. Secretary, one of the things that we
have requested and what we said was, if you look, if you read our petition, it said that we
took the names and birth years, and we had certain information available to us. We have asked
from your office for records that only you have, and so we said there is a universe of people
who have the same name and same birth year and died.
But we don't have the records that you have. And one of the things that we have been
suggesting formally and informally for weeks now is for you to make available to us the records
that would be necessary --
Trump: But, Cleta, even before you do that, and not even including that, that's why I hardly
even included that number, although in one state, we have a tremendous amount of dead people.
So I don't know -- I'm sure we do in Georgia, too. I'm sure we do in Georgia, too.
But we're so far ahead. We're so far ahead of these numbers, even the phony ballots of
[name] , known scammer. You know the Internet? You know what was trending on the Internet?
"Where's [name]?" Because they thought she'd be in jail. "Where's [name]?" It's crazy, it's
crazy. That was. The minimum number is 18,000 for [name] , but they think it's probably about
56,000, but the minimum number is 18,000 on the [name] night where she ran back in there when
everybody was gone and stuffed, she stuffed the ballot boxes. Let's face it, Brad, I mean. They
did it in slow motion replay magnified, right? She stuffed the ballot boxes. They were stuffed
like nobody has ever seen them stuffed before.
So there's a term for it when it's a machine instead of a ballot box, but she stuffed the
machine. She stuffed the ballot. Each ballot went three times, they were showing: Here's ballot
No 1. Here it is a second time, third time, next ballot.
I mean, look. Brad. We have a new tape that we're going to release. It's devastating. And by
the way, that one event, that one event is much more than the 11,000 votes that we're talking
about. It's, you know, that one event was a disaster. And it's just, you know, but it was, it
was something, it can't be disputed. And again, we have a version that you haven't seen, but
it's magnified. It's magnified, and you can see everything. For some reason, they put it in
three times, each ballot, and I don't know why. I don't know why three times. Why not five
times, right? Go ahead.
Raffensperger: You're talking about the State Farm video. And I think it's extremely
unfortunate that Rudy Giuliani or his people, they sliced and diced that video and took it out
of context. The next day, we brought in WSB-TV, and we let them show, see the full run of tape,
and what you'll see, the events that transpired are nowhere near what was projected by, you
know --
Trump: But where were the poll watchers, Brad? There were no poll watchers there. There were
no Democrats or Republicans. There was no security there.
It was late in the evening, late in the, early in the morning, and there was nobody else in
the room. Where were the poll watchers, and why did they say a water main broke, which they did
and which was reported in the newspapers? They said they left. They ran out because of a water
main break, and there was no water main. There was nothing. There was no break. There was no
water main break. But we're, if you take out everything, where were the Republican poll
watchers, even where were the Democrat pollwatchers, because there were none.
And then you say, well, they left their station, you know, if you look at the tape, and this
was, this was reviewed by professional police and detectives and other people, when they left
in a rush, everybody left in a rush because of the water main, but everybody left in a rush.
These people left their station.
When they came back, they didn't go to their station. They went to the apron, wrapped around
the table, under which were thousands and thousands of ballots in a box that was not an
official or a sealed box. And then they took those. They went back to a different station. So
if they would have come back, they would have walked to their station, and they would have
continued to work. But they couldn't do even that because that's illegal, because they had no
Republican pollwatchers. And remember, her reputation is -- she's known all over the Internet,
Brad. She's known all over.
I'm telling you, "Where's [name] " was one of the hot items . . . [name] They knew her.
"Where's [name]?" So Brad, there can be no justification for that. And I, you know, I give
everybody the benefit of the doubt. But that was -- and Brad, why did they put the votes in
three times? You know, they put 'em in three times.
Raffensperger: Mr. President, they did not put that. We did an audit of that, and we proved
conclusively that they were not scanned three times.
Trump: Where was everybody else at that late time in the morning? Where was everybody? Where
were the Republicans? Where were the security guards? Were the people that were there just a
little while before when everyone ran out of the room. How come we had no security in the room.
Why did they run to the bottom of the table? Why do they run there and just open the skirt and
rip out the votes. I mean, Brad. And they were sitting there, I think for five hours or
something like that, the votes.
Raffensperger : Mr. President, we'll send you the link from WSB.
Trump: I don't care about the link. I don't need it. Brad, I have a much better --
Mitchell: I will tell you. I've seen the tape. The full tape. So has Alex. We've watched it.
And what we saw and what we've confirmed in the timing is that they made everybody leave -- we
have sworn affidavits saying that. And then they began to process ballots. And our estimate is
that there were roughly 18,000 ballots. We don't know that. If you know that . . .
Trump: It was 18,000 ballots, but they used each one three times.
Mitchell: Well, I don't know about that.
Trump: I do think we had ours magnified out.
Mitchell: I've watched the entire tape.
Trump: Nobody can make a case for that, Brad. Nobody. I mean, look, you'd have to be a child
to think anything other than that. Just a child.
Mitchell: How many ballots, Mr. Secretary, are you saying were processed then?
Raffensperger: We had GBI . . . investigate that.
Germany: We had our -- this is Ryan Germany. We had our law enforcement officers talk to
everyone who was, who was there after that event came to light. GBI was with them as well as
FBI agents.
Trump: Well, there's no way they could -- then they're incompetent. They're either dishonest
or incompetent, okay?
Mitchell: Well, what did they find?
Trump: There's only two answers, dishonesty or incompetence. There's just no way. Look.
There's no way. And on the other thing, I said too, there is no way. I mean, there's no way
that these things could have been, you know, you have all these different people that voted,
but they don't live in Georgia anymore. What was that number, Cleta? That was a pretty good
number, too.
Mitchell: The number who have registered out of state after they moved from Georgia. And so
they had a date when they moved from Georgia, they registered to vote out of state, and then
it's like 4,500, I don't have that number right in front of me.
Trump: And then they came back in, and they voted.
Mitchell: And voted. Yeah.
Trump: I thought that was a large number, though. It was in the 20s.
Ryan Germany, Raffensberger's General Counsel: We've been going through each of those as
well, and those numbers that we got, that Ms. Mitchell was just saying, they're not accurate.
Every one we've been through are people that lived in Georgia, moved to a different state, but
then moved back to Georgia legitimately. And in many cases --
Trump: How may people do that? They moved out, and then they said, "Ah, to hell with it,
I'll move back." You know, it doesn't sound like a very normal . . . you mean, they moved out,
and what, they missed it so much that they wanted to move back in? It's crazy.
Germany: They moved back in years ago. This was not like something just before the election.
So there's something about that data that, it's just not accurate.
Trump: Well, I don't know, all I know is that it is certified. And they moved out of
Georgia, and they voted. It didn't say they moved back in, Cleta, did it?
Mitchell: No, but I mean, we're looking at the voter registration. Again, if you have
additional records, we've been asking for that, but you haven't shared any of that with us. You
just keep saying you investigated the allegations.
Trump: Cleta, a lot of it you don't need to be shared. I mean, to be honest, they should
share it. They should share it because you want to get to an honest election.
I won this election by hundreds of thousands of votes. There's no way I lost Georgia.
There's no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes. I'm just going by small numbers, when
you add them up, they're many times the 11,000. But I won that state by hundreds of thousands
of votes.
Do you think it's possible that they shredded ballots in Fulton County? Because that's what
the rumor is. And also that Dominion took out machines. That Dominion is really moving fast to
get rid of their, uh, machinery.
Do you know anything about that? Because that's illegal, right?
Germany: This is Ryan Germany. No, Dominion has not moved any machinery out of Fulton
County.
Trump: But have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other
parts?
Germany: No.
Trump: Are you sure, Ryan?
Germany: I'm sure. I'm sure, Mr. President.
Trump: What about, what about the ballots. The shredding of the ballots. Have they been
shredding ballots?
Germany: The only investigation that we have into that -- they have not been shredding any
ballots. There was an issue in Cobb County where they were doing normal office shredding,
getting rid of old stuff, and we investigated that. But this stuff from, you know, from you
know past elections.
Trump: It doesn't pass the smell test because we hear they're shredding thousands and
thousands of ballots, and now what they're saying, "Oh, we're just cleaning up the office." You
know.
Raffensperger: Mr. President, the problem you have with social media, they -- people can say
anything.
Trump: Oh this isn't social media. This is Trump media. It's not social media. It's really
not; it's not social media. I don't care about social media. I couldn't care less. Social media
is Big Tech. Big Tech is on your side, you know. I don't even know why you have a side because
you should want to have an accurate election. And you're a Republican.
Raffensperger: We believe that we do have an accurate election.
Trump: No, no you don't. No, no you don't. You don't have. Not even close. You're off by
hundreds of thousands of votes. And just on the small numbers, you're off on these numbers, and
these numbers can't be just -- well, why wont? -- Okay. So you sent us into Cobb County for
signature verification, right? You sent us into Cobb County, which we didn't want to go into.
And you said it would be open to the public. So we had our experts there, they weren't allowed
into the room. But we didn't want Cobb County. We wanted Fulton County. And you wouldn't give
it to us. Now, why aren't we doing signature -- and why can't it be open to the public?
And why can't we have professionals do it instead of rank amateurs who will never find
anything and don't want to find anything? They don't want to find, you know they don't want to
find anything. Someday you'll tell me the reason why, because I don't understand your
reasoning, but someday you'll tell me the reason why. But why don't you want to find?
Germany: Mr. President, we chose Cobb County --
Trump: Why don't you want to find . . . What?
Germany: Sorry, go ahead.
Trump: So why did you do Cobb County? We didn't even request -- we requested Fulton County,
not Cobb County. Go ahead, please. Go ahead.
Germany: We chose Cobb County because that was the only county where there's been any
evidence submitted that the signature verification was not properly done.
Trump: No, but I told you. We're not, we're not saying that.
Mitchell: We did say that.
Trump: Fulton County. Look. Stacey, in my opinion, Stacey is as dishonest as they come. She
has outplayed you . . . at everything. She got you to sign a totally unconstitutional
agreement, which is a disastrous agreement. You can't check signatures. I can't imagine you're
allowed to do harvesting, I guess, in that agreement. That agreement is a disaster for this
country. But she got you somehow to sign that thing, and she has outsmarted you at every
step.
And I hate to imagine what's going to happen on Monday or Tuesday, but it's very scary to
people. You know, when the ballots flow in out of nowhere. It's very scary to people. That
consent decree is a disaster. It's a disaster. A very good lawyer who examined it said they've
never seen anything like it.
Raffensperger: Harvesting is still illegal in the state of Georgia. And that settlement
agreement did not change that one iota.
Trump: It's not a settlement agreement, it's a consent decree. It even says consent decree
on it, doesn't it? It uses the term consent decree. It doesn't say settlement agreement. It's a
consent decree. It's a disaster.
Raffensperger: It's a settlement agreement.
Trump: What's written on top of it?
Raffensperger: Ryan?
Germany: I don't have it in front of me, but it was not entered by the court, it's not a
court order.
Trump: But Ryan, it's called a consent decree, is that right? On the paper. Is that
right?
Germany: I don't. I don't. I don't believe so, but I don't have it in front of me.
Trump: Okay, whatever, it's a disaster. It's a disaster. Look. Here's the problem. We can go
through signature verification, and we'll find hundreds of thousands of signatures, if you let
us do it. And the only way you can do it, as you know, is to go to the past. But you didn't do
that in Cobb County. You just looked at one page compared to another. The only way you can do a
signature verification is go from the one that signed it on November whatever. Recently. And
compare it to two years ago, four years ago, six years ago, you know, or even one. And you'll
find that you have many different signatures. But in Fulton, where they dumped ballots, you
will find that you have many that aren't even signed and you have many that are forgeries.
Okay, you know that. You know that. You have no doubt about that. And you will find you will
be at 11,779 within minutes because Fulton County is totally corrupt, and so is she totally
corrupt.
And they're going around playing you and laughing at you behind your back, Brad, whether you
know it or not, they're laughing at you. And you've taken a state that's a Republican state,
and you've made it almost impossible for a Republican to win because of cheating, because they
cheated like nobody's ever cheated before. And I don't care how long it takes me, you know,
we're going to have other states coming forward -- pretty good.
But I won't . . . this is never . . . this is . . . We have some incredible talent said
they've never seen anything . . . Now the problem is they need more time for the big numbers.
But they're very substantial numbers. But I think you're going to fine that they -- by the way,
a little information -- I think you're going to find that they are shredding ballots because
they have to get rid of the ballots because the ballots are unsigned. The ballots are corrupt,
and they're brand new, and they don't have seals, and there's a whole thing with the ballots.
But the ballots are corrupt.
And you are going to find that they are -- which is totally illegal -- it is more illegal
for you than it is for them because, you know, what they did and you're not reporting it.
That's a criminal, that's a criminal offense. And you can't let that happen. That's a big risk
to you and to Ryan, your lawyer. And that's a big risk. But they are shredding ballots, in my
opinion, based on what I've heard. And they are removing machinery, and they're moving it as
fast as they can, both of which are criminal finds. And you can't let it happen, and you are
letting it happen. You know, I mean, I'm notifying you that you're letting it happen. So look.
All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have
because we won the state.
And flipping the state is a great testament to our country because, you know, this is --
it's a testament that they can admit to a mistake or whatever you want to call it. If it was a
mistake, I don't know. A lot of people think it wasn't a mistake. It was much more criminal
than that. But it's a big problem in Georgia, and it's not a problem that's going away. I mean,
you know, it's not a problem that's going away.
Germany: This is Ryan. We're looking into every one of those things that you mentioned.
Trump: Good. But if you find it, you've got to say it, Ryan.
Germany: . . . Let me tell you what we are seeing. What we're seeing is not at all what
you're describing. These are investigators from our office, these are investigators from GBI,
and they're looking, and they're good. And that's not what they're seeing. And we'll keep
looking, at all these things.
Trump: Well, you better check on the ballots because they are shredding ballots, Ryan. I'm
just telling you, Ryan. They're shredding ballots. And you should look at that very carefully.
Because that's so illegal. You know, you may not even believe it because it's so bad. But
they're shredding ballots because they think we're going to eventually get there . . . because
we'll eventually get into Fulton. In my opinion, it's never too late. . . . So, that's the
story. Look, we need only 11,000 votes. We have are far more than that as it stands now. We'll
have more and more. And . . . do you have provisional ballots at all, Brad? Provisional
ballots?
Raffensperger: Provisional ballots are allowed by state law.
Trump: Sure, but I mean, are they counted, or did you just hold them back because they, you
know, in other words, how many provisional ballots do you have in the state?
Raffensperger: We'll get you that number.
Trump: Because most of them are made out to the name Trump. Because these are people that
were scammed when they came in. And we have thousands of people that have testified or that
want to testify. When they came in, they were proudly going to vote on November 3. And they
were told, "I'm sorry, you've already been voted for, you've already voted." The women, men
started screaming, "No. I proudly voted till November 3." They said, "I'm sorry, but you've
already been voted for, and you have a ballot." And these people are beside themselves. So they
went out, and they filled in a provisional ballot, putting the name Trump on it.
And what about that batch of military ballots that came in. And even though I won the
military by a lot, it was 100 percent Trump. I mean 100 percent Biden. Do you know about that?
A large group of ballots came in, I think it was to Fulton County, and they just happened to be
100 percent for Trump -- for Biden -- even though Trump won the military by a lot, you know, a
tremendous amount. But these ballots were 100 percent for Biden. And do you know about that? A
very substantial number came in, all for Biden. Does anybody know about it?
Mitchell: I know about it, but --
Trump: Okay, Cleta, I'm not asking you, Cleta, honestly. I'm asking Brad. Do you know about
the military ballots that we have confirmed now. Do you know about the military ballots that
came in that were 100 percent, I mean 100 percent, for Biden. Do you know about that?
Germany: I don't know about that. I do know that we have, when military ballots come in,
it's not just military, it's also military and overseas citizens. The military part of that
does generally go Republican. The overseas citizen part of it generally goes very Democrat.
This was a mix of 'em.
Trump: No, but this was. That's okay. But I got like 78 percent of the military. These
ballots were all for . . . They didn't tell me overseas. Could be overseas, too, but I get
votes overseas, too, Ryan, in all fairness. No they came in, a large batch came in, and it was,
quote, 100 percent for Biden. And that is criminal. You know, that's criminal. Okay. That's
another criminal, that's another of the many criminal events, many criminal events here.
I don't know, look, Brad. I got to get . . . I have to find 12,000 votes, and I have them
times a lot. And therefore, I won the state. That's before we go to the next step, which is in
the process of right now. You know, and I watched you this morning, and you said, well, there
was no criminality.
But I mean all of this stuff is very dangerous stuff. When you talk about no criminality, I
think it's very dangerous for you to say that.
I just, I just don't know why you don't want to have the votes counted as they are. Like
even you when you went and did that check. And I was surprised because, you know . . . And we
found a few thousand votes that were against me. I was actually surprised because the way that
check was done, all you're doing, you know, recertifying existing votes and, you know, and you
were given votes and you just counted them up, and you still found 3,000 that were bad. So that
was sort of surprising that it came down to three or five, I don't know. Still a lot of votes.
But you have to go back to check from past years with respect to signatures. And if you check
with Fulton County, you'll have hundreds of thousands because they dumped ballots into Fulton
County and the other county next to it.
So what are we going to do here, folks? I only need 11,000 votes. Fellas, I need 11,000
votes. Give me a break. You know, we have that in spades already. Or we can keep it going, but
that's not fair to the voters of Georgia because they're going to see what happened, and
they're going to see what happened. I mean, I'll, I'll take on anybody you want with regard to
[name] and her lovely daughter, a very lovely young lady, I'm sure. But, but [name] . . . I
will take on anybody you want. And the minimum, there were 18,000 ballots, but they used them
three times. So that's, you know, a lot of votes. And they were all to Biden, by the way,
that's the other thing we didn't say. You know, [name] , the one thing I forgot to say, which
was the most important. You know that every single ballot she did went to Biden. You know that,
right? Do you know that, by the way, Brad?
Every single ballot that she did through the machines at early, early in the morning went to
Biden. Did you know that, Ryan?
Germany: That's not accurate, Mr. President.
Trump: Huh. What is accurate?
Germany: The numbers that we are showing are accurate.
Trump: No, about [name] . About early in the morning, Ryan. Where the woman took, you know,
when the whole gang took the stuff from under the table, right? Do you know, do you know who
those ballots, do you know who they were made out to, do you know who they were voting for?
Germany: No, not specifically.
Trump: Did you ever check?
Germany: We did what I described to you earlier --
Trump: No no no -- did you ever check the ballots that were scanned by [name] , a known
political operative, balloteer? Did ever check who those votes were for?
Germany: We looked into that situation that you described.
Trump: No, they were 100 percent for Biden. 100 percent. There wasn't a Trump vote in the
whole group. Why don't you want to find this, Ryan? What's wrong with you? I heard your lawyer
is very difficult, actually, but I'm sure you're a good lawyer. You have a nice last name.
But, but I'm just curious, why wouldn't, why do you keep fighting this thing? It just
doesn't make sense. We're way over the 17,779, right? We're way over that number, and just if
you took just [name] , we're over that number by five, five or six times when you multiply that
times three.
And every single ballot went to Biden, and you didn't know that, but now you know it. So
tell me, Brad, what are we going to do? We won the election, and it's not fair to take it away
from us like this. And it's going to be very costly in many ways. And I think you have to say
that you're going to reexamine it, and you can reexamine it, but reexamine it with people that
want to find answers, not people that don't want to find answers. For instance, I'm hearing
Ryan that he's probably, I'm sure a great lawyer and everything, but he's making statements
about those ballots that he doesn't know. But he's making them with such -- he did make them
with surety. But now I think he's less sure because the answer is, they all went to Biden, and
that alone wins us the election by a lot. You know, so.
Raffensperger: Mr. President, you have people that submit information, and we have our
people that submit information. And then it comes before the court, and the court then has to
make a determination. We have to stand by our numbers. We believe our numbers are right.
Trump: Why do you say that, though? I don't know. I mean, sure, we can play this game with
the courts, but why do you say that? First of all, they don't even assign us a judge. They
don't even assign us a judge. But why wouldn't you . . . Hey Brad, why wouldn't you want to
check out [name] ? And why wouldn't you want to say, hey, if in fact, President Trump is right
about that, then he wins the state of Georgia, just that one incident alone without going
through hundreds of thousands of dropped ballots. You just say, you stick by, I mean I've been
watching you, you know, you don't care about anything. "Your numbers are right." But your
numbers aren't right. They're really wrong, and they're really wrong, Brad. And I know this
phone call is going nowhere other than, other than ultimately, you know -- Look, ultimately, I
win, okay? Because you guys are so wrong. And you treated this. You treated the population of
Georgia so badly. You, between you and your governor, who is down at 21, he was down 21 points.
And like a schmuck, I endorsed him, and he got elected, but I will tell you, he is a
disaster.
The people are so angry in Georgia, I can't imagine he's ever getting elected again, I'll
tell you that much right now. But why wouldn't you want to find the right answer, Brad, instead
of keep saying that the numbers are right? 'Cause those numbers are so wrong?
Mitchell: Mr. Secretary, Mr. President, one of the things that we have been, Alex can talk
about this, we talked about it, and I don't know whether the information has been conveyed to
your office, but I think what the president is saying, and what we've been trying to do is to
say, look, the court is not acting on our petition. They haven't even assigned a judge. But the
people of Georgia and the people of America have a right to know the answers. And you have data
and records that we don't have access to.
And you can keep telling us and making public statement that you investigated this and
nothing to see here. But we don't know about that. All we know is what you tell us. What I
don't understand is why wouldn't it be in everyone's best interest to try to get to the bottom,
compare the numbers, you know, if you say, because . . . to try to be able to get to the truth
because we don't have any way of confirming what you're telling us. You tell us that you had an
investigation at the State Farm Arena. I don't have any report. I've never seen a report of
investigation. I don't know that is. I've been pretty involved in this, and I don't know. And
that's just one of 25 categories. And it doesn't even. And as I, as the president said, we
haven't even gotten into the Dominion issue. That's not part of our case. It's not part of, we
just didn't feel as though we had any to be able to develop --
Trump: No, we do have a way, but I don't want to get into it. We found a way . . . excuse
me, but we don't need it because we're only down 11,000 votes, so we don't even need it. I
personally think they're corrupt as hell. But we don't need that. All we have to do, Cleta, is
find 11,000-plus votes. So we don't need that. I'm not looking to shake up the whole world. We
won Georgia easily. We won it by hundreds of thousands of votes. But if you go by basic, simple
numbers, we won it easily, easily. So we're not giving Dominion a pass on the record. We don't
need Dominion because we have so many other votes that we don't need to prove it any more than
we already have.
Trump attorney Kurt Hilbert: Mr. President and Cleta, this is Kurt Hilbert, if I might
interject for a moment. Ryan, I would like to suggest that just four categories that have
already been mentioned by the president that have actually hard numbers of 24,149 votes that
were counted illegally. That in and of itself is sufficient to change the results or place the
outcome in doubt. We would like to sit down with your office, and we can do it through purposes
of compromise and just like this phone call, just to deal with that limited category of votes.
And if you are able to establish that our numbers are not accurate, then fine. However, we
believe that they are accurate. We've had now three to four separate experts looking at these
numbers.
Trump: Certified accountants looked at them.
Hilbert: Correct. And this is just based on USPS data and your own secretary of state data.
So that's what we would entreat and ask you to do, to sit down with us in a compromise and
settlements proceeding and actually go through the registered voter IDs and the registrations.
And if you can convince us that 24,149 is inaccurate, then fine. But we tend to believe that
is, you know, obviously more than 11,779. That's sufficient to change the results entirely in
and of itself. So what would you say to that, Mr. Germany?
Germany: I'm happy to get with our lawyers, and we'll set that up. That number is not
accurate. And I think we can show you, for all the ones we've looked at, why it's not. And so
if that would be helpful, I'm happy to get with our lawyers and set that up with you guys.
Trump: Well, let me ask you, Kurt, you think that is an accurate number. That was based on
the information given to you by the secretary of state's department, right?
Hilbert: That is correct. That information is the minimum, most conservative data based upon
the USPS data and the secretary of state's office data that has been made publicly available.
We do not have the internal numbers from the secretary of state. Yet we have asked for it six
times. I sent a letter over to . . . several times requesting this information, and it's been
rebuffed every single time. So it stands to reason that if the information is not forthcoming,
there's something to hide. That's the problem that we have.
Germany: Well, that's not the case, sir. There are things that you guys are entitled to get.
And there's things that under law, we are not allowed to give out.
Trump: Well, you have to. Well, under law, you're not allowed to give faulty election
results, okay? You're not allowed to do that. And that's what you done. This is a faulty
election result. And honestly, this should go very fast. You should meet tomorrow because you
have a big election coming up, and because of what you've done to the president -- you know,
the people of Georgia know that this was a scam -- and because of what you've done to the
president, a lot of people aren't going out to vote. And a lot of Republicans are going to vote
negative because they hate what you did to the president. Okay? They hate it. And they're going
to vote. And you would be respected. Really respected, if this thing could be straightened out
before the election. You have a big election coming up on Tuesday. And I think that it is
really is important that you meet tomorrow and work out on these numbers. Because I know, Brad,
that if you think we're right, I think you're going to say, and I'm not looking to blame
anybody, I'm just saying, you know, and, you know, under new counts, and under new views, of
the election results, we won the election. You know? It's very simple. We won the election. As
the governors of major states and the surrounding states said, there is no way you lost
Georgia. As the Georgia politicians say, there is no way you lost Georgia. Nobody. Everyone
knows I won it by hundreds of thousands of votes. But I'll tell you it's going to have a big
impact on Tuesday if you guys don't get this thing straightened out fast.
Meadows: Mr. President, this is Mark. It sounds like we've got two different sides agreeing
that we can look at those areas, and I assume that we can do that within the next 24 to 48
hours, to go ahead and get that reconciled so that we can look at the two claims and making
sure that we get the access to the secretary of state's data to either validate or invalidate
the claims that have been made. Is that correct?
Germany: No, that's not what I said. I'm happy to have our lawyers sit down with Kurt and
the lawyers on that side and explain to him, hey, here's, based on what we've looked at so far,
here's how we know this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong, this is
wrong.
Meadows: So what you're saying, Ryan, let me let me make sure . . . so what you're saying is
you really don't want to give access to the data. You just want to make another case on why the
lawsuit is wrong?
Germany: I don't think we can give access to data that's protected by law. But we can sit
down with them and say --
Trump: But you're allowed to have a phony election? You're allowed to have a phony election,
right?
Germany: No, sir.
Trump: When are you going to do signature counts, when are you going to do signature
verification on Fulton County, which you said you were going to do, and now all of a sudden,
you're not doing it. When are you doing that?
Germany: We are going to do that. We've announced --
Hilbert: To get to this issue of the personal information and privacy issue, is it possible
that the secretary of state could deputize the lawyers for the president so that we could
access that information and private information without you having any kind of violation?
Trump: Well, I don't want to know who it is. You guys can do it very confidentially. You can
sign a confidentiality agreement. That's okay. I don't need to know names. But on this stuff
that we're talking about, we got all that information from the secretary of state.
Meadows: Yeah. So let me let me recommend, Ryan, if you and Kurt will get together, you
know, when we get off of this phone call, if you could get together and work out a plan to
address some of what we've got with your attorneys where we can we can actually look at the
data. For example, Mr. Secretary, I can you say they were only two dead people who would vote.
I can promise you there are more than that. And that may be what your investigation shows, but
I can promise you there are more than that. But at the same time, I think it's important that
we go ahead and move expeditiously to try to do this and resolve it as quickly as we possibly
can. And if that's the good next step. Hopefully we can, we can finish this phone call and go
ahead and agree that the two of you will get together immediately.
Trump: Well, why don't my lawyers show you where you got the information. It will show the
secretary of state, and you don't even have to look at any names. We don't want names. We don't
care. But we got that information from you. And Stacey Abrams is laughing about you. She's
going around saying these guys are dumber than a rock. What she's done to this party is
unbelievable, I tell you. And I only ran against her once. And that was with a guy named Brian
Kemp, and I beat her. And if I didn't run, Brian wouldn't have had even a shot, either in the
general or in the primary. He was dead, dead as a doornail. He never thought he had a shot at
either one of them. What a schmuck I was. But that's the way it is. That's the way it is. I
would like you . . . for the attorneys . . . I'd like you to perhaps meet with Ryan, ideally
tomorrow, because I think we should come to a resolution of this before the election. Otherwise
you're going to have people just not voting. They don't want to vote. They hate the state, they
hate the governor, and they hate the secretary of state. I will tell you that right now. The
only people that like you are people that will never vote for you. You know that, Brad, right?
They like you, you know, they like you. They can't believe what they found. They want more
people like you. So, look, can you get together tomorrow? And, Brad, we just want the truth.
It's simple.
And everyone's going to look very good if the truth comes out. It's okay. It takes a little
while, but let the truth come out. And the real truth is, I won by 400,000 votes. At least.
That's the real truth. But we don't need 400,000 votes. We need less than 2,000 votes. And are
you guys able to meet tomorrow, Ryan?
Germany: I'll get with Chris, the lawyer who's representing us in the case, and see when he
can get together with Kurt.
Raffensperger: Ryan will be in touch with the other attorney on this call, Mr. Meadows.
Thank you, President Trump, for your time.
Trump: Okay, thank you, Brad. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you
very much. Bye.
Another scenario I consider is that the permanent state preferred Trump to win in 2016 as
they could test his blatant nationalism and MAGA concept to push the overton window waaayyy
to the right and simultaneously poke Russia, China, Iran to test their malleability in the
face of provocation. They were gaming in real time to assess their next strategy which was to
return the D party (without Clinton) to the Presidency and Congress in 2020 being certain
that their return would be further beneficial to wage aggression across the globe and enrich
the Banks and MIC. I say - without Clinton - as they likely found her too big for her boots
or damaged goods beyond redemption and therefore unfit for their safe use.
It keeps solid perimeters around the two party system
It further drives the trigger happy rightist cells to better organise and maintain their
rage
It binds the left and reinforces the permanent state's manipulation of the fringe such as the
Democratic Socialist party
It enlarges the use of wedge politics to suppress any chance of progressive legislation in a
crisis
That way they maintain their capacity to steer both parties and the legislative agenda
behind their opaque wall.
The reemergence of the remaining loyalists to the U.S. Constitution and a truth and
reconciliation moment where these coastal elites, who facilitated this arrangement and
continue to administer this with China, will be given the Nuremberg treatment. That is the
trajectory of history from my vantage point.
The west is in for some hard times but it is indeed for the best for the supremacy of
natural religions to reemerge as victors in the Hegelian dialectic of which the globalists
have tried in vain to put a lid on.
Whose the goat? 'Sore loser' Trump? or Corrupt Biden?
For most, "the answer" depends on their own partisan leanings.
But I think that MAGA! is a core part of the strategy to counter Russia and China, not
simply a campaign slogan to be discarded. That strategy was first described by Kissinger in a
WSJ Op-Ed 10 months before Trump became the MAGA! candidate.
To breathe life into that strategy requires what Trump termed winning .
Winning instills confidence and pride. And we've seen Trump's winning abilities
in partisan kayfabe: the Democrats feeble/fake "resistance" has resulted in several big wins
for Trump: the Russiagate investigation came up empty; Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh was
confirmed despite loud objections; the impeachment trial was a farce; Flynn was found to have
been set-up. Then Trump topped it off with a resounding (and very suspicious) "defeat" of
Covid-19 via American bio-tech, principally Regeneron and Remdesivir.
Is this glorious streak of MAGA! winning ending? Is that what a Deep State planner would
like to see?
They met virtually on Zoom, four days over two weeks in June, to hold simulations known
in the military and intelligence communities as "war games."
There were 67 players – many of them high-profile critics of President Donald
Trump – including law professors, retired military officers, former senior U.S.
officials, political strategists and attorneys.
Instead of mapping out a geopolitical conflict, the group peered ahead to the Nov. 3
election, now less than 90 days away, and explored how the race between Trump and Joe Biden
could turn into a post-election crisis.
John Podesta, a former top aide to President Barack Obama and President Bill
Clinton's former chief of staff, played Biden. Two outspoken Republican critics of Trump,
David Frum and Bill Kristol, portrayed the president.
After gaming out various scenarios, the group said its conclusions were "alarming:"
In an election taking place amid a pandemic, a recession and rising political polarization,
the group found a substantial risk of legal battles, a contested outcome, violent street
clashes and even a constitutional impasse.
"We assess with a high degree of likelihood that November's elections will be marked
by a chaotic legal and political landscape," the Transition Integrity Project, which
organized the "war games," said in a report this week.
It should be clear that the research and planning for "war games" with 67 players would have
begun months before June 2020.
Does anyone think that people like Podesta, Kristol, and Frum have our best interests at
heart? As oglalla @Jan3 19:12 #22 notes, the prospect of a Trump win is scary because (as in
2016) it would be arranged for a frightening purpose: to ensure that USA/West continue and
extend their global dominance up to and including war.
It has been argued by some at moa that Biden is WORSE than Trump on foreign policy
(because his FP is supposedly driven by the Deep State while Trump's is not). Biden, like
Hillary Bush McCain Brennan etc, is a Deep Stater and avowed Zionist. He will not undo
anything Trump has done.
The advantage to the Deep State of Trump instead of Biden is that Trump is: 1) a better
communicator and 2) closely associated with MAGA! patriots (aka white people). The US
military has never forgotten the cardinal lesson of Vietnam: the war was lost on the
homefront. And it wasn't hippies or marches in support of black civil rights protesters that
caused that, it was the disillusionment of the white middle-class.
I just want to know one thing from you: Do you honestly believe Trump won the
Election?
And then explain why Republicans have no problem with the results down the
ballot?
It's okay to clamor and protest for more social justice, but what is not okay is to
overturn a process where people actually exercised their will and in numbers historically
unprecedented.
If you destroy fact with fiction and eliminate the will of 81,000,000 people; 7 Million
more than Trump got, then does anything else matter?
Don't skirt the question: Do you believe Trump won the election?
I'll answer with numbers.....
It is acknowledged that Trump got 74 million votes.
There were 156 million voters registered....
About 62% voted... == 97 million voted.
That leaves 23 million for Biden....
This accords with the number of people at his rallies compared to those attending Trump's
rallies....
Then there is the not too small issue of the 1998 Unanimous Supreme Court Decision in the
Louisiana case...
"The election must occur on one day... It ends at midnight on that day"
Given that is the case... all votes not counted by midnight on 3 Nov should have been
discarded... or the vote nullified...
That requirement alone would give PA, WI, GA, AZ, to Trump because he was leading in
those states prior to midnight. Were this to happen Trump would win hands down....
So, to answer your question.... Trump won... Biden lost...
But to go further... Putting Biden in the Oval Office represents a loss for the
electorate. Biden is corrupt, his entire career has been one trying to eliminate Social
Security and other entitlement programs including Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and AFDC. Biden
is for all intents and purposes, in-competent.
The democrats should have gone with Vermont Senator Sanders... Who is not a Marxist, by
any measure.
I'd much prefer Sanders... as would almost all US Citizens....
It is certainly possible to have a republic without public elections - see Venetian
Republic where the mercantile class held power as one example or the city-states of Italy,
but it is impossible to have a democracy without a secure process of election that is trusted
by the designated electorate.
Not to overlook the fact that (near) universal suffrage does not a democracy make, only a
widespread citizenry within a political institution, even monarchies can claim to be
democracies FFS, so bizarrely construed has the language become. Once the trust in the
election process is destroyed, like the Humpty egg on the wall, reconstruction is near
impossible. Circe has been delusional for some time. Circe decided I was a supporter of DJT
from the copied material above that doesn't even contain the president's name. Circe cannot
respect anything but Circe's POV. Circe will receive the respect Circe shows others, at least
from me.
My ancestors fought in both the Revolution and for the Union during the War of Southern
Secession. The Southerners were and are our brothers and the Southern peoples have existed as
distinct cultures longer than have the modern French. They are not just real Americans, but
founding Americans.
Screw the unassimilated Fake Americans, the overtly hostile foreigners with papers like
Schumer and Nadler raping our civilization to death for fun and profit. Screw the homegrown
globalists like Traitor Romney whose unquenchable love of money would turn our people into
neofeudal serfs ruled over by a de facto hereditary aristocracy using a totalitarian
corporate-police state that would have made Orwell blanch.
This is part of a larger war against the mere existence of European peoples. Johnnie Reb
is just the first and easiest target. Joining the attack on the Southerners in the hope that
the filthy people will spare you is the height of stupidity. They WILL feast upon you as
well. We are in an existential civilizational war: it is both a race war against European
people and a religious war against Christians. They are not going to stop until either we are
destroyed or they are destroyed.
After pushing phony stories of 'Russian interference' and working for an agency that
interferes in elections, ex-CIA agent now Congressman Will Hurd thinks the GOP should accept
Joe Biden's win, or risk helping the US' "enemies."
A dozen Republican Senators are getting set to object to the Electoral
College's certification of Joe Biden's win in November, unless an "emergency 10-day
audit" is held in a number of key swing states won by Biden. The move is also backed by a
number of Republican representatives in the House.
However, there's a rival faction of Republicans who want to put allegations of Democrat
fraud behind them and go back to business as usual under a Biden administration. Outgoing Texas
Rep. Will Hurd is one of them, and he made a novel argument against questioning the election on
Saturday.
"When I was undercover at the CIA, I saw firsthand how our enemies steal elections and
try to interfere in ours," he tweeted. "Elected officials continuing to sow doubt
amongst the public for petty political gain is playing into our enemies' hands."
As for who these "enemies" are, Hurd was presumably referring to the reliable old
specter of "the Russians." Throughout Trump's four years in office, Hurd has repeatedly
claimed that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election, despite there literally being zero proof for
these claims.
" This is honestly one of the most hilarious mega-viral tweets I've ever seen on
Twitter," journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted. In a follow-up tweet, Greenwald joked that
Hurd "must have been in a different part of the CIA" than former Director James Woolsey, who
told Fox News' Laura Ingraham in 2018 that his agency had meddled in European elections during
the Cold War "in order to avoid the Communists taking over," and continues to dabble in
election meddling, but "only for a very good cause.
Hurd was mocked on all sides. First for condemning election interference from an agency
famed for
interfering in elections
... ... ...
And then for bragging about his undercover status...
On Sept. 15, Tucker Carlson brought onto his show Darren Beattie, a former Trump
speechwriter. Beattie explained to viewers that the same networks promoting color revolutions
overseas are now training their sights on President Donald Trump: "What's unfolding before our
eyes is a very specific type of coup called the 'color revolution.' "
Similarly,
Revolver website posted a multi-part series on the color revolution against Trump, with its
Sept. 9 installment taking up Norm Eisen, one of the participants in the Transition Integrity
Project's war gaming of the 2020 election. Eisen was Obama's White House ethics czar and was
hired by the Democratic leadership of the House Judiciary Committee in 2019, where he prepared
ten articles of impeachment against Trump a month before Pelosi announced an official
impeachment inquiry. He himself took part in the impeachment proceedings.
But his involvement in ousting Trump began even before the nomination. Eisen ran Citizens
for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), financed amongst others by George Soros's
Open Society, which partnered with David Brock to put forward a blueprint -- issued before the
inauguration -- for attacking Trump through such means as policing social media, getting tech
companies to censor content (media platforms ... will no longer uncritically and without
consequence host and enrich fake news), impeachment itself, fake news (a steady flow of
damaging information, new revelations), and other techniques.
Eisen co-authored "The Democracy Playbook: Preventing and Reversing Democratic
Backsliding," a Brookings guide to the perplexed seeking to institute policies through frankly
undemocratic means. Eisen named Gene Sharp's From Dictatorship to Democracy as an inspiration
for his document.
Consider another color revolutionary. Michael McFaul, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia
and a supporter of the Ukraine color revolution, realized that "color revolution" was taking on
a negative connotation. In August he tweeted a revised nomenclature: "Autocrats have demonized
the phrase, 'color revolutions.' (& revolution generally has a negative connotation for
many.) Instead, I use the term 'democratic breakthroughs.' "
What kind of democratic breakthrough? Consider McFaul's Sept. 4 tweet:
"Trump has lost the Intelligence Community. He has lost the State Department. He has lost
the military. How can he continue to serve as our Commander in Chief?"
Astute readers will note that neither the IC, State Department, or military appoint the
President, who takes that office by means that are actually democratic -- an election!
Eisen also heads the Transatlantic Democracy Working Group, whose website announces that
it is "a bipartisan and transatlantic platform for discourse and coordination to address
democratic backsliding in Europe." What is "democratic backsliding"? Naturally, it's when the
plebes get uppity and vote for their favored candidates, as in, you know, elections.
"Eleven Senate Republicans on Saturday announced that they will object to the Electoral
College results Wednesday, when Congress convenes in a joint session to formally count the
vote.
"Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and
fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the
disputed states," they said. "Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission's
findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if
needed.
"Accordingly, we intend to vote on Jan. 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not
'regularly given' and 'lawfully certified' (the statutory requisite), unless and until that
emergency 10-day audit is completed," they added.
The group's announcement means that at least a dozen GOP senators will object on Wednesday."
The Hill
Ted Cruz Leads Senators In Challenge To Wednesday Electoral Count; Demands Emergency
Audit BY TYLER DURDEN SATURDAY, JAN 02, 2021 - 13:25
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is leading a group of 11 Senators who plan to object to certifying
state Electoral College votes on Wednesday.
The group, which includes Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Steve Daines
(R-Mont.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and
Senators-Elect Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), and
Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), are also calling for the resurrection of an Electoral Commission to
conduct an emergency audit of the results .
According to
Axios , the move pits the group of GOP Senators against Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, who had 'hoped to avoid the spectacle of his party leading a last-ditch effort to
prevent Joe Biden from being declared the 2020 election winner.'
The move comes after Sen. Josh Howley (R-MO) said that he would raise a general objection
.
"Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and
fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the
disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission's findings and
could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed," the
eleven Senators said in a statement.
The group noted a similar commission - made of five representatives, five senators and
five Supreme Court justices - reviewed allegations of fraud in the 1876 election.
"Accordingly, we intend to vote on Jan. 6 to reject the electors from disputed states
as not 'regularly given' and 'lawfully certified' (the statutory requisite), unless and
until that emergency 10-day audit is completed." -Axios
The last three times a Republican has been elected president -- Trump in 2016 and George
W. Bush in both 2000 and 2004 -- Democrats in the House have brought objections to the
electoral votes in states the GOP nominee won . In early 2005 specifically, Sen. Barbara
Boxer, D-Calif., along with Rep. Stephanie Tubbs, D-Ohio, objected to Bush's 2004 electoral
votes in Ohio. -PJ Media
See below for the full text of a joint statement from the Cruz-led coalition :
"America is a Republic whose leaders are chosen in democratic elections. Those elections, in
turn, must comply with the Constitution and with federal and state law.
"When the voters fairly decide an election, pursuant to the rule of law, the losing
candidate should acknowledge and respect the legitimacy of that election. And, if the voters
choose to elect a new office-holder, our Nation should have a peaceful transfer of power.
"The election of 2020, like the election of 2016, was hard fought and, in many swing states,
narrowly decided. The 2020 election, however, featured unprecedented allegations of voter
fraud, violations and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities.
"Voter fraud has posed a persistent challenge in our elections, although its breadth and
scope are disputed. By any measure, the allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020
election exceed any in our lifetimes.
"And those allegations are not believed just by one individual candidate. Instead, they are
widespread.
Reuters/Ipsos polling , tragically, shows that 39% of Americans believe 'the election was
rigged.' That belief is held by Republicans (67%), Democrats (17%), and Independents (31%).
"Some Members of Congress disagree with that assessment, as do many members of the
media.
"But, whether or not our elected officials or journalists believe it, that deep distrust of
our democratic processes will not magically disappear. It should concern us all. And it poses
an ongoing threat to the legitimacy of any subsequent administrations.
"Ideally, the courts would have heard evidence and resolved these claims of serious election
fraud. Twice, the Supreme Court had the opportunity to do so; twice, the Court declined.
"On January 6, it is incumbent on Congress to vote on whether to certify the 2020 election
results. That vote is the lone constitutional power remaining to consider and force resolution
of the multiple allegations of serious voter fraud.
"At that quadrennial joint session, there is long precedent of Democratic Members of
Congress raising objections to presidential election results, as they did in 1969, 2001, 2005,
and 2017. And, in both 1969 and 2005, a Democratic Senator joined with a Democratic House
Member in forcing votes in both houses on whether to accept the presidential electors being
challenged.
"The most direct precedent on this question arose in 1877, following serious allegations of
fraud and illegal conduct in the Hayes-Tilden presidential race. Specifically, the elections in
three states-Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina-were alleged to have been conducted
illegally.
"In 1877, Congress did not ignore those allegations, nor did the media simply dismiss those
raising them as radicals trying to undermine democracy. Instead, Congress appointed an
Electoral Commission-consisting of five Senators, five House Members, and five Supreme Court
Justices-to consider and resolve the disputed returns.
"We should follow that precedent. To wit, Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral
Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day
audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would
evaluate the Commission's findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a
change in their vote, if needed.
"Accordingly, we intend to vote on January 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as
not 'regularly given' and 'lawfully certified' (the statutory requisite), unless and until that
emergency 10-day audit is completed.
"We are not naïve. We fully expect most if not all Democrats, and perhaps more than a
few Republicans, to vote otherwise. But support of election integrity should not be a partisan
issue. A fair and credible audit-conducted expeditiously and completed well before January
20-would dramatically improve Americans' faith in our electoral process and would significantly
enhance the legitimacy of whoever becomes our next President. We owe that to the People.
"These are matters worthy of the Congress, and entrusted to us to defend. We do not take
this action lightly. We are acting not to thwart the democratic process, but rather to protect
it. And every one of us should act together to ensure that the election was lawfully conducted
under the Constitution and to do everything we can to restore faith in our Democracy."
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Precisely because it was a rigged election, and both the Deep State and the Lawmakers,
will have nothing to do with looking into possible widespread fraud.
There is only one solution that is fair and moral.
Re-do the election.
A citizen must vote in person, and show ID.
Military and nursing homes are allowed to Absentee Vote. All others, vote in person.
If you can't get up off your *** and walk down to the polling station, then you don't
deserve to vote.
Once we do this, I will, for one, accept any result.
Otherwise, this was a sham election, which will have incredible ill-results for
America.
On Wednesday during a
hearing in front of Georgia State Senators, inventor Jovan Pulitzer testified that his team
found a polling location in Fulton County, GA, that was connected to the internet so they were
able to hack into the Dominion Voting machines system and take over the poll pad and establish
a two way communication of sending and receiving data. All this was happening in real-time
while Mr. Pulitzer was testifying.
Poll locations are not supposed to have internet access. The polling site in question is
being used for the current Georgia Senate runoff elections so this confirms that the runoff is
connected to the internet. It appears that the Georgia Senate runoff elections are rigged just
like the 2020 election. Are you okay with this? Stay tuned!
The problem with the indisputable evidence isn't that it's being disputed. It's being
blatantly ignored. We are losing our country, our middle class and our freedom because truly
evil people are not being forced to follow the laws.
"Most secure election ever" unless there is a smart thermostat in the room... or any
wireless device... oh and the USB slots on the side of the machines... and then there is the
free downloadable version of the code we used to program the machines... and the instructions
on how to hack our machines on numerous websites... But other than that this is the most
secure election ever.
There was a guy that testified a while back about the claim that these machines are not
connected to the internet. I don't remember his name, which state, or anything like that.
Just that he was on via a zoom call. Anyhow, this guy said that on election night there was a
machine that wasn't working properly because it was coded to the wrong location or precinct.
The poll Supervisor called support which i believe he said was in Colorado. They were able to
remote into the computer & fix it. An internet connection must be present for remote
support. The guy even had a print out record of the call.
Each time a member of the big media reports on someone referring to acts of fraud or even
irregularities in the Nov. 3 presidential election, they describe them as "baseless claims" or
"unproven."
Such words are included in almost wire story since election day published by the Associated
Press, Reuters, Bloomberg, and others.
Actually, there are many examples of vote fraud that took place during the 2020 election,
and serious evidence of voting irregularities relating to the main-in ballots.
Here is what we do know:
Nevada: The Silver State rushed a universal vote-by-mail measure through the legislature in
response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill, known as AB 4, lacked safeguards to assure voter
identity and was implemented without cleaning voter rolls of deceased voters, those who had
moved, or who had become ineligible to vote.
Attorney Jesse Binnall
testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Dec. 16 as to what resulted.
He had proof of nearly 90,000 fraudulent or improper votes that were cast, including
instances where:
More than 42,000 people voted multiple times.
At least 1,500 people listed as "dead" voted.
More than 19,000 non-residents voted.
In excess of 8,000 people cast mail-in votes from non-existent addresses.
Over 15,000 votes were cast from commercial or vacant addresses.
Arizona: The Arizona Republican Party alleges more than 100,000 ballots might have been
improperly cast in the Grand Canyon State, including some 28,000 duplicated ballots in Maricopa
County alone.
Arizona GOP party chairwoman Dr. Kelli Ward also addressed in
one of her video reports the subject of "fake news" outlets, that tend to mischaracterize
allegations of voter fraud.
"We are trying to have integrity in our electoral process," she said, adding: "We have every
right to make legal challenges."
Again, only 10,457
votes separate Biden and President Donald Trump on Arizona, a 0.3% difference.
Wisconsin: President Trump's legal team sought to have some 221,000 ballots disqualified
that were cast in the state's two most heavily Democratic counties -- Dane and Milwaukee.
At issue were incomplete absentee ballot envelopes where clerks filled in missing
information, as well as those that were issued without a proper request, and still others that
were the subject of ballot harvesting.
In a narrow 4-3 ruling, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected the challenge, claiming the
campaign was "not entitled to the relief it seeks."
The campaign filed its petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court on
Tuesday.
Only 20,682
votes separate Trump and Biden in the Badger State, 0.61%.
One can hardly say this is a "baseless" claim, and pure reason has many people
suspicious.
Biden underperformed Obama in 80% of Wisconsin counties but hugely outperformed in just five
counties to win the state.
Michigan: While the Trump campaign has made an issue of the voting systems and software used
throughout the state, allegations of widespread fraud remain unproven.
The Trump legal team has presented additional evidence of voter fraud and irregularities
before the Michigan state Senate Oversight Committee on Dec. 1.
In one instance, a "Guard the Vote"
volunteer testified he went through 30,000 of the 172,000 Detroit absentee ballots -- about
17%. Some 229 were dead voters and 2,660 listed invalid addresses.
Finally, Republican poll watchers were denied access for proper ballot
monitoring due to alleged COVID-19 concerns.
Pennsylvania: Nothing about the Keystone State made sense.
Like Detroit, Philadelphia election officials denied Republican poll watchers adequate
access into counting rooms, requiring them to seek a court order.
"Trump campaign staffers marched into the PA Convention Center with a court order giving
them the right to stand 6 feet away from sorters, instead of the previously allotted 20 feet,"
reported CBS3 Philly
reporter Alecia Reid.
Most recently, a group of 17 Republican state lawmakers released a blockbuster statement
Monday, alleging 202,377 more votes were cast than there were voters who voted. State Rep.
Frank Ryan, who has a background as a certified public accountant, led the investigation and
released a statement.
"These numbers just don't add up, and the alleged certification of Pennsylvania's
presidential election results was absolutely premature, unconfirmed, and in error,"
the statement said .
Georgia: The biggest bombshell was a
video that appears to depict news media and poll watchers being ushered out of the counting
room in an Atlanta tabulation center.
After all but a few workers left, suitcases of what appear to be ballots are removed from
underneath a table and are run through machines.
Georgia failed to use signature verification and other measures to certify mail-in ballots.
Rejection rates -- not allowing non-eligible mail-in ballots -- plummeted in 2020 from the 2018
election.
Other irregularities:
In addition to outright claims of fraud, state and local officials in at least four states
-- Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia -- used the pandemic to make last-minute
changes to their state voting laws.
The U.S. Constitution provides only each state legislature may set the time, place, and
manner of elections.
This prompted Texas Attorney General Ken
Paxton to file a lawsuit against the four states with the United States Supreme Court for
allegedly exploiting "the COVID-19 pandemic to justify ignoring federal and state election laws
and unlawfully enacting last-minute changes, thus skewing the results of the 2020 General
Election."
In a statement he said, "Trust in the integrity of our election processes is sacrosanct and
binds our citizenry and the States in this union together. Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and
Wisconsin destroyed that trust and compromised the security and integrity of the 2020
election."
Despite the fact 18 more states signed on to Texas' petition, the Supreme Court dismissed
the case, citing lack of standing. Only Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito
dissented.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a student of history, compared the long list of
anomalies to another election nearly 200 years in the past.
"The more data comes out on vote anomalies that clearly are not legitimate the more it looks
like 2020 may be the biggest presidential theft since Adams and Clay robbed Andrew Jackson in
1824," Gingrich tweeted .
"State legislatures should demand recounts."
Mcconnell is a malevolent sociopathic genius. He's squeezed every drop of blood he could
from the Trump Administration. He knew it was time to cut bait the day after the election.
"... I'm still stunned that the paper did a study that confirmed what people have suspected, namely that a high cycle threshold used on PCR testing was creating the appearance of a pandemic that might have long receded. The testing mania was generating wild illusions of millions of "asymptomatic" carriers and spreaders. How severe was the problem? Read this and weep ..."
"... up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found. ..."
"... A major reason for the ongoing lockdowns are due to the pouring in of positive case numbers from massive testing. If 90% of these positive tests are false, we have a major problem. The whole basis of the panic disappears. All credit to the Times for running the article but why no follow up and why no change in its editorial stance? ..."
"... I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life -- schools and businesses closed, gatherings banned -- will be long lasting and calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself. ..."
"... During the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is unwittingly conducting what amounts to the largest immunological experiment in history on our own children. We have been keeping children inside, relentlessly sanitizing their living spaces and their hands and largely isolating them ..."
"... in the course of social distancing to mitigate the spread, we may also be unintentionally inhibiting the proper development of children's immune systems. ..."
"... The psychological effects of loneliness are a health risk comparable with risk obesity or smoking. Anxiety and depression have spiked since lockdown orders went into effect. ..."
The paper of record in 2020 shifted dramatically to the most illiberal stance possible on
the virus, pushing for full lockdowns, and ignoring or burying any information that might
contradict the case for this unprecedented experiment in social and economic control. This
article highlights the exceptions.
...
Even within the blatant and aggressive pro-lockdown bias, and consistent with the way the
New York Times does its work, the paper has not been entirely barren of truth about Covid and
lockdowns. Below I list five times that the news section of the paper, however inadvertently
and however buried deep within the paper, actually told the truth.
I'm still stunned that the paper did a study that confirmed what people have suspected,
namely that a high cycle threshold used on PCR testing was creating the appearance of a
pandemic that might have long receded. The testing mania was generating wild illusions of
millions of "asymptomatic" carriers and spreaders. How severe was the problem? Read this and
weep:
In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in
Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried
barely any virus, a review by The Times found.
On Thursday, the United States recorded 45,604 new coronavirus cases, according to a
database maintained by The Times . If the rates of contagiousness in Massachusetts and New
York were to apply nationwide, then perhaps only 4,500 of those people may actually need to
isolate and submit to contact tracing.
The implications of this revelation are incredible. A major reason for the ongoing lockdowns
are due to the pouring in of positive case numbers from massive testing. If 90% of these
positive tests are false, we have a major problem. The whole basis of the panic disappears. All
credit to the Times for running the article but why no follow up and why no change in its
editorial stance?
Gone missing this year in public commentary has been much at all about naturally acquired
immunities from the virus, even though the immune system deserves credit for why human kind has
lasted this long even in the presence of pathogens. That the Times ran this piece was another
exception in otherwise exceptionally bad coverage. It said in part:
Scientists who have been monitoring immune responses to the virus are now starting to see
encouraging signs of strong, lasting immunity, even in people who developed only mild
symptoms of Covid-19, a flurry of new studies suggests. Disease-fighting antibodies, as well
as immune cells called B cells and T cells that are capable of recognizing the virus, appear
to persist months after infections have resolved -- an encouraging echo of the body's
enduring response to other viruses .
Researchers
have yet to
find unambiguous evidence that coronavirus reinfections are occurring, especially within
the few months that the virus has been rippling through the human population. The prospect of
immune memory "helps to explain that," Dr. Pepper said.
Data from monkeys suggests that even low levels of antibodies can prevent serious illness
from the virus, if not a re-infection. Even if circulating antibody levels are undetectable,
the body retains the memory of the pathogen. If it crosses paths with the virus again,
balloon-like cells that live in the bone marrow can mass-produce antibodies within hours.
It's still a shock that so many schools closed their doors this year, partly from disease
panic but also from compliance with orders from public health officials. Nothing like this has
happened, and the kids have been brutalized as a result, not to mention the families who found
themselves unable to cope at home. For millions of students, a whole year of schooling is gone.
And they have been taught to treat their fellow human beings as nothing more than disease
vectors. So it was amazing to read this story in the Times :
So far, schools do not seem to be stoking community transmission of the coronavirus,
according to data emerging from random testing in the United States and Britain. Elementary
schools especially seem to seed remarkably few infections.
Byline Karen Yourish, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Danielle Ivory and Mitch Smith
Another strangely missing part of mainstream coverage has been honesty about the risk
gradient in the population. It is admitted even by the World Health Organization that the case
fatality rate for Covid-19 from people under the age of 70 is 0.05%. The serious danger is for
people with low life expectancy and broken immune systems. Knowing that, as we have since
February, we should have expected the need for special protection for nursing homes. It was
incredibly obvious. Instead of doing that, some governors shoved Covid patients into nursing
homes. Astonishing. In any case, the above article (and
this one
too) was one of the few times this year that the Times actually spelled out the many thousands
times risk to the aged and sick as versus the young and healthy.
Notable Opinion
columns
The op-ed page of the paper mirrored the news coverage, with only a handful of exceptions.
Those are noted below.
I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this
near total meltdown of normal life -- schools and businesses closed, gatherings banned --
will be long lasting and calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus
itself. The stock market will bounce back in time, but many businesses never will. The
unemployment, impoverishment and despair likely to result will be public health scourges of
the first order.
Worse, I fear our efforts will do little to contain the virus, because we have a
resource-constrained, fragmented, perennially underfunded public health system. Distributing
such limited resources so widely, so shallowly and so haphazardly is a formula for failure.
How certain are you of the best ways to protect your most vulnerable loved ones? How readily
can you get tested?
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is unwittingly conducting what amounts to the
largest immunological experiment in history on our own children. We have been keeping
children inside, relentlessly sanitizing their living spaces and their hands and largely
isolating them. In doing so, we have prevented large numbers of them from becoming infected
or transmitting the virus. But in the course of social distancing to mitigate the spread, we
may also be unintentionally inhibiting the proper development of children's immune
systems.
Our mental health suffers, too. The psychological effects of loneliness are a health risk
comparable with risk obesity or smoking. Anxiety and depression have spiked since lockdown
orders went into effect. The weeks immediately following them saw nearly an 18 percent jump
in overdose deaths and, as of last month, more than 40 states had reported increases. One in
four young adults age 18 to 25 reported seriously considering suicide within the 30-day
window of a recent study. Experts fear that suicides may increase; for young Americans, these
concerns are even more acute. Calls to domestic violence hotlines have soared. America's
elderly are dying from the isolation that was meant to keep them safe.
Republican Senate leadership opposes the planned objections. About two dozen GOP senators
have said they will not object, while others have indicated opposition. A small group -- Sens.
Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) -- have said they may object.
Virtually all Democrats have said they will not object, and have criticized those who plan
to challenge votes. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's spokeswoman
told reporters on Wednesday that the team views the counting of electoral votes as a mere
formality, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) expressed confidence Biden would be
confirmed as president-elect.
Here are the lawmakers planning on challenging votes:
Kicking things up a notch is Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who told "The Bulwark Podcast" that
there could be " upwards of 100 " Republican lawmakers who object to Biden's Electoral College
votes.
"I think you're going to have some people that come out and take a strong stand," he said,
adding that " I'm not going to be surprised if it approaches three figures ."
In the podcast interview, Kinzinger said that he does not support the initiative to object
to the votes led by Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.). Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Wednesday said he
would join their challenge, becoming the first senator to do so.
The bid requires both a senator and a representative to carry out. An objection to any state
by a representative and a senator will prompt up to two hours of debate in the Senate and House
on whether to accept a state's Electoral College votes; it means that if the lawmakers object
to more than one state, the procedure could last for hours.
Some GOP senators said
that their challenge would fail.
" Senator Hawley has every right to object, " Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News on
Thursday. " But it's another thing to overturn an election of another state ."
"If dead people were voting, I want the names," Graham added. "If you're going to retry the
case in the Senate that's already been tried in the federal courts it would be hard for me to
basically take over the federal courts' role. But I will listen and we'll see how it comes
out."
When a person files for an Affidavit. They are testifying as a witness to an oath that
they speak only Truth & can be punished to Prison if lied. Therefore with all these
thousands amount of Affidavits being filed all across U.S. are EVIDENCE of personal testimony
of voter fraud.
I've been on vacation in Mexico for the past two weeks. But that isn't the reason content
from me has been scarcer than normal. Yes, vacations are supposed to be for recharging and
taking a break from your routine.
But as I sat down to write this morning the overwhelming sense of futility washed over me .
And nothing saps your will to work more than reading through the headlines and noting the
complete lack of conscience on display by the media, our political leadership or frankly anyone
with half a brain.
We live in a world today where the legislature of one of the most important states in the
Union, Pennsylvania, released a report where more than 200,000 votes were counted than were
actually cast. And no one in our media seems to think this is news.
Before I really get into my message, let me remind you that we Americans created this
situation that we find ourselves currently in. We sold them enough rope to hang us. We did
nothing when they attempted to frame our president and remove him from office. The Russia Hoax,
the Ukraine Hoax, the spying on his campaign, and then finally the phony impeachment.
We didn't stand up when we were needed, which gave the politicians we elected the confidence
to steal an election with absolutely no resistance or fear. Harsh words, maybe, but truth will
always win in the end.
We the people repeatedly elected self-promoting, self-protecting RINOs (like Paul Ryan,
Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney and many others) who sought personal wealth and joining the
globalist payroll – and fell into the trap of voting for them to avoid the Democrat
alternative. The consequence is that this cabal/consortium will now be installed permanently
with no remedy – except for civil war, the most cleansing of remedies but with the very
highest cost across all groups.
I heard President Trump was making his way back to DC after New Years to attend a rally.
It's gonna take more than another damn rally to fight this monstrous electoral fraud. And
telling people to vote for more feckless and gutless Republicans won't mean crap either when
voting itself is a rigged sucker's game.
... ... ...
Those in power only look for more ways to gain additional power. The Constitution does not
allow for legislative agencies outside of Congress. All federal agencies that have any
rulemaking power must be ended, along with the entire leadership team of the FBI, DOJ, ATF, and
others. They have become so corrupted that they must be cut, or we're headed for major
trouble.
The FBI and DOJ are not late out of the gate; they are important members of the opposition.
If there are any patriots left in those agencies, they are cowards by remaining silent,
especially when decent, honest citizens put their livelihoods on the line as witnesses, when
those who swore an oath renege.
Less than a month before the election, a Swiss bank that is 75 percent owned by communist
China
forked over $400 million in cash to Staple Street Capital, the parent company of Dominion
Voting Systems.
Dominion, which operates electronic voting machines in 28 states, has been the
subject of election fraud inquiries and lawsuits alleging that the machines and their
software switched, altered and deleted votes on behalf of Joe Biden.
As first reported by
Infowars , an SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) filing from Oct. 8 shows that
Staple Street Capital received $400 million "with the Sales Compensation Recipient identified
as UBS Securities." Back in Dec. 2014, $200 million was received by Staple Street Capital from
the same source.
... ... ...
In other words, UBS Securities is a 100 percent Chinese-owned corporation, and it gave
nearly half a billion dollars to a company that runs most of America's elections, just days
before the most contested and obviously fraudulent election in American history.
1. As a Graphic Designer with a degree, I didn't understand why so many ballots were spit
out as unreadable by the voting machines on November 3rd. But after watching Jovan Pulitzers
testimony today in Georgia I now completely understand. Let me explain..
2. As a graphic designer all elements/layers of my design must line up in order to print
on the paper properly. Otherwise it can put out blurred images on the final product at the
printing shop. The printing machines follow something put on my art/documents
3. called "Registration Marks". Every student in Graphic Designer in college is stressed
that these are never to be off or you are wasting the printers time and the clients time.
Which is very bad, graphic designers get fired for this.
4. Back in the old days when we did this work by hand it was easy to make these mistakes,
before the computers I'm dating myself here because that's when I started before computers.
Now I design everything on computers that go to a printer.
5. On computer software, say photoshop for example, we no longer make these mistakes
because the software sets all registration marks electronically every time in every layer of
our art/document. In Mr. Pulitzers testimony he points out that
6. the Registration Marks (he called bullseye/target) are not lined up in the
predominantly Republican areas voters voting papers. And he shows you that the Democratic
areas voters voting papers are perfectly accurate Registration Marks. See below
7. You can see the Republican areas voter documents were off on the Registration Marks.
Very off. Because these are documents meant to be scanned by a counter, those bad
Registration Marks will toss the document out as uncountable.
8. Why was this print run allowed to proceed? Any print manager would have seen this in
the printers proof and rejected the print run. How did the Registration Marks get
misaligned?
9. Who printed these ballots? I have more that a few questions for them, like who designed
these Republican areas ballots? Why weren't they corrected? Why are the missing barcodes on
the Democrat ballots? I can think of many more questions. I bet you can too.
10. I bet I'm not the only Graphic Designer out there today to make this connection
finally to the tabulation machines rejection rates now.
11. Jovan Pulitzer's testimony today if you want to watch.
'Standing' is a basic legal concept. It means that (a) you were or clearly will be injured
not in some abstract way, but in reality, and (b) the injury is such that the court you ask for
relief can do something about it.
The most basic job of the Supreme Court is settling disputes among states. Texas claimed it
was and would be injured by widespread election fraud in other states. The Supreme Court said
"No, you won't actually be hurt by that."
In other words, the Supreme Court simply got it wrong. That's not a problem with law or a
legal concept, it's dishonorable conduct by seven little old ladies on our top court.
Dishonorable conduct often stinks; as you say "doesn't pass the smell test."
Update (1250ET): Two more lawmakers have joined Hawley with planned objections to the count
during the January 6 vote. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-TN) and Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) are also
planning to object, according to Bloomberg , along with Rep. Marjorie Greene (R-GA).
That said, it may be all for nothing if rumors are true Pelosi and McConnell are working
together to change the rules and block objections.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said he will object during the counting of the Electoral College
vote process on Jan. 6, becoming the first senator to confirm they are joining an effort
launched by more than a dozen House Republicans.
" I cannot vote to certify the electoral college results on Jan. 6 without raising the
fact that some states, particularly Pennsylvania, failed to follow their own state election
laws ," Hawley wrote in a statement on
Monday.
"And I cannot vote to certify without pointing out the unprecedented effort of
mega-corporations, including Facebook and Twitter, to interfere in this election, in support
of Joe Biden," he added.
Hawley said that Congress should investigate voter fraud allegations and make sure that
future elections are secure. According to the Missouri Republican, both chambers have failed to
act in an appropriate manner.
"For these reasons," Hawley continued, "I will follow the same practice Democrat members
of Congress have in years past and object during the certification process on Jan. 6 to raise
these critical issues ."
Hawley noted that Democrats objected during the 2004 and 2016 elections "in order
to raise concerns" about election integrity. "They were praised by Democratic leadership and
the media when they" objected, Hawley added, saying that they "were entitled to do so" and
Republicans concerned about election integrity in the Nov. 3 election "are entitled to do the
same."
For the past several weeks, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) and other House GOP lawmakers have pledged to object to the counting
of the Electoral College votes during the Joint Session of Congress . Their effort requires a
senator and a House member that would trigger a series of debates before a vote on whether to
certify a state's Electoral College votes is held.
Some members of the GOP leadership, including Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), have said
their efforts are doomed to fail. And over the past weekend, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), in
comments widely publicized by news outlets, referred to Brooks's effort as "a scam."
And, according to anonymously sourced reports, Senate Majority Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told
GOP senators that they should not take part in the House GOP-led effort on Jan. 6. Another
Republican, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), said the attempt to challenge the votes is an
improbable one.
" It's basically going through the motions ," Cornyn said,
reported The Hill.
"It's a futile exercise."
But Brooks, for his part, indicated that "dozens" of House members back the effort . "We're
going to sponsor and co-sponsor objections to the Electoral College vote returns," Brooks told
Fox News on Dec. 28.
In a previous interview with The Epoch Times' American Thought Leaders program, Brooks said he believes
the Electoral College vote can be rejected, and the election can ultimately be decided in the
House of Representatives.
Former California Sen. Barbara Boxer "tried to strike Ohio for George Bush back in 2005, so
this is not unusual," Brooks said in an interview with
Fox Business on Dec. 15. "The law is very clear, the House of Representatives in
combination with the United States Senate has the lawful authority to accept or reject
Electoral College vote submissions from states that have such flawed election systems that
they're not worthy of our trust."
The new Congress is slated to be sworn in on Jan. 3.
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A clear case of fraud is in front of you, Senators.
What message are you going to send the American people?
Just a reminder that Joe, the candidate with the most votes in the history of the USA, had
52k views on all of his live streams COMBINED yesterday when he "won." United Spot has more
than double that in Subs.
The plutocratic class are not good custodians of our world. They are not good people. They
are not wise. They are not even particularly intelligent. They're just a very profitable sort
of clever, and have a willingness to crush anyone who gets in their way.
The plutocratic class has been buying up control over our political systems to ensure maximum profit, buying up
news media
outlets to propagandize the masses into supporting the status quo they've built their
kingdoms on, and forming alliances with sociopathic government
agencies which murder people around the world to ensure continual US unipolar hegemony.
These are the people we've placed in charge of the innovation and distribution of emerging
technologies, and we're meant to believe that they will save the world?
They will not. They will keep chasing power and profit until we drive ourselves off the
cliff of extinction. It's all they know how to do.
Bill Barr Did Not See Fraud Because He Refused To Look by Larry C Johnson
I was wrong in putting any faith in Bill Barr. I thought Bill Barr was an honorable man. He is not. He has done a
good job of masquerading as a stand up, honest guy, but when it came to saving the Republic and upholding the
Constitution, he ran away.
"To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election."
Barr insists he has not seen sufficient fraud? Is he blind? Is he now illiterate? A blind cave fish can see the
evidence.
So let me help you out Mr. Barr. THERE IS AMPLE EVIDENCE OF FRAUD AND YOU ONLY NEED TO LOOK IN THREE
STATES–GEORGIA, PENNSYLVANIA AND ARIZONA.
Presently, Biden lays claim to 306 electors, while Trump lags with 232.
Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona account for 47 electoral votes. If those votes are properly assigned to
Donald Trump and taken away from Joe Biden, Trump wins 279 to Biden's 259.
The total of 103,896 votes separate Trump and Biden in these three states.
There is indisputable, tangible evidence of a massive fraud that, once exposed, ensures Donald Trump's
re-election. The plot was simple.
Millions of illegal ballots were pre-printed and shipped directly to counting centers in Pennsylvania,
Georgia and Arizona (also happened in Wisconsin, Michigan and Nevada).
These ballots were presented as "mail in ballots" but were never actually mailed and never handled by
living voter.
These fraudulent ballots were fed into the Dominion voting machines and recorded votes for Joe Biden. Most
of the pre-printed ballots excluded down ballot candidates, which is why the Republicans won more than 12
additional seats in the U.S. Congress.
Proving the fraud is even simpler. We only need to compare the physical ballots with the images that are recorded on
the Dominion machines. We do not need to worry, at this point, about computer forensics. (That could be relevant
later when we go after those foreign entities responsible for the interference). We only need to focus on the ballot
images. For example, if a mailed in ballot had actually been mailed, it would have been folded and unfolded several
times. Those fold marks show up on the digital image that the Dominion machine made in recording the ballot.
If you have a mailed in ballot that has no fold marks then you have clear, empirical evidence of fraud. A mail in
ballot will have fold marks. But there also are other markings embedded in the ballots that will reveal whether or
not a person or a machine filled out the ballot.
If you want to understand this type of analysis, please watch this video featuring Jovan Hutton Pulitzer. (
Kudos
to Joe Hoft
who spotted the importance of Mr. Pulitzer early on.) Mr. Pulitzer is a true genius. He knows how to
make the complex quite simple:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/UgeqGmvQXKs
I never realized, until now, that Bill Barr is incapable of counting. The evidence of fraud in Georgia, Pennsylvania,
Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin and Michigan is substantial and consequential. This proves that Bill Barr is flat out
wrong about the evidence and the outcome of the election.
Biden supposedly won by 11,779 votes over Trump, but the documentary and video evidence show that thousands of
votes were illegally counted in Fulton County, Georgia.
Fulton County Georgia elections officials told the
media and GOP observers that they were shutting down the tabulation center at State Farm Arena at 10:30 p.m. on
election night because of an alleged water main rupture. But there was no break in the water line.
Ruby and her daughter pulled out more than 11,779 ballots and can be seen entering those ballots multiple times into
the Dominion machine. And Bill Barr does not see this as relevant?
The evidence does not stop there. Pennsylvania's votes, specifically those from the Philadelphia area, were corrupt.
The ballots counted in Philadelphia were printed in New York and transported to Pennsylvania. We are talking more
than 350,000 ballots. The evidence about the movement of these ballots is fully backed up by eye witness testimony
under oath and documents.
Bill Barr clearly is no good at simple math. 350,000 ballots is more than enough to swing the election in
Pennsylvania from Biden to Trump. All the FBI has to do is investigate.
Wisconsin's fraud starts with the introduction of 170,000 mail-in ballots entering the tabulation process under the
guise of absentee ballots in clear violation of state law. That's more than eight times the number of ballots of the
alleged Biden victory margin of 20,608 votes. This large-scale abuse was facilitated by expansive definition of
"indefinitely confined voters," which the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled was illegal.
But there also is clear evidence that fraudulent "mailed" ballots were put through the Dominion machines. For
example, more
than
2000 absentee
votes in Wisconsin all had the same initials "MLW". Then there were thousands of pristine "mailed"
ballots with no sign of ever being folded.
10 Electoral votes
Biden–1,630,673
Trump–1,610,065
The fraud in Wisconsin is centered in Dane and Milwaukee counties. But so far the FBI has declined to investigate.
How can Bill Barr claim there is no evidence when there are clear allegations but no investigation. The difference of
20,608 swings the state to Trump.
In light of the emerging evidence, it appears the Republican legislature is going to certify the Republican slate of
electors. With only 10,457 separating Biden and Trump and with the evidence that more than 100,000 mail in votes do
not show evidence of actually being mailed, this should give President Trump another key win.
It is a shame that Bill Barr concludes his government service under such a dark cloud. But it is his fault. All he
had to do was be honest and look at the evidence. Instead, he studiously avoided looking. He chose blindness over
vision. That tawdry legacy is on him.
Thank you, Larry. As clear of a
presentation as possible. We all need to print this out as a dark reminder of what we let happen to this country, as
Kamala Harris cackles in our faces and Joe Biden floats around haplessly in a time warp unconnected to the real world
today.
It never should have happened,
but it did.
The price of freedom is constant vigilance
- motto good enough to the Air Force SAC wing remains
good enough today too.
It is incumbent upon us all now
to sign up as election observers and know the law to protect our voting process, because the county hired guns will
no longer be doing this for us - it is our duty now to provide constant vigilance.
Time to start citizen election
law study groups and field armies of poll volunteers by 2022.
Thoughtful piece from American
Thinker explores possible motivations for those choosing to ignore this obvious election fraud staring them in the
face:
Most chilling of course is the
threat of "mob" violence- which in fact are the organized, astroturf dragoons who perpetrated the election fraud in
the first place - the hard, organized left of the Democrat Party- who have the most to gain. Follow the money.
Even Rep Omar salivates at the
prospect of $2000 benjamins now that she has tasted her brand of American "capitalism" - picking up and enjoying free
money. The taste of millions of dollars of campaign cash flowing into the hands for her husband for "legitimate
campaign services" was too tempting to turn down.
The next fear is the potential
and total control of the insider media will cancel/censor all future developments and exposures of this topic.
It is easy to blame Barr. Just
like Sessions before. Obama nominated his wingman as AG. Who do you think Biden's gonna nominate? Why dd Trump
nominate a whole lot of Swampsters to his cabinet? Whose desk should the buck stop at?
On a larger note, and what
you've been writing about - the breakdown of the rule of law and the usurpation of power by insiders - I believe
Glenn Greenwald is spot on here. Authoritarianism has been creeping in the US for many decades now, backed by the
oligarchy and the elite political, media & "think-tank" class. And of course the urban managerial class too.
Whether the U.S. was a democracy in any meaningful sense prior to Trump had been the subject of substantial
scholarly debate. A much-discussed 2014 study concluded that economic power has become so concentrated in the
hands of such a small number of U.S. corporate giants and mega-billionaires, and that this concentration in
economic power has ushered in virtually unchallengeable political power in their hands and virtually none in
anyone else's, that the U.S. more resembles oligarchy than anything else
Just focus on Georgia, which has
a Republican Governor and Secretary of State. If the Georgia authorities have not brought an action in the Georgia
courts to undo the fraud allegedly perpetrated by Ruby and Wandrea, why should we expect Bill Barr and the Supreme
Court to intervene?
Bill Barr has a healthy respect
for constitutional federalism and has, most likely, concluded that when the Georgia authorities have conducted a
recount and have certified the election results, he lacks the constitutional authority to go to Atlanta, impound the
ballots and conduct a federal recount in order to overturn the State's certification decision.
From comment it is clear that Trump did a tremendous job undermining and discrediting classic
neoliberalism from the position of national neoliberalism. He was a huge wrecking ball...
In June, Attorney General Bill Barr sat for an
interview in CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and predicted widespread fraud with
mail in voting.
He said: "People trying to change the rules to this, to this methodology – which, as a
matter of logic, is very open to fraud and coercion – is reckless and dangerous and
people are playing with fire."
At the time, Barr was the nation's top law enforcement officer with an obligation to prevent
election fraud under a bevy of federal statutes
.
What Barr Could've Done.
Maybe an investigation of Silicon Valley billionaires ballot harvesting
in black neighborhoods , for starters, and then a warrant for surveillance cameras at
counting facilities in Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Atlanta and Detroit, with federal agents on
hand to double check the chain of custody of boxes coming through the back door.
Instead, election integrity was preserved with federal investigations to
prevent nonexistent seditious activity emanating from dubious white militias. The "reckless and
dangerous" mail-in ballot operation the Attorney General warned about was ignored.
Trump's political rise is because our institutions no longer work for the common good and
instead serve the idiosyncratic preferences of the sclerotic establishment. Picking a bombastic
outsider is the only way that 75-million Americans know to tell them to cut it out.
Barr,
A Typical Washingtonian Creature.
In private practice, Barr was a highly compensated conduit to power, because being the
former Attorney General, or ex-FBI Director, or alum of any office that confers a vendable
credential pays big bucks in DC.
He is sufficiently deluded by beltway noise that he does not realize his pandering to
shallow political interests as George H.W. Bush's Attorney General – for instance by
authoring in 1992
The Case for More Incarceration – was simply grist for the outrage mill that
perpetuates the swindle.
Based on the musings of General Barr, Senator Joe Biden spearheaded a crime bill in 1993. He
sold the
bill as a way to take "predators" who were "beyond the pale" off the streets.
Because that's how Washington works.
Insiders on both sides help one another perform their Kabuki dance as public servants for
the next election even as they pocket a Delaware mansion's worth of foreign money.
H.L. Mencken observed that, "The whole
aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to
safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
The
Shill Continues.
Barr was appointed AG the second time because he
penned a 20-page memo proposing that when the president protests against a ridiculous
investigation into whether he colluded with Vladimir Putin to steal an election, he is not
obstructing justice.
You know, like how nobody is suggesting that Joe Biden's protests against election fraud
investigations means he should get indicted for obstruction under 18 U.S. Code CHAPTER 73.
Any first year law student could tell you that. If you were a warm body willing to help
Trump escape a frivolous criminal charge, though, you got a promotion from the practice squad
straight into the starting lineup.
As Trump's Attorney General, Barr served the same cadre of Washington insiders as he did the
first time, many of whom were still there because the game works so flawlessly.
The Hard
Drive From Hell.
Weeks before the 2020 election, a concerned citizen turned over to federal authorities a
laptop that had irrefutable evidence of a Biden family operation to sell influence in China,
with 10 percent of the take going to "the big guy" – who happened to be the democratic
candidate then running for president.
The nation's
intelligence agencies mobilized on behalf of the Biden family to call the concerned citizen
a Russian stooge, and the contents of the laptop Russian disinformation.
At the time – we didn't know it – the Justice Department had
been investigating the very activities confirmed in the laptop.
Barr knew, obviously, that the slander against the concerned citizen was just deep state
tripe to protect the Bidens.
Yet Barr sat on his hands, kept his mouth shut, and let the whistleblower suffer vicious public attack , because Washington
insiders put the establishment first even against the heroic decency of the little
guy.
The Russia Lie.
For two years Barr had investigated the greatest political scandal in American history.
The Washington establishment, along with the FBI, the CIA, and foreign intelligence
services, ran protection for the democratic candidate in 2016 by calling embarrassing
disclosures about her Russian disinformation – and, when that dirty trick somehow did not
get her elected, carrying the hoax into the Trump presidency to cause maximum political
damage.
For more on that, please do yourself a favor and read about the sordid scandal in my short
ebook, The Russia Lie
. I propose in the book that the scam was a political operation to vilify Donald Trump by
falsely claiming Russian election interference.
A week after publication, the DNI released notes John Brennan
took of a meeting with Barack Obama that confirmed my controversial take.
Brennan wrote that Hillary Clinton was planning to "vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a
scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service."
Yeah, but I said it better.
If someone like me sitting at a desk in Pittsburgh can figure this out, then the Attorney
General's head-in-the-sand failure to expose the lie amounts to an intentional cover-up sourced
in deliberate indifference.
As with the Biden laptop, Barr's first impulse investigating the investigators was to
protect his friends and neighbors in Washington, the Republic be damned. Some minor flunky at
the FBI
will go to jail , and everyone else is going to escape to their lucrative cable television
deals.
Because the fix, as always, was in.
Now What?
The 75-million who voted for Trump feel cheated but they're not going anywhere. Their ranks
will increase as Washington's Rube Goldberg-ian governance wreaks havoc and the dissatisfied
look for an alternative.
Our side should win the next few election cycles. That would be a "will definitely win"
except Republican officials in various key states passed permanent mail-in voting laws
ostensibly to address the short-term contingencies of a temporary pandemic.
Yes, the Republican Party is staffed with a bunch of "bilbars" (inventing a word here) at
the highest levels.
The "reckless and dangerous playing with fire" will continue, with Republican hopes pinned
on electing conscientious candidates even though state elections will be fixed by vote
harvesting and back door shenanigans into the foreseeable future.
It is dire but hopeful. Popular movements are best when they overcome even official
corruption.
When Trump wins in 2024, he must avoid hiring swamp dwellers to drain the swamp. Of all the
things I've written about Trumpism in the last four or so years, my favorite is this –
nailed the problem a few months into the presidency.
There's got to be a law professor in Ohio who actually voted for Trump who can be tapped for
the position of Attorney General next time.
No more bilbars, please. As Hannah
Arendt knew, beholden insiders who prefer prestige to principle is the banality of
evil.
Oh, and whoever came up with the idea of landing Air Force One and Marine One at small
airports to hold rallies, give that person whatever job he or she wants.
It contributed to one of the greatest landslides in American presidential history.
USAllDay 4 hours ago
Bill Barr is a fat CIA hack just like his (daddy) that hired Jeffery Epstein.
Tirion 3 hours ago
Barr was appointed as a result of a deal done with the Bush family when Poppy Bush
died.
Lorenz Feedback 3 hours ago
You mean the Grassy Knoll poppy Bush? ;)
HAL9000rev1 4 hours ago (Edited)
Not doing anything is doing something.
In that vein he did a lot.
I hope he has a short and unpleasant retirement
Murky Mook 4 hours ago
Barr did nothing.Nothing. He must have a big payday coming from the swamp.
Cardinal Fang 3 hours ago
Trump is not a very good manager.
His hires were a ******* disaster.
BoiledFrogs 4 hours ago
What an utterly naive author.
The Rulers don't give a damn about us, whether we live or die. Barr doing something noble,
because WHY? Not for us, not for America, not for Justice. He Rules according to the Rulers'
dictates. There is not a single person working inside the Beltway who cares whether we live
or die, have jobs or don't, can feed our families or not.
There is no and never has been BY THE PEOPLE.
ZenoOfCitium 3 hours ago
Barr is a dirty birdy. Barr has always been [DS]. His CIA codename was Robert Johnson.
Barr was involved in Operation Screw Worm (part of the Iran-Contra operation)
Bill Barr always was a swamp creature, as was Durham. I feel a bit sad for those American
patriots who thought Barr/Durham would finally, "hold [them] accountable." That was never
going to happen. Swamp creatures never rat on each other; it's an unstated pact. "It's a big
club, and [we] ain't in it."
BuckShotJones 2 hours ago (Edited)
Author is either naive or controlled opposition. The deep state has just stolen a land
slide election with an "In-Your-Face" attitude. No true reformer is going to win ever again.
As imperfect as Trump is, especially with whom he chose to pick to counsel him, he will be
the last reformer that will be permitted to run and win an election.
Drag and Drop a win. It is now that simple.
As for Barr, was he AG during the Ruby Ridge fiasco?
marysimmons 3 hours ago
Trump's nomination of Barr was probably the worst of a very long list of horrible
nominations/appointments. Probably cost him re-election
Robert De Zero 4 hours ago
Shill Barr was a slick operator. He uncloaked completely when he said "no fraud." He sat
on EVERYTHING. I never believed all the Q nonsense about "trusting the plan." I hope all the
Q-tards apologize for trying to mislead everyone with their obvious nonsense and naivety.
radical-extremist 3 hours ago
Democrats fight dirty and Republicans don't contest their skullduggery that much because
"it's for the good of the country" that these long drawn out battles end. Barr was brought in
to make sure the Republicans didn't fight too hard and upset everybody.
liberty2day 3 hours ago
Why argue this?
Trump was either coerced to drop in this skunk or he is one of them. Total fail, either
way
No Time for Fishing 3 hours ago
Mitch picked Barr. Mitch made it clear to President Trump that Barr will be AG as no other
nominee would make it through the Senate and any push back would be the end of anything else
making it through the Senate for Trump. Barr was given clear instructions that the Swamp and
most importantantly Mitch and his China In Laws were off limits and Barr was not to do
anything that could endanger any Democrat Crime Family or Republican Crime Family made
man.
TxRogers 14 minutes ago remove link
"A plutocracy is a system of government where the wealthiest people in a country rule or
possess the power, and thus govern directly or indirectly. Plutocracy is often linked to the
term "dynastic wealth."
A plutocracy may not be the result of a planned system of government. Instead,
plutocracies can gradually form by allowing sole access to essential political and
educational resources that only the rich can afford.
The democratic concern of a plutocracy is that the wealthy will wish to maintain their
power and, therefore, only represent the interests of the wealthy as opposed to people of all
levels of education and income."
Sound familiar boys and girls?
pedro-the-cat 3 hours ago
The same people who go through the ranks in DC as young people end up being appointed to
big positions as payback for "services rendered". Barr is but one example. If he is out for
justice, then I am the King of Siam.
This is the way it has always been. Trump upended their "thing" and now both parties are
pulling out all the stops to get him out.
If Trump does not serve a second term and this vote is given to Biden, a curtain will slam
down on the U.S.
The aftermath will make Soviet Russia look like a birthday party in comparison.
Beaker99 3 hours ago
Barr is one of my biggest disappointments. I really thought he was going to bring some
accountability to the other side. Shame on me for not realizing he was installed as AG to
make sure exactly that did not happen.
Normally Aspirated 54 minutes ago (Edited) remove link
As a non American with nothin invested in US politics, I am still amazed that the US
republicans still have faith in Trump. He has achieved nothing except for Israel and his
families cronies.
He may have said the things that require change but he achieved nothing.
He made mistake after mistake and, still fails to learn. He is either dumb OR he is not
who he claims to be. Indeed, he may be involved in the whole thing. I think he's simply
playing a part. A role, not dissimilar to some TV Host on a TV show.
Either way, he has proven that he's no leader, has no conviction, has no insight with
people and, fails to identify a HUGE opportunity afforded to him at those rallies for him to
lead the country and her people by providing leadership and direction. He lacks political
intelligence or any conviction for the saving of the Republic.
Trump is simply in it for Trump! He is wasting your hope.
How you can overheat economy that is in permanent stagnation mode (secular stagnation)? This
is nonsense. What Larry is actually afraid of but can't say is the staut of the dollar the world
reserve currency.
You can almost physically sense the level of hate toward "neoliberal scum" in comments
below
Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, director of the National
Economic Council under Barack Obama, president of Harvard, and Chief Economist at the World
Bank, wrote a post-Christmas editorial for Bloomberg entitled, "
Trump's $2000 Stimulus Checks are a Big Mistake ." It's a classic:
Some argue that while $2,000 checks may not be optimal support for the post-Covid economy,
taking stimulus from $600 to $2,000 is better than nothing. They need to ask themselves
whether they would favor $5,000, or $10,000 -- or more. There must be a limiting
principle.
The genesis of this Summers article is a perfect tale in microcosm about how America's
intellectual elite manages to lose elections to people like Donald Trump. It's a two-step
error. First, they put people like Summers in charge of economic policies. Then, they let them
talk in public.
Summers the day before Christmas
appeared on Bloomberg to offer his initial thoughts on why $2000 checks must be bad: he
looked at which politicians were supporting the plan, and worked backward. "When I see a
coalition of Josh Hawley, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump getting behind an idea, I think
that's time to run for cover," he said, adding: "When you see the two extremes agreeing, you
can almost be certain that something crazy is in the air."
Seeing that his comments "lit up the Twittersphere," Summers then sat down to compose an
article doubling down on his reasoning. Essentially, he argued that from an econometric point
of view, we're already overdoing it on the help front. If you were under the impression that
huge numbers of people are living off meals from food banks and/or are at risk in an
eviction
crisis , you were wrong.
Noting that "total employee compensation" is "only running about $30 billion per month
behind the Covid baseline," he insisted that $200 billion more in tax rebates per month over
the next quarter would "equal an additional seven times the loss of household wage and salary
income over the next quarter."
He then showed a graph explaining that "because of the legislation passed in 2020, total
household income has exceeded normal levels relative to the economy's potential more or less
since the pandemic began." The good news, as a result, is that "the existing stimulus bill is
sufficient to elevate household income relative to the economy's potential to abnormally high
levels -- unheard of during an economic downturn."
The whole piece reads like an extended New Yorker cartoon, in which an evictee with empty
pockets is about to dive after a rotten apple core in a dumpster, only to be blocked by a
cauldron-bellied Harvard economist in a $3000 Zegna suit. Caption: " Actually, total household
income relative to the economy's potential sits at abnormally high levels ."
There are of course different positions one could take on the question of stimulus checks,
but the issue with people like Summers is the utter predictability of their stances. Summers
belongs to a club of neoliberal thinkers who've dominated American policy for decades. From Bob
Rubin to Tim Geithner to Jason Furman to Michael Froman and beyond, the people one friend
jokingly refers to as the "Rubino Crime Family" are all basically the same person, affectless
technocrats who play up reputations as giant-brained intellectuals -- I always imagine them
with bulbous Alien Nation heads -- while reveling in cold, hard truths about the limits of
government assistance.
And this by an inbred group of gluttons who couldn't survive without the life they drain
from others...
yerfej 3 hours ago remove link
That is the key "the life they drain from others". I have no issue with those who work
their aysses off keeping their just rewards, but this kind of insider filth needs a
lamppost.
two hoots 1 hour ago
Summers and those of his Jabba class know that uncontrolled Congressional giving could
cause collateral damage to their lifestyles. So does every comfortable class below them. It
all depends where you are positioned. Here on ZH i find people playing all sides of the class
game to whatever suits their current mood of us/them others. The more an event can affect us
directly determines where we direct our dislikes...up or down...inconsistently.
Doom Porn Star 1 hour ago
ALL politicians and 'public servants' who advocateor demand lockdowns and restrictions
should cede ALL pay, benefits and accrual of all retirement or other benefits for the
duration of ANY lockdown or restriction of ANY kind.
Those who advocate or demand sacrificed should make first, fullest largest sacrifices.
The whole lot of fascist 'some animals are better than others' lot should be thrown in
gitmo or equivalent.
The_Dude 3 hours ago (Edited)
Study what Summer's and his (((ilk))) did to pillage post - Soviet Russia and you will
understand who is untouchable in this society... And why in more sophisticated societies,
they were always kept at the periphery where they couldn't harm others.
Larry 'Dinner with Epstein' Summers has put more than his foot in his mouth.
BlueLightning 3 hours ago
O boy he's scared now
sgt_doom 2 hours ago (Edited)
Isn't Larry Summers the chief poster boy of the Global Banking Cartel ever since he
inserted the credit derivatives clause in the WTO's Financial Services Agreement*** making it
acceptable legal tender?
Believe that was during the Clinton Administration.
Is Larry still a lobbyist for the cental bankers? Oh yes, his photo is still there:
***[Credit to Greg Palast for uncovering this item.]
Arising 2.0 2 hours ago (Edited)
Larry is a cabal member who has always been out of touch with the 'silly goy'.
iambrambles 3 hours ago
The real question is why trillions to foreign govs and corporations.
$2000/American is chump change and isnt what anyone should be focusing on.
America never had the right fiscal priorities, people tend to forget the brilliance of the
US was with the constitution that enabled more freedoms than before.
But fiscally, America was always doomed after the absolution of the gold standard and the
creation of the federal reserve which allowed for endless government largesse.
ElTerco 2 hours ago (Edited) remove link
"negative consequences of aid to the less fortunate..."
Yet, no mention from Larry of negative consequences of aid to the more fortunate, which,
so far this year, has been around 40x as much money.
ElTerco 2 hours ago (Edited)
The $10+ trillion that has been pumped into the US economy so far has been a firehose to
top earners, while people who lost their jobs got a trickle of runoff as it worked its way
down the street through a very long, crap filled gutter.
Funny how Summers never mentioned *that*.
Max21c 2 hours ago (Edited) remove link
"When I see a coalition of Josh Hawley, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump getting behind
an idea, I think that's time to run for cover," he said, adding: "When you see the two
extremes agreeing, you can almost be certain that something crazy is in the air."
Thus is just more elitist nonsense from the silly conventional wisdom of Washingtonians,
elites, and the Democratic Party establishment. Bernie Sanders was a solid and strong and
energetic candidate and he could have had a chance of beating Trump in a free & fair
election had the Party nomination not been fixed and stolen from him by elites and their
puppet press smear campaigns.
Democrats made a mistake in attacking and undermining Bernie Sanders. Since much of what
has transpired this past year has been massive increases in domestic spending and some social
spending. Bernie Sanders could have beat Trump--fair and square--whereas the Crats had to
cheat with Biden and steal the election. Had the Democratic Party not stolen the election
from Sanders it likely Sanders would have had a significant opportunity to beat Trump. Since
Sanders was positioned right/correctly to be competitive in contrast and have some edge with
a significant part of the public on peace, foreign policy, domestic policy, and social
spending agendas. Would have been a tight race with Sanders versus Trump instead of the fraud
and fraudulent election of 2020. Definitely would have been a tossup on balance. Would have
been even harder if Sanders had teamed with Tulsi Gabbard as they would have had a serious
edge in foreign policy. But both Sanders and Gabbard are official pariahs and lepers in the
Democratic Party and its establishment as well as in the Washington establishment. Sanders
had the issues and would have had the momentum to give Trump a serious run for the money had
he not be forced aside in favor of the establishment candidate in a series of rigged
primaries and media smear campaigns and other subterfuge & Machavellian intrigues.
Max21c 1 hour ago (Edited)
I don't have issue with the size of company but do not like state sponsored industry
whereby the state security apparatus heavily favors state industries and state sponsored
industries--and--the secret police community and intelligence community and political class
ensure that the statals/SEO and state backed companies are protected by the state security
apparatus... The government doesn't have any business being used by Washingtonians, JudeoWASP
elites, Ivy Leaguers and their secret police to using military warmaking powers in the secret
police and intelligence community to rob one and redistribute back to state industries and
state sponsored industries and favor elites and their firms using secret police powers...
That's what both the Bolsheviks and Nazis did... It's the banana republoc and police state
and tyranny...
The socialism Bernie was talking about seemed more his advocating for increases in social
spending. The socialism Washington currently practices both openly and secretively &
covertly and illegally through abuses of secret police powers and state secrecy is much more
dangerous than what Bernie was advocating. The current socialist system as practiced by
Washingtonians and their secret police does much more damage to the country. The police state
socialism is much worse than the social spending games.
Bay Area Guy 2 hours ago remove link
LOL. How do you overheat a dead economy? No real growth (inflation adjusted) in at least
20 years; real unemployment at least 12.5% and probably north of 20%; this DESPITE interest
rates at all time lows and likely to go negative. And this fool is talking about overheating
the economy.
Max21c 2 hours ago remove link
If they can handout hundreds of billions to businesses under a questionable government to
business subsidy program that has been previously fraught with fraud, inefficiencies in
timeliness & appropriateness and geographical distribution. Also, such government to biz
programs which shall likely fail to serve both business and the economy effectively both by
practice and natural elements: such as some businesses being located in areas with a more
sophisticated biz culture; and set of skills; as well as access to better educated &
possibly more skillful entrepreneurs and cultures thereof; as well as some firms being simply
better positioned; as well as some firms being more program wise or welfare wise; and still
other firms being better tuned in or connected to the political system and or its
bureaucracy. Given the afore situation the money is better spent on a basis of widely
scattered and unpredictable et uncontrollable and thus not as apt to manipulation as well as
a direct to households holding the advantage of timeliness.
About 4k is about right for the floor/minimum on the basis of 2k in the form of a stimulus
and another matching 2k+ coming from forwarded tax rebates for future years which can be paid
back through payroll deductions or which can be paid back similar to installment loans
monthly or quarterly.
2k shall suffice in the near term as to stimulating consumer spending, consumer
confidence, business confidence, sales & revenues & profits or the improvement in the
outlook of a future return to profitability and the confidence & risks taking that comes
with firms seeking current and future profits and potentially making investments and pursuing
loans and the potential for an earlier uptick in the credit cycle as banks may change their
outlook on lending sooner than they might otherwise.
It might have been easy for people to believe that there was surging leftwing movement
in American politics while Bernie Sanders' star was rising in 2016 and 2020. I had always
been skeptical about how deeply that left movement actually went, but even I -- cynical as
I am -- started believing in it a bit last winter. Shit. Bernie has a chance, I thought.
Maybe there is something real happening here. But then he got crushed, endorsed drooling
Joe Biden, licked the "we can move him left" boot, ducked out of the fight, and exposed a
totally barren political left landscape. Turns out that Bernie's "revolution" was really
nothing other than an electoral campaign, after all -- and that campaign and all the
organizational energy it harnessed dissolved immediately with his candidacy. What did it
leave behind? Not much, other than huge platforms for a few top influencers and political
operatives who leveraged the Bern into lucrative Patreon and Substack careers.
Who am I talking about? Well, people like David Sirota, who seems to have taken his
official Bernie campaign Substack newsletter and privatized its massive email list
post-election for personal profit. Or his comrade Briahna Joy Gray, who just launched a
podcast with a Chapo cohost that's already raking in more than $35,000 a month. Meanwhile,
the people whose interests these two Bernie operatives had represented -- the millions who
gave Bernie a few bucks -- are being immiserated more and more. David and Briahna are now
on different sides of the Force the Vote fight, arguing endlessly on platforms with
multi-tiered subscription offers. And what service do these leftwing influencers provide to
the people? As far as I can tell, not much other than distraction and
politics-as-entertainment. It's all very fucking grim.
Good luck to all for the year ahead and particularly good luck to Yemen, Iran and
Venezuela and all those nations being jackbooted by the USAi. PEACE please.
It's untrue that most of the claims have been dispelled by courts. By and large, there's
been no opportunity for witnesses to testify or present evidence to a judge or jury. More
importantly, perhaps, there's been no way to collect evidence of alleged fraud without the
tools of a criminal inquiry, such as subpoenas, depositions, and the ability to compel forensic
exams.
If legitimate and transparent investigations were to find the witnesses who claim fraud or
irregularities are mistaken or not telling the truth, the inquiries would serve the crucial
purpose of assuring the public that the claims were thoroughly investigated but found to be
unsupportable or false.
The following are eight examples of screaming red flags that begged for a prompt, thorough
criminal inquiry.
1. Ballots Allegedly Trucked Across State Lines
The FBI has a role in determining whether an interstate crime occurred, and who is
responsible, if hundreds of thousands of ballots were trucked from New York to Pennsylvania, as
a firsthand witness
states .
It should be simple for law enforcement to get to the bottom of it by finding out who hired
the truck and moved the cargo, or showing that the story is made up or a misunderstanding.
There are several reported accounts of vote switching in real time, as shown on television,
supposedly an example of how mischief can occur.
It would not be difficult for an investigative team to track down what happened in the
specific instances and, if verified, it implicates more switching could have happened
undetected.
3. Vote Count Pauses
Vote counting was oddly paused in several states. If, as some claim, it was done so that Joe
Biden's ballot deficit could be figured and erased, it would point to a coordinated effort.
It would not be difficult for criminal investigators to question decision makers at each
location and find out who they communicated with. This could prove or dispel the notion of a
coordinated scheme.
4. Fulton County, Georgia's Mysterious Water Pipe Break
Fulton County is a special case since the reason given for a major vote pause, and the
reason uncritically accepted and reported by many in the press, was that a water pipe burst and
interrupted the count. However, the story morphed over weeks, and a state investigator
ultimately concluded there was no pipe burst that would have interrupted any counting. No good
public explanation for this discrepancy has been provided by a credible authority.
It would not be difficult for criminal investigators to identify and question whoever called
the vote count suspension, and then moved forward with counting after some observers were
dismissed.
5. Blocked Observation
There are widespread accounts from Republican election observers, and some Democrats, about
being allegedly blocked from seeing what was going on. It would make sense for a law
enforcement authority to question who was at the top of the organizational chain at each
location where this is credibly claimed by a witness in a declaration or sworn statement, and
find out how the official decided to determine and deploy the rules for observation.
It would not be difficult to learn whether there was a coordinated effort or, in the
alternative, to hold accountable anyone at the local level who improperly shielded ballot
counting from observers.
6. Voting Machines
In recent testimony to the Michigan state legislature, Dominion Voting Systems' CEO stated
he saw no credible claims of fraud. But when asked how it can be proved that bad actors didn't
impact and infiltrate voting systems, he advocated the idea of audits and even machine
examinations to answer those outstanding questions. He even said this is the common way such
questions are answered.
For the sake of public confidence, it would be prudent to have a credible law enforcement
body conduct forensic exams and audits of the machines and software to rule out interference by
third parties, or any other illegalities or mischief.
7. Mail-in Ballots
Numerous witnesses from the postal service as well as at polling precincts have provided
specific information about allegedly being instructed to falsely date, add birth dates, or
otherwise improperly alter mail-in ballots, or have testified about hearing plans to do so.
This is an important and easy issue for criminal investigative authorities to nail down one way
or the other.
8. Backdoor Ballots
The midnight dumps of tens of thousands of ballots in key swing states overturning the Trump
lead could be perfectly legitimate. However, it's unusual to say the least. And so, in this
environment, it's important that a criminal investigative body conduct at least a preliminary
inquiry in places where witnesses observed what they considered to be suspicious behavior or
ballots.
It should not be difficult to track the chain of custody and show they're legitimate or, if
not, find out who transported them.
Finding evidence that dispels mischief is as equally important as an investigation that
finds wrongdoing. The simple declaration that there's nothing to investigate, or having people
who have no way to know the truth call the claims "conspiracy theories," is unlikely to dismiss
widespread concerns and may, in fact, heighten mistrust.
dustnwind 6 hours ago
Courts have simply refused the cases to avoid the outcome.
Barnacles PREMIUM 6 hours ago (Edited) remove link
Supreme Court in no hurry to hear Trump campaign case, sets response deadline two days
after inauguration
This is such an embarrassment for the U.S. 'Real' democracies laughing at the U.S. sham of
a voting system. If there's even one fraudulent vote, the system has to change. Voting
machines, mail in ballots, no voter ID required, all lead to the B.S. that went on. Trump
won, hands down! No way Bidet got more votes than Bathhouse Barry.
Billy the Poet 5 hours ago
The cameras were broken and the guards fell asleep.
Srbutterfly 4 hours ago
Oh your so right, we should follow the example of trumps allies instead and behave very
illegally and then have trump pardon us! Perfect!
cankles' server 3 hours ago
Bingo,
That's why there's no interest to investigate. If Biden is inaugurated he's just going to
pardon them anyway since it's federal laws that were broken.
sgt_doom 41 minutes ago (Edited) remove link
Thank you. The Deep State was well in place when JFK was president and that was over 50
years ago.
When Mustafa Attaturk set up the modern deep state in Turkey to insure that country
remained secular, it functioned beautifully every time religious extremists sought to seize
control ----- up until the Islamic extremist Erdogan took out thousands of individuals ---
because that is what it takes to dismantle a deep state structure; simply that Erdogan was
moving in the wrong direction!
By firing the top three at the CIA --- and the Dulles sister at State --- and by
appointing McCone, JFK appeared to be making the right moves.
PROBLEM: Deep State advice on whom to appoint --- McCone's silent partner in his shipping
company was the Rockefeller family, hence he appointed Nelson Rockefeller's special assistant
--- who remained on Nelson's payroll --- Gen. Schuyler, who probably fired the "good guys" at
the Agency! (Definitely should have fired Tracy Barnes who was both a cousin to Dulles and
had married into the Rockefeller family. McCone aldo appointed Gen. Marshall Carter --- at
the advice of Nelson Rockefeller --- to be CIA deputy director. Gen. Carter was the brother
of LBJ's senior advisor, Cliff Carter, and later Gen. Carter would be appointed to be
director of the NSA --- during the timeframe when all the 1963 files for USA--55
disappeared!)
zerohedgeguy 6 hours ago (Edited) remove link
another is how Biden got more votes than obama while winning only 477 counties.
Obama won 69 million votes and 873 counties and Trump won 74 million votes and 2,497
counties, while Biden won 81 million votes and just 477 counties.
the6thBook 5 hours ago
Not to mention the last four elections all had about 120 million votes and then all of
sudden we have 155 million votes.
China (the CCP) owns UBS Securities Co Ltd >> which owns Staple Street Capital
>> which owns Dominion >> ergo, CCP owns Dominion --- this is the way it is done
in int'l finance
Right ---- you don't win 18 of the 19 bellweather counties then lose the election!
NoBigDeal 6 hours ago
9. The POTUS, with a large affidavit being called a 'person of no standing' and refused a
fair hearing by the entire legal fraternity, even the supreme court. Reports of law firms and
individuals being threatened by ANTIFA and the DNC.
bkwaz4 5 hours ago
The courts invoke unconstitutional procedural BS when they don't want to deal with issues
they KNOW are BIG problems. They are useless.
BoiledFrogs 4 hours ago
Which law enforcement arm would do the investigating:
States attorney generals or local prosecutors who normally represent the very people who
are being implicated?
The FBI which is entirely politicized so deeply that it lied to the FISA court?
US DOJ which has officially stated there is no fraud?
dystopian logistics 4 hours ago (Edited)
The fact that ballots were trucked across state lines is proof enough that Texas has
standing . ( but nobody cares about inforcing commerce laws any more.)
Max21c 4 hours ago
The Supreme Court has spoken and the Supreme Court Justices have clearly endorsed election
fraud and the return of Jim Crow laws. The US Supreme Court has ushered in a new era of Jim
Crow laws and now Jim Crow laws apply nationwide unlike the previous era when Jim crow laws
predominated to deny citizens their voting rights in the Democrat Party controlled Old
South.
Yippie21 4 hours ago
More than that, SCOTUS has decided no all votes count as one man, one vote. They're ok
with trashing everything to get rid of Trump and demoralize his voter base. It's kinda
incredible what it going on.
Max21c 4 hours ago
Texas has standing both because it is a Sovereign State as are each of the states and
because it's citizens are both citizens of the United States and citizens of the state of
Texas. The US Supreme Court lied when they claimed Texas and all the other Sovereign states
and the citizens thereof did not have "standings" but in order for the Supreme Court and its
"Justices" to sweep the election fraud under the rug they had to lie and claim citizens do
not have voting rights in an election, votes do not have to be counted in whole or as
undiluted, citizens votes are neither equal nor protected by the rule of law, et cetera and
so on and so forth. The Supreme Court needed an excuse to go along with the coup d'etat and
forcing Trump out of power and to usher in the new Jim Crow era.
Al Armed 2 hours ago remove link
Imagine if Texas just declared war on the District of Columbia and sent the Texas National
Guard in a massive convoy to the capital, inviting other states to join them in their
righteous demand: WE WILL HAVE A FAIR ELECTION.
I bet we'd have a do-over in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin.
inorganic 2 hours ago (Edited) remove link
Essentially everyone in every high-level position in the entire federal government, and
many of the state governments, have been recruited for political positions, and their
campaigns funded by the super-rich globalist totalitarians for decades. Which is why
virtually every one of them does what they are told, no matter what.
Oh, and in case you haven't noticed, they are never arrested much less go to jail much
less serve time for the never-ending crimes against humanity they practice. And they all end
up rich. Thus, no downside and huge upside for human predators willing to obey the super-rich
globalists.
Essentially, they are all owned. Obviously even the obscene court is too.
-----
Apologists for authoritarians have made endless excuses for the evil deeds and crimes of
the authoritarians for endless decades. A few of us warned what would happen and now it has.
So where are all the supporters of the second amendment who said they'd rise up and get rid
of the predators-that-be if they went too far? Well, they've gone lightyears too far ... and
still nothing. Which just goes to show ... essentially everyone who supported "authority" in
any way shape or form for the past decades is an accomplice ... all 350 million of them (in
the USSA).
just_looking 42 minutes ago
i think he's saying the Dems follow the game plan without fear knowing that Biden, as
president, will exonerate them.
Faeriedust 3 hours ago
No judge wants to get in the middle of an election controversy; especially not when the
supposed "winning" side has flexed street muscle all summer in a demonstration of what they
would do if not given the trophy. I completely believe the story of Roberts screaming at the
other SCJ's that taking the case would lead to rioting in the streets. The threat has been
obvious. But more than that, this is the American Way: there is always election cheating, and
the press and the courts always sweep it under the carpet and declare that whoever appeared
to be winning on the morning after is the winner. And there is always a later admission that
yes, there was cheating, but "not enough to affect the outcome ". They NEVER admit that it
could have changed the outcome.
So this time it's pretty damned obvious that there was cheating, and that it DID affect
the outcome . . . and they're sticking with the standard line. Because the Dimwits control
the Media, and the courts are too cowardly to intervene, and the Publithugs were never ready
to take to the streets and fight about it the way that BLM and Antifa already did. We the
People were sold down the river before the voting even started, because ALL the Powers That
Be were unanimous in despising Trump as "not part of the team". You can be sure that any
voting we are allowed to do from here on out will not change anything. If it changed
something, they wouldn't let us do it.
C Rabbit 6 hours ago
Well, according to the courts, all of the above is irrelevant because no matter how bad
things were, nobody who wants to do anything about it "has standing" to do so. That is, the
courts claim that nobody was injured by these misdoings. It seems to me that every single
voter in the country has standing because if a presidential election can be affected in any
way, by whatever means, for any of the candidates, some votes are not going to matter. EVERY
VOTER HAS STANDING.
It's time for more than legal measures to begin to address this problem with the
courts.
Lee Harvey 6 hours ago
What is really disturbing is the fact that anyone would be stupid enough to vote for a
party that wants to eliminate the bill of rights and enslave them, and a candidate that is an
older, whiter, griftier, misogynistier, pedophilic, professional swamp creature for 47 years,
who proved he cannot even raise a decent family, let alone run a nation.
Someone, even if its only is one or two people, actually voted for Biden. Apparently,
retards are allowed to vote.
A population of people stupid enough to vote Communist/Socialist/Democrat is on it's way
to complete destruction.
Democracy only works with an educated, informed public.
Eliminate the retards and foreign trash, or America is dead.
It'll still be the brutal militaristic World Police, but won't have any positive examples
of the ability to create a happy, healthy society OR the incentive to do so.
... ... ...
Gospel According To Me 3 hours ago remove link
The Dems knew what they were doing. The fraud was planned at least a year ago and contains
so many parts it will be hard to prove, especially with evidence quickly destroyed. A BILLION
dollars was donated by names we all know to defeat Trump by any and every means possible.
Crazy Nancy telegraphed their plan many months back when she said Trump may not want to leave
the WH. She knew how he would react to the largest election fraud in history. They out spent
and out did the Republicans in every big Blue area. They had thousands of volunteers to
ballot harvest, pay for votes, double count Biden's ballots, fake mail-in ballots, and to
cheat in many other ways.
Roberts is a coward who apparently stated he did not want to start any riots. His
philosophy is to do the easier wrong thing, than the harder right thing. he doesn't give a
s***about justice. So, don't expect a victory there.
But why no criminal charges? No federal investigation, no nothing. How can Trump prevail
without criminal charges and specifics? The woman running his fraud "investigation" said she
had plenty, but where is it? Who did what and when? By now the cover-up is complete and the
leftists see victory ahead. The conservatives damn well better not let the Senate get flipped
or they are toast for the next one-hundred f***ing years! They know the Dem game plan and
better fight back!
yerfej 4 hours ago remove link
The progressives own the media, courts, academia, bureaucracy, and big tech so they cannot
be challenged anymore. There is nothing anyone can do as there is no recourse. But that means
everyone is a target of the progressives wrath, the purge will destroy everyone.
BinAnunnaki 1 hour ago
9. Excess votes for Biden with no corresponding vote tallies for Senate or House races.
Which means only Pres was marked on the ballot. Sure sign of fraud
BugMan 1 hour ago
Jones was hired by the Biden campaign to run the Biden Texas operation . These captains
have scores of paid vote harvesters working for them. Vote harvesting is a second-degree
felony under the Texas Election Code . This is a criminal operation that these Democrat
elected officials are running.
They harvest ballots by mail from nursing homes, homeless centers, door to door in poor
neighborhoods , often dressed as Census workers. They offer $50 gift cards in front of stores
asking people to take ballots by mail,
Of course TPTB stole the election. Everyone expected this. 2016 was an aberration not to
be repeated. Like Trump or not the 2020 election shows the US to be a bonafide banana
republic, albeit with nukes.
BinAnunnaki 1 hour ago (Edited)
With Barr as AG, Trump never stood a chance.
He had Hunter's latoptop which would have meant no impeachment. Biden Big Guy exposure
would have finished him.
Love Orange Daddy, but his two biggest mistakes were picking Sessions (who had no problem
appointing Mueller) and then Barr (who wouldn't appoint Special Prosecutor for Hunter)
USAllDay 3 hours ago
81 million votes for Biden is proof of fraud. That did not happen. 2008-2016 averaged
around 128 million votes but we are to believe 150 million legitimate votes were cast in
2020... no way.
BinAnunnaki 1 hour ago
No one believes for a moment Biden got more votes than Obama
Keyneswasanidiot 3 hours ago
The vast majority of the populace is so propagandized that they don't know or care that
the election was so horribly rigged. Just move on. The big wake up will be when either the
state goes bankrupt or maybe when the kids are brainwashed into turning in their parents for
unsocial behavior. Either way it is and will be too late.
nuerocaster 4 hours ago
The whole gangsterized quid pro quo economy, finance, governance system must be
addressed
sgt_doom 1 hour ago (Edited)
Because of the onslaught of election fraud across the nation at all levels, we may be
losing sight of the obvious: it explains in several of the user guides how to both generate
false results and delete existing ones, which explains the missing and erased logs. Please
read these again:
If the real object of the [year 2000 election] spectacle was to steal the election for
Bush, it could have been done easily and quietly. Instead, we had a huge public
spectacle...[to] assure the passage of the "Help America Vote Act", which brought in the era
of electronic voting machines [which are] easily hacked and basically unauditable."
So, it looks like the voter fraud of 2020 is merely standard operating procedure. The
difference is, Trump is proving too uncouth to let sleeping dogs lie. He's kicked open a door
that was sup[posed to remain shut.
Unless - this is just another show to put yet another horrible thing in place: a
Bio-Patriot Act with mandatory vaccines? A Great Reset that eliminates the Constitution?
Trump "flubs", declares Martial Law that invites in the Deep State to assume control and
confiscate guns?
HAL9000rev1 6 hours ago (Edited)
Correct on all counts except
QED, Biden did not receive 80M votes.
it is fiction that "there is no evidence of voter fraud" more honestly stated, the corrupt
DOJ and court system dont want to consider the overwhelming evidence, the easiest to
understand being the unfolded (Unconstitutional) "mail in ballots"
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down two seminal decisions ratifying social
engineering as the deep grammar of American life. Berman v. Parker established urban
renewal as a form of ethnic cleansing, and Brown v. School Board , turned public schools
into vehicles of social engineering based on race. Following Brown v. School Board ,
race, not religion, became the source of ethnic identity in America. The oligarchs chose race
because they believed in the Roman motto " divide et impera ."
Two years after the annus mirabilis of 1953, William F. Buckley launched National
Review , most probably with the same CIA backing that launched Encounter . As we all
probably know, William F. Buckley was a CIA agent. When I asked Joe Sobran if National
Review were a CIA front, he told me he didn't know. He had signed on as a young writer at
National Review to fight Communism and didn't care where the funds to do it came from.
Murray Rothbard, another member of the conservative pantheon of the 1950s and 1960s, wasn't so
hesitant. Rothbard was "convinced that the whole National Review is a CIA operation."[5]
That quote was taken from John Judis's article "William F. Buckley, Jr., The Consummate
Conservative," which appeared in the September 1981 issue of The Progressive . In that
article, Judis explains how "after WWII and the birth of the National Security State in 1947,
the Central Intelligence Agency created, fostered, and molded the synthetic ideological
movement known as 'Conservatism.'" According to Charles Burris:
It was "former" deep cover CIA agent Buckley and intelligence community veterans of the
OSS and CIA (James Burnham, Willmore Kendall, Priscilla Buckley, and William Casey) who
launched National Review , which became the premier publication of this phony
"conservative movement." Buckley called Burnham, who had been a leading Trostykist communist
WWII consultant for the Office of Strategic Services, and later head of the Political and
Psychological Warfare division of the Office of Policy Coordination of the Central
Intelligence Agency, "the number one intellectual influence on National Review since
the day of its founding." Buckley and NR shaped and set the stentorian dogmatic tone
for such "conservatives" for decades, purging and declaring any alternative voices on the
Right anathema. Author John T. McManus, in his critical biography of the Buckley described
him as the "Pied Piper for the Establishment."[6]
Burnham's concept of managerial elites usurping representative government made a big
impression on a Southern boy by the name of Sam Francis, who took the concept and explained how
the elites had created in reaction a group he called "Middle American Radicals," whom he
defined as "essentially middle-income, white, often ethnic voters who see themselves as an
exploited and dispossessed group: excluded from meaningful political participation: threatened
by the tax and trade policies of the government: victimized by the tolerance of crime,
immigration, and social deviance, and ignored, ridiculed, or demonized by the major cultural
institutions of the media and education."[7]
Both Pat Buchanan and Joe Sobran contributed to the book, Shots Fired , which was the
source of that quote. Aside from that fact, these three men had something else in common: they
were all betrayed by William F. Buckley as part of that man's campaign to purge anyone who
disagreed with the CIA's version of conservatism from the conservative movement. In a pie ce
which took up an entire issue of National Review, Buckley accused both Buchanan and Sobran
of anti-Semitism. Buckley also traveled in person to Washington to the offices of The
Washington Times and demanded that Sam Francis be fired. In spite of what Russell Kirk said
in 1953, conservatism was never about principle, and certainly not about maintaining moral
principle. It was always a CIA black op run by commissars like Buckley according to the whims
of the oligarchs, who turned out to be increasingly Jewish as time went on.
Expelled from the synagogue of conservatism, Sam Francis became a white guy because nature
abhors a vacuum and, having been raised in the South, that is how he saw his identity. A white
guy, in case you don't know, is a Protestant who no longer goes to church. Tom Fleming, editor
of Chronicles , tried to keep this fact from the public by censoring Sam Francis's
articles, but eventually the truth came out to the embarrassment of all concerned.
Shortly before he died, Sam sponsored a talk in Washington by John Tyndall, founder of the
British National Party. During his talk, Tyndall tried to explain how we should all be proud of
being white guys and gave Elizabethan England as an example of their achievement. My friend and
associate Gerry Bruen looked at me when Tyndall made this claim, because the same thought
occurred to both of us. Wasn't Elizabethan England the place where Catholic priests could be
and were hanged until not quite dead and then drawn and quartered for saying the Mass? Were
Catholics white? When Gerry asked Tyndall if the Irish were white, Tyndall replied with obvious
distaste that of course they were. "My mother is Irish," he said hoping to end this train of
thought. At that point Sam Francis turned to him and asked, "Are Jews white?" To which Mr.
Tyndall had no answer.
I mentioned that incident and tried to answer that question at the memorial which was held
in Sam's honor at the National Press Club. I was in the middle of writing the book The
Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and I thought the time was opportune to broach the question.
But I was wrong. It was as if I had just lobbed a hand grenade into the room. Taki said we were
all going to be arrested. Peter Brimelow rebuked me by saying that he liked Elizabethan
England, doubtless because he would have enjoyed seeing me being drawn and quartered. No one
was willing to admit that race had replaced conservatism because conservatism had already
collapsed. Nature abhors a vacuum. Sam Francis's intellectual odyssey was proof of that. Sam
would spawn intellectual offspring as well. Richard Spenser, by way of his mentor Paul
Gottfried, who was also at the Sam Francis memorial, floated the new idea of the white race as
the latest manifestation of Middle-American Radical spirit in Charlottesville in 2017, where he
handed out spears and told the white boys to charge the machine gun nest. The white boys then
got mowed down by a "chubby Lesbian kike" by the name of Roberta Kaplan, who is still pursing
lawsuits against them to this day.
Lindbergh's Speech
William F. Buckley didn't just purge individuals. He worked avidly to expel groups like the
John Burch Society from the synagogue of conservatism as well. The main group which got purged
from the Right and declared anathema was America First. On September 11, 1941, Charles
Lindbergh, the American aviator who flew the Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic Ocean,
gave a speech in Des Moines, Iowa in which he claimed that "the three most important groups
which have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt
Administration."[8]
Phyllis Schlafly had just graduated from City House, the now defunct Catholic high school in
St. Louis, when Lindbergh gave his speech. It's hard to imagine that the brightest girl at City
House was unaware of America First, since Lindbergh had already given the same speech to 15,000
people attending an America First rally at the St. Louis arena.
Phyllis Schlafly was a tragic figure. She was the abused wife of the Republican Party, an
organization which treated her with contempt until it was time to get out the vote. Then like
the husband who had beaten her in a drunken rage the night before, the Republicans would
apologize and sweet talk her into supporting them once more. Schlafly was a tragic figure
because she was cut off from her natural constituency, which was Midwest, America First
Catholics, in Alton, Illinois and St. Louis, most of whom were blue collar union members.
Phyllis was the victim of identity theft, perpetrated on her by the conservative movement by
people like William F. Buckley, whose job was policing the conservative movement and expelling
anyone who showed genuine, i.e., America First, conservative inclinations.
Three months after Lindbergh gave his speech, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December
7, and America entered the war. One day later the FBI showed up at the door of Henry Regnery's
father, the man who was the treasurer of America First, and confiscated their mailing list,
thus putting an end to the only genuinely conservative movement in America during the 20th
century. Henry told me that story some 50 years after it happened, an indication that the event
had made a big impression on him at the time. I never asked him what conclusions he drew from
it, but with hindsight the answer to that question was obvious. Henry abandoned America First
and created conservatism in its stead. Whether he did it with the CIA in mind is something I
can't say, but I can say that conservatism never lost its ethnic flavor. Russel Kirk's book was
based on Whig history. Henry Regnery's family may have been Catholic when they arrived in this
country, but Henry became a Quaker, largely because of the Quakerspeise , their effort
to feed the Germans Winston Churchill was starving to death with his naval blockade. Henry
married a Quaker princess from Philadelphia, and he published books which supported the ethnic
cleansing of Catholics from their neighborhoods on the south side of Chicago because he was a
Quaker and because Quaker was his ethnic identity.
In 1955, four years after Henry published God and Man at Yale , in the same year WFB
launched National Review , Will Herberg, who would become religion editor at that
magazine, became famous as the author of Protestant, Catholic, Jew , a book which
resurrected the 1930s sociological theory known as the triple melting pot. According to that
theory, ethnicity did not cease to exist after migration to America. After three generations
language was replaced by religion as the source of ethnic identity. America was like
Yugoslavia; it was a country which had three ethnic groups based on three religions.
Missing from Herberg's account was the fact that these three religious-based ethnic groups
were, as in Yugoslavia, in a constant state of cultural conflict. In the 1920s and the 1930s,
the Protestants joined forces with the Catholics in opposing the Jews who ran Hollywood and
were using their monopoly on cinema production to corrupt the morals of the American people.
Beginning in the late 1940s, with the publication of Paul Blanshard's book American Freedom
and Catholic Power , the WASP ruling class switched sides in the culture wars and joined
forces with the Jews in opposing the Catholics.
The complicated interface between religion, morality, ideology, and ethnicity gave rise to
similar conflicts on the campus of Hillsdale College, where Catholic students started arriving
in significant numbers after the sellout of Catholic education which Rev. Theodore Hesburgh
inaugurated after issuing the Land O' Lakes statement in 1967. As one of his first acts, when
he became president of Hillsdale College in 1971, George Roche III invited Russell Kirk to join
the faculty. Kirk's appointment put the world on notice that Hillsdale was serious about being
conservative. If Roche had been as serious about thinking as he was about fund-raising and
public relations, he might have noticed that Kirk's book The Conservative Mind , had
some significant things to say about the need for religion to restrain appetite, lessons that
would have increasing relevance to Hillsdale College under George III's increasingly autocratic
leadership. "Men's appetites," Kirk wrote describing Burke's point of view, "are voracious and
sanguinary . . . reason alone can never chain them to duty."
Both Burke and Adams were referring to religion as the antidote to "reason alone," but it is
the recurring tragedy of the Anglo-American philosophy that its traditionalist thinkers could
all agree on the necessity of religion, but could never get down to specifying which religion
was necessary, so suffused were they with the baleful effects of the Reformation.
Burke, according to Kirk, was dedicated to private property and tradition, but both pillars
were to prove fragile mixtures of iron and clay. When Mary Wollstonecraft, the feminist
Jacobin, asked the tradition-loving Burke if he believed strongly enough in tradition to want
to go back to the days when Englishmen worshipped bread, there was no answer forthcoming. When
Burke said he followed tradition, he meant going back to the political arrangements of 1688 and
no further. When Burke defended private property, he did not enquire too closely into the
question of where the richest English families got their property, because if he had, he would
have had to admit that they got it by looting the Catholic monasteries of the Middle Ages. Once
again tradition and property had distinct if dishonest boundaries.
There is no statue of Edmund Burke on the Hillsdale College campus, but there is a statue of
Ronald Reagan and one of Margaret Thatcher as well, the two representatives of the triumph of
modern conservatism over Communism, the main 20th century representative of the Jewish
revolutionary spirit. On October 12, 1990, right around the time I gave my speech on the fall
of Communism at Hillsdale, Margaret Thatcher said:
The new world of freedom into which the dazzled socialists have stumbled is not new to us.
What to them is uncharted territory is to us familiar and well-loved ground. For Britain has
returned to those basic truths and principles which made her great -- personal liberty,
private property, and the rule of law on which democratic freedoms everywhere are based. Ours
is a creed which travels and endures. Its truths are written in the human heart.
Hillsdale advocated those "basic truths" for the following decade, and they did nothing to
impede the slide into sexual degradation on the Hillsdale College Campus. Both Roche and the
conservatism he rode to wealth and power shared this ambivalence about religion. Russell Kirk,
after spending most of his life as an Anglophile Bohemian, finally converted to Catholicism
when he married in his mid-50s. George Roche followed the exact opposite trajectory. Raised a
Catholic in Denver, Roche abandoned the Catholic faith and became an Episcopalian as an adult.
When Roche decided that even the decidedly Erastian brand of Christianity that the Episcopal
Church had always been was too rigid for his liking, he founded his own Episcopalian Church. It
was a move reminiscent of Henry VIII and completely consistent with someone who referred to
himself as George III. George Roche was, to use the phrase of St. Augustine, someone who loved
money and made use of God. He was not someone who loved God and made use of money.
The crisis came in 1978. Pressured by the growing Catholic presence on campus, Roche put
Harry Vereyser in charge of creating a Christian Studies program, and then did everything he
could to undermine Vereyser's efforts. In October of 1978, Rev. Eugene Sweeney, the Catholic
chaplain, resigned in protest against Roche's animus against any religion which held fast to
the moral law in its entirety. Shortly thereafter, Harry Vereyser resigned, and shortly after
that Russell Kirk handed in his resignation as well.
After he left Hillsdale, Kirk would eventually get expelled from the movement he founded.
When Kirk opined at a meeting of the Heritage Foundation, "Not seldom has it seemed as if some
eminent Neoconservatives mistook Tel Aviv for the capital of the United States,"[9] he was
excommunicated from the conservative movement he had founded, because that movement had been
taken over by a Jewish Trotskyite sect known as neoconservatism, led by Irving Kristol, Norman
Podhoretz, and Midge Dector, who called Kirk's remark "a bloody outrage, a piece of
anti-Semitism by Kirk that impugns the loyalty of neoconservatives."[10]
With all of their faults, both Russell Kirk and John Adams were onto something, but they
would remain for their respective generations, voices crying in the wilderness, as their
contemporaries plunged toward the gratification of passions which would ultimately destroy
them.
Purged of the moral restraint which Catholicism offered, the campus became a hotbed of
sexual degradation whose best expression was the Porky's movies which Hillsdale alumnus
Bob Clark directed in the 1980s. "The passions," John Adams warned, "are all unlimited." If the
citizens of this republic "surrender the guidance for any course or tie to any one passion,
they may depend upon finding it, in the end, a usurping, domineering cruel tyrant." Anyone who
indulges in and continually gratifies passion will be driven mad by it. Man has a congenital
weakness to confound liberty and license, which is why according to Kirk, "Adams preferred the
concept of virtue to the concept of freedom." Kirk shared the same preference, and seeing how
things were going, left Hillsdale to its own devices.
"Democracy in some form," Kirk concluded at the end of The Conservative Mind , "will
endure. Whether it is to be a democracy of degradation, or a democracy of elevation, lies with
the conservatives."[11] Hillsdale chose the former path in the year Russell Kirk resigned in
1978. It was in 1978 that George III began his affair with his daughter-in-law Lissa. That
affair reached its tragic conclusion when Lissa Jackson Roche committed suicide. Purged of
morality, conservatism became nothing more than rationalized appetite, and Lissa had to kill
herself to draw everyone's attention to that fact.
Then everything includes itself in power Power into will, will into appetite, And appetite, a universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power Must make perforce a universal prey, And last eat himself up.
We witnessed the fulfillment of that line from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
over the summer of 2020. Deprived of the morality based conservatism that Russell Kirk proposed
as the only way to unite the people of this country, the United States descended into moral
anarchy, identity politics and race war, as articulated by the Jewish revolutionary spirit, and
Michigan led the way. Governor Gretchen Whitmer turned the COVID pandemic into a lockdown which
was nothing less than an undeclared war on the lower end of the state's entrepreneurial class,
epitomized by Karl Manke, the barber from Owosso, who defied Whitmer's lockdown regulations and
was later vindicated by the Michigan Supreme Court.[12]
The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer surfaced two weeks before the election. At a press
conference which she called on October 8, 2020, Michigan attorney general Dana Nessell said
that she could not have thwarted the plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer without the help of the
FBI.13 Five days later, the attorney representing the alleged kidnappers agreed,
contending:
that there was no probable cause to arrest and charge the suspect, arguing, among other
things, that the suspects had no operational plan to do anything, were engaged in all legal
activities – including talking in encrypted group chats and practicing military
exercises with lawfully owned guns – and that it was the informants and undercover
agents who "pushed" others to do illegal things. "One of the most active leaders was your
informant," the defendants' attorney Scott Graham said.[14]
Graham went on to claim that the FBI informant who infiltrated the militia group "was one of
the most active leaders of the group pushing the rest of them to follow through with their
criminal plans."
The plot to kidnap Gretchen wasn't the first time that the FBI tried to incite terrorism in
Michigan. In late March 2010, nine members of a group known as the Hutaree were charged with a
conspiracy to overthrow the government. As we have come to suspect, the "undercover FBI agent"
provocateur was the most active member of the group. Two years later, on March 27, 2012, a
federal judge acquitted seven of the nine defendants. Two of the alleged conspirators were
sentenced to "time served on weapons-related charges, to which they pleaded guilty, and placed
under supervision for two years."[15]
Unlike the alleged kidnappers, Nessell and Whitmer were actually involved in a plot to
prevent Donald Trump from winning Michigan's electoral votes in an election that was less than
two weeks away. Evidence of cheating started showing up within a week of the election. On
November 5, Kellye Sorelle, an attorney on the Trump legal team who was sent to Michigan to
watch the count amidst concern about voter fraud, tweeted a report that she was told to leave
for the night because Trump was winning. She got suspicious and hung back with her camera and
waited. Later the same night cars started pulling up with luggage and ice chests full of
illegal ballots. She is now a witness for the Michigan and U.S. Supreme Courts.
The FBI could not have played their part in this conspiracy without the collaboration of
Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel, a Jewish Lesbian who got elected with the help of George
Soros money.
When former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich tried to explain the bad effect that Soros
prosecutors were having in cities across America, he was told by the info babe at Fox News, the
conservative network, that he was not allowed to mention Soros's name. The look on Gingrich's
face spoke volumes. Apparently, Newt hadn't gotten the memo. Merely saying the name George
Soros constituted a prima facie case of anti-Semitism.
During the time leading up to the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, George Soros gave Black Lives
Matter $33 million dollars. During the summer of 2020, Jews like George Soros and Jewish groups
like the Anti-Defamation league tried to ignite a race war in the United States as part of
their campaign to deny Donald Trump re-election.
The ADL was not the only Jewish organization supporting Black Lives Matter. According to a
report in the Jewish Telegraph Agency , "More than 400 Jewish organizations and
synagogues in the United States have signed on to a letter that asserts 'unequivocally: Black
Lives Matter.'"[16] Those groups represented a broad spectrum "of religious, political, gender,
and racial identities. The list of signatories – from small congregations to major Jewish
organizations – represents millions of Jewish people in the United States . . . ."
What name do we give to this involvement? In America it was called the Black-Jewish
alliance. For the 70 years following the lynching of Leo Frank, Jewish organizations like the
Anti-Defamantion League or ADL and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, or NAACP, tried to foment race war in the United States. The culmination of this
campaign came in the 1960s with the creation of the Civil Rights Movement.
Religious Riots in St. Louis
But the Jewish revolutionary spirit goes back farther than that. It goes back to the foot of
the Cross. By rejecting Christ as their Messiah, the Jews rejected the Logos incarnate, and
when they rejected the Logos they rejected the order God created for this universe, and when
they rejected that, they became revolutionaries, which is what they are today in places like
St. Louis, where Umar Lee demanded the removal of the statue of the eponymous King of
France.
As in Minneapolis where the race wars of 2020 began, appearances are deceptive. Lee claimed
to be a Muslim, but he also claimed to be a descendent of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. He
claimed to have the support of Black Lives Matter, but why should they hold a grudge against a
French king from the 13th century? Did Louis IX own black slaves? Did he have secret cotton
plantations in Paris? No, Louis IX's crime was that he burned the Talmud.
Do the Blacks care about the Talmud? Do they know what it is? Do they know about the
blasphemies it contains, which was the real reason it was burned? Probably not. As in
Minneapolis, the group behind the protest was invisible. The Jewish revolutionary spirit was
behind the protests in both cities. In spite of appearances to the contrary, the brouhaha over
the statue in St. Louis was a battle between Catholics and Jews. Umar Lee, as front man for the
Jews, had to disguise that fact, and turn the conflict into a battle between blacks and whites.
Catholics became victims of identity theft when Umar Lee turned a group of Catholics who had
assembled to pray the Rosary in defense of the statue into "white supremacists." After Lee did
this, Black Lives Matter showed up and beat up a 60-year-old Catholic who was trying to pray
the Rosary, because, as we learned from the failed attempt to preserve the statue of Robert E.
Lee in Charlottesville, white people have no rights.
In fact, they don't even exist, except in the minds of their enemies. In order to have
rights, you first have to have existence. Identity flows from existence because as an essential
aspect of being, existence presupposes essence. Essence is the basis of identity, and identity
is the basis of unity.
To have unity you have to assert your identity. And this is precisely where the Catholics of
St. Louis ran into problems. They were willing to come to the statue and pray the Rosary, but
they were unwilling to go any farther than that. Most importantly, they were unwilling to
identify their enemy. This was a crucial mistake because, as Sun Tzu once said, "If you know
the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know
yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know
neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."[17]
The crisis came on June 12, when Umar Lee announced that a group of "white supremacists"
were planning to go to the St. Louis statue and beat up a group of Muslim, Christian, and
Jewish women. This was a complete fabrication on Lee's part, and his supporters probably knew
he was lying because virtually none of the St. Louis iconoclasts showed up to support him. The
Catholics, however, showed up en masse led by a black nun ringing a bell, a gesture
which did severe damage to the race-based identity theft which Lee attempted to impose on the
Catholics. That gesture was an implicit rebuke to Lee's racial narrative, but it was not
explicit, nor did that gesture alone explain the identity of the Catholics' enemy.
At this point, I became part of the story by releasing my account of the battle of the
statue as a Catholic-Jewish conflict. I say that I became part of the story because within
hours after the Culture Wars article appeared on the Internet, Umar Lee challenged me to
a debate.
Up to this point, Umar Lee didn't know me from Adam. The fact that he challenged me meant
that my article did significant damage to his racial narrative because only people on the
losing side of the battle challenge their opponents to debate. Up to this point, Lee was riding
high and confident not only that the statue was coming down, but also that the city named after
the same saint was going to be renamed Confluence.
Catholic reaction to Umar Lee's challenge was instructive. Almost to a man, the Catholics
told me not to debate Lee because, they claimed, if I did they would be called anti-Semites.
That statue is still standing, not so much because I accepted Lee's challenge, but because I
identified the enemy. If you want to succeed in the culture wars, you must identify the enemy,
as Sun Tzu pointed out a long time ago. That means avoiding meaningless labels like "liberal"
and "conservative" or "black" and "white," and getting to the heart of the matter in America,
which is invariably ethnic, involving a conflict between Protestants, Catholics, and Jews. Any
other strategy is based on a naïve acceptance of the terms of identity politics, which
invariably involves, as it did in St. Louis, identity theft.
Hillsdale College is now witnessing what Sigmund Freud would have called "the return of the
repressed." Censored by the administration, which had banned America First clubs on campus,
Hillsdale's Catholic ethnics protested against the form of identity theft known as conservatism
by inviting me to the local version of the catacombs to speak.
The death of conservatism in 2016 meant the resurrection of America First in 2020. Just look
at the map of election results, and you will see the same configuration that Charles Lindbergh
addressed in 1941. Both then and now, the center of the country supported isolationism, high
wage manufacturing, and limited representative government, and the coasts supported
globalization, low wages, identity politics, gender ideology, and Jewish usury. The triple
melting pot of religious identity re-asserted itself over race-based identity politics.
Religious-based ethnicity trumped race, because in America religious-based ethnicity is a
category of reality, whereas race is a category of the mind which invariably gets deployed for
political purposes which have nothing to do with race.
The most striking sign of the return of the repressed at Hillsdale was architectural.
Brooding over the quadrangle which it created, Christ Chapel is large enough to become the foil
balancing Central Hall, the iconic American Gothic administration building which is one of
America's most prominent symbols of conservatism. Christ Chapel is an Italianate masterpiece in
beige brick and limestone, worthy of Alberti, at least on the outside. Entering the building
through the porch of Doric columns during the era of COVID lockdown in Gretchen Whitmer's
Michigan proved impossible until, that is, a young female student took pity on my wife and I
and buzzed us in through a side door. This young lady had clearly never darkened a church door
during her 20 years of existence, and was apologetic about the chapel's price tag. "This
money," she said, "should have been spent on the poor," apparently unaware that one of Jesus'
disciples had said the same thing, and that that disciple was Judas Iscariot. "Be sure to check
out the day chapel," she said leaving us to our own devices.
I would have preferred a tour with her as guide, but the building spoke for itself. The
massive Doric columns we had seen at the entrance porch now reappeared and marched in stately
file up to what should have been the church's sanctuary, but was in this instance an empty
space with a pathetic little altar added at its back almost as an afterthought. I have had
similar experiences of architectural disappointment before. Walking up to the Taj Mahal was one
of the greatest aesthetic experiences of my life, but when I walked inside the empty tomb which
is that building's raison d'etre , I experienced on of the greatest aesthetic
disappointments in my life as well. The mosque of the wife of the fourth Imam in Qom is
gorgeously adorned with cobalt blue tiles, mirrored ceilings, and a solid silver shrine which
inspire weeping and devotion on the part of the Muslims worshipping at its walls, but the
interior of the mosque was, in spite of the worshippers conversing with imams seated on
gorgeous Persian carpets, disorganized and strangely empty. I had a similar experience at the
historic Quaker meeting house at 2nd and Arch in Philadelphia, where one sits on horsehair
benches and contemplates others sitting on horsehair benches as well. The chapel at Hillsdale
was both magnificent and disappointing because what should be the culmination of the aesthetic
experience, which the building offers, is missing. Instead of the Real Presence, we have a
significant absence, a vacuum which is of necessity abhorrent.
But then we went to the Day Chapel, just to the right of the empty sanctuary, and there, to
our surprise, we found stained glass windows. It was as if we had been touring one of England's
stately country estates and had discovered a priest hole. Popery had shown the hidden feature
which became the symbolic explicator of the building. Later that day, I learned that the
architect who had designed Christ Chapel was the Notre Dame professor Duncan Stroik. As some
indication that Stroik knows how to create a full-blooded expression of the Real Presence which
balances off the most magnificent interior, one need only visit his masterpiece in the
California style at Thomas Aquinas College in Ojai, California. There leafy ethereal Corinthian
pillars proceed to a baldachino with swirling pillars that were copied from St. Peter's in
Rome. That symbolic canopy provides a worthy shrine for the Real Presence. After walking the
length of the nave, the pilgrim feels that he has arrived at his cosmic destination in the same
way you feel that you have arrived safely home after the last note of a magnificent symphony.
Did Duncan Stroik wreck his own building when he left the sanctuary of Christ Chapel bare? He
used Anglophilic models like Christ Church in Philadelphia as his model, but they don't seem
unbalanced in the way that the chapel at Hillsdale did, probably because those architects
didn't know any better. Christ Chapel has the feel of the great Italian architect of the Middle
Ages Leon Battisti Alberti on the outside and the American Revolution on its inside. Christ
Church in Philadelphia is where our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. Is
this bifurcation of purpose going to work? Is it possible to worship God and Mammon? Larry
Arnn, who is George Roche's successor at Hillsdale, talked about always needing a place to pray
on campus. Lissa's demise at the trysting place known as the Gazebo made that point in a bloody
and dramatic way. Christ Chapel totally dominates the quad behind Central Hall. The verdict is
still out on how that chapel aligns with the statues of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher,
Frederick Douglass, and Thomas Jefferson which surround it. Conservatism failed to make that
connection under George III. If anyone can make it now, it is the students who attended my
talk.
We seem a long way from Edmund Burke's hope that "Providence would not abandon mankind to
Jacobinism," and even farther from Russell Kirk's vision of America as "the Providential
instrument of this redemption."[18] The color revolution continues to unfold before our eyes,
but Logos is rising because the prism of conservatism is no longer distorting what we see.
Hegel called it "the cunning of reason," but we call it Divine Providence. We now have a chance
to win, but only if we can identify the enemy. If we don't know who we are and we can't
identify the enemy, we will lose every battle as Sun Tsu predicted many years ago.
Excellent unz article
titled "The Rise and Fall of Conservatism in Michigan."
The death of conservatism in 2016 meant the resurrection of America First in 2020. Just
look at the map of election results, and you will see the same configuration that Charles
Lindbergh addressed in 1941. Both then and now, the center of the country supported
isolationism, high wage manufacturing, and limited representative government, and the
coasts supported globalization, low wages, identity politics, gender ideology, and Jewish
usury. The triple melting pot of religious identity re-asserted itself over race-based
identity politics. Religious-based ethnicity trumped race, because in America
religious-based ethnicity is a category of reality, whereas race is a category of the
mind which invariably gets deployed for political purposes which have nothing to do with
race.
I am continually fascinated by Ron Unz's site where alternative views thrive and are
debated. I would say the above article's thesis, that, through it all, and despite any pet
project of those at the bar, the real conflicts at play in the U.S. continually involve the
three predominant religious identities of Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism.
Looks like Sidney Powell overplayed her hand with her Hugo Chavez claims and might pay the
price... They also attack her penchant for self-promotion.
This is a solid legal document that attack exaggerations and false claims and as such it puts
Sydney Power on the defensive. But at the same time it opens the possibility to analyze Dominion
machines and see to what extent votes can be manipulated, for example by lowest sensitivity of
the scanner for mail-in ballots and then manually assigning votes to desirable candidate. This
avenue is not excluded.
It also does not address the claim of inherent vulnerabilities of any Windows based computer
used in election, irrespective whether they were produced by Dominion or any other company due to
the known vulnerability of windows OS especially to the intelligence agencies attacks. As
well as the most fundamental question: whether the use of computers in election represents step
forward or the step back in election security? Especially Internet connected voting machines and
centralized tabulation centers deployed in 2020 elections.
So the success here depends whether they can narrow the scope tot ht claims made and avid
discovery of the voting machines themselves.
The weak point is that the letter references the testimony of Chris Krebs, who is a former
Microsoft employee and as such has a conflict of interests in accessing the security of Windows
based election machines produced by Dominion and other companies. Moreover he is now a computer
science processional but a lawyer, who does not has any independent opinion on the subject matter
due to the absence of fundamental CS knowledge required.
Notable quotes:
"... For example, you falsely claimed that Dominion and its software were created in Venezuela for the purpose of rigging elections for the now-deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, that Dominion paid kickbacks to Georgia officials in return for a "no-bid" contract to use Dominion systems in the 2020 election, and that Dominion rigged the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election by manipulating votes, shifting votes, installing and using an algorithm to modify or "weight" votes such that a vote for Biden counted more than a vote for Trump, trashing Trump votes, adding Biden votes, and training election workers to dispose of Trump votes and to add Biden votes. ..."
"... Fifth, you had a financial incentive in making the defamatory accusations. Your own conduct and statements at the press conference, media tour, and on your websites make it clear that you were publicizing your wild accusations as part of a fundraising scheme and in order to drum up additional business and notoriety for yourself. ..."
Sidney Powell Defending the Republic 10130 Northlake Blvd. #214342 West Palm Beach, Florida
34412
Re: Defamatory Falsehoods About Dominion
Dear Ms. Powell:
We represent US Dominion Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Dominion Voting Systems,
Inc. and Dominion Voting Systems Corporation (collectively, "Dominion"). We write regarding
your wild, knowingly baseless, and false accusations about Dominion, which you made on behalf
of the Trump Campaign as part of a coordinated media circus and fundraising scheme featuring
your November 19 press conference in Washington, D.C. and including your "Stop the Steal" rally
and numerous television and radio appearances on -- and statements to -- Fox News, Fox
Business, Newsmax, and the Rush Limbaugh Radio Show, among others.
... ... ...
I. Your reckless disinformation campaign is predicated on lies that have endangered
Dominion's business and the lives of its employees.
Given the sheer volume and ever-expanding set of lies that you have told and are continuing
to tell about Dominion as part of your multi-media disinformation "Kraken" fundraising
campaign, it would be impractical to address every one of your falsehoods in this letter.
Without conceding the truth of any of your claims about Dominion, we write to demand that you
retract your most serious false accusations, which have put Dominion's employees' lives at risk
and caused enormous harm to the company.
For example, you falsely claimed that Dominion and its software were created in
Venezuela for the purpose of rigging elections for the now-deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo
Chavez, that Dominion paid kickbacks to Georgia officials in return for a "no-bid" contract to
use Dominion systems in the 2020 election, and that Dominion rigged the 2020 U.S. Presidential
Election by manipulating votes, shifting votes, installing and using an algorithm to modify or
"weight" votes such that a vote for Biden counted more than a vote for Trump, trashing Trump
votes, adding Biden votes, and training election workers to dispose of Trump votes and to add
Biden votes.
By way of example only, just last week, you made the following false assertions about
Dominion to Jan Jekielek at The Epoch Times:'
Effectively what they did with the machine fraud was to, they did everything from
injecting massive quantities of votes into the system that they just made up, to running
counterfeit ballots through multiple times in multiple batches to create the appearance of
votes that weren't really there. They trashed votes.
These statements are just the tip of the iceberg, which includes similar and other false
claims you made at your Washington, D.C. press conference and to other media outlets with
global internet audiences. Your outlandish accusations are demonstrably fake. While soliciting
people to send you "millions of dollars"2 and holding yourself out as a beacon of truth, you
have purposefully avoided naming Dominion as a defendant in your sham litigations-effectively
denying Dominion the opportunity to disprove your false accusations in court. Dominion values
freedom of speech and respects the right of all Americans-of all political persuasions -- to
exercise their First Amendment rights and to disagree with each other. But while you are
entitled to your own opinions, Ms. Powell, you are not entitled to your own facts. Defamatory
falsehoods are actionable in court and the U.S.
Supreme Court has made clear that "there is no constitutional value in false statements of
fact." Gertz v. Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323, 340 (1974). Dominion welcomes transparency and a
full investigation of the relevant facts in a court of law, where it is confident the truth
will prevail. Here are the facts:
1. Dominion's vote counts have been repeatedly verified by paper ballot recounts and
independent audits.
Dominion is a non-partisan company that has proudly partnered with public officials from
both parties in accurately tabulating the votes of the American people in both "red" and "blue"
states and counties. Far from being created to rig elections for a now-deceased Venezuelan
dictator, Dominion's voting systems are certified under standards promulgated by the U.S.
Election Assistance Commission ("EAC"), reviewed and tested by independent testing laboratories
accredited by the EAC, and were designed to be auditable and include a paper ballot backup to
verify results. Indeed, paper ballot recounts and independent audits have repeatedly and
conclusively debunked your election-rigging claims, and on November 12, 2020, the Elections
Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council and the Election Infrastructure Sector
Coordinating Executive Committees released a joint statement confirming that there is "no
evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way
compromised" and that the 2020 election was the most secure in American history.3 The Joint
Statement was signed and endorsed by, among others, the National Association of State Election
Directors, National Association of Secretaries of State, and the U.S. Cybersecurity &
Infrastructure Security Agency ("CISA") -- then led by a Trump appointee, Chris Krebs.
In addition, your false accusation that Dominion rigged the 2020 election is based on a
demonstrably false premise that wildly overstates Dominion's very limited role in elections.
Dominion provides tools such as voting machines that accurately tabulate votes for the
bipartisan poll workers, poll watchers, and local election officials who work tirelessly to run
elections and ensure accurate results. Dominion's machines count votes from county-verified
voters using a durable paper ballot. Those paper ballots are the hard evidence proving the
accuracy of the vote counts from Dominion's machines. If Dominion had manipulated the votes,
the paper ballots would not match the machine totals. In fact, they do match. Recounts and
audits have proven that Dominion did what it was designed and hired to do: accurately tabulate
votes.
2. Dominion has no connection to Hugo Chavez. Venezuela, or China.
As you are well aware from documents in the public domain and attached to your court
filings, Hugo Chavez's elections were not handled by Dominion, but by an entirely different
company -- Smartmatic. This is a critical fact because you have premised your defamatory
falsehoods on your intentionally false claim that Dominion and Smartmatic are the same company
even though you know that they are entirely separate companies who compete with each other.
Dominion was not created in or for Venezuela, has never been located there, and is not owned by
Smartmatic or Venezuelan or Chinese investors. Dominion has never provided machines or any of
its software or technology to Venezuela, nor has it ever participated in any elections in
Venezuela. It did not receive $400 million from the Chinese in the weeks before the 2020
election or otherwise. It has no ties to the Chinese government, the Venezuelan government,
Hugo Chavez, Malloch Brown, George Soros, Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness Monster. Dominion does not
use Smartmatic's software or machines, and there was no Smartmatic technology in any of
Dominion's voting machines in the 2020 election.
3. You falsely claimed that Dominion's founder admitted he "can change a million votes,
no problem at all" and that you would "tweet out the video later''-- but you never did so
because no such video exists.
During at least one of your many media appearances, you promised to "tweet out [a] video" of
Dominion's founder admitting that he "can change a million votes, no problem at all." Your
assertion -- to a global internet audience -- that you had such damning video evidence
bolstered your false accusations that Dominion had rigged the election. Yet you have never
produced that video because, as you know, it does not exist. Dominion's founder never made such
a claim because Dominion cannot change votes. Its machines simply tabulate the paper ballots
that remain the custody of the local election officials -- nothing more, nothing less. 4. You
falsely claimed that you have a Dominion employee "on tape" saving he "rigged the election for
Biden''-- but you know that no such tape exists. In peddling your defamatory accusations, you
also falsely told a national audience that you had a Dominion employee "on tape" saying that
"he rigged the election for Biden." Your own court filings prove that no such tape exists. In
them, you cited an interview of Joe Oltmann, a Twitter- banned "political activist" who -- far
from claiming he had that shocking alleged confession "on tape"-claimed he took "notes" during
a conference call he supposedly joined after "infiltrating Antifa." This is a facially
ludicrous claim for a number of reasons, including the fact that he lives in Colorado, where it
would have been perfectly legal to record such a call if it had actually happened. As a result
of your false accusations, that Dominion employee received death threats.
II. Because there is no reliable evidence supporting your defamatory falsehoods, you
actively manufactured and misrepresented evidence to support them.
Despite repeatedly touting the overwhelming "evidence" of your assertions during your media
campaign, every court to which you submitted that socalled "evidence" has dismissed each of
your sham litigations, and even Trump appointees and supporters have acknowledged -- including
after you filed your "evidence" in court, posted it on your fundraising website, and touted it
in the media -- that there is no evidence that actually supports your assertions about
Dominion. Indeed:
One federal judge observed that you submitted "nothing but speculation and conjecture
that votes for President Trump were destroyed, discarded or switched to votes for Vice
President Biden." Op. & Order Den. Pl.'s Emer. Motion, for Deck, Emer., and Inj. Relief
at 34, Whitmer v. City of Detroit, No. 20-cv-12134 (E.D. Mich. Dec. 7, 2020) [Dkt. 62].
Another federal judge commented that the attachments to your complaint were "only
impressive for their volume," are "largely based on anonymous witnesses, hearsay, and
irrelevant analysis of unrelated elections," and include "expert reports" that "reach
implausible conclusions, often because they are derived from wholly unreliable sources."
Order at 24-25, Bowyerv. Ducey, No. 2-20-cv-02321 (D. Ariz. Dec. 9, 2020) [Dkt. 84].
Despite your claim that you have so much "evidence" that it feels as if you are drinking
from a "fire hose," when asked by your interviewers and other media outlets to provide that
evidence, you have failed to do so each and every time. Conservative television host Tucker
Carlson even called you out for failing to provide any evidence to support your
assertions.4
After you put the purported "evidence" in your court filings, Trump loyalist and U.S.
Attorney General Bill Barr stated, "There's been one assertion that would be systemic fraud
and that would be the claim that machines were programmed essentially to skew the election
results. And the DHS and DOJ have looked into that, and so far, we haven't seen anything to
substantiate that."
... ... ...
Fifth, you had a financial incentive in making the defamatory accusations. Your own
conduct and statements at the press conference, media tour, and on your websites make it clear
that you were publicizing your wild accusations as part of a fundraising scheme and in order to
drum up additional business and notoriety for yourself. Your financial incentive and
motive to make the defamatory accusations is further evidence of actual malice. See Brown v.
Petrolite Corp., 965 F.2d 38, 47 (5th Cir. 1992); Enigma Software Grp. USA, LLC v. Bleeping
Computer LLC, 194 F. Supp. 3d 263, 288 (S.D.N.Y. 2016).
Sixth, you cannot simply claim ignorance of the facts. As a licensed attorney, you were
obligated to investigate the factual basis for your claims before making them in court.
31 There is no factual basis for your defamatory accusations against Dominion and
numerous reliable sources and documents in the public domain have repeatedly debunked your
accusations. As such, you either conducted the inquiry required of you as a licensed attorney
and violated your ethical obligations by knowingly making false assertions rebutted by the
information you found, or you violated your ethical obligations by purposefully avoiding
undertaking the reasonable inquiry required of you as a member of the bar. Either is additional
evidence of actual malice.
Taken together, your deliberate misrepresentation and manufacturing of evidence, the
inherent improbability of your accusations, your reliance on facially unreliable sources, your
intentional disregard of reliable sources, your preconceived storyline, your financial
incentive, and your ethical violations are clear and convincing evidence of actual malice. See
Eramo v. Rolling Stone, 209 F. Supp. 3d 862,872 (W.D. Va. 2016) (denying defendant's motion for
summary judgment and finding "[ajlthough failure to adequately investigate, a departure from
journalistic standards, or ill
"I had planned to get the vaccine but will now stand in solidarity with our seniors by
not doing so until THEY can. I urge my colleagues who are under 65 and healthy to join me,"
Gabbard said in a Monday morning message posted to Twitter.
The congresswoman and previous presidential hopeful blasted "heartless bureaucrats"
at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for not prioritizing seniors, viewed as the
most vulnerable to Covid-19, in their rollout plan.
Seniors were deemed a second-priority group by the Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices, which recommended health care workers, nursing home staff/residents receive the
vaccine first. CDC Director Robert Redfield could still prioritize seniors. He has expressed
support for ensuring people over the age of 70 receive the vaccine sooner rather than
later.
Gabbard's statement stands in contrast to the actions of many lawmakers who have received
the vaccine before it is available to most Americans.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), 49, was accused on social media of "cutting" to the
front of the line by critics after posting images of himself receiving the vaccine over the
weekend.
On the other side of the political aisle, 31-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York)
also received pushback after receiving the vaccine, with many citing her young age as a reason
for her not to be one of the first to get vaccinated.
Others, like journalist Glenn Greenwald, also pointed to the hypocrisy of many liberals
criticizing conservatives like Rubio, but celebrating Ocasio-Cortez's vaccination
announcement.
Senior lawmakers like House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California), 80, and Senate majority
leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) have also been vaccinated.
A security director at Dominion Voting Systems , the company
charged by many of playing a role in 'rigging' the US election via voting machines, is suing
the Trump campaign and several conservative news outlets.
Eric Coomer has filed
suit , claiming he has received death threats stemming from the accusations that Dominion
helped sway the election in Joe Biden's favour.
The defamation suit identifies the Trump campaign, as well as Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell,
and the conservative news organisations Gateway Pundit, Newsmax, and One America News Network
(OANN).
The suit also personally targets conservative talking heads Michelle Malkin and Joseph
Oltmann.
Mr Coomer has been identified as the individual referred to by Oltmann as "Eric from
Dominion" in
statements made to OAN and other conservative outlets regarding alleged bragging to Antifa
activists about making sure Trump wasn't going to get re-elected:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/qZ_ks_sNITg
The lawsuit states that Mr Coomer has been made "the face of false claims" in relation to
Dominion's alleged influence over the election.
The suit further states that photos of Coomer, as well as his home address and personal
family details have been made public by some pro-Trump websites.
Mr Coomer has stated that "I've worked in international elections in all sorts of
post-conflict countries where election violence is real and people are getting killed over it.
And I feel that we're on the verge of that."
In an
op-ed posted by the Denver Post , Coomer declared that he has "no connection to the Antifa
movement" and "did not 'rig,' or influence the election."
The lawsuit comes on the
heels of a similar threat of legal action by voting machine company Smartmatic, which has
issued legal notices to Fox News, OAN and Newsmax, accusing the networks of a "campaign [that]
was designed to defame Smartmatic and undermine a legitimately conducted elections."
The legal notice is also said to have specifically named Fox News hosts Lou Dobbs, Jesse
Watters, and Maria Bartiromo, and indicates that Smartmatic could pursue legal action against
them personally.
Dominion itself has not yet issued any legal notices to media outlets. It has, however,
sent a letter to Sidney Powell , demanding she retract some "wild and reckless" allegations
she has made about them. 43,247 272 NEVER MISS
GoldHermit PREMIUM 9 hours ago
Can't wait for the discovery phase
BaNNeD oN THe RuN 8 hours ago
Exactly, it is very unlikely that the cheating occured at the machine stage since a manual
recount would prove the machine's error.
Cheating was done at the ballot level. The data clearly suggests it happened.
Trump supposedly got 11 million more votes in 2020 than in 2016.
Clinton 2016 - 65,853,677
Biden 2020 - 81,284,778 (+15.4mm)
Total Votes 2016 - 137,143,218
Total Votes 2020 - 158,537,765 (+21.4mm)
The data strongly suggests that both teams cheated and that the Democrats were simply the
better cheaters this time.
That is a meritocracy of sorts, right?
Gerrilea 7 hours ago
NO, the ballots AND the machines. The "recounts" have not happened...not legitimately.
BaNNeD oN THe RuN 7 hours ago
A manual recount happened in Georgia and confirmed the machine result
All the reports of the cheating in Georgia involve mail in ballots or boxes of ballots
counted after the R scrutineers had left.
WedgeMan 7 hours ago remove link
Liar. They did a count using a sample of the ballots and got different number from the two
machines because the software had been replaced with the cheating software.
MoreFreedom 8 hours ago
That's why he'll drop the suit. Imagine if people filed lawsuits against Democrats because
their affidavit of election fraud caused people to make death threats against them. They
claim such suits are without merit.
Just read the Antrim Country Forensics Report on Dominion Voting System. It's just a
computer with software, that can be changed during an election (and was in at least one
documented case) over the internet by anyone in the world with administrative access to the
machines or servers.
HowdyDoody 5 hours ago (Edited) remove link
2017 - Voting machines are easily hacked - CNN report
It should be interesting to see how the systems were secured during those 3 years.
Edit:
" The legal notice is also said to have specifically named Fox News hosts Lou Dobbs, Jesse
Watters, and Maria Bartiromo, and indicates that Smartmatic could pursue legal action against
them personally. "
This smacks of lawfare. Interestingly (((The Only Democracy In The Middle East))) excels
at that (via Shurat HaDin) - partly in response to attempts to hold it to account. From wiki
(yeah, I know)
"The NGO Forum of the 2001 Durban Conference (31 August 2001 - 8 September 2001) called
for the "establishment of a war crimes tribunal" against Israel."
For some reason, that appears to have gone nowhere.
As for Croomer, there is very little background. He says "I've worked in international
elections in all sorts of post-conflict countries where election violence is real and people
are getting killed over it." - That sounds straight out of CIA/USAID organised US regime
change ops.
MoreFreedom 8 hours ago (Edited) remove link
I agree, but it would be great if it does go to court.
Mr Coomer has stated that "I've worked in international elections in all sorts of
post-conflict countries where election violence is real and people are getting killed over
it. And I feel that we're on the verge of that."
Looks like Dominion is a favorite of "post-conflict countries were election violence is
real and people are getting killed". Note the contradiction between "post-conflict" and
"people are getting killed". Croomer wants to say his machines are the favorite of
"post-conflict" law abiding countries but it seems his machines go to where political
violence occurs as a result of crooked elections of despots, or leads to it. Quite an
endorsement for election fraud IMHO.
Just read the Antrim County Forensics Report on Dominion Voting System. As an IT guy, my
reading is that Croomer will lose his lawsuit, which is why he'll drop it later. You may not
have even read in the MSM, that Antrim county did 3 counts of the electronic ballots on 3
different days, and got 3 different results. And no one may have made it clear to you, that
68% of these ballots filled out on electronic screens were flagged as needing to be
adjudicated, and they were adjudicated and likely changed by someone with sufficient
authority (an administrative user on the system) but the logs have been removed so we don't
even know who did it. Did you hear the Dominion voting systems were connected to the
internet? Did you know that some Dominion employee changed voting software via the internet
during the elections? The MSM wants to keep it quiet. FEC guidelines are that no more than
0.008% (1 of 250,000) should require any adjudication. And did you read the Antrim county, a
reliably GOP country, initially had Biden winning on the first count, but in actuality it
went to Trump?
I'd like to see Dominion defending against Trump's lawyers and explain how their systems
work (which they don't, claiming it's a closed system) and how fraud is prevented. The report
states:
We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed
with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.
Max21c 8 hours ago (Edited)
Vote out any voting machine company that is not open source and does not make it's code
available well in advance of the election... and do it worldwide... (fawk the CIA and British
Gestapo)... let the bums in the secret police pick better behaved puppets and make the CIA
puppets better govern...
As long as the voting machines are not open source then they are an enigma machine and
it's the jeopardy of Pandora's box being opened in numerous elections afterwards over charges
and suspicions of election fraud...
Open source for the kernel... open source for all the kernel modules... open source for
all the firmware on all the chips, ic's and boards... open source for the higher level
applications... et cetera... all the board changes and firmware changes recorded and posted
publicly per notice of the change and available for scrutiny and all the "software patches
and upgrades" also recorded and posted publicly per notice of the change.. make the changelog
available...
source code + the compiler and linker and all the compiled code and all the libraries,
header files, and other files... turned over in advance... and any changes thereafter also
turned over...the whole shabang... nothing concealed and nothing held back...
donkey_shot 8 hours ago (Edited)
eric "from dominion" coomer who bragged openly about "taking care of the elections" is
suing fox, oan and newsmax?
these people know no shame...and are obviously as dumb as rocks, too.
can`t wait for sidney powell and/or lin wood to take up the case and rip this guy
another.
NAV 8 hours ago remove link
To trust that justice will be done via America's stacked judicial system is like a Russian
trusting in Stalin's judicial system. That is why Coomer is suing; he's been assured the
DeepState has his back. All that stands now between American patriots and freedom is their
guns.
Other than President Trump, no one cares enough about America to protect it . So why are
we spending $1,000 billion annually to defend ourselves from alleged foreign threats when
there is no defense against our country's theft by the ruling Establishment and woke Democrat
identity politics ideologues? Why vote Republican when the party does not defend us?
The journalist Katerina Blinova writing in Sputnik International captured the meaning of
the stolen presidential election. Democrats are turning America into a "
one-party system ".
If the Democrats succeed in stealing the Georgia senatorial seats as well, which is likely
given the absence of protection against electoral fraud, they will rapidly move to
consolidate one-party dictatorship.
... ... ...
Trident5000 5 hours ago remove link
Fact: Nobody has even audited Dominion code because they claim IP protection.
JosephJohnson 9 hours ago
It is very good that Dominion is suing! --For the legal "facts discovery" process and
accompanying legal investigations involving such a lawsuit will be awesome to have revealed
in court! The defense will surely bring out some very interesting facts concerning voter
fraud with the Dominion machines. Let the lawsuits begin.
propaganda4u 9 hours ago
Not to mention all payments to and from politicians and Dominion.
Sinophile 9 hours ago remove link
" Mr Coomer has stated that "I've worked in international elections in all sorts of
post-conflict countries where election violence is real and people are getting killed over
it. And I feel that we're on the verge of that."
This guy is unbelievable.
skippy dinner 4 hours ago remove link
You have missed a step.
If A merely alleges that B cheats on his taxes, nothing happens.
But if B sues for defamation , then that puts the onus on B to prove he is squeaky clean.
*Then* A gets the powers of discovery on B's tax filings.
Suing for defamation is a dangerous game. Rich and famous people have done time for
perjury - e.g. famous novelist and politician Geoffrey Archer.
Hail Spode 8 hours ago
Notice that Dominion as a company did not file the suit, only an employee of the company.
And not over the issue of whether their machines and software can, by design, be used to rig
an election. Only over the issue of what he said on a particular occasion.
IOW Dominion is still acting guilty and this still would not open the door to
discovery.
Freddie 7 hours ago remove link
The new thing I saw online was the Dominion machines have a wireless card built in that
can connect to the Internet via wi fi to the thermostat in an office building. No need to
have a Cat 5 cable plugged into a router. It goes Wi Fi to the building thermostat that is wi
fi.
So Dominion is claiming that they have no relationship at any time and in any way
what-so-ever with the CIA or any other intelligence agency or secret police agency of any
country? And they have no ties to any political party and are so super squeaky clean they
should be selling soap? Matter of fact they're so super squeaky clean Proctor & Gamble is
afraid of them and may have to pay consideration to Dominion to keep them out of the consumer
and industrial soap markets.
2banana 9 hours ago
They are trying to keep this lawsuit very narrow with the Antifa focus.
Lawsuits have wide discovery data requests with pretty severe consequences for not
delivering the requested data.
Dominion's top engineer assured Antifa activists that he had "made f**king sure" that
President Donald Trump wouldn't win the presidential race, according to reports.
Dominion Voting Systems' Vice President of U.S. Engineering Eric Coomer allegedly spoke
with Antifa members on conference calls and reportedly assured the other participants by
saying:
"Don't worry about the election, Trump's not gonna win. I made f**king sure of that!"
Dominion Voting Systems is one of the largest voting technology companies in the United
States.
Eric Coomer's profile as director at Dominion Voting Systems was recently scrubbed from
their website...
Hopefully for him he was honest with his attorneys so they could give him the best
possible advice. It would be a shame for him to get blindsided in the discovery process.
snatchpounder PREMIUM 9 hours ago
Excellent, dominion just opened the door and the *** ******* they're going to get will be
hilarious.
jayman21 PREMIUM 9 hours ago
Hope you are right. We need a functioning gov't more than ever. Doubt they will get what
they deserved until the sheep start to wake up en mass ~40% would due the trick.
FakeScience PREMIUM 8 hours ago
In a fair justice system maybe. I'd bet money that it goes before a Soros funded judge who
doesn't allow any discovery by the defendant and only accepts evidence by Dominion.
snatchpounder PREMIUM 8 hours ago
Yes the court system is thoroughly corrupt so it's going to be hard to find a judge who
isn't a bought and paid for Soros hack.
Cactus52 9 hours ago
Time for Discovery. They do realize the defendant is allowed to do this
Jung 10 hours ago
So why can they do this, while the MSM is hardly ever sued for their malicious, defamatory
fake news? Are they really afraid of the owners of the MSM? It would be one of the ways to
get rid of the endless propaganda and censorship.
Here's what Coomer had to say to his "friends" on Facebook on July 21, 2016, who are Trump
supporters (language editted):
Facebook friend land- open call-
If you are planning to vote for the autocratic, narcissistic, fascists, a$$-hat blowhard
and his Christian jihadist VP pic, UNFRIEND ME NOW!
No, I'm not joking.
I'm all for reasoned political discourse and healthy debate- I'm looking at you ( 3
names of friends).
I disagree with you three on many philosophical grounds but respect your opinions.
Only and absolute F**KING IDIOT could ever vote for that wind-bag f**k-tard FASCIST
RACIST F**K!
No bulls**t, I don't give a damn if you're friend, family, or random acquaintance, pull
the lever, mark an oval, touch a screen for that carnival barker -- UNFRIEND ME NOW.
I have no desire whatsoever to ever interact with you.
You are beyond hope, beyond reason. you are controlled by fear, reaction, and bulls**t.
Get your s**t together.
Oh, it that doesn't persuade you, F**K YOU! Seriously, this f**king a$$-clown stands
against everything that makes this country awesome!
You want in on that? You deserve nothing but contempt.
ableman28 6 hours ago
Just because people who don't like trump have facts on their side, boo hoo. We have belief
and that is much stronger than reality. Let those courts hear the suit and if Sydney loses
big deal. What are they going to do, disbar her and seize her assets to pay the other sides
legal fees and judgement.
"Yes, my son, that is exactly what is going to happen."`
naro 6 hours ago
Why doesn't the Trump reelection office announce a $10 million reward and a full pardon
for any Dominion insider who can provide evidence of rigging of the machines to favor
Democrats?
Decimus Lunius Luvenalis 10 hours ago
Personally, I thought the voting systems fraud were pretty big with little, if any, direct
evidence. Powell claimed to know the algorithm but we never saw it. That said, truth is an
affirmative defense to a defamation claim, and discovery goes both ways.
Itchy and Scratchy 10 hours ago remove link
The software is probably long since erased and the audit trails destroyed. They will find
nothing.
Constitutional Attorney Matthew DePerno is an American hero. Two weeks ago, Michigan 13th Circuit Court Judge Kevin A Elsenheimer
agreed to allow Mr. DePerno's client, William Bailey, and a highly skilled team of IT experts to perform a forensic examination
on 16 of the Dominion voting machines in Antrim County, MI. On Monday, Judge Elsenheimer agreed to allow the results of the
forensic examination to be released to the public. The results were damning.
After the forensic examination of 16 Dominion Voting machines in Antrim, Co., MI, Allied Security Operations Group has concluded
that the Dominion Voting machines were assigned a 68.05% error rate. DePerno explained that when ballots are put through the
machine, a whopping 68.05% error rate means that 68.05% of the ballots are sent for bulk adjudication, which means they collect
the ballots in a folder. "The ballots are sent somewhere where people in another location can change the vote," DePerno
explained. The allowable election error rate established by the Federal Election Commission guidelines is 1 in 250,000 ballots or
.0008%.
Based on the Allied Security Operations report, Constitutional Attorney Matthew DePerno states: "we conclude that The Dominion
Voting System should not be used in Michigan. We further conclude that the results of Antrim County should not have been
certified.
The stunning report was widely criticized by the Democrat Party mainstream media and by the dishonest Secretary of State Jocelyn
Benson and Attorney General Dana Nessel
Yesterday, The Detroit News announced that AG Nessel is planning to seek sanctions against lawyers "who pushed to overturn
Michigan's election results."
Sanctions sought against lawyers who pushed to overturn Michigan's election
Attorney General Dana Nessel said she plans to seek sanctions against lawyers who filed lawsuits against the sta
"It is unfathomable that licensed attorneys would deliberately file false and misleading affidavits and pleadings with the Court
in an effort to disenfranchise millions of Michigan residents," Davis said. "Not only should these individuals and their
attorneys be assessed financial sanctions, but they also should be barred from practicing in the federal courts in the Eastern
District of Michigan."
While Nessel didn't mention the names of lawyers she may pursue sanctions against, she indicated that those who filed later,
after the initial allegations had been assessed and denied immediate relief, were more culpable.
She said she could file against a lawyer associated with a case challenging Antrim County results and false statements he made on
Newsmax and OANN. Matthew DePerno filed the case in Antrim County on behalf of resident William Bailey.
"I think we need to go back to a time where you can trust an attorney is making an accurate and truthful representation to the
court because if they don't, then they won't be able to practice law anymore," Nessel said.
DePerno responded to MSNBC's far-left producer Kyle Griffin who tweeted the article by the Detroit News, that DePerno refers to
as a "hit piece." In his response to Griffin, DePerno wrote: "Thanks Kyle for showing us what fascism and state run media look
like. #Fascism #totalitarianism
Earlier today, Mr. DePerno appeared on the popular Frank Beckmann radio show on WJR (760 AM) where he explained how his law
license is now being threatened by Michigan's far-left AG Dana Nessel.
DePerno called on MI Democrat AG Dana Nessel to "resign," saying she violated her oath of office with these threats. He called
her out for "thuggery" and told the WJR host that in "his opinion" she is "acting like a fascist." DePerno also calls out Nessel
for threatening MI lawmakers with criminal prosecution who dared to challenge the validity of the election results in MI.
Nessel, who is anything but warm and fuzzy, shared a videotaped public service announcement in which she appears wearing an
elf-like costume while wearing a witch-like hat on her head. For many in Michigan who are disgusted by her totalitarian tactics
and threats against those with whom she disagrees, the witch hat is the perfect choice for their overreaching AG.
The January 6, Electoral College floor fight has already been openly declared. Here is
Matt Gaetz commentary: (1)
[The DNC] ran to the mailbox where they could process hundreds of thousands of votes,
oftentimes in the dark of night without signature matches, excluding the observers,
sometimes where people voted in different states, sometimes when they lived in different
states, sometimes when they weren't even alive at all.
And so on January 6th, I'm joining with the fighters in the Congress and we are going to
object to electors from states that didn't run clean elections.
Trump is organizing Washington DC rally also for January 6. (2)
President Donald Trump has doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on his claim of being
the 2020 election's rightful winner by releasing an adrenaline-packed "Fight for Trump"
video and vowing to hold a "wild" protest in Washington, D.C. on Jan 6th.
There is still significant hope that on January 6, VP Pence will deliver the accurate
Electoral College result confirming Trump's re-election. At that point, keeping the
determination for Trump away from SCOTUS interference is the hardest task.
It may or may not be called #OccupySCOTUS , however assembling a mass movement in
front of the Supreme Court building will deliver a message. The one thing that spineless
Justices want to protect most is themselves. Their jelly-like preference for an "immoral
peace" will squish when they see imminent personal risk.
Allowing proven loser Biden to steal office only happens if Justices accept the Fake
Stream Media [FSM] narrative that it will defuse the situation. The January 6 rally
will show the Justices 1st hand that the FSM narrative is 100% wrong. Allowing Biden's fraud
to seize the Oval Office will inflame the situation and guarantee a crisis .
@A123 the 2000
election, VP Gore was in the awkward position of being in charge of the electoral college
ritual. Even though he was convinced he had been screwed in Florida, and other democrats in
Congress agreed, not ONE Senator came forward to dispute the Florida results, which GWB
allegedly won by a mere 537 votes.
RINO McConnell (no friend of Trump) has already warned republican senators not to
challenge the EC vote on Jan.6th. To date, none, to my knowledge, has gone on record saying
they plan to defy him. Any that do so know they'll be blackballed, and won't receive any
financial support from the RNC. Thus, I doubt if it will happen.
@follyofwar O
McConnell (no friend of Trump) has already warned republican senators not to challenge the EC
vote
McConnell cannot put the hammer down on pro-USA Senators. He will either have a razor thin
margin as leader, or be the guy who lost the Senate for the Republicans. Trump's Team will
organize rallies and fundraisers for his loyal supporters, so any GOP financial threats are
laughable.
Indeed, I cannot think of one politician who would have had the gonads to stand up to the
endless abuse from the deep state, which Trump has withstood for over 4 years, without cracking
up and resigning. Nixon, who had recently won a landslide re-election in 1972, resigned after
much less. He should have known that you don't voluntarily give up the reigns of power, and
knuckle under to some pipsqueaks from the democrat controlled media named Woodward and
Bernstein. To his dying day, from what I've read, Nixon regretted his terrible decision.
@knarf base under the
bus to embrace blacks and hispanics, and they didn't even turn out to vote for him. If back
in 2015, Republican primary, Trump campaigned on a platinum plan for the negro and a Hispanic
plan, said he would keep daca, chain/visa lottery, anchor baby. Trump would never have won
the Republican primary. Utterly shameless pandering to blacks, whilst entirely ignoring his
blue-collar base. His Presidency will go down as a failure. Now he is Persona non Grata on
both sides. Maybe the lame do nothing negro worshipping flake can "Tweet" himself a win.
Smart Whites stayed home than rather vote for a con. Trump's ego got thumped.
But in the meantime, how does this already cooling rhetoric differ from Mr. Trump's
campaign pledges to "drain the swamp" that preceded his appointment of people like Abrams,
Bolton, Haspel, et al. ?
Or the hilarious September 30, 2008, assurances of Mr. Obama in his endorsement of that
year's bailout of Wall Street that
There will be time to punish those who set this fire , but now is the moment for
us to come together and put the fire out.
***
Finally, I will modernize our outdated financial regulations and put in the place the
common-sense rules of the road I've been calling for since March – rules that will
keep our market free, fair, and honest; rules that will make sure Wall Street can never get
away with the stunts that caused this crisis again. And I will take power away from the
corporate lobbyists who think they can stand in the way of these reforms. I've done it in
Illinois, I've done it [in] Washington, and I will do it again as President.
before allowing that same Wall Street to make his roster picks, including an Attorney
General who eventually announced that some of "those who set this fire" were too big to
jail?
People need to reconcile themselves to the truth that everything they're allowed to see is
a Red+Blue puppet show. Only those who effectively interfere -- Assange, Manning, and others
not up there on the stage -- have much to worry about.
Donald Trump entered office with a pledge to "drain the swamp," something that he found
more difficult to actually do rather than just talk about doing.
Especially when Trump himself hired nothing but nevertrumpers and swamp rats and
listened to his know-nothing rat-in-law.
(Didn't this guy have a tv show for 13 years about hiring the best people?)
It's secession time, has been for years before Orange Golfbag. Don't worry about whether
the federal mafia approves of the parting of ways, their new scamulus includes $300,000,000
to bring in more rapefugees aka your replacements.
The administration was locking up witnesses like Susan Lindauer. Various people, we were
told were Muslims, would having bags thrown over their heads and locked into "black sites."
They were saying "you're either with us or with the President." They were holding mass
rallies to burn Dixie Chicks CDs because they had "disrespected" the President.
Plus, of course, they refused to actually investigate 9/11 and gave us a cockamamie
made-for-TV movie explanation with more plot holes than a D-rated Hollywood film.
All Democrats are going to do is call people "racists" and "anti-semites."
These people lecturing anyone about "racism" or "democracy" is of course simply Jewish
"chutzpuh" considering they are all open, apartheid-supporting Zionists – just like
Trump. And Biden.
2020 - Voting machines are totally secure. It should be interesting to see how the systems were secured during those 3 years.
Edit:
" The legal notice is also said to have specifically named Fox News hosts Lou Dobbs, Jesse
Watters, and Maria Bartiromo, and indicates that Smartmatic could pursue legal action against
them personally. "
This smacks of lawfare. Interestingly (((The Only Democracy In The Middle East))) excels at
that (via Shurat HaDin) - partly in response to attempts to hold it to account. From wiki
(yeah, I know)
"The NGO Forum of the 2001 Durban Conference (31 August 2001 - 8 September 2001) called for
the "establishment of a war crimes tribunal" against Israel."
For some reason, that appears to have gone nowhere.
As for Croomer, there is very little background. He says "I've worked in international
elections in all sorts of post-conflict countries where election violence is real and people
are getting killed over it." - That sounds straight out of CIA/USAID organised US regime change
ops.
The outgoing representative from Hawaii gave a harsh evaluation of the controversial
stimulus package, which many critics see as too little, too late for the country, which has
been ravaged by Covid-19. She said she voted against the bill because it was rushed and catered
to special interests rather than the needs of the people.
The almost 5,600-page package was distributed to lawmakers just hours before the vote, so
"There is no way that anybody in Congress had the opportunity or time to go through and read
this bill to know exactly what was in it," Gabbard said.
And its actual content – which allocates money to things like missiles for the
Pentagon and provides a tax break for corporate meals, dubbed the 'three martini lunch' by
critics – is "an insult and a slap in the face to every single American in this
country, who is struggling because of this Covid-19 pandemic."
This bill is a representation of the screwed-up priorities of Washington.
The bill was passed by the Democrat-controlled House 359-53 on Monday and was given a 92-6
stamp of approval by the Republican-controlled Senate hours later. President Donald Trump is
expected to sign it into law.
Gabbard, a maverick Democratic representative whose tenure ends next month, has a record of
voting against her own party and has taken flack for it in the past. Arguably the most notable
example was her 'present' vote on the articles of impeachment of President Trump a year ago.
She said she could not in good conscience vote either 'yes' or 'no' because she believed the
president to be guilty of wrongdoing, but saw the impeachment as a flawed process fueled by
partisanship.
The white turnout in 2016 that overturned the voter fraud did not happen this election.
Who thought promising 500 billion to the %13 a month before the election was a good idea?
Nonstop tweets about black unemployment? As if I give a fuck about blacks, what about all the
underemployed and unemployed whites? What did he actually accomplish?
None of his campaign promises, we got a ban on a toy though, something even Obama didn't
deem worth outlawing.
His entire presidency was a disaster, martial law January 21st 2017 was our only hope,
that is long gone. At this point I'm not sure it matters...
@AKINDLE ation, as
Biden and wokeness are about to. Trump was trying to slow down the horrors looming ahead, and
a smart person (white or whatever) should have voted for him regardless of his Negro and
Jewish pandering.
Crying that 'he didn't do enough for me, so let's teach him a lesson, is puerile idiocy,
and 'cutting off one's nose to spite one's face'. Because now they're really going to get
anti-White hatred- on acid.
So, you're wrong about him being 'soundly defeated', and you're wrong about the 'smart
white' staying home, so that Kamala and her Deep State crew can get back to sending humanity
spiraling into the abyss.
@Defcon Who would have
thought, a kike lover and a puppet is a scumbag. Truly a master move by the establishment and
the deep state. The Orange kike never did even address his huwhite base. Not once.
Muttmerica deserves this though. No debate. 200 years of serving kike interests will never
end well. Same as the island monkeys of the UK. The trump situation is the same as
(((brexit))). Fractured any hope of solidarity with mainland while the (((EU))) pulls their
pants down and do it raw.
I will never cease laughing at the anglos. They wanted this situation, they fought for
it.
Thank you for using the word "coup" here because I believe it is imperative that every
concerned person realizes that this is what has happened/is happening.
Voting for a guy that spent his entire term in office working for the foreign state of
Israel, while not lifting a finger for Americans – is puerile idiocy.
If a politician won't do anything for ME – why would I vote for him? I'd vote for
the other guy who will do something FOR ME.
But no – you people are like, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what
you can do for Israel."
Are you also going to tell us how CIA Director Gina Haspel was killed in a Deep State
shootout in front of the secret Dominion Voting Machines in Frankfurt Germany as part of
Operation Hammer to steal the election from Trump?
The political left will not succeed with their revenge agenda, simply because President
Donald Trump has had the effect of alerting the American public to the utter corruption of
their politicians, ON BOTH THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT. Notice, Trump was not a Republican
president and in fact, received little support from establishment Republicans during his four
years and even now. Trump was a grass roots elected president, elected by millions of people
who simply have had it with the status quo.
In fact, Trump is not unique. The older generations remember a certain Ross Perot, also a
businessman and grass roots candidate who ran for President along with Clinton and Bush the
elder. He received over 20 million votes and counting when he suddenly withdrew from the
election and tried to re-enter it later. Why did he withdraw? He might have won and instead
took away enough votes from Bush to cause the abominable Bill Clinton and his wife to enter
the White House. Even then, Americans had enough of the "status quo".
Biden is a complete as can be swamp creature and will continue to, along with Harris,
bring this country to its knees. With Trump there was hope of change and a renewed commitment
to focusing on the U.S., instead of on every other country in the world, as the democrats
plan to do. GOOD LUCK AMERICANS
@Greta Handel m was
demonstrated for four long years. Not once did he try to reign in the corporations
(pharmaceuticals, energy, banking etc., preying on the American people.
He really is an obnoxious person. He hasn't pardoned Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and
murdered Solamani and let the Israelis murder an Iranian scientist.
His four years were spent pandering to Zionists and he followed their every diktat. Swamp
creatures were given a second chance, while he again and again bent forward with his rump in
the air for John Bolton, William Barr, AIPAC, etc, etc.
American patriots should have some pride along with rudimentary intelligence.
Is Trump now questioning his servitude to all things Zionist, now that Bibi the Noo Joisey
furniture salesman stabbed him in the back by congratulating Zio Boi Biden immediately after
the sElection ?
If Trump has a Christian epiphany (ref. recent Christmas message directed to just
Christians) wherein things become clarified and resolve strengthened, The New Year could
start with a BANG.
We are given two choices in these elections. That's the way it works. No where in my
comment did I laud Donald Trump. However, I am certain Trump would do less direct damage to
middle class Americans than those who control Biden/Harris will inflict upon that group of
citizens.
And I'm just old fashioned. The idea that a US Presidential election can be so thoroughly
riddled with election fraud is just not acceptable.
Which is fine -- victori sunt spoila and all that -- but it's already safe to say the Trump
years will be remembered as a brutal black comedy that made winners and losers alike look very,
very bad. It was supposed to be a historic, norms-smashing catastrophe, but the reality is that
almost nothing actually happened during the Trump years, except for a very long, exhausting
story. The major in-between change was a total loss of our collective grip on reality,
beginning with the fact that most of the country thinks we just went to hell and back a
thousand times, instead of making just one noisy trip in a circle, arriving just where we might
have four years ago, if Joe Biden had run instead of Hillary Clinton. The tiniest conceivable
step, but oh so much grief and self-deception to get there!
y_arrow
highwaytoserfdom 1 hour ago
Matt Im sure you know the
"The press is a gang of cruel(censored) . Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is
a cheap catch-all for (censored)offs and misfits -- a false doorway to the backside of life,
a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough
for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
RexSeven 2 hours ago
He put on display for all to see exactly what our media, deep state, and democrat party
is. And you dud nothing Matt. Nothing. Go F yourself.
incharge1976 PREMIUM 1 hour ago (Edited)
Crap article and terrible picture.
The reason Trump's 4 years were crazy was because of the corrupt Democrats who lied the
entire time with bs investigations and hearings.
Richard Chesler 1 hour ago
A breath of fresh air after corrupt charlatan Homobama.
NotKennedy 1 hour ago
An American hero, Donald Trump prevented Hillary.
Itchy and Scratchy 1 hour ago
Trump garnered a historic 75-80mm legitimate votes and a massive landslide victory and
this irrelevant dope writes a banal hit piece on him? SERIOUSLY PATHETIC!
Attorney Jenna Ellis has advised President Donald Trump against using the Insurrection Act
as he continues to challenge the election results.
The 1807 Insurrection Act is a federal law that allows the president, under very specific
circumstances, to deploy the U.S. armed forces to suppress civil disorder, rebellion, or
insurrection.
"Certainly, I would not advise that the American people want that" because of the "precedent
that it would set," Ellis
told Just the News .
"We have a constitutional process for a reason, and we have the judicial branch that really
does need to step in. I think that the Supreme Court absolutely let the American people down by
refusing to take up the Texas case."
Although disappointed in the Supreme Court and some state lawmakers regarding their actions
surrounding alleged voter fraud, Ellis said the present circumstances are not the type of
situations for which the Insurrection Act was created.
"The state legislatures, they can look at all of this corruption, they can look at how their
laws and their states were totally ignored, and they can take back their delegates at any
time," said Ellis, one of the president's attorneys in his bid to overturn his election loss to
Joe Biden. "And they can refuse to go along with the certifications that are absolutely false
and fraudulent. So that's the constitutional solution."
Ellis said pursuing alleged election fraud should not supersede the Constitution.
"We have to still make sure that even though we see that our country has been undermined by
corruption, our solution can't be to undermine the Constitution ourselves," Ellis said.
"We have to go through the process, we have to hold our leaders accountable. And at the end
of the day, if we don't get a correction, in this case, we have to fight to make sure that this
never happens again."
The last time the Insurrection Act was invoked was 1992, when the Los Angeles riots forced
the action,
per The Epoch Times .
President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani tells Newsmax TV his team can prove their allegations of voter
fraud, but the governors of the contested states won't allow access to their voting
machines.
Appearing Monday on "Spicer & Co.," Giuliani, career
prosecutor and onetime mayor of New York City, told host Sean Spicer that the Trump team needs
to prove only 10,000 contested votes in Arizona.
"Don't you think it's going to be pretty easy to show 10,000 noncitizens voted in Arizona?"
he said. "Give me the names of the people who voted and run them against a Lexis-Nexis" search,
he said. "I'll come up with 40,000 noncitizens."
"Nor will they let us look at the machines," he said. "If they didn't cheat, Sean, why won't
they let us examine the machines? Why does the governor of Georgia continue to hold onto the
machine the city paid $110 million for, and he refuses to let us examine them?
If President-elect Joe Biden doesn't want a cloud on his presidency, he should encourage an
examination of the machines, Giuliani said.
"There's no reason to go beyond anything that this election was a theft. It could be
proven," Giuliani said. "I can tell you one simple thing that would prove it make the American
people feel really good. Five or six of these crooked governors could let us have access to the
machines. In fact, if they did, maybe I would have to apologize for saying they're
crooked."
No standing before the election. Too late to complain or sue after the election.
The new Catch 22.
Definition of catch-22
1 : a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance
inherent in the problem or by a rule the show-business catch-22 -- no work unless you have
an agent, no agent unless you've worked -- Mary Murphy also : the circumstance or rule that
denies a solution
2a : an illogical, unreasonable, or senseless situation
b : a measure or policy whose effect is the opposite of what was intended
c : a situation presenting two equally undesirable alternatives
3 : a hidden difficulty or means of entrapment : catch
NoPension 6 hours ago
Heads I win. Tails you lose.
Tristan Ludlow 6 hours ago
Those that make fair elections impossible, will make violent revolutions inevitable, to
paraphrase Kennedy.
StaySunny3000 7 hours ago
What a weasel decision. How do the judges expect the plantiffs to round up all the clerks
who looked at ballots? Is it not the Sec. of State's responsibility to oversee the actions of
the clerks? Wouldn't it be more proficient and, dare I say it, logical , to focus on the man
that made the fraud possible?
Courts have been totally politicized. Justice isn't blind, it's been decapitated.
tunEphsh 7 hours ago remove link
Usual BS from courts--lack standing. No one has standing. Judges afraid of losing their
jobs if they rule against the state. Shows how corrupt Georgia is (and other states too).
yerfej 7 hours ago
The reality is the US (all western nations) is done as a country, it is now a giant
Mafioso organization run by neoliberals. After six decades the neoliberals have finally
consolidated power over the media, courts, academia, bureaucracy, and big tech. No one can
challenge the power structure, it is total and vicious, and anyone in their sights will be
destroyed. Now is when people begin to realize what has transpired and the opposition begins
to create resistance which will take a long time to formulate.
The Supreme Court appears to take the position that fraud is a constitutional right, as
there appears to be no legal remedy for fraud in the election process...
Perhaps we should cut through this entire process...
Just meet in the street and gun each other down... last man standing gets to be president...
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Cognitive Dissonance PREMIUM 6 hours ago (Edited)
Best damn Banana Republic EVER!
Lansman 6 hours ago
"A district court found the p laintiffs lacked standing,..."
I'm not a lawyer, does "plaintiffs lacked standing" mean, "plaintiffs represent the wrong
party" ?
kfletcher31411 5 hours ago
Lansman - It definitely means "only good party members", the rest of us are nothing.
pfmonte1 5 hours ago
It means that the court would have had to grow a pair and actually render a decision and
be exposed as naked grifters in black robes.
My God. Doesn't every citizen have standing in a case that demands a fair election?
The courts are using standing as an excuse to avoid ruling on difficult cases and are
leaving important Constitutional questions unanswered as a result.
These judges should step down if they can't handle the heat of upholding the
Constitution.
"... Resonates with Escobar: "...a Deep State intel source told me, 'the Supreme Court did not like to see half the country rioting against them, and preferred the decision be made by each state in the House of Representatives. That is the only way to handle this without jeopardizing the union. Even prominent Democrats I know realize that the fix took place. The error was to steal too many votes. This grand theft indicts the whole system, that has always been corrupt.'" ..."
"... Eric Newhill , 18 December 2020 at 12:56 PM ..."
"... This story seems apocryphal to me. I'm not convinced it happened; at least not that way. ..."
"... All we hear from the swamp is that right wing deplorables are the greatest threat to internal security. Now I ain't no genius of the caliber of those sitting in the Supreme Court, but even if I was a swampy I would calculate that I should fear an enraged right wing deplorable mob, with all of their fully semi-automatic scary assault weapons of war, a lot more than a bunch of thin beard coffee house rejects armed with sticks and stones. ..."
"... Bill H , 18 December 2020 at 01:28 PM ..."
"... The decision not to hear the Texas case was so illogical that I concluded at once that fear of rioting was the actual cause for the decision. As everyone wondered why Democratic state governors allowed the violence to continue, I suspected at the time that it was a warning of what would happen if Democrats lost in November. ..."
"... Barbara Ann , 18 December 2020 at 02:09 PM ..."
"... The question you pose is of supreme importance, as of course is the question of the unknowable mind & will of the President. My own views on the latter crystallized after seeing Trump's December 2nd speech, which appeared to me to be a clear warning to the courts to sort out the mess, or else. I recognize the argument of critics who point to a lack of precedent when decisive action has been called for in the past, but surely an uncommitted man would by now have thrown in the towel. ..."
"... I always go back to Trump's motivations for running for office. He is many things, but dumb ain't one of them. He must have known 5 years ago that he was going to war with the swamp and that in the absence of a negotiated peace (no sign of which is in evidence) such a war must have a winner and a loser. Trump is a high risks go-for-broke type and I happen to believe he is truly motivated by wanting to save the country and uphold his oath. There are 2 antithetical points of view on the merits of his strategy, but none of that changes what Trump himself believes and that alone will determine his actions. ..."
"... If the SCOTUS is truly irredeemably compromised, either by partisan views and/or by fear of the mob - a self-fulfilling irony is ever there was one - must a patriot still feel compelled to abide by the law? Or are we now in the territory covered by Alexander Dumas' famous epigram; "The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates". ..."
"... Rudy, Jenna & crew seem to have more constitutional slight of hand up their sleeves, but the scope for this looks extremely limited and all of it pretty much guaranteed to have the mob in the streets anyway I would think. Pence does not strike me as a do or die kind of guy and I just can't see him standing in front of Congress counting the various states' duplicate EC votes for Trump on the 6th. ..."
"... I don't know enough about the Insurrection Act to comment on the increasingly widespread calls among Trump supporters to have it invoked. But in the absence of insurrection how could orders given under it be considered legal? It is notable I think that Sidney Powell - a lawyer - recently joined Mike Flynn in retweeting a call for exactly this. Trump's Twitter is an oasis of ominous calm in comparison. ..."
"... Deap , 18 December 2020 at 03:50 PM ..."
"... What does the swamp have on Roberts? - The internet is forever, so it is interesting to look back when there was similar speculation about Roberts after his Obamacare ruling; also considered a major conservative betrayal.. ..."
"... Up come familiar names from this background search - Brennan and Clapper and the curious adoption by Roberts of two very blond children from "Latin America". The speculation was deep-staters Clapper/Brennan would use Robert's own kids suspect adoption legality against him. Search for more details about this speculation at the time. True or not, it was the operational buzz. ..."
"... However, at that same time during the Obama years with more than a little irony - (about 2010?) - it was considered ludicrous to even speculate the "government" would take actions against someone's children, in order to get what they wanted. ..."
"... That was then; this is now. I suspect Michael Flynn has a different understanding today about how far the "government" will go against ones children, to get what they want. And it was the same "government" - the Obama government. ..."
"... There has always been the threat of violence surrounding that man. From being "selected" to be Harvard Law Review President to election eve 2008 -to the four years of ginned up anti-Trump violence, and threats against a fair election in 2020. ..."
"... Neal , 18 December 2020 at 07:22 PM ..."
"... Personally, I think the denial of cert was absolutely correct. Why? Because this is the ultimate 'political question'. Since the Supremes are traditionally chosen from among the more learned political hacks in the Republic, it's always been a bit of a fairy tale to pretend that they always refrain from determining political questions, and it never turns out well for the Court when they don't, but here we're talking about a national election. This is clearly not a decision for the judicial power. It's supposed to be decided in the states by the counting of votes (and all the legislatures have passed laws saying so, none have reserved the power to cast the electors to the legislature, despite the authorization to do so in the constitution). As Scott S. points out above, they knew this in 1876, and I suppose that is why no one then thought the Supremes could just decide the matter, although Supreme Court judges served on the commission, presumably to add what little 'gravitas' they may have had. And of course, this is why the Supremes shouldn't have waded into the Bush-Gore election (but then Tom Delay would have had to play the the king maker in accordance with the constitution, and that was a no-go for some reason). ..."
"... The reason given in the cert denial decision was perfectly correct, too. Texas has no standing to complain about the conduct of the election in Pennsylvania, etc. Not if the states retain any "sovereignty" in our federal republic. Whatever may or may not have happened in Pennsylvania or Georgia did not prevent Texas prevent from casting their electors. An expansion of the use of mail ballots in another state, with or without action by the state's legislature, has no effect on Texas' election. Therefore, no harm done to the state of Texas. Suddenly conservatives oppose states rights? ..."
"... The only arguable basis for the Supremes -- or any part of the federal government -- to get involved would be Article 4, section 4. We'd be saying that Pennsylvania and Georgia no longer had republican forms of government. Shades of Shays' Rebellion, perhaps? I guess that is why there's all this talk about the insurrection act. ..."
"... Which reminds me of Rehnquist's sarcastic citing of all the lunch counter sit-in cases in Bush v Gore, cases that he had spent his life opposing, so that he could join in the equal protection argument just long enough to then say it was too late to fashion any remedy in Florida. ..."
"... By the way, the Court has denied the story about yelling in the hallways. Apparently they've been conferencing by telephone since last March. ..."
Resonates with Escobar: "...a Deep State intel source told me, 'the Supreme Court did
not like to see half the country rioting against them, and preferred the decision be made by
each state in the House of Representatives. That is the only way to handle this without
jeopardizing the union. Even prominent Democrats I know realize that the fix took place. The
error was to steal too many votes. This grand theft indicts the whole system, that has always
been corrupt.'"
This story seems apocryphal to me. I'm not convinced it happened; at least not that
way.
All we hear from the swamp is that right wing deplorables are the greatest threat to
internal security. Now I ain't no genius of the caliber of those sitting in the Supreme
Court, but even if I was a swampy I would calculate that I should fear an enraged right wing
deplorable mob, with all of their fully semi-automatic scary assault weapons of war, a lot
more than a bunch of thin beard coffee house rejects armed with sticks and stones.
The decision not to hear the Texas case was so illogical that I concluded at once that
fear of rioting was the actual cause for the decision. As everyone wondered why Democratic
state governors allowed the violence to continue, I suspected at the time that it was a
warning of what would happen if Democrats lost in November.
The question you pose is of supreme importance, as of course is the question of the
unknowable mind & will of the President. My own views on the latter crystallized after
seeing Trump's December 2nd speech, which appeared to me to be a clear warning to the courts
to sort out the mess, or else. I recognize the argument of critics who point to a lack of
precedent when decisive action has been called for in the past, but surely an uncommitted man
would by now have thrown in the towel.
I always go back to Trump's motivations for running for office. He is many things, but
dumb ain't one of them. He must have known 5 years ago that he was going to war with the
swamp and that in the absence of a negotiated peace (no sign of which is in evidence) such a
war must have a winner and a loser. Trump is a high risks go-for-broke type and I happen to
believe he is truly motivated by wanting to save the country and uphold his oath. There are 2
antithetical points of view on the merits of his strategy, but none of that changes what
Trump himself believes and that alone will determine his actions.
If the SCOTUS is truly irredeemably compromised, either by partisan views and/or by
fear of the mob - a self-fulfilling irony is ever there was one - must a patriot still feel
compelled to abide by the law? Or are we now in the territory covered by Alexander Dumas'
famous epigram; "The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of
dates".
Rudy, Jenna & crew seem to have more constitutional slight of hand up their
sleeves, but the scope for this looks extremely limited and all of it pretty much guaranteed
to have the mob in the streets anyway I would think. Pence does not strike me as a do or die
kind of guy and I just can't see him standing in front of Congress counting the various
states' duplicate EC votes for Trump on the 6th.
I don't know enough about the Insurrection Act to comment on the increasingly
widespread calls among Trump supporters to have it invoked. But in the absence of
insurrection how could orders given under it be considered legal? It is notable I think that
Sidney Powell - a lawyer - recently joined Mike Flynn in retweeting a call for exactly this.
Trump's Twitter is an oasis of ominous calm in comparison.
What does the swamp have on Roberts? - The internet is forever, so it is interesting
to look back when there was similar speculation about Roberts after his Obamacare ruling;
also considered a major conservative betrayal..
Up come familiar names from this background search - Brennan and Clapper and the
curious adoption by Roberts of two very blond children from "Latin America". The speculation
was deep-staters Clapper/Brennan would use Robert's own kids suspect adoption legality
against him. Search for more details about this speculation at the time. True or not, it was
the operational buzz.
However, at that same time during the Obama years with more than a little irony -
(about 2010?) - it was considered ludicrous to even speculate the "government" would take
actions against someone's children, in order to get what they wanted.
That was then; this is now. I suspect Michael Flynn has a different understanding
today about how far the "government" will go against ones children, to get what they want.
And it was the same "government" - the Obama government.
There has always been the threat of violence surrounding that man. From being
"selected" to be Harvard Law Review President to election eve 2008 -to the four years of
ginned up anti-Trump violence, and threats against a fair election in 2020.
Personally, I think the denial of cert was absolutely correct. Why? Because this is
the ultimate 'political question'. Since the Supremes are traditionally chosen from among the
more learned political hacks in the Republic, it's always been a bit of a fairy tale to
pretend that they always refrain from determining political questions, and it never turns out
well for the Court when they don't, but here we're talking about a national election. This is
clearly not a decision for the judicial power. It's supposed to be decided in the states by
the counting of votes (and all the legislatures have passed laws saying so, none have
reserved the power to cast the electors to the legislature, despite the authorization to do
so in the constitution). As Scott S. points out above, they knew this in 1876, and I suppose
that is why no one then thought the Supremes could just decide the matter, although Supreme
Court judges served on the commission, presumably to add what little 'gravitas' they may have
had. And of course, this is why the Supremes shouldn't have waded into the Bush-Gore election
(but then Tom Delay would have had to play the the king maker in accordance with the
constitution, and that was a no-go for some reason).
The reason given in the cert denial decision was perfectly correct, too. Texas has no
standing to complain about the conduct of the election in Pennsylvania, etc. Not if the
states retain any "sovereignty" in our federal republic. Whatever may or may not have
happened in Pennsylvania or Georgia did not prevent Texas prevent from casting their
electors. An expansion of the use of mail ballots in another state, with or without action by
the state's legislature, has no effect on Texas' election. Therefore, no harm done to the
state of Texas. Suddenly conservatives oppose states rights?
The only arguable basis for the Supremes -- or any part of the federal government --
to get involved would be Article 4, section 4. We'd be saying that Pennsylvania and Georgia
no longer had republican forms of government. Shades of Shays' Rebellion, perhaps? I guess
that is why there's all this talk about the insurrection act.
Which reminds me of Rehnquist's sarcastic citing of all the lunch counter sit-in cases
in Bush v Gore, cases that he had spent his life opposing, so that he could join in the equal
protection argument just long enough to then say it was too late to fashion any remedy in
Florida.
By the way, the Court has denied the story about yelling in the hallways. Apparently
they've been conferencing by telephone since last March.
'Michael Flynn said he was provided information that foreign intelligence agencies were
monitoring the U.S. election on Nov. 3 and are willing to provide evidence to President
Donald Trump.'
"YouTube has decided that my opening statement in the U.S. [Senate], given under oath and
based upon hard evidence, is too dangerous for you to see; they removed it. To this day, 'our
evidence has never been refuted, only ignored.' Why is Google so afraid of the truth?
#BigBrother," lawyer Jesse Binnall wrote on Twitter.
"Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne blasted President Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows
and White House lawyers in comments posted online Sunday about a meeting at the White House
Friday night with Trump about the contested presidential election that Byrne attended with
attorney Sydney Powell and former Trump national security advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn
(U.S. Army ret.), saying that Trump is being "betrayed from within." Byrne also denied the
reporting that a military coup or martial law were discussed.
"My involvement is I was in the room when it happened. The raised voices included my own.
I can promise you: President Trump is being terribly served by his advisers. They want him to
lose and are lying to him. He is surrounding by mendacious mediocrities."..In addition, any
suggestion if there was talk of a military coup or martial law is also a flat lie. 100%
false. I was there for 4 1/2 hours, I heard the entire conversation, that is a complete
fabrication.
Byrne called out White House Counsel Pat Cipollone as the leaker to the New York Times
about the meeting and accused Meadows and White House staffers of lying to Trump to get him
to concede, "I was there for the full 4.5 hour meeting. Claims military coup/martial law were
discussed is 100% fabrication. Trump is lied to by his own advisers, who tell staff "get the
president to concede" while they stall Trump. Meadows + Lawyers Eric, Derek, GC Pat
Cippollone (leaker)."
If the Trump administration has sufficient concrete, smoking-gun proof that the CIA cooked
the election, and more importantly can use that proof to enlist a power base within the
government (such as the military) that has the strength to neutralize/decapitate the CIA,
then the Deep State as we know it will be finished.
Without the CIA serving as the nervous system that gives the Deep State coordination and
direction then the Deep State would devolve to a formless jellyfish blob. It would still be
an annoying bureaucracy, but it would go back to taking its direction from the Administrative
Branch rather than vice versa.
Kicking the CIA out of power would be a huge coup that would reverberate though society
for years. The impact would be felt in newsrooms and college campuses from coast to coast.
CIA "assets" and collaborators would still be being tracked down, tried, and
imprisoned for decades to come.
I won't hold my breath for it but that would be a very positive change for America.
William Gruff # 97
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Dec 18 2020 21:36 utc | 113
The 70s was when they started selling the good redwood saw logs to Japan instead of
cutting them up here because they could get more profit that way. At the time I do not think
it was considered that the Japanese would be able to compete with us as well as they did, and
I think the same applies to the other sellouts of our working class to foreign cheap
manufacturing centers. You have to remember these people really do think they are better.
They do think in class terms even if they avoid that rhetoric in public. The problem is they
thought they could control China like they did Japan. That was dumb then and it looks even
dumber now. You can see similar dumbness in their lack of grip on any realisitic view of
Russia. Provincials really. Rich peasants.
Thanks for the redfish video suggestion. Worth watching not only to get insight about the
current developments in India but also understanding the global Zeitgeist.
I couldn't avoid to identify the exact same type of developments and problems that working
class and increasingly also middle class facing in other parts of the world.
The globalization of capitalism since the fall of USSR and Warsaw pact, has caused
accelerated monopolization of political and economic power everywhere in the world,
this was achieved by enforcing the same neoliberal agenda globally. No matter if you look at
the USA, Germany, Iran or India, you discover the same type of "reforms". Reforms that result
in increased poverty, more and more middle class families are losing their socioeconomic
position and becoming part of working class.
One come to the understanding that the "Great Reset" we are talking about recently, is not
something new in the beginning and making, it's only the continuation of an agenda which has
been in implementation since 30 years ago.
have you noticed that terms like "Imperialism" and "Capitalist government" which were
natural parts of the political discourse in 20th century have been increasingly replaced by
"Nepotism" and "Oligarchy" in 21st century?
Thank you and I have noticed the shift in terminology. I try to avoid it as I believe in
the need to be extremely clear about socialism and capitalism. I prefer to avid CCP and
prefer Chinese Communist Party. I take care to compare western issues with how Cuba is
actually doing. Keep making it clear there is a range of alternatives to private finance
capitalism and IMF usury.
The weavers of deceit and theft that are private finance capitalists are indeed oligarchs
and they attempt to crush any discussion of repossessing their wealth and redistributing it
so that more people can do more work with it and generate stronger societies. The private
finance vultures live in dread of a Tobin tax so I say bring it on. Wherever cash is locked
away and idle - take it and give it to the people as it is they who know how to put it back
to work and generate security and peace within communities.
Wherever power is monopolised in industry then force a devolution of shares to workers and
unions and pay shares as taxes to the state so that dividends go to all including the state.
As it is now in many countries mega corporations extort tax holidays to set up production
units in the counties and dump the entire cost of infrastructure expansion onto those
counties as part of their extortion. Information monopolies are the most critical to
dismantle. Look at the west where critical journalism has been reduced to mediocre
stenography and those with integrity are entirely reliant on other monopolies to squeeze
their digital content between the pillars of censorious monopolies like twitter and facebook
etc. These monopolies are managing public content and creativity and should be in public
ownership - NOT just shareholder public but the entire public.
There is this ruse of oligarchs today just as in Venice in the 16th and 17th century where
the Doges in their magnificence spy on the citizens and reward citizens for spying on each
other, where social cohesion and solidarity is corroded and rots within. That is what the neo
liberal and private finance agenda is - to monopolise $$$ and power and decision making
within the hands of decrepit gerontocrats like Pelosi, Lord Rothschild, Rupert Murdoch, Queen
Elisabeth etc, etc.
Enough of this rant... thank you Framarz. Long live those countries that have for decades
repelled the evil that would crush their freedom and socialism. May Russia find its way to
reintegrate socialism within its future.
by: steven t johnson @ 13 says "the Presidency is essentially unchecked: Article II and
amendment 12 clearly state
that no one can challenge the president.." <= I add "unless congress can find something
they themselves are all
guilty of, and are collectively willing to accept the risk that they themselves might be
removed for the same crime
for which the Congress might impeach the President .. from elected Office impeachment is
impossible.
It is this improbability of removing the President from office that makes the control of
the content allowed or
pushed on the public by the main stream media so important to the stability of the government
and the ability of
the President to lead.
The only way a President can be impeached is to do to the President what the Lenin and
Tolstoy Bolshevik regime
change team accomplished to bring down the Czar of Russia. The media began its attacks on
Christian Czar led
Russia in 1875 by 1919 if the Czar had said it was raining outside the entire nation of
Russia wanting to know if
it were raining would go outside to see for themselves.
Tolstoy, a public hero, blamed the Czar for the problems caused by a pandemic and a famine
of 1891. The peasants
of Russia were trained by media content to distrust any and everything the Czar or any member
of his staff said or
did. Propaganda said there was evil behind every act of the Czar. Tolstoy's famous propaganda
undermined the
Christian faith held by millions of people.
"The Minister for the Interior told the Emperor Czar that Tolstoy's letter to the English
press 'must be considered
tantamount to a most shocking revolutionary proclamation': not a judgement that can often
have been made of a letter
to The Daily Telegraph. Czar Alexander III began to believe that it was all part of an
English plot and the Moscow
Gazette, which was fed from the Government, denounced Tolstoy's letters as 'frank propaganda
for the overthrow of
the whole social and economic structure of the world'." see destroys
Christain Russian government
Norecovery @ 22 says and I have added to what he said to make this list.
1. "The .. criminals have ..take[n] over foreign policy in the U.S.,
these criminals you are talking about are not part of the government, they are private
persons and corporations.
Allow me to remind you that Article II of the Constitution of the USA only concerns two
persons, The President
and the VP.. to them all power to act domestic and foreign is given, Congress has no power
that it cannot get
into law, and no power to govern the office of the President and that has been true since the
original constitution
was ratified in 1788. To conduct war around the world, it is necessary only to won the
president.
2. leveraging money power .. the oligarch network employees highly motivated highly-paid
promoters to force President control onto the world.
3. The Oligarch and their corporations control Congress, Intelligence Agencies, and the
content that MSM presents...
4. the MSM distributed content expresses total censorship as does Google, and social
media
5. Corona virus is bio-warfare designed to undermine small-scale economies and to
establish Oligarch autonomy
6. Using rule of law (generated by nation state power) oligarch owned corporations own all
non taxable property (copyrights and patents) and the right to use all technology (copyright
and patents).
7. Worldwide compliance is the goal of the oligarch. owning the nation state allows
military, financial, and media to be used to crush dissent and to extract wealth.
8. The pharma-promoted questionable gene editing vaccinations are questionable at
best.
9. Humanity is witnessing a worldwide COUPS, UBER-Fascism that exceeds all historical
examples.
10. WWI was a war to take control of the Ottoman owned oil rich land and to tame German
competitive strength.
11. Hilter return Germany to its former power, so WWII was to take German competition
completely out of the equation.
12. The wars in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, are about pipeline and
control of oil production, transport and profit
13. the wars in Belarus, Ukraine, Modldova, Bulgaria Romania, Hunary, Slovakia Cezech
Republic Poland are about getting Western Europe access into Russia.
14. Last week the House passed a bill designed to deny the president any authority to
reduce the US troops in Foreign land.
so your question at norecovery @ 22 will it succeed is relevant. I don't think it will, I
was told the Governor of Florida
has refused to take the vaccine, word is getting around; people everywhere in USA governed
America, in UK governed
Britain, in Republic of France governed France ( riots every weekend for over two years) ,
and Zionist governed
Israel (riots all over the place all of the time).. everyone is skeptical of the nation state
system.
I think the take over would have succeeded if the Oligarchs had not tried to force a
vaccination on people that
genetic engineers (changes the way their body works) the bodies those vaccinated were born
with.
Snake @ 36
You must have spent a lot of time and consideration on that far reaching summary !
That's MOA at its very best !!
I could only add -- - the disfunctional mindset that blights America right now is having an
immediate impact on all corners of the world.
I see it even in my tiny peaceful backwater.
If they create a fascist monster unleash it on the world -- it will consume everything and
everyone in its path.
Whithin a decade.
I love America and its non-stop CIA psyop cyclops social media television.
The New Year will bring renewed police crackdown on private assembly, people's homes, the
continued destruction of employment, $40 checks from Uncle Joe to "tide you over," hysterical
harpies physically assaulting anyone without a mask in blue states, and a full-out propaganda
assault to destroy the defenseless minds of your friends and family.
You're going to lose a lot in the New Year. 2020 was just the beginning. Wait until summer
2021 and BLM/Antifa chaos. Conservative politicians like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul will be crying
"insurrection act!" and Tucker Carlson will launch into Season Two of 30-minute cracking-voice
monologues "this is your America!" while nothing and no one does a goddamn thing to protect
you.
We are on our own. Doctors, schools, cops, families, people you work with -- all are slowly
being sucked into the vortex of this simulacrum of hell being broadcast on their "smart"
phones. Compared to what's being sold to them, your voice sounds positively insane...
"Lock him up!" It's amazing how often the two political camps in the USA are mirror images
of each other.
Posted by: m | Dec 19 2020 5:49 utc | 33
Good observation. I would add: It's amazing how few people see this.
Freeing oneself of the "two party illusion" opens space for putting energy into a positive
vision, which attracts more energy as others feel it also. Most of us including myself often
give energy to an easy "lower mind" approach (us against them) which tends to perpetuate that
paradigm.
Gateway Pundit staff was first told by Michigan witness Senator Patrick Colbeck in early
November that the routers and WiFi connectors were used throughout the TCF Center during the
ballot counting on election night.
Crash
GIVE THEM NOTHING @CrashPatriot ·
Dec 16, 2020 What a joke @BlessUSA45 "Most Secure Elections In US HISTORY" and then when
pressed HE ADMITS - I was not referring to FRAUD !!!!
Troy @LibertyTroy Dems said vote machines were never on the Internet. BOOM Senator
Johnson: "...but those tabulators are connected on Election Day 'cause that's how they transmit
the data to the counties and also into the official -- uhm --" Krebs: "In some cases, yes,
sir."
" Correspondence between Hunter
Biden and CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming from 2017 shows President-elect Joe Biden's son
extending "best wishes from the entire Biden family ," and urging the chairman to "quickly"
send a $10 million wire to "properly fund and operate" the Biden joint venture with the
now-bankrupt Chinese energy company.
The $10 million transfer to the joint venture was never completed.
Fox News obtained an email Hunter Biden sent on June 18, 2017, to Zhao Run Long at CEFC,
asking that they please "translate my letter to Chairman Ye, please extend my warmest best
wishes and that I hope to see the Chairman soon.""
Biden went on to note that Bobulinski had "sent a request to Dong Gongwen [Gongwen Dong] and
Director Zang for the funding of the $10 MM USD wire."
"I would appreciate if you will send that quickly so we can properly fund and operate
Sinohawk," Biden wrote.
"I am sure you have been well briefed by our dear friend Director Zan g on the political and
economic connections we have established in countries where you are interested in expanding
during the coming months and years, " he continued. "I look forward to our next meeting."
"Fox News also obtained the response from Ye as part of an email, dated Sept. 6, 2017, from
Biden business associate James Gilliar to Bobulinski. That email forwarded Ye's letter
responding to Biden. The letter is dated July 10, 2017.
Ye stated that he had arranged for Zang and Dong to "expedite the charter capital input to
SinoHawk."
"I am glad to hear from you! Time flies and it has been months since we met in the US. It
seems that we were always on a rush when we were together," Ye wrote to Biden, adding that "the
consensus we made last time has been materialized in a timely manner."
Ye also recommended Biden "arrange your people to coordinate with Director Zang and Gongwen
Dong for specific work."
"I will continue to pay attention and give my support," Ye stated. "I have arranged Director
Zang and Gongwen Dong to expedite the charter capital input to SinoHawk."
"I look forward to meeting you in the near future and discussing our joint undertaking. If
there is anything I could do please do not hesitate to write to me," Ye wrote. "Please accept
my best regards to you and your family."" foxnews
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Well, pilgrims, the Ron Johnson hearing today was fun. The best part for me was former
Director Krebs' (election security guy for DHS) repeated statements that the election was
secure, "the most secure in history." Pilgrims, the distinction betwixt "secure" and "honest"
seems to have escaped him as he ignored questions about actual evidence of fraud, a swampie to
the end.
And then, there is Chairman Joe. He knows that nothing will be easier than to kill off
prosecution of his creepy son, or to "suggest" to the Delaware federal prosecutor that a minor
indictment would be appropriate, something resulting in a suspended sentence.
I have watched Tucker debrief Bobulinski twice about that payment. The way Bobulinski tells
it (with documentation) the Bidens were loaned $5 million by MEFC to pay their side of the
capitalization and then actually pocketed the other $5 million as a direct payment to La
Familia from FEMC (Oh Danny Boy!) from - equal opportunity! That was too much for the Bobster
(former naval Lt., man of world finance, patriot, self-abnegator, etc.) Besides, where was his
share?
Pistols at dawn? Good! Tucker can act as his second. Where are my cased flintlock
smoothbores? They are somewhere around here, the English 18th Century ones in the fitted blue
velvet case. pl
Senator Rand Paul accused Georgia and other states of using the COVID-19 pandemic to steal
the election in a move he says could have came from the playbook of Obama Chief of Staff, Rahm
Emanuel, who famously said, "you never want a serious crisis to go to waste."
Appearing on Fox News prior to the Wednesday Senate hearing on election irregularities,
Senator Paul was asked how revelations, such as the one out of Georgia showing more than 1,700
voters illegally submitted two ballots during the Nov. 3 contest, would effect the upcoming
runoff elections in the Empire State of the South.
Paul would respond, saying: "You'd think that all of this would be investigated and tried to
be fixed before the election."
He also pointed to potential illegal voting activity in Nevada:
"We're going to hear testimony from Nevada where 15 hundred people were deceased and
should not have voted, four thousand people were illegal aliens, and 15 thousand people voted
from commercial address when you have to vote from a home address."
Echoing the case laid out by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his recently dismissed
Supreme Court lawsuit, Paul accused states of using the COVID-19 crisis to dodge state and
federal election law, comparing the move to a play right out of the Obama, Rahm Emanuel
playbook:
"It's sort of Obama, Rahm Emanuel's playbook. They took the crisis of COVID and then they
changed election law not by changing law at the state legislature, they had secretaries of
state and or governors simply by fiat change the law to say 'oh you can keep counting votes'
when the law did say that. So, this election really was stolen in a way and it was stolen
because people changed the law "
Shortly after his appointment as Obama's Chief of Staff, former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
famously uttered the words "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste" during a corporate
panel sponsored by the Wall Street Journal .
"What I mean by that is never allow a good crisis to go to waste when it's an opportunity to
do things that you had never considered, or that you didn't think were possible," Emanuel would
explain at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/_mzcbXi1Tkk
Trump Campaign Attorney, Jesse Binnall, would laid out similar accusations of voter fraud to
those given by Senator Paul during the Wednesday Senate hearing.
See Binnall's opening statement below:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/RpLAW-7FBPs
But, Senator Paul was not done, as Douglas
Braff reports via SaraACarter.com , during today's Senate hearing examining irregularities
during 2020 presidential election the Kentucky Republican claimed:
"The fraud happened. The election in many ways was stolen...And the only way it'll be fixed
is by, in the future, reinforcing the laws."
"But I think [Kreb's] job was keeping the foreigners out of the election. It was the most
secure election based on the security of the internet and technology, but he has never voiced
an opinion [ ] on whether or not dead people voted -- I don't think he examined that," Paul
said toward the end of his speaking time, then questioning if Krebs examined non-citizens'
voting.
Many Republicans, in alleging that widespread election fraud occurred in the 2020 election,
have often cited claims that a lot of dead people and non-citizens voted. The over 50 lawsuits
challenging the results of the election in certain swing states alleging election fraud have
overwhelmingly failed in the courts.
"So to say it was the safest election -- sure, I agree with your statement if you're
referring to foreign intervention," Paul continued.
"But if you're saying it's the safest election based on no dead people voted, no
non-citizens voted, no people broke the absentee [ballot] rules, I think that's false and I
think that's what's upset a lot of people on our side is that they're taking your statement
to mean 'Oh, there were no problems in the elections.'"
"I don't think you examined any of the problems that we've heard here," he added, "so really
you're just referring to something differently, the way I look at it." ay_arrow 1
wee-weed up 6 hours ago (Edited)
Okay, Sen Rand Paul...
Now put your credibility where your mouth is...
And back up Mo Brooks on Jan 6th when he stands up to challenge the validity of the
election.
This will call for congresscritters with balls enough to say, "This illegal voting that
occurred threatens the Republic and will not stand!"
US Banana Republic 6 hours ago
Do you know why Biden is telling everyone to stay home from his inauguration (which will
never be anyway)?
Because NOBODY would have come. With or without COVID being a factor.
Fraudly Dementia Boy who is supposedly the most popular Democrat in history according to
the vote, never would have gotten more than 12 people to show up to see him sworn in,.
EightyEight Mike 6 hours ago remove link
"17 Intelligence Agencies confirmed that there was foreign interference in the
presidential election."
Remember hearing that every day?
sgt_doom 5 hours ago remove link
Even Matt Taibbi debunked that bullcrap --- a couple of guys at the CIA, friends of the
Clapper/Brannan bromance, who later transferred to the NSA, to prattle the same bullcrap!
[ China (the CCP) owns UBS Securities Co LTD >> which owns Staple Street Capital
>> which owns Dominion >> ergo, CCP owns Dominion --- this is the way it is
done in int'l finance]
Doom Porn Star 6 hours ago (Edited)
Laws were NOT changed. The legal procedures for changing the voting laws were NOT
followed.
The very laws about changing the election laws were not followed and thus laws were not
changed.
For instance: in Pennsylvania the Legislature is the only authority that can change the
state constitution and the laws governing elections within. The Legislature did NOT change
the constitution of Pennsylvania.
Saying that laws were changed is not the same as actually going through the legal
procedures required to change the laws and enacting new legally binding legislation.
Saying "We changed the laws."doesn't change anything no matter how many times you repeat
the phrase.
They did NOT change the laws -which is why SCOTUS freaked out and refused to hear the
case.
IF SCOTUS actually had been forced to admit that the laws were not actually changed ,
despite the repeated insistent rhetoric that they had been changed, Trump would easily have
won the Electoral College.
PGR88 6 hours ago
Let's look at California
This year, due to "COVID-19," California mailed out 25 million ballots to everyone on
voter rolls. Remember also, their DMV automatically registers everyone to vote - including
illegals, who are given drivers licenses. Mail-in-voting in CA has been a trend, but now
Newsom wants this to be permanent.
There are no checks on non-citizens voting.
Voter rolls have not been purged of people who left the State or who changed addresses
In November 2020, approx, 7 million ballots were returned. Normally, in some districts, up
to 10% of mail-in ballots may be rejected for problems. This year, due to the vast numbers,
less than 0.01% were rejected.
It is absolutely impossible for state election workers to check voter rolls, signatures,
addresses on 7 million ballots - so in effect, NO checks occur
California also allows "ballot harvesters." Any organized group my collect ballots from
Voters, and turn them in. Some activist groups are even funded by the state to "harvest"
ballots. That means political actors are collecting ballots, completely outside of any
verification or chain-of-possession steps.
I dare anyone to tell me such a system is not full of manipulation and fraud
NoBigDeal 6 hours ago remove link
The GOP have to fight this in the court of public opinion because no court judge is
prepared to listen to the case. They accuse them of telling lies without looking at the
evidence. A cynical Catch 22 position.
As the administrators of justice this is a frightening heads up for anyone who thought
there was any integrity and fairness in the legal system.
It's all bribes now..
Nature_Boy_Wooooo 5 hours ago (Edited)
Imagine sitting in court for tax fraud and the prosecutor saying........ "we gotta make
sure this doesn't happen in the future.".....but you get to walk and keep the money you
stole.
Onthebeach6 6 hours ago remove link
The Deep State actors are still trying to steal it by claiming no CCP interference in the
election.
The report on foreign interference in the US election is due for release on Friday (18
th ) afternoon. This will be 45 days after it was requested by the President. It
may be delayed.
The report is being prepared by the DNI (Department of National Intelligence) which is an
umbrella organization over 16 intelligence agencies.
There is currently a massive ongoing fight between agencies in respect of those who wish
to include the evidence of Chinese CCP involvement and those who wish to cover this up and
blame Russia.
Director Ratcliffe of the DNI wants the CCP involvement included in the report and has
stated that he will not sign the report unless this detailed CCP information is included.
It is important to understand that there is both evidence of CCP helping to fix the
election and ongoing CCP pressure to ensure that their asset Biden is sworn in as
President.
It is clear that CCP and deep state assets as well as the DNC and big tech worked together
to steal the election and remove Trump in support of a globalist agenda that would enrich a
small minority whilst impoverishing most Americans.
WatchOutForThatTree 2 hours ago
Whether the "election" turned out the way you wanted or not, it's pretty damned obvious
this bitch was rigged.
Can all the stupid trolls and mindless posters please go back into your caves? The
quality(or lack thereof) of discourse here sucks nowadays...
Linguo 1 hour ago
Rigged ? Corporate money by the billions, voter suppression, two parties whose sole
allegiance is to Wall Street deliberately excluding third and fourth parties and
gerrymandering to name a few, contributes to the democratic process ? What planet do you live
on ? This country has never been a democracy. If the election was rigged, why did the
republicans do well with the exception of the racist war criminal who is personally
responsible for hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 deaths, King BS the 1st ? Idiot.
wimvincken 3 hours ago remove link
It's unbelievable what happened in the US. Many countries have simple ID driven elections.
You show your ID and vote. Simple.
And in case the country has a computers, that computer can check if you're a citizen and
if you already have voted in almost real-time. Simple.
I didn't know that the US doesn't have computers. Who would have thought that? /sarc
Sorry, but the incompetence is there running amok. Strategy is not one of the strongest
thing there, because they could predict something like this to happen beforehand. The way how
the Americans vote is simply asking for trouble like this. Now I'm curious if they want to
fix it. I don't think so.
Soloamber 3 hours ago
The winner of the USA elections is now who cheats best .
The Democrats did nothing for four years except the fraud impeachment and the coordinated
effort to steal the election . It was their only chance with Dementia man .
Pdunne 2 hours ago (Edited) remove link
Elections are won or lost these days with influence and money.
It is time to go back to the days when only individuals can donate to a campaign, not more
corporate money or dark funds for PAC's.
Candidates will always pander to the money and if it was coming from the people maybe the
people would get a fairer government. play_arrow
ronin12 PREMIUM 4 hours ago remove link
It's super fantastic to hear Rand Paul speak the truth.
So wtf is he actually going to DO about it?
Soloamber 3 hours ago remove link
Three full years of MSM Russia , Russia started by the Clinton's , CIA , Obama and the
biggest dip **** to run the FBI .
Mass election fraud ....cheating Trump out of an obvious win . NOTHING .
Move on because the gang rapists say so .
Voters one access to democracy stolen by the corrupt Democrat Party , negated by an
algorithm, dead voters
, vote harvesting, billionaire globalist determined to destroy the USA and Chinese money
.
Then people like sleeve bag Schumer unilaterally trying to bribe students with their own
credit card .
Biden was right dark days .
Babadook 4 hours ago remove link
Gullible. That is the only word that describes the fantasy of faith in using electronic
voting machines. Pen, paper & observers work perfectly well in other developed
countries.
Don Storm 4 hours ago
Like someone posted earlier on ZH:
" In 2020 California mailed out 25 million ballots to everyone on voter rolls. Remember,
the DMV automatically registers everyone to vote including illegals, who are given drivers
licenses. Mail-in-voting in CA has been a trend, but now Newsom wants this to be
permanent.
There are no checks on non-citizens voting. Voter rolls have not been purged of people who
left the State or who changed addresses.
In 2020, approx. 7 million ballots were returned. Normally, up to 5% of mail-in ballots
may be rejected for problems. This year, due to the vast numbers less than 0.01% were
rejected.
It is absolutely impossible for state election workers to check voter rolls, signatures,
addresses on 7 million ballots. So, NO checks occured whatsoever.
California allows "ballot harvesters." Any organized group may collect ballots from voters
and turn them in. In fact, some activist groups are even funded by the state to "harvest"
ballots.
I DARE anyone to show that such a system is NOT subject to total abuse and fraud on a
massive scale. "
Here we have our answer, and California isn't the only state that allowed for such a weak
mail-in ballot system.
Perhaps even more disturbing, why were mail-in ballots allowed on such a massive scale to
begin with? And, we are not even talking about Dominion and other crap that took place.
Bjorn2bebad PREMIUM 4 hours ago
I live in Japan and they sent me a ballot - to Tokyo! I have not lived in CA for 8
years!!!
Nullifytodefy1835 6 hours ago remove link
Do you think that signature verification, the very thing that was touted, as being the
very thing, that makes voting by mail safe, secure and fraud free, was thrown out the window
for this election. Literally, the PA SOS told the election staff that ballots cannot be
excluded because of signature mismatch, along with a host of other "irregularities" that
would have the ballots, like the 26,000 that were tossed during the primary, excluded from
being legal ballots that count. It concerns me that, the talking heads parrot the signature
verification talking point everywhere you look, knowing that they had no plan on ever doing
such. It really smacks of impropriety and corruption, if you only look at that, and that
alone. When you then take account of the other issues, it looks like a stolen election. I am
certainly not a Trump supporter, did not vote for him, but I have had an issue with election
fraud for many years, as I have personally known of a migrant advocacy group that would bus
the non citizens to the polling places and they would vote. I reported this many times, still
it continued. Still it continues. When the only "proof" of citizenship you must provide, is a
check in a box that you, "attest under penalty of perjury" that you are a citizen, blah,
blah, blah, there is bound to be those that take advantage of the lack of oversight. Wherever
there is an opportunity, a criminal, fraudster or corrupt actor, will take advantage, to the
fullest extent possible. Human nature.
Mark Zuckerberg poured cash into an "ecosystem" that caused widespread fraud in the 2020
presidential contest, election integrity watchdog the Amistad Project has alleged. The group
will file suit against the Facebook CEO.
The lawsuit, based on a report authored by the organization, will claim that Zuckerberg used
$500 million of "dark money" to unlawfully tip the scales in battleground states that
Democrat Joe Biden won by narrow margins, said Mark Serrano, a Trump 2020 campaign adviser who
runs a communications firm that handles media relations for the Amistad Project. The lawsuit is
expected to be filed by today in the District Court for the District of Columbia and will cover
alleged election irregularities that took place in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona,
and Georgia.
According to Serrano, the legal complaint takes aim at "the ecosystem" that caused
"fraud on a massive level to take place" during the 2020 contest. He accused Zuckerberg
of using his vast financial resources and influence to undermine the presidential election in
the months leading up to, and continuing after, November 3.
A billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg, was allowed in the counting room because he funded it,
and the American people were kicked out.
The lawsuit announcement coincided with the release of a
report by the Amistad Project which outlines how Zuckerberg allegedly used private funding
to "improperly" influence the election outcome.
Amistad Project director Phill Kline said during a press conference on Wednesday that
Zuckerberg funneled huge amounts of money into charities and nonprofits that lobbied officials
and carried out other partisan activities that impacted the 2020 results.
"He paid for election judges, purchased drop boxes, contrary to state laws," Kline
said, adding that Zuckerberg's money "purchased machines – Dominion and otherwise
– and Zuckerberg's funding was contributed to Secretaries of State."
This injection of hundreds of millions of dollars into the election by Zuckerberg and others
"violated state election laws and resulted in an unequal distribution of funding that
deprived voters of both due process and equal protection," according to a press release
issued by the Amistad Project.
The group, part of conservative constitutional litigation organization the Thomas More
Society, has been involved in several lawsuits alleging voter fraud and irregularities in the
2020 contest. They filed a motion in support of the unsuccessful lawsuit brought by Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Supreme Court, which accused four battleground states
– Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – of violating election laws. The
Supreme Court rejected the suit, citing a "lack of standing."
Joe Biden was declared president-elect by the Electoral College on Monday, but US President
Donald Trump and his allies continue to argue that the Democrats' victory is illegitimate due
to large-scale fraud.
Let me guess, Zuckerberg will say, "I have no knowledge of..." in repeat throughout the court
proceedings and will go scot-free. The magic of that prefix cannot be overstated.
Thomas74 1 hour ago 17 Dec, 2020 04:33 AM
Zuckerberg is only the frontman for state surveillance.
VoJo 2 hours ago 17 Dec, 2020 03:53 AM
Mr. Z couldn't put this operation together - to be generous, he is clueless in so many ways.
The brain and the man behind the curtain is, as one could have expected a Brit, Sir Nicholas
William Peter Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is a British media executive and former politician
who has been Vice-President for Global Affairs and Communications at Facebook since 2018,
having previously served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015.
uncle_Alex 1 hour ago 17 Dec, 2020 04:27 AM
SCOTUS legalized in 2010, Hodges v FEC, the anonymous funding of politics, so it can be
bought. Not by Main Street, but by Wall Street, the deep-state swamp plutocracy. That's law!
As Plato said, democracy degenerates thru oligarchy to tyranny.
perikleous 1 hour ago 17 Dec, 2020 04:50 AM
Please put your smart devices aside, use a dumbphone, for emergencies only, use your computer
for important issues/knowledge and stop living on SM and all these ideas fail! Who will
invest/advertise on a site without users? If you give up your means of being "the product" it
all ends because they will go bankrupt! These globalist creatures rely on your dependence on
their product! If you do not participate then the game is over!
"... I will also state that in "real" democracies, rigging the vote count is a rarity--it is far more effective just to rig the candidates so it doesn't matter if Tweedledee or Tweedledum gets more votes. ..."
1) Biden got more votes
2) The intelligence agencies rigged the vote count via fraud
In the prior case, Biden will clearly be president. In the latter, Biden will also be
president because the agencies' authority is absolute.
I will also state that in "real" democracies, rigging the vote count is a rarity--it
is far more effective just to rig the candidates so it doesn't matter if Tweedledee or
Tweedledum gets more votes.
Actually Senator Johnson was not bad and up to the point. He does not understand computer
internals to dig in Dominium problem though. omputer based election machinery is evil and it does
not depend on whom produce it. It is simply evil.
Krebs proved again that is a regular self-important mediocre lawyer, with very limited
background on computer science. What is funny is how Dem senators became chameleons and after
promoting Russiagate completely revered themselves.
In other word Russiagate came back and had bitten Dem senators in the back. The fact that
they are unwilling to admit that this time it is not Biden vs Trump: it is about deep corruption
of the election process makes them just political clown.
On Wednesday, the Senate Homeland Security & Govt. Affairs Committee is holding hearings
on irregularities in the 2020 election. Witnesses will include Ken Star and former DHS head of
cybersecurity Chris Krebs, who was fired by President Trump after he said the 2020 election was
the "most secure in American history."
On Tuesday, Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told Sinclair that the result of the
presidential election is "inevitable," but said that today's hearing has value so long after
the election because "you look ahead by looking back."
"You actually need to take a look at, you know, what the allegations have been, what
irregularities were, try and find out explanations to explain them or, if there really are
problems, enact laws, change procedures," said Johnson.
In other words, don't expect any bombshells. In fact, it's more than likely part of an
effort to clean up 'loose ends' and dispel 'fringe conspiracy theories.'
"You actually need to take a look at, you know, what the allegations have been, what
irregularities were, try and find out explanations to explain them or, if there really are
problems, enact laws, change procedures," said Johnson.
In other words, don't expect any bombshells. In fact, it's more than likely part of an
effort to clean up 'loose ends' and dispel 'fringe conspiracy theories.'
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CallingDrFraudschi 8 hours ago remove link
Yeah, OK. Keep your head buried in the sand and maybe find some better sources of
information.
BREAKING NEWS! Michael Patrick Leahy from GA just dropped a bombshell.
The emergency order that was cooked up by the SOS of GA to allow for Mail in balloting,
expired BEFORE THE ELECTION. Emergency orders expire 120 days after being passed, by GA law.
That order was passed July 1st which means it expired Oct 28th, 5 days before the election!
OOPS!
... ... ...
chubbar 10 hours ago remove link
It was on the "War Room". You can go to Youtube, cue up the current show that is on RIGHT
NOW, and fast forward until you see Leahy speaking, then listen to him. fukit, I did it for
you.
Oh great, a Senate hearing! I bet there's gonna be some serious action now! Folks are
gonna be quaking in their boots! These hearings ALWAYS lead to serious consequences!
tedstr 10 hours ago
The chickens are coming home to roost. This whole thing is beginning to wreak of arrogance
and hubris gone wrong. Private equity bankers, software engineers, corrupt politicians all
working to rig it thinking they were just too smart, and the deplorables would never figure
it out. I suspect the DNI is working behind the scenes along with many others to reveal it
all. the courts won't hear it but the politicians will start scrambling to distance
themselves and be on the right side as it all come down. Joe is a stooge. this is why he's
the guy. the smart ones knew the game and steered clear. The Clintons are poison.
PGR88 10 hours ago (Edited)
America's election system isn't "irregular" - its frcking corrupt
Let's look at California
This year, due to COVID-19, California mailed out 25 million ballots to everyone on voter
rolls. Remember, the DMV automatically registers everyone to vote - including illegals, who
are given drivers licenses. Mail-in-voting in CA has been a trend, but now Newsom wants this
to be permanent.
There are no checks on non-citizens voting. Voter rolls have not been purged of people who
left the State or who changed addresses
In 2020, approx, 7 million ballots were returned. Normally, up to 5% of mail-in ballots
may be rejected for problems. This year, due to the vast numbers, less than 0.01% were
rejected.
It is absolutely impossible for state election workers to check voter rolls, signatures,
addresses on 7 million ballots - so in effect, NO checks occur
California allows "ballot harvesters." Any organized group my collect ballots from Voters,
and turn them in. Some activist groups are even funded by the state to "harvest" ballots.
I DARE anyone tell me such a system is not subject to total manipulation and
corruption.
Freddie 10 hours ago
CA, OR and WA were all taken over via vote fraud. OR was one of the first with mail in
voting.
Max21c 9 hours ago
90% reported turnout in Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Atlanta. Election counting
stopped in the dead of night and restarted with new "numbers" in wee hours of the morning.
Poll watchers not allowed to observe election counting processes. Voting machines not allowed
to be inspected in a timely manner. Ballots not allow to be inspected. Ballots disappeared.
Ballots appeared out of nowhere. And every other trick in the book.
Mzhen 9 hours ago remove link
Krebs is in the middle of a job interview with liberals in Silicon Valley.
jammyjo 9 hours ago
Managers are always clueless about what's really going on He'll do well.
Urban Roman 9 hours ago
Uhh, yeah. Wasn't he just fired, for general incompetence/malfeasance?
He's just repeating the ds mantra 'no fraud, nothing to see here' -- where are the
Senators asking him how votes that have already been counted were subtracted from one column
and added to another? Or how batches of hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots came in 98%
for one candidate (rivaling the polling for Idi Amin or Kim Jong Un or Pol Pot) ? How does
Krebs account for the fact that all the 'irregularities' were in favor of Hiden Biden?
And that's about all I can watch.
SillyWabbits 9 hours ago
There was no fraud.
It was outright theift.
Fireman 10 hours ago (Edited)
The good news is Slumville is already burning and nothing in the world can stop it.
Karma comes home to bite the wobblies on their fat a$$e$ and as the welfare warfare
abomination implodes the world will indeed applaud.
It is too late to turn the tide. Donald Trump's attempt to abandon the American Empire
and refocus the country's efforts on its domestic prosperity has been sabotaged by the
elites acquired to the puritanical ideology of the "Pilgrim Fathers". As a result, the
moment so feared by Richard Nixon and his election adviser Kevin Philipps has arrived: the
United States is on the brink of secession and civil war.
What I am writing is not a fantasy, but the analysis of many observers in the United
States and around the world. For example, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has just declared
Donald Trump's election fraud appeal inadmissible, not on legal grounds, but because "it
would open Pandora's box.
In fact, contrary to the misrepresentation of events that dominates the international
press, either the outgoing president's appeals are judged in law and he is obviously right,
or they are judged in politics and proving him right will provoke civil war. But the
conflict is already too far advanced. Judging him politically in defiance of the law will
also provoke civil war.
We must stop interpreting the presidential election as a rivalry between Democrats and
Republicans, whereas Donald Trump has never claimed to be a member of the Republican Party,
which he stormed during his 2016 campaign. He is not an enlightened man, but a successor to
President Andrew Jackson (1829-37). Yes, ideologically, the latter prefigured the
"Southerners," the "Confederates.
When Moribund Mitch congratulated Catatonic Joe yesterday I bet there were people in their
cars on their way to the GA run-off who turned around and went home, for good.
Freddie 10 hours ago
Mitch has taken money from Dominion and killed a vote in Senate on fixing vote fraud. The
Turtle needs to be arrested. Who else took money from Dominion? Who else is tight with
Communist China in the Senate? We know Feinstein is. Arrest them.
Adino 8 hours ago
On Tuesday, Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told Sinclair that the result of
the presidential election is "inevitable,"
Horse apples.
An over the top fraudulent election DOES NOT result in the 'inevitable' results
standing.
I tell you what is inevitable, CW2.
And idiots like this are responsible for the lot of it.
Go to hell, all of you swampies.
jammyjo 9 hours ago
Dem Senators cringeworthy to watch with their leading statements and questions. "Why are
you lying?"
jammyjo 9 hours ago
Dems same circular arguments of "no fraud" because they don't want to acknowledge it. They
keep misrepresenting the court decisions - mostly courts are afraid to take on the cases
rather than making a finding of "no fraud". Should be simple enough to subpoena Ruby and
Jones in GA to see what they have to say.
glenlloyd 9 hours ago
Sen Carper can't even compose a coherent sentence, he's just regurgitating words created
by his paid demonrat underlings.
No one cares about your mask that represents your alma mater.
This is too much. There is planning that's going on in Israel on how we will bomb Iran
into the stone ages. If the American's can't even count votes and decide who runs the
country, how the h311 is this planning going to be possible? You cattl3 need to sort this out
asap. One way or the other.
SonOfSam 10 hours ago
The #FRAUD was designed so that Murica could go back to dropping bombs on some more brown
people. Because yeah, THAT will
A) Fix the riot damage
B) Fix the lockdown damage
C) Reopen America
D) Let people get back to work, so they don't lose their homes and have their families
break up
Every blood slavering neo con infecting this country, along with the brain dead Dummycrats
who helped get them back in, can all get rear orifice cancer and slowly expire in yuuuuge
amounts of blood coughing pain
PS They will NEVER get my sons. They can send their own out to these stoooooopid useless
endless wars
Iron Lady 9 hours ago remove link
"Rumor control" "Election management systems"
Clearly, Krebs thought Orwell was instructional.
Gerrilea 9 hours ago remove link
What a joke, the Rethugs (along with the Demoncrats) passed HAVA and mandating that our
election systems be "updated" AND then they benefited from the fraud for over a decade. They
aren't gonna do crap except create a report that says, "All's good, nothing to see here, move
along!"
Max21c 9 hours ago
Vichy elites of Washington have to continue the farce and pretend the fraudulent election
is legitimate and that there has been no coup d'etat whereby the candidate that actually won
the election was forced out of office and a usurper imposed & installed as the new ruler
by the Washington establishment.
UselessEater 10 hours ago (Edited) remove link
The Democrat party has collapsed like the banking system, both being held together
temporarily by chewing gum. The world knows this election is the most corrupt in history on
earth. The covid scam is failing. Too many have woken up to the con and protests around the
world increasing. So...
Now we must await the 'cyber attack' False Flag, to be blamed on China and Russia to
instigate WWIII from which will arise, out of the ashes, the Phoenix World Order of
tyranny.
All created and controlled by the international bankers out of the Corporation of the City
of London (which is an independent central-bank/BIS world empire).
icu410 8 hours ago
More political bull$hit that amounts to nothing. They know the system is corrupted and the
election was stolen. After this crap show I will never vote again.
SillyWabbits 9 hours ago
America is a corrupt Oligarchy.
Obchelli 9 hours ago (Edited) remove link
KREBS you re disgusting POS
What a words "Democracy", "Sacred institution compromised"
People like you POS
Compromise Democracy traitors
misgivings 9 hours ago
Did I just hear Rand Paul give Krebs a pass on "the most secure election in history"
because he was referring to foreign interference and not dead people voting??? What about
Dominion machines being connected to the internet and sending packets to Frankfurt Germany?
Did that just evaporate into the ether?
Redneck Makin-tosh 9 hours ago
He also sounded as though he was prepared to let the result stand so long as the cheating
was addressed for future elections - which could tie in to your observation.
Sick Monkey 10 hours ago remove link
Watching it now and it is obvious to anyone that this is just another display of useless
politicians blurting out the same thing Biden said on stage in his last appearance.
Nothing is going to happen with this useless group of criminals.
Iron Lady 7 hours ago remove link
Today I learned that the US has its very own taxpayer funded Pravda (other than NPR) -
#PROTECT2020 RUMOR VS. REALITY
Mis- and disinformation can undermine public confidence in the electoral process, as
well as in our democracy. Elections are administered by state and local officials who
implement numerous safeguards to protect the security of your vote pursuant to various
state and federal laws and processes. This resource is designed to debunk common
misinformation and disinformation narratives and themes that relate broadly to the security
of election infrastructure and related processes. It is not intended to address
jurisdiction-specific claims. Instead, this resource addresses election security rumors by
describing common and generally applicable protective processes, security measures, and
legal requirements designed to protect against or detect large-scale security issues
related to election infrastructure and processes.
Some RINO republicans acting like "we must fix this GOING FORWARD". Heck no. No election
ripe with fraud that was obviously rigged should ever stand!
Mzhen 9 hours ago remove link
Krebs is primarily is lisp-talking lawyer. It's well known that lawyers can't do math.
known unknown 10 hours ago remove link
Ken Starr is a Zionist operative.
Obchelli 8 hours ago (Edited)
So KREBS is changing Narrative and saying we should move on and people who threaten must
be punished - first of all WHERE is the proof you were threatened?
THERE IS NO PROOF you were threatened - do you like this?
Xena fobe 8 hours ago remove link
RINOs are laughing at their constituents. They know most of them are no info voters and
the rest can be overcome via Diminion and a corrupt DOJ.
It's up to us to rid ourselves of these globalists. Start with recalls of governors.
Meanwhile over 600 billionaires gained a record $1 trillion in wealth and more people lost
jobs and small businesses than at any point in almost 100 years. Let that sink in. I believe
this is the tipping point.
Al Capone 11 hours ago
Warren Commission 2.0
BugMan 7 hours ago remove link
Of his nearly half-billion-dollar sum, $350 million was funneled to the Center for
Technology and Civic Life (CTCL), which "used the money to illegally inflate turnout in key
Democratic swing states as part of this effort."As previously reported on by The
National Pulse, the group carried out an "unequal distribution of funding that favored
Democratic precincts."
99.4 percent of Zuckerberg's grants went to Democrat-heavy districts.
"The injection of private funding into county and municipal elections circumvented State
and Federal appropriations processes, violated protocols in HAVA state implementation plans ,
and resulted in inaccurate reporting under HAVA 254(a)(5)," the Amistad Project
One of the great, if not the greatest expert in the fields of cyber security and computer
fraud, has done sophisticated technical work for the C.I.A., N.S.A. and F.B.I has stated
under oath as an expert witness that there was massive computer fraud in the 2020 election to
elect Joe Biden. His name is Dr. Navid Keshavarz-Nia.
Dr. Navid Keshavarz-Nia exposed a massive fraud by an individual for millions of dollars
against American intelligence and the military.
Even the New York Times which I consider to be a leftwing rag sheet wrote an article
singing his accolades.
I will quote you just 2 of 17 major paragraphs from a declaration signed under oath by Dr.
Keshavarz-Nia:
"I have a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Master's degree
in Electronics and Computer Engineering from George Mason University, a Ph.D. degree in
Management of Engineering and Technology from CalSouthern University and a Doctoral (Ed.D)
degree in Education from George Washington University. I have advanced training from the
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security
Agency (NSA), DHS office of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) and Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT).
3. I am employed by a large defense contractor as a chief cyber security engineer and a
subject-matter expert in cyber security. During my career, I have conducted security
assessment, data analysis and security counterintelligence, and forensics investigations on
hundreds of systems. My experience spans 35 years performing technical assessment,
mathematical modeling, cyber-attack pattern analysis, and security counterintelligence linked
to FIS operators, including China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia. I have worked as a
consultant and subject-matter expert supporting the Department of Defense, FBI and US
Intelligence Community (USIC) agencies such as the DIA, CIA, NSA, NGA, and the DHS I&A
supporting counterintelligence, including supporting law enforcement investigations.
Apeon 7 hours ago remove link
Be assured that since the Senate is discussing it....NOTHING will happen.
slickrock 11 hours ago remove link
How many hearings have they held? Has anything been done with the corruption and disease
that is rotting this country? Has the rule of law been restored? They talk and talk and make
themselves feel better but are powerless to do anything about what has happened to this
country. The words of Franklin are about to come true, we have nearly lost the ability to
keep our Republic.
chunga 11 hours ago
This has been going on since I got out of high school. Not a single one of these punks
asked to see the infamous "crowdstrike report".
Did the Democrats rig the 2020 presidential election? Any objective person should at least
have some nagging suspicions of possible malfeasance, especially when one listens to the
testimonies of the many poll watchers placed in battleground locations: the coincidental events
that necessitated conveniently long counting pauses and brazen efforts to restrict their
ability to "watch." An article
in the Spectator, written by a professional pollster, makes a strong case for some healthy
skepticism of Biden's win. The more important question, of course, is who did it? And even more
curious, how?
In one of his usual gaffe-laden speeches on the campaign trail,
Joe Biden may have given the most Freudian of his many slips of the tongue in his career when
he said: "We have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud
organization in the history of American politics." As the many stories of fraud allegations
keep unfolding, it is incredible how true Biden's statement might turn out to be: the operation
to steal the US elections were indeed possibly the most extensive and inclusive operation the
Democrats have achieved, involving just about all minority groups in this mother of all
electoral schemes.
One of the reasons many people find it hard to believe that you can have so many people
involved in this scheme is that it would be difficult to issue instructions to all those people
without some record of communications being leaked. But they are looking at this the wrong way:
you don't have to issue any instructions to the vast majority of the people you hire in your
ballot harvesting schemes etc. You just need to make sure that you have enough people who
believe that Trump is the Second Coming of Hitler -- and that this time he has come for the
blacks, the Asians, Arabs, Latinos and yes, to also finish off the Jews. They only need to be
told to do "
whatever it takes " [ 'Whatever it takes': how black women fought to mobilize America's
voters.The Guardian, November 12, 2020 ].
I am not yet convinced that the Dominion System actually played a direct role in rigging
votes (at best, it may have been used for real-time internal updates to enable swift action
where more ballots were needed), but if it did, we can say that that was the main role of
whites in this impressively diverse operation. I would imagine that in such a case, they may
have added votes to Biden in places where Trump still won, to avoid suspicion; but that is
still not clear. What seems to be much more conspicuous is the role that black operatives
played: the job of good old ballot box stuffing and (especially) well-organized illicit ballot
harvesting.
For taking such a big risk, the black community will need a few more favors than ordinarily
granted to them. The most senior black Congressman, Jim Clyburn, has already started making
demands for Biden to start paying up. After Biden announced his economic team appointments,
with virtually no white person on it and signalling what is to come, the different minority
groups immediately demanded more diversity from him!
This amused even the reporters of Politico, who opened
their article with some veiled sarcasm: "The faces of the economic team President-elect Joe
Biden unveiled publicly Tuesday included an African American woman, a man born in Nigeria, an
Indian American woman and just one white man. The response from Asian American, Black and
Latino Democrats: It's not enough." [incidentally, the token white man and woman on his
economic
team – Janet Yellen and Jared Bernstein – are both Jewish].
The
strongest demands by far are coming from the black community, and they have already
scored the first black Defense Secretary in US history. After all, if blacks can pull off
the biggest electoral heist in the history of the world, then maybe they should be in charge of
overseeing the nation's military strategy!
But how plausible is that story? Could blacks really have played the biggest and most
organized role in Biden's stolen election? It sounds too much like the stuff of Hollywood.
In 2007, a movie based on the true life story of Frank Lucas, a black gangster in 1960s and
70s New York who ended up displacing the powerful white drug lords at the top of the business,
captured the imagination of America. According to the movie (and Frank Lucas' Wikipedia
page ), the DEA
detectives wasted many years trying to figure out who had started supplying a specially lethal
but unbelievably cheap drug called 'Blue Magic' and consequently dominating the drug business
in New York (before expanding to other parts of the country). They had failed to solve the
mystery because they kept looking at the usual suspects: the infamous Italian mafia. It did not
cross their minds that a once-poor black family was the one pulling off a level of organized
drug crime that they had never seen before.
Lucas, who usually dressed more professionally than most gangsters in order to elude
suspicion from authorities, kept getting wealthier and wealthier as these officers kept chasing
the wrong leads. Even when they did finally identify him as the real drug lord, their
investigators could not figure out how he was importing this drug without being traced by
border security agents at any American ports of entry; they believed it was practically
impossible for all their detection systems to fail.
But the best criminals are innovators by definition. Using a close trusted network of black
Americans in the US army, Lucas had devised a way of transporting the drugs from Vietnam
through the coffins of deceased servicemen that were regularly repatriated to American soil. In
short, the US government did not know that they were the ones transporting the drugs of one of
the biggest criminals they were investigating!
In 2020, the FBI
reported that wide scale electoral fraud, enough to shift a general election, is
practically impossible. They could not imagine any method by which this can be accomplished on
a large scale without the systems put in place by the government detecting it easily,
especially since it would have to involve a large network of people working together with a
high level of trust.
Even for those who believe it happened, the biggest suspects have been either the
sophisticated white criminals using cryptic software algorithms or, at worst, the Italian
Mafia. Indeed, one of President Trump's lawyers
tweeted out a story alleging that the Italian mafia had rigged Pennsylvania for Biden. The
mafia profusely denied
the story, giving some convincing arguments about their inability and unwillingness to pull off
such a large, complex operation.
In fact, the only visible "Italian" in this whole drama seems to be the president's
tenacious New York lawyer, who has the most experience to intuitively recognize the results of
organized crime, as a former prosecutor who famously defeated organized crime
networks in America's biggest city. But first he has to zero in on the 'who.'
TEXAS
The state of Texas provides the first clue on at least the social group that was primarily
at the center of this massive operation.
The Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton (with the cooperation of the Secretary of State)
has been extremely vigilant at fighting and preventing electoral fraud in the Lone Star State.
Firstly, he forestalled any potential white fraud by
rejecting the dodgy Dominion Voting Systems for use in Texas after experts expressed
security and efficiency concerns. Secondly, the state also made huge strides in preventing
large scale organized voter fraud by essentially banning "ballot harvesting" –
the system of collecting and submitting ballots for another voter, after "helping" them to
vote. It is astonishing that this is actually legal in many states, despite the strong
protestations of many Republicans.
This doesn't mean that some criminals won't still try to rig elections in Texas, but this is
where the serious AG comes in. In September 2020, AG Paxter
announced the arrest and prosecution of a group of four that almost succeeded in rigging an
election through organized ballot harvesting in the 2018 Democratic primary races. The way they
did it can give us a clue on the main weaknesses exploited by such electoral criminals.
Taking advantage of a Texas law that allows disabled people to vote by mail, this group
somehow registered a large number of able-bodied people as disabled, in some cases without
their consent, so that they could have more mail-in ballots for their fraudulent scheme to
work. Thus, whereas the FBI might assume that it's difficult to rig through mail-in ballots in
a county with a relatively small number of disabled people, this group saw a loophole and
innovatively found a way of expanding that segment of ballots.
The fact that they went through all that trouble to try to create mail-in ballots confirms
that such ballots are the most valuable resource for these schemes, and those Democrats who
defend the expansion of mail-in ballots must know exactly what they are doing.
Thus, it is only common sense that the mass shift to mail-in ballots that came on the
pretext of the Coronavirus pandemic was an activation call for such electoral fraudsters
everywhere to get to work immediately. It made their job so much easier since the government
had just unknowingly done the hardest step in the process for them, as they did for Frank
Lucas.
When I first saw the Texas fraud story, I was not expecting any racial pattern; I
unconsciously assumed that it was at best a mixed-race operation. Until I saw the mug shots of
the arrested fraudsters (the state is 74% white and only 12% black).
All of them were black!
This led me to start looking at the videos of all the election counting centers where there
have been allegations of major process irregularities in battleground states from sworn
testimonies of witnesses, including stories of new ballot boxes being dropped there in the
middle of the night. The workers in those offices were almost always predominantly black
too!
I had to ask myself again: is it really possible that black political operatives had pulled
off the biggest electoral crime in American history? And if this is true, how could they have
achieved what the political scientists, the FBI and even the Italian mafia claim is a
practically impossible
task?
Once again, my answer to the 'how' came from the good state of Texas. The state (this time
through private investigators) managed to
expose another much bigger voter fraud operation before it could complete its project, this
time targeting the presidential election itself, and allegedly involving enough ballots (700
thousand) to decisively turn the great conservative state blue. You would think that such a big
story would have made it to CNN and the front pages of the New York Times since some Democrat
officials were implicated, but it was only reported locally in Texas and other red states:
The investigators -- a former FBI agent and former police officer -- claim that Biden's Texas Political Director
Dallas Jones and his cohorts have been "hoarding mail-in and absentee ballots" and
ordering operatives to fill them out for people in Harris County illegally, including dead
people, homeless people, and nursing home residents in the 2020 presidential election.
A part of the sworn
affidavit from the investigators lays down the scheme:
" Based on interviews, review of documents, and other information, I have identified the
individuals in charge of the ballot harvesting scheme. These individuals includes political
consultant Dallas Jones who was recently hired by the Joe Biden for President campaign to
oversee their Harris County initiative. District 13 Texas State Senator Borris Miles, who is
the handler of Mr. Jones, political consultant Gerald Womack, and Precinct 1 Harris County
Commissioner Rodney Ellis. One of the companies these individuals are using as a front for
this operation is AB Canvassing, although there are others that have been identified that we
are investigating."
I have in my possession video-taped interviews of witnesses attesting to the
aforementioned people having groups of people completing thousands of absentee and mail-in
ballots, including completing ballots for deceased individuals; illegally going into nursing
homes, with the complicity of the nursing home staff, and filling out and forging the
signatures of nursing home residents; signing up homeless individuals to vote using the
ballot harvester's address then completing the ballot and forging the homeless individual's
signature.
This entire operation is being run by the elite politicians of the Democrat Party in
Houston/Hams County.
When I found the photos of all the people mentioned in this damning affidavit, the
hypothesis that blacks were the ones executing the groundwork for the 2020 fraud in the
different battleground states was very nearly confirmed.
Dallas Jones Commissioner Rodney
Ellis, source:
Wikipedia State Senator Boris Miles, source: Wikipedia
Denzel Washington as the impeccably-dressed innovative black gangster, Frank Lucas, in American
Gangster.
When I looked a bit more into Jones, I discovered a few more interesting facts. Firstly, he
used to be a "Regional Field Director" in the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP). This means that whatever electoral "skills" he has are well-known in
the NAACP, and can be easily distributed to their wide network in different states on
demand.
Secondly, I discovered that Dallas has even internationalized his electoral "consultancy."
His elections consultancy company was
hired to help an opposition party candidate to the highest position in Trinidad and Tobago
named Keith Rowley in 2015. He won.
I was curious to know why Jones would want to help a Trinidadian win an election that has
nothing to do with America (or even the NAACP). Did he share a similar economic ideology with
the candidate? Or does Jones perhaps have his ancestral roots in this island?
The answer, I soon realized, is simpler than that.
Rowley's People's National Movement party represents
the black population of Trinidad and Tobago, while the major party he took out, the United
National Congress, represents the South Asians (Indians) led by an Indian woman whose
first name
just happens to be 'Kamla.' Rowley needed all the help he could get from black American
"consultants" because Indians are actually the largest
ethnic population in Trinidad and Tobago. (In 2020, Rowley defended his
Prime Minister position against Kamla.)
The description of Jones' role in that election that brought Rowley to power is
instructive :
"Brought on by partner firm Vestige Strategies as part of a team of five consultants,
Jones was tasked with designing and executing the comprehensive, nation-wide "Get Out The
Vote" efforts for Dr. Rowley and the People's National Movement campaign."
" Get Out the
Vote " is how a lot of these ballot harvesting schemes are euphemistically characterized.
It is what Georgia politician Stacey Abrams
calls her scheme that aggressively registers all kinds of unlikely voters to supposedly
vote by mail with renewed enthusiasm.
What makes blacks more able to pull off such large-scale ballot harvesting operations is the
ready supply of the one asset required for all organized crime: a large network of trust . I think
groups like the Italian mafia and the Jewish mafia may have almost disappeared precisely
because of a dwindling supply of people among them who still see themselves as surviving
outside the mainstream American community that despises them while belonging to an ethnic
"family" that values them. Blacks, on the other hand, still largely see themselves as part of
such an outsider "family" that is expected to trust each other, as they collectively figure out
how to survive that common enemy who has all the power and wants to "systemically" harm them
with it. At least this is what they grow up hearing every day from schools, colleges, news
media, music, uncles and even church leaders. (The
black conservatives who somehow escape this lifelong programming are much more heroic than
immigrant black conservatives who never really had to deal with the pervasive
indoctrination).
This black family consciousness can be used not only politically (the family is expected to
vote together for the same party, one that is at least led by
servile whites), but even for other less legal collaborations, if necessary. When you truly
believe that you are under some Hitlerian existential threat, it is actually rational to bend
some rules to help your survival, especially if those rules are made by the same evil power
that systemically seeks your destruction.
At the Michigan House
hearings to consider the Trump campaign's case, one recent Indian immigrant who was one of
the GOP poll watchers, witnessed this familial spirit in action. The black poll workers in the
room thought she was a Democrat because she's from a dark-looking minority race, and they
confidentially told her that "we have to get those m-fers out of here." According to her, they
were referring to all the "white, male Republican" poll watchers, who were apparently insisting
on monitoring everything going on (a.k.a doing their job). They successfully booted them
out.
When the Trump campaign in Michigan
sued for being denied access to properly watch what was going on at some important counting
center in Detroit, their case was quickly dismissed by the judge. When they tried to sue to get
access to surveillance videos of ballot box drops, which could also possibly prove their
allegations of illegal ballot boxes brought in, the same judge denied them the access on some
bizarre technicality. Ironically, the media kept mocking the Trump campaign for bringing
allegations to court in the absence of strong evidence, without mentioning how their requests
for access to the same evidence was being denied by the same courts!
Out of curiosity, I looked up this Michigan judge ( Cynthia Stephens ) whom I thought had a
particularly hostile tone to Trump's plaintiffs.
Judge Cynthia Stephens
Stephens has been a leader in the Black Judges Association of Michigan, a life member of the
Delta Sigma Theta
sorority which was founded by "college-educated women dedicated to public service with an
emphasis on programs that assist the African American community," etc.
In October 2020, a higher court
reversed a revealing ruling that Stephens had given in another case. She had ruled that
anyone should be allowed to submit someone else's ballot for them, despite state law clearly
saying it is only family members that can do this (which at least makes the work of ballot
harvest schemers a bit harder). The same higher court also reversed a ruling by Stephens that
said late ballots should be counted in the 2020 general election even if they arrive two weeks
late – which would have been another boon in the ballot fraudster's toolbox!
A judge who is a member of ethnocentric organizations is already a bad sign. If a white
judge was a member of a sorority that "assists the white community," his objectivity would be
questioned, especially in an election in which 'race' is at the center. Why should we assume
that a black judge would be free of bias when she belongs to race-based groups and the election
is about a man that is considered "one of
the most racist presidents" in American history?
The Trump campaign should have moved heaven and hell to get those surveillance videos of
ballot boxes being brought into these counting centers, instead of moving on to Hugo Chavez
conspiracy theories. I'm also pretty sure William Barr could immediately get all those videos
of security footage around every polling station if he really wanted to, but maybe I've just
watched too much '24
.'
Black electoral fraudsters of course know that they can count on the media to help them
fight against any pressure to fully audit black counties by simply flashing the race card as a
shield when needed.
The Washington Post already sent an early warning shot by
publishing a story entitled "Anger builds in Black community over Trump's claim of voter
fraud in big cities." According to the Post, Trump checking for fraud in these areas is
"prompting Black leaders, political analysts and historians to cry foul at what they described
as tactics reminiscent of those used to suppress the voice of Black voters following the Civil
War."
They don't quote any actual historian who would say something that radical. Instead, they
quote a professor of African American studies, Carol Anderson. "It's a very narrow, slippery
slope, from saying 'illegal votes' to 'illegal voters,'"she chides, "so this attack on Black
voters is real."
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. An investigation of crime is obviously not an
attack on anyone.
Trump's team is predictably now inured to the endless accusations of racism, so something
more had to be done to stop them. On Saturday, November 21, a group of Detroit voters took the
race card all the way to federal court,
alleging "disenfranchisement of black voters" by the Trump campaign. Basically, a lawsuit
to stop someone from checking if the law was followed.
Georgia, Georgia
If the state of Texas and its AG provide a blueprint for disciplined Republican warfare
against black and white fraud, Georgia is the sad cautionary tale.
Georgia has had a very long unique relationship with voting machine vendors which looks
quite corrupt. Because the mainstream media assumed that this corrupt intrusion into Georgia
politics by voting machine companies was going to benefit Trump (and Russia) in 2020, they did
some thorough investigation into it. Of course after the 2020 election suggested that the
newest beneficiaries (if any) are Democrats, the same media has frantically rushed to defend
the integrity of Georgian officials -- presenting them as honest and objective Republicans for
standing up to Trump. Even the venerable Wall Street Journal has
published an editorial from the CEO of Dominion. Any suggestions of malfeasance are now
dismissed as "baseless."
Fortunately, we still have the investigative articles the same media did when they thought
Georgia would rig for Republicans, as our basis.
"In the past decade, Election Systems & Software (E.S. & S.), the largest
manufacturer of voting machines in the country, has routinely wined and dined a select group
of state-election brass, which the company called an "advisory board," offering them airfare
on trips to places like Las Vegas and New York, upscale-hotel accommodations, and tickets to
live events. Among the recipients of this largesse, according to an investigation by
McClatchy published last year, was
David Dove, the chief of staff to Georgia's then secretary of state, Brian Kemp ."[Kemp is now the governor.]
Also:
"Georgia turns out to be a prime example of how voting-system venders, in partnership with
elected officials, can jeopardize the democratic process by influencing municipalities to buy
proprietary, inscrutable voting devices that are infinitely less secure than paper-ballot
systems that cost three times less."
The McClatchy investigative report , cited in the New
Yorker article, makes a prediction from an expert interviewed for their story:
" the next foreign attack on U.S. voting machinery will likely be initially directed at an
equipment vendor's server before migrating to county systems and voting sites, said Scott,
co-founder of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Protection.
He said the malware can poison vendors' update servers with a "decimalization feature" --
a program to manipulate the vote outcome as desired.
"Then you add a second layer to the exploit that geo-targets that malware to hit swing
regions of swing states," Scott said. It embeds in the touch-screens and "carries through to
the central (vote-counting) tabulator at the state level," before destroying itself upon
final tabulation.
While Homeland Security officials have alerted the vendors about such a threat, Scott
said, he's seen little effort by the manufacturers to build a defense.
In 2019, Dominion Systems received over 100 million dollars from the state of Georgia to
supply 30,000 machines for the state's 7 million voters, to be rolled out in a few months: the
biggest and most ambitious
rollout of voting machines in the history of the United States.
Even if there was no direct corruption involving Georgia officials in this handsome
contract, these officials -- the Governor, the Secretary of State and even their suspiciously
vocal elections implementation manager, Gabriel Sterling -- would still not want the
weaknesses of the system to be exposed because it would also effectively end their careers
since everyone, including election security experts and managers in other Secretary of State
offices, had warned them about this
reckless project.
When the state held its presidential primaries in June 2020 with this new Dominion system,
it turned out to be one big mess, just as everyone had warned. It is a miracle that these
officials actually survived the chaos from that election.
It is worth quoting large portions of an article from
PBS that sums up what Georgia went through with Dominion software in that catastrophic
presidential primary election of 2020:
"Faulty software or poorly calibrated vote-tabulation scanners used to count mailed-in
ballots in this week's chaotic Georgia primary may have prevented thousands of votes from
being counted, election officials and voting integrity activists say
"The fact that it is in multiple counties tells me that it's probably systemic," Richard
DeMillo, a Georgia Tech computer scientist who has testified for the plaintiffs, because
identical scanners and software were used to count all absentee ballots across the state.
DeMillo said the only way to know for sure is through audits.
A top Georgia voting official, voting implementation manager Gabriel Sterling, said Friday
that he had seen no evidence yet of the issue and found it difficult to believe the reports
were "an active description of what is happening on the ground."
"These are activists who have an ax to grind," he said.
In post-election reviews, bipartisan panels in all four counties detected unregistered
votes while examining ballot images flagged by the vote-tallying scanner's software for
anomalies.
In Morgan County, Republican-dominated and just southeast of Atlanta, panelists discovered
at least 20 votes on scanned ballot images that the program had not recorded, said Jeanne
Dufort, a Democrat on the panel. She said it appeared the votes did not register because
ovals that were supposed to be filled in were instead checked or marked with X's.
All three panelists agreed to add the unregistered votes to the electronic tally, said
Dufort. But on Thursday, the county elections board voted 3-2 not to audit the rest of the
roughly 3,000 absentee ballots
In Clarke County, vote review panelist Adam Shirley estimated at least 30 ballots out of
about 300 flagged for anomalies had votes that "the system had not marked at all, that had
not processed at all."
Shirley, a Democrat, recommended a review of all 15,000 absentee ballots.
In an email Friday to fellow board members, county election board chair Jesse Evans said
"it's not just possible but probable that a ballot whose voter had clearly but not completely
marked their vote would not have its votes counted by the software."
In an email to Evans, Shirley said he found it disturbing that the software did not flag
the uncounted votes. "We only noticed them by sheer luck as we were adjudicating other,
flagged contests on ballots."
In DeKalb County, review panel member Elizabeth Burns estimated finding between 20-50
uncounted votes on 530 flagged ballots and said her team had so far only reviewed half its
100,000 absentee ballots. Like Shirley, she said her team had stumbled upon the issue. She
said she wondered how many other counties were aware of it.
"Maybe not everyone has been as thorough as us and noticed this," she said.
"The detection of this major problem was only because of diligent citizen oversight. The
officials charged with the duty to fully test the equipment recklessly failed to responsibly
do so, or to audit it," said Marilyn Marks, executive director of the Coalition for Good
Governance, which is demanding in court that the state scrap the ballot-marking devices.
Dominion spokeswoman Kay Stimson referred questions to the state
Voting security expert Harri Hursti said inadequate pre-election testing may be the cause
of the issue
The Dominion election system used on Tuesday is proprietary. Hursti said it has never been
subjected to an independent security review.
It was, however, denied certification by Texas, which cited "multiple hardware and
software issues" identified by state-appointed examiners "
Many readers might find it hard to believe the possibility that these officials might just
be protecting their jobs at the expense of full electoral integrity in their state when they
stubbornly refuse Trump's reasonable request
for a robust audit (instead of a mere pointless recount), if anything just to prove him wrong.
But you have to see it from their perspective (assuming that we are right): since their state
won't make any difference to Trump's chances of winning the electoral college as it stands now,
why should they sacrifice their careers for what they believe is likely a meaningless
consolation result for Trump at best? If there is a chance that they have even knowingly lied
about the efficiency or security of the system, their careers could be the least of their
worries.
Had the Governor and the Secretary of State not entangled their reputations on their
implementation of the Dominion system, they would have been as aggressive in going after Stacy
Abrams and other suspicious players as Texas did. In fact, they have already started going
after her in other ways that do not involve exposing the Dominion Systems. Abrams may have
misread their unwillingness to cooperate with Trump after the election as some kind of sign
that they are willing to let her continue with her scheme even in the senate run off elections.
She was wrong; their only fear is exposing Dominion's security and efficiency issues to the
public again, as they would not survive a fiasco in the presidential election.
Probably to prove his loyalty to the GOP, Secretary of State Raffensperger has already
announced that he is launching
investigations into Stacy Abrams' group, for seeking to "aggressively" register
"ineligible, out-of-state, or deceased voters" before the state's Jan. 5 Senate runoff
elections. I am very confident that he will destroy her before that election.
Raffensperger's office detailed instances in which "The New Georgia Project," (founded by
Abrams and previously led by senate runoff candidate Warnock) tried to solicit voters living
out of state and people who have passed away (the usual tactics.)
It should be obvious that these groups did not become dishonest only for the runoff
elections. There is no way the Secretary of State really believes that Abrams' groups did
nothing wrong for the November 3 election.
It is clear that both the Governor and the Secretary of State genuinely want Republicans to
keep the Senate and even wanted Trump to win the presidency. They were simply caught up in a
difficult situation of their own making with Dominion Systems, which has made them stubbornly
resistant to a full audit (with signatures, system accuracy checks, etc) that would probably
reveal Abrams' malfeasance, but only while also revealing their own incompetence, if not
outright dishonesty, for recklessly implementing one of the most risky voting systems.
The GA officials share this mutual interest with the executives of Dominion who would lose
their business in the US if it is found that they are indeed unsecure, inefficient or
unreliable. They are happy to continue addressing the Hugo Chavez rumors for as long as this
keeps the public from the real problems. If it is found that someone had remote access to their
machines, for example, that would certainly end their business, as it ends the careers of
Georgian officials.
Conclusion
Why am I opposed to the black takeover of power in America through illegitimate means?
It has nothing to do with black or white.
I do not know why this happens, but every time people (try to) gain power by organizing
themselves along ethnic lines, it brings out the worst demons in them, especially if the
organizing principle is some imaginary evilness of another ethnicity. I recall how some very
friendly Hutu people seemingly became overnight monsters when their elite leaders successfully
"organized" them against the "evil" Tutsi in Rwanda, leading to over a million mindless murders
in a tiny African nation.
A newly emboldened elected official in Michigan, Cynthia Johnson, may have given us a
glimpse into such demons when she basically issued an order to harm "Trumpers," in a chilling
video released on 9th December:
At this stage, the one last Hail Mary hope America has to save itself from an inevitable
decline into the darkness of both ethnic warfare and clueless socialism might lie with the Lone
Star State of Texas, as the state's good AG has now sued all these
incompetent states that allowed themselves to be invaded by organized electoral crime.
Chanda Chisala, originally from Zambia, has been a John S. Knight Visiting Fellow at
Stanford University, a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a Reagan-Fascell Fellow
at the National Endowment for Democracy.
Now the officials in six battleground states continuously ignore all evidences of voter fraud
only to say "no evidence of voter fraud" or even more disgusting "this election is the most
secure in history".
Whether there was indeed voter fraud and rigging, and I personally believe there was and at
a huge scale, it seems that, by hook or by crook, Joe Biden will become the next President of
the United States of America; and we should prepare ourselves for this, regardless of our
political points of view and inclinations.
The presence of Biden in the Whitehouse will definitely change course on a number of issues,
both domestically within the USA and overseas, but the objective of this article is to shed a
bit of light on what is likely to happen to the current pro-Biden camp and the diverse array of
supporters who have helped elevate him to this position.
In more ways than one, I have always seen in Syria a microcosm of world politics and
conflicts. Long before the enemies of Syria decided to launch their attack in March 2011, the
masterminds of the conspiracy put the most unlikely allies together, only united by their
hatred of Syria. Back then I called them the ' Anti-Syrian
Cocktail' . Those allies each had their own agenda regarding Syria and had nothing in
common other than their desire to remove President Bashar Al-Assad from office. Among the
issues they disagreed on was his replacement, how to share the spoils, not to mention the
alternative political system to install, Syria's future position in the region, international
alliances, and so forth.
With a whole array of enemies, Trump inadvertently caused a rounding up of a very
loosely-united anti-Trump-cocktail; only united by their hatred of him. So, let's face it and
acknowledge it; they will never let him win the November 2020 elections. Though only united by
their hatred of Trump, there are too many of them, they are powerful; extremely powerful, and
they are very determined to get rid of him by any means possible, legal, illegal, using tactics
like bribery, intimidation, threats, thuggery, and they have no one to fear because,
collectively they have given each other impunity, covering each other's backs and producing a
culture where criticizing them is taboo. Crucially, the 'law' and the media are on their
side.
With the exception of the Clintons and Bidens perhaps, the other Democrats have their
traditional political opposition to Trump, even when they see and know he is making good
decisions. This is the golden rule of political duopoly. But the Clintons and the Bidens have
personal dirt on them and even blood on their hands that they want to keep the lid on in order
to avoid prosecution and possibly even jail. They are likely to remain united after a Trump
loss, but the same cannot be said about other odd couples.
Most of the other November 2020 Biden supporters are destined to be on a collision course,
and they will soon enough realize that their differences are much stronger than what united
them and that they were taken for fools. None will be disappointed more than the so-called
'Progressives'.
The definition of the term progressive has morphed quite significantly over the last decade
or so. Currently, it seems to include any one who stands up against Trump; and this is the
primordial cause of the confusion and reason for future conflict between them. In reality, what
defines the term 'progressive' in any existing progressive movement can be totally different
from that of another movement; and the difference is not necessarily marginal. Being
'progressive' in the 21st Century implies the presence of a very specific agenda or slogan that
may or may not be compatible with other 'progressive' agendas.
Take the Assange supporters for example. The moment they wake up from their deep slumber,
they will realize that the man they supported to become President is actually the leader of the
political party that has put Assange in jail for exposing his party's dirt. I hope that Trump
pulls the rug from underneath their feet and pardons Assange before the 20th of January 2021.
But will this show the Assange supporters who is who? Not necessarily because if they wanted to
open up their eyes and see, they would have seen from day one that Assange's biggest enemy is
none but Hillary Clinton and that she is the one responsible for his demise; not Trump.
But the Assange supporters did not play a major role in the elections; at least not
directly, and at least not as much as their closest 'progressives'; the peace activists.
The Democrats and their cohorts have portrayed Trump as a warmonger. When peace activists
eventually see that Biden will have to serve his warlord masters and start new wars across the
globe, they will have to think again. He is already touting hiring well known hawks in key
positions in his forthcoming cabinet and team of advisors, with his
Defense Secretary reportedly selected.
When it comes to street power however, none has been more powerful and effective as the
combination of BLM and the environmentalists.
BLM activists have just fallen a tad short of blaming Trump for an American five-century
long history of racism. But how much do BLM activists really care about Climate Change and
specifically about Greta-type environmental vision of how the world should run? Moreover, most
environmentalists, if not all of them, are anti-vaxxers. When they see that Biden is the trump
card for the vaccine empire, they may wish they didn't take to the streets to unseat the Trump
card they had in the Whitehouse. If there is/was one person standing up against the malevolent
"Gates vaccine", it has to be Trump, and the single-issue anti-vaxxers are against Trump. Try
to make sense of this.
This is not to forget and ignore that the Climate Change activists will soon find out, the
hard way, that Biden will not come clean on the zero-emission promise; not only because he
doesn't want to, not only because he goes to bed with the petro-dollar lobby, but also because
he does not have the alternative technology to replace fossil fuel with.
In and out and in between the BLM and Climate Change activists, what do the Climate Change
activists have in common ideologically with BLM and at what stage will they break ranks and
decide to go against one another? What will happen after either one of them accuses the other,
rightfully I must say, that they have been used as pawns by the 'Deep State'?
And who said that the BLM has more in common with the LBGTI community and activists than it
does with the gun lobby? Sections of the BLM likely also love guns.
And speaking of Greta, for how much longer will she able to keep up the fallacy that her
agenda and those of her friends Soros and the World Economic Forum (WEF), and its members that
include Monsanto, are actually compatible?
And for the right or wrong reasons, who is to guarantee that the tens of millions of Trump
supporters are going to sit and accept that the election win of Biden is legitimate and that
they have to swallow it? Will this cause social strife, violence on the streets, even worse
perhaps civil war and much more? We don't know. What we do know is that a controversy about
election results should have been dealt with in total transparency in order to put all concerns
to rest. But this is not happening, and it is not going to happen because a decision has been
made against Trump dictating that he must lose.
But the after-Trump-effect is not necessarily going to affect only America. Right-wing
politics, including the extreme version of it, have been on the rise in the world, and
especially in Western Europe. And if the Neo-Nazis look threatening because their ideology is
based on a very dark chapter in human history, what do we really know is on the agenda of the
forces that have combined the very diverse elements of the anti-Trump cocktail in order to
serve its objective(s)? What is it really that they want?
Hitler was at least clear about his mission statement. He wanted an Aryan Third Reich to
rule the world for a thousand years. The rest of the world did not have to wonder and ponder
about his intentions. He sent a very clear message to rest of the world, a message clear enough
to unite the West with the Bolsheviks against him.
But today, we have an invisible driving force that has managed to put together an array of
the most unlikely partners in order to fight a common cause. Do we not at least ask the
question 'why?'
In the case of Syria, the answer to the 'why' question was to topple Assad, albeit without
having a plan that went further, at least as a united coalition. It would have been impossible
for the plotters and planners to each disclose what they had in mind. In reality, they did not
have any plan at all other than replacing him with a void. Fast-forward; the get-rid-of-Trump
plan is very similar; get rid of him without having a plan so as to ensure all participants are
pleased and appeased, because the plan seems to also be based on replacing Trump with chaos and
anarchy .
The irony here is that the anti-Trump-cocktail is not only comprised of his political
opponents, mainstream media, social media, but also includes government agencies such as the
DOJ, the CIA, the FBI and even some American Republicans.
Briefly put, Trump has been chosen to lose, but after him, the flood is imminent. The
current allies who lobbied against him will very shortly come to the realization that they are
no longer united, and some will even turn into enemies fighting over the spoils of the win.
In more ways than one, they will harvest the fruit of the seeds they planted, and they will
rightfully deserve all consequences. A Biden win is the most befitting 'punishment' of the
anti-Trump cocktail.
Apart from the hapless American populace, the biggest loser of this all is the international
stature of America as the leader of the so-called Democratic Free World. In a fitting blowback
for these pernicious actors, Trump would have proven without a shadow of doubt, that the Deep
State is so deep and powerful, powerful enough to mobilize its own enemies to serve it.
At that point, to quote the rhetoric of the "Great Reset" agenda, but again, as blowback,
things will never be the same again for these dangerous characters. play_arrow
Justus_Americans 18 hours ago
Steve Bannon: Trump should revoke Biden's Security Clearance Biden had a duty to report
Son Hunter https://youtu.be/N5XoZjN5xdQ
africoman 21 hours ago
SCOTUS rejects Texas lawsuit and other swing states too
I think it shows how corrupted all three branches have become.
But, the POTUS who get done firing CIA/FBI/ and many others officials with Tweeter , how
come he isn't doing that to Ag Barr or any others who aren't doing their job to investigate
it and bring the perps to justice if the election-selection proved to be rigged & it was.
So he is playing game with his pay masters
Evil stalks the US political system. It doesn't matter who is in the White house. Biden is
just as corrupt as is his dull cabinet picks.
DeeDeeTwo 1 day ago remove link
I love the way the DOJ or Delaware of whomever has had a "criminal investigation" open on
the Bidens for many years. Ha-ha, no one in DC can talk about a "criminal investigation" and
it just disappears like large pizza down Bill Barr's hatch.
CosmoJoe 1 day ago
Biden is the return of the crony establishment politicians who want the statue quo back.
They want to go back to enriching themselves and their allies while their side job is
"leading" the country. Biden is going to jettison the far left kooks in his party now that
their usefulness of getting him elected is over.
African Americans really f*cked this up. They had a guy in the white house who actually
did things for their communities, and they voted against this for a return of the Dems who
don't give two sh1ts about inner cities or crime. I guess while I had some hope that more
people in the Black community were taking the red pill, there are just too many that are
still stuck on stupid.
dibiase 1 day ago
All that's really changing is the figurehead... I guess Biden might not hire so many
people from Goldman... j p morgan needs more friends in there...
Your account is currently banned 1 day ago remove link
Not a return, just a continuation. Only those not jaded by the carnival barking elixir
salesman can recognize it.
CosmoJoe 1 day ago remove link
You think people like Bezos want anything to do with Antifa or BLM? You think any of the
billionaires in this country are going to turn over their wealth and power to a bunch of
soycucks?
SonOfSam 1 day ago
Antifa and BLM are the (((billionaires))) favorite pets. They attack only their
competititors, small businesses, burning them to the ground. They will never attack any
really big business, not ever.
Your account is currently banned 1 day ago remove link
LOL. Let me share something from one of my favorite anarchists:
"Adulation of "great presidents" epitomizes the prevailing misunderstanding of the nature
of politics and government .People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then,
do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose
modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and, if need be, murdering those who
resist? The public persists in supposing that good leaders can be found to replace the
currently ruling brutes, but ferocious prizefighters do not tend to be replaced by pacifistic
Milquetoasts, and in the event that the latter happened to gain office, they would be quickly
ousted by the former." – Robert Higgs - "Against Leviathan"
jeff montanye 1 day ago remove link
telling them the truth?
bush wanted a humble foreign policy and helped run 9-11 then killed a million largely
innocent people in their home countries that never attacked the u.s.
obama promised never to start/fight "dumb" wars then started three, killed ditto, and left
each a failed state, as best he could, as yinon planned.
trump didn't start any wars, reduced u.s. presence in at least two, presented the very
brave and prescient one-state solution for israel/palestine, and had the sense and courage to
say that bombs not just planes destroyed the wtc on 9-11.
that's a lot more truth than the entire rest of the u.s. government and the mockingbird
state media have offered in a generation.
Your account is currently banned 1 day ago
Yep. I was converted not long after that. When you finally shed all the fairy tales that
government has fed you over the years, and you can look at it all with some level of detached
objectivity, the absurdity becomes laughingly obvious. Mencken summed it up well:
" The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for
himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he
comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and
intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic
personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are."
Target Practice 1 day ago remove link
Vatican sides with Fascists in WWII Hitler, Mussolini, Franco .
Prescott S. Bush financed Hitler.
His boy, George H W Bush, ran the CIA and called for a New World Order .
And his boy, George W Bush Jr, was president on 9-11.
booboo 1 day ago remove link
Hitler was the reaction to the Bolsheviks not the other way around.
"This movement among the **** is not new... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow
of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development,
of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing... it has been the
mainspring of every subversive movement during the nineteenth century"
Winston Churchill
Sound familiar?
66Mustanggirl PREMIUM 1 day ago (Edited)
Democrats literally spent four years writing the handbook on how NOT to accept election
results.
If Joe Biden actually succeeds in stealing this election, 73 million plus Trump supporters
are going to take that handbook and shove it down the throats of the Dem/RINO Swamp creatures
until they choke on it.
Stuck on Zero 1 day ago remove link
At least a thousand of the most powerful people in America would face indictments for
racketeering, sex charges, human and drug trafficking, and treason if Trump remains in
office. He has to go.
EightyEight Mike 1 day ago
voted Biden and R down ticket.
I don't believe that. You're just trying to explain the absurd election results. Nobody
believes that 80 million morons came out to vote for Biden.
dibiase 1 day ago
Fake news. No such thing as a Biden supporter. Just people who hate trump.
Patmos 1 day ago (Edited) remove link
The left in the US currently gives us the unbelievably sh!tty mixture of the war mongering
establishment MIC who laugh about killing heads of state like the wretch Hillary did, and the
"woke" regressive useful idiots who are short on wisdom and long on falling for empty
rhetoric.
spacemonkey99 1 day ago (Edited)
"...producing a culture where criticizing them is taboo"
That is the worst of it. Its interesting the article mentions the 3rd Reich because I
think we have something of a 4th Reich right now with blm antifa and supporters.
40 foot tall banners at sporting events, marches through neighborhoods, intimidation of
course plenty of broken windows... It really looks like crystalnacht out there so I am not
sure how this gets better
KenilworthCookie 1 day ago
Murcia; You get what You Deserve. Enjoy.
sborovay07 1 day ago
Major assumption is that Trump is not going to enact EO 13848. The Deep State operatives
were desperate and wanted anything that they could control.
not dead yet 1 day ago
You, and your up voters, are a perfect example of ignorant Americans. This article is a
short but concise analysis, far from complete but it hits many high points, of why Trump was
shafted in the election and has to go. Those who have been closely following the saga since
Trumps election are not surprised by anything this guy wrote. Way far too many people are
always whining and complaining about ZH and others publishing stuff they don't agree with
haven't a clue what's going on.
I do have to disagree all the parties that hate Trump and want him out will be at each
others throats. Bidenho's government, the globalists, and the enviro wack jobs all want the
same thing. Putting down, if not eliminating, us little people and have a one world police
state dictatorship. Lockdowns and the poverty that comes with it are just the start and under
Bidenho I expect them to continue. The Covid "problem" is way overblown but IMHO expect a
national lockdown starting Jan 21 and the Karens and those made irrationally scared of Covid,
we're talking millions here, will support it.
Totally_Disillusioned 1 day ago
Biden represents the global corporatists and he's the XI/CCP's poodle. Spend 15 minutes
listing to Steve Bannon at the Eurasian Symposium back in early 2019. He's on a tear helping
the globalist attendees better understand by Trump lead the way for working people around the
world. We all know China's economy has been fabricated on the backs of slave labor - just so
that the corporatists can have their products produced cheaply while abusing the Chinese
people. He's on fire and speaks truth to power. The 15 minutes you'll spend listening will
tell you all you need to know about the Democrat crime families - Clintons, Bidens,
Feinsteins, Pelosi, etc. He was right back then and is more right today. Understand why we
must defeat this globalist evil...
Hal Turner - a pretend "Nazi" who was/is an FBI informant (look it up) and was convicted
anyway of threatening a judge. I'm not clicking on a Hal Turner link because it is, by
definition, disinformation. Don't take my word for it, look it up yourself.
Totally_Disillusioned 1 day ago
Robert's intimidated by the rioting? Wonder what threats were made on him, his
family...
homericninjas 1 day ago
Don't rule out him simply being a gutless poosie
quanttech 1 day ago remove link
Their leaders are con artists just like trumptards are led by a con artist.
AOC is a CIA construct. Bernie's job is to deliver the left to the opposite of the left,
the Reagan/Thatcher neoliberals. The "squad" makes excuses for the wars.
Wapo is trying to deceive its readers: elections rule were specifically changed for 2020 elections resulting in mail-in ballots
fiasco. But that does not justifies Trump inaction and incompetence.
Another problem in impotence of neoliberal elite: they even can't cheat well ;-)
is something that has gotten relatively little attention: the failure to raise these issues earlier -- i.e., before the election.
Over and over again, judges have noted the pro-Trump legal effort could just as well have challenged the election rules before
the election results went against him.
"Penalizing the voters election officials serve and the other candidates who relied on this long-standing guidance is beyond
unfair," the court said. "The Campaign sat on its hands, waiting until after the election, despite the fact that this
'application' form was in place for over a decade."
It was hardly the first time judges have noted the tardy challenges. Just this weekend, U.S. District Judge Brett H. Ludwig, who
was appointed by Trump, offered a similar rebuke after state and federal courts
said
such challenges should be filed before the election
.
"I don't think I heard a very good explanation today as to why the plaintiffs didn't raise these issues in advance of the
election when the guidance was issued," Ludwig
said
.
Another judge whom Trump had put on his Supreme Court shortlist, William Pryor, also agreed with a lower-court ruling that said
pro-Trump lawyer L. Lin Wood had plenty of time to complain about Georgia's election rules before Trump lost. Pryor cited the
doctrine of
laches
,
which holds that a claim can't just be brought when it is suddenly convenient for the plaintiff.
AD
"This procedure has been in place for at least three elections since March, including the general election on November 3, 2020,"
Pryor
wrote
.
"Over one million Georgians voted by absentee ballot in the general election. No one challenged the settlement agreement until
the filing of this action. By then, the general election returns had been tallied and a statewide hand recount of the
presidential election results was underway."
Pryor ruled that Wood had no standing to bring the case but added that, even if he did, the laches doctrine meant "he could have
sued eight months earlier, yet he waited until two weeks after the election."
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has offered perhaps the biggest rebuke on this count. It noted that the law at issue in the Trump
team's case -- Act 77, which was passed by the GOP-controlled state legislature -- was a year old. This was the first case the U.S.
Supreme Court declined to hear, before its Texas decision on Friday.
AD
Petitioners' challenge violates the doctrine of laches given their complete failure to act with due diligence in commencing
their facial constitutional challenge, which was ascertainable upon Act 77's enactment. It is well-established that
"[l]aches is an equitable doctrine that bars relief when a complaining party is guilty of want of due diligence in failing
to promptly institute an action to the prejudice of another."
Petitioners filed this facial challenge to the mail-in voting statutory provisions more than one year after the enactment
of Act 77. At the time this action was filed on November 21, 2020, millions of Pennsylvania voters had already expressed
their will in both the June 2020 Primary Election and the November 2020 General Election and the final ballots in the 2020
General Election were being tallied, with the results becoming seemingly apparent. Nevertheless, Petitioners waited to
commence this litigation until days before the county boards of election were required to certify the election results to
the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Thus, it is beyond cavil [i.e., a standard of frivolous objection] that Petitioners
failed to act with due diligence in presenting the instant claim. Equally clear is the substantial prejudice arising from
Petitioners' failure to institute promptly a facial challenge to the mail-in voting statutory scheme, as such inaction
would result in the disenfranchisement of millions of Pennsylvania voters.
Much of the Trump legal challenge has focused on supposed fraud. But increasingly it has focused on the idea that,
regardless
of proven fraud
, the changes made by elections officials in key states made such fraud undetectable. This was a central point
in the lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), which the Trump campaign, 18 GOP attorneys general and 126 GOP
House members joined.
But as plenty noted at the time, other states whose results the election didn't seek to undo made similar or the same changes,
and the lawsuit didn't seek to invalidate their results. It's understandable that a legal effort to question an election's
results would focus on close states, but if you're seeking to invalidate large numbers of votes in one fell swoop, focusing only
on those close states is entirely convenient.
As is focusing on laws you could have challenged long ago, before they (very arguably) mattered.
THIS ARTICLE WAS PREVIOUSLY LOCKED AND FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. IT HAS BEEN UNLOCKED AT THE
PERSONAL REQUEST OF STEVE QUAYLE -- From a source deep inside the US Supreme Court as they
discussed the pending Texas lawsuit against Pennsylvania et. al. . . .
"Hal, as you know I am a clerk for one of the Justices on SCOTUS. Today was like nothing we
have ever seen. The justices are arguing loudly behind closed doors.
The Justices met in a closed and sealed room, as is standard.
Usually it is very calm, however today we could hear screaming all the way down the
hall.
They met in person, because they didn't trust telephonic meeting as secure.
Chief Justice Roberts was screaming
"Are you going to be responsible for the rioting if we hear this case?"
"Don't tell me about Bush v. Gore, we weren't dealing with riots then"
"You are forgetting what your role here is Neil, and I don't want to hear from the two
junior justices anymore. I will tell you how you will vote."
Justice Clarence Thomas says "This is the end of Democracy, John."
When they left the room, Roberts, the Libs and Kavanugh had big smiles. Alito and Thomas
were visibly upset. ACB and Gorsuch didn't seem fazed at all."
Clearly Chief Justice Roberts is intimidated by the ANTIFA/Left-wing rioting. Well, one has
to wonder if maybe he can be intimidated more by some actions of the right wing?
(Corrections thanks to Becky @ LewRockewell.com)
I'm not going to bother doing that or anything else, and neither should any of you, but I'm
just wondering, is all.
The Dominion Voting Systems website has
removed the link and reference for SolarWinds from their platform .
It seems that the Dominion Voting Machines are trying to hide their relationship with
SolarWinds. SolarWinds has been the center of conspiracy since the past few days after the big
hack. The Dominion Voting Systems are being criticized for using a technology
firm that was hacked. These voting systems assist voting in 28 states, therefore being
attached to a technology firm that was hacked is not good for its name.
Dominion Voting
Systems website removes SolarWinds link
Previously, SolarWinds did not mention Dominion on its partial customer listing. However,
SolarWinds
maintained that their products and services are used all over the globe by approximately
300,000 customers. This customer base also includes all five arms of the United States
Military. Reports also indicate that 425 of the customers happen to be United States Fortune
500 companies.
The loophole in the security system of SolarWinds software paved the way for hackers to gain
access to the U.S. Commerce Department as well as the Treasury Department. The Department of
Homeland Security's Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency (CISA) stated that the Orion
products owned by SolarWinds were exploited by malicious hackers who managed to secure access.
The method employed by hackers also allowed them to gain access to the network traffic
management systems.
In the last few weeks, Dominion has attracted attention due to how widespread its systems
and machines are in the United States. Dominion machines are used in major states of the United
States. A number of witnesses have come forward to claim that Dominion products were connected
to
the Internet during the recent presidential election, raising doubts about security
mechanisms.
The reason why Dominion Voting Systems removed the link and reference of SolarWinds from
their website is unknown. However, if one connects the dot the reason is obvious. Dominion did
not want to be associated with a technology firm that was hacked
when it is already facing accusations regarding its security systems. Disclose.tv today
tweeted , "NEW –
Dominion Voting Systems deleted the link and reference to @solarwinds from its website."
Crucial Logs Missing From Some Michigan Dominion Voting Machines: Forensics Report BY
TYLER DURDEN MONDAY, DEC 14, 2020 - 12:44
Update (1225ET) :
The Epoch Times' Ivan Pentchokov reports that crucial security and adjudication logs are
missing from Dominion
Voting Systems machines from Michigan's Antrim County, according to a forensics report (
pdf )
released on Dec. 14 in compliance with a court order.
"Significantly, the computer system shows vote adjudication logs for prior years; but all
adjudication log entries for the 2020 election cycle are missing. The adjudication process is
the simplest way to manually manipulate votes. The lack of records prevents any form of audit
accountability, and their conspicuous absence is extremely suspicious since the files exist
for previous years using the same software," the report, authored by Russell Ramsland,
states.
"We must conclude that the 2020 election cycle records have been manually removed."
The absence of the adjudication logs is particularly alarming because the forensic exam
found that the voting machines rejected an extraordinary number of ballots for adjudication, a
manual process in which election workers determine the ultimate outcome for each ballot.
The office of Michigan's Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Dominion, and a
spokesman for Antrim County didn't respond to requests for comment.
* * *
As Sara Carter of SaraACarter.com detailed earlier, a Michigan
judge ordered the public release Monday of a report submitted by lawyers supporting
President Donald Trump and the election fraud allegations they say will reveal serious
concerns that the computer machines used in the voting in Antrim County were compromised. The
forensic report allegedly contains data that will reveal that the computer systems used to vote
in the county were not secure and had foreign components that made them susceptible to
manipulation and or fraud , according to those directly familiar with the case.
Michigan's Assistant Attorney General Erik Grill, representing
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, immediately shot back against the release of
the report, which President Donald Trump supporters say raises significant questions of voter
fraud and implications to the U.S. national security.
He suggested that the report being released is "inaccurate, incomplete and misleading,"
according to the
Detroit News.
"There's no reason to hide," said Grill, during a virtual court hearing Monday
morning.
"There is nothing to hide."
However, lawyers and computer experts working to expose what they say is a serious threat to
U.S. security and infrastructure say the report will reveal the irregularities in the data and
external foreign interference in the system.
The legal team "submitted the forensics report to the Judge (Sunday) at 8:30 a.m. per the
Judge's request," stated a source familiar with the report.
According to sources, who spoke to me this weekend the forensic
report of the computer system reveals that there are serious national security implications
to the evidence discovered because "the election system is categorized as critical
infrastructure, this is a threat to, it is a national security concern."
The lawsuit was initiated by Antrim County resident William Bailey. Circuit Judge Kevin
Elsenheimer, a former Republican lawmaker, allowed Allied Securities Operation Group and Bailey
to take forensic images of the county's 22 tabulators and review other election-related
material to ensure election integrity.
The forensic analysis has been under protective order. It could not be released prior to the
Judge's decision Monday, when Elsenheimer ordered the release with some redactions.
Antrim County has roughly 23,000 residents and the discovery that roughly 6,000 votes cast
using the Dominion Voting Systems that should have gone to President Donald Trump went to Joe
Biden without explanation triggered the ongoing investigation by Trump supporters.
The bizarre explanation that a failure to update voting software led to Joe Biden initially
receiving those thousands of votes ahead of Trump in the Republican-leaning county wasn't
accepted by the majority of Trump supporters, nor many of the Michigan GOP>
If the forensic report is accurate on the irregularities, as well as other issues of alleged
fraud regarding the Dominion Voting Systems used in XX states across the country, it may
snowball to other state legislatures requesting audits of their systems as well.
"when ballots are put through the machine, a whopping 68.05% error rate means that 68.05% of
the ballots are sent for bulk adjudication,...the ballots are sent somewhere where people in
another location can change the vote"
To be honest, I'm looking forward to a Biden administration. All the late night TV jokes
at his expense about the gaffs, mental lapses, and blank stares should be a hoot. Can't wait
for the first SNL skit! Yep, I can't wait.
SillyWabbits 9 hours ago
There was no fraud.
It was outright theft.
gilhgvc 10 hours ago (Edited)
Well, it's official...we are ruled over now. Congress and senate are dukes and duchesses,
courts are the new court JESTERS and biteme/cameltoe are the new king and king of the
realm....I want to send an apology out to our Founding Fathers and all the men and women who
died for this idea of america...we blew it guys. We are nothing like you brave souls. While
we wallow in the muck with our nikes, cell phones and nose rings, the world dies a little
more each day. I apologize for tearing statues down of great men, who merely did what was
normal in those times. You gave it all to us on a silver platter and the morons squandered
it, fat & happy to sit around bitching about being poor, while playing video games on
thier $1000 I-phones....I am sorry. play_arrow
Mzhen 10 hours ago remove link
Some lowly cyber security professional testified to the Colorado legislature yesterday,
saying that nobody at CISA has a background and qualifications that would allow them to state
that the election was the most secure in history.
The hearing came to naught because the Democrats dominating the state don't want an audit.
Colorado turned Blue almost overnight -- or it was after statewide all-mail-in voting was
instituted. Probably not a coincidence.
Populist progressives have no friends and, in fact, face layer upon layer of blockers some
obvious but many diabolically deceitful. Only physical overthrow of the system will
accomplish what they desire. Of course, there will be lip service and maybe even some action
like enough UBI to keep the debt ponzi going and to keep the bourgeois from having their
lives too impacted by the unwashed.
Populist conservatives don't generally want to take handouts and certainly don't want any
given. And while many jobs are gone the populist conservatives dominate the military, law
enforcement, fire, and many other public service jobs and also manage who gets those type of
jobs via an informal good ole boy network they seem to be okay with the arrangement.
Populist conservatives also love authority and chain of command so while they may not love
wall st\corporate\elite handouts, those handouts don't change hierarchy. What they will not
allow is for other common people to get anything that could be seen as cutting in line except
for maybe themselves and protectors of their "values", in which case, they prefer to be
discrete and exclusionary.
"... 1. When campaigning in 2016, he promised his non-Goldman Sachs supporters (i.e., the "deplorables") that infrastructure and a wall to be paid by Mexico would be among the major priorities during his first two years; instead he came out of the chute with a tax-cut for the wealthy and a phony "repeal and replace" assault on the Affordable Care Act which led to the R loss of the House when it became clear to voters in November 2018 that the Rs and the President had nothing to offer as a replacement ..."
"... He failed to purge the bureaucracy of Obama administration holdovers on January 21, 2017, unlike Dick Cheney who threw all the Clintonians out of government on January 21, 2001, thus, leaving people in place like Sally Yates and the Vindman brothers who never missed an opportunity to knife President Trump in the back. ..."
"... He failed at the outset to investigate the case against General Flynn (engineered by Strzok, Comey and David Ignatius) who was his only close advisor with previous governmental experience and left the General twisting in the wind. ..."
The optics of a defeated outgoing President appointing a Special Counsel to investigate
the electoral victory of his victorious successor at the ballot box and in the Electoral
College, over the objections of his attorney General, do not look particularly palatable and
doubly so if the President had to fire the Attorney General to make the appointment. The
ensuing firestorm would make Nixon's firing of Archibald Cox look like a brush fire.
If the outgoing President were to make such an appointment, one can be assured that Joe
Biden's first executive on January 21,2021 would be the firing of the putative Special
Counsel, and he would be generally applauded for doing so.
Even if Biden didn't move quickly, there is the question of who should be appointed (and
Trump is not particularly good at hiring good lawyers), funding (is Pelosi going to be
particularly keen on appropriating the funds?) and staffing up with supporting (and
supportive) attorneys, paralegals and FBI agents (you can be sure that Chris Wray will not be
too enthusiastic about helping out).
That said, there is one Special Counsel that needs to be appointed and that is a Special
Counsel to investigate the Hunter Biden affair[s} which reached all the way to the "Big Guy",
according to Tony Bobulinski. Joe Biden appears to have been the electoral beneficiary of a
massive cover-up of "Biden-gate" with the black-out of the New York Daily News story by Big
tech, the almost-total suppression of the Hunter laptop and the Tony Bobulinski revelations
by the MSM and the coordinated fabrications of the former IC biggies, like Clapper, Brennan
and Morrell, who very publicly dismissed the New York Post Story and Bobulinski revelations
as the product of Russian disinformation and artful lies embedded in a KGB-engineered fake
lap-top.
The 2020 election, with its cover-up and potential denouement, is beginning to look more
and more like the 1972 election where the cover-up led to the resignation of a President who
just 20 months prior had been elected in one of the biggest landslides in American history.
This is the investigation we need NOW to save our Republic.
IMO the presidential election was stolen and Biden is a crook, has always been a nasty.
That being said if you want a special prosecutor for l'affaire Hunter, have at it.
Hunter the bag man for crooked Joe? What did Obama know and when did he know it? The same
should be asked about his and Brennan and Clapper's involvement in The Steal.
Given that Hunter's troubles were non-news but a month ago and now are big-news the vision
in my head is Hillary sneaking up on China Joe's back with a rather large dagger. Good luck
Joe!
Gosh, what about the optics of the outgoing Obama administration plotting to take down
Flynn and Trump.
Bad manners for sure, because a lot of this anti-Trump plotting sure looked like the work
of the sore losers still occupying the WH until the 11th hour when the infamous Susan Rice
CYA memo was typed and filed. And the last Samatha Power FISA unmasking request was unmasked
for purposes still unknown.
Ah, yes, the bad optics of it all. Bummer. Bad optics is seeing the thoroughly discredited
and rejected Obama team warming up in the dug out.
Bad optics is Trump leaving office and NOT appointing a special counsel to investigate
both election fraud and Hunter Biden incestuous influence peddling. Two transgressions we
never want to see in this country again.
The optics of a defeated outgoing President appointing a Special Counsel ...
Who cares about optics. I mean, what're the Dems going to do at this point? Impeach Trump
again? Meanwhile, our constitution is dying. THAT'S the only issue that matters at this
point.
That said, there is one Special Counsel that needs to be appointed and that is a
Special Counsel to investigate the Hunter Biden affair[s} which reached all the way to
the "Big Guy", according to Tony Bobulinski.
Hunter Biden is beside the point. His daddy ain't gonna be president for too long
anyway. The only issue that matters now is the fraud and nothing else. Don't let the
Mockingbird media--the same that adamantly refused to cover anything about Hunter
BEFORE the election--distract you with a bunch of irrelevant BS now.
@akaPatience: If they weren't Trump's picks, then what was Trump doing there? If he can't
pick his own cabinet, he was just wasting his and everyone else's time. Yes, they have to be
approved by the senate. What happens if the president and the senate can't agree?
As for the remarks about optics, I think it's all a bit late to worry about optics. The
dems just stole the election right in front of everyone's faces. They aren't worrying about
optics. They essentially just stole it and then turned round and said, "What are you going to
do about it?"
Col., OT, perhaps impertinent, but inspired by the Wisdom of SWMBO--
I'm just a few years younger than you. I carry a few excess pounds but retain the immune
system of my Italian peasant ancestors. Not a chance in the world that I will allow myself to
be injected with an "emergency authorized" vaccine.
If I may ask: Will you?
nb. Not entirely off-topic, since the rigged election relied on Covid hysteria propagated
by media and the same usual suspects as should be the subject of Special Counsel.
In other words, the Covid pandemic should be investigated. More urgently: distribution of
vaccine should be HALTED before anyone is (potentially} harmed.
I had a talk with my immigrant Chinese doctor about this. That was two days ago. He was
still working out how this would be funded but he said to me that we (his family and mine)
would wait just a bit to see how bad the reactions are.
My memory of the very early days of Trump WH staffing was having to run interference past
the Democrats standard and vicous politics o personal destruction out to destroy anyone who
even thought about particpating in the Trump administration, the renegade GOP establishment
undermining him at every turn denying him any establishment help or advice, and the normal
learning curve of someone 100% outside of the political establishment who was bound to
stumble and falter before hitting his stride.
Democrats declared it was treason for anyone to aid and abet the "enemy" even though Trump
did try to reach out - remember his very early High Tech guru meeting? The liberal media
never let up, the deep state leaked and sabotaged as a fifth column from within.
The most remarkable thing about Trump is what in fact he did accomplish anyway, despite
the constant opposition, churning and revolving door of staff appointments.
#45 presidency remains a story of amazing accomplishments. Thank you President Trump. I
did not think you had this in you. But you did. Sitting in Dr Norman Vincent Peale's Marble
Collegiate Church in NYC, taking early lessons from his Power of Positive Thinking and
practicing The Method held you in good course.
(See PBS Peter Graves Biography on the early Donald Trump -from the Marla Maple days -
what you saw then is what you also got in 2026 - youtube)
The man is transparent and consistent. No one can complain they were duped or he is a
false charade. He is what he says and he delivered. How refreshing.
Please excuse my "politeness" in using the phrase "bad optics" to describe a proposed
potential action by a defeated outgoing President to appoint a "Special Prosecutor" to
investigate the election of his victorious successor when such an action, to be blunt, would
be politically stupid, subversive of our Constitutional order and futile, as such action
would be immediately reversed in the first minutes of the incoming administration. If we are
talking about "savor[ing]", it would only give the Ds an opportunity to "savor" another
victory.
The President has only himself to blame for the legal setbacks suffered by his ineffective
lawyers who have never been able to produce sufficient evidence to convince even his judicial
appointees that substantial electoral fraud took place during the 2020 balloting.
Constitutional challenges to gubernatorial changes to balloting procedures for usurping
legislative authority should have been mounted immediately after they were announced, not at
the 13th hour after the ballots had been counted. In 2000, Jim Baker organized a team that
included four lawyers who now sit on the Supreme Court. The failing, flailing Rudy Giuliani
and Sidney Powell (as much as I admire her advocacy for General Flynn), by contrast, have not
cut any mustard with their post-hoc and sometimes bizarre arguments. IMHO, the President
should cease and desist now from taking actions which detract from the R effort to save the
Senate seats in Georgia which, if lost, will immediately begin the de-Republicanization (used
Constitutionally) of our American system of government.
IMHO, the President has only himself to blame for losing the 2020 election due to a
succession of self-inflicted miscues which began on Day 1 of his administration. Let me count
the ways:
1. When campaigning in 2016, he promised his non-Goldman Sachs supporters (i.e., the
"deplorables") that infrastructure and a wall to be paid by Mexico would be among the major
priorities during his first two years; instead he came out of the chute with a tax-cut for
the wealthy and a phony "repeal and replace" assault on the Affordable Care Act which led to
the R loss of the House when it became clear to voters in November 2018 that the Rs and the
President had nothing to offer as a replacement . Thus, he repeated the same mistake
that Clinton and Obama made in 1993 and 2009 and suffered the same fate that they suffered in
1994 and 2008 when they lost the House. In this case, President Trump's mistake was near
fatal as he gave his bitter enemy, Nancy Pelosi, the whip hand in which to drive the Country
to impeachment. We are still waiting for a "replacement" and a completed "Wall".
2. He failed to purge the bureaucracy of Obama administration holdovers on January 21,
2017, unlike Dick Cheney who threw all the Clintonians out of government on January 21, 2001,
thus, leaving people in place like Sally Yates and the Vindman brothers who never missed an
opportunity to knife President Trump in the back.
3. He failed at the outset to investigate the case against General Flynn (engineered
by Strzok, Comey and David Ignatius) who was his only close advisor with previous
governmental experience and left the General twisting in the wind.
4. He bungled the firing of Jim Comey after getting Rod Rosenthal to sign onto a memo
citing Comey's botched and procedurally defective Clinton email investigation as the reason,
then publicly boasted of having done so with the Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador and,
for a self-inflicted coup de grace, told Lester Holt that he fired Comey because of Russia
fatally undermining the laboriously constructed Justice Department rationale. The Comey
firing and the President's ineptitude led directly to the appointment of a Special
Prosecutor.
5. Moving ahead three years, after narrowly escaping the Mueller noose, the President
immediately bungled the effort to get the Hunter Biden/Joe Biden corruption story out to the
public, thus putting the noose back around his neck, by seeking in a conversation with the
Ukrainian President, with his many enemies listening in, to get the Ukrainians to appoint a
special prosecutor to investigate the Biden-Burisma connection. Surely, there was a competent
way to get the story out without igniting an impeachment controversy. He could have taken a
seminar with Dick Cheney to figure out how this is done, all the while keeping his
fingerprints off the weapon.
6. Another egregious self-inflicted and, perhaps, fatal wound: He gives Bob Woodward (a
mortal enemy) the right to conduct a taped-interview during which he admits to Woodward,
among other things, that he had been briefed at the outset about the lethality of COVID19,
which gave the lie to his previous pronouncements that the virus was little more than another
version of the flu. The election of 2020 was in many respects a referendum on President
Trump's handling of the Corona Virus. Had he leveled with the American people, under-promised
and over-delivered, instead of over-promising and under-delivering by election day, he would
most likely be taking the oath of office for a second term. BTW, Pfizer had all the
information that it needed to announce prior to the last weekend in October that its vaccine
was 90+ % effective, but, instead, Pfizer stopped trials the Friday before the election and
did not make its announcement until after the election. It's amazing that the President's
people did not have their fingers on the pulse of what was happening at Pfizer. One more
fatal error.
7. On Attorney General Barr, the AG saved Trump's bacon and what was left of our Republic
when he put a harness on Bob Mueller, took control of the Mueller Report, ordered up the
Horwitz investigation (disagreeing with Horwitz's conclusion that there was no impropriety at
the outset), put his own gloss on the Mueller Report before its dissemination, appointed a
Special Counsel to investigate the origins of the Russia Investigation. If he can't find the
demonstrable, provable evidence of ballot fraud sufficient to overturn the election and is
hesitant to undertake a Constitutionally dubious and futile action, I am satisfied with the
AG's conclusions.
I do not think the COVID economic disaster can be blamed on him. What you face now is
infinitely worse than the political blunders that can be blamed on him.
Tulsi Gabbard said she ran as presidential candidate with the Democratic party because she
believed that a third party didn't stand a chance against the Dems' political clout. And
because she believed that the Dems could be brought back to their original goal, i.e. the
party of and for the people. I wonder if she still believes that. And I personally wonder if
there will be a 2024 presidential race, seeing that the USA is soon heading towards collapse
from a completely corrupt parasitic elite.
Nikolaidis 23 hours ago 11 Dec, 2020 08:31 PM
There is no room for sane people in an insane society. The US and most parts of the so-called
Western world are becoming more and more insane with their "gender correctness" making men
women and women men plus adding 87, or is it 114, new genders. It is a sure sign of social
decline and collapse. It is parallel to what can be observed when looking at the fall of the
Roman empire.
zoombeenie 19 hours ago 12 Dec, 2020 12:22 AM
Tulsi was America's chance at being at least No.2 to China. Now with already effectively a
one party state with both GOP and Dems beholden to their sponsors (MIC and the 1%) its now
jumping from the fire into the frying pan. Hope the US doesn't implode before the people wake
up to reality and see Tulsi as the saviour in 2024.
David Penrose Barneby 14 hours ago 12 Dec, 2020 05:21 AM
Tulsi Gabbard was the only credible democrat candidate for the presidency , I believe Tulsi
Gabbard would be a good president . America today has sunk beyond recognition , where lies ,
deceitfulness and brazen dishonesty are accepted as the norm .
Doodle_Dandy 15 hours ago 12 Dec, 2020 05:08 AM
This just proves to the world the total corruption within American politics. They can't talk
democracy, they are the world's largest terrorist organisation...and to think Yanks think
they are exceptional, makes me laugh...
David Penrose Barneby Doodle_Dandy 14 hours ago 12 Dec, 2020 05:30 AM
A laugh of derision ! I too would laugh , but unfortunately it isn't remotely funny . I'm
British , ashamed of the British government , I am ashamed that my sons and their California
wives vote democrat . Are even educated American So Ignorant that they are unaware of the
total corruption they are supporting ?
1justssayn 10 hours ago 12 Dec, 2020 09:20 AM
As a Democrat she endorsed the party instead of switching. Ronald Reagan said "I didn't leave
the democratic party, they left me". She should up hold her values and moral high ground by
changing parties. After this terrible year maybe the libertarian and Constitution parties
could arise and replace the Dem-, pub parties of corruption.
TWolsey 23 hours ago 11 Dec, 2020 08:42 PM
USA is crumbling. From within of course. That's how it is said it will happen.
a325 1 day ago 11 Dec, 2020 08:04 PM
Tulsi is so much the better person and candidate than Kamala!
Black Chinese 1 day ago 11 Dec, 2020 06:49 PM
I support Tulsi on this bill to level the playing field to protect the female gender to
compete with and against females and not WANNABE females with man muscles and everything a
man have at birth.
jangosimba 9 hours ago 12 Dec, 2020 10:44 AM
Tulsi can sleep well, knowing she does the right thing. I can't say that about any other
politician, none.
SNrt 1 day ago 11 Dec, 2020 05:25 PM
Well said Michael McCaffrey! Thank you! I wish I new you in person. :)
uncle_Alex 1 day ago 11 Dec, 2020 03:56 PM
I agree!
PedroNZ 19 hours ago 12 Dec, 2020 12:25 AM
Yep, we live in an upside-down world!
Crowfoot9 1 day ago 11 Dec, 2020 04:04 PM
I say let them accept all the trans people they want into woman's sports. All normal women
will eventually abandon professional competitions as all the unhinged glory seeking males
willing to earn some easy money and media attention will jump on this opportunity and kill
the sports. Will be interesting when this controversy reaches the olympics. All the non
western countries will abandon the Olympic Games and you'll be left with a western centred
competition which will look more like a circus show.
Blod_Grogan 7 hours ago 12 Dec, 2020 12:22 PM
Yes, America is floundering. But as long as it is possible to make a bad-to-hopeless
situation fine and dandy by just claiming it is, sonorously and with expansive arm-wavings,
the steady slide will continue. Believe it or not, it is sometimes worthwhile and beneficial
to tell the truth. Ah, you'd never heard that before, well, despite that, I can assure you
several honest people claim that's true too - silly buggers.
Fred Dozer 18 hours ago 12 Dec, 2020 01:28 AM
I have a lot of Tulsi , hats, and shirts and gave her several hundred dollars. I was upset to
say the least when she backed Biden. However I calmed a lot since than. I always wondered how
Lindsey Graham could keep winning. Says a lot about some Americans. Tulsi truth, is not what
most Americans, want to believe.
Manya 1 day ago 11 Dec, 2020 03:54 PM
Gabbard the one who is a member on the Council on Foreign Relations? Come on, RT, you can do
better. Keep in mind your website is supposed to be for the informed people, not the
Americans who can barely read and manage to watch "Dennis Miller +one."
D Green Manya 1 day ago 11 Dec, 2020 04:42 PM
Truth hurts. She's right on this issue, but 'broken clocks,' etc. CFR membership is a
huge red flag and like most Dems, Gabbard is also a gun-grabber. Any politician (most
all of them) who supports wholesale destruction of the Constitution and abrogating the
individual's right to self-defense is not to be trusted!
Nitupsar 3 hours ago 12 Dec, 2020 05:14 PM
That's exactly my sentiment too!
Donkey80 17 hours ago 12 Dec, 2020 02:54 AM
The greatest intrinsic quality of America is that it always gets the finest politicians money
can buy
Nathan075 18 hours ago 12 Dec, 2020 01:19 AM
Kamala Harris = Queen of Tarts.
apothqowejh 21 hours ago 11 Dec, 2020 11:01 PM
She should come to Texas and help us reestablish the republic.
"Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) is leading an effort with nearly three dozen House GOP
lawmakers, urging President Trump to name a special counsel to investigate election fraud. The
lawmakers noted they believe the Justice Department isn't taking the allegations seriously."
OAN
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IMO this should be done. A Special Counsel should be named to make it as difficult as
possible for the Harris/Biden Administration to cancel all investigation of the obvious fraud
at both the wholesale and retail levels (Dershowitz reference). If this is not done,
consolidation of power on the Left will lead to a sham republic. IMO this Special Counsel
should be appointed from outside the government. If Barr has to be fired to accomplish a direct
appointment by the president, so be it. pl
I believe that President Trump has all the powers that the Attorney General has so there's
no need to fire Barr in order for the President to appoint a Special Counsel. He should also
appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Biden's Chinese connections and dealings. I heard
Rudy Guiliani say this morning that given Biden's history he couldn't pass a background check
for even the lowliest of government jobs requiring a check.
ITA - and not a second to waste doing this. No civilized country outside the US now uses
"electronic voting" due to its obvious corruptions.
At this stage of the game you have to wonder whether there would be any point. How likely is
it that whoever was appointed is not already compromised? Trump's picks for other posts don't
inspire confidence here. Even if someone were appointed and attempted to investigate, I'm sure
they would be leaned on not to look too closely and whatever conclusions they came to would
never see the light of day if they were unfavourable to the usual suspects. We have already
seen there is no lengths these people won't go to.
Trump had an opportunity over the last 4 years to at least try to clean up the swamp and he
squandered it trying to play nice with them. But then maybe if he had really tried, he would
just have been impeached, with the Republicans going along with it. That's the thing about
checks and balances. They only work under the assumption that the majority of the players are
honest and there are one or two bad apples. But if the majority are corrupt or compromised, the
checks and balances serve to entrench the corruption and make it impossible for anyone to clean
it up.
Only in a nation that had taken leave of its senses would Tulsi Gabbard be denigrated and
Kamala Harris be queen-in-waiting
Michael McCaffrey
Michael McCaffrey is a writer and cultural critic who lives in Los Angeles. His work can be
read at RT, Counterpunch and at his website mpmacting.com/blog . He is also the host of the popular cinema
podcast Looking California and
Feeling Minnesota. Follow him on Twitter @MPMActingCo
In an age where lies are worshipped and cowardice celebrated, Tulsi Gabbard is despised for
her bravery and commitment to truth, while Kamala Harris is lauded for...what, exactly?
Tulsi Gabbard, the four-term Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, is currently being
attacked by
liberals for introducing The Protect Women's Sports Act, which seeks to protect women's
athletics by recognizing that different sexes are born with different physical abilities.
Reasonable and rational people realize that men and women are biologically different.
Reasonable and rational people also realize that on average, men are bigger, stronger and
faster than women, and that just because someone born a male now subjectively "identifies" as a
female, that doesn't alter the objective fact that copious amounts of testosterone were pumping
through their body as it developed, thus making their competing against biological girls and
women in sport not only unfair, but dangerous.
These should not be controversial statements as they are obviously factually and
scientifically true. But objective truth is anathema in our age of subjective insanity. Which
is why Tulsi Gabbard's introduction of the Protect Women's Sports Act is a brazen act of
bravery.
This is why it is so perversely ironic that on the same day Tulsi Gabbard was being made a
pariah for courageously speaking plain truth and supporting common sense, Time Magazine was
announcing that the
empty pantsuit and monument to tokenism, Kamala Harris, and her chauffeur in the corporate
Democrat clown car, Joe Biden, were being honored as the Person of the Year.
If America were a sane place, Tulsi Gabbard, not Kamala Harris, would be the darling of the
supposedly liberal Democratic Party.
Gabbard is an intelligent, principled and charismatic woman of color, something the devotees
of diversity claim to desire. Her progressive bona fides are unquestionable as she vociferously
supports Medicare-for-All, a Universal Basic Income and wants to end the war on drugs and
private prisons. She is also a courageous anti-interventionist in addition to being a respected
Army Reservist and Iraq War veteran.
In contrast, Kamala Harris is a corrupt former "top cop" in California who brutalized the
poor
by being a proponent of the war on drugs yet let white-collar corporate criminals
skate . She is also a neo-liberal militarist who opposes
Medicare-for-All and a Universal Basic Income.
And yet, despite, or more likely because, of all of these things, Tulsi Gabbard is persona
non grata among the dupes, dopes and dullards in the Democratic party and media, while the
sellout and raging sub-mediocrity Kamala Harris is celebrated.
This is not surprising as Gabbard and her fetish for truth have long been a thorn in the
establishment's side, especially with her contrarian foreign policy beliefs, most notably
regarding Syria and Bashar Assad.
In 2017 Gabbard committed the cardinal sin of going against establishment orthodoxy when she
expressed skepticism regarding dubious claims of chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian
government in Khan Shaykhun, and, despite being right , was quickly
labeled an "Assad apologist."
She also made the egregious mistake of speaking the truth when she
said that the U.S. had been "waging a regime change war in Syria since 2011."
Nothing will get you a scarlet letter from the establishment faster than telling the truth
regarding America's thuggish empire.
As for compliant Kamala, speaking truth to power is not a sin with which she is intimately
familiar. Kamala is more of a kiss up and kick down kind of girl. She "kissed" up to former
Speaker of the California Assembly and San Francisco Mayor Willie
Brown and kicked down by trying to jail poor
parents of truant kids.
Another glaring difference between Tulsi Gabbard and Kamala Harris is that Gabbard is guided
by principle and Harris is guided by blind partisanship and personal ambition.
For instance, besides the Protect Women's Sports Act, this week Gabbard also dared to cross
the aisle by
introducing the Break Up Big Tech Act, which supported Trump's initiative to repeal Section
230, which gives legal immunity to large social media companies. Gabbard did this because it is
the right thing to do, even if Trump supports it.
As for Kamala, she is allergic to principles beyond personal ambition. Kamala will not take
on big tech, as they are her donor base and she is a junkie for their money and a corporate
power courtesan. One should not expect a Biden-Harris administration to move in any way shape
or form against Silicon Valley.
Another argument in favor of Gabbard's superiority over Harris is that the one time the two
women went head-to-head was in the Democratic primary debates, and Gabbard eviscerated
Harris so decisively that it stopped Harris' presidential campaign dead in its tracks.
This week's state of affairs proves that America is a madhouse, and the media, Time Magazine
and their ridiculous and grammatically incorrect "Person of the Year" selection included, are
funhouse mirrors used to further distort our already deranged sur-reality.
In these United States of the Insane, the inmates are running the asylum as American
militarism and corporate power are now deemed benign, it is declared gender doesn't exist, and
Kamala Harris is worthy of celebration while Tulsi Gabbard is deserving of denigration.
America always gets the leadership it deserves, and when Joe Biden falls, or more likely
gets pushed, down a flight of stairs and Queen Kamala ascends to the throne, we will get what
we deserve. And that certainly isn't a person of the quality and worth of Tulsi Gabbard, that's
for damn sure.
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carlus 1 day ago 11 Dec, 2020 04:23 PM
Good essay. My question is why she endorsed Biden, which immediately compromised her
intellectual honesty and contradicts her previous decisions to buck the DNC and powers that
be. It is puzzling and disturbing. The practical implications are that by so doing, she
didn't allow a chance for her growing supporters and the country to overcome impending,
rapidly approaching disaster, in many forms. In other words, Tulsi was the last hope and it
is now too late. She didn't realize this.
Hanonymouse carlus 1 hour ago 12 Dec, 2020 06:40 PM
Because she probably wants to run again in the future, so she has to keep the party happy.
TruthSpeak carlus 14 hours ago 12 Dec, 2020 05:55 AM
I was surprised she endorsed Biden, I did not know she did that. I felt she was the only hope
of sanity in this whole mess. I do hope she keeps pushing forward.
Anton Moric 1 day ago 11 Dec, 2020 03:42 PM
Spot on article that sums up the current situation in the USA quite well. Gabbard is a
rational hero, who is also strongly against the US Deep State's endless wars against the
perceived enemies of Israel. Another reason that the cabalists have unleashed their dogs on
her.
Rocky_Rambler Anton Moric 23 hours ago 11 Dec, 2020 08:33 PM
I agree this was very well-written, and right on the money. I loved the phrase, " the empty
pantsuit and monument to tokenism, Kamala Harris, and her chauffeur in the corporate Democrat
clown car, Joe Biden "
Richi777 1 day ago 11 Dec, 2020 03:54 PM
Good article. Tulsi Gabbard is certainly the one to watch for the next election. Although the
swamp and or the deep state might have other ideas.
skizex Richi777 14 hours ago 12 Dec, 2020 05:50 AM
Doesn't help that she is CFR
Russian_Bot Richi777 1 day ago 11 Dec, 2020 07:32 PM
In 4 years, it'll be, then, the incumbent President Kamala Harris and whoever the
establishment appointed to be No 2. Tulsi has no chance. I believe that by the next election,
the US is going to become, effectively, one-party nation. As of now, she is the only one who
could be a compromise figure for the centrists and moderates on both political sides. But
she's too independent and unpredictable for those who have high stakes in the future
elections outcome and are able to finance her campaign.
Je suis CHUMP 1 day ago 11 Dec, 2020 03:43 PM
"Only in a nation that had taken leave of its senses would Tulsi Gabbard be denigrated and
Kamala Harris be queen-in-waiting" Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. I'm waiting for 2024 when Tulsi
Gabbard winning the presidential race, or VP position on Trump-Gabbard ticket.
Teodor Nitu Je suis CHUMP 22 hours ago 11 Dec, 2020 09:22 PM
"... VP position on Trump-Gabbard ticket." That's exactly why she endorsed Biden, to dispel
the notion that she was a 'Trump supporter in disguise', as she was beginning to be painted
by some leftist extremists.
carlus Je suis CHUMP 1 day ago 11 Dec, 2020 04:12 PM
Gabbard has talked to Trump about issues. I think she tried to convince him that the climate
crisis is real. He either believes this and lies about it for political reasons (she would
find this repulsive ), or doesn't believe it and therefore is (and she would have a problem
with this as well) too willingly ignorant to listen to reason.
Rolf001 1 day ago 11 Dec, 2020 05:10 PM
Speaking the Truth in Times of Universal Deceit is a Revolutionary Act (George Orwell). Tulsi
represents exactly what Orwell meant.
Jose Francisco 1 day ago 11 Dec, 2020 07:32 PM
love the pincipled Tulsi. altho i did lose respect for her for her endorsement of BIden.
still, i can forgive her, i mean, look at her, she's committed to the truth, brave and
beautiful.
BluDiva 8 hours ago 12 Dec, 2020 11:51 AM
I considered Gabbard one of the few, honest, intelligent politicians of our time. She invited
the wrath of her corrupt party, which stands for anything but honesty and intelligence.
However, her endorsement of Biden stands in strange opposition to her intellectual/political
persona.
bbob412 1 day ago 11 Dec, 2020 08:09 PM
The treatment of Tulsi Gabbard is a tell tale sign of how corrupt the DNC has become. She has
more integrity than the lot of them. It's scary how easy it is for the DNC to make good
people look evil. A little partisan politics and a lot of bad and misleading press goes a
long way in this country of half wits though.
TheFishh bbob412 22 hours ago 11 Dec, 2020 09:43 PM
The DNC is so backward and demented that it won't consider anything new to the point that it
will force-feed a candidate that isn't all that popular.
Happylistener 23 hours ago 11 Dec, 2020 08:25 PM
She is straight, she is honest ( as far as we can see) she's the guts to stand up to the
bullies, lots of them. She has an opinion that reflects the ideals and ideas of her targeted
voters. Why are the DNC so afraid of her ? She doesn't flop like Bernie, she's not afraid of
The Hillary mob. Unfortunately, she can't get the big bucks that get you into power. I wonder
why? No war, no bucks ! Keep at it Tulsi Gabbard. You have guts.
Midnight10 19 hours ago 12 Dec, 2020 12:15 AM
How very true. Unfortunately since both parties rely on their funding from the
military/industrial complex, there will never be a candidate that would be acceptable if they
were not a warmonger. She spoke truth to power and turned the drumbeating msm against her.
She would have made a difference as VP. Kamala has her own agenda, and seems to love the
sound of her own voice. Has alot in common with Trump. Has already told BiBi there will be no
preconditions when the US deals with Israel. May get a illegal settlement named after her
yet.
Color revolution tactics that have been used against foreign leaders are now being used by
President Donald
Trump 's opponents to oust him, a former special forces officer has warned.
"A color revolution is a tactic to affect regime change," the officer, who asked to remain
anonymous, told The Epoch Times.
"What I see happening is a Marxist insurgency that's using a color revolution to affect
regime change."
The 2019 Transition
Integrity Project , according to the officer, is an indicator that the events of this
year's presidential election were "transparently orchestrated" by "Marxist elements within the
Democratic Party and their Marxist allies in foreign governments."
"It may not have fallen out just as they wanted, because anytime you carry out an
operation like this, the enemy will get a vote. But the plan was we will not concede the
election. The goal here was never the presidency, " the officer said.
"The goal of the opposition was to fundamentally change the country. They are attacking
the efficacy of the Constitution."
To achieve their goal, the anti-Trump opposition focused their main effort on affecting the
election, the officer said.
Some of the most notable color revolutions took place amid turmoil sparked by disputed
elections. In 2004, mass protests in Ukraine following allegations of a fraudulent presidential
election, which initially showed pro-Russia Viktor Yanukovych as the winner, led to a new vote
won by Viktor Yushchenko, the candidate backed by the European Union and the United States.
The officer said the tactics used by the anti-Trump opposition can be found in the Special
Forces' guide for overthrowing a government.
"What you're getting from me, this is supported in all older unconventional warfare
doctrines," the officer said.
"You could go to our manuals and pull from them the information I'm telling you. This
isn't from someone who's a rabid Trump supporter. This is what's happening ."
The officer then talked about how President Barack Obama used his eight years in office to
"seed his political allies all through the institutions," created an "underground" or "shadow
government" supported by legacy media and rioters.
"With the president being unable to get his own people into the administration, we
effectively had a third administration of Obama," the officer said.
"So we come to what we have today: The underground are the elements within the government.
We saw how they opposed the president, how they tried the impeachment ."
"The press is the auxiliary on the outside. The only thing we're missing is a real guerrilla
force, and we would be mistaken to think that's just Antifa or Black Lives Matter. There are
professional revolutionaries within those movements."
The Supreme Court on Friday tossed a last-minute bid by the state of Texas to overturn the
2020 election by challenging the results of four battleground states .
Citing a lack of standing, Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a
brief order that the state " has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the
manner in which another State conducts its elections ," adding "All other pending motions are
dismissed as moot."
In doing so, the justices shut down a long-shot bid for Texas to challenge Biden's wins in
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin - which was joined by 17 other states and over
100 House Republicans.
"Missouri led a group of
17 states that Wednesday afternoon filed a brief with the Supreme Court
supporting the Texas lawsuit aimed at
delaying the appointment of presidential electors from Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and
Wisconsin.
The brief mirrors the argument of the Texas suit in saying that the states acted
unconstitutionally when either their judiciaries or executive branches changed their elections
laws. The Texas suit, and the states that support it, say that only state legislatures may set
laws regarding how states appoint their presidential electors.
"The integrity of our elections is of critical importance to maintaining our republic, both
today and in future elections," Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said in a statement.
"The stakes of protecting our Constitution, defending our liberty and ensuring that all votes
are counted fairly couldn't be higher. With this brief, we are joining the fight."
The Trump campaign also filed a brief asking to join on the Texas suit on Wednesday.
"The illegal suspension or violation of state law thus calls directly into question the
certification of the results of the elections in Defendant States for Vice President Joe Biden,
Proposed Plaintiff in Intervention's opponent in the election," its brief said. "President
Trump's interest in the outcome of this litigation could therefore not be more acute."
The brief filed by Missouri and the other states, which is officially a motion for leave to
file a bill of complaint , also warns that the changes enacted by the state executives and
judicial branches opened the states' elections up to potential fraud." foxnews
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It appears to me that the Democrats in all their varied glory have become subversive of the
Constitution except in so far as it supports the creation of a sham republic like the Soviet
Union. We will now see if SCOTUS will save us from that. pl
All the unconstitutional 'stay at home orders', mask mandates and declaring businesses
(almost uniformly small independent competitors of multinationals or other big business)
'non-essential' has been giving everyone a taste of Democratic Socialism. This is looking
more and more like a Color Revolution in action. I notice that there's been essentially no
action from the left's trained street thugs - Antifa/BLM. Just like they are held in reserve
to explode at the most opportune time to create an excuse for the deep state to complete
their takeover.
I read that as more than a request to the scotus to stop the steal. Maybe I am reading to
much into it, but it reads to me like an acknowledgment that should the four states not be
held to constitutional account, then those 17 states will stop following the constitution as
well. The very valid point was made that the constitution is essentially an agreement between
the states. Either they all abide, or none will. If the scotus punts and Biden becomes
president, it will not be of 50 states. Worse than that, over 75 million folks voted for
Trump. This is a significant portion of the us population who are against this outcome. They
will not sit quietly by and accept this outcome.
I always try to spend time reading both sides. As I hang out here a lot, my views are
pretty obvious, but I do spend time reading what the other side says.
They are presenting idea that eighteen States Attorneys General have requested the Supreme
Court to review the results of a federal election as an attack on the constitution.
Run that by me again.
Last time I looked, the outline of how this was approached was put together by some pretty
smart folks who have bothered to read the constitution.
It might be even simpler. The following is a quote
Elections undecided by midnight are void & preempted by federal law – Foster
v Love (1997; 9-0 Decision)
"When the federal statutes speak of 'the election' they plainly refer to the combined
actions of voters and officials meant to make a final selection of an officeholder By
establishing a particular day as 'the day' on which these actions must take place, the
statutes simply regulate the time of the election, a matter on which the Constitution
explicitly gives Congress the final say." Foster v. Love, 522 U.S. 67, 71-72 (1997)
The Texas lawsuit is not about voter fraud. It concerns the process of elections. Texas
has a strong case. It is undeniable that the executive and judicial branches of the named
states illegally changed election laws/procedures without legislative approval. The law is on
Texas's side.
The problem is the remedy. The courts/SCOTUS do not want to invalidate the results. How
can they rule in Texas's favor without invalidating the results? They can't. Their ruling
will likely have lofty language that will pay lip service to federalism and state's rights
and may even reproach the offending states, but will do nothing to change the results.
I believe the SCOTUS should invalidate the results, because election law/process was
circumvented by the offending states. As a consequence and as Texas has asked, allow the
state legislatures to appoint the electors.
All of this maybe for nothing. There is no guarantee that those state legislature
appointed electors will vote for Trump, because the Republican party of the offending states
have been complicit in allowing the illegal changes to election law/process. Here in GA, the
Rep secretary of state and Rep governor had sign an illegal consent agreement with the
Democrats that liberalized the absentee/mail in voting process. Rejection rates of ballots in
the metro area fell from an average of 3% to 4% to 0.2%...even with fraudulent level of
turnout.
Trump may have triggered a civil war which will lead to the partition of the USA. The Hens
are come home to roost. In the last 50 years the USA and Israel have caused civil wars in
many countries in order to balkanize a.k.a break up nations into smaller states, which will
be easier for control by the NWO. Modi and Shah are also balkanizing India.
BorisJava mickeyis007 21 minutes ago 10 Dec, 2020 07:09 PM
Its pretty clear that it was the democrats who triggered it by acting as they did for 4
years.
Ergocreative BorisJava 2 minutes ago 10 Dec, 2020 07:29 PM
Exactly! The Dems spent 4 years dividing the country and inciting real hate as much as the
possibly can. They sponsored and organized violence around the election and now they feel
like all that will just go away because they want it. Well,like they say, anyone can start a
war but no one will know when and how it will end
It is one of the basic legal principles that the evidence that is not capable of being
tested, in order to determine if it is true fact or not, that such evidence must be rejected.
The same applies to the voting method: if it is not possible to positively determine that a
ballot paper has been cast by an eligible elector that vote must not be counted. It is as
simple as that.
Tom_Callan 1 hour ago 10 Dec, 2020 06:08 PM
When shown real evidence of fraud...the Dems cover their eyes and say ....'Where?'
RussianSpy222 28 minutes ago 10 Dec, 2020 07:00 PM
Joe Biden, representing the Republic of Atlantistan; Gavin Newsom, representing the Republic
of Caliphornia; and Greg Abbott, representing the Republic of Tejas; will meet in conference
in the Belovezh Forest. The agenda of the meeting has not been announced.
BeneElohim 16 minutes ago 10 Dec, 2020 07:11 PM
Sorry, for the Democrats to be this terrified that the truth might come out in the court of
law and put on the record, shows us and proves fraud took place. They have no confidence in
their victory for fraudulent reasons (They are guilty). Only criminal are scared to face
Court proceedings. They know it was fraud, Jesus to Mary....... Biden, admitted it live on
TV, like he always does.
There is no limit to the corruption potential of democracy...beware!
Mickey Mic 40 minutes ago 10 Dec, 2020 06:47 PM
"We The American People" need to get past our obstreperous vociferousness, and engage in a
revolutionary insurrection on all US. Institutions: House of Congress, Senators, Justice
system, Governors, MSM, Big Tech, our armed tumultuous direction requires a massive amount of
ebullition citizens. "We The People" have suffered long enough under their shadow
authoritarianism, the grains in the hourglass is running out rapidly. If we don't purge the
swamp monsters that have waged a global declaration war on the populace now, they will obtain
more dominion over humanity that is far beyond the scope of general cognitive perceptions or
comprehensions. They have unconstitutional dark mechanisms in motion, lurking, just beneath
the surface unbeknownst to the public eye. Our civil liberties are fading like a moth to a
flame; at the highest levels of our so called "Democracy" our very own constitution &
Bill of Rights has no legal recourse against these scaly, satanic,
lizard-Licking-shape-shifting Nazis. With an objectionable mind and a closer examination: One
can clearly see we are in the midst of war with demonic dark forces that conspire to acquire
ownership over human DNA. All of our God-giving Biological sovereignty will be replaced by
their vaccination patents. Their true ambitions are to control our genetics with wireless
remote devices including our Memories, Emotions, Thoughts, Hormones, and establish complete
autonomy for the very few that will remain 100% human......
Jonboyconnell Mickey Mic 21 minutes ago 10 Dec, 2020 07:06 PM
Everything stated is solid facts
Mickey Mic Mickey Mic 39 minutes ago 10 Dec, 2020 06:48 PM
......PS: Don't laugh like a hyenas trolls; Study the patterns of hysterical, learn more
about the potentiality of nanotechnology today, realize why Bill Gates owns patents with
DARPA's (RAM) program. Understand why the soft conditioning with face masks, lock-downs,
vaccination cards.
john muckles 46 minutes ago 10 Dec, 2020 06:42 PM
there's only one way to solve this dispute------send it to AIPAC for arbitration
VaimacaPiru john muckles 14 minutes ago 10 Dec, 2020 07:14 PM
HO John that was as funny as it gets!
ChinAnkhKhan 13 minutes ago 10 Dec, 2020 07:14 PM
creating all of this drama is not going to change the outcome...the reality is, no state can
dictate what another state can do. PERIOD...states's rights are only lessened when it comes
to FEDERAL RIGHTS, or the collection of states. but no ONE state can tell another state how
to run their election....it is laughable....i mean, the logical extreme is basically those 18
states COMBINING to force their will on other states...that was already tried, didn't work
out too well...
GaryDEllis ChinAnkhKhan 8 minutes ago 10 Dec, 2020 07:19 PM
Thats right. Other wise , democrats could get together and demand change in texas, florida,
etc.
Blackace180 9 minutes ago 10 Dec, 2020 07:19 PM
Well, how you like them apples? SCOTUS has a very big, very hot potato to deal with. There's
going to be a less than amicable decision made that may lead to a less than amicable
secession from the union. One side argues the constitution says legislatures make election
laws/rules, the other says yeah but we need wiggle room to deal with emergencies like the
pandemic. The constitution doesn't give the wiggle room they want and have exercised, and
they have had plenty of time to legislate their laws to facilitate any requirements due to
the pandemic that stated in February. And, I don't see how not checking signatures and
addresses alleviate or ease the pandemic. It is obvious the democrats used the pandemic to
ease voting requirements to achieve a fraudulent election win for Beijing Biden. This outrage
effects the entire country and Texas is justified in its appeal for a remedy. This outrage
needs to be rectified by this court, here and now.
mickeyis007 23 minutes ago 10 Dec, 2020 07:04 PM
Trump may have triggered a civil war which will lead to the partition of the USA. The Hens
are come home to roost. In the last 50 years the USA and Israel have caused civil wars in
many countries in order to balkanize a.k.a break up nations into smaller states, which will
be easier for control by the NWO. Modi and Shah are also balkanizing India.
mickeyis007 23 minutes ago 10 Dec, 2020 07:04 PM
Trump may have triggered a civil war which will lead to the partition of the USA. The Hens
are come home to roost. In the last 50 years the USA and Israel have caused civil wars in
many countries in order to balkanize a.k.a break up nations into smaller states, which will
be easier for control by the NWO. Modi and Shah are also balkanizing India.
After 18 Republican-led states backed Texas in challenging presidential election procedures
in four swing states, 22 jurisdictions led by Democrats sided with the defendants and social
media buzzed about a second US 'civil war.'
There was a flurry of activity on the US Supreme Court
docket 22O155 on Thursday, as Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin responded to
the Texas complaint, Ohio filed a puzzling brief ostensibly backing neither side, a number of
lawmakers also sought to join the case, all before the Democrat-led jurisdictions filed their
own amici curiae brief.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked the court to block the seating of electors from
the four swing states, arguing that they usurped the authority the Constitution gives
legislators to change the election rules and make them vulnerable to fraud. President Donald
Trump, who seeks to join the
Texas lawsuit himself, has complained the states improperly declared Democrat Joe Biden the
winner.
While the four states submitted their responses by the court-mandated deadline of 3pm on
Thursday, Democrat-led jurisdictions mobilized legal troops for their defense. District of
Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine led California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii,
Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York,
North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington – and the territories
of US Virgin Islands and Guam – in the
amicus brief seeking the dismissal of the Texas case.
The Democrat amici argued that "state courts and local actors" should be able to
"interpret and implement state election law" as the states need "sovereign ability to
safely and securely accommodate voters in light of emergencies such as [Covid]-19."
What Texas wants would "upend states' systems of government" they argued, adding that
their "experiences with safe and secure methods of voting by mail" will explain why the
case should be denied.
So far, a total of 18 Republican-led states have filed amicus briefs to support Texas. On
Thursday, six of them – Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and
Utah – have
asked to "intervene," that is join the case directly.
Caught in the middle of this legal war between the states was an odd
motion by Ohio AG Dave Yost, a Republican. Officially "in support of neither party,"
Yost actually argued that the Texas case should be thrown out, but that the nine Justice should
"issue a decision on the meaning of the Electors Clause at the earliest available
opportunity."
"The importance of the public's constitutional doubts, however, pales in comparison to
the importance of the public's concerns regarding basic fairness," Yost argued, in a
strange turn of legal acumen.
As Arizona filed a separate amicus brief in support of Texas later on Wednesday, for much of
the day the US mainstream media spoke of "17 states" involved in the dispute. To no
one's surprise, angry Democrats drove Twitter trends such as #SeditiousSeventeen, denouncing
the plaintiffs for wanting to "overturn" the election and stoking the next "civil
war."
HipToTheJive 57 minutes ago 10 Dec, 2020 06:24 PM
Sorry Dems. It is unconstitutional to make elections laws without the legislature. That is
the bottom line. Here is a quote from this article said by the Dems. "What Texas wants would
"upend states' systems of government" they argued, adding that their "experiences with safe
and secure methods of voting by mail" will explain why the case should be denied." The vote
was definitely not safe or secure. Sorry Dems.
Ergocreative HipToTheJive 1 minute ago 10 Dec, 2020 07:21 PM
Pelosy said they were going to win whether by votes or not. They pulled the mailing ballots
ten wait to see if it wont be challenged. Have you asked yourself why Zuckerberg "donated"
$350M to be used mainly in the areas those disputes are arising from?
"... U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Batten ruled the case had no standing to sue, the case belonged in state court, and was filed too late. ..."
"... "There's no question that Georgia has a statute that explicitly directs that elections contests be filed in Georgia Superior Court," Judge Batten, a President George W. Bush appointee, said in his ruling. "They are state elections. State courts should evaluate these proceedings from start to finish." ..."
After a federal judge dismissed lawyer Sidney Powell's election fraud lawsuit Monday in
Georgia, Powell told
The Epoch Times she plans to appeal and "proceed as fast as possible to the Supreme
Court."
U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Batten ruled the case had no standing to sue, the case
belonged in state court, and was filed too late.
"There's no question that Georgia has a statute that explicitly directs that elections
contests be filed in Georgia Superior Court," Judge Batten, a President George W. Bush
appointee, said in his ruling. "They are state elections. State courts should evaluate these
proceedings from start to finish."
Cruz was especially critical of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's dismissal on the procedural
ground.
"Even more persuasively, the plaintiffs point out that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has
also held that plaintiffs don't have standing to challenge an election law until after the
election, meaning that the court effectively put them in a Catch-22: before the election, they
lacked standing; after the election, they've delayed too long," Cruz said . "The result of the
court's gamesmanship is that a facially unconstitutional election law can never be judicially
challenged.
Cruz also on Monday filed a friend of the court
brief – along with 10 of his Senate colleagues – in Arizona Attorney General
Mark Brnovich's case challenging the Democratic National Committee's stance that the Voting
Rights Act bans state laws limiting absentee voting. among other measures.
Biden election success 'not statistically impossible, but statistically IMPLAUSIBLE,'
pollster says 7 Dec, 2020 15:57 Get short
URL Patrick Basham, founder of research organization the Democracy Institute, broke down
the "implausibility" of Joe Biden's presumed presidential victory for Fox News, as Donald Trump
continues to insist there's "no way" he lost.
Joe Biden's apparent victory over the incumbent Trump is "statistically implausible,"
Basham told Mark Levin on Sunday night during 'Life, Liberty & Levin', describing a lot of
processes that went against all expectations during the elections.
He says that the Democrat defied the "non-polling metrics," which Basham claims have
"a 100 percent accuracy rate," including "how the candidates did in their respective
presidential primaries, the number of individual donations, [and] how much enthusiasm each
candidate generated in the opinion polls."
Trump, who with over 74 million votes is considered to have the second-best performance of
any candidate in history (as Biden is said to have over 80 million), has alleged that
fraudulent ballots in key swing states like Pennsylvania and Georgia led to Biden's apparent
victory. Basham cited a "historically low ballot rejection rate" as a possible factor
behind the president losing reelection.
"Rejection rates, which in the primaries earlier this year were well into the
double-digits and which historically have often been very, very high in these key swing states,
or at least in the key swing counties, we're seeing rejection rates of less than one percent,
often very close to to zero," he said.
With a major increase in absentee ballots due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is
"implausible," based on voter experience in the area, that so few ballots would be
rejected, Basham theorized.
Also shedding a questionable light on Biden's victory, the pollster added, is Trump's own
performance, which was unusually strong for an incumbent candidate.
"If you look at the results, you see how Donald Trump improved his national performance
over 2016 by almost 20 percent," he said. "No incumbent president has ever lost a
reelection bid if he's increased his votes [total]. Obama went down by three and a half million
votes between 2008 and 2012, but still won comfortably."
... ... ...
J_P_Franklin 12 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 11:24 AM
"Basham cited a " historically low ballot rejection rate " as a possible factor behind the
president losing reelection." What is normally done was not done to get rid of Trump.
Republicans did it too. Those swing states have Republican legislatures who can still stop
the coup but won't. This is a Republican coup against Trump.
Wazzup 12 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 11:18 AM
Yes its clear that the election was rigged massively. However in the west its not the voters
who choose the leaders so vote rigging is par to the course.
Banalucki Wazzup 5 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 06:18 PM
Who is the "they" that voted in President Adams who said, "Avarice, ambition, revenge, and
licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a
net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people." This situation has
moved way past control by political propaganda - especially since it is a very hot war with
germ warfare, lockdowns, rioting, and now a "what you gonna do 'bout it?" arrogance from the
"gig" economy Orks, imho.
Banalucki Wazzup 5 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 06:18 PM
Who is the "they" that voted in President Adams who said, "Avarice, ambition, revenge, and
licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a
net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people." This situation has
moved way past control by political propaganda - especially since it is a very hot war with
germ warfare, lockdowns, rioting, and now a "what you gonna do 'bout it?" arrogance from the
"gig" economy Orks, imho.
MotorSlug Wazzup 9 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 02:30 PM
rigged against Bernie
shadow1369 12 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 11:20 AM
There is not a shadow of doubt that the DNC rigged the outcome of the election.
Mickey Mic 11 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 12:36 PM
This election wasn't designed to be fair. The Democrats have been stacking the deck, pushing
the vote-by-mail process, using the virus as the excuse and claiming polling places
disenfranchise the poor. They also continue to use the virus to keep the country held down
and preventing it from emerging out of the financial hole we've been placed in. Those points
are valid and true. What is also true is the big three tech companies have for years, but
accelerated in 2020, their form of censorship and manipulation. Google, Facebook and Twitter
are doing all they can to control content away from conservative ideals and push their
liberal agenda using the full strength of their monopoly-controlled information source. Add
to the mix ballot harvesting and Electoral College manipulation, and the fix is in. Much like
Patrick Basham their only remaining factor is ... "There's no evidence !" closing the eyes
and yelling LALALALALALALALA !?!?!? PS: Perhaps Mr. Basham has his CDL license & drove
off with truck loads full of ballots meant for Trump ? One thing is sure, he could've driven
all of the reported missing trucks.
BeneElohim 10 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 01:06 PM
No solid evidence for the wars the US. waged. But solid evidence of voter fraud is not
allowed in Court system or the MSM. This is so corrupt it will make Sept. 11 2001 a little
jealous, just a little, but the same tactics are in play by the same people, their mission is
similar routine " NO forensic Investigations " are allowed for obvious reasons.
Fuhrer_Bojo 12 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 11:48 AM
With a population of 328 million and only 154 million voting one has to ask how either side
can claim victory, the majority of people decided they didn't want either in charge, in a
democracy the majority opinion should be respected.....
sunev Fuhrer_Bojo 6 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 05:29 PM
There are over 74 Million children under 18 in the USA who can't vote. There are over 3
million prisoners who have lost their right to vote. There are 47 million foreigners living
in the USA. A lot of them do not have citizenship, so they have no right to vote. So you have
a maximum of 124 million adults who are not entitled to vote, which means from 328 million a
possible 124 million couldn't vote. 154 million from 204 million who were entitled to vote
voted. That's over 75% of the voting population! That is a huge turnout!
Gerald Newton 3 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 08:57 PM
Ware County, Ga has broken the Dominion algorithm: Using sequestered Dominion Equipment, Ware
County ran a equal number of Trump votes and Biden votes through the Tabulator and the
Tabulator reported a 26% lead for Biden. 37 Trump votes used in the equal sample run had been
"Switched" from Trump to Biden. In actual algorithmic terms this means that a vote for Trump
was counted as 87% of a vote and a vote for Biden was counted as 113% of a vote. Those
conducting the test were so shocked that they ran the same ballots again. The same results
appeared. ONE PIECE OF THE PUZZLE SOLVED. (It is worth noting that this was one County, and
on one Tabulator alone. Dominion Tabulators could have been configured with different
algorithms in different Counties or States.) In Michigan 22 Dominion machines have bee turned
over to the Trump lawyers for forensic analysis.
MeNot 12 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 11:38 AM
No one with any common sense wanted a corrupt & senile old man that is known for sexually
harassing females and a side kick that got her jobs by way of sexual favors ( Heels Up) to be
elected for anything. The election in the USA was clearly rigged and a fraud.
RationalNut 6 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 05:17 PM
There are people who think Biden cheated. There are people who think Trump cheated. These
contentions can and should be resolved by auditing the votes in swing states (or in all
states if resources for that can be found). Are both sides in favor of an audit? Hmmm....
Franc RationalNut 4 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 07:10 PM
The democrats have been trying to shove Biden through the door since election night. They
refuse or attack any attempts at investigation, and they intimidate or threaten any who try
to speak out. Where's the transparency? If they aren't guilty, they should have nothing to
worry about.
Biden won a measly 477 counties, Trump won a resounding 2947 counties...
Waytame 9 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 02:45 PM
Where's the evidence, Trump campaign? Count cases are being lost left and right because none
seems to materialize. It's just one debunked claim after the other.
Franc Waytame 4 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 07:08 PM
The evidence is on the camera, and also in the hundreds of sworn affidavits across the swing
states. (Which carry a huge penalty if lied on) Everyone knows this election was a sham, the
only difference is how long it takes some people to stop lying to themselves.
AndrewMacDon Waytame 6 hours ago 7 Dec, 2020 05:14 PM
Your refusal to accept the masses of evidence; sworn testimony, video, statistical, etc, is
mereley an act of wilfull deceit. The fact you won't accept what constitutes the legal
standard of what is evidence, while screaming "where's the evidence", doesn't make you smart.
It means you are disenfranchising 74 million who are xtremely angry, have been extremely
parient and law abiding, and are now no longer going to pkay along with your games while you
gaslight them. The Republican electorate have played nice with you unreasonable liars for too
long. I believe that is going to change. Remember, things unfolded, the leftist refusal to
tell the truth and play by the rules, is what led you to where you are. You threw out
democracy with this fraud. You threw out the rules. Enjoy the consequences.
In his lawsuit, Matthew DePerno claims that based on the evidence they have provided to the
court that Dominion Voting Systems "committed material fraud or error in this election so that
the outcome of the election was affected."
At 5:30 PM on Friday, December 4, 13th Circuit Court Judge Kevin A. Elsenheimer granted
permission to William Bailey and his team of IT experts to conduct a forensic study of the 16
Dominion voting machines, tabulators, thumb drives, related software, and the Clerk's "master
tabulator." In his court order, Bailey was also granted the ability to conduct an independent
investigation of the images they obtained in their examination. According to DePerno, it would
take approximately 6 to 8 hours to obtain the forensic copies, and it made sense to do the work
on the weekend when most government employees and residents would not be in the building.
Matthew DePerno was able to quickly assemble a team of seven highly trained forensic IT
experts who agreed to arrive the next day (Saturday) to conduct the forensic examination.
Following Judge Elsenheimer's order for the forensic examination of the Dominion Voting
machines, the unelected Township Administrator Peter Garwood informed Mr. Bailey that he would
not allow the machines to be accessed until Monday at 11:00 am. DePerno explained that Garwood
also contacted Dominion officials and suggested they come to the Antrim County building where
the court-ordered examination was to take place. As a result, DePerno and his client, William
Bailey, were tasked with ensuring that the Dominion equipment inside the Antrim County building
wouldn't be tampered with before the team's arrival. According to DePerno, Garwood was told by
several elected county commissioners to stand down and allow the examination to take place over
the weekend. A group of patriots from northern Michigan answered Mr. Bailey's call for help.
For two days and nights, in freezing cold weather, the group of brave, volunteer patriots stood
ready and willing to protect the precious sanctity of our vote. On Sunday morning, the
seven-people IT forensic team arrived; Mr. Bailey and his attorney Matt DePerno were given
access to the county building and started gathering the forensic evidence. Shortly after the
collection began, Antrim County Administrator Peter Garwood began to take photos of the seven
IT experts. When one of the IT team members saw him taking photos of them, they demanded
Garwood delete them from his phone. According to DePerno, Garwood reluctantly deleted them.
While he couldn't say for certain, DePerno believes Garwood was attempting to dox the
highly-skilled IT forensic experts. Several photos of Mr. DePerno's vehicle were taken by
outside protesters as well.
Here's the first fornesic proof of Dominion Voting algorythmic voter manipulation. It
doesn't look like much (37 vote switch in Georgia's smallest county) but since nobody is
getting access to the machines or software, and state voting commissions are hurrying to
erase existing data - it's the first proof the Powell/Wood allegations.
Zucker – who now presides over one of the most fervently anti-Trump media outlets in
the American corporate press – hatched the idea to give then-candidate Trump a weekly
slot on CNN during a March 2016 phone call with Micheal Cohen, a lawyer for Trump at the time,
according to audio obtained by Fox News' Tucker Carlson.
Speaking with Cohen hours before the final Republican primary debate in the 2016 race,
Zucker said that while the Trump campaign had shown "great instincts, great guts and great
understanding of everything," he insisted victory would be impossible without CNN's
backing.
"Here's the thing you cannot be elected president of the United States without CNN,"
Zucker boasted. "Fox and MSNBC are irrelevant – irrelevant – in electing a
general election candidate."
When Cohen suggested the CNN chief relay his thoughts to Trump himself, Zucker demurred,
saying he is "very conscious of not putting too much in email," as Trump – "the
boss" – might go blabbing about it on the campaign trail.
You know, as fond as I am of the boss, he also has a tendency if I call him or I email
him, he then is capable of going out at his next rally and saying that we just talked, and I
can't have that, if you know what I'm saying.
Zucker soon talked himself back into contacting Trump, however, committing to "give him a
call right now" to "wish him luck in the debate tonight" – hosted by none
other than CNN – adding "I have all these proposals for him, like I want to do a
weekly show with him and all this stuff."
He went on to lavish praise on Trump, saying he had "never lost a debate" and would
do "great" during the CNN event later that night, even offering detailed advice for how
the president-to-be could deflect allegations that he is a "con man" from other
candidates.
While the source of the recording is unclear, the leak has made waves online, given that
Zucker has since made himself into Trump's "
cable news nemesis ." The network itself, meanwhile, has fielded an endless stream of
negative coverage of the president, heavily pushing the discredited 'Russiagate' conspiracy
theory for years and throwing full weight behind the Democrats' failed impeachment effort.
Some netizens have already suggested the "damning" revelation could soon result in
Zucker's ouster from his high perch at CNN.
"You think Jeff Zucker will be fired? I actually think there's a decent chance he will
be. Trying to kiss up to Trump is on par with murder in CNN world,"wrote filmmaker and
conservative pundit Robby Starbuck.
Others were less taken aback by the audio, as many pointed to the fact that Zucker and Trump
have a lengthy history together, both working on 'The Apprentice,' the hit reality show that
helped to solidify Trump's status as a pop culture icon. In 2012, Trump even hailed Zucker's
takeover as CNN president, saying the network made a
"great move," and that Zucker "was responsible for me and The Apprentice on NBC
– became #1 show!"
"Everyone knows Zucker made Trump, it's 100% true," one user said . "Trump was down and out.
Zucker pitched him a reality TV show called the Apprentice. Why? Because he likes his New
Yorkers, he likes Trump."
Sir,
Pretty sure you're trolling us a little with this post. That said, it is 2020.
I am 100% convinced that covid is a political conspiracy based on personal knowledge and
other info. Tonight Tucker Carlson reports that blood samples taken in early Jan 2020 tested
positive for covid - all of the samples. In other countries there is evidence of covid in the
population going back to Fall 2019; yet no overwhelmed hospitals and spiking death counts
from those early months. The internet fact checkers are clearly arrayed against information
seekers and forcing conformity to the state's message.
Clearly there was malfeasance in the election as well as a general Charlie Foxtrot created
by implementing mail in voting without sufficient time and resources for infrastructure
development; a no brainer that everyone should have foreseen and avoided - except for the
covid hysteria.
We saw the the Russia collusion hoax, Steele Dossier nonsense, idiotic impeachment and
slandering filthy lie campaign against of Justice Kavanaugh.
The list goes on. However, it stretches my credulity that the US military (Army SOF unit?)
would be shooting it out with the CIA in Germany and that Haskel would be there to be wounded
in the action; or was arrested and whisked off to some secret detention facility.
Would you please consider sharing what you really think?
From this moment on I'll be the new POTUS, as there is no democratic election possible!
Guaido should support me.
TheFishh Ironmanx 41 minutes ago 4 Dec, 2020 05:41 PM
Let's just have Guiado be president. After all, he was anointed by St. Trump Himself.
Brayar 1 hour ago 4 Dec, 2020 05:14 PM
The election was stolen. Even most Democratic voters are realizing this. The only people
still denying the fraud are the media, big tech, and those who are in on the fraud.
Jeffrey Perkins 51 minutes ago 4 Dec, 2020 05:37 PM
ok then..now the citizens of the usa need a group of countries to come liberate us
Whoa, hold your horses ! Remember the CIA "regime change play book"...
Lansman7 1 hour ago 4 Dec, 2020 05:24 PM
The US election may not have been 'stolen', but if this happened in any other nation America
would brand it illegitimate and bomb the hell out of its citizens FIFY
Ibmekon Lansman7 25 minutes ago 4 Dec, 2020 06:06 PM
.if it had happened elsewhere, it would probably have CIA fingerprints all over it.
Trump's speech looks like a clear declaration of willingness to cross the Rubicon - or
perhaps more appropriately to meet the persons having already done so by fixing the election, in
battle.
Trump J'accuse. It amazing to see US President speak honestly. I think it's official: we have
a Constitutional crisis on our hands.
Only paper ballots and no machine can provide honest elections. Presence of electronic voting
machines is a already a form of fraud.
I hired trump in 2016 to deal with this. To fire the bad people and hire good people and
drain the swamp. He did nothing about it.
There is no excuse why Bill Barr is running the justice department, no excuse why Pompeo
is running plush, private deals for global business though the state dept and the Goldman
Sachs guys are stripping the wealth of this country and handing it to wall st.
You are making excuses. Trump hired these people. There is no swamp being drained.
Dr. Linda Lee Tarver Testifies to What is Really Happening in Michigan!!!
pissonmefico 17 hours ago (Edited) remove link
The money changers, Wall Street, and Corporate America are and will always be in control
of the Federal Government, so why do 99.9% of you here keep calling this communism? Because
you've been deceived to think it even though you know who runs the show - which is an
unbelievable feat. It's FASCISM! - go get an effing dictionary and quit being duped making
YOU their main asset.
BigCumulusClouds 20 hours ago
Trump did not mention Haspel's arrest or her being at gitmo.
Dying-Of-The-Light 18 hours ago
Been saying the same since this sick joke of an election came to pass. If the forces of
all things Demontard and Deep State, along with the MSM and social media sites, are allowed
to so easily steal this election and get away with it then USA citizens will soon enjoy as
much liberty as Chinese citizens.
I have stated again and again that if the lying, senile, China bribed Biden has the nerve
to hold the bible in one hand on inauguration day, then all hard working USA citizens should
refuse to pay any income tax. If that inauguration goes ahead then I hope millions of
American citizens will turn up in Washington to protest its legality.
Nona Yobiznes 18 hours ago remove link
They don't want their viewers to learn about it. This is a DNC directive. Check out the
Veritas 9am call CNN leaks. One of the "journalists" said as much.
Carlin was RIGHT 19 hours ago
Barr is Swamp personified. If his lips are moving, he's lying.
Chupacabra 20 hours ago
Barr is deep state, always has been. He is there solely to obstruct, much like Wray and
Haspell. He is far worse than just useless. I'm glad more people are waking up to that
fact.
By the way, his Dad gave Jeffrey Epstein his first job. Pure coincidence, I'm sure.
brer_vole 20 hours ago
So the AP story headline is inconsistent with what they claim as his statement " Barr told
the AP that U.S. attorneys and FBI agents have been working to follow up specific complaints
and information they've received, but "to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could
have effected a different outcome in the election." "
As the story probagated - the headline was further changed and then even the quote was
changed.
told_ya_so 20 hours ago (Edited) remove link
Too many posters here just dismiss the concept that there was any election malfeasance.
The problem with this is that its pure conscious dissonance - just choosing to see your point
of view despite real evidence to the contrary. Regardless of who you actually vote for why
wouldn't you have a smidgen of curiousity about the things that have gone on. The most
blatant has been votes disappearing from Trump in realtime on the news feeds.
There are too many testimonies; too many high profile people staking their careers on
saying the election looks suspect to just dismiss the notion outright. And even if they are
wrong (and that's a big f*cking if), wouldn't you want to know that your guy got in
legitimately? Because from now on the other side are going to have to play just as dirty as
the Dems did to have a hope in hell of staying in existance.
Welfarebum 19 hours ago
I'm watching and reading from Canada. I've gone through all the evidence. It's death by a
thousand cuts... Distributed corruption designed to collectively achieve a coup against a
standing president. The mainstream media and Big Tech have subverted the truth. Average
people around me are completely unaware of the corruption. All they think is "orange man bad"
because they are subject to anti-Trump propaganda nightly on the TV news. It makes me sick to
my stomach.
The US is not a democracy. Not a republic. It's run by crony-capitalist totalitarianism
and the various US intelligence agencies are all on-board. What's transpiring is a massive
battle of good versus evil. My entire world-view has changed. With the US falling, all the
other democracies will also fail. My children will live under a CCP-like government.
My dad fought in WW2 as a fighter pilot for freedom - not for these crooks and their
master plan to enslave us all under an authoritarian world government.
Republicans can't let this stand. It they submit, it will be the end of freedom. Trump has
the police on his side. And much of the military. The country needs to be saved by the
patriots.
Dickweed Wang 20 hours ago
Court have laughed at him 39 times already. It's over.
If you're referring to court rulings regarding the election you obviously don't know what
you're talking about. Trump's legal team has only filed three lawsuits so far regarding the
election and all of them are currently active. It's not "over" until CONgress meets and
approves the results of the election on January 6th and at this point it may go on beyond
that due to the preponderance of evidence showing widespread and systemic fraud during the
election.
BTW . . . It's 'Courts' not 'Court'
chiquita 19 hours ago
I've been saying this for a while. The cheating is going to come home to roost regardless
of how this ends up. NOBODY is going to be happy about it when the whole country finally sees
and accepts the truth of it. It won't be shrugged off as business as usual or "there's always
cheating in elections". Not after this.
IF Biden somehow gets installed as president, his presidency will always be tainted--it
will be just like when you see those baseball players with an asterisk next to their stats.
You know the ones who did the steroids in order to get higher homerun hits or some other
advantage. It won't be a matter of having won fair and square and everybody is going to know
about it. No amount of calling Trump a sore loser is going to whitewash what the DNC did or
make Biden a good president. When the real stories about just how corrupt Biden and his
family are that will make people even angrier if he's sitting in the Oval Office.
Better hope for many reasons that Trump wins his challenges because it will be bumpy, but
a much easier ride in the long run.
Justus_Americans 13 hours ago
Trump's most important speech was properly named it showed our broken election system and
fake news https://youtu.be/Vxa4EUpF4wU
Thutmoses 13 hours ago (Edited)
Trump is giving the courts and Legislatures space to do their job.
Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp certified the state's election results Friday,
saying that now that the results are certified, the Trump campaign can pursue other legal
options to call for a recount. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, also a
Republican, told reporters Friday morning that President-elect Biden had definitively won the
state, after the state's hand
recount was completed Thursday.
But Kemp didn't endorse the results, instead calling for another full hand recount. Kemp,
who served as Georgia secretary of state before Raffensperger, has not publicly defended the
state's election process
from accusations from the president and his campaign. He alleged Friday that the audit revealed
significant errors made in several counties, including Floyd, Douglas and Walton.
Kemp said the audit only looked at ballots, not the signatures on the absentee applications
or the signatures on the ballot envelopes. He called for Raffensperger to "consider addressing
these concerns" and conduct a "sample of audit of signatures on absentee ballot envelopes and
compare those to the signatures on applications and on file that the secretary of state's
office."
Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich · 11h Governor Kemp calling for
a signature audit of the Georgia ballots and indicating that he is troubled by the evidence at
the state senate hearing is an encouraging step in the right direction. Sebastian Gorka DrG @SebGorka · Dec 3 GAMECHANGER.
Quote Tweet Grant
Stinchfield @stinchfield1776 · Dec 3 This is a total game changer! Sure looks like
ballot stuffing in GA! All caught on camera. Busted! @realDonaldTrump @JennaEllisEsq
@RudyGiuliani #stopthesteal 1.7K 17.7K 50.8K Ben Shapiro @benshapiro · 9h There is
literally no excuse for Republicans in Georgia not to vote for Republicans in Georgia.
None.
Perfect example of peter principal on steroids with splash gender bias.
However with such examples of CIA leadership as Brennan, Pompeo perhaps it is past time CIA
was disbanded.
Biden is supposedly looking for a replacement. Tom Donilon was lined up, but he passed on
the offer and it seems the Biden team are looking at other options. Trump himself was mulling
to replace her only a few weeks ago. She's out the door one way or another.
I saw a report published yesterday that she is "intimately involved" with Abrams and
Pompeo in clandestine operations against Iran in Trump's remaining weeks in office.
The officials say Trump has been more passive in overseeing Iran policy and point to Pompeo
and Iran envoy Elliot Abrams as the two advisors heading the last-ditch effort to hammer
the Islamic Republic. The officials say both Pompeo and Abrams are in favor of quietly
backing covert actions carried out by other actors. One official said CIA Director Gina
Haspel has been "intimately involved" in the administration's clandestine strategy against
Iran.
Snopes is pretty well known as another left wing "fact" checker.
The founders are Democrat activists.
Are there any so-called "fact" checkers that are not left wing?
Politifact obviously gets their "facts" from Schumer and Pelosi press releases.
I only care what "Snopes" is saying because this is what the Bubble is hearing and
believing. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.
Snopes for, some reason, has already "gotten ahead" of this rumor - so even that is
interesting. Not that they are accurate, but that they are out there running defense and are
even expanding the topic ( gratuitously debunking election fraud and German raid for bonus
points ) for whatever in fact is their own agenda.
No, these links were not presented for their truth; just for the wider discussion since
the other side puts a lot of credence in them for their own purposes. Brain-washing the
"progressive set" with dismissive denials is part of their agenda. Which personally bugs me.
So I put their weapons of diversion on the table up front.
Snopes is most definitely a part of the perception management apparat. Along with several
others who get prime Google News real estate to tell the sonambulent sheep what to think.
"12. A search of indivisible.org network showed a subdomain which evidences the existence
of scorecard software in use as part of the Indivisible (formerly ACORN) political group for
Obama" (page 9)
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This is the entire 46-minute speech that President Trump posted concerning the rampant voter fraud that took place in the
2020 election. Most of the Main Stream Media have ignored it completely or have tried to pick it apart. I think everyone
deserves a chance to watch it and decide for themselves. The first 39 seconds only have the audio but then the video kicks
in after that.
Listen form 16:00... Especially interesting idea is that hypocritical affect to enlarge
participation and avoid "disenfranchising the voters" is a smoke screen a fraud in its almost
pure form...
Dr. Tarver was outstanding! Very impressive. Where has she been all this time? If she
wants, she has a bright future in politics. Michigan Legislature really need to consult her
on how to fix the voting mess they have in Michigan.
Notice how their attitudes changed when they realized that this woman was no easy way.
When you speak...people...speak with authority and confidence because people like that
democrat will eat you alive if they sense any weakness in you.
Outstandingly sharp. However, people of USA appear hopelessly clueless to the obvious fact
that rules are broken on purpose. It is not some random occurrance due to an oversight, it is
by design. Elections happen all the time, it is not rocket science. America is stuck in a
kind of myopic version of reality whereby the good or moral outcome of a situation is
expected when it is never even the point in the first place. She sights "lack of training"
etc. It wasnt by accident that people didnt get training or were not protected by law because
its some kind of random oversight, it is because those exact oversights provide the apparatus
of malfeasance with all that it needs to conduct a fraudulent election. It is by design. Not
accident.
Remarkable... she nailed it... WE NEED NO NEW LAWS WE NEED ENFORCEMENT OF EXISTING LAW!
This is exactly what president Trump has been reming us for FOUR DAMN YEARS!
I watched nearly the entire 6.5 hour hearing... This is the best spoken, most intellectual
part of the entire thing. While she wasn't present on the day of vote counting, she clearly
knows the state, the voting process and the way things are done up and down the spectrum
(especially in Michigan). I was inspired by watching her, and I'm simply a Canadian who wants
Trump back in power so China is held accountable for their actions. Wishing the best of luck
to you GOPS!!
"... The billionaire owners of the media are deciding what you can and cannot see. Granting themselves a monopoly on "truth" and usurping the power of the ordinary citizen to inform themselves and make a reasoned decision ..."
"... 'I'll drain the swamp' ..."
"... 'I'll show you aliens' or 'I'll release the JFK truth' ..."
WATCH: Trump's Censored Speech The media refusing to air the President's allegations of
vote rigging is an open display of who REALLY runs the country
https://www.youtube.com/embed/RFzTuaVS8Kk
On Wednesday, December 2nd Donald Trump – the sitting President of the United State of
America – released a 46 minute recorded speech. In an alarming display of co-ordinated
censorship, much of the media simply refused to air it.
In the speech (embedded above) he details all the suspicious behaviour surrounding the
November 3rd election, as well as showing charts of evidence of peculiar activity in the vote
counts of key swing states.
None of the major networks aired it in full. CNN simply refused to broadcast even clips,
instead letting the millionaire son of a political dynasty lecture the viewing public in a
bizarre ten-minute
long abuse-laden rant .
Twitter and Facebook stuck "fact-check" warnings under anyone attempting to share it while
papers like the
Guardian or Independent post mocking summaries without ever showing – or even linking
to – the original.
If you want to actually see the speech in full you have search out smaller youtube channels,
or go to C-SPAN
. (We would suggest downloading a copy while you can, it is likely to become hard to find.
There's also a transcript
here .)
Their defense of this overt censorship is that Trump is "endangering lives" and/or
"encouraging violence" by calling the legitimacy of the vote into question. Such claims were
never made about claims Putin's Russia had rigged the vote for Trump. In fact, Russiagate
nonsense was spouted nightly by every major news outlet in the country, if not the world.
However they justify to themselves there's no denying the hard truth of it: The mainstream
media are actively and openly engaged in the wholesale censorship of an elected head of state.
Deliberately crippling the ability of an elected leader to communicate with the public.
Whether or not the vote was rigged – and there is more than
enough reason to think that it was – the behaviour of the media is verging on the
kind of co-ordinated gagging you would expect to happen during a palace coup.
Even if you hate Trump and love Biden, even if you don't care about the vote and count all
modern democracy a sham, there's a coup going on here that's bigger than just who gets to sit
in the Oval office:
The billionaire owners of the media are deciding what you can and cannot see. Granting
themselves a monopoly on "truth" and usurping the power of the ordinary citizen to inform
themselves and make a reasoned decision
Rigged vote or not, what's left of our crumbling democratic freedoms has never been in more
danger.
John Goss , Dec 5, 2020 12:08 AM
I know Savorywill below would like to see this. The fight is not over yet. This is
election fraud of the worst kind. The problem is those who did not get caught in this
corruption but were still a part of it. The actual alleged turnout at the polls is highly
questionable – the biggest ever. Now some might think that Joe Biden has that kind of
charisma. Others have actually seen him perform.
It's no wonder the US is always questioning other countries' elections. It thinks its
system is the model for the world.
Tom , Dec 5, 2020 12:00 AM
They didn't really censor it. They just show his face, and tell you what they think of it
before you even hear him. Pretty usual SOP for them I guess. Dec 4, 2020 11:44 PM
Thank you for publishing this article, and enabling people to watch the speech. At least
70 million Americans did vote for Trump (probably many more than that, if their votes had
been counted). They are decidedly not happy to see what is taking place, to say the least. I
went to Paddy's gambling side to see the odds of Trump winning late Tuesday, when normally
the election is called, and Trump was indisputably odds on favorite (you would have made a
fortune betting on Biden at that time!). Then the polls close, the election monitors are told
to go home and the mail-in ballots are rolled in and counted in secret, with Republican
monitors either not present or, if they were, not allowed to see what was going on.
If Biden does prevail, which seems highly likely, sadly, at this stage, his pick to be the
Secretary of Defense, is Michèle Flournoy , a woman (of course!), but a woman who
thinks that US troops should remain in Afghanistan to protect Afghani women from the Taliban
!
You can't make this up! Trump stated in every rally, to tremendous applause, 'end the
endless wars'. The Democrats are the war party now and they are filling government positions
with sociopaths such as Madeleine Albright, famous for saying the death of 500,000 children
in Iraq was 'worth it'. Worth it for what, I wonder. One thing is sure, though, those
millions who did vote for Trump are not going to be pleased by what is going on. How they
will express their displeasure is the big question, I guess. However, if it actually happens
that the Supreme Court did rule in favor of Trump and invalidated enough mail-in votes to
swing the election back to Trump, there would a shit storm of dissent from MSM and the
deranged mobs of Trump haters that would likely wreak havoc on the whole country, nightly
rampages of BLM and Antifa types terrorizing cities, others bringing out guns to defend
themselves, possibly devolving into almost civil war conditions. Perhaps it is better to let
Biden's minders have their way, make half hearted efforts to actually reduce CO2 emissions to
0% by 2025 (as Biden solemnly proclaimed in the final debate), give free health to all, allow
people from south of border easy or unfettered access to come to the USA (of course, tear
down that hateful wall), renew the practice of exporting jobs to other countries where the
wages are lower so products can be made more cheaply, resulting in lower employment options
for American workers. Then, obviously, the economy will tank and Trump, or someone on the
same page, can run again in 2024 and save the day
George Mc , Dec 4, 2020 11:14 PM
I think you have to see the bigger picture. All politicians ultimately serve the most
powerful forces i.e. the monied class. It's not a unified group but there is at any time a
general direction which this class will take.
The Western world has lived in a comfortable boom bubble after WW2. Our society embodied
an unprecedented affluence. And it could afford to project an image of "capitalism for all"
or "capitalism with a friendly face".
It was a time of seeming celebration where the Western populace were in the happy position
of being like eternal children – mesmerised by an increasingly glamourous entertainment
field. And we got to act out a pretence at political participation every few years. The
spectrum of potential political leaders effectively boiled down to two – which were
merely two faces of the same force.
This comfortable theatre has lasted all our lives. But the underlying situation has
changed through a downward economic spiral through which, up till now, we have "weathered the
storm". The ruling class has gradually siphoned off more and more wealth to feed its
insatiable hunger. And it has managed to do this while still maintaining that basic paradigm
of "smiley face capitalism".
But we have reached a moment of crisis. The ruling class is now facing up to the fact that
it can no longer maintain its power and luxuriance within the paradigm of a universal
security. Thus we have the most transformative point since WW2. That vast majority of happy
eternal children will find their hitherto comfortable lifestyles slipping away so that they
will become a new peasant class.
And so the glamorous vision of capitalism for all must now give way. The image that is now
in the ascendant is that of a war economy i.e. the old war economy. This is very different
from the grand bellicosity which can be projected for a protected populace who, as it were,
get to watch a televised image of war which is happening comfortably elsewhere. This time,
the population itself is on the receiving end.
It is in this sense that the word "socialism" or even "Marxism" may be applied – not
because the society we are headed towards is actual socialism. But because the old cold war
image of communism with its seedy deprivation will indeed became reality for the vast
majority.
So where does Trump fit in all this? Well – that aforementioned communist image is
obviously more connected to the Left than the Right. In American terms, that means the
Democrats are the ones "for the job".
And what is "the job"? Well it is the most efficacious path towards the slump i.e. the
path that will generate the least resistance and the most docility. Hence: the pandemic.
Trump's "Make America Great Again" rhetoric was not only obsolete but a positive obstacle to
this great deprivation.
No longer the carrot but the stick. No longer prophets of hope but doom merchants. That is
what the rulers need now if they want to preserve their position. And preserving their
position is all they care abo
Lost in a dark wood , Dec 4, 2020 10:36 PM Reply to Brianborou
Trump is the counter coup against the central banking system, and it's why he has a
portrait of Andrew Jackson overlooking his desk (see below). The war against the "invisible
enemy" started in 2016 and what we are witnessing now is perhaps the beginning of the end.
Probably the best rolling updates come from the X22 Report: https://rumble.com/c/X22Report
--
Andrew Jackson was an intelligent and politically astute man.
Donald Trump is a billionaire property developer and celebrity.
Do you think Jackson would have had a picture of Trump anywhere( that doesn't include a
dartboard )
George Mc , Dec 4, 2020 8:29 PM
One thing that this video gives the lie to is that Trump is a present day version of
Hitler. Whatever you think of him, he puts his point forward with poise and dignity. Dec 4,
2020 8:25 PM
Trump's speech should've been broadcasted on MSM. That being said, anyone who foolishly
supported sellout Bernie is well aware of how the Dems rig elections. It's done all a time by
both parties. All elections are rigged.
In any event, this election was critical. The establishment Republicans, Democrats, and
the security state wanted Trump out. They were all in on it.
The person involved (Trump) as usual is always the last to know. Trump, was purposely not
given good advice–it was a set-up. Trump's team should've only consented to the "COVID
mail-in election," if the mail-in ballots were "solicited" and signatures were matched to
existing documentation. These solicited ballots needed to be counted as they came in. They
all should've been required to be mailed out early way before election day. After those
mail-in ballots were tabulated, then they would only have to count the ballots which were
cast on election day.
However, this is what probably happened–the security state was stunned by Trump's
popularity. They had no idea he was going to secure so many votes. That's why the counting
was stopped and they needed to regroup. They had to keep the results solid for Biden so Trump
would have no recourse. It was planned for a very long time.
Biden-Harris evolved into the ticket when Harris "their favorite" turned out to be a loser
during the Dem primaries. That's why they pulled sleazy Joe out of the coffin to run with the
Indian/Zionist Hillary puppet.
Geoff , Dec 4, 2020 7:42 PM
Apart from the fact it's outrageous that they rig elections, but the outcome is still the
same, in the UK if the great socialist QC leader of the ludwick parry should win the next
election what happens nothing never has never will, we must be the only country where you
have to work a two year probationary period before you have any employment protection, give
seven days notice for any industrial action , why not make it three months? As someone put it
on here last week , putting a piece of paper into a ballot box is a grown up version of
sending Santa a letter, after the last election, I'm finished never vote again it's a fuckin
charade and I'm not joining in.
Joerg , Dec 4, 2020 7:42 PM
WATCH: Video footage from Georgia shows suitcases filled with ballots pulled from under a
table AFTER supervisors told poll workers to leave room and 4 people stayed behind to keep
counting votes
If this speech we can see hear was banned from reaching the public because of it's
truth- why are we able to watch and listen ?
Of course none of us know. My 'take' is that it is part of a fairly elaborate bifurcation
strategy. We are 'able to watch and listen' because of the pluralility and cross referencing
of the internet. There is only one meaningful divide in Western politics now : those who hang
on to the corporate media as a thread back to a believeable account of the world around them,
and those who are thinking and do not. The PTB saw this divide coming. The corporate/state
media ran Operation Trump as a bout featuring a bad wrestler character, knowing full well
that a lot of what he says is, in fact, true. That he is the one saying it though, tar babies
the truth with because it is his weird mouth uttering it. Lies then continue to prevail
amongst the managerial classes.
None of this is about Donald Trump ulitmately, but electoral politics confuses several things
in people's minds : the honesty of character of the individual standing as representative,
the stated political objectives/ philosophies of the representative, the unstated objectives/
philosophy of the representative, the values and interests of those who get them into power,
the capacity for that representative to work the system to get their objectives enacted
etc.
The issue here is about the 70+ million voters who voted for what they think Donald Trump
offers them. That they have not got what they seemed to want back in 2016, and that Trump had
ample chance to push that along, reminds me that his "America First" declaration is the key
(and perhaps only) lie in this speech.
The swing toward a renewed national conservatism in America is a problem for the global
elites. So they set up a fake nationalism, sometimes referred to as 'Finkelthink', after its
mastermind Arthur Finkelstein. There is a lot on this for anyone open minded enough to look
into it.
The stage is being set by the Democrats and Trump together, to maximise chaos layered upon
chaos. We all know why, because America (the dollar) is going down:
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1604-john-titus-on-central-bank-digital-currencies/
S Cooper , Dec 4, 2020 8:08 PM Reply to JuraCalling
"Not the most gracious loser is Donald."
"That is precious. Liars, cheats and charlatans lecturing anyone about "sportsmanship."
They should first get some integrity. Oh wait, they can't. Because they have none. They have
not only cheated Orange Hair Bozo, they have cheated the general public as well."
JuraCalling , Dec 4, 2020 8:24 PM Reply to S
Cooper
I think a big part of this is a bit like the Roadrunner carton. No matter how 'wily' Wile
E Coyote was, he always ended up with his own bomb exploding in his hand or getting stuck in
his own trap.
Four years ago Trump tried to tap into the niche we know and love as 'alt'. He tempted
with 'I'll drain the swamp' and 'I'll show you aliens' or 'I'll release the JFK
truth' nuggets. Once he was in he developed a 'bromance' that looked like a terrible,
terrible acid trip with Alex Jones.
Then there was a mass sweep of 'conspiracy theories' that had been prompted by Obama's
blood lust. Suddenly we had Trumps attempt at Orwellian doublespeak as he called whatever he
didn't agree with 'fake nooz'. Anyone asking the president a question- as has been
protocol for 100 years- was ok if they asked ones he wanted to be asked; any others were
branded as ' fake nooz '.
We were still hearing about 'Pizzagate' and the Clinton cartel of psychopaths 2
years into his reign. And even now Russiagate or Hackgate won't go away. So
here we are. Trump has found another mixture of conspiracy to call 'fake nooz' .
But this one( according to him) has been to oust him from power.
We've never seen a public figure scrutinised so closely 24/7 in our time. Nobody has. I
thought that kind of thing with Lady Diana was the peakt. But the Trump obsession has been
off the scale from day one. I think it's down to his numerous cameo appearances on tacky
sitcoms or public appearances at the square garden for the big fights. We all knew him in the
UK. We never thought of him as a politician, just a slightly wacky billionaire with
interesting hair and funny suits.
That the race was between him and Hilary was bad enough. In the UK, we had a complete
dickhead who looks like he'd struggle in a job interviewer as the car park attendant end up
the PM.
As Dystopia sets in, as the decks are cleared for a NWO and as politicians ready
themselves to step aside and let the future structure's rulers- Scientists – take over,
Democracy has to be seen as untrustworthy, along with the democratic process.
We can hope the vote -rigging talk goes away ( it's dull already, and less and less people
buy the system anyway) but it's serving it's purpose. That being to demonstrate the lack of
credibility of any system has that allows us plebs to have a say.
They won't blame us; they'll blame 'data rigging that wasn't policed ' . But
we'll be told we'll have to vote by digital means after this. And that's not voting at all.
It's pressing keys and a mouse. The results are already decided ahead of the game. Like
now.
Captain Birdheart , Dec 4, 2020 6:16 PM
Here is a video version (12 minutes) of the Martin Geddes article 'The digital coup &
the great exposure.
Trump is the political wing of the military industrial complex, and it looks like they are
going to go for it.
Sandy Sanders , Dec 4, 2020 6:08 PM
But let's be honest about the US electoral system. Just concerning post WW2, It's a
two-team battle much like a professional football league with just two franchises: playing,
making the rules, running the game, refereeing, promoting, providing media and "journalistic"
coverage, administering funding, policies, budgets and arenas, controlling ancillary business
franchises; and literally charging, controlling behavior of and dictating every aspect of the
event an attendance. The public's only power is to buy (being taxed) a ticket or watch the
commercialed event on TV. Same two teams, same basic play, same outcome for everyone. The
owners & 1% players and support franchises make out fabulously and the public sit in the
serf's seats powerless and obedient. As ratified in 1789 and functioning in 2020, it's a
rigged game from the start.
In the last 100 years we've had the incredibly popular socialist Henry Wallace, VP to FDR,
sabotaged by internal Dem politics giving us the most incompetent Truman; JFK thru Chicago
ballot rigging; internal sabotage of McGovern and Carter; the Anderson split sabotage of
1980; Gore in Florida 2000 w/SCOTUS & Dem sellout; Kerry Sellout in Ohio 2004; and the 3
million plus majority popular loss to the archaic Electoral College in 2016. For me the only
solution for a survivable future was Wallace in 1948. But as 2020 was rigged, it has always
been rigged by the system which is the Deep State to get what it wants: 1) a plutocracy that
provides for the Commerce operations of the 1%; and 2) thwart, block & erase any
functional democracy or potentiality of democratic socialism that allows the 99% to
self-govern-provide for the social needs of humanity.
Gwyn , Dec 4, 2020 6:07 PM
And they'll still have the brass neck to bang on about "exporting democracy" to
other countries. The USA is a bad joke of a country. A rogue state.
Which makes it the ideal henchman for the transnational financiers who run the world. A
big, stupid bully with unlimited military spending at its disposal that can bomb countries
that can't defend themselves into submission. Very courageous, those servants of
illegitimate power from the Home of the Brave.
It's also called the Land of the Free, of course – which is slightly at odds with
the fact that it's the proud possessor of the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the
world. And they say the Yanks don't do irony!
Make that a sick joke. Americans on the other hand are mostly fine people (albeit
amazingly oblivious/uncaring about the outrages that are done in their name).
The greatest outrage started on the day settlers landed there. A bit of humility, a bit of
contrition, about the fate of the American Indians wouldn't go amiss (instead of all the
idiotic, infantile bombast about the USA being the greatest country in the world).
We have all globally lost democracy and freedom in a very sinister and well co-ordinated
revolution without a shot being fired, apart from the one they'll give you in the arm. I feel
very sad for the young people, they'll never grow up in the wonderful world I knew.
President Donald Trump & Vice President Mike Pence gave speeches on the night of the
2020 presidential election.
Trump talked about his leads in key states and called the continuation of mail-in ballot
counting a "fraud on the American public."
He said, "frankly, we did win this election," appearing to claim victory before many states
finished counting votes.
He also mentioned "going to the U.S. Supreme Court" over the election.
Read the full transcript of the speeches:
Donald Trump: (00:07)
Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Please sit. Thank you. This is
without question the latest news conference I've ever had. Thank you. I appreciate it very
much. And I want to thank the American people for their tremendous support, millions and
millions of people voted for us tonight. And a very sad group of people is trying to
disenfranchise that group of people and we won't stand for it. We will not stand for it.
Donald Trump: (00:54)
I want to thank the first lady, my entire family, and Vice President Pence, Mrs. Pence for
being with us all through this. And we were getting ready for a big celebration. We were
winning everything and all of a sudden it was just called off. The results tonight have been
phenomenal and we are getting ready I mean, literally we were just all set to get outside and
just celebrate something that was so beautiful, so good. Such a vote, such a success to
citizens of this country have come out in record numbers. This is a record. There's never been
anything like it to support our incredible movement. We won States that we weren't expected to
win. Florida, we didn't win it. We won it by a lot.
Donald Trump: (01:54)
We won the great State of Ohio. We won Texas, we won Texas. We won Texas. We won Texas by
700,000 votes and they don't even include it in the tabulations. It's also clear that we have
won Georgia. We're up by 2.5% or 117,000 votes with only 7% left. They're never going to catch
us. They can't catch us. Likewise we've clearly won North Carolina. Where we're up 1.4%. We're
77,000 votes with only approximately 5% left. They can't catch us. We also, if you look and you
see Arizona, we have a lot of life in that. And somebody declared that it was a victory for us.
And maybe it will be. I mean, that's possible. But certainly there were a lot of votes out
there that we could get because we're now just coming into what they call Trump territory. I
don't know what you call it. But these were friendly Trump voters. And that could be
overturned.
Donald Trump: (03:14)
The gentleman that called it, I watched tonight. He said, "Well, we think it's fairly
unlikely that he could catch." Well, fairly unlikely and we don't even need it. We don't need
that. That was just a state that if we would have gotten it, it would have been nice. Arizona.
But there's a possibility, maybe even a good possibility. In fact, since I saw that originally
it's been changed and the numbers have substantially come down just in a small amount of votes.
So we want that obviously to stay in play. But most importantly, we're winning Pennsylvania by
a tremendous amount of votes.
Donald Trump: (04:14)
We're up 600 Think of this. Think of this. Think of this. We're up 690,000 votes in
Pennsylvania, 690,000. These aren't even close. This is not like, "Oh, it's less " With 64% of
the vote in, it's going to be almost impossible to catch. And we're coming into good
Pennsylvania areas where they happen to like your president. I mean, it's very good. So we'll
probably expand that. We're winning Michigan, but I'll tell you, I looked at the numbers. I
said, "Wow." I looked, I said, "Wow, that's a lot." By almost 300,000 votes and 65% of the
voters in and we're winning Wisconsin. And I said, "Well, we don't need all of them. We need "
Because when you add Texas in, which wasn't added, I spoke with the really wonderful governor
of Texas just a little while ago, Greg Abbott, he said, "Congratulations." He called me to
congratulate me on winning Texas.
I mean, we won Texas. I don't think they finished quite the tabulation, but there's no way.
And it was almost complete, but he congratulated me. Then he said, "By the way, what's going
on? I've never seen anything like this." Can I tell you what nobody has? So we won by 107,000
votes with 81% of the vote. That's Michigan. So when you take those three States in particular
and you take all of the others, I mean, we have so many We had such a big night. You just take
a look at all of these States that we've won tonight, and then you take a look at the kind of
margins that we've won it by, and all of a sudden, it's not like we're up 12 votes and we have
60% left. We won States. And all of a sudden I said, "What happened to the election? It's off?"
And we have all these announces saying what happened? And then they said, "Oh."
Donald Trump: (06:24)
Because you know what happened? They knew they couldn't win so they said, "Let's go to
court." And did I predict this, Newt? Did I say this? I've been saying this from the day I
heard they were going to send out tens of millions of ballots. They said exactly, because
either they were going to win or if they didn't win, they'll take us to court. So Florida was a
tremendous victory. 377,000 votes. Texas, as we said. Ohio, think of this. Ohio a tremendous
state, a big state. I love Ohio. We won by 8.1%, 460,00 think of this. Almost 500,000 votes.
North Carolina, a big victory with North Carolina. So we won there. We lead by 76,000 votes
with almost nothing left. And all of a sudden everything just stopped.
Donald Trump: (07:28)
This is a fraud on the American public. This is an embarrassment to our country. We were
getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election. We did win this
election. So our goal now is to ensure the integrity for the good of this nation. This is a
very big moment. This is a major fraud in our nation. We want the law to be used in a proper
manner. So we'll be going to the US Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop. We don't want
them to find any ballots at four o'clock in the morning and add them to the list. Okay? It's a
very sad moment. To me this is a very sad moment and we will win this. And as far as I'm
concerned, we already have won it.
So I just want to thank you. I want to thank all of our support. I want to thank all of the
people that worked with us. And Mr. Vice President, say a few words, please. Please.
Mike Pence: (08:46)
Thank you, Mr. President. I want to join you in thanking more than 60 million Americans who
have already cast their vote for four more years for president Donald Trump in the White House.
While the votes continue to be counted, we're going to remain vigilant, as the president said.
The right to vote has been at the center of our democracy since the founding of this nation and
we're going to protect the integrity of the vote. But I really believe with all of my heart,
with the extraordinary margins, Mr. President, that you've inspired in the States that you just
described, and the way that you launched this movement across the country to make America great
again, I truly do believe as you do that we are on the road to victory and we will make America
great again, again. Thank you, Mr. President.
Donald Trump: (09:51)
Thank you very much [inaudible 00:09:56]. Thank you very much.
This is actually a great speech. the problem is that Trump never followed up on his
election promises and rhethorics Reply
Lost in a dark wood , Dec 4, 2020 5:21 PM
I wrote the following a few days after the 2020 election:
My prediction for the next four years is that many of the putative "experts" will finally,
but reluctantly, start to take note of what Trump has been saying over the preceding four
years. However, there will of course be a lot of wilful holdouts.
--
The place to start is the "Our Movement" speech of October 2016.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/10/25/the-speech-to-save-a-nation/
The Speech To Save A Nation
Posted on October 25, 2016 by Sundance
On October 13th 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump delivered a speech that defines
this moment in our nation's history. Part of that speech has been put to a video. The entire
transcript of that speech is below.
Then today we found out that individuals stuck around in the Atlanta Center on election
night after the water main break occurred and everyone else was sent home.
once biden wins he will just straight up ignore bernie, bernie is kidding himself if he thinks he will have 1 shred of
influence in a Biden adminsteration.
Bernie should have walked the moment the primary was stolen from him again. He says you support these three policies or
me and my supporters walk. THAT's leverage
"Tell the corporate elite they have had their day"... by electing a corporate elitist who is going to keep the working
class in the mud with ongoing shutdowns. Great plan!
Maricopa County GOP
chairwoman Linda Brickman on Nov. 30 testified before members of the Arizona State Legislature that she personally
observed votes for President Donald Trump being tallied as votes for
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden when input into Dominion
machines.
Brickman, the GOP head of one of the country's largest counties and a veteran county
elections worker, submitted her testimony in a sworn affidavit under penalty of perjury. She
testified that she and her Democratic partner witnessed "more than once" Trump votes default
and shift to Biden when they were entering votes into Dominion machines from ballots that
couldn't be read by machines.
She alleged that she was later threatened by election supervisors at the Maricopa County
Tabulation and Election Center (MCTEC) for speaking out about what she had witnessed.
" I observed, with my Democratic partner, the preparation of a new ballot, since the
original one was soiled, or wouldn't go through the tabulators. I read her a Trump Republican
ballot, and as soon as she entered it into the system, the ballot defaulted on the screen to a
Biden Democratic ballot, " Brickman told GOP Arizona State legislators on Monday.
She remarked that when she reported the issue to election supervisors, others in the room
also commented that they had "witnessed the same manipulation."
"We were never told what, if any corrective action was taken," Brickman continued. " All I
know is the next day, I was called outside the room that I was working in for signature
verification by a supervisor who said, 'I understand you caused some problems this week and you
thought our machines were not working correctly.'
"I was told at that point in time that I could not discuss anything or talk about what was
going on.
" Many people were threatened ," Brickman told the hearing. "They were told that their
voices would be suppressed, they would have to leave the room and not work there again. I'm
here because I think this is our duty to speak the truth."
Now we know why the DOJ didn't arrest anyone for the past four years and why the Durham
investigation came up empty. The reason is they wanted it this way. They never were going to
arrest anyone. The only people the FBI and DOJ target are patriotic conservative Americans who
want things better for their country and for their children's future.
We all knew that there was enough evidence in the public square to arrest and convict dozens
of politicians and government workers. Now we know why none were arrested. AG Barr and the
swamp run deep!
AG Barr had a good scam going but now it's over. We now know definitively what he is all
about. He is just another crooked swamp creature.
As noted earlier today, Melissa Carone, a very compelling witness who testified in Tuesday's
Michigan hearing, said she called the FBI on November 5 to report numerous instances of fraud,
but the FBI never called her back.
A Dominion-trained IT contractor named Melissa Carone absolutely blew up the Michigan
hearing on Tuesday.
Melissa Carone dropped many truth bombs, blew the whistle on Dominion workers and revealed
ballots were being tabulated in the Department of Elections which is completely illegal.
Ms. Carone stunned the Michigan state lawmakers when she revealed there were tabulation
machines at the Department of Elections.
The FBI completely ignored Carone's eyewitness testimony and never called her back.
Today the momentum of the election fraud scam began to take over. Everyone knows the
election was a fraud. Too much information is available in the public square that proves this
is the case. All Americans know what is going on. We all see it.
This is why Barr had to do something. He waited until today to attempt to announce, despite
clear evidence to the contrary, there was no material corruption in the election. Then he pulls
another 'Undercover Huber' and announces that he picked John Durham, to lead a Special Counsel
into Crossfire Hurricane. There, that will placate the troops, while he digs his knife into
President Trump and America's back.
Instead, he made it clear he is part of the swamp – a card carrying member. He never
fired the corrupt FBI Director Wray. He had Durham working for more than a year with no
indictments despite clear evidence of a corrupt and criminal led FBI and DOJ. He allowed
Mueller's goons to come back to the FBI and DOJ where they should be placed in cuffs and frog
marched to prison. Barr wasn't going to do a damn thing.
Hillary Clinton is free despite destroying evidence related to the many crimes she conducted
while in the government. Jim Comey and Andy McCabe are caught lying but never prosecuted.
Mueller and his gang are free. As a matter of fact, the last four FBI Directors, Mueller,
Comey, McCabe and Wray should all be in prison, not walking around harassing others.
The list goes on and on. No wonder creepy and corrupt Peter Strzok was so cocky before the
election. They all knew they would run free and the election was rigged for Biden.
Individuals like General Flynn and Roger Stone are set up and convicted in banana courts.
War hero and triple amputee Brian Kolfage is arrested and forced to crawl on one arm and pull
himself up into an arrest vehicle in the rain based on makeshift charges coming out of the
corrupt New York DOJ office.
This is Barr's America. No charges for the criminals running the FBI and DOJ mafia, only for
innocents who love America.
AG Barr will now go down in history as just another DC swamp rat.
What a disgrace. AG Barr's name is now mud.
But ultimately, it doesn't matter. Barr's just another bump in the road. Americans want
justice and will have it. It doesn't matter what Barr thinks or does. Unfortunately for him
like so many others, their words and actions only strengthen our resolve for justice while
confirming our knowledge that the swamp is corrupt and we are right.
Congrats on
destroying your name for eternity AG Barr. Well done. We the people are moving on without
you.
"... I don't disagree with the idea that Trump should go (he is clearly incompetent for this position), but to think that Biden (personally also completely incompetent due to his health condition, and even before that; can you imagine this second rate politician summit with Macron, Merkel, or Putin even if we ignore his current health problems ), in some ways, will be an improvement is pretty optimistic. ..."
"... Biden administration will be especially dangerous in foreign policy where Russiagaters mafia clearly returned to power, (and chickenhawks like Nuland are in demand again; as well several other flavors of "national security parasites".) ..."
"... Both are puppets of approximately the same social force -- the union on neoliberal oligarchy and MIC (aka Uniparty.) Biden mafia simply will be slightly more polished, and less "in your face." But both are brutal gangsters, both domestically and on foreign arena. And that's pretty depressing. And one great service of Trump administration was that it exposed what is behind the fake facade. Biden will try to rebuild this fake facade, this Potemkin village again. that's all the difference. ..."
When left becomes right, progressive become regressive, and fascist becomes anti-fascist,
then we have to invent whole new vocabularies just to discuss the problems that humanity is
facing. What is worse though is that upending the language of political society in this
manner makes the amassed knowledge from the past less accessible to the present. I suppose
that is the point though.
This is pretty interesting thought, thank you very much. Kind of Orwellian ""War
is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength," on a new, more sinister level as in
"this manner makes the amassed knowledge from the past less accessible to the present."
But is reality Henry Ford quote "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he
wants so long as it is black." is perfectly applicable to any US elections and political life
in general.
Some commentators here for some reason think that Biden (yes, this semi-senile Biden, a
marionette from the very beginning; senator from credit card companies; the worst enemy of
working class in Congress ) is somehow preferable to Trump (yes, this Trump, a marionette of
Zionists, the President who completely betrayed his electorate, best friend of billionaires
and Pentagon; kind of Bush III replicating both intellectual level of Bush II and his
policies, including a tax cut for the rich).
I don't disagree with the idea that Trump should go (he is clearly incompetent for
this position), but to think that Biden (personally also completely incompetent due to his
health condition, and even before that; can you imagine this second rate politician summit
with Macron, Merkel, or Putin even if we ignore his current health problems ), in some ways,
will be an improvement is pretty optimistic.
Biden administration will be especially dangerous in foreign policy where Russiagaters
mafia clearly returned to power, (and chickenhawks like Nuland are in demand again; as well
several other flavors of "national security parasites".)
Both are puppets of approximately the same social force -- the union on neoliberal
oligarchy and MIC (aka Uniparty.) Biden mafia simply will be slightly more polished, and less
"in your face." But both are brutal gangsters, both domestically and on foreign arena. And
that's pretty depressing. And one great service of Trump administration was that it exposed
what is behind the fake facade. Biden will try to rebuild this fake facade, this Potemkin
village again. that's all the difference.
"When left becomes right, progressive become regressive, and fascist becomes
anti-fascist, then we have to invent whole new vocabularies just to discuss the problems that
humanity is facing. What is worse though is that upending the language of political society
in this manner makes the amassed knowledge from the past less accessible to the present. I
suppose that is the point though."
Yes, that's what the gaslighing is all about, but the problem - as our self-designated
betters are finding out now - is that you cannot run a sucessful competitive modern society
that way, banana republics do not get to rule the world.
Even ... Henry Ford understood he had to take good care of his employees.
Biden is going to have his hands full without looking for any more trouble.
considering cuomo was responsible for spreading the virus exponentially in the early days, he probably has had more
influence on all of our lives than the others
Story about Fauci, at least at the time was that it was so hospitals wouldn't be liable for deaths among medical
staff. But I think it was completely bad what both Cuomo and Fauci
Dr. Fauci was the trusted expert who intentionally lied to the American people and made things far worse. Cuomo is
directly responsible for why New York's response to the virus was so bad and cost many lives. Bullshit award.
Joe Biden is in charge of nothing and probably never will be. If the media's coronation of
him as president becomes reality despite allegations of election fraud, he will still be but
a
figurehead for what effectively amounts to an oligarchy.
It's useful to remember that Biden was an archetypal senator. During his career, he was
never at a loss for an effusion of vapid statements and undoubtedly pronounced millions of them
in a tenure that lasted nearly five decades.
Biden never really ran anything, but to the elites that are close to installing him as
president, that deficiency not only isn't a mark against him --
it's an asset . In fact, it's his key qualification and has been since his dying primary
campaign was resurrected by the elite to swindle Bernie Sanders out of the nomination
again.
The method is elegant as oligarchies go and recurs throughout history. After the long tenure
of Leonid Brezhnev in the Soviet Union, which lasted from 1964 until his death in 1982, the
Soviet elite decided it could best run things from behind the scenes with weak time-servers as
the face of the regime. It elevated the aging head of the KGB, Yuri Andropov, to the job until
he died two years later. Undeterred, that elite then installed the even-more-fragile Konstantin
Chernenko, who at times literally had to be propped up, until he died after a year in office.
George H. W. Bush, then vice president and therefore the de facto funeral-attender for
President Ronald Reagan, is rumored to have joked to the U.S. embassy staff upon departing that
he would see them "same time, same place" next year. People know when an ailing figurehead
represents an ailing regime.
No one should doubt that our oligarchs, reeling from their brush with exposure and
destruction since Donald Trump's
election in 2016, are attempting much the same feat as the old Soviet elite.
Biden, soon to be age seventy-eight, is the oldest person set to become president and the
most unfit. Even William Henry Harrison, who died a month into his presidency, started much
stronger. Those who knew Biden in the Senate suggest that his mental and physical conditions
have noticeably eroded. He campaigned less than anyone in modern history, leaving most of the
work to his media handmaidens.
It remains unexplored and unexplained why his family pushed him to add still more of his
remaining time to an already-decades-long tenure in Washington. Presumably, a more with-it
Biden would not have allowed his son, Hunter, to peddle the family name and access to himself
in places like China and Ukraine -- the germ of a scandal that may soon consume a good deal of
Biden's dwindling energy.
With Biden in his dotage, people are scrambling to learn who the real power will be in a
titular Biden administration. Customarily, this can be discerned by who is rumored or named to
prominent positions at the White House and various agencies. In turn, one can usually infer
from staff choices what the priorities and ideological leanings of a new administration will
be.
It is less so with Biden. Certainly, some of the names bandied about are regarded by
analysts as closer to the Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton tribes in the party, but the
trajectory of the administration seems similar regardless of which names go in which boxes. The
reason is that the oligarchy's path is set and its interests will be maintained.
Wall Street and big tech might get a talking to by Democrats like Elizabeth Warren, but the
poses that be will make sure nothing too drastic will get in the way of these important
Democrat constituencies. Notwithstanding homages to Scranton, where you may have heard Biden
came from before decamping to Delaware, what's left of manufacturing will resume being exported
to China as the administration does away with Trump's tariffs.
Similarly, blue-collar jobs tied to the oil and gas renaissance of recent years will also
go. They are inconsistent with its secular religion of climate change, to be replaced by Green
New Deal jobs. If those displaced workers don't want to move to the coasts and learn to code,
then that's okay: the regnant elite prefers those jobs for its progeny. Meanwhile the
unemployed in flyover country can content themselves with a fentanyl addiction and a disability
check -- safely shuffled back into the shadows after a bit too much inconvenient attention
these past four years.
Sure the 2020 elections were about Trump and Biden. But the real issue at stake was whether
a left-wing elite accustomed to getting its way -- and which runs media, tech, academia,
Hollywood, the deep state, and Wall Street -- would return to
smooth sailing . That ugly and otherwise-incompetent elite is happy to prop up an old man
as its face, and even start him off early with a cute podium labeled with the make-believe
"Office of the President-elect." But there should be little doubt of who is in charge, and it
isn't Joe Biden.
Christian
Whiton, a senior fellow at the Center for the National Interest, is the author
of
Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War. He was a State Department senior advisor
during the George W. Bush and Trump administrations.
Lt General Thomas McInerney and Lt General Michael Flynn gave interviews to WVW Broadcasting
Network today. It was Flynn's first interview since his pardon.
In stunning testimony, McInerney stated his sources have told him U.S. Army Special Forces,
possibly the famed Delta Force, raided the CIA-run server farm in Frankfurt, Germany.
5 soldiers were killed in the ensuing firefight, as well as one CIA paramilitary; the CIA
personnel were allegedly flown in from Afghanistan for security, according to related news
reports.
Subsequent review of the secured servers yielded proof that China, Iran, and Russia were
involved in the attempted coup against President Donald Trump, who will be shown to have won an
overwhelming victory for the American people, McInerney revealed.
"These people have committed treason," declared McInerney. He pleaded with President Trump
to not leave office until the treason is uncovered, otherwise America will be fatally wounded
and ripe for takeover by our enemies.
McInerney also stated that he believes President Trump knew the steal was coming, hence his
executive order issued for sanctions for interference in our elections by foreign powers.
According to his bio, McInerney was a forward air controller and fighter pilot during the
Vietnam War and had flown 407 combat missions during his four tours of duty. In other words, a
patriot and trustworthy.
Reports are now circulating that General Flynn is involved in helping the President with a
private intelligence operation. (
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I will henceforth refer to the MSM as the regime media or RM.
We reluctantly turned off Tucker last week. I felt bad about it as after watching him for
a few years my wife slowly left behind her liberal north eastern views and came around to the
right side of things. I'll thank him for that.
The 57-year-old multimillionaire also appeared on several podcasts, including a November
23 appearance in which he said: "I'm a free agent, and I'm self-funded, and I'm funding this
army of various odd people," according to the
Daily Beast .
"It's really going to make a great movie someday," he added.
Byrne claims he's funding teams of "hackers and crackers" who realized all the way back
in August that Dominion voting machines could be used to steal the election from Trump .
Since the election, those voting machines have figured prominently in Trump supporters'
allegations of fraud, despite the company's repeated denials and any actual proof the
voting tallies were changed. -
Daily Beast
Byrne says he's been communicating with former Trump attorney Sidney Powell for weeks -
who last week
filed two lawsuits in Michigan and Georgia alleging massive schemes to rig the election
for Joe Biden.
According to Powell's Georgia lawsuit: "Old-fashioned ballot-stuffing" has been "
amplified and rendered virtually invisible by computer software created and run by domestic
and foreign actors for that very purpose," adding that "Mathematical and statistical
anomalies rising to the level of impossibilities, as shown by affidavits of multiple
witnesses, documentation, and expert testimony evince this scheme across the state of
Georgia."
In Michigan, Powell claims that "hundreds of thousands of illegal, ineligible, duplicate,
or purely fictitious ballots" enabled by "massive election fraud" facilitated Biden's win in
the state.
The suit claimed that election software and hardware from Dominion Voting Systems used by
the Michigan Board of State Canvassers helped facilitate the fraud.
Speaking to Christopher McDonald of The McFiles in a recent interview, the former head
of a $200 billion e-commerce company that has never once gotten hacked revealed that
Dominion Voting Systems were used to perform a "Drop and Roll" technique of voter fraud
that slyly padded the vote for Biden in at least five key swing areas of the country.
Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Maricopa County, Arizona (Phoenix) were
all rigged prior to election day to strip President Trump of his rightful win in each of
these states. Byrne also mentioned Clark County, Nevada (Las Vegas) as another election
fraud locale, though this one was more secondary.
According to Byrne, who is not a supporter of President Trump but rather a "small l"
libertarian, these five (or six if you include Clark County) areas are where a bulk of the
election fraud took place. It did not have to be widespread because these were the key
swing areas that Biden needed to "win" in order to steal the election.
" By cheating those five counties, you flip five key states, you flip the electoral
college, " Byrne says. " In places where Trump lost by 10,000, there may be 300,000 fake,
illegal votes for Biden. So this isn't even close. "
He further contends that the election systems that govern elections in America "are a
joke," especially those run by Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic software.
* * *
Is Byrne's 'army' Sidney Powell's research team?
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MadameDeficit , 4 hours ago
Do you really believe she was a Russian guns rights activist?
Doom Porn Star , 2 hours ago
Does it matter what I think about Butina? What matters is what I think about Byrne.
WHY did the FBI / DOJ need Byrne to spy for them?
What did Byrne get out of it? We may not know who Butina was working for; but, we sure
do know who Byrne said he was working for.
Trump did NOT get money for speeches in Russia. -Bill Clinton did.
Trump did NOT get money from the wife of the Mayor of Moscow. -Hunter Biden did.
Trump did NOT sell off Uranium assets in the USA to Russian businessmen. -Hillary
Clinton did.
Trump Jr. did NOT get a high paying no show gig @ Bursima. -Hunter Biden did.
"In a strange, post-Mueller twist, the conviction of Maria Butina , the redheaded gun
nerd and
unregistered Russian agent , has led to the resignation of a prominent e-commerce
executive. On Thursday, Overstock.com
CEO Patrick Byrne announced
that he would step down from the company he founded, days after
releasing a bizarre statement describing his involvement with Butina, the "Deep State,"
"Men in Black," and Russian-linked "political espionage" campaigns against Hillary Clinton
and Donald Trump. In a
letter to shareholders, Byrne lamented that his continued presence at the company "may
affect and complicate all manner of business relationships."
"While I believe that I did what was necessary for the good of the country, for the good
of the firm, I am in the sad position of having to sever ties with Overstock, both as CEO
and board member," Byrne
said in the statement. The company's stock price had plummeted
more than 40% in the days after Byrne first revealed his participation, earlier this
month, in what he called a "political espionage" case involving Russia. Following his
resignation, the company's market capitalization soared
more than 8% .
It was an ignominious end for Byrne, a celebrity in Libertarian circles, whose
labyrinthine involvement in the Russia scandal is difficult to verify. In an
interview with journalist and Fox News contributor Sara Carter published last month,
Byrne said he had been approached by Butina at FreedomFest in 2015, and came to suspect
that she might be a Russian agent. Byrne reached out to the FBI to share his concerns, but,
he said, was told to carry on with the relationship and report back. Over the next three
years, he and Butina had a sporadic intimate relationship.
The story gets weirder from there. Byrne said he came to have doubts about his
"nonstandard" relationship with the FBI and the intelligence community. He told Carter that
he believed he "was being used in some sort of soft coup" against Trump. (Butina's lawyer
confirmed the two had a relationship, while the Department of Justice said it could not
comment.)
It wasn't until Byrne appeared on Fox Business
Network, about two weeks later, that investors got spooked. Byrne claimed to have turned
over evidence of a conspiracy involving Clinton and Trump. "I think we're about to see the
biggest scandal in American history," Byrne told host David Asman. "Everything you think
you know about Russia and Clinton investigations is a lie.... it was all political
espionage. I think [Attorney General William Barr ] has gotten to the bottom of it."
"
SO, Patrick Byrne the Deep State tool is back with another bombshell?
What happened to the last bombshell?
ALL Byrne has done so far is get in bed with the FBI / DOJ Russiagate team and get a
Russian woman he was ckufing sent to prison and deported.
MadameDeficit , 2 hours ago
It's definitely a strange situation and relevant in terms of Byrne's potential
motivation, but who she was working for is the most important question.
The whole thing reeks of Deep State entrapment so...I'll give him the benefit of the
doubt for now.
Misesmissesme , 7 hours ago
So sad, that with all this evidence, a private citizen has to go to these lengths
because Barr and Wray are so far in the pockets of the deep state.
"There are many questions that are currently unanswered but there is one fact:
IF military personnel were killed by the CIA,
THEN the civil war between the people, the Deep State (and by extension, Russia, China
& Iran) has started."
Doom Porn Star , 7 hours ago
Patrick Byrne wasn't a free agent when he helped the FBI send Russian guns rights
activist Maria Butina to prison as part of the RussiaGate hysteria that was initiated by
Hillary Clinton to discredit and villainize Trump.
littlewing , 7 hours ago
Barr is a Bushie.
Go watch the Bush Sr. funeral again and the cards they got during.
Watch Biden get a card too, because the Bush Dynasty was both parties.
Clinton, Obama were also part of it.
Carter wondering why he didn't get one, turns to his wife and she didn't get one.
Notice Pence gets a card too, he is part of it.
Notice **** Cheney very aware of what is happening.
Dave Janda who worked in GHW Bush admin said he was a really bad guy and was involved in
human trafficking too.
Sick Monkey , 6 hours ago
The boards on these machines are quite simple like a phone. They were reset asap along
with any server data.
Nothing to see here unless operators are complete idiots. You need one of the boards to
check for wireless device maybe but I doubt it.
One of Gulliani's witnesses said he witnessed usb dives inserted 24 times without proper
chain of custody.
That's about as close as anyone will get to anything useful on the hardware.
Son of Loki , 7 hours ago
Dominion execs testified in Congress twice their machines could easily be hacked. Given
the data we have so far, there is zero probability that Biden won with legal votes.
Someone Else , 6 hours ago
This is all catching on like wild fire for many people. Sadly not for many others. If
you watch MSM (if you must) they still preface everything with "without evidence" and
"baseless". We know that simply isn't the case but a lot of people who hear this enough
believe it.
This is sewing discord between us who know and those kept in the dark. And its going to
get real ugly. It's a crime what the MSM is doing. Almost like programming mindless
soldiers with the WRONG program.
Doom Porn Star , 7 hours ago
Patrick Byrne, former CEO of Overstock.com , is an FBI stooge. He set up Maria Butina as
part of the RussiaGate disinfo campaign.
Leftsmasher , 6 hours ago
570,000 Pennsylvania votes For Biden in two hours in the early morning is not "slyly"
when the machines count 3000 per hour.
Ceickets feom Barr, busy getting ready for his next gig.
ze_vodka , 4 hours ago
At this point, we all need to realize that the election was entirely fake... and that
they are never going to let the fraud be pulled back.
There are two choices left:
1. Accept their dystopian future for us Deplorables (across the globe, not just the
USA)
2. Start doing something about it... start small and locally.
Onthebeach6 , 7 hours ago
The IT evidence is now overwhelming and I imagine it will be explained in detail to each
of the Legislatures.
If Biden stood down now it might save the Democrats but I doubt Xi would contemplate the
suggestion.
johnny two shoes , 7 hours ago
Of course that daily beast article frames it differently-
Former Overstock.com CEO Patrick
Byrne left behind a cloud of confusion when he
resigned in 2019 from the internet retailer he'd founded after panicking investors with
his bizarre claims that he had romanced a Russian agent at the behest of "Men in Black"
working for the United States government.
Now he's back...
but it's noteworthy that the narrative has been breached at the daily beast- that Trump
might be able to prove fraud.
philipat , 6 hours ago
It's a bit late for hackers isn't it? The machines are already off-line and probably
already wiped in most cases ('in compliance with standard operating procedures").
MAYBE, the CIA machines seized in the DOD raids in Frankfurt and Barcelona might confirm
"intervention" but we're running out of time. We'll see. Very soon.
philipat , 6 hours ago
He's also dodgier than a 3 Dollar Bill and has a VERY chequered past with allegations of
CIA involvement. It should be of concern that he is involved/
SurfingUSA , 7 hours ago
You know who could SERIOUSLY use a donation, since Matt Braynard also seems well-funded,
as well as Sidney Powell. Is Right Side Broadcasting, the ONLY outfit that is covering the
PA & AZ Legislative hearings.
We need an accurate, trustworthy voting system, no matter whether both "major" parties
are a fake uniparty and both candidates suck.
ReadyForHillary , 7 hours ago
And all results must be open to full audit by independent parties. Otherwise, no
deal.
Machines, code, ballots, signatures, everything. Individuals should be able to go online
and check that their vote (or lack thereof) is accurate.
B52Minot , 7 hours ago
I am surprised as others about the silence of Barr....and Durham....two folks who should
be all over this sorted and corrupt elections in which the Dem-China folks STOLE the
election....and the evidence is THERE yet the Feds are so SO silent......makes no
sense...and even Trump is wonder where they are when these folks work for HIM. Either Trump
is play acting and the Barr/Durham folks are presenting something HUGE or their sense of
defending our Republic and Constitution from these thieves is beyond distorted...it would
be so SO un-Patriotic and un-American......Either they are silent doing God's work to
defend this Country(and will show it soon) or they truly have lost their faith in this
Great Nation.
Doom Porn Star , 35 minutes ago
I'm quite familiar with DeepCapture.
Byrne has been kvetching about Overstock being being the target of naked short selling
and such for years. Old news. He's supposed to have plenty of money. I guess they didn't
short his stack or he figured out how to hedge his position.
IMO, the guy is limited hangout or diversion/disinfo.
He quarterbacks for the swamp. Then he doesn't?
Known for running a successful honeypot trap for the Deep State.
Walking around with almost as much money as Jeffery Epstein?
I can't stand Powell, the American Thinker, or this math genius. They are making so many
sensationalistic assertions, wreaks of propaganda, using phrases designed to stir up
emotions.
But with all her warts and penchant for self-promotion, Powell collected a very
interesting stack of evidence. Her filing are historically important documents for any study
of 2020 US Presidential Elections. Looks like in large cities Dems overplayed their hand with
mail-in ballots. And this is provable.
That probably will not change the result of election as courts are reluctant to interfere
in such cases, but it does make Biden victory a Pyrrhic victory. He will come to power as
semi-illegitimate President, possibly with hostile to him Senate controlled by Republicans.
Who probably will derail any of his initiative anyway, even if we assume that he has the
courage to put any( I actually do not think so; he is a neoliberal, neocon and warmonger ).
So forget about ending wars, securing more jobs by infrastructure upgrades, addressing mass
unemployment, strengthening Social security, upgrading Medicare, fixing Obamacare. That will
be Obama II or "Health of American global neoliberal empire is all the matter"
Looks like God has a very dark sense of humor, but DNC plutocrats might later regret about
derailing Tulsi, Warren, and Sanders. By fixing Primaries (probably the same methods were
used ;-) and propping semi-senile Biden they created unpredictable and dangerous situation,
while simultaneously discrediting the US election system.
How it will develop is completely unclear, but the crisis of neoliberalism and stagnation
of the US economy will stay as two critical factors. So this reminds me zugzwang situation in
chess.
Moreover, even in a narrow context of elections, there are no good moves by Biden and all
Obama honchos, as they were involved with Russiagate and Trump has a moral upper hand and he
has the initiative.
Also the quote "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." is probably applicable
here too. Biden behaves like nothing changed since 2016 and "Full Spectrum Dominance"
policies (aka restoring American leadership) will work, which is a very dangerous
delusion.
BTW there are discussions of Powell's filings and what it means for neoliberal Dems on
YouTube by several pretty upscale lawyers, that I would recommend to listen to, if you have
no time to read both documents.
The FBI has apparently reached out to a conservative organization and requested information
that supposedly proves that Joe Biden won the presidential election using "hundreds of
thousands of potentially fraudulent ballots."
In the uncertain days after this month's presidential election, the Amistad Project of the
Thomas More Society – a conservative legal nonprofit – teamed up with data analyst
and former Trump campaign aide Matt Braynard to gather evidence of alleged voter fraud by the
Democratic Party.
Braynard's data was used to inform a number of lawsuits by the Amistad Project, including
cases in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and the FBI is now apparently taking
an interest in his research.
"The @FBI has proactively and directly requested from me the VIP findings that indicates
illegal ballots," Braynard tweeted on Sunday, with "VIP" a reference to his
investigation, which he named the "Voter Integrity Project."
In a tweet later on Sunday, Amistad Project Director Phillip Kline said that Braynard's data
will be passed on to the agency. Kline added that the data "has been used to identify
hundreds of thousands of potentially fraudulent ballots in the states where we filed
litigation."
Braynard's announcement is the first sign that the FBI may be taking an active interest in
pursuing allegations of voter fraud. Earlier on Sunday, President Trump decried the agency, as
well as the Justice Department, for their apparent inaction. Both the FBI and DOJ are
"missing in action," he said, calling the lack of criminal investigation
"inconceivable."
What the FBI decides to do with Braynard's information is unknown. Likewise, it is unclear
how rigorous a case for fraud the former Trump aide's data makes. Braynard announced earlier
that he will present this data to members of the Arizona State Legislature on Monday, as
Arizona's secretary of state prepares to certify Biden's apparent win in the state.
Should Trump's legal options fail and the Electoral College certify Biden as victorious when
it meets next month, Trump told reporters on Thursday that he would cede the presidency to his
Democratic rival. However, Trump warned that certifying a Biden win would be a
"mistake," and compared the election to a vote in "a third-world country."
Count_Cash 1 hour ago 29 Nov, 2020 04:48 PM
More investigations, the more transparency the better. I can't see why anybody would object
to an FBI investigation covering election fraud. It does seem strange that there are loads of
allegations, loads of affidavits and loads of court cases flying around and the FBI or DOJ
are not looking into things.
What grieves me, is the direct indications that the justice system is partisan, and true
honest justice is null and void!
Bogie19 Count_Cash 50 minutes ago 29 Nov, 2020 05:23 PM
At this moment FBI @CIA are investigating the whole election and results , do you not trust
the security services' of the USA, if your answer is no, then you are a revolutionist, hope
that is not so, for your sake.
gambarota 1 hour ago 29 Nov, 2020 04:43 PM
trump's mistake . he did not take control of doj and fbi . on the other hand nobody will be
able to accuse him of perverting justice.
trecasreca gambarota 54 minutes ago 29 Nov, 2020 05:19 PM
He has control over the government, but no one in his right mind will follow him. Smart
people see that all this fuss was caused by his narcissism, not because there was some kind
of mass theft of votes. Dozens of judges checked everything his lawyers presented and all but
one lady said the same thing. No evidence, go home.
Averagewhite 43 minutes ago 29 Nov, 2020 05:30 PM
The question of voting fraud must be answered to protect the integrity of the voting system.
If you do not investigate allegations of such fraud, you cannot ensure that integrity.
Anybody can investigate, but if their declared findings are true or not would be my
question...
White Elk 33 minutes ago 29 Nov, 2020 05:40 PM
They did not do their job with Kennedy assassination, they did not do their job on 9/11, they
were slow or dumb during so called Russia gate, they were like deaf during a case of voter
fraud made by the President himself. Maybe a few of their high ranking officials should be
investigated? Is this a marshy area due to be drained?
Thesheperd666 53 minutes ago 29 Nov, 2020 05:20 PM
Are they gathering information for a real investigation or are they gathering up a huge "Wet"
list for Hillary and others ? Strange how all the sudden the FBI wants to see what Trump has
as evidence after all this time has expired. If I was a witness I would be running for the
hills now !
To me, I question the FBI motive.... what is their real secret agenda?
velos 1 hour ago 29 Nov, 2020 04:51 PM
Opinion says: In November 2020 election, for the election of the President of the United
States, a group of politicians, heads of state and media, completely humiliated the USA. !!
and the image of serious country, is in danger of completely collapse.!!! about elections,
now all people in world know what has happened!!
Personally, I see the US image as haveing been greatly humiliating a long time ago!
T. Agee Kaye 35 minutes ago 29 Nov, 2020 05:38 PM
The FBI needs to visit the PA universities, and probably a great many others in the nation,
and start asking questions about what was encouraged and happened there.
The answer is that they concentrated on mail-in fraud for Presidential candidate in selected
battleground states with large cities controlled by Democrats and states with Democratic
governor. Florida does not have a democratic governor. But Orlando has a democratic major; BTW
Florida uses Dominion too Certified
Voting Systems and Vendors - Division of Elections - Florida Department of State
I do not understand why you think the Democrats rigged the election. Did they rig it so
Republicans would win 11 new house seats? Did they rig it so Republicans would win in NC,
Texas and Florida? Are all of the courts in collusion with the Democrats? There is no real
evidence except for Giuliani and his wacky ideas. Let it go the the Supreme Court as Trump
wants I don't think they will even touch it. Trump lost, Biden won. It is as simple as that.
It is definitely
no fun to lose, but Trump will survive and probably make a lot of money in the process.
They rigged the presidential election. I don't care about Trump. He is relatively
unimportant. It is the loss of control to you leftists that I fear and will resist.
Your colleague Laura Wilson asks why the Dems did not rig all the elections up and down
the ticket. Simple. This is an immense task. They simply did not have the resources or the
time time to do all that.
I share the colonel's suspicion that our judiciary will ultimately fall short when it comes
to providing a just remedy for the most widespread reports and evidence of election fraud
I've witnessed in my lifetime. The dismissive, jocular attitude that prevailed when Cook
County, IL corruption was thought to have delivered victory to Kennedy over Nixon in 1960 is
a harbinger, and seems small-scale compared to what's happened 60 years later. I hope the GA
runoffs will avoid the corruption that seems to have taken place there earlier this month. A
win by the Democrats will be catastrophic.
Like the very disappointing AG Barr - he who's given a lot of lip service and little else
to the issue of government corruption/malfeasance we've witnessed these past few years -
negligence, cowardice, resignation, laziness, complicity or a combination seem to guide those
who we've unfortunately had to entrust to establish justice and to hold criminal wrongdoing
accountable. Barr talks the talk but if he lets this election go by without making an effort
to get to the truth, he has failed miserably.
The political, corporate and media establishment seem to resent that Deplorables refuse to
be kept in the dark, refuse to acquiesce to their agendas. The censorious CEOs of social and
mainstream media are trying to keep a tight lid on awareness of these matters of corruption.
Could their efforts backfire and result in a boiling over?
I can't help but suspect that Obama and his minions are behind much of the ballot box
stuffing/miscounting type of voter fraud that's allegedly occurred. The former community
organizer could've easily waged a secret campaign to enlist accomplices all over the US who
were willing to commit fraud to get Biden, and thus Obama's favorite, Harris, elected. Is it
mere coincidence that the narcissistic former POTUS just happens to be promoting yet
another biography at this moment in time? I don't think so.
These people are seriously infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome. They were maniacally
focused on their sole obsession--dethroning the Orange King. I rather doubt that they thought
about the down-ballot races much at all.
Col, Your assessment of why the Dems stole only the Presidential election is flawed. Given
the theft claim is based upon access to vote-tabulating computer SW, it would be little
additional effort to "do unto down-ballot races what was visited upon the top". Same
algorithms... access to the db files... a few mods to executables & voila.
Face it... Trump was almost beaten by one of the worst candidates for pres in US history,
& then wore out his welcome w/ the electorate through hard work every day he was on the
job. HE blew it.
So there were skirmish between DIA and CIA and some people got hurt, if we are to believe
this guy. Are some retired US generals engage in some kind of disinformation compaign ?
Lt Gen McInerney reported that US Special Forces 305 battalion attacked CIA server farm in
Germany in server seizure operation. 5 soldiers and 1 CIA service member were allegedly
killed during the operation.
Allegedly, the specialized software like Hammer and Scorecard was used on this facility.
Hammer and Scorecard were created by the U.S. intelligence contractors and could be used to
interfere in the U.S. presidential election in 2020.
"But the important thing is they identify China, Iran and Russia as being involved in
this and manipulating the votes. In addition, the U.S. special forces command seized a
server in Frankfurt, Germany, because they were sending this data from those five states or
six states through the internet to Spain, and into Frankfurt, Germany. Special operations
forces seized those facilities. So they have those servers. They know all the data they
were providing."
Lt. General Michael Flynn claimed in his first interview since President Trump's
pardon:
"Everything that we are experiencing right now actually is more that just an assault on
President Trump. This is an assault on the American Republic."
Roberta M @BertmcdRm ·
Nov 28
Replying to @TheSharpEdge1 and
@5sahandful Incredible, isn't
it?!?! I've spread the word about this video all day. I hope everyone who has heard this, keep
retweeting it as much as possible! Scary stuff, if Biden succeeds! America is indeed, on the
Brink!!! George Papadopoulos
@GeorgePapa19 "I think there is probably something in the emails concerning George
Papadopoulos that maybe have her name in it," -- Senator Grassley On why CIA director Haspel is
refusing to release the documents the President ordered to be declassified. RDS Koffi @das_koffi · 16h Replying to @GeorgePapa19 A big mistake putting Haspel
in that position as CIA Director. Very disappointing. The damage is already done. The Golden Hand @BitcoinCultist ·
15h
Replying to @GeorgePapa19 How
can the CIA refuse to declassify a document? Banana Republic. 1 5 32 RobinHodl - - DYOR @RobinHodl_ ·
15h
Replying to @GeorgePapa19 She is
an employee, and insubordination is proper grounds for termination from employment. She should
be fired and the DoD should be brought in to secure the documents. Gary Winkelman @GaryWinkelman1 · 14h Replying
to @GeorgePapa19 She works for
the Queen? Station Chief in UK prior?
Fred -- Are you aware of DoD raids on 3 - letter server farms in Frankfurt - Barcelona -
Toronto and that these servers are now under analysis by the DIA?
Sydney Powell referenced early findings from the raids in her Georgia / Michigan lawsuits
and promised expert witnesses to follow in the Arizona Legislator meeting next week.
Meanwhile, the Legislator meeting in PA has generated bills in both PA houses to withdraw 20
electors from Biden and give them to Trump.
Condolences to the families of 3 - letter contractors and DoD patriots who died in the
Frankfurt confrontation. Congratulations to General Flynn retuned to the fight of suppressing
enemies foreign & domestic.
Note how he bypassed the problem of local administrators ( according to some data 2-6 for
each site ) manipulating votes. He also does not explain strange pause in countering of votes in
major battleground states. And the fact of deploying Dominion and other voting machines was at
attempt to control voters and voting.
Yes there are some heuristically arguments on the contrary. For example why Florida was
unaffected. But that does not change the fact that voting machines are evil and that they was
corruption during their acquisition.
It is unclear how with strait face he can claim that systems based on Microsoft windows and
connected to Internet can be secure. Or systems with Dominion technician having administrative
access and implementing patches on their own schedules.
Chris Krebs, a lifelong Republican, was put in charge of the agency handling election
security by President Trump two years ago. When Krebs said the 2020 election was the country's
most secure ever, Mr. Trump fired him. Now, Krebs speaks to Scott Pelley.
https://cbsn.ws/3o6JayT
I actually do not know what actually happened, but your defense of Dominion is pure
technical nonsense and/or incompetence. This is a small office class system with consumer
hardware, consumer OS and consumer hardware (on top of which there is some proprietary
software) which is a dream for any intelligence agency to work with.
Petrel, "Condolences to the families of 3 - letter contractors and DoD patriots who died
in the Frankfurt confrontation. Congratulations to General Flynn retuned to the fight of
suppressing enemies foreign & domestic."
Could you please provide a source for this information? Thanks.
NancyK, The 2020 election is not yet over. I remember when the 2016 election was over,
there were no sour grapes from the Dems as I understand you have said. But what were those
tens of thousands of women wearing some sort of genital hat the day after, what was that
about? Why were they cheering a washed up entertainer named "Madonna" who was screaming and
threatening to burn down the White House. Another women, a not so funny one, carrying around
a severed Trump look alike head, did you laugh or just wish it were true? I distinctly
remember antifa destroying cars, business windows, etc, just some kids having fun, no?
I learned of a Japanese Admiral who said, "I'm afraid we're about to waken a sleeping
giant." I have to wonder if Biden isn't thinking the same thing.
It's a beautiful day in the Free State of Florida.
As Krebs discussed, on 60 Minutes: 92% of ballots were paper or backed by paper. All
the machine and hand recounts of paper ballots validated previous results. The machines were
accurate (enough) before, during and after the election and produced that same
results.
I think we are all being spun by both sides so the truth is a little difficult. One has to
follow the actual court filings.
Actually a full recount has not yet happened in Georgia. They went through a canvass and a
post-election audit which all the news organizations are calling a full recount. A canvass is
looking for missing ballots, memory sticks, and the like. A post election audit takes a small
sample is not a full recount.
Monday, they will be wiping voting machines to actually scan all the ballots hence
more lawsuits to stop them from wiping the machines data so it can be preserved for
analysis.
Since the actual action is not being reported in the main we have to look for it and I am
not 100% sure I am following it correctly myself. I am 100% sure not to believe much of
anything the MSM puts out.
So the second order nullifies the first order to preserve data. The machines will be wiped
30 November 2020 and the ballots will be fed to perform a full recount. Naturally no human
being wants to plow through his crap but as a former voter who gave up long ago I am
collecting evidence and understanding for my county election board.
It is quite a stretch for Trump but it is interesting to see these allegations which have
stretch back to at least 2006 in Congress.
What I remember happening is that at the end of the machine voting Trump had huge leads in
the 5 swing states prior to the counting of the mail in ballots. Counting was allegedly
stopped at around 11PM eastern time in the 5 swing states in question and then at 4am EST his
lead evaporated. The MSM was telling us for weeks Trump would win the machine voting but lose
the mail in. The pump was primed.
I think the fight is over were these votes injected from overseas through the Scytle
server, were 100% of the mail in ballots legitimate, and was it fair to keep the observers
from actually observing? They are also arguing the equal protection clause as used in
2001.
Granted Giuliani is a joke but Powell is no lightweight. Neither was Giuliani back in his
pre-depends days. Hopefully we will obtain some sanity in our voting systems next go around.
Somehow I doubt it.
AWS currently holds the sole contract to provide cloud computing services to a number of
intelligence agencies, including the FBI and the NSA. That contract is set to expire in 2023
and this new award – managed by the CIA – will further weaken Amazon's once
privileged position in the federal money sweepstakes, which had already taken a hard hit when
Microsoft was unexpectedly chosen over Bezos' company for the Department of Defense's own cloud
services contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) program.
The Central Intelligence Agency will take full advantage of its access to money without
oversight to disburse the government funds at the agency's discretion. Although speculated to
rise into the tens of billions, the CIA has no plans to disclose the real value of the C2E
contracts. The Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) procurement program was unveiled in February
by the premier U.S. spy agency in a bid to establish a cloud computing service platform for the
country's intelligence agencies separate from JEDI, which remains enmeshed in a protracted
legal contest with AWS and is two years behind implementation.
... ... ...
In fact, such practices are an intrinsic part of the military industrial complex and its
historical origins at the height of the British empire. The start of the Glorious Revolution in
1688 marked the beginning of 125 years of constant war for the global superpower of the day and
the slow but inexorable rise of an industry of war made up exclusively of freelancers who would
make the guns, rifles, and bullets their bloodthirsty Queen required.
As the empire grew, the processes for the production of weapons underwent a dramatic change
from artisanal modes to full-fledged factory-style production; all spurred by the biggest army
and navy in the world, which was pillaging and extracting resources to fuel the burgeoning
enterprise of capitalism.
This period also fine-tuned the relationship between the state and independent contractors,
with the former establishing laws governing them in order to leverage their overwhelming
advantage. Other strategies were also employed to both suppress the price the Crown paid for
materiel and to make sure that no single contractor held too big a stake in the supply
chain.
In her book
"Empire of Guns," Priya Satia details this entire process and destroys the myth that the
Industrial Revolution was the result of a cotton-picking machine when even a cursory look at
the history shows that it was guns and a state engaged in perpetual war that laid the
foundations of our current economic paradigm.
Now, we stand on the threshold of the so-called "Fourth Industrial Revolution" in a world
that has perfected weapons of war to atomic levels. New 'cyberweapons' are being forged and it
is only fitting that the war industry, led today by the United States, would return to its
origins to maintain its own monopoly on human suffering and devastation in the name of
profit.
Return to the roots
The public-private partnership has been another significant trend that also mirrors a
ubiquitous trend in Victorian England. But, in today's world, a parallel legal system has grown
alongside the state's war industry and is also now at the disposal of the corporations who wish
to dispute any deal, leading to considerable delays in the execution of contracts.
Cases like the JEDI suit affect the military readiness goals of the national security state
if it cannot move forward with a particular initiative due to litigation. Another recent case
is holding up the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency's (CISA) efforts to
centralize inflow and outflow of data regarding cyber-threats.
In
October , the Government Services Agency (GSA), awarded a $13 Million-dollar contract to a
company called EnDyna to "create a centralized database that agencies can use to report,
discover and take actions against cyber threat information." A much larger competitor,
HackerOne, filed a protest questioning the award on grounds of failure to meet eligibility
requirements and the smaller company's competence to carry out the work.
Technicalities like these can hold up a project in court for years, so it makes perfect
sense for the state-run war industry to return to its roots and apply the tried and true
principles of divide and conquer against the people making their guns, whether real or virtual.
By taking the first few spots on the Big Tech pecking order and putting them in a room to duke
it out for a government contract, the war establishment is recognizing the growing power of
these firms and is unleashing the CIA to curb it and diminish threats to the supply chain of
the twenty-first century's permanent war economy.
Feature photo | The Central Intelligence Agency flag is displayed, partially cast in a
shadow. David Goldman | AP
Raul Diego is a MintPress News Staff Writer, independent photojournalist, researcher,
writer and documentary filmmaker.
"Interesting . . . Trump margin of "defeat" in 4 states occurred in 4 data dumps between
1:34-6:31 AM. Statistical anomaly? Fraud? Look at the evidence and decide for yourself.(That
is, if Big Tech allows u to read this) Anomalies in Vote Counts;
https://votepatternanalysis.substack.com/p/voting-anomalies-2020"
On cue, Twitter slapped a "this claim about election fraud is disputed."
Twitter has been using that to reject Republican attempts to contest the presidential
election results amid evidence of illegal votes, including from those who are deceased,
unconstitutional election law changes forced by courts and Democrat officials against the will
of the state legislatures, and questions about election voting systems.
The voting anamolies outlined by the report linked to by Paul are:
"An update in Michigan listed as of 6:31AM Eastern Time on November 4th, 2020, which
shows 141,258 votes for Joe Biden and 5,968 votes for Donald Trump
An update in Wisconsin listed as 3:42AM Central Time on November 4th, 2020, which shows
143,379 votes for Joe Biden and 25,163 votes for Donald Trump
A vote update in Georgia listed at 1:34AM Eastern Time on November 4th, 2020, which
shows 136,155 votes for Joe Biden and 29,115 votes for Donald Trump
An update in Michigan listed as of 3:50AM Eastern Time on November 4th, 2020, which
shows 54,497 votes for Joe Biden and 4,718 votes for Donald Trump"
According to the data study:
"In particular, we are able to quantify the extent of compliance with this property and
discover that, of the 8,954 vote updates used in the analysis, these four decisive updates
were the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 7th most anomalous updates in the entire data set. Not only does
each of these vote updates not follow the generally observed pattern, but the anomalous
behavior of these updates is particularly extreme. That is, these vote updates are outliers
of the outliers."
"... The $107 million contract awarded by Georgia for Dominion Voting Systems should be thoroughly investigated for potential "benefits being paid to family members of those who signed the contract," according to former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell on Newsmax TV. ..."
"... "I think there are multiple people in the Secretary of State's office and other that should be investigated in Georgia for what benefits they might have received for giving Dominion the $100-million, no-bid contract," Powell said. ..."
"... The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported in 2019, however, Georgia did receive three bids for the new voting systems, with Dominion winning on being "the lowest-cost system among three companies that submitted bids." ..."
"... That contract was pursued by the state after Stacey Abrams never conceded to Gov. Brian Kemp in the 2018 midterm elections, claiming the Secretary of State and Kemp unlawfully ''suppressed'' votes by voiding registrations found to be illegitimate. ..."
The
$107 million contract awarded by Georgia for Dominion Voting Systems should be thoroughly
investigated for potential "benefits being paid to family members of those who signed the
contract," according to former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell on Newsmax TV.
"There should be an investigation, a thorough criminal investigation, frankly, of everyone
involved in acquiring the Dominion [Voting] System for the state of Georgia," Powell told
Saturday's "The Count" hosted by Tom Basile and Mark Halperin.
"And frankly for every other state, giving how appalling the system is and the fact it was
designed to manipulate the votes and destroy the real votes of American citizens who were
casting legal votes."
Powell's investigation is turning up potential criminal allegations, including "money or
benefits being paid to family members of those who signed the contract for Georgia."
"I think there are multiple people in the Secretary of State's office and other that should
be investigated in Georgia for what benefits they might have received for giving Dominion the
$100-million, no-bid contract," Powell said.
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported in 2019, however, Georgia did receive three bids
for the new voting systems, with Dominion winning on being "the lowest-cost system among three
companies that submitted bids."
That contract was pursued by the state after Stacey Abrams never conceded to Gov. Brian Kemp
in the 2018 midterm elections, claiming the Secretary of State and Kemp unlawfully
''suppressed'' votes by voiding registrations found to be illegitimate.
24/Let's start with the relief requested (inside out, this is the quick way to read motions
since the relief requested dictates the relevance of everything else). They want impoundment
of voting machines, suggesting overall strategy (see above) of gathering discovery globally.
An experienced attorney analyzes Sidney Powell's legal filing in GA concerning the
electoral fraud aided and abetted by GA politicians and election officials. The 104-page PDF
complaint
can be found here . Note that she also filed
a lawsuit in MI , which is not analyzed here.
I have been a practicing attorney for 25+ years. The last 15 years I have spent mainly
federal court representing persons accused of crimes, so I am quite familiar with federal
court, federal procedure and other matters. Here is my take on Ms. Powell's complaint. I aim to
be dispassionate, not because I do not care but because we should be honest. I am not going to
smooth over issues just because I hope Ms. Powell wins.
My point is to give background and overview and to advise on what to watch in the future. I
have tried to make this post generally neutral and informative. I could not locate exhibits,
which are crucial, but they are cited many times in the complaint. So, here are my few
observations as an attorney with decades' in federal court:
1. In early October, 2020, a federal district judge in this same district (Northern District
of Georgia) ruled after several years of litigation that the Dominion software used to monitor
this election has substantial issues and it will affect an election. The Plaintiffs were
Democrats who filed suit in response to the 2016 election. They sought an order forcing Georgia
to use different software. They conducted discovery and hearings over years, including 3 days
of expert testimony about how these very voting machines work. The court ultimately denied the
request because it was simply too late to change the voting machines since the election at that
time was roughly a month away. New cases are supposed to be assigned to judges randomly but I
would not be surprised if this case were given to that particular judge since she spent so much
time reviewing the litigation and conducting evidentiary hearings. Her findings of fact could
be incorporated into this hearing under the legal theory of res judicata.
2. The complaint was clearly rushed. At times it was rough and unpolished. There were
numerous grammatical errors. But the gist is quite clear and it is clear that the lawyers
drafting the complaint certainly knew what they were doing. They dotted the 'I's and crossed
the 'T's so the complaint is not likely to be kicked on a procedural or jurisdictional claim
such as standing (a legal doctrine that says that someone who brings a lawsuit must have skin
in the game), but I would expect a more polished product if they had more time. However, the
copy I have does not have the blue ECF 'filed' stamp, so this may not be the final complaint
that gets filed. That becomes really important below.
3. The complaint makes good use of a wide variety of legal sources from both political
parties (specifically naming a statement from Democratic Senators Warren, Klobuchar and Wyden
from 2019) regarding Dominion software, including evidence from the previous litigation.
Essentially the plaintiffs say, among other things, "Look, for the past 15+ years, Republicans,
Democrats and a wide variety of international media groups have pointed out the problems with
Dominion software so it shouldn't be a surprise we are here. And the very problems they have
pointed out are problems we see in this election."
4. The complaint relies upon a variety of evidence to support its claim. One is an
examination of the history of Dominion software. another is expert testimony regarding the
voting patterns seen in this election. Another is eyewitness testimony of ballot switching.
Another is evidence of votes being case by ineligible persons. Another is evidence of a pattern
of similar conduct in several high population counties. Viewed together, Plaintiffs make a
strong case. But it's one thing to say something and another to prove it.
5. One area where plaintiffs do a good job is in pointing out the number of votes affected
by the alleged fraud. One reason this is crucial is that Biden's certified margin of victory in
Georgia was only about 12,000 votes. And the complaint does a good job of laying out
substantial procedural and constitutional irregularities with roughly 96,000 votes and further
problems with additional votes. The problematic votes far outnumber Biden's margin of victory,
which is hugely significant. Put another way, if Biden wins by 500,000 and they claim that
there are problems with 100,000 votes, even if those 100,000 votes are gone, Biden still wins.
If the problem votes are gone, Biden's victory may be gone as well. The complaint does a good
job of pointing out not just the alleged problems but the number of votes affected by those
problems.
6. What now? The plaintiffs are asking for an evidentiary hearing. That would allow them to
present evidence in the form of witness testimony, expert testimony and exhibits that would
support their claim. Because it is a civil case, they only have to prove their case by a
preponderance of evidence, that is, they only have to prove that it was more likely than not
that there was fraud and that the fraud influenced the election. They do not have to prove
their case beyond a reasonable doubt.
The court may refuse an evidentiary hearing, in which case Plaintiffs would appeal and argue
that they should be given hearing. Given the evidence laid out, I expect that the court will at
least order an evidentiary hearing that will be conducted on an expedited scale. (it helps that
there's an evidentiary hearing set in Nevada). After the evidentiary hearing, the court can
grant their request, which would be to de-certify the election and force a manual
re-count/audit overseen by independent auditors to verify each vote. Or the court could deny
it. Realistically this case is likely to be appealed, which is one reason that the District
(trial) court is likely to hold an evidentiary hearing. Because an appeal is almost certain no
matter who wins the case, the judge's legal decision in this case is likely not nearly as
important as the judge's factual decisions. The judge's factual decisions will likely be relied
upon by appellate judges even if they disagree with the judge's legal conclusions. If there is
an evidentiary hearing, pay careful attention to the judge's factual findings, especially as
described below.
7. What to look for. There are a few things to watch for if there is a hearing. For one,
federal (NOT state, and this is hugely important for federal jurisdiction) law requires that
all records related to the election of a President, VP and senators be kept for at least 22
months after an election. If the court sets a hearing, watch for a request for that evidence.
If the court orders an evidentiary hearing, I would expect the court would order that evidence
provided to the Plaintiffs and to the court. If that evidence is not provided, that is, if the
Georgia Division of Elections does not have the data that is required by the federal statutes,
there will be hell to pay. I cannot imagine that anybody would be so monumentally stupid as to
either erase such information or to not keep such information. However, Plaintiffs specifically
allege that the voting machines do not keep copies of original paper ballots and are designed
to avoid this audit trail. See ¶98 of the complaint. This is one area where the
complaint's rushed nature is an issue, although the complaint does not appear to be filed
because it's missing the blue ECF numbers showing it has been filed. Maybe the copy I got is
just a leaked rough draft.
In making this allegation, the complaint quotes some findings and includes a footnote that
should have the citation for what was quoted. That particular footnote, number 14, is missing.
Having worked with Word to include footnotes, it would not surprise me if it were deleted
accidentally during formatting. If this is the complaint that gets filed, I expect that given
the time constraints Plaintiffs counsel will soon seek to file an amended complaint and include
footnote 14. If that footnote is still missing, it looks really bad for Plaintiffs. If that
footnote is included and their allegations about the lack of a paper trial in Dominion machines
is true, that single factual finding alone is enough to derail any certified election results
from states relying upon Dominion machine. I am not joking. The statute that requires election
officials to keep records is a criminal statute, meaning that election officials who willfully
do not keep such records can go to prison. Whether they will or not is not the issue. The issue
is that this will be a crucial matter to look at because if nothing else, Plaintiffs can say,
"Here are major voter irregularities and if the defendants had followed the law, this court
would have had the evidence to determine whether these irregularities are just an odd
statistical coincidence or based on fraud. But defendants deprived the court of the ability to
do its job despite their clear legal obligation to do so." That's not really where the
defendants want to be.
The plaintiffs will also seek to compare votes cast with voter registration, specifically
people that have moved from Georgia and are no longer eligible to vote. Plaintiffs allege that
over 20,000 votes were cast by people who had moved out of Georgia and were no longer eligible
to vote. Strike those 20,000 votes as illegitimate and who knows what happens to Biden's lead.
These two issues are huge because they are black and white. There can be no reasonable dispute.
Either they have the records or they don't. Either 20,000 votes were cast by non-residents or
they weren't. If Plaintiffs can prove these two points, the court is likely to give them wider
latitude about other matters. If they can't prove these two points, Plaintiffs will find their
case is much harder than anticipated.
8. After that, there are other evidentiary issues on which the court may or may not take
evidence. Plaintiffs make a big deal about how the 'water leak' at election headquarters was
fraudulent and resulted in only a few people being along with voting machines for several
hours. I anticipate the court will take some evidence on that but it won't be enough for
Plaintiffs to prove that the voting machines were unsecured on election night through the
defendants' fraud. Plaintiffs will have to prove that during that time votes were actually
altered in some way, that is, deleted or switched from one candidate to another or added or
something and they must prove that the number of altered votes would be within the margin of
error for the Biden victory margin. This ties in with the audit trail. Put another way, if
Plaintiffs can show that: 1) the water leak was non-existent; 2) that as a result of the 'water
leak,' the machines were in the hands of just a few people for several hours; 3) that in those
hours the voting pattern changed dramatically and unpredictably, then Georgia better have those
machines and those machines better have an audit trail or some judges are not going to be
happy.
There are similar lawsuits pending in several other states and issues dovetail with this
one. A judge in Nevada has ordered an evidentiary hearing on December 3. That hearing focuses
upon fraud in mail-in ballots, which is not so much the focus here. The focus here is more on
problems with Dominion software, which will be harder to prove, although the lack of an audit
trail will be crucial for this issue. Plaintiffs will catch a big break if the judge who did
the litigation on Dominion software gets this case because the judge will know the issues with
Dominion and have the background to get up to speed quickly. If the judge who handled the
Dominion litigation handles this one, she would be able to get an opinion out fairly quickly
because she already wrote a 150 page opinion about the problems with Dominion. If she gets an
opinion out while litigation about Dominion is pending in other states or appellate courts,
look for Plaintiffs/Trump to use the decision to try to influence the other cases involving
Dominion, especially if she makes a factual finding that the machines do not have an audit
trail and this is by design.
I have no idea about the likelihood of success. Plaintiffs make an excellent argument. That
is, what they allege is indeed serious. It's not a complaint that you read and wonder "What the
hell were these lawyers smoking when they filed this?" Maybe Plaintiffs are wrong. Maybe they
can't prove what they allege. But that is different than "what were they smoking?" If they can
prove what they allege, the court has the power to grant their request to de-certify the
election and audit the votes. But courts are generally loathe to overturn elections. If the
Plaintiffs' evidence (key word is evidence, not allegations) ultimately comes down to really
improbable voting patterns, Plaintiffs are not likely to win. Plaintiffs need to be able to
say, "Here is how voter fraud occurred and here are the number of fraudulent votes
cast/changed/deleted/added because of that fraud." If they can't do both, or at least do both
in sufficient numbers to cast Biden's margin of victory into doubt in Georgia, they won't win.
If they can do both, this case will get real interesting real fast. If this court finds that
Dominion voting machines do not keep records that allow an audit of votes in a Presidential
election despite a clear federal statute to do so, then I truly have no idea where this ends
up. In that case, I am truly glad that RBG is not on the court any longer.
On one last note in an already too-long email, it will be irony of ironies if the Dominion
software litigation in Georgia turns out to be the key to this whole thing when it was
Democrats themselves who started that litigation in response to the 2017 election.
UPDATE: the shill response to the GA filing is "LOL, spelling errors!"
The one things judges hate, even the most conservatives ones, is when you start making a
mockery of the court. Going to court unprepared and will spelling errors is just going to get
on the judges bad side.
Oh, the irony.... The Dunning-Kruger is strong in this one.
UPDATE: This subsequent post by the original poster, made prior to the Powell filing,
appears to be accurate:
We haven't heard from the higher ups in hours. I haven't been told to worry yet, but the
shift around here is palpable. The suit is...comprehensive. A lot of it talks about the
Dominion software and the pay-to-play implications of having it installed in Georgia, the
modifications to the system and the alleged money that changed hands between officials at
dominion and state officials in Georgia. There's a lot of discussion about some executive for
Dominion that made a bunch of red flag modifications to the system right before the election
that were against protocols or something. Then there is a lot from whistleblowers who testify
to taking part in vote switching and ballot adding.
There are 8 references to Dominion CEO Eric Coomer across 4 pages of the filing. There is
also an amount of testimony from whistleblowers. B November 26, 2020 7:39 AM
"In early October, 2020, a federal district judge in this same district (Northern District
of Georgia) ruled after several years of litigation that the Dominion software used to monitor
this election has substantial issues and it will affect an election. The Plaintiffs were
Democrats who filed suit in response to the 2016 election. They sought an order forcing Georgia
to use different software. They conducted discovery and hearings over years, including 3 days
of expert testimony about how these very voting machines work. The court ultimately denied the
request because it was simply too late to change the voting machines since the election at that
time was roughly a month away."
_________________________________________________________
So this judge ruled that the Dominion software could improperly affect an election but said it
was OK to use it in the November 2020 Presidential election "because it was simply too late to
change the voting machines since the election at that time was roughly a month away."
>> The courts and legislature will strain mightily to avoid a Rubicon crossing. This
is both good and bad for us.
Yeah, you have to be correct with this assessment. Yet, the other side is all-in, so even
with these forces doing their best to avoid chaos, chaos will still happen. The Globalists will
deny the courts and legislature findings that go against their wishes. I know you understand
this.
The outcome: To stop the chaos that globalists will throw at the country, after they lose,
will take something almost the same as Crossing the Rubicon.
I read through both GA and MI last night. Their must have been a reason that they wanted to
file by midnight because both complaints looked very rushed and put together by sleep-deprived
attorneys, especially Michigan's.
Both are substantive and engage the enemy, focusing on the 14th. I'll pull the PACER
versions shortly and see if I can get the exhibits. Up from the pond November 26, 2020 10:32
AM
"If the Plaintiffs' evidence (key word is evidence, not allegations) ultimately comes down
to really improbable voting patterns, Plaintiffs are not likely to win."
Yes, but getting geeks to understand that is like pulling teeth.
Another non-geeky suggestion: for the entire length of any hearing, the court needs to
experience the following. Hundreds of truckers clogging the streets around the courthouse,
blowing their horns continuously. And protestors gathered in the lobby with Trump flags,
chanting "STOP THE STEAL." Latigo3 November 26, 2020 10:55
AM
Thank you for this post, a lot of information to digest, but well worth it. I think it has
been mentioned, but just the name chosen for the software company is interesting to say the
least. Looking at their page response for November 25th is funny, why is everything in bold
caps? Why are you having to shout so much? As Shakespeare wrote, "the lady doth protest too
much, methinks". Cinqueports November 26, 2020 11:40
AM
1. The Complaint as filed should be available on PACER. I don't have my PACER login
information on my laptop, so I'll have to wait until tomorrow to access it on my office
desktop. I doubt that this is the final filing - lawyers and their staff will almost always do
a spelling and grammar check in Word before converting to PDF for filing.
2. A Complaint like this is ordinarily accompanied by a motion for temporary restraining order
and preliminary injunction. A TRO can be granted ex parte for a period of 14 days and
extended for another 14 days for "good cause." A motion for a TRO must be accompanied by proof
that the opposing parties have been notified of the filing or that diligent efforts have been
made to provide such notice. This explains why the first poster would have had access to a copy
before the Complaint was filed.
3. The grant or denial of a TRO is not appealable. However, the grant or denial of a
preliminary injunction is immediately appealable. A court's failure to set a prompt date for a
hearing on preliminary injunction can be compelled by mandamus to the Circuit and by like
proceedings in SCOTUS if the Circuit fails to act promptly. The Circuit Justice for GA is
Thomas. That is important.
4. The attorney is correct that the Circuit and SCOTUS can reverse a District Court judge on
legal errors without any deference to the trial judge (plenary review). Factual findings may be
overturned for "clear error." Clear error is a high burden, but not impossible. If the evidence
supporting fraud is not dependent solely upon the credibility of witnesses (e.g., it is
corroborated by hard data that can be definitively authenticated) that burden is more easily
overcome.
5. I have a slight disagreement regarding res judicata - which can only be applied if
the party or parties against whom it is invoked was a party to the original proceeding.
6. If the defendants cannot produce the required election audit trail then that raises the
issue of spoliation of evidence. If evidence that should be there cannot be found, then a
finder of fact can infer that had the records been produced they would have been unfavorable to
the party with a duty to produce them.
7. Missing records can be important in another way. A plaintiff need not prove a negative
proposition. If the records that could have either proved or disproved a fact go missing due to
malfeasance of any sort then the burden of proof can shift. And that is a legal proposition,
not a factual one (important for appeal purposes as noted above).
8. Whether the original poster is genuine or not is unknowable. But his story is entirely
plausible.
A second lawyer writes of his initial impression of Powell's GA lawsuit.
This is a 104-page complaint, a firehose of information and allegations from a very
big-time lawyer. Anyone who tells you this is suit nothing or that they've grasped this
entire complaint after one night of reading is lying. This is going to take all weekend for
most intelligent people to read and grasp, including lawyers. I've not even completed reading
it, I'm taking it slow.
It's now blindingly obvious why the Trump campaign disassociated from Powell a few days
ago: they wanted this lawsuit to be officially unrelated to the campaign and its finances.
Trump and his campaign are not parties she's representing here, she's representing electors
in GA. Far from throwing her under the bus, they deliberately made her a completely free
radical, unencumbered by campaign rules and regulations and Swamp oversight. Like with Roger
Stone, she's outside the system.
This suit is a big reason why General Flynn was pardoned this week. Now, the corrupt
Flynn trial judge can't waste time or resources by demanding Powell file extra briefs or come
to court and distract her from this. That great Dem delay tactic has been neutralized; Powell
is all in on this.
Page 9, Paragraph 14. Holy shit.
For about 7 days now, the SJW defense rhetoric I've heard was, in part, "Oh yeah? When
they going to prove this in court? Put up or shut up." Now, after Rudy's hearings yesterday
and Powell's filing last night, they've put up----they put it on the line. Big time.
The Democratic party lawyers just shit their pants. Biden did as well, but he does that
every morning. Their Thanksgiving is officially ruined; they are all going to be working all
holiday weekend to file a response.
14.As explained and demonstrated in the accompanying redacted declaration of a
former electronic intelligence analyst under 305th Military Intelligence with experience
gathering SAM missile system electronic intelligence, the Dominion software was accessed by
agents acting on behalf of China and Iran in order to monitor and manipulate elections,
including the most recent US general election in 2020. This Declaration further includes a
copy of the patent records for Dominion Systems in which Eric Coomer is listed as the first
of the inventors of Dominion Voting Systems. (See Attached hereto as Exh. 8, copy of
redacted witness affidavit, 17 pages, November 23, 2020).
Yeah I wondered about paragraph 14 as well. Former MIL intel person, hmmm...
- Former, but now or just very recently working for the NSA?
- Does this imply that they (NSA) captured real-time data going to and from the
Dominion counting sytems?
- Redacted? So there is probably top secret or compartmentalized info from an ongoing
or recently completed security operation? Which also implies that the former MIL is
still working in some capacity for a government agency capable of detecting this sort
of data.
The testimony of this person alone could blow the walls out and bring the roof
down.
Gabbard, who's set to leave office at the end of her congressional term, previously
introduced a
resolution alongside GOP lawmaker Matt Gaetz (Florida) urging the government to drop its
charges against Snowden – who was indicted under the World War I-era Espionage Act for
his role in leaking classified material revealing illegal mass surveillance by the National
Security Agency (NSA). Though the antiquated law was originally intended to prosecute foreign
spies, it has been repeatedly wielded against journalists and whistleblowers.
A conservative legal group filed a lawsuit Wednesday arguing that more than 200,000 votes in
Georgia may have been either illegally counted or improperly uncounted, a number that dwarfs
the current lead Joe Biden enjoys over President Trump in the state's official tally.
The Thomas More Society's Amistad Project announced its latest battleground state
litigation, claiming government data indicates that "well over 100,000 illegal votes [in
Georgia] were improperly counted, while tens of thousands of legal votes were not counted."
The alleged ballot errors "undercu[t] the integrity of the general election," Amistad
Project Director Phill Kline said in a press release.
The group alleged that "systematic failures by state and local election officials" were
facilitated by "private monies donated by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg through a leftist
organization called the Center for Tech and Civic Life." That group has been the subject of
scrutiny for its receipt of
hundreds of millions of dollars from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan ostensibly to be
spent on local election infrastructure throughout the country.
"In early October, 2020, a federal district judge in this same district (Northern District
of Georgia) ruled after several years of litigation that the Dominion software used to monitor
this election has substantial issues and it will affect an election.
The Plaintiffs were
Democrats who filed suit in response to the 2016 election. They sought an order forcing Georgia
to use different software.
They conducted discovery and hearings over years, including 3 days
of expert testimony about how these very voting machines work. The court ultimately denied the
request because it was simply too late to change the voting machines since the election at that
time was roughly a month away."
So this judge ruled that the Dominion software could improperly affect an election but said it
was OK to use it in the November 2020 Presidential election "because it was simply too late to
change the voting machines since the election at that time was roughly a month away."
I'm a former litigator in Illinois...Obama "won" his first election against a popular
incumbent who was a civil rights pioneer by claiming fraud in her nominating petition
signatures, which is seldom successful...But Obama had friends...
In general, I agree that courts
are reluctant to overturn elections for vote fraud, despite the theoretically low standard of
proof, but that is more for personal, political and societal reasons than legal reasons...
Courage is not common anywhere in our society, and certainly not on the
bench...
Unfortunately, that has protected the politically connected fraudsters to the extent
that vote fraud has completely destroyed the two party system in Illinois, with Democrats
running everything and the State being bankrupt....
The same would happen if Democrats prevail
in this election.
Officials in Georgia have not been able to produce any invoices or work orders related to a "burst pipe" at Atlanta's State Farm
Arena that was blamed for an abrupt pause in vote counting on election night.
The only evidence for the burst pipe, released under freedom-of-information laws, was a text message exchange in which one senior
employee at the stadium described it as "highly exaggerated a slow leak that caused about an hour and a half delay" and that "we
contained it quickly – it did not spread".
"Beyond the lack of documentary evidence of the inspection or repair of a ruptured pipe, we are being asked to believe that there
is not one single picture of this allegedly ruptured pipe, at a time and in a place where virtually everything is recorded and documented,"
Georgia lawyer Paul Dzikowski, who obtained the text messages, told news.com.au in an email on Wednesday night.
Good article and good on GA lawyer and the Georgia Open Records Act requester!
Assuming that the deep state doesn't favour Biden, or pretending that the election wasn't
fixed in favour of the Democrats, is astonishingly misinformed. Also, should we defend the principle of democracy or not? Got a
better option?
Just before the election, I said that the main targets include the CIA, FBI, etc.
--
According to Powell, the Trump campaign has enough evidence to launch a serious criminal
investigation.
"We're fixing to overturn the election results in multiple states and President Trump won by
not just hundreds of thousands of votes but my millions of votes that were shifted by this
software that was designed expressly for that purpose," Powell explained. "We have sworn
witness testimony about why the software was designed. It was designed to rig elections."
According to Powell, the witness that the Trump team has is someone who has seen elections
rigged in other countries. Those same tactics and software were allegedly deployed to the
United States.
"They did this on purpose. It was calculated. They've done it before," she said. "We have
evidence of 2016 in California. We have so much evidence I feel like it's coming in through a
fire hose."
--
Sidney Powell interviewed by Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures: CIA May have Used
Dominion for Its Own Benefit
Nov 15, 2020
@5:25: [it] makes me wonder how much the CIA has used [this software] for its own benefit in
different places . . .
Hello Lost in a dark wood: Thanks for posting this interview. Notice how Ms Bartiromo is
pressuring Ms Powell to disclose sensitive legal information throughout the presentation? This
is one of the main reasons "investigative" journalism has been reduced to Facebook and Twitter
exercises in finger pointing. I guess a juicy news "scoop" sells more advertising
I repeatedly posted comment regarding fraudulent software used in early Die Bold voting
machines before this "election" took place. Numerous web sites refused to publish the material
Pajays Nov 16, 2020 4:23 PM
Either way, you're still going to get vaxxed. The WEF agenda marches on. All this stolen
election charade is distraction for the Operation Warp Speed rollout, the next step in the
Great Reset, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where man and machine are hybridized, starting
with "vaccines" that modify your own genetic makeup and cause you to become attached to the
"cloud" "vaccine" by "vaccine," like the Windows updates. Moderna = "Modify" your "RNA." Lost
in a dark wood Nov 16, 2020 5:34 PM
I am reliably informed that a unit under the command of USEUCOM (i.e., United States
European Command) did in fact conduct an operation to take control of computer servers. But
these servers belong to the CIA, not Dominion or Sctyl. The U.S. military has full authority to
do this because any CIA activity in the European theater is being conducted using military
cover. In other words, CIA officers would be identified to the German government (and anyone
else asking) as military employees or consultants.
Such an operation would have been carried out with U.S. law enforcement present to take
custody of the evidence. That means that the evidence will be under the control of the
Department of Justice through US Attorneys and can be used in court or other judicial
proceedings.
This is not the first time that a military unit attached to EUCOM has compelled a CIA
computer facility to hand over evidence. A dear friend of mine (a retired DEA officer) told me
about an incident where he entered a CIA facility in Frankfurt backed up by the US Army to get
info the CIA was withholding (this took place in the 1980s).
I also have confirmed what Jim Hoft reported the other night–the CIA's Gina Haspel was
not informed in advance of this operation. Based on this fact, I think it is correct that
action was taken in Germany on territory under U.S. control and that a CIA facility was
targeted.
I also have learned that FBI Director Christopher Wray was excluded from this operation.
Wray, more than Haspel, has been working aggressively to undermine and sabotage Donald Trump.
This means that some other U.S. law enforcement agency (e.g., US Marshals, DEA, Secret Service,
etc) had the lead in collecting the evidence. DunGroanin Nov 16, 2020 7:15 AM
The Fight is Fixed. The rules of the Fight are Fixed
There's more evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election than there ever was of Russia
collusion, so America is owed a legal examination of the election irregularities alleged by the
Trump campaign. It's not crazy to say this, despite the gaslighting from much of the media.
Basically, the election is down to roughly 120,000 votes of almost 150 million votes
cast. That's 0.08 percent, a tiny margin by anyone's reckoning.
Five swing states are within 1 percent, all with Joe Biden in the lead.
In Georgia, Biden was ahead last night by just 10,352 votes.
In Arizona, he was ahead by 19,438 votes.
In Wisconsin, he was ahead by 20,540.
In Pennsylvania, he was ahead by 43,251.
In Nevada, he was ahead by 31,464.
It is not outlandish or unprecedented to accept the possibility that at least some of those
margins may be erroneous, whether through human error or, indeed, fraud. Electoral fraud is not
unknown in America. Probably the most famous example was in 1960, when Chicago Mayor Richard
Daley allegedly rigged the ballot for John F. Kennedy, dead people were found to have "voted"
and 677 election officials were indicted.
Due to the pandemic, around 40 percent of votes in Tuesday's election were cast by mail,
double the percentage in 2016. Even the New York Times once reported the truth that mail-in
voting is the most vulnerable to fraud. This is why most developed countries ban the
practice.
So, as you can see, it is perfectly reasonable in such a close election to take seriously
allegations of irregularities and suspicious activity. An honest media would investigate rather
than dismissing the allegations out of hand as "baseless," "false" and "conspiracy
theories."
The Trump campaign's legal team, led
by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani , claims that, in Pennsylvania alone, 600,000
ballots are in question because they were counted without any poll-watchers observing to ensure
they were legitimate, as state law requires.
In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Giuliani says that "50 to 60 poll-watchers will all testify
that they were uniformly deprived of their right to inspect any single part of the mail-in
ballots Not a single one was inspected as the law required. Even when a court order was
obtained to allow the Republican inspectors to get six feet closer, they moved the people
counting the ballots six further feet away.
"It's really simple. If you have nothing to hide with these mail-in ballots, you allow
inspection."
Giuliani has promised one lawsuit will be filed today and four more by the end of this
week.
Another Trump team lawyer, Sidney Powell, claimed yesterday that 450,000 ballots had been
found with only votes for Biden and no down-ballot selections, which she regarded as
suspicious.
She also claimed in an interview on Fox News that two pieces of software called Hammer and
Scorecard were used to flip votes from Trump to Biden in some pre-election voting ballots.
As well, Georgia
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Saturday an "issue involving reporting" of
votes in Fulton County on Friday, and said he had sent "investigators onsite."
Sen.
Lindsey Graham , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a statement that he
will be investigating "all credible allegations of voting irregularities and misconduct" after
receiving a sworn affidavit from Pennsylvania postal worker Richard Hopkins alleging that Erie
Postmaster Robert Weisenbach had told workers he was "back-dating the postmarks on the ballots
to make it appear as though the ballots had been collected on November 3, 2020 despite them in
fact being collected on November 4 and possibly later."
Graham (R-SC) also yesterday claimed that in Pennsylvania, the Trump team has found "over
100 people they think were dead but 15 people that we verified that have been dead who voted
Six people registered after they died and voted."
All of this may not amount to a hill of beans. But it deserves to be examined, or otherwise
71 million people who voted for Trump may end up believing the election was stolen.
"This is no longer about any single election," Trump said in a statement over the weekend,
calling for full transparency in vote counting and election certification.
"This is about the integrity of our entire election process."
Quite right.
Whatever comes of the allegations, in reality, nothing is more important than two Georgia US
Senate runoffs, on which control of the Senate may depend.
Since neither of the Republicans, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, has reached the 50
percent threshold in votes required under Georgia law to win outright, there
has to be a redo on Jan. 5 .
If they both were to lose, the US Senate would be deadlocked 50-50, with the vice president,
Kamala Harris, having the deciding vote. In other words, the Democrats would be in control and
nothing would impede their radical agenda, including the Green New Deal, packing the Supreme
Court and adding two new states.
In the end, it's worth remembering that the situation we are in today is not
unprecedented.
It took 37 days for the legal battles to be sorted out after the very close 2000 election,
and George W. Bush to be declared the winner.
His son Hunter Biden, currently under FBI investigation, was on stage, fully clothed and
minus the crack pipe, which was nice.
Of course, Trump's team will have to provide concrete evidence of systemic fraud enough to
flip the election result in enough states to make a difference to the outcome.
It's a very high bar, so I wouldn't be holding my breath.
But it's 2020. Stranger things have happened.
Supremely experienced
Remarkably enough, there are now three justices of nine on the Supreme Court who were on the
Bush legal team during the contested "hanging chads" election in 2000. They were the recently
confirmed Amy Coney Barrett, the disgracefully maligned Brett Kavanaugh, and Chief Justice John
Roberts. In addition, Justices Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer were part of the court that
decided the case almost exactly 20 years ago, but on opposite sides. So there is plenty of
corporate memory on the court to adjudicate on any case that might come before them.
In 2008, Barack Obama received the names of his entire future cabinet already one month
prior to his election by CFR Senior Fellow (and Citigroup banker) Michael Froman, as a
Wikileaks email later revealed. Consequently, the key posts in Obama's cabinet were filled
almost exclusively by CFR members, as was the case in most
cabinets since World War II. To be sure, Obama's 2008 Republican opponent, the late John
McCain, was a CFR member, too. Michael Froman later negotiated the TPP and TTIP international
trade agreements, before returning to the CFR as a Distinguished Fellow.
In 2017, CFR nightmare President Donald Trump immediately canceled these trade agreements --
because he viewed them as detrimental to US domestic industry -- which allowed China to
conclude its own, recently announced RCEP free-trade area ,
encompassing 14 countries and a third of global trade. Trump also canceled other CFR
achievements, like the multinational Iran nuclear deal and the UN climate and migration
agreements, and he tried, but largely failed, to withdraw US troops from East Asia, Central
Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa, thus seriously endangering the global US empire built
over decades by the CFR and its 5000 elite members .
Unsurprisingly, most of the US media , whose owners and editors are themselves members of the CFR ,
didn't like President Trump. This was also true for most of the European media, whose owners
and editors are members of international CFR affiliates like the
Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission, founded by CFR directors after the conquest of
Europe during World War II. Moreover, it was none other than the CFR which in 1996
advocated a closer cooperation between the CIA and the media, i.e. a restart of the famous
CIA Operation
Mockingbird . Historically, OSS and CIA directors since William Donovan and Allen Dulles
have always
been CFR members.
This is the case for Anthony Blinken (State), Alejandro Mayorkas (Homeland Security), Janet
Yellen (Treasury), Michele Flournoy and Jeh Johnson (candidates for Defense), Linda
Thomas-Greenfield (Ambassador to the UN), Richard Stengel (US Agency for Global Media; Stengel
famously called propaganda "a good thing"
at a 2018 CFR session), John Kerry (Special Envoy for Climate), Nelson Cunningham (candidate
for Trade), and Thomas Donilon (candidate for CIA Director).
Jake Sullivan, Biden's National Security Advisor, is not (yet) a CFR member, but Sullivan
has been a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (a think tank "promoting active international engagement by the
United States") and a member of the US German Marshall Fund's
"Alliance For Securing Democracy" (a major promoter of the "Russiagate"
disinformation campaign to restrain the Trump presidency), both of which are run by senior
CFR members.
Most of Biden's CFR-vetted nominees
supported recent US wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen as well as the
2014 regime change in Ukraine. Unsurprisingly, neoconservative Max Boot, the CFR Senior Fellow
in National Security Studies and one of the most vocal opponents of the Trump administration,
has called Biden's future cabinet "America's A-Team" .
Thus, after four years of "populism" and "isolationism", a Biden presidency will mean the
return of the Council on Foreign Relations and the continuation of a tradition of more than 70 years .
Indeed, the CFR was founded in 1921 in response to the "trauma of 1920" ,
when US President Warren Harding and the US Senate turned isolationist and renounced US global
leadership after World War I. In 2016, Donald Trump's "America First" campaign reactivated this
100 year old foreign policy trauma.
Was the 2020 presidential election "stolen", as some allege? There are certainly indications
of
significant statistical anomalies in key Democrat-run swing states. Whether these were
decisive for the election outcome may be up to courts to decide. At any rate, Joe Biden may
well be the first US President known to be involved
in international corruption before even entering office.
Why are most US and international media hardly interested in this? Well, why should
they?
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The recounts are irrelevant. The "certification" of the fraudulent votes is just theater.
None of that matters once the overwhelming fraudulent nature of the entire operation is
documented and revealed to all.
Check out the >> Executive Order from the president signed on 9/11/18
On the issue of voter fraud, the right has sullied real concerns with ballot legitimacy in
highly mismanaged black cities with Bircherist bufoonery. The last of the MAGA faithful -- Alex
Jones, Steve Bannon, Q-Anon, Mike Cernovich, Dinesh D'Souza, Nick Fuentes, Ali Alexander, One
America News, and the Zionist opportunists at Newsmax -- have been trying to cancel more
sensible right-wing populists like Tucker Carlson, Ryan Gidursky, Pedro Gonzalez and others for
expressing skepticism about some of the Trump campaign's narratives on the election.
Like him or not, Tucker is a serious political commentator that has tried and failed to
provide coherence and principles to Trumpism for the last four years. When Tucker asked Sidney
Powell for evidence regarding her claim that Castro, Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro and the
Chinese Communist Party stole millions of votes from Trump in an international Marxist coup, he
was subjected to insults, boycotts and unhinged shrieking in response. "THANK YOU SEAN HANNITY
FOR HOLDING THE LINE. THANK YOU TUCKER FOR THROWING US UNDER THE BUS," wrote Nick Fuentes.
Tucker was
vindicated when Trump's team abruptly severed ties with Powell and shelved her circus act.
But that hasn't stopped online Trumpistanis from speculating that Tucker's red bracelet is a
sign that he is a secret kabbalah
practitioner or that he's been a double agent for the satanic pedophile cartel led by Tom
Hanks put in place just for this moment. For Jews concerned that Tucker has been promoting the
potent combination of nationalism and economic populism to deplorables since 2016, it is a
welcome
amusement to see him being sacrificed on the alter of Orange Man Good and traded in for a
harmless lapdog like Hannity.
30 of 31 voter fraud lawsuits filed by Team Trump have been tossed. The whole thing is
starting to look like a Birther-style publicity stunt to help Trump monetize his following
after January. The
most recent defeat , a lawsuit demanding 7,000,000 votes be invalidated in Pennsylvania,
did not provide any compelling evidence for fraud or malfeasance.
Four years ago, Bernie expressed skepticism about mass immigration while Trump's original
campaign hinted at a public health care option and a war against Wall Street. These real world
issues impact real world people, and it allowed for a cross-front alliance of ordinary citizens
against the elite. The two candidates traded disenfranchised and largely white working class
voters throughout the primary, then the general.
But now there are actors on both sides trying to drag things back to personalities,
political tribalism and inanity. The COVID issue has drawn out the petty tyrants on the left
but also the UN-world-government conspiracy theorists of the right, with actual state relief
for desperate working people suffering from the lockdown being drowned out.
For Jewish gatekeepers of the phony right like Ezra Levant , "The Great Reset"
is much more palatable and less dangerous than the real issue of the Great Replacement. Former
Never
Trumper Mark Levin has worked with Sean Hannity to scrub 2020 Trumpism of its
anti-establishment and anti-globalist soul to try and transform it into another
Tea Party style Reaganite collection point for false consciousness held together by fumes
of Trump's personality cult.
There is a silver lining. As niches suffering from the two types of TDS -- Trump Derangement
Syndrome and Trump Delusion Syndrome -- duke it out, the liberal kleptocracy is still having
trouble restoring "normalcy."
The Biden Democrats are eager to betray and start purging the Bernie wing of their party on
economic and foreign policy matters. The GOP, whose establishment has no organic support and
never will, has decided to fake it until they make it and pretend like Trump was never
born.
This forced reboot is bound to meet challenges in an era of high unemployment and social
chaos. People are sick of voting for a "lesser of two evils."
There is lots of talk on the left and right about starting new parties to challenge the Wall
Street uniparty. The Movement for
a People's Party , an endeavor that has recruited big names like Jimmy Dore and Cornell
West, is looking to establish itself and begin attacking the Democratic party from the
left.
Meanwhile, right-populists who aren't hung up on Trump are beginning to talk of an
"America First Party."
The National Justice Party, a political construct that isn't afraid to appeal to white workers
or transcend traditional ideas of left and right, is also starting to gain momentum.
In the battle of corn syrup vs soy, of stupid vs gay, we the people deserve better. The
populi in populist can be described as being part of the radical center: left on economics and
right on social issues. A white worker should not have to vote for the anti-white Democrats
just to have a shot at affordable health care, nor should a rural family have to vote for the
Paul Singer funded Zionist GOP in hopes of being treated with dignity. A grounded and united
movement that explicitly rejects both parties and can obtain what we want must arise from the
ashes of back-stabbed Trumpists and Bernie fans.
The populi in populist can be described as being part of the radical center: left on
economics and right on social issues. A white worker should not have to vote for the
anti-white Democrats just to have a shot at affordable health care, nor should a rural family
have to vote for the Paul Singer funded Zionist GOP in hopes of being treated with dignity. A
grounded and united movement that explicitly rejects both parties and can obtain what we want
must arise from the ashes of back-stabbed Trumpists and Bernie fans.
The median wage in the USA in 2019 was $34,000 / year. If Trumpstein had done even one
tiny little, teensy weensy, itsy bitsy thing for the under $34k working poor .he would have
easily retained enough votes to keep his job. Instead, his domestic policy goals centered
around taking basic health insurance away from the working poor (even during a pandemic),
while giving billions away to his wall street pals, his relatives, giant corporations, and of
course his yid sponsors. Example: Fed Ex paid zero income tax in 2017, 2018, 2019. Let's see
how long a modern society can function when the top 0.1% are worth more than the bottom
80%.
The left-leaning group that received $250 million from the Facebook CEO, makes the incredible claim on their website that
"Elections place too many burdens on voters."
If the Center For Civic Design was serious about their statement, why aren't they hiring buses in areas that are solid Trump
country, like in northern MI, where people may have to drive 20 or more miles to get to their local polling places? What about
their "burden?" Or are some burdens more important than others?
The complaint filed with the WI Election Commission points out that the Zuckerberg funded group is
only
spending in the five critical cities in Wisconsin where Hillary Clinton picked up 82% of the vote in 2016:
Green
Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee, and Racine
-- all
Democratic
strongholds.
So far, the group has spent an incredible
$6.3 million
in the
critical
swing state of Wisconsin
with 10 electoral votes.
Here
is a portion of their complaint:
The
CTCL's sizable grants are providing funding to make polling equipment and resources conveniently available in particular
Wisconsin cities that all have one glaring commonality – their
overwhelming
support of Hillary Clinton in 2016.
$2,572,839 of the CTCL gift is to be spent through the city clerks and election officials to
influence
voter turnout in democrat strongholds.
The
cities have accepted the CTCL moneys
without coordination with the state
legislature
to ensure statewide uniformity in inducing people to vote.
The
CTCL moneys, accepted by the cities, is
targeted to urban electors to
the exclusion of surburban electors and rural electors.
The
City of Green Bay its city clerk and election officials are
using the
CTCL moneys to illegally induce its urban electors to vote in the November 3, 2020 election
as follows:
"Green Bay:
The
City would like to
employ bilingual LTE "voter navigators
" to
help residents properly upload valid photo ID,
complete their ballots
and
comply with certification requirements, and offer witness signatures. These voter navigators
can
assist voters prior to the elections
and then
also be trained
and utilized as election inspectors.
The
City would like to add secure (security cameras $15,000) ballot drop-boxes.
The
City needs
45 additional staff to process absentee ballot requests
before the election, to open and verify envelopes on Election Day, and insert them into the tabulators.
They
would like to
staff these early voting sites with election inspectors
who are bilingual and would like to increase the salary rate for these bilingual election inspectors
to assist with
recruitment and retention, as well as in recognition of their important role at these sites.
The City would like to increase poll worker salaries by 50%
.
All poll workers will be trained through the Wisconsin Elections Commission website and the City's own training manual.
Would
like to reach voters and potential voters through a multi-prong strategy utilizing "every door direct mail," targeted mail,
geo-fencing, billboards, radio, television, and streaming-service PSAs, digital advertising, and automated calls and texts.
The City would also like to ensure that these efforts can be done in
English,
Spanish, Hmong, and Somali, since roughly 11% of households in the Green Bay area speak a language other than English.
The
City would also like to directly mail to residents who
are
believed to be eligible but not registered voters,
approximately
20,000
residents.
It would require both considerable staff time to construct that list of residents and directly mail a
professionally-designed piece (in multiple languages) to those voters.
To
assist new voters,
the City would also
like resources to help residents obtain required documents (i.e. birth certificates) which are needed to get a valid state ID
needed for voting.
These grant funds would be distributed in partnership with key community organizations
including churches, educational institutions, and organizations
serving African immigrants,
LatinX residents, and African Americans.
The
CTCL recently provided a
$10 million grant to the City of Philadelphia
for
the purpose of "ensuring a safe election process this November.
Much
of the grant money is targeted to ease voting in
one
of the most democrat jurisdictions in
Pennsylvania,
a
state President Trump won by only 0.72%, or 44,292 votes in 2016. 33.
The
group is also working to affect the outcome of the election in the critical swing state of Michigan where President Trump won
by just over 10,000 votes in 2016. Over 50,000 absentee ballots were rejected in the Democrat stronghold of Wayne County, MI.
in 2016.
Although it's not clear how much money
Michigan
received from
the group,
Axios
reports
– Michigan's Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) praised the efforts of the left-leaning group, saying: "This grant
will be of tremendous assistance as we work to get the word out to voters."
According to
WZZM13
–
CTCL has also given $6 million to Fulton County, which includes
Atlanta.
The CTCL declined to disclose its other donors for the year or
itemize all its contributions to local offices.
As we can see, all four of the vote updates in question (the two red points, the green
points well above this line, and the farther-up yellow point), are well above even this
line. Indeed, the least extreme of these points, represented by the lower red dot which is
above the 99.5th percentile curve, is the 7th most co-extreme point out of all 8,954 vote
updates, and represents the 99.92nd percentile.
If you are following the global media, you wouldn't know that their is an ongoing legal
challenge to the official 2020 Election results. Still, some are asking the question: does
President Trump still have a viable path to victory? Can Trump's legal team really throw out
hundreds of thousands of votes in several swing states based on evidence of voter fraud? Even
if such evidence is both available and compelling, will the courts want to hear these cases, or
will it be more convenient for the Establishment to sweep this 2020 contest under the political
rug?
Co-hosts Ciara Haley and George Szamuely from The Gaggle talks with American attorney
and political analysis Robert Barnes to find out what are Trump's possible paths forward.
Watch:
Thank you for your work to ensure that the fraud in this election is revealed and
corrected.
While not certain of the approach you and your team are intending to take or how courts
look at evidence, may I make a suggestion?
The mathematical, statistical, and historical evidence definitively demonstrates the fraud
that occurred in our elections.
Is it possible that presenting all-encompassing mathematical evidence first will
conclusively show that fraud across the nation did in fact occur? The many methods in which
the democrats committed fraud can then be pieced together after first showing that the crime
was perpetrated.
Showing fraud on a national level may have greater efficacy than skipping straight to an
examination of individual states for their own inconsistencies. After the nationwide crime is
established, then the methods used in each state can be brought to light. The fact that
Georgia stopped counting votes on election night due to a toilet leak might be questionable
enough, but juxtaposed to Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin halting counting about the
same time paints a clearer picture of impropriety.
I am sure you are aware of how probabilities work. They are cumulative by multiplication.
Flipping a coin is 50% (0.50) chance of heads. Flipping a coin twice with heads as the result
both times has only a 25% (0.25) chance (0.50 x 0.50 = 0.25). The more flips expecting heads
each time continues to drop the chances of repeated occurrence. 6 attempts would only yield a
1.56% (0.0156) chance of heads for all six flips.
What the Joe Biden team "accomplished" on election night is even more mathematically
farfetched than 6 flips of a coin being heads.
J.B. Shurk at The Federalist has compiled many of these improbabilities that, when
considered together, show the impossibility of a Biden victory.
Here are just two of several points he presented in two articles. These two alone cast a
long shadow over the legitimacy of a Biden victory:
"Biden is set to become the first president in 60 years to lose the states of Ohio and
Florida on his way to election. For a century, these states have consistently predicted the
national outcome, and they have been considered roughly representative of the American
melting pot as a whole. Despite national polling giving Biden a lead in both states, he lost
Ohio by eight points and Florida by more than three.
For Biden to lose these key bellwethers by notable margins and still win the national
election is newsworthy. Not since the Mafia allegedly aided John F. Kennedy in winning
Illinois over Richard Nixon in 1960 has an American president pulled off this neat trick.
Even more unbelievably, Biden is on his way to winning the White House after having lost
almost every historic bellwether county across the country. The Wall Street Journal and The
Epoch Times independently analyzed the results of 19 counties around the United States that
have nearly perfect presidential voting records over the last 40 years. President Trump won
every single bellwether county, except Clallam County in Washington.
Whereas the former VP picked up Clallam by about three points, President Trump's margin of
victory in the other 18 counties averaged over 16 points. In a larger list of 58 bellwether
counties that have correctly picked the president since 2000, Trump won 51 of them by an
average of 15 points, while the other seven went to Biden by around four points. Bellwether
counties overwhelmingly chose President Trump, but Biden found a path to victory anyway."
Smoking Gun: “Barron replied
that using large amounts of technology lends itself to problems, but the new equipment enabled them to log in to the poll
pads and fix problems remotely.” Remotely can only mean connected to Internet! A Major No No.
Are You Not Entertained?
@SheriHerman10,
Sidney Powell is so fierce she made Dominion shut down their offices, scrub their website, not show up for an important press
conference in PA today, lawyer up and have employees all fly the coup. She has all the evidence she needs.
in 2010 Eric Coomer joined Dominion as Vice President of U.S. Engineering. According to
his bio, Coomer graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Nuclear
Physics. Eric Coomer was later promoted to Voting Systems Officer of Strategy and Security
although Coomer has since been removed from the Dominion page of directors. Dominion altered
its website after
Colorado resident Joe Oltmann disclosed that as a reporter he infiltrated ANTIFA, a
domestic terrorist organization where he recorded Eric Coomer representing: "Don't worry.
Trump won't win the election, we fixed that." – as well as social media posts with
violence threatened against President Trump.
You put your finger on the problem; it takes time to prove wrong doing, and time is the
one thing that is missing. Any decent statistician will tell you that there was widespread
fraud in key battleground states. Take a look at the above picture at the vote counting
center in Detroit - do you honestly think the cardboard in the windows was going up to
prevent covid.
There is law and there is justice. The law may prevail, but justice unsatisfied will tear
this country apart at a time it can least afford it. There is nowhere to go. Outside urban
areas MSN is ignored, the financial situation is terrible and getting worse, and edicts are
routinely being ignored, including by law enforcement.
Cities need to be fed, and the rural areas provide the food. This is partly why the Senate
and the Electoral College are structured the way that they are. Geography matters, especially
if you are counting on it for food. When the US dollar loses world currency status (likely in
the next 5 years, and almost certainly in the next 10 years) then the "wealth" of cities will
amount to little, while the hard value of the rural areas will remain.
We are in deep trouble, and the only way to sort it out is to devote all available
resources to determining the extent of the fraud and whether or not it was material to the
election result. Without that the country will not heal; and the divide will grow.
Remember that law enacted is not the same as justice served.
ableman28 , 14 hours ago
In ALL polling places the two largest vote getting parties nominate an EQUAL number of
poll workers for every eleection. That is how it works. Check for yourself.
One of the problems that Trumps suits have in getting any traction is that they are NEVER
supported by poll workers, just observers. A poll worker who could show actual fraud would be
useful to back up these suits. A poll watcher who wants to make a guess allegation that
something happened because Trump lose is useless in court.
The supreme court, dominated by republican appointees, will give Trump NOTHING. In court,
facts matter, In whatever ZH, NewsMax, OAN are just making **** up gets you by.
Schacht Mat , 1 hour ago
I have been a poll worker several times. Equal number of workers does not mean equal
influence over the process, any more than an entry level worker has equal authority to the
CEO.
The folks who pulled this off knew the system and worked it. As a former poll worker, I
can tell you that the heavy lifting was done outside the eyes of the average poll workers.
All you need is a momentary break in the chain of custody, and a bunch of ballots cast and be
replaced with an equal number of ballots made. And tell me which poll worker will catch
electronic voting machine tampering that is done by accessing software from another
country.
This is not light weight stuff you are looking at here; these are well thought out tactics
that have been proven and honed by our "intelligence" apparatus in color revolutions around
the world. The average poll worker, of either side, would not have a clue as to what is going
on. You are asking an amateur boxer to step into the ring with a professional heavyweight,
and then wondering why he does not stand a chance.
kermudgen , 14 hours ago
"There is NO credible evidence of widespread election fraud. 30 or 31 Trump lawsuits have
been thrown out."
That's not entirely true. If there were no evidence why would PA halt the certification of
their vote? All the lower courts did was not hear the cases. This will get pushed up the the
SCOTUS and then the demoncrat skullduggery will be brought into the light.
"30 or 31 Trump lawsuits have been thrown out." WTF? Do you believe the MSM?
"The populi in populist can be described as being part of the radical center: left on
economics and right on social issues. "
Indeed -- it does sound good.
You seem quite convinced that it was Tucker Carlson's version of events that was true
concerning this phone call to Sidney Powell. You know she disputes this version. Also I read
that Carlson did not make the call himself, but rather had a staffer do it.
One might be a little suspicious that perhaps a staffer put a little too much effort into
getting Ms. Powell to appear on the show, and perhaps embellished or 'interpreted' the phone
call out of concern for their job.
One might also consider it a bit petty and unprofessional to immediately report a rude
phone call on the Carlson news program, and not once but twice.
Are we to believe that Sidney Powell is the only source who has ever been rude on a phone
call with a staffer from the news media? Is it good journalism to publicly attack potential
sources because they said no the first time you asked?
In my opinion it seems a bit hard to believe that Ms. Powell had a meltdown with either
Carlson or a staffer on a phone call. She seems much more the type to just politely say
goodbye and hang up.
But let's assume that she did have a meltdown. Given the circumstances and time crunch
she's under, wouldn't a reasonable person assume she was acting badly because of stress and
she probably didn't mean it?
Carlson couldn't wait longer than the next morning before he planned to publicly shame her
for it? And in the middle of what must be, for her, the biggest and most important thing
she's ever done?
What happened to Tucker Carlson's philosophy of kindness towards one another? And do you
put any stock in the fact that so many people who watch (or watched) Tucker Carlson on a
regular basis were genuinely shocked by what he did? I know I was.
Everything about this seems very strange. If a normally reasonable person like Powell made
crazy sounding claims, why respond with such hostility? Does anybody remember the guy who
built his own rocket so he could prove the Earth was flat? All we had to do was wait.
And as for these voting machine companies having ties to Venezuela in the past, well
that's true. None other than Lou Dobbs on CNN reported this and the whole thing ended up in
congressional hearings iirc.
I have no opinion about Sidney Powell's claims. She seems respectable enough to withhold
judgement until she shows us what she's got. And if even a part of what she claims is true, I
for one will be pretty concerned.
MA: On Nov. 14, the
Palm Beach Post reported that you spoke at a "Stop the Steal" rally attended by 500 Trump
supporters in Delray Beach, Fla. [an upscale community 20 miles south of Palm Beach]. Here are
some quotes from the Post's report:
"Stone suggested the CIA changed vote tallies to benefit Democrat Joe Biden."
"He [Stone] then hit on how the CIA used a supercomputer called the 'Hammer' and a program
dubbed 'Scorecard' to alter the vote."
Can you elaborate?
RS: As I wrote in stonecoldtruth.com , I believe there is both overwhelming and
compelling evidence of extensive election fraud of the old-fashioned variety to include abuses
in the mail-in ballot system; ballot harvesting; dead people voting; people voting multiple
times; and the wholesale manufacture of ballots after the polls had closed since Democrats knew
the margins by which Trump won.
I believe that there will also be substantial hard evidence of cyber manipulation of the
2020 vote. I raised the question of the "Hammer" and "Scorecard" programs, which [CIA]
whistleblower Dennis Montgomery – who designed the [latter] program – specifically
said was created for the purpose of voter manipulation in foreign countries. In fact,
confidential audio recordings released by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow in November 2015,
revealed that this computer program was used by the Obama campaign on Florida state election
computers to steal the 2012 presidential election for Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
I believe there is also substantial evidence of cyber manipulation of the 2020 vote by
Dominion Voting Services, among others. The company has been subjected to substantive
allegations in the past. It's funny to see Democrats who told us for four years that our
elections were being interfered with through the cyber efforts of the "Russians" now insisting
that such a thing is impossible.
MA: Why have Trump's lawyers been unable to confirm a single example of voter fraud?
RS: I reject the premise of your question. The president's lawyers have produced multiple
examples of voter fraud in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and elsewhere. Don't give
into the mass hypnosis of the fake news media. If you want to see proof of this evidence you
can go here .
Earlier this year, our friend and colleague
Stephen Cohen passed away. His contributions to the field of Russian, East European, and
Eurasian Studies will be felt for years to come. Professor Cohen was a historian, but his
legacy extends far beyond his scholarly work. Every year, the Stephen Cohen
Fellowship -- established on Professor Cohen's initiative and supported by Katrina vanden Heuvel
and the Kat Foundation -- funds the graduate education for master's students in the Department
of Russian & Slavic Studies at NYU. Professor Cohen has also helped enable doctoral
students to conduct dissertation research in Russia through the Cohen-Tucker Fellowship .
As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States, we give thanks to Stephen
Cohen for not only his work in the REEES field but for the generosity he, Katrina vanden
Heuvel, and the Kat Foundation have shown to budding Russia scholars. We honor him today by
publishing the testimonials of some of current and former students who have benefitted from
Cohen Fellowships.
Natasha Bluth (Cohen Fellowship)
The Stephen Cohen Fellowship enabled me to continue my studies of the former Soviet Union,
not only easing the financial burden of graduate school, but also providing the opportunity to
merge journalistic training with area studies, engage with a wide range of scholars and
regional specialists, and conduct field research in Ukraine. The support and encouragement
Stephen Cohen offered at our annual fellowship alumni dinners also inspired me to pursue a PhD
in sociology in order to explore post-Soviet civil society, nationalism, and gender from a
social-scientific perspective.
Michael Coates (Cohen-Tucker Fellowship)
During the 2018-19 academic year, I held a Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Fellowship, which I
used to fund over a year of archival research in Russia on the history of the Great Soviet
Encyclopedia. The fellowship allowed me to visit more than a dozen archives in Moscow and Saint
Petersburg, and to copy thousands of pages of original documents. Had I not been able to carry
out this archival work, I would not have been able to write my dissertation. The travel that
the Fellowship enabled was also personally significant to me, because I had never been to
Russia before I arrived in Moscow for my research year, even though I had already been studying
the country and its language for several years. It is one thing to read books about a
particular place, but actually experiencing life there first-hand is quite another, and has
been essential to the development of my understanding of the region. I am extremely grateful to
Prof. Cohen and Ms. vanden Heuvel for their generosity in funding the next generation of Russia
specialists.
Stephen F. Cohen performed a great service in the last four years as he relentlessly
refuted the great Russiagate hoax which not only distorted our political life but seriously
wounded US-Russia relations for years to come. That hoax is a threat to world peace and Prof.
Cohen from the very first saw through it. Both in his writings for The Nation and his near
weekly conversations with John Batchelor of ABC radio rebutted it clearly, eloquently and at
times with good humor. How very much he is missed.
Just days before the 2020 election the bureaucratic forces behind the original claim of
Russian hacking of state election-related websites in 2016 launched a new drive to spawn fears
of Moscow-made political chaos in the wake of the voting.
The new narrative was not consistent with information previously published by the the FBI
and the Department of Homeland Security's new Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
(CISA), however. It was so incoherent, in fact, that it suggested a state of panic on the part
of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials worried about a possible transition to a
Joe Biden administration.
On October 20, Christopher Krebs, the head of CISA, issued a
video statement expressing confidence that "it would be incredibly difficult for them to
change the outcome of an election at the national level." Then he abruptly changed his tone,
adding, "But that doesn't mean various actors won't try to introduce chaos in our elections and
make sensational claims that overstate their capabilities. In fact, the days and weeks just
before and after Election Day is the perfect time for our adversaries to launch efforts
intended to undermine your confidence in the integrity of the electoral process."
Krebs' warning of a possible Russian announcement that hackers had succeeded in disrupting
the result of the U.S. election was so removed from reality that it suggested internal panic
DHS over the failure of Russian hackers to do anything that could be cited as interfering in
the election.
Two days after Krebs' dubious warning, the FBI and the DHS's new Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an "alert" reporting that "a
Russian state-sponsored APT [Advanced Persistent Threat] actor" known as "Berserk Bear" had
"conducted a campaign against a wide variety of U.S. targets."
Since "at least September," according to the DHS alert, the DHS warning claimed that it had
targeted "dozens" of "U.S. state, local, territorial and tribal government networks." It even
claimed that the supposed Russian campaign had compromised the network infrastructure of
several official organizations and "exfiltrated data from at least two victims servers." At the
same time, it acknowledged there was "no indication" that any government operations had been
"intentionally disrupted."
The report went on to suggest, "[T]here may be some risk to elections information housed on
SLTT [state, local territorial and tribal] government networks." And then it abruptly shifted
tone and level of analysis to offer the speculation that the Russian government "may be seeking
access to obtain future disruption options, to influence U.S. policies or actions", or to
"delegitimize" the "government entities".
On October 28, Krebs elaborated on the latter theme in an interview with the PBS
NewsHour . Referring inaccurately to government warnings about "Russian interference, some
of which targeted voter registration," which the FBI-CISA alert had never mentioned, PBS
interviewer William Brangham asked, "Do you worry at all that there might be infiltration that
we are not aware of?"
Instead of correcting Brangham's inaccurate suggestion, Krebs responded that "infiltration"
into voter registration files was "certainly possible," but that "[W]e have improved the
ability to detect compromises or anomalous activity."
Krebs then homed in on a scenario he obviously wanted the public to focus on: "[Y]ou might
see various actors, foreign powers, claim that they were able to accomplish something, [that]
they were able to hack a database or hack the vote count. And it's simply not true."
Although the October 22 alert did not assert any deliberate Russian government hack of
election-related sites, Krebs sought to keep speculation about both Russian capabilities and
intent alive.
The buried alert that undermined the frightening official assessment
Eleven days before Krebs debuted his speculation about Russia claiming to have hacked U.S.
elections, the FBI and CISA issued a separate alert that seriously undercut
his questionable claims.
The earlier document was clearly referring to the very same efforts by hackers to break into
various websites addressed in the October 22 alert. It not only referred to the same state and
local government networks and to the wider range of targets affected but also mentioned
precisely the same technical vulnerabilities that were targeted in the series of hacks.
The alert further stated that, "[I]t does not appear these targets are being selected
because of their proximity to elections information ." In other words, the two US agencies
conceded they had no basis for attributing the hacks in question to any election interference
plot.
The most striking difference between the two alerts, however, was that the October 9 alert
did not refer to any "Russian state-sponsored APT actor" as the October 22 one did. Instead, it
simply pointed to "APT actors" in the plural, indicating that the U.S. intelligence community
had no evidence indicating a single actor was at work, let alone one that was "Russian-state
sponsored."
Contrary to the impression that U.S. officials may have conveyed in referencing an "Advance
Persistent Threat," or APT,
it is now widely understood by cybersecurity specialists that this term no longer refers to
a state-sponsored actor. That is because the sophisticated tools and techniques once associated
with state-sponsored hacking have now become available to a much wider range of cyber actors.
Indeed, the codes for such high-end tools have been identified in the
Shadow Brokers and Vault 7
leaks, and the tools have been marketed widely at affordable prices on the dark web.
The October 9 alert firmly established the dearth of evidence on the part of CISA and FBI
about a Russian state-sponsored hacking team planning elections-related operations in the U.S.
The sudden pivot days later to an unqualified claim that a single state-sponsored APT had been
responsible for the same very large range of operations should have been accompanied by claims
of substantial new intelligence, or at least a reference to the evidence underlying the
dramatic new reversal. But no such proof ever arrived.
Scott McConnell, the spokesman for CISA, promised the Grazyzone on October 29 that he would
provide someone to answer questions about the October 22 alert by the close of business Friday.
In the end, however, no one from CISA responded, and there was no answer on McConnell's
line.
The peculiar reversal by the DHS and CISA on the hacking claims raise questions about the
institutional considerations taken by these agencies. Did indications that President Donald
Trump's campaign was faltering inform their decision to issue a more stridently anti-Russian
assessment in hopes of surviving a political transition?
The US officials who drew up the initial pre-election alert seemed keenly aware that despite
that drumbeat of over the past two years, no state-sponsored Russian hacking of election
institutions was underway. But as the Trump campaign sputtered, they had their own careers to
consider. Days later, DHS and CISA declared the wily Russians guilty of yet another malign
operations -- one that would not require them to have slightest evidence to support, and that
would be impossible for them to explain.
Just noticed that the lead story on 60 Minutes Sunday is furthering the "there was/is no
election security problem. So, I'd say somebody is over the target somewhere. Resist . .
.
Trump the populist has been greatly disappointing. His accidental gift has been giving
reason for the swamp critters to out themselves. It has been hilarious to watch them and
their press pets talk about how things will go back to normal with Biden. Also how the good
and kind their war machine is. What I am stuck on is if the Ukraine's Maidan is any guide,
don't they need Trump to win the election thru the courts ? Or not?
Pretty educational video that touches several aspect of Dominion. 2-6 people
training in using Dominion are essentially administrators who have tremendous level of control
over the system. Essentially election are decided by those 2-6 administrators. Those people need
to be investigated in countries that experience anomalies.
Also tough anti-Trump sentiments within top executive on Dominions, especially Eric Coomer .
In Coomer case he was in the position to materialize his threats. This looks like another Peter
Strzok "he is not going to win" insurance.
I am a Canadian, amazing job Chanel . Dominion is in Toronto Canada sharing office space
with George S funded foundation , or at lest they were a week ago.. glad to see your on it
.
The Voter Fraud, and the Facts are all there making it a Crime scene. All Fake Ballots
need to have a Forensic test of the PAPER used, to determine it's Source of where the Fake
Ballots came from. It's obvious they're not legitimate.
Although all we know is true: dominion fraud etc. Democrats have covered everything, will
not be caught, and so results will not change. The world will have to live with the nonsense
of Biden & his corrupt Democrats. I'm Indian, feel sad to see America suffer this.
@Ron
Rathbone You are absolutely right. The machine wouldn't take mine and three people in
front of me. We had to leave them in a box in the back of the ballot machine.
New DemoNKracy: People of the government, by the government, and for the government - Jot
Kennedie - Don't think it will do any for the people, but the people should obey the new god
- Government of George Orwell prophecy.
If anyone believes that any software related voting machine cannot be altered I have a
bridge for sale. We need to go back to paper ballots and USA citizenship I'd cards to get the
ballot. Wake up people, the dems may have stole this one but don't forget Republicans can
cheat also.
So who in the Hell gave the ok to use this machine? Any Governor that allowed this in
their state should be removed from office as well as the Secretary of State.
There should an audit in all swing states, there needs to be sound respect, for the
integrity of our elections. The election does have irregularities and fraud, over 13k sworn
affidavits saying there was. This is 1 election, but if people don't have trust in the
election, we will be divided and the stability of our nation is in doubt.
I can follow him on the IT security. I and a couple of my friends with a couple flash
drives and using googledocs could easily compromise the Dominion machines and rig the
election results the way we want. Pretty damning report
I fear we do not fully understand the future consequences of just accepting this stolen
election. We will never have a say in who represents us if we allow this. The will of the
people will mean nothing going forward. We are entering a technological enslavement from
which there will be no way out. Speak now while other are around to speak up with you.
Tim, look at the Patrick Bryne story. He is the founder of
Overstock.com . He claims, with Sydney Powell, that he has the evidence, See the
interview with the BLACK CONSERVATIVE PATRIOT.
That's kind of funny that ANTIFA would be involved in this considering when you went to
www ANTIFA com it took you directly to Biden's website! What a f'n crook!
A guy who EVERYONE hates, can hardly talk, lives in his basement and can't draw flies on a
campaign stop wins the presidency with the most votes ever. DIDN'T HAPPEN.
The Dominion machines and software should be enough to officially make the 2020 election
illegitimate. Why is the Democratic Party the only party that is endorsing these voting
machines?
I want to believe this theory, but the Georgia recount were fairly consistent with the
initial count. Had absolutely no reason to think that Dominion switched the votes. Georgia is
ALL Dominion!
Dominion software company shares a office with George soros and the ceo is best friends
with Justin Castro-Trudeau. Trudeau also gave one hundred and twenty four million taxpayers
dollars to the Clinton foundation to rigg the American election. The dominion of canada,
dominion software company anyone see and realize that this company is keeping the plandemic
reset going.
@rebel yell p> Trump
may not be able to sufficiently prove fraud at the ballot box
Everyone should look at this forensic analysis of the big ballot dumps in Michigan,
Wisconsin and Georgia in the wee hours of Nov. 4. The chances of getting these one-sided dumps
in legitimate elections are less than 0.001, on several metrics. All three state results could
and should be overturned on this one finding.
There seems to be a quasi consensus that Trump will not prevail and that Biden and Harris
will get into the White House no matter what. To my surprise, even the Russian media seems to
be considering that the Trump presidency is over.
Yet, I am not so sure at all.
Why?
Because at this point in time, I think that it would fair to conclude that anybody actually
willing to look at what has been revealed by this election will have to agree that this
election was stolen, rigged, falsified – chose your expression – and that going to
the courts to challenge this obscene miscarriage of the democratic process is a fundamental
civil right and something which any democrat (small "d") should support.
And yet, because we live in a media-created pseudo-reality in which absolutely crucial
things like the rule of law seem to have become secondary to ideological imperatives, no matter
how extreme, there are those who simply refuse to see the obvious. Yes, the 9/11 false flag
trained the western societies well and many now simply lack the lucidity and courage to face
reality.
Courts, however, are bound by the rule of law, at least in theory, and don't have the luxury
to simply pretend like crucial evidence presented to them simply does not exist.
True, the lower, state, courts are unlikely to resist the pressure put upon them to come up
with the "right" conclusions, but never say never – all it takes is one single principled
judge and Trump or, more accurately, the Giuliani team, might get the break they need. Still,
it is pretty obvious that Giuliani's real hopes are with the Supreme Court. This makes sense,
local judges are much easy to influence and sway than Supreme Court Justices who are
unassailable and who realize that they will make history, the only question being is: how till
they go down in history books, as a "profile in courage" or as impotent cowards who betrayed
their oath?
I will say that I am, to put it mildly, not impressed by Trump's demeanor during these
crucial days: he completely ceded the narrative to his opponents (a couple of incoherent and
poorly phrased "tweets" do not qualify). True, Trump never displayed the qualities of a real
leader, so this is hardly surprising.
Giuliani, however, is a tough SOB and he seems to be determined to take this fight right up
to the Supreme Court. This is why I believe that it is very dangerous to make any assumptions
about what the Justices might or might not do. Is it possible that even the Supreme Court
justices would betray their oath and cave in to the Dem's pressure? Yes, I suppose so. Concepts
such as truth, honor, integrity, courage and heroism are very much out of fashion in the modern
world, especially in the US. This is why the traditionally hallowed term "hero" is applied left
and right to every bureaucrat or civil servant simply doing his/her job: real heroes are long
gone.
Then consider this: if the SC sides with Trump and overturns the hundred of thousands of
illegal votes, the US will be immediately plunged into an orgy of chaos and violence, all of it
encouraged and coordinated by the legacy corporate ziomedia à la CNN. The thugs
of Antifa/BLM will immediately engage in Kristallnacht-like rampages in "protest" against the
"racist system". Their main target? White, Christian, males, of course!
Some justices might even feel torn between standing up for what is both legal and moral and
the practical considerations of the consequences of an adjudication in Trump's favor. Their
oath ought to be their guiding principles, but considering how often the SC voted along
party/ideological lines in the past, I am not very confident that the Justices will strictly do
the only legally and morally right thing: uphold the law and vote their conscience.
Finally, whatever we may think of the election itself, it is obvious that the US elites have
created the appearance of a fait accompli , hence the kind of nonsense like, say, Biden
and his "Office of the President Elect". It is therefore reasonable to assume that even if the
Supreme Court fully sides with the Trump campaign, the US elites will never accept this. They
will try to find a way to impeach, legally or otherwise, those Justices who voted "wrong".
I think that there is also another consideration which we have to remain aware of: Trump's
entire presidency is been one long and never ending prostitution of the United States to the
desires and whims of Netanyahu and his gang of thugs. True, as Israel Shamir pointed out ,
the Israelis failed to deliver anything in return to Trump. And yet, as Philip
Giraldi recently explained , Trump is still very much Israel's prostitute, which is why
there are an increasing number of Israeli experts (see here and here ) who believe that Trump might strike at Iran as a "farewell" present to the
Israelis.
Is that really possible? Could Trump really do something so crazy?
You betcha he could!
One one hand, I have always
maintained that Trump is the Zionists' " disposable president ", meaning a one
term president who will do everything the Likudniks want of him and who will then be jettisoned
and replaced by a truly "kosher president" like Biden/Harris. On the other hand, however, there
is the precedent of the US meekly taking the Iranian missile attacks in retaliation for the
murder of General Soleimani which seems to indicate that the Pentagon just does not have the
stomach for a full-scale war against Iran.
So which will it be?
Nobody knows. The only thing we can be sure of is that we are certainly entering very
dangerous times.
Those who hope that a Biden/Harris presidency might be better are deeply deluded.
Why?
Because, as many have already pointed this out, even if Trump is ejected from the White
House, "Trumpism", as an ideology, is here to stay. Even if you believe that Biden/Harris beat
Trump in a fair election, surely must you still realize that there are tens of millions of
Americans who feel that the election was stolen and that Biden/Harris are usurpers.
There seems to be a quasi consensus that Trump will not prevail and that Biden and Harris
will get into the White House no matter what. To my surprise, even the Russian media seems to
be considering that the Trump presidency is over.
Yet, I am not so sure at all.
Why?
Because at this point in time, I think that it would fair to conclude that anybody actually
willing to look at what has been revealed by this election will have to agree that this
election was stolen, rigged, falsified – chose your expression – and that going to
the courts to challenge this obscene miscarriage of the democratic process is a fundamental
civil right and something which any democrat (small "d") should support.
And yet, because we live in a media-created pseudo-reality in which absolutely crucial
things like the rule of law seem to have become secondary to ideological imperatives, no matter
how extreme, there are those who simply refuse to see the obvious. Yes, the 9/11 false flag
trained the western societies well and many now simply lack the lucidity and courage to face
reality.
Courts, however, are bound by the rule of law, at least in theory, and don't have the luxury
to simply pretend like crucial evidence presented to them simply does not exist.
True, the lower, state, courts are unlikely to resist the pressure put upon them to come up
with the "right" conclusions, but never say never – all it takes is one single principled
judge and Trump or, more accurately, the Giuliani team, might get the break they need. Still,
it is pretty obvious that Giuliani's real hopes are with the Supreme Court. This makes sense,
local judges are much easy to influence and sway than Supreme Court Justices who are
unassailable and who realize that they will make history, the only question being is: how till
they go down in history books, as a "profile in courage" or as impotent cowards who betrayed
their oath?
I will say that I am, to put it mildly, not impressed by Trump's demeanor during these
crucial days: he completely ceded the narrative to his opponents (a couple of incoherent and
poorly phrased "tweets" do not qualify). True, Trump never displayed the qualities of a real
leader, so this is hardly surprising.
Giuliani, however, is a tough SOB and he seems to be determined to take this fight right up
to the Supreme Court. This is why I believe that it is very dangerous to make any assumptions
about what the Justices might or might not do. Is it possible that even the Supreme Court
justices would betray their oath and cave in to the Dem's pressure? Yes, I suppose so. Concepts
such as truth, honor, integrity, courage and heroism are very much out of fashion in the modern
world, especially in the US. This is why the traditionally hallowed term "hero" is applied left
and right to every bureaucrat or civil servant simply doing his/her job: real heroes are long
gone.
Then consider this: if the SC sides with Trump and overturns the hundred of thousands of
illegal votes, the US will be immediately plunged into an orgy of chaos and violence, all of it
encouraged and coordinated by the legacy corporate ziomedia à la CNN. The thugs
of Antifa/BLM will immediately engage in Kristallnacht-like rampages in "protest" against the
"racist system". Their main target? White, Christian, males, of course!
Some justices might even feel torn between standing up for what is both legal and moral and
the practical considerations of the consequences of an adjudication in Trump's favor. Their
oath ought to be their guiding principles, but considering how often the SC voted along
party/ideological lines in the past, I am not very confident that the Justices will strictly do
the only legally and morally right thing: uphold the law and vote their conscience.
Finally, whatever we may think of the election itself, it is obvious that the US elites have
created the appearance of a fait accompli , hence the kind of nonsense like, say, Biden
and his "Office of the President Elect". It is therefore reasonable to assume that even if the
Supreme Court fully sides with the Trump campaign, the US elites will never accept this. They
will try to find a way to impeach, legally or otherwise, those Justices who voted "wrong".
I think that there is also another consideration which we have to remain aware of: Trump's
entire presidency is been one long and never ending prostitution of the United States to the
desires and whims of Netanyahu and his gang of thugs. True, as Israel Shamir pointed out ,
the Israelis failed to deliver anything in return to Trump. And yet, as Philip
Giraldi recently explained , Trump is still very much Israel's prostitute, which is why
there are an increasing number of Israeli experts (see here and here ) who believe that Trump might strike at Iran as a "farewell" present to the
Israelis.
Is that really possible? Could Trump really do something so crazy?
You betcha he could!
One one hand, I have always
maintained that Trump is the Zionists' " disposable president ", meaning a one
term president who will do everything the Likudniks want of him and who will then be jettisoned
and replaced by a truly "kosher president" like Biden/Harris. On the other hand, however, there
is the precedent of the US meekly taking the Iranian missile attacks in retaliation for the
murder of General Soleimani which seems to indicate that the Pentagon just does not have the
stomach for a full-scale war against Iran.
So which will it be?
Nobody knows. The only thing we can be sure of is that we are certainly entering very
dangerous times.
Those who hope that a Biden/Harris presidency might be better are deeply deluded.
Why?
Because, as many have already pointed this out, even if Trump is ejected from the White
House, "Trumpism", as an ideology, is here to stay. Even if you believe that Biden/Harris beat
Trump in a fair election, surely must you still realize that there are tens of millions of
Americans who feel that the election was stolen and that Biden/Harris are usurpers.
Two points to add:
1. The most important fraud in this election wasn't with the ballots. The important
corruption of our democratic process was the relentless media propaganda against populism,
with increasing censorship of populist advocates, and the violent riots sponsored by the
democratic party to destabilize the country. The Left used censorship and outlaw violence to
swing the election. The outcome is illegitimate for those reasons alone, regardless of
stuffing the ballot box.
2. Trump may not be able to sufficiently prove fraud at the ballot box to get the Supreme
Court to overturn the results certified by state officials. The court will set a high bar for
evidence before they will be willing to overturn state decisions on this. Even if fraud was
widespread, meeting a high level of proof in a very short time, as Trump has to do, is not
likely. Possession is 9/10ths of the law. If you can steal it and have it in your hand, a
court may let you keep it.
I rarely agree with The Saker, however this summary makes a great deal of sense.
There seems to be a quasi consensus that Trump will not prevail and that Biden and
Harris will get into the White House no matter what.
Yet, I am not so sure at all. Why?
Because at this point in time, I think that it would fair to conclude that anybody
actually willing to look at what has been revealed by this election will have to agree that
this election was stolen, rigged, falsified
Ask yourself this question:
Why are the Biden drones so desperate to obtain a concession?
If they were certain they had it, they would be moving on to other things. Only FEAR can
explain the "Trump Must Concede Now" frenzy from the TDS crowd. At some level they sense that
their Blue Coup could fall apart at any second.
#NeverTrump took two big hits today in Pennsylvania and Nevada:
So many things are wrong in so many places, it is hard to see how the courts can resolve
all of the challenges from multiple states before a Constitutional deadline in reached. They
couldn't resolve a few problems in one state back in 2000.
Time is on Trump's side. If the Electoral College fails, it goes to the U.S. House. Each
State gets 1 vote, first to 26 wins. The GOP controls 26 state delegations, DNC 21, Tied
3.
It's been going on a loooonng time, Mike. Where have you been living, Siberia?
And the 2020 election? It's so over-the-top how brazen and multi-tiered it was. Russell
Ramsland knows precisely some of the electronic cheating angles. He showed election people in
KY how it happened in their Gov race in 2019. Scroll to 30 min mark and watch that
action.
The falsity of the Russian collusion allegations, for which there was zero evidence, in no
way impugns the veracity of the current allegations of electoral fraud. In fact, the opposite
is true: the existence of the Russia collusion allegations indicates a pattern of fraudulent
scams directed against Trump by Democrat cockroaches. The Democrat Party is a criminal
organization, one a country worthy of respect -- that is to say, a country very different
from the United States -- would ban and one whose members said country would prosecute for
corruption, sedition, insurrection, and treason.
Would love to see Trump thumb his nose at the establishment on his way out by pardoning a
whole cast of characters like Assange, Manning, Snowden, Peltier and countless other
"enemies" of the state.
The government of the US is too important to leave to the will of a mob. Therefore you
will hear nothing of what really happens when you vote. Maybe freeing a few whistle-blowers
will shed some light on the deep, dark state of affairs that really pull the strings in the
swamp.
For the more hopeful -- lawsuits have just been filed in GA and MI.
They can both be read online. Pretty convincing stuff -- will it be enough -- IDK.
Hard to believe that any lawsuit could cause a states court system to rule against the
legislators that put the process in place that created the systemic voter fraud. We will
see.
@RoatanBill of an
occupying parasitic regime which sees them solely as a (cheap) commodity.
That parasitic regime is not new. It is the American version of the UK parasitic regime
that saw the Irish, Scots, Welsh, and virtually all the non-elite English as serfs to be used
and abused and cast aside when profitable to do so. It is a WASP thing, a central feature of
WASP culture.
And for those who must have the villain be Jewish, as Jews have been indispensable bankers
of WASP Empire back to archetypal WASP Oliver Cromwell, it is also a Jewish thing.
There are numerous articles going back decades on this stuff up until about two months
before the election by all the major networks and newspapers. Everything got very quiet two
months prior to the election.
Dominions manual says they have a remote access feature and they are connected to the
internet despite their lies in front of Congress in January 2020 saying they did not. Their
tabulators can be accessed remotely using Webx and other custom applications.
Unfortunately I have the manual in PDF and the link is not available. I find it interesting
that their older manuals have blacked out portions just like a FOIA document release. Look for
Dominion Democracy suite manuals 4.4 and 5.5 and up.
Look at the black box voting website and a gentleman on a voting commission built a simple
application that runs in the background and switches vote fractionally across all voting
company platforms as the software was all built on the same foundation application from
Venezuela.
Evidence of fraud? It is massive and everywhere. We need to get back to paper ballots and
same day voting with absentee ballots given on request with a legitimate excuse for not showing
up on election day. Signature verification and sign in to vote. Voting locations in every
precinct not a few locations per county. That is how it used to work. That would be cheaper
than 100 million dollar mega systems connected to the internet with remote access.
Posted by: circumspect | Nov 26 2020 21:57 utc |
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In all the excitement among objective journalists for Joe Biden's declared victory,
reporters are missing how extraordinary the Democrat's performance was in the 2020 election.
It's not just that the former vice president is on track to become the
oldest president in American history, it's what he managed to accomplish at the polls this
year.
Candidate Joe Biden was so effective at animating voters in 2020 that he received a record
number of votes, more than 15 million more than Barack Obama received in his re-election of
2012. Amazingly, he managed to secure victory while also losing in almost every bellwether
county across the country. No presidential candidate has been capable of such electoral jujitsu
until now.
While Biden underperformed Hillary Clinton's 2016 totals in every urban county in the United
States, he outperformed her in the metropolitan areas of Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and
Pennsylvania. Even more surprising, the former VP put up a record haul of votes, despite
Democrats' general failures in local House and state legislative seats across the nation.
He accomplished all this after receiving a record low share of the primary vote compared to
his Republican opponent heading into the general election. Clearly, these are tremendous and
unexpected achievements that would normally receive sophisticated analysis from the journalist
class but have somehow gone mostly unmentioned during the celebrations at news studios in New
York City and Washington, D.C.
The massive national political realignment now taking place may be one source of these
surprising upsets. Yet still, to have pulled so many rabbits out of his hat like this, nobody
can deny that Biden is a first-rate campaigner and politician, the likes of which America has
never before seen. Let's break down just how unique his political voodoo has been in
2020.
1. 80 Million Votes
Holy moly! A lot of Americans turned out for a Washington politician who's been in office
for nearly 50 years. Consider this: no incumbent president in nearly a century and a half has
gained votes in a re-election campaign and still lost.
President Trump gained more than ten million votes since his 2016 victory, but Biden's
appeal was so substantial that it overcame President Trump's
record support among minority voters. Biden also shattered Barack Obama's own popular vote
totals, really calling into question whether it was not perhaps Biden who pulled Obama across
the finish lines in 2008 and 2012.
Proving how sharp his political instincts are, the former VP managed to gather a
record number of votes while consistently trailing President Trump in measures of
voter enthusiasm . Biden was so savvy that he motivated voters unenthusiastic about his
campaign to vote for him in record numbers.
2. Winning Despite Losing Most Bellwether
Counties
Biden is set to become the
first president in 60 years to lose the states of Ohio and Florida on his way to election.
For a century, these states have consistently predicted the national outcome, and they have
been considered roughly representative of the American melting pot as a whole. Despite national
polling giving Biden a lead in both states, he lost Ohio by eight points and Florida by
more than
three .
For Biden to lose these key bellwethers by notable margins and still win the national
election is newsworthy. Not since the Mafia allegedly aided John F.
Kennedy in winning Illinois over Richard Nixon in 1960 has an American president pulled off
this neat trick.
Even more unbelievably, Biden is on his way to winning the White House after having lost
almost every historic bellwether county across the country.
The Wall Street Journal and
The Epoch Times independently analyzed the results of 19 counties around the United States
that have nearly perfect presidential voting records over the last 40 years. President Trump
won every single bellwether county, except Clallam County in Washington.
Whereas the former VP picked up Clallam by about three points, President Trump's margin of
victory in the other 18 counties averaged over 16 points . In a larger
list of 58 bellwether counties that have correctly picked the president since 2000, Trump won
51 of them by an average of 15 points, while the other seven went to Biden by around four
points. Bellwether counties
overwhelmingly chose President Trump, but Biden found a path to victory anyway.
3. Biden
Trailed Clinton Except in a Select Few Cities
Patrick Basham , a pollster with an accurate track record and the director of the Democracy
Institute in D.C., highlighted two observations made by fellow colleagues, polling guru Richard
Baris of Big Data Poll and Washington Post election analyst Robert Barnes. Baris noted a
statistical oddity from 2020's election returns: "Biden underperformed Hillary Clinton in every
major metro area around the country, save for Milwaukee, Detroit, Atlanta and
Philadelphia."
Barnes added that in those "big cities in swing states run by Democrats the vote even
exceeded the number of registered voters." In the states that mattered most, so many mail-in
ballots poured in for Biden from the cities that he put up record-breaking numbers and
overturned state totals that looked like comfortable leads for President Trump.
If Democrats succeed in eliminating the Electoral College, Biden's magic formula for
churning out overwhelming vote totals in a handful of cities should make the Democrats
unbeatable.
4. Biden Won Despite Democrat Losses Everywhere Else
Randy DeSoto noted in The Western Journal that "Donald Trump was pretty much the only
incumbent president in U.S. history to lose his re-election while his own party gained seats in
the House of Representatives." Now that's a Biden miracle!
In 2020, The
Cook Political Report and
The New York Times rated 27 House seats as toss-ups going into Election Day. Right now,
Republicans appear to have
won all 27 . Democrats failed to flip a single state house chamber, while Republicans
flipped both the House and Senate in New Hampshire and expanded their dominance of state
legislatures across the country.
Christina
Polizzi , a spokesperson for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, went so far as
to state: "It's clear that Trump isn't an anchor for the Republican legislative candidates.
He's a buoy." Amazingly, Biden beat the guy who lifted all other Republicans to victory. Now
that's historic!
5. Biden Overcame Trump's Commanding Primary Vote
In the past, primary vote totals have been remarkably accurate in predicting general
election winners. Political analyst David Chapman highlighted three historical facts before the
election.
First , no incumbent who
has received 75 percent of the total primary vote has lost re-election. Second , President
Trump received 94 percent of the primary vote, which is the fourth highest of all time (higher
than Dwight Eisenhower, Nixon, Clinton, or Obama). In fact, Trump is only one of five
incumbents since 1912 to receive more than 90 percent of the primary vote.
Third , Trump set a record
for most primary votes received by an incumbent when more than 18 million people turned out for
him in 2020 (the previous record, held by Bill Clinton, was half that number). For Biden to
prevail in the general election, despite Trump's historic support in the primaries, turns a
century's worth of prior election data on its head.
Joe Biden achieved the impossible. It's interesting that many more journalists aren't
pointing that out. J.B. Shurk is a proud American from Daniel Boone country.
Experts on both sides of the political divide concede that both voter fraud and election
fraud occur with considerable frequency since the advent of electronic voting machines. In
addition to Dominion and ES&S, only five other companies dominate this space: Tenex,
SGO/Smartmatic, Hart InterCivic, Demtech, and Premier (formerly Diebold).
Virtually all have been accused of vote count manipulation or other irregularities
associated with their systems. Hart, for instance, was accused of vote flipping
(the practice of switching the votes from one candidate to their opponent) in Texas. Dominion
also ran into issues in the Lone Star state when its systems failed
certification over accessibility problems.
"Much of the equipment being used to record and count votes," explains Jonathan Simon, "is
either modem-equipped, which leaves it highly vulnerable to remote interference, or programmed
with the use of other computers than are internet-connected, allowing the alteration of memory
cards and code running in either precinct-level machines (like BMDs, DREs, or Optical Scanners)
or central tabulators."
Examples of these dangerous weaknesses were explored in a recent video published by a self-styled
national security professional, L. Todd Wood , where
conservative elections security expert, Russ Ramsland, breaks down his findings from a forensic
analysis of a 1000+ page voter log taken out of Dallas County's central tabulation center in
the aftermath of the 2018 midterm elections.
https://cdn.iframe.ly/M7DMJcB?v=1&app=1
Ramsland identified instances of votes being replaced in 96 precincts, an inordinate number
of database "updates" and other serious irregularities that point to vote-count manipulation
and amount to election fraud. His most explosive allegation centered around claims of real-time
vote-swapping in the 2019 gubernatorial election in Kentucky, where Ramsland asserts that
thousands of votes originally given for the Republican candidate were swapped live on a CNN
broadcast and added to the tally of the Democratic candidate, Andy Beshear, who would end up
winning the election.
Ramsland also alleged that the election data of that race was being stored in a server in
Frankfurt, Germany before being cycled through the central tabulation database, which syncs
automatically with the numbers shown to television viewers. This server has been pounced on by
Trump supporters in recent days and repeated by Rudy Giuliani in his podcast on Friday when
he also purported to have direct evidence of election fraud.
While it is practically impossible for the layman to unravel the complexities underlying the
encryption and cloud technologies underlying the present-day election system in the United
States, few can doubt that moving towards a digital voting system removes whatever last
vestiges of control the regular American citizen had in a once participatory exercise of
democracy.
Asked if democracy can even exist under such conditions, Simon refers to a prediction he
made in "CODE RED," in which he augurs "an inexorable progression to where we are now: public
trust eroded, the losers making wild allegations, no one able to prove anything, [and] everyone
kind of waking up to the realization that our concealed computerized vote-counting process does
not yield evidence-based results."
It's critical that the legal team nail down the machine manipulation using SMOTE
(Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique) written by Aleksandar Lazarevic. Trail leads to
Belgrade, Serbia and Dominion Voting Systems with chips made in China.
In a prolific time for draconian government overreach, one of the lesser-known pieces of
legislation proposed by the Bush administration was the Help America Vote Act ( HAVA ),
passed by a
Republican-controlled House and a unanimous vote by a Democrat-led Senate in December 2001. The
bill was signed into law 11 months later and "greatly accelerated the full computerization of
U.S. elections," according to Jonathan Simon, an election integrity advocate and author of
"Code Red, Computerized Election Theft and The New American Century," in an interview with
MintPress .
Simon describes the legislation's carrot-and-stick approach to goad states into adopting
technologies like touchscreen voting systems known as DREs, which were later replaced with
barcode systems or BMDs, which were "entirely lacking in cyber-security provisions to protect
the increasingly concealed process it promoted." Among the bill's authors is none other than
the current Senate leader and Republican kingmaker, Mitch McConnell, who has
defended Trump's right to challenge the election results without committing to a particular
outcome.
"If, as was claimed," Simon continues, "HAVA would make voting easier and thus increase
turnout, as we can see clearly today, that was decidedly not a GOP goal, certainly not of a
tactician like McConnell." The partisan motivations Simon ascribes to HAVA are clear enough,
and, as he points out, should have been clear to Democrats as well. But, the argument that the
American liberal establishment had no inkling of the ramifications fails to account for the
Democrats' own forays into the closely held universe of electronic voting systems.
With the extremes of the American political spectrum lighting up in deep reds and blues,
whatever emerges out of the ashes won't resemble much that came before it, and regardless of
the election results, America's inexorable march towards techno-fascism is moving right
along.
Watch | America's Election Debacle Highlights Anti-Democratic Hijinks of Both Parties
Actual voter and election fraud takes place in every national American election and is just
as prevalent in state and municipal elections, as well. From vote splitting to voter
suppression tactics to direct manipulation of election results, both political parties have
usurped the electoral processes to lie and cheat their way into power more than once.
But with the advent of digital voting systems, even the scandals we always seem to hear
about far too late will vanish from sight, as well. The most straightforward aspect of
democracy – voting – is disappearing behind a curtain of ones and zeros that only
technocratic lackeys will be able to pull back. Trump, who was plucked from the reality TV
screen like Jeff Daniels in "The Purple Rose of Cairo" and inserted into the national contest
for the highest office in the land, will do nothing to change that.
Publically available FBI documents
show the sitting president has been an FBI informant since the early eighties and his rise to
the highest office in the land was not the case of a brash, independent billionaire who decided
to run for president to "Make America Great Again." After all, Donald Trump's long-standing
ties with the very "deep state" many of his staunchest supporters are convinced he is
dismantling, actually reveals a factional war among the ruling class behind the scenes.
With a president who is as deep state as it gets, if there's something we can take away from
the last four years and these last few days since the election, it's that the American
establishment's over-the-top partisanship has been a ruse undertaken to hide the fact that they
are united in waging a class war like never before.
This election proves that our Department of Justice, the FBI, CIA, and all our
intelligence agencies are controlled by the deep state and the military industrial
establishment so that they can install the candidates of their choice in every election,
otherwise they would have exposed the totally unsecure Dominion voting machines years ago.
They didn't manipulate the 2016 presidential election because it was a foregone conclusion
with them all that Hillary was a shoe in. It has been proven that they were able to access
the software to flip votes in 2018 from Bevin to Beshear to install him as governor in
Kentucky.
So now the question becomes, why bother to vote at all, Republican or Democrat. The fixers
are gonna choose, regardless of who gets the lever pulled for them the most. "Every vote
matters" no longer matters.
NO, always vote. The reason there is such obvious cheating on a national level is so many
voted for Trump the leftist had to dig up pre-print4d "Biden" votes in the middle of the
night in PA, WI, NV, and MI to counter the real vote. And their fear and mammoth cheating has
displayed for the world how criminal and anti-American the left is. And for that blatant
felony, we are going to win the election legally.
Part of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency's mission centers on assuring
compliance with DHS dictates surrounding election security protocols. The standalone federal
agency with oversight from the Department of Homeland Security was formed two years after an
embarrassing incident involving DHS occurred during the 2016 general election, when Georgia's
then secretary of state, – now governor – Brian Kemp, announced that
cyberattacks on its voting systems had been
traced to the federal law enforcement agency.
In 2020 with CISA firmly in place, DHS' cybersecurity division implemented a "
24/7 war room " to ostensibly guard against election hacking. CISA's Krebs, a former
cybersecurity policy director at Microsoft, led the effort to "monitor a network of every
state's election system simultaneously until every vote is counted,"
according to News Nation , which was allowed to bring a camera crew into the
operation in Fort
Meade , Maryland.
In the lead up to the 2020 election, warnings about Russian and Iranian cyberwarriors
running roughshod over the electoral contest were everywhere in U.S. media. Dire warnings of an
existential threat to democracy by foreign actors that never materialized were leveraged to
implement new security measures in partnership with the private sector. Krebs floated the
excuse for a conspicuously absent horde of Eurasian hackers, that America's enemies chose to
"sit out this election" in a recent New York Timesarticle
.
The fact is that neither Russia nor Iran have anywhere near the level of access to America's
election system as the handful of private companies who are part of an electronic voting
machine cartel, which currently controls over 92% of the elections market in the United
States.
Lawyers by nature of their profession sometimes are representing horrible criminals. So such
threat need to be investigated as terrorism (use of vioolence to achieve a political goal) and
the threat to the integrity of the US legal system.
Jenna Ellis, a legal advisor to President Donald Trump and senior legal adviser to the Trump
campaign, has received threats, late night phone calls from unfamiliar numbers, and public
calls for her disbarment, she told Breitbart News exclusively Wednesday.
Via direct message (DM), Ellis told Breitbart News that she had received "Hundreds of DMs
and messages etc threatening me."
Some threats have been public, like attempts to have her disbarred
and encouraging the public to file Bar complaints.
Others have been more direct -- and less subtle.
She added: "CNN reporter messaged today accusing me of my bar license being lapsed. Unknown
number has called my cell dozens of times between midnight and 4am to blow up my phone and try
to get through the DND [do not disturb]."
Ellis provided Breitbart News with a screen grab of text messages from an unknown person who
attempted to provoke her to respond, ending with: "You're a f**king c**t. You're the reason
people despise humanity. You deserved to be raped."
Other Trump attorneys have been harassed, including by the Lincoln Project, a group of Never
Trump Republicans who have encouraged the public to harass law firms taking up the president's
case.
The mainstream media has defended these efforts; the Washington Post , for example,
published an
op-ed Nov. 12 titled "Yes, going after Trump's law firms is fair game." Trump's lawyers in
Pennsylvania
withdrew the following day, reportedly because of threats.
Joe Biden has not said anything about the threats against Trump's legal team, as scholar
Jonathan Turley has noted.
"When such actions were taken against lawyers representing civil rights groups and others in
the 1960s, it was correctly denounced as an outrageous abuse of our legal system," Turley
tweeted this week. "Now it
has become a campaign supported by politicians, lawyers, and the media."
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart
News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
PT). His newest e-book is The Trumpian
Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump's Presidency . His recent book, RED
NOVEMBER , tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative
perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him
on Twitter at @joelpollak
.
"The 2020 election was stolen because leftists were able to exploit the coronavirus
pandemic to weaken, alter, and eliminate laws that were put in place over the course of
decades to preserve the integrity of the ballot box."
'Leftist' in the American context is nonsense, there is nothing left-wing about these
'Leftists' Nothing! Political terminology in the USA has become absolute nonsense. This is
Alice in wonderland stuff. A battle between neoliberal corporatist Vs Neoliberal Corporatist
is being described as left verses right, it isn't. It is a war of the far-right against the
far-right. They are the same, in every meaningful way.
Glen Batterham , Nov 23, 2020 11:21 PM Reply to
Janken
True it's like a gang of mobsters.
Even though there is regular infighting for supremacy, they're all still in on the same
racket.
Faction X vs faction Y is probably a better description than Democrat vs Republican or Labor
vs Tories, or whatever. But it definitely isn't left vs right in any traditional sense.
Thom , Nov 22, 2020 9:17 AM
I think you mean 'imperialists' not 'globalists'. Globalism isn't a bad objective, which
is probably why the far-right are trying co-opt and thereby malign the term.
From Far Away , Nov 22, 2020 1:47 PM Reply to
Thom
[ Globalism isn't a bad objective ]
So what exactly are you talking about?
Here are three three examples:
(1) The development of social, economic, cultural, or technological networks that
transcend national boundaries.
(2) The attitude or policy of placing the interests of the entire world above those of
individual nations.
(3) The policy or doctrine of involving one's country in international affairs, alliances,
etc.
[ which is probably why the far-right are trying co-opt and thereby malign the term. ]
I suggest you at least try to strive for a fair, honest discussion instead of impulsively
ascribing bad motives on people. Sadly your observation reveals no logical, reasoned evidence
but rather your obvious dislike of some people you clearly have no problem wilfully
demonising.
Berrent , Nov 22, 2020 9:05 AM
Empire does some stuff under the banner of 'the left' for 4 years and then they do other
stuff under the banner of the far-right. This creates the illusion of democracy. It's a
sedative for the people. The fake left will never do anything that really helps the
population, that is not allowed. The 'Green New Deal' is Corporate welfare just like Trump's
tax cuts were. Nov 22, 2020 8:15 AM
George Soros's Antifa has gone quiet after the U.S.presidential election of November 3rd.
Or has it? Two Republican election board officials in Michigan reversed their opposition to
certifying the election after threats were made to them and their families.
Coincidentally similar, transparent threats went viral and no doubt election supervisors
in many other districts saw this as a threat of vengeance if they dared to follow their
conscience and stand up against election fraud.
You can be sure Antifa is moving hell and high water to ensure party discipline, as per
the Open Society Foundation's objectives. They're busy. That's why they haven't been so
active on the streets, except to swarm and threaten citizens who dared to rally in Washington
DC and other cities in favour of fair and open elections.
JFK WAS JUST AN APPETIZER
Be careful what you wish for, is a trope in politics, especially when it means collaborating
with anti-democratic forces for short-term objectives. The event of Nov 22, 1963, was a hair
trigger, since when the willful destruction of the American political system has gone into
overdrive. Like one of Shakespeare's tragedies, one murder required another until brother and
son were silenced and then all those involved stood in line to share in the spoils: LBJ,
Nixon, Ford and the Bushes in particular. To this day only Donald Trump and arguably Jimmy
Carter were not connected to the assassins in some way.
The public execution of John F Kennedy was the work of external influences as much as
internal. The U.S. has long been the plaything of interests that show no loyalty to mere
citizens or institutions.
Those interests may be home-reared, like the criminal Rockefeller combine or foreign, like
the bankers hiding behind the red shield or star. What they have in common is their readiness
to use America as a permanent factory of war – the wartime economy as much as the
people – and then to dump them.
Not only to drop them when they have served their purpose but to disassemble the economy
on which they rely, to infiltrate society and destroy every one of its pillars – from
family to fatherhood, selling a false promise to women and mothers that ends in loneliness
and dependency, and attacking their children by promoting the dealing of drugs with a
for-profit prison at the end of a one-way street.
When I first encountered the campaign of former LAPD detective Michael Ruppert against the
Central Intelligence Agency's distribution of cocaine in inner city neighburhoods, I
struggled to understand the mentality of those who would do this. See Ruppert confront CIA
director John Deutsch https://youtu.be/IMBu0YTwfXc  ;
CONSUMING SOCIETY
George H.W. Bush came into focus because his involvement in the JFK assassination, which is
beyond doubt: his long involvement in preparing the Cuban exiles cover story; his deliberate
misdirection as to his whereabouts on Nov 22nd; his deliberate fingering of an innocent man;
his attempt to misdirect FBI Director J.E. Hoover, recorded in a memo; photographs of Bush on
the day; and the presence of he and his son in the long line of succession from the
assassins.
His motives bothered me. I tried to get inside his mind: was it that of an ultra-right
wing patriot who though he was saving his nation through assassination? (I think of Bush's
associate in El Salvador's death squads of the 1970s-80s Roberto D'Aubuisson who ordered the
murder, as he celebrated mass, of Archibishop Oscar Romero).
Then I returned to the work of Michael Ruppert and Gary Webb who exposed how Bush and his
CIA-FBI-LAPD cohort viewed the country's Black population as nothing more than disposable, to
be turned into an internal market for crack cocaine so that Bush could finance his wars in
Central America; so that the FBI could undermine the Black Panther movement and create fake,
FBI-manufactured terrorists in order to push the domestic political agenda rightward.
It goes on to this day. See Trevor Aaronson's The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's
Manufactured War on Terrorism .
The LAPD built a computer database on the population from which it could not only track
criminals but, arguably, cultivate them and use them in manufactured happenings for reasons
much more nefarious than trying to justify a bigger police budget. After the FBI's counter
intelligence program CoIntelPro was exposed in 1971, the LAPD's files found their way to the
Western Goals Foundation, linked to the John Birch Society and the World Anti-Communist
League.
JOHN BIRCH AS ORANGE MAN BAD
Here we veer into distraction. Researchers of the 1970s and 80s saw the John Birch Society as
a hard-line wedge to build an authoritarian society -- and the CIA and the Council on Foreign
Relations must have been happy for the Birchers to take the heat.
What we know today, however, casts a different light on those vested interests and we have
a clearer view of who was seeking an authoritarian society in the service of globalist
masters.
See this interview with Western Goals founder Congressman Larry McDonald on the links
between the CFR, the United Nations and the CIA. McDonald speaks to Pat Buchanan and Tom
Braden, co-hosts of Crossfire.
I recommend reading the words of Tom Braden with an ear to CNN journalists today, along with
the rest of the Corporatist Media. The tone is identical, but so is their focus on denying a
particular agenda.
MEDIA MOCKINGBIRDS AT WORK
Tom Braden was a CIA operative and journalist. In true Mockingbird media style, Braden quotes
one of the CIA's own Mockingbird outlets, Newsweek, as if it is an independent source: "The
John Birch Society considers communism only one arm of a master conspiracy in which socialist
American insiders are plotting to establish world government."
Tom Braden: "That kind of silly, asinine statement is what makes people laugh at the John
Birch Society."
This week the New York Times blithely ignored the World Economic Forum's stated policy and
declared: The baseless 'Great Reset' conspiracy theory rises again , Nov 17, 2020.
Moneycircus , Nov 22, 2020 9:01 AM Reply to
Moneycircus
Fixed link
Michael Ruppert confronts Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch over the use of inner
city Black populations as a dumping ground for drugs https://youtu.be/IMBu0YTwfXc
Gerell , Nov 22, 2020 11:16 AM Reply to
Moneycircus
There was NO New World Order, that is now very clear. it was a fantasy put out by the
alt-right (CIA) to distract from the USA's aim of world hegemony, and which is the only game
in town, supported by a ubiquitous CIA and 800 US military bases around the world, enforcing
the dollar as universal currency.
The threat is not socialism, (I wish), the real threat is American Empire and their
neoliberal corporate oligarchy which is sweeping the world.
Actually, it is increasingly clear that we are on the verge of the totalitarian New World
Order, and you don't need to be "alt-right" or whatever to see it.
Seamus Padraig , Nov 22, 2020 12:07 PM Reply to
Moneycircus
Antifa is definitely not dormant. They attacked some of the demonstrators at the Million
Maga March in DC just last weekend.
As far as the John Birch Society is concerned, they were controlled opposition from start.
John Birch himself had actually been an OSS asset during the war; his 'missionary work' in
China was just diplomatic cover. (The OSS, for those of you who don't know, was the Office of
Special Services–the predecessor organization of the CIA founded during the war.) After
his death, it was candy magnate Robert Welch who founded the society that bore his name. The
Birchers would rail on and on about 'communism' rather than Globalism during the Cold War in
order to give patriotic Americans the impression that all of the subversion going on in their
country was the work of a foreign power rather than their own élites and government.
And that's why, even though they sometimes raised a good point here or there–most
controlled-opposition groups do eventually–they were never a true threat to the system,
just a controlled opposition. (And they never, ever attacked Zionism . A Bircher could
be expelled merely for uttering the J-word in public.)
Larry McDonald, president of the John Birch Society at the time of his death, did condemn
the subversion of the globalist elite: "The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to
create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent,
all under their control Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot,
international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent."
Carter was definitely connected to the assassins, but much later. He was handpicked for
the presidency by David Rockefeller after being recruited by his protege Zbigniew Brzezinski
through the Trilateral Commission Rockefeller established in 1973, whose first director was
Brzezinski. Carter's administration was known as the Trilateral administration with good
reason. Carter himself may not have turned out to be the president they hoped for,
however.
If it wasn't for their relationship with the Rockefellers, especially David, both
Kissinger and Brzezinski would have spent their lives in academic obscurity.
Molinos , Nov 23, 2020 2:38 AM Reply to
Moneycircus
Don't forget to add CIA boss Allen Dulles to your list of JFK conspirators. JFK had fired
him and I am convinced he was the ringleader. See the book "The Devil's Chessboard: Allen
Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America's Secret government" which is available as a PDF.
Lost in a dark wood , Nov 22, 2020 6:59 AM
I remember long ago when this used to be the standard way of doing interviews; i.e. calmly
asking intelligent questions with the intention of eliciting information and clarification,
and allowing the person the opportunity to give a proper answer.
--
Sidney Powell: 'Biblical' Lawsuit Coming, Accuses Georgia. Gov. Kemp of Deal With
Dominion
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/sidney-powell-campaign-lawyer-dominion/2020/11/21/id/998181/
By Eric Mack – Sat, 21 Nov 2020
Levying explosive claims of widespread voter fraud specifically tied to Dominion Voting
Systems and potentially a pay-for-play scheme with GOP Gov. Brian Kemp, Trump campaign lawyer
Sidney Powell on Newsmax TV vowed to deliver a "biblical" voter fraud case this week.
--
Sidney Powell: It will be BIBLICAL
Newsmax TV
Nov 22, 2020
Frontline member of the Trump legal team Sidney Powell comments exclusively on the claims
that are going to be made in the legal battle to come over the presidential election results.
– with political analyst Mark Halperin and Newsmax TV's Rob Schmitt
None of this should be taken too seriously.
As Carleton-Browne of the Foreign Office would say, the situation is hopeless but not
serious.
As the US teeters on the brink of complete financial bankruptcy and general institutional
dissolution, our Exceptional Friends are kind enough to provide us with a final Grand
Spectacular Election Extravaganza, no effort or expense spared, starring none other than the
Great-Showman-In-Chief himself, Trumpus Magnus. Like one of his late great beauty pageants,
unfortunately minus the bimbos. Instead, we have a star studded supporting cast of
billionaires, close relatives, superannuated generals, fraudsters, grifters, chancers,
conmen, halfwits, religious nutjobs, certifiable lunatics & rabid warmongers.
Pitted against him are an equally colourful and motley crew, fronted by a gerontocracy worthy
of the late unlamented Soviet Union in its final death throes.
Trumpus Magnus himself, at 73, appears a scandalously callow youth beside Pelosi, 80, at the
helm of the legislature, Bernie, supposedly the Great "Left" Hope at 79, and Creepy Joe, who
at 77 is slated to become the new Commander-In-Chief, or Vice President, or Senator, or
Something Or Other, provided he can remember his own name and which country he's living in at
the time.
So just break out the popcorn and watch the whole tawdry, degrading spectacle. It's the
Greatest Show In Town, and it's all completely free.
They charge fifteen quid now to get in the local cinema, though admittedly that does include
the popcorn.
An enjoyable read, in spite of the unprepossessing content. Satire is truly a gift.
Schmitz Katze , Nov 22, 2020 2:26 AM
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address, known for its warnings about the
growing power of the "military-industrial complex
Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech Origins and Significance
John Ervin , Nov 22, 2020 5:15 AM Reply to
Schmitz Katze
It was so awfully cute of Ike to mildly fulminate to us so, well, almost "democratically",
in his farewell speech to the nation, and so soon after he had just woken up from a Rip van
Winkel-esque nap of 8 years, next the Oval Office.
It was almost as if he cared. He had shortly before this swan song told his security
honchos, "I have nothing to leave the next President but a legacy of ashes" -- a phrase which
became the title of a condemnatory tome on the CIA by Tim Weiner, who had previously received
a Pulitzer for his first book on that murky topic.
"A LEGACY OF ASHES". That gray pile accrued while Eisenhower was working out the geriatric
kinks of his golf swing, a passetemps made as familiar to us in our own times by another
Republican President.
During his two terms, the actual bona fide Nazi Gestapo had completely embedded itself in
Langley, with Josef Mengele (according to Fred Burks of wanttoknow.info, among others)
training our agents on site, thanks to favoring treatment by Allen Dulles and Hitler's top
Nazi spy, General Reinhard Gehlen, the two leading that key Agency all on Ike's dubious
"watch".
And the rest is history, mystery, and much misery.
Ours, and above all, the rest of the world's .
You can trace the origins of our current Covid pickle directly to that.
Thanks Ike! For the warning Farewell.
Hope you didn't let the door hit you on the way out.
Yes, I've seen some on that. I just am not very impressed with Eisenhower, since many
really sinister things rolled into our government and country, on his "watch". And it seemed
like he didn't do much about it.
After JFK's execution, I heard an interview with "Jackie" not long ago, it happened back
in those days:
REPORTER: So what DID your husband think of Eisenhower?
JACQUELINE: "Not much."
Frankly, it seems like in the court of (real) History, he would need a real good
lawyer.
Robert MacNamara said in the great film by Erroll Morris' "The Fog of War" that if we had
been the conquered, there would have been some real Nuremberg-esque war tribunals trying our
leaders and hanging U.S. for war crimes.
That "confession" is in the film, from the lips of a man who bombed the hell out of much
of Asia in his stint under Curtis LeMay, and his dubious commands.
And LeMay remained "gungho" after WW II.
I mean, any way you slice it, there is too much of that, from all of them.
It's just not right.
But, hey, Ike warned us about the MIC on his way out of the Big Round Room.
Eisenhower was a servant of the Wall Street/Eastern Establishment (now globalist) ruling
class based in and around the Council on Foreign Relations and the CIA at its highest levels.
Allen Dulles, CIA director under Eisenhower and CFR president in the late 1940s, was its
embodiment. Eisenhower was their president and his warning about the military-industrial
complex probably had more to do with the potential threat it posed as a rival to Wall Street
interests.
Researcher , Nov 22, 2020 7:07 PM Reply to
John Ervin
Yes. Too little, too late. It's like JFK's speech to the newspaper men in NYC. He was
talking about future censorship of the press and a heating up of the Cold War. If he'd
actually intended to expose Secret Societies and the banking cabal with their eugenics
agenda, to the public he could have done it any time.
Maybe his only real mistake or perhaps secret purpose was signing Executive Order 11110
which gave the US the ability to issue its own notes against US silver reserves without going
through the Fed.
The US silver reserves were probably stolen by the Fed from the Treasury after JFK's
death. Going off the gold standard by Nixon further exacerbated the debt and inflation.
Certainly the manipulation of the silver market by JP Morgan and others and the inability
of Congress or an independent body or any agency to audit the Fed, or Fort Knox is connected
to aspects of that Act, Executive Order 11110.
Sometimes I wonder if the US really had a president with any integrity since Andrew
Jackson left office.
From comments to YouTube: "570,000 votes for Biden in 90 minutes" (1:30), "IM HONORED TO BE
HERE REPRESENTING FREEDOM!", "The Legislature, are our Lawmakers and they need to enforce and
protect the people from corrupt politicians who seek to capitalize on their position of power for
person profit and personal gain."
" Fascinating testimony. Amazingly straightforward and easy to follow. Not surprised at any
information given, only sadly disappointed that our country allowed itself to get to this point
by not standing firm and stopping the deceit for several generations. Thank you for finally
standing up and addressing the disgrace."
"It's in everyone's interest to have a full vetting of election irregularities and fraud,"
Giuliani said in a statement Tuesday. "And the only way to do this is with public hearings,
complete with witnesses, videos, pictures and other evidence of illegalities from the November
3rd election."
"There were serious irregularities, we have proof of fraud in a number of states, and it is
important for all Americans to have faith in our electoral process," Trump campaign senior legal
adviser Jenna Ellis said in a statement. "All we have wanted from the outset is to count every
legal vote and discount every illegal vote."
WHO: Senate Majority Policy Committee Chair David Argall (R-Berks/Schuylkill); Senate
Majority Leader-Elect Kim Ward (R-39); State Rep. Dan Moul (R-91); State Rep. Rob Kauffman
(R-89); and State Rep Paul Schemel (R-90); among other lawmakers will join Senator Mastriano in
this historic hearing.
Mastriano is clear what is at risk.
"Elections are a fundamental principle of our democracy – unfortunately,
Pennsylvanians have lost faith in the electoral system," said Mastriano, who recently called
for the resignation of State Department Secretary Kathy Boockvar for negligence and
incompetence. "It is unacceptable."
"Over the past few weeks, I have heard from thousands of Pennsylvanians regarding issues
experienced at the polls, irregularities with the mail-in voting system and concerns whether
their vote was counted," said Mastriano. "We need to correct these issues to restore faith in
our republic."
WHERE: Wyndham Gettysburg, 95 Presidential Circle, Gettysburg, PA 17325.
The hearing will be streamed live on policy.pasenategop.com.
WHEN: Wednesday, November 25th at 12:30 pm.
"We want assurance that the issues encountered during this past election don't happen
again," said Chairman Argall. "Senator Mastriano requested this meeting because Pennsylvanians
deserve a fair election."
Easy question: Is it illegal to steal an election or not?
You would have to assume that it is no big deal based on the response to claims of
widespread fraud in the contest between President Trump and Joe Biden. Big Media says the
evidence just doesn't exist, and most Americans seem to be lost in a blue haze of blind
acceptance that whatever they are told by the talking heads on TV must be true.
This kind of unthinking obedience to authority is a frightening harbinger of an America that
is no longer a nation of laws, but rather a nation of edicts. You can already see that
unfolding in the sheep-like acceptance of COVID-19 restrictions that blatantly ignore the
Constitution. But if you dare do your own independent assessment of facts -- whether regarding
the efficacy of mask use in preventing spread of coronavirus or regarding the security of
electronic voting -- you will quickly come to a different conclusion than that which is
approved by Big Tech, Big Media and Big Money.
Unfortunately, most people don't take the time to do their own research. They simply believe
whatever is told to them. For those in thrall to the establishment media, that means they
believe that Trump's allegations of election fraud are "baseless." Remember, the media made
that declaration within hours of the election, long before any evidence had been presented in a
court of law and before analysis had begun on the raw vote totals. Once that narrative was
established, it didn't matter how many affidavits were presented, how many witnesses came
forward, or how much analysis suggested that the vote count may have been manipulated. The jury
of the American people had already been tainted by Big Media to believe the narrative that
Trump is a sore loser.
Don't forget, the mainstream media -- in the interests of public enlightenment (now known as
wokeness) -- have spent the past four years reporting as fact that the duly elected president
of the United States is a liar, a tax cheat, a Russian puppet, and a racist. In other words, he
is a con man who never should have been anywhere near the Oval Office in the first place. So
why would anyone now believe his claims that Democrats used phony mail ballots, vote-counting
software and foreign manipulation to steal the election? Most of the media is pretending that
there is not even a real story to report in what, if true, would be one of the gravest
constitutional crises in the history of our republic.
As Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said in his press conference Thursday, "The coverage of
this has been almost as dishonest as the scheme itself. The American people are entitled to
know this," he warned the press. "You don't have a right to keep it from them. You don't have a
right to lie about it."
But, the newsrooms at CNN and MSNBC are keeping it from the public. They refused to
even carry Giuliani's press conference laying out the evidence of election fraud. As for Fox
News, they covered it, and then put a reporter on the air to say the claims were "simply not
true" or "baseless." Clearly, we are not going to get the truth from the media. Has there been
even one reporter for a mainstream outlet such as the Washington Post asking questions about
the vulnerability of electronic voting systems to hacking or manipulation? Is any news
organization demanding that the Justice Department or FBI get to the bottom of the story?
The loss of a free and neutral press means that democracy cannot work even if its elections
were completely above board. The capacity of the people to self-govern is dependent on their
access to true and accurate information. Sadly, the opposite principle applies as well. When
journalism abandons objectivity in favor of an agenda, then the people are in the position of
cattle being led to slaughter.
Thomas Jefferson described the abuses of a free press in 1814 in a letter to his friend
Walter Jones:
"I deplore the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the
vulgarity and the mendacious spirit of those who write for them These ordures are rapidly
depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information
and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title
to belief This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party
spirit."
Ouch! Take that, New York Times! Take that, CNN!
Of course, it is just such a malign "party spirit" that informs almost all mainstream
journalism in the Age of Trump -- a spirit that is visible in the hostility towards Trump
himself, but also in the accommodation towards Democrats such as Joe Biden. Last Monday's Biden
press conference was a stunning abdication of responsibility by the media for its much-vaunted
role of "speaking truth to power" -- or at least asking tough questions.
Three of the first four queries were merely anti-Trump questions asked in a new way. Instead
of asking Trump "How do you justify your unprecedented attempt to obstruct and delay a smooth
transfer of power?" the reporters merely asked Biden what he thought about Trump's
"unprecedented attempt" blah blah blah. Then the next three questions were about COVID, which
after six months of campaigning, even Sleepy Joe Biden could answer with his eyes
closed.
Isn't the media going to hold Biden accountable just like they claimed to hold Trump
accountable? Why not ask about the curious patterns of vote counting in Michigan, Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin and Georgia that make millions of people think Biden tried to steal the election?
Shouldn't he be asked to support a full investigation to prove his victory was legitimate? How
about a question about whether Hunter Biden will come out of hiding now that the election is
over? How about asking the "president-in-waiting" to condemn the BLM and antifa violence that
sent several innocent Trump supporters to the hospital two weeks ago?
How about our celebrity journalists celebrate their own crucial role as defenders of
democracy? If they don't want to "render themselves useless," they need to swear allegiance to
facts, wherever they lead, and not to one party. Or as Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana put it
more indelicately, "They have to be equal opportunity assholes."
But they aren't -- and sooner or later the American people will get tired of being
manipulated. Journalism is supposed to give an honest account of the facts so that people can
make up their own minds what they believe to be true. Propaganda, on the other hand, is a
dishonest attempt to persuade people not to examine the facts for themselves. Journalism starts
with facts and allows people to reach their own conclusion. Propaganda starts with a conclusion
and manipulates people into accepting it as fact. You can decide for yourself whether what we
have today is journalism or propaganda.
But the bottom line is this: Whether or not Donald Trump can prove his case in court should
be irrelevant to the job of the press. What honest reporters ought to recognize is the
significance of the allegation itself, the historical nature of the crime being alleged, and
the importance to the future of our republic that the case must be heard.
Too bad there are so few honest reporters left.
Frank Miele, the retired editor of the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell Mont., is a
columnist for RealClearPolitics. His new book "How We Got Here: The Left's Assault on the
Constitution" is available from his
Amazon author page . Visit him at HeartlandDiaryUSA.com to read his daily commentary or
follow him on Facebook @HeartlandDiaryUSA or on Twitter or Parler @HeartlandDiary.
DPE 2 days ago It's simply not believable that Trump lost Michigan by 146,000 votes. It's
simply not believable that he lost Georgia at all. and it stretches credulity that he lost
Pennsylvania, although Biden did campaign there more than he did other states and drew crowds
of twelve. The Democrats air-dropped a million mail-in ballots (most unrequested) across the
fruited plain and then manipulated them in crucial battleground states. That was three times
as many mail-in ballots as were distributed in 2016. The election was stolen. The idea that
the head of the ticket lost while Republicans cleaned up in nearly every other category of
the election is also not believable.
Ruckus 2 days ago No incumbent president (Trump) in nearly a century and a half has
gained votes in a re-election campaign and still lost. Biden is set to become the first
president in 60 years to lose the states of Ohio and Florida on his way to election. For a
century, these states have consistently predicted the national outcome, and they have been
considered roughly representative of the American melting pot as a whole. Despite national
polling giving Biden a lead in both states, he lost Ohio by eight points and Florida by
more than three. Red4283 2 days ago
Everytime a reporter says the accusations are baseless I think, "How do YOU know? Were
you there? Did you read the affidavits? Do you have contrasting affidavits or other
evidence that shows the contrary view?" In the early days the fact-check websites tried
to fact-check the claims, and some had reasonable arguments against the claims, but
notice now they've stopped trying. Because they can't do it. Get a clue, journalists...
mlebauer 2 days ago
California, as often the case, was the testing ground for ballot harvesting. Check out
the National Review article yesterday. Nancy Pelosi has been pushing nation-wide
universal mail-in voting since she got the gavel. It worked so well to make California a
single party state. If things continue like California, our elections will become a
contest over which party can "cheat" most effectively through vote harvesting operations.
Not which can get the most interested voters to side with them.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/why-california-republicans-stopped-complaining-about-ballot-harvesting-and-embraced-the-process/
steve399 2 days ago
Journalism has gone from news to confirmation bias. Thats the problem and not part of any
solution.
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Uncle+Sam 2 days ago
Americans say there are greater conflicts between Democrats and Republicans than exist
between other groups. If one steps back and looks at such partisan polarization dispassionately
it becomes clear that by making the conscious decision to suspend judgment and truly listen to
the "other side" reconciliation is possible. It seems if peace can break out in the Middle East
certainly we can achieve it here at home. :-o
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jamessamuelwalsh 2 days ago
Frank is 100% correct. The media wants us to believe the people committing the fraud are
credible when they deny the fraud. Let's get to the bottom of it. There is far more evidence of
voter fraud than there was Russian collusion, but we still spent 3 years "investigating"
Russian collusion.
Time to do the same. Appoint a special prosecutor. Spend 2 years and $60M million. Interview
hundreds of Democrats, and file unrelated charges when applicable. Until we do the
investigation, Biden is and forever will be a #FakePresident.
cubicle-monkey 2 days ago
Remember the old nugget that Washington Post film critic Pauline Kael allegedly said
something to the effect of, "How did Nixon win [in a landslide]? I don't know anyone who voted
for him." Well, now the right in their own bubble is doing the same thing, but unlike Kael,
they conclude that if Trump didn't win, it must have been fraud. Why? They don't know anyone
who voted for Biden! Or Trump's rallies were so big!
Ruckus 2 days ago
Biden received more than 15 million more votes than Barack Obama received in his re-election
of 2012. Yet, Biden lost in almost every bellwether county across the country. No presidential
candidate has been capable of such electoral jujitsu until now.
Ruckus 2 days ago
Trump's victories in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin were on target until, in the
middle of the night, counting was arbitrarily halted. Miraculously, several hundred thousand
votes – all for Biden – were mysteriously 'found'; Trump's real leads subsequently
vanished.
Paul in Colorado 2 days ago
In the late 1500s the printing press destroyed the monopoly on information that the Roman
Catholic church had held for over a thousand years, and its appalling corruption was exposed. A
hundred years of religious war followed as the church tried to suppress the Reformation, but
free minds prevailed and the Enlightenment followed in the 1700s. Now the Internet has
destroyed the American Ruling Class's monopoly on information, and its appalling corruption is
being exposed. Now they too are trying suppress the new information channels, but their violent
reaction to independent thought will also fail. They do not understand or respect the American
character, and the marionettes they put up as opinion leaders have no credibility. The power
centers of their thought-police - the press, the TV networks, academia, Hollywood, social
media, on-demand riots, etc. - are now greeted with disgust and derision, and their business
models are collapsing. The peasant rebellion that put Trump in the White House is real, the
hundreds of thousands of Americans who stood in line for hours to attend his rallies are real,
and the continual erosion of Ruling Class power in America is real. As is their panic, so amply
displayed in this election.
The times, they are a-changing, and a new Enlightenment is coming into view. One without the
stifling dead hand of an ossified Ruling Class desperately clinging to its perch.
Ruckus 2 days ago
Donald Trump was pretty much the only incumbent president in U.S. history to lose his
re-election while his own party gained seats in the House of Representatives. It's a
miracle!
Notmisguided 1 day ago
Its certainly pretty interesting that all but one of what have been the "bellwether"
counties since 2000 went for Trump. There was certainly fraud in this election but questionable
as to the extent of it.
Ruckus 2 days ago
In a larger list of 58 bellwether counties that have correctly picked the president since
2000, Trump won 51 of them by an average of 15 points, while the other seven went to Biden by
around four points. Bellwether counties overwhelmingly chose President Trump, but Biden found a
path to victory anyway.
JZ North AZ 2 days ago
Great in dept look at journalistic fraud and its impact on of molding the opinion and will
of the unthinking American public. Unfortunately, as a society we must have not reached rock
bottom, yet. Otherwise, the people who need to read this would be and the people who recognize
it as happening and speaking up to defend against it, would be thanked. Thank you!
Uncle+Sam 2 days ago
While it may seem easy to dismiss such attempts to expose alleged election fraud, following
years of a coordinated effort to oust a duly elected president it doesn't seem so far-fetched.
:-o
Rob Sjoberg 1 day ago We are to believe that Joe Biden went from 4th in the Iowa caucus
to 5th in the New Hampshire Primary to 1st in the South Carolina Primary, after which he
proceeded to run the board? Then practically without campaigning went on to win the Presidency,
despite the fact his events had trouble drawing 50 people? A telling little detail is that the
debates shown on Biden's YouTube channel would consistently have many more down votes than up
votes, until late at night when suddenly about 30% of the downvotes would be gone, and just
like that old Joe would be the winner! Come on, man!
DisgustedwithElitismNC 2 days ago
'Mika Brzezinski's exact words in reference to Donald Trump's calling out of the media for
the failure to accurately report factual information were:
" that he can control, uh, exactly what people think, and that is, that is our job."'
from 'Is it true that MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski stated, "Our job is to control exactly what
people think"?' (www. quora. com/
Is-it-true-that-MSNBC-host-Mika-Brzezinski-stated-Our-job-is-to-control-exactly-what-people-think)
So much for getting the fact
Ruckus 2 days ago
Biden underperformed Hillary Clinton in every major metro area around the country, save for
Milwaukee, Detroit, Atlanta and Philadelphia." Robert Barnes, the foremost election analyst,
observes in these "big cities in swing states run by Democrats the vote even exceeded the
number of registered voters."
"Splitting the public up into two oppositional factions who barely interact and can't even
communicate with each other because they don't share a common reality keeps the populace
impotent, ignorant, and powerless to stop the unfolding of the agendas of the powerful."
Surely so. But I'm not sure whether this was deliberately planned by the plutocrats as a
political strategy, or whether this bifurcation spontaneously emerged from tech company
algorithms designed only to increase their profits.
Clearly, the plutocrats have seized upon this bifurcation to keep the populace divided and
engaged in a kind of civil war, but it's sort of like the pandemic – was it a plot
hatched or an opportunity exploited?
This might not seem to matter at this point, but IMHO the answer helps to determine not
only what we're up against but also the best ways to fight the bastards.
SHOCKER / NOVEMBER 24, 2020
https://www.wakingtimes.com/tyranny-standing-rock-govt-divide-conquer-strategy-work/
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"Divide and conquer.
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"It's one of the oldest military strategies in the books, and it's proven to be the police
state's most effective weapon for maintaining the status quo.
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"How do you conquer a nation?
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"Distract them with football games, political circuses and Black Friday sales. Keep them
focused on their differences -- economic, religious, environmental, political, racial
[gender- pandemic] -- so they can never agree on anything. And then, when they're so divided
that they are incapable of joining forces against a common threat, start picking them off one
by one."
JWK / NOVEMBER 24, 2020
"We live in different information universes, chosen for us by algorithms whose only
criterion is how to maximise our attention for advertisers' products to generate greater
profits for the internet giants,"
Which precisely explains how we got the recent POTUS candidates, displayed as the "best and
brightest". Really? That's the best they have? You can look across the board at ALL of the
two party's leadership and get the same picture. These are far from the "best and brightest".
They may be bright, since psychopaths are often quite intelligent, but they certainly have
zero qualification for best.
KHATIKA / NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Regardless. The democrats ignored people like Tulsi Gabbard and Sanders to flock to Biden.
This is just a sign of how brainwashed the people have become. The propaganda is working
quite well.
ANARCISSIE / NOVEMBER 24, 2020
This raises the question of why these people were selected. I think Trump sabotaged the
Republican fix for 2016 by exploiting weaknesses in its pseudodemocratic primary structure,
but the choice of Biden is hard to figure from any angle. Someone should investigate. About a
year ago I was conversing with some deplorables about Biden and a perfectly intelligent young
Black woman hotly defended him against all criticism. Anita Hill, the crime bill, the
invasion of Iraq, his creepiness, just bounced off her shell. How do people get this way?
JULIUS SKOOLAFISH / NOVEMBER 24, 2020
in passing
. WESTERN VALUES™ . The country that judges other countries' elections just
had an election. Somebody won. One day a court will tell us who. Apparently counting votes is
a tremendously difficult task, requiring enormous amounts of time.
. http://russiahouse.org/current_news.php?language=eng&id_current=3183
.
See also (via Fort Russ – Matthew Ehret)
Ah, Ms Johnstone, my fellow United States citizens love their " echo chamber comas "
because it allows them to completely suppress any and all logic, justice, empathy, and shame
for the blood-thirsty Evil Empire that they cherish and support. The Evil Empire has no soul
at all; and it requires its subjects to be soul-less as well. Resistance is futile!
Ms. Powell did not have much of a reputation in conservative legal circles until last year
when she took on the case of Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump's first national security adviser,
who had pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. but later sought to withdraw his plea. The case
became something of a cause célèbre among many Trump loyalists, who have long
insisted that the president and his allies were the target of nefarious "deep state" law
enforcement and intelligence officials.
Ms. Powell, a native North Carolinian who began her legal career as an assistant federal
prosecutor in Texas, certainly believed that. And through her aggressive defense of Mr. Flynn
-- she often used incendiary rhetoric, accusing the F.B.I. of committing "atrocities" against
her client -- she became an admired figure on the right and a frequent guest on conservative
radio and television programs.
... ... ...
In a statement to The New York Times earlier this year, Ms. Powell said she had long
considered "prosecutorial misconduct and overreach" a problem. Conspiracies within the
American government have been a preoccupation of hers for some time: In 2014 she
self-published a book that purports to be a seminal work in "exposing 'the Deep State.'"
The book arose from her work in private practice, where she spent years representing
defendants in the Enron financial scandal, including the accounting firm Arthur Andersen and
James A. Brown, a former executive at Merrill Lynch. During that time she began to impugn the
motives of one of the federal prosecutors on the case, Andrew Weissmann, who went on to be a
member of the special counsel team under Robert S. Mueller III, who led the investigation
into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
... ... ...
In an interview last week on the top-rated "Rush Limbaugh Show" -- in which she spoke for
nearly 20 minutes and faced no skepticism from the guest host, Mark Steyn -- Ms. Powell
claimed that the voting machines in question had been designed to rig elections for the
former ruler of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, who died in 2013. They were "so hackable a
15-year-old could do it," she said. And she cited unnamed "math experts" she had supposedly
consulted who told her how an algorithm added votes for President Trump to Joseph R. Biden
Jr.'s totals.
In an interview the day before on Fox Business, Ms. Powell also said the conspiracy
involved "dead people" who voted "in massive numbers" -- again offering no proof -- and
described how fraudulent paper ballots were also part of the scheme.
Speaking early last week to the right-wing radio host Mark Levin, who has the
fourth-largest audience in talk radio, Ms. Powell said she had obtained an affidavit from
someone purportedly present when the scheme was hatched by pro-Chávez forces in
Venezuela to rig his elections.
Because of her involvement in the Flynn case, the pro-Trump media often presented her as
an expert with unimpeachable credentials.
"Sidney Powell is no joke," declared one Breitbart article published last week, which
mentioned her early career as a federal prosecutor and her work for Mr. Flynn. Mr. Limbaugh,
too, told his audience last week that he seriously doubts she would be putting her
credibility on the line if she hadn't uncovered serious wrongdoing.
Other Trump allies were less convinced that her claims should be taken seriously. Tucker
Carlson of Fox News said last week that when he pressed Ms. Powell, she failed to produce any
evidence to support the elaborate conspiracy she purported to have uncovered. His dissent was
not appreciated by the president's defenders, or by Ms. Powell, who said Mr. Carlson had been
"very insulting, demanding and rude" to her.
Despite initial praise from the president, who announced less than two weeks ago that she
had been added to his team of "wonderful lawyers," it was never clear during her brief time
with the campaign what her job was supposed to be. Her efforts on behalf of the Trump
campaign appeared to be largely limited to public relations She has defended the president
and attacked the integrity of the vote solely on Twitter, on television and at news
conferences, acting more as a publicity agent than a lawyer.
She has said she plans to file a suit in Georgia but hasn't yet. It is unclear whether
that work will continue now that the Trump campaign has cut her loose.
Jeremy W. Peters covers national politics. His other assignments in his decade at
The Times have included covering the financial markets, the media, New York politics and two
presidential campaigns. He is also an MSNBC contributor.
BIG news in Nevada: a Judge has allowed NV Republicans to present findings of widespread
voter fraud in a Dec. 3rd hearing. Americans will now hear evidence from those who saw
firsthand what happened -- a critical step for transparency and remedying illegal ballots.
Stay tuned.
Listen VERY closely to what this witness in PA says happened with roughly 600K votes during
curious "spikes" in the vote count... 570K to Biden... just 3,200 to Trump?!?!? 470 7.8K
16.5K
merican democracy is in limbo after the long-anticipated, contested election has finally come
to pass. More than a week removed from November 3, Democrats and Republicans peddle their own
version of events as a corporate media blitzkrieg tries to manufacture consent for Joe Biden as
president-elect in true Guaidó style. Trump plays the villain, ensconced in the Oval
Office while his cabinet officials pitch weak legal challenges that fail to address substantive
issues of electoral fraud and serve to simply prolong the stalemate and build up the tension
for the grand finale.
Despite evidence of fatal vulnerabilities underlying the electronic voting infrastructure of
the United States that leave the systems at the very heart of the democratic process open to
election rigging on a massive scale, much of the American public is unaware of the extent of
the problem and how easily election results can be manipulated without leaving a trace.
The bumbling incompetence of the Trump administration provides cover for the machinations of
the U.S. establishment, which more nuanced independent coverage has revealed in great detail.
Taking the deliberate preparations made for this particular eventuality into consideration,
complete with
table-top exercises and the creation of new federal agencies and
programs since the start of the 2016 presidential race, it is clear that the 2020 Election
was targeted as an opportunity to fundamentally transform the American political juggernaut, in
tandem with the ongoing worldwide economic reset.
A
statement released last Thursday by the director of one of the newest agencies, in charge
of overseeing cybersecurity infrastructure in the United States, claimed that there was "no
evidence [ ] any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way
compromised." Chris Krebs, the head of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency
(CISA), directly contradicted the Trump-appointed chairman of the Federal Election Commission
(FEC), who last week
told the conservative outlet Newsmax that voter fraud was definitely taking
place.
Cyberbullies
Part of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency's mission centers on assuring
compliance with DHS dictates surrounding election security protocols. The standalone federal
agency with oversight from the Department of Homeland Security was formed two years after an
embarrassing incident involving DHS occurred during the 2016 general election, when Georgia's
then secretary of state, – now governor – Brian Kemp, announced that
cyberattacks on its voting systems had been
traced to the federal law enforcement agency.
In 2020 with CISA firmly in place, DHS' cybersecurity division implemented a "
24/7 war room " to ostensibly guard against election hacking. CISA's Krebs, a former
cybersecurity policy director at Microsoft, led the effort to "monitor a network of every
state's election system simultaneously until every vote is counted,"
according to News Nation , which was allowed to bring a camera crew into the
operation in Fort
Meade , Maryland.
In the lead up to the 2020 election, warnings about Russian and Iranian cyberwarriors
running roughshod over the electoral contest were everywhere in U.S. media. Dire warnings of an
existential threat to democracy by foreign actors that never materialized were leveraged to
implement new security measures in partnership with the private sector. Krebs floated the
excuse for a conspicuously absent horde of Eurasian hackers, that America's enemies chose to
"sit out this election" in a recent New York Timesarticle
.
The fact is that neither Russia nor Iran have anywhere near the level of access to America's
election system as the handful of private companies who are part of an electronic voting
machine cartel, which currently controls over 92% of the elections market in the United
States.
You Don't Really HAVA Choice
In a prolific time for draconian government overreach, one of the lesser-known pieces of
legislation proposed by the Bush administration was the Help America Vote Act ( HAVA ),
passed by a
Republican-controlled House and a unanimous vote by a Democrat-led Senate in December 2001. The
bill was signed into law 11 months later and "greatly accelerated the full computerization of
U.S. elections," according to Jonathan Simon, an election integrity advocate and author of
"Code Red, Computerized Election Theft and The New American Century," in an interview with
MintPress .
Simon describes the legislation's carrot-and-stick approach to goad states into adopting
technologies like touchscreen voting systems known as DREs, which were later replaced with
barcode systems or BMDs, which were "entirely lacking in cyber-security provisions to protect
the increasingly concealed process it promoted." Among the bill's authors is none other than
the current Senate leader and Republican kingmaker, Mitch McConnell, who has
defended Trump's right to challenge the election results without committing to a particular
outcome.
"If, as was claimed," Simon continues, "HAVA would make voting easier and thus increase
turnout, as we can see clearly today, that was decidedly not a GOP goal, certainly not of a
tactician like McConnell." The partisan motivations Simon ascribes to HAVA are clear enough,
and, as he points out, should have been clear to Democrats as well. But, the argument that the
American liberal establishment had no inkling of the ramifications fails to account for the
Democrats' own forays into the closely held universe of electronic voting systems.
Voting machines fill the floor for early voting at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Oct. 12,
2020. Brynn Anderson | AP
A week ago, FOX Anchor Maria Bartiromo casually let slip on air that House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi's chief of staff, Sidney Powell, had
become a lobbyist for Dominion Voting Systems – one of a handful of companies that
maintain a close-knit cartel of electronic voting systems, which together control 92% of the
election marketplace. Nevertheless, Dominion's market share is dwarfed by ES&S; the largest
election voting machine company in the United States and whose "subcontractors that [do] the
actual programming, maintenance, and distribution" are controlled by GOP political allies,
according to Simon.
The wrangling these firms engage in to steal electoral markets from each other, and the
inseparable political problems such dynamics can cause, was on full display in Louisiana just
before the 2018 midterm elections when its Democrat governor, John Bel Edwards, canceled
a $95 million dollar contract that had been awarded to Dominion after competitor ES&S filed
a complaint about the contracting process. Edwards was accused by his Republican secretary of
state of siding "with his political buddies over election security," which contradicts the
prevailing notions of a pure partisan split along this issue.
Fatal Vulnerabilities
Experts on both sides of the political divide concede that both voter fraud and election
fraud occur with considerable frequency since the advent of electronic voting machines. In
addition to Dominion and ES&S, only five other companies dominate this space: Tenex,
SGO/Smartmatic, Hart InterCivic, Demtech, and Premier (formerly Diebold).
Virtually all have been accused of vote count manipulation or other irregularities
associated with their systems. Hart, for instance, was accused of vote flipping
(the practice of switching the votes from one candidate to their opponent) in Texas. Dominion
also ran into issues in the Lone Star state when its systems failed
certification over accessibility problems.
"Much of the equipment being used to record and count votes," explains Jonathan Simon, "is
either modem-equipped, which leaves it highly vulnerable to remote interference, or programmed
with the use of other computers than are internet-connected, allowing the alteration of memory
cards and code running in either precinct-level machines (like BMDs, DREs, or Optical Scanners)
or central tabulators."
Examples of these dangerous weaknesses were explored in a recent video published by a self-styled
national security professional, L. Todd Wood , where
conservative elections security expert, Russ Ramsland, breaks down his findings from a forensic
analysis of a 1000+ page voter log taken out of Dallas County's central tabulation center in
the aftermath of the 2018 midterm elections.
https://cdn.iframe.ly/M7DMJcB?v=1&app=1
Ramsland identified instances of votes being replaced in 96 precincts, an inordinate number
of database "updates" and other serious irregularities that point to vote-count manipulation
and amount to election fraud. His most explosive allegation centered around claims of real-time
vote-swapping in the 2019 gubernatorial election in Kentucky, where Ramsland asserts that
thousands of votes originally given for the Republican candidate were swapped live on a CNN
broadcast and added to the tally of the Democratic candidate, Andy Beshear, who would end up
winning the election.
Ramsland also alleged that the election data of that race was being stored in a server in
Frankfurt, Germany before being cycled through the central tabulation database, which syncs
automatically with the numbers shown to television viewers. This server has been pounced on by
Trump supporters in recent days and repeated by Rudy Giuliani in his podcast on Friday when
he also purported to have direct evidence of election fraud.
While it is practically impossible for the layman to unravel the complexities underlying the
encryption and cloud technologies underlying the present-day election system in the United
States, few can doubt that moving towards a digital voting system removes whatever last
vestiges of control the regular American citizen had in a once participatory exercise of
democracy.
Asked if democracy can even exist under such conditions, Simon refers to a prediction he
made in "CODE RED," in which he augurs "an inexorable progression to where we are now: public
trust eroded, the losers making wild allegations, no one able to prove anything, [and] everyone
kind of waking up to the realization that our concealed computerized vote-counting process does
not yield evidence-based results."
Spook Charade
Giuliani's promises of whistleblowers coming forward to save the day for the MAGA crowd and
call the election off aren't likely to produce anything of consequence as this charade only
serves to further pave the way for the ruling classes, who are consolidating their grip on
power and wealth at mind-boggling speeds thanks to the peculiar advantages bestowed upon them
by the pandemic protocols. Real evidence of election fakery is too widespread to confront as
part of a national discussion, as that would threaten the position of the politicians who
depend on a rigged system and the powerful interests that control them.
With the extremes of the American political spectrum lighting up in deep reds and blues,
whatever emerges out of the ashes won't resemble much that came before it, and regardless of
the election results, America's inexorable march towards techno-fascism is moving right
along.
Watch | America's Election Debacle Highlights Anti-Democratic Hijinks of Both Parties
Actual voter and election fraud takes place in every national American election and is just
as prevalent in state and municipal elections, as well. From vote splitting to voter
suppression tactics to direct manipulation of election results, both political parties have
usurped the electoral processes to lie and cheat their way into power more than once.
But with the advent of digital voting systems, even the scandals we always seem to hear
about far too late will vanish from sight, as well. The most straightforward aspect of
democracy – voting – is disappearing behind a curtain of ones and zeros that only
technocratic lackeys will be able to pull back. Trump, who was plucked from the reality TV
screen like Jeff Daniels in "The Purple Rose of Cairo" and inserted into the national contest
for the highest office in the land, will do nothing to change that.
Publically available FBI documents
show the sitting president has been an FBI informant since the early eighties and his rise to
the highest office in the land was not the case of a brash, independent billionaire who decided
to run for president to "Make America Great Again." After all, Donald Trump's long-standing
ties with the very "deep state" many of his staunchest supporters are convinced he is
dismantling, actually reveals a factional war among the ruling class behind the scenes.
With a president who is as deep state as it gets, if there's something we can take away from
the last four years and these last few days since the election, it's that the American
establishment's over-the-top partisanship has been a ruse undertaken to hide the fact that they
are united in waging a class war like never before.
Feature photo | Graphic by Antonio Cabrera for MintPress News
Raul Diego is a MintPress News Staff Writer, independent photojournalist, researcher,
writer and documentary filmmaker.
This is highly relevant critique of Trump legal team. But what the author misses is the
systematic campaign of promoting mail-in ballots and enabling ballot harvesting fraud, which is
quite provable and which violated constitutions os several states in which it was practiced. For
example in Georgia the agreement was reached between the Secretary of State and Tracy Abrams, but
the secretary of State has no legal authority to change the state election laws, COVID or no
COVID.
Is not interruption in vote counting qualify as brazen interference? It was never explained.
Just swiped under the carpet. Does neoliberal Dems manipulations with mail-in ballots quality as
"brazen interference" ? i would say yes, it does, This is replica of Pendergast Political Machine
methods. Please note that I am not a Trump supporter. I actually consider both Trump and Biden to
be very similar abominations.
There is a lot of bad reporting in the media, but a lot of the blame rests on Trump, his
legal team and the magnitude, complexity and implausibility of their claims
Trump's lawyers spent a lot of time at the podium lecturing the media on their "fake"
reporting on the fraud claims. No doubt, after four years of mainstream media malpractice, they
have reason for making this claim.
However, the moralistic lecturing was myopic and counterproductive, simply because even
honest journalists (if there are any left) have been left with their heads spinning by the
quantity and magnitude of the claims the Trump administration is putting out there right
now.
Any honest person approaching the fraud claims without a pre-determined position on their
validity (something that is, unfortunately, all too rare) has inevitably been left feeling
overwhelmed and confused. There's just too much information. There are too many conflicting
claims. There isn't enough time to adjudicate each one of them properly. Not only is some
degree of media skepticism to be expected, it's actually the only responsible thing to
do , given the complexity and magnitude of the fraud claims, and the stakes at play.
One of the central claims being made by Trump's legal team is that there exists a vast
national and global conspiracy involving a network of shadowy electronic voting companies,
communist regimes, foreign dictators, vote routing, switching and deleting involving complex
algorithms, and the complicity of numerous Democratic governors and election officials. The
evidence proffered so far to support this claim is a single affidavit by an unnamed Venezuelan
official, and a number of non-specific allegations of data anomalies on election night.
Should we -- should the media -- simply assent to these claims, based solely upon the
heat of Sidney Powell's rhetoric, and a single affidavit? How seriously should we even take
them, given that the clock is ticking, and it is hard to imagine the Trump team actually
proving these allegations by the safe harbor deadlines, whether they are true or not?
How much effort should they expend chasing every new bone Sidney Powell and MAGA surrogates
throw their way?
"Dianne Feinstein's husband! George Soros! Scytl! German servers! Raids by U.S. military!
Spain! Hugo Chavez! Nancy Pelosi's chief of staff! Bill Gates! Cuba!" And so on and so
forth.
It's exhausting just trying to keep up. However you look at it, much of it is
extraordinarily confusing and, frankly, prima facie unbelievable. Of course, truth is
sometimes stranger than fiction. Powell could be right. But how likely is it that all
her increasingly wild allegations should come together just as she has laid them out? And how
surprised should we be that people outside the MAGA camp are skeptical?
3) The whole thing feels like intellectual blackmail
Rudy Giuliani complained that his team is preparing and presenting cases that would normally
take months, if not years to prepare and argue in normal circumstances. The media should give
them time to make their case, and wait for the evidence, he said.
But who's fault is this? The Trump administration had four years to investigate Dominion,
Smartmatic, and the dangers of electronic voting in general. They could have convened
bipartisan committees to investigate voter fraud and the vulnerabilities of these voting
machines.
In 2016, even after he won, Trump claimed that there were millions of fraudulent
votes. If he really believed that, why didn't he do something meaningful about it while he was
in office? Posting about it on Twitter doesn't count.
Sidney Powell has raised some good questions about electronic voting, if only that people
will readily believe wild claims of fraud using it. These questions should be pursued, however,
a few days ago, most of us had never even heard of Dominion, Smartmatic and Scytl, etc.
Now we're being told that we must simply believe Powell's theory that these companies stole the
election. Countless MAGA followers are posting that they are absolutely sure , without
the slightest shadow of a doubt, that Dominion is behind the electoral theft. This feels
mad.
"She's a competent lawyer!" her supporters say. "She's brilliant, she's honest! She's a
patriot!" Maybe she is all of these things, but I'm not going to make a judgment about the
outcome of a presidential election, or assent to a vast, complex, and highly implausible
theory, based upon such thin gruel.
I need time. I need evidence. I need witnesses and counter-witnesses, examined and
cross-examined. And being told by the MAGA crowd that I must assent to the theory, and to
declare certainty that an election is invalid and that a coup has been perpetrated,
without any of these, feels like intellectual blackmail.
The simple fact is, this process should not be happening under the gun like this. And
that's on Trump, not the media.
4) Trump's legal team is making an amateur error in its approach to convincing the
public
A thousand doubts does not constitute proof. Amateur debaters often fall into the trap of
trying to win a debate by listing as many arguments as they can come up with. The mistake is in
thinking that people are convinced by sheer quantities of evidence.
In reality, this almost always backfires. When you pound people over the head with argument
after argument, they tend to become confused, bewildered, and, in the end, resentful. They
resent not having the chance to really think through any one claim or argument in detail.
Inevitably they begin to suspect that you're just trying to pull a fast one on them. Usually,
they're right.
Trump and his legal team have fallen into this trap. At the press conference, they made
repeated reference to the "hundreds" of sworn affidavits they have gathered, and the large
number of their lawsuits. However, while hundreds of affidavits may be "evidence," in the legal
sense of the term, they do not amount to proof.
A journalist for The Blaze reviewed the affidavits filed in Michigan and noted that many of
them do not actually contain allegations of fraud. Instead, they often have to do with
circumstantial things, such as how GOP challengers felt they were being "treated" by election
officials, or described "fraudulent" behavior that could plausibly be interpreted as election
officials following normal procedures that GOP challengers simply failed to understand.
Maybe some of the affidavits obtained by Trump's legal team contain slam-dunk proof of
widespread fraud, but if they do, they are being lost in the noise.
Expert debaters know that the best way to win an argument is to select only the very
best arguments, and to focus on those. If you go for quantity of evidence, inevitably you
will include low quality evidence in your arguments. Your audience, which is not so much
weighing each piece of evidence (an impossible task), as whether you are the sort of person who
should be trusted, will often only remember your bad or weak arguments. The result is
that they will write off everything else you say, as coming from a fundamentally unreliable
source.
Trump and his surrogates have raised important questions about election integrity.
Unfortunately, however, they have also repeated and promoted numerous false claims. Starting on
election night, Trump began retweeting every claim of fraud that came across his Twitter feed,
without any effort to fact check them. Many of them have subsequently been proven to be
baseless.
It should come as no surprise that those who are not already on board the Trump Train are
reacting to each new claim made by Trump with deep skepticism. The tragedy is that some
of these claims may be valid. However, Trump's carelessness with the truth has fatally undercut
his ability to lead a productive inquiry into voter fraud.
5) The fraud 'investigation' is being conducted ass-backwards
Trump, his legal team, and MAGA supporters all began with the conviction that the
election was stolen. Then, they went in search of the proof.
People are skeptical of the effort, because that's the worst possible way to go about an
investigation. The point of conducting an investigation is that you do not know the answer. You
have a hypothesis or a suspicion, but not proof.
The Trump admin has, from the very beginning, claimed absolute certitude. Unfortunately,
this isn't just bad epistemology, it's also insanely reckless, since, by definition, the very
claim calls into doubt the very existence of democracy in America.
The word " coup " is being tossed around by MAGA followers carelessly. To say that's
a loaded word is an understatement. But Trump and his team have left themselves no escape
route. Even if incontrovertible evidence shows up at some point that the election was not
stolen, a significant portion of the MAGA crowd will always believe that it was. At this point,
there is nothing that could convince them otherwise.
Clearly, having a large body of citizens who believe that their government is illegitimate
comes with potentially catastrophic unforeseen consequences. Nobody in the Trump administration
or MAGA crowd seems to be giving any thought to this. Damn the torpedoes.
Given that it's Trump, we can expect him to throw out outrageous claims without making any
real effort to determine if they're really true. However, it is our responsibility to
prioritize truth over political expediency. Whatever our political affiliations, our duty is to
investigate with indifference to the outcome, rather than seeking ways to substantiate
our personal preferences. When faced with a choice between truth and winning, choose truth,
every time.
6) The U.S. electoral system is a mess
Rudy Giuliani has at least this much right. The evidence Giuliani and his team have
collected of conflicting processes and procedures around the country, the reports of
irregularities, the evidence of actual fraud, and the ongoing efforts of Democrats to push less
secure voting methods, may not be sufficient to actually overturn the result. But it absolutely
is sufficient to suggest that the whole system is a mess, and vulnerable to
exploitation.
While I believe the odds of Trump's fraud claims leading to the election being overturned
are slim (although I am keeping an open mind on the question), we can at least hope that the
whole sordid episode leads to some serious and much-needed bipartisan electoral reform, so that
this does not happen again.
But in the end, that's only going to happen if cooler heads prevail, and reckless rhetoric
only leads the country down a dark road of further division and strife.
John Jalsevac is
currently working towards a PhD in philosophy. Prior to grad school, he worked for over a
decade as a journalist, editor, and pro-life activist. His previous journalism and creative
writing have appeared in The Public Discourse, Gilbert! Magazine, Dappled Thing, LifeSiteNews,
and others.
The "conspiracy" gets more interesting the more deeply you look into it. For
instance :
A government body exists that certifies voting machines and software as being 'okay to
use' by individual states. There's a voluntary aspect to this, I believe -- states can choose
to ignore the certification, yeah? But that doesn't matter, because the conspiracy is about
Dominion , and Dominion was certified safe.
And this means that potentially complicit in the communist/globalist/Soros conspiracy to
overthrow Trump are:
* Dominion, obvs.
* Those heads of state that okayed the use of Dominion machines (possibly)
* Those members of that government body most directly responsible for repeatedly certifying
Dominion products
* The laboratory (Wyle, almost always) which repeatedly tested and cleared Dominion
products
And if Wyle is itself on the take from communists/globalists/Soros, shouldn't we
reasonably assume that every other voting product they've tested and cleared is
therefore suspect?
And if that election commission is on the take from communists/globalists/Soros, mustn't
we assume that they are only certifying voting products which serve their agenda?
And should we not question those most responsible for advancing the responsible parties in
that commission to their present exalted state?
And what of Wyle's owners? (National Technical Systems) Should we not be
particularly concerned by their voluntary acquisition of a laboratory group that
exists as a tool of communists/globalists/Soros and sways elections on their behalf?
We need a public hearing all right. Like Watergate. Reminds me of when Sam Ervin said the
telephone is the instrument of the devil. Wiser words I cannot think of.
Every precinct in the United States uses a paper trail to ensure results can be audited.
Every single vote cast involves a piece of paper with voter selections on it. In Georgia,
where Dominion systems were used, the hand audit produced virtually identical results. That
was a full hand recount. If the tally machines were switching votes, even a partial audit
would pick up on that immediately.
Very good article here, and does a good job explaining why so many of us have trouble
taking the claims of fraud seriously. Especially given Trump's long estrangement with truth
generally, and his tendency to promote conspiracy theories, especially those which stand to
benefit him if believed (see QAnon.)
The issues with electronic voting machines have been known for years, and I've seen the
case made convincingly by commentators left, right, and center. I'm certainly glad to have
cast a paper ballot in the last election, as everyone in my state does. Hopefully a silver
lining from this mess will be the adoption of more robust paper balloting systems
nationwide.
Everybody casts a paper ballot in one way or another. In the few places that have voting
machines (and I think it's very few honestly), a paper ballot is generated for auditing
purposes.
Per my understanding, electronic voting machines are fairly widespread and fall into
several categories. While some states do require a paper ballot to be generated for auditing
purposes, there are some states like Kentucky and Indiana that have direct electronic voting
without that capability. It is worth noting that none of those states are the swing states
now in contention though, and that they are invariably red states.
My jurisdiction briefly switched to all-electronic machines, then quickly returned to the
paper ballots read by optical scanning device . . . a much better system.
"The mistake is in thinking that people are convinced by sheer quantities of
evidence."
It works for the democrats, that all they ever do is 'level charges without evidence' in the
MSM, and where Tucker was attempting to take Ms. Powell and it seems your on board like all
the other conservatives tell us, we have to accept Biden, while we look into voting
irregularities and fraud, sometime in the future [post GA's Jan 5th 2nd electronic vote
steal].
I am going to eschew the question about Mr. Carlson and Ms Powell ----
But your observations about what works is accurate. It's a tactic that does work. It works
for prosecutors How do you get 50 million people to believe the Russians actually invaded
election boards and their processes across the country.
And yet, here we have vast irregularities in differing parts of the country. I think there
is a case for fraud, but whether or not that is demonstrated, there is clearly a case for an
audit on both machines and mail in ballots. and there absolutely needs to be an audit of
votes to registered voters and no one needs to a HS diploma to comprehend that it's near
impossible for all mail in ballots to be for x candidate and less than a 6th grade education
to know that if you have 2000 registered voters or even a population of 2000 that the total
number of votes is never going to exceed 100% -- if it does, there's serious problem.
What, no comment forthcoming from you about the terrible, awful, totally crooked election
that happened in 2016, with millions and millions of fraudulent votes--- that Trump never
looked into? In 4 years? At all?
Until he lost this election? He's been whining about how this election was going to be
rigged, couldn't he have skipped a few golf games to actually look into it before it reared
its ugly head and kicked him out of the White House? Sure, sure.
One thing that seems to have gotten lost in the fog--and that definitely got lost
by this author--is that Giuliani and Powell are working on effectively two separate cases.
Both are working for Trump, and both are working against Biden et al with regards to this
election, but there is a clear line of demarcation between the two. Powell's focus is
primarily, if not solely, on Dominion and the electronic case, while Giuliani's primary focus
is on alleged physical fraud.
It makes no sense to assume that Powell's investigation should have begun four years ago,
and then use that as a basis to sneer, as this author does, at Giuliani--whose investigation
could not possibly have begun before November 4--for complaining about having to compress a
type of investigation that typically takes years into less than a month.
I'm not sure what Powell has. Some of the anomalies she has obliquely referred to are
already out there, if you look for them, and they are indeed suspicious (e.g. successive
batches of votes, often 10 or more in a row, all with the exact same ratio of Biden-to-Trump
votes--a statistical, if not literal, impossibility). However, it doesn't look like those
would be enough to swing the election, because even in her telling, if the race had been
closer, the Dominion irregularities would not have been discovered at all. The electronic
interference was significant, but it wasn't what made the difference.
The meat of this case, with the potential to flip the results, lies with old fashioned
physical fraud--ballot-manufacturing and box-stuffing--and Giuliani's mad scramble to find
enough evidence in time.
My gut says he won't make it.
There are very strong indications that what Giuliani and the Trump team suspect did indeed
happen. Most notable is the Democrats' brazen interference with GOP poll-watchers in multiple
states; it is inexplicable if they did not have something to hide. But by the same token,
that very interference successfully hid whatever it was that they did, and because of that,
they have already gotten away with it--the evidence that Giuliani needs is gone forever.
The room is filled with smoke, but the fire has already been extinguished--and without the
fire, Trump can't win.
"The mistake is in thinking that people are convinced by sheer quantities of
evidence."
Evidence, philosophically, is something that is true. If I have an apple in my hand and I
reach out and drop it, I can truthfully tell you that it will fall towards the ground. It is
evidence of the existence of gravity. I can't see gravity. But I can see the apple fall (and
anything else I drop). So can everyone in the world.
An affidavit is not evidence. It is a statement that someone is claiming is true. The
statement may or may not be true. So a lot of affidavits is not a "sheer quantity of
evidence". It's not evidence at all. Trump supporters need to understand that. And this is
why Trump continues to have these court cases thrown out: he is not presenting any real
evidence of fraud. Why? Because there isn't any.
You've got this wrong because your definition of evidence is wrong. An affidavit IS
evidence.The truthfullness or importance of it is something decided in court. It is evidence
just much as a fingerprint at a crime scene is evidence. The relevance of the fingerprint
evidence still has to be determined in court.
What's most obvious to me is that the lawyers making these far-fetched claims didn't
themselves believe the claims. The effort was geared to flood the zone, so to speak, to
create confusion and doubt resulting in state legislatures stepping in to settle electoral
vote allocations.
Sowing doubt this way might be acceptable in criminal court, where defense lawyers are trying
to establish reasonable doubt, however, here the objective should be to determine what
happened, and not inventing things that might have happened.
Soros, Chavez, Spain and communists? I believe the term is "jumping the shark."
Mr. Jalsevac confuses two different facts under heading no. 6, "The U.S. electoral system
is a mess." (1) The US electoral system is not a genuine system at all but an aggregate of
electoral systems that vary by state and even by county. (2) Some of these systems are
untrustworthy. It is clear that the second fact is cause for concern and in need of remedy.
It is not so clear that the first one is. The diversity of electoral systems is a feature
that contributes to the difficulty of manipulating national electoral results. It is the
chief reason why the Trump team has had to resort to grotesque conspiracistic fantasies to
maintain its claim that Trump is the legitimate winner.
"Durable, hand marked paper ballots must be established as the national standard for
democratic elections in the United States. While using paper may sound antiquated, the
consensus among election security experts is that nothing else provides the needed
reliability,security, and transparency. Durable, voter marked paper ballots are appropriate
technology for public elections....Hand Counted Paper Ballots are considered the 'Gold
Standard' of democratic elections"~ National Election Defense Coalition
https://www.electiondefense...
Are there any electronic voting machines in Team D-controlled states? How did they get
there? Did they sneak in across the border? Which political party held the presidency from
2008-2016? Were they pushing relentlessly for paper ballots, hand counted in public? For that
matter, following the 2016 election, I heard lots of conspiracy theory talk from Team D, but
little in the way advocating for paper ballots, hand-counted in public.
The Senate report was long on words, light on specifics. Great, if continuing a new cold
war is your objective. Note that the House did not impeach on that basis, after two years and
change of promising russiagate bombshells that never came.
According to this article, there are 8 states still using voting machines that produce no
paper trail. It's not a long article, but I extracted this list:
"eight states that will use some form of paperless voting in 2020: Texas, Louisiana,
Tennessee, Mississippi, Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky and New Jersey. "
There have been Democrats complaining about electronic voting machines for at least the
last 20 years. You're a bit late to the party, but you're welcome to join. Our democracy
works best when citizens are willing to work together toward goals on which they agree,
regardless of whether or not they agree on all goals.
I would also be glad to see bipartisan electoral reform, but only if includes measures
taken to protect votes before the actual voting starts. Some of the voter suppression
measures we.ve
seen in the last few years are:
- Purging of voter rolls near an election to keep voters from having a chance to vote
- Implementing postal procedures to reduce the speed of mail delivery to make it more
difficult to vote by mail
- Removing mail sorting machines and post office drop boxes to make it more difficult to vote
by mail
- Reducing the number of polling sites in areas populated by the other political party to
complicate voting in person
- Rejecting mailed in ballots because trivial differences in the signature, such as a missing
middle initial.
All of the Republican handwringing about "voter fraud" in the election seems to boil down
to complaints that the judges stopped their efforts to steal the election. Some of that gets
dressed up with pontification about the importance of the credibility of the election. The
credibility of an election is supremely important, but voter suppression damages that
credibility as much as voter fraud.
I noticed you did not mention the Ramsland affidavit in your discussion of the competence
of Trump's legal team. The affidavit attempts to identify areas in Michigan in which more
votes were cast than the number of registered voters. Unfortunately, all the examples
provided were in Minnesota. That does not suggest thorough research. In addition, the areas
listed in the affidavit tend to be in very Republican areas of Minnesota, suggesting that any
voter fraud may be as likely to be Republican as it is to be Democratic.
"Keeping copies of the physical ballots does nothing to assuage these concerns"
I disagree. Here in Michigan we do regular hand checks of randomly chosen scanners, and of
all of them if any problem arises. It has been remarkably accurate in my town.
The opposite of such scanning is prolonged counting, by fallible humans some of them
partisan and fighting with other partisans. I don't see advantage there.
But yes, hacking of any electronic device is a monster problem, and must be addressed by
regular and randomized physical confirmation, just as is done with any quality control
issue.
To be effective against fraud the count needs to be compelled by law and done on a truly
random sampling of ballots until statistical near-certainty of the result through
hand-counting alone is achieved, falling back to a count of all ballots if the election is
close.
Optional procedures executed in creative ways by goofy partisans is what "regular hand
checks" sounds like to me, though I may be wrong.
I agree it's not worthless to save the ballots, and I'd even agree with you far enough to
disagree with the author and say it's possible to design a good manual-check procedure. But I
read what he said as a simplification of the truth: in 2016 there was so much sillyness in
the law and the implementation of recount procedures that it'd be better if the machines
weren't there at all, and I doubt that's changed.
When it is close, we by law have an automatic 100% recount of machine scanned ballots by
hand. That is what was done in 2016. That was discontinued by agreement of both political
parties after the initial round of those counts showed zero error. Zero. By agreement. Thus,
it can be done. But you are correct about the sampling idea, and the need for uniform
enforceable law on the matter.
Now we're being told that we must simply believe Powell's theory that these companies
stole the election.
No, you must either do your own investigating to try and ascertain the truth, (which NO
media outlet seems to be doing) or keep an open mind that Powell will be able to prove what
she says. Powell is not some two-bit lawyer. She's a seasoned federal prosecutor putting a
lot on the line in making these claims. Grant her a modicum of respect in entertaining the
possibility that she can back up what she says.
Also, the Trump campaign has filed exactly 3, and now 4 lawsuits - not 30-something as is
continually and falsely reported and regurgitated by the media. The other lawsuits are by
supporters and allies, but not Trump's lawyers. Yes, it's hard to keep up, but YOUR JOB is to
at least try. Thank you.
I suggest young Master Jalsevac spend a couple of years living in one of our fine major
cities to see how things really are run outside of political philosophy books.
One of the oddest things about this is that in the past, particularly in 2004, many
Democrats charged that the Republicans had stolen the election, particularly in Ohio. Google:
2004 election stolen. You will find a lot of hits. Does anyone remember Diebold voting
machines? Are they still in use? Were they manipulated on behalf of Republicans, then or
later? I have no idea. But I want to make a few points: 1. Liberals have at times complained
loudly about stolen elections and the ease of manipulating electronic results by various
Republican-connected people. 2. Whether these were true or not have they ever been
sufficiently investigated? 3. Why, now is it only a vast liberal conspiracy that is alleged
to exist, and not perhaps the still existing conservative conspiracy from 2004? In November
2005 Mother Jones reviewed a book, Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election &
Why They'll Steal the Next One Too
The voting machine division of Diebold was taken over by Dominion Voting Systems. That's
the easiest conspiracy theory in history. The real question, if you want to believe, is why
the Republicans sold their election-stealer to the Democrats.
"In other words, Plaintiffs ask this Court to disenfranchise almost seven million voters.
This Court has been unable to find any case in which a plaintiff has sought such a drastic
remedy in the contest of an election, in terms of the sheer volume of votes asked to be
invalidated. One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would
come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant
corruption, such that this Court would have no option but to regrettably grant the proposed
injunctive relief despite the impact it would have on such a large group of citizens.
That has not happened. Instead, this Court has been presented with strained legal
arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and
unsupported by evidence. In the United States of America, this cannot justify the
disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated
state. Our people, laws, and institutions demand more. At bottom, Plaintiffs have failed to
meet their burden to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. Therefore, I grant
Defendants' motions and dismiss Plaintiffs' action with prejudice."
You know, this kind of reasonable and thoughtful writing is why, as a liberal, I like
coming over here to the dark side of town to see what's going on. Even while struggling to
present an open mind, he admits to being buried in the silliness of it all. A good read. Not
surprised to see all these calls for crucifixion in the comments.
You know, this kind of reasonable and thoughtful writing .......
It is neither reasonable or thoughtful. It pretends to be condemning the defense while
pretending that they would otherwise have a case. And he is refusing to acknowledge that the
why Trump has to turn to Rudy - his last resort - is because the reputable lawyers he had on
his team are refusing to make bogus claims in court; to be fair, so does Rudy, but he is
willing to make them to the press and they are not.
Even while struggling to present an open mind, he admits to being buried in the
silliness of it all.
You are doing what Liberals so often do. They are so hungry for a Republican who is not
calling them names and willing to admit that Trump is at fault, that they completely miss the
point that the "admission" is trying to make. When Comey admitted that Hillary Clinton
omitted no indictable offense, they praised him for his "fairness". But he was not being fair
at all. He would have to be an evil crook to indict the nominee of one of our major parties
when he knew she could not be convicted. But he broke every rule of propriety and launched
into a condemnation that handed Trump what he needed to win the election. So this writer
admitted that Trump is making no case . So what? You seem to have missed the
fact that he is falsely claiming that Trump does have case to make. And that
claim is utterly baseless!
I am not a partisan. I detest political parties. But I also detest seeing partisans
complimented for being non-partisan for simply not being on the raving extreme of their
party. It lowers the standard of what it beings to be non-partisan. Non-partisan means to
make judgements consistently on principle, applying the same standards to everyone. I expect
that many Republicans will read my post and conclude that I am being partisan - because that
is taken nowadays to mean "condemns my party". But I get accused just as often by Democrats
to being a Republican, so that is alright with me. But in so far as this particular quarrel
is concerned, President Trump has no case at all. The Pennsylvania elections were run be
declared Republicans. Prominent Republicans, and they gave both Republican Senators more
votes. They counted the legal votes as they were cast. They ran a fair, honest and honorable
election!
Thanks for the magnificent reply, 414 words, all thoughtful. You may have me there in your
sterner criticism of Rod's equivocation about Trump, but consider the audience, after all. As
for being a liberal hungry for a conservative who is not an asshole, guilty as charged. You
make a good point that Rod still seems still to yearn for Trump to have a case to make and
that is true, but I think Rod is fairly conflicted in this and other conundrums conservatives
must find themselves as the whole enterprise sinks into hopelessness and tawdry hopelessness
at that. It is a hard row to hoe, after all. I never said he was non-partisan, just a poor
conservative religious guy trying to make his way in the difficult world while continuing to
try to be a decent man. It is what is endearing about his writing to me sometimes. But I
thank you for this response, it shows both feeling and intelligence.
He said the lawsuit he filed yesterday as a citizen of Fulton county, GA can be copied,
names and dates changed and then filed by every other citizen of Fulton county, GA too.
Unfortunately IMHO, the Kraken was either a careless misspeak or a bluff to shake the
trees to see if a whistleblower would fall out. If the later, it failed. If the former, I am
inclined to give Sidney a break. She has done yeoman's work for Flynn. And so the Kraken
seems destined to remain a creature of Scandinavian lore and Hollywood movies. I wish it were
not so. The Dominion software apparently is easily hacked and allows votes to be directly
manipulated without a trace. Hard to make a case without an audit trail. I wonder whether the
outcry from MAGA supporters will be sufficient to encourage states to choose a more secure
vendor or will Dominion still be in widespread use during the midterms? Kemp, Raffensberger
and company should be ridden out of GA on a rail after a good tar and feathering. Other
states have their own corrupt actors who should receive the same consideration. They all have
sold us out -- if the Dems take the Senate, even to slavery under socialism -- for 30 pieces
of silver. As for Kemp and Raffensberger, in a different age I might have suggested an
appointment with a high, sturdy branch in one of GA's many 100 plus years old live oaks.
As I listened to Lin's interview today I tho't that there must be something in the
Southern water. Both he and Sidney have that Southern drawl. Very genteel, polished and
extremely intelligent.
I am a very brave soul, but I don't think I would want to go up against either of them in
a court of law. 🙂
I forget who it was, either Lou or Tucker, that ended their interview telling Sidney half
jokingly to remember to lock her doors at night.
Please remember to PRAY God's protection for this wonderful woman!
When are they going to lay out the case? Lin Wood and Sidney have been making serious
statements. They have reputations beyond reproach. I believe them when they say they have the
goods. It's like they have to get the election called for Trump or they will surely be
political prisoners.
IF you watch the movie "Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections"* you will see
that a steal was supposed to happen in Florida that day and it got thwarted, before it got
started,
PLUS, they didn't have the mail in ballot scheme in place yet to back up their theft back
then. China Virus was their plandemic to make that happen, and to get the cash from the Care$
Act to get machines for everyone.
*"(2020)From voter registration to counting ballots, data security expert Harri Hursti
examines how hackers can influence and disrupt the U.S. election system."
Love Sidney Powell but that interview did not give me a lot of confidence. I sure hope she
has some solid evidence. Doesn't sound like she has much though. Don't have much time
left.
Biggest heist in the history of the US and nothing can be done about it is sickening. Barr
and Wray should be ashamed of themselves for letting something like this happen on their
watch. They did nothing. Thanks to them the constitution is now worth nothing. The rights are
gone. Law and order is gone. We are on our own.
How do Barr and Wray even look at themselves in the mirror?
Finally, I found out from this interview where I could send money to support this legal
effort. I'm tired of the RNC doing nothing. Sidney Powell will get my direct support now.
DefendingtheRepublic.org – is the right place.
At this point, the Trump administration has filed so many lawsuits, with so many affidavits,
and has made such far-reaching claims of fraud, that it's nearly impossible to sort through
them to know what, if anything, has actually been proven . However, one thing they
certainly have shown, beyond any reasonable doubt, is that electronic voting is a terrible
idea.
Notice, I do not say that anybody has proven that any fraud actually took place using
electronic voting machines in the 2020 election. They haven't. Sidney Powell has presented many
troubling questions about the vulnerabilities of electronic voting machines. As of yet,
however, we have no hard evidence that anybody actually exploited those vulnerabilities (if
they exist).
This is a distinction that many Trumpists are unfortunately failing to make. Casting broad
doubts about the security of voting machines does not prove that the election was stolen. Such
doubts, even if they turn out to be well-founded, will almost certainly be insufficient to
convince any judge to invalidate a single vote, let alone overturn the entire election
result.
If you don't have time to watch a 25 minute video, here is text explaining it (this is not a
transcript of the video).
1 – SUMMARY –
This report summarizes the results of our review of the GEMS election management system,
which counts approximately 25 percent of all votes in the United States. The results of this
study demonstrate that a fractional vote feature is embedded in each GEMS application which can
be used to invisibly, yet radically, alter election outcomes by pre-setting desired vote
percentages to redistribute votes. This tampering is not visible to election observers, even if
they are standing in the room and watching the computer. Use of the decimalized vote feature is
unlikely to be detected by auditing or canvass procedures, and can be applied across large
jurisdictions in less than 60 seconds.
GEMS vote-counting systems are and have been operated under five trade
names: Global Election Systems, Diebold Election Systems, Premier Election Systems, Dominion
Voting Systems, and Election Systems & Software, in addition to a number of private
regional subcontractors. At the time of this writing, this system is used statewide in Alaska,
Connecticut, Georgia, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Utah and Vermont, and for counties in
Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington,
Wisconsin and Wyoming. It is also used in Canada.
Instead of "1" the vote is allowed to be 1/2, or 1+7/8, or any other value that is not a
whole number.
What fractionalized votes can do:
They allow "weighting" of races. Weighting a race removes the principle of "one person-one
vote" to allow some votes to be counted as less than one or more than one. Regardless of what
the real votes are, candidates can receive a set percentage of votes. Results can be
controlled. For example, Candidate A can be assigned 44% of the votes, Candidate B 51%, and
Candidate C the rest.
The "Summary" vote tally, which provides overall election totals for each race on
Election Night
The "Statement of Votes Cast", which provides detailed results by precinct and voting
method (ie. Polling, absentee, early, provisional)
The "undervote" count
Fractions in results reports are not visible.Votes containing decimals are reported as whole
numbers unless specifically instructed to reveal decimals (which is not the default setting).
All evidence that fractional values ever existed can be removed instantly even from the
underlying database using a setting in the GEMS data tables, in which case even instructing
GEMS to show the decimals will fail to reveal they were used.
Source code : Instructions to treat votes as decimal values instead of whole numbers are
inserted multiple times in the GEMS source code itself; thus, this feature cannot have been
created by accident.
Fractionalizing the votes which create the Summary Results allows alteration of Election
Night Web results and results sent to the Secretary of State, as well as results available at
and local election officials.
Fractionalizing the "Statement of Votes Cast" allows an extraordinary amount of precision,
enabling alteration of results by specific voting machine, absentee batch, or precinct. Vote
results can be altered for polling places in predominantly Black neighborhoods, and can parse
out precincts within a mixed batch of early or absentee votes.
Fractionalizing the undervote category allows reallocation of valid votes into
undervotes.
Voting rights abomination
According to programmer notes, a weighted race feature was designed which not only gives
some votes more weight than others, but does so based on the voter's identity. Ballots are
connected to voters, weights are assigned to each voter per race, stored in an external table
not visible in GEMS. Our testing shows that one vote can be counted 25 times, another only one
one-thousandth of a time, effectively converting some votes to zero.
The study was prompted by two issues: (1) Anomalies in elections in Shelby County,
Tennessee, which uses the GEMS election management system, in which inconsistencies were
observed in reporting of results by GEMS; and (2) Concerns raised regarding the presence of
middlemen during the election process, such that a single individual gains remote access to the
election management program, in some cases in multiple jurisdictions.
The questions we examine are these:
Can election outcomes be controlled with enough versatility to allow a national impact? Does
any mechanism exist that would enable a political consultant or technician to capture elections
for repeat customers?
If the necessary features exist within the election management system to facilitate
this:
Were such features embedded accidentally or on purpose; for what stated purpose were such
features installed; if a reason was given, is that reason justifiable?
How might risks associated with inside access be mitigated?
Not sure if this passes ZH / United States Censors:
Newspaper research . . .
The Daley Machine was one of attraction, promotion, and fear. Votes were generally cast at
the Police Precincts. No one wants to go down to the Precinct; however, blocks of human
populations of neighborhoods are divided into, as some would designate, Precincts.
The Daley Machine was composed of neighborhoods with party member volunteer canvassers who
would distribute Voting Ballots to each address.
The Canvasser would wait for the Voting Ballot to be marked. Toe-tapping, fingertip tapping,
brow-beating the Voter to mark a Voting Ballot, then collect, and then all canvassed Voting
Ballots are aggregated to the Precincts. The bundles were twined. Twining is not a skill
nowadays, but boxing is. The aggregate would be delivered to giant warehouses for counting.
Seems all legitimate for the old ladies and old men volunteers who would not know who, which,
or where the bundle or now box originated. Simply Count. Innocent.
The problem is/was many canvassers are lazy or expedient or late. Laughable - some voted
multiple times, others dead, others gone, others - the newspapers sold much ink and paper for
the disclosed variety of . . . uh . . . diversity of Voting cheats.
Traditional ingrained / inculcated PSYOP: Each voter studies the candidates. Each voter
self-educates about a request/vote for action by government employees from Voters. After
contemplative pondering based on personal assessed facts and desires, intelligently marks the
ballot. Winners take all. And all congratulate the winners. Simple.
The Trumps were subject to massive, not fraud per se, but via hand held transceivers
canvassers were organized that actually did travel address to address and waited for the
occupant(s) to fill out the provided Voting Ballots.
With this toe-tapping, fingertip tapping, brow-beating and an sense of Hurry, canvassers
waited as those who had no intention of voting marked Voting Ballots with a marker - ink, etc.
And those who did not know were told to at least mark for the election of the President. The
completed Voting Ballots were boxed and shipped for counting. Is this legitimate - yes. Are
Voting Ballots properly filled - yes.
The Contemplative PSYSOP conflicts with Hurry-Up Reality. However, the Reality overrides the
PSYOPS because the acts are legitimate.
If Voting Ballots are proven Daley Ballots the Trumps are going to have a very difficult
time.
If Voting Ballots are proven not legitimate then the implication is the Entire United States
Federal, State, County, City, Town, Village Governments run by United States Federal, State,
County, City, Town, Village Government Employees are also not legitimate and Corrupt.
All United States Senate - not legitimate.
All United States House of Representatives - not legitimate.
All Executive Decisions and Bills signed in to USC Law - not legitimate.
All Supreme Court Decisions - not legitimate.
All Appointees by the Elected are not legitimate.
The entire United States Federal, State, County, City, Town, Village Government Employees
Elected and Appointed - not legitimate.
If United States President Trump "wins" Voting Fraud lawsuits, the Entire United States
Federal, State, County, City, Town, Village Governments run by United States Federal, State,
County, City, Town, Village Government Employees are not legitimate.
Rules, Regulations, Policies, Procedures, and Laws - all not legitimate.
The afore is exactly why all those previous Elected and Appointed are adamantly against
United States President Trump threatening the Foundations of the United States (corrupt)
Democratic Republic with Truth.
United States Citizens and Others who are now tensioned, aghast, constricted over farcical
sham Voting and Appointments would feel truly free, relieved, relaxed, and energized to
participate once again. For many: The Truth Shall Set U Free!
The Greatest Event in Human History to remember for most all Remaining Human Time on Planet
Earth is United States President Trump confirming what most people both United States Citizens
and Others in previous centuries decades and years come to understand, know, and realize:
Voting in the United States is a complete utter Farce and Fraud.
And, yes, United States President Trump would be remembered until the End of Time as the
Greatest United States President who ever lived.
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It's a disgrace how the COVID19 coup d'etat was designed to allow hordes to shop for
virtually anything at Costco et al or to riot and burn down cities but deemed it it too
dangerous for the people to stand in line to vote.
Michigan State Attorney General Dana Nessel has attributes of a Nazi. She, like Washington
Post columnist Randall D. Eliason, wants to falsely prosecute attorneys who represent those
making challenges to the election. She also wants to prosecute election officials who refuse to
certify until irregularities are properly dealt with, and she wants to prosecute Pennsylvania
Republican state officials who met with Trump at the White House. In other words, Dana Nessel
has proved herself unfit for any public office by her effort to weaponize law for her political
agenda.
Matthew Brann, a federal district judge appointed by Obama, refused to accept Giuliani's
lawsuit against the Pennsylvania election fraud. The judge was not content to deny the case a
hearing. He used the occasion for a propaganda attack, demonizing the lawsuit, based on
affidavits from witnesses who signed under penalty of perjury, as "speculative accusations
unsupported by evidence." The judge knows full well that affidavits are always evidence.
So we now have an Obama federal judge who for political purpose pretends to be thoroughly
ignorant of law and not know that affidavits signed under penalty of perjury are always
evidence.
Democrats, who share Dana Nessel's determination to weaponize law and destroy democracy, are
pushing Biden, if he becomes president, to prosecute Trump and his supporters. Rep. Bill
Pascrell, Democrat from New Jersey, declared that "Donald Trump along with his worst enablers
must be tried for their crimes against our nation and Constitution." If this sounds like a
South American banana republic, that is what the Democrats are turning us into.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/526978-biden-faces-politically-thorny-decision-on-trump-prosecutions
Attempting to prosecute Trump, of course, is what the Democrats have been doing for four
years with Russiagate and Impeachgate without any evidence. Clearly, the
Democrats envison a one-party state under them in which the abuse of law for political purpose
to which they are giving birth cannot, in turn, be used against them. The Democrats are
greasing the skids for America to become the most corrupt country on earth. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/11/22/the-dnc-an-american-politburo/
... ... ...
Americans are faced with a so-called Democrat political party that has abandoned America's
democratic ways. Democrats have made a power grab for ideological purposes that are hostile to
principles such as election integrity which is essential for democracy. Americans are also
faced with the absence of a media that serves as watchdog and reports objectively. Without
objective reporting, Americans are denied the information that democracy requires to function.
Instead, the media controls explanations for the Democrats that support the Democrats' power
grab. The picture is clear that both Democrats and media have abandoned democracy because
democracy is a check on their agenda. They value their agenda more than they value democracy,
and they are going to force their agenda down our throats whether we want it or not.
If the Democrats succeed with their theft, whatever is left of public confidence in American
institutions will evaporate. After Clinton's lies, 9/11, Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass
destruction, Assad's use of chemical weapons, Iranian nukes, Russian invasions, Russiagate,
Impeachgate, Covid, and now a stolen presidential election, confidence in government must be
close to nonexistent. When there is no confidence raw power takes over. If Democrats get away
with their theft of the election, we will have crossed the Rubicon.
Some say there has always been voter fraud in American elections and ask what is new this
time. What is new this time is election fraud on a national level with the appearance of a plot
to create a one-party state. What is new this time is the entirety of the media in support of
the party that committed the election fraud. What is new this time is the calls for prosecution
of members of the defrauded party. What we are witnessing is not only the suppression of
evidence but also the prosecution of those who present it.
Despite the evidence of election fraud, the Democrats have a good chance to succeed with
their theft. First of all, we all know that the media will not present the case against the
Democrats. The media will continue to deny that hundreds of affidavits are evidence. Most
Americans will never hear the story of the extraordinary audacity that stole a presidential
election.
Second, Trump is a populist, and few populists in America have ever succeeded at the
national level. Populists are in the way of the elite who have more money and more influence.
From the media's perspective, Trump's majority are "deplorables"–racists and misogynists
who must be overthrown. The fact that Trump is a Republican does not mean that he has the
support of the Republican Party. Republicans have just as many feet in the establishment as
Democrats have. To the establishment Trump is an outsider and, thereby, a potential threat to
their interest, just as his intention to normalize relations with Russia was seen by the
military/security complex as a threat to their budget and power.
The absence of any Republican Party support for Trump is obvious in the failure of the Barr
Justice Department to bring (1) any indictments against the government officials who
orchestrated the Russiagate hoax and committed federal felonies, (2) any indictments against
Biden and his son for the corruption evidenced in Hunter Biden's laptop in the hands of the
FBI, and (3) the lack of any Justice Department interest in obvious election fraud backed up by
hundreds of affidavits.
The Republican Establishment has hung Trump out to dry and is urging him to concede.
A minority of Republican voters themselves, although they regard the election as stolen,
nevertheless believe that Trump should concede and thereby preserve the undeserved reputation
of "American Democracy." These feeble-minded people think that it is not democracy itself that
is at risk, but America's reputation.
Over the course of my life I have watched the politicization of the federal judiciary.
Judges are no longer appointed because they are competent to interpret law according to the
intent of Congress and the Constitution. They are appointed according to whether they do or do
not support abortion, racial and gender quotas, homosexual marriage, open borders, amnesty for
immigrant-invaders, the globalist agenda, and so forth. The American judiciary is chosen
according to which party's agendas are ascendant. This is the way countries are destroyed.
Consider: if federal district judge Matthew Braun truly believed that Trump's legal team's
Pennsylvania lawsuit is invalid, the partisan judge would accept the case and let its falsity
be proven in court. What better way to dispose of the charge? That he closed the court to the
case despite majority opinion of the public that the election was stolen is proof that he knows
the lawsuit is grounded in evidence. So he suppresses the case instead of trying it.
When it is not only the Democrat Party and media who don't respect evidence but also federal
courts, the basis for evidence -based law no longer exists. Instead, law is based on power. Who
has power has the law.
The country that the Democrats and media are birthing will not know justice.
Banana republic. Funny you should mention that. The whole world came out with it at this
month's Universal Periodic Review of the US, the most public forum in the world (remember the
wall-to-wall press coverage of this vital gauge of US international standing?) Paraguay knows
their banana republics, and they were the ones to adjure US compliance with SDG 16. This is
the most halting, wobbly baby step of sustainable development: rock-bottom minimal
institutional integrity of key state institutions.
For years now, international forums have related to the US in more and more pointed
elaborations of "What the fuck is wrong with you people?" – aimed at the delegation
apparatchiks, not at the long-suffering population. Russia, with no fucks to give, pointed to
the underlying rot – CIA control of elections. (Thanks for that Wikileaks cable, by the
way.) Here's the facts from Hopsicker and his monster stones (he got a visit from them, he's
so balls-out)
At some point Sidney has to switch from Chavez euphemisms to the direct bill of indictment
against CIA. That will be a very touchy moment in the Supreme Court. If it doesn't go just
right, all nine hacks will wind up sporting matching petechiae at Cibolo Creek Ranch.
This creature is a sociopath. She is a direct descendant of the ethnic clique which
murdered the Tsar and his children during the Bolshevik revolution. She has in mind the same
thing for us.
@nickels
e result is a devastating social incoherence. If enough people recognize this to form a
critical mass a culture crisis breaks out. And that's the position we're in. From this
perspective their rhetorical mask is a small band-aid on a gaping wound that won't heal
because it can't stop bleeding.
Their efforts to establish a society free of control and sustained by force only
increases the uncontrolled exercise of naked power. And that force, constantly applied,
destablizes the very social institutions that power controls . Especially economic
institutions. And when force fails there's no alternative. So the whole thing collapses. In
fact, it already is.
I researched the federal docket system PACER and deduced a possible reason The Trump
Campaign distanced from Sidney Powell.
Attorney Powell is pursing Dominion's election corruption on a systemic level. This is a
wide and far investigation with many moving parts: the software flipping votes, international
actors, connections to Kamal Harris's husband.
Attorneys Jenna Ellis and Rudy Giuliani must frantically laser focus on state election
official's certification of 7 million votes in PA and before the December 14 when the
Electoral College convenes.
Judge Brann, the repellent obese hack appointed by Obama but who is a Republican , did
exactly as Mr. Robert's aptly stated and amazingly ruled on substantive issues when only
procedural ones were being presented at that time.
Because of Judge Brann's ruling dismissing (and demonizing and ridiculing) the complaint ,
Trumps's lawyers have filed an Expedited Emergency Motion for Leave to the Amend the
Complaint to the 3rd Circuit.
This is just a way of saying: Let us present our evidence!
If the 3rd Circuit affirms Brann's dismissal- the Supreme Court is next step.
If SCOTUS denies review (which is most likely) that's the last Stop.
Democrats imitating the 1918 Bolsheviks power grab in Russia but naively hopping in
bloodless version of the coup unlike Bolsheviks. Ironically the main players are from the
same brethren Lenin, Trotsky, Sverdlov, Kamenev, Zinoviev = Schumer, Nadler, Schiff, Soros,
Bloomberg.
@Franz
he plutocrats have more money than the politicians – 'the vote' counts for nothing.
Which is to say that to all intents and purposes, there is no 'vote' and thus, there is no
'check on government power'. The oligarchy wishes to implement – and therefore demands
– what we might call 'Agenda A', and thus, at all elections in the entire West today,
the hapless 'voters' are given the choice of electing 'Agenda A' in a red rosette, or 'Agenda
A' in a blue rosette.
This is our much vaunted 'democracy and it stinks. The moment that the merchant became
wealthier than the king – once the counting-house had more money than the palace
– the people's fate was sealed.
This is an excellent article. I agree with Paul Craig Roberts that the federal judiciary
has become heavily politicized. I also agree that if Trump's case is so weak, Matthew Braun
should have heard the case and let its falsity be proven in court.
As a woman, I'm beginning to think we need 100 years in the penalty box for producing
these creatures. Maybe we should reconsider the 19th amendment. Lol
When it is not only the Democrat Party and media who don't respect evidence but also
federal courts, the basis for evidence -based law no longer exists. Instead, law is based
on power. Who has power has the law.
The country that the Democrats and media are birthing will not know justice. https://www.unz.com/proberts/democrats-and-media-abandon-democracy/
That's about as basic as things get. Institutional integrity of key state institutions has
(as Roberts says) been lost, and in the 2020 Federal elections and current aftermath to same
this integrity loss has been used to threaten the general population.
This has been done before with the USSR and the CCP. But all one-party rule does is
place a rhetorical mask over the incompetence and corruption and does nothing to solve the
many problems involved in the exhausting task and unrewarding responsibility of social
management. It doesn't even work in homogenous cultures. How could it work in one as
diverse as the USA?
This is exactly why what we're really witnessing is nothing less than The Pyrrhic Victory
of The Hostile Elite. The reason is, though they may have been very good at infiltration,
subversion, radical ingratitude, insane hatred, brazen effrontery, shamelessness, betrayal,
destruction and death, they're no good at social management
. . .
Their efforts to establish a society free of control and sustained by force only increases
the uncontrolled exercise of naked power. And that force, constantly applied, destabilizes
the very social institutions that power controls. Especially economic institutions. And
when force fails there's no alternative. So, the whole thing collapses. In fact, it already
is.
All of the above is true, and the underlying thought has been known in the West and
repeatedly demonstrated for several thousand years. How, exactly, could these bedrock
principles have been abandoned? Let's look outside of political theory and history of
ideas.
Here's an earlier example of physical / economic events fundamentally changing political
thought: Nietzsche pointed out c.a. 1900 that industrialization had destroyed European
society. Religion died. ""God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we
comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?" Ideas previously considered speculative
and harmful had become mass beliefs as people moved from the farm to the city, found their
village life impossible to live in the city, and looked for a new way of life that would let
them eat and raise families. They found it in Enlightenment theory.
Here is our version of physical events changing political thought:
How many times are the soldiers better than the generals? More often than we think,
maybe.
Or as David Niven once famously said of Errol Flynn: "You could count on him. He ALWAYS let
you down."
Trump is still a mystery to plenty of people. If he's canny, why does he listen to Jared and
Ivanka? If he wanted normal relations with Russia, why didn't he grab the ball when Putin
literally tossed it to him? Why did he tolerate four years of hostile media when he had the
money, or at least the investors, to start a network of his own?
Nothing in the last four years makes any sense. Not one bit.
Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee who's grave I often visited in Greyfriars church
Edinburgh Scotland is reported to have said
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of
government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they
can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority
always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with
the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is
always followed by a dictatorship."
The ironic part in all this is that the Jews and the oligarchs think they will be the
beneficiaries of this collapse they have engineered , however they are in error. When law and
order breaks down the strong will prevail over wimps like Zuckerberg, Bezos, Gates etc and all
the rest of the spoiled virtue signalling wimps. The ex-military will become the strong and
they will start the destruction then re-building of what's left of White Western Civilization.
Maybe this time they will finally sort out Usury and what's left of the Jews, blacks and deny
any role in public life for women, I can but dream, but at 70 I will not be here to see it.
I live in Michigan. There was something very off putting about the 2018 Michigan
election. That election swept many extremists into office. Mostly women. How we get rid of them
is beyond me. Once these people get into office they seem to be firmly entrenched. No matter
how awful they are, they have an equally awful fan base.
I absolutely believe in election fraud, and Michigan 2018 was a perfect example. Yet, no one
has said a word. The population of Michigan will be further eroded because of the political
climate in this state.
Michigan State Attorney General Dana Nessel has attributes of a Nazi. She, like Washington
Post columnist Randall D. Eliason, wants to falsely prosecute attorneys who represent those
making challenges to the election. She also wants to prosecute election officials who refuse
to certify until irregularities are properly dealt with, and she wants to prosecute
Pennsylvania Republican state officials who met with Trump at the White House.
You cannot abandon something you don't have. The US was not a democracy for decades, if it
ever was. Western media have declined in quality over the last ~30 years, from something
palatable representing different viewpoints to today's monolith with uniformity of "opinions"
matched only in Hitler's Germany in 1930s and Stalin's USSR in the same period.
Although the technology used in voting continues to evolve, it remains vulnerable to both malicious and unintentional errors. To
protect the systems against both, explains
Douglas
W. Jones
, a computer scientist at the University of Iowa and co-author of the book
Broken
Ballots
,
election
officials need to be able to check and double-check the election's results.
"There's a nice dictum that that [computer scientist and electronic-voting-security researcher]
David
Dill
came up with at Stanford University: if we do it right, the Devil himself could build the voting machines, and we could
hold an honest election," Jones says. "And doing it right means having genuinely auditable technology -- with ballots where the
average voter knows that the marks they made on their ballot express their real intent."
Scientific
American
spoke with Jones about how voting machines work, their vulnerabilities, and what to expect on and after Election
Day.
[
An
edited transcript of the interview follows
.]
What kinds of machines are in use across the U.S. today?
We've gotten rid of the punch card and mechanical lever voting machines. Those are now not so ancient history. What we're left
with are two categories of voting machines, both of which were introduced in the 1960s and 1970s. Optical scan voting machines
are the ones that are closely related to standardized test scoring machines, where you fill in a bubble on the ballot next to the
candidate names. Those are, at this point, the most widely used voting technology in the U.S. The other category we have are the
direct-recording electronic voting machines. The first of those was actually deployed in the 1970s in Illinois, but the vast
expansion in the use of those machines happened after the Help America Vote Act was passed in 2002. It's very clear [that] the
authors of the Help America Vote Act anticipated that direct-recording electronic voting machines would become the new normal.
But, in fact, they were extraordinarily problematic for security reasons.
A fundamental flaw of direct-recording voting machines -- that is, ones where you pull the lever on an old mechanical machine or you
touch the touch screen on a modern one -- all of those machines end up being completely impossible to audit. There's no way to know
whether the machine was honest or not, short of taking it apart and actually being able to inspect the mechanism. We have no good
way of doing that with software. The complete lack of any auditable record of the count, so that you had to completely trust
programmers, was a real problem. [But] the vast majority of votes in the U.S. today are being recorded on paper ballots that are
filled in by hand. That makes me feel reasonably good. And furthermore, a growing number of states have some kind of an audit
law.
This is an old rule in computer security that I first learned in the 1970s, no less true today. And that is: the biggest threat
to all of our systems is not the malicious outside hacker but rather the fact that there are lots of perfectly honest normal
people making errors. We humans have an amazing ability to be remarkably accidentally inventive with the mistakes we make. With
fill-in-the-bubble ballots, a typical error would be printing the ballot with the candidates in one order but programming the
scanner with the candidates in a different order. There was a famous incident of this happening [in] Pottawattamie County,
[Iowa], in 2006 in its June primary. The net result was that the numbers that came up were pretty nonsensical and bore no
relationship with anyone's expectation of the outcome of the race. The election officials noticed. They did a hand count, and
that completely resolved the problem. And they could because they had paper ballots.
In-person voters can feed their paper ballots directly into a scanner to be automatically counted. But how are absentee ballots
tallied up?
Late into the night on Election Night, at the election office, they've been counting absentee ballots all day, piling them up and
putting them through high-speed scanners that scan 800 ballots per minute -- speeds like that. Some jurisdictions have automatic
envelope openers where you just take a whole stack of absentee ballot envelopes, stack them up neatly, put them in the machine,
and it goes up and takes a sixteenth of an inch off the edge of each envelope so that the ballots can easily be shaken out of the
envelopes. You have signature-verification software being used by some jurisdictions, where the envelope gets sucked into the
machine, put in front of a camera, and the signature is -- either by software or displayed on someone's remote computer
screen -- checked. These actually resemble very closely the
machinery
used by the Post Office
for automatically reading mail addresses, except the purpose is to verify the signature. And that's
another whole can of worms, because in many cases, none of our laws really govern how we check signatures. It turns out that the
mathematics of signature acceptance and rejection ends up being horrible. If you reject any signatures, chances are you're
rejecting more signatures of honest, valid voters than you are catching invalid signatures.
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Does the counting process continue after Election Day?
We have long-standing traditions of things like a postmark deadline on the eve of the election. That's how it's been in Iowa for
as long as I've been here. So for the week after the election, late mail is still dribbling into the election office -- and all
those late envelopes are checked for their postmarks and, if the postmarks are acceptable, counted. Now there's a problem there,
as the Post Office, over the past few decades, has been reducing the frequency with which it applies postmarks of any kind to
letters. Yet the Post Office does automatically bar code every envelope that goes through its scanners these days. The Post
Office has the records to tell you when that bar code was applied. Its computer system is really good at this, but it's not
acceptable under some state laws. So postmark deadlines are a real problem because the Post Office has reduced the extent to
which classical postmarks are still used.
There's this period after the election during which the counts are checked and cross-checked, [a process called the
canvass
].
For example, in Miami, they have this giant spreadsheet showing one column for each candidate for each office; one row for each
precinct. After they had all those data, then they would go through the tapes printed out by the voting machines at the
precinct -- the summary tapes that showed the total number of votes -- and they would compare it with that spreadsheet for the purpose
of ruling out any error in their central tabulating software because there have been such errors. This can take several days
after the election, even if they aren't handling late absentee ballots. At that point, the Board of Elections then signs off on
the report of canvass. And the report of canvass is then forwarded to the state, which goes through the same process. A growing
number of states do postelection audits
before
they
sign the official canvass reports, and in other states, like Iowa, we do a postelection audit
after
signing
the report of canvass. Although the Iowa law says that the audit cannot change the outcome of the election, at least you discover
[if] you made a mistake. So it can take several weeks after the election to put the election to bed.
This is still a hypothesis not a proven fact. Proven fact is that nobody investigates why
votes counting was stopped and why unmarked vans arrives ar some station in the middle of the
night with additional mail-in ballots.
Philadelphia used also other types of voting machines
so this is not exclusively Dominion voting machines. . Philadelphia used also other types of
voting machines so this is not exclusively Dominion voting machines. .
But as for Dominion an interesting question is: why over 100 employees of the controversial
voting machine company Dominion have deleted their LinkedIn profiles. On November 6th, the
LinkedIn page for Dominion showed 243 employees on the site and by November 16th, only 140
remained
A fellow by the name of
Edward Solomon has done yeoman's work in digging into the Pennsylvania voting data and
showing conclusively, in my view, how the Democrats, with the help of Dominion, rigged the
vote. What was done in Pennsylvania, specifically Philadelphia, reveals how the Dominion
software magically created votes for Joe Biden to swamp the actual number of votes Donald Trump
was ringing up.
I will embed the video below. It last about 40 minutes. It is worth your time. But let me
give you the Reader's Digest version. When the early vote numbers rolled in, it was clear that
Donald Trump was on his way to a major win. The task for Dominion was to manufacture votes for
Biden without making it obvious. They tried, but failed.
Mr. Solomon takes the raw vote data that was being streamed by the NY Times and downloaded
it into a spreadsheet. That data allows him to look at vote totals by precinct and how they
changed over time. He found that a variety of ratios were used in different sets of precincts.
For example, his Exhibit 1 shows a group of precincts where the votes were being recorded at
the following ratio–1 vote for Trump and 48 for Biden.
The diabolical system employed by Dominion started with needing to generate a total vote
total for Joe Biden. Rather than employ a single computer calculation, Dominion used a number
of algorithm's. Mr. Solomon identifies at least 9 different calculations used to create these
votes.
Exhibit 1 Ratio of 1 to 48
Exhibit 2 Ratio of 1 to 18
Exhibit 3 Ratio of 4 to 65
Exhibit 4 Ratio of 3 to 48
Exhibit 5 Ratio 4 to 63
Exhibit 6 Ratio of 5 to 31
Exhibit 7 Ratio of 1 to 5
Exhibit 8 Ratio of 1 to 4
Exhibit 9 Ration of 1 to 6
The data examined by Mr. Solomon is only one part of the proof of the voter fraud. Data
from other parts of Pennsylvania will need to be examined to determine if there is a similar
pattern or if the data from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are outliers.
The next evidentiary question to be asked, and answered, is whether there are actually
ballots that back up the numbers reported on the computer. If there are ballots for Biden but
no ballots for Trump, that is conclusive evidence of the fraud.
There are multiple sworn affidavits from witnesses of truck loads of ballots being
off-loaded at the center in Philadelphia. Those ballots must be examined. If the ballots only
show Joe Biden's name and there are no ballots matching the numbers reported for Trump, that
means one thing. Fraud.
Make voting so complicated and easily overwhelemed by processes and short timelines, it
loses all ability to be fair and accurate. Then beat up anyone who protests these new
layers of complexity as wanting to undermine the right to vote.
Voting is a right and a duty. People do have to sacrifice this one day out of 365 days
and show up in person, ID in hand, and exercise their duty to be an informed voter, filling
out a trackable paper ballot. Exceptions based on need are the exception; not common
place.
Europe prohibits "electronic voting" for good reason. Democrats have slowly and
systematically undermined out entire election process.
Just take a look at California. Networks did not wait even one second after the polls
closed to "declare" Biden won in California, before a single vote was counted. They knew
the obvious outcome of a state now long corrupted by a Democrat super-majority guaranteed
election system. No other outcome was possible in this state.
Term limits was the final coffin nail in this state. Never think term limits will solve
anything. Voters must dislodge the bums; not some arbitrary election rule. Nature abhors a
vacuum. Term limits created a power vacuum.
The highly organized and disciplined public sector union swooped into this power vacuum
and now cannot be dislodged. The spent the past 20 years rigging the system entirely in
their favor. A big piece of this take-over was passed always as "election reform".
Micael Levin weighs in on the proof of fraud, the quantity of fraud and the quality of
fraud, Democrats have moved their argument away from no fraud, to not enough fraud to
matter. Sure.
It is convincing. The fact the ratios were repeatedly exact copies is proof of the fix.
This never happens in real life and it shows that this was probably a last minute fix to
account for a bigger Trump lead than they expected, since with more time, they could
probably develop an algorithm that varied the numbers more. Since these are civil actions,
this should be enough right there if it were a fair system, but overwhelming political
pressure from the permanent regime is, unfortunately, another factor to be considered.
I believe the argument of machine fraud goes beyond just Dominion to others, so we can
discount that Philadelphia used another system.
He has done a good job highlighting anomalies, I just think it lacks the context to
judge, you can't look at it in isolation, you need to compare more to what looks clean.
I believe the argument of machine fraud goes beyond just Dominion to others, so we can
discount that Philadelphia used another system.
He has done a good job highlighting anomalies, I just think it lacks the context to
judge, you can't look at it in isolation, you need to compare more to what looks clean.
I agree with Robert Barnes, the Dominion stuff distracts from the main fraud of ballot
stuffing and ballot harvesting. He views it as a deliberate distraction. Signature matching
should be the focus and will be sufficient to flips most of the states needed, and PA and MI
the legislature can just send there own electors if they vote to do so.
Occam's razor would have you agree that voter suppression did occur (wildly inaccurate
polling data broadcast from the MSM to suppress Trump voter turnout in the months, weeks, and
days leading up to election (why vote when you are going to loose by double digits). Occam's
razor would have you agree that electronic theft and illegality switching of votes which has
been both proven in real time recorded on TV as vote totals were updated and shown in the
JSON files which demonstrates substantial systemic voter fraud. This is rather humorous
because your posts lack any intellectual rigor on your part or even showing any desire to dig
for the truth - hence, you are just a troll
Count me among the 79%. I WILL NEVER BELIEVE that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential
election without MASSIVE CHEATING from Democrats and the Washington Swap - to INCLUDE a
select number of RINOs, Never-Trumpers and Lincoln Project Scuumm, whose main mission,
admittedly, was just to "get rid of Trump and then worry about Biden later"
. That is more or less a quote from Turncoat, Michael Steele.
Trump has got it right. Allow GSI to fund Biden transition team without conceding.
Americans deserve to know the election results are counted properly. Dominion voting
machines need to be audited. No signature authorization means no vote. Votes showing up
after deadlines not acceptable. Ensuring a fair and free vote is essential in America.
Given the mass of mail in votes due to covid America needs to follow the authenticity
guidelines more than ever. Not less.
Washington Democrats don't care what America knows, what America thinks - they care
about power and if stealing it is their only path then they will steal it and leave it to
you and me to prove it.
DERSHOWITZ: Well, let me give you my completely objective, not wishful thinking,
constitutional analysis.
They have two or three legal constitutional paths. For example, in Pennsylvania, they have
two very strong legal arguments, one, that the courts changed what the legislature did about
counting ballots after the end of Election Day.
That's a winning issue in the Supreme Court. I don't necessarily support it, but it's a
winning issue in the Supreme Court. And Justice Alito has already hinted that's a winning
issue.
They also have a winning issue on the Supreme Court on equal protection, that some counties
allowed flawed ballots to be cured, while others didn't. Bush vs. Gore suggests that an equal
protection argument can prevail.
The problem with that argument is, they don't have the numbers necessarily to support it. If
it's right that Biden is ahead by some 70,000 or 80,000 votes, they have to show enough
contested votes, under those two legal theories, to change the outcome.
The other legal theory they had, which is a potentially strong one, is that the computers,
either fraudulently or by glitches, changed hundreds of thousands of votes. There are enough
votes to make a difference, but I haven't seen the evidence to support that.
So, in one case, they don't have the numbers. In another case, they don't seem yet to have
the evidence. Maybe they do. I haven't seen it. But the legal theory is there to support them
if they have the numbers and they have the evidence.
PBS Newshour had a 'white hat hacker' named Harri Hursti inspect the system and he said
"they have set up a complicated system which is centralized; it doesn't seem to have any
safeguards."
They described the system as having a lot of moving parts, saying "it's an assortment of
laptops, iPads, magnetic cards, touch screens, printers and scanners."
PBS says the devices replaced touchscreens in 2019 which didn't created a paper ballot, but
one of the women responsible for bringing about this change isn't terribly happy with the new
system either. And election experts have found several troubling problems with the new system,
especially the Q.R. codes it creates for tabulation:
Alex Halderman looked closely at the Q.R. codes where the votes are encoded for the
scanner. "By analyzing the structure of the Q.R. codes, I have been able to learn that
there's nothing that stops an attacker from just duplicating one, and the duplicate would
count the same as the original barcode."
And in late September, another concern came to light. During testing, election workers
found half the names of the 21 candidates for Senate intermittently disappeared from screens
during the review phase. Dominion sent out a last-minute software patch.
Halderman caution: "I'm worried that the Georgia system is the technical equivalent to
the 737 MAX. They have just made a last-minute software change that might well have unintended
consequences and cause even more severe problems on Election Day."
Hirsti expressed concern that the system was being rushed out with the proper testing:
You never want to rush something which is mission-critical, and this is mission-critical,
into production without proper time for testing.
That's really one of the ways bad actors are finding the vulnerabilities to exploit is
looking for honest vulnerabilities and finding out if they can be weaponized, if they can be
exploited.
The actual segment goes on for 7 minutes and you can watch it below:
Face it, politicians in general are lazy, incompetent, power-hungry, greedy and worthless.
Very few actually care about the American people or want to work for us. They keep getting
re-elected over and over because of promises made and NOT kept. They get in a back room and
make deals to NOT do their jobs and draw straws on who will take the blame. When election
time rolls around again, the people continue to believe their propaganda and vote them in
again...and the cycle continues. Look at Biden, 47 years in public office. The man has NO
skills...he can't do anything else. Same for most politicians. Never vote for someone that
has not worked in the real world...and don't vote for lawyers (they always find the loophole
in every law and use it to keep themselves living a lifestyle we only dream about).
All of the Dominion Voting machines should be impounded; the States to be reimbursed and
each machine checked by the Federal Government to see if software is corrupted or
preprogramed to favor one party or the other. Then the Federal Government should order new
unbiased machines-all should be checked and be calibrated in time for the next election.
These should be stored under lock and key in a Federal Facility and guarded by Federal
Marshals during the voting. It should be a Federal Crime to impede the will of the peoples
vote. Next Subpoena Soros to testify in front of the Senate to explore his tactics and
recommend Federal Prosecution for any violation of Federal or State Law in the United
States.
Everything connected to the internet is hackable. Why don't we just go back to paper
ballots, photo ID and same day in person voting? I think it really is that simple.
I Georgia there are paper ballots, after choosing the candidates you want you review the
screen then push print. A paper ballot with the selections are on the paper with the QR code.
The ballot is then scanned into a machine where it is also collected in an internal box.
Voters are encouraged to make sure their selections shown on the paper are correct before
feeding the ballot into the machine. I voted in Georgia, but I did not know there were all of
the problems with the security of the machines.
The corrupt politician/attorney leading CISA (@CISAgov IT sec agency within DHS) is
Christopher Krebs (@CISAKrebs). He only has 3 years experience in IT sec, much of that on
non-IT related infrastructure security. He has no IT or IT sec background. His bachelor
degree is "environmental sciences" and then he earned a JD. The schmuck is a lawyer who
brownnosed his way into DHS 3 years ago and was handed IT/infrastructure security with zero
experience.
Now, he says:
- 2020 was most secure election ever
>> bogus, unprovable claim: secure in what sense? Based on what, % of voter fraud, how
would he know that for any previous, let alone current election.
- 2020 had highest voter turnout in since 1908, based on that alone, even if fraud % were
steady with previous cycles, this election would have the most fraudulent votes cast ever,
and as turnout goes up, fraud exploits do to.
- 2020 saw a huge % increase in mail-in and early votes, which are most subject to fraud; we
would expect a higher % of fraudulent/illegal votes based on that alone - there is no metric
upon which to base his claim
- he claimed there was no evidence of fraud
>> demonstrably untrue - the Texas SOS office recommended denial of Dominion software
precisely because it lacked safeguards and was unsecure. As per reports above, Georgia had
issues with software during primary. We also know of issue in Antrim County, Michigan. Krebs
is lying.
- he told voters with questions about irregularities to "turn to your trusted election
officials" - the same ones committing the irregularities...that's like asking the Nigerian
Prince email scammer if he's real, do you expect them to be honest?
Krebs should not only be fired, he should be barred from working for the federal
government ever again.
I've worked IT security for two decades. We wouldn't hire this joker to work frontline
helpdesk.
Dominion voting systems got an "upgrade" before the election. But the powers that be don't
care.
They won. They won because of it. Future historians will write about it, but by then, it
won't matter.
With a paper ballot, even if the machine screws up, and there is a recount, they recount
the ORIGINAL PAPER BALLOT, and do so by hand.
With electronic votes, if they screw up vote assignment, you can't tell. If they lose
votes, the counts don't match, but you've still lost the original vote. In both cases, it's
IMPOSSIBLE to do a proper recount.
PBS Newshour had a 'white hat hacker' named Harri Hursti inspect the system and he said "they
have set up a complicated system which is centralized; it doesn't seem to have any
safeguards."
Alex Halderman looked closely at the Q.R. codes where the votes are encoded for the scanner.
"By analyzing the structure of the Q.R. codes, I have been able to learn that there's nothing
that stops an attacker from just duplicating one, and the duplicate would count the same as the
original barcode."
Halderman caution: "I'm worried that the Georgia system is the technical equivalent to the
737 MAX. They have just made a last-minute software change that might well have unintended
consequences and cause even more severe problems on Election Day."
A Denver businessman said he has received death threats after exposing a Dominion Voting
Systems employee who boasted about being able to rig the 2020 election against President
Donald Trump, a report said.
In an
interview with the Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft on Sunday, Denver businessman Joe Oltmann
said he was able to infiltrate Antifa and during a Sept. 27 conversation with Antifa members
discovered "Eric from Dominion".
Oltmann told the Gateway Pundit that "Eric" was telling Antifa members they needed to
"keep up the pressure." When one of the caller's on a September group call asked, "Who's
Eric?" someone answered, "Eric, he's the Dominion guy."
As the conversation continued, Oltmann said someone asked: "What are we gonna do if
F*cking Trump wins?" Oltmann paraphrased how Eric (the Dominion guy) responded, "Don't worry
about the election, Trump's not gonna win. I made f*cking sure of that!"
Oltmann identified the "Dominion guy" as Eric Coomer. In 2010, Coomer joined Dominion as
vice president of U.S. engineering, the report said. According to his biography, Coomer
graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics.
Coomer was later promoted to voting systems officer of strategy and security at Dominion.
He has since been removed from the Dominion page of directors.
Oltmann said he was banned from Twitter after exposing Coomer.
Oltmann also told the Gateway Pundit that Coomer's profile is in fact being completely
"scrubbed from the Internet."
"Anybody that looks at the rest of this is going to see that something happened, but no
one is going to be able to figure it out. That's your objective, to make it so convoluted
that anyone can have a theory, but no one's got the facts."
-Jedburgh (that's Captain Jedburgh to you, Senator)
The Edge of Darkness, 2010
This is extremely serious business, obviously. I expect massive social unrest being
unleashed if it starts gaining legal traction/looks like the evidence is going to work.
There are allegations and then there are requirements to provide irrefutable evidence to a
state court that there is material fraud that would change the outcome of the election in the
state. My money is not on the Honey Badger to meet the state courts test. Who believes that
SCOTUS would be willing to buck the "realpolitik" of the situation and send the Democrat run
cities into riots unless there is incontrovertible evidence that a fraud overturned the
election results in many states? Why would they risk the media-driven hysteria that they are
a partisan court?
The Republican party is not gonna back Trump all the way through the media hysteria.
They've got what they wanted with a stronger position in the House and likely a majority in
the Senate after the GA senate runoffs. They'll get back to "old-fashioned" partisan status
quo horse-trading and prepare for the 2022 mid-terms. The oligarchy have been the big winner
and they'll continue to press their advantage.
Trump is on his own. His MAGA soldiers have shown no propensity to create the mayhem that
Antifa did. He'll have time to reflect on what may have been if he's unable to prevail in the
courts. Should he have hired the Swamp in his term to all the key positions? Should he have
used the powers of POTUS more aggressively with declassification? He still has a few weeks to
give the Swamp a big FU by pardoning Snowden and Assange. His Twitter platform may very well
be cancelled or throttled. How is he going to continue to suck up the media oxygen? The
Democrats, could very well get him all on the defense with prosecutions for tax violations. A
very interesting question is what happens to the 72 million people that voted for him? Will
they remain loyal for another run in 2024 or will another more competent & ruthless
candidate come along to capture their imagination?
The appeal, filed Sunday, came about 24 hours after District Court Judge Matthew Brann
issued a ruling that tossed out allegations included in the Trump campaign's legal complaint.
In his decision, Brann noted that attorneys failed to provide sufficient evidence supporting
their insistent claims that misconduct on the part of elections officials gave Joe Biden his projected
presidential win.
2 Charged With Voter Fraud, Allegedly Submitted 8,000 Fraudulent Registration
Applications BY JACK PHILLIPS November 17, 2020
Updated: November 18, 2020 Print
Two men were arrested and charged in Southern California on voter fraud charges after they
allegedly submitted thousands of fraudulent voter registration applications on behalf of
homeless people, said the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office on Tuesday.
Carlos Antonio De Bourbon Montenegro, 53, and Marcos Raul Arevalo, 34, were charged with one
count each of conspiracy to commit voter fraud, eight counts of voter fraud, four counts of
procuring and offering a false or forged instrument, and other charges, said the DA's office in
a news
release .
The office said Montenegro allegedly submitted more than "8,000 fraudulent voter
registration applications between July and October 2020." He's also accused of falsifying
names, signatures, and addresses on nomination papers "under penalty of perjury to run for
mayor in the city of Hawthorne."
Montenegro also faces another 10 counts of voter fraud, seven counts of procuring and
offering a false or forged instrument, two counts of perjury, and five misdemeanor counts of
interference with a prompt transfer of a completed affidavit, the office said.
If convicted, Montenegro can face as many as 15 years and eight months in prison, while
Arevalo could face seven years in prison, officials noted.
The FBI, District Attorney's office, the Los Angeles Public Integrity Division, and other
agencies are investigating the case.
Other details about the case are not clear. It's also not clear if their alleged voter fraud
scheme affected the presidential election in some way.
It's not clear if either Montenegro or Arevalo have lawyers.
According to local news outlet
The Daily Breeze in a report in August, Montenegro, who was running for mayor in Hawthorne,
had "turned in paperwork to run for mayor but failed to meet the required 20 signatures by
Hawthorne residents."
Over the past two weeks, since the Nov. 3 election, President Donald Trump's campaign and
other Republicans have raised questions about voter fraud and irregularities that may have
tipped the presidential race to Democratic candidate Joe Biden. The president's team has filed
several lawsuits in key states including Pennsylvania, Georgia, and other places, while citing
sworn statements made by hundreds of witnesses.
The Department of Homeland Security's cyber-security division, in a statement last week,
said the past election was the "most secure" in history. Meanwhile, secretaries of state have
disputed Trump's claims of fraud.
However, the chairman of the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), Trey Trainor
told Newsmax several days ago that he believes "that there is voter fraud taking place in
these places." Trainor, in a
tweet , said a recent claim from Trump lawyer Sidney Powell about his team being able to
overturn the election with their cases should be taken seriously.
There are those who always vote, those who never vote and those who may or may not vote.
Maximizing voter turnout in the third group is the holy grail of the electoral
official."
It is a holy grail of a leftist agitator. The US law recognizes a citizen's freedom not to vote as equal to the voting for
a candidate of his or her choosing. Some people do not vote because they do not care, some
because they do not know which candidate to choose, and some because they are angry at the
society. Abstractly speaking, reluctant voters are not helpful to democratic process, just like
reluctant jurors are not helpful for court proceedings. Practically, voter mobilization (from
the word 'mob' ) is a tactic of the Left. People who do not care, or lack knowledge, or
are angry, can be easily convinced to vote for the Left. Continue reading Dominion Voting
Systems Corp →
Dominion Voting Systems' Democracy Suite has features that allow for election results
manipulation. The back-end software has an elections results editor, called Results Tally
and Reporting ( RTR ). Its users are election officials. RTR is an equivalent of
Microsoft Excel, but for election results. The software allows its users to enter "election
results" from removable memory cards, local file system, and network. It allows you to merge
multiple election results files. It allows the users to manually edit election result files. It
allows users to reject election results files. In other words, it allows arbitrary change of
results.
RTR runs not on a voting machine, but on an ordinary Windows laptop, which can be connected
to the Internet, and even controlled remotely.
The voting software developers can easily insert code, changing numbers in favor of or
against one candidate. No hacking is necessary. The malicious code can be designed to pass
tests and to be triggered only at the time of a real election, automatically or manually. Both
case are possible even the the machine is disconnected from the internet and has no ordinary
I/O devices. The malicious code can be activated manually in real time by inserting a ballot or
another paper with a pre-defined QR or image code. An audit of the source code is necessary,
but not sufficient. Dominion software runs on Windows, and the malicious code can be hidden in
any part of the operating system. Malicious code can be hidden in the firmware, too.
If a state wants to take risks and to rely on testing and the source code audit, they should
be conducted with the participation of technically competent representatives of both parties.
If the system passes testing and auditing, the machine image must be securely stored. All
supplied machines must have exactly the same hardware and the software as the audited
system.
As far as I know, thorough tests and source code audits are conducted very rarely, if at
all. Further, the vendors are not required to use only the audited image, and are allowed to
update the software almost at will. That means that election commissions are forced to blindly
trust the vendors. Blind trust is always wrong and invites abuse. But even "trust but verify"
is applicable only to trustworthy vendors. Dominion Voting is the opposite of trustworthy.
The only real solution to the vulnerability of EVS is not to use them at all. Manual ballot
counting has no software vulnerabilities, and is much cheaper. Virginia appears to be the only
state that decided to use only manual ballots.
... ... ...
In August 2009 (corrected), the rough breakdown of the EVS market in the US was (per
Brad Friedman ):
Less than a year later, after the "antitrust" actions of Obama's DOJ, it became:
50% Dominion
40% ES&S (restricted in competing against Dominion)
10% Hart Intercivic
Thus, the DOJ's actions did the exact opposite of its words.
An elections system vendor should be non-partisan, in a demonstrable way. Dominion is not
just partisan, but hyper-partisan in favor of the Democrat party, or even its pocket
vendor.
Dominion has many more ties to the Democrat party and its prominent supporters in the US and
abroad, which are not covered in this article.
Software Development in Serbia
Dominion develops much of its software in Belgrade, Serbia. Russia is a close friend to
Serbia, if not its only one. If anybody sincerely thought that Putin wanted to hack American
elections, their first location of interest would be the offices of Dominion Voting in
Belgrade, rather than the Trump Tower in New York.
By the way, Serbian and Russian languages use the Cyrillic alphabet. Most letters have the
same Unicode encoding in Serbian and Russian (the Basic Multilingual Plane, range 0410-04FF ). If any election officials found Cyrillic
text on a Dominion voting machine in 2016, it was probably left by its developers in
Serbia.
Remarks
This is the Agreement between
Michigan & Dominion , including specs of many Dominion products (PDF, 161 pages). Wi-Fi
connection and even a dial up modem are offered as an option.
Some of the companies referenced here as foreign based or foreign originating re-registered
in the US.
Dominion Voting Systems Series Part I
Part II (this) Part
III
Just few thougts
Dominion develops much of its software in Belgrade, Serbia. Russia is a close friend to
Serbia
At the time when ten SW was developing, Serbia had long beenin the hands of Germany and the EU.
Which is the same as writing in the hands of Soros and his NGO. Written Serbian is more similar
to neighboring Greek than Russian, and this also applies to Cyrillic.
A previous head of Dominions software was one Eric Coomer. He is a member or avid
supporter of Antifa, depending on how you view the group.
The same Eric Coomer was previously a skinhead when he was at Berkeley, based on ok'd
message board posts.
Google Eric Coomer Skinhead and view some of what comes up online.
From skinhead to Antifa? He is now apparently nowhere to be found. Seems to me at least,
that there may be a chance he may be CIA and that this may have been a domestic op to get rid
of Trump.
Here's an analogy : imagine the blues and reds both agree that I am a notorious thief,
even if it's only a false narrative. Then they hire me as a security guard. That would be
willfully, knowingly hiring a criminal, which would be criminal, not because of the facts,
but because of the logic.
A couple of thoughts about the Venzuela gambit. Evidently Tucker Carson wanted Sydney to
tell him all about the "Dominion" vote flipping in a public interview. Which would have been
tantamount to giving away all the potential Republican case, and given the Democrats prior
knowledge of what to expect. A no-go. Mentioning "Venezuela-Cuba" could have the effect of
heading off a direct civil war if the US Dems and Repubs have a" common enemy" to blame. (Too
late for Russia, China too touchy, not many other major targets). Note that Venezuela has a
paper trail created at the same time as the electronic vote...
"They are very bad. If something goes wrong with one of them, you would basically never know, because you can't audit the
results. And things have gone wrong," John Oliver said. "In one local New Jersey election, a husband and wife were both running
for seats on their county's Democratic committee. The DRE machines said that they lost, but they were in the unusual position of
actually knowing that that was a mistake."
"In one local New Jersey election, a husband and wife were both running for seats on their county's Democratic committee," Oliver
continued. "The DRE machines said that they lost, but they were in the unusual position of actually knowing that that was a
mistake."
The talk show host then played a news clip of the couple -- Ernest and Cynthia Zirkle -- explaining what had happened.
"I knew 33 of the people that voted for us, and we lost 33 to 10, and I knew that that wasn't the case," said Cynthia Zirkle.
The results had been switched with those of their opponents.
"We started calling people that we thought we knew voted for us, because it was just a in this district of this township, and we
know everybody in this district," added Ernest Zirkle.
Oliver noted it was true that Cynthia Zirkle had "literally went around and got signed affidavits from people saying that they
had voted for her."
"The fact is, unless you happen to personally know everyone who votes for you on a paperless DRE machine, there is no way to know
the results," he said. "It's a pretty good case against them, which makes it, frankly, completely insane that New Jersey not only
still uses them, but plans to keep using them for the 2020 election."
"And it's not just New Jersey, in 2016, 20 percent of voters voted on paperless DREs, and an estimated 12 percent will use them
in 2020, meaning 16 million Americans, spread out across all these states, are set to be voting on machines that pretty much
everyone agrees are deeply, deeply flawed," Oliver continued. "And if they malfunction, there could be no way of knowing, which
is absolutely terrifying. What we have to do here is obvious, it's so obvious, in fact, even this guy understands it."
John Oliver then played a clip of President Donald Trump explaining why it is important to have a paper backup system with
regards to voting.
"He's right. That's it. He's just all the way, completely right," said Oliver.
Dominion Voting Systems -- which has faced scrutiny in the wake of the 2020 presidential election -- has an ImageCast X model,
which can be deployed as either a Ballot Marking Device (BMD) or a Direct Recording Electronic Device (DRE), according to
The
Verified Voting Foundation
.
While Oliver has made his case for why he believes DREs are dangerous, Verified Voting has also explained why it believes BMDs
can be as well.
In 2019, Verified Voting
clarified
its
position regarding the use BMDs in elections:
Verified Voting believes that voters should vote on paper ballots, but we recognize an important distinction between
hand-marked and machine-marked ballots. Hand-marked paper ballots are not subject to inaccuracies or manipulation from
software bugs or malicious code. In contrast, machine-marked paper ballots produced using BMDs might not accurately capture
voter intent if the software or ballot configuration is buggy or malicious.
Verified Voting specifically opposes the purchase and deployment of new voting systems in which all in-person voters in a
polling place are expected to use BMDs. The trustworthiness of an election conducted using BMDs depends critically on how many
voters actually verify their ballots, and how carefully they do it. All voters who vote on BMDs should be made aware of the
importance of carefully and conscientiously verifying their ballots before casting them, and should be actively encouraged to
do so. However, empirical research thus far shows that few voters using BMDs carefully verify their printed ballots. Moreover,
if voters do verify BMD-marked ballots and find what they believe are discrepancies, there is no reliable way to resolve
whether the voters made mistakes or the BMDs did. For these and other reasons (such as cost) Verified Voting recommends that
the use of BMDs be minimized.
Verified Voting appeared to have since wiped clean the section of its website clarifying its position on the usage of BMDs, but
an
Internet
archive
shows what was displayed on the page in August.
It is, indeed, completely insane to use electronic voting machines unless the whole idea is to be able
to commit massive voter fraud and steal an election.
Some of these machines can be set to throw a set number of --- say Trump votes -- into a certain
folder that can just be deleted making all of those votes disappear as if they never existed.
The first video below highlights the couple that John Oliver was talking about:
____________________________________________
A Hacker Shows Us How Easy It Is To Manipulate Voting Machines
[2:16]
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
On this next one, it shows how many voters are just trusting these machines with EVERYTHING and no
paper trail, basically saying to the computer, "Please mark my ballot the way I say and I trust you to
do so".
Dominion Voting Machines have the ability to mark a ballot [2:16]
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Electronic Voting Machine hacked by Computer Scientists (AcuVote-TS)
[5:21]
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
______________________________________________
All electronic software can be made to cheat with voter fraud, especially if that is the OBJECTIVE ALL
ALONG.
ComradeAdam
cageysea
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It would depend on the voting machine, a machine can be built that has no real vulnerabilities and no way to
change or input to voting data. And paper ballots are only as secure as the people that handle them and
count them. The biggest problem with voting machines is that they keep processes of the machine secret so no
one can trust what they are doing behind the scenes.
Personally, I think we need voter ID. Then the voting machines print out a paper ballot that you take from
the machine over to a ballot box, present your ID for a second time and drop the ballot in the box.
The ballots must match the machines totals and the voter rolls and all partisan observers must agree.
in India, you have all that PLUS you affix your thumbprint to the ballot with indelible ink. The ink
(apparently) is hard to wash off so that makes it harder for anyone to vote twice. A beautiful system.
Where I'm at, we had paper "Scantron" ballots and BMDs. Had a lot of older folk who did the BMD because
they didn't think they could fill in the bubbles.
What I thought was odd was that the BMDs we had were designed for blind people but there was no way for
blind people to verify their printout as it was just text, not braile.
Worst of all was that able-bodied younger people strideny thought that BMDs were electronic voting and
that it was "more secure", so they would become irate when they discovered that they spent 15 minutes
using a touch screen to print a ballot that they could've bubbled in 30 seconds by hand.
Closing the barn door after the horse is stolen. Why weren't Trump voters and Trump himself anticipating
just this sort of election theft before the election?
ohn Law
Gwynedd
•
a
day ago
"It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."
Yes. Did it slip out by accident? I've been critical, well more than critical, let's say completely
objecting to the use of electronic voting machines for years. As somebody who worked in the tech
industry, I realized that there is a belief in the minds of average people, that machines are
objective and impersonal and cannot lie or make mistakes. Have you ever challenged somebody when
there's an obvious data entry error and they rigidly stick by whatever the machine says versus what
you're trying to tell them actually was the situation? Belief in the machine is almost a belief in
an infallible oracle. Obviously data can be corrupted and falsified as anybody who has had their
accounts hacked should realize. So voting systems that rely on electronics without some form of
physical verification are subject to fraud, and any counting system that does not have oversight
and is completely hidden from view electronically or otherwise is also subject to fraud or to quote
Stalin, it's not who votes it's who counts the votes. Fraud in voting machines has been going on
for decades. Even the very old paper punch systems used in the 40s through 80s could be gotten
around by simply having certain precincts non-functional during the day and not tell the voters
their votes would not be counted. I experienced this frequently in Philadelphia when I lived in a
section of the city that did not like the mayor.
doormouse
•
a
day ago
Trump's mistake was trusting the experience of insiders...
He should have hired nothing but loyal people with no professional political experience, and not
assumed those under the heels of the democrats weren't still beholden to them, (if not
compromised), even if they publicly seemed to be enemies...
They had been in bed together for a century... Especially the petroleum industry, and Wall
Street...
"Corrupted by wealth and power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They've
got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side.
But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in
the same Wall Street kitchen." - Huey Long
"The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican
leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear
down." - Huey Long
101010011000
•
a
day ago
Why have machines at all? We have until Jan. 20 to seat new winners. What is the rush? Old fashioned
hand counting may take longer but it is more secure with proper oversight. We can wait a few days or
even weeks if it means honest elections. Networks will just not be calling winners before votes are
all tabulated and certified. It is not a horse race and shouldn't be treated as such. Hold your
tickets, please, we have a photo finish. We need voter ID and that number matched to each vote.
caperick
oldlady
•
a
day ago
You're right. Any machine is corruptible. Hand counting with verified observers from both parties is totally
doable.
mrminwnc
oldlady
•
a
day ago
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people act like it's impossible to count 100 million+ votes, but it's not at all. it can be easily done precinct
by precinct, then all it takes is an adding machine. the old-fashioned kind, with the paper tape.
theresa
•
12
hours ago
Hay, Hay all you shift for brains!
"Federal Statute Law Title 52 USC 20511: Criminal penalties Text contains
those laws in effect on November 9, 2020
Title 52-VOTING AND ELECTIONS Subtitle
II-Voting Assistance and Election Administration CHAPTER 205-NATIONAL
VOTER REGISTRATION
Criminal penalties
A person, including an election official, who in any election for
Federal office-
(1) knowingly and willfully intimidates, threatens, or coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce,
any person for-
(A) registering to vote, or voting, or attempting to register or vote;
(B) urging or aiding any person to register to vote, to vote, or to attempt to register or vote; exercising any
right under this chapter; or
(C) exercising any right under this chapter; or
(2) knowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds, or attempts to
deprive or defraud the residents of a State of a fair and
impartially conducted election process, by-
(A) the procurement or submission of voter registration applications that are known by the person to be materially
false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the
laws of the State in which the election is held; or
(B) the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that are known by the person to be materially false,
fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held, shall be fined in accordance
with title 18 (which fines shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury, miscellaneous receipts (pursuant
to section 3302 of title 31), notwithstanding any other law), or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both."
Thomas737
theresa
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SOROS, One of the owners of Dominion and SmartMatic too...
Any one of these articles should be good for "Evidence".
Democrat Senators Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Ron Wyden ALL
WARNED the USA about DOMINION being a Security Problem in the Elections!
Even the New York Times warned the US....
This is the DEFINITION of FOREIGN ELECTION INTERFERENCE that the
Democrats Complained about for the past 5 years!!!
Paper ballots. On Election Day. In person. Valid ID. If it's that important to people, they will find a way.
Limited exceptions (deployed military, etc). Otherwise, make it a PRIORITY.
Gary Eaker
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a
day ago
Our Voting Systems are antiquated and insecure.
Complete Makeover Desperately needed.
"Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own," senior Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and
Jenna Ellis said on Sunday in a joint statement. "She is also not a lawyer for the president
in his personal capacity."
Giuliani and Ellis gave no explanation for the statement. Trump last week named Powell, a
former federal prosecutor, among five well-known lawyers who would lead his legal team in
challenging the results of this month's presidential election.
Powell was among three featured speakers when the Trump legal team held a press conference
on Thursday to give an overview of its election-fraud cases in key states that the president
apparently lost to Democrat rival Joe Biden.
Powell focused largely on accusations that Dominion voting machines and Smartmatic election
software were fraudulently manipulated to award thousands of fake votes to Biden. Her
allegations went deeper, involving allies of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez owning
Dominion and having ties to Democrat billionaire donor George Soros.
But by Thursday night, Powell's story was being challenged by a conservative media
superstar, Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who said she had brushed off multiple requests to
provide evidence of the Dominion-Smartmatic scheme for his show. She also was invited to be
interviewed on his show, but "when we kept pressing, she got angry and told us to stop
contacting her," Carlson said.
Powell responded by saying
she told Carlson not to contact her again because he was "very insulting, demanding and
rude." She also provided him with an affidavit and referred him to a witness who could help
him understand her statistical evidence. Carlson followed up the next night, saying he had
heard from Trump sources, including other members of the president's legal team, who said that
they hadn't seen Powell's evidence firsthand.
If Powell's allegations in the press conference seemed a little wild, her interview on
Saturday night with conservative news outlet Newsmax took the case to another level. She
accused Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, and the state's secretary of state, Brad
Raffensperger, of receiving financial benefits to help Biden win the state's 16 electoral
votes.
"Georgia's probably going to be the first state I'm gonna blow up," Powell said of
her planned fraud cases. "And Mr. Kemp and the secretary of state need to go with it because
they're in on the Dominion scam." She added that her Georgia lawsuit, which she hopes to
file this week, "will be biblical."
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pogohere 4 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 08:17 PM
Some teams are harder to play on than others. Look at the Flynn case. The US Dep. of Justice
surrendered to Powell et. al. and requested that its own case against Flynn be
dismissed following the disclosure by Powell's efforts that the DOJ was withholding
evidence-- a "Brady rule violation"-- of Flynn's innocence from the defense and the court.
Flynn's prestigious Wa DC law firm earlier had Flynn plead guilty. The judge is holding up
the dismissal of that case, against all precedent. Powell most likely isn't finished. Neither
is The Donald.
GoldMorgsCom 4 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 08:31 PM
Giuliani and Ellis intimidated and gearing down? Powell least nervous at the presentation.
Usually fraud by (voting)computers escapes the possibility of external proof. But a
peculiarity in the Michigan-elections enabled it. See on the site vashiva (Shiva) MIT PhD
Analysis of Michigan Votes Reveals Unfortunate Truth of U.S. Voting Systems. Its systematic
fraud, save screenshots. Steven J. Miller Ph.D. published his testimony, that about 50'000
mail-in ballots of republicans have disapeared in Pensylvenia and 50'000 absentee ballots
have been abused by others (in favor of Biden = +50000). It makes up about 150000 to the
disadvantage of Trump in PA. Bidens surplus was about 75000. About Michigan and Pensylvenia
it has been published that the number of fraud votes was sufficient for a fraud change of the
outcome in favor of "the democrats". The signals are that the same happened in the other
critical states . See also -- Trump lawyers allege 'MASSIVE' election fraud, point to sworn
statements & efforts to threaten and silence them (VIDEO)-- 19 Nov, 2020 20:30 (
rt-search, on top at the right ) In the first ten minutes it is explained how the "democrat"
bosses facilitated huge fraud with absentee ballots. In Pensylvenia 682'000 have been
accepted without proper checks and with destroying the evidence of fraud. It is a federal
offence not to store all election records (scans), even not collecting them, such as besiding
mail-in envelopes and not checking them before opening them.
JingsGeordie 4 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 08:18 PM
Disavows? That's twisting the information (edit - they've now changed it to 'distances') From
Gen. Flynn's twitter feed - ".@SidneyPowell1 has been suspended from Twitter for 12 hours.
She understands the WH press release & agrees with it. She is staying the course to prove
the massive deliberate election fraud that robbed #WeThePeople of our votes for President
Trump & other Republican candidates."
Thesheperd666 4 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 09:02 PM
Trump fired Sidney Powell ? That is a huge mistake and might coast him the presidency. Trumps
team looks weak now ! Sidney look more confident and much more calmer than Rudy Giuliani. I
really don't trust Rudy as much as Sidney, wondering if they are afraid of spoiling the
Republic party before the 12th amendment goes to the house for votes ? Either side your on
this makes Trumps team look bad, and are starting to make up stories. I think Trump did win
by a landslide and this years vote was stolen from the US citizens. Demarcates can breath a
little more easier now that Sidney is gone, she was the strongest one on the team. Trump
needs more Sidney Powell's not less, I don't trust Rudy nor do I think he has what it takes
to win. Trump needs better Lawyers, Rudy is just a celebrity lawyer that will keep his image
no matter what ! Trump needs tigers not mice !
anastasia265 3 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 09:27 PM
It's not true. She was never a part of that team and had her own funding site. Their strategy
was to keep the two matters separate
J_P_Franklin 4 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 08:49 PM
Majority of Republicans are and have conspired against Trump since 2016. America First
Trumpism is the opposite of Republican open borders/free trade treason.
GoldMorgsCom 4 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 09:03 PM
Peculiar is that the German chamber of commerce does not reveal any registration of the
Dominions, neither of Smartmatic neither of Scytl neither of Amazone. These have not
registrated or their registrations are being hidden on request. So who's prosecution by the
German state prosecutors is to be requested?
Gerald Newton 2 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 10:56 PM
Sidney Powell has not released her evidence yet but it is coming. She has an impressive
record and probably will crush much of the federal justice system. That is what she does.
Read her book, Licensed to Lie. It is about the way federal prosecutors lie to prosecute like
they did to Senator Stevens of Alaska.
Swanster6450 3 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 09:56 PM
I guess Sidney Powell is finding what happens to people from outside the political loop when
they seek to stick their nose in and point out a few inconsistencies. Chucked under a bus is
the usual outcome. Julian Assange is also finding out the same thing and, incidentally, so
too is Donald Trump. All shafted and all chucked under a bus for pointing out a few
inconsistencies.
RTreaderCaribb 3 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 09:56 PM
I have one question and one question only: why would Sydney Powell who seems to be very
bright and a good lawyer say something of which she would know will be exposed only in less
than 14 days to be totally untrue? This makes no sense at all. And so I think we all should
pray that this woman does not end up like Jeffrey Epstein. We should take our time. 14 days
are nothing in comparison to the endless work she has to put in . And if she cant show any
fact for her allegations then we can maybe say something went wrong with her. But right now
let this woman work. All this prejudgment in the public court is irritating to me. And if
Sidney Powell did the same then yes, she would be irritating to me too. And for Trump: If he
can prove voter fraud then he should go to the supreme court. If he cant then at some point
he must concede. I guess the latest is December 14th and until then he should just figure out
what it is. That is his legal right. And for the American people: if you were so stupid to
vote for Biden then please bear the consequences thereof because you will go down the tubes.
The man is not well in his head.
allan Kaplan 3 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 09:43 PM
Sidney Powell's stamina, her defiance and her antipathy is so real that those who have faced
injustice by the hands of the powerful know what it takes to get such bullies sweating. The
house of cards of the Democrat commies will come tumbling down once Powell gets to the podium
of naming names, dates, places, and their coconspirators et al. I love her tenacity,
determination, perseverance and her unflinching boldness that most of the dems are sweating
about! Thank you Ms. Powell for a great American tradition and go full speed... the
dissenting maverick you are!
GoldMorgsCom 3 hours ago 22 Nov, 2020 09:27 PM
They are so scared that the president Trump will conduct the great cleansing, to start with
removing the authority on the dollar from the Federal Reserve to the usa federal state of the
people. They are already blocking the president Trump during four years to keep him from
that. They know they can now only keep the president Trump from the great cleansing by
removing him from office. They will do more than the high treason of the fraud against the
federal elections, to remove the president Trump from office. Eventually they will detonate a
smuggled-in nuclear bomb and allegate Russia or fire a missile with a nuclear bomb from an
unindentified submarine and allegate Russia. You believe the spread of Covid-19 this year was
a coincidense? If Russia is being attacked any more (with allegations) it is a good reason
for conducting the great cleansing in Russia. Those probably sly covered Khodorovski-types
who are pressing forward (exports of) GMM-injections "against Covid-19" are probably
backstabbing Russia; catastrophic future compensation claims on Russia and confiscation of
all export-incomes. This is a good reason for conducting the great cleansing out of Russia of
all Khodorovski-types. We hope that the reorganized government of Russia will cleanse out all
Khodorovski-types, no matter the president Trump will continue office and conduct the great
cleansing in the usa or not.
Marlin1091 12 minutes ago 23 Nov, 2020 01:06 AM
Google did and is helping biden. That is why I don't use google any more, I use Yandex and
for fackrok I use vk
My gut feeling is that this election was stolen by old fashioned, street level, ballot
stuffing in 5 or 6 "inner city" (black) locations, including Philadelphia, Atlanta, Milwaukee,
Detroit, and two less black but equally corrupt locations in Maricopa County (Phoenix) and Las
Vegas.
I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but I think the Dominion corruption angle is going to end
up improvable and will just be further grist for the "debunking" articles in the MSM (liberal)
media, along with the hoax about water marks on ballots.
"Occam's Razor" explanation:
At around the same time in all of these locations, with some adjustment for time zones, the
voting ground to a halt. In Atlanta, they even came up with a now confirmed as false story
about a pipe bursting. They sent the Republican poll watchers home, delivered the necessary
90,000 to 150,000 ballots needed to change the result, punched the totals into the machine, and
that was it. Some Republicans actually caught them in the act, but they were physically
threatened and ignored by the partisan media. Detroit was the most egregious, where they even
saw boxes being delivered in the wee hours and they put up paper screens to hide what they were
doing. None of these witnesses can really "prove" anything, of course.
I think Biden would have naturally closed the huge gap in PA just by virtue of the fact that
the precincts around Philly genuinely were counted last (plus the mail in ballots, legitimate
and fraudulent). This is why you see those weird, unprecedented spikes in Biden totals in the
early morning hours: The boxes containing fraudulent and/or harvested ballots were dumped into
the pot.
What enabled all of the above to really work was the "mail in" ballots.
And they're going to get away with all of this because it was predominantly blacks who were
doing this and the fact that the media is the de facto Ministry of Information for the
Democratic Party. In a country where blacks are permitted to loot, and in some areas get a
misdemeanor citation if the stuff they steal is worth less than $1,000, and in other cases get
away with murder when the victim is white, the media will simply not report this stuff. "If a
tree falls in the forest and it's not on CNN or in the New York Times, did that tree really
fall?"
@Brett
Redmayne-Titley nce William Plumer in 1820. (Novelist and Humphrey elector James Michener
wrote that he would have if necessary in 1968, as he much preferred Nixon to the House and
Wallace.)
Inasmuch as the US -- and every
state -- has a religious feast day like St Patrick's and St George's, it would be Dec 8.
Perfect date for a "Hail Mary"!
*Seven of the ten deviant votes cast in 2016 were counted, the other three replaced. State
law rules here.
BRT 207, agreed that the interview was less than cathartic, but Sidney has a tighrope to
walk. Her opponent is not the opposing campaign of Dem hacks. Her opponent is CIA. CIA
stuffed all those ballots. Unfortunately for Sidney, in US law and regulation, CIA crime is
secret. The perps are secret under the IIPA. The facts are secret under the operational files
exemption. The law is secret under COG procedures. Flynn explained the birds and bees to her.
Remember DIA is JFK's creation.
Now Sidney has to find a way to puke up evidence of CIA crime in court.
CIA ratfucked Chavez with their electoral malware, albeit ineffectually.
CIA put their Venezuelan proprietary through a couple of sheepdippings and turned it on
Trump. Just like they used it on Kerry. Just like they do whenever you vote for the wrong
guy. Honnête homme Hopsicker, offered a lifetime of hookers and blow to shut up, has
the most synoptic take:
This is transnational organized crime by CIA. Sidney has to call CIA agents under oath.
She has to protect them from DO's murderers. She has to explode everything you think about
your bullshit fake democracy. I don't know if she can do it but I hope she can.
The system is set up for failure in proving election fraud. Firstly, the security agencies
will not lift a finger unless there is "substantial evidence of voter fraud." This was as
true in the past as it is now.
There is no way that a candidate can discover all the election fraud in the short time
they have to do it, especially when there are obstacles in the fraud areas controlled by the
other side.
The courts are reluctant to do anything unless you have substantial evidence that rises to
the level of proof that would change an election. Cannot be based upon probabilities.
The overall concern of the government is for it not to appear illegitimate. This is a
public policy reason for turning a blind's eye, by the government, by the media, by anyone
who has the power to influence.
Voter Fraud and Election Fraud has been around a long time. Read Vote Scam, a book taken
out of the Library of Congress. I am sure that there have been more than several candidates
who have lost office because of it, but with the system in place, it's gonna be tough toogies
for the candidate who lost..
My gut feeling is that this election was stolen by old fashioned, street level, ballot
stuffing in 5 or 6 "inner city" (black) locations, including Philadelphia, Atlanta,
Milwaukee, Detroit, and two less black but equally corrupt locations in Maricopa County
(Phoenix) and Las Vegas.
I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but I think the Dominion corruption angle is going to
end up unprovable and will just be further grist for the "debunking" articles in the MSM
(liberal) media, along with the hoax about water marks on ballots.
"Occam's Razor" explanation:
At around the same time in all of these locations, with some adjustment for time zones,
the voting ground to a halt. In Atlanta, they even came up with a now confirmed as false
story about a pipe bursting. They sent the Republican poll watchers home, delivered the
necessary 90,000 to 150,000 ballots needed to change the result, punched the totals into the
machine, and that was it. Some Republicans actually caught them in the act, but they were
physically threatened and ignored by the partisan media. Detroit was the most egregious,
where they even saw boxes being delivered in the wee hours and they put up paper screens to
hide what they were doing. None of these witnesses can really "prove" anything, of
course.
I think Biden would have naturally closed the huge gap in PA just by virtue of the fact
that the precincts around Philly genuinely were counted last (plus the mail in ballots,
legitimate and fraudulent). This is why you see those weird, unprecedented spikes in Biden
totals in the early morning hours: The boxes containing fraudulent and/or harvested ballots
were dumped into the pot.
What enabled all of the above to really work was the "mail in" ballots.
And they're going to get away with all of this because it was predominantly blacks who
were doing this and the fact that the media is the de facto Ministry of Information for the
Democratic Party. In a country where blacks are permitted to loot, and in some areas get a
misdemeanor citation if the stuff they steal is worth less than $1,000, and in other cases
get away with murder when the victim is white, the media will simply not report this stuff.
"If a tree falls in the forest and it's not on CNN or in the New York Times, did that tree
really fall?"
Below is a comment from James Kunstler's blog (apologies if this breaks a rule):
"BOMBSHELL: The 2020 election took place under a Trump-declared "National Emergency" that
set an Election Day trap for the "unauthorized accessing of election and campaign
infrastructure"
Wow What a doozy . Could be the trap that folks have been commenting on, why Brennan seems
to be coming unglued, maybe why Esper was fired and replaced, why some Democrats seem to be
been freaking out even more lately
I have pasted 3 sections from the article:
[Hide MORE]
"This story begins with the little-known executive order signed into existence on September
12, 2018, by President Donald J. Trump. That order, available at Whitehouse.gov, is entitled,
"Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a
United States Election." In that executive order, which almost no one has covered since the
day it was signed, President Trump declares a national emergency. That emergency is still in
play to this day, and the 2020 election was conducted under this state of emergency, which is
a crucial point to understand what's coming next."
And,
"Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) says the US military just raided the server farm of Scytl in
Spain
Lest you think this is all speculation and rumor, we now get to the part where the rubber
meets the road. According to a video interview with Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) which aired
earlier today, the US military has just conducted a raid on the server farm of the
now-bankrupt Scytl company in Barcelona, Spain. The Gateway Pundit, which has been at the
forefront of much of the bombshell reporting of the election rigging conspiracy that took
place on November 3rd, reached out to its sources to confirm the military operations in
Europe, as related to gathering evidence of election theft. Here's what TGP just reported:
The US government, once they determined that this Dominion server was involved in switching
votes, then the intelligence community began a search for the server and discovered that the
server was in Germany. In order to get access to that server and have it available for use in
a legal manner they had to have the State Department work in tandem with the Department of
Justice. They had to request that the government of Germany cooperate in allowing this
seizure of this server. The appropriate documents required to affect that kind of seizure
were put in place, signed off on, and it appears there was also US military support in this
operation. The US military was not in the lead. But this helps explain why Esper was fired
and Miller and Kash Patel were put in place -- so that the military would not interfere with
the operation in any way. By getting ahold of the server they now are going to have the
direct evidence of when they were instructed to stop counting. They will also discover who
gave the direction to stop counting and who initiated the algorithm that started switching
votes. The CIA was completely excluded from this operation. Here's the interview with Rep.
Gohmert, now on Brighteon.com , just in
case YouTube tries to memory hole this video:"
Last, but not least:
"RECOUNTS no longer matter; the certification of votes is now irrelevant
The action plan to achieve all this is under way as you read this. Team Trump already has
the full transaction logs of Dominion Voting Systems election alterations, and with raids
taking place in Europe, more evidence of foreign interference is being secured. Importantly,
this enormous cache of vote fraud evidence will be more than sufficient for President Trump
to present this evidence to the American people, then declare an illegal insurrection attempt
against the United States of America while deploying US Marshals or military police to arrest
the treasonous actors in the United States who attempted to carry out this elaborate criminal
fraud. No wonder John Brennan appears to be crapping himself every time he appears on live
television. Once Trump's plan is fully activated, people like Brennan will need a lifetime
supply of Depends. Once all the evidence is compiled and presented, President Trump merely
needs to declare the entire election to be null and void as an artifact of a failed foreign
coup attempt against the United States, aided by treasonous operators inside the Democrat
party and certain dark corners of the intelligence community (CIA, FBI, etc.). As an
immutable legal principle, any party that engages in a social contract (such as an election)
and then cheats to try to unfairly "win" that contract, is disqualified by default. You
cannot win an election by stealing it. There is overwhelming legal precedent for this in
court decisions from both SCOTUS and Federal district courts. The recounts are irrelevant.
The "certification" of the fraudulent votes is just theater. None of that matters once the
overwhelming fraudulent nature of the entire operation is documented and revealed to
all."
Black Box Voting, Bev Harris, was in the forefront of that investigation, and alerted the
public to the dangers inherent these machines and the scumbags who run the companies that
make and program them. Harris's organization bills itself as nonpartisan.
And Jonathan Simon. Simon seemed like a very good guy, but he may be too partisan (high on
the Trump-Hate-o-Meter) to throw his intellect and experience into the current fight. I don't
know.
The wireless interface on these voting machines allows access by people sitting in
automobiles outside. I don't know if (some of) the machines are connected to the internet but
there is no "air gap" such as would prevent outside electronic access:
It's not a question of "mystery software" that can "hack voting machines." Try to keep
up.
Also, some counties in Michigan use Dominion but most of them do not I believe.
Only about half the state. Of the top fifteen counties, Wayne, Kent, Ingham, Saginaw, St
Clair, Jackson, and Berrien use Dominion. Oakland, Macomb, Genesee, Washtenaw, Ottawa,
Livingston and Muskegon use Hart InterCivic, and Kalamazoo uses ES&S.
@Skeptikal
ng all past Federal elections involving Dominion (and functionally identical) machines into
question. The claims might, if aggressively followed up, significantly thin Democratic
leadership. If the Democrats cannot quash this, it could be the end of the Democrats.
I have no particular objection to this, but the Democrats might (Who knows, ANTIFA might
cheer.). If the Democrats were frightened before, they're much more frightened now.
Frightened people act unpredictably. Unpredictable acts are particularly dangerous now
because the Democrats still control the cities and several states. Remember that the
Democrats, although visibly declining, are still immensely powerful. If a serious dispute
arises, try not to get stepped on by the combatants. If you have any way to support Trump,
this would be the time to support him.
As in his first two articles concerning the 2020 election, in this third article, Mr.
Titley utters false or questionable "facts" [ e.g. , misidentifies or fails to
account accurately the voting apparatus or vote-tabulation software that particular counties
or precincts used], and displays a deep, wide ignorance of pertinent law.
Mr. Titley's theme appears to misdirect attention to Dominion Voting Systems "voting
machines" themselves. Dominion Voting Systems "machines" are not designed to be
fraud-effecting devices. They were not devised to erase votes or create false
votes or ballots -- though some experts argue that Dominion "machines" bear program-glitches
that can cause tally-errors.
If (as seems to appear) massive fraud occurred with use of Dominion Voting Systems,"
either (a) individuals must have manually-manipulated or remotely-hacked the
Dominion "machines" or (b) vote-count-altering software -- e.g. ,
"Smartmatic" -- must have been loaded into, and operated upon, particular Dominion "machine"
systems.
According to Sidney Powell -- a previous Assistant United States Attorney and U.S. federal
district Appellate Section Chief and now a private practitioner -- the problem is software
named Smartmatic:
[S]oftware, dubbed Smartmatic, was designed for the sole purpose of shifting voting
results.
"It was a feature of the system that was designed with a back door, so that people could
watch in real time and calculate with an algorithm how many votes they needed to change to
make the results they wanted to create."
Mr. Titley says Sidney Powell is Trump's lead attorney. She is not such, but a simply a
Trump-legal-team member. Mr. Titley says Sidney Powell asserted:
"They need to investigate the likelihood that 3% of the vote total was changed in the
pre-election voting ballots that were collected digitally by using the Hammer program and
the software program called Scorecard. That would have amounted to a massive change in the
vote."
Sidney Powell has said also: (a) Evidence indicates that Smartmatic software was used not
only in Dominion Systems "machines", but also in electronic
voting/vote-tabulating "machines" other than Dominion; and (b) Smartmatic
software's election-fraud-effect requires human operation seeking to alter vote-outcomes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95WWSQFBVCo
Mr. Titley closes his article with this:
Criminal charges and indictments must be brought against one and all proved to be
involved in the attempt to circumvent the American election process.
That indictment: Treason.
Surely, much flagrant criminal conduct explains the egregious state of the 2020 election.
But "Treason" does not -- cannot :
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in
adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
U.S. Constitution Article III, section 3, clause 1
Per Article III, section 3, clause 1, one cannot commit "Treason" against the United
States unless either
(a) one wages war against the United States -- as by fighting for a foreign state attacking
or attempting to attack the United States or by joining an armed insurrection (against the
U.S. government) or
(b) one adheres to -- adopts a supportive association with -- a foreign power engaged in open
hostility against the United States AND renders ACTIVE aid or comfort to the troops or other
belligerency-agents ( e.g. , spies, saboteurs) of that foreign power.
The Article III, section 3, clause 1 term "enemies,"applies only to troops or other
belligerency-agents of a foreign power manifesting a state of open hostility against the
United States; the term's denotation does not include U.S. domestic rebels engaged in
insurrection against the U.S. government.
But if an insurrection's armed forces form a "body politic" (as did the Confederacy of the
U.S. civil war), then such armed force's members are "enemies" per Article III, section 3,
clause 1, since such belligerent body politic is effectively a "foreign" power. And if one
adheres to such belligerent body politic and renders aid or comfort to its troops or other
belligerency-agents, one commits "Treason." But such belligerent body politic is not an
"enemy" unless its belligerency manifests as war (armed violent
belligerence).
Article III, section 3, clause 1 applies only to disloyal acts committed during time of
war or armed insurrection and in pursuit or support of such war or armed insurrection
-- NOT to disloyal speech or anti-government conduct occurring in peacetime (rather than in
war or armed insurrection).
Despite Democrats and their individual and corporate supporters appear to have tainted,
criminally, this year's voting or other election processes, the Democrats and their
supporters have NOT levied war or armed insurrection against the United States or given aid
or comfort to the troops or other belligerency-agents of a foreign power. Hence, their likely
crimes cannot be "Treason."
You misunderstand how scorecard works. It intercepts the data on the way to server and
changes it. The NSA has access to all internet traffic and most likely a back door that
allows them to defeat encryption. Recently, some hackers discovered a back door in RSA keys
which are used to encrypt internet traffic. It was patched but I'm sure there was either
another way in or a new one created. Since all data is transmitted to a known server they
would intercept all traffic to the server and modify it. TCP/IP is a protocol that has
nothing to do the originating operating system. By the way, although not necessary for
scorecard to work, many voting machines are connected to the internet. In a recent
independent audit the machines examined, which run Windows 10, were unpatched and open to
many know vulnerabilities. Windows 10 a virus in it's own right, connects to Microsoft
hundreds of times a day and transmits god knows what information. They also had unauthorized
software installed indicating that local users had administrative rights to the system.
Another little known fact is that modern Intel processors have their own cell modem. So even
without an internet connection it is still possible to hack into a computer. Since the
connection is low level, intrusion prevention software is unaware of the unauthorized
entry.
If anyone can provide any details as exactly when this took place, where and any detail as
to who the people are in this video please comment and I'll fill in the details.
@AReply s,
but not Trump's? Gore is every bit as much of a turd as Trump if not more so. The issue is
the same regardless of who is behind it. It is wrong and has to stop.
It will not stop until electronics are removed. Who says that you have to know who has won
the vote count before you go to bed? That is bullshit. More voting stations ensuring a voter
is entitled to vote with paper ballots and the results counted where cast with observers
signing off on the count will put a big screw into rigging. Elections ought not be instant
gratification. Democracy is supposed to require work.
Yes, I am aware American style democracy is the best money can buy, but returning to hand
counted paper is the first step of many, in re-claiming government.
@anastasia
ny investigation would occur only after a Trump victory, in which case the investigation
would not be bi-partisan.
In terms of your original quote concerning maintenance of legitimacy:
* The urban areas will never accept election of Trump, as Trump and his supporters have no
intention of trying to remedy urban fiscal shortfalls by Federal borrowings.
* It would appear that governmental legitimacy has already been lost on both the urban and
hinterland coalitions in the US.
* The urban coalition cannot support itself even in the absence of conflict with the
hinterland coalition, and is thus incapable of ruling the USA.
* Legitimacy of some sort of government might be restored if Trump's election concerns are
acted upon, and if the US urban areas declined into political irrelevance, but not otherwise.
Although the machines hacked are old, nevertheless this an amazing, stunning example of
incompetence or corruption of election officials all over the USA
A federal lawsuit filed on Oct. 19 noted that Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg provided the funds to double the number of
polling places in Philadelphia and that he is also paying for judges to oversee ballot counting.
Votebook:
Turns out that Mark Zuckerberg has a heavy hand it what is transpiring in Philadelphia. / C-SPAN
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania, highlights how a grant for $10 million from the
Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) explicitly requires the City of Philadelphia open no fewer than 800 new polling
places – and failing to do so may require the City to forfeit the grant money. The funding from Zuckerberg also pays for
judges to oversee ballot counts and the outcome of disputes that arise regarding the eligibility of ballots in the election.
The plaintiffs in the case, the Pennsylvania Voters Alliance and several officeholders and candidates, previously filed a
complaint against Centre County, Delaware County, and the City of Philadelphia, and Secretary of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Kathy Boockvar.
"Municipal leaders have ceded their role as a local authority to CTCL with powers that rightfully belong to the people of
Pennsylvania through their representatives in Harrisburg by effectively inviting this partisan billionaire into the ballot
counting room," said Tom King, the legal counsel representing the plaintiffs in the case."
Washington Times reporter Rowan Scarborough noted: "They are still voting in Pennsylvania. Three days after Nov. 3. Dems tried
that in other states but judges said no. Continued voting after election day would be considered fraud by UN observers. News
reports said more ballots coming in. No post mark required. Or matching signature. UN observers would also consider that
evidence of fraud."
Phill Kline, Director of the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, which is supporting the litigation in Pennsylvania,
said: "We are fighting Mark Zuckerberg around the country where he is using CTCL, a nonprofit founded and managed by
Obama-affiliated operatives, to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to leftist strongholds in several battleground states
to determine the outcome of the election. This is a scheme engineered by partisan activists under the guise of COVID-related
support. The privatization of the election undermines the integrity of the election."
Political commentator Mark Steyn noted: "So swing-state elections are now a subsidiary of Facebook: Votebook. What could go
wrong?"
For those readers who may be unfamiliar with the term "Color Revolution", it refers to what has now become the standard technique
for promoting "regime change" in targeted nations.
The term may have its origins in the works of
Gene
Sharp
, who wrote some guidebooks on how to organize popular revolts using Madison Avenue-style marketing techniques. He
recommended to the sponsors that rather than confusing or boring the participants with too much political theory, they should
motivate their budding revolutionaries with pop culture, using catchy, content-free slogans, logos, and team colors.
Color R
e
volutions are expensive (
$5
billion in the case of Ukraine
) and are typically orchestrated by a public-private partnership comprised of government agencies
such as the State Department and MI6 and/or CIA, combined with private funding and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).
The most famous organization of this sort is the National Endowment For Democracy, a curious entity that is funded by the US
Government through USAID (as well as by donations from major
neocon
private
foundations), and has two sub-organizations that disseminate the funds to various Regime Change projects: the International
Republican Institute, affiliated with the Republican Party, and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs,
affiliated with the Democrats. Both organizations carry out the same activity, which underscores the fact that on matters of
subverting and bullying the rest of the world, there is a lot more bipartisanship in the US than people are inclined to think.
Another name associated with funding and orchestration is
George
Soros
, whose various tax-exempt organizations such as the Open Society Foundations invariably pump money into the latest Color
Revolutions, for reasons that are often more commercial than strictly political.
After the September 11 attacks in 2001, the
neocons
fanned
the flames of indignation and xenophobia, and were able to exploit them in order to assume a dominant role in most American
institutions, particularly the political parties and the media. Regime Change fever swept the foreign policy establishment, and
anyone who looked cross-eyed at a neocon became a target.
Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama embraced the neocon ethos and gave them virtual carte blanche to carry out Color
Revolutions around the world. The advent of social media, which fosters communication in the form of short, catchy slogans and
images that can be made to "go viral," was particularly conducive to Gene Sharp's formula of organizing the masses around
advertising copy and team colors. The Color Revolution techniques were used on a large scale in the former Soviet Union, such as in
the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia or the 2005 Orange Revolution in Ukraine.
If the targeted populations can't be organized effectively to overthrow their leaders, there is always the fall back option of
arming mercenary groups to seize power by violence, or if that fails, out and out military aggression by the US or NATO. The most
reliable method seems to be a combination of non-violent and violent action, such as in the case of Ukraine's second Color
Revolution in 2014 (a coup which was comically dubbed the "Revolution of Dignity" by its neocon sponsors, who know that a successful
marketing campaign must never be understated.) A similar case was the 2019 protests in Hong Kong, where gang violence was deployed
in hopes of provoking a crackdown by the state which could then be exploited for propaganda purposes.
But it was inevitable that these techniques would eventually be used on the US itself. Donald Trump campaigned on a platform of
reducing US reliance on Regime Change wars and NATO "out-of-area deployments" as a centerpiece of foreign policy. This was
anathema
to the neocons.
Once in office, Trump vacillated, bringing prominent neocons into his cabinet and allowing them to launch
multiple Regime Change operations. However, Trump was not a doctrinaire neocon, and he angered them by advocating better relations
with North Korea, Russia and China. And for the neocons, anything short of total allegiance to their ideology is tantamount to
betrayal.
The standard methodology was put into play the moment Trump was inaugurated. The team color was pink, in the form of the pink "pussy
hats" (these ostensibly called attention to Trump's sexual vulgarity and libertine lifestyle, which lacked the charm of Bill
Clinton's.) The buzzword was #Resistance, which was intended to conjure up images of the struggle by nations which had been
conquered by Nazi aggression during World War II. Oddly enough, however, the aggressive moves by Trump against other nations were
not #Resisted. In fact, those were the only instances where he received hearty praise from the corporate media.
But it's not possible to mobilize a population with hats and hashtags alone. There had to be some minimal political content, and
herein lay the dilemma for the organizers of America's Color Revolution. There was widespread popular discontent with what has
become known as the "forever war" policy, as well as the neoliberal economics which have produced an unprecedented income disparity
between the 1% and the 99%, and this popular discontent was key in electing Trump. The neocons wanted discontent, but
not
on those issues
, since they had no intention of changing those policies.
Instead, they opted for a revival of the Cold War. Americans seem to have a particular susceptibility to jingoism, and the
demonization of the former communist powers, which had already begun in 2014 with the neocon-sponsored coup in Ukraine, was cranked
up to full volume in the corporate media, using all the imagery and sloganeering that had proved so effective during the 1950s.
This involved some spectacular feats of cognitive dissonance. Despite
Trump's
outbursts of bellicosity toward Russia
and other neocon targets, Trump was portrayed as being "soft," an appeaser, or an
outright enemy agent. The Democratic Party, which is considered to be the more liberal of the two parties and had in decades past
expressed some nominal opposition to military adventures in Vietnam and elsewhere,
swung
way to the right of the Republicans
in the jingoism derby.
The
secret
police agencies
and their pet journalists concocted what will be admired by historians as one of the most preposterous
conspiracy theories in recorded history, the tale of Russia manipulating the 2016 election with a computer hack which somehow
cannot
be detected by the NSA
, and
puppy
pages on Facebook
.
There was also a big focus on Trump's personality, which is admittedly none too winsome. This is consistent with the neocon "Hitler
of the Month Club" formula, where each new nemesis, from Manuel Noriega to Saddam Hussein to Muammar Gaddafi to Vladimir Putin, is
depicted as the most brutish, authoritarian dictator ever to walk the face of the planet.
They succeeded in impeaching Trump in December 2019, almost three years into his first term in office. They did not actually charge
Trump with an impeachable crime, but rather offered the rationale that he had allegedly used the power of his office in ways that
could benefit his re-election campaign (something that no other American president would ever dream of doing.) This was a far cry
from the much sexier, hoped-for rationale of "collusion" with the Bolshevik Foe, which had been shot down by the Mueller Report.
However, impeachment maven
Adam
Schiff
managed to insinuate that this Collusion was the real basis for impeachment, every time he saw a TV camera. We faced the
surreal spectacle of liberals begging John Bolton to testify, as the role of the neocons in orchestrating the #Resistance became
ever more explicit.
The impeachment passed the House on purely partisan lines, and Senate voted not to convict on purely partisan lines as well. There
has been much speculation that popular pushback to the whole spectacle may actually benefit Trump in this year's election. We shall
see.
Meanwhile, with the massively FUBAR Iowa caucuses of February 2020, questions were once again raised once again about the Democratic
nominating process. Bernie Sanders was emerging as a new threat to neocon dominance, this time from within the Democratic Party.
During the days leading up to Super Tuesday, there was a remarkable development. Every prominent neocon, from Bill Kristol to Max
Boot to David Frum to Susan Rice, acted with synchronized, military precision to endorse Joe Biden. Several neocon-friendly
Democratic presidential candidates abruptly withdrew from the race to endorse him as well. There was an immediate Pavlovian response
from cable news pundits and other putative journalists. Russiagate was dusted off and started up again, this time for use against
Sanders. On April 8, Sanders capitulated and withdrew from the race.
No one in their right mind believed that the confused and incoherent Biden could defeat the also incoherent, but clever and
confident Trump. But at this point, it was more important to the neocons that they keep control over at least one of the two
parties, and a decision was made that it were better to throw the election to Trump rather than to allow Sanders' brand of
left-populism to become ascendant in the Democratic Party.
But then the neocons saw a fresh opportunity, following the May 25 murder of African-American George Floyd by police in Minneapolis.
Protest demonstrations by the Black community intersected the anxieties of a population frightened and frustrated by the one-two
punch of economic collapse combined with public health isolation to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Violent groups from the
Antifa
milieiu,
predominately
white
and
possibly assets of the FBI's
COINTELPRO
progam,
initiated vandalism and looting. Neocons were salivating at the prospect of Maidan-style chaos.
The beleaguered Trump had already been showing signs of psychological fatigue, and there had been significant lapses in his already
questionable judgement. In addition to mishandling the public health measures and the economic crisis, he had capitulated once more
to the neocons and went on an anti-China tirade. Then, when the social unrest began in the wake of the George Floyd killing, all of
Trump's political flaws came into play.
The neocons triumphantly hit the airwaves and the digital arena. Their great oracle,
The
Atlantic
, published
an
article
that serendipitously confirms the central theme of the article you are presently reading. Neocon high priestess Susan
Rice
suggested
that the Russians were to blame
for the rioting. Trump's every misstep was amplified by neocon pundits. Suddenly the idea of
electing Biden was no longer so implausible, as long as he could be
kept
away from live microphones.
It's important to
bear
in mind that the neocons are not
in the least concerned with Trump's mishandling of COVID-19 pandemic or civil unrest. They
were delighted when he ranted against China. But when he advocated reducing U.S. troop deployments in Germany and Afghanistan, they
were livid. On June 26, the
New York Times
published
yet
another story
based on anonymous leaks from the "intelligence community". This one claimed that the Taliban needed some
incentives after being occupied by a foreign power after 20 years and was now accepting "bounties" from Russia in exchange for
fighting the US military. In mid-September, General Frank McKenzie, Commander of the U.S. Central Command, told NBC News that no
evidence had been found to support this claim. Neocons continued to speak of it as established fact.
Although the corporate press continued to depict Trump as a fanatical right-winger in coverage intended for the rubes, within the
citadels of neoconservatism he was regarded as something entirely different. On September 30, 2020, the
Atlantic
published
another revelatory article entitled "
What
a Second Trump Term Would Mean for the World
." Author Thomas Wright drops a few bombshells like this one, likening Trump to the
great Progressive leader Henry Wallace (who is regarded by neocons as a close relative of Satan):
Looking back on U.S. diplomatic history, one of the great counterfactuals is what would have happened if Franklin D. Roosevelt
had not replaced his vice president Henry Wallace with Harry Truman in 1944. Wallace was sympathetic to the Soviet Union and
became an ardent opponent of the Cold War. If he had become president when FDR died, in April 1945, the next half century could
have gone very differently -- likely no NATO, no Marshall Plan, no alliance with Japan, no overseas troop presence, and no
European Union.
The U.S. is now teetering on another historically important moment. With Trump, we would not only be deprived of our Truman. We
would be saddled with our Wallace -- a leader whose instincts and actions are diametrically opposed to what the moment requires.
The good news is that the neocons are not omnipotent. They are adept at conning the public and they have the full cooperation of the
corporate media, but the public is volatile and increasingly skeptical of the official "narratives." This is why the neocons are
growing more and more hysterical in their public proclamations about "conspiracy theories" and "disinformation." They are in fact
strongly in favor of conspiracy theories and disinformation, provided that it is their own conspiracy theories and not someone
else's.
Neocons are demanding
censorship
of social media
, to drive everyone into the arms of CNN and
The
Atlantic.
As the election approaches, these demands have become increasingly more vociferous, leading to a major controversy
with the decision by both Facebook and Twitter to censor the
New
York Post
coverage
of leaked email correspondence between Joe Biden's son and executives of the Ukrainian energy firm
Burisma (which employed him at a rather remarkable salary). The rationale offered by the two social media giants, that the sourcing
of the emails was unclear, did not impress media critics, who
pointed
out
that if that policy were applied in an even-handed fashion, Russiagate could never have happened.
As long as the option is open, follow alternative news sources online. I recommend the
Grayzone
and
Consortium
News
, both of which I have found to be quiet reliable. The neocons are frightened; they worry about what John Durham's
investigation, or the declassification of documents ordered by Trump, may reveal about their methods of manipulation. Frightened
people make tactical errors. We must keep our wits about us and find ways to turn those errors to our advantage.
Nota Bene: the author of this article was subsequently
suspended
from Twitter
without explanation. Contact @TwitterSupport
and ask them why.
The pieces are finally coming together, and they reveal a masterpiece of electoral larceny
involving Big Tech oligarchs, activists, and government officials who prioritize partisanship
over patriotism.
The 2020 election was stolen because leftists were able to exploit the coronavirus pandemic
to weaken, alter, and eliminate laws that were put in place over the course of decades to
preserve the integrity of the ballot box. But just as importantly, it was stolen because those
same leftists had a thoroughly-crafted plan, and because they were rigorous in its
implementation and ruthless in its execution.
... ... ...
Under the pretext of assisting election officials conduct "safe and secure" elections in the
age of COVID, Zuckerberg donated $400 million -- as much money as Congress appropriated for the
same general purpose -- to nonprofit organizations founded and run by left-wing activists. The
primary recipient was the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), which received the staggering
sum of $350 million. Prior to Zuckerberg's donations, CTCL's annual operating expenses averaged
less than $1 million per year. How was Zuckerberg even aware of such a small-potatoes
operation, and why did he entrust it with ⅞ of the money he was pouring into this
election cycle, despite the fact that it had no prior experience handling such a massive amount
of money?
Predictably, given the partisan background of its leading officers, CTCL proceeded to
distribute Zuckerberg's funds to left-leaning counties in battleground states.
... Zuckerberg and CTCL left nothing to chance, however, writing detailed conditions into
their grants that dictated exactly how elections were to be conducted, down to the number of
ballot drop boxes and polling places. The Constitution gives state lawmakers sole authority for
managing elections, but these grants put private interests firmly in control.
... Philadelphia County alone, for instance, projected that the $10 million grant it
received from CTCL would enable it to increase turnout by 25-30 percent -- translating to well
over 200,000 votes.
The left didn't put all of its eggs into the CTCL basket, though. High-ranking state
officials simultaneously took significant steps to weaken ballot security protocols, acting on
their own authority without permission or concurrence from the state legislatures that
enshrined those protections in the law.
In Wisconsin, Democrat Secretary of State Doug La Follette allowed voters to claim "
indefinite confinement " in order to avoid having to provide a photocopy of their ID when
requesting an absentee ballot. The exemption was intended for legitimate invalids, but COVID
offered a convenient excuse for circumventing the law, despite the fact that Wisconsin had no
pandemic-related lockdown rules that would have rendered anyone "indefinitely confined." The
impact was far-reaching. About 240,000 voters claimed the exemption in 2020, compared to just
70,000 in 2016.
In Michigan, Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson unilaterally voided the legal
requirement that voters provide a signature when requesting an absentee ballot, establishing an
online request form. She then took things a step further by announcing that she
would "allow civic groups and other organizations running voter registration drives to register
voters through the state's online registration website," granting partisan groups such as Rock
The Vote direct access to Michigan's voter rolls.
In Pennsylvania, election officials in heavily-Democratic counties that received CTCL
funding allowed flawed mail-in ballots to be "cured" -- that is, altered or replaced -- prior
to Election Day.
... This was particularly egregious when it came to ballot "curing," a process that actually
involves election workers filling out brand new ballots on behalf of voters whose ballots
purportedly could not be read by machine. This could have been due to something the voter
themselves did, such as spilling coffee on the ballot. It also could have been due to something
that election workers themselves did, such as crumpling ballots to prevent the machines from
receiving them, just as a vending machine rejects crumpled bills.
... These election workers, it should be noted, were paid directly by
CTCL's grants . These supposedly impartial arbiters of our electoral process are supposed
to work for the people, but they were on Zuckerberg's payroll.
Ken Blackwell, former Secretary of State of Ohio, is the Distinguished Fellow for Human
Rights and Constitutional Governance, at the Family Research Council. He served as United
States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission from
1990-1993.
Anyone with functioning grey matter knows that this election was a fraud! The question
remains, are people going to just throw their hands in the air and say oh well or is this the
line in the sand that patriots are drawing and saying no more it's time to take a stand for
freedom and liberty! Stay tuned!
Millions of ballots aren't any good. That's the issue.
The remedy is the Electoral College via State legislatures . If the
Republicans won't keep Trump in the White House via the Electoral College than this is a
Republican coup against Trump.
We know it's a Republican coup because the Republicans who were supposed to lose like
Susan Collins all won easily. They rode Trump's coattails to victory, but the coat
lost.
That's not how that works. Anyone trying to explain that is part of the coup ag
Georgia vote recount found 'unacceptable' errors, Governor Brian Kemp said, urging his
secretary of state to conduct an audit of at least some mail-in ballots to ensure confidence in
the upcoming US Senate runoff elections.
Kemp spoke on Friday evening, after Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certified Democrat
Joe Biden as winner of the state's 16 electoral votes in the November 3 election, following a
recount of the ballots. Both Kemp and Raffensperger are Republicans.
Acknowledging the "record number of absentee ballots" which he said was due to the
Covid-19 pandemic, Kemp said the audit revealed "significant errors" in a number of
counties across the state, including Floyd, Fayette, Douglas and Walton.
"It's quite honestly hard to believe that during the audit, thousands of uncounted
ballots were found weeks after a razor-thin outcome in a presidential election," Kemp
said.
O'Connor pushed her about her claims that computer software used in the election,
particularly Dominion Voting Systems, has been tainted, and he wondered how she would prove it.
For starters, Powell said that her legal team has pictures of votes being manipulated in
real-time.
"It is terrifying, and it is a huge national security issue," Powell said. "Why the
Department of Justice and FBI have not done something, Dominion is closing its offices and
moving. No doubt they're shredding documents. God only knows what else. More than 100 Dominion
people have wiped any connection with Dominion off the internet."
She also claims that they have testimony from witnesses opening military ballots and
trashing them if they were for Trump, and substitute ballots were put in for Biden.
"I'm essentially staking my personal and professional reputation on these allegations, and I
have no hesitation from what I've seen in doing so," she noted. "In fact, I think it would be
irresponsible if not criminal of me not to come forward with it."
She also says she would LOVE for Dominion to sue her over her allegations so she can conduct
civil discovery. Powell also reacted to Fox News host Tucker Carlson's criticism of her on his
program on Thursday night.
"... "Democracy" is little more than another word for "rule by money" – it can be nothing else. The entire world is falling under the delusion that "each vote counts". ..."
"... The world is utterly corrupt, ruled almost exclusively by monied interests. Jesus said: "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." ..."
"... Misinformed by the politicians and the MSM, presumably. So if establishment and career politicians are the enemies of the people, then anti-politicians and populist outsiders who want to drain the swamp deserve our fullest support. ..."
This is not just America. It is global. the decades old drive to convert the world's
governments to "democracy" is in fact a drive to place the elite in total control of the
populations. "Democracy" is little more than another word for "rule by money" – it can
be nothing else. The entire world is falling under the delusion that "each vote counts".
The world is utterly corrupt, ruled almost exclusively by monied interests. Jesus said:
"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will
be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."
Which is your choice?
I_left_the_left , Nov 16, 2020 10:29 AM Reply to Victor
Are voters really as corrupt as those they vote for?
Laurence Howell , Nov 16, 2020 12:44 PM Reply to I_left_the_left
No, just mis-informed
I_left_the_left , Nov 16, 2020 1:11 PM Reply to Laurence
Howell
Misinformed by the politicians and the MSM, presumably. So if establishment and career
politicians are the enemies of the people, then anti-politicians and populist outsiders who
want to drain the swamp deserve our fullest support.
They are programmed and propagandized, embracing the illusion that the electoral system is
not structured and controlled to make sure no significant change can occur, no matter who is
president. It is a sad reality promoted as democracy.
They will prattle on and give all sorts of reasons why they voted, and for whom, and how if
you don't vote you have no right to bitch, and how it's this sacred right to vote that makes
democracy great, blah blah blah. It's all sheer nonsense. For the U.S.A. is not a democracy;
it is an oligarchy run by the wealthy for the wealthy.
This is not a big secret. Everybody knows this is true; knows the electoral system is
sheer show business with the presidential extravaganza drawing the big money from corporate
lobbyists, investment bankers, credit card companies, lawyers, business and hedge fund
executives, Silicon Valley honchos, think tanks, Wall Street gamblers, millionaires,
billionaires, et. al. Biden and Trump spent over 3 billion dollars on the election. They are
owned by the money people.
Both are old men with long, shameful histories. A quick inquiry will show how the rich have
profited immensely from their tenures in office. There is not one hint that they could change
and have a miraculous conversion while in future office, like JFK. Neither has the guts or the
intelligence. They are nowhere men who fear the fate that John Kennedy faced squarely when he
turned against the CIA and the war machine. They join the craven company of Johnson, Ford,
Carter, Reagan G.H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama. They all got the message that
was sent from the streets of Dallas in 1963: You don't want to die, do you?
Ask yourself: Has the power of the oligarchic, permanent warfare state with its propaganda
and spy networks, its vast intelligence apparatus, increased or decreased in the past half
century? Who is winning the battle, the people or the ruling elites? The answer is obvious.
It matters not at all whether the president has been Trump or Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan or
George W. Bush, Barack Obama or George H. W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, or Jimmy Carter.
The power of the national security state has grown under them all and everyone is left to moan
and groan and wonder why.
All the while, the doll's house has become more and more sophisticated and powerful. It is
now essentially an electronic prison that is being "Built Back Better." The new Cold War now
being waged against Russia and China is a bi-partisan affair, as is the confidence game played
by the secret government intended to create a fractured consciousness in the population through
their corporate mass-media stenographers. Trump and his followers on one side of the coin;
liberal Democrats on the other.
Only those backed by the wealthy power brokers get elected in the U.S.A. Then when elected,
it's payback time. Palms are greased. Everybody knows this is true. It's called corruption. So
why would anyone, who opposes a corrupt political oligarchy, vote, unless they were casting a
vote of conscience for a doomed third-party candidate?
hether it's Tweedledee or Tweedledum – will result in the death and impoverishment of
so many, that being the end result of oligarchic rule at home and imperialism abroad.
Orwell called this Doublethink:
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind
simultaneously, and accepting both of them . To tell deliberate lies while genuinely
believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes
necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the
existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one
denies – all this is indispensably necessary.
And while in Nineteen Eighty-Four Doublethink is learned by all the Party members
"and certainly by all who are intelligent as well as orthodox," today in the USA, it has
been mastered even by the so-called unintelligent.
To live in the USA is to live in the Church of the Good Hustler.
People often ask: What can we do to make the country better? What is your alternative?
A child could answer that one: Don't vote if you know that both contenders are backed by the
super-rich elites, what some call the Deep State. Which of course they are. Everybody
knows.
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I_left_the_left , Nov 18, 2020 9:50 AM
"the U.S.A. is not a democracy; it is an oligarchy run by the wealthy for the wealthy."
Sorry, no. The whole point about Trump is that he is the great anti-politician, the outsider,
the patriot enemy of the corrupt ruling elites who only care about status, power and control,
not the interests of the American people or any other. By contrast, Biden is clearly the
perfect puppet of the oligarchy and political establishment. The ruling class expected their
ally Clinton to win in 2016, never Trump. The great election steal of 2020 is all about
reversing this little surprise, and to make sure that the irksome people power of US
democracy will finally be under full control. No more land of the free; the USA is now on the
cusp of becoming a leftist fascist dictatorship, in which US patriots are the new German
Jews, and in which future elections will be as meaningful as those of the Soviet Union.
A Texas Libertarian , Nov 18, 2020 6:05 AM
If you don't see that there is a big difference between Trump and Biden, then you are
still in the dollhouse. Trump certainly ain't perfect, but at least he wants to keep the
economy open. Biden is the lock down candidate. If that's all I knew about each of these
candidates, it'd be enough to vote for Trump. But there is a lot more.
Also, 'democracy' is the virus, not the cure, and Orwell was a dumb ass socialist.
Curmudgeon , Nov 17, 2020 11:55 PM
With all of his warts, Nixon did end the Vietnam war. Reagan ended the Cold War and
mutually assured destruction. Wilson got the US into WWI, FDR did WWII, Truman set up Korea
and Clinton tried to heat up Yugoslavia.
George Wallace circa 1965 said there wasn't a dimes worth of difference between the Democrats
and Republicans. They are different branches of the corporate party and globalists competing
for the speed of takeover. Trump is a corporatist but for all of his faults has gone off
script with his own corporatist agenda to cut in on the action, and the owners ain't havin'
it, because the Trumpian party is ever-so mildly nationalistic. Nationalism cannot be allowed
to rear its beautiful head, because people will love it. Trump is a turd, alright, but Biden
is a pile of shit.
I_left_the_left , Nov 18, 2020 9:53 AM Reply to Curmudgeon
Would Biden end endless wars of intervention against the wishes of the neo-cons and
military-industrial complex, as Trump has been doing?
Wow what a hopeless and dreary world you live in. I left the dollhouse in the weeks after
9-11 when I realized the official narrative was full of holes. But I don't find the world out
here quite so dreary as you. Call me a dreamer, but I still believe that good always
(eventually) wins over evil, and I believe the ideals of America – the very same ones
that were probably sold to us as a fake bill of goods a long time ago – is REAL and not
an illusion because so many people believe in it. Perception is reality. Donald Trump despite
all his personal quirks and flaws I sincerely believe to be a deal maker who is interested in
protecting and serving the American people. Even if it's out of his own narcissism that he
wants to do so I'll take it. Regardless, one good thing that has come out of the last 4 years
is that I think a LOT of people have gotten "woke" in their own ways. Not all have left the
dollhouse yet but many have. Have faith in people.
Lysias , Nov 17, 2020 2:01 PM
If it made no difference who won, why were the elites so fanatically opposed to Trump?
It does make a difference cf. the mad scramble to get GWB elected in 2000. At that time
the rulers had decided on years of aggressive foreign policy therefore they need the "war
party" in. When Obama was pitted against the lame duck McCain it was time for some "smiley
face" rule with a surge in the woke factor with the first (gasp!) African American
president.
With Trump, I think it was a genuine shock when he was elected. Like Brexit in the UK, it
just wasn't supposed to happen! Trump is too much of a wild card. Too revealing. Suggesting
there's a deep state and actually taking conspiracies seriously? How dare he!. More to the
point, he's not getting with the covid program.
I_left_the_left , Nov 18, 2020 10:01 AM Reply to wardropper
Trump had the perfect billionaire's lifestyle, but gave it all up to run for the
presidency. He donated all presidential salary to good causes and says he has lost billions
by becoming president, unlike any other political leader you care to mention. More seriously,
he has put himself and family in grave danger by opposing the corrupt ruling classes of the
USA, and by his insolent attempt to 'drain the swamp'. In the near future, the elites will
persecute and try to imprison him and his family, to prevent any further rebellion against
their control in the land of the unfree.
We don't really know how fanatically opposed to him they actually are.
What the media choose to show us always has several layers of superficial, misleading crap
attached to it.
Appearing to be opposed to something is a pretty old trick, after all.
It covers your ass.
Lysias , Nov 17, 2020 10:50 PM Reply to wardropper
Paying off the BLM rioters? That's not something you do just to create an appearance.
The election is being stolen but once again the establishment dramatically misread the lay
of the political landscape among the American population. The adjustments that were made
ahead of time to the paperless electronic voting machines were not sufficient to overcome the
votes for Trump and so the establishment has to fall back on much more difficult and risky
approaches to cooking the count. To help cover this more challenging and time-consuming
operation the "Mighty Wurlitzer" has the mass media chanting in chorus that the Trump
Administration's charges of fraud are "baseless" before investigations can be done to
determine if the charges have a basis.
There will be no "revenge" against the Democrats. If the American public accepts
the results of the fraud then the establishment (Democrats and Republicans) will heave a
"Huuuge" sigh of relief for dodging the bullet and things will return to
"normal" as they were with previous presidents as figureheads for the State. There
will be nothing remotely like the ludicrous "Russiagate" hysteria that the mass media
indulged in against Trump. Something truly baseless will have to be found for the Republicans
to rant at the Democrats about like Obama's birth certificate, but the real issues will be
dropped like hot potatoes by both "teams" .
The establishment will then try to restart "Project for a New American Century" .
This is bad news for Syria as the "Assad Curse" will start getting more exercise
again. This is also bad news for Russia as the PNAC crowd are entirely certain that the
Russians are bluffing about engaging the Empire kinetically. They are Russians, after all,
right? You just have to push them hard enough like Reagan did and they will roll over.
At least that is what the PNAC crowd thinks. The PNACers rely for their brainpower on the
PMC ( "Professional, Managerial class" ), who as c1ue pointed out are "...
the middle managers, doctors, lawyers, MBAs, tenured professors, finance types and what not
who are divorced from the actual hands-on labor." That part about being "divorced from
the actual hands-on labor" is important because it means they have nothing mooring them
to reality.
[Aside: I have often mentioned that economics is the keystone social science, and
contemporary economics being based around vacuous capitalist apologetics renders the entire
realm of the social sciences a limp and constantly shifting mass of liquid shite with no
predictive power and only serving to sell pop culture self-help books. Psychology is where
the social sciences bump up against the biological sciences. This is how economics plays such
an important role in real (not pop) psychology. One's occupation; how one makes a living; how
one puts food on the table, is the core of human identity (skin tone isn't anywhere close).
The more that individuals fulfill employment roles that are entirely socially constructed and
the further they are from direct involvement in the process of transforming natural resources
into tangible items humans use for living, then the more tenuous and, to put it politely,
more "abstract" and subject to reinterpretation their association with physical
reality becomes. This is why c1ue 's PMCs, despite being very intelligent and highly
educated, can make such profound mistakes that get hayseed farmers scratching their heads in
amazement.]
The PNAC gang (Biden/Harris is their front) will now "shirtfront" Russia and
"get in their face" . They will escalate until they succeed at their plans. Trump's
escalations were almost entirely symbolic and meaningless, but the PNACer's escalations will
be kinetic. When Iran is once again forced to retaliate against the empire and
missile-strikes some US assets, the PNAC people will escalate and respond with ten times the
violence where Trump had ordered the empire to stand down.
Unfortunately for the empire, America's economic decline is systemic; it is baked into
capitalism. It cannot be reversed. While Trump hastened the empire's diplomatic decline and
poisoned its "soft power" , Biden/Harris will hasten the empire's economic
decline.
As for the Fort Detrick flu, the mass media will now try to downplay it in order to get
workers back to making the elites some profits, but the cases and fatalities will continue to
increase. There will be no more effective countering of the pandemic by Team Blue than Team
Red because the US simply doesn't have the tools, either medically, culturally, or socially,
to do anything about it.
Four years of the deep state/establishment exposing itself in panicked hysteria, only to
now fade back into the background with nothing gained from those four years. I wonder how the
posters here who think it was all part of an elaborate plan will spin their tales of the
omnipotent empire now that it can no longer be said "Trump hasn't started a war YET
but he will once he cements his image as 'Glorious Leader'!!"
Biden/Harris being installed in such an obvious manner is not a display of the
establishment's power, but rather is proof of their weakness and incompetence.
Financial oligarchy fully controls neoliberal Dems and this "scholar" does even use the term neoliberalism to describe the US elections.
What a jerk.
"Mitt Romney and Donald Trump agreed on basically every issue, as did Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. And yet, a bunch of people
changed their votes. And the reason that happened was because the salience of various issues changed." -- that a false, phoby statiment.
Election for Obama and for Hillary were conducted at the different stages of the crisis of neoliberalism. In Hillary case voters ejected
the candidate from neoliberal establishment.
David Shor got famous by getting fired. In late May, amid widespread protests over George Floyd's murder, the 28-year-old data
scientist tweeted out a study that found nonviolent
demonstrations were more effective than "riots" at pushing public opinion and voter behavior leftward in 1968.
Many Twitter users -- and
(reportedly) some of Shor's colleagues and clients at the data firm Civis Analytics -- found this post insensitive. A day later,
Shor publicly apologized for his tweet. Two
weeks after that, he'd lost his job as Civis's head of political data science -- and become a byword for the excesses of so-called
cancel
culture . (Shor has not discussed his firing publicly due to a nondisclosure agreement, and the details of his termination remain
undisclosed).
... ... ...
So there's a big constellation of issues. The single biggest way that highly educated people who follow politics closely are different
from everyone else is that we have much more ideological coherence in our views.
If you decided to create a survey scorecard, where on every single issue -- choice, guns, unions, health care, etc. -- you gave
people one point for choosing the more liberal of two policy options, and then had 1,000 Americans fill it out, you would find that
Democratic elected officials are to the left of 90 to 95 percent of people.
And the reason is that while voters may have more left-wing views than Joe Biden on a few issues, they don't have the same consistency
across their views. There are like tons of pro-life people who want higher taxes, etc. There's
a paper by the political scientist
David Broockman that made this point really famous -- that "moderate" voters don't have moderate views, just ideologically inconsistent
ones. Some people responded to media coverage of that paper by saying, "Oh, people are just answering these surveys randomly, issues
don't matter." But that's not actually what the paper showed. In a separate section, they tested the relevance of issues by presenting
voters with hypothetical candidate matchups -- here's a politician running on this position, and another politician running on the
opposite -- and they found that issue congruence was actually very important for predicting who people voted for.
So this suggests there's a big mass of voters who agree with us on some issues, and disagree with us on others. And whenever we
talk about a given issue, that increases the extent to which voters will cast their ballots on the basis of that issue.
Mitt Romney and Donald Trump agreed on basically every issue, as did Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. And yet, a bunch of people
changed their votes. And the reason that happened was because the salience of various issues changed. Both sides talked a lot more
about immigration, and because of that, correlation between preferences on immigration and which candidate people voted for went
up. In 2012, both sides talked about health care. In 2016, they didn't. And so the correlation between views on health care and which
candidate people voted for went down.
So this means that every time you open your mouth, you have this complex optimization problem where what you say gains you some
voters and loses you other voters. But this is actually cool because campaigns have a lot of control over what issues they talk about.
Non-college-educated whites, on average, have very conservative views on immigration, and generally conservative racial attitudes.
But they have center-left views on economics; they support universal health care and minimum-wage increases. So I think Democrats
need to talk about the issues they are with us on, and try really hard not to talk about the issues where we disagree. Which, in
practice, means not talking about immigration.
... ... ...
The problem is that swing voters don't trust either party. So if you get Democrats to embrace Abolish ICE, that won't get moderate-
ish , racist white people to support it; it will just turn them into Republicans. So that's the trade-off. When you embrace
unpopular things, you become more unpopular with marginal voters, but also get a fairly large segment of the public to change its
views. And the latter can sometimes produce long-term change.
But it's a hard trade-off. And I don't think anyone ever says something like, "I think it was a good trade for us to lose the
presidency because we raised the salience of this issue." That's not generally what people want. They don't want to make an unpopular
issue go from 7 percent to 30 percent support. They want something like what happened with gay marriage or marijuana legalization,
where you take an issue that is 30 percent and then it goes to 70 percent. And if you look at the history of those things, it's kind
of clear that campaigns didn't do that.
... ... ...
But ultimately, when people hear from both sides, they're gonna revert to some kind of partisan baseline. But there's not a nihilism
there; it's not just that Democratic-leaning voters will adopt the Democratic position or Republican-leaning ones will automatically
adopt the Republican one. Persuadable voters trust the parties on different issues.
And there's a pretty basic pattern -- both here and in other countries -- in which voters view center-left parties as empathetic.
Center-left parties care about the environment, lowering poverty, improving race relations. And then, you know, center-right parties
are seen as more "serious," or more like the stern dad figure or something. They do better on getting the economy going or lowering
unemployment or taxes or crime or immigration.
... ... ..
What's powerful about nonviolent protest -- and particularly nonviolent protest that incurs a disproportionate response from the
police -- is that it can shift the conversation, in a really visceral way, into the part of this issue space that benefits Democrats
and the center left. Which is the pursuit of equality, social justice, fairness -- these Democratic-loaded concepts -- without the
trade-off of crime or public safety. So I think it is really consistent with a pretty broad, cross-sectional body of evidence (a
piece of which I obviously tweeted at some point
) that nonviolent protest is politically advantageous, both in terms of changing public opinion on discrete issues and electing parties
sympathetic to the left's concerns.
As for "the abolish the police" stuff, I think the important thing there is that basically no mainstream elected officials embraced
it.
... ... ...
But there's always a mix of violent and nonviolent protest; or, there's always some violence that occurs at nonviolent protests.
And it's not a situation where a drop of violence spoils everything and turns everybody into fascists. The research isn't consistent
with that. It's more about the proportions. Because the mechanism here is that when violence is happening, people become afraid.
They fear for their safety, and then they crave order. And order is a winning issue for conservatives here and everywhere around
the world. The basic political argument since the French Revolution has been the left saying, "Let's make things more fair," and
the right saying, "If we do that, it will lead to chaos and threaten your family."
But when you have nonviolent protests that goad security forces into using excessive force against unarmed people -- preferably
while people are watching -- then order gets discredited, and people experience this visceral sense of unfairness. And you can change
public opinion.
... ... ..
So, as a result, campaigns centered around this cosmopolitan elite's internal disagreements over economic issues. But over the
past 60 years, college graduates have gone from being 4 percent of the electorate to being more like 35. Now, it's actually possible
-- for the first time ever in human history -- for political parties to openly embrace cosmopolitan values and win elections; certainly
primary and municipal elections, maybe even national elections if you don't push things too far or if you have a recession at your
back. And so Democratic elites started campaigning on the things they'd always wanted to, but which had previously been too toxic.
And so did center-left parties internationally
... .....
Many on the left are wary of the Democratic Party's growing dependence on wealthy voters and donors. But you've argued that the
party's donor class actually pulls it to the left,
as big-dollar Democratic donors are more progressive -- even on economic issues -- than the median Democratic voter. I'm skeptical
of that claim. After all, so much regulation and legislation never crosses ordinary Americans' radar. It seems implausible to me
that, during negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Obama administration
fought to export America's generous patent protections on pharmaceuticals to the developing world, or to expand the reach of
the Investor
State Dispute Settlement process, because they felt compelled to placate swing voters. Similarly, it's hard for me to believe
that the primary reason why Democrats did not significantly expand collective-bargaining rights under Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton,
and Barack Obama was voter hostility to labor-law reform rather than the unified opposition of business interests to such a policy.
So why couldn't it be the case that, when it comes to policy, a minority of big-dollar donors who are highly motivated -- and reactionary
-- on discrete issues pull the party to the right, even as wealthier Democrats give more ideologically consistent responses to survey
questions?
... ... ...
David Broockman showed in a recent paper
-- and I've seen this in internal data -- that people who give money to Democrats are more economically left wing than Democrats
overall. And the more money people give, the more economically left wing they are. These are obviously the non-transactional donors.
But people underestimate the extent to which the non-transactional money is now all of the money. This wasn't true ten years ago.
So then you get to the question: Why do so many moderate Democrats vote for center-right policies that don't even poll well? Why
did Heidi Heitkamp vote to
deregulate banks in 2018
, when the median voter in North Dakota doesn't want looser regulations on banks? But the thing is, while that median voter doesn't
want to deregulate banks, that voter doesn't want a senator who is bad for business in North Dakota. And so if the North Dakota business
community signals that it doesn't like Heidi Heitkamp, that's really bad for Heidi Heitkamp, because business has a lot of cultural
power.
I think that's a very straightforward, almost Marxist view of power: Rich people have disproportionate cultural influence. So
business does pull the party right. But it does so more through the mechanism of using its cultural power to influence public opinion,
not through donations to campaigns.
So, in your view, the reason that Democrats aren't more left wing on economic issues isn't because they're bought off, but because
the median voter is "bought off," in the sense of responding to cues from corporate interests?
... ... ...
So I think people underestimate Democrats' openness to left-wing policies that won't cost them elections. And there are a lot
of radical, left-wing policies that are genuinely very popular.
Codetermination is popular. A
job guarantee is popular. Large minimum-wage increases are popular and could literally end market poverty.
All these things will engender opposition from capital. But if you focus on the popular things, and manage to build positive earned
media around those things, then you can convince Democrats to do them. So we should be asking ourselves, "What is the maximally radical
thing that can get past Joe Manchin." And that's like a really depressing optimization problem. And it's one that most leftists don't
even want to approach, but they should. There's a wide spectrum of possibilities for what could happen the next time Democrats take
power, and if we don't come in with clear thinking and realistic demands, we could end up getting rolled.
... ... ...
The Senate is even worse. And much worse than people realize. The Senate has always been, on paper, biased against Democrats.
It overrepresents states that are rural and white, and mechanically, that gives a structural advantage to Republicans. For 50 years
or so, the tipping-point state in the Senate has been about one percentage point more Republican than the country as a whole. And
that advantage did go up in 2016, because white rural voters trended against us (it went up to 3 percent).
... ... ..
I think one big lesson of 2018 was that Trump's coalition held up. Obviously, we did better as the party out of power. But if
you look at how we did in places like Maine or Wisconsin or Michigan, it looked more like 2016 than 2012. Donald Trump still has
a giant structural advantage in the Electoral College.
I will go back to an approach that served me well with regard to the Iraq WMD story. I have
no way of evaluating Yan's claims, but there are a fair number of people and organizations that
do have the resources to evaluate. I rejected WMD claims in 2003 simply because none of the
other players with relevant competence acted in ways that indicated serious concern. What is
Yan Li-meng's evidence that others do not have? This issue of origin has to have been pursued
by at least a couple dozen organizations with the necessary competence. None of those has made
any such claims. That doesn't mean that the claims are false. But if the claims are true, then
there must be very strong motives for keeping silent. So what would be the common interest
between, say, the intelligence agencies of Germany and those of India?
Without such evidence this turns into a she-said-he-said story. Now that does not mean that
it is wrong. Suppression and intimidation would not be out of character for the Chinese
government. But again the world is loaded with very paranoid people who are capable of
evaluating that. And who are pretty much immune to Chinese intimidation. They don't have to
face off against the Chinese state. There are plenty of more roundabout ways to get the word
out if you want to do so and have government-level resources to put into the effort.
The obvious alternative to publication of the logic for detecting human agency is to engage
in simple human retaliation. Are the Chinese the only ones capable of such producing such a
catastrophe? Pretty unlikely. Would such a counterstroke catch the Chinese by surprise? Again
unlikely if they are aware of having stepped over the line. The measures they are taking
against virus outbreaks are more extreme than what western countries have imposed, but not
(yet) indicating panic. If somebody let some 1918 swine flu loose in Shanghai, would their
measures be able to counter it? (Five times as contagious as what we seeing in covid-19.)
Red State raises additional skepticism about this "scientist's interview", as well as the
oddities of the very original days of reporting about the Chinese t "flu" coming out of
China. Remembering also one of the very first ways we even started hearing about this "new
Chinese virus" in the US were reports about the Great Toilet Paper panic, even though people
here did not know why they were supposed to be hoarding it. https://www.redstate.com/michael_thau/2020/09/17/920958/
Best I could trace was to an earlier Australian toilet paper panic they claimed was hawked
by Yahoo News in Australia, and then spread via social media to the US. And our Great Toilet
Paper Hoax began in earnest here too. China was allegedly the source for all Australian TP,
so it was claimed with so many people sick in China with this "flu" there would be no more
toilet paper Down Under for their down unders.
But the US did not rely on China for TP, so the TP panic was not warrented to be set in
motion here. But it did capture attention and did trigger panic before we even knew what to
be afraid of. Greasing the skids in some manipulative way could be one jaundiced
conclusion.
Hope someone with better skills can really trace the origins of the Great Toilet Paper
Hoax, because it did wipe us out in the US. No sheet. Was that the covid panic transmission
route; and not really on a flight from Wuhan to Seattle?
No - but she may be another in a long line of useful idiots.
"Independent fact checkers?" 25 year old Humanities and Social Sciences grads working
for Facebook? Independent of what? Independent of their mommies and daddies at long
last?
Countervailing research goes light-years beyond "Independent fact checkers?".
Italicized/bold text was excerpted from nature.com a report titled:
The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2
SARS-CoV-2 is the seventh coronavirus known to infect humans; SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and
SARS-CoV-2 can cause severe disease, whereas HKU1, NL63, OC43 and 229E are associated with
mild symptoms6. Here we review what can be deduced about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 from
comparative analysis of genomic data. We offer a perspective on the notable features of the
SARS-CoV-2 genome and discuss scenarios by which they could have arisen. Our analyses clearly
show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated
virus.
The genomic features described here may explain in part the infectiousness and
transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 in humans. Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not
a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other
theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2
features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses
in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is
plausible.
Italicized/bold text was excerpted from The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and
Hygiene a report titled:
The Origin of COVID-19 and Why It Matters
In 2007, scientists studying coronaviruses warned: "The presence of a large
reservoir of SARS-CoV–like viruses in horseshoe bats is a time bomb. The possibility of
the re-emergence of SARS and other novel viruses should not be ignored."1
Studying animal viruses that have previously spilled over into humans provides clues
about host-switching determinants. A well-understood example is influenza virus emergence
into humans and other mammals.2 Human pandemic and seasonal influenza viruses arise from
enzootic viruses of wild waterfowl and shore birds. From within this natural reservoir, the
1918 pandemic "founder" virus somehow host-switched into humans. We know this from genetic
studies comparing avian viruses, the 1918 virus, and its descendants, which have caused three
subsequent pandemics, as well as annual seasonal influenza in each of the 102 years since
1918. Similarly, other avian influenza viruses have host-switched into horses, dogs, pigs,
seals, and other vertebrates, with as yet unknown pandemic potential.2,10,11 Although some
molecular host-switching events remain unobserved, phylogenetic analyses of influenza viruses
allow us to readily characterize evolution and host-switching as it occurs in
nature.2
It should be clarified that theories about a hypothetical man-made origin of
SARS-CoV-2 have been thoroughly discredited by multiple coronavirus experts.21,28,29
SARS-CoV-2 contains neither the genetic fingerprints of any of the reverse genetics systems
that have been used to engineer coronaviruses nor does it contain genetic sequences that
would have been "forward engineered" from preexisting viruses, including the genetically
closest sarbecoviruses. That is, SARS-CoV-2 is unlike any previously identified coronavirus
from which it could have been engineered. Moreover, the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain,
which has affinity for cells of various mammals, binds to human ACE2 receptors via a novel
mechanism.
Engineering such a virus would have required 1) published or otherwise available
scientific knowledge that did not exist until after COVID-19 recognition; 2) a failure to
follow obvious engineering pathways, resulting in an imperfectly constructed virus; and 3) an
ability to genetically engineer a new virus without leaving fingerprints of the engineering.
Furthermore, the 12 amino acid furin-cleavage site insertion between the SARS-CoV-2 spike
protein's S1 and S2 domains, which some have alleged to be a sign of genetic engineering, is
found in other bat and human coronaviruses in nature, probably arising via naturally
occurring recombination.24
It is also highly unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 was released from a laboratory by
accident because no laboratory had the virus nor did its genetic sequence exist in any
sequence database before its initial GenBank deposition (early January 2020). China's
laboratory safety practices, policies, training, and engineering are equivalent to those of
the United States and other developed countries,32 making viral "escape" extremely unlikely,
and of course impossible without a viral isolate present. SARS-CoV-2 shares genetic
properties with many other sarbecoviruses, lies fully within their genetic cluster, and is
thus a virus that emerged naturally.
Italicized/bold text was excerpted from nature.com a report titled:
Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the
COVID-19 pandemic
There are outstanding evolutionary questions on the recent emergence of human
coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 including the role of reservoir species, the role of recombination and
its time of divergence from animal viruses. We find that the sarbecoviruses -- the viral
subgenus containing SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 -- undergo frequent recombination and exhibit
spatially structured genetic diversity on a regional scale in China. SARS-CoV-2 itself is not
a recombinant of any sarbecoviruses detected to date, and its receptor-binding motif,
important for specificity to human ACE2 receptors, appears to be an ancestral trait shared
with bat viruses and not one acquired recently via recombination. To employ phylogenetic
dating methods, recombinant regions of a 68-genome sarbecovirus alignment were removed with
three independent methods. Bayesian evolutionary rate and divergence date estimates were
shown to be consistent for these three approaches and for two different prior specifications
of evolutionary rates based on HCoV-OC43 and MERS-CoV. Divergence dates between SARS-CoV-2
and the bat sarbecovirus reservoir were estimated as 1948 (95% highest posterior density
(HPD): 1879–1999), 1969 (95% HPD: 1930–2000) and 1982 (95% HPD: 1948–2009),
indicating that the lineage giving rise to SARS-CoV-2 has been circulating unnoticed in bats
for decades.
With horseshoe bats currently the most plausible origin of SARS-CoV-2, it is
important to consider that sarbecoviruses circulate in a variety of horseshoe bat species
with widely overlapping species ranges57. Nevertheless, the viral population is largely
spatially structured according to provinces in the south and southeast on one lineage, and
provinces in the centre, east and northeast on another (Fig. 3). This boundary appears to be
rarely crossed. Two exceptions can be seen in the relatively close relationship of Hong Kong
viruses to those from Zhejiang Province (with two of the latter, CoVZC45 and CoVZXC21,
identified as recombinants) and a recombinant virus from Sichuan for which part of the genome
(region B of SC2018 in Fig. 3) clusters with viruses from provinces in the centre,
east and northeast of China. SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13 are also exceptions because they were
sampled from Hubei and Yunnan, respectively.
It is clear from our analysis that viruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 have been
circulating in horseshoe bats for many decades. The unsampled diversity descended from the
SARS-CoV-2/RaTG13 common ancestor forms a clade of bat sarbecoviruses with generalist
properties -- with respect to their ability to infect a range of mammalian cells -- that
facilitated its jump to humans and may do so again. Although the human ACE2-compatible RBD
was very likely to have been present in a bat sarbecovirus lineage that ultimately led to
SARS-CoV-2, this RBD sequence has hitherto been found in only a few pangolin viruses.
Furthermore, the other key feature thought to be instrumental in the ability of SARS-CoV-2 to
infect humans -- a polybasic cleavage site insertion in the S protein -- has not yet
been seen in another close bat relative of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
As if on cue Li-Meng Yan appears like manna from heaven aiding/abetting in foisting
forth the current dominant Western government/media narrative that China is bad.
"... Their low information voters like the idea of big bad gobinment agencies doing bad stuff to all of us and being responsible for whatever. The narratives always Trump reality. ..."
"... It all makes sense when the good of the few Trumps [means plundering of] the rest is considered a public good. When avarice meets reality it attacks with diverting ad hominem [e.g. brainwashed socialists, etc.] and ever worse logic fallacies. ..."
"... So you call it a successful policy...based on what? Stock prices are up? The wealthy have grabbed most of the income gains? ..."
"... [Net reductions in monthly mortgage expenses obtained from refinancing at low rates, consumer credit discounts for all variable rate interest lines of credit, short term small business cash flow balancing operating loans at prime rate. The wealthy got a little leverage trading done but only those that sold off stocks have made money from high stock prices. Those still holding shares may have nothing to gain except for losses.] ..."
"... A little?!? Take a look at the chart: Capital's share of national income. It has really taken off--well above the trend line of the last 40 years--since ZIRP and QE. ..."
"... But anyone with much experience in long term asset markets, such as the stock market or housing market, ought to realize that it is low inflation which tends to boost valuations for long term assets. The current very low inflation expectations are one of the main drivers behind high current US stock market valuations (using measures such as total market cap to GDP). ..."
"... As Krugman points out Murkan politics is dysfunctional, the GOP playing the Nazi role [from Weimar's demise]. ..."
Their low information voters like the idea of big bad gobinment agencies doing bad stuff
to all of us and being responsible for whatever. The narratives always Trump reality.
ilsm said in reply to DeDude...
It all makes sense when the good of the few Trumps [means plundering of] the rest is considered
a public good.
When avarice meets reality it attacks with diverting ad hominem [e.g. brainwashed socialists,
etc.] and ever worse logic fallacies.
Like Lacker's screed on inflation, actually selling deflation.
JohnH said in reply to ilsm...
So you call it a successful policy...based on what? Stock prices are up? The wealthy have grabbed
most of the income gains?
RC AKA Darryl, Ron said in reply to JohnH...
"...based on what?..."
[Net reductions in monthly mortgage expenses obtained from refinancing at low rates, consumer
credit discounts for all variable rate interest lines of credit, short term small business cash
flow balancing operating loans at prime rate.
The wealthy got a little leverage trading done but only those that sold off stocks have made money
from high stock prices. Those still holding shares may have nothing to gain except for losses.]
JohnH said in reply to RC AKA Darryl, Ron...
The wealthy got a little leverage...
A little?!? Take a look at the chart: Capital's share of national income. It has really taken
off--well above the trend line of the last 40 years--since ZIRP and QE.
No, Fed policy didn't cause increased inequality but it exacerbated it.
Now, please explain how "Net reductions in monthly mortgage expenses obtained from refinancing
at low rates"...blah...blah translated into higher real median income per household, etc. You
know, common measure of economic performance.
acerimusdux said...
Another right wing myth worth addressing is the idea that low interest rates cause asset bubbles.
But anyone with much experience in long term asset markets, such as the stock market or housing
market, ought to realize that it is low inflation which tends to boost valuations for long term
assets. The current very low inflation expectations are one of the main drivers behind high current
US stock market valuations (using measures such as total market cap to GDP).
Looser money, because it encourages more inflation, should be expected to limit bubbles. Too tight
monetary policy should be expected to cause them.
Right wing economics seems to be primarily based on first either ignoring or not understanding
the importance of natural rates, and so blaming the Fed any time nominal rates seem low (or even
moderate), and then on blaming anything else in the economy that seems to be wrong at them moment
on those "low" rates (without any regard to logic, reason, or consistency).
Sad to see that even some Fed board members seem to be ignoring the importance of inflation in
determing monetary policy. There is no sign at all yet of even meeting the inflation target in
the CPI, PCE, or ECI, while the PPI continues to show deflation. Meanwhile market based measures
(such as the breakeven rates) show expectations that continue to fall, with the Fed not expected
by markets to meet it's target even within a decade. And some are still talking about hiking in
December?
Ben Groves said in reply to acerimusdux...
It is hard to have inflation when commodity deflation is lowering inputs and we are having
a nasty price war between Brick/Mortar and e-Commerce. That sounds like a large CPI decline (which
means real retail sales are better than usual) that started in the 3rd quarter may accelerate
in the 4th quarter. I am seeing prices of some foods, the lowest in 10 years. Milk is down to
15 year lows at some of my regions stores.
I don't think central banks though, think that is a bad thing. They only care about wage growth
and their own trimmed inflation figures that factor in wage growth. So the Fed/Republicans are
on the same page. Anything more is dialectics.
ilsm said...
As Krugman points out Murkan politics is dysfunctional, the GOP playing the Nazi role [from
Weimar's demise].
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Oilman2 says: April 10, 2021 at 11:14 am
Ms No PREMIUM 2 hours ago
odb 2 hours ago
Peter Von Nessi SUBSCRIBER 29 minutes ago "A man of his age -- fearing that he may amount to nothing more than the great Obama's onetime sidekick -- is apt to react to the surprise of waking up in the White House by pandering to the flashiest ideas of the young people and their hero Bernie Sanders. Mr. Biden can, for a moment, forestall death if he veers way left and makes his mark, however chaotically."
Greg Caldwell SUBSCRIBER 58 minutes ago (Edited) Mr. Ferrara: Many people voted for Joe's ideas because he claimed to be more of a centrist while he was running for office. I know of quite a few people who voted for Joe (1) because he wasn't Trump, and; (2) he claimed he would govern from the middle-left.
Rob Joseph SUBSCRIBER 2 hours ago "I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said". William F. Buckley
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Theroadtroll 2 days ago
Rewriting history: Legacy media shriek Trump is 'bucking tradition'... for doing the same thing
they praised Obama for
AOC says committee being discussed to 'REIN IN MEDIA environment' and prevent 'false
information' spreading
54% of people believe Trump should be CRIMINALLY charged with inciting a riot following
storming of Capitol – poll
Joe Biden's Russia conundrum: Will the incoming US president work to relax tensions or double
down on hostile approach to Moscow?
Big Tech giants want to prove they are 'American gods'. Anyone watching the watchers?
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Johnson: "...but those tabulators are connected on Election Day 'cause that's how they transmit
the data to the counties and also into the official -- uhm --" Krebs: "In some cases, yes,
sir."
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Stinchfield @stinchfield1776 · Dec 3 This is a total game changer! Sure looks like
ballot stuffing in GA! All caught on camera. Busted! @realDonaldTrump @JennaEllisEsq
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regional subcontractors. At the time of this writing, this system is used statewide in Alaska,
Connecticut, Georgia, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Utah and Vermont, and for counties in
Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington,
Wisconsin and Wyoming. It is also used in Canada.
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