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It’s Incredible Democrats Think They Need to Cheat
Four years ago, Bernie Sanders called on executives of oil companies to be criminally prosecuted for the harm they have caused. That harm is not immediately obvious — it’s not clear if the climate is getting cooler or warmer recently. If it is changing, it’s not clear why, and the climate has been changing for billions of years, so it’s not obvious that current changes are atypical. A criminal trial would be tricky since nobody really understands the crime in question. Plus, if the oil companies closed down tomorrow, hundreds of millions would die from lack of heat, food, and everything else that is transported to us using diesel fuel. So that would be a difficult prosecution.
I wonder if Mr. Sanders would support criminally prosecuting the architects of our response to COVID? In that case, the damages are much more obvious. I don’t think this is a good idea, myself, but it’s easier to make a case for this than Mr. Sanders’ example above.
But the data which was available to our leaders will never see the light of day. They knew early on that vaccines in young people were unhelpful at best, and possibly dangerous. They knew early on that masks didn’t work. They knew early on that shutting down the economy didn’t help. Yet they persisted, for some reason. And again, we will never know what those reasons were.
The left is good at this.
The transgender girl who killed those people at the school in Tennessee left a manifesto. Apparently, it paints the transgender fad in a poor light, as it has not been released. And it will not be. Ever. Because it would hurt the left.
I don’t know who is on Jeffery Epstein’s client list. But since it has not been released, I can guess. Do you think that will ever be released? Of course not. Because it would hurt the left.
There are many reasons that we should mourn the loss of our news media. This is a big one. If we had a news media, it would endeavor to inform the people about what is going on. But when the news media no longer even pretends to be anything other than the propaganda division of the Democratic Party, then this is what we get.
It’s obvious that the Democrats at least tried to cheat in the last election. Mail-in ballots, drop boxes in certain neighborhoods, spending over a week ‘finding’ ballots behind closed doors, mules, refusing to update voter databanks, Mark Zuckerberg spending hundreds of millions of dollars in very certain communities on election systems, not requiring ID to vote, and so on and so forth. We can argue about whether voter fraud changed the outcome or not. But you can’t argue that the Democrats at least tried to cheat.
My point is that it’s simply amazing to me that Democrats even thought that cheating was necessary. How could they lose? They control the flow of information. They control what American citizens see, everywhere from the evening news to their Facebook feed to their local newspaper to their Google searches and so on and so forth. Democrats control all of it.
But despite all that, they still believe that they need to cheat to win.
And they’re probably right.
That’s just astonishing.
I wonder what percentage of the vote Joe Biden would have won if the news media had covered him like they covered Donald Trump? If we knew who was on Epstein’s client list? If Hillary’s creation of the Russia dossier was covered in the news? If the information on Hunter’s laptop had been released and widely discussed before the election? If Black Lives Matter had been covered in the news as a terrorist organization rather than a civil rights group? If the media had explored the revenue and business model of the Biden family during his time as Vice President?
What percentage of the vote would Biden have won? By 20%? Maybe 25%?
Democrats and their destructive policies are incredibly unpopular among Americans, and they know it. So that even with complete control of the flow of information, they still believe that they must cheat in elections to win. And they’re probably right.
Democrats are not the dominant party. Not even close. And they know it. Yet they control everything.
This is horrifying to watch.
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agree. And the leftists are scared to death that DeSantis might beat them even with the cheating. So that’s why they are all in going after the Gov. (“not personable”, wife a dragon, Don’t say gay, etc.). Almost a replay of 2016 when it promoted Trump through the primaries thinking no way he could win. And they will switch in a nanosecond if Trump is the R nominee.
It was for the children, or to save planet earth, or…
No, I think we know – it was all about power and control. They want to dictate every aspect of our lives. They saw how easily we caved and that inspired them to double down.
As you so rightly said, this is horrifying to watch.
I should have been more specific: power and mind-control.
As terrible as this looks, it needs a little debunking. The text is not a news story, but rather a policy statement of the media company that owns these TV stations, being delivered by those TV stations. So of course it’s going to be identical.
The real problem is when actual news stories are delivered this way, reading talking points word-for-word. And there are numerous clips of those.
It doesn’t matter who is doing it, it is the mind-control narrative. Like this:
Let’s take a stab…
Use Hillary 2016 or Obama 2012 as a baseline; both were 66 million votes.
Biden’s 81 million votes is 15 million above that baseline. So that suggests 15 million bogus votes to begin with.
The talking point explanation is that people rose up in large numbers to vote against Trump in 2020. But that doesn’t comport with the 11.2 million votes Trump 2020 received over Trump 2016.
Biden didn’t have a “first” as a goal; the first black president or the first woman president that Hillary and Obama had. So remove 5 million votes for that.
Biden had a tiny number of campaign events. And nobody showed up for those. And a negligible number of YouTube views. Minus 5 million votes for that.
There was zero campaign presence; no yard signs, no bumper stickers, no “No Malarkey” or “Build Back Better” caps, certainly no boat parades. Minus 5 million.
Minus 5 million for dementia.
Minus 5 million for his extremely rude insults to the parties own targeted groups; calling a woman a “dog-faced pony soldier”, “If you don’t vote for me you ain’t black.”
Minus 5 million for the Hunter laptop.
Minus 5 million for the Russian dossier.
So that leaves about 31 million votes. About 30% of the vote.
Yes, exactly. That’s a *much* better example.
Maybe an additional 5 million for having no accomplishments of any kind over the course of a 52 year long career.
The reasons politicians of every flavor do useless things is that they believe, and rightly so, that if they admitted that much of what they do or don’t do accomplishes nothing then it wouldn’t be long before they were out of a job. So it is imperative that they be seen to be “doing something!” Doesn’t make a bit of difference if that activity helps or hurts or is completely ineffective. As long as it looks good on the news.
That follows the 30% who seem to support any of the most radical policies proposed, regardless of the issue, or how degraded the individual person is. The very left-most on the Bell curve of humanity’s view of civilization. I’d even spot you 5% for some who would “give Joe the benefit of the doubt.”
Dems didn’t spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the elections as a civic duty. They expected a return equal to the investment.
I think you’ll find that, in practice, there’s no money in “being seen to be doing something”.
The money is in graft. Laundered money, book advances, speaking fees, consulting fees, non-profits, foundations, high-paying no-show jobs for family members, very profitable real estate transactions, international transactions, “hookers and blow”, etc.
Example: Hunter Biden.
And in practice, the original cause is as irrelevant as whether the legislation accomplishes anything or not.
I live in a very, very liberal part of Silicon Valley, and I swear that in 2020 I could count the number of Biden yard signs on Jerry Garcia’s right hand.
They didn’t have to advertise. Vote democrat regardless. We know that area very well and do not miss it. Except Pizza Antica. We lost good friends over ObamaCare.
FIFY, Bernie.
Many of the families from that school don’t want the manifesto released to the public, and it isn’t about protecting the image of transsexuals. Their concern is that it will provide even more incentive for copycats if potential murderers believe that their sick manifestos will be widely published following a massacre. That’s the reason that many broadcasters won’t use the names of mass murderers. These people could quietly kill themselves, but they want to take a bunch of others with them for the posthumous fame.
Dr Bastiat: Once you begin to bring forward the idea of a trial regarding the COVID hoax, it is important to consider:
Agencies in the USA are not actually legally permitted to establish law.
After all, any one individual serving in any capacity as an official or a bureaucrat of an agency is an unelected office holder.
However despite that fact, for almost 3 years, the entire Congressional body, the Chief Executives, both Trump and Biden, and the entire judicial system, seemed to think it was best to acquiesce to the “health establishment” regardless of the fact that its principle actor, one Tony Fauci, flip flopped on basic premises of what COVID protocols should be. He also refused to engage in debate, which is perhaps the hallmark of an anti-science-based regime, rather than a trustworthy science -based one.
One of his top supporters in the matter, one Bill Gates, took vast advantage of the fact that he has invested in many media outlets while “donating” to those that are non-profits. (These non-profits include NPR radio, the BBC, and even “Media Matters,” whose sole mission statement is to ensure the public is not served by media entities pretending to be independent when they have received oodles of monies from some corporate figurehead like Gates.)
Gates was noted for saying by May 2020 that the pandemic would not be over until all 7 billion people had been vaccinated. He also stressed the fact that the public should depend on his pronouncements as “I am a health expert.”
Fauci added the assurance that the “vaccines” were safe and effective.
Now several years later, the public has figured out that neither Gates or Fauci’s statements were true. So Gates has insistently made the rounds of the same Gates-persuaded media outlets to opine: “Well don’t blame Fauci and me – we had no info to go on in 2020.”
Never before in our history have we had a three year matter of needing to have the “public health” looked after by bureaucrats and a billionaire who had invested 55 millions of dollars in the touted COV vax program, and managed to turn a profit of 500 million on that investment.
What has been established since March 2020 is a very important and disturbing legal precedent. Unless some one somewhere takes the matter up in court, we could all have to deal with the same forces again the next time a pandemic is declared.
It is also true that many matters of public life, not just health matters, are decided by agency rule, agency proclamations, and agency decisions.
Luckily in one aspect of this autocratic employment of Idiocracy, SCOTUS recently decided to limit the EPA from its ability to have property owners lose their rights any time the EPA decides that their property might actually be a needed wetlands sanctuary.
We need the same decision to occur in our courts regarding public health.
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And there weren’t too many in San Fran either. Not that it made a difference.
If people put up yard signs in an attempt to change other peoples’ minds, there would be no reason to put up Biden signs in San Fran etc.
I don’t have the highest respect for voters. Maybe because I live in Michigan, and I think in Michigan they elect morons. Intentionally. Knowingly. I don’t think in Michigan the elections are stolen. I just think the voters are idiots. Maybe I am over cynical; but I think if the voters knew about Epstein’s list, Biden’s being owned by America’s enemies, and everything else, the voters would still have voted for Biden. Because that is what nice people do.
I really, really hope you’re wrong.
But I think you might be right…
sounds like California.
My point is that the place was covered with yard signs for Obama and Hillary, but almost none for Biden. No enthusiasm, and less likely to make an effort to vote.
My point is that the place was covered with yard signs for Obama and Hillary, but almost none for Biden. No enthusiasm, and less likely to make an effort to vote.
“Nice people” such as the Eloi.
I know Marie Antoinette apparently never said, “Let them eat cake,” but whoever made up the story captured an attitude that I have seldom seen in actuality except in the modern Democratic Party. That’s all I can think of these days with the Democrats’ policies and beliefs on energy production. They want to destroy the industry that has successfully enabled people to heat and cool their homes and drive their cars where they needed to go for the last fifty years and still have some money left over for music lessons for their children.
That’s their job. Demos, led by Kerry and WEF, want to take over the economy and tell you what you can eat and when you can turn the heaters on. You know, to save the planet. Look what a great job these idiots did in Sri Lanka when nitrogen fertizilers were forbidinned. How may died?
People make this mistake with yard signs and bumperstickers. I live in Seattle and there were probably still more left over Bernie signs on cars and yards than Biden signs. but make no mistake, if you talk to people, they couldn’t wait to vote; and vote against Trump. Every social organization was pushing voting. The NFL was running vote for change ads (a not too suttle push for Biden). No one liked Lyndon Johnson either but he crushed Goldwater, who had all the enthusiasm. 160 million people voted give or take. the overwhelming majority will never attend a rally or put up a yard sign.
Too many known problems with chain of custody etc, for that claim to pass the smell test.
Let’s consider the following:
Would anyone say that Trump in 2016 was less controversial than in 2020? He certainly seemed to have gained with his base, and had a record to run on.
Would anyone say that Biden is a better politician than Obama? Obama had people swooning over him, literally. The man had people all but eating out of his hand.
That’s what gets me. How the hell does Trump suddenly become more polarizing than before and Biden manage to out-do Obama?