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For Goodness Sake, Just Relax!
Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in his jail cell. So it’s okay that the cameras were broken, the guards were absent, and no one was monitoring this known suicide risk. What matters is that we forget about Epstein and all the people who used to hang out (sorry, Jeffrey) with him.
The Russians planted Hunter Biden’s laptop. So it okay’s that Twitter and Facebook and the Democrat press (aka mainstream media) censored the story and blocked people from hearing about it. It’s okay that they didn’t hear about the wealth of evidence and witnesses that tended to confirm that it really is Hunter’s laptop and it really is full of evidence that the Biden family made millions selling political influence. What matters is that we move on and forget about the millions the astoundingly unaccomplished Biden Jr. raked in from foreign governments while Biden Sr. was in the White House.
There’s no such thing as voter fraud. So it’s okay that thousands of votes were accidentally switched from Trump to Biden by widely used voting machines, that hundreds of thousands of unrequested ballots were mailed to the wrong addresses, that dead people voted, that big city ballot-counting operations were blatantly partisan and irregular, that the laws were rewritten on the fly by unauthorized officials, and that purported turnout in critical districts was historically and unbelievably high. What matters is that we accept the assessment of the mainstream media (yes, the one that censored the Hunter Biden story) and concede defeat without looking more closely or exhausting our legal options. (You know, like Gore would have done in 2000, if he hadn’t done the opposite and fought the result for 37 days.)
Relax. The party of the 0.1%, with the technical assistance of the biggest companies in the world and the almost complete support of the mainstream media, has probably maybe won without even needing whatever cheating occurred. They certainly spent enough of the 0.1%’s money doing it. So if you’re one of the 70 million or so who voted wrong, the party of the 0.1% has an answer: “Shut up. Of course, your vote counted. We know: we counted it.”
Relax.
To paraphrase some old dead white guy: “Mr. Biden, you have your Presidency, if you can keep it.”
Assuming he’s actually elected on December 14th (which I admit seems more likely than not), he’ll have his work cut out for him to avoid becoming either a figurehead or a cadaver.
I was thinking of Ms. Harris’ history of romantic entanglement today, and imagined something like it an element in a political thriller in which the VP… entices… some staffer to assassinate the President for her.
Not that that would ever happen, and I certainly hope it doesn’t.
Danielle Steel or David Baldacci, not sure which one would write this one.
FWIW several years ago I was reading about counterfeiting and I read that every copying device is made to print out a nearly microscopic unique number identifying the specific copier or printer. I find this hard to believe since paper is so rough I doubt most printers could print that finely. But it came from a seemingly legitimate source (which I don’t remember now) and it certainly did stop me from considering counterfeiting any more documents.
There are alot of license plates in Phoenix and surrounding areas from people fleeing West Coast areas these days. I’d put the Biden/Kelly vote down to that and the ghost of McCain as much as anything. The other elected officials are easily accounted for by straight Republican ticket mentality: generally speaking, my observation is that few people know much about their local government candidates.
The Trump administration has some excellent attorneys working on the legal claims, and has begun filing them. I was encouraged as an American by their argument described in a piece recently posted by @jdfitzpatrick.
You have to get out of the traditional media outlets to have any hope of balanced information: NYT, Washington Post, WSJ news, HuffPost, ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/Fox News are unreliable and very narrowly focused. Quality of information also varies among those non-mainstream news sources, but there are some journalists doing good work without the large media outlet budgets.
My background is in accounting/financial operations, mostly federal with emphasis on audit. From that standpoint, I have been going back through information I followed from election day forward and am alarmed at the indication of probable large scale fraud in battleground states, particularly some heavily blue large cities. Hopefully I can pull some of it together for a post before long.
Good post, @henryracette. I don’t care for being managed, but darned if they aren’t trying real hard. Too hard.
Been doing that. For a long time. Even if it doesn’t change the election, such an action will change life for the better.
Does that mean you voted more than once?
Just saw this over on Instapundit:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/medias-hiding-of-hunter-biden-scandal-robbed-trump-of-clear-win-poll
4.6% ofDems would not have voted for Biden if they had learned of the Biden’s influence peddling. That is more than enough to have swung the election (of course, the Dominion machine could likely have absorbed this as well).
Well, a majority (supposedly) reelected the worst president of my lifetime in 2012, so we shouldn’t be surprised.
I always thought Jimmy should have thanked Obama for relieving him of that title.
I tend to agree that it will not be overturned. This has been planned for years and the Democrats have lots of experience with vote fraud. Why do you think they fight voter ID so furiously ? A Philadelphia judge has just been sentenced to prison for vote fraud and he is just the one who was caught. They are blatant about it. The Sheriff of a county refused to enforce the law about election watchers. The Republican watchers were driven out by some sort of Democrat officers.
What will result is distrust in the US elections from now on. Fools who dream they can resurrect a Republican Party that suits them are deluded. I don’t know how this will play out, other than the Kurt Schlicter novels. Hopefully, I won’t have to live through it.
We know they voted. Your 80 million were just ballots. How many represent real living voters ?
There was a story about the number of early voters who wanted to change their vote.
I was about to enjoy breakfast listening to the latest news and weather report. What I got from the station was nonsense about the “security risk presented by Trump”. They brought in a exspurt — “ex” being a has-been, and a “spurt” is just a drip under pressure — to tell the Biden-supporters that Trump fits perfectly the profile of a security risk. I won’t be surprised all that much if there is a proposal to lock him up as a preventative measure, and that is said only partly in jest. Half of the country is sick.
623k votes in PA were processed without verification.
Trump was winning Kenosha County, WI with more than 60 percent of the vote before the ballot dumps.
Trump has won NC.
They have already found irregualrities due to software glitches in GA.
MI elected officials are pushing for an audit of the vote.
Heck, there are even rumored problems with the vote in Massuchusetts, nevermind what we might find out west.
Maybe this election won’t be turned, but there are a lot of question marks. We need answers.
Watch for the Soros Secretaries of State. They are in those “swing states” and are swinging like crazy,
Given the supremacy of the state legislatures in this matter I am wondering what the play is here…my guess is to delay official certification until December 12th so there is not time left to rectify the theft.
That’s what I’m thinking too.
I’m still praying for President Trump to prevail. It’s a little frustrating for me to see our side be so negative. Judges will try to do the right thing, but they are human. They know their decision will make half of the country angry. The other side has made it clear that they won’t lose gracefully. I’m not advocating for us to be lawless like them, but can we at least not say out loud that we’re good with losing? Let’s not make it easy for them to rule against us! In other words, let me stay in my fantasy world a little longer, until the cases have been decided. Thank you!
State legislatures are not likely to have the backbone to appoint Trump electors for the rioting and chaos that may ensue if they did.
The only thing that could change that would be if the DoJ, the DNI, Treasury, State, and DoD cabinet heads all uniformly showed evidence that hundreds of thousands of votes were switched on Nov. 3 and 4th to give Biden a lead in those states where Trump was overwhelmingly ahead.
And if they present that this was done in conjunction with foreign actors – thus a grave national security issue to alter the outcome of an American election this would bust through and overtake the current news cycle. To do this might entail a multi-hour presentation and news conference.
There is a report that Special Forces (without CIA involvement) seized servers in Frankfurt, Germany that can show the vote transfers but no official in the administration has gone on record to confirm or deny the story. Rep. Congressman Louis Gohmert broke this news yesterday but he didn’t name his sources either. Scytl, the firm in question is denying the story of the seizure. If the servers show up in America or secure facility at an American base in Germany and cabinet heads schedule a news conference, then we’re in whole new territory.
The text of this Executive Order is quite interesting and may be proven to be prescient:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-imposing-certain-sanctions-event-foreign-interference-united-states-election/
Take a really close look at the lines that make up the boxes on the visa/stamp pages of a US passport. They’re not lines, they’re microprinting.
Kim Strassel has a nice summary of the fraud. I’m a little surprised the WSJ which is pro-China, allowed it. Maybe she is the equivalent of Tucker Carlson there.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvesting-the-2020-election-11605221974?mod=djemalertNEWS&fbclid=IwAR1XIyG5T7n7xlhRAK7dmR7vpHNItwlkSLCD7wgbVn_NV1kYiiTIB-MisEw
This seems to be outside the paywall. I cancelled the WSJ after 35 years last summer.
The Trump campaign is pressing its case that last week’s ballot counting was off, and it will get its day in court. But if Republicans want a fuller accounting of the shenanigans, they’ll need to look much further back than Election Day. They’ll need to internalize Nancy Pelosi’s H.R. 1, and then do battle.
House Resolution 1 is the designation for the first bill unveiled in any new Congress. It’s designed to highlight the majority party’s top priority. In early 2017, the Republican-led House gave the title to Donald Trump’s tax reform. When Mrs. Pelosi retook the speaker’s gavel in 2019, her party had just campaigned on a slew of urgent Democratic priorities: health care, climate change, immigration, student debt. None of these rose to the honor of H.R. 1.
Instead, Mrs. Pelosi unveiled a 600-plus page bill devoted to “election reform.” Some of the legislation was aimed at weaponizing campaign-finance law, giving Democrats more power to control political speech and to intimidate opponents. But the bill was equally focused on empowering the federal government to dictate how states conduct elections—with new rules designed to water down ballot integrity and to corral huge new tranches of Democratic voters.
I pointed out that HR 1 was the game plan even if it was ignored by the Senate. It was sued into effect.
Kim Strassel is one of the few remaining journalists in the country.
Legendary Republican Election Attorney Ben Ginsberg was interviewed in the Friday, November 13, 2020 Dispatch Podcast. He said that systemic voter fraud in the Republican Party Lock Ness Monster, often sought after, but not found, with the notable exception of the Republican voter fraud in NC-9 in 2018. https://ricochet.com/podcast/dispatch-podcast/all-the-presidents-conspiracies/
From Time Magazine:
“In the most direct refutation yet of President Donald Trump’s baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud, his own government declared on Thursday that ‘the November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.’
“The joint statement by a group of federal, state and industry election officials was released Thursday evening by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security.
“‘There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,’ the officials noted in a sentence that was highlighted in bold lettering for emphasis. It came just hours after Trump tweeted an all-caps claim that a voting company had deleted and switched votes that had been intended for him — a debunked conspiracy theory that has been making the rounds on right-wing media.
“‘America, we have confidence in the security of your vote, you should, too,’ CISA Director Chris Krebs said in a Thursday night tweet.
https://time.com/5912049/trumps-voter-fraud-claims-are-now-being-debunked-by-his-own-government/
Chris Krebs is a member of the Trump Administration. Expect him to be fired shortly for speaking truth to power.
Mr. Ginsberg was mistaken in characterizing the President’s suggestion that people vote in person if their mail-in ballot was not received as encouraging voter fraud. That process is recommended by some jurisdictions as the appropriate remedy, and by others as a way to automatically void a mailed ballot. In the jurisdiction that was the subject of the President’s comment, the voter was assured that a mail-in ballot would have already been recorded and voting in person would not be allowed.
Mr. Ginsberg was also mistaken when he wrote “Absentee ballots use the same process as mail-in ballots.” In fact, absentee ballots are requested by voters, sometimes with a stated reason required for their issuance. In contrast, more than 40 million people in ten states (per Reuters) were mailed unsolicited mail-in ballots this year.
Perhaps Mr. Ginsberg meant that the counting process was the same, once the ballots were received. However, that’s beside the point, since we don’t know if the intended recipient actually filled out the ballot. We have no idea how many ballots went to defunct addresses, or were removed from the mailboxes of people who never expected to receive them.
I am going to assume that Mr. Ginsberg knows little to nothing about electronic voting machines.
Hank, Ben Ginsberg has been the leading Republican Election Lawyer in the nation, at least since the 2000 Florida recount. He was a Partner at Jones Day. Ben Ginsberg is the gold standard. Did you listen to the Dispatch interview with him? Gary
We have declined to the point where it is necessary to re-state the obvious on a regular basis. Thank you for taking the responsibility this time.
Gary, you’re making an appeal to authority. I just explained to you exactly why his comments were mistaken. You may choose to argue against the points I made if you like, but I’m not going to waste my time responding to comments from you that are either logically incompetent or made in bad faith.
Feel free to take issue with a point I raised, or not.
Good point. I surrender. I am physically and emotionally spent, and I choose to not try to rebut what you have said. You win this part of the argument. However, I would note that so far, many if not most of these lawsuits alleging systemic fraud have failed in the Courts. I just cannot fight every battle. Gary