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We’re back from the holiday break and have Georgia on our minds. As such we welcome Erick Erickson, host of “Atlanta’s Evening News” on WSB AM/FM, and he joins to us to analyze “suitcase-gate” and give us his take on January’s double US Senate election in the Peach State. (Erick’s podcast is available right here on Ricochet.)
Then we talk to old friend Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. As the Covid-19 vaccination comes to market, what’s the best way to do it? Who gets priority and who shouldn’t be bothered?
Eustace C. Scrubb walks away with the coveted Lileks Member Post of the Week for his essay on the passing of David Prowse, one half of the man behind Darth Vader.
Music from this week’s episode: The Devil Went Down to Georgia by Charlie Daniels.
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Biden did better than Hillary Clinton in nearly every major city in the Untied States.
The Federalist did a retraction. I stand corrected.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/23/5-more-ways-joe-biden-magically-outperformed-election-norms/#.X7vKivbyePk.twitter
There were a few cities where Biden did not perform as well as Hillary Clinton:
[1] Philadelphia
[2] Chicago
[3] Cleveland
[4] El Paso, Texas
[5] Miami
But in Seattle (Washington), Louisville (Kentucky) and in Nashville (Tennessee), Biden had a higher net vote margin over Trump than Hillary did. Not to mention big cities like Dallas, Denver, Memphis, Indianapolis, Portland and so on.
The judge (Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia A. McCullough) did not declare the ballots illegal. Judge McCullough’s order (on 11/25/20) said the state, which certified its election results for President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday, should halt any further steps toward finalizing the results or revising its vote count (emphasis mine):
A few days later, The Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out a lower court’s order preventing the state from certifying dozens of contests including the Presidential election. The judge was pretty rough on them:
Later, The Philadelphia-based Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in its ruling that the Trump campaign hadn’t claimed fraud or that ballots were cast by illegal voters. The court noted the number of ballots the campaign had challenged were far smaller than Joe Biden’s margin of victory in the state. This judge –a Trump appointee– was even tougher on the Trump legal team:
— Blue Yeti, Honorary J.D., Ricochet School of Law ’07
Here are the top 10 states where the net vote margin was largest:
So, in some sense there was a blue wave, but that blue wave sprayed most of its water in blue states.
Assuming facts not in evidence, again.
There may be 81 million ballots, or at least supposedly-counted ballots. But that’s a different thing.
The burden of proof is on those who dispute that Biden received over 81 million votes.
That’s one position. Another is that we’ve seen evidence including video of observers/monitors being illegally excluded from counting and/or being expelled once in, sometimes to the applause and cheers of others present. So now the burden of proof is on you/them to prove that nothing untoward happened in the absence of those legally-required observers/monitors.
No. The rumor mill is not sufficient to overturn certified election results.
The problem is ballot harvesting and lawfare. Mark Zuckerberg and Marc Elias run everything, effectively.
No, the actual burden of truth is on the Trump legal team to convince a court that this “evidence” is what they (and you) keep insisting it is. Otherwise Joe Biden will be the next President.
So far, they’ve failed to meet that standard. Repeatedly.
I’m pretty sure that video of observers being illegally blocked from observing, and others being illegally removed from observing to applause and cheers, is evidence of wrongdoing. Reading the minds of those who carried out the illegal exclusions is not required. I expect even Gary understands that illegal/improper/prejudicial activity on either side can shift the burden of proof, although it may not come up often in family law.
That’ll be up to a judge.
We asked Erick about that video in this show as he has interviewed people who were in that room. The answers those people gave Erick do not comport with what you are pretty sure about. Give it a listen.
If he talked to the people who were applauding/cheering, who do you think I should believe?
Actually, Constitutionally speaking, all that needs to happen is enough state legislatures not to certify the electors, so that it gets thrown to the House… and Trump likely wins that.
Anyone who believes this will be settled by any court has missed the point of what is happening.
Unfortunately legislators and legislatures have been ceding their authority to the courts for a long time. And in this case especially, nobody wants to have BLM/Antifa/etc showing up at their homes with torches, for “selecting” Trump no matter how justified.
I’ve decided to cancel my subscription from Ricochet. While it’s usually a good podcast and I listen to the flagship podcast each week I’m getting a little tired of Rob continually insulting his audience. Its always been there, especially so on Glop and unfortunately he brings that snark and smarm to the Ricochet podcast. I think you can be suspicious of the result without being lumped in with Qanon types (I still don’t know who they are). Rob is unable to do that. Rob also went along with everything that the Left threw at Trump in relation to Russia/Ukraine etc. Who is crazy?
The best part of Ricochet for me was finding the Andrew Klavan podcast and now I’m a Daily Wire subscriber. To be honest though, I think the best value for money conservative to subscribe to is Mark Steyn (James Dellingpole an honourable second). Steyn is 100% right when he says “when Democrats are in government they are in power, when it’s the Republicans, they’re merely in office”. It seems conservative talk is accepting of dodgy results and have now moved on. As such I’ll be a bit choosier about what I spend my money on. Once my Daily Wire subscription has passed I’ll start giving Steyn what he’s owed from me.
The right of centre has been destroyed this year (is that why the media won’t shut up about Covid??). Trump had the world against him and it looks like he’s been brought down by hook or by crook, Boris Johnson is shrinking before everyone’s eyes, there’s no “right of centre” party in Australia (Abbott was our last hope but even he was “worse than Hitler”) or NZ. Where to from here? And I don’t believe the “surgical removal” theory. The defeat of Trump will embolden China and who will stop them?
Thanks to James and Peter, you two are jewels and I enjoy listening to you and I wish you well.
As far as I know, the Flagship podcast is still listenable for free, you just wouldn’t be able to comment on the site. The same WAS true for GLoP, but I’m not sure if it still is. Either way though, I can understand you not wanting to contribute monetarily, but don’t cut off your
noseLileks to spite yourfaceRob, or whatever.Sorry to see you go but it’s understandable. There’s plenty of wonderful material in the member feed, which makes up for being insulted by management. Not sure why they support someone with worse manners than Trump and none of the benefits of conservative policies but here we are.
BIGGER!!!
Thank you. :-)
These people do not have the same understanding of “the system” as I do.
Why would you put a guy in that is so genuinely compromised by Russia and China?
Things are going to be so much easier for the conservatives and libertarians after the bond market collapses.
People always get upset about Rob. I can’t explain this, but as long as a Trump hater isn’t too close to the “organized” anti-Trump people, I don’t ever care. The Dispatch, Principles First, and so forth. The guy that runs Principles First has the dumbest twitter feed.
This is a “CATO scholar” and actual pollster. At some point, a reliable academic is going to have to dig into all of this. The interview starts halfway in.
https://howiecarrshow.com/2020/11/30/patrick-basham-11-30-20-hour-1/
It’s just boring and ultimately insulting. Don’t ask for members and then diss them. I don’t need smoke blown up my backside, just a little respect.
That’s completely fair.
The big problem is, people like Rob just wish for stuff without really looking at what people like Michael Anton et. al. say.
For some reason, as long as they aren’t associated with any of the speakers at the Principles First convention, I tend to just be amused by it. The “organized” ones and the ones that get money from Pierre Omidyar (or are close to them) drive me up a wall.
Erickson is full of it. He doesn’t know crap about what happened in GA.
Trump’s lead counsel in Georgia, Ray Smith broke down how tens of thousands of illegal votes were cast.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/want-numbers-trumps-lead-counsel-breaks-tens-thousands-illegal-votes-cast-georgia-video/
Democrats’ defense of Georgia election fraud video doesn’t hold water
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/democrats_defense_of_georgia_election_fraud_video_doesnt_hold_water.html
I have to be honest. This is a completely gratuitous post, lol. 16 seconds.
No, 80 million people were voting for the Democrat.