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Even with Rob out, we’re glad to celebrate a great week for democracy! Our guests this week are old friends of ours, Mark and Mollie Hemingway, and they’re here to take us through the irregularities of last November and why it doesn’t have to be nefarious, illegal or fraudulent to call it “Rigged!”
Maybe somebody should write a book with that title. Well, maybe somebody has. (Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections) We get into procedural foul play, institutional corruption and media malfeasance; not to mention fights over fish… They even have some hope that laying the groundwork for restoring democratic confidence might be slowly underway, and some thoughts on how to speed it up.
Our hosts also chat about a winsome week for Republicans; Peter is educated on milk discourse and James give clock changing as thorough a defense as it could hope for. Congratulations to our Braves fans!
Music from this week’s podcast: That Smell by Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Loved “Rigged” (Review here), saw Mollie at American Experiment Fall Briefing.
A bright spot in these dark times!
James is absolutely right about Ozium. I visited my high school buddies at the Air Force Academy back when getting caught smoking reefer would get you busted down to private in the Aleutians for the duration of your tour of duty.
The standard “stoners kit”, carried at all times, included Ozium, Visine, and Scope mouthwash. All three could be applied within seconds and they practiced the proper administration technique. For fun in the evenings we would have survival float competitions in the deep end of the pool and see who could go the longest.
Greatly enjoyed this podcast and I’m sorry to say that the absence of Rob Long made it better.
And Peter, it was the All Star Game that MLB denied Atlanta.
Seemed like with so much smoke there would be real fires but at best the ‘smokiest’ investigations seemed to find matches and not conflagrations. I wish it were no so…
There was no judge anywhere at any time regardless of the ‘proof’ that could/would corroborate your assertions? I voted for Trump and would love it if your claims had been upheld…but….the dogs didn’t bark.
Basically the judges dismissed cases – without looking at evidence – before the election for “no standing” (no “damage” had been done yet) and dismissed cases after the election as “moot,” “laches,” etc. I only remember reading about one case where a judge was willing to look at evidence, but the judge announced before starting that even if the case was proven, he wouldn’t grant “relief” so that was pointless too.
Also, it was the dog(s) NOT barking that was the key to solving that case!
Molly was talking about needing conservative journalism or something.
We have a great libertarian here, Walter Hudson, who is subbing on the local Salem channel this afternoon. He was saying we need to support the daily wire, epoch times, etc. People that really push things around either with journalism or policy analysis. I really like Breitbart radio on siriusXM. Alex Marlow cannot be beat for news and analysis. Breitbart just poached one of the best reporters from the New York post. It costs a lot of money, but you get music and Andrew Wilkow is really good on opinions. They have 10 more minutes and it’s more flexible than terrestrial radio. It’s a podcast as well. Those guys really throw their weight around.
Definitely subscribe to something.
The big problem is, big tech is going to censor them.
Your standard for believability is that a judge believed it first? Post Office (50,000) and state DL records (more than 10,000 of them) show that these people voted in an illegal manner, and you won’t believe it because a judge didn’t agree first?
Hey @jameslileks here’s coverage of the voting machines in Chicago back in 2006. My wife saw Venezuelan technicians working on them. https://youtu.be/eNCJWOua748
Maybe you should download and save that video, before youtube deletes it.
Or I can, if you need it.
I’ll say nothing about Venezuela. As I recall, Jim G. of NRO had some relevant critiques of that sort of theory. Someday I could possibly give that angle another look, G-d willing. These days, I’m lucky to get in one hour per week trying to catch up on Arizona audit backs-and-forths, Wisconsin stuff, and older analyses of other electronic election shenanigan allegations.
But the voting machines are not ok. It turns out that many of them do have online capabilities. They’re for reporting early results, and the modems aren’t supposed to be switched on until the counting is finished. (The MI Senate explained this more clearly than anyone.)
Incompetence or corruption on the level of 1-3 people would render this process vulnerable to hacking. I’d feel better about it if all 50 states had rules stating that observers of both parties have to verify that the modems are switched off before the count begins and observe them being switched on only after paper results are printed and delivered.
I doubt we have rules like that in any states. Some still deny that the online capabilities even exist.
This all renders electronic election theft more plausible than it should be. This is also why the RNC and the federal government both officially recommend that all 50 states ban such machines.
The interested reader may consult “G. K. Chesterton’s Take on Electronic Voting Machines,” available here off-Ricochet.
I don’t see any reason why voting machines need hackable modems at all. And if people are going to visit the machines to enable the modems only after the election, why not instead use some kind of physical media that can’t be altered from Belarus?
Fight of the Week!
One case (NV if memory serves) a judge was presented with 8000 pages of evidence compiled in 15 volumes of discovery with 50 witnesses lined up with sworn affidavits. He dismissed all of it on standing. Never looked at a single page, or heard a single word.
Great interview with the Hemingways. Very funny ending.
I remembered the Hemingways’ podcast – it was good
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Loved ’em so much I sent 2 to my Mom (who was still using cookware from the Cleveland administration era), and she is also delighted.
Which is a bummer, because I think we’re set – else I’d buy more through the Ricochet link. But I can’t say enough good things about their products, they are simply fantastic and not ridiculously expensive. Best bang for the buck for cookware out there that I’ve ever seen.
And we cook a lot here. And by “we”, I mean “mostly my wife who is an amazing cook”.
I’m confused. Peter refers to Winsome as an African American. She stated she was from Jamaica. My sense of geography is poor but I don’t believe Jamaica is anywhere near Africa.
I now understand using the terminology Person of Color. I wouldn’t mind going back to using the terminology: White, Black, Brown, Yellow. I did know an Albino person in college in the 50’s and the term White was forever nuanced.
Reminds me of some years ago, catching a bit of US network coverage of some Olympics events, and the American announcers kept referring to athletes from Ghana etc as “African-American.”
My favorite misspeak for a while was an announcer during the ’92 or ’96 Olympics. I was watching the marathon and a runner from Africa was referred to as an African American, so conditioned was the announcer to call all blacks African Americans.
Nice to know I’m not the only one who remembers that. :-)
I remember hearing about an announcer effusively praising a medal winner as being the first African American “from any county” to win a particular event.
I always say “black”.
And “negro” just means “black” in some languages.
I enjoyed this podcast very much, and I enjoyed their old podcast tremendously; one disagreement I have; I hated the “fight of the week” — Mark always sounded so miserable, and I felt so sorry and uncomfortable throughout each bit — and the fights seemed contrived and silly…
I heard them refer to sprinter Ben Johnson as a “Canadian African-American.” That seemed to be a little clunky.
That was my favorite segment. The “fights” weren’t really fights because they love each other.
Made apparent by the way Mollie would giggle during the fights. That giggle was real.
What a great couple of guests – I have yet to be infected with the “too much Hemmingways” that can occur sometimes when every podcast has the same guest on. Listening to this made me want to hunt down more interviews. I enjoyed @exjon ‘s interview with Mark the other day, but already want more. ha.
Anyone have other podcasts with them being interviewed? Appreciate ya.
I sure do miss The Hemmingways podcast and Molly with David on The Federalist Radio Hour as well.
Until next week folks!
I miss them both, but especially Molly