Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Courts to Voters: Democrat Election Fraud is "Too Big to Fail"

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Karin McQuillan: Courts to Voters: Democrat Election Fraud is "Too Big to Fail"



Courts to Voters: Democrat Election Fraud Is 'Too Big to Fail'


by Karin McQuillan

The courts have spoken, one after another. Some 74 million Americans have been denied our day in court. The Democrats' crime of stealing a presidential election is too big to fail.
Our play-it-safe judges don't want to venture into these enormous seas, full of sharks, without precedent. They want to say in the safe spaces of the familiar. Stealing an election for city council is familiar enough to be overturned by law. Stealing a presidential election by wholesale fraud is above the law.
One might think that somehow our laws are written too narrowly to catch the whale of Democrat fraud in the election, but for one thing: the declarations from the bench that it is unthinkable to "upend an election." Our judges tell us that ruling fraudulent ballots invalid would "disenfranchise" millions of voters. These are political statements. They are pusillanimous statements. They are not legal statements.
Upending an election has no precedent, we are told. But stealing a presidential election on this scale has no precedent, either. The courts are saying that if election crimes are so consequential, they require a politically consequential act to be redressed, then no redress is allowed. 
That doesn't even make sense. 
We are told there is no redress because the problem is political.
Yes, stealing an election is political. It is also illegal. It is also unconstitutional. 



'Collusion' vs. Collusion



by Victor Davis Hanson

Historians will dissect the origins and spread of the mass hysteria of Russian "collusion."
The farce infected the media. It discredited the Democratic Party. And it warped the popular culture between 2015 and 2020.
"Collusion" destroyed what was left of respect for the Washington FBI, the CIA, and the liberal news media. When 50 former "intelligence" officers can attest, right before the election, that the Hunter Biden scandal emails are likely Russian disinformation designed to help Trump, then there is nothing much left of the reputation of our once best and brightest.
There are many theories of the origins of "collusion." Some believe that Hillary Clinton, and her firewalls of the Democratic National Committee, Perkins Coie, and Fusion GPS that hired Christopher Steele, simply sought a cover counter-narrative to hide her own illegally transmitted and received State Department emails and spin-off scandals.
At the time "collusion" took off, Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton were on the tarmac in Phoenix, sexual deviate Anthony Weiner's wife was emailing with Hillary Clinton, and copies ended up on Anthony's lurid laptop. The hacked DNC computers and all proof of supposed Russian "collusion" culprits had been mysteriously turned over by the FBI to the Clinton-friendly firm, Crowdstrike, for recovery of lost files.
There were other catalysts for the "collusion" mythology. By 2015, Democrats were embarrassed their Russian "reset" love fest had blown up in its face. Finger-wagging about human rights to a thug like Vladimir Putin—while being terrified of selling offensive weapons to beleaguered Ukraine—was a "talk-loudly-while-carrying-a-twig" prescription for disastrous humiliation.


Will America's Politically Disenfranchised Unite?



by Edward Ring

By now most America First conservatives have recognized the common agenda of libertarians and progressives. These two groups have significant differences, of course. For example, progressives are pro-union while libertarians prefer employee choice. But on most of the biggest issues, their agendas now align.
The alliance is a mismatch, however, for two reasons. First, because progressives have far more money and institutional power, and second, because progressives are serious, whereas libertarians tend to favor symbolic gestures.
The result of this is a one-sided alliance where the only time libertarians see elements of their policy agenda move from theory to reality is when it also serves the interests of progressives. For example, libertarians:
  • Support "free movement of peoples" but can't prevent expensive welfare programs that attract economic migrants.
  • Support "free trade" but are indifferent to the impact that cheap foreign labor and foreign subsidies have on eliminating manufacturing jobs for Americans.
  • Support the right to be a homeless drug addict, but can't prevent government hand-outs that attract more homeless drug addicts, or taxpayer-subsidized developments to give them free housing.
  • Support "upzoning" residential neighborhoods but don't prevent developer subsidies or greenbelts that strangle the growth of cities.
  • Oppose government-funded infrastructure, which stops new freeway construction or projects to increase the water supply, but can't prevent subsidized rail transit projects or water rationing.
  • Support the right of big tech platforms to censor free speech, with no apparent recognition that these companies have built monopolies and are manipulating public opinion.
Morning Greatness: Electoral College to Gather, Formalize Biden-Harris Victory



by Liz Sheld

On Friday, the Supreme Court rejected a Texas lawsuit to stop election certification in four vote fraud-laden states. The court claimed that Texas has no legal interest in how the other states conduct elections. I am not a lawyer, but it seems strange that states would have signed on to a contract, also known as the "Constitution" where there was no recourse if parties decided to disregard the terms and do whatever the hell they wanted. But that's just me, like I said, I'm not a lawyer and perhaps there was a better way or an earlier opportunity to file the complaint. Only two Justices wanted the case to proceed, Alito and Thomas, while the others did not.
"As a result of expanded absentee and mail-in voting in defendant states, combined with defendant states' unconstitutional modification of statutory protections designed to ensure ballot integrity, defendant states created a massive opportunity for fraud," Texas's complaint reads.
The larger problem is that there are elected officials, self-proclaimed "Republicans," who allowed these changes to be made in their state's election systems prior to the voting process. Who doesn't know that lifting requirements for signature verification, postmarks, creating ballot drop boxes or mailing absentee ballots to everyone in the state isn't a recipe for massive Democrat vote fraud? This should have been stopped before it started. Instead these "Republicans" fund raise off of Trump's popularity, use the money to get reelected and then look the other way when Herculean efforts are made to disenfranchise Republican voters. It's truly despicable.
Covenant and the Law



by Robin Burk

As the Supreme Court and others struggle with legal claims about this election, it's worth considering just what precedes law and gives it validity.
Over three millennia ago, a new people formed out of a motley assortment of tribes and hebraoi, herders on the edges of the rigid, hierarchical Bronze Age city states. What made them a people was not their coming together per se—tribal groups had aligned, and then clashed or drifted apart, many times before. Nor was it simply the result of sharing cultural practices or the newfangled idea of a written legal code.
What made them a people was commitment to a covenant.
When Moses came down from the mount, this people's central history tells us, he brought concrete evidence that YHWH would bind himself to this new people, if they bound themselves to him and to one another. Not through force or power, as with many deities, nor as a transient agreement for the moment, but as the core of who they were and were to be.
Every aspect of that new people's identity and their interactions with one another rested on a mutual sacred commitment. Laws and daily practices derived from it and had no standing otherwise.
It's hard for us to fully appreciate how very different that was from every people then around them. It truly set them apart in a unique way.
A little over two centuries ago another new people again bound themselves to one another in a covenant, pledging their sacred honor to a framework that would form the principles under which power would be constrained and oathbreakers sanctioned.




Our Coddled Elites and All the Pain They Can't Feel


By Oliver Bateman and Malcom Kyeyune

Few developments in recent memory have had more of an impact on the conservative faith in the virtues of the market than the outsized role social media companies have come to play in our lives. At one point long ago, in a very different America, social media was a "problem" insofar as it was clearly seen as a sort of dopamine rat maze marketed to impressionable children and feckless young adults. 
Academics like Jonathan Haidt talked about the negative effects, such as a rapid spike in suicide attempts among girls that seems to have coincided with the public launch of Facebook. Meanwhile, the hegemonic libertarian orthodoxy of the Right offered a shrug in response: "Hey, it's a free market, so if you don't like it, log off and don't use it!"
But those were the good old days of the 2000s and early 2010s, the heyday of a Bush and Obama-led neoliberal consensus. Back then, radical identitarian ideology, at least in the imaginations of many on the Right, was seen as a passing fad, a phase for "extremely online kids" and "liberal arts majors" who certainly would all grow out of it once they got "a real job." 
But as it happened, the companies and the workplaces bent to the whims of these extremely online liberal arts majors, while the ideologies of the Left held firm. And thus the role of social media companies went from merely exhausting the dopamine receptors and spiking anxieties among young folks to becoming fully-fledged political actors in their own right, using their power and their platforms in order to "guide" political discussion. 


A Wonderful Life Requires Liberty


by Melanctonus

Recently viewing Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" as a theatrical re-release reaffirmed my view that it is the most important Christmas movie about the American Republic. 
Capra's brilliant and subtle symbology, perhaps missed for three-quarters of a century, leapt off of the big screen. The message has never been more clear or timely: although community is important, the ultimate and unmistakable center of the film is liberty. Liberty does not preserve itself but requires men and women who cherish natural equality enough that they are willing to make sacrifices in the face of threats to it. 
Contrary to the estimable Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen's dark interpretations of the 1946 classic, the citizens of Bedford Falls have far more to fear from Mr. Potter's soft but real despotism than from the phantom threat of Sam Wainwright's future big box stores. But I'll avoid ground already covered by Deneen's critics and draw attention instead to the hope of liberty that makes this America's most important Christmas movie. 
Let's start with the obvious. The film opens not with the ringing of Christmas bells, but with the ringing of an uncracked Liberty Bell. By design and not coincidence, "It's a Wonderful Life" was the first film produced under Capra's short-lived "Liberty Films." This is not simply the 20th Century Fox fanfare, but a visual and musical introduction to the story. 
Michigan AG and Sec. of State Block Results of Forensic Audit of 22 Dominion Machines in Antrim County


by Debra Heine

A Northern Michigan judge has allowed Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to block the results of a forensic audit of Dominion machines in Antrim County, where thousands of votes for President Trump were flipped to Joe Biden.
Chief Judge Kevin A. Elsenheimer last week issued an order granting a local man, William Baily, permission for a forensic examination of the county's 22 Dominion tabulators.
Bailey filed a complaint on Nov. 23, arguing that there was election fraud in the Republican-leaning Antrim County, along with a violation of the "purity of election clause."
A team of seven forensic investigators associated with Allied Security Operations Group (ASOG) examined the voting machines for about eight hours on Dec. 6.
According to podcaster Steve Gruber of Real America's Voice, "Judge Elsenheimer allowed the ASOG team of seven to capture images of the hard drives, thumb drives, and master thumb drives from the 22 townships in Antrim County."
Gruber claimed on Steve Bannon's "War Room" broadcast on Monday that the forensics team reported that the master thumb drive was missing but was later found in an unattended, "unsecured drawer."
He said it is the first time anyone has done a "deep dive" into the machines. Gruber also said that on the day after Thanksgiving, "three townships found open ports in the machines."

PA Gov. Tom Wolf Mandates New Lockdowns, Bans Indoor Dining, Large Gatherings



by Catherine Smith

Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced the expected three-week lockdown Thursday in what he said was an effort to slow the accelerating spread of the coronavirus and prevent hospitals from becoming overrun, The Daily Caller reports.
The announcement followed a day after his own COVID-19 diagnosis.
"Today I am announcing additional, temporary COVID-19 protective mitigation measures in the commonwealth," Wolf said in a statement. "With these measures in place, we hope to accomplish three goals: First, stop the devastating spread of COVID-19 in the commonwealth. Second, keep our hospitals and health care workers from becoming overwhelmed. And third, help Pennsylvania get through the holiday season – and closer to a widely available vaccine–as safely as possible."

"This is a bridge to a better future in Pennsylvania," Wolf continued.
The restrictions will take effect Saturday and will remain until Jan. 4.
The restrictions include an indoor gathering limit of 10, an outdoor gathering limit of 50 and capacity restrictions at retail stores.
The order prohibits restaurants from indoor dining but allows for outdoor dining and take-out service.


Businesses must operate at half capacity and gyms and fitness centers can't host any indoor operations.
Churches, synagogues, mosques, temples and other houses of worship were " specifically excluded" from the indoor gathering limits, but state officials "strongly encouraged" them to avoid congregating inside.

Trumpism Is On the March



by Roger KImball

I confess that I do not usually read columns by David Axelrod, the former senior advisor and campaign strategist for Barack Obama. But I chanced upon "History will scorn the cowards who fear Trump," one of his CNN columns that was linked at RealClearPolitics, and I glanced through it. It is the usual partisan anti-Trump stuff, full of animadversions about President Trump's "appalling attempt to undermine democracy," etc. No surprise there. And let us acknowledge that there are plenty of columns written from the opposite end of the political spectrum that are equally partisan. 
What interested me about Axelrod's column was not its partisan nature—that, as I say, comes with the territory—but rather the heat and direction of its rhetoric. Axelrod is a canny writer, and his column is an artfully wrought statement, not so much for its argument—Trump and his supporters are terrible for challenging the election, etc.—but for its cunning deployment of utopian virtue signaling. "History," he says at the end, will not only scorn Trump and all his works, but it will also honor those who "showed courage and fidelity to the rule of law during this time of trial."
"History," you see. I would like to know what History will think myself. I sadly acknowledge that I do not know. I am not privy to her secrets. Only people like David Axelrod (and his former boss, Barack Obama) know them, or pretend they know them, just as they know that they are on the side of the angels and that Donald Trump and his crew are nasty "authoritarian" dispensers of "blatant lies" setting a "chilling precedent" by daring to challenge the 2020 presidential election. 

Aloha, Electors!


by Jay Whig

The "Office of the President-Elect" is on a collision course with the Hunter Biden corruption scandal. The media turned off the radars when the New York Post broke the news that Hunter Biden had an addiction, prostitution, tax, bribery, and corruption issue that went all the way up to the "Big Guy." Now with screws turning full ahead, the Office of the President-Elect is headed straight for the rocks.
Biden's inaugural address, if it happens, will be a valedictory speech. The Supreme Court on Friday made it likely that it will happen. But maybe it won't happen. The media will bury the idea, like it buries everything that contradicts its narratives. But let's explore a little.
"Aloha, motherfuckers!"

Former Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young, never short on colorful speech, chose this salutation for Detroit media in a press conference televised from Hawaii. Young, like Trump, had a healthy contempt for the media. He knew them to be an enemy of the people, and he said so to their faces. 
Too many Republicans lack the fortitude necessary to tell the media and the Left to shove off. It is an unfortunate fact that a defining feature of folks like Senators Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), and the 70 Republican members of the House who declined to sign on to an amicus brief in support of Texas, is fear. They fear parting with norms that the Left respects only when it suits the Left's purposes, which are—pay attention now—winning, winning, and winning. In their fear, these Republicans set conditions to the contest, which perpetually foreordain their own defeat.
President Trump's Unique Political Strengths


by Thaddeus G. McCotter

Perhaps because John Batchelor is more an objective observer than most radio hosts, as well as the author of Ain't You Glad You Joined the Republicans?: A Short History of the GOP, he was, to my knowledge, the first publicly to note Donald Trump's unique political strengths.
The first unique political strength is that President Trump is blessed with his enemies.
This is sometimes a challenging concept for apolitical (i.e., normal) people—and even for many politicians—to grasp. After all, the vast majority of people avoid having enemies and certainly wouldn't court them. Yet, in politics, one's enemies' attacks earn candidates their partisan stripes amongst their party's base. This applies to both major parties (and likely minor parties, as well). 
To cite some recent examples: when American Greatness publishes a philippic against U.S. Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Democrats will more ardently support and defend Schiff. If the failing New York Times (hereinafter, "FNYT") runs a hit piece against U.S. Representative Devin Nunes (D-Calif.), Republicans will more ardently support Nunes. Why? Because Republicans loathe the FNYT, they presume that its attacks upon Nunes mean he must be doing something right. For Democrats, the same holds if American Greatness attacks Schiff.
(This is regardless of whether the respective articles are inaccurate, as is the case with the FNYT and Nunes, and is, of course, accurate in the case with American Greatness reaming the weaselly Chupacabra–hunting Pathfinder Schiff.)
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

As if there was any doubt,we can't depend on any court in the US anymore.I predicted this months ago.I take no satisfaction that I was correct.
GRA