The Liberty Daily links to Real Clear Politics’ map (as of Nov. 11) indicating the Electoral College results. The headline/link: “Real Clear Politics Quietly Moves Georgia Away From Biden — and Below 270 — to Undecided”. Notice that Pennsylvania is also gray. (Note: image will be updated automatically).
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We were in a Sportsbar over the weekend, and the TV screen dialed to CNN had a headline on the crawl to the effect that Joe Biden is declared President. Huh? Since when does the media declare the winner of a Presidential election? Later on Saturday evening, Greg Gutfield opened his show by making jokes about what a Biden presidency would do. So he was framing the question in terms of a probable Biden Presidency – as in a done deal. Nuts. To frame the questions that way is to give up on Trump’s re-election, to fall victim to the media propaganda to take the air out of our tires, so to speak. We changed channels.
On Sunday, many bloggers and commentators enumerated the
procedural steps involved in a contested election. We all know that the respective Secretaries
of State have first to certify the vote counts.
Some of those SOSs may be reluctant to certify tallies they know to be
fraudulent. So that’s one potential check on the
process.
Clarice Feldman at American Thinker has more and is, as
usual, one of the best:
Apparently, they are under the
impression that [the media] decide election results. They don’t. On December
14, electors chosen by state legislators cast their votes. No one else but the
state legislators have that right. (Article II, Sec. 1,§2 of the
Constitution). Certainly not the press, nor state boards of elections,
secretaries of state, governors, or courts.
If they have reason to believe the
elections in their states were unlawfully conducted and the results fraudulent,
they can act to override them. (You can see a detailed history of this section
of the Constitution in this
fine article by Daniel Horowitz.) The Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia,
and Pennsylvania legislatures are majority Republican. At first glance
these states -- particularly the precincts in Milwaukee, Detroit, Pittsburgh,
and Philadelphia -- are the most suspect.
Is there ample evidence of fraud
sufficient to have altered the will of the legal voters in these states? It
sure looks that way.
. . .
If the [Pennsylvania Supreme Court] Court had applied the Constitution, then we wouldn’t have this mess, for it’s clear under Article 1 Sec. 4, cl 1--that the Pennsylvania court had no constitutional power to change the “times, methods, and procedures of elections.”
That provision specifically applies to the election of
senators and representatives, both of whom were on the ballots in question. And what if there is no clear winner by
Inauguration Day? We’ve been reading a
lot about how Mm Pelosi would become President, as the Speaker of the House is
third in the line of succession, But Ms.
Feldman again explains:
What if There’s no Winner Declared by Inauguration Day?
I’ve seen lots of assertions that
in such a case Nancy Pelosi will be the interim president. Nope. Should that
eventuality occur, the House votes for an interim president and the Senate for
an interim vice president. (The House votes are by state -- one vote each --
and the Republicans hold a majority of 26 states. Our founders were geniuses.
Never forget that.)
As Ms. Feldman
closes: “Never give up the good fight.
Never hamstring your will to fight on with pessimism.”
Her article is
here.
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Ned Ryun has some good points about the election chaos we are witnessing. Still, I hope some of his predictions don’t actually happen. From his article at American Greatness:
The frightening part of what is
happening is that regardless of who eventually wins, half the country will
think the other side stole the election. It undermines the legitimacy of
whomever takes the oath of office in January. There’s no avoiding that now. And
that is a devastating place to be in for us as a country. It undermines the
integrity of the process and causes us to lose trust in institutions that we
already barely believed in. If you thought we were fraying at the edges
already, try half the country looking upon the other half as usurpers.
What has happened in our country is
that partisan public officials have, for short term gain, illegally changed the
rules in the middle of the game, outside of the legislative process, and in so
doing annihilated the democratic process and the integrity of the electoral
vote. What does this mean for us as a people? Nothing good.
Republics are in serious trouble
when politicians break laws behind closed doors with impunity. But republics
are over, however, when those laws are actually broken out in the open for
everyone to see and there are no consequences.
History tells us that at some point
if a country cannot settle its differences like civilized people at the ballot
box in a system they trust, they stop talking with ballots and start
communicating with bullets.
Mr. Ryun’s full article is here.
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It's short notice, but if you know anyone in the greater Columbus area who can go, or if you can make it down there yourself, here's the announcement via The Liberty Daily:
Roger L. Simon’s “ The Disastrous 2020 Election Will Never
Be Resolved” is behind a paywall at The Epoch Times, but Instapundit has posted this extract:
It all began with mail-in
voting—that scandal-ready procedure that was the electoral equivalent of flying
over American states in B-52s as if they were behind enemy lines and dropping
ballots at random.
If one were to design a system by
which a democracy could be subverted, even destroyed, universal mail-in voting
(not, of course, normal absentee voting that requires the citizen to request a
ballot) would be at or near the top of a list.
What could go wrong?
It’s not just the obvious—dead
people voting, people who left the state voting, illegal aliens voting,
signatures no one could possibly recognize being authenticated, signatures with
no record, envelopes being back-dated, ballots found in gullies, ballots dumped
in gullies, ballot harvesting, foreign agents voting surreptitiously en masse,
deadlines that keep moving like the proverbial goal posts, and who knows what.
It’s an actual guarantee of
chaos—and that’s what we had and have.
No one will ever really know what
happened.
The pandemic was the excuse, but I
strongly suspect it was more than that. I suspect, in fact I’m sure, that the
intention of some was to utilize the pandemic to institute mail-in voting
because they knew it would create this chaos, almost like an Antifa for the
electoral system.
How do we know it was in some ways
intentional?
There was plenty of warning. Just
this June, 223,000 ballots in Nevada’s Clark County—17 percent of that county’s
electorate that includes Las Vegas—were sent willy-nilly to the wrong addresses
for their primary, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
No evidence has been forthcoming
that this was corrected. PILF president and general legal counsel J. Christian
Adams calls mail-in voting “chaos that lends itself to fraud.”
PILF has posted a rather droll
video—if it weren’t so depressing—of their investigators going to some of these
registration addresses that turn out to be commercial businesses, not homes,
where the putative voter may or may not have once been employed (in some cases
no one seems to have heard of them). These include an abandoned mine, of all
things.
If you have access to The Epoch Times, the full article is here.
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image via PowerLine
At Front Page, Daniel Greenfield fills in some of the blanks on the massive voter fraud we are witnessing:
One of the unprecedented things
about this election, in the year from hell, is that the amount of mail-in
ballots, of ballot harvesting, made the voter fraud margin so much bigger.
Democrats had set the ground by seizing control of key states and key positions
in them in preparation for the election. And even where they didn't, their
machines got busy.
This was always going to happen. It
happens every election, but the scale of it is different. As are the stakes.
I don't have to state the obvious
about all the Biden votes that "magically" showed up, about why vote
counting was suddenly suspended, or why totals suddenly stopped being updated
for no apparent reason.
These are symptoms of voter fraud.
It's a "Hacks at Work" sign being hung up outside the door.
If there is an upside to any of this, Mr. Greenfield
suggests that
The post-election street fight is a
test of how big the voter margin fraud can get, how many more votes can be discovered
than there are people, and how many ballots can magically show up overnight.
And even if the street fight is
lost, it's worth fighting because it exposes the lie behind the legitimacy of
the powers trying to take over the White House.
They couldn't steal the election in
the daylight, so they had to do it in the dead of night. They couldn't steal it
in empty halls, so they had to do it after everyone went home. And the more
their lie is challenged, the weaker their power becomes, and the more they have
to resort to blatant thuggery to wield it.
That's what happened on Election
Day.
Read the rest here. And it's not over.
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Dex Bahr stayed up to watch election coverage, and today on American Thinker he published his report. It is not pretty. Here’s his take on Fox News:
Fox News should be forever viewed
by conservatives as the enemy. Its early calls for states for Biden that had
not finished voting such as Arizona and Virginia and their slow–walking of
states which Trump decisively won like Florida, Texas and Ohio, was an absolute
disgrace. By sitting on the results of states like Georgia and North
Carolina, states that, of this writing, showed Trump with narrow leads
with 99 percent of
the precincts in, Fox allowed Biden to gain momentum while slowing Trump’s
dominance. It looks like the influence of RINO Paul Ryan as a Fox Corporation
board member and the legacy of analyst Bill
Sammon (Fox News VP Politics) resulted in a psy-ops (psychological
operations) campaign against conservative morale. Tucker Carlson, Laura
Ingraham, Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs should go to other networks rather than
being associated with this betrayer of its conservative audience. Fox News
should be shunned by all conservatives from this day forward and they should
throw viewership to OANN (One America News Network) and Newsmax.
States like Wisconsin, Michigan and
Pennsylvania declaring they need more days to count their votes also raises the
specter of voter fraud. Globalists, corrupt voting officials and the deep state
are most likely in on this skullduggery. Through this coordinated effort, along
with the media, the race is close and the stage is set for either stealing the
election for Biden, civil unrest, or both.
2020 will go down in history as one
of the most tumultuous years ever. It only makes sense that this election result
punctuates this distinction.
Read the full report here.
Not pretty, but also, not surprising.
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Words of wisdom and encouragement from Sundance at ConservativeTreehouse:
Right now those who wish to
“fundamentally change” our nation are waging a full frontal assault against our
constitutional republic. The bombardment seems overwhelming.
Leftist city and state leaders have
abandoned rule of law in favor of supporting the mob effort to destroy our
sense of national unity. Political activists, left-wing ideologues under
the guise of democrats, and a host of media allies are conducting an
information war on behalf of their objective. Big tech social media
companies are attempting to remove the voices of those who are fighting back.
There is a great deal of
purposefully driven anxiety and fear amid our nation as this multi-faceted
internal war takes place. However, there is a primary element to this
effort that each person can shield themselves from, and act to counter.
Do not let your sense of self succumb to this assault. Do not
let them win the battle for your peace of mind.
It might, heck, -check that-
it does seem overwhelming at times. But that is the nature of
this collectivist strategy. That is the purpose of this
bombardment. We must hold strong and push back against their lies and
manipulations. If you look closely at their attack, it is weak and much
of it is psychological bait. Do not fall into the trap of despair.
When I share the message “live your
best life”, it is not without purpose. Every moment that we allow the
onslaught to deter us from living our dreams, is a moment those who oppose our
nation view as us taking a knee. Do not allow this effort to
succeed.
You might ask yourself how can I,
one person, a flea looking into a furnace, retain an optimistic disposition
while all around me seems chaotic and mad.
That’s the point; it ‘seems’
chaotic and mad because it has been created to appear that way. There are
more of us than them; they just control the systems that allow us to connect,
share messages and recognize the scale of our assembly.
. . .
Read more of Sundance here.
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James Delingpole publishes at Breitbart, frequently on climate change propaganda and British politics. I don’t consider him an alarmist or an ideologue. So I am alarmed at his report about The Great Reset. Here’s the opening:
Build Back Better.
This is the slogan of the New World Order – aka the Great Reset.
You hear it often these days
intoned — in the manner of dutiful Stepford Wives — by everyone from UK Prime
Minister Boris
Johnson and the Prince of Wales to Canadian blackface artiste Justin Trudeau and, inevitably, Joe Biden who has
adopted it as his campaign
slogan.
About the only leader you won’t
hear using it is Donald Trump because he recognises its true significance.
Build Back Better is the code phrase for one of the most terrifying and
dangerous, globally co-ordinated assaults on liberty and prosperity in the
history of mankind. If the plan succeeds, the world you inhabit will be
unrecognisable, your children will have no prospects and your life will barely
be worth living. Build Back Better means totalitarian rule by a global,
technocratic elite – as constrictive and immiserating as life under fascism or
communism. This hideous New World Order is the Great Reset.
It sounds like a conspiracy theory
but the people behind it are perfectly open about it.
Mr. Delingpole then provides chapter-and-verse on The Great
Reset. His column concludes:
#WhyAreTheyDoingThis has become a
popular hashtag on Twitter for the increasing number of people concerned at the
extraordinarily draconian and often scientifically inexplicable policies being
adopted by governments the world over to deal with Coronavirus.
The Great Reset may be the answer.
And if it is the answer — and so if
so many world leaders are on board — then my view is that there is only one man
in the world who can save us from it.
That man is Donald Trump.
It’s why, in my view, this
presidential election is probably the most important political event anyone
alive will live through.
On the outcome depend our liberty,
our prosperity, our civilisation.
The full report, and it is frightening, is here.
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A MAGA compilation video that will put a smile on your face. Especially the cowboy on his steed at full gallop.
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Too funny. Meme via reader comment at Conservative Treehouse :
Is it going to be Biden landslide? A Trump landslide? Who believes any of the polls? Kurt Schlichter has encouraging words in the final days before Election Day. His article at TownHall about the propaganda psy-ops begins:
The next few days will be a Cat 5
hurricane of mainstream media spin and Democrat bullSchiff designed to make you
think that you’ve already lost this election. They want your morale shattered,
your spirit broken, and you to put a lid on your participation in saving your
country from leftist tyranny.
It’s all a lie.
It’s a psychological operation
designed to keep you on the sidelines.
We got this.
All you need to do is vote.
And his full article is here.
For what it is worth, we cased out the Cuyahoga County Board
of Elections today, and the line to vote in person stretched most of the way down
East 30 St. Probably a two-hour
wait. And that was on Thursday
afternoon. There were campaign signs
everywhere, extra police and sheriff presences, and I expect it will be much the
same on Election Day.
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The headline is scary enough: “Election interference: YouTube is suppressing videos about Joe, Hunter, and Ukraine.” Michio Hasai provides ugly details in his posting at The NOQReport:
Good luck finding a video on
YouTube that details ANYTHING other than positive spin and fake debunking of
the Hunter Biden laptop story.
This news will be shocking to none
of our readers. If you’ve followed us for a while, you know that we’ve
documented dozens of cases of censorship and suppression on Big Tech publishers
like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and their video giant YouTube, among others.
We’ve also shown how they’ve all placed various “fact-check warnings” on
content, including ours, even when the facts detailed in the content are beyond
reproach.
The latest as well as one of the
most consequential moves by YouTube as it pertains to the election is their
suppression and fact-checking of videos searched for through keywords like
“Hunter Biden Ukraine” and “Joe Biden Ukraine.” As far as YouTube and its
unsuspecting visitors know, there’s nothing afoul with the Bidens’ suspicious
and likely treacherous dealings with Burisma and the Ukrainian
government. . . .
. . .
YouTube has gone to great lengths
to “fact-check” and often suppress content that runs counter to their accepted
political agenda. If it could possibly hurt Democrats, they suppress. If it can
hurt President Trump or Republicans, they amplify. That’s their modus operandi.
The full report is here. We all know people who are blissfully unaware that the information they see or read is censored. So spread the word.
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One of the fun stories I read about Trump during the 2016 election cycle was about his run-in with the city fathers in Palm Beach over his flagpole at Mar-A-Lago. I don’t remember the exact details, but there was a zoning ordinance restricting flagpole heights to, say, 30 feet. Trump’s flagpole flying the American flag was maybe 20 feet over the zoning maximum. City council kept levying fines for the violation, he kept flying the flag, and eventually, he proposed that he pay the accumulated fines, but only if the city council contributed the money to a veteran’s organization. They agreed, he paid the fine, and the money went to his designated organizational recipient. Then he had his staff bring in 20 feet high worth of dirt, shoved the dirt under the flagpole, remounted the same flagpole, so it was still 50 feet high. There was nothing the city council could do, since the height of the flagpole met their regulations, and he merely out-foxed them with the 20-foot high pitcher’s mound. My recollection of the details may be a bit off, but the gist of the story is correct. He got his high-flying American flag while outwitting the Palm Beach Council.
And in the spirit of that story, here’s a photo from social
media showing a Trump fan tearing a page from the same playbook:
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Some good news over at Conservative Treehouse. Sundance begins his report titled “The March of The Deplorables – President Trump’s Army Has Chased Biden Off Campaign Trail”:
In early October a large number of
Latino supporters for Trump in Miami-Dade county Florida surprised the
Biden-Harris campaign by swarming a local Kamala Harris event.
It happened again… and then again…
And then by mid-October the organically occurring approach started to catch
fire.
The Deplorables are on the march,
and their assembled visibility, the political optics, have destroyed the media
narrative.
The downstream impact on the
messaging of the Biden-Harris campaign, their surrogates and the DNC club writ
large, is devastating. That’s almost certainly the real reason Joe Biden
has abandoned his in-person campaigning.
Read the rest here. It’s a pick-me-up in the face of all the
relentlessly bad headlines.
And in other fun news, the other day, Joe Biden referred to the Trump supporters showing up at his rally as “chumps.” Actor James Woods immediately tweeted that he was “Proud to be a #ChumpForTrump. I’m waiting for the t-shirts and mugs.
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George Parry’s columns appear at his own website, knowledgeisgood.net, and also at The American Spectator. His column today looks at ballot harvesting today
through his own first-hand perspective.
Here’s an excerpt:
In the latest creative political
use of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Democrats are warning that we will be risking
infection if we vote in person at the polls. So it is that the Democrats are
promoting yet another new public health protocol: voting by mail instead of
risking death at the polls. Apparently, while it is safe enough to socially
distance at the supermarket, the pharmacy, or big box stores, polling places
will be COVID-19 death traps. So, to save lives, the ever-thoughtful Democrats
insist that, in the upcoming presidential election, we stay safe by using the
mail-in ballots being sent to every registered voter — living or dead — on a
massive scale never before attempted in American history.
President Trump and others have
raised the warning of potential voter fraud posed by the widespread use of
universal, unrequested mail-in ballots. In response, the Democrats insist that
there is no evidence supporting Trump’s claim. But, if history and common sense
are any guides, mail-in ballots will make it easier for Democrats to “harvest
the votes” of those living or dead who will have no role in casting them.
The term of political art for this
practice when used in nursing homes is “granny harvesting.” The confused or
mentally disabled residents need only sign their names to the ballots, and
others will fill in the rest. As illegal, outrageous, and damaging to democracy
as this scam may be, the use of mail-in ballots will be a far more humane and
efficient way to steal the election than transporting busloads of enfeebled and
confused senior citizens from nursing homes to polling places and escorting
them into the voting booth to make sure they vote the right way. It also
eliminates the need to abandon the occasional old-timer who won’t play ball.
After all, as I can tell you from personal experience, an abandoned, desperate,
and sobbing white-haired granny in a wheelchair is a bad look for the Party of
Compassion.
So will the Democrats try to steal
the 2020 election by harvesting mail-in ballots? Why wouldn’t they? If indeed
the past is prologue, then we should not expect the party whose operatives
corrupted our intelligence agencies to spy on candidate Donald Trump, attempted
to frame President Trump for nonexistent collusion with Russia, and impeached
him without a scintilla of justification, to hesitate for a nanosecond to use
universal mail-in ballots to harvest the “votes” of grannies, convicts, and
dead people to defeat the one man who stands between them and their dream of
total control of our lives.
Read the rest here. Our household will be voting in person
on Election Day.
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Matt Margolis at PJ Media explains
why early voting is such a bad idea. He concludes:
While it’s difficult for most of us
to fathom the possibility that something could happen to change one’s mind
about who they plan to vote for, it’s obvious that it can happen, and it
appears to be happening right now. When this election is over we need to have a
serious look at how voting is done in this country. Early voting is a cancer on
the electoral process that can disenfranchise voters who aren’t 100 percent
committed to either candidate.
Early voting, outright voter
fraud, and moving the deadlines for counting mail-in ballots, are creating
election chaos – which is just what the Democrat Progressive party wants. And Mr.
Margolis recommends that after this election, "we need to have a serious
look at how voting is done in this country.” Hmmm. That is, if we still have a country after this election. (Full article by Mr. Margolis is here.)
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The final debate before Election Day is scheduled for this evening, October 22 at 9pm. You can tune into CBS. You can go to Conservative Treehouse for livestream links to CNN and to RSBN (UPDATED link here.) (Our household always goes to Right Side Broadcast News just to show support for their efforts.) Or, if you have had it with these debates, you can let Mr. Vodkapundit, a/k/a Stephen Green watch it for you and follow his live drunkblogging of the event here (UPDATED link here).
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Thomas Lifson at American Thinker is outraged at the corruption of the Presidential debates. As well he should be. Among his criticisms is the choice of “moderator”:
Two recent actions by the Commission
on Presidential Debates reveal the outrageous information control strategy
being implemented. Kristen Welker, the debate moderator, is a highly
partisan Democrat working for highly partisan NBC News. Welker even
celebrated Christmas at the Obama White House with her parents, major
donors to Obama.
And she gets to choose the topics – favorable to Biden, of
course.
Foreign policy, where President
Trump has triumphed in the Middle East, is verboten. And any mention
of Hunter Biden's activities as bagman for his father in selling American
foreign policy — despite being the major theme of Trump's campaign activities —
is MIA. But once again, climate change, already discussed in debate
#1and far down on the list of issues that most concern Americans, is on the
agenda.
But it just got worse — much
worse. The AP reports:
The nonpartisan Commission on
Presidential Debates announced Monday that the second and final debate between
the two candidates will have each nominee muted while the other delivers his
two-minute remarks at the outset of each of the six debate topics. The
remainder of each 15-minute block will be open discussion, without any muting,
the commission said.
Welker's handpicked, Dem-favoring
topics will get a monopoly in establishing the character of each segment of the
debate. This obviously is intended to force Trump to stick to the
subject Dems want covered. And pardon me if I do not trust this
assurance that the mute button, whose very existence is an outrage, will not be
further employed to silence Trump if he brings up Hunter's crooked deals on
behalf of his father, who gets a cut of 10 to 50 percent on the proceeds,
according to a text Hunter sent.
Mr. Lifson’s article is here.
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Katie Adams reports at Hospital Review:
The
Atlantic's COVID tracking project compiles data directly from the websites
of local or state public health authorities. When data is missing from the
websites, it supplements available numbers with information from official news
conferences. Data was last updated Oct. 18 or 19, depending on the state.
Hospital bed capacity counts are
based on 2018 data from the American Hospital Association.
And here are the stats for COVID-19 patients now hospitalized in Ohio:
Ohio: 1,154
State's hospital bed capacity:
33,157
And here’s Matt Walsh at Instapundit on the moving goal posts:
We need to stay locked down for 15 days
Actually a month
Actually two months
Actually three months
Actually until there's a vaccine
Never mind actually we can't trust
the vaccine
All political power games.
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