It’s a hot mess inside of a shitstorm
From about 1990 until midterms, 2018, I was a non-voter, even though I generally supported libertarian and conservative ideals and to limited extent, the politics that ensue.
Though a non-believer in literal interpretations of religious faiths, I am nonetheless a champion for the Enlightenment values embodied in Western Civilization. I’m a conservative in this regard. I oppose progressivism, socialism, feminism, racism, genderism, sexism, environmentalism, and all else-isms that corrode the Essential Spirit of America.
Conservatism isn’t perfectionism, but it does place stock in what’s proven to advance the state of humanity, its self-determination, and happiness. It is careful about incorporating new things because they are unproven and often, they come packaged with prima facie destructive elements from the perspective of gains achieved by human civilization and how such gains came about.
Progressivism-socialism is parasitism. It’s everyone trying to live at the expense of everyone else. It’s cannibal pot hysteria.
Make America Great Again is a reasonable creed for conservatives who, not wanting to turn back the time-machine, nonetheless want to preserve and advance those things that made us great from the beginning.
Trump embodies that. I don’t just accept and tolerate him; I enthusiastically, unabashedly adore and endorse him.
Though I’m an American expat in Thailand, I’m a registered Republican in Nevada, my state of birth. I voted absentee in the proper way: by reading the procedures, proving my residency (Nevada DL and in-state address of record), registering, and requesting a ballot…which I received electronically and returned as prescribed (a password-protected PDF). I even got a personal email reply from the Washoe county registrar’s office acknowledging receipt and assuring me it would be processed.
…And yet, there are apparently millions of Biden voters all across the country who live right down the street from the voting precinct, but can’t seem to figure out how to get a proper and valid vote in, on time. And seemingly, all attention is focussed on “counting those votes”…it’s the most important and pressing thing in the universe…
There is little to no clarity on any of this mess, from either side.
Typical republican says “every vote must count,” and it subsumes legitimate, legal votes by those legally qualified, who followed the rules, procedures, deadlines, etc.
Typical democrat says it, and it’s euphemism for any ballot from anywhere, at any time, in duplicate, from the dead, excess, fraudulent…in short, any sort of scrap of paper blowing in the wind with anything resembling what looks to be a “vote” on it.
But here’s the disconnect in all of this. In spite of all of the many “irregularities”—to be the most charitable of my life—the general consensus is to finish the counting (of what, exactly?) and then perform recounts where appropriate.
Recount what, exactly? I’m not going to list all the “irregularities.” Many have done that already, including Anthony Colpo. Trump is Right: The U.S. Election is Being Rigged. For up-to-dates on developments, including inside whistleblowers coming forward, consult Project Veritas.
So, what to recount? There are the in-person votes from early voting and election day. There are mail-in ballots. But, within those, there are the longstanding absentee ballots where a due and legitimate registered voter requests it, gets it, votes it, and it’s returned by election day. But now, there is a new class of mail-in ballot: unsolicited. They’re simply just sent out to all those on the roles, whether still alive, whether at a current address, whether there’s a forwarding address, etc. I’m sure procedures vary state-to-state as to how clean those registration roles are, but even still, it has an element of being a ballot in the wind if, at the very least, it has not been requested and is expected by the voter.
Claims vary, but the number appears to be somewhere between 40 and 80 million of these unsolicited ballots in the wind.
In the last couple of days, the Trump campaign and RNC have draw a valid narrative distinction between legal and illegal ballots. The problem is, unless you have a hard-stop rule, such as a time deadline, how do you know, amongst the ballots in the wind, what’s legitimate and what’s not? See some of the Project Veritas exposé to see what I mean.
Voter fraud has a long history and legacy, but at the urban-city level.
The cynical phrases “Vote early — and often” and “Vote early — and vote often” are variously attributed to three different Chicagoans: Al Capone, the famous gangster; Richard J. Daley, mayor from 1955 to 1976; and William Hale Thompson, mayor from 1915-1923 and 1931-1935. All three were notorious for their corruption and their manipulation of the democratic process. It is most likely that Thompson invented the phrase, and Capone and Daley later repeated it.
But that’s their own shit on their own doorstep; it’s not a federal case. Hell, it’s not even typically county-wide, and certainly not a statewide problem. So let them have at it if that’s the level of “integrity” those inner-city Democrats “aspire” to.
Recounts are going to get you nowhere.
The mass-mail-out of unsolicited ballots fundamentally introduced garbage into the system; since, simply, you cannot know who filled them in—or filled in a few hundred or thousand—and there wasn’t necessarily anyone expecting the ballot: as a result of requesting it.
You are not going to get a gourmet meal out of that, no matter how many times you recount the garbage.
Once this whole fraud-plan born of CovidCon gets unraveled, if it ever does, who goes to jail, who gets a bullet to the head or a lethal dose in the arm?
Nobody does, and the loser, cucked Republican-establishment blue bloods will be the first to waive hands to stop the needed and required meting out of justice. Many already are. No big thing, right? So, they’ll make inner-city wink-nod “democracy” the same mockery throughout the whole land, content that they still hold their own power, along with their own connections to the connected.
I have no confidence the courts can get to the bottom of this turd and polish it in a timely manner.
There are two non-court paths to what I personally consider to be an essential Trump 2nd term in the office of President of the United States.
- The Republicans control the State legislatures of Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, at a minimum. The State legislatures can appoint whatever electors they wish. That’s the the Constitutional election of President. A vote by the populace is just a convention that can be revoked at will by any State legislature, even if they have to legislate to do it—it’s perfectly in-line with the U.S. Constitution.
- If not resolved by January 20—State legislatures cumulatively don’t deliver 270 electors minimum for any candidate—it goes to the U.S. House of Representatives, which the Democrats hold. But there’s a catch. In this instance, each state only gets 1 single vote. Yes, both California and New York count for 2 votes for President. (is that delicious, or what?)
There’s a silver-lining elegance to number 2, in that 99.99% of the global population is wholly unaware of it, all the while yak-yaking about meh electoral college (which they don’t even barely understand, either).
Cue late night infomercial: “BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!!!”
Each state delegation votes en bloc, with each state having a single vote. A candidate is required to receive an absolute majority of state delegation votes (currently 26 votes) in order for that candidate to become the president-elect. The House continues balloting until it elects a president.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_election#Presidential_election
It has only gone that way once, in 1824, nearly 200 years ago, when John Quincy Adams got fewer “popular votes” than did Andrew Jackson, but more importantly, neither could garner enough electoral votes from the State legislatures for a majority. The U.S. House of Representatives elected Adams.
Is it high time to give the United States Population a civics lesson like they’ve never had—and shock the whole world in the process? Of course, with 1-State, 1-vote, Trump wins easily in his sleep.
…We’re still left with an enormous problem. In spite of Trump gaining much ground in terms of support within the “victim” classes of women, blacks, and hispanics, we’re left with a bad taste in our mouths—that so many could bring themselves to support the likes of Biden and Harris, who, to my mind, are the worst set of garbage ever put up for election at any time, anywhere in the history of the human political experimentation with democracy.
Puppets doesn’t even begin to delve into it, but there’s an element to it, since “the problem” with Trump is that he’s nobody’s puppet or fool—to say the least—and this infuriates the puppet masters on not just a U.S. level, but on a global one.
And there’s a deeper problem still. It’s systemic in our very notion of law, order, rules, regulation, and citizenship.
The systemic problem with rules, generally stated, is that honest people of good will follow them. Scoundrels issue forth with impressions and platitudes that they follow them the most, while following them the least.
Rules curtail the best people, while enabling the worst.
Unpack that reality.
…I began with Joe “Demented” Biden. I’ll finish with Joe “Freudian Slip” Biden.
Well said Richards.! I hope your words fall on the right ears. They need to make a real spectacle of this fraud perpetrated on all of us.
Just look at this map – click on “County wise”, to see how the country voted.. Says everything.!
https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2020/general-results
Right on, Richard.
I’ll go ahead and predict path #1 does not occur. Too many RINOs, Democrat governors, & other obstacles to a decentralized process like that. Plus, Democrat-controlled legislatures in other states would likely retaliate by overriding their own popular red vote.
Would love to see #2 happen. The deluge of leftist tears would render all public water utilities irrelevant for the next 10 years.
Either way, if anyone can fight this, it is Trump. And if he goes down, he is going down swinging. At the very least he will mortally wound his enemies (politically speaking), whose unabashed hubris seems to reach new heights every single month.
I may have to eat my words above about path #1 not being realistic. As more & more data comes out on this increasingly obvious fraud, the Democrats will not be able to hide.
Scott Adams summarized it beautifully, time stamp 22:40 thru 38:10.
More good stuff beforehand, starting at 10:30, mainly establishing motive. Also exquisitely articulated.
https://youtu.be/01vnDL4yFrA
At least the scales are dropping from some eyes. Probably too late and too few though. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/no-matter-the-liberal-metric-chosen
Republicans will never see the White House again. They have gamed the system in too many states. I am still shocked they were able to pull this off with a candidate like Joe and running mate like Kamala who garnered even less support in the primaries.
Who’s that long haired metal guy you sometimes link to Richard? The one who does the great, in-depth scathing political commentary. I’d like to see his take on all this but i forgot his name
Styxhexenhammer666
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0rZoXAD5lxgBHMsjrGwWWQ
many thanks Richard!
Richard, not that you need to hear this from me, but it has been over three weeks, and this post is aging very, very well. Trump has not skipped a beat, & the characteristic chaos of the initial few weeks has turned out to be a deceptive distraction, as the real case is steadily built & the real strategy subtly executed.
I really cannot articulate how much I am looking forward to the left’s synchronized retching & screaming in a month or two. The 2016 election night tantrums are going to seem like nothing. These dolts do seem to be sensing, subconsciously, that the earth beneath their footing is starting to shift. They’re palpably less cocky, less mouthy, though they still insist that Orange Hitler is kidding himself.
Ha, you noticed that too, eh?
When this happened I was not angry, and in analyzing that automatic non-feeling where I ought to have been livid, I think it’s that I understood that they went way too far this time. Fucking with the very machinery, not just spinning the output.
So I was mostly curious to see how it plays out.
I’ve got a post on this in a couple days, as promised in the CovCon from yesterday.
….And oh, in terms of what they did and their telling silence? The word chargrin comes to mind.
Richard,
As much as it’s tempting to call Dems a cult (they are) it’s equally cult-like to say one “enthusiastically, unabashedly adore[s] and endorse[s]” a politician. The question is, why do people have such strong cult-like feelings towards politicians and parties/tribes at all? Terror Management Theory (TMT) may best explain it. https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/watch-neuroscientist-explains-trump-created-cult-radicalized-members/
TMT is the theory that people are motivated out of fear of their own mortality. Or at least fear that their existence will inevitably be forgotten and replaced. It’s been theorized to be an underlying factor for how cults are formed. And it’s been used to explain religious extremism and adoration of cult leaders. The link goes into the neuroscience research and also has a more detailed video.
Dems tend to be younger and worry about their future mortality (Global warming, pandemics, etc). Reps tend to be older and worry about their (mostly white) legacy getting erased. Both are cults. Both are being manipulated by fears tied to their inevitable mortality. It is what it is. Choose to ignore how politicians like Trump/Biden manipulate the populace if you will, but it doesn’t change the fact that both sides are exhibiting cult-like behaviors.
The problem with clinging to the idea that Trump won, and not peacefully admitting defeat, is that the next logical step is Dolchstosslegende or “Stab-in-the-back myth.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth
“The belief was that the German Army did not lose World War I on the battlefield but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially Jews and the republicans who overthrew the Hohenzollern monarchy in the German Revolution of 1918–19. Advocates denounced the German government leaders who signed the Armistice on November 11, 1918 as the “November criminals” (German: Novemberverbrecher). When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, they made the legend an integral part of their official history of the 1920s, portraying the Weimar Republic as the work of the “November criminals” who stabbed the nation in the back to seize power while betraying it.”
Trump’s inability to admit defeat will likely lead to the same logical conclusion. It seems intentional at this point. The idea is to perpetuate the idea/myth that Dems cheated, without any real evidence. No matter. His next step will be to point to an imaginary scapegoat (jews, immigrants, or anyone that will stoke TMT emotions). His cult followers will be receptive and history repeats.
Careful where unabashed adoration leads you. Cults rarely have good endings and following in the footsteps of the Nazi party is not a great way to memorialize one’s legacy.
Oh please. The fraud is rampant. Testimony from upstanding citizens all over the places you need to know where to look.
But the last thing I need to do, sitting here on Jomtien Beach in Thailand, leaving for Phuket in 2 days–to frame it for you–is to cast pearls before swine.
Good day.
Pete, it is apparent facts don’t matter to you as you frame your psycho-babble based narrative.
For instance, the most recent Pew research shows that both the mean and median age of the Dims and Repubs are within a just a few years of each other, meaning Dems and Reps tend to be around the same age, so there goes your premise about Dims being younger and Reps being older and your following narrative framed on that false premise.
But, really, I think Richard, as usual, summed it up with the “pearls before swine” comment.
“The fraud is rampant. Testimony from upstanding citizens all over the places you need to know where to look.”
A tase of that upstanding testimony: https://twitter.com/TepidButterASMR/status/1333862192928731142
Hearsay is not evidence of fraud. Even Trump-appointed judges aren’t buying into their testimony.
Read Judge Stephanos Bibas’s rebuke of such lawsuits. He’s a Trump-appointed judge: https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/203371np.pdf
“Calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations
and then proof. We have neither here.”
Even Trump’s own DOJ and top Cybersecurity Official doesn’t buy it. Even Bill Barr doesn’t buy it. (You would have to be deep into a cult mindset to ignore all of this). At the end of the day, you’ll need more than hearsay from biased, emotional and confused citizens as evidence of fraud. Anyway. I’m due back on planet earth. Cheers.
“Even Bill Barr doesn’t buy it.”
Oh, you fell for the headline, eh?
Dismissed.
Pete, cherry picking testimony is not evidence. Calling all curated testimony and affidavits issued under penalty of perjury “heresy” is not evidence.
A cloistered jackass in a black robe issuing a rebuke is not evidence, and who he was “appointed by” is a symptom of morons who want to deal in motives and personalities instead of facts .
Bill Barr and the DOJ and this or that expert vomiting their opinion in not evidence.
Do you even know what “appeal to authority” is and why it’s almost always a fallacy? Facts are not established by cloistered jackasses in black robes and other alleged authorities and experts; rather, facts are established through observation and experiment, facts and evidence, by appealing not to persons and personalities, but by the application of reason.
Hell, the DOJ hasn’t even done a full or even an actual investigation, and they are currently trying to either clarify or walk-back Barr’s statement.
Here is what the DOJ said:
“Some media outlets have incorrectly reported that the Department has concluded its investigation of election fraud and announced an affirmative finding of no fraud in the election,” a DOJ spokesperson said in a statement. “That is not what the Associated Press reported nor what the Attorney General stated. The Department will continue to receive and vigorously pursue all specific and credible allegations of fraud as expeditiously as possible.”
Do you have any actual evidence beyond cherry picking and appeals to authority? Pretending as though you presented any actual evidence is dishonest, you have to have a cult mindset to really believe that it is. Your rantings about “cults” is nothing more than projection.
David:
When leftists use slurs like “cult,” “true believer,” “truther,” etc., they are always projecting. No exceptions.
Richard, a lot of your posts on this page aged deliciously!
“When leftists use slurs like “cult,” “true believer,” “truther,” etc., they are always projecting. No exceptions.”
I love that you never give audience to conspiracy stuff, like Q. I even went and used your search function and could not find anything.
Yes. I wrote that you couldn’t recount your way out of this and that there were two legit recourses available, provided courts didn’t get involved, which they didn’t, so as not to establish any facts either way, which you have to have for appeal.
As for Q, I had never heard of it until some months ago, perhaps spring when a longtime food blogger I know started posting stuff about it, grand predictions, etc., so I Googled a bit, put it in the same category as Apollo 11 Truth, 9/11 Truth, Holocaust Truth, Deep State Truth, Rothschild Truth, Jew Truth, et al. You won’t find anything on those topic here, either.
It’s simple, Occam’s Razor. You don’t need grand complex conspiracies, or, as I like to call them, “secrets too big to keep,” when you simply understand that people act to gain and keep values. So, a lot of the crap that goes on is shit lots of people value, and so it persists.