If we do not have election integrity—if one vote is not invariably equal to one vote—then in the long run the Constitution is not worth a bucket of spit.
We all know it can and has been made to “say”—to spit out from some unexpected cavity—literally anything any corrupt mind might want it to “say”.
My belief is that anyone who cannot feel the darkness attempting to envelop America is not a good person. I honestly believe this.
And I say this knowing full well that there are lots of people with beautiful kind smiles, who write about love all the time, post pictures of flowers and babies and puppies and memes that say “Hang in There!!”
These are not good people. And I will tell you why: they have not processed their shadows, their trauma, their gut energy, the latent capacity for cruelty we are ALL born with.
It is easy enough to be nice. I say this nearly reflexively. And there is zero doubt many people could and would describe me personally as an asshole, based on their interactions with me. But I am not pretending. I am not playing. I have not adopted a role I expect the whole world to love me for. I have, instead, attached myself to three core principles: the rejection of self pity, perseverance, and curiosity. None of these require outside validation.
But if you are playing a role–and depressingly I would count the present Dalai Lama among those–then you are not in touch with the part of you capable of strangling someone. You are not in touch with the part of you that wants to kick people when they are down. You are not in touch with the vain, prideful, overly sensitive part of yourself that can’t get enough praise, and which secretly fumes when criticized.
And how does this manifest? It manifests in 1) blindness and 2) indifference when there should be strong passions.
If you want to be known as the sort of woman with that sort of smile, you cannot hesitate when you are asked to sign the latest petition claiming to right some wrong of some sort, even if it is bullshit. You can’t call it bullshit, even if it is obviously bullshit. You are not wanting to be known as that sort of person. You have an image to protect, that of a “light worker”.
Me, as should be obvious, I don’t give a flying fuck. Or perhaps more accurately, I worry vastly more about living an inauthentic life than I do being judged and hated. I am in touch with all my awfulness, which means that what residual kindness and compassion and love remains is real, and it is clear sighted, and it is honest, and it is powerful.
That, in any event, is how I see it.
I remember meeting a Frenchman many years ago in New York City. He wanted to see a traditional black Gospel service in Harlem–you know, all the fat women in robes with amazing voices singing their hearts out in praise of God–and I went up there with him on a Sunday. We never did find a church like that–I think Al Green operates one down in Memphis, but they likely are not as common as they may once have been–but we got to talking.
He said that the French, in his experience, were vastly more neurotic. Everyone had tics, and minor compulsions and just a variety of oddities. But Americans seemed much calmer and saner. I told him I don’t think that is true. I think we are just less honest as people. I think we are trained from earliest childhood to be nice, to go along to get along, and to never stand out if possible in any way.
This is my own stereotype of course, and somewhat unfair. But it seems likely to me that the people of Japan, to take one obvious example, may well have more individualistic tendencies in private than we do. Most Americans are fed their thoughts, their experiences, and most of them are passive in the face of all this. They are overly well fed cattle, operating a machine that needs them for the moment, but not much longer.
That assessment, itself, is cruel and unkind. Yes, it is. Am I wrong, though? How many of us could stand up and give an intelligent speech on nearly any topic? How many Americans, on balance, create more than they consume, in terms of private time activities? We average, what, 8 hours of TV time alone daily? Plus computer and iPhone? Those are numbers that positively militate that we conclude that we are cattle.
The media, in treating us like we are all fucking idiots, is on reasonably solid ground. Obviously.
But I say again: if you cannot FEEL who Joe Biden is, you are no friend of the light. That is my view.
Just click ahead a couple minutes.
This is unbelievable. How is this sort of shit being allowed in 2020? I honestly think Trump won by 10 million popular votes, and got at least 300 Electoral College votes.
All I can do is continue to pray, and continue to strategize emotionally as to how I am going to deal with all this.
I am told it is a truism and one of the first principles taught in Accounting that if you are off by a penny, you could be off by a million dollars. Either the columns add up perfectly, or you fucked up somewhere, to a completely unknowable extent.
And this principle is taught for the simple reason that a penny is not much. Any of us, to avoid hours of labor, would just kick in that penny ourselves.
But the idea is that the “system”, if I might use that term–the long series of operations which yielded the total–is broken. Being off by a penny is the symptom. A broken, defective system is the disease. And Accountants are number doctors. Their job is to heal the broken numbers.
Likewise with voting. If you can provide evidence of ONE ballot that was counted, that should not have been counted, then you have a broken system. You have a system that could be allowing MILLIONS of bad ballots without you knowing it. One ballot here and there both sides are quite willing to let go. And in point of fact, Republicans have been letting go what seemed to be petty voter fraud for many years. It is not worth the political cost of making the accusation, when their enemies leverage their valid concerns into counter-accusations of racism and a desire to disenfranchise minority voters we are told are too stupid and ignorant to understand the process and participate in it the same way as white people.
But do we KNOW how large the problem is? How could we? It’s impossible. The people doing the cheating probably don’t even know exactly how many ballots they are getting away with entering into the system fraulently.
How is this possible in 2020? I think it is very likely that ten million OR MORE fraudulent votes were cast for Joe Biden. Until we have a system to audit ALL OF THEM we cannot know if the obvious examples we KNOW about are just chump change compared to what is deep within and undiscovered because uninspected.
What we really need is a decisive Supreme Court ruling detailing what constitutes–broadly, if still vague enough to accommodate emerging technologies–a secure and fair election. We need those terms defined nationally, in such a way that they MEAN something, that they have teeth, that the city machines in Philadelphia and Chicago have to stop doing what they have been doing at least since 1960.
It needs to be the Supreme Court because as long as the voter fraud is going on, we have no chance of passing a national law preventing it, not that I can see, and certainly 0.0.are you fucking kidding me in a Joe Biden Administration, especially with Nancy Pelosi propped up as Speaker for another two years.
I’m obviously no legal scholar. And I have bad ideas, too, like everyone. But I think I am very good at logical and principled thinking, and that honest voting is the sine qua non of a healthy system which is based on voting seems beyond obvious to me. Everything depends on it. All rule of law depends on it. The enforceability of the Constitution depends on it. Public peace, in the end, will depend on it.
We need to get it right.
The whole future of our country revolves around whether or not we can get secure, fair elections. Everything depends on it. Biden did not win this election. He is not popular. America does not want these dark days–of restricted liberty, of contraction–to continue, and he clearly represents the party of the plague.
And if he cheats his way to victory, if something this large, this obvious, and this egregious is allowed to stand, then he and the people behind him are unstoppable.
Conversely, though, I think the pattern is clear enough that Republicans have been getting 2-5% more of the vote for many years than they have gotten credit for. This country leans Republican, and will continue to do so more and more as the Democrats have public psychotic breaks from reality. None of us want lunatics making and enforcing our laws, or at least those of us sane enough to see that this is what is happening.
Again, the whole question revolves around this: how many of those tasked with protecting us take it as seriously as the ordinary grunts we sent over to Iraq and Afghanistan, and who are even now fighting a variety of wars all over Africa and Asia? How many would be willing to sacrifice, not their life, but their reputation? How many are willing to risk hatred and condemnation from people who do and know little else?
Our fighting men have fought, suffered, and died for “this country”. Is this country led by cowards, or do we still have something good left in us, that is stronger and more durable than being “nice”?
I continue to believe an emotional and social Renaissance of sorts is possible. We can reverse our decadence. We can become better as a nation. But this will take time, and it will prove nearly impossible in the dark times a sustained Democrat/RINO victory would bring in their wake.
It’s obvious, of course, that if the Supreme Court–or even State courts, acting honestly–wind up giving Trump the election win he obviously deserves, that there will be violence. Probably a lot of it. And it will be a bit worse than if he had won Election Night, as he should have, but probably not much.
Here is the thing: the Democrats in effect are deploying terrorist tactics. They are deploying Nazi tactics. As I have commented often, Hitler set his SA loose on Germany, and they caused all sorts of violence and mayhem. Then he got elected on a promise of curtailing the violence, which he did. The new violence, though, was State sanctioned, and worse because organized and “legal”.
It is a protection racket. It is saying to people “if you don’t give me what I want, I will HURT you. I will burn your house down. I will shoot you. But if you do just give me everything I want, then we will be friends. You will be my pal.” Sane people recognize the sociopathy behind this, the obsession with control, the utter absence of morality and principle.
It will be hard for judges to do the right thing. They will receive death threats, and credible ones at that.
For my own purposes, though, my math is always the same: now is as good as it ever will be. If I can’t stand up now, then I never will. Once Biden gets psychopaths in key government offices, the power of choice will be taken from just about everyone. He is not a guy to let rules or the law get in his way. Force and the threat of force are the only things he understands, and a valid court ruling is the most PEACEFUL way of stopping him right now.
Whatever street stuff might happen, let it happen. We will deal with it. It won’t last forever. None of these people, or few of them, have the first idea how much having violence directed back at you sucks.
Again, it comes down to the caliber of best and brightest. Are they people of principle and courage, or are they wishy-washy mice? If the latter, then our race is run, and the American Experiment is nearing its completion. There is really little any of us can do to stop the inevitable ruin of this nation.
To me, the root question is whether or not we still have honest men and women, in positions of power, who have moral courage.
As I have said–and I’m aware I’m repeating myself–I have been disappointed nearly weekly for the last 15 years or so.
We KNOW that Tower 7 was brought down by explosives. Not a peep.
Joe Biden is pretty obviously bought by a number of governments. Nobody seems to care.
In the end, if the rule of law fails, and the rule of caprice and tyranny takes its place, the ultimate culprit will be our collective mediocrity. Our best just may not be good enough, and that most Americans are complacent, naive, ignorant, and intellectually lazy is obvious beyond dispute.
This idea is just stuck in my throat. I can’t process it. We have come so far, come so close, only to fail now, when we really just needed one good, honest push. In my more solipsistic moments it feels like the universe is mocking me. Maybe there is a Devil, and this is his world, and that will never change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyS98_jQIA0
It’s the scene in Judgement at Nuremberg, where Spencer Tracy points out that the Nazis only succeeded with the help of ordinary people who could have and did know better.
And here is the scene I was originally looking for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRSw_0zpNE8
Burt Lancaster, as a German judge who, before the war, was known to be exemplary in all ways, says “those millions of people. I never knew it would come to that. You must believe me”. To which Tracy says “Herr Jahne, you knew it would come to that the first time you sentenced a man to death you knew to be innocent.”
What I will point out is that all the machinery for something vastly larger, more insidious, and more effective than George Orwell’s 1984 already exists. Everything we do, if we have a phone, is tracked. All our computer activity is tracked. Our social networks are mapped out, and all the comments we have made on the internet–or anywhere, as they likely include all texts and phone calls now too–are recorded, catalogued and filed for future retrieval.
We already are seeing active information suppression. Take the Frontline Doctors. They are all doctors. They all know more about all this than Mark Zuckerberg, or anybody at Facebook who is not themselves a Frontline Doctor, seeing COVID-19 patients.
But they were memory holed. If Alex Jones did not create a way for videos like that to be kept alive, all memory and mention of them would now be gone.
And they were telling the TRUTH about a pandemic, the response to which is a civil libertarians worst nightmare. This sort of thing should not even be POSSIBLE in the United States. Where are our guardians? Where are the courts? Where are our legislatures?
Everything bad you can imagine, and worse, is possible AT THIS MOMENT. Mass slaughter by technocratic elites. Literal enslavement. Mind Control.
What I will suggest to Democrats and traitor Republicans is that you have been playing the part of Burt Lancaster’s Nazi every time you have allowed lies to be told about Trump and his supporters. There is not and never was any evidence that more than a minute fraction of crazies are racist. These lies are easily discovered and undone. But you have not undone them, have you? You have perpetuated them. The Nazis–and to the point, ordinary people who did not oppose them–did no less with respect to the Jews.
You are playing your part now by not demanding an honest election, by allowing Joe Biden to declare himself the winner–against all principle and evidence–without protest. You play the part of the Nazi every time you ALLOW the word Nazi to be used without any justification other than a desire to be hurtful. Yes, I am using that word, but I am using it clinically, to refer in advance to crimes which have yet to be committed, but which will become very likely if we allow this fraud to stand.
You are guilty of everything the most crazed sadist does five years from now, if you do not stand now with the truth. The truth is knowable. The basics are obvious. If you are not a psychopath, then walk away, and start supporting honest, good people against the demons and ghouls.
Things go bump in the night
in my soul.
Sometimes they go bump in broad daylight:
shameless creatures.
Not sure where they hide.
Maybe behind my spleen,
or in the shadow of an adenoid, whatever that is.
Teethy and hairy and claw-ey, they DEMAND
I appreciate and recognize their bumps,
their tripping around, their monstering.
They feed on that sort of attention, you see.
But not everything that slithers in the night
–or the day–
Needs to be answered.