Month: November 2020

 I’ve said this many times in many ways, but Trump’s Presidency has made it obvious beyond the possibility of dispute that the President does not control his own government.  As President, he can’t get the FBI to do its job, can’t get Bill Barr to do his job, and can’t get the CIA to release the files on the coup they attempted to lead.

Assuming he can hang on–assuming enough honest people remain in this country to avoid handing the White House to a crook who has already sold America down the river–he needs to do a thorough house cleaning.  This is obvious, of course, and a very armchair general sort of thing to say, but I would start by giving a lot of power to Michael Flynn, and possibly appointing a Special Prosecutor, as he recently mentioned.

It goes without saying (although obviously it didn’t in this case, did it?) that he needs to fire Christopher Wray, Bill Barr, and the CIA gal whose name I have forgotten.  I have long thought a formal, old school decimation of both the CIA and FBI (and probably the DoJ and State Departments) would be warranted, if he could figure out a legal way to do it.  I will remind you that a decimation is firing (in the Roman case killing) one tenth of the whole staff.  Anyone suspicious, anyone whose loyalty to truth and the law, and their duty is suspect, send them packing.

This sort of talk is easy.  We need to get him inaugurated for a second term before any of this is remotely possible.

I don’t know if it is possible or desirable or even legal to lobby the Supreme Court, but I would hope they recognize that the framework of our nation is hanging in tatters, that public trust in our system is virtually non-existent–and justifiably so–and that it seems OBVIOUS that voter fraud (an undetected denial of equal protection) has played a major role in it.

I think Barack Obama won in 2008 honestly.  I do not think he won honestly in 2012.  We can’t know how long this stuff has been going on, but most people think 1960 was decided by fraud–old school fraud, of the sort that was done on a national scale virtually on camera (covered windows count) just now.

 I thought I might try and make this argument more clear.

If, as one example, Clarence Thomas–who was subjected to a “high tech lynching” by Joe Biden–is asked to recuse himself by someone, the patent lesson would be that if Democrats can torture–to within an inch of their ability to not jump up and punch someone–anyone they can’t block outright, then they still win.

Why would they NOT make every future Supreme Court hearing, when the person nominated is conservative, as hellish as possible?  If they can’t stop them, they can tell them they don’t get to play if the case involves the people tormenting them.  This is ridiculous.

Nothing further from justice could be imagined, nothing more counterproductive, and nothing more unfair.  And nothing more damaging to the rule of law and of common decency and basic respect.

It may be that Kamala Harris is saying she should have been more fair to Brett Kavanaugh.  That would be appropriate.

But ultimately all the cases coming to the Supreme Court now seem to have partisan undertones, and the verdicts tend to be rendered along party lines.  Republicans did not invent this game, but there is no reason we can’t play it the same way the Democrats are playing it.  If they want to set the rules, they can’t whine when we respond within their rules in ways which do not favor them.

All of this is anti-liberal madness.  All of this is an abuse of logic and justice.  There should be no question at all that nationally coordinated voter fraud is a large crime, and that it should be punished by taking from them what they most value: a stolen election, with the people being robbed being the American people, even more than Trump himself.

In my view, an HONEST court would easily render a 9-0 ruling in favor of Trump.  But don’t expect that to happen.

Edit: it occurs to me to comment that none of the “liberal” (left leaning, unprincipled opponents of Constitutional fidelity) would need to recuse themselves in any cases involving Republicans.  We did not do to them what they did to our people.

If you throw a rock in the air, it goes up, until it goes down.  There is a difference between up and down.  There is likewise a difference between truth and falsehood, one which our world is doing its best–much of it–to forget.

 Even if Trump can get to 270 via legislature certified Electors–which seems increasingly likely–we really need a Supreme Court judgement to clean up the system nationally.  It has manifestly been going on a long time, and if the burden of proof is on the victims of it to prove there was enough of it to swing the election, it may go on indefinitely.  We will call it the Lance Armstrong principle.  He never tested positive for any performance enhancing drug ONCE, but he used them to win all his championships.

So did everyone else who beat him.  This would be the corollary Lance Armstrong principle: if everyone is cheating, this standard makes sense.  But if only ONE side is cheating, if literally 100% of the evidence points only one way, then I think my concept I think I called Affirmative Presumption comes into play, which is that if there is evidence of ORGANIZED, coordinated cheating–cheating the same way in multiple cities and States–then you have to ASSUME that the cheating swung the election, at least for the national candidates, and then award them the election.  

That is my personal view, which may not be shared by all.  Or any.

But the further point I wanted to make should be easily intelligible and obviously sensible: Voting fraud needs to be labelled, by the Supreme Court, a manifest violation of the Equal Protection clause, making it functionally equal to Jim Crow laws, and thus legally equal to systemic racism, which would be a huge irony, given that the Left continues to tell us we can’t expect black people to be able to figure out how to vote, and that a ballot that has been filled out–by whom, we don’t know, and with what legality we don’t know–MUST be counted or else–wait for it–RACISM.  Bullshit.  Black people are not stupid, and the data I see is that 1 in 4 who voted legally voted for Trump.  To allow cheating is to disenfranchise all those people.

Remember when Mike Pence tried to clean up voting rolls following 2016, when there seemed to be some shady stuff going down?  Remember when, among nearly all Democrats, the Kentucky Secretary of State (whose father went to jail, BTW, for election tampering) declared there was “not enough whiskey in Kentucky” to make her share that data?  

What was she afraid of?  Is it not obvious?

With a Supreme Court ruling, filing lawsuits to clean up voting rolls–to rid them of dead people and people who have moved out of State and convicted felons and people here illegally–would be much easier.  The law and morality both would be obviously and clearly on one side.  It will be much easier to end all the crap that has been going on in the Machine cities–Philadelphia, New York, Detroit, LA, Atlanta, Pittsburgh and others–for many decades now. 

It’s not funny.  It’s not a “oh that’s just how they are, ha ha” situation.  It’s a serious violation of the Constitution, and of our most important right, that of rendering our opinion in the form of a vote.

Voter Fraud is a Poll Tax that is not payable.  It is a Civics quiz which cannot be passed.

 If perhaps 10 million actual votes–actual ballots cast honestly by registered legal voters–were stolen from Donald Trump and given to Joe Biden, that is bad enough.

But consider that according to some experts perhaps 6 million people voted for Biden only because they were denied access to honest information by Google and others.  The Hunter Biden laptop story, for example, is utterly unknown to anyone who gets their news from CNN or MSNBC.  It was not that they covered it poorly, or inaccurately: they didn’t cover it AT ALL.

This means that Donald Trump might have won by 15 million votes.  This may have been one of the largest landslides in history.  And why not?  Not even the Democrats like Biden.  His only likeable attribute for them is that he is not Donald Trump.  And he may well have cheated to get even as far as he did.  Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren both alleged this.

If Biden is inaugurated, it will only be by the largest dereliction of duty on the part of our leaders imaginable, and certainly in history.  No Republican should allow this stench to taint the White House.  No honest Republican–or for that matter, honest Democrat–although it remains to be seen how many of both of those still exist.

Returning to the laptop, though, for their part, Google would have stacked the results of nearly any search in such a way that the most damaging allegations–evidence, really–never appeared to most people.

Consider the twin likelihoods that by hook or by crook–by any legislative and Executive Order means necessary and possible–Joe Biden will 1) legalize some 11 million people here illegally, and that 2) social media and search engines will continue their patterns of informational suppression indefinitely, and will no doubt get worse with Biden’s enthusiastic support.

What chance does sanity have in such an environment?  Most of Latin America is undeveloped wasteland–by American standards–precisely because the people always give in to the allure of free shit.  Outside of Cuban refugees, a high percentage of the Hispanic population will be beguiled by the offers of the sort Joe Biden & Co. are very professional and experienced in making.  Add censorship and Google as a de facto arm of the Party, and EVEN IF we fix our elections, even if we get Dominion out and stop the ballot stuffing and other awful and no doubt long term abuses we are finding out about, Biden & Co.–he’s really just the present face of a brand–will most likely be able to win elections honestly, if by honest we mean one ballot, one legal vote.

And I was contemplating the riots that will no doubt break out if Donald Trump is inaugurated for a second term, which would be the visible symptom that democracy is still alive in America, and that we still live in a nation ruled by laws and not mobs and tyrants.  They will be severe, for a period of time, but I really, really think that in fairly short order bubbles will start popping.  People will start waking up and wondering why they are so angry about all this.  Not all, to be sure, or even most.  

But Joe Biden is showing his cards.  He is laying them on the table.  We know, now, what sort of Administration we could expect from him.  It is not moderate.  It is not reasonable.  And it is not what most Americans want.  We voted for Donald Trump for a reason.  We want prosperity, honesty, and peace.  These are age old desires, and quite reasonable.

We don’t want a national mask mandate, most of us.  We don’t want a 4-6 week lockdown NOW.  We don’t want Big Brother spying on us and censoring us, and predigesting our information for us.

Many problems will remain even in a Trump Administration, but they will be exponentially less bad, and there is at least hope of curing and healing and solving them.

 A credible scientific claim is that every point in the universe is unique, and that every point in the universe contains the entirety of the universe.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, listen to this.  Then you will have even less, but be hopefully confused in a more interesting way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw4iG_VGVb0

 Is that the laws of life require a lot of work to understand.

If I come up with the second, I will let you know.

For now, view the rejection of self pity, persistence/perseverance, and curiosity as pretty good hypotheses, in terms of ideas which will most likely help you in the ways you eventually decide matter, and not hurt you in the ways you eventually decide you do not want to be hurt.

I continue to attempt to turn them into theories, but am nowhere close.

 This is a metaphor, it seems likely, with Christian roots.

It occurred to me to comment the other day that even though Jesus often spoke of the Shepherd guiding his flock, the fate of the flock–particularly for Middle Eastern sheep, although I am not finding easy details with a basic internet search–was murder by the Shepherd, and being carved up for meat.  It seems likely that wool was a product more practical for sheep raised in much colder climates, like Britain and Scotland.

We have a local Middle Eastern shop (quite a few actually, but this is the closest one to me).  They have Lebanese flags everywhere, but say they are Palestinian.  A couple months ago, they had a sheep carcass on the floor when I went to buy whatever it was, usually bulgur wheat, zaatar, sumac, and sometimes their yogurt and interesting cheeses.  I make my own lebneh.  It had been skinned, but was otherwise intact.  I was with my oldest, who is a vegetarian, and did not mention it until after we left.  Just laying there in plastic on the floor.  I think the older brother likely got it there himself.  Halal slaughter, no doubt.

Mutton and veal are both produced, ultimately, by the work of shepherds, and sheep dogs.  “Sheep to the slaughter” is of course an old metaphor.

I have no particular agenda, commenting on this, other than to point out how often we fail to see obvious problems with metaphors we use.  I still like the metaphor–I think it comes from David Grossman–but wanted to complete it.

I’m that guy.  Sometimes.  Many people call us assholes.  

 We need to banish the phrase “voting irregularities”.

What is being described is on a continuum from apparent to blatant violations of election law. If it is not against the law it had no legal legs.

I would append the comment that a good argument for legislators in PA and perhaps soon elsewhere is that if they are not already on the gravy train—if they are not paying now, directly or indirectly for thrown elections—then they will benefit greatly and in short order from the cleaning of this Augean Stable. It is likely many of them have been winning by as much as ten points mire than they realized, for many years.

Yes, the rule of law is on the chopping block, and we are at risk of putting a man clearly guilty of many crimes over and above election fraud into the White House, but the WIIFM factor never hurts.

 In the modern world being educated amounts to being made to forget.

I myself am an intellectual—a thought worker—but I have long preferred the company of the “ignorant”.   i realize now that is because they have in general not forgotten the things that matter most to me.

 Oxymoron isn’t.

Might take you a second.