What other kind of audit could there be in response to partisan cheating, BUT a partisan one?
Democrats cheated. Would any sane person expect them to participate in the discovery of their cheating? A bipartisan audit could only happen if they had nothing to hide. Their politicizing of the reasonable demand that we verify that one vote cast was one vote counted–and counted correctly–says all any reasonable person would need to know to conclude something is rotten in Detroit.
To my mind, if there is evidence of fraud–and there is–then this whole thing needs to be a criminal investigation, and the charge obstruction of justice, at least, for non-cooperation.
They need search warrants to seize the routers and servers, and need the power to arrest and charge anyone who obstructs them in any way. They need to put in jail anyone who won’t give them the keys to the rooms where the electronics are stored, and the passwords to everything.
I don’t know what fucking country I live in any more. Were we not once supposed to be the Home of the Free and Land of the Brave? All I see are fucking cowards and corrupt blowhards everywhere I look. Everyone is shaking in their shoes about confronting blatant crooks robbing us blind and selling us out to our enemies.
And I will add that Republicans don’t have to stoop to the Democrats level to fight them. We did not have to become Nazis to fight Nazis, or Communists to fight Communists. What you have to do is, first, stand your ground, and then take theirs. Take what they value. Take from them their strategies.
Step one is an aggressive strategy to prove fraud. They know this, which is why Garland, who is supposed to enforce the law, is breaking it in declaring efforts to verify that fraud did not determine the election–which it patently did–illegal. OF COURSE they want to make anything illegal, if they are allowed to, which will show them to be the criminals they obviously are. OF COURSE they want to withhold evidence. OF COURSE they want to prevent any and all efforts to check ANYTHING. They want no signatures, no limits, no valid voter roles, NOTHING, and if they are allowed to, that is what they will get. Then we are on the path to totalitarianism, mass immiseration, generalized poverty, and a world populated entirely by pimps and prostitutes.
None of this is necessary. There is every reason to suppose the Democrats are worried. None of this is popular, and none of it would be accepted at all had a large chunk of our population not been taught to believe the most monstrous lies imaginable–indeed, some would have been to me UNimaginable. I would not have thought any of this COVID bullshit would be bought by anyone for more than a couple weeks.
In their own minds, they are probably engaged on their Long March, to the end of freedom. It is not easy. They are likely whining internally about what feeble opposition there still is.
Americans want to be free. What determined so many people against President Trump was that they accepted the blatant lie that HE, and not the Democrats, was the threat to freedom. HE, not the Democrats, had sold out the country, they believed.
We need, all of us, everyone who values truth, decency, the American Way, honor, integrity, and all the other things that make social life bearable and even ennobling, need to fight every day against this darkness arrayed against us. Fight for your own thoughts, and at a minimum donate to causes doing good work, like PragerU and Judicial Watch.
I don’t know the solution. All I know is that large things are the result of many small things, and that if we are to have any chance, there have to be a LOT of us who deserve that chance in all ways possible to us.
I would assert that no one incapable of shame is capable of earned dignity. What they substitute is an assumption of privilege and superiority.
Many American children assume that because they feel important that they ARE important, and that since everything has always been given to them, that they deserve it. It is much like, say, British aristocrats used to feel, but without any noblesse oblige, or felt need to behave in a dignified and befitting manner.
To my mind, no more obvious indication of this exists than when I see the moron emojis–the laughing emojis–used by students at elite schools in response to coherent and well intentioned posts I make.
Never, never, never when I was that age would it have occurred to me to do anything with a properly presented argument but respond in kind with counterpoints of my own. It is an interesting exercise, and a salutary one. It is the sort of thing people who called themselves intellectuals used to do.
But we are in a post-intellectual era, are we not? Sartre felt the need to say original things. Our “hero’s” of today content themselves with figuring out how to get the power they need to reduce the world’s spirit to a size they can control with violence and manipulation. The whole of their intellectual output takes inanities, insanities and intellectual monstrosities as givens, and never gives them a second thought.
It is jaw dropping. I look at my world every day and wonder how, with so many gifts given, we crap on everything that our betters built for us, and seek daily to tear it all down.
It is precisely the most sensitive and most intelligent–our future–who will suffer most. It is only the stupidest who will not complain, and we were never going to lack for people whose peak is reached at McDonald’s.
Wake the fuck up, World. Wake up. None of this has ever made sense. I have been making what I think are good arguments since March of a year ago.
The disease is not dangerous; can be made less dangerous easily; masks don’t do shit; lockdowns make things worse; and experimental medical injections are unnecessary, and may make things vastly worse, at an enormous cost.
Find your inner smelling salts. It is past time to end the swoon. If enough people wake up, the cops may join you, and the leaders at a minimum will rightly fear any fair election held anywhere.
Some things seem so obvious to me they should not need to be said, but then I look around, and nobody is either saying them, or acting as if they are drawing what to me are the obvious conclusions.
Here is the thing: there was blatant, unmistakable, pervasive and well planned and coordinated voting fraud in Arizona, and most of the other Swing States. This is illegal. In a just world, the perpetrators go to jail.
The routers and servers involved, unless they have been illegally wiped, show EVIDENCE of this crime.
So game this out: if you were a participant, why would even going to jail for refusing a subpoena not be less risky than releasing evidence of planned fraud? As an individual you will stand accused by your own conduct of felonies which could put you in jail a long time, AND your party will suffer terribly.
There is ZERO motivation for any person who participated in any of this to cooperate, even to the point of going to jail. HOWEVER, physical force is allowed and can be done within the limits of the law. The servers and routers can be SEIZED, and at the same time those same people can ALSO go to jail for their contempt of Congress, or whatever the charge.
Once the evidence is being evaluated, and once they are marinating in jail, THEN would be a good time to find people willing to sing in exchange for pardons or shorter sentences. I personally think the first few should be made very good offers which are honored in all points, provided they themselves are as good as their word.
Threats at this point are pointless. They are more scared of discovery than words, as they should be. Again, this should be obvious.
It’s hard for me to believe I have not said this this way, but maybe not: it’s vastly better to reach the correct conclusion wrongly, than the wrong conclusion correctly.
What matters is if you are on the road to your destination. What matters is results, not intentions.
And the obvious factor that allows Leftists to be wrong across decades and now centuries is that their goals are political, but their political goals are not practical. They want power, and they study that. They don’t care if they help anyone at all, because it is FEELINGS they want, and those feelings are nearly entirely solipsistic and cut off from the world at large.
A couple relevant quotes:
“People need to remember politicians are trying to solve THEIR problems, not yours.” Thomas Sowell (quote approximate)
“If it’s dumb but it works, it isn’t dumb”. My uncle.
If “dumb” rednecks avoid getting the vaccine because they think it contains a microchip that will control their brains, that is likely not just wrong, but ridiculously wrong.
But if these spike protein injections–as I have decided to start calling them–have not too uncommon short term effects, and very common middle and long term effects, then no matter the reason given, it is best that they did not participate in this global medical experiment.
The goal is not to be smart: the goal is to be right, and right is defined by reality, not agreement from your friends, or congruence with some book somewhere.
I’m sure I’ve spoken of it, but the essence of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings–and I think he said this himself–is “always be cutting”. Not “be thinking” of cutting: cutting. Technique does not matter. It does not matter how you get there. It does not matter if you have one conscious thought at all. If you focus on the end result, the means tend to take care of themselves.
This is my tightest argument yet.
I continue to listen to this excellent novel. I believe this is the best novel I have ever encountered. It has pathos, wit, wisdom, an engaging story, and much useful advice and commentary.
I just listened to his lecture on good and evil characters, where he points out something I realize now is true: viz., that anyone wanting to improve public morality is better off creating realistic characters, with real flaws, who make real mistakes, who feel the wrong things at the wrong time, give in to the wrong impulses at the wrong times, yet still feel good hearted, likeable and–to use a contemporary word–relatable.
As he says, characters who are perfectly good make ordinary people feel weak and disempowered, because we rightly apprehend no hope of ever attaining those heights. I will say in this regard that it has long been my opinion that saints only become perfect among those who never knew them, and become most saintly long after they are dead. It is very easy to tell stories then. And those stories have tended, in the Western world, to be repurposed in the service of the Church, and intended to add to ITS glory.
Surely it is significant that little was written about Jesus for at least a century after his death, and that much that was written in the first few centuries was suppressed by the Church, which–in speaking for God– also made efforts to achieve on Earth God’s omnipotence in its own body?
There is really no way to know what all was flushed down Byzantine and Roman Memory Holes. How much was written beyond the fragments we found in Nag Hammadi we have no way of even guessing, any more than we really know how much was burned in Alexandria. And I will note that in my understanding the FIRST purge–the first book burning–was done by Christians, who in much of their history have been vastly less tolerant and more violent than the Muslims. That history is not well known by most, although since little history is known to anyone any more, that isn’t surprising.
I will recommend again Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” as one of the more useful historical texts I have read.
And as Fielding says, people with bad traits, disagreeable traits, in seeing them portrayed in characters who are absolutely wicked, despair of ever redeeming themselves. That just confirms people in their worst impulses. It doesn’t reform them.
Nobody is perfectly good or evil. Even the worst of us have occasional good moments–or so I would argue it is useful to assume, even if they are small and fleeting–and the best among us do bone-headed things from time to time.
Jones’ goodness is crooked. That is what makes it perfect. I am very sure that Fielding, if he had encountered the Tao Te Ching, would have kept it closer to him than his Bible.
He says at the beginning his topic is “Human Nature”. And he has been as good as his word. And really, really funny in many moments.
This book is proving useful in my own personal growth, for sure, in many ways.