Old News, Brandon Is Dirty

 https://nypost.com/2022/09/04/fbi-agent-timothy-thibault-hid-intel-from-whistleblower-on-hunter-the-big-guy-joe-biden/

How the FBI gets in the middle of these things is it’s own puzzle - why do all presidential candidates these days have to be so damned dirty …

One should never be so naive as to trust government, but I notice that I do anyway, and therefore find it disconcerting when it becomes clear how rotten all of these powerful institutions are …

Hanson's Animal Farm Reverie

I was lectured by an ACLU guy in the 80s. I remember the end of the cold war. I remember many of these references when they were happening. This is like a tough piece of steak that should be chopped up and stewed - great flavor, and intense to experience.

The Left’s 1960s dream is America’s 2021 nightmare.

George Orwell published Animal Farm in August 1945, in the closing weeks of the Pacific War. Even then, most naïve supporters of the wartime Soviet-British-American alliance were no longer in denial about the contours of Moscow’s impending postwar communist aggression.

The short, allegorical novel’s human-like farm animals replay the transition of supposedly 1917 revolutionary Bolsheviks into cynical 1930s Stalinists. Thereby, they remind us that leftist totalitarianism inevitably becomes far worse than the supposed parasitical capitalists they once toppled.

https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/07/our-animal-farm/

Hunter and Joe, Palling Around Like Father and Son

"Hunter Biden joins his father aboard Air Force II for a trip to Beijing, where he briefly introduces the vice president to his Chinese business partner Jonathan Li. Vice President Joe Biden's official trip to Beijing was to quiet security concerns in the region after Chinese aggression in the China Sea. Less than two weeks after the trip, China officially approves an operating license for the BHR investment."

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/timeline-key-events-hunter-biden-overseas-business

Given what Joe knew of Hunter's problems and businesses, this is indescribably poor judgement or just plain rubbing every citizen's nose in the muck over "the family business." And he got away with it. 

"Hey, I'm the VP, and I'm making millions for my sons and friends overseas - and giving them free transport - and you can't stop and will elect me president anyway." 

His ridiculous claim that he "didn't know anything about" his son's business dealings should have been an insult to every citizen. Were the dems just looking at that thinking "this has to go south" and then saw that it wouldn't and finally pulled in the sails leaving him as the only one? 

Will They Get Better?

"Then Democrats voted to impeach President Trump. Again. When they last impeached him almost exactly a year ago — just in time to distract the White House, Congress and the nation from the looming coronavirus pandemic — the grounds were, to say the least, thin. It was notable that Democrats didn’t even bring up impeachment at their convention, and it stayed below the radar during the presidential campaign. After allegedly being a matter of earthshattering importance, it was like it never happened."

"But now they have impeached Trump — a week before he was scheduled to leave office anyway. And this time, the claim was even thinner: that a speech in which Trump called for peaceful protests was somehow “incitement” of events on Capitol Hill and elsewhere, some of which apparently took place before the speech was delivered. When Democrats spent a year promoting and excusing violent riots against the police, we were told that it was “mostly peaceful” protest, even when police stations and state capitols were seized, and when rioters tried to burn down federal courthouses. When Trump called for peaceful protest, we’re told he was advocating violence. Byron York calls this “the crazy impeachment,” and he’s right."

https://nypost.com/2021/01/19/gaining-power-hasnt-made-the-left-any-less-insane/

I hope they regain sanity. 

But if they don't we'll see the socialist experiment tried here in greater doses and perhaps it will be harmful enough, fast enough, to convince the average folk they were right all along - socialism punishes as much or more than it helps. 

I've been doing my best to ignore all the insanity, I'm probably still in denial that the end of Trump was even worse than the beginning of Trump. Stunned that GA voted for two crazies to give power to dementia J. 

But the world will turn, and it's a good time to become a stronger, better, more ethical, more potent human with the most possible capacity to regulate your emotions and focus. 

Gingrich with the excellent summary of affairs

 An excellent summary of what this feels like to even a late the party Trump supporter. I'm in the middle ground. This seems all wrong, but what's a law abiding citizen to do about it? It looks like they will get away with it; and there's no reason to think what went wrong won't be duplicated next time. 

In 2016, I supported an outsider candidate, who was rough around the edges and in the Andrew Jackson school of controversial assaults on the old order. When my candidate won, it was blamed on the Russians. We now know (four years later) Hillary Clinton’s own team financed the total lie that fueled this attack.

Members of the FBI twice engaged in criminal acts to help it along — once in avoiding prosecution of someone who had deleted 33,000 emails and had a subordinate use a hammer to physically destroy hard drives, and a second time by lying to FISA judges to destroy Gen. Michael Flynn and spy on then-candidate Donald Trump and his team. The national liberal media aided and abetted every step of the way. All this was purely an attempt to cripple the new president and lead to the appointment of a special counsel — who ultimately produced nothing.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/21/why-i-will-not-accept-joe-biden-as-president/

About those vote spikes ...

 Seems like nothing will come of this.

Will anyone tackle the job of reinforcing the voting system so that we can be confident in the results? 

I'm does not appear to be in the best interest of politicians to have a manipulation free system ...

"In the early hours of November 4th, 2020, Democratic candidate Joe Biden received several major “vote spikes” that substantially — and decisively — improved his electoral position in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia. Much skepticism and uncertainty surrounds these “vote spikes.” Critics point to suspicious vote counting practices, extreme differences between the two major candidates’ vote counts, and the timing of the vote updates, among other factors, to cast doubt on the legitimacy of some of these spikes. While data analysis cannot on its own demonstrate fraud or systemic issues, it can point us to statistically anomalous cases that invite further scrutiny.
This is one such case: Our analysis finds that a few key vote updates in competitive states were unusually large in size and had an unusually high Biden-to-Trump ratio. We demonstrate the results differ enough from expected results to be cause for concern."

https://votepatternanalysis.substack.com/p/voting-anomalies-2020

Absentee Ballot Abuse

Matt Braynard of the Voter Integrity Project (VIP) approached the 2020 results in a far less arcane fashion. His team analyzed publicly available data on absentee ballots, and he explained his findings in a way that any intelligent voter can understand. VIP looked at suspicious ballot activity in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Among the most significant VIP findings involved people who changed their state of residence, yet voted absentee using their prior address. In Arizona, which Biden “won” by 10,457 votes, there were 19,997 questionable votes. In Georgia, which Biden “won” by 12,670 votes, VIP found 138,221 such votes. In Wisconsin, which Biden “won” by 20,608 votes, there were 26,673 such votes.

https://spectator.org/legitimacy-of-biden-win-buried-by-objective-data/

Mail In Ballots Are an Injustice

 Maybe just accidental ...

https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-new-analysis-shows-biden-winning-nearly-impossible-margins-on-mail-in-ballots-in-pennsylvania

Violation of Voting Laws

Some of the stats in the article make it clear how obvious the cheating was - nasty! It's bad enough that it's possible that they'll get away with it, but I see no political will to change the systems to make them trustworthy.

There's no way Biden's lap dog media will ask about any of this.

"But there was a much bigger story behind Lai’s article: Election officials clearly violated the law by inspecting mail-in ballots before November 3. According to Pennsylvania’s election rules, county election boards were required to “safely keep the ballots in sealed or locked containers” until pre-canvassing legally began at 7 a.m. on Election Day."

https://amgreatness.com/2020/11/22/something-rotten-in-pennsylvania/

Sloppy Thieves?

An unprecedented number of mail-in and absentee ballots were cast this year, and practically everyone expected that this would result in a higher-than-usual rate of ballots being rejected for various flaws, such as lacking a secrecy envelope or missing information. In Pennsylvania, tens or hundreds of thousands of ballots were likely to be rejected, based on historical patterns. Instead, a mere 0.03 percent of mail-in ballots were ultimately rejected—somewhere in the neighborhood of about 1,000 votes.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/the-thieves-who-stole-our-election-got-sloppy_3592153.html?v=ul?utm_source=partner

Back to 2005

They called on states to increase voter ID requirements; to be leery of mail-in voting; to halt ballot harvesting; to maintain voter lists, in part to ensure dead people are promptly removed from them; to allow election observers to monitor ballot counting; and to make sure voting machines are working properly.

They also wanted the media to refrain from calling elections too early and from touting exit polls.

All of this may sound eerily similar to the issues in the prolonged presidential election battle of 2020. But these were among the 87 recommendations from the 2005 report of the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, known informally as the Carter-Baker Commission.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/11/20/7-ways-the-2005-carter-baker-report-could-have-averted-problems-with-2020-election/

Voting Sanity

 Back to paper? Sounds good to me unless the electronic systems would make it possible for me to see how my vote was tabulated. 

https://spectator.us/editorial-restoring-trust/

5-7 of these things are not like the others -

"Was this election stolen? Well, millions feel that way. The turnout numbers are odd in some states, like Wisconsin, which hit 89 percent. Now, is that figure impossible? No. Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel did the math, but it’s highly improbable given the turnout rates in the surrounding areas. It would require 900,000 people showing up for same-day registrations. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was blunter last Sunday, when he said, “I think he would have to do a lot to convince Republicans that this is anything except a left-wing power grab, financed by people like George Soros, deeply laid in at the local level, and, frankly, I think that it is a corrupt, stolen election.” He was commenting on Biden’s call for unity. Yet, he also gave a hat-tip to someone we have written about here: Democracy Institute’s Patrick Basham."

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/11/14/democracy-institute-pollster-yes-i-think-this-election-was-stolen-n2579970

Paris Climate Accord and Other Foolish Bufoonery

"If power corrupts, as it is said, Americans are going to feel a jolt of degeneration when Joe Biden plugs back into the climate-change network. Rather than save the world from global warming, a President Biden would force Americans to spend more of their hard-earned dollars just to keep the wheels turning and the lights burning."

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/12/editorial-a-return-to-the-paris-climate-accord-wou/

This is the kind of stupid that will define the JB tenure - shallow, pointless, symbolic and expensive. 

Attkisson's Hard to Find Fraud Stories and Links

Obviously, I'd rather have no president than to have Biden/Harris, so I'm still in the make believe land hoping what Trump's team is saying will be shown to be true in court. 

 https://sharylattkisson.com/2020/11/hard-to-find-2020-election-fraud-stories-and-links/

Election Fornicatory Factors

"Before I became a novelist I was an accountant. In auditing you look for red flags. That’s weird bits in the data that suggest something shifty is going on. You flag those weird things so you can delve into them further. One flag doesn’t necessarily mean there’s fraud. Weird things happen. A few flags mean stupidity or dishonesty. But a giant pile of red flags means that there’s bad shit going on and people should be in jail."

https://monsterhunternation.com/2020/11/05/the-2020-election-fuckery-is-afoot/

"An Excellent President"

 My mom wrote a letter in which she informed me she was glad Biden won the election and that she was confident he would be an excellent president. 

And that surprised me.

How could anyone think the dude that:

-Has been at least low level corrupt for 47 years

-Has lied and lied and lied since he's been in office and most recently lied about his conflict of interest regarding his son's corrupt foreign business dealings

-Is about as deep as a piece of paper

-Never had an original thought

-Has believed every position he now disavows

-Is barely hanging on to sentience

Better than Trump? I can see lots of folks thinking that, Trump's polarizing to the say the least. 

But "an excellent president"? As I have so many times this year I wonder who changed the english language and when and why they were permitted to do so.

James Bond in the 2020 Election?

"It’s partly a matter of what I think of as the “Goldfinger principle,” after the avid gold smelter and nuclear weapons amateur Auric Goldfinger.

"Goldfinger was a sensitive man. He didn’t like it when people began looking into his business ventures with too much curiosity—largely, no doubt, because many were ostentatiously illegal and, in some cases, evidence of grandiose homicidal insanity.

"Nevertheless, his response to the repeated unscheduled appearance of James Bond in his life prompted him to make the eminently rational observation that “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time, it’s enemy action.”"

https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-appearance-of-impropriety-dogs-this-election_3581707.html?utm_source=partner

That There Is Peculiar

 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16770/stolen-election

Tamny's Brilliant Summary

"What lends what’s ridiculous a little bit of credibility is that stock markets were correcting at the time of the meeting between top Trump officials and Hoover board members. Except that the correction was unrelated to the virus. Markets had been pricing its arrival with great calm since January. Anyone with a pulse knew this.

"More realistically, in late February Bernie Sanders looked like he might take the Democratic presidential nomination. Markets logically corrected at the time to price at least the possibility of a socialist in the White House. Notable is that they stopped correcting after Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary. In fact, the Monday after Biden’s Saturday win the Dow Jones Industrial Average had its biggest one day point gain in history. This happened after Trump officials who are said to never be right and to never be truthful allegedly told the truth to Hoover types. Get it? The big stock movements were politics related, not virus related.

"No doubt stocks did eventually correct in March. The virus did factor this time. With good reason. Investors hadn’t priced in the horrid possibility that politicians would respond to the coronavirus by forcing an economic contraction."

https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/10/16/the_new_york_times_cant_have_it_both_ways_about_trump_and_his_advisers_580977.html