Article by Kate Domenick in The American Thinker

 

Who Shall Govern?

I was eleven years old in November 1960 when my father and I watched Richard Nixon concede the presidential election to John F. Kennedy. My father, a former FBI agent, shook his head.  “Another victory for Mayor Daley of Chicago,” he said.

 “What does that mean?” I asked.

 “It means Mayor Daley stole the election,” he answered.

“Then why doesn’t Nixon do something about it?” I asked indignantly.

“Because it would tear the country apart, and no one wants that.”

 “Why not?”

“It doesn’t work that way,” he replied. “Nixon is being a gentleman.”

Of course, it wasn’t just my dad who felt that way. I heard his sentiment echoed many times after that election by teachers, news commentators, and my friends’ parents. The election might have been stolen, sure, but these things happen. Move on.

I didn’t agree with that thinking then, and I don’t agree with it now. Is it gentlemanly to allow an election to be hijacked right before your eyes? And what does “tearing the country apart” mean? A civil war? Why? Because someone finally pulls back the curtain on corruption that we’ve lived with for decades?

If the citizens are the body politic of democratic republic, voting is its life’s blood. Voting gives vitality to a free country, expressing the will of the people in a tangible way that, as we are often reminded, has consequences. Steal the vote and you sap America of its energy and purpose. What’s the point of living in a country that is ostensibly self-governed if our votes don’t count?

My own run-in with the vagaries of the voting system came as I prepared to cast my first ballot for president in 1972 in the city of Philadelphia.  I was excited. I was a grown up.  I was voting!  My enthusiasm dimmed, however, when I was met outside the polls in by a burly gentleman blocking my way into the building.

“I’ll go into the booth with you,” he said. Stunned, I stammered and sputtered with rage. Absolutely not! My vote was secret and sacred. This is America! He smiled benignly and said, “How will I know you voted the right way if I don’t go with you?” Furious, I stomped home and returned with my husband, who made sure I was allowed to vote alone. Then I dutifully reported the incident to the Committee of Seventy, a “watchdog” group for Philadelphia elections. The person I spoke with laughed and said, “Well, you got to vote, right? This is Philadelphia, after all.”

“This is Philadelphia, after all.” We might expand that to say, “This is America, after all.” What do you expect? An honest election? Even among those who don’t pay much attention to politics there is a sense that all is not as it should be in our electoral process. We learn of post-election prosecutions for vote fraud that center on the previous election, or the election before that, or the election before that. Penalties are imposed years after the fraud itself, long after the damage is done.  And trying to challenge an election is, to put it mildly, an uphill and generally losing battle, as we are seeing today.

The end result of all this background noise is to increase cynicism about elections and undermine trust in the process. Indeed, the strategy of what we might call covert disenfranchisement is so effective that we have to wonder whether it isn’t exactly what both parties want. A discouraged, unengaged electorate can be manipulated or disregarded as needed. What better way to develop skepticism about voting than to have the two major parties promote and then ignore violations of the law?

The 2020 presidential election was notable for its unusually high voter turnout, fueled in part by an expensive, unrelenting mail-in ballot campaign in a number of states. That campaign was conducted under the guise of a COVID precaution, though the much-revered Anthony Fauci, MD, of the CDC, assured us that voting in person was no more risky than a trip to a grocery store. Nonetheless, the follow-the-science crowd chose to jettison science in this instance and promote mail-in voting.

Mail-in voting is so prone to fraud that it was cited in a 2005 Report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform as something to avoid. Chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, the commission’s report was titled, “Building Confidence in U.S. Elections” -- an oblique reference to the fact that confidence might not be very high. The commission noted that voting by mail is likely to “increase the risk of fraud and contested elections.”

In 2020, however, the Carter Center, smelling blood in the water, reversed that recommendation and decided that mail-in voting was okay after all, “where safeguards for ballot integrity are in place.”

Safeguards for ballot integrity. That would be controls like, say, signature matches and postmarks on mail-in ballots, as specified in the 2005 report. But in Pennsylvania, where the Democratic administration was determined to take the potential for vote fraud to a new level, off came the safeguards for mail-in voting. Changing the election laws at the 11^th hour by doing an end-run around the Republican legislature paved the way for mailed ballots to arrive three days after the election, with no signature match or postmark required. In the past, an unmatched signature or illegible postmark were grounds for disqualifying a ballot. No more. If you don’t match signatures or require a postmark, how do you prove fraud? Answer: You don’t. So fraud is effectively engineered into the system, and unless the electorate rises up, it is likely to stay there permanently.

The 2005 commission also recommended other precautions, like strict voter ID and purging voter rolls to ensure election integrity.  Yet just about every effort to implement any of these recommendations, including cleaning up the voter rolls, is met with cries of “voter suppression.” Who knew Jimmy Carter wanted to suppress the vote?

A history of corruption in elections and a concerted effort to remove the guardrails on securing the vote led us directly to the election of 2020. Only a very small percentage of Republicans believe the election was free of fraud. Some of them are angry; others are threatening to disengage from politics altogether. In fact, the vast majority of Americans go into a four-year political hibernation between presidential elections anyway. If you’re one of them, don’t do it. We are where we are today because our collective inaction has allowed the machinations of the few to go on far too long. There is no shortage of ideas on how to ensure election integrity. What has been in short supply is the will to fight for it.

It’s possible that 2020 election was finally a bridge too far. I’m sure that even my father, if he were here today, would say “enough.” If nothing else, it is a tipping point. Either we stop the kind of skullduggery that went on in this election, or we effectively cede the country to the elite few who are willing to take the time and effort to steal it from us. If a sizeable portion of the more than 70 million Trump voters put their minds to it, we can change the system. If not, we have handed over control of  the country to the people who don’t want to hear from a pesky electorate who still thinks elections should be honest.

This election, more than any other national election in our history, poses a question that should have been asked long ago. Who shall govern? Them or us?

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Article by Kurt Hofer in The American Conservative

 

How Globalization Undermined the Case for Western Values

“Go into the Exchange in London, that place more venerable than many a court, and you will see representatives of all the nations assembled there for the profit of mankind. There the Jew, the Mahometan, and the Christian deal with one another as if they were of the same religion, and reserve the name of infidel for those who go bankrupt.” — Voltaire (1734)

The words expressed by Voltaire above have been the modus operandi of so-called neo-liberal economics since at least the 1980s. In the Cold War era, free markets and free societies were thought to be indissolubly bounded. Voltaire is perhaps most famous for advocating religious toleration, but here he speaks of economic toleration as a universal good; the unimpeded pursuit of profit, be it with Jews, Muslims, or Christians, was to Voltaire a sign of economic enlightenment and societal harmony. In Wealth of Nations (1776), Adam Smith would similarly argue against the guilds and state monopolies of trade that dominated the mercantile colonial trading policies of state capitalism. The British and the Dutch East India Companies, for instance, monopolized the trade in spices with Southeast Asia; competition was simply not allowed. In this context, allowing for free trade was indeed enlightened. Instead of blessing from government—the privileged redoubt of an oligarchic few–competition and innovation would drive commerce. And what does our globalized economy look like today, but the picture painted by Voltaire of economic mulitculturalism? Saudi oil sheikhs with penthouses in London, Chinese firms investing in America and vice-versa. Profit and market-capitalization truly is the religion of the world!

But something happened in between the era in which Voltaire wrote and the one in which we now live. Rather, many things happened. Voltaire and Smith wrote in an age of monarchy and largely agrarian economies. In the ensuing century, the Industrial Revolution gave rise to massive cities, urbanization, and, finally democratization. A labor movement that was initially suppressed in 19th Century Europe eventually flowered and extracted major concessions from factory owners and government alike: the right to unionize and negotiate contracts and working conditions, and eventually the right to vote (universal male suffrage). Protestant and Catholic national leaders alike spoke of the Christian duty of the state to protect the most vulnerable; the heretofore reactionary Catholic Church attempted to make peace with the industrial economy with the encyclical Rerum Novarum, which advocated for capitalism with a human face. After many trials and travails—including WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII—the Western world seemed to reach a new Golden Age. Capitalism and labor rights, profit and the Christian duty to fellow man, coalesced in an economic miracle of sustained postwar growth that lasted for twenty years. The middle class grew at an unprecedented rate, labor union membership was high and profits were not damaged as a result.

The oil shocks and stagflation of the 1970s undid this postwar economic consensus, for better or for worse. Reagan and Thatcher, in pursuit of elusive domestic economic growth AND defeat of the Soviet menace, re-moralized the economy along the lines of Voltaire and Adam Smith—business, entrepreneurship, free enterprise became values in themselves again. The job creators, who spoke the universal language of commerce, would once again be the bearers of enlightenment that Voltaire had envisioned at the London Exchange. A world of free markets would inexorably lead to a world of free societies. Classical liberal economics—property rights, freedom of trade and of the seas—would give way to classical liberal political values in the countries in which the former prevailed. How could wealth creation not also create the wealth of mind that was freedom of speech, religious toleration, and natural rights?

From the 1990s to today, our globalized world took the outward appearance of Voltaire and Smith’s capitalist utopia. Travel, investment, the free flow of goods and capital became easier than ever before. Communism collapsed. Democracy would inevitably replace it. But now it’s becoming clearer that something went wrong. Liberal economics have not created a liberal polity in China. The elites of both parties, who have benefited from the neoliberal order planted by Reagan and hatched by bipartisan laissez-faire consensus, butt heads with the “populist” working poor they despise and in turn court for votes.

The moral contradiction at the heart of our post-1989 globalization frenzy was, and still is, this: countries that hold individual rights, labor rights and even environmental protections in relatively high regard ran an end run around those principles by outsourcing production to countries that possessed none of the former. This last hail-mary pass back to the halcyon days of capitalism bypassed a century of struggle to harmonize the interests of capital and labor. The resulting moral degradation was twofold: workers in the Western world saw how expendable they were; the developing world laborers who replaced them saw the glaring hypocrisy of nations who extolled democratic rights domestically but, in offshoring, fed off of labor and environmental exploitation and an appalling track record on democracy to feed their consumer appetites.  The Chinese factories with suicide protection nets and Hong Kong protesters mowed over by authoritarian capitalism are one side of the coin; the opioid addicts of the rust belt and the tattooed, craft beer drinking city hipsters wearing fashions made in communist Vietnam or theocratic Turkey are another. In each case, and in each place, the moral clarity of democratic capitalism is lost, as if the safeguards built around industrialization—the right to unionize, accident insurance, anti-pollution laws—had never existed.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to sour U.S.-China relations, and Chinese relations with the West generally, debates about globalization will only accelerate. For the economic nationalists, Chinese deception is proof that countries need to rebuild domestic industry. Some of this, particularly in critical industries like medicine and defense, is necessary. But no nation can thrive without world trade, and none can seal itself off entirely from the peoples and cultures of the world without great concomitant loss for those citizens who remain veiled in ignorance.

Going forward, Globalization 2.0 should be values based. The economic multiculturalism of capitalism—at once at home in authoritarian states like Putin’s Russia and Xi’s China, and those of the democratic West—has brought growth measured in GDP, but not the enlightenment cosmopolitanism Voltaire promised would come with it. Even as the West—North America, Europe, Australia—shares a manufacturing base with an increasing globalized world, it holds enormous power in the global economy as a body of consumers. The West’s leverage as consumers must be enlisted into the forging of a new globalized monoculture in which the SAME standards—labor standards, environmental standards, even political standards—which hold true in the democratic world are required of the nations with which the West does trade. The dignity of all labor, the dignity of the individual, must no longer be criteria which applies to the people who are governed but NOT the peoples who make the products they buy. The two are inextricable from one another, bonded by a common humanity.

In the post-pandemic chapter of globalization, the western democracies must practice what they preach. Such an insistence on higher moral standards in mass production will a) level the playing field for beleaguered workers of the west and b) correct for the ethical inconsistency of Western-led globalization which, up to this point, has fed the growth of illiberal capitalist states, undermining the very foundations on which liberal democracy and capitalism rest.

If the world is to again look to the West for guidance, the West must again guide the world with the principles that made it great.

 

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Article by Larry Klayman in World Net Daily

 

If Trump has evidence of mass voter fraud, he himself must act

Larry Klayman says a Biden-Harris administration would 'crush' patriotic Americans

If President Donald J. Trump has bona fide, hard evidence of mass voter fraud that cooked the presidential election results, he has the sole power at this fragile and crucial time in the nation's history to do something about it. To be blunt and to the point, The Donald, using his presidential powers and authority, could declare martial law or its equivalent, that is, freeze things until all facts are known and made public by laying out the evidence to We the People – though not with court jesters like Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, who have undercut not just their own credibility but also Trump's, with their ill-advised antics. In the case of Giuliani, he is clearly "over the hill" and has had one too many martinis, and Ellis is not ready for prime time. Getting on Fox News and pontificating is not a qualification for a lawyer zealously representing one's client, the president of the United States!

What counts now is the court of public opinion, as there surely will be no justice coming from our bad joke of a legal system. The present-day courts, both federal and state, have been compromised and are effectively corrupt. This is particularly true of the federal courts, which Thomas Jefferson predicted would come to be presided over by unelected and unaccountable despots and tyrants, such that the American people would have to, about every 20 years or so, clean house, that is, wage another revolution and spill the blood of patriots.

Of course, our greatest, most learned, most insightful and most revolutionary of our Founding Fathers did not want to see blood spilled, and neither does one of his disciples, meaning yours truly. But if We the People do not now rise up, then this will surely be our sad and bloody destiny. It is not an accident of history that Jefferson was in on the ground floor of the bloody and brutal French Revolution, of which he was also an architect.

And, if and when the radical left takes total control of a new Biden-Harris administration, there will be a purge, an inquisition the likes of which have not been experienced since the aftermath of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution. In our case, the left will empower not just its Justice Department and its Federal Bureau of Investigation, but also the Internal Revenue Service, the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Deep State in other executive branch departments and agencies, to eradicate all those who oppose them by so-called government action and any other convenient felonious means. We conservatives, people of faith and all of us who believe and advocate for the vision and creation of our Founding Fathers, like Jefferson, Adams and Franklin, will be crushed.

The goal of the left is clearly and most assuredly to rid the nation of any vestige of resistance and to consolidate total government power such that We the People cannot rise up and defeat them either at the ballot box or through avenues of last resort. Leftist government will be substituted for our Judeo-Christian God, and we will be forced to worship at the altar of their tyranny and despotism.

Just think about the reality that the republic is now facing. Radical Muslims, self-hating Marxian radicals on the Jewish left, radical atheists, radical blacks, radical feminists, radical LGBTQs and radicals from all walks of our immoral, brainwashed and corrupted society, will be in control of not just the country, but, as a practical matter, the entire Western world. The prophesies of not just Jefferson, but of the likes of Ayn Rand in "Atlas Shrugged" and George Orwell's "1984" will become reality.

So let me get to the point (and in addition to this column, please carefully listen to my embedded podcast and radio show of today, below). If We the People are to be spared a Biden-Harris presidency and vice-presidency, opening the door to a radical leftist takeover in a Soviet-style godless state, President Trump, if and only if he has the hard evidence of mass voter fraud, must come clean with it and act immediately and strongly. And, if he does not and goes with the advice to simply leave office with "dignity" – advice of Republican RINOS and other cowards in the virtually bankrupt Republican Party – then with urgency and immediate reaction time, "It Takes a Revolution: Forget the Scandal Industry!"

My message just one day after Thanksgiving 2020 may not be pleasant or what you want to hear this holiday season. But I believe in my heart that it is truthful! Read my book and my lips, get up off the couch, turn off the greedy purveyors of smoke and mirrors and deception in the media, and lets all pray and get to work. And, remember that God and His Only Son help those of us who help ourselves.

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Anger at police beating galvanises French protests against security bill

 

Dozens of rallies are planned on Saturday against a proposed French law that critics say will undermine the media's ability to scrutinise police behaviour, with the country shaken by footage showing officers beating and racially abusing a Black man.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday said images of police beating a Black music producer in Paris put “shame” on the country, with top politicians and sportsmen expressing outrage over the incident.

The case, coming on the heels of a violent evacuation of migrants in central Paris, has shocked the nation and galvanised opponents of the government's controversial new security law.

 

 

One of the most disputed elements of the proposed law is Article 24, which would criminalise the publication of images of on-duty police officers with the intent of harming their "physical or psychological integrity".

It was passed by the National Assembly last week – although it is awaiting Senate approval – provoking protests and drawing condemnation from media organisations across France.

Rally organisers are calling for the article to be withdrawn, claiming that it contradicts "the fundamental public freedoms of our Republic".

"This bill aims to undermine the freedom of the press, the freedom to inform and be informed, the freedom of expression," one of Saturday's protest organisers said.

 

 

Media unions say it could give police a green light to prevent journalists – and social media users – from documenting abuses.

They point to the case of music producer Michel Zecler, whose racial abuse and beating at the hands of police was recorded by CCTV and later published online, provoking widespread criticism of the officers' actions.

In another instance, journalists on the ground at a French migrant camp witnessed and recorded police brutality on Monday as the Paris area was cleared.

'Soiled the uniform of the Republic'

The incidents have increased pressure on Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and raised questions over the future of Paris police chief Didier Lallement.

In an interview with France 2 television on Thursday, Darmanin said the officers involved in Zecler’s beating "had soiled the uniform of the Republic".

Macron has held talks with Darmanin to call for tough punishments for those involved in the beating, a government source said.

 

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Trump’s Greatest Achievement

The president has exposed the rot and corruption of our ruling class.

by Ben Weingarten at American Mind

No matter how the presidential election ends, one of President Donald Trump’s myriad achievements stands above all others: he has exposed the unprecedented degree of rot and corruption that pervades the American system.

More specifically, Trump has exposed the ruling class: the bipartisan political establishment and its adjuncts in Big Tech, the corporate media, Big Business and Woke Capital, the academy, and across the commanding heights of American society.

Trump’s manners engender hatred in the ruling class. Even more significantly, his tenacity in confronting the ruling class’s members with their failures—and the fact he has threatened to rectify those failures—discredits and disempowers those responsible for them. Their response—a perpetual effort to destroy him—has shown the ruling class to be lawless and tyrannical.

Consequently, the ruling class has obliterated the institutions it claimed to be defending, revealing to those Americans not addled by Trump Derangement Syndrome that the emperor has no clothes. Americans willing to look can now see that those institutions which ostensibly exist to serve us have no reservations about launching a full-scale assault on us if it serves their interests.

Consider what we have learned about the leaders of the country in the last four years.

We learned that they would do everything in their power to destroy a president who takes them on: delegitimizing his election; baselessly demonizing and slandering him as a Nazi, racist, and bigot; lying perpetually through media conduits to undermine and smear him; pulling documents off his desk to subvert him; concocting false narratives meant to portray him as a traitor to justify spying on him and his confidantes; waging legal and political jihads aimed at toppling him; weaponizing national security, intelligence, and law-enforcement apparatuses to punish him and like-minded dissenters from the ruling class orthodoxy; impeaching him over his desires to root out political corruption; threatening to wear wires in a bid to entrap and remove him under the 25th Amendment; claiming obstruction of justice over rightful decisions to fire subordinates as he sees fit; illegally leaking information about the most sensitive of subjects concerning his policies while simultaneously invoking state secrecy to prevent the revelation of systematic ruling class corruption and criminality; and often engaging in outright insubordination.

On this last count, we learned that military leaders would publicly flout their commander-in-chief, overrule him on broadly popular policies like pulling troops out of aimless and endless wars or protecting American cities from rioting mobs, and openly entertain scenarios of forcibly removing him from office.

We learned that our courts—up to the highest court in the land—would hold such a president to a different standard than other presidents. When the government itself dropped its case against one of the president’s chief advisors—ensnared in some of the previously described machinations—the judge overseeing the case stepped in as prosecutor himself to continue the persecution. Traitors to the ruling class are treated as below the law.

The ruling class’s hatred of the president, and its efforts to destroy him, were of course a proxy for its desire to destroy what he represents. What he represents is not just the policies it despises, but the people it despises. This includes the 71 million commonsense, patriotic, traditional Americans who voted for him. Some adored the president. Others backed him as the ultimate middle finger pointed at a ruling class that frowned hatefully down upon them while claiming to be virtuous and magnanimous.

Indeed, we learned that much of our ruling class believes those Americans to be deplorable, irredeemable, racist, bigoted, backwards, Russia-supporting traitors and Nazis.

We learned that the ruling class would hound such opponents of its rule in public, pursue their families, friends, and colleagues, and destroy them reputationally, financially, and legally.

We learned that the ruling class’s Big Tech oligarchs would muzzle such Americans.

We learned that the ruling class’s communications arm—the media—in hock with federal officials, would engage in rampant, sophisticated information warfare efforts against them.

We learned that the ruling class’s Big Business and Woke Capital titans would seek to enforce their new religion in the workplace, lest any dissenting Americans slip past their HR departments.

We learned that the ruling class would excuse, if not underwrite and cheer on, rioters as they looted and burned our cities—so long as it kept the ruling class in power.

We learned that the ruling class was so cynical, it would leverage a pandemic to impose total control over the public, suspend the rights of political foes while privileging political friends, and systematically undermine the integrity of the voting process.

This brings us to today.

The Fix

Today, half the country may never trust an election again, not because of the pending outcome, but because of the process by which we arrived at it.

Everyone knows about chicanery in Democrat machine-run districts. But never has there been anything like what transpired at the apex of the perpetual coup on November 3rd. In the middle of an election night on which the president made historic gains with blacks and Hispanics and romped in the two bellwether states of Florida and Ohio; in which his Republican colleagues stunned pollsters by dominating Democrats in toss-up and even Democrat-favored races; in which the president was up by large margins in every major battleground state, suddenly, without explanation, the counting stopped.

Were the machines kicking into gear to conjure up the votes needed to stop the catastrophe of the president winning re-election? Certainly such things had been done before in isolation, but in the urban centers of several states all at once? Could a fix of this magnitude really be in?

The media had to that point refused to put clear Trump victories in the win column, while declaring Biden the winner in hotly contested states—ensuring Biden would not trail in the electoral college. Was this a conscious effort to set the narrative, or another coincidence?

In the wee hours of the morning, suddenly tens of thousands of votes started to be reported from the bluest cities in the battleground states, some dumps apparently consisting of 100% Joe Biden votes, contradicting prior totals from those areas.

In the coming hours and days, parties fought and even defied court orders that Republicans be permitted to oversee the counting. Why were they hiding the counters?

Evidence grew of alleged “voting irregularities,” altered ballots, illegal ballots, dirty voter rolls, software “glitches,” unlawful ballot harvesting, and statistically improbable outcomes.

A mass of recounts, audits, and related litigation are now pending.

Every single one of these battleground states might have broken Joe Biden’s way in a normal election in which Americans cast their votes in person, with proper identification.

But the foregoing has cast a shadow over our elections: the way in which the election count unfolded, seemingly breaking entirely in Biden’s favor after an election night freeze; the anecdotal and in some cases more robust evidence of corruption and fraud. Our faith in the integrity of our elections, and our republic itself, have been shaken.

Never Forget

That the media took it upon itself to coronate Joe Biden as the winner well before the counting was done, the recounts and audits undertaken, and the litigation adjudicated gave the further appearance that the fix was in. That certain world leaders—surely rooting for a return of “America Last” globalism—called to congratulate the former vice president, and that he stood up his transition so quickly, only further suggested a hasty effort to ram this election through.

Anything that might arise subsequently to challenge the narrative will now be dismissed as an attempt to “undermine our democracy [never a republic],” “suppress the vote [by tossing illegal ones],” and “steal the election [obtain a legal, certifiable, official final tally].” If you express a desire to count legitimate votes, discard illegitimate ones, and get an accounting as to the how, why, and extent of any illegitimacy—to ensure your vote is not diluted and your voting rights are therefore not violated—you will be gulaged on social media and beyond. The fever dreams the ruling class previously telegraphed about dragging the president from the Oval Office will of course intensify the longer the process takes.

Meanwhile, while Joe Biden is calling for “healing”—after an election in which he compared the president for whom 71 million people voted to Goebbels, called the only reporters who scrutinized him Russian traitors, and routinely badmouthed the country as a systemically racist bastion of evil—ruling class Resisters are feverishly drawing up their enemies lists.

This is who they are. This is what they believe.

For four years, President Trump has achieved major victories in the face of this opposition, making the country richer and stronger than it was when he assumed office.

But his greatest achievement has been boldly and courageously standing up to this wounded bear of a ruling class, which has now shown America its true face. Americans’ eyes are now irrevocably open to what has become of their country, and what must be overcome to take it back.

President Trump’s predecessors—Truman on the bureaucracy, or Eisenhower on the military-industrial complex, or Nixon on the corrupted media—scratched the surface of the challenges we face. But none exposed it so openly, and in such breadth and depth.

If the history is written by the ultimate victors—and the house almost always wins—it may well be that this entire story is missed. Certainly, it will be misrepresented, warped, and glossed over in the most outrageous of ways. It will probably be censored too.

Nevertheless, we must write it: For posterity, and for our fellow countrymen, in the here and now, more motivated than ever before to reclaim this land we love.

 

Article by P.F. Whalen in The American Thinker

 

The Left’s Adoption of Schrödinger’s Cat

Aficionados of the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory may recall an episode from early in the series in which one of the main characters, Leonard, struggles in his effort to assess his budding romance with another primary character, Penny. Leonard eventually decides to use the famous thought experiment of Austrian-Irish physicist Erwin Schrödinger -- commonly known as “Schrödinger’s Cat” -- to explain the paradox created when particles interact and the “wave function” created by the interaction has not yet collapsed into reality. According to Schrodinger, the cat could be both alive and dead at while the experiment was being conducted, its actual state not revealed until the experiment was concluded.

Much debate has occurred to explain this paradox, one of which holds that the multiple truths involved could lead to alternate realities, a “multiverse” in which every possible outcome actually comes to pass, which naturally challenges the very idea of “reality.”

The Left in America seems to be progressively drifting off into their own version of reality; riots are peaceful, counting legal ballots is a threat to our democracy, and vicious attacks on political opponents are meant to “heal” a divided nation. But should we simply dismiss the Left’s tendency to invert reality as either idiocy or deceit, or perhaps instead consider the prospect that they’ve been researching the existence of parallel dimensions? Let’s examine some specific examples.

ANTIFA

This group, who Joe Biden says is not a group, supposedly takes their name from the term “anti-fascism.” The problem, of course, seems to be either an ignorance or dismissal of what the term fascism actually means. Most definitions of fascism include these key characteristics: being led by a dictator whose government wields complete control of the media, education, and economy, relying on violence when necessary. So what does Antifa advocate? They support candidates such as Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders who promise to assert increasing power from the executive branch of government, by executive order when necessary, in the spirit of Barack Obama. They embrace the ideologies preached by academia, which is overwhelmingly left-wing. They enjoy a complicit mainstream media, one that is essentially a tool of the Democratic Party, which refuses to criticize them as they frequently use violence in getting out their message. And they despise President Trump, who has faced 90% negative coverage from the mainstream media and whose federalist approach to governance is the antithesis of fascism. Outside of some alternate universe, “Antifa” would be more accurately labeled as simply “Fa.”

FACT-CHECKERS

This term would imply that these folks not only check on news items for factuality, but indeed ensure that actual facts are clarified and disseminated. In the modern-day Wild West that is the internet, actual fact-checkers would be not only beneficial, but welcomed. Instead, what we’ve witnessed in recent years is that supposed fact-checkers actually check news stories for the sole purpose of ensuring they concur with their own individual worldview. If not, they automatically label them as false or just suppress their distribution. The most disturbing example has to be the decision made last month by Facebook’s third-party fact-checkers to shut down the New York Post story detailing the damning content of Hunter Biden’s emails. Was the story false? No, but the “fact-checkers” argued that it couldn’t be verified. In a subsequent hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, both Facebook and Twitter -- who conducted similar censorship -- admitted that they had zero evidence indicating that the story was false. The fact that over a month later the Biden Campaign has still not contested the authenticity of the emails is a clear indicator that they are genuine, and the self-proclaimed fact-checkers are more accurately described as fact-suppressors.

TRUMP IS A NAZI

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, President Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, are both practicing Jews and are reportedly raising their three children accordingly. Due to his unmatched affection and backing since becoming president, officials in Israel have named a town after the president; Trump Heights. And Trump’s support from minority voters in the election increased dramatically across the board, virtually doubling among blacks, while support from white voters dropped by 8%. That jump in minority votes was likely due in part to Trump’s pre-pandemic economic record, which saw record-low unemployment for Hispanics and blacks, combined with other various efforts such as his approach to law-and-order and unjust prison sentencing. Donald Trump is to Nazism what Michael Moore is to body-building.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

The statement, “black lives matter” is indisputable for anyone with an ounce of humanity; no conflict there. The movement, “Black Lives Matter,” however, is an entirely different animal, and the statement not only doesn’t align with the movement, it’s outright contradictory. For example, during a heated exchange between CNN personality Don Lemon and celebrity guest Terry Crews in July, Lemon challenged Crews on his criticisms of BLM and its blatant disregard for black-on-black crime. Crews lamented, “The BLM movement has said nothing about this. Black people need to hold other Black people accountable.” To which Lemon, one of the more prominent pro-BLM voices, awkwardly replied, “The BLM movement was started because it was talking about police brutality, if you want an all Black Lives Matter movement that talks about gun violence in communities, including black communities, then start that movement.” If the BLM movement was actually in step with the statement “black lives matter,” then the fact that over 90% of black homicide victims are killed by other blacks would be their number one focus. The BLM movement couldn’t  care less about black lives, it only cares about its leftist political agenda.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE

Anyone having the misfortune of being exposed to CNN or MSNBC for more than a few minutes during any discussion of COVID-19 will likely hear the mantra “follow the science;” repeatedly. It’s likely to be heard on discussions on climate change as well. But while those topics have multiple aspects that remain unsettled, there are other subjects on which science is much more precise. Men have one X and one Y chromosome in every cell in their bodies, whereas women have two X chromosomes, regardless of how one “identifies;” that’s science. A 21-week old fetus is likely to be able to survive outside of the womb, which clearly makes it a human being; that’s science. Viruses don’t discriminate based on ideology, choosing to infect attendees at pro-Trump rallies while passing over peaceful BLM protesters; that’s science. For the Left, to “follow the science” means to ignore the science they don’t like.

The Left as a collective is made up of millions of people, and we can therefore assume that there are examples of all three motivations when it comes to their shift to an alternate reality. Some of them, no doubt, simply aren’t very bright. Others may have examined the ideas related to Schrödinger’s Cat and the resulting multiverse theories of Max Tegmark, and concluded that alternate realities do indeed exist. And others -- likely many, many others -- are just intent on deception. If they tell people up is down and east is west often enough, eventually some people will start to nod their heads in agreement. For the rest of us, we should remain focused on what we know is truth, and what we know is reality, and forget about Schrödinger’s Cat when it comes to politics.

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/the_lefts_adoption_of_schrdingers_cat.html

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Joe Biden's national security picks are great news — for China

Editorial - Washington Examiner

President-elect Joe Biden has been quick to shape his national security team. Jake Sullivan will serve as national security adviser, Antony Blinken is to be nominated for Secretary of State, Avril Haines will be the director of national intelligence, and John Kerry will take on the role of a Cabinet-level climate czar.

These selections give us confidence (if that's the right word) of three things. First, that Biden will desperately try to return America to the disastrous Iran nuclear deal. Second, that the European Union will be happy. Third, that Xi Jinping, the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, is feeling pretty good right now.

The contrast between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Kerry is one of night and day. Where Pompeo has prioritized retraining China’s aggressive tendencies worldwide and its undermining of American interests, Kerry’s record of standing up for our interests, especially against our rivals and enemies, is flaccid. He spent his time as secretary of state proclaiming the virtues of positive engagement with Beijing. And his willingness to give Iran everything it wanted in the 2015 nuclear deal should make China optimistic that he'll be generous in the coming climate negotiations.

Climate change activists should share our concerns because China’s climate strategy is a disingenuous absurdity. It is building hundreds of new, heavily polluting coal plants each year, while simultaneously pledging to be carbon-neutral by 2060. It is highly unlikely that Kerry will force China to agree to having its promised emission cuts independently verified. (Remember that the inspection regime built into the Iran deal contained loopholes big enough to drive an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps tank through.) He’s far more likely to commit America to economically damaging emission cuts without getting other nations to do the same.

Concerns about Kerry go considerably beyond how he'll manage climate policy.

Biden’s assertion that he’ll prioritize American alliances should produce a clear and explicit public declaration to confront China in a broad sense, just as Reagan did with Russia while campaigning and in office. Beijing is threatening Australia and Canada with trade wars and the Philippines and Japan with actual wars. And it is stealing the territory of new partners such as India. Biden hasn’t told the public anything about how he’ll confront these challenges.

Worse, Biden is evidently reluctant even to identify China for what it is — a communist dictatorship that seeks to displace the United States as the leader of an international order built around human freedom and opportunity and to replace it with one of Beijing-centered feudal serfdom. This truth isn’t negotiable. Xi’s imprisonment of millions of his own people in reeducation camps, his shredding of treaty commitments to uphold Hong Kong’s democratic character, and his seizure of the near entirety of the South China Sea make it incontrovertible. His regional policy is one of an imperialism that has not been seen in the Pacific region since the 1930s, when the aggressor was Japan. This reality is the context for the global reach of China’s industrial-scale cyberespionage campaign to steal everything of value — whether it be computer software or a coronavirus vaccine. Regrettably, when asked about the incoming administration's policy toward China, Biden, Blinken, and Sullivan offer only a pledge for more effective competition with Beijing. Whatever that means. Beijing has taken note.

China’s Global Times propaganda outlet was unable, on Tuesday, to contain its excitement about the Biden presidency. It praised the new foreign policy team as “a group of ‘elites’ [who are] very ‘predictable’ in foreign policy with a multilateral mind-set that will help restore U.S. leadership and strengthen connections with allies. This is unlike Trump's approach, which combines people with little experience, and extremists who deeply believe in protectionism and nationalism.”

When China attacks Trump and praises Biden, it does so with an eye on its own benefit, not ours. Thus, there is reason for alarm about the new custodians of America's national interests. What is at stake in U.S. relations with China is much more than the form of climate, economic, human rights, and security dialogue. Under Xi, the Chinese Communist Party is determined to supplant America as the global superpower. If given space and deference, China will rush forward to take advantage. Biden seems set to give it precisely that space.

 

Article by David Solway in The American Thinker

 

Are the people ready to rise?

In many if not most households across the country, the election imbroglio is obviously the chief topic of discussion, splitting many families into warring camps, uniting others in solidarity with President Trump. Fortunately, in our own household, my wife and I are in perfect agreement on practically all points of controversy.

We know beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt that the election is in process of being stolen by the Democrats and their collaborators in the media, the tech platforms, the intelligence agencies and a significant cadre of electoral officials, to crown an obvious loser, incompetent and scoundrel as the ostensible winner.

We know that voter disenfranchisement and tainted electoral protocols were epidemic.

We know that only partisan Democrats, treacherous Republicans, professional liars, corrupt parasites and cronies, and low-information voters could have possibly cast legitimate ballots for Biden.

We know that many people -- like some of our acquaintances -- simply refuse to believe that a theft on so massive a national scale could have occurred. Nothing to see here, no need to protest. They are the movers-on, who could drag the scandal to fruition.

And we know, if the election swindle is not exposed and its results invalidated, that the United States as a constitutional republic will effectively cease to exist, replaced by a hegemonic socialist regime.

But there is one issue on which we tend to disagree.

I argue that should the courts as final arbiter decline to hear the various depositions regarding electoral fraud brought before it, or if they do not to render a just verdict, the majority of the American people will respond with martial determination, refusing to have their country stripped from them by an army of disloyal actors. They will take to the streets, they will march on Washington in their millions, they will practice civil disobedience as Henry David Thoreau recommended, and that certain states might put forth articles of secession.

My wife, however, is skeptical. Most people, she fears, would accept the results of a fraudulent election. Heroes are few and far between, and Paul Revere is not likely to ride again. People would be too busy just trying to survive, trusting that Trump and a remade Republican Party would sweep into power in 2024 -- though by that time America would have defaulted into a one-party socialist state. Boredom and resignation become powerful Democrat allies.

In fairness, I suspect she may be right and hope she may be wrong. My feeling is that the magnitude of electoral vandalism may be too great to be passed over and forgotten, but the operative term is the modal -- "may.” My wife, whose perceptiveness is generally off the charts, feels that, despite the provocation and the outrage, most of us are not eager to put ourselves at risk, as she notes with regard to the mass of the population who have placidly accepted the illegal COVID restrictions placed upon them by the political authorities. Why should it be any different in the political realm?

Farce has its place in the comic theater but not in a national election even if it features preposterous caricatures like Joe Biden and his vaudeville ilk. The Overton Window is rapidly closing and, if the courts refuse to act, the sequel to our cordial disagreement may soon be clear. What worries me is that my wife is usually right. But then, as I like to think, so am I. I joke that I have been wrong only once, and that was at about 10 in the morning on July 16, 2017. And I like to believe that all will be well, that the courts will act with juridical propriety, that the question of a popular uprising will be moot, that Trump will be given a second term, and I will not be wrong at noon EST on January 20, 2020.

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Biden Behind the Mask

Lloyd Billingsley for American Greatness

President Trump on Wednesday pardoned Lt. General Michael Flynn. The same day, Joe Biden of the unofficial “Office of the President Elect” delivered a Thanksgiving address. These events are related more than Americans might think. 

Back on January 17, 2017, days before the inauguration of president-elect Donald Trump, then-Vice President Biden made a request to “unmask” Flynn, Trump’s pick for his national security advisor. At a time when masks are mandatory gear, that invites explanation.

U.S. intelligence surveils foreign nationals in the United States, and they often come into contact with Americans. Since citizens are not the object of the surveillance, their identities are masked. In 2016 and 2017, the outgoing administration went to great lengths to unmask Flynn, a hardliner on Islamic terrorism and a harsh critic of 2016 loser Hillary Clinton. 

According to revelations from former interim Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power made unmasking requests for Flynn on November 30, 2016, and then on December 2, 7, and 14, and again on January 11, 2017. On December 14 and 15, 2016, CIA boss John Brennan made unmasking requests for Flynn. 

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper put in requests on December 12, 28, and again on January 7, 2017. FBI Director James Comey requested to unmask Flynn on December 15, 2016, and again on January 12, 2017. Five days later, Biden made his unmasking request, but there was more to it. The outgoing vice president also wanted to use the Logan Act of 1799 to keep open an investigation of Flynn, a key target of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane and Crossfire Razor operations. Those operations, in turn, were part of a broader back story.

Barack Obama was the first president to deploy the upper reaches of the Justice Department, FBI, CIA, and intelligence communities to clear his chosen successor Hillary Clinton—beneficiary of the FBI’s Midyear Exam operation—and attack candidate and then President Trump. Trump’s victory stunned the Democrats, who blamed it on collusion with Russia. This played well with those who believe that if a progressive candidate loses an election, the loss can only be due to right-wing trickery. In reality, it was pure disinformation.  

In his contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, Flynn was only doing his job. As the general explained, “We will not achieve stability in the Middle East without working with each other against this radical Islamist crowd. Period.” Kislyak agreed and Flynn told him, “You are not talking to a diplomat. You are talking to a soldier. I am a very practical guy. It is all about solutions.” FBI boss Comey, who had publicly cleared Hillary Clinton from prosecution, knew Flynn had done nothing wrong but sent agents to entrap him anyway. 

“What is our goal?” read one agent’s notes. “Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and his case landed with Judge Emmet Sullivan, who maintained the case even after the Justice Department moved to drop it. As this played out, U.S. Attorney John Durham, allegedly a man of great integrity, failed to bring any charges against key FBI players James Comey and Peter Strzok, who have both authored self-serving books.  

The vaunted FBI has become an American KGB as Russian comic Yakof Smirnoff may help to illustrate. In 1981, Smirnoff addressed the outrage over “Fort Apache the Bronx,” in which cops throw a suspect off a roof. “This is nothing,” Smirnoff said. “In Russia, KGB throw guy off roof to hit guy they really want.” In similar style, the Democrat coup clan threw Flynn off the roof but the guy they really wanted to take out was Donald Trump. 

A marathon investigation by Robert Mueller and a squad of partisan Democrats revealed no collusion. Then came the Ukraine hoax and impeachment bid, but Trump prevailed and has now pardoned Flynn. In his response, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) charged that the foreign entanglements of Hunter Biden were part of a Russian disinformation campaign. So the hoax lives on.

Joe Biden, who unmasked the general, has been bragging that “we have put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” If embattled Americans saw that massive voter fraud as part of the ongoing coup against Trump it would be hard to blame them. If the coup succeeds, Trump voters could become the primary target, and many Americans could get thrown off the roof.