The Precarious Duplicity of the Republican Apparatus in Georgia...

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To quote from a movie line: “they kill them with their love”… An unfortunate metaphor for how Mitch McConnell and the republican regime, Decepticons, stay in power.

Essentially, Georgia voters are presented with a hostile scenario.  A Machiavellian republican apparatus that will not fight against voter fraud on behalf of the voters because GOPe leadership are in alignment with UniParty (Big Club) political interests.

“If you love what remains of your country you will support us”… says the abuser. “If you don’t, you will speed your own destruction”….. “and don’t blame me”, the message continues.

As an outcome Georgia Governor Brian Kemp does nothing but talk about the horrors of the 2020 election fraud, and does nothing.  Meanwhile Kemp says everything must be done to protect the two republican Senate candidates.

• December 7th – Final Day for Georgia Voter Registration
• December 14th – Three weeks of early in-person voting begins
• January 5th – Election day (Polls close 7pm)

MAGA-minded patriots are facing an option where they do not want to support the duplicity of a transparently corrupt GOPe apparatus; yet if they do not show up en masse to support party candidates David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler they will be turning over control of the U.S. Senate to democrats. 

This dynamic is an all too familiar position within the cycle of abuse. A dynamic that has kept Senate Leader Mitch McConnell in power.

Yes, the establishment Republican apparatus knows exactly how to play this game and constitutional conservatives are once again in that exact same situation.

Into this foray comes President Donald Trump today…  Both Loeffler and Perdue are counting on the enthusiasm of outsider President trump to pull them to victory.  Yet at the same time those two candidates refuse to mount an attack against a state election system that ended with a transparently fraudulent result.

In essence Perdue and Loeffler are counting on the citizen outsider to get them inside a system that rebukes the ideological independence of a citizen outsider.  FUBAR:

The Republican National Committee will host a Victory Rally in Valdosta, Georgia today at 7:00 PM EST. This MAGA rally will feature remarks from President Donald J. Trump, Senator David Perdue, Senator Kelly Loeffler, candidate for Public Service Commissioner Lauren “Bubba” McDonald, and other Republicans.

Apparently Kemp doesn’t realize that he is governor and can execute an executive order and call-up a special legislative session…. or something. [/SARC]

If Democrats win control of the U.S. senate they will eliminate the 60 vote threshold for legislative passage, likely pack the Supreme Court with additional justices, and most certainly change parliamentary rules to fully execute a massive and widespread regulatory agenda.

With Democrats holding power, Republicans will happily change the color of the flag atop the Senate spire and drop back to their all too familiar process of sending out fundraising calls promising to reverse all of the damage if voters will just fatten their checkbooks.

Thus the cycle of battered conservative syndrome continues.

As CTH has said since inception, there is only one way out of this mess.  Accept the UniParty as a functional one-party apparatus within Washington DC, and start getting serious about a genuine Second Party.

A MAGA inspired party would not be a literal third party because there is currently only one party in Washington DC.  Thankfully, a larger portion of the American electorate is now awake to a situation that has existed since long before Donald Trump entered the political arena.  Heck, THAT REALITY of a singular globalist/Wall Street ideology is the entire reason why Donald Trump ran for office in the first place.

As of this writing the indefatigable leader of the MAGA movement gathered 74 million votes for his re-election, and still climbing. Subtract the fraudulent and manipulated ‘mail-in’ ballots from the Biden operation and you have a reality of 74 million MAGA army members staring toward an opposition front containing battalions of cardboard cutouts.

No amount of media spin is going to change the reality of that political landscape.

Regardless of whether Donald Trump’s legal arsenal is able to overcome the entrenched media operations drum-beating a deafening noise to distract from the 2020 fraud, that MAGA army is solidly behind our leader.

If President Trump takes that army into a new political party of his choosing, that new party is structurally set to lay waste to any candidate within both wings of the Democrat and Republican assembly.  A Trump inspired new political party can wipe out the illusion of the Democrat/Republican two-party system; specifically because much of the Trump movement consists of former democrats and brand new voters.

The MAGA coalition is the most diverse, widest and deepest part of the entire American electorate. President Trump’s Main Street army consists of every creed, color, race, gender, ethnicity and orientation. It is a truly color-blind coalition of middle America patriots and middle-class voters that cuts through the political special interest groups.

Quite simply Trump’s MAGA army is the ultimate political splitter party.

No Republican will ever hold office in the next decade without the blessing of President Trump; and there is absolutely no reason to believe President Trump will not lay waste to the system if the GOP acquiesces to the transparent fraud that exists behind the Biden-Harris sham.

Beyond the politics… this 74 million vote assembly are consumers of products, goods and services generated by the same elites that hold them in contempt.  If President Trump transfers and directs that energy corporations can be wiped out.

There is no precedent here.  Seventy-four to one-hundred million angry Americans resolved to a common objective is not something to be trifled with.

We do not yet know where this current political crisis and ongoing battle is going to end; but we do know that 74,000,000+ Americans will not accept the outcome of a political process transparently filled with fraud and manipulation. That makes President Trump a very dangerous entity to the DC system, regardless of whether they admit what surrounds them.

There is no reference point for a hundred-million Americans being disenfranchised by Wall Street, bribery, corporations, media and big tech. That army is fuel for a stunning and cataclysmic shift in the American landscape.

MAGA, Bitches… Trump because F**K YOU, is a very powerful force!

 

Article by Michael V. Wilson in The American Thinker

 

What Leftists Don't Get about Evil and the Law

As the 2020 election recedes in our rearview mirror and the godless media relentlessly push a false narrative that "Biden won," it's instructive to consider just what price America — and you, dear reader — will pay if evil becomes established by law.  In most legal theories, there are two kinds of illegal actions: malum in se and malum prohibitum.

Malum in se is a Latin phrase meaning "wrong in itself."  It refers to those actions that are self-evidently wrong, that violate the natural moral principles of humanity, irrespective of time, place, culture, or theology.  It has its roots in the instinctive human recognition of injustice and the desire to see it rectified.

Robbery, murder, and lying are examples of actions that are malum in se.  They were wrong before any human laws were passed.  Cain's automatic desire to hide his murder of Abel from God when he was questioned about it demonstrates that he knew that what he'd done was wrong.  It was wrong in itself, automatically and beyond any question.

Malum prohibitum is different.

Malum prohibitum is a Latin phrase meaning "wrong due to being prohibited" or "wrong because it is prohibited."  A good example of this is a stop sign or stoplight.

There is nothing intrinsically wrong with running a stop sign or stoplight, especially late at night or early in the morning when there's no other traffic around.  Those traffic signs exist to keep people from running into each other.  In 1895, there were only two cars in the entire state of Ohio, yet they managed to crash into each other!  This was due to the fact that the roads weren't designed with automobiles in mind, and there weren't any traffic signs indicating who had the right-of-way.

While safety is important, running a stop sign or light isn't automatically wrong in and of itself, especially if no injury or accident results from it.  It's wrong only because a law was passed declaring it wrong.

No one has a problem with laws forbidding actions that are malum in se.  The problem arises when the Legislature declares that something is evil by law.

Malum Prohibitum

Churches have been meeting together for prayer and fellowship since before Pentecost.  During the early days, when the Roman Empire declared Christianity an outlaw religion, Christians were forced to meet secretly in caves and basements to avoid arrest, imprisonment, and death by torture, crucifixion, or lions.

Today, we're seeing a return to that same mentality among the secular left.  Governors and mayors around the country have used the excuse of the Wuhan virus to crack down on religious services, particularly of the Jewish and Christian variety (I dare say they're being somewhat more circumspect in their dealings with Muslim gatherings.)

Churches met regularly for services during the Black Plague in Europe (1346–1353) and every other pandemic or disease outbreak before and since.  Individuals were understood to have the capacity to make their own rational decisions about what was best for them and their families without being forced to obey a one-size-fits-none government mandate.

But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. (1 Timothy 5:8)

Now, an "emergency" order making it malum prohibitum for churches to exceed arbitrary limits is completely outside governmental purview.  The Johnson Amendment has already declared it malum prohibitum for pastors or churches to endorse or oppose political candidates.  It was proposed by Senator Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954, who was angry that non-profits in Texas had supported his political opponent.  For the most part, pastors have meekly gone along with it even though Scripture explicitly notes, "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan" (Proverbs 29:2).

Those who are fond of quoting Romans 13:1 about being subject to governing authorities should look just two verses down, where it explains what those authorities are supposed to do: "For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil" (Romans 13:3).

Going to church is a good work.  Being absent from church is a cause for concern, not the other way around.  The Letter to the Hebrews makes this explicit:

And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. (Hebrews 10:24-25)

So assembling together in church is a good work, and rulers aren't supposed to be a terror to good works.  Therefore, when rulers are a terror to good works, as many governors and mayors are today, they have become wicked, and the people will groan.

Evil by Law

If President Trump keeps his promise to concede if the Electoral College votes for Joe Biden, we can expect to see many more things declared evil by law.  The Christian desire to play fair, obey the law, and not start fights will be weaponized against us.

The left believes that whatever is passed into law is moral because it's the law.  The intrinsic differences between malum in se and malum prohibitum will be ignored as leftists outlaw anything they don't like and mandate whatever they approve.  With the power of government at their disposal, the left will harass, cancel, fine, arrest, imprison, and eventually execute anyone who disobeys their evil laws.  No excuses will be allowed, and forgiveness won't be an option.

The specifics of the left's plans are irrelevant, because all its efforts will lead to the same dismal result: America as we know it will never be the same.  It might survive as a single country or become balkanized along regional lines or state lines.

If it survives as a single country, it will become a totalitarian state like Communist China.  Freedom will die, gulags and re-education camps will spring up, and the midnight knock will become the new normal.  It will become a dark, blighted country, the 21st-century version of Mordor.

If America is balkanized, the new countries will vary from dictatorships to free-wheeling democracies.  Those with abundant resources and/or limited governments will flourish.  Those with limited resources and/or authoritarian governments will suffer or go to war with the others.

It won't happen overnight, but it will happen a lot faster than you think.  As the song says, cha-cha-changes.

 https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/what_leftists_dont_get_about_evil_and_the_law.html

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Article by Martin Marcus in The American Thinker

 

If vote fraud wins in 2020, prepare for life to get ugly

In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, we have heard about massive voter fraud in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.  It appears that the fraud, if reversed, would change the winner in these states from Joe Biden to Donald Trump.  The electoral votes in question add to 79.  This would give Trump a total of 311, easily making him the winner.

Trump has tried suing to right the situation, but unfortunately, almost all of the judges hearing the cases dismiss them without even giving Trump's lawyers the right of discovery.  These judges are ignoring several smoking guns.

Will the Supreme Court come to the rescue?  If they do, they can make judgments regarding only the crimes that may have been committed.  They cannot decide who gets the electors.  This is the state legislators' responsibility.  It will be helpful if the Court reminds the legislators of this.

For the states in question, all but Nevada have a Republican majority in their legislatures.  I assume that the Nevada majority is pleased with the Democrat electors.  The rest of the state legislature majorities should be champing at the bit to invalidate the election and make their own choice.  To their credit, they are having hearings on this issue.  Unfortunately, they fear backlash from the press.  As low-level politicians, some of them may not have the courage to undo the damage and elect a Republican slate of electors.  If this is the case, then the criminals will have won.  They will commit this crime in every subsequent election, including the January Senate runoff in Georgia.  There will be a Democrat majority in the House, the Senate, and every state Legislature.  Acting like cowards will ensure their political demise.

With this new government, most people will have very little control over their lives.  Those at the top of government will have a lot of power and will probably take a lot of perverse pleasure in it.  State legislators in what will become the minority party are not at the top of government and will have no more power than the rest of us.

What kind of changes will we have to endure?  We will wear masks forever.  There will always be a medical crisis mandating them.

There will be a war on combustion.  We will be forced to drive electric cars or no car at all.  Barack Obama began this effort in 2009 with his "cash for clunkers" program.

Thanks to new regulations, we will pay much higher prices for technology and medical care.

We will have medical death panels.  It is already starting.  The first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine will be health care workers and nursing home residents.  So far, the choice is palatable, but who will be the next one to be deemed worthy of survival?  I assume that I will be dead last (pun intended).

The war on combustion means there will be no fossil fuel to heat our homes.  We will have to use heat pumps exclusively.  Heat pumps require refrigerant.  There is already a high price for refrigerant because of previous regulations.  Expect the price to go higher.  All of this will lead to rationing of electricity.  There will be either rolling blackouts or central control of the thermostat.  The latter already occurs in some people's homes.

Government monitoring of our telephone calls and internet use will continue.

All guns will be confiscated.

The state legislators will not be exempt from this horror.

I call upon all Republican state legislators in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to reject the 2020 presidential elections in their states as inconclusive and vote in their own slate of electors.  Make democracy great again.

 https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/if_vote_fraud_wins_in_2020_prepare_for_life_to_get_ugly.html

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President Trump Persevered

Trump’s policies and results over the past four years 

have been truly great.

Alex Zemek for American Greatness

Eleven days before Christmas, on December 14, the Electoral College is set to meet to determine whether Joe Biden or Donald Trump has the requisite 270 electoral votes to be declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election. Against steep odds, I pray, along with some 74 million others, that a constitutional path still exists for Trump’s victory.  Regardless of the outcome, however, the accomplishments that have been achieved during Trump’s first term are noteworthy and worthy of reflection. 

Even though the Left and the Washington swamp never gave him a fair shake, fabricated stories against him, and sought to use the U.S. intelligence apparatus to entrap him, President Trump persevered.

While the biased media will never acknowledge it, Trump’s decisive action to address the threat of the coronavirus saved many lives. Five weeks before the World Health Organization declared a pandemic, Trump had already imposed the travel restriction on China to slow the spread and buy critical time for researchers to learn more about this novel virus. The Obama-Biden Administration had left the strategic reserve of medical equipment bare, but Trump used his authority and connections with companies such as MyPillow and GE to have them retool factory machines to manufacture masks and ventilators. 

On average, it takes a decade to manufacture a vaccine for a virus. Trump’s “Warp Speed” initiative unleashed the power of American ingenuity and a vaccine was approved and ready for initial public distribution in about 10 months. It was not socialized medicine in France or Norway that produced the vaccine, but the systems of the United States. 

We can already guess what slanders the liberal academics will write about Trump in the history books, but three things for which he should be praised, in addition to decimating ISIS, historic Middle East peace deals, and spurring tremendous economic growth, are: confronting Communist China, standing for the sanctity of life, and being unapologetically pro-American.

For years, China flouted international norms and exploited others. Americans at U.S. companies would work hard researching, investing in, and developing new technologies, only to have their intellectual property stolen by China. Communist China manipulated free markets by dumping critical commodities, thus devastating American manufacturing. 

President Trump acted boldly and confronted this regional bully. He caught the Chinese in the act and prosecuted their state-owned telecom companies, such as ZTE, for their nefarious dealings. Trump sanctioned those in China tied to human rights violations against the Uyghur minority and Hong Kong autonomy. Trump also imposed tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum enabling American manufacturing to make a resurgence. Trump’s trade war moved to restore America’s supply chain resilience, a point that proved even more critical following China’s coronavirus dishonesty.

As with the stain of slavery in our past, our country’s acceptance of infanticide during the last half-century deserves critical assessment. 

Millions of babies have been aborted and taxpayer money goes to support these killings, chiefly through funding routed to Planned Parenthood. Many had no moral outrage when Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia supported a bill that would repeal restrictions on third trimester abortions. President Trump, however, took a stand for the sanctity of life. He was the first president to attend and speak at the March for Life. Trump declared, 

All of us here today understand an eternal truth: Every child is a precious and sacred gift from God. Together, we must protect, cherish, and defend the dignity and sanctity of every human life. When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God’s creation. When we hold a newborn in our arms, we know the endless love that each child brings to a family. When we watch a child grow, we see the splendor that radiates from each human soul. One life changes the world.

President Trump has appointed three Supreme Court justices who recognize this truth and its consistency with America’s founding principles.

President Trump realizes that being American is something special. He respected those who served our country in the military by reforming Veteran Affairs following the debacle of the Obama-Biden Administration. Trump stood with law enforcement when others called for defunding police. 

When Black Lives Matter protesters tore down historic monuments and sports stars disrespected the national anthem and flag, Trump touted our exceptionalism, perhaps best exemplified by him bringing back American-launched spaceflight. When others wanted to create lawless sanctuary cities and leave our borders unsecured to cartels, terrorists, and those who disregard the lawful immigration process, President Trump enforced federal law, and built more than 300 miles of border wall to better secure our country.

So even if his Twitter feed might be a bit garish, his policies and results during the last four years were truly great and American.

 

Article by David Premo in The American Thinker

 

We’ve handed control over our elections to corporations

While contested elections are not a new concept, it is not often that a presidential election has been challenged in the way the 2020 election has. More recently, issues have revolved around electronic voting machines. It’s hard to imagine that an entirely electronic voting system would be allowed at any level given how easy it is to manipulate the data electronically. How easy? This easy:

Vote Weighting

Weighting is when a multiplier is assigned to a given value -- in this case, a vote.  These multipliers are coded into the machine prior to the election. Just a few lines of code can make one vote worth 1.2 votes or 0.8 votes.  Or the code might weight the total vote count for a given candidate to dictate the final vote total.

If the entire recording/counting system is contained in the machine, i.e. no paper, proving vote weighting is practically impossible (especially when software audits are not allowed). More sophisticated algorithms would simply “correct” the necessary votes so an alternate verification would yield the same skewed results. 

Active Vote Tampering

Computers can make real-time adjustments during the election without physically touching the machine via outside communication (internet connection, local network, etc). As votes are tabulated, outside computers can remotely access the voting machines and adjust the count. 

Under the Hood

Let’s talk about computer architecture, mainly the operating system. Most servers around the globe operate on variants of open-source software. The code is readily available and therefore, exploitable. An average computer programmer can download the source code, make changes, and use this “enhanced” version to run on any server onto which the enhanced version can be loaded.

Once the programmer has control of the information, anything is possible. There are many more layers, each with its own benefits and flaws, and all easily modified to provide the desired results. 

Clouds

“Cloud” sounds like a nefarious description. What is a cloud? Quite simply, it’s a place where your files are stored in a file system belonging to another organization. In this context, “files” means all electronic data from emails, texts, tweets, photos, to documents, including proprietary and personal information.

Admins from cloud hosting companies, which can range from a single person to a group of people, have access to every file stored in their system. Within Google, for example, there is most likely a group of administrators that can look at everything stored in their file system. It is safe to assume that everything you have stored on a cloud or transmitted through the internet can be subject to interception and/or manipulation.

Currently, Big Tech is the cloud gatekeeper. So, what happens when a rogue admin or executive decides to access your information and use it for political gain? We have part of the answer already, for Twitter, Google and Facebook have increased their censorship and weighed the merit of the content displayed.

Throw in online voting and one or two corrupt voting machine corporations and it’s easy to see the outcome: elections to order. This is nothing short of corporate communism. Russia and China would be proud.  There has always been vote manipulation, and now we can see it.

2020 has shown us how easily a few people can dictate something as critical as the United States election. We have all seen how hackers can connect to the Dominion systems and gain access to the core system. And even as we call those people “hackers,” people who commit the same crimes for their particular political party are deemed “patriots.”

Close the Loop

Until the election process is re-designed to provide an independent verification process, election theft will and should be expected (see Blueprint to an Uncontested Election for alternative approaches). Without the ability to verify the information, there will never be confidence in the system.

Imagine a job where you agree to work 40 hours per week at a certain rate. At the end of those 40 hours, you expect to be paid. Your company tells you that it made an electronic deposit to your account.

Would you assume the money is there or verify that for yourself? You would verify, i.e. close the loop. This concept works for the business making the payment, too. Fortunately, in the case of wages, goods, and services, money is the conduit to exchange, which means the loop is always closed.

So how do we close the loop on elections? We don’t -- not yet at least. Instead, the process says, “Trust us. What could possibly go wrong?”

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/weve_handed_control_over_our_elections_to_corporations.html

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Once Prestigious Rhodes Scholarship Reduced to Woke Joke

Once Prestigious Rhodes Scholarship Reduced to Woke Joke: One Look at Class of 2021 Tells You All You Need to Know

Mike Miller reporting for RedState

“Rhodes Scholar.” Through the years, generally, whenever I read that such-and-such was a Rhodes Scholar, the connotation suggested a person of distinction; someone who was wise beyond most of the rest of us. Someone who was a, yeah, Rhodes Scholar.

However also through the years, my opinion of the Hallowed Halls of Academia steadily morphed into the No-Longer-Hallowed Halls of Academia, as America’s universities became hotbeds of left-wing groupthink; a groupthink mentality that preaches understanding and tolerance, all the while practicing none of the kind itself, as conservative speakers have been shredded, spat on, or banned from speaking on college campuses, altogether.

The above reality, therefore, led me to question my opinion of the once untarnishable Rhodes Scholarship, along with any number of other “distinguished” post-graduate awards.

With that thought in mind, my interest was piqued this morning by a post on Revolver titled Rhodes Scholarship Becomes Laughingstock After Embracing the Left’s “Woke Culture”, so I stopped by to check it out. Before we dig into it, below are a few snippets I grabbed from the How to Become a Rhodes Scholar: The Ultimate Guide website.

What is a Rhodes Scholar?

A Rhodes scholar is someone who has received the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the most prestigious, most selective scholarships in the world, which allows you to complete a postgraduate degree at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Thirty-two Rhodes Scholars come from the United States each year with other Rhodes scholars coming from countries around the world.

When you think of the Rhodes Scholarship, you might think of the program’s extreme selectivity, or perhaps some of its illustrious alumni, including many heads of state.

The impact of a Rhodes Scholarship is immense and carries with it many advantages. First is the opportunity to earn a degree from Oxford, one of the most renowned universities in the world.

Many Rhodes Scholars report that they also deeply value the other educational and world-expanding experiences the scholarship makes room for.

But of course, no discussion of the Rhodes would be complete without mentioning that it’s arguably the most prestigious international scholarship there is, and its name comes with a great deal of clout.

That was some pretty heady stuff right there, wasn’t it?

Anyway, the 2021 American Rhodes Scholar class, announced in late November, is, as Revolver called it, “such an orgy of left-wing identity politics it would be impossible to parody.” Here’s an overview from the Rhodes Trust press release, late last month.

This year’s American Rhodes Scholars—independently elected by 16 committees around the country meeting simultaneously—reflect the remarkable diversity that characterizes and strengthens the United States.

Twenty-one of the 32 are students of color; ten are Black, equal to the greatest number ever elected in one year in the United States. Fifteen are first-generation Americans or immigrants; and one is a Dreamer with active DACA status.

Seventeen of the winners are women, 14 are men, and one is nonbinary. These young Americans will go to Oxford next October to study in fields broadly across the social, biological and physical sciences, the humanities, and public policy.

They are leaders already, and we are confident that their contributions to public welfare globally will expand exponentially over the course of their careers.

Lest I sound “racist” here, how does 66 percent of a group of “students of color” portray an accurate representation of the “diversity” in America? It does none of the kind.

What it does illustrate is what we’ve seen clearly illustrated in America in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death while in police custody, in May. I’m not suggesting it reaches the level of the NFL, NBA, and to a lesser extent Major League Baseball, in prostration before the Black Lives Matter altar, but the message is unmistakably clear.

Here are a few of this year’s recipient bios.

Wilfried J.K. Zibell, Noorvik, is a senior at Harvard College where they major in Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. Wilfried comes from an Inuit (Nuurvik) subsistence village in the Alaskan arctic, and through education policymaking, language preservation and labor activism, has focused on the effects of colonialism. […] His senior thesis compares comparative aspects of imperialism in Yiddish, in which he has done archival research, and Inupiat poetry.

Tyrese D. Bender … has been instrumental in drafting the first-ever Diversity Strategy designed to establish a more inclusive environment at the [U.S. Military] Academy. He also established a character training protocol for 1300 cadets around issues including race, sexual harassment and assault, mental health, political activism and COVID-19.

Garima P. Desai … is passionate about using economics as a tool to solve pressing climate issues.

Jamal T. Burns[‘s] research engages colonial influences on interpretations of the masculinity of Black boys in school settings. Jamal is a leading promoter of a new debate paradigm known as performance debate.

Jeremy N. Thomas, Missouri City, Texas, is a senior at Amherst College, where he … launched the campus’s first student-run Office of Student Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. He has also held numerous leadership roles in the Amherst College Black Student Union. His senior honors thesis analyzes limits on the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause, and he has published academic research on death row exonerations.

Brian Reyes … served as President of the Yale Dominican Student Association, led an initiative to guide low-income students through the U.S. naturalization process, and was a lead organizer to ensure that undocumented students in Connecticut could receive scholarships.

Carissa J. Chen, Tustin … identified the first known living descendants of Harvard’s slaves and initiated efforts to begin discussions on reparations and reconciliation to these families.

As noted by Revolver, “Five of the 32 scholars will pursue a ridiculous masters degree in “Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.” Only a handful of honorees have biographies with no political buzzwords whatsoever; they are almost certainly the most genuinely impressive winners.”

A former Rhodes Scholarship recipient told Revolver that the change has been rapid.

“The decline has been so rapid. This is a bigger change than it seems. The state committees under the old system were a bit more constrained to seek some kind of universal sense of excellence because they couldn’t just pick the winners — they had to pick the candidates from their state they thought would also impress the regional committee.

“Then, on the other side, the regional committee was constrained to picking from among the twelve-ish candidates their states sent up.

“The old system involved up to 500 people, mostly older Rhodes Scholars, interviewing across the two levels.Now the system involves perhaps 100 or 120 people, so it’s much easier to stack the entire process completely with liberals. And that’s definitely what the U.S. Secretary who runs it wants to do.”

This should surprise no one, but it is just one more example of the Left’s incessant march towards destroying America as we know it. And what better place is there to get about doing that in the No-Longer-Hallowed Halls of Academia?

After all, they had a pretty good run in the summer of 2021, didn’t they?

 

Article by Clarice Feldman in The American Thinker

 

Election Fraud, Political Corruption, and its Consequences

Like Scott S. Powell, I think this presidential election was marked by very obvious fraud.

Common sense, longstanding predictable voting behavior patterns in many specific jurisdictions, big data statistical pattern analysis and forensic analysis of Dominion Voting Systems machines and software, and polling place wrongdoings in the contested states don’t just reveal garden variety voting irregularities, but rather overwhelming massive voter and polling place fraud.

It’s not new, but the scope of it is breathtaking. The Heritage Foundation has compiled an election fraud database, sampling the many proven instances of election fraud, which you are welcome to review. I cannot dispute their conclusion:

Each and every one of the cases in this database represents an instance in which a public official, usually a prosecutor, thought it serious enough to act upon it. And each and every one ended in a finding that the individual had engaged in wrongdoing in connection with an election hoping to affect its outcome -- or that the results of an election were sufficiently in question and had to be overturned. It is important to remember that every fraudulent vote that is cast invalidates the vote of an eligible voter, effectively disenfranchising that voter. In addition to diluting the votes of legitimate voters, fraud can have an impact in close elections, and we have many close elections in this country. This database is not an exhaustive or comprehensive list. It does not capture all cases and certainly does not capture reported instances or allegations of election fraud, some of which may be meritorious, that are not investigated or prosecuted. Because of vulnerabilities in the system, election fraud is relatively easy to commit and difficult to detect after-the-fact. Moreover, some public officials appear to be unconcerned with election fraud and fail to pursue cases that are reported to them. It is a general truism that you don’t find what you don’t look for. This database is intended to demonstrate the vulnerabilities in the election system and the many ways in which fraud is committed. Preventing, deterring, and prosecuting election fraud is essential to protecting the integrity of our voting process. Reforms intended to ensure election integrity do not disenfranchise voters and, in fact, protect their right to vote. Winning elections leads to political power and the incentives to take advantage of security vulnerabilities are great, so it is important that we take reasonable steps to make it hard to cheat, while making it easy for legitimate voters to vote. Americans deserve to have an electoral process that they can trust and that protects their most sacred right, and they have the right to know when the integrity of that process is imperiled.

The challenges now are wending their way through various courts and state legislatures. There are too many for me to provide an up-to-the-minute summary, but shipwreckedcrew, a lawyer with 22 years of experience as a U.S. attorney, does an exceptional job explaining the difficulties of prosecuting post-election challenges. The short time frame and the fact that much of the evidence is in the hands of the defendants -- things like voter registration information  and signature samples. This is particularly true this year, he notes:

The time frame allowed for an election contest in state statutes NEVER considered the circumstances where hundreds of thousands of ballots were submitted by mail, the process for validating those ballots rested with local officials -- often partisan local offices -- and the witnesses who might offer pertinent and admissible first-hand testimony are almost all employed by the opposing party in the case.

Apart from expert forensic testimony, it’s rare that we get eyewitness evidence of obvious fraud, especially this year where in the disputed states various stratagems were employed (often under the excuse of  preventing transmission of COVID-19 to prevent observation or the mysterious midnight “shutdowns” in key states during which votes were tallied). 

This week there was a significant exception in Fulton County, Georgia where Ruby Freeman, her daughter Shaye Moss, and several other poll workers appear to have engaged in major ballot stuffing after removing the election observers. They did so on the basis of a phony claim that a water main break meant they were closing down the counting. Once the watchers were gone, they went to work and the spike in votes for Biden at that time seems to confirm the fraud claim. They were caught only because there was a camera system in the venue of which they were apparently unaware. Andrea Widburg has expertly covered the incident this week, and this blog sums it up (as well as Facebook’s absurd effort to hide it). 

If the facts prove our observations and inferences correct, I doubt that only this handful of poll workers was involved. The scam seems too intricate not to have involved more people at a higher level. 

Will the challenges end in court? Will some key state legislatures refuse to certify or challenge the certification in Congress? Will Congress vote against certifying some state electoral votes? Will some states sue the states in question in the Supreme Court, arguing their mishandling of the election diminished the legal votes of those in states that followed rational procedures designed to preclude election tampering? I’ve no idea. Certainly the Georgia videotapes put paid to any claim that the challenge there was fanciful and the forensic evidence unreliable.

Will there be criminal proceedings against those who are credibly found to have tampered with the balloting and counting? State attorneys general and district attorneys can and should punish fraudsters who defied state laws. Attorney General William Barr and U.S. attorneys can as well -- fraud in national elections is within their bailiwick, though if Biden is inaugurated, he will certainly replace Barr and many if not most of the U.S. attorneys who are unlikely to work hard to cast a shadow on a Biden win.

Will there ever be criminal proceedings against the FISA abusers who participated in the anti-Trump Russian collusion smear? To date Durham has successfully prosecuted only one person, Kevin Clinesmith, for fraudulently changing an email to support a FISA warrant. Clinesmith is due to be sentenced Thursday. Attorney General Barr made public this week that on October 19 he had upped John Durham’s status from U.S. attorney to special counsel. Naturally, those who saw no problem with then-U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s appointment to special counsel are arguing that this appointment is illegal because the regulation then and now says the appointment must be made from outside the department. (Then I thought the Fitzgerald appointment was unconstitutional but there’s now precedent that the bar is only by regulation, not statute, and well -- precedent works both ways. If Fitzgerald’s appointment was legal, so should Durham’s be.)

The appointment means that Durham can file a report at the conclusion of his work, “it complicates the nomination of Sally Yates, who is widely cited as a frontrunner for the position of Attorney General” as she has an obvious conflict. 

By appointing Durham as a Special Counsel, Barr contradicted news reports before the election that Durham was frustrated and found nothing of significance despite Barr’s pressure. Some of us expressed doubts over those reports since Durham asked for this investigation to be upgraded to a criminal matter, secured the criminal plea of former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, and asked recently for over a thousand pages of classified intelligence material.

Under the Justice Department regulations, Barr had to find (and Durham apparently agreed) that there is need for additional criminal investigation and “[t]hat investigation or prosecution of that person or matter by a United States Attorney's Office or litigating Division of the Department of Justice would present a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances.” He must also find the appointment in the public interest. [snip]

Durham is now authorized to investigate anyone who may have “violated the law in connection with the intelligence, counter-intelligence, or law-enforcement activities directed at the 2016 presidential campaigns, individuals associated with those campaigns, and individuals associated with the administration of President Donald J. Trump, including but not limited to Crossfire Hurricane and the investigation of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III.” The list of the names of people falling within that mandate is a who’s who of Washington from Hillary Clinton to James Comey to... yes... Joe Biden.

Bizarrely, reports have claimed that Trump was irate at the move as a “smokescreen” to delay the release of the report. That ignores not just the legal but political significance of the action. From a political perspective, the move is so elegantly lethal that it would make Machiavelli green with envy. [snip] By converting Durham into a special counsel, Barr makes it harder to fire him. It is not uncommon for presidents to replace all U.S. Attorneys with political allies. Durham however is now a Special Counsel and his replacement or the termination of his investigation would be viewed as an obstructive act. Indeed, when Trump even suggested such a course of action, he was accused of obstruction by a host of Democratic politicians and legal experts.

Congress failed to pass a relief package though the vindictive and self-serving Speaker said that would be okay now since Trump (she foresees) will no longer be in the White House. That means people were made to suffer great financial loss at the hands of the very rich premium chocolate ice cream eater to satisfy her partisan pique. They did pass a bill to legalize pot before they left, though.

This is akin to San Francisco’s latest move, which makes it illegal to smoke cigarettes in your own apartment, though smoking pot is fine. I rather doubt San Francisco law enforcement, which no longer prosecutes shoplifting and public defecation, among other societal transgressions, will be swarming through apartment complexes sniffing for smoke. On the other hand, there’s a business opportunity for you suffering from shutdowns without federal relief: Invent pot scent and sell it to San Francisco’s smokers.

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/election_fraud_political_corruption_and_its_consequences.html

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