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If you are a regular at TruthNewsNetwork, you know our feelings about experts. Too many people in the U.S. carry that as a title simply to command respect for their own opinions when shared with others in their world. In my world, I classify “experts” the exact same way as I do “consultants.” Both sets of folks usually are deficient in many ways and use those two titles to garner, at least initially, the respect that the titles should receive, but only in/when “earned.”
In Dr. Anthony Fauci’s case, whatever respect and subsequent following he receives are turning out to be exactly the same being commanded and received by “Dr.” Jill Biden.
How many passes does Anthony Fauci get? How many times must he be categorically wrong before people stop giggling at his every facial expression and treating him as some sort of minor deity?
Let me state unequivocally that enough is enough and it’s time for him to step aside.
He won’t, of course. He’ll sit for magazine covers, attend sporting events the rest of us don’t get to go to, perhaps take CBS up on their offer to appear on Dancing with the Stars or sign a multi-year cable news contract. As COVID-19 tears through the country, and more importantly, through the parts of the country like California where elected officials worship Fauci like a sun-god, he continues his tour of the television studios. He continues to mislead the public. It may not be out of malice. He may not be a shameless political hack or liar, as some make him out to be. But he is a doctor, and a doctor is only as good as the trust they earn from their patients with their words. Anthony Fauci’s words have been misleading and deceptive.
Sen. Marco Rubio caused an uproar over the weekend when he plainly stated two important facts — the first being that Dr Fauci discouraged the purchasing and wearing of protective masks back in March. Fauci told 60 Minutes on March 8 that “right now, people should not be walking, there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.” When pressed by the host, who said “you’re sure of this? Because people are listening very closely,” Fauci doubled down. “When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a bit better. It might even block a droplet. But it is not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is.” Fauci finished by saying “when you think masks you should think healthcare providers as needing them and people who are ill.”
This was not an offhand comment. This was a sober analysis from a medical professional considered the top expert in his field. Fauci of course backtracked on this stance, saying the reason he wasn’t truthful was for the public good, to allow supplies to go to “the people, namely the healthcare workers, who were brave enough to put themselves in harm’s way, to take care of people who you know were infected with the coronavirus and the danger of them getting infected.”
News outlets like the New York Times and Gizmodo blasted Fauci for being untruthful over this.
As the vaccination process revved up, Fauci began to dip his toes into the subject of herd immunity among the general population. Fauci has said if 70 percent of the population were vaccinated, herd immunity could be reached. However last week, he admitted to that he was downplaying that number in an interview with the New York Times, and is now saying his herd immunity “estimate” is 80 to 85 percent. His reason for not being truthful with these numbers at first was “partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.”
Imagine a scenario in which Dr Anthony Fauci is your personal physician, and he comes to you with news about your sickness. It could be pneumonia. It could be cancer. His first assessment is to inform you that you aren’t really that sick and this treatment won’t really do much for you. Then six months later, as you get sicker, he tells you to aggressively begin treating yourself with the very thing he said you did not need. Now imagine another scenario in which the good doctor tells you he was not being truthful with you because he tells you in his gut, you were not ready to hear the truth about how sick you were, but now that you are further along in your sickness and treatment, he can finally be honest with you about steps needed to mitigate your sickness. This would not be acceptable for you or your family. It should not be acceptable for the country as a whole. We shouldn’t live in a health-propaganda state.
I understand there are numerous important factors that weigh heavily on healthcare professionals. I also understand that “experts” are required to give medical opinions that often can only be based on the findings of others that may seem definite but in many cases are still “in flux” when those opinions are given. But this Fauci debacle is unforgiveable. Like Deborah Birx before him, Fauci has proven himself untrustworthy. Let him retire or go fully embrace his media starstruck followers. He seems more intent on pleasing than being honest with his patients. However, his patient this year has been the country, and he’s lied to us too many times.
Lest we forget, here are just a few:
For two years or so, the drumbeat for reining in Big Tech has been getting louder. Critics have suggested solutions from breaking up Facebook and Amazon to regulating social networks and search engines as public utilities. The heads of major tech firms have been hauled before Congress numerous times now. The House Antitrust Subcommittee called for a breakup of the biggest of the Big Tech companies after a lengthy investigation.
The Senate Commerce Committee heard the testimony of top social media company CEOs to discuss the legal provision that provides broad legal immunity around content on their platforms. Most significantly, the Department of Justice (DOJ) in October brought an antitrust lawsuit against Google — the most critical anti-tech antitrust action since the 1998 case against Microsoft.
There is clear legal, regulatory, and political momentum behind taking these actions, and there will be no turning back. The question is: Is this and even more anti-tech antitrust the right tool to address America’s most significant technology problem?
Historic as these companies’ power challenges may be, the long history of antitrust action against Big Tech is not encouraging — particularly if you are hoping for a big company to be broken up outright. In 1956, the Bell System monopoly was left intact after a seven-year legal saga. The antitrust action against IBM lasted 13 years. Outcome? You guessed it: The behemoth remained unbroken. The 1998 fight against Microsoft, in which the government argued that bundling of applications programs into Microsoft’s dominant operating system constituted monopolistic actions, ended three years later with a settlement and the company intact.
Today’s technology industry is more complicated than in the Bell System, IBM, or Microsoft cases. Moreover, while public sentiment had swung against Big Tech after the 2016 presidential elections and especially in the wake of the Social Media giant censorship in the runup to the 2020 election, rampant reliance by Americans on social media communication during the COVID-19 pandemic has put a blinding spotlight on Big Tech companies. Google is just one example, and many feel just the first of many that the DOJ will go after.
Antitrust action against these companies will be long and drawn-out — no matter its conclusion — for several reasons. First, the complaints against the industry are varied, ranging from anti-competitiveness to privacy issues, censorship, publishing and editing social media content, data protection, and vulnerability to misinformation. Second, there are multiple large companies in the crosshairs, with different products and different suggested remedies. Third, numerous agencies are pursuing action, from the DOJ and the Federal Trade Commission to the House initiative led by Democrats to the Senate initiative led by Republicans. Each has a different approach, motivation, and timeline. Fourth, technology itself keeps evolving. Finally, there is a precedent for settling with the tech industry: Previous antitrust actions have resulted in settlements or consent decrees where lawmakers got something from each of the companies in exchange for leaving them intact, which might well encourage companies to drag the fight out as long as possible. Putting these considerations together, it is reasonable to expect a lengthy process that risks frittering away any momentum and ends with a settlement that resolves issues on the margins.
What can be done to make productive use of any momentum for reform in the wake of the Google litigation? First, we need to ask just what tech problem we want to solve — and there are many crying for attention. Lack of competition is one: Consumers have limited choices in search engines, social media platforms, and e-commerce platforms. Several applications or services are owned by platforms, giving the latter an unfair advantage. For instance, Amazon is a marketplace for third-party sellers, but it also competes with those merchants by selling Amazon-branded products. Privacy is another issue: Americans still do not have consistent data protection laws. Beyond that, users on social media are vulnerable to being fed misinformation. They are struggling with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube’s censorship of content in the name of “company policy violations.”
While these problems have severe implications for the competitiveness of markets, functioning of democratic institutions, and preservation of privacy (not to mention First Amendment violations), there is a deeper, more foundational problem that receives much less attention – and more urgently needs to be solved.
It is difficult for most Americans to believe, but the United States’ most serious tech problem is that half of Americans struggle to get online at all reliably! At a moment when nine out of 10 Americans say internet access is essential, according to a Pew Research study, this is a devastating divide. Work, school, health care, socializing, and, often, shopping for essentials have primarily moved online, which means the absence of a reliable digital connection can drastically impact individuals, families, and businesses. If I am among the 162 million Americans without access to a decent internet connection — with download speeds of at least 25 megabits per second (Mbps) and upload speeds of at least 3 Mbps — or who cannot afford the most expensive broadband access in the world, I have an urgent problem on my hands. My child may be attending school online in a Taco Bell parking lot or huddled under a blanket outside a closed school to piggyback on its wi-fi system because those places happen to have the nearest internet connection. My telehealth visits with my doctor are likely interrupted because of a spotty internet signal. My employment is in jeopardy because I must log onto a jittery Zoom connection that’s unreliable at best. The usual go-to places for many consumers for getting on the internet — community centers, schools, libraries — are closed. Who hasn’t gone to their local Starbucks to drink a cup while using the internet to surf the web or login on to our company’s server? COVID-19 has Starbucks shuttered!
The access gap both mirrors and reinforces inequality in the United States. The picture is far worse for the Black and Hispanic populations. Data analyzed from a recent massive research program suggests that, depending on where one lives, the most basic digital product — reliable access to the internet — has failed the test of inclusive digital access to education, health care, and jobs. To make matters worse, the same parts of the country where schools are woefully unable to go digitally remote — Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Alabama, Montana, and Arkansas, for example — overlap with the parts of the country where schools should be run remotely because of failing public health guidelines. These states also suffer from limited access to telehealth, employment opportunities, and online government services.
Lawmakers and regulators have an unusual opportunity right now: They can use their leverage over the most innovative and best-performing technology companies to solve the problem of internet access. They can do this now before any other issues get discussed en route to a full settlement in this Google antitrust litigation and any future actions by the DOJ. Lawmakers can press for the four Big Tech players that are their primary targets — Facebook, Alphabet, Amazon, and Apple — to collaborate on identifying the broadband deserts in the U.S. and designing a plan to collectively fill the gaps in a way that is affordable to users and gives them no advantage as gatekeepers. Agreeing to be a part of this solution then permits the companies to remain at the table for further negotiation. This will create the right incentives for companies to participate and take action.
These companies are already in the business of providing internet access. Facebook offers free access to a limited version of the internet in more than 60 countries through its Facebook Connectivity initiative, with solutions ranging from low-cost wireless connections in dense urban areas to high-altitude platforms for connecting remote sites to free basic internet access in developing regions. Alphabet has a fiber deployment project, and Loon, an Alphabet unit, uses balloons, unmanned aircraft, and high altitude platform stations. Amazon has plans for deploying more than 3,000 low earth orbit satellites to offer broadband service everywhere, and Apple has a similar project in the works.
These companies have the resources, as the pandemic has already driven historical profits even higher, and would be interested in cooperating if there is an expectation that it might help reach an eventual settlement on the other issues on the table. It could be in the self-interest of these companies, as expanding access also expands their consumer base. After all, these companies have already invested in inexpensive internet access projects for a reason. It must be because they expect to see commercial value from expanding the market.
The 900-pound gorilla in the Big Tech room right now is Censorship. If censorship at your personal or business social media account has not yet impacted you, you’re probably not too concerned. But when it happens, I promise you the feeling is one of total violation. We live in the greatest and freest nation in World history. We have the First Amendment guarantee that loosely stated, promises that anyone can say anything to anybody at any time: Free Speech! The Free Speech gorilla is dominating our attention while we are losing sight of the big picture.
I lived through the AT&T breakup. I also remember the reason the antitrust action was taken to stop AT&T’s dominance in the telecommunications business, including local and long-distance. What I remember is since that happened, customer service in every segment of telecommunications is impossible! There were other negatives that came with all of that. But what has been the result of that breakup? AT&T bought-up all the Bell companies, and now we have AT&T again! There’s no “Southern Bell, Southcentral Bell, Pacific Bell, Northwestern Bell,” etc. We have AT&T!
I don’t think we ought to sit here and suffer through another monstrous, costly, and decades-long break-up of just one of the Big Tech companies. There needs to be a thorough and realistic plan developed in a government/private endeavor in which all of the Big Tech companies work with a group of government specialists (to be named) to, instead of more antitrust litigation, develop a plan to answer the existing problems and any new ones as they appear.
The first “next” step that might show Big Tech how serious are these issues might be for the U.S. House and Senate to unanimously pass a bill to eliminate the indemnification for all of these companies they currently possess under Section 230 of the FCC Decency law. President Trump will sign it immediately.
How do you make a deal? All parties meet and discuss the concerns of any deal proposal with everyone at the table. Identify the differences, concerns, and expected and desired outcomes. THEN craft a solution. “This is too big a monster to try with one solution to repair everything.” That could likely be true. So create dozens of solutions!
Washington has never been successful at quickly and crafting and implementing plans to make things better. (That’s one thing that Donald Trump showed the nation works almost every time!) This issue with Big Tech is a really BIG issue that must be resolved. There are hundreds of billions of dollars at stake. But there are also millions of Americans who need the ability to access and use Big Tech and all they have to offer without feeling they are taken advantage of. Let’s be honest: Big Tech definitely takes advantage of Americans in both government and private sectors.
It must STOP!
(Guest Contributor Kelleigh Nelson with Today’s Story)
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states, and nation… The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties, … and control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection. – New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, New York Times, March 26, 1922
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
These are dark times, in which the propaganda of deceit touches all our lives. The information age is a media age. We have politics by media; censorship by media; war by media; retribution by media; diversion by media – a surreal assembly line of clichés and false assumptions. Every time we turn on a computer or pick up a digital device, we are subjected to control: to surveillance of our habits and routines, and to lies and manipulation…propaganda and brainwashing, pushed and promoted by those who wish to “fundamentally change America.”
Edward Bernays, who invented the term, “public relations” as a euphemism for “propaganda,” predicted this more than 80 years ago. He called it, “the invisible government.” He wrote, “Those who manipulate this unseen element constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of …”
The aim of this invisible government is the conquest of us: of our political consciousness, our sense of the world, our ability to think independently, to separate truth from lies. And these big lies are delivered with the regularity of a metronome.
And yes, China’s Covid kills, but so does cancer, heart disease, flu, pneumonia, diabetes, starvation, and countless other illnesses. But none of these illnesses are a threat to America’s freedoms; that threat is communism and the destruction of our inalienable Bill of Rights by treasonous foreign and domestic enemies. Their goal was the elimination of the Constitutional Republic’s “one man, one vote” in the 2020 election. The lies of Covid gave them privy to promote mail-in ballots, and the ability to cheat their way to false victory. This traitorous deed was an act of insurrection.
Three people stand above the fray to battle for the same freedom and liberty our founders fought for prior to America’s Revolutionary War. For more than a decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities.
The same tensions are building in America today, and the enemy is far worse than the British. Should America fall to communism, all will truly be lost, so gird your loins for freedom, and don the full armor of God.
Three warriors stand together to expose the deceit perpetrated on the American people, Lt. General Michael Flynn (RET), Attorney Sidney Powell, and Attorney L. Lin Wood. These three have put their reputations on the line for their love of country, for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These three, and so many more who have volunteered to help, are battling to save our Republic.
General Michael Flynn was raised in Rhode Island in a family of nine children. He grew up in a busy, but loving Irish Catholic household, with dad Charles, a former Army sergeant, and mom Helen stressing the importance of education. The General’s mother received her law degree at the age of 60…oh yes, education was essential.
Graduating from the University of Rhode Island with a BS, he went on to earn a Master of Business Administration in Telecommunications from Golden Gate University, a Master of Military Art and Science from the United States Army Command and General Staff College, and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. He is a graduate of the Military Intelligence Officer Basic Course, Ranger School, Military Intelligence Officer Advanced Course, Army Command and General Staff College, the School of Advanced Military Studies, and Naval War College. His military awards are numerous. He served as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Obama before retirement.
After 33 years in Army intelligence, Flynn was appointed as National Security Advisor to President Trump. Obama’s Deep State knew they had to get rid of him or their evil machinations would be exposed. The FBI set-up of this brilliant military soldier and leader resulted in four long nightmarish years for him and his family. Their faith and the prayers of millions who love this family carried them through this crucible.
On May 7, 2020, the Department of Justice filed a Motion to Dismiss with prejudice, the charges against the General. U.S. attorney, Jeffrey Jensen had been appointed by AG Bill Barr to look into the case, and the Acting Director of National Intelligence, Chief Richard Grenell, declassified records proving the General’s innocence.
In late November, President Trump issued a “Pardon of Innocence,” the first in American history. This was done to release him from the entanglements of dealing with an overzealous maniacal Deep State Judge who refused to dismiss the charges.
General Flynn’s book, The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies, co-authored with Michael Ledeen, belongs in everyone’s library. Field of Fight offers a plan that combines creative and strategic solutions with political engagement and effective military action.
General Michael Thomas Flynn is fighting to save our Constitutional Republic.
Attorney Lucian Lincoln “Lin” Wood, Jr. was born in Raleigh, NC in 1952, but was raised in Georgia after moving to Macon at the age of three. Wood has stated in news accounts that his family struggled financially with frequent episodes of domestic abuse involving his parents. After a school dance, the then 16-year-old Wood returned home to find his father had beaten his mother to death. L. Lin Wood Sr. pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter; a charge reduced from first-degree murder. He served a little over two years in prison. Wood has stated that it was this experience that solidified his earlier decision to become a lawyer. He was on his own at age 16.
Lin Wood is one of the top libel, defamation, and First Amendment lawyers in the U.S. earning him the title of “Attorney for the Damned.” He has represented such clients as Richard Jewell, a security guard falsely accused of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996. The Jewell case was followed by John and Patsy Ramsey, the parents of JonBenét Ramsey. He was also hired by the former presidential candidate, Herman Cain to fight off sexual harassment charges.
More recently, he defended Covenant Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann who was libeled by mainstream and social media, by churches, elected public figures, and celebrities.
Lucian Lin Wood Jr. is waging the war to save our Constitutional Republic, and to prove the treason and fraud in the 2020 Georgia election.
Attorney Sidney Katherine Powell was born in Durham, North Carolina, and graduated from the University of North Carolina with a BA and JD.
She is our modern-day Deborah of the Old Testament who was clearly one of the Bible’s most outstanding figures. Deborah served ancient Israel as a prophet, judge, military leader, songwriter, and minstrel. (Judges 4-5) Sidney is also thought of as our present-day Joan of Arc who rose up to fight powerful forces to save her country and change the course of history. Joan’s courage, fortitude and resolve ultimately brought about victory for France and spawned a renewed sense of patriotism and hope among its countrymen.
The U.S. and her freedom-loving patriots are now in a similar, dire situation, fighting for liberty in the midst of insurmountable odds — a pervasive Deep State, insubordinate military officials, a corrupt FBI, blatant censorship by big-tech, and now, what many, including Powell, believe to be a stolen election.
The Deep State, many of whom surround our President, are trying to burn Sidney Powell’s reputation at the stake, but it won’t work. Like General Flynn and L. Lin Wood, her brilliance and accomplishments are overwhelming.
Former federal prosecutor under nine US attorneys from both political parties over ten years and three districts, Ms. Powell was lead counsel in 350 criminal appeals for the United States and more than 150 since in private practice. It was from her experience in several of her cases that she felt compelled to write Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice after seeing a core group of federal prosecutors break all the rules, makeup crimes, hide evidence, and send innocent people to prison.
Her second book, Conviction Machine: Standing Up to Federal Prosecutorial Abuse, co-authored with Harvey Silverglate, describes overzealous prosecutors, perjury traps, negligent judges, perverse limits on self-defense, vague and overabundant criminal statutes, insufficient requirements for criminal intent, and no accountability for prosecutors. Powell and Silverglate offer the blueprint for reforming the DOJ and criminal justice system. Like the General’s book, these two belong in everyone’s library.
Pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell has just released a massive 270-page document to Zenger News (https://wpcdn.zenger.news/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/24190822/2020-12-23-Sidney-Powell-Team-Binder-ZENGER-NEWS.pdf) including affidavits, evidence, and testimony from many witnesses and sources detailing alleged fraud in the 2020 election.
Sidney Powell has put her life on the line to rage a battle against widespread treason. Please help to fund her efforts by supporting her and the people working with her. Go to www.defendingtherepublic.org and help her to save our Republic!
Us deplorables, the hardcore Trump supporters, don’t understand the lack of eliminating the 5th columnists in the Trump administration. Barr, Wray, and others should have been gone long ago. To be brutally honest, I’d like to know why Bill Barr was allowed to give a pass to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, John Brennan, James Clapper, Bruce, and Nellie Ohr, and countless other Deep State players. And where is John Durham?
We’d also like to know just who vets Trump’s administrative choices. His Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, and attorney Pat Cipollone are countering the president’s desire to hire Sidney Powell as special counsel for election fraud investigation. They should be handed pink slips and ushered out the door to their Deep State hiding holes.
General Flynn tweeted President Trump and told him precisely who his choice is, and that would be Sidney Powell because “she will go to the truth and that scares the hell out of everyone.”
When President Reagan left office, the party turned against their own President. They are now doing the exact same thing to President Trump. Sidney Powell has tweeted about the Republican Party opposing incoming Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville from joining an attempt to suspend the tally of the Electoral College vote next month. Quite obviously the majority of the Republican Party doesn’t care about an illegal election, even when it affects one of their own. What does this make them?
In his book, Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis said, “The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden – that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.”
It is General Michael T. Flynn, L. Lin Wood, and Sidney Powell who are leading the charge to save our Republic for just what C. S. Lewis has described, to keep our American flag flying high for freedom, liberty, and justice.
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Do you remember when, at the very beginning of Trump’s 2016 campaign, he began talking about the “Swamp” of D.C.? He then morphed that into the need to “Drain the Swamp,” and he promised he was the guy that not only COULD do that but WOULD do that if Americans elected him President. Many laughed and derided the crazy billionaire from Queens. They told us he was little more than a spoiled rotten rich kid whose Daddy put him in business. They laughed at his success in the NBC hit reality show, “The Apprentice.” “Donald Trump is nothing but a narcissistic blowhard who thinks he can weasel his way into national politics!”
They were almost right — almost!
Here we are, four years later, after the “Blowhard” from Queens set the establishments of both major political parties on their cans. In comparison, they looked on in disbelief as he became the only presidential candidate in 80-or-so years to accomplish ALL (or at least as much as could be done without Congressional support) of his publicly stated objectives for the nation in his “first” four years. Regardless of what the Trump-haters in each of those political parties and the self-appointed purveyors of truth in news reporting say, he accomplished it all!
So why today, in the wake of the most corrupt national election in U.S. history, are almost all of these politicians fighting so hard to kick this guy out of office? If he successfully fulfilled average Americans’ expectations for an elected president based on his campaign promises, why are these politicians and their supporters dead-set on his removal? Why do they so many reject the mountains of evidence in plain sight of election cheating and still maintain that Trump’s demands of a stolen election are based on no facts and certainly no evidence?
I don’t have all the answers. But I DO have a few. Let’s examine a few of the “Swamp Critters” attacks on Mr. Trump.
Mitt Romney was the governor of Massachusetts, then the “savior” of the Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, and then decided he wanted to be President. In 2012 he ran a losing campaign against Barack Obama, who beat Romney to serve a second term in the White House.
Romney left politics for a while but turned up back in Utah and won a U.S. Senate seat. He ran as a Republican but soon showed his anti-Trump stance as he showed the world what a real GOP “Swamper” looks like. Romney is anything but conservative. Many Utah citizens reportedly would like to change their vote from that Senatorial election.
Romney despises Trump. Why? At least in part, it resulted from the fact that Mitt famously (and very publicly) pleaded for the Secretary of State job from Trump. Trump passed over the RINO. Mitt immediately began acting like a jilted lover. He’s attacked Trump at every turn and was the only Republican in either the House or the Senate to vote to impeach President Trump and remove him from office.
In the aftermath of the November election in which voting irregularity, voter fraud, AND “vote” fraud were revealed, President Trump mounted an attack on the actual fraud committed in at least the swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, and his campaign along with several others not officially part of his campaign filed numerous state and federal cases to prove the fraud. Mitt and others who ran for office as conservatives in the Republican Party were hesitant to support the President in his pursuit of the truth in this election. Still, several have done more than be just “hesitant.” They have launched attacks at Mr. Trump and others in office who have come out in support of President Trump. Romney’s began three days after the election:
“He is wrong to say that the election was rigged, corrupt, and stolen,” Romney said on Twitter and Facebook on Friday morning, November 6. “Doing so damages the cause of freedom here and around the world, weakens institutions that lie at the foundation of the Republic, and recklessly inflames destructive and dangerous passions.”
But he wasn’t finished. Republican Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), late on November 20th, blasted President Trump’s attempt to pressure Republican officials to reverse the election results, describing it as among the most “undemocratic” actions ever taken by a sitting president.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has long been suspected of being a RINO: “Republican in Name Only.” He’s pretty much confirmed he is precisely that in the 2020 election aftermath, especially in regards to leadership in the fight to make sure our elections are “fair and free.” With the piles of mounting evidence that clearly show a fraudulent election happened. McConnell only at first gave any hint of support of investigating those guilty of election interference. Progressively he has quietly slipped into the “Swamp-Tank” with other RINOs. He was the first Republican Party leader to call Joe Biden “President-Elect Joe Biden,” signaling his willingness to throw in the towel.
To further blur the process between November 3rd and January 20th, Mitch quickly chastised several Congress members who have voiced their willingness to stand in the joint session of Congress on January 6th and challenge the “official” electoral vote totals as they are read. If two in the Senate and two in the House do that, it will force the House and Senate to separate and debate those objections for a period of two hours and then vote to determine who is President.
Herein lies the rub for Mitch: If that happens, the House votes for President, and the Senate votes for Vice President. Such a vote is not tallied based on the states’ electors in the electoral college. Each state gets only one vote. That would mean that there are 30+ states who have Republican-controlled legislatures, each with one vote. Trump would win in that scenario. In the Senate, votes for Vice President would be expected to come down the same way. In case of a tie in the Senate, the Senate’s President would cast the deciding vote. Vice President Mike Pence serves in that role and would, therefore, with his vote, confirm himself VP!
It’s been humorous the last week or so to see that, almost daily, one new Republican stands up and declares they are against the continued investigations and court challenges of the election results. And each seems to have adopted one talking point as if it was coordinated: “President Trump, without evidence, continues to claim massive election fraud in November 3rd’s election and he must stop!”
The latest was Congressman Adam Kinzinger. Illinois Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger accused President Donald Trump and fellow GOP representatives who seek to challenge the Electoral College vote on January 6. There “wrongdoing? Participating in an “utter scam” meant to “raise money and gain followers.”
“All this talk about Jan 6th from@realDonaldTrump and other congressional grifters is simply explained: they will raise money and gain followers by blaming everyone else knowing full well they can’t do anything. It’s sad, and an utter scam,” Kinzinger tweeted Saturday.
Shockingly, Kinzinger would take such an approach. He long has been an ardent Trump supporter. But many have noticed his move toward Mainstream GOP ideals and hanging with the RINOs, so it wasn’t unexpected he might pick up the “Dump Trump” call.
Also not too surprising was the decision made by Pennsylvania Republican Senator Pat Toomey, who in late November advised the President to stop the election challenges so the nation could “move on.”
Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey issued a statement Saturday night declaring that Donald Trump has “exhausted all plausible legal” challenges to the presidential election and that it’s time for him to concede and “facilitate” the transition process.
Toomey issued a harsh statement Saturday as U.S. District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann rejected the latest lawsuit from the Trump campaign seeking to rescind votes cast in the state. Brann called out Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani for attempting to “disenfranchise almost 7 million voters” without justification or evidence.
Toomey was not the only Republican, as we stated above, who chose to publicly “advise” the President to give up the senseless election wrongdoing attacks using the term “without justification or evidence.”
So what’s going on here? There’s no doubt that some of these are “activist” Republicans who signed-on to the never-changing Republican mantra for all party members: “Never do anything that will cause Democrats — when they regain power in the government — to turn on us and diminish the cush committee jobs we have while attacking us in Congress. We want to ‘maintain the status quo’ while showing our voters with occasional legislative victories that we’re pushing hard for the Conservative cause.”
It’s ONLY about power in Washington. And in Congress, it’s ONLY about maintaining a balance of power that though changes slightly through the years, never really gives one party massive control.
But this GOP crew never expected what they are facing in all the uproar: they have understated the power of Trump populism!
There is a groundswell of support of President Trump because of what he “DID” and not just because of what he “SAID” he would do. And he accomplished so many things that benefited ALL Americans, Trump supporters are unwilling to let his, the first administration in their lifetimes, be undone by obvious voter fraud that will award power to the purveyors of Socialism. Socialism is what these conservative Americans rejected in electing Trump.
The political class in Washington HATE populism. Why is that? In such a system, People are in control! Members of the D.C. Swamp basked in almost unfettered power for far too long. MAGA Americans refuse to have that ripped from their lives at all, but especially not through illegal and fraudulent voting results.
The Solution?
Know this: these conservative Americans are NOT going to just shut up and let this ruse play out. There’s only one peaceful and realistic way to move through this without ripping the nation apart: a massive and transparent investigation into all the obvious (and other hidden) cheating that happened in the election.
“There’s no hard evidence of widespread election fraud!” That’s what we’re told. But that is far from proven.
In closing: If Joe Biden and his pack along with Democrat Party leaders and Republican Party leaders are so certain there was no election fraud, they should join hands across the aisle and demand and facilitate a quick, intense, transparent, and thorough investigation into the November 3rd election to PROVE TO AMERICANS THERE WAS NO FRAUD!
What is there to lose? If Biden won and facts prove he received the votes reported as his were cast legally, he’ll be President. But if voter fraud occurred and such an investigation reveals conclusive evidence that Donald Trump won, Trump should serve four more years.
Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, every other Democrat and Republican, and every American should welcome such an investigation today or they will NEVER have a peaceful national political process going forward. Too many Americans will no longer stand for our government shoving its will and ideas down their throats stating that “We know what’s best for all Americans. Just trust us.”
We MUST return to government “Of, By, and For the People.” 74 million Americans who voted for that ideal are NOT going to just sit down and shut up — especially when there’s little doubt in their minds this election was stolen.
We hope you had a Merry Christmas!
I’m sure your week has been hectic. Many millions of Americans traveled while others couldn’t because of weather conditions or COVID-19 — or both. Guess what? While we were doing OUR Christmas week errands, celebrations, and visits, life in the U.S. just kept right on going.
Certainly, you missed a few important happenings during the week. But we didn’t! We captured them for you. In our bullet points, see the few sentences of story summary. If you want details of each, click on the blue “swoosh” and go right to a full story.
Enjoy Christmas weekend, sip a cup of coffee, and catch up on news of the week!
By now you’ve all stormed the tree, passed out the gifts, torn the wrapping paper off, and dived in. This is what the Season is all about!
Here’s just a note from TruthNewsNetwork:
While we all bask in the glow and the warmth of being surrounded by our family and close friends, we should fill always take a moment to think of those around us who on this Christmas morning find themselves one-person short this year. It may be an older aunt or uncle, a cousin, or maybe even a Mom or Dad that during this past year entered the next phase of their lives but forever missing from this one.
This is not an attempt to make anyone feel bad about having such good experiences as most of us are on this Christmas Day. Quite the contrary, is to remind us that we really ARE blessed. And while we spend the day in joy wrapped in smiles, laughter, and “thank you’s,” let’s think about our friends and other family members who are missing people with whom they’ve spent all or most of their lifetimes full of Christmases.
So, today or tomorrow, whenever the Christmas get togethers wrap up, clean up, pack up and head home, remember one very important thing:
You’ll never know when you tell someone “Goodbye” if that will be the last time you get to tell them “Goodbye.”
Take an extra moment or two today. Added a meaningful phrase as you leave. Tell them “I Love you, I REALLY love you.”
That will pierce their hearts, solidify the warm feelings they have with you, and will give them a very special Christmas moment they’ll remember long after you’re gone.
From the Newman Family in Bossier City, Louisiana: We Love You!
Merry Christmas Eve!
It’s a glorious day in which we prepare for the Christ Child from so long ago. As we enter into our family celebrations, let’s not forget about the blessings of God we have today, one of which is the right to live in the greatest nation in World history. That being said, there are those trying diligently to snatch it from us. Today our friend and guest columnist Kelleigh Nelson breaks down the evils that have crept into our nation and into our lives. We MUST not tire and give-in and quit. Our nation is worth patiently fighting for!
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die. George Washington, Address to the Continental Army before the Battle of Long Island | Tuesday, August 27, 1776
The words of our first American President are as true today as they werein 1776. Although it was a far different time, we face many of the same challenges as were faced back then. Freedom, liberty and honor are attacked daily by mainstream and social media, by Democratic Socialists and neo-con Trotskyite Republicans. Our beloved nation is at a crossroads. Will the totalitarian oligarchs turn America into another Venezuela or will America continue to be the bastion of freedom with our flag flying high over the nation…a nation who welcomes legal immigrants to her shores?
In a 1954 speech, Senator William Jenner said, “Today the path to total dictatorship in the U.S. can be laid by strictly legal means… We have a well-organized political-action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state… It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our Government… This ruthless power-seeking elite is a disease of our century… This group…is answerable neither to the President, the Congress, nor the courts. It is practically irremovable.”
For over a century, the communists have desired to control America and her people. It started long ago – as far back as 1880, and it even infiltrated our White House. FDR’s “co-president,” Kremlin-loving Harry Hopkins, has been airbrushed out of the history of the FDR White House. Hopkins lived in FDR’s Lincoln Bedroom between May 1940 and December 1943 while running the entire Lend-Lease program that gave so much to Russia. Hopkins bellowed, “All hail to the Russian people and their gallant army!” in Madison Square Garden on June 23, 1942, while promoting US war aid to the Soviet Union. Russia was lavished with goods while Americans suffered. It wasn’t just commie loving Harry Hopkins; it was also Armand Hammer and Harry Dexter White who surrounded WWII President Roosevelt. Yes, the communists were in America long ago.
Judicial Watch’s Chris Farrell, who writes for the Gatestone Institute states, “The usual rebuff to this sort of inconvenient historical observation is, “Oh, but that was when the Soviets were our allies!” If you are satisfied with that explanation, then I recommend reading Stan Evans, Diana West and Paul Kengor in order that you get much-needed additional information and perspective.”
Joe McCarthy was right about the communist infiltration of our country…and his reputation was destroyed by those he hoped to exposewho were out to demolish our freedoms and his life was cut short. The same tactics have been used on our magnificent anti-communist President Donald J. Trump. Now the country is littered with these God-hating Marxists and they’ve wormed their way into every part of America’s governance, including the judiciary.
The justices of the Supreme Court have taken an oath to uphold our American Constitution. They have failed miserably by failing to uphold the law. We are now on the road to the destruction of the greatest country in the world’s history.
Perhaps no U.S. Supreme Court justice has confounded Americans more than the chief justice himself, John Roberts. The George W. Bush appointee once celebrated by conservatives is now referred to as a secret liberal in many circles. He has replaced Justice Anthony Kennedy as the swing vote. His evolution on the court began with his 2012 decision determining the fate of the Affordable Care Act. In an unexpected move of truly legal contortionism, Roberts sided with the liberals and rescued Obamacare as a tax…of all things. George H. W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas and didn’t expect him to be confirmed, but this great man made it to the court. Perhaps George W. Bush felt he had to balance the court for his father by nominating Roberts as the Chief Justice.
We’ve all heard the rumors about Roberts, Epstein flights, his children’s adoption, and his predilections, but these are rumors without proof. Yet, we know Brennan and Clapper used Hammer and Scorecard to spy on the Republicans, the Supremes, the Federal judiciary and the American people. Is there blackmail involved?
Roberts’ power has been evident on the court…not only did he preside over the draconian and false impeachment of our president, but he authored two opinions that rejected the president’s claim that he would never have to produce his tax returns, whether to Congress or the Manhattan District Attorney. He also authored the opinion that rejected President Trump’s attempt to end the Obama-era Dreamer program, and he joined five other justices (the four liberals and Justice Neil Gorsuch) in ruling that employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity is against federal law; and he joined the four liberal Justices to strike down a harsh abortion restriction in Louisiana that would have shut down all but one clinic in the state and saved thousands of unborn lives. Roberts is no constitutional conservative.
As I stated in my last article, the Texas lawsuit should have been heard by the high court. America’s voting rights have been decimated for decades, but 2020 was the straw that broke the camel’s back. The crux of the Texas case was the argument that the four states it is suing, all four of which swung for President-elect Joe Biden, unconstitutionally changed their election statutes in their judiciaries or executive branches, when only the legislature is allowed to make election law. The reply brief from December 11th says that the four states failed to adequately dispute their point that this makes their entire elections invalid.
Unbelievable that a case on free and honest elections in the USA was turned down by the court. And now we hear a rumor that Justice Roberts argued against taking the case because he was fearful of riots. If this is true, he and those who voted with him do not belong on the court.
Countless attorneys across the nation will tell you that the clerks for the Chief Justice decide what will be on the docket, and we’ve seen numerouscases passed over that should have been heard.
One of Sidney Powell’s lawsuits made the Supreme Court docket, but it will not be heard until January. It contains the forensic audit done in Michigan that proves systemic voter fraud occurred through the Dominion Voting System tabulation.
Peter Navarro, Assistant to the President, Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, and the national Defense Production Act policy coordinator, is one of Trump’s finest hires. He has authored a 36–page report, entitled “The Immaculate Deception: Six Key Dimensions of Election Irregularities,” on the treasonous election theft which allegeselection fraud is more than sufficient to swing the victory to Trump. Mainstream and social media have excoriated this man’s magnificent reputation simply because he told the truth.
“Theft by a thousand cuts,” that’s how the top White House adviser described fraud in the 2020 election. In a press conference last week, Peter Navarro presented a report that detailed how the election was rigged against President Trump in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Navarro told radio host John Catsimatidis, “If we can’t run a fair election, then this Republic, it will not stand. If we get an illegitimate and illegal president in Joe Biden on inauguration day without him being cleared of being president by illegal votes, this country will make or break itself based on how this is handled. I do not have a high confidence in our institutions at this point that they are going to handle this well.”
On December 18, 2020, Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller announced a two-week pause in transition meetings with Joe Biden’s administration transition team, with some Friday meetings already being rescheduled.
In a statement to American Military News, Miller described the move as a “mutually-agreed upon” pause. I had hoped the pause was permanent.
The office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) has announced that they will be delaying the release of a crucial foreign interference report into the U.S. presidential election indefinitely.
Amanda Schoch, who works as the DNI’s Director of Strategic Communications tweeted, “The DNI was notified by career intelligence officials that the Intelligence Community will not meet the December 18 deadline, set by Executive Order and Congress to submit the IC’s classified assessment on foreign threats to the 2020 U.S. elections. The IC has received relevant reporting since the election and a number of agencies have not finished coordinating on the product.” Get your backsides in gear…we need this now!
Is the Deep State sweeping another piece of election treason by foreign entities, China, Russia, Serbia, Iran, under the rug along with Bill Barr’s Durham investigation and so much more? And why are Brennan, Clapper, Hillary, Comey, Strzok, Page, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, and countless other Deep State traitors still free? Justice is absent.
Far too many of our neo-con Trotskyite Republicans have publicly stated that our President needs to concede the election to Biden. Their allegiance is not to the American Constitution or to the Rule of Law.
Senator Mitch McConnell has joined the chorus, but why should any patriotic American listen to a man whose wife’s family sits on the board of a Communist Chinese shipping company, and who has made millions through this connection not to mention the shipment of drugs. Elaine Chao benefits from her father’s and sister’s allegiance to CCP, and McConnell will not damage those pecuniary connections.
The Senator received a slew of donations from four of the top American voting machine lobbyists early in 2019, and one of them was Dominion Voting Systems. McConnell also helped suppress election integrity efforts earlier in 2020. He blocked two bills that would have “bolstered election security.” One of the bills would have required a physical paper trail of every single ballot cast in the country, and we would not be where we are today had he allowed the bills to go to the floor.
The list of former Republicans and government officials including Trump White House officials who endorsed Biden is evidence of treason and corruption throughout the majority of GOP politicos. And then there are those who have broken with Trump to congratulate Biden/Harris after their treasonous theft of the election.
The Gateway Pundit (tops in my book) reported that General Michael Flynn, Attorney Sidney Powell, the CEO of Overstock.com, Patrick Byrne, White House Counsel, Pasquale “Pat” Cipollone, and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows were in attendance for an election meeting with President Trump for 4.5 hours. Byrne called out White House Counsel Pat Cipollone as the leaker to the New York Times about the meeting and accused Meadows and White House staffers of lying to Trump to get him to concede, “I was there for the full 4.5-hour meeting. Claims military coup/martial law were discussed is 100% fabrication. Trump is lied to by his own advisers, who tell staff, “get the president to concede,” while they stall Trump. Meadows plus Lawyers Eric, Derek, GC Pat Cipollone (leaker).”
Byrne responded to questions about the meeting and Trump’s attitude. He believes it is 100% winnable and no martial law required. Sidney and Flynn presented a winning course with a great chance of victory, but Trump’s staff just kept trying to convince him to concede. Byrne said it broke his heart as a CEO, because he knows Trump truly won and doesn’t want the country hijacked in a psyop. “Meadows and Cipollone are bending over backwards with reasons Trump can’t do anything…he needs to fire them all or he loses.”
Apparently, the president even considered appointing Sidney Powell as an investigator and of course those present were against it. The Deep State continues to control.
Our wish for you is that you have a wonderful Christmas! This few days does NOT mark the end of anything, rather the beginning of the next phase of our lives. We may be tempted to be sad, be worried, and fearful of the unknown. But through it all we must hold on to the fact that our nation was and is strong, it’s righteous and just to all because of all of US — not just one person or one group. “We the People” are what makes the United States the greated country on Earth. And “We the People” are in charge and will remain in charge: “….a nation Of the People, BY the People, and FOR the People!”
Even though the bill passed with overwhelming support in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, six Republicans stood firmly against it. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Mike Lee(R-UT), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Rick Scott (R-FL), all stood firmly against the bill, which had been bundled with a $1.4 trillion spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. Their criticisms largely focused on the size of the legislation, both in terms of the dollar amount and the bill’s page count. The reasons for their “No” Votes?
Rand Paul: “To so-called conservatives who are quick to identify the socialism of Democrats: If you vote for this spending monstrosity, you are no better,” Paul said on the Senate floor. “When you vote to pass out free money, you lose your soul, and you abandon any semblance of moral or fiscal integrity forever,” he said, targeting his fellow Republicans.
Rick Scott: “Once again, in classic Washington style, vital programs are attached to a massive omnibus spending bill that mortgages our kids & grandkid’s futures,” he tweeted. “Therefore, I can’t support this bill.”
Marsha Blackburn: “I cannot support nearly $2.4 trillion in spending that will make a recovery even harder,” she said in a statement. “I have serious concerns with provisions buried in the 5,593-page bill, such as expanded visas, Pell grants for prisoners, and households with illegal aliens receiving economic impact payments. For these reasons, I voted no on the passage of this legislation.”
Ron Johnson: “The dysfunction of Washington, D.C. was on full display as Congress combined covid relief with a massive omnibus spending bill three months past the deadline and into the current fiscal year,” Johnson said in a statement. “This monstrosity was 5,593 pages long and passed only nine hours after the Senate first saw it.”
Ted Cruz: “It’s ABSURD to have a $2.5 trillion spending bill negotiated in secret and then—hours later—demand an up-or-down vote on a bill nobody has had time to read,” Cruz tweeted. Cruz also railed against Democrats in a statement posted Tuesday morning, claiming that the bill “advances the interests of the radical Left, special interests, and swamp lobbyists, with funding going towards expanding authority for more H-2B visas for foreign workers while a near-record number of Americans remain unemployed.”
Mike Lee: “Because of the length, no one may have the opportunity to read it between now and the time that we will vote,” Lee said in the video. “And I am certain that this has been cobbled together by a tiny handful of members of Congress and their staffs and to the exclusion of 98% of members of Congress of both political parties in both houses.”
That was the reason, we are told, that Pelosi and Schumer continued to reject stimulus offers from President Trump and Republicans since August. Let’s face it: there will NEVER be enough “free money” for Nancy Pelosi. Keep in mind, the deal Pelosi just accepted and was passed in the House and Senate pumped “only” $900 Billion into the American marketplace. That doesn’t sound like much, does it? Why would Pelosi settle for that paltry sum when Trump himself offered twice that to Democrats in October?
Pelosi, in an October letter to her Democrat colleagues, explained why she is so dissatisfied with the recent $1.8 trillion proposal from the Trump administration, which she says “falls significantly short of what this pandemic and deep recession demand.” To illustrate her point, she outlined eight ways that their proposed stimulus package falls short, citing a different Democratic colleague for each issue she raised.
Speaker Pelosi and her Democratic colleagues say that the $1.8 billion proposal from the Trump administration:
Those were her words, not mine!
How did she get from “No Way!” in October to “Yes, let ‘er Rip!” in December for half the money!
It’s simple, folks. If you throw every conceivable factor for a COVID-19 stimulus bill from Congress into one big pile, to Nancy Pelosi, the least important would be “to help individual Americans who are in dire financial straits.” How can I maintain that? Just look at the facts:
The timing of this, coupled with the fifty percent reduction in her “lowest possible agreeable dollar amount” demands an explanation. If Pelosi was such a great and successful leader as we are led to believe, how could she possibly reconcile cutting her package in half, totally at the expense of the American people she so religiously demanded she would never let down!
The most significant factor for consideration in this bill is that in no way was it driven based upon the needs of the American people that result from COVID-19! If it did, where are the relief segments for hundreds of thousands of small businesses? Other than an extension of the PPP Program, there are none. How could any government servant look at the numbers of unemployed Americans solely due to government shutdowns, not at the hands of the virus or American individuals, but due totally to the egregious power and fear-mongering edicts of Democrat governors and mayors across the nation? There should be a quid pro quo demand on one page of the 5000+ pages in the bill: a page that details how many D.C. paychecks are members of Congress going to forego to show Americans they care for us? Not one federal government employee missed a paycheck or lost a job during the six months Americans lived in “COVID Limbo!” This while tens of millions of Americans struggled to survive during insane lockdowns that came arbitrarily from medical “experts” like Fauci and Birx through socialists-in-disguise mayors and governors that changed the lives of Americans who many of will NEVER fully recover.
“Listen to the Science!” they cried. We DID listen, but government officials did not. Scientists told us we MUST get our kids back in school. They told us that suicides and chronic depression cases skyrocketed due to lockdowns. Divorce number soared. Domestic crimes escalated. Crimes of every sort ramped up at the hands of COVID-19 lockdowns.
To what end? Remember, in the beginning; they told us a 30-day lockdown would put us on the downside of the spread of COVID-19. 30-days came and went. Infection numbers just kept climbing. Wearing masks did not work; social distancing did not work; deaths continued to rise in number. We saw inexpensive drugs achieve dramatic results worldwide in stopping COVID-19. The “experts” said those drugs would cause severe problems and even deaths. Meanwhile, Hydroxychloriquine has proven to STOP severe cases and deaths in a higher percentage of patients than any other drug on the market.
It seems to many that all of this, COVID-19 and all of its ancillary issues, including serious illness and deaths, has been used by politicians. It is unconscionable to consider the possibility of anyone weaponizing such a disease for political purposes. But millions of Americans are confident that is exactly what happened. And I’m one of them.
Put all of this in the context of where we stand as a nation. We’re more divided than ever; we wink at laws and reject their enforcement instead of amending or abolishing statutes with which we disagree; we turn over our rights to free and fair elections to politicians who stood idly by and watched waves of fraudulent voting processes sweep across the nation; we benignly allow those to whom we have ceded our power as citizens to flood the country with illegals, doing so in the name of “fairness.”
This is the nation in which we live today. By the way: none of that will change anytime soon. Doing so would require a vast and dramatic groundswell of Americans pushing back against egregious government tactics designed to see how far they can push control of the citizenry. To what end? Apparently, to push us into a “Socialist-Light” environment where Big Government assumes control of every area of our lives.
Fill a pot with boiling water and drop a frog into the pot of water. The frog will immediately leap from the pot. Fill a pot with cold water and put a frog into the pot. Turn the temperature on low under the pot. What happens? The frog will simply boil to death as the water temperature slowly rises about 212 degrees and boils.
The American Pot is on the stove. We’re the frogs. How are we going to handle it? Will we allow the government that we see testing us with COVID-19 crazy regulations that don’t work along with what they tell us is $900 Billion of COVID-19 stimulus money they say is to “carry us through the pandemic?” Or will we lash out and start demanding our government “servants” (which they certainly are NOT) do what they swore to do in their oaths of office?
It’s all about Power and Control!
“Calm down, Dan…they’re doing the best that they can! We know you and many other Americans are upset at members of Congress. You have NO right to expect any preferential treatment. After all, they gave you $600 of your own money!”
“Fair:” please define what “fair” means in the context of United States elections. I think it’s fair to say that tens of millions of Americans agree with this story’s title. The November 3, 2020, election showed just how unfair our elections are — at least this one was.
When our forefathers established elections in that “new” nation that got its roots from Northern Europe, they purposely structured an election system that carefully distributed the processes of voting to every person that was qualified. How did they cast their votes? There were no voting machines, no internet, and no printed ballots. There were no mail-in ballots or even absentee ballots. Election day was the day in which they voted — period.
They were required to physically present themselves to officials at the polling location in their village or community to vote. It was common for each to cast their vote on paper and certify the vote was their vote and that no one else could cast a vote fraudulently. Nor could there be duplicate votes cast for any one voter. How did they do that?
To secure there would be no “voter fraud,” a very sophisticated process was used: the voter (after voting) dipped a forefinger into a bottle of permanent ink. That showed all that they had voted. No one who voted could slip into the polling location and cast a duplicate vote: “One person — one vote.”
The Trump Campaign on Sunday filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court asking the Court to reverse the findings of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The PA court denied the Trump claims that state officials changed the mail-in and absentee-bailout cutoff date to be received in violation of the U.S. Constitution. It states that the only entity in any state that can change election law is the elected body that MAKES election law. In Pennsylvania, that authority lies solely with the state legislature.
Most Americans now know (and believe) there was election fraud in November. All of the details and potential remedies continue to be fleshed out. Who knows what the results will be. In the meantime, Americans struggle to fully understand what happened, how it happened, and who is guilty of any illegality. But it is almost certain voter fraud occurred.
But there’s a “new” type of voter fraud that has raised its ugly head in the United States. And it has to do with the alleged unfairness in our election system that, according to one professor, attacks black people who, he maintains, have been egregiously taken advantage of throughout American history long after slavery was abolished. And this professor has a proposed method to “fix” the system while giving reparations to those African Americans who have allegedly paid the price for others’ voter fraud.
A law school professor called for “vote reparations” for black people to make elections fairer by giving them twice the voting power of other citizens.
“Fairer?”
“Vote reparations would empower us to replace oppressive institutions with life-affirming structures of economic, social, and political equality,” Brandon Hasbrouck, an assistant professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, wrote in the nation last week. “And if our elected representatives did not prioritize this transformational work, we could vote them out.”
Hasbrouck, who teaches race relations law and a class on critical race theory, argued that the “core problem” of the United States’s election system is the Electoral College. The professor pointed out that Wyoming and its 580,000 residents are 93% white, but the state gets “three electors because of its two senators and one representative in the House.”
“By comparison, Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District — which includes Atlanta, has 710,000 residents, and is 58 percent Black — has no dedicated electors or senators and can only occasionally overcome the mostly white and conservative votes from elsewhere in the state,” Hasbrouck wrote.
The professor argued the current system devalues black voters and ignores black lives but that it was done this way “by design” to allow for the “endurance of slavery” by the Constitution’s framers.
Hasbrouck said the way to remedy this injustice is with “vote reparations,” which would work “by double-counting ballots cast by all Black residents.”
“Vote reparations should also extend to Native Americans,” Hasbrouck continued. “Slavery is rightly called America’s original sin, but so too was the United States’ genocidal seizure of land from its original inhabitants.”
Hasbrouck said the goal of vote reparations would be to create institutions with “life-affirming structures of economic, social, and political equality,” He added that politicians who “did not prioritize this transformational work” could more easily be voted out of office.
“Because white votes currently count more than Black ones, double-counting Black votes would restore electoral balance,” Hasbrouck said. “Vote reparations would be a giant step toward remedying our nation’s long history of denying and devaluing Black votes.”
He added: “Even if vote reparations aren’t instituted, Black voters will keep tirelessly dragging our states toward a perfect union. But just imagine our country if our votes counted twice.”
Washington and Lee University told the Washington Examiner of the post: “Washington and Lee’s faculty are individuals who hold and express a variety of opinions, and the university is committed to upholding their right to freedom of expression. Professor Hasbrouck’s piece on voting reparations in The Nation was published as part of ‘The Argument,’ which the publication identifies as ‘a column where writers and thinkers propose a provocative idea that may not be politically realizable in the short term but that pushes one to think broader about a pressing issue of public importance.'”
Can you imagine the chaos that would ensue with Assistant Professor Hasbrouck’s “Black Vote Reparation” plan? If historical issues sustained by various groups in our society must be used for “fair voting,” we would face an ongoing adjustment process. Such a plan would necessitate a formula for every ethnicity, religion, sexuality, and even hair color segment of Americans! I can envision even deeper adjustments for left-handed people (they are in the minority), fat people, and, of course, skinny people. The list would be exhaustive and would never work.
Just consider the futility of trying to address every type of difference in Americans in voter fairness. Trying to create an equitable plan for such would be an impossible challenge.
I have an idea: why don’t we just make to purely simple: one registered voter gets one vote. How about we, while doing so, just deal with the “rule of law” and operate our elections following laws passed by each of the 50 state legislatures — which is a Constitutional provision.
“But that wouldn’t assure fairness for all voters!” It would: in voting. Let’s break it down:
This nation was founded with a series of promises that are to use as the fundamental structure by which we operate our lives. Our forefathers knew that in a country that welcomed ALL people and guaranteed the rights of all to pursue all the things they wished. Notice, we were NOT promised to “get” all the things we wanted, just the right to “pursue” those things.
In the U.S., we welcome diversity, encourage keeping ethnic, religious, and racial identity while “melting-together” with others, some who are like us but many others who are not.
We champion our differences while becoming one nation allowing those differences to make us stronger and do more. That’s from where the saying comes: “One for all and all for one.”
As a Representative Republic, our democracy is built on the People holding the sole power to choose those who govern us. Fundamental to that process is voting. With all of the differences we all share, voting for those who will lead us with each having an equal share of that process is how this nation has not only existed but thrived for 260 years. It remains the most powerful and prosperous nation in World history. “Free and fair elections” is THE key to that success. “Free and fair” prohibits any fingers on the scale to tip votes one way or another. Trying to implement any such plan would immediately destroy our diversity AND unity.
What we can and must assure is that the system that has worked so effectively for these many years remains as reliable and fair as ever. There are always those who choose to impact elections for their benefit. Life works that way in almost every way. Not all people work to join the process of democracy.
Our voting system is not perfect. For that reason, we have always adjusted it through the years for changes dictated by circumstances unforeseen in the 1700s. We all weigh-in, express our thoughts and opinions, and we all vote.
November 3rd’s horrors that continue to play out seven weeks later are a notification that we are at a tipping point. We must choose to maintain and protect the structure of our republic or to go the way that have so many countries before us and even today. That way is one of inevitable failure and resulting doom.
“Fair” means legal and democratic. It means that we agree to have differences and to reconcile those peacefully in whatever manner is necessary. It means that we enforce laws — even those with which we disagree. And when we disagree, we democratically change the laws.
We have a Constitution, a “roadmap,” to guide us as we approach these hiccups. It’s worked for 260 years, and it will work for that many more or even longer.
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”
It ain’t broke.
