jimnyc
11-11-2020, 12:27 PM
Gonna be a long post. Always afraid to do this as some get lost, but also don't wanna create 30 threads.
A shit ton of things out there but I saw a ton also debunked or proven wrong. Some things proven fraud/wrong and reversed by courts. Many cheaters will be found, but thus far larger stories aren't panning out.
I think some will pan out and others won't - leaving Biden as the winner and election integrity called into question and too many folks will claim the election was stolen. Personally I don't think it's been stolen, not from what I have seen. But again, even though not enough to have claim it's stolen, more than enough to call for many changes and the integrity has taken a setback.
Biden is up by 4,948,822 votes. Pretty damn big popular vote lead. GA, NV, PA & AZ are decided by 111,216 votes. 2 completely different elections when looking at it that way. Could you imagine if Trump had won the electorate and lost the popular again but this time by 5 million? Then the other side would be blamed for cheating, suddenly widespread voter fraud would exist & things would be in the courts and the MSM and hollywood elites would be screaming about how our democracy allows for such challenges and we are fascist fucks. :laugh: But not to be.
At least I'll get a minimum of 4 years of watching them all cry about obstruction from the right. And for 4 years all of the gaffes, stupidity & alzheimers moments will all be Trump's fault. :rolleyes:
-- What I really and honestly want to see post-election is the difference between the left and the right & how all of the Biden scandals are appropriately investigated & how the MSM handles it all & most importantly, how aggressive the republicans are in getting to the truth, and also how much they will be obstructed. But the truth needs to be found out and no more hiding crap. If I'm wrong, so be it, but many want answers.
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Tucker Carlson: ‘Defund the Police’ Was a Disaster for Democrats
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson outlined how the so-called “Defund the Police” moniker was a “disaster” for Democrats in last week’s election.
-- defund BS and riots and covering for them and refusal of help and socialism galore - all hurt them, and I pray they continue as some want, and it will only hurt their efforts again.
He noted that Democrats had abandoned the slogan out of politics and not necessarily out of it representing bad policy.
Transcript as follows:
What you’re watching right now is not simply a battle between two political parties, or even two opposing worldviews, it is deeper than that. And if you want to understand what’s really going on, we’re going to isolate just one slogan that kind of decodes it all. The slogan is, “Defund the police.”
Defund the police. You probably haven’t heard that for a while. In the weeks before the election, no elected Democrat would say those words in public. So effectively, it has disappeared.
Yet, in a lot of ways, “defund the police” defined this year in American politics. For months, it was the central demand of the American left. It was the main thing they wanted. And there was never any question about what defunding the police would mean. Really, it was a remarkably straightforward slogan.
Defund the police meant, defund the police: cut off their salaries, get rid of them. But why? What was the point of getting rid of the police? Of defunding them? That’s the real question. It’s baffling, really.
In conventional politics, the goal is always to improve the lives of your voters, give people something they want, and in return, they will vote for you. That’s the exchange.
But who exactly wanted to defund the police? Was there a constituency for that? Whose life was going to be improved by abolishing law enforcement? Was there evidence that anyone’s would be improved? No, there wasn’t.
No academic study or white paper from some think tank in Washington even suggested that defunding the police would help anyone. In fact, dozens of studies over decades proved exactly the opposite. It would make things much worse, and that makes sense. How would dangerous neighborhoods become safer once there was no one around to stop crime and violence?
Well, obviously, they wouldn’t become safer. That’s ridiculous.
If you thought about it for 15 seconds, you would know that defunding the police inevitably would wind up killing people. That’s not an exaggeration. Literally, Americans would die if you defunded the police. They knew that, but they did in any way.
We’ve never seen anything like that happen here. We have had a lot of bad ideas in America over the years, but most of them hurt people by accident. In the late 1950s, doctors prescribed for example, thalidomide to pregnant women because they sincerely thought it would help. When the drug turned out to cause horrifying birth defects, they were shocked and contrite.
The well-meaning liberals who designed our welfare system never dreamed it would destroy the black family and make poverty worse. That was an unintended consequence of a good intention. That is not what is happening here.
The left called for defunding the police knowing full well what would happen next — chaos. Chaos was the whole point of it. More rape, more robbery, more murder. Those weren’t unfortunate byproducts of a noble idea. Those were the intended consequences.
Think about that for a minute. The people behind defunding the police tried to destroy society itself. That’s not politics. Tearing down civilization isn’t a political position. It’s something much, much darker than that. It’s a kind of spiritual battle.
That sounds like overstatement, but it’s not. We should understand the stakes here.
For a long time though, we didn’t understand them. In fact, when the Defund the Police Movement started this summer, few knew what was going on, as was so many faddish hysterias that sweep our culture, most people just went along with it. They were afraid not to. Everyone else was.
So when BLM vandals painted “Defund the Police” on a major thoroughfare in Washington right near the White House, the incompetents who run that city let it stand for months. They were proud of it. They said so.
Gadflies like Sandy Cortez from Westchester went on television to explain that defunding the police was cool. It’s what all the kids were doing. It’s the future, and therefore better.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY): It’s funny because when people ask me what does the world where we defund the police, where you know, defunding police looks like, I tell them it looks like a suburb.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: Defunding the police looks like a suburb just like the one Sandy Cortez grew up in, with lush lawns and pool parties and hip moms and Range Rovers and the pickup line. Fun.
But the reality of defunding the police was very different. America’s cities did not become suburbs, thanks to Sandy Cortez’s idea. As summer continued, here’s what they looked like.
[VIDEO CLIP PLAYS]
CARLSON: No, that’s not Sandy Cortez’s sleepy hometown, that’s the reality of defunding the police. Our cities burn.
The elderly were beaten and killed by thugs. Crimes skyrocketed in every metro area in the country. Things fell apart as they were always going to.
No normal person in either party could support this. So, the architects of Defund the Police did what they could to silence all discussion of the topic. Don’t talk about it.
Here is Lisa Bender, the President of the Minneapolis City Council explaining that Americans who were uncomfortable with their homes being broken into in a world without police must be — and of course, you can guess the punch line here — racist. Watch.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Do you understand that the word “dismantle” or “police free” also makes some people nervous. For instance, what if in the middle of the night, my home is broken into. Who do I call?
LISA BENDER, PRESIDENT, MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL: Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors. And I know — and myself too — and I know that that comes from a place of privilege, because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality, where calling the police may mean more harm is done.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: So calling the police is an act of bigotry. Self-defense is immoral. That was Lisa Bender’s position. Again, that’s not a political position. That’s a religion.
But increasingly, that was the posture of the entire Democratic Party, and you know what happened next, inevitably. By August, shootings in New York City had increased by more than 80 percent over the year before — 80 percent. There is no precedent for that because it has never happened.
Defunding the police was killing Americans in huge numbers. And yet, remarkably, the very people who claimed so loudly to care about gun violence decided not to notice what was happening. They never mentioned it.
By September, when virtually every person who could afford it had fled the cities in fear of disorder and chaos, Kamala Harris was still repeating the same BLM approved talking points, still attacking the police. Here she is in a tape, she certainly wishes didn’t exist.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
KAMALA HARRIS (D): Black Lives Matter has been the most significant agent for change within the Criminal Justice System, because it has been a counterforce to the force within the system that is so grounded in status quo and in its own traditions, many of which have been harmful and have been discriminatory in the way that they have been enforced.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: If Republicans had been smart, that would have been a political ad last month, “Black Lives Matter has been the most significant agent for change within the Criminal Justice System.” What does that mean?
Well, Black Lives Matter had only one demand of the justice system and they shouted it over and over again into bullhorns in our streets, “Defund the police. Defund the police.” That was their demand. They said so, they didn’t hide it.
So in many places, the authorities did just that and you know what happened next. In Minneapolis, which was the first city in America to embrace this lunacy, more than a hundred cops are now leaving the force. Crime has become so bad in Minneapolis that the very politicians who once demanded that we defund the police are now begging for more police. That’s happening tonight.
City officials are now considering bringing in officers from other jurisdictions to restore order and keep citizens from being killed. Violent crime there is up 22 percent over last year. How did that happen? You know how it happened and voters do, too.
Thankfully, this has been a disaster for the Democratic Party, not profound enough, but still, no one is for it. Who is for defunding the police? Well pretty much no one, it turns out.
Crime and chaos scare the hell out of homeowners, taxpayers, job holders, anyone with children or pets or cars or furniture or any expectation of life beyond this afternoon. Defunding the police is nihilism and everyone knows that.
Polls show that Hispanic voters really hate the idea, and it’s one of the main reasons so many voted Republican last week. You wouldn’t have to be a desperately unhappy Gender Studies Major with a degree from Duke to think defunding the police was a wise idea. And it turns out, that’s the entire constituency for it. Unmarried, unhappy, Gender Studies Majors from Duke.
That’s not enough people to win an election and some of the smarter Democratic leaders are starting to figure that out.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REP. JAMES CLYBURN (D-SC): Jaime Harrison started to plateau when Defund the Police showed up with a caption on TV, ran across his head. That stuff hurt Jaime. And that’s why I spoke out against it a long time ago.
I’ve always said that these headlines can kill a political effort.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: Jim Clyburn, and ladies and gentlemen, telling it like it is. Defunding the police is a bad idea because it can, quote, “kill a political effort.” Oh, not a bad idea because it kills human beings, thousands of the poorest people in our society, which it measurably does, no one disputes that.
No, it’s a bad idea because it can kill a political objective and that’s the language the Democratic Party and its leaders can understand. So it’s unlikely we will be hearing a lot more about defunding the police. In fact, no one will ever again use that slogan.
At some point, it will be like it never happened. What was that? Something out of history. But it did happen, and it had massive consequences for all of us. You should remember it.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/11/11/tucker-carlson-defund-the-police-was-a-disaster-for-democrats/
Rep. Tlaib Says She ‘Won’t Be Silent’ After Clash With Centrist Democrats, As Progressives Circulate Memo Calling Them All ‘Racist’
Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib criticized centrists for their apprehension toward supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and defunding the police after it appeared voters were not receptive to these messages, Politico reported.
After House Democrats lost several House seats, moderates blamed their liberal colleagues during a private conference call for touting far-left views that made it easy for Republicans to portray them all as radical leftists. Tlaib clashed with her colleagues, accusing them of only being interested in appealing to White people in the suburbs, according to the Washington Post. Tlaib said she refuses to be silent about her views, even if they may alienate voters.
John Kasich: “The Democrats have to make it clear to the far left that they almost cost him this election.” pic.twitter.com/gp4CqBf5Mz
— The Hill (@thehill) November 8, 2020
Progressive groups also accused centrists of playing into Republicans’ “divide-and-conquer racism” in a post-election memo, according to Politico, and commended Tlaib for her outreach to communities of color.
“Despite an obvious preference by Democratic leadership to focus on the suburbs and former Republican voters rather than working-class communities of color, progressives like Stacey Abrams, Rep. Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib are showing us – through turnout results in their states and cities – where Democrats must invest to build the party,” the memo says.
“We’re not going to be successful if we’re silencing districts like mine,” Tlaib said, according to Politico. “Me not being able to speak on behalf of many of my neighbors right now, many of which are black neighbors, means me being silenced. I can’t be silent.”
“We are not interested in unity that asks people to sacrifice their freedom and their rights any longer,” Tlaib continued. “And if we truly want to unify our country, we have to really respect every single voice. We say that so willingly when we talk about Trump supporters, but we don’t say that willingly for my Black and brown neighbors and from LGBTQ neighbors or marginalized people.”
Rest - https://dailycaller.com/2020/11/11/rashida-tlaib-democrats-silenced-house-defund-the-police/
MICHIGAN WITNESS: Detroit Tabulation Machines were Illegally Connected to the Web
Witness Barry Doherty has come forward to describe illegal internet connectivity of Detroit’s voter tabulation machines. Doherty has explained that this could have given outside parties the ability to affect the final tabulation count, and could also have given people outside real-time read on what the vote tabulations were.
Doherty is an expert in the field, having worked for Electronic Data Systems for many years, working specifically in computer networking. News of this scandal originally broke at the Epoch Times.
This could have let anyone looking to bring in illegal ballots later that night a very precise number of how many votes would be necessary to flip the final vote count. When polls closed at 8:00PM in Michigan on election night, President Trump was 300,000 votes ahead of Joe Biden, by the time Wayne County/Detroit finished reporting their vote tabulations the next day, the vote count flipped to Biden.
Others have independently come forward to describe 50-61 boxes of illegal ballots that arrived at around 3:30am after the 8:00pm deadline to receive legal ballots. The margin of victory for Joe Biden winning Michigan and its 16 electoral votes was found in Wayne County, and this facility was connected to the internet giving unknown third parties access to those tabulation machines in real time.
Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/michigan-witness-detroit-tabulation-machines-illegally-connected-web-video/
Pennsylvania Received 10,000 Contested Mail-In Ballots After Election Day
Pennsylvania election officials have announced that they received 10,000 mail-in ballots after election day, during the three day grace period that is currently being contested in court.
Republicans are currently challenging the validity of ballots that were not received by the end of election day, which are set to be counted due to a deadline extension granted by the state’s Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf.
The state’s Supreme Court approved the extension, prompting the matter to be brought to the US Supreme Court.
The Epoch Times reports that “Besides revealing the number of ballots received after Nov. 3, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar also said that Pennsylvania’s election officials received 94,000 provisional ballots, and that around 49,000 mail ballots that arrived before polls closed on Election Day remain to be tallied.”
Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/pennsylvania-received-10000-contested-mail-ballots-election-day/
Sidney Powell: “There is tons of evidence that Hundreds of Thousands of ballots are going to have to be discarded”
Attorney for General Flynn, Sidney Powell, joined Maria Bartiromo this morning to discuss the ongoing investigations into this year’s election.
Sidney Powell: It’s just stunning Maria and then we have statistical evidence that we haven’t even brought out yet. My next venture is to explain the statistical anomalies to show it was statistically impossible for this election to come out the way it did. It’s just mathematically impossible for all the people who love science the math is dispostive.
Maria Bartiromo: Sidney, so you want to tell me more about that right now, or…
Sidney Powell: Well it’s a little bit complicated to explain but we have evidence of the same number of ballots or same number of votes being injected into the Wisconsin system and into the Michigan system three different times. I think there were two different injections of exactly the same numbers in Michigan and then in Milwaukee it happened three times… Needless to say time is of the absolute essence… On top of that we have several states where they did not follow the law established by their legislature. That’s a whole separate issue… We have four states who have deviated significantly from what the legislature told them to do… pallets of ballots coming in the back door. There is tons of evidence that hundreds of thousands of ballots are going to have to be discarded and they’re all for Biden…
Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/sidney-powell-tons-evidence-hundreds-thousands-ballots-going-discarded-video/
Media FINALLY Calls Alaska for Trump… Eight Days After the Election
The mainstream media has finally got around to calling Alaska for President Donald Trump, eight days after the election.
Alaska is one of the most reliably red states in the nation, but unlike states that favored Joe Biden, the media slow rolled projecting the winner.
President Trump, so far, has 56.9% of the vote (148,624) — while Biden only has 39.1% (102,080).
Alaska has three electoral votes.
Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-media-finally-calls-alaska-trump-eight-days-election/
Twitter, Facebook, Washington Post Propagate Fake Claims Of USPS Recanting Election Fraud Allegations; No “FACT CHECK” Warnings
Proving there is no low they won’t stoop to, the Washington Post published a fake story claiming that USPS whistleblower Richard Hopkins fabricated his statements about the voter fraud that he witnessed. Writers Shawn Boburg and Jacob Bogage were quickly debunked by Hopkins himself.
From the article:
A Pennsylvania postal worker whose claims have been cited by top Republicans as potential evidence of widespread voting irregularities admitted to U.S. Postal Service investigators that he fabricated the allegations, according to three officials briefed on the investigation and a statement from a House congressional committee.
Richard Hopkins’s claim that a postmaster in Erie, Pa., instructed postal workers to backdate ballots mailed after Election Day was cited by Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) in a letter to the Justice Department calling for a federal investigation. Attorney General William P. Barr subsequently authorized federal prosecutors to open probes into credible allegations of voting irregularities and fraud before results are certified, a reversal of long-standing Justice Department policy.
But on Monday, Hopkins, 32, told investigators from the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General that the allegations were not true, and he signed an affidavit recanting his claims, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe an ongoing investigation. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee tweeted late Tuesday that the “whistleblower completely RECANTED.”
This was news to Hopkins, who forwarded a video of himself looking at the article and quickly correcting the fake story, stating he did not recant:
Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/twitter-facebook-washington-post-propagate-fake-claims-usps-recanting-election-fraud-allegations-no-fact-check-warnings/
Trump Campaign Senior Advisor Steve Cortes: The Statistical Case Against a Joe Biden Election Win
Steve Cortes posted an excellent video on Tuesday analyzing the improbable case against a Joe Biden election win.
Part 1
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Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/trump-campaign-senior-advisor-steve-cortes-statistical-case-joe-biden-election-win/
“Wait Until You See What’s Coming!” – President Trump Fires Warning Shot on Fraudulent Computer Voting Systems
President Trump on Tuesday night fired a warning shot on the fraudulent computer voting systems that coincidentally keep flipping Trump votes to Joe Biden.
“Wait until you see what’s coming!” Trump said.
https://i.imgur.com/8Zi4gdv.png
The Gateway Pundit has covered numerous events in this election which are being referred to as system ‘glitches’ in the media.
Monday night we provided another ‘glitch,’ this time in Wisconsin, which if reversed would eliminate Biden’s reported vote lead in the state.
This all started after a brave county clerk in Antrim, Michigan came forward and said a software glitch caused 6,000 votes to be stolen from President Trump and given to Joe Biden.
A so-called computer ‘glitch’ fix in one of Michigan’s Antrim County has led to 6,000 votes switching from Joe Biden to President Trump. The Head of the Republican Party has asked for an additional 47 counties be recounted after the fix since these 47 counties also use the same Dominion software.
Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/wait-see-coming-president-trump-fires-warning-shot-fraudulent-computer-voting-systems/
Teen Vogue: ‘White Women Have to Answer For Backing Trump Again’
--White women that voted Trump don't have to answer for a damn thing, not to you or anyone. And that goes for any women that voted for Biden. All they want to do is label and vilify anymore. Hit them hard for years and hope it influences.
Teen Vogue has published an article demanding that “White women have to answer for backing the Republican nominee yet again.”
The Communist propaganda rag has become increasingly brazen in recent years, from pushing guides to anal sex for minors, encouraging them to get into sex work, and repeatedly defending, promoting, and hiring Antifa writers.
https://i.imgur.com/fMxdh2b.png
In the tantrum of an article, the writer Kaylen Ralph laments that 55% of white women voted for Trump — representing at least a two-point increase for this demographic since 2016. She said that the number “registered like a block of lead in my gut.”
Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/teen-vogue-white-women-answer-backing-trump/
Democrats' Sore Loser Hypocrisy Is Damaging Democracy
As far as almost all of the mainstream media and the half of the country that voted for Joe Biden is concerned, President Donald Trump and his supporters are sore losers.
The president's refusal to accept the projections of media vote counters that he has lost the election, as well as his claims that the election is being stolen from him, is being put down as more than just poor sportsmanship. He is accused, along with many of the 71 million Americans that voted for him, of spreading "disinformation" about claims of voter fraud about officials in Democratic-run cities and states allegedly wrongly influencing the count and undermining the integrity of the election. They believe Republican reluctance to accept defeat, and their spreading of what Democrats consider conspiracy theories about cheating, is not merely false, but also a threat to democracy.
The Republicans' complaints about the lack of transparency or errors in the counting process in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan deserve to be investigated. The late vote counts may have simply been the product of Democrats being far more likely to vote by mail, while Republicans overwhelmingly preferred to do so in-person. It may not have been fraudulent, but this unusual development not unreasonably struck some on the Right as fishy.
Yet even if Biden won legitimately, does anyone think Democrats wouldn't cry foul if the shoe were on the other foot? Had Biden been leading on election night, but then his supporters were forced to watch in dismay as millions of absentee ballots—which were overwhelmingly cast in favor of their opponent—were belatedly counted and decided the election against them, would Democrats have accepted that without asking questions?
The self-righteous horror at the effrontery of Republicans in pointing out the history of crooked politics in venues like Philadelphia, where the election was slipping out of their hands, or claims that it was racist to point out these facts, were equally unpersuasive.
But even if you think Trump and the Republicans are making a mistake by not gracefully accepting defeat, the hypocrisy of their opponents is staggering. The self-righteous huffing and puffing from CNN anchors about conservatives who won't bend the knee to the apparent outcome and join in the media's celebration of the Biden victory is rich.
Rest - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-sore-loser-hypocrisy-is-damaging-democracy-opinion/ar-BB1aS33T
-Trump is doing what the law allows for, and what those who voted for him want. Hurting democracy? I think some of the fraudulent things I have seen call things into question more so than some legal challenges. :rolleyes:
Trump is handling his election loss like every other setback. It can't work
(CNN)American voters have slammed President Donald Trump with the one thing he has always managed to avoid: a hard-stop of unyielding accountability.
No wonder he struggles to accept it.
Until now, life has taught Trump one overriding lesson. One way or another -- with lawyers and lies, family money and shameless bluster -- he has always found a way to skate past trouble.
When the US Justice Department sued his family business over racial discrimination, Trump counter-sued for defamation and managed to settle the case.
When he wanted more flattering publicity, he exaggerated his wealth and posed as someone else to boast to reporters about his romantic exploits.
When business ventures he launched with inherited money crashed, he found protection in more family cash and bankruptcy laws. For decades he has dodged creditors, stiffed contractors and held tax collectors at bay.
As he turned to politics, Trump wrote checks to resolve fraud allegations by Trump University students and to silence an adult film actress about their relationship. When his $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels became public, he lied about it.
The modern Republican Party, increasingly estranged from facts and reason, became an ideal hothouse for his deceit. Trump built his 2016 constituency on the lie that President Barack Obama was not really American, and on the false promise of a southern border wall financed by Mexico to protect Americans from criminal immigrants.
It was flim-flam -- like his outlandish pledges on economic growth, health care, budget deficits and international "deals" of all kinds. Republican rivals first counted on voters to laugh him off. By the time Florida Sen. Marco Rubio labeled Trump a "con artist" and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz excoriated him as a "pathological liar," it was too late.
Trump's Electoral College lightning strike over Hillary Clinton turned out to be his high-water mark. From the first day of his presidency -- when Trump sent then-press secretary Sean Spicer to make preposterous claims about his inauguration crowd -- most Americans have told pollsters they consider him dishonest.
He is the only president in the polling era never to receive the approval of even half the American public. The first chance voters got to issue a verdict on his presidency, in the 2018 midterm elections, they handed control of the House to his Democratic adversaries.
Trump's stranglehold on the nation's Republican minority has provided safe harbor so long as Republicans are all he needs. That's how he passed the 2017 tax cut, his only major legislative achievement.
That's how, helped by a pliant attorney general, he shunted aside Robert Mueller's evidence of obstruction of justice and conclusion that Trump welcomed Russia's illegal assistance in 2016. That's how he survived a Senate impeachment trial in which Republicans acknowledged he had pressured Ukraine to smear eventual 2020 opponent Joe Biden.
His niece Mary Trump, a psychologist, says her uncle's lifelong protection from consequences has represented a form of "institutionalization" leaving him with the emotional maturity of a child. "And so far," her book concluded, "he's gotten away with everything."
Last week's general election was different.
Trump's jury was not limited to fellow Republicans. It was the broader electorate of 150 million Americans, neither scared of nor dependent upon him.
To the contrary, tens of millions considered him a threat to be ousted from the White House. The long, painstaking tally -- of mail-in ballots he sought to impede, of in-person votes he tried to discourage -- showed a clear majority did just that, nationally and in more than enough battleground states.
For Trump, the outcome brings personal embarrassment, and more. Leaving office removes his sitting-president's shield from prosecution as authorities in New York bear down.
Trump has reacted by denying reality and faulting the election itself. He dismisses votes against him as illegal, repeating the fables of Republicans who either share his delusions or pretend to, out of fear or ambition or profit-seeking. Rubio and Cruz, who long ago acquiesced to his intraparty clout, have fallen in line behind a legal fight without significant evidentiary support.
It recalls Trump's brazen response to adversity when he couldn't repay $40 million in real estate debts during the 2008 financial crisis. He sued his bankers for $3 billion, claiming they caused his problems by themselves triggering the crisis.
Rest - https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/10/politics/trump-election-loss-setback/index.html
The Real Threat of Trump’s Ridiculous Coup Attempt
-- Oh, now taking things to court legitimately is a "coup"? It started with racism, then bigotry to xenophobia to deplorables for all of us & finalizes with being a coup. The MSM press is literally useless. Which is why I literally don't tune into the news on TV anymore, not for a second. And even online, I will visit endless sites on both sides and decide for myself. But even most news sites online are useless.
With news that Mitch McConnell has decided to embrace Donald Trump’s use of patently frivolous litigation to deny the results of the 2020 election, and that Attorney General William Barr has authorized the Justice Department to lend a hand by issuing a bizarre memo giving federal prosecutors approval to pursue “vote tabulation irregularities”—violating the Justice Department’s own long-standing practice of waiting until states certify their election results—we find ourselves trapped inside the same Möbius strip that has confounded us since 2016. On the one hand, this is all just a tantrum, a giant roll-around-on-the-floor-in-the-Pop-Tarts-aisle baby-fit by the world’s oldest living captive of Piaget’s first stage of cognitive development. And at the same time, when that tantrum involves the firing of the secretary of defense (via Twitter), threats of future firings that expose the national security apparatus to genuine instability and risk, and concerted and purposeful GOP attacks on the legitimacy of voting and the very concept of respecting election results, it is hard to dismiss it as mere empty theater. After a weekend of thinking we might be free of this, it turns out that the feeling that we’re teetering on an existential brink is not yet gone.
So here we go again. It’s either a creeping authoritarian coup, or just a really annoying sequel to a horror movie that seems never to end. We’re either experiencing something really profoundly worrisome, or this is just the coddling of a narcissist who just needs a cozy offramp. My own impulse, as it has been for the past four years, is to contend that both can be true at once. Like Will Bunch, I find myself in the camp of yes/and fretters, who can rationally acknowledge that Mitch McConnell is riling up the base for a runoff in Georgia, and that Trump himself is engaged in little more than grifting the night away, and also that watching the putative machinery of democracy turned again toward the horrific spectacle of delegitimizing democracy itself is pretty freaking chilling.
It’s true and has always been true that Trump and his whims and moods and ego are a distraction. But one thing it’s always distracted us from is the irreparable damage he has done to norms. Some of those norms—your adult kids and business do not profit off the office of the presidency; you don’t use the White House to stage campaign events—are Trump-specific, and they will either end with him or could be legislatively corrected in time. But some of those norms have nothing to do with this president’s cravenness, his tantrums, and his disregard for the rule of law. Norms around what U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can lawfully do, what the Justice Department can now attempt, and how truth can be distorted and upended—those are not just Trump norms. They are power norms, and the reason the past few days have felt so menacing is that the power norm now being fanatically embraced by Mitch McConnell, two sitting senators from Georgia, and several prestigious law firms, is that Republicans can maintain minority rule by getting a court to agree to throwing out legally cast ballots. Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham have said as much out loud: Republicans cannot win if every vote is to be tabulated. They know that, and they are trying to win anyway. And all this is despite the cumulative advantages conferred upon the GOP by partisan gerrymandering, redistricting, the Electoral College, and the structure of the Senate. So the notion that the GOP, alongside Donald Trump, has now either tacitly or expressly adopted the position that they get to decide who wins despite what the votes say is ghastly, whether they are doing so for their own transactional reasons or not.
We tend to get bogged down in abstract norms. This is the first time we have witnessed a refusal to peacefully accede to a transition. This is the first time the losing party has quite deliberately fomented mistrust of elections officials and elections themselves. These are certainly norms that are being shattered, though they are obscured and made comedic by the wild-haired Lear figure begging only to be loved. But more importantly, this is a piece of signaling from the party, which has come to believe that Democrats can never legitimately hold power, that they really mean it, and oh, they will gladly use the collected apparatus of the courts, Big Law, social media, state legislatures, the Justice Department (with the notable exception of those who will not tolerate it), the media (with the notable exception of most reliable news organizations and some parts of Fox News), assorted Trump hacks, the Republican National Committee, and Senate Republicans (with the notable exceptions of Ben Sasse and Mitt Romney) to make farcical claims about the need to throw out “tens of thousands of illegal ballots,” which, as best as I can tell, are only “illegal” because they have been cast by Democrats.
Consider, too, the nature of many of the election challenges that have been filed thus far. A good many rest in claims that pervasive cheating and fraud are everywhere—the whole system is rigged—and Republicans needed more access to ferret it out, by way of closer election monitors or more records. Those aren’t actual harms; they are paranoid delusions. Yet in the span of a week, this kind of allegation has poisoned significant quadrants of the population against the election results. No evidence is needed, under this theory. The mere conviction that it probably happened is sufficient.
Those of us who live most comfortably on the cheerful side of the Möbius strip are assured that this is just some pathetic Hail Mary–ing, a little humoring of the sad strongman that will be shut down once the courts come face to face with the reality that these cases are laughable and their evidence is nonexistent, as the courts that have seen these cases have consistently done. But for those of us who contend that the abiding harm here isn’t to Donald Trump, his campaign, or his fortunes, but rather to the country, its integrity, and the continued functioning of its institutions, the concern here isn’t merely that Trump is cleaning house at vital agencies or installing loyalists or sullenly blockading an orderly transition. This flirtation with nihilism and anti-democratic themes, as Aaron Blake argues, “would seem to be pretty high on the things you should approach with extreme caution.” These claims—that some votes are “legal” and some are “illegal” (just as some people are legal and some are illegal)—are quickly metastasized not just into the public discourse or the internet memes, but into actual modes of governance. The Republican Party is counting on that metastasis not just as a means of goosing a Georgia Senate runoff, but as another prong in a long-standing project to entrench GOP rule, regardless of electoral outcomes. That the DOJ, the General Services Administration, and other institutions are already on board with that endeavor isn’t quite nothing.
Rest - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-real-threat-of-trumps-ridiculous-coup-attempt/ar-BB1aThKm
A shit ton of things out there but I saw a ton also debunked or proven wrong. Some things proven fraud/wrong and reversed by courts. Many cheaters will be found, but thus far larger stories aren't panning out.
I think some will pan out and others won't - leaving Biden as the winner and election integrity called into question and too many folks will claim the election was stolen. Personally I don't think it's been stolen, not from what I have seen. But again, even though not enough to have claim it's stolen, more than enough to call for many changes and the integrity has taken a setback.
Biden is up by 4,948,822 votes. Pretty damn big popular vote lead. GA, NV, PA & AZ are decided by 111,216 votes. 2 completely different elections when looking at it that way. Could you imagine if Trump had won the electorate and lost the popular again but this time by 5 million? Then the other side would be blamed for cheating, suddenly widespread voter fraud would exist & things would be in the courts and the MSM and hollywood elites would be screaming about how our democracy allows for such challenges and we are fascist fucks. :laugh: But not to be.
At least I'll get a minimum of 4 years of watching them all cry about obstruction from the right. And for 4 years all of the gaffes, stupidity & alzheimers moments will all be Trump's fault. :rolleyes:
-- What I really and honestly want to see post-election is the difference between the left and the right & how all of the Biden scandals are appropriately investigated & how the MSM handles it all & most importantly, how aggressive the republicans are in getting to the truth, and also how much they will be obstructed. But the truth needs to be found out and no more hiding crap. If I'm wrong, so be it, but many want answers.
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Tucker Carlson: ‘Defund the Police’ Was a Disaster for Democrats
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson outlined how the so-called “Defund the Police” moniker was a “disaster” for Democrats in last week’s election.
-- defund BS and riots and covering for them and refusal of help and socialism galore - all hurt them, and I pray they continue as some want, and it will only hurt their efforts again.
He noted that Democrats had abandoned the slogan out of politics and not necessarily out of it representing bad policy.
Transcript as follows:
What you’re watching right now is not simply a battle between two political parties, or even two opposing worldviews, it is deeper than that. And if you want to understand what’s really going on, we’re going to isolate just one slogan that kind of decodes it all. The slogan is, “Defund the police.”
Defund the police. You probably haven’t heard that for a while. In the weeks before the election, no elected Democrat would say those words in public. So effectively, it has disappeared.
Yet, in a lot of ways, “defund the police” defined this year in American politics. For months, it was the central demand of the American left. It was the main thing they wanted. And there was never any question about what defunding the police would mean. Really, it was a remarkably straightforward slogan.
Defund the police meant, defund the police: cut off their salaries, get rid of them. But why? What was the point of getting rid of the police? Of defunding them? That’s the real question. It’s baffling, really.
In conventional politics, the goal is always to improve the lives of your voters, give people something they want, and in return, they will vote for you. That’s the exchange.
But who exactly wanted to defund the police? Was there a constituency for that? Whose life was going to be improved by abolishing law enforcement? Was there evidence that anyone’s would be improved? No, there wasn’t.
No academic study or white paper from some think tank in Washington even suggested that defunding the police would help anyone. In fact, dozens of studies over decades proved exactly the opposite. It would make things much worse, and that makes sense. How would dangerous neighborhoods become safer once there was no one around to stop crime and violence?
Well, obviously, they wouldn’t become safer. That’s ridiculous.
If you thought about it for 15 seconds, you would know that defunding the police inevitably would wind up killing people. That’s not an exaggeration. Literally, Americans would die if you defunded the police. They knew that, but they did in any way.
We’ve never seen anything like that happen here. We have had a lot of bad ideas in America over the years, but most of them hurt people by accident. In the late 1950s, doctors prescribed for example, thalidomide to pregnant women because they sincerely thought it would help. When the drug turned out to cause horrifying birth defects, they were shocked and contrite.
The well-meaning liberals who designed our welfare system never dreamed it would destroy the black family and make poverty worse. That was an unintended consequence of a good intention. That is not what is happening here.
The left called for defunding the police knowing full well what would happen next — chaos. Chaos was the whole point of it. More rape, more robbery, more murder. Those weren’t unfortunate byproducts of a noble idea. Those were the intended consequences.
Think about that for a minute. The people behind defunding the police tried to destroy society itself. That’s not politics. Tearing down civilization isn’t a political position. It’s something much, much darker than that. It’s a kind of spiritual battle.
That sounds like overstatement, but it’s not. We should understand the stakes here.
For a long time though, we didn’t understand them. In fact, when the Defund the Police Movement started this summer, few knew what was going on, as was so many faddish hysterias that sweep our culture, most people just went along with it. They were afraid not to. Everyone else was.
So when BLM vandals painted “Defund the Police” on a major thoroughfare in Washington right near the White House, the incompetents who run that city let it stand for months. They were proud of it. They said so.
Gadflies like Sandy Cortez from Westchester went on television to explain that defunding the police was cool. It’s what all the kids were doing. It’s the future, and therefore better.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY): It’s funny because when people ask me what does the world where we defund the police, where you know, defunding police looks like, I tell them it looks like a suburb.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: Defunding the police looks like a suburb just like the one Sandy Cortez grew up in, with lush lawns and pool parties and hip moms and Range Rovers and the pickup line. Fun.
But the reality of defunding the police was very different. America’s cities did not become suburbs, thanks to Sandy Cortez’s idea. As summer continued, here’s what they looked like.
[VIDEO CLIP PLAYS]
CARLSON: No, that’s not Sandy Cortez’s sleepy hometown, that’s the reality of defunding the police. Our cities burn.
The elderly were beaten and killed by thugs. Crimes skyrocketed in every metro area in the country. Things fell apart as they were always going to.
No normal person in either party could support this. So, the architects of Defund the Police did what they could to silence all discussion of the topic. Don’t talk about it.
Here is Lisa Bender, the President of the Minneapolis City Council explaining that Americans who were uncomfortable with their homes being broken into in a world without police must be — and of course, you can guess the punch line here — racist. Watch.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Do you understand that the word “dismantle” or “police free” also makes some people nervous. For instance, what if in the middle of the night, my home is broken into. Who do I call?
LISA BENDER, PRESIDENT, MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL: Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors. And I know — and myself too — and I know that that comes from a place of privilege, because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality, where calling the police may mean more harm is done.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: So calling the police is an act of bigotry. Self-defense is immoral. That was Lisa Bender’s position. Again, that’s not a political position. That’s a religion.
But increasingly, that was the posture of the entire Democratic Party, and you know what happened next, inevitably. By August, shootings in New York City had increased by more than 80 percent over the year before — 80 percent. There is no precedent for that because it has never happened.
Defunding the police was killing Americans in huge numbers. And yet, remarkably, the very people who claimed so loudly to care about gun violence decided not to notice what was happening. They never mentioned it.
By September, when virtually every person who could afford it had fled the cities in fear of disorder and chaos, Kamala Harris was still repeating the same BLM approved talking points, still attacking the police. Here she is in a tape, she certainly wishes didn’t exist.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
KAMALA HARRIS (D): Black Lives Matter has been the most significant agent for change within the Criminal Justice System, because it has been a counterforce to the force within the system that is so grounded in status quo and in its own traditions, many of which have been harmful and have been discriminatory in the way that they have been enforced.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: If Republicans had been smart, that would have been a political ad last month, “Black Lives Matter has been the most significant agent for change within the Criminal Justice System.” What does that mean?
Well, Black Lives Matter had only one demand of the justice system and they shouted it over and over again into bullhorns in our streets, “Defund the police. Defund the police.” That was their demand. They said so, they didn’t hide it.
So in many places, the authorities did just that and you know what happened next. In Minneapolis, which was the first city in America to embrace this lunacy, more than a hundred cops are now leaving the force. Crime has become so bad in Minneapolis that the very politicians who once demanded that we defund the police are now begging for more police. That’s happening tonight.
City officials are now considering bringing in officers from other jurisdictions to restore order and keep citizens from being killed. Violent crime there is up 22 percent over last year. How did that happen? You know how it happened and voters do, too.
Thankfully, this has been a disaster for the Democratic Party, not profound enough, but still, no one is for it. Who is for defunding the police? Well pretty much no one, it turns out.
Crime and chaos scare the hell out of homeowners, taxpayers, job holders, anyone with children or pets or cars or furniture or any expectation of life beyond this afternoon. Defunding the police is nihilism and everyone knows that.
Polls show that Hispanic voters really hate the idea, and it’s one of the main reasons so many voted Republican last week. You wouldn’t have to be a desperately unhappy Gender Studies Major with a degree from Duke to think defunding the police was a wise idea. And it turns out, that’s the entire constituency for it. Unmarried, unhappy, Gender Studies Majors from Duke.
That’s not enough people to win an election and some of the smarter Democratic leaders are starting to figure that out.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REP. JAMES CLYBURN (D-SC): Jaime Harrison started to plateau when Defund the Police showed up with a caption on TV, ran across his head. That stuff hurt Jaime. And that’s why I spoke out against it a long time ago.
I’ve always said that these headlines can kill a political effort.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: Jim Clyburn, and ladies and gentlemen, telling it like it is. Defunding the police is a bad idea because it can, quote, “kill a political effort.” Oh, not a bad idea because it kills human beings, thousands of the poorest people in our society, which it measurably does, no one disputes that.
No, it’s a bad idea because it can kill a political objective and that’s the language the Democratic Party and its leaders can understand. So it’s unlikely we will be hearing a lot more about defunding the police. In fact, no one will ever again use that slogan.
At some point, it will be like it never happened. What was that? Something out of history. But it did happen, and it had massive consequences for all of us. You should remember it.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/11/11/tucker-carlson-defund-the-police-was-a-disaster-for-democrats/
Rep. Tlaib Says She ‘Won’t Be Silent’ After Clash With Centrist Democrats, As Progressives Circulate Memo Calling Them All ‘Racist’
Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib criticized centrists for their apprehension toward supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and defunding the police after it appeared voters were not receptive to these messages, Politico reported.
After House Democrats lost several House seats, moderates blamed their liberal colleagues during a private conference call for touting far-left views that made it easy for Republicans to portray them all as radical leftists. Tlaib clashed with her colleagues, accusing them of only being interested in appealing to White people in the suburbs, according to the Washington Post. Tlaib said she refuses to be silent about her views, even if they may alienate voters.
John Kasich: “The Democrats have to make it clear to the far left that they almost cost him this election.” pic.twitter.com/gp4CqBf5Mz
— The Hill (@thehill) November 8, 2020
Progressive groups also accused centrists of playing into Republicans’ “divide-and-conquer racism” in a post-election memo, according to Politico, and commended Tlaib for her outreach to communities of color.
“Despite an obvious preference by Democratic leadership to focus on the suburbs and former Republican voters rather than working-class communities of color, progressives like Stacey Abrams, Rep. Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib are showing us – through turnout results in their states and cities – where Democrats must invest to build the party,” the memo says.
“We’re not going to be successful if we’re silencing districts like mine,” Tlaib said, according to Politico. “Me not being able to speak on behalf of many of my neighbors right now, many of which are black neighbors, means me being silenced. I can’t be silent.”
“We are not interested in unity that asks people to sacrifice their freedom and their rights any longer,” Tlaib continued. “And if we truly want to unify our country, we have to really respect every single voice. We say that so willingly when we talk about Trump supporters, but we don’t say that willingly for my Black and brown neighbors and from LGBTQ neighbors or marginalized people.”
Rest - https://dailycaller.com/2020/11/11/rashida-tlaib-democrats-silenced-house-defund-the-police/
MICHIGAN WITNESS: Detroit Tabulation Machines were Illegally Connected to the Web
Witness Barry Doherty has come forward to describe illegal internet connectivity of Detroit’s voter tabulation machines. Doherty has explained that this could have given outside parties the ability to affect the final tabulation count, and could also have given people outside real-time read on what the vote tabulations were.
Doherty is an expert in the field, having worked for Electronic Data Systems for many years, working specifically in computer networking. News of this scandal originally broke at the Epoch Times.
This could have let anyone looking to bring in illegal ballots later that night a very precise number of how many votes would be necessary to flip the final vote count. When polls closed at 8:00PM in Michigan on election night, President Trump was 300,000 votes ahead of Joe Biden, by the time Wayne County/Detroit finished reporting their vote tabulations the next day, the vote count flipped to Biden.
Others have independently come forward to describe 50-61 boxes of illegal ballots that arrived at around 3:30am after the 8:00pm deadline to receive legal ballots. The margin of victory for Joe Biden winning Michigan and its 16 electoral votes was found in Wayne County, and this facility was connected to the internet giving unknown third parties access to those tabulation machines in real time.
Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/michigan-witness-detroit-tabulation-machines-illegally-connected-web-video/
Pennsylvania Received 10,000 Contested Mail-In Ballots After Election Day
Pennsylvania election officials have announced that they received 10,000 mail-in ballots after election day, during the three day grace period that is currently being contested in court.
Republicans are currently challenging the validity of ballots that were not received by the end of election day, which are set to be counted due to a deadline extension granted by the state’s Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf.
The state’s Supreme Court approved the extension, prompting the matter to be brought to the US Supreme Court.
The Epoch Times reports that “Besides revealing the number of ballots received after Nov. 3, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar also said that Pennsylvania’s election officials received 94,000 provisional ballots, and that around 49,000 mail ballots that arrived before polls closed on Election Day remain to be tallied.”
Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/pennsylvania-received-10000-contested-mail-ballots-election-day/
Sidney Powell: “There is tons of evidence that Hundreds of Thousands of ballots are going to have to be discarded”
Attorney for General Flynn, Sidney Powell, joined Maria Bartiromo this morning to discuss the ongoing investigations into this year’s election.
Sidney Powell: It’s just stunning Maria and then we have statistical evidence that we haven’t even brought out yet. My next venture is to explain the statistical anomalies to show it was statistically impossible for this election to come out the way it did. It’s just mathematically impossible for all the people who love science the math is dispostive.
Maria Bartiromo: Sidney, so you want to tell me more about that right now, or…
Sidney Powell: Well it’s a little bit complicated to explain but we have evidence of the same number of ballots or same number of votes being injected into the Wisconsin system and into the Michigan system three different times. I think there were two different injections of exactly the same numbers in Michigan and then in Milwaukee it happened three times… Needless to say time is of the absolute essence… On top of that we have several states where they did not follow the law established by their legislature. That’s a whole separate issue… We have four states who have deviated significantly from what the legislature told them to do… pallets of ballots coming in the back door. There is tons of evidence that hundreds of thousands of ballots are going to have to be discarded and they’re all for Biden…
Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/sidney-powell-tons-evidence-hundreds-thousands-ballots-going-discarded-video/
Media FINALLY Calls Alaska for Trump… Eight Days After the Election
The mainstream media has finally got around to calling Alaska for President Donald Trump, eight days after the election.
Alaska is one of the most reliably red states in the nation, but unlike states that favored Joe Biden, the media slow rolled projecting the winner.
President Trump, so far, has 56.9% of the vote (148,624) — while Biden only has 39.1% (102,080).
Alaska has three electoral votes.
Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-media-finally-calls-alaska-trump-eight-days-election/
Twitter, Facebook, Washington Post Propagate Fake Claims Of USPS Recanting Election Fraud Allegations; No “FACT CHECK” Warnings
Proving there is no low they won’t stoop to, the Washington Post published a fake story claiming that USPS whistleblower Richard Hopkins fabricated his statements about the voter fraud that he witnessed. Writers Shawn Boburg and Jacob Bogage were quickly debunked by Hopkins himself.
From the article:
A Pennsylvania postal worker whose claims have been cited by top Republicans as potential evidence of widespread voting irregularities admitted to U.S. Postal Service investigators that he fabricated the allegations, according to three officials briefed on the investigation and a statement from a House congressional committee.
Richard Hopkins’s claim that a postmaster in Erie, Pa., instructed postal workers to backdate ballots mailed after Election Day was cited by Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) in a letter to the Justice Department calling for a federal investigation. Attorney General William P. Barr subsequently authorized federal prosecutors to open probes into credible allegations of voting irregularities and fraud before results are certified, a reversal of long-standing Justice Department policy.
But on Monday, Hopkins, 32, told investigators from the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General that the allegations were not true, and he signed an affidavit recanting his claims, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe an ongoing investigation. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee tweeted late Tuesday that the “whistleblower completely RECANTED.”
This was news to Hopkins, who forwarded a video of himself looking at the article and quickly correcting the fake story, stating he did not recant:
Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/twitter-facebook-washington-post-propagate-fake-claims-usps-recanting-election-fraud-allegations-no-fact-check-warnings/
Trump Campaign Senior Advisor Steve Cortes: The Statistical Case Against a Joe Biden Election Win
Steve Cortes posted an excellent video on Tuesday analyzing the improbable case against a Joe Biden election win.
Part 1
https://i.imgur.com/qbXRrY2.png
Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/trump-campaign-senior-advisor-steve-cortes-statistical-case-joe-biden-election-win/
“Wait Until You See What’s Coming!” – President Trump Fires Warning Shot on Fraudulent Computer Voting Systems
President Trump on Tuesday night fired a warning shot on the fraudulent computer voting systems that coincidentally keep flipping Trump votes to Joe Biden.
“Wait until you see what’s coming!” Trump said.
https://i.imgur.com/8Zi4gdv.png
The Gateway Pundit has covered numerous events in this election which are being referred to as system ‘glitches’ in the media.
Monday night we provided another ‘glitch,’ this time in Wisconsin, which if reversed would eliminate Biden’s reported vote lead in the state.
This all started after a brave county clerk in Antrim, Michigan came forward and said a software glitch caused 6,000 votes to be stolen from President Trump and given to Joe Biden.
A so-called computer ‘glitch’ fix in one of Michigan’s Antrim County has led to 6,000 votes switching from Joe Biden to President Trump. The Head of the Republican Party has asked for an additional 47 counties be recounted after the fix since these 47 counties also use the same Dominion software.
Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/wait-see-coming-president-trump-fires-warning-shot-fraudulent-computer-voting-systems/
Teen Vogue: ‘White Women Have to Answer For Backing Trump Again’
--White women that voted Trump don't have to answer for a damn thing, not to you or anyone. And that goes for any women that voted for Biden. All they want to do is label and vilify anymore. Hit them hard for years and hope it influences.
Teen Vogue has published an article demanding that “White women have to answer for backing the Republican nominee yet again.”
The Communist propaganda rag has become increasingly brazen in recent years, from pushing guides to anal sex for minors, encouraging them to get into sex work, and repeatedly defending, promoting, and hiring Antifa writers.
https://i.imgur.com/fMxdh2b.png
In the tantrum of an article, the writer Kaylen Ralph laments that 55% of white women voted for Trump — representing at least a two-point increase for this demographic since 2016. She said that the number “registered like a block of lead in my gut.”
Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/teen-vogue-white-women-answer-backing-trump/
Democrats' Sore Loser Hypocrisy Is Damaging Democracy
As far as almost all of the mainstream media and the half of the country that voted for Joe Biden is concerned, President Donald Trump and his supporters are sore losers.
The president's refusal to accept the projections of media vote counters that he has lost the election, as well as his claims that the election is being stolen from him, is being put down as more than just poor sportsmanship. He is accused, along with many of the 71 million Americans that voted for him, of spreading "disinformation" about claims of voter fraud about officials in Democratic-run cities and states allegedly wrongly influencing the count and undermining the integrity of the election. They believe Republican reluctance to accept defeat, and their spreading of what Democrats consider conspiracy theories about cheating, is not merely false, but also a threat to democracy.
The Republicans' complaints about the lack of transparency or errors in the counting process in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan deserve to be investigated. The late vote counts may have simply been the product of Democrats being far more likely to vote by mail, while Republicans overwhelmingly preferred to do so in-person. It may not have been fraudulent, but this unusual development not unreasonably struck some on the Right as fishy.
Yet even if Biden won legitimately, does anyone think Democrats wouldn't cry foul if the shoe were on the other foot? Had Biden been leading on election night, but then his supporters were forced to watch in dismay as millions of absentee ballots—which were overwhelmingly cast in favor of their opponent—were belatedly counted and decided the election against them, would Democrats have accepted that without asking questions?
The self-righteous horror at the effrontery of Republicans in pointing out the history of crooked politics in venues like Philadelphia, where the election was slipping out of their hands, or claims that it was racist to point out these facts, were equally unpersuasive.
But even if you think Trump and the Republicans are making a mistake by not gracefully accepting defeat, the hypocrisy of their opponents is staggering. The self-righteous huffing and puffing from CNN anchors about conservatives who won't bend the knee to the apparent outcome and join in the media's celebration of the Biden victory is rich.
Rest - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-sore-loser-hypocrisy-is-damaging-democracy-opinion/ar-BB1aS33T
-Trump is doing what the law allows for, and what those who voted for him want. Hurting democracy? I think some of the fraudulent things I have seen call things into question more so than some legal challenges. :rolleyes:
Trump is handling his election loss like every other setback. It can't work
(CNN)American voters have slammed President Donald Trump with the one thing he has always managed to avoid: a hard-stop of unyielding accountability.
No wonder he struggles to accept it.
Until now, life has taught Trump one overriding lesson. One way or another -- with lawyers and lies, family money and shameless bluster -- he has always found a way to skate past trouble.
When the US Justice Department sued his family business over racial discrimination, Trump counter-sued for defamation and managed to settle the case.
When he wanted more flattering publicity, he exaggerated his wealth and posed as someone else to boast to reporters about his romantic exploits.
When business ventures he launched with inherited money crashed, he found protection in more family cash and bankruptcy laws. For decades he has dodged creditors, stiffed contractors and held tax collectors at bay.
As he turned to politics, Trump wrote checks to resolve fraud allegations by Trump University students and to silence an adult film actress about their relationship. When his $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels became public, he lied about it.
The modern Republican Party, increasingly estranged from facts and reason, became an ideal hothouse for his deceit. Trump built his 2016 constituency on the lie that President Barack Obama was not really American, and on the false promise of a southern border wall financed by Mexico to protect Americans from criminal immigrants.
It was flim-flam -- like his outlandish pledges on economic growth, health care, budget deficits and international "deals" of all kinds. Republican rivals first counted on voters to laugh him off. By the time Florida Sen. Marco Rubio labeled Trump a "con artist" and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz excoriated him as a "pathological liar," it was too late.
Trump's Electoral College lightning strike over Hillary Clinton turned out to be his high-water mark. From the first day of his presidency -- when Trump sent then-press secretary Sean Spicer to make preposterous claims about his inauguration crowd -- most Americans have told pollsters they consider him dishonest.
He is the only president in the polling era never to receive the approval of even half the American public. The first chance voters got to issue a verdict on his presidency, in the 2018 midterm elections, they handed control of the House to his Democratic adversaries.
Trump's stranglehold on the nation's Republican minority has provided safe harbor so long as Republicans are all he needs. That's how he passed the 2017 tax cut, his only major legislative achievement.
That's how, helped by a pliant attorney general, he shunted aside Robert Mueller's evidence of obstruction of justice and conclusion that Trump welcomed Russia's illegal assistance in 2016. That's how he survived a Senate impeachment trial in which Republicans acknowledged he had pressured Ukraine to smear eventual 2020 opponent Joe Biden.
His niece Mary Trump, a psychologist, says her uncle's lifelong protection from consequences has represented a form of "institutionalization" leaving him with the emotional maturity of a child. "And so far," her book concluded, "he's gotten away with everything."
Last week's general election was different.
Trump's jury was not limited to fellow Republicans. It was the broader electorate of 150 million Americans, neither scared of nor dependent upon him.
To the contrary, tens of millions considered him a threat to be ousted from the White House. The long, painstaking tally -- of mail-in ballots he sought to impede, of in-person votes he tried to discourage -- showed a clear majority did just that, nationally and in more than enough battleground states.
For Trump, the outcome brings personal embarrassment, and more. Leaving office removes his sitting-president's shield from prosecution as authorities in New York bear down.
Trump has reacted by denying reality and faulting the election itself. He dismisses votes against him as illegal, repeating the fables of Republicans who either share his delusions or pretend to, out of fear or ambition or profit-seeking. Rubio and Cruz, who long ago acquiesced to his intraparty clout, have fallen in line behind a legal fight without significant evidentiary support.
It recalls Trump's brazen response to adversity when he couldn't repay $40 million in real estate debts during the 2008 financial crisis. He sued his bankers for $3 billion, claiming they caused his problems by themselves triggering the crisis.
Rest - https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/10/politics/trump-election-loss-setback/index.html
The Real Threat of Trump’s Ridiculous Coup Attempt
-- Oh, now taking things to court legitimately is a "coup"? It started with racism, then bigotry to xenophobia to deplorables for all of us & finalizes with being a coup. The MSM press is literally useless. Which is why I literally don't tune into the news on TV anymore, not for a second. And even online, I will visit endless sites on both sides and decide for myself. But even most news sites online are useless.
With news that Mitch McConnell has decided to embrace Donald Trump’s use of patently frivolous litigation to deny the results of the 2020 election, and that Attorney General William Barr has authorized the Justice Department to lend a hand by issuing a bizarre memo giving federal prosecutors approval to pursue “vote tabulation irregularities”—violating the Justice Department’s own long-standing practice of waiting until states certify their election results—we find ourselves trapped inside the same Möbius strip that has confounded us since 2016. On the one hand, this is all just a tantrum, a giant roll-around-on-the-floor-in-the-Pop-Tarts-aisle baby-fit by the world’s oldest living captive of Piaget’s first stage of cognitive development. And at the same time, when that tantrum involves the firing of the secretary of defense (via Twitter), threats of future firings that expose the national security apparatus to genuine instability and risk, and concerted and purposeful GOP attacks on the legitimacy of voting and the very concept of respecting election results, it is hard to dismiss it as mere empty theater. After a weekend of thinking we might be free of this, it turns out that the feeling that we’re teetering on an existential brink is not yet gone.
So here we go again. It’s either a creeping authoritarian coup, or just a really annoying sequel to a horror movie that seems never to end. We’re either experiencing something really profoundly worrisome, or this is just the coddling of a narcissist who just needs a cozy offramp. My own impulse, as it has been for the past four years, is to contend that both can be true at once. Like Will Bunch, I find myself in the camp of yes/and fretters, who can rationally acknowledge that Mitch McConnell is riling up the base for a runoff in Georgia, and that Trump himself is engaged in little more than grifting the night away, and also that watching the putative machinery of democracy turned again toward the horrific spectacle of delegitimizing democracy itself is pretty freaking chilling.
It’s true and has always been true that Trump and his whims and moods and ego are a distraction. But one thing it’s always distracted us from is the irreparable damage he has done to norms. Some of those norms—your adult kids and business do not profit off the office of the presidency; you don’t use the White House to stage campaign events—are Trump-specific, and they will either end with him or could be legislatively corrected in time. But some of those norms have nothing to do with this president’s cravenness, his tantrums, and his disregard for the rule of law. Norms around what U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can lawfully do, what the Justice Department can now attempt, and how truth can be distorted and upended—those are not just Trump norms. They are power norms, and the reason the past few days have felt so menacing is that the power norm now being fanatically embraced by Mitch McConnell, two sitting senators from Georgia, and several prestigious law firms, is that Republicans can maintain minority rule by getting a court to agree to throwing out legally cast ballots. Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham have said as much out loud: Republicans cannot win if every vote is to be tabulated. They know that, and they are trying to win anyway. And all this is despite the cumulative advantages conferred upon the GOP by partisan gerrymandering, redistricting, the Electoral College, and the structure of the Senate. So the notion that the GOP, alongside Donald Trump, has now either tacitly or expressly adopted the position that they get to decide who wins despite what the votes say is ghastly, whether they are doing so for their own transactional reasons or not.
We tend to get bogged down in abstract norms. This is the first time we have witnessed a refusal to peacefully accede to a transition. This is the first time the losing party has quite deliberately fomented mistrust of elections officials and elections themselves. These are certainly norms that are being shattered, though they are obscured and made comedic by the wild-haired Lear figure begging only to be loved. But more importantly, this is a piece of signaling from the party, which has come to believe that Democrats can never legitimately hold power, that they really mean it, and oh, they will gladly use the collected apparatus of the courts, Big Law, social media, state legislatures, the Justice Department (with the notable exception of those who will not tolerate it), the media (with the notable exception of most reliable news organizations and some parts of Fox News), assorted Trump hacks, the Republican National Committee, and Senate Republicans (with the notable exceptions of Ben Sasse and Mitt Romney) to make farcical claims about the need to throw out “tens of thousands of illegal ballots,” which, as best as I can tell, are only “illegal” because they have been cast by Democrats.
Consider, too, the nature of many of the election challenges that have been filed thus far. A good many rest in claims that pervasive cheating and fraud are everywhere—the whole system is rigged—and Republicans needed more access to ferret it out, by way of closer election monitors or more records. Those aren’t actual harms; they are paranoid delusions. Yet in the span of a week, this kind of allegation has poisoned significant quadrants of the population against the election results. No evidence is needed, under this theory. The mere conviction that it probably happened is sufficient.
Those of us who live most comfortably on the cheerful side of the Möbius strip are assured that this is just some pathetic Hail Mary–ing, a little humoring of the sad strongman that will be shut down once the courts come face to face with the reality that these cases are laughable and their evidence is nonexistent, as the courts that have seen these cases have consistently done. But for those of us who contend that the abiding harm here isn’t to Donald Trump, his campaign, or his fortunes, but rather to the country, its integrity, and the continued functioning of its institutions, the concern here isn’t merely that Trump is cleaning house at vital agencies or installing loyalists or sullenly blockading an orderly transition. This flirtation with nihilism and anti-democratic themes, as Aaron Blake argues, “would seem to be pretty high on the things you should approach with extreme caution.” These claims—that some votes are “legal” and some are “illegal” (just as some people are legal and some are illegal)—are quickly metastasized not just into the public discourse or the internet memes, but into actual modes of governance. The Republican Party is counting on that metastasis not just as a means of goosing a Georgia Senate runoff, but as another prong in a long-standing project to entrench GOP rule, regardless of electoral outcomes. That the DOJ, the General Services Administration, and other institutions are already on board with that endeavor isn’t quite nothing.
Rest - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-real-threat-of-trumps-ridiculous-coup-attempt/ar-BB1aThKm