some democrats...

“If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it,” Scarborough finished. A quick word of advice: if someone is honest, they don’t spend their time insisting to you that they are honest. They don’t need to. Just like truly funny people don’t spend their time insisting that they’re funny, or smart people insisting that they’re smart -- they just are those things and people know it. People insisting they are anything tend not to be those things, hence all the attempted convincing. 

Now, Scarborough is lecturing his dwindling audience about how far out of touch the progressive left has gotten and how that’s why they lost. He’s not wrong; it’s just odd that he never said anything like this before November 5th. But after that, he discovered inflation and the cost of butter. 

He is not an honest man. He is trying to reclaim his credibility and maintain his job if Comcast sells his network. 

The second category is exemplified by Ezra Klein of the New York Times. In a post-election podcast, Klein admitted he knew all along that the issues upon which Republicans were campaigning and conservative media was reporting while the left denounced them both as liars were actually true -- crime is up in blue cities, inflation is real and harming people, etc.

“The sense of disorder rising, right?” Klein said. “Not just crime, but homeless encampments, trash on the street, people jumping turnstiles in subways, crazy people on the streets. You talk to people, and they’re mad about it. They feel it’s different than it used to be.”

Before the election, no media leftist would dare to have said anything of the sort. It was all, “Crime is down,” even though the books had been cooked by not having the statistics from the largest Democrat-controlled cities in the country where the crime problem lives. They knew it, but they insisted otherwise anyway because they wanted to win. 

Illegal aliens committed fewer crimes than we stinking Americans, they insisted, even though the collection of data on the immigration status of criminals was forbidden in blue states, making it impossible to prove. That also made it impossible to disprove, which was the point. “Migrants are a boon to the economy,” they cried while demanding more money from the federal government to help support these bipedal economic stimulus packages that were starting to bankrupt city budgets with their “economic growth.”

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knew they were lying, but the Democratic Party audiences preferred to dine on the empty calories of continued agreement rather than hear the truth. Some believed it, and others simply and desperately wanted to. Reality is not dependent upon your belief in it, nor is it influenced by your dislike of it; it just is.

Democrats are learning this lesson – waking up in bed next to an un-made trainwreck with cigarette breath and 40 more pounds than they noticed while hammered and regretting those last three shots of Jager. Good for them.

The real question isn’t just how far they will go in admitting they lied to their followers; it’s whether or not those followers care long-term that they were lied to. They have to know it. MSNBC has lost half its viewership in the immediate aftermath of the election. Will they come back to realize they’d been lied to for years?

Probably, yes. The “walls were closing in on Trump” the entire four years of his first administration, and they kept returning. Robert Mueller had the goods on Trump and was going to put him away…and they came back. Some people just want to be lied to, need to be lied to. Those are the people for whom reality does no favors. That’s who Democrats are.

There will always be an appetite for the empty calories of choir preaching in media; it’s most of what passes for “news” these days. Today, it was Democrats; two years ago, Republicans stood lonely on a dry beach, wondering what happened to that “red wave.”

Enjoy it now; our victory is huge and important, but get ready to fight for everything many elected officials promised they’d do before we called their bluffs. But also recognize that the people who’d preached to you about what the mob at MSNBC did to their audience were only right by luck. They don’t have any more insights or clairvoyance than the other side; they just happened to guess right now. Beware of anyone who only ever tells you what you like or what you want to hear.

© 11.17.2024 by Derek Hunter, "Townhall".

A Day In The Life.

Asleep at 8p on Thursday, and Up at 1a (!) on Friday, I went thru my finger stick to check my BSL (Blood Sugar Level) and recorded it on my Diabetes 2 chart, made Kona Coffee and Bacon, Egg & Cheese Bread Toast for breakfast, went thru 2 carafes of Kona Coffee, fired-up the Win-7 Pentium HP Desktop to let 32 million lines of code load, had a couple smokes in the garage and checked the AccuWeather and Weather Channel maps. The Winter Storm is coming to this area, FAST. It's been raining since 6:30p, last night, and is still coming down. No snow, yet. 45-50 miles north, it's a whole different story. We're having a Nor'easter!

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★★★ SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ★★★

*** From 07:45pm EST, Nov 21 2024 until 09:30pm EST, Nov 22 2024 ***

• A several hour period of wet snow is likely early Friday as surface low pressure strengthens off the New Jersey Coast and upper level low pressure with cooling temperatures aloft moves east across Pennsylvania.

• Snow accumulations will be light and generally less than one inch. However, with forecast low temperatures between 30 and 34 degrees, some untreated roads and bridges could develop a light coating of slush creating slick travel conditions.

• Plan for the possibility of variable travel conditions and allow a little extra time for travel, especially if your route takes you over some of the ridge tops.

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After some breakfast at 2a, I got ready for the day, took a snack along during the 5-6hr waiting time I'd have in the Jeep until Sis was discharged, and drove to nearby Rutter's Convenience Store to get some coffee for the trip. On the 39 mile trip to Hershey, it rained, I dropped her off at the hospital, and camped out in my Jeep with large coffees from a Cumberland Farms Store, and she was discharged at 11:30a. Since 6:30a, and on the way back to York, it snowed hard at barely 32°, not much was sticking. As we got closer to York, temps dropped into the 30° range and it began to stick on everything; it changed from sleet into serious snow. Very nice. I was glad to finally get back home at 1:15p, and unwind. Long frigging day. 61 years ago today, Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy in Dallas. I remember that day, very well.

By 2p, I watched a near-blizzard unfold -- 30-35mph winds, horizontal snow, counter-clockwise movement -- we had a true Nor'easter going on. With a coating of almost ½" and still falling, I hit the LR couch and slept until almost 7p. After some dinner, I called Sherry to let her know that we'd made the trip safely. By9, I was fading, and bagged it for the night.

Sleeping-in until 8:30a on Saturday, a bright, sunny, cold 38° morning. I made coffee, upped the heat to 75°, and tuned into yesterday's "CP Show Podcast", while scanning the news and weather. After feeding the squirrels -- bluejays have left for southern MD and northern Virginia to Winter-over -- I did a load of laundry, spent a few hours on basement "prep" inventory rotation/ updates, had lunch and a 2hr snooze on the LR couch.

Don't get me wrong; I like Winter, but I hate the all-too-short, daylight hours. If I sleep in later, lounge around in gym shorts and a t-shirt for a few hours after breakfast, savoring Kona Coffee and listening to a Talk Radio program, the day's mostly over... crap. Sometimes I'd like to just hibernate thru the Winter, as many animals do, but then I thought of how much life I'd be missing. Even the short days of life are worth staying awake for. I've lost too many Family, friends, neighbors and acquaintances to miss it all by sleeping thru it. Our time on earth is very, very short to miss the good things.

Here comes Winter. After dinner, I watched the news, then switched to Discovery's "Homestead Rescue" until almost 2a, and unplugged.

Awake and up at 4:30a on Monday, a cold 29° in the 'ZERO DARK THIRTY' mode, like last Friday. Heh. I fired-up the furnace to 75°, made Kona "Farm Hand" Coffee and tuned back into one of YT's Weather Podcasts. The garbage truck came thru at 5:40a, heavy frost on everything, and it looked like a mostly cloudy day ahead. I tuned into the "Chris Stigall Show LIVE" from 6-9a, and then switched to the "Chris Plante Show LIVE" from 9-12p. I left for my usual several errands, at points south of York at 11a.

Traffic was heavy in both directions on the 34 mile trip, with over 80 million Americans traveling on the T-Day Holiday -- the busiest ever, according to news reports. Whatever. Back by 12noon, I had lunch, a 2hr nap, and re-checked the headlines and weather. Heh, the big storm is still headed this way, apparently. The rain started around 7p. I had some dinner, watched the evening news on Fox, and switched to Motor Trend's "Iron Resurrection" until 11:30p. My cleaning lady, JoAnne, is in at 8:30a tomorrow. Lights out.

Awake and up at 5a (!) on Tuesday, another 'ZERO DARK THIRTY' morning -- an hour before the alarm I'd set -- I made coffee, had an Apple Fritter for breakfast, and tuned into the "Chris Stigall Show LIVE". The rain had stopped, and it got very windy, but no complaints: at least it wasn't snow. JoAnne arrived at 8:30 and got to work, while I hit the LR couch, very tired from getting up so early. Waking-up at 11:15a, I made another carafe of Kona Coffee, scanned the news and weather, and left at 1p for nearby Rutters and Weis Market. Weis was a frigging madhouse, crowded and well-stocked. I had a small cart, which was near overflowing, cost $140 and I was slowly getting thru traffic and home by 3.

After unloading, I unpacked and put everything away, MADE A Roast Beef Sandwich w/ Chips for lunch, did a few condo chores and called Sherry. She had a close call driving yesterday, and I wanted to see how she was feeling today. All was well. I had a light dinner, watched the early news, then switched to History's "Curse of Oak Island" until 11:30, and unplugged.

Awake at 6:43a from a car nearby alarm, I checked my and the neighbor's vehicles from the 2nd floor window... all clear. I upped the heat to 75° -- a sunny, clear and cold 29° outside -- made coffee and fired-up the HP desktop, to tune into the "CS Show LIVE". I skipped breakfast, did a few minor condo chores, fed the squirrels, and listened to the "CP Show LIVE" until 12noon, and made a couple of Smoked Scottish Salmon, Cream Cheese, Chives & Dill Sandwiches for lunch.

Not much going on this afternoon -- except for very, very heavy traffic and crowded store -- so I'm glad that I did all my last minute food shopping stuff yesterday, and that I could just lounge around the condo all afternoon, and take a short nap. Heh, what else on a lazy afternoon? Natch. The rain started in the early evening. I started watching History's "American Pickers" in late afternoon, broke for the evening news, and continued with "AP" until 11p. Busy day tomorrow.

Nowhere to go, nothing to do and no one to do it with.

Up at 6a, with the alarm, on Thursday, a ZERO DARK THIRTY, rainy, cold 44°, forecast to get to only 49°, or so. I fired-up the furnace to 75°, made coffee, had a smoke in the cold garage, and tuned into the "BEST OF CS Show", as all talk show will be doing, today and tomorrow. I checked the news headlines and weather forecasts; looks like we mercifully dodged the major snowstorm, which is blasting everyone just 100 miles to the north of us. The cold and bitter cold Winter weather is arriving just behind the rain, and it'll seem more like what Winter is supposed to be like.

I made 2 more Chemex Carafes of Kona Coffee, until Sis arrived at 11:30a. We're visiting Family at Mt Rose Cemetery, and then driving to the Lyndon Diner in West York, for the T-Day lunch. They have seriously good food and service, and we didn't feel like doing prep and cooking, this year. Good company, good foode, barely any traffic, clearing skies, and time for a nap. After Sis left, I checked the news and weather maps, and hit the LR couch at 3p.

After a nice 90min snooze, it was getting dark quickly, I closed the condo, made dinner and watched the news. I switched over to Discovery's "Homestead Rescue" until 10, and called it an early day.

Tomorrow starts a new week here in the "Journal", and it's a clear week ahead, except for some early morning lab/blood work, as I have 14 lab orders in the Wellspan computers. Swell.

Limited Intelligence: CIA & FBI Corruption And Solutions.

Democrats are apoplectic this week at the announcements of nominations for the Trump Cabinet. Many are talking about the “chaos” that Trump brings. While folks on the right are divided about particular nominees thus far, there ought to be a consensus around this point: chaos is good. As strategist Clint Brown wrote earlier this week, the right needs to be very comfortable with hearing about it. “Anytime the uni party uses the word ‘chaos,’ it means something they can’t control. They want control. You want chaos in their world to disrupt their control. Anyone they call ‘chaos’ is good for you.”

Given that definition, the question should never be whether Tulsi Gabbard (Director of National Intelligence), Matt Gaetz (Attorney General), John Ratcliffe (CIA), and others are chaotic, but whether they are chaotic enough. This is particularly true when it comes to these positions in federal law enforcement and intelligence, which have been turned into leftist power centers. They have control. It is this Deep State that Donald Trump has vowed to wage war against.

For those on the frontlines of this battle and those on the home front—members of the Trump Administration and GOP pondering how to fight and ordinary Americans wondering how on earth these once-trusted agencies became what they are—J. Michael Waller’s new book is, by turns, exciting, depressing, angry-making, and hopeful. Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains tells the story of “a battle the FBI and CIA fought for decades before they succumbed to a generations-old hostile foreign intelligence operation to destroy the United States and Western civilization from within.”

A senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy and president of Georgetown Research, a private intelligence company, Waller begins his book with an account of his own introduction into the world of intelligence and counterintelligence when he was a junior at Georgetown. Having a grasp of Spanish and a desire to help expose American networks supporting Communists in Central America, Waller planned a trip on his own with the knowledge of a National Security Agency official named Constantine Menges. Menges connected Waller with an old intelligence hand named “Jim” (he never learned his real name), who gave Waller the wealth of his knowledge of intelligence and cash for his trip. Jim also told Waller to attend a particular Mass at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington and wait for someone to meet him. That mysterious person was CIA Director William J. Casey, who walked back through the center aisle, saw Waller, and uttered a few then-mysterious words Waller later realized were connected to his trip.

Waller’s trip was successful. He never saw “Jim” again. And he was hooked on the world of intelligence, beginning a career of practice and study of how to defend American principles and western civilization. It was only later that he realized that Casey had been the source of the cash from “Jim.” Casey understood that he needed channels of information outside the agency he ran. Waller never joined the CIA because of the advice of Angelo Codevilla, who told him the CIA “isn’t doing its job” and “is about perpetuating itself as a bureaucracy.” It wasn’t “for mission-oriented people like you. Not anymore.”

How had it gotten that way? Waller’s account starts before the creation of either agency. The FBI’s legal basis was a July 26, 1908, memo written by Attorney General Charles Bonaparte concerning a “force of special agents” under the direction of the “Chief Examiner” in the Department of Justice. It wasn’t much. Finally, after World War I, the fledgling FBI began to take its present form under the direction of a patriotic young Washingtonian named J. Edgar Hoover, who had started out in the Alien Enemy Bureau of the Justice Department, fighting against Marxist, particularly Bolshevik, influences. At about the same time, a young lawyer and soldier under General John “Blackjack” Pershing, William J. “Wild Bill” Donovan was also discovering the world of Communist subversion. In 1920, he traveled to Europe again on behalf of J. P. Morgan to research the Comintern, the popular name for the Communist International, an organization founded the year before to promote communism on a world scale.

What they were both discovering was that, despite all the talk about economics in the later Marx, most Marxists were interested in Marx’s 1843 writings, which advocated a “ruthless criticism of the existing order.” As Waller describes it, in Marx’s vision: “The battlespace would be not economic, but cultural. It would be an all-of-society attack.” In short, the original Marxism was already “cultural Marxism,” an attack on private property, but also religion, the family, and national borders.

Waller recounts the Comintern’s 1922 meeting in Moscow at the Marx-Engels Institute, where Politburo member Karl Radek, Hungarian radical Georg Lukács, German Communist Willi Münzenberg, and Cheka (Soviet secret police) commissioner Feliks Dzerzhinsky gathered to plan an attack on the West and achieve what Lukács called “the abolition of culture” in order to counter the deep roots of “Western civilization and its deep Old and New Testament culture passed from one generation to another by family and church or synagogue.” Their strategy involved espionage, front groups, cultural penetration via art and writers, political penetration, and control of education. They decided that the best way to achieve this destruction was not “the more challenging, doctrinaire Communism” but a “nihilism” they pursued through numerous means, including “a Neo-Freudian theory of sexual assault on traditional values.” And their most effective work in this regard came through the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany.

It was through this educational institute that many Americans were indoctrinated in the critical theory that would supply what we now know as wokeness. It was through fellow traveling theologians such as Protestant Paul Tillich that many Americans were to get a sanitized version of Marxism and a poisoned version of Christianity. And it was in education schools, particularly Columbia University Teachers College, that the cultural Marxists were most successful. Columbia’s legendary John Dewey called himself a socialist but was “a willing Comintern fellow traveler.” His vision was of a National Education Association that “would use its unsuspecting dues-paying members as agents of change to push critical theory and cultural Marxism to generations of American schoolchildren….” He got his wish.

Waller judges both J. Edgar Hoover and Wild Bill Donovan as clear-eyed about the challenge. But Hoover had a better grip on how to face it. He would also make sure those under his command had not drunk the cultural Marxist Kool Aid. Donovan, whose time for real leadership came when Franklin Roosevelt tasked him with creating “a new intelligence service,” was much less careful. The Coordinator of Information (COI), an agency begun by Roosevelt under Donavan’s direction, yielded to a second body known as the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Donavan’s approach with both was “seat of the pants,” smart about “the need for a real espionage service with human agents, clandestine communications, and all that went with it,” but also not cautious enough about screening out personnel who were Marxist fellow travelers or even Communists. Frankfurt School immigrants such as Herbert Marcuse worked for the agency. Waller describes the OSS as having a “poisoned start.”

The U. S. itself was poisoned, if one realizes how many Communists had penetrated the U. S. government from the 1930s to the 1950s. Joseph McCarthy’s imprudent behavior often kneecapped his accurate assessments of the real subversion that was happening at very high levels. Hoover proposed putting all intelligence and counterintelligence operations under the control of the FBI. But neither he nor Donovan were to run the show in the long run. A new agency known as the Central Intelligence Agency would take the place of the haphazard OSS.

The CIA in its beginnings was a sane and professional organization. While those in charge were generally liberal, they were also anti-Marxist. Waller describes early figures Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and James Angleton as “honorable men operating in a gray world but with honorable intentions.” If there were flaws initially, they related more to the way in which the organization became bureaucratized. Leaders in the 1970s became enamored of technology and turned away from the importance of human intelligence. At the same time, the subversion of education had meant more and more people influenced by the New Left were entering into the agencies. Eventually, something would have to give.

The FBI got out of hand with its internal spying on American citizens, but it was generally done in the name of American principles. Its hands were slapped in the 1970s by Congress for its misbehavior. But it was the CIA that would become subverted first, under Clinton’s second director, George Tenet. “By 2000,” writes Waller, “intellectual devolution had become so advanced that the CIA had anointed the Frankfurt School’s Herbert Marcuse to the pantheon of OSS Research & scholars…. The CIA sanitized Marcuse as an American hero.” This is the same Marcuse whose notion of “repressive tolerance” became the theoretical basis for political correctness and eventually cancel culture.

The overreaction to 9/11 caused further harm. The Patriot Act helped create the conditions for the victory of unpatriotic and culturally Marxist ideas by merging twenty-two “domestic security entities” into the Department of Homeland Security and creating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which immediately grew to a force of two thousand employees. As Waller notes, “The post-9/11 measure then merged America’s intelligence and military machine with progressive San Francisco capital.” Like the situation of emergency that caused Wild Bill Donovan to staff his OSS with unvetted agents and analysts, the needs of the Global War on Terror allowed the development of “the predatory American Security state,” in which foreigners crossed the border at will but Americans were forced to submit to searches at the airport and let the government monitor their “banking and credit activity for ‘terrorist finance.’” The FBI was again turning its eyes on ordinary Americans and capable of punishing Americans by “investigative and administrative processes without bothering to prepare cases to put suspects on trial.”

The cultural revolution was complete with the subversion of the FBI under Robert Mueller during the Obama years. Obama and his administration, especially Valerie Jarrett, promised “fundamental transformation of America” and delivered. 2011 was the year in which the FBI quietly began to adopt critical theory and its attendants DEI and extreme gender theory. By 2016, these ideologies had bloomed there as well as at the CIA. Waller inspects the very obvious bad fruits of Operation Crossfire Hurricane, the 51 intelligence officials who falsely declared that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation, and the dishonest approach to January 6, 2021—we know there were professional agitators and feds among the rioters but still don’t know how many.

While there are still many honorable men and women who serve in the FBI and CIA, both agencies are now explicit in their tweets, training materials, and official documents about their woke allegiances.

What can be done? In the book’s final section, Waller lays out a plan for getting rid of both the FBI and the CIA without abandoning their important functions. Waller admits that his plans will require both strength of will and organizational savvy. In other words, they will require the right kind of “chaos” from both Donald Trump and his appointees.

© 11.17.2024 by David P. Deavel, "AMAC Newsline".

Here's Trump's Plan to Purge the Pentagon of the Woke Brass.

President-elect Donald J. Trump is sending signals to the military brass. They’re going back to protecting our country, killing our enemies, and enhancing our national security. The era of woke nonsense and sensitivity training is over. The Wall Street Journal first reported on Trump’s plans for the Pentagon, alluding to the “chilling” effect it could have on the officer corps, but the president-elect has a mandate and should use it.

The reported executive order would create a “warrior board” of retired generals and other senior personnel who would review the leadership qualities of the officers in question. There’s no re-election effort lingering overhead either, so don’t be shocked if this executive is issued. It’s time to clean house (via WSJ):

The Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order that establishes a “warrior board” of retired senior military personnel with the power to review three- and four-star officers and to recommend removals of any deemed unfit for leadership.

If Donald Trump approves the order, it could fast-track the removal of generals and admirals found to be “lacking in requisite leadership qualities,” according to a draft of the order reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. But it could also create a chilling effect on top military officers, given the president-elect’s past vow to fire “woke generals,” referring to officers seen as promoting diversity in the ranks at the expense of military readiness.

As commander in chief, Trump can fire any officer at will, but an outside board whose members he appoints would bypass the Pentagon’s regular promotion system, signaling across the military that he intends to purge a number of generals and admirals.

The draft order says it aims to establish a review that focuses “on leadership capability, strategic readiness, and commitment to military excellence.” The draft doesn’t specify what officers need to do or present to show if they meet those standards. The draft order originated with one of several outside policy groups collaborating with the transition team, and is one of numerous executive orders under review by Trump’s team, a transition official said.

The warrior board would be made up of retired generals and noncommissioned officers, who would send their recommendations to the president. Those identified for removal would be retired at their current rank within 30 days.

There’s likely to be a media overreaction, and officers who engaged in this DEI/woke nonsense are likely to retire instead of fighting this board. Whatever the reason, I like the blueprint. Let’s see if the administration follows through.

© 11.12.2024 by Matt Vespa, "Townhall".

The Biggest Political Blunder in American History.

If courts and state legislatures award Joe Biden the presidency, the anti-Trump cabal, driven by a four-year single-minded obsession to defeat President Trump, will have committed the greatest political blunder in American history -- the unabashed and overt theft of the 2020 presidential election.

This myopic and oblivious group so misunderstood the depth and breadth of support for Donald Trump that their blatant manipulation of the election would fall monumentally short of the planned for and anticipated landslide defeat of the incumbent. A landslide they needed in order to dominate the political arena for the foreseeable future and avoid any backlash from the electorate for their duplicity.

Thus, this cabal, which consists of the Democrat party establishment, Tech and Wall Street billionaires, the mainstream media and left-wing elitists, will find itself in a quagmire of being unable to govern. The Democrat party’s dominant and radicalized left-wing base will revolt over failed promises and expectations while the extent of the fraud will inevitably be fully exposed, resulting in nearly half of the citizenry viewing the government as illegitimate.

The unleashing of Covid-19 on the world by the Chinese Communists opened the door for massive voter fraud, primarily via mail-in ballots, to be introduced into traditional battleground states. Operating on the four-year premise that the destruction of President Trump justifies any means, the Democrat party establishment extra-constitutionally imposed changes to election laws in a number of states.

At the same time their cadre of co-conspirators were also mobilized. The social media oligarchs and the mainstream media controlled and blatantly censored the flow of information. The self-styled progressive billionaires, in violation of campaign laws, poured untold millions into so-called get out the vote campaigns. And the left-wing elites mobilized their army of foot soldiers to intimidate state and local politicians as well as state and federal judges in addition to being frontline participants in various statewide voter frauds.

These conspirators smugly believed that they had successfully set up a scenario wherein Donald Trump would be defeated in such a massive landslide that a vast majority of the citizenry would never question the results. Further, Donald Trump would be so marginalized that his future as the leader of a growing political movement would be rendered moot as he slunk, tail between his legs, back to Mar-A-Lago. Thus leaving the political playing field in the hands of the established ruling class in near perpetuity.

Instead the worst-case scenario played out. The election came down to four battleground states, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania with a total margin for Joe Biden of 120,000 out of 18,600,000 legally or illegally cast votes or 0.6%. The question of fraud, despite the cowardice of the federal and state judiciaries, cannot be swept under the rug particularly as so many illegalities have already been exposed.

Further, nearly half of all likely voters (75% of Republicans and 30% of Democrats) believe there was sufficient fraud in the election to ensure Biden won. Despite the best efforts of both social and mainstream media as well as the Democrat party hierarchy, that perception will never dramatically change, as in a recent poll just 56% of Americans say Biden is their president. Once in office, both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would be viewed by a significant plurality of Americans as transparent frauds and imposters thanks to an unabashedly fraudulent election. A citizenry already consumed with contempt for the ruling class due to their ham-handed police-state tactics in dealing with the Chinese Coronavirus is now waking up to their duplicity and megalomania.

Without the modicum of a mandate and open hostility towards a Biden/Harris Administration, there is very little the ruling class can do to enact their agenda with the specter of revenge in the 2022 mid-terms hanging over their heads. However, there is a more pressing issue that will impact the nation. The left-wing base of the Democrat party can rightfully claim that it was their grassroots efforts that pushed the Biden/Harris ticket over the top. Had there been the landslide all had anticipated and planned for, then the left would have had no choice but to be satisfied with the crumbs from the executive table as their role in the election fraud would be downplayed.

But there will be no crumbs from the table, as many of the grandiose plans of the ruling class will have to be shelved. This will not sit well with the rank-and-file left-wing radicals as they will realize they were mere pawns in the lawless seizure of power by their nemeses. The billionaire class, the corporatists and the ruling elites and their collective self-interest runs counter to Marxist/socialist ideology of the left. None of the promises made during the campaign season will be kept as these doctrinaire socialists and their leaders will be shunted to the side while their erstwhile allies focus on maintaining their stranglehold on the levers of power in the face of an aroused and determined opposition led by Donald Trump.

In the spring and summer of 2020, the ruling class, in a marriage of convenience, tacitly allied themselves with another anti-Trump faction, the left’s uncontrollable militant militias, Antifa and Black Lives Matter. By their collective silence and capitulation in the face of ongoing riots, violence, intimidation and looting, they conveyed to these self-styled revolutionaries that they are spineless and easily intimidated. When the radical left is ignored and marginalized by a Biden/Harris Administration and the frustration level reaches a boiling point, then these militants will again take to the streets in an even more violent manner.

The bitter harvest of massive election fraud will be a government beset with an inability to govern, as it will have no good will with the bulk of the American people and a political base it cannot placate. The perpetrators of this fraud are predestined to fail as well as hasten the ultimate demise of the Democrat Party. The only issue outstanding is whether this nation will descend into chaos and bitterness as a result.

© 11.14.2024 by Steve McCann, "American Thinker".