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Roundup: election 2020 and more — 28 Comments

1. The same brainless fools who have been screaming hysterically about “Russia, Russia, Russia” for the last four years will no doubt ignore Tucker’s story, just as they ignored the story from two years ago about Sen. Feinstein’s driver of many years who was revealed to have been planted by the Chinese. Also breaking today is the news about a young Chinese woman (Christine Fang) who, until leaving this country several years ago, cultivated personal and commercial relationships with a number of prominent Democrats, including the egregious Eric Swalwell.

2. Ahab blinked.

   Flynn case dismissed.

3. 1. Ted Cruz has volunteered to argue the PA case. Even though I’m a member of the SCOTUS bar, I think Ted would do a better job than me.

   2. I fully appreciate Neo’s comment about SCOTUS getting cold feet on the TX case. This is a variation on the theme that since the Dems have stolen the election fair and square that no one can stop them. But this election is the most important since 1860 and the Dems have gone to extraordinary lengths to steal it. They want to keep it stolen and time is running out. My sense is that there are some brave people on SCOTUS and they know the stakes. If we lose the rule of law in this country, we are finished.

   The Dems tried to personally destroy Thomas and Kavanaugh. ACB, Alito and Gorsuch also got a taste of nastiness. These five know the type of people they are dealing with and they aren’t good people at all.

4. Saw this great characterization of item 1:

   “10 years ago we had businesses too big to fail. Now we have crimes that are too big to fail.”

5. Apparently the Biden Campaign is also too big to fail…

6. Well Biden did say he had the biggest vote fraud machine or something to that effect.

7. USSC has declined to hear the Kelly PA suit. Some think it’s because they would rather settle essentially the same questions by hearing the TX suit that was filed this morning. Any knowledgeable comments?

8. Louisiana Joins Texas’ Supreme Court Lawsuit Against WI, MI, GA and PA
   —Ace

   ace.mu.nu

9. MollyG, all along people have been saying that the PA case is strongest.
   If it’s dismissed with one sentence ….

   Sure, I hope there’s a “reason” but the I’m beginning to think it’s up to us.

10. MollyG – I think we are chasing the new shiny thing. Unless there is political pressure for the Supreme Court to decide the issue nothing will be done. It helps that other states are joining the suit. We urgently need Ohio and Florida to join in as they are the large sister states.

    But ultimately the people must put the pressure on their legislatures to have the fraudulent election be set aside. So contact everyone needs to keep contact with their representatives include Democrats to let them know that you don’t accept this. Go to rallies, talk to people around you, anything will do. The media blackout curtains are starting to part. The more sunlight we get through the better. More and more evidence is coming out. We need to stay busy and not falter.

11. @JimNorCal, apparently it has NOT been dismissed. According to Jenna Ellis (on Twitter), “The Supreme Court only denied emergency injunctive relief. In the order, it did NOT deny cert. Mike Kelly’s suit is still pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.”

    https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1336451735150350336

    And now there are rumors that Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, & South Dakota have all announced that they will be joining Texas and Louisiana in the suit.

12. Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, & South Dakota have all announced that they will be joining Texas in the suit https://t.co/5PKbv0KyFV

    https://redstate.com/streiff/2020/12/08/update-eight-more-states-join-the-texas-scotus-case-n291313

13. MollyG:

    See shipwrecedcrew at redstate.com

    “As a general matter, it has always been my view that when you begin a legal argument with a “The Sky is Falling” pronouncement, where the “warning” tells the Court nothing that it does not know already, you are actually insulting the intelligence of the Judge — or in this case the Justices — by wasting time with useless theatrics.”

    PA was almost calling out a Kraken if the SCOTUS ruled against them. But this was before Alito denied injuctive relief.

    https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/12/08/pennsylvanias-response-ordered-by-justice-alito-reflects-fear-on-the-defendants-part-of-what-might-be-coming-n291061

14. Judge Sullivan issued a totally unnecessary 43-page opinion calling the dismissal “political.” Of course it was the prosecution which was political.

    Courts and legislatures are afraid of riots, I’m sure. It’s amazing to watch Democrats go on about the sanctity of the vote as reported, whereas they are going to appeal two congressional elections to the House and ask the House to overturn the results.

15. Did the 5 SCOTUS originalists pay any attention to the court packing discussion during the campaign?

16. Well, I got the PA case wrong. But I’m reading the TX case petition and will write a blog post.

17. “My own sense is that even though the case has merit, SCOTUS will get cold feet on it because the situation we have reached is so extreme that they don’t want to be the ones to blow the whistle. In other words, they are fearful of “the staggering upheaval, turmoil, and acrimony it would unleash.” neo

    If SCOTUS blows the whistle, the anger on the left will pale in comparison to what will result if SCOTUS allows the disenfranchisement of 75 million Americans.

    Cornhead,

    “If we lose the rule of law in this country, we are finished.”

    Losing the rule of law would be a fundamental dissolution of the ‘social contract’ and the resultant “winds that would blow” across this country would sweep everything before it. The activist left and their enablers are playing with fire.

18. John Hinderaker, Power Line, on the Texas case. He thinks it’s a “credible and practical challenge.” That doesn’t mean the Court will take it, though.

    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/12/texas-throws-a-hail-mary.php

19. Barnes Law was on with the People’s Pundit yesterday discussing ballot demographics. The political class who study elections professionally are scratching their heads at the enormity of odd features in this election result. In Tennessee counties, for example, counties that are deep in coal country of all things – counties that have long history of deep Red affiliation – suddenly show Blue hues. Why? The late surges of mail-in ballots that nobody wants to allow signature checks on. Only certain counties were affected, but there are lots of them, across this country, including in the heartland. And other analysts have commented on this, Red areas gathering Biden votes.

    The People’s Pundit took a sampling group of 100,000 Michigan voters and found 12,000 dead people, by a simple cross-referencing database check. The MI Ballot rejection rate was a fraction of the lowest rate on record. This is why the signature check / audit function is so important, and why it is being so assiduously avoided.

    It reminds me of the Antifa modus operandi. Investigate the perps, and you’ll find nobody knows anything – nuttin’ – there is no organized leadership or hierarchical structure to interrogate. It runs because everybody is on board with the game plan. See a storefront window? Through a rock through it; Start a fire (pick a city). No instructions necessary. No conspiracy baggage. No racketeering. We don’t need to waste time defending ourselves. No successful criminal investigations to waste precious resources on. .

    The 2020 mail-in ballot fraud is a lot like this. We’ll change the rules: You do the rest {wink, wink}. Oh, and: We never had this chat.

20. Once the dirty ballots get mixed with the clean ballots, there’s no way to unmix them. What do you have when you change the 4 quarts of dirty oil in your car, without changing the filter with about a quart?
    4 clean + 1 dirty = 5 quarts of dirty oil.
    (Always change the filter when you change your oil)

    States not certifying is the way to stop the steal. PA is about to certify.
    Will SCOTUS save them?
    SCOTUS action, and justice, in PA
    is denied

    No SCOTUS savior here.

    Repbulicans better get used to the idea that the Dems successfully stole the election.

    For Georgia, Reps should be massively protesting and complaining about the fraud friendly system. Now I’m fantasizing about a crowd of “voters” who go into a vote counting place and destroy the Dominion machines — can you imagine?

    I can imagine. Ain’t gonna happen.

    “the staggering upheaval, turmoil, and acrimony it would unleash.” — fear of Dem riots.
    Seemingly no fear of Rep riots.

    I advocate more peaceful, but still very inconvenient car protests.
    Maybe even getting arrested. Maybe even destroy the machines and get arrested.

    If you’re not willing to get arrested, you’re unlikely to be willing to actually fight.
    — Rosa Parks’ Arrest. On Thursday, December 1, 1955

    The Dems have been active for years against Trump, and against USA customs, and against Reps. Too many Reps have been busy on their own private, non political affairs. As is right and proper in a civilized, freedom loving country with rule of law.

    That’s no longer an accurate description of the USA, altho the Dems will be trying to claim it is.

    Do you all have Parler accounts? WeMe? Rumble (for video?) ?? (not sure about it). Blogs?

    Even when the heat on the pot is turned up, the water doesn’t get much hotter instantly, especially when it was already warm. Rep frogs need to be jumping out of the soon-to-be boiling Dem media waters.

    Nov 3, 2020 – an election which will live in infamy.

21. Insty guy Glenn Reynolds posted a pithy yet uncharacteristically vague remark, regarding attribution, on the SCOTUS-Texas case. Does he mean the Left is lost? Or the Supremes?

    The Texas filing is only 30 some pages because about 80% is composed of supporting materials. It is a very good exposition of the significance of this epic election steal (although Jay Sekulow has a new eBook out on it, too).

    His comment provoked two posts asserting binary consequences, which I agree with. Here’s the first:
    Glenn Reynolds: “ ‘I wonder if the left, and the court realize this is a hail mary to prevent a civil war’

    “This is the naked truth. I would go to war over this if pushed.

    “I’m not advocating it, I don’t want to, but I am absoutely 110% sick and f-ing tired of the left’s temper tantrums, calling normal Americans racists in order to gain power over them and control them by fear [ie, moral intimidation], and pushing their leftist ideology. I would have lived and let live until they blatantly tried this shit [the election steal?] – they don’t want to let me be for no reason other than I disagree with their ideology.

    “So if it comes to war, war it is. I am hoping this case succeeds.”

    The second comment is even more blunt or even catastrophic about what the case means for SCOTUS, the Constitution, and the fate of our nation; and again, I cannot disagree:

    “What this case asks the Supreme Court is ‘does the text of the Constitution matter anymore or not’. If the Supremes say ‘no’, the United States is effectively dissolved, by their act. If they say ‘yes’, then the states with the corrupted elections have their electors chosen by their legislatures [or new elections or other remedies in the Texas lawsuit]. That’s still according to the Constitution.

    “So the Supremes get to decide if they still matter, really. If they dissolve the United States, we don’t need them anymore, after all.”
    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/419016/#comment-5182105845

    THIS, THESE LAST TWO LINES are the killer summation of what’s at stake.

    The SCOTUS matters if the plain meaning of the text itself remains controlling Constitutional question. If it doesn’t, the the USA is effectively dissolved. If the Constitution doesn’t matter, then why do we need SCOTUS any more?

    We don’t.

    This is that BIG.

    UNLIKE neo or corn head, perhaps. This decision turns on the precisely what Glenn Reynolds identified: this election either undo’s political legitimacy or reassert it.

    The wording of the lawsuit cleverly, I think, permits the latter. (SEE pdf at the conservative treehouse) But will the Justices read it like Glenn and I do? This depends upon their perceptions.

    Rasmussen says 39% do not see a legitimate election. And it must be over 79% of Rs seen last week in another poll.

    Will the Justices see the dangers placed in their lap? If they do, then SCOTUS wants to be last to decide the outcome. And their interest is best secured by placing the decision in as many others hands as possible.

    Therefore, I believe state legislatures and The House, if necessary, will decide.

    That’s the best way to repair lost legitimacy.

    The Big Bad Hand Grenade is the Marxist-Democrat media. Will they completely destroy a Constitutional solution to that maximises legitimacy? We know they will try….because they are already trying to do this by blocking fraud news.

    Yet another unknown is the Sydney Powell-Dominion-International claims of US vote manipulation to benefit foreign actors (Norks, Russ or Iran, China?)…? This goes far beyond anything we’re used to thinking about in US elections. Certainly, not since a communist shot Kennedy in 1963.

    Do we dismiss this? Or could this be Q-land? I have seen video images of the AP story on the Frankfurt raid by Special Forces, as well as another story by Business Insider. It is said that these appeared, then disappeared, online. But I’ve seen them (Saved on video).

    It is possible that the week-long silence on this news front has been strategic and planned. Is it Awaiting a SCOTUS court case? To get around the media censorship? Possibly.

    At any rate, the SCOTUS-Texas case is the most tangible, straightforward and best, right now.

22. I’m with everyone here (or mostly, everyone here?) on rule of law and on ferreting out fraud and criminality. But what I’m about to offer is my realistic appraisal.

    It’s not the best possible resolution, but my judgment is, given the realities of the Goebbels-like repetition of the Big Lie and given the unyielding viciousness and decades-long entrenchment of the “news” media, “entertainment” media, the academic establishment, and heaven knows who else, it’s what I see happening — but with an ambiguous ending.

    Is anyone out there a Major League Baseball (MLB) fan like I am? Anyone familiar with the 1919 Chicago White Sox? That team became known as the Black Sox because of how several of their players threw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. [Yes, it’s racist. Deal with it.]

    A century later, the MLB record books continue to show that the Reds won that World Series, 5 games to 3 [1919 was one of the very few years in which the World Series was a best-of-nine affair instead of a best-of-seven]. And that’s what baseball history will show, for all time.

    I think the forces arrayed against justice are too powerful, too omnipresent, too (what was that word?) *entrenched*, for the rule of law to stand a realistic chance in 2020/2021. The Reds won the 1919 World Series (officially, for what that’s worth), and Biden will take office as the 46th USA President (officially, for what that’s worth). But every MLB baseball fan (with a sense of history) knows about the 1919 Black Sox, and no one knowledgeable regards the Reds’ 1919 World Series victory as legitimate.

    I think the task before us good guys is to ensure that Biden’s “election” ends up being regarded as analogously tainted, just as the 1919 Reds’ victory was. This is the ambiguous ending to which I alluded in the first paragraph. The litigation should go on, must go on, to ensure that the soundness of our elections is restored in future elections. Meanwhile, it’ll be a long, difficult slog, digging out from under the suffocating leftie regime(s).

    But, as John F. Kennedy declared in his Inaugural Address (1961), “let us begin.” **

    — — — — — — —

    ** “All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

23. Neo,
    Thank you for the item about the earliest sunset!
    🙂
    I much dislike these short days too.

24. Re SCOTUS-Texas Equal Protection case update, 13 states plus TX have now signed on. Up to 14, now.
    SOURCE tweet via Tracy Beanz, uncoverdc.com

25. Veteran R legislators of Georgia are dodging a special session to change electors because: they are too afraid of getting doxed, cars keyed, getting Antifa Brownshirts riots, and burning down Atlanta! And Rs getting blamed for it….

    The Gutless traitors. That’s the tale radio talk show host John Fredericks tells based on insider info from a young 27 year old legislator in Georgia.

    See here at 16:15m https://rumble.com/vbojza-bannons-warroom-ep-568-a-day-of-infamy-w-john-fredericks-raheem-kassam-and-.html

    Time to call and harass these Party of Romney and McCain losers! Our side is intimidated by the fascist Left! Time to tell them that they’ve got us to fear, too!!!

26. Aggie relates professional “head scratching” odd data in the 2003 results?

    “The political class who study elections professionally are scratching their heads at the enormity of odd features in this election result. In Tennessee counties, for example, counties that are deep in coal country of all things – counties that have long history of deep Red affiliation – suddenly show Blue hues. Why? The late surges of mail-in ballots that nobody wants to allow signature checks on. Only certain counties were affected, but there are lots of them, across this country, including in the heartland. And other analysts have commented on this, Red areas gathering Biden votes.”

    Either added mail-in ballots, or widespread double counting, or else electronic vote counter manipulation — locally or remotely.

    And this cannot be sorted out without forensic examination, which is resisted almost everywhere, it seems. Can Courts be forced to deliver official cooperation? Perhaps only with a STRONG Equal Protection SCOTUS decision?

    Or else with missing enabling law-making.

27. TJ, you’re just beating on a rape victim and telling her “you have us to fear too”.

    It’s not exactly grand strategy.

    A more effective strategy is to go out and hunt down BLM/Antifa, but that requires courage and work, I know. Not just talk.

28. Makes one wonder why Pelosi and DeBlasio were shilling for their respective Chinatowns in the Spring.

    hmmmmmmm……

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