Democrat Derangement Syndrome – hating those who disagree on policy.

rcat – I support:
1) Paper ballots, 2) counting in precincts; 3) In-person voting. Once. With Voter ID.
You should support these, too – and repeat them, in brief, rather than refer to prior posts. We should all support Free and Fair elections.

In fact, all Americans should be united in wanting Free and Fair elections – with full transparency.
And laws which are followed.
And disqualified ballots, and ballot counting places, if the laws & rules are not followed.

** What some election court should have decided is that, AFTER Rep election observers were booted out, the votes from that area don’t count. **

The only way to ever stop cheating is to not allow the questionable votes to be counted – even if that means some legal votes are not counted.

There’s another suggestion that Reps start “cheating” also. I don’t like that BUT, in accordance with experiments that show Tit for Tat as the best strategy to get cooperation, it’s clear that Dems who lose to Reps “very actively promoting voting among Rep voters” will be more amenable to less cheating.

Eye, there’s the rub. Romney, Collins, Murkowski, to begin with.

There is only one game-changer possibility that I can see, and something not mentioned here: foreign intervention in our elections and Democrats found culpable for Treason.

Everything else has been thought it tried.

On NTD via YT, a Swiss Banker who has been an election observer for 39 years has seen electronic vote counting change Swiss voting outcomes. And pushed back, they squeeze back in. And the company in question, Scytl, has software with multiple places for back door entry to alter vote counts.

In another, story on the same NTD news programme posted only a few hours ago, details how Dominion machines, before and after adopted, systematically altered vote outlines by boosting Ds and reducing Rs by (roughly) 1.88 percent, and Biden by 3.

But back to foreign corruption. If the electoral count by is delayed on January 6th, if heinous compromise of Biden or D buds is exposed, if public outcry GROWS!

If there then is a contingent election, Trump is voted by the House. But Harris Ho is Veep by the Senate?

Can Trump survive the coming assassination and assault?

Will the nation survive?

It’s a similar situation in my state; our Governor has had a good approach; “Things are different in different municipalities so I won’t mandate anything statewide. My county has the highest incidence of COVID and is fairly locked down, but one of the border counties has a wide open policy. Many days I drive the two miles, or so, across the border to shop, go to the library, etc.

I don’t know a lot about DeSantis, but I admire how he has handled the pandemic this year. And thank heaven for those Governors who have taken a similar approach. Without them we’d have no data regarding strict policies vs. non-strict policies. When states like Florida, South Carolina and Georgia first announced they would re-open in early summer the media shrieked that they would soon be stacking corpses like cordwood within their borders. That hasn’t happened, no real difference between locked down and non-locked down, which makes it much harder for hardline governors like Whitmer and Phillips to gaslight their residents.

I’m from FL — some areas had alarmist County Commissioners overreacting, but, thanks to deSantis, they cannot enforce it legally. Which leaves it up to the business to demand it, and I’m perfectly fine with that. Where businesses ask, I am not generally averse to it.

Similarly with South Carolina, where I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few months. For a while there, most of them were wearing them ONLY where the businesses mandated it. That has reversed a bit with the increase in case count, but it’s still very much a hit-or-miss thing.

I’d be joining a militia if I had to live in Michigan. :-/

EXACTLY

The courts have been acting as though their only option is to either take votes away or hand votes out, rather than declaring an election null-and-void because it’s got too many fraud indicators.

You might recall that that one involved an ex-diplomat with CIA connections conspiring with an ideologically motivated journalist on how to get out a (narrowly false) “debunking” story in order to undermine the administration. It generally utilized the deliberate crafting around the term ” behest” of a semantically misleading storyline concerning the origin of a supposedly executive office directed journey of “discovery”. It involved the claimed outing of a nonspy “spy” by ostensibly malevolent forces within the administration; persons who actually had nothing instrumental to do with dispatching the ex-diplomat on his trip in the first place. Nor did the specifically accused top official, the VP of the US reveal the identity of the so-called ambassador’s “clandestine operative” wife, as the snowballing narrative eventually suggested. One of his staff however was targeted and punished for acknowledging he had heard what what someone else had previously revealed.

I refer of course to the Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson affair.

And I refer to the trip Joe Wilson took: Not at the direction of V.P. Dick Cheney, as was deliberately suggested by the narrative’s crafted use of the term “behest”, but rather at the recommendation/suggestion of his CIA employee wife Valerie Plame to her working group. (As has been documented by the timeline stamps on the CIA’s own records). And far from the nefarious Cheney first ordering an operation into motion, and then naming secret names in retaliation for a disappointing finding when the assigned patriot was just doing his duty; it turned out that Cheney did not only Not send Joe Wilson off on his junket, but that the said-to-be notorious gossip in Colin Powell’s employ, Richard Armitage, was the person dropping office locations or names to the press after the cryptic (and politically designed) first release of an “ambassador’s mission” story and “findings” was planted with, and by, a collaborating press.

How many Federal executive institutions have we now seen weaponized by insiders against Republican administrations and conservative citizens? The IRS, the CIA, the FBI …

I just returned from Florida. It’s odd how quickly lockdowns and facemasks have become normalized. It was very nice to be somewhere that is “open.” Many folks wore masks in public spaces and some businesses had signs posted requiring them on the premises; but the great thing is it was left up to the individual. Having had the virus several months ago I tend to be rather cavalier these days, so I’m very comfortable being in crowded spaces unmasked, but I have no issue with those who do not feel as comfortable.

The businesses I saw in Florida seemed to be doing well and the general mood was happy and festive; as it used to be most everywhere in this nation during the month of December.

Your pessimistic analysis does not factor in the malign power of Google, Facebook and Twitter and their alliance with Democrats. I do not see how a conservative movement can arise in an environment in which communication is monitored and limited and every gathering is met by a “mostly peaceful” counter-protest.

The unfortunate truth is that we have already seen what happens when an ideological left gains complete control in, e.g., Russia, China, Cambodia, etc. The logic of the left demands that the same thing happen here. Between Covid and the bogus Russia collusion investigation, leftists have had 4 years to refine mechanisms for identification and control of enemies of the State. They will not be stopped by courts. I would not be surprised to see ownership of guns limited to victims of oppression (who need them for protection) and students required to recite an Anti-Racist Pledge each day in lieu of the traditional pledge of allegiance. States that do not go along will lose federal funding (another Democrat flip-flop).

Totalitarian regimes can be stopped only when the police and army turn against the government or are defeated in battle. Here, the police will be defunded and defanged and Antifa and the MSM will enforce the ideology of the new regime. (There are anarchist members of Antifa, but tley will be weeded out.) Leadership of the armed forces seem willing to go along in order to keep their sinecures.

Although civil war seems inconceivable, it is not. Red state armies could outnumber blue, and red states contain significant military assets and natural resources. Blue states import a significant portion of their energy and food from red states. On the other hand, blue states would likely have a technological advantage and be assisted by China. This is, admittedly, the stuff of science fiction.

You are a student of totalitarian regimes and I doubt that I have said anything that you have not already thought, if not written, about.

Having already gone on too long, I would say that there is one “fault line” in American society that could challenge the progressive regime, and that is social security. If predominately young progressives cut social security for millions of seniors that depend on it, the push-back will be enormous. (I’d venture to say that, apart from labor unions, no group is better organized than the AARP, although it has been known to sell out its members.) Progressive hubris could lead to it’s collapse.

Anyway, I hope none of this comes to pass and that we continue to live in a country in which you are free to publish your thoughts. Keep up the good work.

RE: “Let us not forget the battle ground states have solid, supposedly Republican governance in many key positions.”
The following states that President Trump may have won have DNC governors: MI, NV, PA, and WI.

RE: “And now that the electors have safely arrived in Washington, D.C. …”
No, the electoral college has met (past tense) remotely. It’s done.

RE: “There are four years available to us to focus on exposing the culprits.”
So what!? We’ve had years — literally years — of solid evidence of serious crimes by Clinton, Obama, and now Biden. We’ve exposed serious crimes by DOJ/FBI/IC and the rest of the swamp. The new rules are simple: if the GOP doesn’t have the power to prosecute and can’t get it in front of the right judge, justice will not happen. President Trump has had almost four years to get DOJ/FBI officials prosecuted. Comey, McCabe, and Strzok are still free. We have one FBI official pleading guilty to a minor charge. That’s it.

And, by the way, forget four years: fight like hell to retake the House in 2022! Most Americans will be disturbed by what Joe and Ho do, and Americans will move to pull their fangs. That’s an opportunity.

RE: “You forgot (3) lack of will and resolve.”
All I can do is present the facts and what can be done. Your opponent is trying to reshape the judiciary, rewrite the Constitution, and change election laws. I’m trying to prevent that. Stopping them requires planning and skill — something your opponent has done with ruthless efficiency. That’s why they are the “evil party”. The GOP cannot stop them with determination. That’s why they are called the “stupid party”.

My prediction: the Trump supporters are going to split the GOP because no one but Trump measures up to their standards. And the result will be a permanent DNC majority. You can see it now. Trump supporters are claiming that Trump only lost because others in the GOP abandoned him. I hate GOPe (RINOs) as much as anyone, but Trump lost because the DNC stole it. Period. They are the criminals; they are the enemy. They are the ones who are undermining our Constitution and the values and norms of our society.

I laid out specific information about the risks and opportunities. You didn’t respond with substance. In particular, I explained why your proposal doesn’t work. If you can counter what I said, I’d like to hear it.

This requires resolve, but it requires more than just resolve.

Good idea. Why do we have to rely 100% on the Federal Government and courts? Also, could not solidly Republican (not RINO) states do some investigating on their own?

Of course there is the problem that the Biden-Harris Regime will try to treat that as criminal sedition.”

That latter possibility is not really a problem but an opportunity.

It, should it happen, provides that clear and unmistakable casus belli for conservatives in this society – “with its already dead and buried social contract” – which the traditional and religious population still psychologically needs before radically, really radically, coming to grips with the moral otherness and alienness of the Democrat kind.

The greatest thing that could happen is for the governing left to be publicly driven to that sort of ultra vires extreme, such that all social bets are clearly off and all people must as a result take sides either for or against the rule of law and constitutional government.

For some reason, some Republicans seem afraid of having this clarifying, and liberating, crossing of the trip wire victory handed to them on a plate.

It may even come their way whether they take up a Biden delegitimization project or not.

The recent request of the Speaker by a representative from New Jersey to deprive some hundred Republican members of the House of their seats, using Jacobin rhetoric about the glory days of radical reconstruction, shows that these effing Democrat loons may not have to be pushed very far before they initiate a complete social, and thus moral break: revealing themselves once and for all for who and what they are.

The reason the Republican Party has to run the project to delegitimize Joe Biden then, is because the Demos taking action against the national Republican party organization as it does traditional and constitutionally protected politics and political speech will be precisely the nationwide trigger needed to destroy whatever shred of legal or moral legitimacy to which a Biden presidency might otherwise pretend.