But, absolutely, with all the hate directed at Trump voters (not just Trump himself) I have not felt safe saying that I voted for him.

And I am totally agreeing I do NOT trust the poll takers. What is their motive for working the polls? Are they simply paid to make calls and neutrally record answers? How do I know that I can trust any of them? How do I know that they won’t either for money or because of their own hate do something against me?

At work, I keep a low profile because I have been very surprised by some higher ups who, otherwise being “normal, intelligent” people, will during a company meeting say something about stupid Trump voters/supporters; or some other such political comment. When I hear such I think two things, the first is how can they believe that everyone thinks like them and that they are not marginalizing some employees with stupid political comments? and the second is I say to myself, “thank goodness I never revealed my political beliefs. Whew!”

While nothing bad has happened to me (yet), it leaves me with a sense of uneasiness. What if I make the wrong move or say the wrong thing? Will I be fired? Will I be on the hook for someone else’s mistake. (I work in a bank, while not common, it is possible for an employee to be held legally liable for certain types of mistakes)

For only the second time (the first was Carter’s and then we could only stand along the parade route) in my life I actually went to a Presidential Inauguration, both because it was Trump and the second was because Trump was the first non-politician elected to the Presidency. That makes it very historic! I felt that I had to go to watch history in the making. But, I didn’t dare share my enthusiasm with any co-workers about watching history being made. Heck, I didn’t even tell my manager why I wanted to day off! I am kicking myself for not buying some off the Trump Inauguration memorabilia such as the Trump winter knit hat and scarf set. First they were a little pricey (that’s to be expected); but, the real reason was I know that I would never feel safe wearing them working in New York. Wearing such Trump “fashion” is really just inviting a knock down. What has our country come to when showing support for a mainstream candidate is a “justifiable” reason to commit violence against someone?

I am reminded of the reporters who conducted research to find out what books Judge Bork checked out of his local library, perhaps, hoping to find some sort of “dirt” on him. It is just now there is even more a threat of violence against ordinary people.

there is no justice to be had in our “justice” system. I am no longer willing to participate in a system that I consider to be a total farce.

My status as a practicing litigator has constrained me from speaking truth to and about the system. With that constraint removed, I will not be silent any longer.

(HT Instapundit? – more good substack stuff)

I don’t remember Phil Ochs, nor his “knock on the door” song, at all, unlike Pete Seeger. Phil died in 1976, age 35 (in Far Rockaway, NYC).

My wife and two of her sisters, while very young, experienced a midnight “knock on the door” as her father was taken prisoner with a kangaroo court, sentenced to work in the Czech uranium mines along with other political prisoners. It’s terrible.

The Dems are becoming the fascists they say they fear, National Socialists against states rights, and demanding “unity” meaning agreement with Democrat policy. Or severe economic penalties.

Fast forward 70 years:

“It has become increasingly difficult to contact potential respondents and to persuade them to participate. The percentage of households in a sample that are successfully interviewed – the response rate – has fallen dramatically. At Pew Research, the response rate of a typical telephone survey was 36% in 1997 and is just 9% today.” – Pew Research Center, MAY 15, 2012.

It doesn’t matter if you have a phone if you don’t answer it. Why don’t people answer? Nobody knows cause they ain’t talking.

I read most of John Fund’s book on election fraud. The book is now over a decade old. It was relatively boring but informative.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004T4LVCE/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title

#2. He covers a trial that occurred in some “middle” state like Ohio or Indiana on the issue of voter ID, which I believe did go into effect and still is.

From memory: The Democrat plaintiff side claimed, as expected, that some blacks don’t have ID. The enacted law provided for free photo ID at any DMV. So the plaintiffs claimed that some can’t get to a DMV.

Amusingly, the judge demanded that they produce some of these people as witnesses in the trial. Also amusing is that the plaintiffs requested a big trial delay so that they could go find some such people.

They produced perhaps 3 or 4 witnesses all of whom did not drive or have photo ID. The judge actually got involved in deposing them if memory serves. It turns out that every single one passed within a block or two of a DMV in their semi-routine travels. The judge ruled in favor of the photo ID law.

The only possible way that a poll can accurately assess the voting intentions of the electorate is if people of similar demographics vote in similar ways. Otherwise, there is no such thing as a representative sample.

If a representative sample is possible, voting results which vary wildly from the results of other locations with the same demographic profile raise a huge red flag.

The gaslighting on elections has gotten ridiculous. Reality:

1. Democrats have a long, sordid history of election fraud.
2. Every other major democracy in the world requires voter ID.
3. There is zero evidence to support the Democrats’ racist assertion that blacks are too stupid to get a voter ID. Zero.
4. Even if there were people of certain demographics who didn’t have an ID, the remedy — eliminating the most basic election integrity measure — is nonsensical. The obvious remedy is simply to make an effort to reach out to that community to help them get IDs. Democrats have used artillery to kill mosquitos who don’t exist.
5. The dishonesty and lack of good faith demonstrated by Democrats on voter ID extends to every other voting change they have jammed through — voting by mail is the worst. We now mail ballots to addresses that don’t have buildings, to people who don’t exist or have died or moved, and count the votes that are mailed back without the slightest effort to ensure the ballots are honestly cast. This is madness.

The current setup is blatantly fraudulent. To ridicule those who point out this obvious reality is gaslighting or worse. There’s simply no good faith way that anyone can defend this. We need to condemn those who do. Turn over the rock. Expose the cockroaches. And fumigate.

Get in their faces and punch back ten times as hard. There is no moral ambiguity here. Don’t shy from the fight.

“Politics is how we decide who gets to use violence in society.” Elections are all about violence (because every act of government is ultimately an assertion of force backed by violence or the threat thereof). Allowing fraudulent elections is to acquiesce in the use of violence against innocents. All morally decent citizens have a duty to stand against the immoral use of violence by their government.

AesopFan observes “The corollary is: if the Republicans win big “despite the polls,” then the Democrats will claim conservatives committed massive voter fraud — because suddenly all election procedures and ballots and voting machines magically become suspect again.”

There are many possible corollaries. What polling of the Left about Potato-head’s Nazi speech in Philly reveals about Democrats is that they deeply believes their media s$#t don’t stink, they LOVE IT like a MCD Happy meal kid does:

“Most Democrats believe that there are “tens of millions” of “dangerous MAGA Republicans,” a Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll released in September found.

“The survey followed President Biden’s angry speech in which he demonized millions of Americans, deeming “MAGA Republicans” a great threat to the very “foundations of our republic.” The poll asked voters, “Do you think there are tens of millions of dangerous MAGA Republicans backing violence and trying to overthrow the constitution or is that a gross exaggeration and distortion?”

“While a majority across the board, 54 percent, said that characterization is a “gross exaggeration,” 46 percent believe that there are, in fact, “tens of millions of dangerous MAGA Republicans.”

“But what is more, nearly three-quarters of Democrats, 73 percent, tend to believe Biden’s divisive rhetoric, concluding that there are literally “tens of millions of dangerous MAGA Republicans” who are overtly “backing violence and trying to overthrow the constitution.” Forty-two percent of independents agree with the majority of Democrats, as do 20 percent of Republicans.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/19/poll-majority-democrats-believe-there-are-tens-millions-dangerous-maga-republicans/

How this eventuates into passivity or actively voting — plus, the still secret plan of the Biden Federal-CommieCrats to do for the voter “turnout”* what Zuckerberg and the unions and US Chamber boys did last time for mail-in ballot stuffing can achieve — and you have only urban swings in all the Senate races to guarantee a Leftist victory over their “enemy”, remains a calculus yet to be fathomed.

But gaming it all out, I’m sure they are.
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*SEE
https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/23/yes-biden-is-hiding-his-plan-to-rig-the-2022-midterm-elections/

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