- Indeed the cards are still being dealt — as in new facts being discovered, verified and analyzed, and appeals to judges about crooked decks and dealers being made. The tournament clock has not run out and rules allow it to be extended on appeal.
- Why fold when draws still available and opponents hands so actually marginal
We believe nothing in the title of this post would be contradicted by dlh in his last posts. We read his as a sigh for our country — recognizing human nature and the endemic corruption of powerful forces intent on undermining our freedoms (and anemic responses to it). Even at that, his views we know not to be a capitulation, rather, the recognition that the truth doesn’t always make any difference, that lies can prevail . . . but that we must overcome such adversity.
We too are somber about how truth is so often hidden or ignored and also how enthusiasm can, in the current vernacular, cause one to get ahead of their skis. But Mesdames et Messieurs Powell, Ellis, Wood and Giuliani do not strike us as provocateurs. Powell, Ellis and Wood have taken politically charged cases but have not been political operatives as such. Giuliani has a political history but from the political establishment side of things, in that regard as much a Bushyite as anyone else. He was also a renowned prosecutor and we think has a nose for rats and syndicate type behavior.
All strike us as having a lot of smarts and fearlessness even if accompanied by showmanship or ego. But as Rush has said this week, none of these lawyers want to be pegged as another Geraldo hyping Al Capone’s vaults. Three especially are renown in legal circles and we don’t think they would push something they know to be flimsy. Their declining to reveal much specificity as yet to the hostile press is entirely appropriate as sober litigators not wanting the matters to be tried in the press as opposed to courts of law. Several of these litigators we think ache to embarrass the national press and we doubt see a path to doing that by being charlatans. Further, letting too much specifics out can contaminate by inducing nitpicking that sullies the public opinion component to this. They want to control the roll out and should not be moved by badgering from the likes of Tucker Carlson or any member of the media.
Speaking of Tucker Carlson the paragon of authenticity and understatement or something, remember just a few weeks ago about the “theft” he led us to believe of a thumb drive containing an expose of Hunter Biden. As far as we know it was an Giraldo level of sensationalism from Carlson, with the level of conspiracy overtones and implications of skullduggery he seemed to relish. But where’s the beef, relevant to the thumb drive, Tucker? Given you had a backup was your innuendo of attempt at coverup warranted?
We agree as regards hostile deniers of the election fraud matters raised by Powell et al (not referring to skeptics) as Michael Thau commenting at RedState writes:
. . . but can also agree with Scott McCay at The American Spectator:
excerpt:
There’s a reason less than half of America believes Biden fairly won the 2020 election. You have to be a partisan Democrat not to notice the smell. . . .
So when Powell and Wood, who are lawyers with well-established reputations as stars in their profession and who are not kooks by any definition, are confidently stating not only that the election was plagued with massive fraud and abuse, but that Trump will ultimately be declared the winner once it has all shaken out, that ought to be taken seriously.
Even if what’s being said appears, before we’ve seen the evidence, to be a bit on the fanciful side. And despite how hard those foul political winds are blowing.
Let’s see that Kraken for ourselves. And let’s hope it’s more than just a plate of calamari.
