We are the drain the swamp people

As I figure it, the Georgia election gives Romney no chance to get a big reward for doing a “Jumping Jim Jeffords” and switching parties. There’s no upside for Schumer to offer him anything (like a plum chairmanship) except to protect against defectors; but Democrats never defect.

Romney calls Trump’s leadership on Covid-19 ‘a great human tragedy’

Good old ‘Mittens’. If the Georgia runoff race ends with a 50-50 tie in the Senate, that unhappy, resentful, little dirt ball may be able to get some committee chairmanship from Chuckie for doing a “Jumpin’ Willard” act and switching parties. In a 50-50 tie in the Senate, it is the VP (Kamala) casting the tie breaking vote for Majority Leader? But his move would only save the Democrats from having to have Kamala cast the tie-breaking vote on every radical bill or court packing action the Dems dream up in the coming 24 months.

That may not be enough to motivate Chuckie to give Mittens a plum position in the Democrats’ senate caucus.

Oh well, Mittens, if he must stay with the Republican caucus, at least he can still do damage to the GOP in some way. With Trump gone, Romney can remain a ‘back bencher ‘ for as long as he likes. I don’t see why the Republicans would give Romney anything since he ‘s shown himself to be an untrustworthy, embittered old has-been.      dlh

That said, as long as we are gaming about, what say you readers about Joe Manchin. What about Repubs “buying” dirtball Manchin as a last resort.  He couldn’t be worse than Snow or Mitt, but alas he is probably not dissatisfied enough and Democrats entertaining such a thought probably fear for their lives.  It would take more courage sincerity and patriotism than Manchin has ever exhibited.      R Mall

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• Two articles that make you cringe — about the regrettable facts if true and the context adequate — but also who wrote them, their sincerity and objectivity
• The two commentaries linked below are not written by Trump loyalists (there is a higher calling, just ask them). They purport to pontificate on practical politics regarding the need to vote in the Georgia runoff election having issued snide back-biting comments against Trump and his supporters without reservation for a long time.
• They have been firing from and into the circle regardless of effect (I wouldn’t call it friendly fire) it seems more for their iconoclast shtick or holier-than-thou purity.

Erick Erickson’s and Ann Coulter’s commentaries today should be read. If attorneys Woods and Powell are actively undermining the Georgia Senate special election to rail against the Republican establishment there, that serves no purpose. We believe sufficient Trump supporters there will hold their noses, vote and carry the Republicans over as they are more disgusted with Democrats. The Republican machine can be dealt with later.

Erickson’s conspiracy theory of Woods being a Democrat plant, or deep stater, and by implication Sidney Powell,  are asstounding, assinine. I guess Alan Dershowitz and Jonathon Turley are Democrat plants as well (Let that rattle around a bit to appreciate the point that they have been helpful in defending election integrity).

The one service Coulter imparts is to vividly describe the signature verification issue in Georgia — of course while castigating Trump for not solving that as if he made state election laws.

Erickson:

I’m Sorry. I Was Wrong. The Deep State Really Is Trying to Steal the Election.

They’re just doing it in a way you did not expect.

Coulter:

Yes, They Cheat. We Have to Win Georgia Anyway

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• Should have seen the Durham thing coming a mile away!
• So now he is “Special Prosecutor” with the ability to prosecute political related crimes, which he had before, or to at least bring criminal charges, which Barr would prosecute, nothing substantial of which by agreement would happen prior to the election, which means the politically motivated criminal effort four years ago was a success, which means it will be used again by the swamp anytime they feel they need to. Law, Constitution, ethics be dammed.  Viva the new world order, same as the old world order without the stumbling block of a free America.
• Who thinks the Dems given power will not damn the torpedoes and end the Durham status, and he will give them reason to as he doddles along.

Now why would you ever question William Barr’s and John Durham’s determination to get to the bottom of “Spygate” and the probable criminality on the part of the Obama administration and its Dept. of Justice?

This article, “The Last Trusted Prosecutor in Washington” (below), is from November, 2019. That was a heady time for us conservatives, Republicans, Trump supporters. At last we had a “swamp fighter”. Here was a guy with a “sterling resume” as a longtime prosecutor. This guy’s reputation was so “sterling ‘, it “glows”!:

“In May, U.S. attorney general William Barr selected Durham, a longtime prosecutor with a résumé so sterling it nearly glows, to investigate the origins of the special counsel’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and whether it was properly predicated. Some Trump fans believe there was a vast effort by a “deep state” of high-ranking intelligence and law-enforcement officials to smear Trump or hinder his campaign by creating a perception of corrupt ties to Russia. (Us silly “Trump fans”…why would we think that? Could it be because another guy with a “sterling” reputation, a William Barr…told us the stories told by Obama people “didn’t “hang together”.) In late October, the New York Times quoted unnamed sources who said that Durham’s probe had officially become a criminal investigation..”

While us “Trump fans” sat patiently, waiting for the most accomplished, courageous law enforcement team in all recorded history, to go about its business , and bring justice, AG Barr advised us that ‘it would be late summer when we got a report by Mr. Durham on his investigation”.

That was fine. At least those wrongdoers from the Obama/Democrat Party team and their criminal deeds would be known to voters before they cast their ballots in November.

Oops! But then Labor Day came and went…no report… Attorney General Barr advised that “no report would be forthcoming before the election”.

Well, OK. At least, us “Trump fans” knew that details of all of the criminality associated with the “Russia Hoax” was pretty much out there already anyway. And so, voters knew enough to do the ‘right thing’ at election time.

But the media made pretty sure that what “details” were “out there” were pretty much concealed and distorted and the American voters really didn’t have the information.

So, here we are. The election is over. Biden is getting the press that progressives had planned on, and, if asked, we’re pretty sure AG Barr would respond with something to the effect, “investigation? What investigation?”

If you squint a little, you can still see that “sterling reputation” of John Durham’s still “glowing”!          dlh

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/11/29/pollsters-exhaustive-list-of-reasons-he-finds-the-2020-election-deeply-puzzling-gains-steam-1000659
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The Last Trusted Prosecutor in Washington

LAW & THE COURTS
The Last Trusted Prosecutor in Washington By JIM GERAGHTY

November 4, 2019 6:30 AM

John Durham is the legendary lawman digging into how the intelligence probe of Donald Trump started. (We should have suspected something when Durham was “confirmed unanimously” by the Senate. And Mukasey lauded him.)
John Durham may be the most consequential and least known figure in Washington right now.

In May, U.S. attorney general William Barr selected Durham, a longtime prosecutor with a résumé so sterling it nearly glows, to investigate the origins of the special counsel’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and whether it was properly predicated. Some Trump fans believe there was a vast effort by a “deep state” of high-ranking intelligence and law-enforcement officials to smear Trump or hinder his campaign by creating a perception of corrupt ties to Russia. In late October, the New York Times quoted unnamed sources who said that Durham’s probe had officially become a criminal investigation, meaning he now has the power to subpoena for witness testimony and documents, to convene a grand jury, and to file criminal charges.

Since he is an attorney general appointed by President Trump, almost every decision from William Barr is criticized by Democrats as a partisan abuse of law-enforcement powers. But the appointment of Durham received no backlash, and in fact received praise far and wide.
Who is Durham, this rare-as-a-unicorn figure who can reassure lawmakers, talking heads, and court-watchers on both sides of the aisle, in an era when everything seems destined to turn into a loud partisan food fight?
To say Durham is tight-lipped is an understatement; he lets his courtroom arguments speak for him and rarely talks to reporters at all. Those who have covered him for years — or, more accurately, tried to cover him — say that when he does run into reporters, he is cordial but uninformative, and almost never on the record. In Durham’s questionnaire for the Senate while awaiting confirmation to be a U.S. Attorney, he was asked to list his written work. He answered that he had never written or published any books, articles, reports, or letters to the editor. (The Senate confirmed him unanimously, with home-state senator Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) calling him “a fierce, fair prosecutor” who “dedicated his life to public service and the pursuit of justice.”) Durham is nicknamed, inevitably, “the Bull,” and his reputation makes clear he doesn’t take any of it from anyone.

‘A Passion for Anonymity’
Former attorney general Michael Mukasey, who appointed Durham to investigate the destruction of videotapes of CIA waterboarding, says he was recently contacted by a reporter in Connecticut who wanted to write a profile on Durham, whom the reporter said he knew. “I called John to check the accuracy of that claim, and he confirmed that he knew the reporter but made it clear and specific that he had no use for personal profiles,” Mukasey said. “He thinks about the work, period — not about how it will be received in this or that quarter, or what caricatures people with a motive or a bias may draw of his work or of him. It is for that reason that I think he will be unaffected by the pressure of how his work will be received and how he will be portrayed — indeed, how some in the media have already started to portray him.” Mukasey said Durham reminded him of the title of Franklin Roosevelt adviser Louis Brownlow’s autobiography, A Passion for Anonymity.
The only time Durham has offered public remarks on his work was in a March 2018 lecture at the University of St. Joseph in West Hartford, Conn. Durham was introduced by his friend of three decades and frequent prosecutorial partner, Leonard C. Boyle, the deputy chief state’s attorney in Connecticut, and Boyle observed, “At least three members of the press are here tonight, because they probably realize that this may be their only chance to hear John speak about his work, other than in a courtroom. He’s notoriously shy about speaking about himself.”
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And the WSJ, naturally, has a very reassuring story. Americans should not worry at all that this was not a very, very, very “fair” election:

“Missing in action,” Mr. Trump said during an interview Sunday on Fox News. “You would think if you’re in the FBI or Department of Justice, this is the biggest thing you could be looking at. Where are they? I’ve not seen anything.”
No evidence of widespread voter fraud has surfaced, and homeland-security officials in early November called the 2020 contest won by former Vice President Joe Biden “the most secure election in U.S. history.”

Federal officials also have agreed with state election authorities that they have seen no evidence that voting systems were tampered with. Multiple federal judges—including some appointed by Mr. Trump—have dismissed Trump campaign complaints, saying they lacked proof backing up allegations of fraud.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-calls-justice-fbi-missing-in-action-on-election-allegations-11606680518

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These four articles justify and reinforce our own views.  Perhaps not every observation (reference personnel comments in “Trumps  Second Term” but largely so.  Do read.

All are available in their entirety at this link:   American Greatness 

Gearing Up for Round 3 of the Great Trump War by Conrad Black The halftime scorecard in the Great Trump War is much more ambiguous than the premature jubilating of the Trump-hating media would indicate. Let us consider that this war began amid peals of side-splitting laughter as the Trump family came down the escalator of Trump Tower in June 2015 and Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. The astonishment on Election Night in 2016 quickly gave way to #TheResistance and “scorched earth.” Dispossessed Clintonites presumptuously took for themselves the names of the heroic Catholic and communist resistors to the Nazi occupation of France and of the gallant defenders of Soviet Russia against Nazi invasion. Thus did the insanely affected morality of those whom Trump legitimately defeated in the 2016 election raise its hoary head. As we now know, though the unconscionable dilatoriness of special counsel John Durham has prevented its formulation to date in appropriate charges, the intelligence community and the FBI were compromised by being drawn into anti-Trump political skulduggery prompted by the Clinton campaign which continued past the election. When the Trump-Russia collusion scam was finally exposed as the outrage that it was, the national political media, which has steadily been 95 percent hostile to Trump, uttered not a word of remorse and pivoted to the most asinine impeachment charge in American history, led by the two most mendacious figures in the modern history of the U.S. Congress, Representatives Jerry Nadler (D-N.J.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). Full article

The Badger State’s Ballot ‘Fix’ Was In by Julie Kelly Nearly 7 million absentee votes were cast, mostly for Joe Biden, in the three states responsible for his presumptive win; a mere 250,000 votes now separate Biden from Donald Trump in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Trump’s victory in that once solid “blue wall” in 2016—Wisconsin last elected a Republican president in 1984—shocked the nation and elevated him to the presidency. The pivotal Rust Belt states have something else in common: according to state election laws, mail-in ballots cannot be processed prior to 7 a.m. on Election Day. (Michigan has a slight caveat for larger cities, which allows ballot inspection to begin the day before.) As I wrote last week, it’s clear that Pennsylvania election officials violated the law by alerting voters to correct mistakes on or “cure” their mail-in ballots days before Election Day. This means not only were election workers inspecting mail-in envelopes in advance of the legal deadline, the unlawful pre-canvassing occurred without observers present, another obvious violation. Further, Pennsylvania is one of several states that does not have a ballot “curing” provision on the books. “Ballot curing refers to the process by which voters can correct mistakes—such as a missing or mismatched signature—with an absentee/mail-in ballot so that the ballot can be counted,” according to Ballotpedia, an online repository of election data and information. “Ballot curing provisions lay out this process in state law. States without such provisions do not count absentee/mail-in ballots with errors.” Pennsylvania voters had the option to check a database to see if their ballot had been rejected; if so, the voter needed to request a provisional ballot, not correct the existing one. Full Article

Will We Be Citizens or Subjects? by Stephen Balch A decisive moment comes and passes, a fleeting chance for action. People rise to the occasion or not, their measure taken and place in history assigned. We, the citizens of the United States, have reached such a moment. For those who still remember the old republic, the questions it poses are self-evident. Do we make a stand or nervelessly surrender our rights? Do we affirm ourselves citizens—an historically rare and noble title—or do we accept becoming subjects, the fate of most humankind? We might, of course, hope for a quiet subjecthood, one in which our rulers permit us to go about our lives reasonably undisturbed. But that would no longer be our call, only their clemency. In the course of this lamentable year, we’ve seen the clemency of our aspiring seigneurs on full display. It clearly doesn’t extend to our laws which they impudently flout. Nor to the truth, which they smoother or twist in caricature. Nor to property, which they seize by decree or have their Blackshirts burn. Nor to the American past, American institutions, and American traditions that they hate and trash. If we choose to submit to their mercies, we shouldn’t imagine they’ll long be tender. Some have been arguing that we ought just to get on with it, accept the media-hyped election results and prepare for more winnable battles down the road. But as evidence of grotesque irregularities continues to pile up, it becomes ever harder to accept that time-honored bromide with equanimity. We can’t, to be sure, know exactly what this presidential election’s actual outcome was, but we do know how unbelievable the facts are as popularly presented. We also know which side is responsible for the mudslide now covering the electoral landscape. And we can make a good guess as to the truth that’s been buried beneath. Full article

Looking Ahead to Trump’s Second Term by Nicholas L. Waddy So many articles are being written these days about the likely shape of a potential Biden Administration that it’s high time we asked the question: what would a second term for Trump look like? More importantly, what should it look like? Given the growing evidence of a rigged election, and the fact that neither the U.S. Supreme Court, nor the Electoral College, nor Congress have weighed in on who the next president will be, it seems at least plausible that Trump could prevail while Sleepy Joe snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. If so, we can expect much gnashing of teeth among leftists. More than a few neighborhoods will be burned down, more than a few stores will be looted, but, in the end, when the leftists have cried their eyes out, it will be time to get back to the business at hand: making America great again. Here is how it can be done. First, it would seem that, after a long period of trial and error, Trump has mostly settled on a cabinet that works for him. Bill Barr and Mike Pompeo, for instance, have been rendering good service. Moreover, leftists despise them, which is the highest possible recommendation that either man could receive. Some changes to the cabinet should be considered, however. Trump should try to lay the groundwork for a further expansion of minority support for Republicans. To that end, there are some excellent Hispanic Republicans who potentially could be added to the cabinet, such as Brian Sandoval in Nevada and Susana Martinez in New Mexico. Both would also help Trump to bolster his support in the Southwest, which is clearly a weak area for the modern GOP. Full article

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• Giuliani lays out strategy which includes state legislatures
• The American Republic as defined by a Constitution is not history yet
• All Republican led states should join in the battle

Some very bad decisions by Republicans everywhere helped create this mess, they rolled over, they compromised integrity, they took the easy way and this integrity fiasco is what we got. There is significant fraud in every state.  Look at the closeness of the vote in the Iowa Second CD where Republican Miller-Meeks is ahead by only SIX votes, a flip of that seat. Who thinks there was not sufficient fraud by Democrats just in this county to make the race so close? 

So no we do no have a lot of faith in Republican run legislatures but establishing a history other than capitulation is critical, and maybe half of the key ones will stand up and be counted for history.  They can wrap themselves in glory or ignominy.  But all Republican legislatures and state parties should be vociferous in support of Trump and the battleground legislatures doing the right thing. Fraud in one state disenfranchise every state when it comes to federal office. All Republican states/ parties should put together their own lawsuit and more.

Two videos, (transcript not available) of Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani being frank about their approach, one different from Sidney Powell. Below that, an inspiration and a kick in the pants article. We also append some links to articles detailing the fraud in this election.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqUrkIIK_3s&feature=emb_logo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flnuwTJAiWE&feature=youtu.be

Jeff Davis writing at Townhall

Our Collective Will Is Vital Right Now

In recent articles, I discussed the importance of keeping the faith, standing strong, and showing our support for free and fair elections. Exactly why all this is vital represents much more than platitudes: Five of the six remaining swing states, including Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Georgia each have state legislators with Republicans in the majority. 

State Legislators Rule 

Based on the Constitution, the state legislators have the power to direct election proceedings in their respective states. Judges cannot make rulings that upend the legislators. Governor, secretaries of state, and board of election executive directors likewise cannot.

Since five of the six remaining states have Republican legislator majorities, and while legal scholars might disagree, these five can protect the integrity of their state’s election procedures in the face of massive fraud. State legislators can do much to influence their constituents and summon the will of the people to help ensure that the rightful candidate receives the electoral votes from their state.

Regardless of what happens in court to the lawsuits brought by the Trump legal team, whether judges respond yea or nay, play political games, are intimidated by the Left, or have been bought off, we have a tremendous opportunity to give Donald Trump his deserved second term. How so?

No one outside of the legislature can issue an edict, a ruling, a judgment, an executive order, a resolution, or what have you, to overturn voting procedures put in place by their state’s legislature. And, each of the republican-dominated legislatures can rally their voters to make themselves heard.

The Law is the Law

The legislative body controls the voting process. After the Pennsylvania hearing on fraud, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the existing results will stand and be certified. The will of the people, however, including the Republican legislators – who are in the majority – were exposed to a preponderance of detailed testimony about Democrat election and voter fraud. And, they have it in their power to highlight the election fraud to the point where the Supreme Court justices will have to notice, as if they haven’t already!

Likewise, in each of the other states, the Trump legal team will hold rallies, such as the one in Arizona on Monday. Republican legislators in Arizona will encounter the detailed testimony, given by eyewitnesses, who have submitted sworn affidavits under the penalty of perjury. Such legislators in attendance and all others will be provided with exceedingly clear accounts about the election fraud and vote fraud theft that took place.

Our Part

Here is where you and I enter the picture. We must continue to talk up the fact that the election was stolen: We need to write to our representatives, or call, or visit. We should send letters to the editors of respective newspapers. In short, we need to make a loud and long joyful noise. In doing so, we can change the tide and ultimately convince those in authority to do what is right.

Even with the Republican state legislative majorities, some undoubtedly are RINOs and some might vacillate. Some don’t want to upset the apple cart, while others might fear repercussions. Some are just dense – stupidity happens.

As the hearings unfold in each of the swing states, added to our collective voices, the results can be promising. This is our mission; what we are here to do. We intend to keep Joe Biden out of the White House and to save this country. This is among the most important ventures in the history of our nation. We have to re-install Donald Trump.

Eyes on the Prize

We must make a stand. Ignore mainstream media coverage that says Trump has no chance. Disregard conservatives who’ve bought into the facade. Abandon the search engines, particularly Google which does not offer a balanced set of hits on any search topics related to the fraud, even after five pages. Ignore all of the naysayers.

Most of the high-ranking Democrats likely know the truth. You certainly know the truth. Donald Trump knows the truth. Let’s ensure that all nine Supreme Court Justices know the truth, even Roberts, Kagan, Breyer, and Sotomayor. Let’s prevail.

Kurt Schlichter also writing at Townhall:

Liberals Want You Demoralized, So Don’t Be

Links to articles of note detailing the obvious fraud:  (Epoch Times)

Significant evidence of vote fraud was revealed through data analysis sponsored by The Voter Integrity Project by the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society (a legal aid firm). The FBI has been in contact with the principals of the study for documentation regarding the sufficiency of fraud to flip states.

How voting machines are easily hacked

Pennsylvania Voting Curve Doesn’t Line up

Zuckerberg-Funded Group Comes Into Spotlight in Election-Related Court Cases  (this group was also active in Iowa, including the 2nd CD, and with the pathetic obliviousness and even support of Republican operatives).  Privately funded elections, what could go wrong!

Voting contracts in georgia warrant criminal investigation  

Amistad Project’s Kline: 2020 Election One of the Most Lawless in US History 

Joe Biden’s Path to the Presidency is Eroding With Each Revelation Of Massive Voter Fraud  

What We Must Believe to Believe Biden Won
We must accept a perfect storm of implausible anomalies and brazen irregularities.

MORE TO BE ADDED

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“Packing the Court”

Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic Church’s first Marxist Pontiff, has learned well from America’s ‘progressives’.

As the Democrat-dominated (if it so becomes) U.S. Senate has promised, Francis has “packed the (Vatican) “Court” which will elect the next Pope:

“With Saturday’s new cardinals, Francis has named 73 of the 128 voting-age cardinals, compared with 39 named by Pope Benedict XVI and 16 by St. John Paul II. While the outcome of a future conclave can never be predicted, it’s not a stretch to suggest that a hefty majority of today’s electors presumably share the pastoral and doctrinal attitudes of the pope who named them.” (Fox News, 11/28))

That’s right! Francis presumes that the Cardinals he has chosen to elevate to their lofty posts share the anti-capitalism, anti-America, anti-‘climate change’ enthusiasm, and radical “social justice” ideas he has, and does not attempt to conceal. He assumes they will thus elect a like-minded successor to his Papacy.

Upon his election as leader of 2 billion Catholics world-wide, Pope Francis (Mario Bergoglio of Argentina) billed himself as an extraordinarily “humble” man.

As “Il Papa”, he has proven to be anything but…he proudly proclaims, globally, his anti-capitalist, pro-Marxist beliefs, and constantly interjects himself into the affairs of sovereign nations, especially the United States…as in inviting the NBA players to the Vatican in order to “learn about the “Black lives Matter” movement and the players’ techniques for promoting “social justice” aims.

Francis is very keen, also, about his relations with Communist China, having just renewed an ‘agreement’ with Xi JinPing, to ‘share the authority’ for naming Catholic Bishops in that country ( Catholic Bishops are thus ‘acceptable’ to the Chinese Communist Party; to our knowledge, the Pope does not share that responsibility with any other nation or ideology).

dlh

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• Trump on Election Fraud: The DOJ and FBI Are ‘Missing in Action’  
• Ed note: unconfirmed report by NOQ, — which shares the sentiment expressed here about the DOJ, —  of the possibility of ~some ~ DOJ activity?  Story below.
  

Remember a couple of weeks ago when the Justice Department’s top election crimes prosecutor resigned . . .

In the mean time Sidney Powell and members of the Trump legal team progress in their efforts to prevent battleground states from certifying results of the presidential election until a full investigation of possible election criminality is complete. Many Americans are aware that the Justice Department is also allegedly involved. It is “examining allegations of voting irregularities”…to the apparent chagrin, of course, of “progressives” and Biden supporters everywhere including, of course, the folks at CNN.

Yet, as we found out, surprise, even some members of Barr’s own Justice department do not approve of an ‘examination’ of possible voting irregularities in the recent election.

Personally, however, I don’t believe that Biden, his supporters, or the folks at CNN have anything to be concerned about as far as Mr. Barr is concerned. If this “examination’ is like other ‘highest’ profile ‘investigations’ by his dept., we have probably heard about everything that is likely to result from here on.

The only thing lacking in this “examination” so far is for Mr. Barr to name a crack investigator with impeccable credentials and a fierce reputation for getting bad guys, to do an investigation in the greatest depth ever done, suggest that there may have been awful things afoot in the recent election, and if the evidence shows it, “justice will be done!”

And…with that as the last word the American public hears of it, Barr’s work is done.

Unless lightening strikes, not just thunder, there will be nothing from the DOJ and on January 20, Sleepy Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the USA and William Barr will return to his cushy retirement.

As one would expect from CNN the story below is presented as biased as is possible.    dlh

Ed note unconfirmed report by NOQ which shres the sentiment expressed here of ~some ~ DOJ activity
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CNN 11/10/20

The Justice Department’s top election crimes prosecutor resigned Monday in protest after Attorney General William Barr told federal prosecutors that they should examine allegations of voting irregularities before states move to certify results in the coming weeks.

Richard Pilger, director of the elections crimes branch in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, told colleagues in an email that the attorney general was issuing “an important new policy abrogating the forty-year-old Non-Interference Policy for ballot fraud investigations in the period prior to elections becoming certified and uncontested.” Pilger also forwarded the memo to colleagues in his resignation letter.

Pilger will remain a prosecutor in the Justice unit that investigates public corruption. Barr’s densely worded memo had told prosecutors they could take investigative steps such as interviewing witnesses during a period that they would normally need permission from the elections crimes section. It’s not clear what practical effect the policy would have in an electionin which President Donald Trump trails President-elect Joe Biden by tens of thousands of votes in several key states.

Barr didn’t provide any indication that the Justice Department has come up with evidence to support Trump’s claim of massive fraud in last week’s election.

In his memo, Barr notes that while “most allegations of purported election misconduct are of such a scale that they would not impact the outcome of an election and, thus, investigation can appropriately be deferred, that is not always the case.”

• Trump on Election Fraud: The DOJ and FBI Are ‘Missing in Action’  

Dominion investigation? A DOJ plane went to Toronto (Dominion HQ), then to Atlanta

Is Dominion Voting Systems, the company at the heart of the voter fraud allegations flying across the country, being investigated by the Department of Justice? We can’t know for sure, but an interesting tidbit of flight plan data may point to an investigation currently underway.

N721AL, a plane owned by the Department of Justice, flew from Manassas, VA, near Washington DC to Toronto, Canada, on November 15th. It left on November 18th. Then, the same plane took a quick trip down to Atlanta yesterday, staying for only an hour and ten minutes.

Toronto is where Dominion Voting Systems is headquartered. Atlanta is the epicenter of many of the problems Dominion has had with its voting systems allegedly being hacked to help Joe Biden “win” the presidency. Is it possible that Dominion is being investigated. A three-day trip to Toronto is conspicuous, as is a very short stop—likely to pick something up like a voting machine or hard drive—in Atlanta.

NOQ Report Political Commentator and Republican candidate in California Konstantinos Roditis noticed the flights and reported them on Twitter:

Attorneys Lin Wood and Sidney Powell have included Dominion Voting Systems in lawsuits they’ve filed regarding voter fraud in Georgia and Michigan. President Trump’s lead attorney, Rudy Giuliani, has mentioned Dominion Voting Machines multiple times. Anecdotal reports of Dominion Voting Systems employees going into hiding and deleting their social media accounts seem to indicate the walls may be closing in on them.

Many of us keep asking, “Where’s the Department of Justice with all this voter fraud to investigate?” If these logs are what they appear to be, then perhaps there are pieces moving on the board flying under the radar.

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Federal Appeals Court decision regarding Trump Pennsylvania vote process challenges

From the Epoch Times report by Jack Phillips

PENNSYLVANIA COURT REJECTS TRUMP APPEAL

Campaign Lawyers Say It’s on to SCOTUS

“The U.S. Third Circuit of Appeals in Pennsylvania on Friday rejected President Donald Trump’s campaign appeal in their challenge of the state’s election results, a move that Trump’s lawyers said will allow them to expedite their lawsuits to the U.S. Supreme Court.”

SURPRISE, SURPRISE! PERHAPS WE HAVE SAID IT BEFORE, BUT WE BELIEVE THE COURTS…THE “JUDICIARY SYSTEM”… ARE/IS AS CORRUPT AS MOST OF AMERICA’S INSTITUTIONS THESE DAYS.

The Pennsylvania Court clearly is; but if anyone thinks America’s salvation is at the Supreme Court, we think that they should probably “think again”.
We may have already also noted that, when the Left was so distraught over Amy Barrett’s confirmation for the High Court because it made the court 6-3 “conservative”, we were convinced rather that, SCOTUS had become, at best, 5-4 conservative….and, possibly, 5-4 liberal:

– Clearly Chief Justice Roberts will side with the Court’s liberals on any issue of major Importance to the Left, objective jurisprudence be damned; Also, we believe that Brett Kavanaugh is inclined to tread lightly for fear of stirring his confirmation critics on the Left. We believe that poor old Brett was so shaken by the apparent power and proven nastiness of Democrats on the far Left and the corrupt media that on a ‘push having come to shove’ issue like a ruling, however meritorious it might be, to make right the re-election of Donald Trump, ol’ Brett just don’t want to ‘face the demons’ again.     dlh

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Epoch Times excerpt:

“The activist judicial machinery in Pennsylvania continues to cover up the allegations of massive fraud. We are very thankful to have had the opportunity to present proof and the facts to the [Pennsylvania] state legislature,” Trump lawyers Jenna Ellis and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani wrote in response.

“On to SCOTUS!” they wrote, referring to the Supreme Court.

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that the Trump campaign’s challenge doesn’t have merit, saying that “voters, not lawyers, choose the President. Ballots, not briefs, decide elections. The ballots here are governed by Pennsylvania election law.”

“No federal law requires poll watchers or specifies where they must live or how close they may stand when votes are counted. Nor does federal law govern whether to count ballots with minor state-law defects or let voters cure those defects. Those are all issues of state law, not ones that we can hear. And earlier lawsuits have rejected those claims,” wrote the three-judge panel (pdf).

The court also asserted that Trump’s legal team did not provide evidence of their claims of fraud.

Earlier this week, the Trump campaign asked the appeals court to review a lower court decision that rejected their request to amend their claims in another complaint. They also asked the court for an injunction to block Pennsylvania’s certification of its votes.

Trump’s lawsuit argued that mail-in ballots were handled separately in counties that leaned heavily Democratic, in contrast with counties that leaned Republican. Trump’s campaign also said that some GOP poll observers were blocked from watching vote-tabulation efforts and could not witness the process or, more importantly, contest any alleged fraud or irregularities. In a hearing this week in front of GOP state senators in Pennsylvania, several witnesses, including one in Philadelphia, said that election officials forced them to stand sometimes as much as 200 feet away from the vote-counting.

A district court judge on Nov. 21 dismissed the campaign’s lawsuit, ruling that the lawsuit had “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations.”

The Third Court in their Friday ruling rejected both requests, saying that they saw no evidence that vote counting was carried out improperly or fraudulently.

“The Campaign tries to repackage these state-law claims as unconstitutional discrimination. Yet its allegations are vague and conclusory,” the court found.

It also said that the remedy the campaign had asked for was “grossly disproportionate” to the challenge raised.

“Tossing out millions of mail-in ballots would be drastic and unprecedented, disenfranchising a huge swath of the electorate and upsetting all down-ballot races too,” the judges ruled.

Ellis and Giuliani have both previously stipulated that they want to take their lawsuits to the Supreme Court.

In their Pennsylvania hearing, both Ellis and Giuliani suggested to the GOP state senators that they should vote against certifying the results of the election in the Keystone State, which has 20 Electoral College votes. It came as numerous witnesses were called to speak in front of the officials, allegingsignificant irregularities and security lapses in various areas.

For example, Greg Stenstrom, who, besides being a poll watcher, said he’s an expert in security fraud, told the senators that they saw numerous violations, including how mail-in ballots were handled in Delaware County. In one situation, he said that data on USB cards were uploaded to voting machines by a warehouse supervisor without being observed by a poll watcher, which he said he saw happen at least 24 times.

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Not since he started running with the pack

Old Fox could be trusted

• The old Fox turned a new leaf, but the new Fox is just more liberal pack journalism
• The old Fox could be trusted around the truth, not so much any more
• “We report” is now “we decide”

Oh those youngsters at FOX! A partial story is ‘better than none’, say ‘Krissie’ and ‘Leland’!

Here’s the story that those two “woke” youngsters at Fox News didn’t wish to take the time to inform viewers of.

Besides taking too much time from their earnest, busy reporting, the new ‘direction’ from Fox doesn’t permit a whole lot of context…or even honest reporting anymore. During the weekend, Kristen Fisher and Leland Vitter “reported” on President Trump’s pardon of Michael Flynn. In putting some of their “context” to the story, these two reminded viewers that Michael Flynn “had pleaded guilty to LYING (yes, it’s true!!) to the FBI!”.

And there! you have the story…enough said …’moving on’, as Krissie and Leland might say, that’s ‘all you need to know’.

Except, there’s much more to the story, as most reasonably informed Americans are aware. And Kimberly Strassel at the Wall street Journal provides it…as good journalists normally do. If you didn’t know the Michael Flynn story here’s the part that Krissie and Leland didn’t have time to relate.

The WSJ also had a brief editorial on the Flynn pardon that, too, was informative, more informative than one will get from the “New Fox”.)          dlh
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Kimberly Strassel commentary:

Justice for Michael Flynn 
Trump’s pardon for his onetime national security adviser rights a grievous wrong.

Chief Justice John Marshall once described the presidential pardon as “an act of grace.” In the case of Mike Flynn, Donald Trump’s pardon was something more. It was a requirement of justice.

Mr. Trump announced on Twitter Wednesday that he’d granted Mr. Flynn a full pardon. Liberals and the media are (as per their tedious usual) claiming the president stepped in to aid a corrupt crony. This has it exactly backward. The Flynn pardon was necessary—to correct a corrupt Federal Bureau of Investigation, a rogue special counsel, an unprincipled federal judge, and an embarrassingly complicit media.

This story dripped out over years, so it took until recently to get a full accounting of the government’s Trump-by-proxy takedown of Mr. Flynn. A decorated veteran, Mr. Flynn advised the Trump campaign and in November 2016 was named national security adviser. The FBI had spent months monitoring him as part of its Russia-collusion fantasy, yet by Jan. 4, 2017, it had found nothing and moved to close its case.

In rushed Peter Strzok—the now-disgraced then-FBI agent—to keep the investigation open. The FBI had snooped on a Flynn call to the then-Russian ambassador to the U.S. This is perfectly legal; ask Joe Biden’s team, which is making such calls now. The FBI nonetheless debated a ludicrous Logan Act charge, before settling on a simpler course. As former FBI counterintelligence head Bill Priestap put it in handwritten notes, one FBI option was “to get [Mr. Flynn] to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired.”

The FBI didn’t need to interview the National Security Agency about his conversation; it had the transcript. Yet the bureau’s then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe sandbagged Mr. Flynn, arranging for him to meet with FBI agents without a lawyer. Former FBI Director Jim Comey later gloated over the setup. The FBI also chose not to provide Mr. Flynn a standard warning against lying, to keep him comfortable. Despite all this, the agents reported—according to government notes—that they “believe that F. believes that what he said was true.” He didn’t intentionally lie.

Fast forward to Robert Mueller, who didn’t care. The FBI knew in January 2017 that its collusion investigation was a bust; it confirmed the Steele dossier was a fabrication. So Mr. Comey engineered a special counsel to salvage the FBI’s reputation by ginning up unrelated “crimes.” Mr. Mueller dredged up the Flynn interview and threatened to prosecute the former national security adviser’s son unless Mr. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying. Facing bankruptcy, Mr. Flynn succumbed to this naked abuse of power.

Hope came with a new lawyer and Attorney General William Barr’s 2020 decision to review the case. But even as the executive branch moved to right its wrongs, a federal judge took up the persecutorial torch. In May the Justice Department moved to drop its case, presenting Judge Emmet Sullivan with veteran prosecutor Jeffrey Jensen’s assessment that the FBI never had a legitimate purpose in interviewing Mr. Flynn, that he should never have been prosecuted. The department also presented papers documenting the FBI’s shocking behavior.

The Justice Department, not judges, makes the call on whom to prosecute. Yet Judge Sullivan refused to accept the withdrawal, instead indulging his politics and his inner petty tyrant. He went so far as to appoint a fellow conspiracy theorist, retired Judge John Gleeson, to spout evidence-free claims that prosecutors were giving special treatment to Mr. Flynn. Judge Sullivan’s behavior was so outrageous that a federal appeals panel in June ordered him to dismiss the case. The full appellate court in August agreed to let him hold a hearing while warning him to get his act together.

Judge Sullivan held his hearing in September but by this week had yet to rule. Mr. Trump might have waited, in hope that Judge Sullivan would feel mounting pressure to regain some credibility by dismissing. Then again, there was every reason to believe the judge would string this out beyond Jan. 20. He’s made clear all along he wants Mr. Flynn subject to an avenging Biden Justice Department. Not because Mr. Flynn broke the law, but because Mr. Flynn is a stand-in for a president the judicial, prosecutorial and media elites despise.

That’s the sad reality of the Flynn mess. In a better world, the Flynn case would have been dismissed with prejudice, an on-the-record censure of appalling FBI and Justice Department behavior. But that’s why the judge refused to do it. It had nothing to do with guilt or innocence—but rather reputation. We remain in the last gasps of Never Trump world, where people of power told themselves it was OK to break rules, norms, standards—even the law—in their quest to take the president down. To dismiss the Flynn case would have been to acknowledge that this behavior was wrong. And that would have been too painful, too embarrassing, too galling for the haters.

So it was left to the White House to make this right, to take a wrecking ball to a rigged system. Mr. Trump acted correctly. And there could have been no more fitting, final rebuke to four years of drive-by shootings than to release the man the cabal claimed as its very first victim. Justice indeed, and on many levels.

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• It was real tough to get decent people the first couple years of the Trump presidency
• A ‘true” expert’s response to a pathetic General Mattis
• At the end of this post a little note of ironic interest with a link about a heroic Marine Major General of yore not so enamored with protecting big-business interests as is “Lapdog” Mattis.
  

Who would have thought that this “heroic” American general, James  “Mad Dog” Mattis, hated Trump’s “America First” agenda? How about that! Would you prefer, General/Secretary ‘Mad Dog’  — an “America Last” agenda??

Naming Mattis Secretary of State was one of Trump’s worst personnel mistakes. When you’re surrounded by dishonest “Deep Staters” like the State Department, as Trump was, you get bad advice on people you’re supposed to be able to trust.   Excerpts from article below by Rowan Scarborough   of The Washington Times:                             dlh

Mattis failed to disclose role with global consultant tied to China in bombshell column 

Multilateral Dreamin’  By Angelo Codevilla at American Greatness
The foreign policy establishment’s vapidities veil a substantive void. Their competence is bounded strictly by their experience, which is of personal success and public failure.

Excerpts:

“It is especially inappropriate for Mattis to cast aspersions on the shortcomings of “America First” regarding China since he bears so much responsibility for them. Together with his colleague H. R. McMaster as national security advisor, Mattis convinced PResident Trump to enter into his fraught, sad bromance with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un—a reversal of Trump’s initial intentions. These generals did this largely to satisfy domestic preferences of South Korea’s president, for whom relations with the North outweigh everything.

“This turned out to roil the main alliance that really matters to us: Japan. Moreover, Mattis as secretary of defense, oversaw the effective nullification of Trump’s America First commitment to missile defense against China and Russia. Trump notwithstanding, Mattis’s Defense Department produced a program the centerpiece of which is to continue the Nixon-era policy not to place any meaningful barrier to missiles from Russia or China reaching the United States. Why? This is foreign policy establishment theology. This is the stock in trade in which Mattis purveys, sometimes against what seems to be his judgment.”

Codevilla concludes: (bold our emphasis)

“What about the United States, Europe, Russia triangle? On the one hand, our establishment wants us to provoke the Russians. On the other hand, it knows that, were push to come to shove in the East, Germany especially would support us the way a rope supports a hanged man.

“No. The establishment’s vapidities veil a substantial void. Their competence is bounded strictly by their experience, which is of personal success and public failure. Thus they will speak authoritatively amongst themselves. But America no longer listens.

“The best comments on this genre may have come from, of all people, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Though smitten by the foreign policy establishment’s externalities for some years, Rubio most recently tweeted: “I support American greatness, and I have no interest in returning to the ‘normal’ that left us dependent on China.”

Aside:

Unlike James Mattis, there once was a more famous Marine who rebelled against being a “high class muscle man for Big Business“.  Arguably Mattis’ posting to The Cowen Group.

Maybe more actually mad than Mattis,  Smedley Butler who was a bit of a goofball, but nevertheless an aggressive Marine, at least did not retire to lapdog status to the Big Business /Deep State.

By the way he also did “business” in Tientsin (Tianjin)

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