“You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” -- Bob Dylan
As controversy and lawsuits swirl around vote-counting problems in swing states, I'd suggest Bob Dylan's insight applies to the 2020 election.
Simply from looking at the behavior of the Biden Campaign and their supporters, it is apparent that there was a premeditated scheme of voter fraud involved in Democratic Party efforts to retake the White House this year.
Here's the first clue: "Son of a bitch," Joe Biden confessed.
He told interviewer Dan Pfeiffer, a former Obama staffer: "...we’re in a situation where we have put together — and you’d [sic] guys, did it for our, the president Obama’s administration, before this — we have put together, I think, the most extensive and and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics."
In Washington, a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. This admission was definitely a gaffe. Because it obviously matches the behavior of Democrats in this election. It also matches an accidental admission from NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's daughter, Chiara de Blasio, who slipped and admitted: “Joe Biden was able to steal…"
Here's another giveaway--a party that really wants to count every vote doesn't cancel caucuses or primaries or choose a candidate without counting all the votes. Because that's obviously voter suppression.
However, Democrats sabotaged the Iowa caucus when it looked like Bernie Sanders might win.
As the LA Times reported at the time: "The first electoral contest of the 2020 campaign turned into a major debacle Monday night as the Iowa Democratic Party failed to report the results of its influential presidential caucuses."
Subsequently, they canceled the New York primary, as the New York Times reported: "The State Board of Elections scrapped the state’s June 23 Democratic nominating contest, citing the risk of spreading coronavirus, in a move opposed by supporters of Bernie Sanders."
Since New York was trending towards Bernie, and had to be stopped-- all NY Democratic votes were suppressed by the DNC, making a mockery of any purported concern for voter suppression.
Maybe Sanders didn't really want to be President, because he accepted cancellation in exchange for control over the party platform. However, there was obviously no free or fair New York Democratic primary--because there was no primary.
Today, this year's Democratic primaries look like they were a trial run for general election malarkey--because all the votes were never counted.
Yet another "red flag"--Democrats poisoned the well against President Trump in advance.
Most significantly, well before Election Day Joe Biden publicly warned Trump against claiming victory if votes trended in his favor early, declaring: "... the president is not going to steal this election." Biden was joined in this pre-emptive strike against President Trump by a gang of retired military officers calling themselves "Count Every Hero" and other Democratic operatives, including David Becker of the so-called Center for Election Innovation and Research, who went so far as to opine: "There is no such thing as election night in the United States."
They also maliciously accused him, in the words of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of waging "a campaign to sabotage the election by manipulating the Postal Service to disenfranchise voters.” This was done in order to create doubt and uncertainty about delivery of mail-in ballots, in order to allow delivery without postmarks to facilitate fraud, while simultaneously casting a pall of suspicion around anyone who dared to question their authenticity.
Another unbelievable Big Lie spread by Democrats was that that President Trump wanted to "kill hundreds of thousands of Americans" in order to win re-election, whether to stimulate the economy, or by encouraging in-person voting. For the record, elderly Joe Biden voted in-person in the Delaware Primary, with no apparent ill effects. I voted in-person in Florida's primary and general election, saw other senior citizens there, and had no health problems afterwards myself. Voting in-person was clearly no more dangerous than going to the supermarket, but that didn't stop the smear.
In addition to this slander, Democrats spread a false meme charging President Trump would not accept election results, this time in order to sow doubts about his integrity--designed to undermine in advance what would be any normal human being's reaction to their systematic nationwide ballot fraud scheme.
So, when President Trump was pressured by journalists to concede the 2020 Election before it took place he simply sidestepped the question, saying: "Well, we'll have to see what happens..."
However, this perfectly common-sense response was deceptively presented by most media outlets as a refusal to step down.
For example, "journalist" Susan Page asked Vice President Pence this loaded question during his debate:
“President Trump has several times refused to commit himself to a peaceful transfer of power after the election. If Vice President Biden is declared the winner and President Trump refuses to accept a peaceful transfer of power, what would be your role and responsibility as vice president? What would you personally do? You have two minutes.”
I'm 64 years old and have never seen a President refuse to leave office after a certified election in my entire lifetime. In fact, it has never happened in all of American history.
So, why would Page think there might be a problem this time, unless she knew in advance that Democrats were planning something unusual?
Not coincidentally, fellow journalist Thomas Friedman told us he wanted a coup in his New York Times column a while ago (Friedman has praised Communist China's one-party system, so his commitment to American constitutional democracy was not strong in the first place).
Published accounts of disgraced CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin's masturbation fantasy exposed Page was asking about planning for a media-led coup, as detailed in The Spectator:
Toobin says he didn’t know his colleagues could see him when he pulled out his penis last week during an ‘election simulation’ held by the New Yorker and WNYC radio. In preparation for November 3, the two media organizations were playing out various scenarios of what’s likely to happen the first Tuesday in November, and after. New Yorker staff writers were cast as principal players. Biden was played by Evan Osnos, Trump by Masha Gessen. Jane Mayer dressed up as ‘establishment Republicans’. Clearly any election role-playing game would have parts for the candidates and their parties. But why fill roles for the US military and ‘the courts’, performed by Toobin himself?
Because it was a coup scenario: what happens if Trump fails to respect the outcome of an election that the New Yorker and other standard-bearers of the liberal order have already decided in favor of Biden? Answer: when the courts rule in favor of Democratic party lawyers litigating every district lost by Biden, and Trump locks himself in a White House bunker, the Pentagon will order the same SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden to frogmarch the Orange Man in an orange jumpsuit out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to the steady applause of a grateful nation.
The New Yorker exercise was part of a subgenre of fantasy fiction that has grown in popularity with the Acela establishment as the election draws nearer. Washington Examiner columnist Byron York coined the phrase ‘coup porn.’
In August, the New York Times reported on a war game conducted by The Transition Integrity Project in which former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta played Biden and after a Trump win alleged voter suppression. Rather than concede the election, he threatened that California would secede from the Union. ‘Team Trump,’ according to the scenario, ‘encouraged provocateurs to incite violence, then used the resulting chaos to justify sending federalized Guard units or active-duty military personnel into American cities to “restore order”, leading to still more violence.’ It turns out that every outcome they gamed led to violence, except for a Biden landslide.
A scenario concocted by two retired Army officers assumed a Biden victory and Trump’s refusal to accept the ‘peaceful transfer of power’. That would leave Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Mark Milley to decide between enforcing the Constitution and turning a blind eye to tyranny. ‘Should you remain silent,’ the authors warned Milley, and refuse to order troops to remove Trump, ‘you will be complicit in a coup d’état.’
No wonder Toobin got overexcited.
One more giveaway--the name chosen for this coup was: The Transition Integrity Project. Not "The Election Integrity Project." Because obviously actual election integrity would make "transition" to a losing candidate installed by the media impossible.
For the Democrats' coup to succeed, voting results would need to be muddied and reporting confused, chaos would need to be triggered among the general population, and a crisis generated of such proportions that Joe Biden would be able to "escort trespassers out of the White House" without legitimately winning the election...because nobody could know for certain who actually won.
Which would be consistent with a New York Times tweet (subsequently deleted) claiming the media, rather than election officials and state legislatures, decide elections. Why publicly declared partisans who have opposed President Trump since 2016, called that election for Hillary Clinton in advance, and never recognized the legitimacy of the current administration should be permitted to make such a blatantly unconstitutional claim in the first place is beyond belief.
Essentially they announced their role would be kingmakers propagandizing for one faction, rather than honest news media reporting election results...which delegitimizes and undermines confidence in the election itself.
Partisans of one candidate may not claim the right to adjudicate an election, because such a claim is obviously unfair. You can't have fair elections with unfair judges.
Such an outcome would mean legitimacy would instead to be conferred by force rather than consent, since public confidence in election results would have been be subverted.
Which explains Nancy Pelosi's statement that President Trump would be "fumigated" out of the White House...a Nazi-like reference if I've ever seen one. Coming on top of her tearing up the State of the Union on live TV, it reveals a deep-seated contempt for the Constitution and the American electoral system.
No wonder Joe Biden called the American electorate "Chumps." That's exactly what he thinks of us.
Adding insult to injury, the Pennsylvania Attorney General announced in advance that President Trump would lose his state, calling into question the fairness of that state's electoral process.
Political Science 101: If you know the results of an election in advance--it isn't a fair election.
In addition to acts of commission listed above, there have been acts of omission.
Particularly this dog that didn't bark in the night: Last time I checked, nobody has cited this year's state-by-state exit polls on behalf of Biden's claims, unlike in the 2000 election battle between George W Bush and Al Gore. At that time, the Gore campaign pointed to exit polls data to argue he had done better than Bush in Ohio.
Believe me, if any honest state exit poll had supported Biden, we'd know it by now. We don't, because they didn't. More evidence Democrats knew he had lost.
After the election, the Biden camp continues to act guilty.
Their actions illustrate a legal cliche: "If the facts are for you, argue the facts; if the law is for you, argue the law; and if both are against you, pound the table." And Democrats have been loudly pounding the table since Election Day.
First, they arranged for major news media and social media to call the election for Biden even though remaining votes had not been counted, the sitting President had not conceded, results had been disputed, and lawsuits had been filed alleging voter fraud and civil rights violations. Any honest journalist would recognize the dispute was the story--not phony claims of victory.
Indeed, calling the race for Biden made them part of the story, rather than objective reporters. They became partisans, invested in a "narrative" they had constructed, just like other subsequently discredited media crusades like the "1619 Project," "Covington Catholic Boys," "Jussie Smollet," "Christine Blasey Ford," "Trump Dossier," "Russiagate," and "Impeachment." The list goes on and on...simply put, media assertions lack credibility, due to an indefensible track record, including calling Hillary Clinton winner of the 2016 election and calling Al Gore winner in 2000.
Their 2020 Biden call marks a trifecta of errors and lies by seven major news media outlets deemed "official" by Twitter. Of course, calling unofficial media outlets with partisan agendas, "official" is misleading and harmful misinformation...because the only actual official counts are currently in dispute by the official officials officially responsible for the official results.
In other words, Twitter lied about who the officials are. Then, to coverup their lies, they censored Trump supporters on social media and in traditional media. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social media sites slowed, throttled, shadow-banned, suspended, banned, deplatformed and otherwise persecuted Trump supporters, following their blackout on evidence of systemic corruption found in Hunter Biden's laptop.
In perhaps the most well-known example, Twitter suspended the New York Post. USA Today killed Glenn Reynolds' column criticizing Hunter Biden's corruption, even though Reynolds is a law professor. Likewise, Fox News' Judge Jeanne Pirro was suspended for her criticism of already reported Biden crimes. Steve Bannon announced on-air the other day that his daily Warroom: Pandemic broadcast had come under cyberattack. There are many more such reports.
Nothing apparently has been too small to escape such censorship.
I recently quit Twitter following my suspension after retweeting Roger Kimball's graphs illustrating Benford's Law, a type of mathematical analysis of statistical abnormalities used to discover data reporting problems.
Even more disturbing are reports that President Trump had been censored 65 times by Facebook and Twitter following the election. Apparently, social media don't recognize his right of reply to the onslaught of attacks from the Biden Campaign and media in the 2020.
To make matters worse, Democrats are currently threatening blacklists of Trump supporters, a McCarthyite tactic noticed by Russian televison. The Lincoln Project is among those making threats, behavior more suited to Communist Front "Lincoln Brigades" during the Spanish Civil War than an contemporary American Republican organization.
Even more chilling, some of President Trump's law firms have been pressured to drop him, as Daniel Greenfield has noted. Meanwhile, Justice Samuel Alito recently pointed out many in the legal profession have abandoned their commitment to First Amendment protections for free speech.
Censorship, threats, and intimidation are not actions of people confident of the rightness of their cause. Like Mafia threats, they are they are desperate actions typical of desperate and lawless criminals, like the late Boston Irish Mafia boss "Whitey" Bulger, uncle of Hunter Biden's alleged business associate James Bulger,
If Joe Biden really wanted to put the issue of systemic fraud in the 2020 election to rest, he and his supporters would obviously have welcomed ballot audits instead of fighting them. He would want to have an open, fair and transparent inquiry to show that he was right.
He would say: "Sue me." And look forward to his day in court. But he hasn't.
Instead, the Biden Campaign, Democratic Party, and their supporters in the media are acting guilty.
That alone should be enough to tell anyone with common sense that they are guilty as charged--without counting any votes.
In conclusion, I would recommend that Donald Trump follow Joe Biden's own advice to him and not permit Biden to claim early victory--as well as Hillary Clinton's advice to Joe Biden:
"Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances because I think this is going to drag out."
