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Home Front: Politix
Victor Davis Hansen: An Election Day Bridge Too Far
2020-11-13
Long, beautifully written, tightly argued. Here is a taste:
[NationalReview] Voters might not have had concerns about irregularities, if fundamental steps were taken, and problems fixed.

No wonder half the public is concerned about irregularities in the 2020 voting.

No wonder they would support Donald Trump’s skepticism, once a reputable legal team quickly, publicly, and transparently presents to the nation justified concerns about constitutional violations in changing state voting laws and documented accounts of computer glitches, inexplicable late arrivals of ballot troves, and systemic efforts to prevent transparency — all at a level that reasonably could question the authenticity of the final vote count or even serve a dire warning of things to come.
Posted by:746

#17  ^ a revolution from above
Posted by: Betty Borgia8856   2020-11-13 19:00  

#16  What has been revealing is how vast the Deepstate is, the extent to which it is unified in resistance to reform and clean-up, and the ends to which it will go to block such efforts.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-11-13 18:32  

#15  An alternate is 2021 might be the year where the corrupt political machines in a number of liberal cities are rooted up and torn apart and liberal shave to convince people of their policies in order to win, and thus slip into decline.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-11-13 18:07  

#14  2021 will be the year shit falls apart completely.

Maybe not the end but the beginning of the Long Slide into a third world, Latin-style oligarchy.

2021 will see the beginning of these hallmarks of Mexican, Brazilian, Argentine etc chaos countries:

- PRI-worthy electoral fraud

- High inflation. Already underway in the Ag/food sector
- Currency debasement

- hollowing out of small businesses and the professional middle classes

- expansion of state sector union power & size

- massive escalation of public sector corruption, graft, self-dealing, pension chicanery

- kangaroo courts

- hollowing out of charter schools, suppression of homeschooling, harassment of private and parochial schools by a newly-dominant teachers' union

- open borders to enable the complete latinization of American society, governance and other institutions
Posted by: Shiger Ghibelline7152   2020-11-13 17:12  

#13  This is not journalism.

You got that right. If I had to call it anything, I'd call it propaganda. ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN are all on the same page all the time. What power could make that happen?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-11-13 17:05  

#12  Neue Zürcher Zeitung. seems pretty thin
Posted by: 746   2020-11-13 17:01  

#11  We only get CNN and BBC here. Well you know how I feel about Trump but I simply couldn't stand the sanctimonious attitude of Cooper, Cuomo and Lemon. This is not journalism.

I found one of the most reliable, no nonsense reporting is done by the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

So yes, get as many sources as possible and use your own brain as much as you can.
Posted by: European Conservative   2020-11-13 15:16  

#10   This highlights an urgent issue in my mind, that the right needs a unified and trusted source

I disagree that we need a unified source, NoMoreBS. A unified source is a single point of failure that is easily burrowed into and undermined, as Fox News has been. What we need is lots of news sources providing overlapping fields of fire, so to speak, in such a way that they check each other’s work even before facing the lies, forgeries, and fantasies of the leftwing legacy media.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-11-13 13:28  

#9  A Republican polling email this morning asked what news sources we were using instead of Fox. This highlights an urgent issue in my mind, that the right needs a unified and trusted source to demonstrate resolve to overcome this existential threat to the Republic. The deep state must see and fear the public’s anger and determination to undercut the swelling belief that they will get away with this. If we cannot show massive support through some media source to encourage our allies and daunt the belief that they’re winning the greatest theft pf power in our history.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2020-11-13 12:31  

#8  The end result of this is 70 million plus votes will think the election was stolen. 2021 will be the year shit falls apart completely.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-11-13 12:19  

#7   The Democrat machines have been doing this sort of thing for decades.

Your scale is off. Boss Tweed and his fellows started making a difference in the 1850s...
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-11-13 12:01  

#6  The Democrat machines have been doing this sort of thing for decades. Even if he doesn't win Trump will be doing all of us a favor if he can tear this garbage apart and end it for good.

GOP should be ready to put election transparency laws onto ballots in 50 states.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-11-13 10:58  

#5  Indomitables
Indefatigables
Ineffables
Un-F'-ables
Posted by: Beldar Speaking for Boskone7195   2020-11-13 09:16  

#4  I still like irredeemable the best.
Posted by: Cesare   2020-11-13 08:55  

#3  You get more of what you tolerate.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-11-13 08:43  

#2  but did they in actuality vote for the Dems? certainly there is a hard core group of dead-enders and LIV who will pull the lever in knee jerk fashion for anything with a D next to its name. But after all the fraud that is coming out (media protestations to the contrary) who knows if that group was EVER that large to begin with.

If they were trying to steal this one, it isn't the first time.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2020-11-13 07:55  

#1  Hansen is right of course, and the city burned while Nero the people sat on their balconies and gleefully continued to vote for democrats.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-11-13 07:19  

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