[We Were The Soldiers] Denise Eubanks and I drove to Mundelein, IL for a luncheon to honor Father Patrick Boyle, SJ. The event was held on June 16, 2021. Father Pat is 89 now, but he was very perky. He still insist that the holster he carried on his side in Vietnam contained his mess kit. I told him his mess kit had a 1911 handle on it. He laughed.
Over the years, many of you have heard me talk about Father Pat and the bravery he exhibited in Vietnam. On March 31, 1970, we were on Fire Support Base Illingworth located in the Dog’s Head very close to the Cambodian border. Enemy (NVA) trucks had been moving troops down the Red Ball all afternoon and unloading them in a field in Cambodia. The chaplains had come out to lead worship services for us. We set up a chapel area in my mortar area using ammo boxes.
[ClearanceJobs-Intelligence] As diplomatic efforts designed to force the Taliban ...Arabic for students... -Haqqani regime to change their ways flounder, the terror network continues to expand their alliances, and decrease any threats to their control.
Two trends have again shown the world that the Taliban-Haqqani regime is not planning to cease the hunt for the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) or stop the flow of holy warriors into the country.
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The collective West supported the glorification of the Nazis and neo-Nazis
After reading this news, at first I did not even believe in it.
Yesterday, at a meeting of the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly, the traditional annual vote on a resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism came.
We are used to the fact that, just as traditionally, two countries that support fascism, such as the United States (support neo-Nazism in other countries) and Ukraine, oppose this resolution ( support fascism and nvtsizm at home). They are on the map in red.
And until 2014, from the very first resolution in 2005, only the United States voted against it.
But now the blue on the map has also become red !!! EVERYONE who previously abstained, clearly as one went over to support the Nazis!
This time, for the first time, such countries as Italy, Austria, Germany opposed the resolution...
The draft resolution was also not supported by Britain, France, Japan, Italy, Georgia, Moldova, the Baltic countries, Hungary, Canada, Australia, Japan...
"The representatives of Germany, Italy and Austria swore to us that they would never be able to vote against a document condemning the glorification of Nazism. But, apparently, political considerations took over," said Grigory Lukyantsev, Deputy Director of the Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
When history is erased, it repeats itself. For those who erased it.
Nazism in Europe is raising its head and is gradually being legalized, so everything is logical. Almost all the brown company of a hundred years ago has gathered, and the rest of the little things will soon catch up.
In total, 106 countries voted FOR the document, 15 abstained, 51 countries voted against (the bulk are the EU countries, 27 countries).
Here it is the real alignment in the UN against Nazism and the countries that support it - NATO, the USA, Ukraine, which they signed in public and at the highest level. But the rest of the free world opposed it! The world was divided into the army of the devil (the collective West) and the army of God.
Now, after the approval of the committee, a vote on the resolution in the UN General Assembly must take place, usually this takes place in December.
Perhaps the world has noticed that this resolution is merely a Russian propaganda exercise to justify attacks on ehat it leases them to call Nazi Ukrainians. How it must gall that so much of the world sees through that particular ploy, regardless how otherwise their sympathies might be engaged.
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Looks like the Russians are aligned with the US State Department, the Pentagon and Congress, all of whom officially denounced Ukraine’s “neo-Nazi Azov Battallion” between June 2015 and late 2021.
June 2015: June 15, 2015, Representative John Conyers of Michigan and dozens of other Congressmen seek to amend the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2016 by inserting this language: “None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to provide arms, training, or other assistance to the Azov Battalion.”
Conyers explains: “This amendment that I propose this evening limits arms, training, and other assistance to the neo-Nazi Ukrainian militia, the Azov Battalion…I urge the support of my amendment and to make it US law that we will not equip this dangerous neo-Nazi militia.”
Similar anti-Azov language was included in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2018.
Both Jamie Raskin and Democrat Ro Khanna supported it. Khanna declared, “I am very pleased that the recently passed omnibus prevents the US from providing arms and training assistance to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion fighting in Ukraine. White supremacy and neo-Nazism are unacceptable and have no place in our world.”
Jamie Raskin and other Congressmen submitted a letter to Secretary Mike Pompeo October 16, 2019, seeking to have the Azov Battalion declared a Foreign Terrorist Organization, or FTO. “There are numerous examples of foreign white nationalist groups that fit these conditions…. The American people deserve an explanation as to why these groups are not included on the Foreign Terrorist organization (FTO) list.
For example, the Azov Battalion is a well-known ultranationalist militia organization in Ukraine that openly welcomes neo-Nazis into its ranks. The group is so well-known, in fact, that the 115th Congress of the United States stated in its 2018 omnibus spending bill that ‘none of the funds made available by this act may be used to provide arms, training or other assistance to the Azov Battalion.’”
In 2021, these same congressmen voted in favor of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2022 which extended the prohibitions regarding Azov.
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Those are the Krasnolutsky brothers. Thugs who'd join any merc outfit for their Yahoo war lust. So they're in Wagner, so what? Is the American taxpayer being asked to fund Wagner?
And we all know the real Nazis are all dead. Today, it's either a silly symbol of machismo for retards or a convenient 'KICK ME QUICK!' label you can attach to whoever irks you. You can just as well call them Romulans.
I fully understand why Russians are spouting 'nazi nazi' all over the place while warring. It's because they too have become civilizationally weak with all this faux humanist morality policing after the last world war. And they too need to 'nazify' their foes just like we all do. Hell, we find our deplorable selves 'nazified' sometimes. Word doesn't mean a tenth of what it did in the last century.
People should go to war honestly and kill whoever's in the fucking way to their objective and take it. I hate all this working around the morality of it and legalist püssyfooting. Waste of everybody's time and only makes money for the drum beaters and media. If the moslem weren't mentally crippled by his moslemnity, he would have taken the world due to lack of 'fuck all let's go' in men today.
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Is the American taxpayer being asked to fund Wagner?
No we’re not being asked AND our shitheaded DC swamp critters are nonetheless shovelling billions to Ukrainian thieves.
Who are getting their asses kicked anyway and are about to evacuate their capital city. This is Afghanistan redux.
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It's because they too have become civilizationally weak with all this faux humanist morality policing after the last world war.
WTF?
Every single living Russian has at least several ancestors who were killed by German Nazis. In Ukraine it was German and home-grown Ukrainian Nazis doing the killing.
Every single living Russian has at least several ancestors who were killed by German Nazis. In Ukraine it was German and home-grown Ukrainian Nazis doing the killing.
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My point, Palermo, was, that those Nazis are now dead. Faded into history. And to kill somebody who's in our way, we don't really need to recognise him as a Nazi.
The Zelensky regime is but a pawn for the globalists. Stomping it is a strategic victory for all sovereign nations. No, Ukraine is not going to remain sovereign, remember it has already expressed a desire to be another EU protectorate. So stomping it is okay. Nazi or no Nazi.
I'm not smoking anything. It's everybody else who's high on self-righteousness.
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Bottom line: Whenever you hear someone screeching "Nazi!!," consider the source...
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IMNSHO "De-Nazification" is only the justification our sad Soviet-sentimentalists use to excuse the Russian empire rebuilding by reconquering Ukraine. FOADIAF
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We have here both those who genuinely admire Russia, believing it to have been forced to this fight, and both paid and volunteer trolls. The difference between thoughtful argument and cut’n’paste from a list becomes obvious fairly quickly. Ditto for the genuine versus troll partisans for Ukraine.
Every single living Russian has at least several ancestors who were killed by German Nazis. In Ukraine it was German and home-grown Ukrainian Nazis doing the killing.
What, even the Siberians? I thought the Nazi German army did not get as far as Moscow. But we have serious students of Russian/Soviet military history here, so I’ll leave it to them to get into the details. I am a dilettante on that subject as I am on many others. Even in mathematics I only got as far as 3-D irregular topography, discovering the hard way that I am only a high-functioning non-math person, despite my pleasure in the subject up to that point. Which answers the question you raised the other day about my math abilities, Palermo.
Now let us speak of the impact of Stalin’s Great Famine, the Holodomor that resulted from the forced collectivization and unrealistic grain production targets of the early 1930s — the still unknown number between three and eight million Ukrainians who died or were deliberately murdered by the Soviets before Nazi Germany invaded.
When all of you screaming about Ukrainian Nazis finally address the fact that the Ukrainians had a legitimate reason to reach out for help from any quarter in order to stop Soviet Russian mass murder, then we’ll be able to have a fruitful discussion. When the screamers admit that the white supremacists in Ukraine underwent training in Russia with their friends among the Russian white supremacists right up until the Russian army came across the border early this year — the St. Petersburg lot even had courses taught by the FSB — then the log in the Russian eye will be seen to be as large as the log in Ukraine’s. There are no motes in that part of the world.
Ukraine is not going to remain sovereign
Before this, Ukraine’s population was well below replacement — something like 1.25. So was Russia’s, though very slightly less so at something like 1.3. So is China’s, incidentally, at a claimed 1.7 (though it’s probably lower).
Replacement is generally held to be 2.1. Looking at the trends, I would not be surprised to end up mourning the disappearance of Ukraine and the retreat of Russia from world affairs, followed a few years later by China ditto. Very different
than the trends in India, where the reported fertility rate is 2.2.
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^ As when the French helped American revolutionaries achieve independence?
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We fought, and lost, and lost, and lost, and kept losing until we stopped losing. The French, joining at that point, made it obvious and hastened the ending. I give more credit to South Carolina than France.
Elensky went straight to the well, a well owned by people needing, wanting a war, and an established power interest already intact.
France didn't have that in the colonies, especially after French/Indian war. Our emissaries had to beg like dogs to simply talk to people who would talk to people. Nous somme ici is great for newspapers but France had her own problems and no need to her territories to get strange ideas of independence and so couldn't act until it was all in the bag.
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Speaking of Wagner, this is Dmitry Utkin. He is the founder of Wagner (his callsign and Hitler's favorite composer) and when not playing Nosferatu, is quite the Nazi. Unfortunately, Wagner is entwined in the highest power structure of Putin's Russia and Wagner's owner, convict Yevgeny Prigozhin, is a favorite to succeed Putin and wants the job. Scary thought having full blown Nazis ruling an already Fascist Russian imperium.
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Re: Russia Reactivates Its Trolls and Bots Ahead of Tuesday’s Midterms
Another Yevgeny Prigozhin enterprise whose mission is to point fingers at everyone and accuse them of being Nazis, when it they who are the Nazis.
The Internet Research Agency (IRA; Russian: Агентство интернет-исследований, romanized: Agentstvo internet-issledovaniy), also known as Glavset (Russian: Главсеть)[1] and known in Russian Internet slang as the Trolls from Olgino (Russian: ольгинские тролли), is a Russian company engaged in online propaganda and influence operations on behalf of Russian business and political interests.[2] It is linked to Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin and based in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
#26
proof positive that the Times’ propagandists are terrified about the election is this spate of bullshit about “election deniers” and “Russian trolls” at the 11th hour.
Seems their masters at the DNC told the Times editors of the clear and present danger that the independent voters and suburban GOP Karen-types will go back to the GOP and vote in Republicans—everywhere, even in New York! Oh my!
The Times is even trying to resurrect the Steele dossier bullshit. Wow.
You can smell their their fear. Tuesday night’s gonna be a blast.
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Ukrania fighting for its independence
“Ukrania” can and should be independent. Independent of NATO.
And neutral. That was the whole point of Minsk: Austria-style status for Ukraine— not aligned with Russia or NATO, de-fanged and demilitarized ie purged of Azov, Right Sector and the other Nazi scum who bullied Zelensky and brutalized and poisoned Ukrainian politics.
Independence from NATO’s neocon fools (and from their own homegrown Nazis) is precisely what the liberal Globalists cannot tolerate. Everyone, everywhere, must submit to their perverted sick left-lib agenda. Ukraine has been used and is about to be discarded just like the Afghans, Iraqis and South Vietnamese.
“To be America’s enemy is dangerous; to be America’s friend can be fatal.”
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The Times really does look desperate. They’re looking for a scapegoat. Zero says that the Times and CNN are now kicking Biden. Whoa!
The New York Times’ Twitter account:
@nytimes
“As the midterm elections near, President Biden has increasingly made exaggerations or misstatements about his influence on the U.S. economy and his policy record. https://nyti.ms/3hgudwg “
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Austria-style status for Ukraine— not aligned with Russia or NATO, de-fanged and demilitarized
With all Russia’s talk about Kiev being the heart of the Rus, I don’t see how they can allow Ukraine to stay outside of the Russian orbit, even if neutral, Minsk II style.
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Your concern for American politics is so sweet Boris. It warms my heart that you admit the truth that Russia's fate is decided in America.
Here is the scoop. Americans don't care about Russia and prefer to ignore you. For Americans, Russia is within the noise level of world affairs except when you are acting out and causing problems for the neighbors and the world. Then it is mostly the Republicans, with conservative Democrats, that end up knocking sense into Russian heads.
Republican voters' values haven't changed. This election is about Democrat and Independent voters realizing the Democratic party leadership is heading toward full blown socialism with fascist and communist tendencies and they don't like it.
You vainly hope the party that rejects fascism to show accommodation to a real fascist dictatorship when in control of the House and Senate? Not in this universe. Expect more pain meted out by Ukrainians with more and better weapons as the US and EU further strangle the Russian economy. Leave Ukraine now before Russia is broken apart. Again.
1 Respect the signatory's independence and sovereignty in the existing borders.
2 Refrain from the threat or the use of force against the signatory.
3 Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by the signatory of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
4 Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".
5 Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against the signatory.
6 Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments.
Advice for Russia's neighbors: Nuke up. Quickly and heavily.
#47
Look, buddy, Ukraine’s problem’s are not America’s problems. I don’t wish any Ukrainian ill.
But we’ve had it with neocon globalists dragging us into shitholes where we have nothing at stake. Ukraine does not affect my or any American’s freedom or security in the slightest.
It’s just not our problem, and we want the thievery and plundering of our treasury to STOP.
It stops Tuesday night. Have a good life. Bye bye.
47 hours to go. Tick tock
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It’s not just Republicans. My old adviser Jeffrey Sachs and other liberals have had it with America’s foolish involvement in this horrific war. It’s fucking up everything in this country, making us poorer, less safe and undermining the people’s faith in the US military and the government.
“President Joe Biden is undermining his party’s congressional prospects through a deeply flawed foreign policy.
“Biden believes that America’s global reputation is at stake in the Ukraine War and has consistently rejected a diplomatic off-ramp. The Ukraine War, combined with the administration’s disruptions of economic relations with China, is aggravating the stagflation that will likely deliver one or both houses of Congress to the Republicans.
“Far worse, Biden’s dismissal of diplomacy prolongs the destruction of Ukraine and threatens nuclear war. …”
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#49
Changing names won't save you. Jeffrey Sachs is a long known Russian pawn and no has any pull except with the far left. Russia has no no prospect of freezing this war. Best that Russia can be hope for is a Napoleonic Retreat back to Moscow.
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Oh stop. Just stop already with the BS about “changing names.”
I worked with Sachs in Poland and Russia in the early 1990s. What we recommended for Poland to the US govt, we recommended for Russia. It was those anti-Russian neocon zealots who rejected our Russian recommendations and caused so much chaos, destruction and misery for ordinary Russians in the 1990s.
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#51
Sachs privatization program allowed the wholesale rape of the Russian economy to the benefit of the few connected oligarchs and politicians. Of course the Russian elite were going to take advantage of "Shock Therapy" privatization. Sachs was swimming in a school of piranhas who saw red meat. His "advice" did more damage to Russia than anything since WW2.
#56
Biden’s such a liar, even when he corrects his earlier lies he tells new lies.
Peter Baker of NYT:
“Inflation is a worldwide problem right now because of a war in Iraq and the impact on oil and what Russia is doing,” Biden told a crowd during a speech before heading to Miami for an evening campaign rally with Democratic candidates. He quickly caught his own mistake. “Excuse me,” he said, “the war in Ukraine.”
But as he tried to explain how he mixed up the two wars, he told the audience, “I think of Iraq because that’s where my son died.” In fact, Beau Biden, a military lawyer in the Delaware Army National Guard, died of brain cancer in the United States in 2015.
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[Glenn Beck YouTube] Journalist Whitney Webb has worked to uncover some of the most dangerous stories of our lifetime, and she joins Glenn to reveal just how eye-opening it’s been. Her new two-volume book, "One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein," examines Epstein’s elaborate network of corruption and power, from Bill Clinton to Ghislaine Maxwell and many more. Her research into transhumanism has given her a terrifying perspective on the World Economic Forum and tech elites, including Elon Musk. And she tells Glenn the dark truth about Biden’s push for electric vehicles that she noticed while living in Chile.
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Links the connection btwn Transhumanism, Eugenics, AI, Vax mandates, population reduction, domestic control, Global Governance, The China Model, and more.
[Babylon Bee] WILSON, WY — According to reports from residents living near Liz Cheney's Wyoming home, the lame-duck representative for the state's at-large congressional district is really feeling the spirit of the holidays. Although Thanksgiving is weeks away, Cheney is already putting up her January 6th decorations.
Sources say her lighthearted obsession over the January holiday may have gone a little too far.
"She's adorned her lovely home with gaudy January 6th memorabilia," said one neighbor who refuses to decorate outside of a holiday's 24-hour window. "We tolerated the Trump dolls hanging by a noose by the chimney, and re-runs of the televised committee hearings projected onto her garage. It got weird when she started hanging confederate and nazi flags from the eves of her home; she may not have thought that part all the way through."
After driving past her home, this reporter confirmed that Cheney really loves the January 6th holiday. On full display in her front window sat a commemorative lectern encircled by red candles.
The tear gas fog machine topped off the spectacular display.
At publishing time, the representative who lost renomination in Wyoming's Republican primary with only 29% of the vote was seen in a heated verbal argument with a cardboard cutout of Buffalo Guy.
[Federalist] Against a hostile propaganda press, many Americans have poured themselves into restoring election integrity — and it’s working.
If Republican candidates do as well as expected on Tuesday, they can credit the new, widespread, and coordinated effort to begin securing U.S. elections, helping give candidates the best opportunity possible to win a fair fight in the new voting environment of mail-in balloting.
The Republican National Committee, other party entities, and dozens of public interest election nonprofit groups built over the last two years a multimillion-dollar election integrity infrastructure that passed laws improving voter ID and other election security measures, defended those laws from legal attacks by Democrats, and sued states and localities that failed to follow the law. They also recruited, educated, trained, and placed tens of thousands of new election observers and other workers throughout the long midterm voting season.
And they did it all in one of the most hostile propaganda environments on record.
2020’S WAKE-UP CALL
The 2020 election was a massive wake-up call for many Americans on the right. In the months leading up to it, Democrats forced through changes to hundreds of laws and processes governing how elections are conducted.
The rule-change scheme was run by Marc Elias, a Democrat election attorney who also ran his party’s Russia collusion hoax, which falsely claimed Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... stole the 2016 election by colluding with Russia. Sometimes Democrats’ 2020 changes were instituted legally. Frequently, though, they were effected by other means, such as getting a friendly state or local official to change the rules unilaterally.
The 2020 election plan, some of which was admitted to in a flattering Time magazine story, sought to flood the zone with tens of millions of unsupervised mail-in ballots, historically understood to be riper for fraud and other election irregularities than supervised, in-person voting. The plan also involved the private takeover of government election offices to run Democrat-focused get-out-the-vote operations. Mark Zuckerberg ...the Peewee Herman clone who owns Facebook. He's got more money than Croesus and thinks he should be regulated by the government because it does such a nifty job with all the other stuff it regulates. Until it does, he's not going to stop doing the things he sez need regulated... , one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men, financed the project, doling out $419 million to two left-wing groups that focused grants and assistance to government offices in the Democrat areas of swing states.
This radical change — "practically a revolution in how people vote," as Time put it — included the widespread practice of placing ballot drop boxes predominantly in Democrat areas of the country, mailing out unsolicited mail-in ballots or applications for mail-in ballots, using well-funded teams of ballot harvesters both inside and outside of government, lowering and changing the standards for mail-in ballot acceptance, and fixing or "curing" ballots that were improperly filled out.
Corporate media and other Democrats claimed the election was the best-run in history. In reality, it was a mess. Big Tech and the media ran coordinated disinformation campaigns to benefit Democrats by suppressing news that hurt the party. Big Tech also deplatformed effective conservative voices and media outlets, suppressed fundraising emails from Republicans, and elevated certain information to help Democrats.
There were other problems. Candidate debates occurred long after mail-in and early balloting began. Poll observers were sidelined under the guise of a Covid "emergency." The counting of ballots cast via unsupervised, mail-in voting resulted in curious and confusing results. It took days and sometimes weeks to find out how many ballots were cast, much less for whom. In the end, Americans learned that Joseph Biden, who had spent most of his campaign at home, had become the most popular American president in history, collecting an astounding 81 million votes.
Many Republican voters wondered how things were allowed to get so bad with elections.
REPUBLICANS SPENT 40 YEARS ON THE SIDELINES
Part of the reason Republicans hadn’t more effectively fought the election integrity battle before now is somewhat shocking. The 2020 contest was the first presidential election since Ronald Reagan’s first successful run in 1980 in which the Republican National Committee could play any role whatsoever in Election Day operations. For nearly 40 years, the Democratic National Committee had a massive systematic advantage over its Republican counterpart: The RNC had been prohibited by law from helping with poll watcher efforts or nearly any voting-related litigation.
Democrats had accused Republicans of voter intimidation in a 1981 New Jersey gubernatorial race. The case was settled, and the two parties entered into a court-ordered consent decree limiting Republican involvement in any poll-watching operation. But Dickinson Debevoise, the Jimmy Malaise Carter ...peanut farming former nuclear sub officer, who succeeded Gerald Ford as president. Carter perfected the approach later used by Joe Biden to get elected, presenting himself as a moderate whose Zero-based Budgeting was going to so away with the federal deficif. Once in the hands George McGovern's rejects, who were ever so much more virtuous than the rest of us, the nation immediately spun into a Malaise®. By the time Jimmeh, as he was contemptuously referred to, was running against Ronald Reagan, the liberal columnists were pronouncing the nation's problems as too severe to be solved by anyone; they were simply unsolvable, or maybe insoluble. That was why Reagan was such a flop. After Obama, Jimmeh's's only the second worst president ever, and by the time Biden's done maybe the third. Depending on how many Dems we elect in coming years, he may even end up looking competent... -appointed judge who oversaw the agreement, never let them out of it, repeatedly modifying and strengthening it at Democrats’ request.
Debevoise was a judge for only 15 years, but he stayed 21 years in senior status, a form of semi-retirement that enables judges to keep serving in a limited capacity. It literally took Debevoise’s dying in 2015 for Republicans to get out of the consent decree. Upon his passing, a new judge, appointed by President Obama, was assigned the case and let the agreement expire at the end of 2018.
The effect of this four-decade hindrance on GOP poll-watching cannot be overstated. Poll watchers serve many functions. They deter voter fraud, but they also help with getting out the vote. Poll watchers can see who has voted, meaning campaigns and political parties can figure out which areas and voters to call and encourage to vote. They also can observe who was forced to vote provisionally or who was turned away at the polls.
"Without poll watchers, the RNC would have no good way to follow up with its voters to help ensure a provisional ballot is later counted, direct confused voters to their correct polling place and document irregularities, such as voting equipment malfunctions and other incidents that are important flash points in a close election or recount," RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has explained.
For decades, Democrats built up expansive coordination efforts that the Republicans were prohibited from developing. Republican candidates and state parties could do things on their own, but not with help from the national party. In 2012, the Obama-Biden campaign bragged about recruiting 18,000 lawyers to be poll watchers, providing more than 300 trainings to ensure the observers understood election law. The volunteers would collect more than 19,000 problematic incidents at polling locations that were resolved with or without legal intervention.
The consent decree also meant the RNC was kept out of almost any litigation related to Election Day. In fact, one main part of the RNC’s legal efforts was training staff to stay away from Election Day operations, including recounts, and fending off litigation that arose from the consent decree.
It paralyzed the RNC’s political operations, as the slightest misstep would result in getting sued by Democrats. For example, when former Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in an interview with GQ magazine that he’d watched 2016 returns in an oversized utility room on the fifth floor of Trump Tower, Democrats deposed him to show he’d violated the order by being on the wrong floor, one tied to Election Day outreach.
The Democrats used that trivial fact to try, unsuccessfully, to get the new judge to extend the limitation on their political rivals for another decade. Even though the decree was finally lifted after nearly 40 years, it didn’t mean Republicans were on even footing with Democrats in 2020. Democrats had spent decades perfecting their Election Day operations and litigation strategy while everyone at the RNC walked on eggshells, knowing that if they so much as looked in the direction of a polling site, there could be another crackdown.
Thus there was no muscle memory about how to watch polls or communicate with a campaign. They had spent decades not being able to organize or talk to presidential campaigns, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, or the National Republican Congressional Committee about any of these efforts.
What a change, then, when McDaniel announced in early 2020 her "intention to be the most litigious chair in history."
BUT FIRST, ELECTION REFORMS
Before mounting successful lawsuits, however, better laws had to be passed — a difficult task in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election, when Democrats claimed any criticism of how that election had been run was unacceptable and possibly criminal. That campaign, designed to suppress efforts to bolster election security, continues to this day. Nevertheless, Republican politicians in dozens of states began pushing for election reforms.
Lots more details at the link, ending with:
WHAT REMAINS
While reforms were passed in more than two dozen states, key lawsuits were filed and won, and poll workers are being deployed nationwide, many problems remain. Even with the recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court victory, that state remains essentially lawless when it comes to election integrity. North Carolina, Nevada, Wisconsin, and other battleground states retain problematic election processes and guidance. And inflated voter rolls, combined with unsolicited mail-in ballots, are a recipe for disaster.
The new election integrity groups have much work to do in the years ahead. But many Americans, from establishment Republicans to grassroots conservatives, have poured themselves into restoring integrity to elections nationwide. They have begun to achieve major successes in lobbying for election security, litigating against a well-funded activist opposition, and training poll watchers. And they did it all in the face of a hostile propaganda press that maliciously disparaged them as election deniers.
#3
If Kari Lake wins, I would like to see her do an Oscars style acceptance and thank BLM, the transgender movement and each and every member of the Biden Administration and media.
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The real silver lining in the 80% plunge in Facebook stock over the last year and a half is that Mark Zuckerberg has a LOT less money to throw at election cheating and other hobbies.
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[Townhall] Even top congressional Democrats realize they will get creamed next week. They can’t pivot on messaging right now—it’s too late. Sure, now they know that the economy, inflation, and crime were some of the major concerns for voters, not abortion, but that ship has long sailed. Joe Biden’s approvals remain in the toilet, inflation is still here—remember when they said it would be transitory—and 2022 didn’t turn into the abortion rights election.
Democrats gambled and lost, so their go-to move is to scare the hell out of voters, warning them if the GOP wins, we’re going to become Nazi Germany. It’s a comically predictable reaction from a sophomoric party that loves to throw a tantrum when they know defeat is imminent. They had 18 months to govern and couldn’t do that. Voters have voiced their concerns about the economy, only to be dismissed or smeared as racist by liberals. When white suburban women, a Democratic-leaning voting bloc, decided to shift to the GOP by a 26-point margin, that should have been a huge red flag for Democrats that their agenda was failing.
But let’s hear what Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) had to say about how we’ll become Nazi Germany if the Republicans win (via Fox News):
#1
This message isn't to voters. It's to vote-counters.
They are making it crystal clear that a GOP victory is unacceptable. Thus, any outcome that confirms this is not valid. The vote-counters must ensure the correct result. They are telling them ahead of time.
#2
It's always with the Nazis. They were f'ing socialist. The only party pushing for more concentration and centralization of power is the one on the Left.
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[Glenn Beck YouTube] Journalist Whitney Webb has worked to uncover some of the most dangerous stories of our lifetime, and she joins Glenn to reveal just how eye-opening it’s been. Her new two-volume book, "One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein," examines Epstein’s elaborate network of corruption and power, from Bill Clinton to Ghislaine Maxwell and many more. Her research into transhumanism has given her a terrifying perspective on the World Economic Forum and tech elites, including Elon Musk. And she tells Glenn the dark truth about Biden’s push for electric vehicles that she noticed while living in Chile.
[Babylon Bee] WILSON, WY — According to reports from residents living near Liz Cheney's Wyoming home, the lame-duck representative for the state's at-large congressional district is really feeling the spirit of the holidays. Although Thanksgiving is weeks away, Cheney is already putting up her January 6th decorations.
...the Peewee Herman clone who owns Facebook. He's got more money than Croesus and thinks he should be regulated by the government because it does such a nifty job with all the other stuff it regulates. Until it does, he's not going to stop doing the things he sez need regulated...
