It’s a remarkable testament of election fraud. It sounds very convincing.
Category: Trump
19NOV2020 – Status Report on the Election and the Country
Here we are going into the third week after the election and, if anything, things are getting weirder. By all indications the fraud that took place was more organized than any typical urban election shenanigans. The rigged computer software and the manufacturing of bogus election ballots on the order of hundreds of thousands of votes looks to be fraud on a scale that even jaded judges will be hesitant to ignore.
The election certifiers are even getting into the act. The votes for Detroit have been called into question by the two Republican certifiers and I have to assume that we are going to see confidence in the voting process drop to rock bottom levels. Currently 52% of Republican voters surveyed think that the Democrats stole the election and as things become clearer that number will probably rise to 95%.
President Trump is getting legal help from several people who have shown themselves to be unafraid of the media circus and aren’t worried about being blacklisted by the Democrats and the Never Trump Republicans. The big question mark will be the Supreme Court. In my mind what the President needs is to get the information out to the American public and then let public opinion force the Justice Department and the courts to do their jobs and look to see what the facts on the ground are. We’re no longer in the world of the 1960 Election or even the 2000 Election where worry over damaging America’s trust in the institutions of the government is more important than the results of an election. There is no trust in the institutions of government. That has now become the operating principle. If the 72 million people who voted for Donald Trump think they were cheated, which they do, then effectively Joe Biden would be an illegitimate president. And that will have very serious consequences. We saw how debilitating the “resistance” to President Trump’s administration was. I assume that having half the country sure that you are a crook who cheated his way into the White House would render Joe Biden a veritable prisoner in the Oval Office. Wherever he went he would be booed and hooted at. I won’t even speculate beyond that point.
On balance I think if President Trump prevails in the election battle the resistance against him will be even more intense than what we have seen up till now. The only difference is that he has become inured to it and has developed strategies and located personnel who can cope with it. In either case we have now reached the point of complete polarization in the country. The proportion of people who haven’t joined one side or the other is minimal. The relationship between the two sides has reached the point of boiling animosity and open conflict including murder has already occurred along the geographic lines where the most radical partisans on both sides find themselves juxtaposed, like Portland and Kenosha.
I can’t see that things are going to calm down regardless of how the election is decided. From my point of view, it is important to start thinking about living in a country that will become more and more disunited. All the things we’ve been saying about developing our own platforms and institutions is becoming more relevant and crucial. One thing that is clear is that we are living in a treacherous environment. It is important that people are careful about what they say because everything they say can be heard by everybody in the world. Be aware of your surroundings and pay attention to information that can help you avoid trouble. Protect those important to you in every way you can. And most importantly avoid places that you know will be filled with irrational individuals. Physical danger is now not a conspiracy theorist’s paranoid delusion. It’s a living breathing reality.
Howie Carr Has a Remarkable Interview With L. Lin Wood On the Election Battle
Carr is one of the only good guys in New England. Wood is the guy who handled Nicholas Sandmann’s defamation suit. Listen to this and hope that Wood is right. He says the bad guys are going down.
18NOV2020 – American Greatness Post of the Day – NY Sheriffs Save the Holidays
“Saratoga County Sheriff Michael Zurlo also vowed not to enforce the regulations, WRGB Albany reported. “I can’t see how devoting our resources to counting cars in citizens’ driveways or investigating how much turkey and dressing they’ve purchased is for the public good,” the law enforcement authority told the local outlet.”
Sanity from elected officials in in New York, is that allowed? Bravo gentlemen. Hopefully your courage will be emulated elsewhere.
14NOV2020 – OCF Update
Pardon the dearth of posts in the last few days. Like everyone else I have been pondering on the reality and circumstances of our troubled land. I was contemplating waiting on the Supreme Court’s decisions on the election fraud appeals being submitted for their decisions. But I think I will write a essay on the path forward without regard to whether the Supreme Court does its job or not. I no longer think that further proof is needed to convince the reasonable men among the American people that there is no longer one law that applies to all Americans. And what we have to decide is what we want to do about that. That’s what I will be working on.
I also have some more movie reviews. I have a book review of Jim Butcher’s latest addition to his Dresden Files’ series, “Peace Talks.” I don’t think I have done reviews of this series before so maybe this will require a review of the series overall as a start. And as the holidays near I think music and movie reviews for holiday themed works will be forthcoming.
I have been very negligent on the photography front. I’m still posting photos of the day from back in the summer. That is because photo work takes a bunch of time to prep. I keep promising to put together some larger posts on technique and various subjects but I’ve been unable based on time. I have promised myself I’ll have to do better. And I will.
And as promised I’ll get guest contributors busy on some things outside of my areas of expertise.
So once again apologies for the drought but things will improve.
Relax and Don’t Borrow Trouble Until You Have To
For the second time in a week I’ve been lectured about how hopeless the election lawsuits are. Now there is no way of knowing how things will turn out. But assuming the worst doesn’t make sense to me. I’ll let the President and his advisors do everything they can to straighten out this mess. And if it works out in our favor then we’ll have great laugh about all this. And if it goes against us then we’ll have to start figuring what will be best for us in a country that cheats its people out of their God given rights. But why should I have to assume we can’t win? That’s the same talk I heard back in 2016 from the same people. Now maybe they’re right this time. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to make that my default opinion.
One thing it’s interesting to see is who were our real friends and who turned out to be skunks. And right on cue Fox News turns out to be populated by leftists and corporate shills who went out of their way to stab the President in the back whenever and wherever they could. Tucker Carlson and the few real Americans left there should think long and hard about exiting for a better option. Of course, that’s the problem with the Left owning all the media. We were dependent on Fox to provide an alternative. Any start up might not be able to pay high earners like Carlson the salaries they are used to.
But remember, President Trump is in charge at least into January. That is plenty of time to decide how dire our circumstances are and to make whatever provisions are possible. In the meantime, live your life and enjoy the season and the holidays that are approaching to whatever extent the COVID secret police will allow you. And don’t let it all be ruined even before it begins. I intend to have some turkey with stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, buttered rolls and candied yams. I’ll have pumpkin, apple, strawberry rhubarb, cocoanut custard and blueberry pies available for the proceedings and I intend to watch the March of the Wooden Soldiers and Gulliver’s Travels with my two-year-old granddaughter for the first time. We’ll sit around and the women will prepare the food and we’ll all talk about family and the things we plan to do before it gets too cold and snowy to accomplish. And we’ll talk about the folks who aren’t around anymore and those who couldn’t be here because of the COVID foolishness. But I sure as hell don’t intend to turn my life into a funeral because gangsters are planning to take over the country. If it turns out that they’ve won I’ll make my plans based on that but I’ll be no worse off than my ancestors who had to deal with the Mafia and the petty aristocracy that ran Italy back in the nineteenth century. My hope is that Americans are too stubborn to be turned into serfs. Maybe I’m right about that or maybe I’m wrong. But time will tell. Let’s let the act play out.
The Question Has Been Answered
For a long time I have been trying to decide if there was a way to get back to where we were even sixteen years ago when even a country divided by war and partisan allegiance could rally around the institutions of the American government and respect the processes and practices that allowed us to work through our differences in a peaceful and reasonable way.
Even after the lunacy that the Left unleashed in their cities during the BLM riots I thought that a presidential election could allow us to find a way forward based on the will of the majority. Well, that’s been shown to be an illusion. Based on the way the election was run in the Democrat cities in the swing states it’s crystal clear to me that there is no way forward for the United States as one nation. Even if the Supreme Court does their duty and negates all the fraudulent votes and awards the win to President Trump there is no longer any credibility to the idea that the Left will deal with us as countrymen. They have shown us that we are their enemies and at this point we have no choice but to reciprocate that.
I do not know how this will play out. There are so many options that run the gamut from polite dissolution of the union to full blown civil war that I won’t even attempt to figure out how this will go. But what it does mean is that we need to start looking at the facts on the ground and come up with strategies and tactics to start moving forward to a resolution of our status. For those who live in occupied territory (blue states) you may want to figure out how to move to a relatively free area (red states). You may want to start to start getting involved in the political process to try and steer the changes that will start to occur. There will be all kinds of things we’ll have to start thinking about and doing but the first thing is to get it into your head that this isn’t going to go away. You’re going to have to pick a side. Even if President Trump is awarded the election win by the Supreme Court that will only provide a short respite during which you can get your affairs in order.
If Biden is allowed to steal the election then expect things to get a lot worse very quickly. Changes in the law will curtail your freedom of speech and religion and maybe even your right to own a gun. This site may be shut down due to government censorship. But whatever happens try to act logically and work toward goals that minimize the impact of government control on your ability to live your life the way you want. Look for like minded people to form a network with. Use this network to develop a social group that can provide a community that reinforces the things you believe in and protects you and your family from the controlled external environment that surrounds us.
So, if you consider yourself on the right of the left/right divide then know that we aren’t going back to a better time when there was one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. There are two nations and only our nation cares about the rest of those things. Be alert and be careful. These are going to be very challenging times.
Analyzing the Trump Method – Learning How to Win
Watching as President Trump rallies his forces to fight the legal battle that the Democrats have forced on him reminded me just how different he is from the losers in the Republican party that preceded him. And one of his pithy designations stands out as a marker. He called Jeb Bush “low energy.” And that is how I can segregate Donald Trump from the rest of the “conservatives.” He is anything but low energy. It is his dynamism that allows him to defy gravity. When the other conservatives allow themselves to sink down in the quick sand Donald Trump powers up and out. Basically, he is not afraid of tackling a challenge. He is undaunted by hard work and not afraid metaphorically to get his hands dirty.
Another thing about him is he looks for ways to take advantage of structural weaknesses that his enemies try to hide beneath a façade of strength. This speaks to the experience of a lifetime dealing with crooked politicians and their business associates. He knows a stacked deck when he sees one and he knows how to use the rules of the game to his own advantage. These things speak to intelligence and experience.
Another characteristic is that he is not an idealist. He decisions are based on observable fact not theory. If something has been tried and failed, he learns from that. He’s adaptable and can roll with the punches. This speaks to a flexibility that allows less important factors to be subordinated to higher order imperatives.
And finally, he is driven by his desire to win. His egoism drives him to conquer obstacles of every kind, whether they’re individuals, organizations or collective barriers that stand in the way of his goals. To this end he has assembled a team of people who work to achieve the objectives he has identified.
When I look at this list of traits what I see are the traits that I would characterize as the qualifications of a survivor. Individuals that have these traits will survive in good times and bad. They will thrive and rise to the top in good times and they will survive and hold their own during adversity.
This is what we need to emulate if we want to preserve ourselves, our family, our friends and the things we believe in. We need to be energetic and adaptable in the face of adversity and hostility from the society that is endeavoring to stamp us out. We will need to learn the rules of the game and use them to our advantage in advancing our agenda and hindering our enemies.
And finally, we need to have the pure willpower to endure the hard work and endless disappointments that await us in a struggle that basically has no end. My generation will not see the end of this struggle. I doubt my children will see it won. But I have grandchildren and they are worth fighting for. I want them to know what freedom is. And I can settle for seeing incremental progress. We can start by beginning the hard work of building institutions and organizations that are entirely on our side. No more Fox News, no more Boy Scouts, no more Weekly Standards.
So, here’s to President Donald J. Trump. Here’s to the first President of the new America. It’s being created inside the old and it will be born in hard work and pain. But it needs to be done and it will allow us to once again be free. So, think about the traits you’ll need to go forward. Decide if you have the right stuff. Because otherwise you might as well join the hive and be comfortably absorbed into the collective and eventually painlessly euthanized. That’s the choice.
04NOV2020 – Post-Election Day Thoughts
Groggily crawling into the light this morning required that I re-orient myself in the aftermath of the surreal experience that was Election Night 2020. I spent from 9pm to 1am on a zoom with a great bunch of people on our side of the political divide. I’ll gladly admit that was a whole lot of fun. I much preferred discussing the incoming results with them than listening to the talking heads on the networks blather on about their demented opinions.
I’m very disappointed that we didn’t have a definitive result last night. Taking that out of the equation makes election night kind of a phony description. It would be more accurate to call it the beginning of the ballot counting. Well, what can you do? Progressives can’t help but ruin anything they touch. But what was very clear last night was that any state that is controlled by the Democrats like Virginia and Pennsylvania made sure to stop the vote counting if it looked like President Trump was about to win the state. The obvious conclusion is that they are using the delay to rig the results. So that means four very key states, PA, VA, MI and WI will attempt to use manufactured Democrat voting ballots to fraudulently win those states for Biden.
It will be very interesting for me to see if President Trump has the wherewithal to block this fraud. I have no idea if he can. I sincerely hope he is successful. That would be the best outcome for the current situation. If he fails Joe Biden and ultimately, Kamala Harris will end up as President.
And so, let me get to the crux of this essay. If President Trump prevails then we know what he has to do to begin repairing the damage already done to our country. I and every other writer on the Right has been expounding on that for the last four years. What needs to be determined is what are we going to do if he is unsuccessful?
And the answer is to cultivate our own gardens. We are going to have to woke-proof our lives. We will be forced to come up with work arounds and local solutions to all the problems associated with living in the cultural Marxist state that a Biden administration will entail. And don’t think it won’t be extreme. Look how repressive the social media and other Silicon Valley companies have been under the Trump administration. I can only imagine that the deplatforming will become even more pervasive. And the laws that the Left will try to get through Congress and the courts will be pretty bad. First and Second amendment attacks are going to be horrendous. Theoretically the Supreme Court should be there to prevent that from taking place but John Roberts is an awful man and a real enemy to the conservative side. We are going to see some gut-wrenching defeats under his tenure on the Supreme Court.
And for all those reasons I think it’s more important than ever to have places we can go to talk and trade notes on what helps and what doesn’t. Our voices will disappear on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and all the other hostile platforms. We’ll need our own spaces to get any news out and lend moral and other support to our side. I’ve painted a pretty bleak picture of what will happen if Biden wins. But really you should remember that this isn’t something that should make brave people quail. Think of what the Poles endured under the Soviets. Freedom is a quality of the mind not the local laws. If we have to go underground then that’s what we do. And then we find out who the free and the brave really are.
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;”
I say it’s us. What do you think?
Pre-Game Jitters and An Election Day Open Post
Note:Updates are added at the bottom of the post over the course of the day.
Well here we go. No matter how confident you may feel about the results of the upcoming elections you’re probably a little nervous about what will be going on for the next week or more. And so am I. I’m fairly certain the President will be re-elected relatively easily but fairly certain and sure are not the same thing. Also, based on the actions of the woke lunatics infesting the cities around the country I’m pretty sure there will be at least a certain amount of bedlam and violence happening, especially if the polls show Trump winning. As soon as that happens these creeps will go ballistic, especially in their strongholds like Portland and Seattle. I expect there will be a certain number of murders and lots of arson and looting for sure. And the Democrats and their army of crooked lawyers and judges will sow confusion and attempt to outright steal any states that aren’t strong enough to defend themselves. And the Supreme Court will be the epicenter of the battle and John Roberts is a spineless loser who will do his damnedest to hurt our side.
But what I think is good advice is to try to keep the excitement level a couple of notches below maximum, so instead of eleven dial it back to seven. It will be a long night for sure and it might even be a very long week of distressing news regardless of how well the election goes. The world is full of very bad people and they will be looking to rattle our side as hard as they can. And of course, the media is going to spin everything they can as negatively as they can for as long as they can.
I’m off this week and so as a way to keep morale up I intend to keep this as an open post going all the way through election day and even beyond if it is warranted. I’ll try to combine election results, links to important or entertaining news along with my always witty and penetrating insights. Anyone who has comments is, as usual, welcome to chime in with relevant or entertaining discussion. I’m especially interested to hear about local conditions where you are. Anything you find interesting about things going on during the election is exactly what I’m looking for.
So, let’s hope it ends like it did in 2016 with a river of progressive tears washing away the mounds of inaccurate polls and their howls drowning out the words of the talking heads trying to explain how they got it so wrong. But even if it is a long confusing time of disputed election results and screeching progressives threatening to summon the military if their claims about disputed results aren’t honored immediately and unconditionally, remember to keep calm and look at the big picture. There is no guarantee that elections will work in our favor every time or even at all. The important thing is to be looking at how to prevent the Left from impacting you, your family and friends. That’s something you can work on when we’re winning or losing. And be willing to share a laugh or a kind word with anyone on our side that you meet here or elsewhere.
Best of luck to President Trump and the other folks on our side who are about to get on the roller coaster that is Election Day 2020. And best wishes to all of us. And as an old tv show used to say, “be careful out there.”
11:30 A.M. Update – Just got back from voting. My little town turned out in phenomenal numbers. The lines were epic. But it was truly fun getting out and doing something useful. One amusing event happened in line. About two people behind me in line was this twenty something kid with a sort of goth persona; dyed black hair, black clothes, and the palest skin I’ve seen in years. As we got close to the front of the line a middle aged woman comes out of the exit door and the young guy yells out have you voted for Joe Biden today. She made a face like he had said something vile and exclaimed “Hell no!” I almost burst out laughing but just chuckled a little instead. I’ll have to say that restored my faith in humanity. Even here in the belly of the beast, New England, there are plenty of good people left.
12:54 P.M. Note: I’ve been sent an invite for a 9 pm zoom to serve as a remote election party. Camera Girl has agreed to bake some pizza pies for me so I can have a reheat-able food available as the long night wears on. She also plans to studiously ignore the goings on. She is one of those benighted people who takes no interest in politics. She claims I am responsible for taking care of that. Ah well, she is making the pizza after all. What social provisions is everyone else doing for this momentous event? Is it mostly a solitary one for you?
3:22 P.M. – News Headline – Pelosi Calls Amy Coney Barrett an ‘Illegitimate Supreme Court Justice”
Can you imagine any normal person being called illegitimate by Nancy Pelosi. At this point I don’t think Pelosi even qualifies as a living human. As far as I can tell she’s now one of the undead. The only question is whether she can qualify as a vampire if her sustenance is gin instead of blood. Please Nancy stay in your crypt, your scaring the children and Halloween is officially over.
7:03 P.M. – Trump wins Kentucky. No surprise there.
7:33 P.M. – So far all the numbers are what you’d expect. Some networks have already called VA for Biden with 0% counted. But that’s probably a safe state to call for the Dems. The interesting ones for us will be the Carolinas and Georgia. If those go well it will bode well for the rest of the night.
7:55 P.M. – I was listening to Fox News but there are just too many progs there to make it enjoyable. If anyone knows of a better live discussion let me know.
8:02 P.M. – SC was called for Trump. Not a big surprise, but encouraging.
8:09 P.M. – Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois and Massachusetts just got called for Biden with the usual 0%. No surprises.
8:18 P.M. – Fox is saying that Trump looks like he is winning in Florida in unexpected places (Miami/Dade).
8:40 P.M. – Florida seems like it may be an easy win for Trump.
9:40 P.M. – The betting odds have now shifted to Trump.
10:10 P.M. – Everything seems to be going our way. Fingers crossed.
10:51 P.M. – It looks like PA is shutting down the counting probably because Trump is so far ahead.
1:33 A.M. – So the crooked state officials are withholding the totals in PA and several other locales. We’ll have to wait until the daylight to see how these criminals try to steal the election. To be continued.
9:55 A.M. – Shennanigans seemed to have ensued. Lawyers will have to sort this out. But without a doubt MI looks like it will be needed.