Posted on 12/07/2020 12:57:16 PM PST by EyesOfTX
Sidney Powell and her vaunted “Kraken” election fraud lawsuits have now been summarily dismissed by federal judges in not one, but two different states: Georgia and Michigan. Making matters worse for the bombastic attorney, the dismissals have come in bipartisan fashion, first from an Obama-appointed judge in Michigan and then from a George W. Bush appointee in Georgia. Really not a good outcome or look at all for Powell, who has deployed the most inflammatory rhetoric imaginable around her challenges to the obvious Democrat fraud that took place around the November 3 elections.
Here’s an excerpt from a Detroit Free Press story on the Michigan dismissal:
A Michigan federal judge has ruled against a sweeping legal bid to overturn election results in the state, determining the lawsuit brought by an ally of President Donald Trump was riddled with “theories, conjecture and speculation” but little evidence of wrongdoing.
U.S. District Judge Linda V. Parker ruled against a request from Sidney Powell — an attorney disavowed by the Trump campaign who still champions its causes — to force the state to award its electoral votes to Trump despite President-elect Joe Biden winning the state.
“In fact, this lawsuit seems to be less about achieving the relief Plaintiffs seek — as much of that relief is beyond the power of this Court — and more about the impact of their allegations on People’s faith in the democratic process and their trust in our government,” reads a portion of the 36-page opinion.
“Plaintiffs ask this Court to ignore the orderly statutory scheme established to challenge elections and to ignore the will of millions of voters. This the Court cannot, and will not, do. The people have spoken.”
Ouch.
Now, here’s an excerpt from an 11Alive.com story about the Georgia decision:
ATLANTA — UPDATE: Judge Timothy Batten in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia has dismissed the lawsuit.
A similar suit in Michigan was also dismissed this morning.
It’s likely Powell will appeal to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, which itself over the weekend dismissed a similar suit brought by the attorney Lin Wood.
The sprawling suit at its core alleges a wide-ranging conspiracy perpetrated by international and domestic actors to use Dominion Voting Systems, the company that makes the voting machines for Georgia and a number of other states, to rig the election for Joe Biden, in large part by switching votes from President Trump to Biden.
Georgia’s hand-count audit of all 5 million of Georgia’s paper votes (both those printed out by the Dominion machines, which were reviewed by voters, and those submitted by mail) confirmed the original machine count, and a machine recount has so far confirmed those two previous counts, making it highly implausible the results were manipulated at any point.
Powell and those who have given testimony for her have instead argued that in Georgia, fraudulent ballots were inserted into the system and the hand-count was conducted in a manner to deliberately overlook them. They have not offered direct material evidence of this, instead at a Georgia Senate hearing last week presenting data analysis and accounts of various individuals who served as poll workers or observers during the election and audit.
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Ms. Powell, for whom I continue to have great respect, will no doubt appeal both cases up the chain until she can get one or both heard before the U.S. Supreme Court. But in doing so, she and her cohort Lin Wood would be well-advised to spend less time doing media interviews and staging pep rallies and more time compiling actual proof of their claims. Doing that would be a real service to everyone.
Meanwhile, Business Insider has a story today indicating that Goldman Sachs management may have finally had enough of Bill De Blasio’s and Andrew Cuomo’s high taxes and general bullshit and is preparing to move its asset management operations to Florida.
Here’s an excerpt from that wonderful story:
Goldman Sachs, an icon of New York finance headquartered in a downtown Manhattan skyscraper a short walk from Wall Street, is considering shifting its asset management operations to Florida, according to a new report.
Company executives have looked at possible South Florida office space near Miami, covering areas like Palm Beach County and Fort Lauderdale, people with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg News.
If the plans pan out, the bank would join other New York-based financial services firms in making similar moves out of the state and to cheaper states and markets as the coronavirus pandemic spurred a wave of remote work.
Goldman Sachs has been speaking with local Florida officials and considering the lower taxes there, per the report. While Bloomberg reported that it is unclear how many people could locate there, staff would include a mix of back-office staff and investment professionals, according to two of the people Bloomberg spoke with.
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Hey, anything bad happening to the despicable creeps who run New York is great for the rest of the country.
Just a bit of good news on an otherwise gloomy day.
That is all.
David Blackmon sounds like he’s rubbing his hands in glee at Sydney’s travails.
I used to enjoy reading his articles, but it appears he’s gone Fox on us.
I’m surprised you wrote this. Maybe dismayed is the word I’m looking for.
If my precinct has 1,000 votes cast ... 600 of them are for Trump and 400 of them are for Biden ... and the computer reports that Biden got 600 and Trump got 400 ... a manual recount will show the real result.
And if the extra 200 Trump ballots get “lost” then the count will be 400-400 ... and the computer rigging is completely pointless because it isn’t needed if the intent is to destroy Trump ballots. That would be done before they were even run through the scanner.
I don’t know why so many Freepers are fixated on this idiocy of making something so much more complicated than it needs to be. For that matter, I don’t know why Powell was, either.
Re: “the bombastic attorney”
Uh?....I don’t think she is bombastic.
I usually enjoy David Blackmon’s editorial but, wow!, I’m stuck on this one.
You must have missed the point about the pristine printed absentee ballots fed through the tabulators. There at least 9 witnesses to this happening in GA.
You don’t think that they couldn’t have come up with fraudulent votes to match the numbers they were manipulating? It’s not like any GOP observers could actually see much anything in the recounts or audit the actual ballots.
I can recount 100 of counterfeit bills and still come up with 100.
Because, as Sydney Powell has stated, they’re also just making up votes taken out of the ether.
THAT’S why her lawsuits are so powerful.
Why is that so hard to believe? As evidence, look at the Russia fiasco, how much of that was simply made up?
100% of it, and the list of such things is endless, Corona? Mask efficiency? Lockdown effectiveness? Global Warming? Acid Rain? Cranberry Panic? Jumping the Border an act of Love? Releasing prisoners to protect them from Corona?
So, why WOULDN’T they also ‘invent’ votes?
You keep assuming that there would be a manual recount.
The architects for this sort of fraud would be doing their best to insure that no recount ever happens. And if a recount did happen, they would plan to exclude observers. Of course, things do not always go according to plans.
The reported miracle machine from Wayne County GA is supposed to always tally a 26.5% "win" for Joe Biden, no matter what ballot counts are run through it. Repeated tests show the same result.
If this report is accurate, then there is your answer than makes any sense.
They just went and did it. One of the machines was captured before they could erase the gimmick. It shows reproducible results. QED.
And if they did it once, you can bet they did it more than once.
In addition to the after-midnight traditional ballot-box stuffing (that was captured on video) when the gimmicked tally machines were insufficient to get the desired results.
After all, you always gotta have a backup plan.
It’s a ridiculously stupid and ineffective way to rig any election that uses paper ballots — for this very reason.
The Trump campaign hasn't demanded recounts in most of these states. There is a reason for this: It’s because they know this is a BALLOT issue, not a COMPUTER issue.
The 5 million hand recount in Georgia is a lie. In many wards, the precinct captains ordered the workers to report the same original count reported on election day. GOP reps were not allowed to observe all the counting. In other areas, they only counted a subset sample, not the entire collection of ballots. I believe Sidney Powell. The hand recount was a farce.
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* 1.8 billion communist Chinese
* 1.6 billion India
That’s billion. They want control of our land.
Bottom Line: NONE of these judges have the balls to allow it because NONE of these judges want to be “arkancided”.
NO ONE messes with the PIAPS...or the Toons, in general.
It’s the PIAPS revenge. /s
David Blackmon - three words: “Fight for Trump!!”
Your articles used to be so good - now you seem to be hedging your bets - so that if the Democrats succeed in stealing this election - you can have bragging rights that your gloomy predictions were right..
They know that both pathways of fraud were used.
The ballot fraud is easier to prove because there are many more accessible witnesses.
“You expected the swamp to rule against itself?”
BULLSEYE!!!
I watched Sidney Powell on Newsmax’s Greg Kelly show. She gave a quick update. The team is “doing fine.” The setback involved U.S. District Judge Timothy C. Batten calling Powell’s bid to decertify Georgia’s election “the most extraordinary relief ever sought” for an election in a court. On Kelly’s show, Powell said Batten gave his ruling in a pre-written opinion that did not consider the evidence of her case. She will call for emergency relief in a higher court (SCOTUS?).
“Batten gave his ruling in a pre-written opinion that did not consider the evidence of her case”
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