From what I read here and there during the 2022 election period, people in CA were doing their best to vote; didn’t get the impression that many people had given up. Same in OR, and our elections are stolen here too.
Clandestine/Substack ping, let me know if you want on/off. Excerpted.
https://briancates.substack.com/p/what-do-you-do-when-youre-presented
An Incoherent Narrative?
Everything You’re Being Told About Biden’s Classified Docs Scandal Is Utterly Incoherent
Brian Cates
So two interesting developments in the ever-growing “Joe Biden Stole Classified Documents” scandal emerged over the weekend.
First, after giving Biden’s legal team their best shot at seeing if there were any remaining classified documents still hidden in Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home, the DOJ suddenly surprised both the Biden administration and it’s lawyers by having a team of DOJ investigators go into the home and do it’s own search.
YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHAT THEY FOUND?
They found more classified documents in the house. Reports say six more, but there’s some contention as to if that’s just clever wording on the part of Biden’s attorney.
Second, DaKine17 on Truth Social made a post linking to the fact that the current National Archivist, the person in charge of overseeing Presidential records of the past three administrations, has suddenly decided to speak up and announce his retirement.
Let’s see if I can provoke some thought here.
What do you do when you’re presented with an **incoherent narrative** that doesn’t make any sense? You dig into it and ask questions to get back to what you know the grounding facts are. You reject the cover story and look for the truth.
Time to put on your thinking caps.
PREPARE TO CONCENTRATE!
This David S. Ferriero guy, a person most people couldn’t pick out of a lineup, has been the National Archivist for...how many years?
How many Presidential administrations?
What does his job entail?
What is he supposed to keep track of?
Who checks to ensure if he’s actually keeping track of what he’s supposed to keep track of?
Wouldn’t HE be playing a key role in BOTH the Trump Mar A Lago scandal and the newly emerging Biden ClassifiedGate scandal?
Why is he suddenly deciding to retire now just when the real importance of his current job is being highlighted by national scandals?
What were you told last August when the FBI raid on Mar A Lago occurred? What excuse was presented to justify the raid?
If the National Archivist & NARA believed Trump was about to take **still classified documents** from their secured locations and take them with him in boxes to Mar A Lago, a facility that is currently being claimed to be **unsecure**, what was the National Archivist & NARA **required** by the law to do at **that time**?
Did they do what the law required them to do at that time?
If not, why not?
Did Trump state he was working with the National Archivist & NARA on assembling the boxes of documents he took with him to Mar A Lago?
Has the National Archivist & NARA ever disputed that Trump showed them exactly what he was taking with him?
Are you being asked to believe that Ferrerio & NARA knew for a year and a half that Trump had violated national security by taking classified documents to MAL while they did NOTHING to prevent him from doing that?
Has the National Archivist & NARA ever stated during all this controversy about the MAL raid that they ONLY DISCOVERED after he had left office, that without notifying them, Trump had taken a bunch of still classified documents with him to Florida?
Is the narrative that the National Archivist TOLD Trump at the time he was leaving with the boxes of documents that some of those documents were still classified, BUT THEY DID NOTHING TO STOP HIM & let him leave with them anyway plausible to you?
Why are you being asked to believe the National Archivist & NARA officials stood there HELPLESLLY and just WATCHED as Donald J. Trump and his team boxed up STILL-CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS and removed them from their secure locations and transported them down to Florida & stored them there for a year and a half before they suddenly found their voice & alerted the DOJ/FBI about 18 months later that Trump had done this?
Do things actually WORK this way?
Is the National Archivist & NARA required by law to **immediately** notify the proper national security & law enforcement agencies the **second** they are alerted to the fact that classified material is missing or has been taken without authorization from their secure facilities?
If so, wasn’t it time for them to FOLLOW THE LAW back in January 2021, if Donald Trump did indeed do what they are alleging he did?
Why would they WAIT until Spring of 2022 to suddenly claim Donald Trump took classified documents over their objections?
Does anyone think Joseph R. Biden **informed** the National Archivist or NARA that he was taking **any** of these still-classified documents with him when he took them?
Did the National Archivist or any NARA officials realize ANY of these classified documents found at the Biden Penn Center or Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home were missing from their secure facilities before they were discovered over the past 3 months?
If not, WHY didn’t they know they were missing?
Exactly how good at his job is David S. Ferriero, if Joe Biden was able to take an as-yet-fully-undetermined number of still classified materials with him, and Ferriero never realized as the years ticked by that any of this stuff had been stolen?
Could the emerging “StollenGate” classified documents scandal have played any role in Ferriero’s decision to announce his retirement from his current job?
[More at link, good to read the whole thing to see the conclusion]
I speak only from my own experience. I did make an effort to vote in person, on Election Day. The people I saw at the polls (our county still has the stupid COVID-19-inspired "accessible voting locations" which are few and far between, instead of the old polling stations open every few blocks) seemed to be largely 50+ in age. I wish I could have had a better finger on the pulse of my precinct.