Posted on 11/18/2020 4:36:25 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Republicans everywhere just keep surrendering. But hey, that’s just what they do. – We’ve discussed the situation with the Maginot Line Republicans in Georgia who have not only stopped fighting for fair and valid elections in their state, but are actually throwing their lot in with the Democrats there.
Yesterday provided us with yet another example of this kind of Vichy GOP worthlessness in Wayne County, Michigan, home of Detroit, one of five cities in all of America in which Joe Biden somehow “out-performed” Hillary Clinton on November 3. There, the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, which consists of 2 Republicans and 2 Democrats, failed to certify the election results due to the fact that the number of votes counted did not come close to matching the number of people who signed into vote. Which is sort of bound to happen in a county where a 2 a.m. drop of 38,000 votes, all for a singe candidate takes place.
Republicans held firm for about 5 minutes – ok, it was really a few hours – until all the to-be-expected death threats started rolling into their social media accounts and they were accused of being racists by activists at a public meeting. In the end, they caved, which Republicans always do, based on a “compromise” in which Michigan’s utterly corrupt Democrat Secretary of State will “audit” the county’s results. Which will be exactly like putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
From a story at the Detroit Free Press:
After initially voting against certifying the election results, Monica Palmer, the Republican chair of the committee, said she would be open to certifying the election results for other jurisdictions but not Detroit.
But Chris Thomas, the former director of elections for Michigan who served as a special adviser to Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey, responded, “I think that’s absurd. I think that would make a mockery of the situation. To open the door to selective canvassing would be a huge disservice to the election process.”
Public commenters who spoke during the meeting accused the board’s Republican members of disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters — particularly African-American voters — in initially refusing to certify the election.
Jonathan Kinloch, the Democratic vice chair of the board accused the Republican members of playing politics rather than fulfilling their legal obligation to certify the results. “I believe politics made its presence today,” Kinloch said. “This is reckless and irresponsible action by this board,” he added. Democratic board member Allen Wilson agreed. “I’m actually appalled to be sitting here today,” he said.
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Thus does Michigan fall unless the federal courts can be convinced to intervene, which is highly unlikely to happen.
For more than 50 years, the Democrat Party has been playing the long game, fighting a war of attrition against our nation’s constitution and the freedoms and institutions it guarantees. For more than 50 years, the Republican Party has refused to understand the nature of this enemy of the state and of the people, and thus continued to fight a never-ending series of losing holding actions in which it always ends up getting flanked and giving ground.
Now, they are running out of ground to give, because the ground at stake in this current controversy is the continued existence and conduct of real, democratic elections in this country, which of course constitute the very foundation of our American Republic. Republican surrender monkeys like Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and these two members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, who choose the easy way of resolving real controversies by entering into one-sided “compromises” with Democrats only serve to hasten the Republic’s destruction.
This court loss is actually a good thing. – The Trump legal team got poured out by the Pennsylvania Supreme court on Tuesday, but that was to be expected and is actually a good thing, since it speeds the process along.
From a report in the New York Post:
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned an order requiring that election observers be allowed within six feet of ballot-counting operations.
In its decision, the court said state law only requires that observers be allowed “in the room” where ballots are counted and does not mandate a minimum distance, NBC News said.
The 5-2 majority opinion also found that the Philadelphia Board of Elections “did not act contrary to the law in fashioning its regulations governing the positioning of candidate representatives,” according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
“Critically, we find the board’s regulations…were reasonable,” Justice Debra Todd wrote.
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Thus does the PA Supreme Court rule that it is “reasonable” for Democrats to segregate GOP election observers to an area from which they are literally unable to “observe” anything at all, which sort of defies the very definition of the word “observer”, doesn’t it?
Anyway, this decision is fine and very much expected, and it now frees up the Trump team to challenge this ruling in federal courts, where the real decision-making on all of this is going to end up taking place. It is doubtful that anyone on the Trump team expect a positive outcome before the PA supremes.
Meanwhile, in other election challenge-related events…
Trump lawyer L. Lin Wood tweeted this late Tuesday night:
Given the behavior of GA election officials to this point, this would not be at all surprising, would it?
Then there was this from election security expert Russ Ramsland on Lou Dobbs’s Fox Business program:
Here is part of what Ramsland had to say:
We have been out looking mostly at Michigan. We are beginning on turning our sights on Pennsylvania and Georgia. The things you find in Michigan are amazing. There are over 3,000 precincts where the presidential votes cast compared to the estimated voters from the SOS (Secretary of State) is 99% all the way up to 350%.
Those kind of numbers don’t exist in the real world. So where did all those votes come from?
And looking at that, we’ve gone back and looked at some of these huge vote dumps that were mostly Biden’s. We call them spikes. We’ve gone back and traced the spikes. We’ve seen where they were cast, primarily in four counties. We looked at how long it took to cast those votes. And we looked at the equipment that exists at all of those locations by serial number. And the fact of the matter is we can’t see any physical way possible for some of those votes to have been in those kind of numbers because they just don’t have the equipment that can produce it in that timing.
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This happened in Nevada, but the corrupt national news media pretty much ignored the story:
From the story at the Las Vegas Review Journal:
Voters might get a second chance to decide the race for Clark County Commission District C, where the number of election discrepancies surpassed the razor-thin margin of victory, county lawmakers said Monday.
During a meeting to certify election results in the county, the commission directed Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria to return early next month with options for a special election between Democratic former Secretary of State Ross Miller and Republican Las Vegas City Councilman Stavros Anthony.
Miller defeated Anthony by just 10 votes in the general election, but Gloria said Monday that his office had identified 139 unexplainable discrepancies in the contest. The discrepancies, he said, were similar to those found throughout the county, including early voting and Election Day check-in errors and issues related to tracking of the process of mail ballots.
But because the number of discrepancies is more than the margin of victory, that called into question the validity of the results, and the uncertainty is unlikely to be resolved by a recount.
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Grenell has a solid point: The vote count is too unreliable to resolve a county commission race, but just fine for a presidential contest? What kind of sense does that make?
So, things are moving ahead, but here we are at hump day, and Sidney Powell still hasn’t released the Kraken as far as anyone can tell.
Not good. Time is running out, and the Kraken, if it exists, needs to be fed.
That is all.
Michigan is in bad shape. But the Republican party here even worse. They have plenty of votes. Won’t need mine in the future.
The real surrender is in DOJ and Congress. The Deep State has green lighted this Democrat revolution to remove POTUS and here we are.
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By the time you get to this level, having to rely on two people to do the right thing, with a violent surrounding them, it’s simply asking too much.
The ANSWER would have been to fix the problems as they happened, which Trump, I guess, was talked out of early on in his presidency...probably by the GOP, in the interests of ‘keeping the peace’.
Yes, we do need your vote in the future.
But more importantly, we need your activism.
So why are you not running for office?
My guess is Trump will surrender on Friday and concede after GA certifies. I hope I am wrong.
You can also take into thought that four years ago, those two people could have easily done the same thing because they likely knew that Hillary probably didn’t actually win the number of votes she supposedly got in Wayne County. And there certainly would have been threats made against them in that instance as well.
It going to hurt. Like the death of a child kind of hurt.
They didn’t have a world ending pandemic in play yet.
More legal action is being filed starting today.
President Trump is not conceding. Not today, tomorrow or Friday.
Those who know so little and wish to wager surrender can wager it and I will accept that money.
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Thanks.
Surrender? Concede? Why in hell would Trump concede? His best chance and our best chance is with the Supreme Court. Certification or no certification, this court has the power to reverse a phony election in any state.
Agree...the key would have been when it didn’t matter, like during Obama’s elections (when this crap was still going on, albeit at a lower level).
My guess is Trump will surrender on Friday and concede after GA certifies. I hope I am wrong.
My guess is you already surrendered. I’ve seen you post this opinion 4-5 times already. Give it a rest.
I’m with you. Why Trump didn’t look outside of DC for key cabinet positions is beyond me. He was far too enamored of military general officers who, by and large, are every bit as political as any member of Congress - especially after the Obama purges. Depending on Jared Kushner for policy input on anything but Israel was just plain dumb; Kushner knew as little about the DC Swamp as Trump and has far less connection with, and understanding of, the American voter.
I had faith that he anticipated (that whole 3D chess BS) election fraud on a biblical scale and was taking steps to deal with it. I was wrong.
“I hope I am wrong.“
Sure you do.
I truly hope you’re right, but reversing this sham of an election requires too many courageous people to do the right thing; and there aren’t enough of them.
So where was the GOP leaders in PA that didn’t challenge the PA statement that they would allow observers in the room and not make sure they would be allowed to closely examine ballots and then ensure safe social distancing. I trained to be a poll challenger for this election. I asked the question right away, with COVID how can I read the election file on computer if they would enfore 6 dt distancing rule? They said, well do the best you can or bring binoculars. Yeah, needless to say, I decided not to be a poll challenger. We should have been thinking, plotting, blocking them using the 6ft rule right from the start having it addressed in writing. DEMS used this all over as an excuse.
“I truly hope you’re right, but reversing this sham of an election requires too many courageous people to do the right thing; and there aren’t enough of them.”
No kidding! Where are our Republican senators? They appear to be perfectly fine with allowing massive fraud and stealing of the presidential election. If so, NONE of them have any right to be a senator if they will not defend the people against this.
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