Uncomfortably Numb

Chris Volkay

[cvolkay]

I wanted to chronicle some random thoughts on this year's political plain poppycock.

On the election, I think if Trump has any chance at all it will be with the computer angle. The dead people voting and ballot stuffing is all small beer. Homeland Security and CISA say they found no fraud and I believe them implicitly. But the question is always "how hard were you looking?" With eagle eyes or like a man with a glass eye looking through a keyhole?

Any decent computer hacker could add 200,000 votes somewhere pretty easily and then remove any trace. This is the whole crux right here. It's like a seasoned jewel thief wiping his finger prints off the broken counter. It's not so much a matter of facts and figures but one of the will, always the will, and I don't think there's a will to find anything much.

For many years the people on the Right have said their own constituents are weak. Which is true in my view. Now having their guy Trump, martyred as a victim of fraud (Trump of Arc?) it may serve as a turning point in energizing the feckless Right. Or not. Hard to predict these things.

I would say whether you think the election was stolen and thus illegitimate or you simply oppose the clearly stated socialist agenda waiting in the wings, you have a right to civil disobedience to protest (as does anybody else) its policies and the right to resist the government in any way you deem necessary.

Of course, the most obvious way to strike back is to withhold money and starve them to death. You know, even good old Godzilla would have dropped dead if he was starved out. However the way our system is set up the tax money goes directly to the government and only the self-employed and small business owners can avail themselves here, should they choose to do so. Lack of money can stop almost anything.

Trump's great achievement isn't in any of the bills or orders he signed but in bringing the Right out of the shadows, emboldening them and legitimizing them. He slammed political correctness, Hollywood, Big Tech and obliterated any of the legitimacy the ridiculous lap-dog media may have had. That's his achievement and it's big. He put the "benched" Right back in the game, and as a starter.

The two huge problem facing the Right, and I'm not sure how to solve them, are demographics, the old dying out and CRT. Unless something can be done regarding these two I don't see any way forward. These callow, empty heads blindly accept this CRT and 1619 nonsense as if they were written by a finger of fire on Mt. Sinai on the "People's Tablets," by Karl Marx himself.

Other thoughts. When Covid-19 first hit, Trump was saying it wasn't much worse than the flu, however he soon caved in a political calculation that hurt him immeasurably. I believe it went like this, it was always unneccesary to close the country, to lockdown businesses, but if he didn't cave to this unsound, crap science he would have been excoriated 24 hours a day as a heartless serial killer. Jack the Ripper & Donald the Clipper, a double feature. As numerous scientists and doctors said, the entire Covid-19 lockdown, mask and social distancing was nonsense without one shred of evidence to back it up. But the gullible people themselves swallowed it almost immediately like it was part of their religion and Trump had to act or it was Caine Mutiny time.

He was forced to destroy the economy with the lockdowns and also contributed, inadvertently, to his other large problem. I believe the lockdowns and it's cabin fever effect also contributed to the unrest and rioting. He should have immediately called out the National Guard and restored order and the safety.of the nation's citizens. What the governors or the mayors wanted br damned. This failure to act was a big mistake and people perceived it as weakness. If you can't or won't stop the rioting in our streets, what good is re-electing you?

The following is pure, idle speculation, not saying it's true. Just one of those weird thoughts you have.

What if the dems we're so terrified of having a second term of the gartantuan, orange Nazi, they used their connections in China, especially Biden's, to influence them to release the Wuhan virus. Don't forget China has been locked in a trade war with Big Orange. Yes, a few million killed, but well, sacrifices must be made. After the virus spreads to America, Trump is forced to destroy the economy, his perceived top achievement, be accused of "murdering" hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens, and finally, is saddled with the unintended consequences of having tens of thousands of childish brats rioting in the streets? Machiavelli anyone? The Art of War?

[dayglored]

Welcome to the party, pal!

[Jeepers43]

That's a lot and I'll only comment on the DHS/CISA aspect.

CISA issued some blather about "risk assessments" of election systems and frankly I think that's quite a bit of BS and doubletalk.

All three election systems have been notably flawed and even hacked going back to 2007. They are full of technical and operational disasters. The management and financial integrity of Dominion Election Systems would have been a HUGE HUGE HUGE red flag in any honest risk assessment. There are federal documents on the CISA (and NIST) public web sites that say as much.

The director of CISA who was fired last month was making declarations of system soundness and integrity shortly before his dismissal by POTUS. No wonder in that, these systems are full of vulnerabilities. The finances, the operational modes, the technical vulnerabilities (unsecured USB drives!!) etc etc etc. NO qualified computer auditor in their right mind would approve these systems for federal election use in America. Complete disaster.

I'm not gonna go through web links and recount a decade of critical analysis and reporting. Anyone who digs through not just this election but even back to 2008 will find a lot.

The US government has 20+ years experience with formalized risk assessments and reporting (NIST 800 Series). Procedures are well defined and cover technical, operational, and management risks in a well-defined and structured manner. Any system used in government operations MUST go through these defined risk assessments.

So I will say that - having personally been through many (hundreds) of these assessments - these three election systems would absolutely fail. No question whatsoever.

[alstewartfan]

Congrats Chris! You get it.

[4Liberty]

I too thought the "computer angle" should predominate their election fraud arguments. However, we need to keep in mind how close the election results are, in several key states. So that means on-the-ground fraud and micro-shenanigans become important factors. Biden's claimed "victory" was not a blow out -- although the fake news media likes to merrily skipping past that fact. That means POTUS has solid grounds to ask that election audits etc. take place.

[griswold3]

Fraud is hard to prove. Learned that in 2008. Intent is difficult to discern.

[joma89]

Start prep’ing and see my tagline.

JoMa

[ml/nj]

The dead people voting and ballot stuffing is all small beer.

It's too bad that we have become inured to this small beer. There is no good reason to accept even one fraudulent vote except to enable more massive fraud.

ML/NJ