New York Times Attacks Election Skeptics

The New York Times editors reached a new low of hypocrisy with their December 11^th editorial entitled “The Republicans Who Embraced Nihilism.” Failure to embrace Joe Biden as the legitimate president-elect is tantamount in their eyes to embracing a nihilist rejection of America’s democratic process itself. That’s not surprising given the editors’ hysterical warning before the election that Trump’s re-election campaign “poses the greatest threat to American democracy since the Second World War.” Forget about the real threats posed by nuclear-armed Communist nations and global Islamist terrorism. President Trump is the existential threat to the country, the editors exclaim. Fueled by their hatred of Trump, it’s not much of a leap for the Times’ editors to do what they can to help push Biden over the finish line by whatever means necessary.

The Times editorial began by bemoaning widespread Republican support for Texas’s failed constitutional challenge to the results of the presidential election in four other states where Joe Biden was declared the winner. But most of the editorial was taken up with attacking Republican supporters of President Trump more generally for daring to question the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s purported election victory. The editors descended into lobbing false accusations that such Republicans are engaging in “election denialism,” “undermining the rule of law,” an “assault on truth,” and “anti-democratic tendencies.”.

The real nihilists and election deniers are the Democrats and their shills in the media, who refused to accept Donald Trump as the duly elected president of the United States in 2016 or to acknowledge the legitimacy of his presidency. Obsessed with their hatred of President Trump, these deniers wouldn’t recognize the truth if it slapped them in the face. They were complicit in undermining the rule of law and democracy by concocting and pursuing endless bogus charges against Trump, starting with the Russian collusion hoax. The New York Times has been a leading generator of fake news hit jobs against the president.

The late Democrat Rep. John Lewis, who along with approximately a third of his Democrat House comrades refused to attend Trump’s inauguration, said “I don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president." Paul Krugman, one of the Times’ leading left wing op-ed columnists, wrote a piece on January 16, 2017 praising Lewis’s refusal to recognize Trump as a legitimate president. Krugman called Lewis’s stance “an act of patriotism.” After the 2020 election, Krugman falsely claimed that “Democrats never said Donald Trump was illegitimate," adding that Biden will “be the first modern U.S. president trying to govern in the face of an opposition that refuses to accept his legitimacy.” Krugman glossed over his own praise of Lewis nearly four years ago for denying Trump’s legitimacy as president.

Charles M. Blow, a regular op-ed columnist for the New York Times, tweeted on February 1, 2017: “Trump, to me, is illegitimate. Ergo, any judge he picks carries that same stench, regardless off pedigree or elocution.”

The Times’ editorial board has two different standards when it comes to questioning a president’s legitimacy - one standard for Joe Biden, whose legitimacy as president must be accepted as the gospel truth, and a different standard for the Times’ columnists who brazenly condemned Trump’s presidency as “illegitimate.”

John Lewis was far from the only Democrat who treated Trump as an “illegitimate” president. Sore loser Hillary Clinton, who has blamed Russian collusion and virtually everything else under the sun for her defeat except her own failings as a candidate, has never gotten over her defeat. "He [Trump] knows he's an illegitimate president," Hillary Clinton told CBS's "60 Minutes" on September 29, 2019. Clinton said last August that Biden "should not concede under any circumstances." Yet the Times now criticizes President Trump and his supporters for not adhering to the “old norm of graceful concession.”

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, who helped lead the Trump impeachment circus, refused from the get-go to acknowledge the legitimacy of the 2016 election results. “He was legally elected, but the Russian weighing-in on the election, the Russian attempt to hack the election and, frankly, the FBI’s weighing-in on the election, I think, makes his election illegitimate, puts an asterisk next to his name,” Nadler said.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called President Trump an “imposter.” She didn’t limit such denialist insults to Trump. She called Justice Amy Coney Barrett “an illegitimate Supreme Court justice,” even though Justice Barrett was nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate in strict accordance with the Constitution.

During the Democratic presidential primary campaign, Joe Biden himself said that he absolutely agreed with a supporter at one of his campaign stops who exclaimed that Trump was “an illegitimate president.”

Democrats and their media shills, including the New York Times, gave no presumption of legitimacy to Trump, but they now demand that Republicans and other Trump supporters genuflect to Biden as president. Even worse, they weaponized their Russian collusion narrative to try and delegitimize and then destroy the Trump presidency.

The Russian hoax strategy fell apart. But its perpetrators never admitted they were wrong. Instead, they latched on to another false narrative – this time involving Ukraine. Democrats used an innocuous phone call as an excuse to impeach President Trump and seek to remove him from office, taking the decision whether to re-elect Trump away from the voters. And the Trump-hating media cheered the Democrats on.

Rep. Adam Schiff, who never let go of his Russian collusion nonsense, served as the lead House Manager in the Senate impeachment trial. Schiff said during the impeachment trial that “The President’s misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box, for we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won.” Pelosi said that the Republican position to “let the election decide” is dangerous, in part, “because the President is jeopardizing the integrity of the 2020 elections.”

In short, Schiff, Pelosi and their fellow Democrat persecutors preemptively attacked the legitimacy of the 2020 election outcome if Trump was permitted to run and ended up winning. The Democrats lost their impeachment gambit as well. But the Democrats and their pals in the media and Big Tech still were not through trying to block Trump’s path to re-election. They had other tricks up their sleeves as their “insurance” policy, including using the coronavirus pandemic as a convenient excuse to press for universal mail-in voting.

To ensure that the universal mail-in voting process was as loose as possible, Democrats across the country managed to get state rules changed by hook or by crook. The original rules were put in place to help ensure election integrity. The Democrats were more interested in ensuring a favorable election outcome. Thus, in some cases, voter ID and signature matching requirements were thrown out the window. State legislatures' mandated election procedures were too often ignored. Mail-in ballots could arrive days after Election Day and still be counted, even if the post marks were smudged. Poll watchers were blocked from closely observing the vote count in key battle ground states. Unexplained ballot surges for Biden suddenly appeared when it looked like Trump was comfortably ahead in those states. After-the-fact ballot-fixing of deficient ballots that should not have been counted and ballot harvesting contributed to likely fraud in Georgia and other battle ground states such as Pennsylvania.

As Joseph Stalin said, “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.” Democrat operatives made sure that battleground states which had gone for Trump in 2016 in close contests would produce vote counts in 2020 guaranteeing wins for Biden.

The mainstream media and Big Tech, which are in the tank for Biden, have done their part to suppress the truth about the election. Absent any thorough investigations of their own, media outlets have rejected out of hand the possibility of widespread election fraud and mock anyone who does not accept the conventional wisdom. Social network platforms such as Twitter have restricted the display and sharing of communications that raise the possibility of any election fraud.

The Trump-hating media and Big Tech also created a smokescreen to protect Biden from critical inquiry during the election campaign. Twitter, for example, censored an October 14^th New York Post article documenting that Joe Biden was introduced by his son Hunter to a high-level official at the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma where Hunter worked. The introduction took place while the elder Biden was serving as vice president of the United States. This report contradicted Joe Biden’s past claim that he’s “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.” Twitter not only blocked the sharing of the New York Post article on its platform. Twitter punished the New York Post by shutting down the Post’s own twitter account for about two weeks.

The left-leaning mainstream media, including the New York Times, either buried the Hunter Biden laptop story or tried to discredit it.

CNN president Jeff Zucker told his staff on October 16th that “I don’t think that we should be repeating unsubstantiated smears just because the right-wing media suggests that we should.”

National Public Radio’s managing editor Terence Samuel explained his taxpayer-funded network’s refusal to report on the New York Post Biden-Burisma story this way: “We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”

The Media Research Center asked rhetorically: “How exactly is doing what is supposed to be your job of reporting and investigating a story with credible sources to be a ‘waste of time?’” Had NPR and other media outlets done their job properly, they wouldn’t have been caught so flat-footed after the post-election revelation of federal investigations into Hunter Biden’s finances.

Instead, the Trump-hating media and Big Tech engaged in an unconscionable blackout before the election of major documented information regarding Biden family corruption. The fourth estate, which is supposed to be an independent press, became largely a Biden fiefdom during this election cycle.

At a time when Americans were still making up their minds on the presidential candidate they would vote for, the New York Times was part of the media cabal covering for Joe Biden rather than searching for the truth. Now the Times editors are demanding that President Trump’s supporters just shut up and accept without question the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election and of Biden’s presidency. Sorry, but these nihilists can’t have it both ways or tell freedom-loving Americans what to think, say and do.

This is not over!

Understand this: When all that is left to play out is over, Donald Trump has a better chance of winning than Joe Biden does.

Don’t listen to Democrat “experts” lying to you about the result of the competing lists submitted by the courageous legislators in seven states.

They will call all of the remaining necessary moves Trump has “desperate and doomed to failure.” His moves will be nether disparate nor doomed to failure.

When the seven state legislatures, that did so, submitted their competing list of Electoral College voters yesterday everything swung back to Trump’s favor.

The Electoral Count Act (ECA) of 1887 says each chamber of Congress will separately decide which slate of ‘dueling electors’ to accept, but the Senate will decide how the competing lists impact the Vice Presidential election and the House of Representatives will decide how the competing lists impact the Presidential election.

The legislators who submitted competing list of EC voters have acted under the authority of the United States Constitution. Therefore, they did not need permission from their governor to act.

The fact that the Governor of Michigan ultimately failed to stop the Legislators in her state from submitting a competing list of Electoral College voters goes a long way to affirming the legislator’s rights under the US Constitution.

What these courageous men and women did, is all that is important now.

The competing lists these states submitted will cause challenges to the lists submitted by the Secretaries of State in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin on January 5.

These challenges, which must be made in writing and signed by one Senator and one member of the House of Representatives, will be considered by both Houses and both must agree to reject the challenge or – presumably they stand.

So, the Constitution leans toward the challengers.
There would be two hours of debate allotted, but I don’t know if that would be two hours for each challenge or two aggregate hours covering all challenges.

Since all challenges would be on substantially the same grounds they probably would be covered in the two hour timeframe.

Considering the Electoral College vote values in each of the contested states, if the challenges involving just Pennsylvania – 20, Georgia – 16 and Arizona- 11 were upheld, they would result in a Trump victory at 279/259.

The evidence of voter fraud in each of these states is overwhelming to any fair observer.

What is more likely is that these challenges would either all be accepted or all be rejected since they would all be based on the same claims of fraud by Democrats. Winning all of these challenges would mean a 316/222 ECv win for Trump.

How it goes in each House-Senate first:
In the Senate, where only the winner of the vice presidential election is voted on, even if we lose both seats in the Georgia runoffs, a tie is produced and a Senate tie is broken by the President of the Senate who is Vice President Michael Pence.

Since they would be not be voting directly for or against Trump, the unreliable and sometimes Trump hostile core of Republicans in the Senate- Romney, Murkowski, Sasse and Collins would likely not try to hurt Trump. It is a safe bet Pence wins.

In the House of Representatives where only the winner of the presidential election considered:

Unlike in the Senate, where each member votes, the House of Representatives would choose the President by a vote from each state which would get just one vote. That voter would be determined by the Congressional delegation in each state.

The incoming House of Representatives will include a Republican advantage in 27 of the state delegations – a candidate needs 26 votes to win the White House.

If the two chambers disagree, we could end up in uncharted territory; and the matter would go to the Supreme Court. In that case the Court would have to be swayed by the “will of the people.”

It is not hard to imagine that the Justices would look at the established rampant Democrat voter fraud with no allegations of Republican voter fraud in this election and take “judicial notice” of it.

In the absence of anything else to consider (they will not accept a case from the Democrats asking them to change the constitution for them); it is hard to see how the Court could ignore the large number (315) of EVvs Trump will have gotten.

I believe that would weigh heavily in favor of finding for President Trump.

All of this means the Republican competing lists would eventually bring victory for President Trump.

So, after all our prayers, all our volunteer work, all our contributions, all our lawsuits and all our investigative work, we are in a good position to win.

In any contest, as time runs out, it is always best to be either a clear winner or in a position to win. Today we can say we are in a clear winner position that is much more preferable to Joe Biden’s position.

Media lies:
You definitely will not hear anything about how this is likely to play out and Trump will win.

The media will continue to ignore the competing lists or dishonestly call them desperate stunts.

They will keep pumping out their propaganda – we must keep praying for God’s help.

To make this process far less stressful we must win both seats in Georgia, please do what you can to help make this happen.

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