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Belmont Club: The Mystery of 2024
PJ Media ^ | 6 Jan2024 | Richard Fernandez

Posted on 01/07/2024 9:41:33 AM PST by Rummyfan

Joe Biden's Jan 6 speech raises some interesting problems. What does he really want to achieve by declaring his foes outlaws? Even if he succeeds in jailing, disqualifying or otherwise delegitimizing his 2024 political opponents, the challenge to "our democracy" he posits will not go away for two reasons. First, the crisis facing the status quo does not arise from one man, Donald Trump, but from the failure of the establishment to deliver across a wide range of issues. Second, the discontent of which Trump is a figurehead now includes significant parts of the electorate and has political strongholds in a number of states.

This means the "insurrection" that Biden wants to stop cannot be decapitated by simply jailing one man because it does not arise from one man nor inhere in a single individual. Any realistic preemptive strike against the rebels must be broader in extent than any process the justice and police system has contemplated so far. If Joe wants to use force he will have to brandish a much bigger gun than heretofore with all the danger of escalation that entails.

The one instrument commensurate to the task of forever destroying the challenge represented by Donald Trump is the political process. A clear, resounding electoral defeat in 2024 would consign DJT to the dustbin of history and endorse Joe Biden and his policies. Yet ironically, by doing everything to ensure his opponents cannot run against him, Biden is disabling the one tool that can resolve the challenge democratically and peacefully. If the Democrats win the match next year by default it can only guarantee the insurrection, rather than fading, will continue.

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1 posted on 01/07/2024 9:41:33 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Want a revolution?, keep going down this path. We are very close to taxation without representation. Tyranny will not stand.


2 posted on 01/07/2024 9:51:42 AM PST by DownInFlames (p)
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The Left are itching to kill law-abiding Americans. This goes back to the Obama years, when his admin was trying to make it legal for US military to shoot on Americans. They may have been rebuffed then, but they will just make up some fake excuse to go ahead and do it anyway.
3 posted on 01/07/2024 9:57:25 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
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4 posted on 01/07/2024 10:07:16 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: DownInFlames
What does he really want to achieve by declaring his foes outlaws?

Because it is the easiest, laziest option to remain in power. There won't be any meaningful consequences so who cares if it gets the job done?

5 posted on 01/07/2024 10:12:15 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Rummyfan

a transcript of Joe’s speech:

https://apnews.com/article/biden-speech-valley-forge-trump-campaign-bda2293cac2b30e49157c2e6fb256d64


6 posted on 01/07/2024 10:13:55 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Rummyfan

Democrat Kiddie Rapers plan brutal oppression and annihilation.


7 posted on 01/07/2024 10:14:31 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: Rummyfan

George Washington fought for American freedom.

Joe Biden fights for international socialism.


8 posted on 01/07/2024 10:15:26 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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it was a complete waste of time.

Most of Biden’s base are Democrats educated in federally funded woke schools.

They never even heard of Valley Forge and dont know who George Washington is.


9 posted on 01/07/2024 10:20:43 AM PST by Liz (Actor/Sen Fred Thompson:"After being in DC, I often long for Hollywood's realism and sincerity.")
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To: Rummyfan
We threaten The Tater's democrat-cy.

He's a hateful little turd.

10 posted on 01/07/2024 10:22:59 AM PST by kiryandil (Rocco is roccking again!!)
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President Shoowers with Daughter


11 posted on 01/07/2024 10:24:24 AM PST by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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Trump (January 6th, 2021):

So as an example, in Pennsylvania, or whatever, you have a Republican legislature, you have a Democrat mayor, and you have a lot of Democrats all over the place. They go to the legislature. The legislature laughs at them, says we’re not going to do that. They say, thank you very much and they go and make the changes themselves, they do it anyway. And that’s totally illegal. That’s totally illegal. You can’t do that.

In Pennsylvania, the Democrat secretary of state and the Democrat state Supreme Court justices illegally abolished the signature verification requirements just 11 days prior to the election.

So think of what they did. No longer is there signature verification. Oh, that’s OK. We want voter ID by the way. But no longer is there a signature verification. Eleven days before the election they say we don’t want it. You know why they don’t want to? Because they want to cheat. That’s the only reason.

Who would even think of that? We don’t want to verify a signature?

There were over 205,000 more ballots counted in Pennsylvania. Think of this, you had 205,000 more ballots than you had voters. That means you had two. Where did they come from? You know where they came from? Somebody’s imagination, whatever they needed.

So in Pennsylvania, you had 205,000 more votes than you had voters. And the number is actually much greater than that now. That was as of a week ago. And this is a mathematical impossibility unless you want to say it’s a total fraud.

So Pennsylvania was defrauded. Over 8,000 ballots in Pennsylvania were cast by people whose names and dates of birth match individuals who died in 2020 and prior to the election. Think of that. Dead people, lots of dead people, thousands. And some dead people actually requested an application. That bothers me even more.

Not only are they voting, they want an application to vote.

One of them was 29 years ago, died. It’s incredible. Over 14,000 ballots were cast by out-of-state voters, so these are voters that don’t live in this state.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial


12 posted on 01/07/2024 10:25:03 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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The Democrats are freaking out and with good reason:
13 posted on 01/07/2024 10:27:48 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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Trump (January 6, 2021):

More than 17,000 Michigan ballots were cast by individuals whose names and dates of birth match people who were deceased.

In Wayne County, that’s a great one. That’s Detroit. One hundred and seventy-four thousand ballots were counted without being tied to an actual registered voter. Nobody knows where they came from.

Also, in Wayne County, poll watchers observed canvassers rescanning batches of ballots over and over again, up to three or four or five times.

In Detroit, turnout was 139% of registered voters. Think of that. So you had 139% of the people in Detroit voting. This is in Michigan. Detroit, Michigan.

A career employee of the Detroit, City of Detroit, testified under penalty of perjury that she witnessed city workers coaching voters to vote straight Democrat while accompanying them to watch who they voted for. When a Republican came in, they wouldn’t talk to him.

The same worker was instructed not to ask for any voter ID and not to attempt to validate any signatures if they were Democrats. She also told to illegally, and was told, backdate ballots received after the deadline and reports that thousands and thousands of ballots were improperly backdated. That’s Michigan.

Four witnesses have testified under penalty of perjury that after officials in Detroit announced the last votes had been counted, tens of thousands of additional ballots arrived without required envelopes. Every single one was for a Democrat. I got no votes.

At 6:31 a.m. in the early morning hours after voting had ended, Michigan suddenly reported 147,000 votes. An astounding 94% went to Joe Biden, who campaigned brilliantly from his basement. Only a couple of percentage points went to Trump.

Such gigantic and one-sided vote dumps were only observed in a few swing states and they were observed in the states where it was necessary.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial


14 posted on 01/07/2024 10:29:00 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/all-one-place-president-trump-truths-summary-report/


15 posted on 01/07/2024 10:33:57 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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Democratic Attorney General of New York State Letitia James would snatch $370 million from Trump.

This indicates that Trump had sufficient wealth to not only repay his loans in full, but to pay out that $370 million as well (or that she would leave Trump with insufficient means to pay his just debts by misusing a law meant to protect people to cheat them).


16 posted on 01/07/2024 10:46:23 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: kiryandil

I say damn his democracy, and the dems with it. Save our Republic!


17 posted on 01/07/2024 10:51:05 AM PST by cross_bearer_02
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To: Rummyfan; lightman

Anyone who continues to weaponize the so-called “Jan 6” is evil. That especially applies to obama and biden.

Free all “Jan 6” political prisoners! The US used to be a noble country that had no political prisoners. Let’s return to that policy!


18 posted on 01/07/2024 11:08:59 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To me it appeared old Joe was drugged during this rant. Note that Jill had to lead him off the podium and then he was swiftly off to Delaware to recover would seem to be indicative of a short acting stimulant drug.


19 posted on 01/07/2024 11:48:33 AM PST by The Great RJ ( )
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this years election is going to be a contest between red pilled democrats voting third party and trump vs illegals currently being funneled into the the voting process by the feds and the non profits.


20 posted on 01/07/2024 12:18:37 PM PST by ckilmer (ui)
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