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The Enemy of the People
Townhall.com ^ | November 5, 2020 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 11/05/2020 4:29:50 AM PST by Kaslin

What is going to ultimately happen with the election? If I knew that I’d be a multiple-time lottery winner living on an island somewhere warm. As I’m sitting in the cold air of Maryland, it’s pretty clear I’m not a soothsayer. But there is one prediction I’m willing to make that I’m pretty confident about: the media truly are the enemy of the people.

Their job, they routinely tell us, is to simply report what is happening in the country and the world. It’s hard to type that line without laughing.

The last four years they have done the activism the Democratic National Committee couldn’t do - wrap liberal BS in a blanket of objectivity.

It doesn't work like it used to, the Internet exists so there are too many different, unobstructed pathways for information to flow through for these leftists to completely prevent the escape of information into the public, but it doesn’t have to work with everyone. It only has to work with just enough.

Whichever way the election turns out, never forget the lies we were told in liberal’s pursuit of power.

Three years of “RUSSIA,” 4 months of “IMPEACH OVER UKRAINE,” and four solid years of nitpicking, false stories, and insisting the President and Republicans are liars hellbent on trying to kill people. To the casual news consumer, there is no way for that to not have some kind of impact.

Worse than the obvious “opinion-lies” spun as indifferent observations and truth, there was a more nefarious attempt at manipulation from our “4th estate.”

Polling, they say, is an inexact science. But it’s no more of a science than having a strategy for bingo is a retirement plan.

Yet, polling has been used to justify a lot of the coverage the media passed off as journalism. The results were in before any votes were cast, we were told. The only question was how big the margin of victory was going to be for Joe Biden.

There wasn’t a liberal establishment poll that came close to the actual results. It’s a testament to the campaigning of President Donald Trump that he won what he did (so far). Not a single “news” organization gave him a snowball’s chance in Hell of doing what he did, and most actively worked against him.

Bogus, wildly inaccurate polls permeated media coverage over the last few months NOT to inform the public, but to influence it.

Motivation is incredibly important when it comes to voting - why bother showing up to vote if you’ll simply be beating your head against a brick wall? That likely doesn’t play well with you, but to millions of Americans who don’t pay attention to such things it could be a deciding factor whether or not to go through the process and vote.

That’s why polls were so heavily reported - they were an attempt at wish fulfillment. What would the margins have been had these polls not been reported as yet-to-happen truths? There’s no way to know, but to dismiss the idea out of hand is absurd.

Polling companies and their media benefactors knew what they were doing. RealClearPolitics co-founder and president Tom Bevan listed just how wrong the widely reported New York Times/Siena poll was that simply them being wrong can’t explain it. They “overestimated Biden’s support” in Florida by 6 points, in Iowa by 10, by 9 in Ohio, in Wisconsin it was about 10 too, and Michigan by about 6.

These aren’t mistakes, they attempt to shape the outcome - why bother to vote, the race is over?

You’d think this would spell ruin for the polling industry, but it won’t. They’re too valuable of a tool to face consequences for their failures.

There will be a few “think pieces” about how they need to really figure out how they got things so wrong, but the real question is why they insisted they’d gotten them right in the first place. Demographics change, voter patterns change, people move, and sometimes a candidate excites people in ways they hadn’t been before. Donald Trump is that kind of candidate. Only willful ignorance or corruption would cause anyone to ignore that reality, and polls near-universally ignored that reality.

But nothing pollsters did caused the media to harp on them, to “sell” them the way they did. They were treated as though the results were carved into stone tablets by a burning bush, not a random sample of 500 people who’d bothered to answer their phones.

The media knew what they were doing, it was what they were doing all along. Polling “data '' was nothing more than the latest in a string of garbage stories designed explicitly to depress Trump voter turnout. While TV talking heads whined incessantly about “voter suppression,” they were engaged in its more nefarious and effective form. It’s always the people who harp on the “threat to our democracy” who work the hardest to undermine it.

Whatever ends up happening, never forget what they did here. (And I’m not just talking about the usual suspects. Fox News, with its early and unjustified call of Arizona while dithering on Florida and Texas, is no better than any of the others.)


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2020; joebiden; russiahoax; trump2020
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1 posted on 11/05/2020 4:29:50 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
We must all pray - Our nation is under attack by multiple enemies within and outside. I think General Washington's Prayer is in order:

Almighty God: We make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, and entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large. And finally that Thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our supplication, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

This is Our Valley Forge! We must hold our faith in God & Country!
2 posted on 11/05/2020 4:33:20 AM PST by Patriot_MP (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Kaslin

It really is interesting to think how deep their strategy had to go.

You need a pandemic that gets everyone thinking it’s not safe to leave their house for a year.

You need a marketing campaign to get everyone thinking that blasting mail-in ballots to everyone in the country is a good and necessary idea.

You need the media to chase Trump around demanding that he express a willingness to concede as soon as anyone shows him voting results favorable to Biden.

You need a deep fraud organization across multiple states so that votes can be manufactured as needed.

You need people in place at polling areas to chase away poll watchers and manipulate vulnerable people who show up to vote.

You need fake polls to make people think that the corrupt pedophile with dementia who barely campaigned, and who was lucky to attract a dozen people to a rally, was actually popular.


3 posted on 11/05/2020 4:37:47 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Patriot_MP

Absolutely must we pray


4 posted on 11/05/2020 4:40:38 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

It’s not just the media. The tech tyrants are enemies. Soros and his minions are evil incarnate. Educators, from public school to universities have, by and large, become enemies of the people. Certainly, popular culture and Hollywood are enemies. The deep state is real and is an enemy of the people.

How can liberty survive?


5 posted on 11/05/2020 4:46:12 AM PST by Entrepreneur (In Hoc Signo Vinces)
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To: Kaslin

In the 90’s, Rush did a piece about a journalism conference.

In polls done at it, 90% of attendees were Democrats, and about the same amount said they got into journalism to advocate on social positions (to become Social Justice Warriors, effectively).

They were mainly college-educated, Level 2 indoctrinated younger people. With pubic school Level 1 indoctrination, of course.

Decades later, they’ve achieved their goals with the half of Americans on the left of the IQ bell curve.


6 posted on 11/05/2020 4:46:25 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.p)
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To: Kaslin

They are the enemy of U.S. Along with the commies and there sycophants in every institution of America.


7 posted on 11/05/2020 4:48:52 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Kaslin

They put on an election night “show” that a lot of people, even here, watched.

It was all rigged to try to portray as “truth”, their false double-digit Biden lead. None of it was true, but that has never stopped them.

Presidential elections have ALL been run from the TV newsrooms for as long as I’ve followed politics. Only rarely does the People’s vote go against the narrative enough to overcome it. .

I should add that the very real possibility exists that media coverage of this election was knowingly coordinated with specific executions of vote fraud. Their unscathed emergence from the 2016 Wiki Leaks exposure has doubtless emboldened them.


8 posted on 11/05/2020 4:50:42 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: ClearCase_guy

I’ve wondered if the D’rats retained some good fiction writers to come up with the plot we’re now living.

Do any Republicans or conservative think-tanks do this kind of forward planning and war games?

Do any Republicans or conservative think-tanks have any viable plan to move MSM and Hollywood to center? (Trump is at least getting SJW crap out of schools and gov dept’s.)

Was there ANY plan to monitor critical, big city voting precincts around the clock, with multiple high quality video cameras?

Are the great majority of R’s just Uniparty RINOs?

Is the choir preaching we do here about it for our actions?


9 posted on 11/05/2020 4:57:45 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.p)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

“Their unscathed emergence from the 2016 Wiki Leaks exposure has doubtless emboldened them.”

The rioters’ unscathed emergence from the riots emboldened D’rats to blatantly stuff the ballot boxes this election.


10 posted on 11/05/2020 5:00:56 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.p)
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To: Kaslin
I'm simply going to point out here that my faith lies within the ammo box. I've had this same tagline since the 2000 election. It's as appropriate now as it was then.

Since we don't have graphics for taglines, I can only paste it here, as the arm badge for the coming civil war in this country.


11 posted on 11/05/2020 5:02:23 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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12 posted on 11/05/2020 5:05:25 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Patriot_MP
... enemies within and outside.


...foreign and domestic...


13 posted on 11/05/2020 5:10:41 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin
While I'm worried about a Biden Presidency ... well let's be real here for a moment. If President Trump loses to the deep state there won't be much of a Biden Presidency. Maybe a couple of months - just long enough for his wife to decorate, play host / first-lady a couple of times, and for the Bidens to rake in a few more tens of millions in influence peddling selling out our Country to the highest bidder.

Then we would be "blessed" with a Harris administration. We'll see taxes increase, freedoms and liberties erode, borders flung open. It would be bad, very bad. I'd be cautiously optimistic that we could survive. Heck, we made it through 8 years of bammy's occupation and President Trump was able to turn the Country around in just a couple of years in spite of opposition from virtually every corner.

But the Country is/was seriously weakened by bammy and his cohorts in crime. I don't think we had (and maybe not even now) understood the depth and breadth of the damage done. The insidious infection of leftist, un-American and anti-American forces throughout all levels of the government. For example the FBI and Justice Departments are apparently thoroughly and irreparably compromised.

What really makes me sad and pessimistic is the knowledge that if President Trump loses it will be a triumph of epic proportions for the deep state. In fact it will probably signal the end of America. Consider, the deep state will have successfully pushed a senile old man onto the American people. Biden is obviously incapable yet the deep state, MSM, leftist, foreign money, you name it - all came together and demonstrated to us and themselves that it is possible, that they have tremendous sway over the American people.

The deep state leftists/fascists have been on a pretty good streak here. They failed to stop President Trump for the first couple of years via endless investigations and demonization in the MSM. But then they hit the jackpot with this pandemic excrement. Suddenly they had their economic hammer and they were able to cow the American people into quiet obedience. I am ashamed every time I put on a mask - but I have to work to support my family, I have to buy groceries to feed them. I now fully, personally understand how 1930s Germany happened. I fear future generations will hold me and us in the same contempt I had felt for the Germans when I didn't understand, couldn't comprehend what they went through. Now I know. I fear, genuinely fear for my children. They are young adults right now. I fear for what they are going to have to live through to get to my age.

If President Trump ultimately loses to the deep state we will look back on 2019 as "when we had it good." I believe that we will never be as well off as we were then. It will be all downhill into a cesspool of misery, taxes, expanding government control and regulation of all facets of society. Forget the Matrix having you - the deep state *will* have us and I don't see how we'd ever break free again. I apologize for this being a depressing post, but that's where I'm at right now - we are staring into the abyss.

14 posted on 11/05/2020 5:11:33 AM PST by ThunderSleeps
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To: usconservative

I’m about 992 words short of understanding.

All I get is:

red line
blue line
on a grey
background.


15 posted on 11/05/2020 5:13:51 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: usconservative
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16 posted on 11/05/2020 5:16:41 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
My oath - and I stand by it:

I ,, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

US Army, Captain, Military Police, OIF Combat Veteran
17 posted on 11/05/2020 5:20:52 AM PST by Patriot_MP (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Elsie

Dang it, it appears I cannot post graphics from my Parler account. Will have to look into why that’s not working. Thanks for letting me know.


18 posted on 11/05/2020 5:21:14 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Elsie

Sight picture on a rifle or pistol.


19 posted on 11/05/2020 5:33:20 AM PST by Arlis
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To: Elsie

The blue is democrat vote counts in some states. Where it goes straight up vertical is where massive amounts of fraudulent democrat votes where dumped to bring them above the current Repub trend line. This happened in multiple places.


20 posted on 11/05/2020 5:38:56 AM PST by boxlunch (MSM + Twitter+ FB = The American Glavit- Propaganda Arm of the Communist Democrat Party)
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