Posted on 08/10/2024 12:32:16 PM PDT by OneVike
I have been around FreeRepublic for over 26 years, and one thing I notice is how the more things change, the more they get worse, not better. Everyone needs to understand that we the people are the inmates, and what ultimately happens to us is of no concern of those running this asylum we call America. I have learned that while there are good people elected to office, the vast majority of them are in it for themselves. After all, the days of the citizens getting elected to do their civic duty, then going back home after a few terms is long gone.
Today we have popularity contests between people no one knows, pushed by other people we don't know, and then the winner moves to the state capital, or, Washington, get sworn in and, if we are lucky, they will leave office before they die. Sadly the majority leave after their mental capacity has diminished or just die in office. In reality, our existence is of no concern to them, until they run to get re-elected.
In the movie, "The Green Mile," we are introduced to the phrase, "Dead Man Walking." It's a supernatural story of what happens with some death row inmates, and the men who guard them. The phrase refers to the last walk, a man on death row, takes a he heads to the electrical chair in a room at the end of the hallway. Short of a stay of execution by the Governor or the Supreme Court, the man, or women, will take that walk and there is nothing they can do but face reality. From the moment they are put on death row, their lives are useless, and all they have to look forward to is that long walk to a chair.
Through the years most politicians have learned how to keep us clueless as to what they are really doing by hiring pubic relation firms to help them fool the voters. We call them campaign managers, but in reality they are just a bunch of PR advisors. No different than the idiots hired by companies to give them advice on how to fool us into buying something we actually don't need. Sadly, through the years politicians have gotten wiser while the voters have gotten dumber.
A perfect example is the how the Clintons were able to fool the public into believing they were doing the business of the people. When in reality they spent eight years giving the people the business instead. From the moment they entered the office, they changed politics for ever by using the office of the Presidency as their personal PR firm instead of the office of, by, and for the people. To understand the full impact of what the Clintons did when they assumed the office in January 1993, Now, there are 93 United States Attorneys appointed to the 94 federal judicial districts across the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The first thing the Clintons did was fire every one, and then replaced them with their own loyal handpicked attorneys.
With the help of the MSM, the Clintons were able to redirect any problems away from them. Rush Limbaugh at one time informed us that the Clinton regime had a policy to do so many underhanded, borderline illegal things that the Republicans could never keep up. With the help of a sycophant loyal media, they just accused the opposition of always complaining. The more the Republicans pointed out what the Clinton's were doing, the more the Republicans were accused constantly complaining instead of wanting to govern.
The next thing they did was steal 100 FBI files of the top Republicans and their supporters. So regardless of their own illegalities, they knew the dirt they had on the Republicans would allow them to get away with things. If you look back after Gingrich was removed, you will notice how it sure seemed that the Republican Speakers actually helped the Clintons, and later Obama. Now that we know about form speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert's proclivities for little boys, we can see why he gladly worked with the opposition so much. I still wonder what Obama had on former Speakers, John Boehner and Paul Ryan.
Go ahead and look back at all those Republicans we once trusted, and how they all turned against Trump, thus against us, the people. Well, here we are 30 years after the Clintons brought Arkansas politics to Washington, and the Democrats have a firm control of everything. Oh, sure we have the house, but do we really? When you look at the US Senate, the Democrats hold only a two seat majority, yet Republicans Senators seem to work with Biden more than they did with Trump. Why else does Biden can get almost anything he wants without much fight from Republicans? Maybe the fact the Senate's Republican minority leader, Mitch McConnell, has been in the Senate since 1985, and they've had his FBI file since 1993. Then add into all this that, while we may a majority conservative Supreme Court, it sure seems they often times rule in favor of the left in ways that make us scratch our heads.
Well, thanks to the moderate Republicans and conservatives on the high court selling out to the left, we cannot even count on honest elections anymore. Look across the country, even in states controlled by Republican, we see RINO Governors and liberal courts who have assured the Democrats will keep elections to stay in power. Thus for the vast amount of Americans who desperately want change, we have no power. The left learned well from their friends the communists, it’s not who votes that counts, but those who count the vote. It worked for the Soviet Union for 70 years, and for the Chi-coms for almost 80 years. Today, we can only pray that come November, the Democrats will lose control.
Yet, will they?
The United States has entered the twilight zone of reality, and those who count the vote continually get away with whatever they desire to do. So far even the US Supreme Court has yet to rule against the Democrats on stealing elections. Time and time again it does not matter if they cheated. So too, is the response we get from Republicans who have done nothing to ever stop the Democrats from cheating.
Someone please tell me ONE thing the Republicans have ever done in the past 2 to 4 years to stop the Democrats from stealing the elections. We can go back as far back as 1996 when the Republican party allowed the Democrats to steal B-1 Bob Dornan’s House seat, and again in "2008" when they refused to fight for Coleman's US Senate seat in Minnesota. Ever since the Democrats learned that the Republican party will not fight for stolen elections, they have just continued stealing election after election. Then in 2020, the Republican party refused to fight for Donald Trump.
Time and time again the Republican party has sat back, allowing the Democrats to steal one election after another. In 28 years since Sanchez was allowed to steal Dornan's seat, I have yet to see either the Republicans or the Supreme Court stand up and defend the integrity of elections. Now we have Willie Brown's paramour, installed as the Democrat party's nominee for President.
Mind you, since 2020 there has been nothing, or very little to protect the integrity of our elections, Well I for one am not convinced that Trump will win come November. Not because the voters pulled a lever for Harris, but because the Democrats will steal the election again. Then, as in 2000, the I do not expect the Republicans, nor the Supreme Court to step up to the plate. However, even IF Trump wins, I expect to see many Republican's to join the Democrats in stopping anything he does while attempting to destroy him just as they did last time. Also, if Republicans win the Senate, can anyone convince me that enough Republican Senators will have Trump's back when the attacks from the left and MSM begin?
I often times pray for God to intervene one more time to give us another chance. Yet, so often men just thumb their proverbial finger into God's proverbial eye, as they tell Him to leave us alone. Mind you, Christ will not be returning because government is bad. Nope, He will return because men's hearts are evil. Even if Trump wins, America will fall. The writing is on the wall, and we don't need Daniel to interpret what its says. I stated in the beginning of this rant, that I have been a Freeper for 26 years, and one thing I notice is how the more things change, the more they get worse, not better.
I am convinced that even if Trump wins, in 6 to 10 years from now, America will be an even worse place to live than it is now. Evil does not become less evil over time, it becomes more evil. Look at the those who will be replacing us as we old timers die. As bad as things are now, give it another 10 to 25 years, and the United States as we know it will cease to exist. If we do not change the way our elections are held soon, well then things will just get worse.
I'll leave you with this thought. Consider what kind of world we are leaving behind for our children and grandchildren. See, if we don't fix things, and fix them soon, then their lives will be like those on death row. They will be but dead men walking, awaiting that a long walk down a hallway of misery where a chair awaits them.
I am open to anyone who thinks they can convince me I'm wrong.
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Much truth here, guess the bottom line is if voting in this day and age really mattered they would find a way to stop it.
If they had dirt on Mitch McConnell, Merrick Garland would be on the Supreme Court.
Virginia Gov did a lot to stop the steal.
Wisconsin did too but the lefty court just overruled it.
Oh and Florida is no longer in play due to election reforms they made.
Texas is the big one that needs to be fixed. A big city can cheat like hell in Texas.
Good article, and I also bookmarked his website.
1. The courts will rule once it no longer matters.
2. Those political hacks you write about sold us Hastert, Boehner, Ryan, McCarthy, etc. They are both good at that we are are apparently too stupid to see through it or are lamely convinced to vote for them because the alternative is worse.
3. Election integrity is lost. I think when the media coincidentally said they would not be doing exit polling and Romney more-or-less quit weeks before the election, the writing was on the wall. He wasn't prepared to speak up or fight the steal.
I still hope we can turn it around. If Trump wins, that might help. Depends on if the House and Senate help him and if he keeps focused on fixing things. We cannot afford another round of fleeting EOs that get reversed immediately after he leaves office.
We need to push change, small steps, but pointed in the right direction. Never give up.
I agree. And I am amazed at the number people that never seem to notice that. A lot of folks (but not all) who seem to have no interest in politics until the middle of October say “businesses and Boomers are just greedy” or “Christians push people to do crazy things”(!) and then wonder why things never change for the better (note they don’t say things get worse) after their D-listers win their offices.
Good article.
This
“ The United States has entered the twilight zone of reality…”
is the key feature of today.
WIKI
Dornan later dropped out of the presidential race and ran for reelection to his seat in the House; he was defeated by Democrat Loretta Sanchez by less than 1,000 votes.
Following the narrow defeat, Dornan alleged that Sanchez’s winning margin was provided by illegal voting from non-U.S. citizens. A thirteen-month House of Representatives investigation ensued, during which Sanchez was seated provisionally, pending the inquiry. A task force found 748 votes that had been cast illegally—624 from non-citizens in addition to 124 that had already been thrown out by California officials. This was not enough to overturn Sanchez’s margin of victory and she was allowed to keep her seat. However, in consultation with the INS, the House committee identified 4,762 questionable registration affidavits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dornan
https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/13/cq/sanchez.html
“Contending that INS records are replete with errors, Democrats have maintained that only by doing interviews is it possible to verify that a voter may have registered prior to becoming a citizen. INS officials have supported that view.
“Republicans, however, have insisted that it is possible to get a verified match of a voter with INS records, including names, birth dates and addresses.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-08-mn-51539-story.html
It’s bad, it’s going to be much worse if the left steals the election. The way I see it, if God intervenes and President Trump wins, we have 4 years or so to make it right. If the left wins, God said “alright, have it your way.” If that happens, all hell will break lose.
I think about my kids and grandkids and what they will live in.
Benjamin Franklin’s quote: “A republic if you can keep it.”
Lord Acton - Letter to Archbishop Mandell Creighton (Apr. 5, 1887)
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
We were a blessed country until satan infiltrated, why is that? Because we were “friends” with Israel. Now look what’s been done.
Genesis 12:3 (”you” is about Israel)
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+12%3A3&version=NIV
I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”
You’re convinced that in 6 to ten years things will be worse even if Trump wins.
Yet you pray for God’s intervention and urge us to work for the betterment of our children and grandchildren.
Well if you are convinced what is the point?
And if you are not convinced then stop dragging us down.
Victory belongs to US. We only lose if we give up.
This is exactly my concern.
The central issue is not Donald Trump, or the 2024 election, or even election integrity. None of these can have a lasting impact until many more Americans are willing to see and speak the truth.
This is ultimately not a political battle. It is a spiritual battle that, for some time, we have been losing.
I trust Dornan’s camp over wiki and the MSM’s take.
There were a lot more discrepancies than mentioned in the info you offered.
In the race for U.S. Senator, unofficial election results showed a vote margin of only 215 votes between incumbent Norm Coleman and candidate Al Franken—far less than the one-half of one percent that triggers a hand recount under state law.
When the Board completed the task of examining all challenged ballots, candidate Franken had 49 more votes than Senator Coleman.
In mid-November, the Franken campaign asserted that there were absentee ballots that had been improperly rejected by local election officials.
At the conclusion of counting, Senator Coleman received 305 additional votes while candidate Franken received 481 votes.
Minneapolis Ward 3, Precinct 1, Ballot Envelope Missing
During the State Canvassing Board proceedings, the Board decided to use the election night machine count and not exclude the votes from the 132 missing ballots based on an opinion from the state attorney general’s office. In the election contest, Senator Coleman’s attorney disagreed with the Board’s decision arguing that because only 1,896 ballots were actually located for the recount, only 1,896 votes should be included in the final vote totals for the precinct.
Alleged Double Counting of Duplicate Ballots
On election night, absentee ballots that do not feed successfully through an optical scanner machine for counting because of the physical condition of the ballot are duplicated by two election judges of differing major political parties. When the duplication process occurs, election judges are instructed to label original and duplicate ballots using consecutive numbers—such as Original 1, Duplicate 1; Original 2, Duplicate 2; etc. The original ballots are then sealed in an envelope and the duplicate ballots are fed through the optical scanner machine to be counted.
Prior to the hand recount, both candidates and representatives of the state attorney general’s office argued that the original ballot should be used in the hand recount, since voter intent may not be clearly reflected on the duplicate. It was decided that all ballots marked duplicate be set aside and the original ballots be counted.
As the recount ensued, it became apparent that the number of duplicate ballots within certain precincts did not equal the number of original ballots contained in the original ballot envelopes. Conferring with representatives of the two campaigns and the secretary of state’s office, the following procedure was unanimously agreed to:
If the number of duplicate ballots found for a precinct does not equal the number of original ballots in the envelope, the representatives of the two candidates will attempt to agree whether to count the duplicates or the originals. If the two representatives cannot agree, the original ballots shall be counted.
During State Canvassing Board deliberations as well as the election contest, Senator Coleman’s legal team alleged that the implementation of this procedure might have resulted in the double counting of some individuals’ absentee ballots. Candidate Franken’s legal counsel countered stating that there were other explanations for mismatched duplicates and originals and allegations of double counting could not be proven.
https://www.sos.state.mn.us/media/3078/minnesotas-historic-2008-election.pdf
Great essay! I can’t disagree with anything that was stated. The so called Republicans are all compromised. We are up to or passed the point of righting this situation.
You have put across the point of your article extremely well. But I did want to say that in 2000, the Supreme Court did intervene to stop the Democrat’s effort to steal the 2000 election by ending Florida’s re-re-recount of the infamous “butterfly ballots” with their interpretations of “dimpled” and “hanging” chads.
Bush was ahead in Florida and it was initially called for Bush, leading ultimately to Gore conceding the Election to Gore. But almost immediately on election night, the Clintons urged Gore to withdraw the concession and demand a recount of Florida. This lead to a month-long examination of the butterfly ballots and an effort to find some 300 and more votes to put Al Gore over the top.
Daily, a few more votes for Gore would be found and I don’t think any were ever found for Bush. But eventually, an appeal to the Supreme Court was made and pressure was applied to end the recount, certify for Bush, and move on to a peaceful transition in January.
But even here, a case for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory could be made. The shenanigans with the White House keyboards and silverware; the photo of a grinning Hillary whispering something into a stoic GW’s ear; and the announcement of “power sharing” in Congressional committees in the new term.
But again, I think your article is spot on.
Thanks
“This bill includes many of Jon’s longtime priorities like reinstating same-day voter registration in Montana, allowing college students to use their IDs to vote”
https://www.tester.senate.gov/about/issues/campaign-finance/
Same-day registration allows out-of-state college students an outsized ability to influence a presidential election.
College students tend to left-leaning and out-of-state students can choose to vote either in their home state or their college state, depending on where their vote would matter most.
“Your voter registration is tied to where you live. As a college student, you can usually register to vote in either your hometown or where you attend college, depending on the residency requirements of your state.”
https://vote.gov/guide-to-voting/college-student
There are plenty things other than that which we can point to. If for no other reason that Mitch stopped us from getting conservatives elected as he supported other candidates instead of leaving it to the states to decide. Even after in thew general, he refused to help conservatives financially.
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