No Widespread Evidence of Fraud?

Over on the Book of Face someone linked to this report of the forensic examination of the Dominion voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan.  Pullquote:

We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results. The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors. The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication. The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail. This leads to voter or election fraud. Based on our study, we conclude that The Dominion Voting System should not be used in Michigan. We further conclude that the results of Antrim County should not have been certified.

(Bold my emphasis.)  In this video (since deleted by YouTube for "violating Community Standards."  Here it is from Bitchute, thanks to my readers.) Fulton County, GA, Elections Director Richard Barron reported that they had scanned 113,130 votes, and adjudicated 106,000 - almost 94% of the votes cast. It would appear that the Dominion machine "problem" was not limited to Antrim county, Michigan. (Is it a "bug" when it's been designed to do that, or a "feature"?)

Where else did this occur?  I am reliably informed that there is "no evidence" of "widespread election fraud."  Apparently because no one was willing to allow anyone to look, or publicize it when some did.  Goes against The Narrative™ you see.

I'm Moving

In today's Progressive environment of inclusivity and civility, I no longer feel comfortable that Google will continue to ignore this blog.  I am therefore migrating off of Blogger to a privately hosted server.  This requires moving to Wordpress.  The translation is not very clean.  A LOT of formatting problems, and I still haven't figured out how to export the Disqus comments from here to there.

The site needs a LOT of work, but it's up at http://smallestminority.org.  I have no plan to delete this blog, I'm just going to start posting over there (and probably copy over here for a bit.)

Quote of the Day - Mark Steyn Edition

 

Yesterday's mental illness is today's social policy. - Mark Steyn

Analysis:  True.

Quora question: "Why is the United States so messed up right now in 2021?"

My answer:

100+ years of “public education” has produced the electorate we have today. Too many people can’t reason, have no coherent philosophy, have no knowledge of actual history (only “social justice” history), have been taught that Western Civilization is the root of all evil in the world, etc.

It started in the very early 1900’s, driven by the wealthy industrialists to set up a system that would produce a two-tiered output - the actually educated sons & daughters of the elite who would be managers, and the people who would be working in their factories and buying the resultant products. All the “Progressives” were in favor of it. They wanted obedient, unquestioning workers who could read, write, and do math, but not think for themselves.

Shortly afterward the “Progressives” suborned the system to create ever-greater numbers of “Social Justice Warriors,” culminating in what we have today. After more than five generations the population consists of essentially four groups - those that despite being in the public system still managed to get an education, those who were privately educated, those who the education system didn’t radicalize but instead made numb, and the radicals. (Note: a lot of the radicalized went back into the education system as teachers and administrators in a positive feedback loop.)

The private system has always been oriented towards the elites. The majority of the nation, I think, are the numb. Those who educated themselves are a minority and the radicals are too, but they - being radical - have influence far beyond their mere numbers.

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H.G. Wells, 1920

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"Give me a child for his first seven years and I'll give you the man." - Quote attributed to the Jesuits

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"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth." - Aristotle

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"A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation.

"There is really nothing very mysterious about why our public schools are failures. When you select the poorest quality college students to be public school teachers, give them iron-clad tenure, a captive audience, and pay them according to seniority rather than performance, why should the results be surprising?

"Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

"In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees." - Thomas Sowell

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"It is only from a special point of view that 'education' is a failure. As to its own purposes, it is an unqualified success. One of its purposes is to serve as a massive tax-supported jobs program for legions of not especially able or talented people. As social programs go, it’s a good one. The pay isn’t high, but the risk is low, the standards are lenient, entry is easy, and job security is pretty good...in fact, the system is perfect, except for one little detail. We must find a way to get the children out of it.”—Richard Mitchell, the Underground Grammarian.

Quote of the Day - Roger Kimball Edition

 From his American Greatness piece A Party of Faction and Fantasy:

The central fact to appreciate about Donald Trump is that he was elected without the permission, and over the incredulous objections, of the woke oligarchy that governs us. 

Exactly right.  

Also this:

Donald Trump brought peace to the Middle East, Joe Biden brought war to Washington.

RTWT.

Nothing Says "Incipient Civil War" Better

 ...than "Loyalty checks" for your military. 

Third-World status achieved!  Sh!thole status to follow.

Quote of the Day - Seen @ Facebook

You’ll love this.

I’m in my masters class for education (already know where this is going) and Paulo Freire and Myles Horton are mainstays for this class with their book “We make the Road by Walking.” Here is a quote by Freire “Education is not neutral and that by claiming to be neutral, we are technically siding with the powerful.” 

Paulo Friere is best known for his book "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" and is the spiritual founder of "Critical Pedagogy," which is to education what "critical race theory" is to racial healing.  Miles Horton is known for his textbook "Education for Social Change."  As opposed to "education to learn how to read, write, do math, understand science, and think for yourself."

This Makes Me Look Positively Cheerful by Comparison

 RTWT:

American Thinker:  Are the End Times Near?

Pullquote:

I believed, and still believe, that every manifestation, every symptom of the sickness of our time, the self-destructive corruption, the lies and hypocrisies and weakness of spirit, the coordinated attack on the institutions and traditions that have sustained Judeo-Christian civilization, the digital surveillance project of billionaire Globaliers -- these must be resisted and fought, for there is no other choice but feckless and dishonorable surrender.

But at the same time, we need to be realistic. We are not doomsayers to acknowledge that civilizations fall of necessity, disappear or are subsumed into new syncretic entities, and that ours is no different. The conclusion is foregone, but not yet. In Michael Walsh’s terms from his new book Last Stands, manly virtue fights to the foreordained end. The issue is this: We cannot deter, but we can defer.

That's all I've been trying to do - postpone and hopefully soften the landing when the inevitable crash does come.  No way to tell until it happens, but it's not looking good right now.

Coming Soon from the Biden Administration?

Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke - "Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47."

Where are We Going, and Why are We in This Basket?

Here's hoping this post makes it past the Google censors.  

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area – crime, education, housing, race relations – the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.” ~Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993

Add nearly three more decades to that record.  

(C)onservatism is not so much based on ideas, but on simply observing what works, and then generalizing from there. - Dr. Robert Godwin

After the preceding sixty years, I am now an almost perfect "enemy of the Left."  I'm an old(er) white cisgendered heterosexual male who drives a pickup truck and owns guns.  The only checkbox I don't tick is that I'm not a Christian, but then I am not an "anti-theist" either.  Because I'm in favor of maximum individual liberty and minimum government power - what used to be called a "liberal" - I am now labeled a member of the "Alt-Right," which (deliberately) carries with it ominous implications of "White Supremacy." And I'm a Donald Trump voter, so I am Evil Incarnate.

If not for my heresy of voting for Trump, I might be redeemed - but I would never be trusted.

I started blogging in May of 2003 after spending time in the trenches of Usenet, on bulletin boards, and as a contributor to a failed experiment known as Themestream.  Why?  Because I was pissed.  I forgot to mention that in my CV.  I'm a pissed off old(er) white cisgendered heterosexual male. 

If you've read this blog for any length of time, you know that this pissed-off white cisgendered heterosexual male is also a Debbie Downer.  I'm a pessimist by nature.  I've said that being a pessimist is generally a pretty good way to go through life - you're seldom disappointed and occasionally pleasantly surprised.  I've had very few pleasant surprises recently.

This post is no different.  You've been warned.  Logorrhea to follow.

But There's No Evidence of Fraud!!!

 I wonder how they're going to move the goalposts this time.

And if you think this happened exclusively in Georgia, I have the title to a bridge in Brooklyn I'll sell you, cheap!

Fact-Checkers

In relation to this cartoon, watch this:
 

The "Great Reset"

 The one-worlders are all abuzz about the coming "Great Reset" made possible by the political changes worldwide brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.  Back in July I wrote Endgame about this Progressive wet-dream.  Down towards the bottom I made some predictions:

If the Democrats win, and they probably will since they'll be cheating as hard as possible, they'll take it as a mandate to really crank up the Progressive agenda, and the millions of us who haven't swallowed that ideology will be their sworn deadly enemies.  They have already weaponized the IRS and the Justice Department against Trump supporters, expect that to be cranked to 11 because the Deep State is deeply Progressive Postmodernist.  There will be a breaking point.  It might not be in 2021, but it won't be long thereafter.  In the mean time, our position as a World power will be greatly diminished, and other hostile nations will be taking full advantage.  China will most probably annex Taiwan.  Russia will take over Ukraine and as many of its other former satellites as it can.  China and India may exchange nukes.  Iran might nuke Israel and/or set one off in the continental U.S.  And who the fuck knows what L'il Kim in North Korea is going to do?  In short, the 2020 election could be the match that lights off the next World War.

(Bold my emphasis.)

Today Stephen Green at Instapundit reports:

China Seems Ready for a Fight Over Taiwan. “For decades China-watchers have debated what form a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) offensive against Taiwan might take. An onslaught seems to be coming. Saying no to a cross-strait union is not an option Chinese Communist Party (CCP) supremo Xi Jinping means to grant the islanders. Beijing wrote its threat to use force into law back in 2005. Xi regularly reminds everyone that the party’s patience is finite. It seems the only question is timing.”

Xi knows that Trump would not stand for it, but Biden?  Well, he'll be "President Xiden."  I'm sure the State Department will issue a sternly-worded letter or two.

 

"My Grandfather voted a straight Democrat ticket this year."

"If he were still living, he never would have done that."

Dov Fischer in a recent Spectator piece asked the question: "What kind of sore-losing idiot would suspect Democrats of voter fraud?"  He answered:

A remarkably sensible, adequately intelligent, reasonably skeptical idiot — with a graduate degree in American history, who knows what Democrats in this country have done in previous elections.

Democrat election fraud is so prevalent that we make jokes about it, and have for years.  New York's Tammany Hall, Lyndon Johnson's election to Senate in 1948, Nixon's loss in 1960 and the long history of Chicago vote rigging before and after.

Where Chairman Mao believed that all power comes from the barrel of the gun, the late Mayor Richard J. Daley believed that all power comes from the barrel into which precinct totals have been tossed - David Nyhan, The Boston Globe, 12/16/1982

The 1960 Presidential election only required 8,858 votes in Chicago to steal it for Kennedy.  FBI agent Ernest Locker, Jr. observed that massive voter fraud was a way of life for the city's political machine and "What happens in a small area can sometimes change history."  Indeed. 

Ex-Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, convicted of trying to sell the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama, was recently interviewed about the 2020 election.  He said:

If the question is "Are the Democrats stealing votes in Philadelphia?" my answer is, "Is the Pope Catholic?"  It's a time-honored tradition in big Democratically controlled cities like Chicago my home town, Philadelphia, to do precisely what they're doing now.  I've never seen it at such a magnitude, because I think this is an indication of just how widespread it is, how deep it is. And I don't think it's just confined to Philadelphia.  My instincts, and again, coming out of Chicago  Democratic politics, my instincts tell me it's going on in Atlanta, it's going on in Detroit, it's going on in Milwaukee, it's going on in Las Vegas.  It's like what Justice Power said about pornography, "You can't define it, but you know it when you see it."  And coming out of the Democratic Chicago political establishment, I know how they operate.  They control polling places.  The stop votes when their candidate's behind. And then in the wee hours of the morning, in the dark of night, the stealing starts.  And we've seen that in big numbers, unprecedented numbers this election in Michigan and in Philadelphia.  It's outrageous.  The fact that they're doing it with the impunity they're doing it with is because the media is simply looking the other way because they have, their corrupt mainstream media that's not interested in protecting our Constitution or the rule of law, they just want to beat Donald Trump at all costs.

Speaking of Philadelphia, in 2012 Republican hopeful Mitt Romney received zero votes in 59 Philly precincts.  To say this is statistically improbable is a massive understatement.  Domenick J. Demuro, 73, Judge of Elections for Philadelphia's 39th Ward, 36th Division, pled guilty during a sealed proceeding on March 16 before U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond to conspiring to deprive persons of civil rights, and using interstate facilities in aid of bribery.  He accepted bribes to cast fraudulent ballots and certify false results in 2014, 2015 and 2016.  The person who bribed him was Michael Ozzy Myers, a former Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The 2008 election got Al Franken the win by 312 votes.  After, of course, election officials "found" enough to give it to him.  After six months of recounting.  Fascinating, isn't it, that every time ballots are "found" they're overwhelmingly in favor of Democrats?  His opponent got off better than Alaska Republican Senator Ted Stevens that same year.  In order to beat him charges of corruption were brought against him leading to a conviction, later overturned because it was bogus from start to finish.

In 2000 George W. Bush won the Presidency when the Supreme Court basically forced Al Gore to concede by ending the (previously) endless "recounts."  I wrote a piece about it at the time:  An Uncomfortable Conclusion.

But perhaps the most interesting case of election fraud was the Battle of Athens, Tennessee in 1946, where corrupt - and once again, Democrat - officials tried to rig the local election of a Sheriff.  Recently returned WWII veterans objected.  Violently.

And, most blatant and most recent (prior to the ongoing saga) was the rigging of the 2016 DNC Presidential primary, effectively preventing Bernie Sanders from winning the nomination, carried out at the direction of candidate Hillary Clinton and executed by DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who upon being ousted from that position immediately went to work for the Clinton campaign.

Democrat election fraud has a long and storied history - with very little in the way of penalty for it.  Here and there some people may go to prison, but never those in seats of real power.  If a few lower-level drones end up behind bars, well, you have to break some eggs....

So now we come to the 2016 election.  Hillary was inevitable.  All the polls said so.  Trump was a joke.  All the Right People said so. He had no chance.  And so the Democrat Fraud Machine wasn't switched fully on.  There was no need.

And then he won.  But that wasn't possible.  Projecting, as the Left is wont to do in 70mm IMAX, he had to have cheated.  Russian collusion!  He's illegitimate!  #Resist! #NotMyPresident! And so on and so forth for four years - four years in which they tried anything and everything to get him out of office, or at least blunt his ability to accomplish anything.  When it became obvious that he was actually going to complete his term and run for another, THIS COULD NOT STAND.

Back in May on Facebook I said:  

I've said for quite a while now that the Democrats will be pulling out all the stops this election year. The margin of fraud is going to be TREMENDOUS.

It would seem that the Democrats did exactly that - pulled out all the stops.  Read the article I was commenting on. Trump increased his vote total over 2016 by nearly 11 million, from 62,984,825 to (if you believe the current results) over 73,890,000.  That's more than Barack Obama got in 2012.

But Slow Joe Biden, who couldn't draw a crowd to one of his "rallies" supposedly got a record 80,026,000 votes.  (And if you believe Joe is more popular than Barack, I've got title to a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.)  A commenter at Facebook put it: 

7 million. 7,000,000. That’s the delta in votes between Biden and Trump. Where’s the steal?

Where indeed?   Remember:  "What happens in a small area can sometimes change history?"

Biden didn't win by 7,000,000 votes.  Just three battleground states - Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin represent 46 Electoral College votes.  The vote difference in these three states?  

Pennsylvania: 81,874 - 1.2%
Georgia:  11,928 - 0.24%
Wisconsin:  20,682 - 0.64%

And there's also Arizona (10,457 - 0.31%) and Michigan (154,188 - 2.8%).

Those three aptly named "swing" states could change the Electoral College to 278 votes for Trump, and the Democrats knew it.

Only 114,484 votes.  0.074% of all votes cast decide the winner.  Indeed, what happens in a small area can sometimes change history.

Here's what we know:  

• There was record turnout. So much for that "voter suppression" the Republicans are supposed to be practicing.
  
• The supposedly racist Trump won approximately 18% of the black male vote and 8% of the black female vote - both significant gains over 2016.  The previous political truism was, if the Democrat candidate didn't win 90% of the black vote, they lost the election.  Guess not.
  
• The supposedly racist Trump won 36% of the male Latino vote and 32% of Latino women.  That, too is supposed to be a death sentence for a Democrat candidate.  Yet Biden "won" Arizona and Nevada.
• Traditionally, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin follow Ohio and Iowa.  This year they didn't.  Because Detroit, Philadelphia and Milwaukee went for Biden in a big way.  Small areas can change history, but it's usually not a good idea to bet that way.
  
• The Hunter Biden laptop story was spiked by the major news media, and Social Media did their level best to keep the story from escaping the walls placed around it.  That had a significant effect on the vote. 
  
• The story of the Joe Biden Cancer Initiative was similarly suppressed until after the election.
• The mainstream media has beat the anti-Trump drum for the last FIVE years, with 90% negative reporting on his campaign and Presidency.  They have acted as campaign contributions in kind this entire year.  No wonder Biden didn't have to campaign or answer any questions.
  
• "Mail-in voting" - acknowledged by many to be an easy path to voter fraud - was pushed hard (possibly illegally) in many states.  Project Veritas has footage of examples of the results.  The NYPost, the same news organization blacklisted by ABCNNBCBS and others over the Hunter Biden laptop story reported on this August 29.  I may need to subscribe to the Post.  They seem to be on top of things.
  
• There are serious questions about the trustworthiness of voting machines used in multiple states.
• Multiple statistical analyses of the voting numbers raise giant red flags regarding that  trustworthiness.  Counting result patterns, voter turnout, etc. all lead to serious questions about the accuracy of the tally.  For instance:
  
• 37% of Detroit, Michigan precincts reported more votes than voters in 2016.  What happened there this year?  It's claimed in a lawsuit that 10 Michigan precincts had 100% turnout, and six had more than 100%.  That's significantly down from the 248 Detroit-only precincts from 2016.
  

Now, let's talk about what happened on Election Day and immediately thereafter:

• Republican poll observers were prevented from observing in Detroit and Philadelphia.  At the State Farm Arena in Georgia, observers were literally on the other side of the room from the vote tallying.  Then on the evening of the election they were told to go home because a "water main break" was going to stop the count for the night.  The "water main break" was a leaky toilet.  After all the observers (and the media) left, poll workers pulled ballots out from under a cloth-draped table and went back to counting.
• Vote tally reporting was stopped in Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Georgia.  When they started reporting again, Biden deficits had magically disappeared.  During certain of these "stops" great effort was made to clear out the observers.
• Sworn affidavits have been filed by witnesses in multiple states who say they saw ballots run through vote tallying machines multiple times and numerous other allegations of improprieties.

I could go on (and on, and on) but here's the deal:  47% of voters believe that election fraud has occurred.  This is a vote of no-confidence in the election.  The election results in these battleground states:  Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Georgia should be thrown out.  Electors should be selected by their state legislatures, not by the purported election results but by the consciences of the legislators.  

If this results in a Biden win, so be it, but regardless the election system in this nation must be reformed to be transparent, swift, and trustworthy, or the United States of America will become just another Banana Republic, if we haven't already.  Without this reform we can never be assured of another valid election.

I wish I could drink.  I'd have a Mojito. Or twelve.

Edited to add this from Scott Adams:

 

Things that Make You Go "Hmmmm."

 

I Could Have Written This

I wish I had.

The left is now reaping what it sowed

 

THIS is the Kraken

 

Wow. Just wow. This was the spine the Republicans never had before.

Quote of the Day - The Left Singularity

From the archives, a blog post at "Jim's Blog" from April of 2013.  This is just an excerpt.  Read the whole thing.

The Left Singularity:

Leftism leads to more ever more leftism, ever faster. If the process was not interrupted by dictatorship, civil war, or social collapse, it would end with everyone torturing each other to death for insufficient leftism, Khmer Rouge style, and the last torturer committing suicide for his failure to inflict infinite torture in finite time.

A State-Broken People

Back in 2010, long before he morphed into Col. Nicholson, George F. Will delivered the keynote speech at the Cato Institute's semi-annual Milton Friedman Prize dinner.  I liked it so much, I transcribed it. (Turns out, I didn't need to.  It's on the web in several other places, but....)  I titled my transcription "Learned Feudalism," a phrase Will used in the speech.  On Cato's web page, the speech is titled "Not a State-Broken People," another phrase from the speech.  Here's the pertinent excerpt, but do read the whole thing:

We are not Europeans. We are not, in Orwell’s phrase, a “state‐​broken people.” We do not have a feudal background of subservience to the state. No, that is the project of the current administration — it can be boiled down to learned feudalism. It is a dependency agenda that I have been talking about ad nauseam.

Two recent examples. First, when the government took over student loans, making it the case that the two most important financial transactions of the average family — a housing mortgage and a loan for college — will now be transactions with the government, they included a provision that said there will be special forgiveness of student loans for those who go to work for the government or for nonprofits. Second, one third of the recent stimulus was devoted to preserving unionized public employees’ jobs in states and local municipalities. And so it goes. The agenda is constant.

Indeed it is.  And now, with COVID and the lockdowns and the mask mandates, etc. it seems that a major effort is being made to make us a "state-broken" people and to impose upon us, "learned feudalism" - unending dependency on our betters in the halls of government, from the White House to our local municipal officials.

We're Americans.  We don't do that shit.  And if we do, we're no longer Americans.  We're Europeans, as the Left has wanted to make us for decades.

Who are You Going to Believe?