Correspondent Linda Lawrence:
“People are terrified that President Trump will seek retribution against his detractors. Media personalities, celebrities joined this group of Dems declaring they will be persecuted and prosecuted.. It’s pure projection. Trump has said he has too much to do for the American people to target detractors.
IMHO there are two people who deserve to be investigated and possibly charged for their actions in the final days after the 2020 election.
General Mark Milley conspired with Nancy Pelosi to undermine the sitting President’s authority. Pelosi made the call to Milley, who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff and he carried out the plan.
He went outside the Constitutionally defined duties of his office and violated the Military Chain of Command by:
~ ordering officers and NCOs to ignore all orders from the Commander in Chief and only carry out orders directly from him. His position is an advisory job and has NO command authority over the military .
~ He called his Chinese counterpart and promised to warn them if there was a a plan to attack China.
There’s a word for this.
General Milley needs to face military court and answer to these charges. And the punishment needs to be harsh.
As far as Pelosi and her part in the conspiracy to undermine the sitting President and his Constitutional powers as CIC, she also needs to be investigated and at the very least censured by Congress.
It’s these kinds of blatant violations of the Constitution that President Trump is speaking of when he talks about pursuing charges. Not journalists. Not comedians. Not the women of the View.
Although Milley has retired, he needs to be held accountable for Dereliction of Duty at the very least.
If we are truly a nation of laws, as President Obama said, the laws must be enforced.
JMHO”
So says my old friend from school.
Oh not just yours, Linda. The man is a traitor and should be treated as such. He needs to spend the remainder of his days in a military jail…. At a minimum.
This is what happens when you have leftists like Obama and Biden purging the military to further their own political goals.
Some (I think) rather obvious conclusions to draw from the election results and for that matter, the whole of the cycle.
1: The supposed mainstream media is no longer the dominant Force. They squandered that position trying to pursue their own political goals. (You do know that the legacy media is well over 90% Democrat, right?) A quick example. The Atlantic, a publication long bereft of credibility, came up with an article saying “America has an Anti-MAGA majority” I can’t think of a better example right now, of how out of touch the mainstream media has become. But of course that publication is not alone. Collectively, the legacy media spent months telling us on a daily basis how close all of this was going to be which is exactly what this race was not. It was not close. They covered for Biden for 5 years…. yes, even before the 2020 election, refused to follow up on evidence of vote fraud, refused to follow up on who was responsible for the long list of Biden Administration screw ups, Then, they aided and abetted the replacement of Biden without publicly admitting why they did that, ignoring the fact that everyone could see what was what. The podcasts and blogs did a more accurate job of reporting current events, and the momentum of news-gathering is now moving in that direction…. and I have doubts that trend will ever be reversed.
2: The dominance of big money in politics is over. We’ve been told for years and years and years that money is the dominant factor in who wins an election. Harris was the first presidential candidate to spend over a billion dollars to promote her candidacy, and she lost to a candidate who spent far less. Let that point sink in. The Democrats have been railing against big money donors for generations, but if you look at the money spent versus the vote counts, you’ll see that the majority of her billion dollars did not come from Joe and Jane average, but from Big Money.
3: Charges of sexism, racism, misogyny, etc etc etc don’t make any difference anymore. Not really.Call it the party that cried “sexism, racism, misogyny,” if you like. Remember, Marx told his followers to charge your opponent with what you’re doing. So did Saul Alinsky. What this election uncovered, make no mistake, is that the real source of sexism, racism, misogyny, etc etc etc, is Democrats. Think, now….we were told, as one proof among many, that the reason that we weren’t voting for Harris was because she’s a black woman. In fact, the real racism was coming from the Democrats who told us that they were voting for Harris because she was a black woman. Funny, how actual competence never entered the discussion. We were told MAGA was racist, and sexist. Yet looking at the wide variety of people at MAGA rallies, show that claim is the poisonous nonsense it is. (Don’t bother looking for such evidence in the legacy media or on the bigger search engines…. see point 1. )
4: As the election numbers are analyzed, they increasingly show that this nation is not nearly as divided as some would have us believe. The kind of thumping the Dems took the other day, can only happen when there are a large number either currently or formerly registered Democrats, who gave up on the Democrats. The hard truth for the Democrats is, that these are people the Democrat party pushed away. After generations of being told that the Republicans and specifically Donald Trump are responsible for what divisions there are in the country, the judgment of the American voter is that it’s the Democrats and the never Trumper GOP establishment (Which in reality are very much the same thing) that have been causing the division. The voters pushed away the myth of division. I have been saying now for nearly 25 years on this blog that there is nothing that will unify the American people faster and more solidly than Democrats with government power in their hands… against the Democrats. What we have all seen this week is the loudest affirmation yet of that concept. You’d think this might cause a period of introspection among the left…. but no. (I’ll speak out that at some future time, I’m sure)
5: Voter ID: There are 15 states in this country which at the moment, do not require identification for voting. Harris won 13 of them. That’s that pretty much speaks for itself. Now that we have majority in both houses of Congress and the president who will sign such a bill it’s time to mandate a picture ID from every voter in a federal election. What the states do individually is their own concern and they will survive or not based on their policies. . But the federal elections should be so protected and I expect it will happen in the first 6 months of the new year.
So with word today that Arizona has been called for Trump, that gives him 312 EC votes to Harris’ 226… Which by the way is the worst electoral performance from a Democrat ticket in quite a spell…. By my admittedly rough calculations, that puts it into Reagan over Mondale territory.
Not only that, but Trump secured the popular vote as well thus silencing the usual crowd about how Trump’s victory is an electoral college quirk…. A one-off. Apparently arrogance, and an immoral superiority doesn’t convince anybody to vote Democrat.
Indeed, to get these numbers to look that far out of balance, what’s required is pushing people away from the Democrat party, often well established Democrats. People who have been voting Democrats into office for generations.
If nothing else, this should be an indication to the Democrats just how wildly unpopular their agenda is.
Thus far, there have been no charges of fraud leveled against Trump and his people, and even if they had the chutzpah to try it, the Congressional voting… Which gave the Republicans three additional seats in the Senate and four in the House… would make such a lie so obvious as to be laughable. There was definitely a message being sent to Washington from the voters.
So with all that going on one really must wonder how long it will be before the Democrats managed to unburden themselves from what they have wrought.
I notice Leticia James isn’t about to give up. Got to wonder what she thinks she’s fighting for. It certainly doesn’t involve the will of the people, or saving democracy as the Democrats have been so wont to say. Captain Ahab must have his whale,I suppose. And the blame game has already started warming up.
So I guess any serious soul-searching amongst Democrats has several problems attached to it. The first of them being, they don’t have one.
Eric Raymond on X this morning:
The level of attempted shenanigans we saw in Pennsylvania and elsewhere was really low compared to 2020. This cycle we didn’t have 3:00AM vote drops that violated the hell out of Benford’s law. We didn’t have convenient water-main breaks. We didn’t have cardboard glued to windows to keep people from watching the counting. We didn’t have 19 bellwether counties that always predict the national failing to predict the national. It’s like the Democrats weren’t really trying.
The Democratic fraud machine was clearly never a unitary conspiracy that could be turned on and off like a light switch; in order to be deniable, it has to be a whole bunch of smaller local conspiracies, all pulling in the same direction, not communicating with each other, managed to the limited extent they are managed by political operatives who act as deniable cutouts for the DNC and various state-level political machines
I think some low-level fixers never got the message to stand down. So we got some spasmodic twitches like Democratic operatives in Bucks County PA masquerading as election workers, telling voters in a Republican-leaning precinct to go home. But the stochastic-fraud network as a whole didn’t generate the strong stink it does when it’s fully activated.
I’m not sure why the network didn’t get its go signal this time. There are at least two possibilities: one is the DNC knew from internal polling that Harris was utterly doomed, the other is that they contemplated the amount of monitoring the Republicans put in place this time and quailed. Either way, they must have concluded that all they would accomplish by trying to put the fix in was risking the exposure of their network.
Two excellent points that I don’t consider to be mutually exclusive. I think they were both in play. But I think one factor got left out of this analysis…
Such networks need willing participants. I judge the possibility to be high, of those participants in previous election fraud to have looked at the situation, and their judgment was that Harris wasn’t worth
supporting, particularly given the risks involved.
Even those that are talented enough and prone to thievery aren’t going to break into a secure bank when it only has a $1.98 in the cash drawer.
He goes on:
But the thing they can’t hide now is the consequences. Somewhere around 15 million fewer votes, losing the popular vote, and losing all seven of the swing states that normally get buggered by big-city Democratic fraud machines.
It’s the last confirmation I needed that 2020 was stolen. And it’s big enough to make me suspect they frauded in Obama. Twice.
I only suspect, mind you, because unlike Biden I and Biden II and Harris, Obama ran campaigns that weren’t somnolent dogshit. Maybe he won honestly – I’d still give that odds of over 50%, though not by much.
Probably true, but I would add one factor… Again, I point to the need for willing participants. A comparison would probably help this along.
Both Mitt Romney and John McCain lost their respective presidential bids for a number of reasons, but I have often said in these spaces that the largest reason of all was that the GOP rank and file sat on their hands. Those two just weren’t acceptable candidates to the base.
I think this is a similar situation. The leadership of both parties has become increasingly insular from the rank and file over the last 50 years or so… And in this case the leadership of the Democrat party did a number of things in the process of 2024 is machinations, which caused the gag reflex among the Democrat rank and file voter. By its nature, this would include the people that were committing massive fraud back in 2020. Again, in their judgment Harris simply wasn’t worth that level of support.
Now he goes on to stress the need for cleaning up the voter rolls to which I would add requiring a voter ID.
I agree with that and I point out that Harris won all the states that do not have voter ID as a requirement.
The idea has been floated of declaring election day a national holiday and requiring voters on that national holiday to show up in person show their ID and vote if they want to vote.
It would not only encourage participation, but it would all but eliminate the possibility of fraud.
These efforts should be high on the list of the Trump agenda for the next four years.
Trump has already, a few weeks ago announced that his DOJ would be investigating election fraud both historically and currently. It’s about time somebody did.
I really have to wonder if the powers that be in New York understand just how badly they’ve stepped in it, with the events surrounding the state sponsored killing of Peanut and Fred.
It is nearly impossible to imagine a worse bit of timing from the Democrat party’s point of view. The optics are horrible.
The thing is, the optics don’t lie. What we have in this instance is unrestrained government… And it’s fairly well common knowledge who runs the government in New York state.
It’s a little strange watching Democrats tell us that Kamala Harris would be the first woman president when they can’t even define what a woman is.
Nothing quite like being called garbage by someone who’s crack head son knocked up a stripper while cheating on his brothers wife and a daughter who writes about her teenage fear of her father climbing into the shower with her.
This bunch of people that Joe Biden would consider garbage, literally moved a mountainto create a road so that people affected by the storm could go home.
This is a job that the government said would take years to accomplish. The supposed experts said it would take even longer.
From the government’s viewpoint, the job was a failure.
I mean okay, the road was built quickly and all that, but how diverse was the crew? They didn’t worry about that. They actually fixed the road.
Did they give politicians the chance to demagogue the situation? No, they just fixed the road
Did we make sure that the crew was unionized? No, they just fixed the road.
I’m betting nobody bothered filing an environmental impact statement. Correct. They just fixed the road
I’m betting they weren’t concerning themselves with governmental guidelines about promoting inclusion. Again, correct, they just fixed the road.
Besos in trying to explain why no endorsement this go-round:
“Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.
Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, “I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.” None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, thought the same, and he was right.”
That’s an interesting little dance you’ve got going there, jeff.
(Shrug)
As Besos says, reality is the champion… But the thing is, he can only allow himself to internally acknowledge somewhat less than half of it.
The problem is not the perception of liberal bias in the supposed mainstream media, including the Washington Post, but the existence of it.
Unfortunately that’s a point that Besos hasn’t brought himself to recognize yet. If he ever will… And there’s serious doubt on that point. Indeed, one wonders what Besos believes he can control to alter that perception.
Us, it’s easy enough to suppose. Is every American having free speech part of his problem in his perception? That would certainly be of a piece with people like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton seeking to control what they consider to be “disinformation”.
If nothing else this editorial of his is an indication that he recognizes that the mainstream media has lost control of the narrative.
This move does give us a clue as to what’s going on in his mind, however, on at least two points:
The first being, he knows the chances are that the horrible candidate that is Harris, is on a losing path electorally speaking. Give him credit for an accurate finger gauge in the breeze, at least.
The second is she will perform poorly in the office, assuming that she ever manages to attain it. In either event or both, as Bezos sees it, the credibility of the Washington Post gets besmirched thereby. Simply put, the non-endorsement is the owner protecting his investment.
What he refuses to allow himself to believe however, is that ship has already sailed, even before he took possession of it.
By the way the comment section on his editorial is amusing at least. Some 9,000 comments at my last viewing.
So why is anybody voting for Kamala Harris? The answers are widely varied, and often contradictory. In fact, the only reason that doesn’t contradict the others is that she isn’t Donald Trump. In fact her team’s campaign rhetoric at this point seems to focus on nothing else.
That seems an awfully weak bit of reasoning given the successes that Trump racked up in his first term, despite the Democrats tooth and nail opposition.
Some of the more problematic excuses that I have seen offered for not voting for Trump involve moral issues. Supposedly, Donald Trump is immoral being. This from a party who spent the last 50 years telling us how morality didn’t matter unless it was their morality, and who views the killing of children by way of abortion to be a noble, and, a moral act.
Of course, the people making that judgment seem to forget Harris being the side chick for at least two married men as she slept her way up the ladder. At the very least this would seem to weaken the morality argument.
Then there are the lies and the slight mistruths. She never, as she claimed, worked at McDonald’s. By the way… how bereft oflife experience does one need to be to have to lie about that as a part of your resume?
She is not African American has she claims.,. Which is a point that has been made by several African American commenters have made in conversation … And on their YouTube channel these last several days.
Then of course there is her current erstwhile husband, and the nanny. By the way we’ve never been told whatever happened to baby.
What’s the Democrats and their fellow travelers in the establishment GOP do not understand is that Trump supporters aren’t looking for perfection in office, they’re looking for the best deal for the country. Given the respective records of each candidate, come on Harris is not that choice.
I will remind the reader that back in 2016 Donald Trump was not my first choice, (at the time I preferred Ted Cruz)…but his performance in office was sufficiently good to remove what objections I had.
The truth is even assuming that I still had those objections, Donald Trump would still be the better deal in the choice we are about to make in this presidential go around.
Even a large number of Democrats are withholding their support from Harris, such as the LA Times, The Washington Post, the Teamsters Union and so on.
(The Teamsters are particularly interesting, because the lack of support for Harris stems from the voting process within the Union which overwhelmingly chose Trump as being worthy of their support. The leadership of the Union however refused. I can’t help but believe that move is going to cause some changes in the structure of the leadership of the Teamsters Union.
Thing is, that lack of support for Harris these last few weeks is becoming far more common then the Democrats would like you to believe.
Maybe it has something to do with the last 4 years?
So yesterday the news drops about how the Washington Post refuses to endorse Harris for president. They are of course only the most recent non-endorsement.
Supposedly, the excuse given is a return to the non endorsement of political candidates because they don’t want to be seen as biased.
Well, if that were really the reason for the non endorsement, I’d be cheering, especially given the overt bias we’ve all seen for the last 50 years and longer. But you and I both know what’s going on.
The Washington Post in particular along with the LA Times have in fact been the point on the spear of the anti-Trump movement, a position that they’ve held for over a decade now.
Harris, both as a candidate and as VP, have been such a disaster that the editorial board of the Washington Post simply cannot bring themselves to endorse her, despite their long-standing bias for the far left. That said, endorsing Donald Trump would be a tacit admission that they’ve been dead wrong all this time that they’ve been running interference for the apparently brain dead Joe Biden and the apparently alcohol impaired Harris.
What we’re really seeing here is intellectual and journalistic cowardice.
Not that anyone should be surprised by that.
Found elsewhere…
Fascism historically was “national socialism”—government control over much of the economy. By that definition, Democrats today are the national socialists—using regulation, mandates, law enforcement, and trillions of dollars in subsidies to coerce Americans to follow their dictates on climate and culture. Mr. Trump was a deregulator in his first term and promises to be more so in a second.
There is a difference between an education system and what we have now under the guidance of the federal government.
Back in 76, Jimmy Carter established the Federal department of education. Supposedly it was to improve our education systems.
What it’s done is to take us from being midpack worldwide in terms of test scores and pushed us to the bottom of that list.
The failures of our government- run education system are so obviously prevalent as to make statements about how education is improved under the control of the federal government laughable at best.
We’ve now reached a point in our National History where Johnny can’t read his diploma but he’s all over the subject of man-made climate change, and how evil capitalism and the white man are.
I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who observed that the natural state of government is growth. Certainly, the undue influence of the federal government and the educational system has grown over the years including those years prior to the establishment of the Federal department of education.
There are some who will argue that this takeover has not affected what are laughingly called higher education establishments. But let’s look closely at the ivy league as a prime example of the results of the federal government’s intrusion.
Since Woodrow Wilson infested the White House, we have gone from teaching Latin in what amounted to Junior high School, to teaching remedial English in what these days laughingly passes for college.
I’ve said it before and will say it again:
The worst mistake we ever made is a country, a culture, a people, was to turn the education of our young over the government.