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By censoring the Hunter Biden story the MSM has destroyed its ability to convince Americans there was no vote fraud

As they say on TV Tropes, “Nice job breaking it, Hero!”

In 2018 Christine Blasey Ford accused Brett Kavanaugh of committing sexual assault approximately 36 years previously, when he was a teenager. There were no witnesses to the alleged assault. We have only her word for it that the two of them ever met. The people she said she had talked to about it at the time said they had no such memory. She could not say in whose house or even in which year the alleged assault had happened.

The mainstream media devoted thousands of hours to her story.

In 2020 Tony Bobulinski accused Joe Biden of having lied when he (Joe Biden) said that he was not involved in the business dealings of his son, Hunter Biden, and had never even discussed them. Tony Bobulinski is unquestionably Hunter Biden’s former business partner. There are thousands of emails exchanged between them on Hunter Biden’s laptop. (That it was Hunter Biden’s laptop has never been denied by the Biden campaign.) The accusation relates to events only a few years ago. Tony Bobulinski has specified to the hour the exact occasions when he says that he spoke with Joe Biden about Hunter Biden’s business deals in China and the Ukraine.

The great names of the mainstream media refused to even look.

The Managing Editor for News of America’s National Public Radio spoke for American journalism when he said,

“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”

The tabloid New York Post which broke the story was censored by Twitter and Facebook.

First thousands, then millions of people from America and around the world went to look at the NYP story and found their way blocked. Those who tried to share it got the message, “Your Tweet couldn’t be sent because the link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful. Visit our Help Center to learn more.”

Now, as some of you may have heard, the Americans have held an election. The outcome is contested. There are claims of voter fraud. Project Veritas has videos. This comment by Shlomo Maistre contains seven links to tweets discussing strange events at counting sites across the US. He says other tweets he bookmarked have disappeared. It’s like a game of whack-a-mole… “Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about how to participate in an election or another civic process. Learn more.” “In line with the exceptional measures that we are taking during this period of heightened tension, we have removed the Group ‘Stop the Steal.’” One blogger even found himself abruptly banned from Facebook for sharing links about dubious fact checkers in a private message.

The mainstream media in the US and their chums in the UK and elsewhere (the whole lot of them are practically one entity by now) would really, really like to convince Americans that there has been no vote fraud.

Yeah, right. I am sure that the press will investigate this story with all the fearless diligence it showed in investigating Hunter’s emails.

46 comments to By censoring the Hunter Biden story the MSM has destroyed its ability to convince Americans there was no vote fraud

  • Robert

    You sound more and more like the Corbynistas with your petulant whining about media bias.

  • Natalie Solent (Essex)

    I couldn’t care less about bias. I care about censorship. And vote fraud.

  • Dalben

    Or the censoring worked just fine and people who weren’t already frequent consumers of alternative conservative news sources are at most vaguely aware of it and it won’t cause much more distrust than already existed.

  • Shlomo Maistre

    The bias of omission is the most pernicious and malicious kind of bias there is. I actually do not even consider it bias – it is much, much worse than that. The non-coverage of the Hunter Biden story in the Fake News Media cost DT the election. Even worse, that story was censored, suppressed, and buried by Big Tech to ensure that Biden would win.

    At least in the USSR the people knew Pravda was lying to them.

    In the USA about half the population is unaware of their own brainwashing.

    We live in terrifying times. Truly.

  • Dalben

    Probably a small amount of additional mistrust, but just as one small piece of what’s been building up for years, not any kind of major change by itself.

    Thus well worth the effort if it helped put their candidate over the line.

  • Shlomo Maistre

    I saw a post on Facebook last week from someone I once knew. She said (I am paraphrasing):

    “If Donald J. Trump wins the election it will lead to very bad things happening to poor people, African American people, Hispanic people, gay people, and other oppressed groups. It will be a very sad day for our whole entire country. But it’s four years. We can survive that. But telling a friend you are voting for this homophobic, hateful, xenophobic, racist bigot is forever. You cannot take that back.”

    If you think that this post on Facebook did not receive HUNDREDS of “Likes” and “Hearts” then you are very much mistaken. And of course among the dozens of comments underneath was NOT A SINGLE that offered any kind of disagreement at all.

    And if you think this was the only post on Facebook like this that I saw among my ~300 Facebook friends, then you are very much mistaken.

    I’m not sure how this is different than an Inquiisition…..

    Remember the phrase of the Left from several months ago during the BLM protests/antifa riots?? “Silence is violence”.

    They are coming for us all.

  • Shlomo Maistre

    Remember the phrase of the Left from several months ago during the BLM protests/antifa riots??? “Silence is violence”.

    Silence Is Violence.

    This was all over Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. I personally know people who put this slogan on Facebook. When I asked them about it, they said they do not believe it literally but that “it’s important to show solidarity with the protests against racist police violence”. They really think that this was an important way to show their support, even though they did not believe it literally.

    That was not an empty slogan. People are terrified of saying anything that disagrees with the Left. Cancel culture, deplatforming, etc has already succeeded. People see that these things work. People also see that these things only come from the left not from the right. So they are submitting to the left.

    “Silence is violence.”

    Most people who vote Democrat do not agree with this. But the truth is that most people who allowed the Nazis to perpetrate the Holocaust did not even vote for the Nazi Party once.

    The Left is coming for us all. It may take hundreds of years, but the Left is coming for us all eventually.

  • John

    Shlomo,

    You may well be right but I fear that even if the HB story had been properly aired the Democrat machine would simply have added a few hundred thousand more ballots in swing states.

    Their complete infiltration of vital positions of power and influence reminds me of an extreme version of our own loathsome Tony Blair. His legacy involved devolving state powers to vast numbers of Quangos (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations) headed up and run by well-paid party loyalists and then, adding insult to injury, channelling taxpayer millions into funding said organisations.

    They have been a blight on our country for a generation now and can always be relied upon to support the left of centre establishment position. Ironically one of the worst examples is our own Electoral Commission who consistently undermine the democratic electoral process, albeit nowhere near as shamelessly as we are currently seeing in your country.

  • Shlomo Maistre

    “You may well be right but I fear that even if the HB story had been properly aired the Democrat machine would simply have added a few hundred thousand more ballots in swing states.”

    The problem is not that Biden will be POTUS. I am pointing out a much bigger problem than that. The problem I am pointing out is WHY IT IS that most of the damage Biden will do as POTUS will never be undone. Ever.

    But of course a lot worse people will follow Biden into the office of the Presidency and do even more horrible things to my country than Biden will. We are on a path to destruction.

    Their complete infiltration of vital positions of power and influence reminds me of an extreme version of our own loathsome Tony Blair. His legacy involved devolving state powers to vast numbers of Quangos (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations) headed up and run by well-paid party loyalists and then, adding insult to injury, channelling taxpayer millions into funding said organisations.

    They have been a blight on our country for a generation now and can always be relied upon to support the left of centre establishment position. Ironically one of the worst examples is our own Electoral Commission who consistently undermine the democratic electoral process, albeit nowhere near as shamelessly as we are currently seeing in your country.

    Look, again, it’s much bigger than this. Being afraid to speak, being TERRIFIED to speak out is de facto NO freedom of speech. This is much worse than lack of de jure free speech.

    Trump became POTUS from the world of business. He is not part of the system, the deep state, the bureaucracy. He owes nothing to the lobbyists, special interests, bureaucratic state, etc.

    Trump REALLY REALLY was not supposed to win re-election in 2016. Really was not supposed to happen. I don’t know that ANY OF US really understand how much it was not supposed to happen and ALL THE REASONS WHY. We may never know.

    Trump became POTUS from the world of business. He is not part of the system, the deep state, the bureaucracy. He owes nothing to the lobbyists, special interests, bureaucratic state, etc.

    And all these shenanigans all happens now in 2020? For the first time in modern era? Really?

    There are only 2 possibilities:

    Either Trump has uncovered shenanigans that has been going on for decades to keep Republicans/conservatives from realizing how popular they actually are in REALITY by manipulating vote outcomes OR they are doing these shenanigans brand new because they cannot allow Trump to remain in office.

    Regardless of which is true, Trump is our only hope. He is our savior, like it or not.

    Trump is our savior from G-d.

  • George Atkisson

    A word from over here in the US. The Ship of State has been sabotaged. Not just the Presidential race, but the Senate as well. The unholy alliance of the far Left, Big Tech, the Media, Education, and the Deep State appears poised to take complete control of the Federal government. The forces of Mordor will take Gondor and everything else they desire. All the corruption of the last 20 years will be swept under the carpet like it never happened.

    All that it requires for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing. We did just that, trying to live normal lives. We were out organized, out spent, and trusted in the decency of other Americans. We were wrong, and Western Civilization will pay the price.

  • Mr Ed

    Shlomo,

    Super work, thank you. From my pov, the issue is this: Being a Democratic for those Americans who work for a State/the United States, in the law, education, the media, big business etc. is not their politics, so much as their culture. It is what makes them and infuses them like alcohol in whiskey. Take away one, and the other ceases to be.

    A huge de-funding operation is needed, and it needs to endure for a century.

  • Shlomo Maistre

    Trump REALLY REALLY was not supposed to win re-election in 2016. Really was not supposed to happen. I don’t know that ANY OF US really understand how much it was not supposed to happen and ALL THE REASONS WHY. We may never know.

    Should have said:

    Trump REALLY REALLY was not supposed to win election in 2016. Really was not supposed to happen. I don’t know that ANY OF US really understand how much it was not supposed to happen and ALL THE REASONS WHY Trump was NOT supposed to win the 2016 election. We probably will never know all the reasons why.

    We got a win in 2016 that was outside of their narrative (only establishment politicians who are part of the system get real power) and they got a win in 2020 that is outside of our narrative (free and fair elections) to prevent a continuation of what happened in 2016.

    I predict that both of the narratives will continue in the future after 2020 (appearance of free & fair elections and only establishment politicians who are part of the system get real power).

  • Shlomo Maistre

    Mr. Ed,

    From my pov, the issue is this: Being a Democratic for those Americans who work for a State/the United States, in the law, education, the media, big business etc. is not their politics, so much as their culture.

    Yes I agree. And it’s not unique to America – it’s like this in most democracies or constitutional republics in the world – in my opinion. Trump just PULLED THE CURTAIN UP so everyone in the crowd could see the actors and actresses. The UK’s curtain has not been pulled up yet.

    It is what makes them and infuses them like alcohol in whiskey. Take away one, and the other ceases to be.

    Yes this makes sense… and the more I think about it the more brilliant it is.

    What is culture? What makes a culture? Can you have a culture without an identifiable enemy? These are deep questions about how to fight the Left.

    A huge de-funding operation is needed, and it needs to endure for a century.

    I’m not sure exactly what you mean by this, can you please elaborate?

    I think that what is coming is.. there will be a fundamental difference between publicly owned companies and privately owned companies. The former will eventually succumb to the left because wall street cares only about profit (they are usually leftist prior to the IPO being issued, actually – and for good business reasons) while the latter private companies care not only about profit but also about USA.

    Anyone who votes for the Republican Party needs to stop paying money to multi-national corporations. The Republican Party is the political vehicle to slow/stop Leftism and if you want to stop Leftist Madness then sending your money to corporations that perpetuate Leftism by classifying conservative opinion as “hate speech” and running seminars that are leftist brainwashing (quite literally) is a losing strategy.

    What I am suggesting is already starting to happen, by the way. For example:

    https://patriotmobile.com/

  • Shlomo Maistre

    Thank you Natalie for the shout-out. This is a great & important post, grateful to you for disseminating this info.

    Thank G-d for Samizdata.

  • Mr Ed

    Shlomo,

    By ‘de-funding operation’ I mean the removal of all government funding and privileges so that government jobs, grants and legal privileges are removed. Make it do that they always have to rely upon market choices for a pay cheque, and self-interest will (for most) drive them to rejection of that which consumes them now. Only when three generations have lived in the private sector is there hope that the current ways will seem as absurd, incomprehensible and as unsustainable as they are.

    Reagan said it would take one generation to lose freedom, I say 3 to re-establish it.

  • staghounds

    The “intelligence community”, the FBI, and the mainstream press straight gave a century of reputation for honest impartiality in order to to exchange Donald Trump for Joseph Biden.

    “Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.”

  • Shlomo Maistre

    “By ‘de-funding operation’ I mean the removal of all government funding and privileges so that government jobs, grants and legal privileges are removed.”

    I am not sure how this can be achieved given what the current situation appears to be.

  • Martin

    Shlomo – completely agree. I’d say destroying the multinationals or at least seizing control of them and putting them in reliable hands is essential. I don’t think draining the public sector is anywhere near sufficient. There’s no point firing left wing bureaucrats if they can just slip into roles in the media, big tech and other corporates.

    More Viktor Orban please, much less Mitt Romney please

  • Shlomo Maistre

    The trickle begins in the alternative press. The Fake News Media is not investigating any of this and they are ignoring literally all of the evidence. And Big Tech is censoring (usually disappearing) most of the evidence when it appears on their platforms.

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-gop-claims-software-glitch-switched-6000-republican-votes-to-democrat-47-counties-used-same-software

    https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/trey-trainor-fec-trump-2020-election/2020/11/06/id/995772/

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/11/06/gop-dozens-of-michigan-counties-used-software-that-gliched-changing-thousands-of-trump-votes-n2579625

    https://planetfreewill.news/pa-usps-official-willing-to-testify-under-oath-over-ballot-backdating/

    https://dailycaller.com/2020/11/06/philadelphia-voter-fraud-democrat-stuffing-ballot-boxes/

    https://www.newsmax.com/us/usps-absentee-ballots-mail-in-ballots-new-york/2020/11/06/id/995803/

    Where is NBC, ABC, CNN, Buzzfeed, Bloomberg, CBS, NYT, WaPo?? Why were these Fake News Media outlets taking Trump off the air when he started making assertions that they (the Fake News Media) claimed were false?? Why is none of this being investigated by the major media conglomerates??

  • bobby b

    “I am sure that the press will investigate this story with all the fearless diligence it showed in investigating Hunter’s emails.”

    Right now, where I am, you can learn about the ongoing fraud (and its investigation) only on what we might term the conservative internet.

    If one is limited to NBC/ABC/CBS/PBS – the MSM (a name I hate), one hears cheerfully that “the count goes on!” I’ve spoken to lots of progressives today who are unaware of controversy. They know that “Trump is, without basis, complaining”, but that’s about all.

    We’ve simply reversed the happenings of Bush v. Gore. After the pivotal USSC ruling that (correctly, in my mind) stopped the ballot harvesting and made Bush the winner, the left was completely enraged – in their minds, Bush won through cheating – and they did everything possible to make Bush a non-president. But it mostly just made them look silly.

    The exact same thing is about to happen again. I hope we can react in a way that shows some education stemming from watching the left back then.

  • Shlomo Maistre

    bobby b,

    We’ve simply reversed the happenings of Bush v. Gore. After the pivotal USSC ruling that (correctly, in my mind) stopped the ballot harvesting and made Bush the winner, the left was completely enraged – in their minds, Bush won through cheating – and they did everything possible to make Bush a non-president. But it mostly just made them look silly.

    The exact same thing is about to happen again. I hope we can react in a way that shows some education stemming from watching the left back then.

    When you say “the exact same thing is about to happen again” maybe you are exclusively referring to the strict legal merits of the situation – in which case you may be right and I’m not going to dispute that.

    But Bush was a member of the Establishment of the Republican Party, a member of the Elite Ruling Class. Bush owed favors to lobbyists, deep state, bureaucracy, etc. if he got into office, and there was trust between Bush & the De Facto Powers of the USA. And none of those things are true for Trump.

    I’m not sure that this will ever reach SCOTUS, but even if it does I highly doubt that SCOTUS would rule in favor of Trump even if Trump is right according to the legal merits involved and to be honest, I’m not sure I can really blame them for ruling against Trump even if Trump is right about the law. But just in case they might, I will be moving out of NYC (at least temporarily) if this starts going to the courts in a significant way. The riots would make the Antifa/BLM riots post George Floyd look like a gentle stroll through a park.

    The situation behind the scenes is unfathomable to mere mortals like me. But I am certain that the consequences of a SCOTUS ruling in favor of Trump over Biden would have consequences that would make Bush v. Gore look like a basically irrelevant non-event. Bush v. Gore was a SCOTUS decision adjudicating a legal dispute between two factions within the De Facto Sovereignty. Trump v. Biden would be a SCOTUS decision ruling between two Separate Sovereignties.

  • mongoose

    Might not this be an opportunity for some brave members of the Electoral College to use their judgment and wisdom to decide what the true electorate of their State intended and to vote for that regardless of what CNN says is the truth? (Whenever and whatever the Electoral College actually does, that is.)

  • bobby b

    Shlomo Maistre
    November 6, 2020 at 11:56 pm

    “When you say “the exact same thing is about to happen again” maybe you are exclusively referring to the strict legal merits of the situation – in which case you may be right and I’m not going to dispute that.”

    I’m talking process only, specifically ignoring the merits of either side of the fight. I’m doing so because this new fight – like that old one – was decided on process much more than “right or wrong.” Process controls.

    The USSC was presented with a narrow and specific question to address back in the Bush v. Gore battle. Whether they were right or wrong – and whether the courts now rule rightly or wrongly in our minds – I’m only talking about how we go from here.

    The Dems after BvG had no real substance to attack. The USSC ruled on a narrow procedural issue that has no public-fight sex appeal. All they could do was yell “fix!”, but they couldn’t make it compelling, because no one understood it.

    We have a situation where, if we investigate and collect the information available – even though it’s after the fact, even if it’s not going to affect today’s outcome – we’re left with a compelling story to tell about fraud and theft and coups and corruption.

    I think we need to put that story together with every ounce of skill we have and tell it and tell it and tell it. Make it an accepted point in society that “we wuz robbed!” Make even the Dems embarrassed to argue differently.

    And then use it, even in the hostile environment of a Biden presidency, to get our election laws changed so that the next time, we have some honesty. (Most election law is state-level, anyway, and we did very well at state level in this election.)

    The Dems accomplished nothing in their post-BvG tantrums beyond friction. They slowed things, they interfered with Bush’s program. We ought to aim higher. We can reverse a lot of rot fairly quickly if we can do that.

  • Shlomo Maistre

    Oops.

    https://twitter.com/Wizard_Predicts/status/1324859867430080513

    WATCH: @SidneyPowell1 says it is likely that the software programs HAMMER and SCORECARD were used to change 3% of early voting numbers. She also says the Michigan software “glitches” were intentional.

    https://twitter.com/JudicialWatch/status/1324879994275864577

    Our investigation of voter rolls nationwide turned up 2.5M extra names. Our analysis of data from the U.S Election Assistance Commission found 378 counties that had a combined 2.5 million more voter registrations than citizens old enough to vote.

    https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1324836490145370113

    Detroit city worker blows whistle, claims ballots were ordered backdated. FBI probing.

    https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1324835763721326592

    “SIX THOUSAND Republican ballots were counted as Democrat in Antrim County, Michigan due to a computer glitch!

    “47 counties in Michigan may have also suffered from a similar glitch”

    https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1324845160358940673

    BREAKING: Pennsylvania @USPS Whistleblower Richard Hopkins Goes Public; Confirms Federal Investigators Have Spoken With Him About Postmaster Rob Weisenbach’s Order To Backdate Ballots To November 3rd, 2020

    https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1324817792554700801

    “All the glitches go in the same direction”

    https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1324867717808050176

    The election software system in Michigan that switched 6,000 votes from Trump to Biden is called “Dominion.”

    It is used in 30 states including:

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    Nevada
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    Arizona
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    Minnesota
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    Michigan
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    Wisconsin
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    Georgia
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    Pennsylvania

    Every single major swing state. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

    https://twitter.com/fleccas/status/1324884703585964032

    NYT “debunks” claim that dead people requested/returned absentee ballots in Michigan by claiming they were “clerical errors”.

    Are the thousands of names deceased voters that returned absentee ballots I present in this video “clerical errors” too?

    LINK: https://youtu.be/SK21F1b5ihc

    https://twitter.com/Wizard_Predicts/status/1324802414562676740

    Poll watchers should never have to use binoculars. They are not bird watchers.

    Democrats turned our sacred electoral process into a total joke!

    https://twitter.com/EricTrump/status/1324864475254677505

    The @DNC is spamming our voter fraud hotline to bog down the thousands of complaints we are receiving! Wonder what they have to hide.

    https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1324875479409594369

    Censorship of a post about censorship… @Twitter
    going full Inception on us 🤯

    https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1324845160358940673

    BREAKING: Pennsylvania @USPS Whistleblower Richard Hopkins Goes Public; Confirms Federal Investigators Have Spoken With Him About Postmaster Rob Weisenbach’s Order To Backdate Ballots To November 3rd, 2020

    https://twitter.com/mikeroman/status/1324858704722792448

    In Philly suburbs “volunteers” are handling absentee ballots in the basement lunchroom of the counting center. The “election supervisor” LEFT! They don’t know his name? Are you kidding me?

    https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1324860900126330882

    But Clark County, Nevada election officials told us they haven’t counted any illegal ballots. #moretocome

    Nevada Records Show Dead Voter Rose From The Grave To Cast Ballot

    https://twitter.com/MichaelCoudrey/status/1324851541166100480

    These are the states that use the software that flipped the vote in MI.

    ALL of these states votes must be audited.

    https://twitter.com/LizRNC/status/1324815682270363650

    Election worker whistleblower in Mich: bundle of ballots with no receive date brought on 11/4

    Workers were instructed to enter these into system as received on 11/2 or 11/3

    “All election workers were given this same guidance.”

    https://twitter.com/realDexJames/status/1324886440191340545

    #grainofsalt – but if this is true… Why is China shipping ballots for Joe into Atlanta? Did they really not cover this up? Start digging into this rabbit hole! #StopTheSteal #BidenSteal #CorruptDemocrats #CorruptJoeBiden

    https://twitter.com/nosuspendo/status/1324898163249999872

    another statistical anomaly #bellwether cities #stopthesteal

    https://twitter.com/BenSkywalkerEU/status/1324898971152572418

    Mail in voters from Pennsylvania are born in the year 1800, yeah not shady at all. #StopTheSteal

    https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1324900798074138624

    @RealDonaldTrump lawyer @JaySekulow: Manual recounts may be required in 30 states after report of computer program “glitch”…

    https://twitter.com/fleccas/status/1324216584219623424

    Turns out 118 year old “William Bradley” voted via absentee ballot in Wayne County, Michigan. William Bradley died in 1984.

    How long has this been going on?

    Try it for yourself:
    https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/Voter/Index

  • Shlomo Maistre

    In the past few hours I have noticed a marked decrease in the mysterious disappearing of alleged evidence of voter fraud posted to Twitter. Probably for a mix of reasons:
    1. There are too many Tweets
    2. Ordinary people are using alternative channels to get the info to Trump
    3. It’s published in the alternative press (The Daily Caller, Daily Wire, Newsmax, The Federalist)
    4. The case against the Fake Narrative is too strong
    5. The good Blue Checks (in addition to the obvious people) have started tweeting the evidence a lot more now and they are much more difficult for the Twitter Wokelets to mess with

    Interesting times.

  • MadrocketSci

    I’m afraid that the Republic is dead. Maybe half the population doesn’t get it – they think this is cute and clever and laugh as they lie to us. The right is clinging to hope and arguing about Roberts Rules of Order, while some profoundly evil people move to consolidate absolute control over our federal government. The Jacobins took the French Revolution straight to hell in the course of a year. I’m terrified of an incipient civil war, but I’m also terrified of us *not* rebelling.

    We could all easily be dying brutally in a year.

  • bobby b

    Madrocketsci, you sound exactly like my progressive friends did back in November 2000 (with the small difference that, in 2000, it wasn’t yet acceptable for them to have weapons and so they lacked the terror that there wouldn’t be civil war, because if there was one, they’d lose.)

  • Flubber

    Where is NBC, ABC, CNN, Buzzfeed, Bloomberg, CBS, NYT, WaPo?? Why were these Fake News Media outlets taking Trump off the air when he started making assertions that they (the Fake News Media) claimed were false?? Why is none of this being investigated by the major media conglomerates??

    Because the Mockingbird Media thinks it should decide who should be President. You can add the BBC to that list as well.

  • bobby b

    “Where is NBC, ABC, CNN, Buzzfeed, CBS, NYT, WaPo?? . . . Why is none of this being investigated by the major media conglomerates?”

    Because they ARE the major media conglomerates?

  • Shlomo Maistre

    It is clear that the entire Fake News Media cares more about destroying President Donald J. Trump than about the integrity of our elections. Given all that has happened, this is as good a reason as any for every American to support President Donald J. Trump – even Democrats who voted for Joe Biden.

  • Exasperated

    Sorry, to be off topic but I have heard threats that our globalist democratical fascists intend to leverage trade in order to undo Brexit. Your thoughts?

  • The Pedant-General

    The BBC is at here:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54837926

    This is just an awful hit piece.

  • APL

    This is fairly interesting, seeming to show CNN inadvertently broadcasting live on air an instance massaging of vote count, but attempting to cover up the embarrasment by quickly switching to one of the talking heads.

    The whole video is interesting and seems to expose how corrupt the US voting system has become.

    Flubber: “Why is none of this being investigated by the major media conglomerates??”

    Because they are the prime conduit of the lying narrative.

  • It is fascinating to compare the Pedant General’s BBC post with this one from 4 years ago – https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37243190

  • PS my link is archived here just in case https://archive.is/3yMm5

  • Exasperated

    I got it, guys. We are the butt of some sort of weird cosmic joke. How else to explain the apparent win of the sleaziest, subpar team to ever occupy the WH. To add to your chagrin, why, oh why, did the democraticals pick such a bleary and vacuous pair to be their standard bearers. It has to be a feature not a bug.
    I could have lived with a few of the other primary candidates. I even voted, in the primary, for Andrew Yang, not because I agree with him, but because I sense that he isn’t anti-American and is authentic and likeable. In any case we know that the primary was rigged and that Joe and Bloe, the two with the least support, were dragged to the finish. I am forced to conclude that Joe is the Bestest and the Brightest with more character and rectitude than any other Dem. Am I right?
    To my liberal friends, next up, flakey geezer narratives; you had a lot of gall to mock DJT and his supporters.

  • X Trapnel

    If postal votes are a significant minority of total votes, why is it taking four days to count them? Are they written on slabs of concrete? Are they harder to read? Or have all the counters gone home?

  • JohnK

    Exasperated:

    Good point.

    At one level, perhaps the choice of Sleepy Joe and Kamala by the DNC (and of course that is what happened) is a sort of “fuck you” to the American people. They picked them to show that they can put up any old rubbish and still turn out the 120 year old vote.

    At another level, and perhaps more likely, their sleaziness is a feature, not a bug. We know how compromised Biden and his extended crime family is. We know that Kamala got into politics by blowing old guys. These two are corrupt to the core. They will do as they are told and never put up a fight. That is their purpose. Trump could not be told what to do. He was beholden to no-one. That’s the thing the deep state could not stand. The fact that Biden/Harris are corrupt and untalented is their whole point.

  • Shlomo Maistre

    They are building lists of Trump supporters. Who is “they”? Democrat Politicians in the House of Representatives, including AOC as well as allegedly/potentially… Google.

    It’s out in the open and they are not even denying it.

    https://twitter.com/susanferrechio/status/1324887156125470720

    .@kaitlancollins just reported WH staff are starting to look for jobs. Employers considering them should know there are consequences for hiring anyone who helped Trump attack American values. Find out how at the Trump Accountability Project.

    https://trumpaccountability.net

    https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1324807776510595078

    Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future

    That last one is from AOC, a prominent Congresswoman from the Great State of New York.

    https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1324816391522848768

    So one of the people on the list Ocasio-Cortez called for is Sheldon Adelson.

    https://twitter.com/smarsilia/status/1324886670236397570

    #Democrats already composing a “hit list” of targets associated with @realDonaldTrump with @TrumpAccountability.org. according to one #Biden staffer. @21WIRE #Election2020results #Election2020

    https://twitter.com/jaas666/status/1324897864158482434

    Are you literally making lists? I understand you’re an ignorant nitwit who’s never had a passing acquaintance with a history book, but political lists are EXACTLY what Communists do: Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro. So put me at the top of your list, you moron. I’d be honored.

    […]

    A records for trumpaccountability . net: 198.49.23.144, 198.185.159.144, 198.49.23.145, 198.185.159.145 all belonging to Squarespace, Inc.
    Domain registrar: Google LLC

    https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1324886628859588611

    This is the full “Trump Accountability Project” enemies list before it was hidden & before the judges & donors tabs were removed. I took screen shots of every page before that happened. The list of administration officials is 1202 long so I overlapped the pics to get them all. /0

  • Exasperated

    They are building lists of Trump supporters. Who is “they”? Democrat Politicians in the House of Representatives, including AOC as well as allegedly/potentially… Google.
    This can work both ways to the benefit of the targets.
    But, not to be dismissive; there is good reason to be leery of this type of personality. Think of the deranged EX, who vandalizes, stalks, makes false accusations, spies, calls your friends, tries to get you fired.

  • Shlomo Maistre

    This can work both ways to the benefit of the targets.

    You sure about that?

    https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-election-trump-biden-donors/

    Contributions by employer:
    Biden has Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, Intel, Comcast, Verizon, US Department of Defense, JP Morgan, Salesforce, Oracle, Wells Fargo, Deloitte, US Government, MIT, Yale, Law Firms, Starbucks, University of California, Nike, Microsoft, Ernst & Young, Veterans Affairs, At&T, Ford, Mayo Clinic, Target, Disney, Medtronic, Delta Airlines, IBM, Bank of America, NYU, CUNY, HCA Healthcare, etc etc etc

    Trump has the NYPD and the United States Marine Corp.

    Contributions by profession:
    Biden has CEOs, lawyers, bankers, finance professionals, managers, professors, human resources employees, consultants, editors, producers, scientists, teachers, doctors, accountants, engineers, therapists, social workers, nurses, sales professionals, fundraising professionals, psychologists, etc etc etc

    Trump has HVAC professionals, truckers, drivers, construction workers, homemakers, business owners, mechanics, plumbers, machinists, welders, ranchers, and manufacturing employees.

  • Paul Marks

    Shlomo Maistre.

    Thank you for your research and thank you for your efforts to get the truth out.

    We are all in your debt Sir – and you have proved yourself to be a good person.

    By “American values” the “Trump Accountability Project” and the rest of these political (and CORPORTE) Devils mean Totalitarian values – the opposite of what American values are supposed to be.

    Only today I noted that news agency “Reuters” was gloating about the “legal problems” that “Citizen Trump” would have.

    Yes – “Citizen Trump” they used the language of the French Revolution.

    Since the rise of “Social Responsibility” (the bastard child of “Social Justice”) in the Business Schools in the 1970s, Big Business has been more and more controlled by supporters of Totalitarian Collectivism.

    For years I shut my eyes to this horrible fact – and I even mocked people who tried to open my eyes.

    I was WRONG – and they were CORRECT.

    The Corporations (the “private” Corporate bureaucracies) have become a force for EVIL.

    And I spent many years of my life (in my absurd stupidity) DEFENDING the Corporations.

  • Paul Marks

    What do the Corporations care about the DOUBLING of the State income tax in Arizona – they do not pay income tax (small business files under the personal income tax – not the vast Corporate bureaucracies) – indeed the “dark money” from Silicon Valley and Wall Street was flowing into Arizona the Democrats.

    And what do the Corporations care about high property taxes – only individuals and small business pays property tax, the vast Corporations can deduct local and States property taxes from their income before it is subject to Corporations Tax.

    And it goes on and on.

    And they are all dependent on the vast flow of funny money from the Federal Reserve and the taxpayers.

    For example, Hollywood (television as well as film) does not even pretend to hide its contempt (its HATRED) for ordinary people any more. And why should the entertainment companies hide their HATRED? They do not depend on customers any more – they look to the BANKS and the GOVERNMENT for money.

    Most “industries” want to be like the “financial industry” – the banks long ago stopped being about Real Savings – they are now all about funny money from the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the rest of these accused institutions.

    It is horrible to be alive at such a time – but we do not choose when we live.

    By the way – Google (one of the most disgustingly evil of the Corporations – although it has stiff competition for the title of most evil) is putting on television advertisements about “supporting local businesses”.

    In the United Kingdom – where the local businesses have been SHUT DOWN by order of the vast Klaus Schwab “Build Back Better” Corporations – Amazon, GOOGLE, and the rest of them. Acting via the puppet “Build Back Better” regime of Alexander Johnson.

    In the United States it is the same – for example in San Francisco, the H.Q, of Google, some 75% of small businesses have been killed off by the lockdown that Google supported.

    75% will not open – and their property will be bought (for pennies on the Dollar) by either the government or the vast Corporations – as if there was really any difference between the government and the “Woke” Corporations at this point.

    Agneda 21, Agenda 2o30 – “Sustainable Development”, “Stakeholder Capitalism”.

    Small business utterly crushed, private ownership of land reduced to a “legal fiction”, the basic liberties of ordinary people exterminated.

    That is what they stand for.

    “Build Back Better”.

    “We are not an island – we are part of so much more” – as a typical example of these Corporate Totalitarians puts it.

  • Edith C Hook

    This can work both ways to the benefit of the targets.

    You sure about that?

    As an example, the boycott of chick-fil-a ultimately backfired. This is what I meant by my above statement. Agreed when directed toward a person, it is much more insidious.

  • Shlomo Maistre

    The Corporations (the “private” Corporate bureaucracies) have become a force for EVIL.

    […]

    What do the Corporations care about the DOUBLING of the State income tax in Arizona – they do not pay income tax (small business files under the personal income tax – not the vast Corporate bureaucracies) – indeed the “dark money” from Silicon Valley and Wall Street was flowing into Arizona the Democrats.

    And what do the Corporations care about high property taxes – only individuals and small business pays property tax, the vast Corporations can deduct local and States property taxes from their income before it is subject to Corporations Tax.

    And it goes on and on.

    And they are all dependent on the vast flow of funny money from the Federal Reserve and the taxpayers.

    This is all 100% correct and really important to point out. Thanks for pointing these things out – I didn’t fully realize the extent of it.

    Perhaps GOP should start saying we.. need bigger taxes for corporations. Yes,HIGHER taxes (but not for private businesses). We need to change the incentives of the situation or the rot will just continue to spread rapidly. We need time. The corporations are driven by consumer demand and the biggest markets in the world are in Asia not in the West.