How Mail-In Voting Makes Social Pressure So Much Easier


Emotional extortion seems to be more widely and openly practiced these days. Just when I thought it couldn’t get much worse, a young woman on TikTok proudly displayed the story of how she and her five sisters had “intense exchanges” with her terminally ill father.  Her problem was that he was conservative and planned to vote for Trump.  She explained — on index cards to background music — that the talks were hard because “we’ll almost certainly lose him in the next few weeks/months.”  In the end, the father told them that he voted “for Biden-Harris 2020.”

The gushing daughter reported that her father said he did so “because it matters to my girls and my girls matter to me.”  She actually saw this abuse of a father’s love as a victory she should publicly declare.  No matter one’s favored candidate, such deathbed badgering is ghastly.

This sort of cruel manipulation — to get vulnerable loved ones to prove their love by forcing them to vote a certain way — seems to have become more common these days.  Hard-left young adults tell their parents that unless they vote their way, they won’t let them see their grandchildren anymore.  Black Lives Matter agitators tell the “white-privileged” that the only way to prove they are not racist is to cut off relationships with any family and loved ones who do not take part in BLM protests or support BLM financially. 

There are many scenarios in which people apply personal pressure and undue influence to win votes.  In addition to pressure from loved ones, groupthink and the general fear of being smeared as a bigot can be powerful tools of influence. 

Hillary Clinton’s Claims of Patriarchal Pressure in 2016 Don’t Pan Out

Interestingly, Hillary Clinton brought up the issue of voter intimidation a couple of years ago by claiming that a majority of white women voted for Trump in 2016 because their husbands and boyfriends pressured them.

But couldn’t we just as easily argue that Clinton had it backwards?  Isn’t it possible that Hillary-supporting women applied even more pressure on their husbands and boyfriends to vote for Hillary than the other way around?  Let’s focus on just one scenario in which social influence can be commonly applied:  the socio-sexual pressure women can exert on men.

Women’s Political Use of Sex Has a Long History

Sexual and emotional extortion in politics, at least with certain women, is an ancient phenomenon.  It was the theme of Aristophanes’s play “Lysistrata.”  Some Old Testament stories show the power of females to seduce men for political purposes.  The Hebrew heroine Judith saved her people by luring Assyrian general Holofernes into her honey trap.  On the other hand, Delilah betrayed her people and turned the Hebrew judge Samson over to the enemy.

Fast-forward now to the 1960s, when the sexual revolution was revving up big-time.  Take a look at this old poster: “Girls say YES to boys who say NO.”

The year is 1968, during the height of civil unrest over the Vietnam War.  The woman pictured on the left is the famous folk singer and anti-war activist Joan Baez.  The other two are her sisters.  The message is clear: young men, you’ll score with women if you resist the draft.

In addition to showing sexually “liberated” women, the poster challenges traditions associated with masculinity.  Even in 1968, most men tended to express a sense of duty and honor to serve when called.  Bound up in that masculine tradition was an ideal of virtue many men considered necessary (consciously or not) to attract a mate.

The central message of the poster was that a man’s sense of patriotic duty was not only unnecessary to have sex with women, but unwanted by women. 

Exactly forty years later in 2008, other posters imitated the iconic Baez photo, with the heading: “Girls say YES to boys who say OBAMA.”  The recycled message probably didn’t have the same impact after two generations of a sex-saturated culture.  Nevertheless, it illustrates just one form of pressure that can play out to extract votes in the realm of personal relationships.

Universal Mail-In Voting Invites More Pressures

How do we protect people in the political process from undue influence and voter intimidation?  One absolutely critical way is the secret ballot, cast in private. 

A little discussed problem with mail-in voting is that it serves to abolish the right to cast a vote in person and in secret.  We hear less about that than the potential for fraud.  Indeed, going postal with voting rights definitely invites fraud.  No other nation votes that way.  (You can read more about the rampant problems with universal mail-in ballots here, here, here,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.)  But just as serious an issue is that universal mail-in voting serves to erode voter privacy and thereby leads to more voter intimidation.

For all the lip service the left gives on the issue of domestic violence, you would think leftists want to secure a guaranteed secret ballot that allows individuals — especially women — to go into a voting booth alone to vote their conscience. 

Some argue that mail-in voting actually allows for greater privacy.  Maybe if you live alone and have a locked mailbox.  But people whose official ballots come in a shared mailbox are susceptible to social pressures they would not feel in a voting booth.

So we ought to ponder and ask about all of the avenues to voter pressure and intimidation.  What of those households where there is great dysfunction in which dominant personalities hold sway?  What about students and young professionals who live in group homes and apartments?  What happens to their ballots if one member who is on the outs politically with the others picks up the mail?  What if Grandma wants to vote for Trump and the grandkids (whom she asks to drop her ballot in the mail) are woke?  Emotional pressure — whether by women or men — is much more easily applied in such cases.  Guaranteeing the right to cast a secured ballot in person and in total privacy is the only way to avoid that.

Back to Hillary Clinton for a moment.  If she really believed what she said about men pressuring women into voting for Trump, she should come out against universal mail-in voting.  But perhaps she knows that women — especially those groomed in her brand of feminism — can perhaps more easily dominate men when it comes to voting.

Social pressure is bad enough in these days of social media trolling and groupthink.  As with the daughters haranguing their dying father, the calculus of extracting votes on a personal level can be hideous.  Such stories illustrate how universal mail-in voting jeopardizes the right to a guaranteed secret ballot

Everyone wants to know whom you’re voting for.  But nobody has a right to know.  That knowledge should be shared only willingly, no matter how much someone may try to pry it out of you.

The tradition of voting by secret ballot is meant to guarantee freedom of conscience and was once considered sacred.  Going forward, we should restore that tradition.

Stella Morabito has written on issues of society and culture for various publications.  She focuses on the effects of political correctness and identity politics on human relationships.  Stella is a senior contributor at The Federalist.

Emotional extortion seems to be more widely and openly practiced these days. Just when I thought it couldn’t get much worse, a young woman on TikTok proudly displayed the story of how she and her five sisters had “intense exchanges” with her terminally ill father.  Her problem was that he was conservative and planned to vote for Trump.  She explained — on index cards to background music — that the talks were hard because “we’ll almost certainly lose him in the next few weeks/months.”  In the end, the father told them that he voted “for Biden-Harris 2020.”

The gushing daughter reported that her father said he did so “because it matters to my girls and my girls matter to me.”  She actually saw this abuse of a father’s love as a victory she should publicly declare.  No matter one’s favored candidate, such deathbed badgering is ghastly.

This sort of cruel manipulation — to get vulnerable loved ones to prove their love by forcing them to vote a certain way — seems to have become more common these days.  Hard-left young adults tell their parents that unless they vote their way, they won’t let them see their grandchildren anymore.  Black Lives Matter agitators tell the “white-privileged” that the only way to prove they are not racist is to cut off relationships with any family and loved ones who do not take part in BLM protests or support BLM financially. 

There are many scenarios in which people apply personal pressure and undue influence to win votes.  In addition to pressure from loved ones, groupthink and the general fear of being smeared as a bigot can be powerful tools of influence. 

Hillary Clinton’s Claims of Patriarchal Pressure in 2016 Don’t Pan Out

Interestingly, Hillary Clinton brought up the issue of voter intimidation a couple of years ago by claiming that a majority of white women voted for Trump in 2016 because their husbands and boyfriends pressured them.

But couldn’t we just as easily argue that Clinton had it backwards?  Isn’t it possible that Hillary-supporting women applied even more pressure on their husbands and boyfriends to vote for Hillary than the other way around?  Let’s focus on just one scenario in which social influence can be commonly applied:  the socio-sexual pressure women can exert on men.

Women’s Political Use of Sex Has a Long History

Sexual and emotional extortion in politics, at least with certain women, is an ancient phenomenon.  It was the theme of Aristophanes’s play “Lysistrata.”  Some Old Testament stories show the power of females to seduce men for political purposes.  The Hebrew heroine Judith saved her people by luring Assyrian general Holofernes into her honey trap.  On the other hand, Delilah betrayed her people and turned the Hebrew judge Samson over to the enemy.

Fast-forward now to the 1960s, when the sexual revolution was revving up big-time.  Take a look at this old poster: “Girls say YES to boys who say NO.”

The year is 1968, during the height of civil unrest over the Vietnam War.  The woman pictured on the left is the famous folk singer and anti-war activist Joan Baez.  The other two are her sisters.  The message is clear: young men, you’ll score with women if you resist the draft.

In addition to showing sexually “liberated” women, the poster challenges traditions associated with masculinity.  Even in 1968, most men tended to express a sense of duty and honor to serve when called.  Bound up in that masculine tradition was an ideal of virtue many men considered necessary (consciously or not) to attract a mate.

The central message of the poster was that a man’s sense of patriotic duty was not only unnecessary to have sex with women, but unwanted by women. 

Exactly forty years later in 2008, other posters imitated the iconic Baez photo, with the heading: “Girls say YES to boys who say OBAMA.”  The recycled message probably didn’t have the same impact after two generations of a sex-saturated culture.  Nevertheless, it illustrates just one form of pressure that can play out to extract votes in the realm of personal relationships.

Universal Mail-In Voting Invites More Pressures

How do we protect people in the political process from undue influence and voter intimidation?  One absolutely critical way is the secret ballot, cast in private. 

A little discussed problem with mail-in voting is that it serves to abolish the right to cast a vote in person and in secret.  We hear less about that than the potential for fraud.  Indeed, going postal with voting rights definitely invites fraud.  No other nation votes that way.  (You can read more about the rampant problems with universal mail-in ballots here, here, here,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.)  But just as serious an issue is that universal mail-in voting serves to erode voter privacy and thereby leads to more voter intimidation.

For all the lip service the left gives on the issue of domestic violence, you would think leftists want to secure a guaranteed secret ballot that allows individuals — especially women — to go into a voting booth alone to vote their conscience. 

Some argue that mail-in voting actually allows for greater privacy.  Maybe if you live alone and have a locked mailbox.  But people whose official ballots come in a shared mailbox are susceptible to social pressures they would not feel in a voting booth.

So we ought to ponder and ask about all of the avenues to voter pressure and intimidation.  What of those households where there is great dysfunction in which dominant personalities hold sway?  What about students and young professionals who live in group homes and apartments?  What happens to their ballots if one member who is on the outs politically with the others picks up the mail?  What if Grandma wants to vote for Trump and the grandkids (whom she asks to drop her ballot in the mail) are woke?  Emotional pressure — whether by women or men — is much more easily applied in such cases.  Guaranteeing the right to cast a secured ballot in person and in total privacy is the only way to avoid that.

Back to Hillary Clinton for a moment.  If she really believed what she said about men pressuring women into voting for Trump, she should come out against universal mail-in voting.  But perhaps she knows that women — especially those groomed in her brand of feminism — can perhaps more easily dominate men when it comes to voting.

Social pressure is bad enough in these days of social media trolling and groupthink.  As with the daughters haranguing their dying father, the calculus of extracting votes on a personal level can be hideous.  Such stories illustrate how universal mail-in voting jeopardizes the right to a guaranteed secret ballot

Everyone wants to know whom you’re voting for.  But nobody has a right to know.  That knowledge should be shared only willingly, no matter how much someone may try to pry it out of you.

The tradition of voting by secret ballot is meant to guarantee freedom of conscience and was once considered sacred.  Going forward, we should restore that tradition.

Stella Morabito has written on issues of society and culture for various publications.  She focuses on the effects of political correctness and identity politics on human relationships.  Stella is a senior contributor at The Federalist.

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How to survive the riots if President Trump is re-elected


Many, including me, are willing to bet the house that Donald Trump will be re-elected, either on November 3 as the clock nears midnight or several days or weeks afterward, when the Supreme Court finally stops the Democrats from “finding” and counting additional ballots for Sleepy Joe.

Do realize, however, that in the event of a Trump victory, that house you just bet with will be gravely endangered, as will your business, your livelihood, and even your personal safety.


Don’t let your house look like this.  (YouTube screen grab, cropped.)

Lunatics under the best of conditions, liberals and leftists have already promised mostly peaceful rioting and socially just attacks on Trump-supporters if The Donald prevails.

So if you don’t want your home or business burned to the ground with you in it simply because Trump won, there are several steps you must take now.

Like bulls, libs are enraged by the color red.  So now is the time to put away all your red Trump signs and paraphernalia, not to mention anything red like, say, a St. Louis Cardinals baseball cap.  Let’s face it: the 2020 electoral cake is already baked; leaving that Trump sign on your lawn won’t change any minds.  But it will make your home an easy target for anarchists, arsonists, and Antifarians.

And though libs are none too bright, making critical decisions based solely on emotion and dopey slogans, some of them may remember that you once had a Trump sign in your yard or wore a MAGA hat around town.  Some protective camouflage is certainly in order.

Get some poster board and colored markers and make some yard signs to fool the leftist tools who’d do you harm.  Any foolish sequence of thoughts will work, like Black Lives Matter, Love is Love, and Hire People with Hooks.  Or When It Comes to Hate, Many Are Called but Few Are Chosen.  Almost any idiotic sentiment will work; it needn’t make sense.

If you live in an overwhelmingly Democrat neighborhood, a temporary chain-link fence with a couple of large Dobermans running free behind it may be required to keep you safe.

If, sadly, you live in a Democrat-run city, election time would be the perfect time to take that much deserved vacation in the Florida Keys.  But do check your homeowner’s or renter’s insurance policy before you board that plane, and make sure the coverage is solid and your premium’s up to date.

If you plan on driving in a blue state after the election, you’ve got to protect yourself from the vicious mobs who’ll be blocking streets and highways in protest.  God knows the police won’t protect you.

One way to go would be to spray paint BLM or Strength in Diversity in letters two or three feet tall on your hood or trunk.  Sure, you’ll need a costly paint job after things eventually calm down, but that’s better than getting Reginald Dennyed by some social justice sociopaths.

Or, if you refuse to bow before the left-wing mob, a couple of bazookas mounted on your car roof, a la Mad Max, would certainly gain you safe passage.  If bazookas are unavailable, some flamethrowers would work just as well.

And if, for some reason, you’ve been considering bulletproof glass for your ride, now is the time to make that investment.  A “cowcatcher,” the pointy thing on the front of old-fashioned locomotives, would also be a welcome addition to your vehicle so that when you’re surrounded by mostly peaceful protesters bearing bricks and Molotov cocktails, you can hit the gas and merely deflect the soy boy marauders without killing them.

Should President Trump be re-elected, there will also be lots of Twitter-happy leftists ready to cancel your business or livelihood if they think you personally supported him.  So learning leftist lingo and utilizing it is a must.

Let’s say a client or a customer or a patient says, “I gave to BLM.  Did you?“  You might be tempted to tell him to take a long walk off a short pier, but don’t.  Simply take his bid, then up the ante.  ”Sure, I contributed to BLM,” you say with a smugness only social justice warriors can manage.  ”But I also gave an entire month’s salary to TLPIWTransgendered Little People in Wheelchairs!”  No one can top that.

Or you could just keep it simple, like, “Trump’s so racist and divisive that I had to stop working and go on SSI disability!”  Libs love welfare and disability recipients; if you really sell your victimhood, they might just slip you a twenty or even invite you over for dinner.  Of course, if they do, you can forget about a nice steak dinner, since cow farts are clearly ruining the planet.

Worst of all, the caring, deeply concerned, arugula-loving twits on the left will be crying, wailing, gnashing their teeth and rending their garments should the Donald prevail in November.  And looking to knock the snot out of anyone who didn’t vote for a corrupt senile swamp rat who spent most of the campaign season hiding out in his basement watching This is Us reruns.

The first line of defense would obviously be packing heat, although you saw what happened to Kyle Rittenhouse. Unless you know or are a terrific criminal defense lawyer, in this way lies danger now that cops in Democrat locales generally ignore the perpetrator and instead, arrest the intended victim. A better choice would be to mimic the armadillo, or if you prefer, the typical Islamic garb for women in the Middle East.

Yep, I’m talking burqas, burqas made of Kevlar with bullet-proof eyeglass. Liberals will take down Christians in a heartbeat, and Jews, fuggedaboutit! But as Barack Obama demonstrated, dropping pallets of cash in Iran in the dead of night and allowing ISIS to create a caliphate spanning Syria and Iraq, libs give a wide berth to Middle Eastern Muslims no matter how vile. Wear a carbon fiber-reinforced burqa and you’re safe. A paper face mask, of course, completes the disguise.

While Donald Trump’s continuance as president is the only thing standing between us and Democrat/Deep State tyranny, we can expect the left to take their infantile, albeit felonious and homicidal, behavior to new depths should he prevail in the next election. Best to celebrate using your inside voice and otherwise pretend you’re one of them.

Otherwise, you just may inherit the Earth. Right in the mouth.

Many, including me, are willing to bet the house that Donald Trump will be re-elected, either on November 3 as the clock nears midnight or several days or weeks afterward, when the Supreme Court finally stops the Democrats from “finding” and counting additional ballots for Sleepy Joe.

Do realize, however, that in the event of a Trump victory, that house you just bet with will be gravely endangered, as will your business, your livelihood, and even your personal safety.


Don’t let your house look like this.  (YouTube screen grab, cropped.)

Lunatics under the best of conditions, liberals and leftists have already promised mostly peaceful rioting and socially just attacks on Trump-supporters if The Donald prevails.

So if you don’t want your home or business burned to the ground with you in it simply because Trump won, there are several steps you must take now.

Like bulls, libs are enraged by the color red.  So now is the time to put away all your red Trump signs and paraphernalia, not to mention anything red like, say, a St. Louis Cardinals baseball cap.  Let’s face it: the 2020 electoral cake is already baked; leaving that Trump sign on your lawn won’t change any minds.  But it will make your home an easy target for anarchists, arsonists, and Antifarians.

And though libs are none too bright, making critical decisions based solely on emotion and dopey slogans, some of them may remember that you once had a Trump sign in your yard or wore a MAGA hat around town.  Some protective camouflage is certainly in order.

Get some poster board and colored markers and make some yard signs to fool the leftist tools who’d do you harm.  Any foolish sequence of thoughts will work, like Black Lives Matter, Love is Love, and Hire People with Hooks.  Or When It Comes to Hate, Many Are Called but Few Are Chosen.  Almost any idiotic sentiment will work; it needn’t make sense.

If you live in an overwhelmingly Democrat neighborhood, a temporary chain-link fence with a couple of large Dobermans running free behind it may be required to keep you safe.

If, sadly, you live in a Democrat-run city, election time would be the perfect time to take that much deserved vacation in the Florida Keys.  But do check your homeowner’s or renter’s insurance policy before you board that plane, and make sure the coverage is solid and your premium’s up to date.

If you plan on driving in a blue state after the election, you’ve got to protect yourself from the vicious mobs who’ll be blocking streets and highways in protest.  God knows the police won’t protect you.

One way to go would be to spray paint BLM or Strength in Diversity in letters two or three feet tall on your hood or trunk.  Sure, you’ll need a costly paint job after things eventually calm down, but that’s better than getting Reginald Dennyed by some social justice sociopaths.

Or, if you refuse to bow before the left-wing mob, a couple of bazookas mounted on your car roof, a la Mad Max, would certainly gain you safe passage.  If bazookas are unavailable, some flamethrowers would work just as well.

And if, for some reason, you’ve been considering bulletproof glass for your ride, now is the time to make that investment.  A “cowcatcher,” the pointy thing on the front of old-fashioned locomotives, would also be a welcome addition to your vehicle so that when you’re surrounded by mostly peaceful protesters bearing bricks and Molotov cocktails, you can hit the gas and merely deflect the soy boy marauders without killing them.

Should President Trump be re-elected, there will also be lots of Twitter-happy leftists ready to cancel your business or livelihood if they think you personally supported him.  So learning leftist lingo and utilizing it is a must.

Let’s say a client or a customer or a patient says, “I gave to BLM.  Did you?“  You might be tempted to tell him to take a long walk off a short pier, but don’t.  Simply take his bid, then up the ante.  ”Sure, I contributed to BLM,” you say with a smugness only social justice warriors can manage.  ”But I also gave an entire month’s salary to TLPIWTransgendered Little People in Wheelchairs!”  No one can top that.

Or you could just keep it simple, like, “Trump’s so racist and divisive that I had to stop working and go on SSI disability!”  Libs love welfare and disability recipients; if you really sell your victimhood, they might just slip you a twenty or even invite you over for dinner.  Of course, if they do, you can forget about a nice steak dinner, since cow farts are clearly ruining the planet.

Worst of all, the caring, deeply concerned, arugula-loving twits on the left will be crying, wailing, gnashing their teeth and rending their garments should the Donald prevail in November.  And looking to knock the snot out of anyone who didn’t vote for a corrupt senile swamp rat who spent most of the campaign season hiding out in his basement watching This is Us reruns.

The first line of defense would obviously be packing heat, although you saw what happened to Kyle Rittenhouse. Unless you know or are a terrific criminal defense lawyer, in this way lies danger now that cops in Democrat locales generally ignore the perpetrator and instead, arrest the intended victim. A better choice would be to mimic the armadillo, or if you prefer, the typical Islamic garb for women in the Middle East.

Yep, I’m talking burqas, burqas made of Kevlar with bullet-proof eyeglass. Liberals will take down Christians in a heartbeat, and Jews, fuggedaboutit! But as Barack Obama demonstrated, dropping pallets of cash in Iran in the dead of night and allowing ISIS to create a caliphate spanning Syria and Iraq, libs give a wide berth to Middle Eastern Muslims no matter how vile. Wear a carbon fiber-reinforced burqa and you’re safe. A paper face mask, of course, completes the disguise.

While Donald Trump’s continuance as president is the only thing standing between us and Democrat/Deep State tyranny, we can expect the left to take their infantile, albeit felonious and homicidal, behavior to new depths should he prevail in the next election. Best to celebrate using your inside voice and otherwise pretend you’re one of them.

Otherwise, you just may inherit the Earth. Right in the mouth.

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In conversation with a shy Trump voter


It’s always a joy to reconnect with former colleagues and reminisce about the “good times,” especially during the smothering lockdowns.  Copious memories were instantly refreshed as my former work colleague’s name appeared “calling” on my phone.

I have lived in India for most of my life, while she has lived in the U.S.  But high-speed internet enabled us to work on many projects at a software firm with branches located in our respective countries.  We became friendly owing to our mutual fondness for noir cinema, Sir Roger Moore’s portrayal of 007, and U.S. politics.

A fervent Democrat, she voted for Obama twice and even traveled to Washington for his inaugurations.  She ardently campaigned for Hillary Clinton and was devastated when Hillary lost. 

She thought Trump’s “abominable lack of restraint” made him a force of chaos.  Trump’s “vile” tweets didn’t curb her fears.  When I predicted a Trump victory in August 2015, she prayed I would be wrong.

We talked about former colleagues, COVID-19, movies, finally presidential elections.  Here is an approximation of how our actual conversation went as I remember it.

“Are you excited about Joe?” I asked.

“They tell me I should be,” she said.

“I expected an unequivocal and prompt ‘yes,'” said I. 

“Much water has flowed under the bridge,” she said, sounding sullen.

For me, this was nothing short of an astounding “breaking news” moment.

“What happened?” I inquired.

“You can’t breathe a word about this to our U.S. folks,” she said.

“I solemnly swear to secrecy,” said I. 

“I live in a state overseen by Democrats.  My governor, senator, and representative are Democrats,” she said. 

“Left-wing loons?” I asked.

“That ceases to be an overstatement.  When George Floyd was killed, I was gutted.  Nobody deserves to die like that.  I marched in a peaceful protest, not because I’m African-American, but because it was the humane thing to do,” she said.

“The reverberations of the Floyd killing were heard all over the world, even here in India,” I said.

“Right!  The movement began with calls for police reforms, something I support.  I was disturbed when they demanded to defund the police.  Calls for more improvements are always welcome, but to abolish the police is preposterous.  Who was making these ludicrous demands?  The Democrats,” she said. 

There was a time when she always referred to them as “my dear Democrats.”

“My cousin is a policeman.  I know of the lives the police save, from arresting drug-peddlers to rescuing battered housewives.  They are deterrents and protectors of society.  There will be the occasional rogue cop, but generally, they are a boon, especially in impoverished neighborhoods,” she said

“When I was young, the police were usually scary people whom you feared.  These days, I see policemen joking around with kids, giving talks at schools.  Times have changed.  They undergo lots of sensitive training.  I’ve seen the impact that the training has had on my cousin; he is much kinder and gentler since joining the force.  Do you know the ‘protesters’ called him a traitor because he is a black policeman?” she said.

“The protests devolved into riots.  I feared for my safety.  Many shops near my home were vandalized and looted.  The purveyors of some establishments, most of whom are black, were attacked.  The damage they did to the infrastructure will take years to fix.  But not a syllable of condemnation from the Democrats.  In fact, they supported it, calling it peaceful.  Never before have I witnessed anything this disgraceful,” she said.

“The news media are sympathetic to the ‘protesters.’  They refused to acknowledge that anything wrong had occurred even when rioters stormed their studios.  The only ones condemning this were President Trump, Republicans, Fox News pundits, and conservatives commentators.  Never did I think I would gravitate toward this group,” she said. 

“Life’s full of surprises,” I said, attempting to lighten the mood.

“Only when Trump deployed federal forces in another state did our authorities wake up.  But their reaction was perfunctory and delayed.  There was nothing more left to destroy.  The Democrats failed to protect us and our property, which is the primary function of government,” she said.

“During the pandemic, the Democrats behaved like tyrants as they shut down businesses.  People were denied their right to earn a living, despite promising to wear masks and be socially distant.  Many businesses couldn’t sustain the losses and shut down.  The goal clearly was to undo the economic progress and hurt Trump’s re-election prospects.  We supporters are collateral damage in the quest for power,” she said.

“The Democrats were not concerned about COVID-19 when demonstrators marched closely in groups.  I read about Democrat leaders living without any restrictions privately, ordering the opening of salons when needed.  The restrictions are only for regular citizens,” she said.

“Blatant hypocrisy,” I said.

“Biden says those having a hard time ‘figuring out’ whether to support him or Trump means they ‘ain’t black’ made me angry. I have long suspected this, but it became clear the Democrats have taken African-Americans for granted. They just don’t say it out loud like Biden,” she said.

“I began to study President Trump’s record objectively. The undeniable facts are, he built a strong economy. My acquaintances who previously struggled to earn a decent living now have full-time jobs because of this growth. My friends who run a small businesses are doing extremely well. I realized that Trump has empowered minorities economically like no other president. Trump is also among the few insisting that we reopen.” she said. 

“Trump is the only modern president who has not caused new wars. He has actually led peace treaties in the Middle East. He fervently supports the police. He values tradition and faith. He is taking on China. I do not always like his style, I’m beginning to get his humor though. But on substance, he is a huge success. Why should I not vote for him?” she asked.

I was taken aback and almost rendered speechless.

“It is not just me, my friends and relatives are all for Trump. But we are not doing a song and dance about it. Some among us have a ‘Biden-Harris’ banners outside our houses. They attend anti-Trump protests and joke about later. I see myriad similar disgruntled Democrats on social media. We feel like a secret society” said she.

“America is one of the greatest democracies in the world, but the left has curbed your freedom of expression. Ironically they claim to be saving democracy,” I said.

“People being targeted and brutalized for supporting Trump. You can even lose your job for a social media post. The leaders of this detestable practice of ‘canceling’ non-conformists are Democrats. So no MAGA hats for me any time soon,” she said.

“Very wise,” I said, laughter making a remarkable comeback.

“What do the Democrats stand for today? High taxes, the Green New Deal, appeasement without the empowerment of minorities, defunding the police, hatred for tradition, disdain for regular folks, citizenship, and benefits for illegal aliens, conformism, cancel culture, and faux political correctness. I’m not only voting for Trump, but I’m going to quit the party soon,” she replied.

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It’s always a joy to reconnect with former colleagues and reminisce about the “good times,” especially during the smothering lockdowns.  Copious memories were instantly refreshed as my former work colleague’s name appeared “calling” on my phone.

I have lived in India for most of my life, while she has lived in the U.S.  But high-speed internet enabled us to work on many projects at a software firm with branches located in our respective countries.  We became friendly owing to our mutual fondness for noir cinema, Sir Roger Moore’s portrayal of 007, and U.S. politics.

A fervent Democrat, she voted for Obama twice and even traveled to Washington for his inaugurations.  She ardently campaigned for Hillary Clinton and was devastated when Hillary lost. 

She thought Trump’s “abominable lack of restraint” made him a force of chaos.  Trump’s “vile” tweets didn’t curb her fears.  When I predicted a Trump victory in August 2015, she prayed I would be wrong.

We talked about former colleagues, COVID-19, movies, finally presidential elections.  Here is an approximation of how our actual conversation went as I remember it.

“Are you excited about Joe?” I asked.

“They tell me I should be,” she said.

“I expected an unequivocal and prompt ‘yes,'” said I. 

“Much water has flowed under the bridge,” she said, sounding sullen.

For me, this was nothing short of an astounding “breaking news” moment.

“What happened?” I inquired.

“You can’t breathe a word about this to our U.S. folks,” she said.

“I solemnly swear to secrecy,” said I. 

“I live in a state overseen by Democrats.  My governor, senator, and representative are Democrats,” she said. 

“Left-wing loons?” I asked.

“That ceases to be an overstatement.  When George Floyd was killed, I was gutted.  Nobody deserves to die like that.  I marched in a peaceful protest, not because I’m African-American, but because it was the humane thing to do,” she said.

“The reverberations of the Floyd killing were heard all over the world, even here in India,” I said.

“Right!  The movement began with calls for police reforms, something I support.  I was disturbed when they demanded to defund the police.  Calls for more improvements are always welcome, but to abolish the police is preposterous.  Who was making these ludicrous demands?  The Democrats,” she said. 

There was a time when she always referred to them as “my dear Democrats.”

“My cousin is a policeman.  I know of the lives the police save, from arresting drug-peddlers to rescuing battered housewives.  They are deterrents and protectors of society.  There will be the occasional rogue cop, but generally, they are a boon, especially in impoverished neighborhoods,” she said

“When I was young, the police were usually scary people whom you feared.  These days, I see policemen joking around with kids, giving talks at schools.  Times have changed.  They undergo lots of sensitive training.  I’ve seen the impact that the training has had on my cousin; he is much kinder and gentler since joining the force.  Do you know the ‘protesters’ called him a traitor because he is a black policeman?” she said.

“The protests devolved into riots.  I feared for my safety.  Many shops near my home were vandalized and looted.  The purveyors of some establishments, most of whom are black, were attacked.  The damage they did to the infrastructure will take years to fix.  But not a syllable of condemnation from the Democrats.  In fact, they supported it, calling it peaceful.  Never before have I witnessed anything this disgraceful,” she said.

“The news media are sympathetic to the ‘protesters.’  They refused to acknowledge that anything wrong had occurred even when rioters stormed their studios.  The only ones condemning this were President Trump, Republicans, Fox News pundits, and conservatives commentators.  Never did I think I would gravitate toward this group,” she said. 

“Life’s full of surprises,” I said, attempting to lighten the mood.

“Only when Trump deployed federal forces in another state did our authorities wake up.  But their reaction was perfunctory and delayed.  There was nothing more left to destroy.  The Democrats failed to protect us and our property, which is the primary function of government,” she said.

“During the pandemic, the Democrats behaved like tyrants as they shut down businesses.  People were denied their right to earn a living, despite promising to wear masks and be socially distant.  Many businesses couldn’t sustain the losses and shut down.  The goal clearly was to undo the economic progress and hurt Trump’s re-election prospects.  We supporters are collateral damage in the quest for power,” she said.

“The Democrats were not concerned about COVID-19 when demonstrators marched closely in groups.  I read about Democrat leaders living without any restrictions privately, ordering the opening of salons when needed.  The restrictions are only for regular citizens,” she said.

“Blatant hypocrisy,” I said.

“Biden says those having a hard time ‘figuring out’ whether to support him or Trump means they ‘ain’t black’ made me angry. I have long suspected this, but it became clear the Democrats have taken African-Americans for granted. They just don’t say it out loud like Biden,” she said.

“I began to study President Trump’s record objectively. The undeniable facts are, he built a strong economy. My acquaintances who previously struggled to earn a decent living now have full-time jobs because of this growth. My friends who run a small businesses are doing extremely well. I realized that Trump has empowered minorities economically like no other president. Trump is also among the few insisting that we reopen.” she said. 

“Trump is the only modern president who has not caused new wars. He has actually led peace treaties in the Middle East. He fervently supports the police. He values tradition and faith. He is taking on China. I do not always like his style, I’m beginning to get his humor though. But on substance, he is a huge success. Why should I not vote for him?” she asked.

I was taken aback and almost rendered speechless.

“It is not just me, my friends and relatives are all for Trump. But we are not doing a song and dance about it. Some among us have a ‘Biden-Harris’ banners outside our houses. They attend anti-Trump protests and joke about later. I see myriad similar disgruntled Democrats on social media. We feel like a secret society” said she.

“America is one of the greatest democracies in the world, but the left has curbed your freedom of expression. Ironically they claim to be saving democracy,” I said.

“People being targeted and brutalized for supporting Trump. You can even lose your job for a social media post. The leaders of this detestable practice of ‘canceling’ non-conformists are Democrats. So no MAGA hats for me any time soon,” she said.

“Very wise,” I said, laughter making a remarkable comeback.

“What do the Democrats stand for today? High taxes, the Green New Deal, appeasement without the empowerment of minorities, defunding the police, hatred for tradition, disdain for regular folks, citizenship, and benefits for illegal aliens, conformism, cancel culture, and faux political correctness. I’m not only voting for Trump, but I’m going to quit the party soon,” she replied.

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Why Democrats must be kept out of power for at least a generation


California Governor Gavin Newsom’s recent ridiculous Thanksgiving edicts call for gatherings to be restricted to only three households, and held outside. Masks are to be worn before and after eating, and between bites. No singing or chanting is allowed and the meal is to last no longer than two hours. These are just a few of the restrictions dreamed up to slow the spread of the Wuhan virus. What these arbitrary proclamations illustrate is the mind of a power hungry dictator.

Under the pretense of keeping people safe, governors like Newsom, Andrew Cuomo, J. B.  Pritzker, Jay Inslee, Kate Brown, Gretchen Whitmer and Tom Wolf have curtailed the freedoms of Americans. Not just Americans, but the voters who elected these hack politicians in good faith to serve the people.  Democrat governors and mayors have taken the Wuhan virus, along with the rioting/looting and leveraged it into power that they will not easily relinquish if their behavior up to now is any indication.

They are long past fooling people with their faux compassion.  You can only pull the wool over Americans’ eyes for so long before they become wise to you. Americans can tell when an elected official has their best interests at heart (which is why President Trump has a huge bond with his base) and when they don’t. The people who live in the states affected by these wannabe dictators have had enough and are starting to rebel.

Some restaurant owners are refusing to comply with Illinois Governor Pritzker’s latest decrees to shut down eateries due to recent spikes in COVID positive numbers.  Gym owners are suing New York Governor Cuomo to reopen.  California spectacularly shared their respect for King Gavin by lighting up fireworks in his honor, despite his royal decree to shut down the Fourth of July. Based on early reactions, I suspect Newsom’s Thanksgiving proclamation will be met with the same level of scorn.

We get what these governors are doing. They are holding their constituents hostage in a sense, making their lives miserable so they will vote for Joe Biden just to make the pain go away. Basically, it’s extortion. “Want these lockdowns and riots to stop? You better not vote for bad Orange man if you know what’s good for you.”

The problem is if you want safety, the situation will get much, much worse if you vote for Biden. The lockdowns will continue and the economy will be devastated. If Sleepy Joe is elected and these governors are not held to task for their overreach, their power grabs will only increase while our freedoms will tank rapidly.

Don’t think a Biden win will placate these vindictive politicians who pass for Democrat governors and mayors. There will be no return to normalcy if voters change presidents. Attempts to placate the leftist mobs by voting for Biden are like paying terrorists not to terrorize and expecting that they will abide by your plea. Sure, they’ll take the money… and then laugh at your stupidity as they commit more heinous acts.

If you want to get back at these authoritarians you have to vote Trump next Tuesday, especially if you live in a blue state. Conventional wisdom says Trump will lose states like California or New York.  I say screw conventional wisdom. Push back and keep pushing back. Send a message that you can still resist with your vote. Do not let these bullies break your spirit and by all means do not fall for this latest Wuhan virus panic  that is reporting increased positive results ( due to more testing) while ignoring that hospitalizations are going down.

Vote in person. Be part of any recall efforts and make sure you are the ones leading the charge to throw these bums out of office when they come up for reelection.

Democrats need to be kept out of power –from president to dog catcher—for at least a generation.  That’s right, a generation. Be vigilant from now on. Study the issues and the candidates. Become the go-to source for your friends on both sides of the political spectrum and above all, vote for honest conservatives. If you can’t get behind a candidate, consider running for office yourself. Do not waste your vote on a moderate Democrat because there is no such thing. Once in office, these so-called moderates never stray from the leftist reservation.   

Democrats have forgotten they serve at the behest of the people. They have become convinced that their job is not to serve, but to rule. There is a difference. Consent of the governed does not mean a consent of oppression.

Democrats must be soundly defeated in every upcoming election for the next 20-30 years. Let’s begin that process next Tuesday by voting straight Republican and reelecting President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.  MAGA!

 

Dex Bahr is the author of the book, No Christian Man is an Island. He is a freelance writer.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom’s recent ridiculous Thanksgiving edicts call for gatherings to be restricted to only three households, and held outside. Masks are to be worn before and after eating, and between bites. No singing or chanting is allowed and the meal is to last no longer than two hours. These are just a few of the restrictions dreamed up to slow the spread of the Wuhan virus. What these arbitrary proclamations illustrate is the mind of a power hungry dictator.

Under the pretense of keeping people safe, governors like Newsom, Andrew Cuomo, J. B.  Pritzker, Jay Inslee, Kate Brown, Gretchen Whitmer and Tom Wolf have curtailed the freedoms of Americans. Not just Americans, but the voters who elected these hack politicians in good faith to serve the people.  Democrat governors and mayors have taken the Wuhan virus, along with the rioting/looting and leveraged it into power that they will not easily relinquish if their behavior up to now is any indication.

They are long past fooling people with their faux compassion.  You can only pull the wool over Americans’ eyes for so long before they become wise to you. Americans can tell when an elected official has their best interests at heart (which is why President Trump has a huge bond with his base) and when they don’t. The people who live in the states affected by these wannabe dictators have had enough and are starting to rebel.

Some restaurant owners are refusing to comply with Illinois Governor Pritzker’s latest decrees to shut down eateries due to recent spikes in COVID positive numbers.  Gym owners are suing New York Governor Cuomo to reopen.  California spectacularly shared their respect for King Gavin by lighting up fireworks in his honor, despite his royal decree to shut down the Fourth of July. Based on early reactions, I suspect Newsom’s Thanksgiving proclamation will be met with the same level of scorn.

We get what these governors are doing. They are holding their constituents hostage in a sense, making their lives miserable so they will vote for Joe Biden just to make the pain go away. Basically, it’s extortion. “Want these lockdowns and riots to stop? You better not vote for bad Orange man if you know what’s good for you.”

The problem is if you want safety, the situation will get much, much worse if you vote for Biden. The lockdowns will continue and the economy will be devastated. If Sleepy Joe is elected and these governors are not held to task for their overreach, their power grabs will only increase while our freedoms will tank rapidly.

Don’t think a Biden win will placate these vindictive politicians who pass for Democrat governors and mayors. There will be no return to normalcy if voters change presidents. Attempts to placate the leftist mobs by voting for Biden are like paying terrorists not to terrorize and expecting that they will abide by your plea. Sure, they’ll take the money… and then laugh at your stupidity as they commit more heinous acts.

If you want to get back at these authoritarians you have to vote Trump next Tuesday, especially if you live in a blue state. Conventional wisdom says Trump will lose states like California or New York.  I say screw conventional wisdom. Push back and keep pushing back. Send a message that you can still resist with your vote. Do not let these bullies break your spirit and by all means do not fall for this latest Wuhan virus panic  that is reporting increased positive results ( due to more testing) while ignoring that hospitalizations are going down.

Vote in person. Be part of any recall efforts and make sure you are the ones leading the charge to throw these bums out of office when they come up for reelection.

Democrats need to be kept out of power –from president to dog catcher—for at least a generation.  That’s right, a generation. Be vigilant from now on. Study the issues and the candidates. Become the go-to source for your friends on both sides of the political spectrum and above all, vote for honest conservatives. If you can’t get behind a candidate, consider running for office yourself. Do not waste your vote on a moderate Democrat because there is no such thing. Once in office, these so-called moderates never stray from the leftist reservation.   

Democrats have forgotten they serve at the behest of the people. They have become convinced that their job is not to serve, but to rule. There is a difference. Consent of the governed does not mean a consent of oppression.

Democrats must be soundly defeated in every upcoming election for the next 20-30 years. Let’s begin that process next Tuesday by voting straight Republican and reelecting President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.  MAGA!

 

Dex Bahr is the author of the book, No Christian Man is an Island. He is a freelance writer.

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Too Bad There’s No Vaccine Against Stupidity

While we and the world wait anxiously for a vaccine to cure the COVID-19 virus, another vaccine should be found to cure stupidity, which is also running rampant in our country and around the world.

Listening to many of our politicians comment on what is supposed to be good for our country, the desire to find a vaccine against stupidity is all the more needed and fast, but I’m afraid that is just wishful thinking on my part.

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How the EU and Far Left NGOs Are Trying to Overthrow the Israeli Government of Benjamin Netanyahu

Guest post by Collin McMahon

Just like Spygate in the US, far-left NGOs are trying to bring down the conservative government of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. Israeli representative Ariel Kallner has revealed that these radical anarchist organizations are being funded by the EU – nothing short of a declaration of war on a sovereign state.

The leftist organizations protesting outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house in Balfour Street in Jerusalem are financed from abroad, mainly by the EU and Germany, as NGO Monitor’s Itai Reuveni has stated.

On Sept. 30th, Likud MK and chair of the Caucus on Combating Delegitimization & Anti-Semitism Ariel Kallner wrote to German ambassador Dr. Susanne Wasum-Rainer to complain about German funding for left-wing Human Rights Defenders Fund (HRDF), which provides legal defense to the violent protestors.

„Recent reports in the Israeli media unraveled the (HRDF) legal counsel being provided, among others, to a minority of violent protestants demonstrating in front of the official residence of the Prime Minister of Israel. This minority has been highly criticized for its bellicose behavior, first threatening and oft-injuring police officers, and finally ignoring mask-wearing and social distancing rules, thus endangering general public health,” Kallner wrote.

Writing in Israel National News, EU Parliament Budget Rapporteur Joachim Kuhs (AfD) said, “I am appalled and shocked by these revelations, and will examine this  thoroughly, including the classified files. If these accusations are true, this will be reprimanded in my budget report.”

As Chairman of the Knesset Caucus on Combating Delegitimization, Kallner wrote: “I would like to express my sincere concern about this intervention in Israel’s internal affairs that constitutes an undermining of its sovereignty.”

“I find it inconceivable that the State of Israel would fund legal protection for demonstrators against the German Bundestag, even less a violent minority harming law-enforcement officers and overall public health”, Kallner wrote. “Therefore, I enjoin you to muster the necessary effort in monitoring, tracing and halting the funding for HRDF and other relevant Israeli NGOs.”

In her answer of Oct. 5, German Ambassador Dr. Susanne Wasum-Rainer denied the allegations: “Rest assured that the Federal German Government does not support or fund any violent or illegal activities of civil society organizations, neither in Israel nor in other countries. Any organization or project funded by the Federal German government has successfully passed a thorough and transparent screening process.”

Writing on Facebook, Kallner said the German ambassador’s response “couldn’t be more condescending”: “The only reason why we know how much Germany has passed to the  Human Rights Defenders Fund and other Israeli organizations, is the Israeli transparency law that requires Israeli associations to report support from foreign countries. No stage of the German funding process on its own part – starting with the organization’s choice, or decisions on budget and project – is transparent.”

The pro-Israel Alternative for Germany (AfD) party posed a formal query to the German government July 13, asking how much funding Berlin provides to which NGOs in Israel and the PA. In its answer Aug. 7, the German government answered that this funding is Classified, because “organizations of civil society are victims of threats and repression” in Israel. It was not clear who the German government was accusing of “threats and repression” except for Israeli authorities.

According to NGO Monitor, Human Rights Defenders Fund received €58,940 from the German government 2018. According to the EU Financial Transparency System, HRDF received €299,988  from the EU 2019.

According to press reports, the NGO HaMoked – Center for the Defense of the Individual is also involved in the legal defense of violent anti-Netanyahu protestors. According to NGO Monitor, HaMoked received €884,164 from the tax-funded church charity Misereor Germany in 2018, and €667,049 from the EU.

When German foreign minister Heiko Maas visited Israel in June, angry victim’s families protested German and European financing for HaMoked, which defends terrorists and murderers, as Arutz Sheva reported.

According to NGO Monitor, HaMoked is funded by the EU (2018: €667,049; 2017: €605,615) and by Miseror Germany (2018: €884,164).

The NGO  „Standing Together“, which is organizing the violent protests outside the family home of the Israeli Prime Minister, is also financed by the German government and the party foundations of the German Left and Green parties, Kallner said, based on information from the Israeli Registrar of Associations. „Standing Together“ was funded by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Left Party) with €38.825, the Heinrich Böll Foundation (Greens) with €10,075 and the German government’s Civil Peace Service (ZFD) with €11,200.

ZFD is a project of the German Foreign Aid ministry, which purports to aim to “prevent violence”. According to NGO Monitor ZFD works with the shady lawfare NGO “Society of St. Yves” in Israel, which floods Israeli courts with lawsuits to force illegal Arab settlements in Israeli areas, as Naomi Linder Kahn of Regavim states. The “Society of St. Yves” has been supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats in the past.

Angela Merkel intervened personally with the Israeli government in 2019 to prevent the demolition of illegal Bedouin settlement Khan al Ahmar. On Oct. 19, EU representative in the PA Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff visited a PA school constructed illegally on Israeli territory with EU funding, on a trip sponsored by radical left-wing NGOs B’Tselem and Breaking the Silence,   as the Jerusalem Post reports. B’Tselem and Breaking the Silence are also sponored by the EU, German government and party foundations, as NGO Monitor reports. So the EU helps the PA seize Israeli territory and then sends its representative on a photo op sponsored by radical anti-Israel NGOs.

Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff was highly criticized in Israel in Spring for stating that Palestinian groups on the EU terror list can still apply for funding. NGO Monitor wrote a letter of protest to EU Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen in April. On June 9, Maciej Popowski of the European Commission Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations office replied that “allegations of the EU supporting incitement or terror are unfounded and unacceptable and we strongly object to any such suggestion. Strict monitoring and control mechanisms make sure that all individuals involved in EU funded  actions exclusively pursue the objectives and activities approved for EU funding.”

„If there is clear evidence that any organization has made an inappropriate use of EU funds, the European Commission will take the appropriate measures such as recovery of the funds, exclusion of the entity from future EU financing, prosecution, etc.  The Commission has received recently a number of requests for clarification on the matter. I can assure you that we took immediate action, including asking the EU Head of Delegation to Israel and EU Representative to the West Bank and Gaza Strip to look deeply into the matter. This internal review process is ongoing. If there is any concern, the European Commission would act immediately. Let me also reiterate that there is no terrorism financing from EU funds. If it ever happens, despite all safeguards in place, it will not be tolerated and will have to be rectified,” Popowski wrote to NGO Monitor.

The fact that the EU Representative to the West Bank and Gaza Strip Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff was holding photo ops at illegal PA/EU settlements sponsored by radical anti-Israel, pro-BDS NGOs like B’Tselem and Breaking the Silence would seem to contradict this letter. Perhaps the European Commission does need to “act immediately”.

 

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ROGER STONE EXCLUSIVE: How the Democrats Plan to Steal the 2020 Election

(Guest post by Roger Stone)

It is now just a few days until America finally renders its fateful choice for President on on Election Day 2020.  But  Democrat manipulations to buy time to conduct as much voter fraud as possible have made it more like Election MONTH 2020.

As President Donald Trump tirelessly barnstorms the country, firing up voters from all walks of life at increasingly massive rallies that epitomize political Americana, Democrat Joe Biden is staggering around the political stage, desperately hoping to run out the clock and avoid any of the exploding controversy around his treasonous secret business dealings with the communist Chinese, among other appalling revelations.

Biden’s campaign communications team – also known as the entire corporate “mainstream” media and all major social media and information platforms – are scurrying about crazily in an unprecedented suppression and censorship rampage to ensure that the growing body of authenticated evidence of Joe Biden’s active complicity in his son Hunter’s influence pedaling in Ukraine, China and Kazakhstan receives zero coverage, effectively bamboozling the American electorate.

While his cynical media protectorate shields the doddering Delaware Democrat from long-overdue exposure of his appalling corruption and greed, Biden cowers in the basement bunker of his sprawling multimillion dollar estate in Chateau Country, Delaware. Biden’s “campaign” is now pretty basic: no rallies, no press conferences, no exposure to media questions, no impromptu (or any) interaction with actual voters, and not a peep about any of the sludge now bubbling up out of the Biden Crime Family sewer.

Every once in a while Biden’s handlers (controllers) prop him up and drag him out to a contrived platform appearance somewhere in Pennsylvania just a short drive from the Biden bunker/compound, where the cognitively-impaired 78 year old bumbles his way through jumbotron teleprompted remarks to some small highly-screened group of voters, from a safe distance of course (no handshaking, baby kissing, or even elbow bumping), just so his media army can show the world proof of life.

Before going dark (and into hiding) Biden explicitly promised (threatened) to raise taxes (a bit of bravado that didn’t not work out so well for another former Democrat Vice-President running for the top job four years too late, Walter Mondale). In a bit of uplifting optimism, the mask-pusher from Scranton-Claymont predicted a “dark winter” for America – nothing like gloom and doom to inspire a country suffering under Democrat lockdown mania. In short, Biden is doing the worst thing any political candidate can do – he’s sitting on a lead, trying to run out the clock. Biden’s effort is so lifeless and lackluster that I am reminded of something President Nixon used to say to me: “Stone, in politics the only thing worse than being wrong is being boring.”

Donald Trump, by contrast, has stolen (or brilliantly rewritten) a page from the last landslide Republican president, Ronald Reagan, by bombarding Democrat strongholds with an upbeat message of hope and sunny optimism. The endlessly-energetic Trump  lays out his impressive record and reassures voters that, contrary to Joe Biden’s vision of a Dark Winter for America, ‘the best is yet to come.’

Touting his extraordinary record of job creation and wage growth, this president dominates the political stage as a happy warrior, but also one who is equally fearless in excoriating the Democrats and their propaganda fluffers in the corporate mainstream (fake news) media. His tireless come-from-behind effort is interesting, entertaining and inspirational.

His Trump Rallies are becoming the stuff of political legend. But even moreso, they are presidential campaign rocket fuel. While the President draws strength and resolve from the enormous crowds of fired-up Americans who flock to see him, they, in turn, are infused with his infectious energy, moved to action by the confidence and enthusiasm he imparts with his every word and his commanding presence.

Democrats know their candidate is weak and that his ‘supporters’ have the intensity of a room full of dental patients waiting for a tooth extraction. Their sum total of their message is “we hate Trump”, higher taxes, more regulation and a re-constituted reign of error by the Democrats’ bellicose, ossified political lifers, only now with a burgeoning splinter of aggressive proto-communist zealots driving their demagogic ideology.

Desperate Democrat power-seekers and their Trump-deranged RINO fellow travelers know Biden’s lead is dwindling (if he ever really had one, given the Trump-hate media and political class’s pathological inability to utter so much as a breath that does not denigrate or diminish the object of their endless scorn and vicious hatred). The leftist Democrat shock troops are already torquing up their (well-organized, well-funded) mob violence on the streets of New York and Philadelphia – a glimmer of the diabolical plans by which they will to go to any lengths and use any means necessary to defeat Donald Trump…or destroy the country in the process.

They are already in the process of resorting to widespread voter fraud to stop the quickly rising Trump and have troweled up a practical army of at least 600 sleazy lawfare specialists from the bottom of the Democrat lawyer cesspool, eagerly scheming to pressure election boards to ratify various Democrat election-stealing fraud schemes like ballot harvesting. While this noxious army of political ambulance chasers swarm over the land seeking to manufacture delay, disarray and uncertainty until or unless they can rig the defeat of Donald Trump, the Biden Democrat-fomented criminal street mobs will augment this chaos-driven pressure with violent “protests” and destructive riots.

From all of the polling I have examined, this presidential race may be as close as the Bush v Gore race in 2000 and the 1960 contest between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Bush v. Gore was, of course, resolved in the U.S. Supreme Court. Kennedy versus Nixon was resolved by the magnanimity and patriotic fidelity of Vice-President Richard Nixon. Attorneys for Nixon had already gathered more than enough evidence of widespread and systematic Democrat voter fraud in Illinois and Texas (which was extremely well-documented at the time in a detailed series of articles in The New York Herald Tribune), but Nixon selflessly decided against putting the country through the agony of a divisive, drawn-out legal process to eliminate the fruits of Democrat fraud and honestly determine who was the rightful President. Interestingly, American war hero and straight arrow, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, joined a number of prominent Americans urging Nixon to wage a no holds-barred legal challenge to the questionable victory of Democrat John Kennedy.

If my premonition of a razor-thin margin of victory by one candidate or the other turns out to be accurate, it is absolutely imperative that the Trump Campaign, the Republican National Committee and the “Stop The Steal” organization of Republican lawyers working to ensure the integrity of this election, ready to sort out the what and the who of the Democrats’ election fraud, immediately mobilize around one effort. They must have voters lined up and ready who have standing to file the appropriate legal petitions, pleadings and motions to challenge questionable results and expose fraudulent activities wherever they have occurred. They must be prepared to collect and submit persuasive hard evidence detailing all voter fraud and expose those who planned, paid for, solicited or perpetrated these crimes.

As I said, Democrats have an illegal ballot harvesting plan in full swing and are coordinating with the foreign-funded domestic terror groups BLM and Antifa to foment violence and political instability in order the steal the 2020 election. Behind all of this organized Democrat corruption is a sleazy legal trickster and Democrat hatchet man  named Norm Eisen, who actually wrote a manual or guidebook outlining how he was behind the same type of violent insurrection in other countries – and how he plans to use the same tactics to hijack our election next Tuesday. Eisen’s international trademark is a scenario in which insurrectionist forces engineer various contrivances to loudly contest a national election, while also mobilizing massive protests in support of seizing the election in their favor. These astro-turfed riots are falsely portrayed as “peaceful protests” or acts of civil disobedience, when they are in fact violent destructive mobs.

Eisen wrote a detailed “how to” book for radical revolution, literally called the “Playbook”. This diabolical manual for mass manipulation lays out scenarios for the overthrow of democratically elected governments overseas, which Eisen sought to topple. It includes plans for engineering election fraud scenarios and then using election fraud as the pretext to engineer mass protests intended to cast doubt on the legitimacy of election result.

This un-American slimeball Eisen has been a chief architect of the underhanded, dishonest and even seditious impeachment efforts waged against President Trump, as well as over 180 frivolous or malicious lawsuits against Trump and his political allies. He had already authored ten articles of impeachment against President Trump before the President’s phone call to the President of Ukraine, which Democrats absurdly distorted, misrepresented and inflated into their laughable grounds for impeachment, had even taken place. Eisen was Special Counsel to the Democrats for the impeachment process he had himself engineered.

This ruthless lawyer thug and Democrat zealot Eisen will employ the usual Democrat  lawfare tricks to try to steal or overturn the 2020 election, with street thugs as his Plan B. Republicans must be prepared to fight this effort both in the courts and through mobilization of legitimate peaceful protests.

The big stash of ballots that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar got caught with trace directly to Eisen’s ballot-harvesting operation. This is but one strand in a sprawling vote fraud web which can be traced, and proved if necessary, to similar criminal operations underway in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia and Arizona.

I firmly believe, and can look to their long history of engaging in it, that Democrat criminals are, and will be, engaging in widespread voter fraud in various forms including mail-in voting abuse, illegal ballot harvesting, multiple votes cast by one individual, votes cast in the name of persons who are deceased or no longer reside in the voting jurisdiction and manipulation of computerized voting machine tabulations. I know that there will be credible evidence of this everywhere it is perpetrated, if for no other reason than, while Democrat masterminds like Eisen may be crafty little manipulators who slither around in the shadows undetected, the average Democrat thug hired, or otherwise willing, to carry out the necessary election fraud tasks is going to reflect the Democrat base in being either sloppy, stupid, or both, and will leave a trail of evidence behind.

The President’s lawyers and a supporting network of diligent attorneys willing to join the fight against this criminal effort to steal the presidency and more, must be prepared and organized to collect and catalog credible evidence showing the Democrats’ systematic vote fraud campaign, while preserving all available legal options to challenge the results, even if (when) the fake news media works overtime to stampede the public into rubber-stamping a fraudulent election, stealing the presidency if not the Congress too.

To pull off their version of a “color revolution”, Democrats and their fake news propaganda machine in mainstream media have set up a cynical diversionary effort. In recent weeks, corporate-owned Democrat shill media has been in overdrive falsely and maliciously smearing and defaming a fraternal organization called the “Proud Boys,” an extraordinarily small group of mostly young men of all races and identities (the national chairman is a black latino of Cuban descent) who are essentially a drinking society. Truly vile Democrat stooges in media have published libelous and slanderous statements falsely labeling these men as “white supremacists.” Having absolutely ZERO evidence to substantiate this defamation, all they do is cite a criminal front group run by leftist zealots called the “Southern Poverty Law Center” or SPLC (an organization whose name is three lies in one).

The radical leftists behind this shady defamation factory disguised as a public interest group are neither neutral nor objective, and are a credible arbiter of absolutely nothing on this planet. They have been a malicious propaganda generator against anyone with views that are anything right of the Chamber of Commerce. This evil organization was essentially setup as a money-making scam for left-wing fundraiser Morris Dees, used to fleece well-intentioned low-dollar liberal donors of their money, thinking they were sending money to fight extremists on the right, like Gerald Ford. Meanwhile, they defame as a Nazi or Klansman anyone who doesn’t actively profess twisted hard left doctrine or bow down before the likes of Elizabeth Warren.

That said, their lies about the Proud Boys have been fodder for a despicable smear campaign by the corporate Democrat media which has progressed to totally-false utterly-fabricated insinuations that the Proud Boys are going to suppress votes by menacing , harassing and assaulting voters at polling places.

I predict here and now that no Trump-supporter anywhere of any kind will in any way intimidate or harass voters at the polls, nor even attempt such conduct. Because the left always accuses their opponents of whatever crimes or treachery in which they are themselves engaged, or planning to engage, I am concerned about the Norm Eisen – Mark Elias – Neal Katyal scheme to steal the 2020 election and the presidency, using Black Lives Matter and Antifa to intimidate and harass Trump voters at the polling places in order to suppress the Trump vote – particularly among older citizens.

The head Democrat election thief Eisen calls his ballot fraud/lawfare/street violence operation (what else?) a “Voter Protection Project”. It is anything but that, but one must acknowledge how clever these liberals can be in their nefarious scheming and scamming.

BLM and Antifa have demonstrated beyond question that they have the numbers, funding, structure and organization to stage such violent suppressive incidents at carefully selected polling locations around the country. The notion that Antifa is, per Joe Biden in the first presidential debate, merely “an idea” or “ideology” and not an actual organization is, aside from being lunacy, disproved by their criminally violent and well-organized actions in recent months. Someone is paying for trucks, buses, U-Hauls and pallets of bricks, as well as the lawyers who show up instantaneously with bail money whenever one of these violent terrorists is arrested.

That America is awash with dark money to fund these terrorist operations and the insurrection they seek to foment is beyond question at this point. These are the thugs who will lead the wave of violence that Mr. Eisen and his cohorts have planned to use the pressure tactic against the vote counters, while Mr. Katyal and his band of manipulative lawyer thugs badger and threaten them with legal maneuvers.

In recent days the Democrat propaganda fake news media juggernaut has taken on the practice of distorting virtually everything I say, ever since the Soviet-style show trial I was put through in Washington D.C. This has only escalated since President’s humanitarian act of justice and mercy, commuting the outlandish sentence slapped on me by the vicious partisan judge who made sure I would never receive a fair trial and sought to incarcerate me immediately in a prison rife with COVID-19 cases, literally putting my life at great risk to sate their partisan malice. The President’s clemency by which I was able to escape certain death in a federal penitentiary has degenerate leftist zealots feeling denied the fruits of their lawless abuses of power and corruption of our courts as their illegitimate tool for political score-settling. Many will surely attack me for revealing the truth in this article.

Since they now twist and distort anything I say publicly, let me state it clearly and unequivocally: I renounce violence of any kind as a solution to any dispute over the outcome of the election taking place just days from now. If there is credible evidence of voter fraud sufficient to distort the election results, and the fake news media and violent shock-troops of the Democrat Party should attempt to stampede the country into accepting the illegitimate election of Joe Biden as president, the dispute must nonetheless be settled in the courts, not in the streets.

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“It Was Just Conversation, Like BSing” Mainstream Media Runs Damage Control On O’Keefe Texas Hit

Leave it to mainstream media to run a puff piece on the woman caught on hidden video encouraging and engaging in various voter fraud activities. The video, launched by Project Veritas and James O’Keefe, showed Raquel Rodriguez offering to buy people off to vote the way she wanted them to, admitting that Trump was right and that voter fraud was rampant, admitted to bringing in 7000 votes, possibly all fraudulently, and openly admitted that what she’s doing is illegal and she could go to jail for doing it.

Now News 4 San Antonio is running tear jerker stories on Rodriguez in an attempt to gain public sympathy for her.

In the interview, she tries to play it off that she was just lying, “just BS’ing” with the undercover PV operative, and everything was taken out of context. Of course the News 4 reporter, Yami Virgin, has to accuse Project Veritas of working a “coordinated disinformation effort” lie that has been perpetrated by the apparently fake news, New York Times in order to try to discredit the videos.

News 4 SA reports:

This is Raquel Rodriguez. She is the woman in the center of what has now become a national story on an alleged voter fraud scheme.

“First, everybody who knows me directly, they know what I do for the community, they know what I do for people, but I’m not like a monster like they make me out to be,” Rodriguez said to us.

In their story, they showed this undercover video of Rodriguez claiming that several candidates had paid her money to engage in various forms of voter fraud, including helping harvest ballots here in Bexar County.

Ballot harvesting is when a third-party gets a complete ballot and delivers it to an election official or a post office.

The allegations were wide ranging, and included ballot harvesting, but also included buying gifts for voters and persuading them to change votes.

“It was just conversation, like the b-s-ing,” Rodriguez claims. “They were pulling me and I was pulling their strings that’s how I saw it. Little did I know what they were doing but I knew something was wrong and I just went with it.”

Now, Rodriguez claims that it was all a lie. But why?

In an exclusive interview Rodriguez gave to the southside live stream show Carpenters Apprentice – Rodriguez claims she was just playing along with the undercover’s game.

“99 percent was bs to make a sale,” Rodriguez claims.

Rodriguez now tells you, the voter, should believe her.

“I expect people to believe me now, I’m here telling you my story, I have nothing to hide anymore,” Rodriguez said.

We could not find embeddable versions of the video interviews, but you can view them on the News 4 webpage.

News 4 might want to be on the look out for retraction demands. Their claims of Veritas and O’Keefe working as part of a “coordinated disinformation effort” are false and cannot be substantiated.

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Wonderful! 110 Year-Old Proud Texas Woman Says She Voted for President Trump in Person This Week (VIDEO)

110-year-old Texas woman went on with FOX and Friends this morning.

Earline Andrews has voted in nearly two dozen US elections. Today she told FOX and Friends that she proudly voted for President Trump.

Her niece Rayline Binion, who joined her on the show, told the FOX and Friends Weekend crew that she also proudly voted for President Trump.

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