So when the FBI, MSM say "Hunters lap top is a fake Russian disinformation attack" that no treason or fraud? WTF! Doctor Guillotine, what do you think?
Fakery everywhere. As they said on the X-files, "Trust no one."
Least of all your government or its puppet press. However, correcting the problem with civil war, should it come to that, will be devastating to EVERYONE (the other side fights back for all its worth you know?) and likely will correct nothing but leave vast smoldering patches for anarchy to fill in. A Mad Max world is a lot worse than what we have.
I’m not in favor of civil war, but I do believe it is inevitable, and that the result of the next election will be a turning point. After one side loses (or worse, the elections are somehow derailed), then the people who supported that side will be convinced that political solutions cannot work, or that they did not work and the election has been stolen.
At that point, people will take matters into their own hands, and we will see tit for tat retaliation between partisans—and as that happens, the window of what is considered acceptable or justified response will increase on both sides.
War is awful, and war at home is worse still, and we are plunging toward it headlong.
There is always the hope that better heads prevail. However, like you say in your agreement with me, many will become convinced political solutions cannot work or, at least, have not worked who have a strong leaning toward creating chaos of they lose.
Let's talk voter fraud. A few elections ago I followed a bus load of illegals going from voting poll to voting poll and voting at each stop. 36 votes at 12 different locations for 432 illegal votes. I took pictures and sent them to the state clearly showing voter fraud. The state refused the evidence from not just me but a couple of poll workers who knew they were being deceived. Voter fraud is real and changes elections. I also worked with several people who when they went to vote found out that someone else had voted in their name. I know for a fact that voter fraud in Ca is very real and used in every election.
I understand what you're saying, and I read about lots of VERY suspicious looking things like that. I've never trusted electronic voting, and I am suspicious of mail-in ballots, and I detest Dems always trying to find ways to allow non-citizens to vote and doing things like you saw. (I don't know, however, how you knew they were illegal aliens, as I never know that when I look at people unless ... you saw them cross the border illegally.)
I am a little troubled, however, that after an entire term of his own plus 3.5 years of someone else's term to prove this, a multi-billionaire president who claimed fraud was rank during his first election and stated he'd prove it over eight years and who is backed by the massive and financially rich RNC with top-dollar attorneys has not been able to build a single solid case that would even stand up in CONSERVATIVE courts. He has more than an abundance of time and human resources, and inside access to national intelligence and financial backing to prove it, and has failed at every turn, even in the very conservative Supreme Court. Sixty times over.
I don’t know if you really don’t understand the emphasis on being a republic vs a democracy, or if you don’t WANT to understand it. It’s not about the entire 336 million U.S. population “voting on every law.” Not even Democrats are that stupid.
It’s about Democrats wanting to do away with the Electoral College and choose the President by direct “democratic” vote. They rightly assert that the “popular vote” favors Democrats, because large, densely-populated cities — which are reliably Democrat — would easily overwhelm sparsely-populated rural America — which is reliably Republican. If we were to use the “popular vote” to elect our President, candidates would campaign only in California and New York, because they alone would decide the Presidency — which means there would never again be a Republican President.
This is exactly why the Founding Fathers created the Electoral College as part of our Constitutional Republic. It prevents the “tyranny of the majority.”
You have no idea what you are talking about. A Republican form of government is one that recognizes the INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY of each man and woman, and does NOT grant any lawmaking authority over the people to the government. The People have no such power to delegate.
In a republic, government serves the people, AT THE REQUEST OF AN INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGN who has been injured or has other business. Government statutes are regulations for government creations, to protect the individual Sovereigns from what it creates. The people are subject only to the unwritten Common Law, aka Natural Law or right and wrong. Hurt someone, government can help force justice IF needed and somebody asks them to.
None of it has anything to do with elections, but the FUNCTIONS of government and WHO CONTROLS THEM.
I am fairly neutral on the electoral college. I see the pros and cons. I am not convinced entirely of the pros. I'm not at all convinced that, without the electoral college, candidates would only campaign in California. In fact, I think that the electoral college makes it MORE likely candidates will focus on states like California where they can get all of the weighted vote by merely getting a slim minority of the popular vote in those states, meaning tipping those states in your favor has a much larger advantage WITH the electoral college since winner takes all. Without the electoral college, the most you'd get out of California is your exact share of the popular vote.
That said, I have read nothing that indicates the current REPUBLICAN emphasis on being a republic and "not a democracy" has anything to do with the electoral college. You can be a republic with or without the electoral college. The proof of that is that all states in the US function as republics, and all of them do so democratically for their own state elections, and none of them do so via a state electoral college. I see the connection to the electoral college as irrelevant. You can have (and do have) a DEMOCRATIC republic either way throughout this nation.
Great article. I came to the same conclusion about a month ago: I can’t vote for either candidate. Period. Neither offer the principles or vision that I expect from the Presidency. Crazy and comforting to see a large portion of Americans feel the same way.
Happy Father’s Day, David. I hope your venture into Substack has been good for you over the past year. Your commentary has been so refreshing and profound. Thanks for your hard work. -Bryan
That IS election fraud.
So when the FBI, MSM say "Hunters lap top is a fake Russian disinformation attack" that no treason or fraud? WTF! Doctor Guillotine, what do you think?
Fakery everywhere. As they said on the X-files, "Trust no one."
Least of all your government or its puppet press. However, correcting the problem with civil war, should it come to that, will be devastating to EVERYONE (the other side fights back for all its worth you know?) and likely will correct nothing but leave vast smoldering patches for anarchy to fill in. A Mad Max world is a lot worse than what we have.
We are fucked then.
I’m not in favor of civil war, but I do believe it is inevitable, and that the result of the next election will be a turning point. After one side loses (or worse, the elections are somehow derailed), then the people who supported that side will be convinced that political solutions cannot work, or that they did not work and the election has been stolen.
At that point, people will take matters into their own hands, and we will see tit for tat retaliation between partisans—and as that happens, the window of what is considered acceptable or justified response will increase on both sides.
War is awful, and war at home is worse still, and we are plunging toward it headlong.
There is always the hope that better heads prevail. However, like you say in your agreement with me, many will become convinced political solutions cannot work or, at least, have not worked who have a strong leaning toward creating chaos of they lose.
Let's talk voter fraud. A few elections ago I followed a bus load of illegals going from voting poll to voting poll and voting at each stop. 36 votes at 12 different locations for 432 illegal votes. I took pictures and sent them to the state clearly showing voter fraud. The state refused the evidence from not just me but a couple of poll workers who knew they were being deceived. Voter fraud is real and changes elections. I also worked with several people who when they went to vote found out that someone else had voted in their name. I know for a fact that voter fraud in Ca is very real and used in every election.
I understand what you're saying, and I read about lots of VERY suspicious looking things like that. I've never trusted electronic voting, and I am suspicious of mail-in ballots, and I detest Dems always trying to find ways to allow non-citizens to vote and doing things like you saw. (I don't know, however, how you knew they were illegal aliens, as I never know that when I look at people unless ... you saw them cross the border illegally.)
I am a little troubled, however, that after an entire term of his own plus 3.5 years of someone else's term to prove this, a multi-billionaire president who claimed fraud was rank during his first election and stated he'd prove it over eight years and who is backed by the massive and financially rich RNC with top-dollar attorneys has not been able to build a single solid case that would even stand up in CONSERVATIVE courts. He has more than an abundance of time and human resources, and inside access to national intelligence and financial backing to prove it, and has failed at every turn, even in the very conservative Supreme Court. Sixty times over.
I don’t know if you really don’t understand the emphasis on being a republic vs a democracy, or if you don’t WANT to understand it. It’s not about the entire 336 million U.S. population “voting on every law.” Not even Democrats are that stupid.
It’s about Democrats wanting to do away with the Electoral College and choose the President by direct “democratic” vote. They rightly assert that the “popular vote” favors Democrats, because large, densely-populated cities — which are reliably Democrat — would easily overwhelm sparsely-populated rural America — which is reliably Republican. If we were to use the “popular vote” to elect our President, candidates would campaign only in California and New York, because they alone would decide the Presidency — which means there would never again be a Republican President.
This is exactly why the Founding Fathers created the Electoral College as part of our Constitutional Republic. It prevents the “tyranny of the majority.”
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/06/16/cnns-wild-video-attacking-maga-people-as-conspiracy-for-believing-were-a-republic-n2175538
You have no idea what you are talking about. A Republican form of government is one that recognizes the INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY of each man and woman, and does NOT grant any lawmaking authority over the people to the government. The People have no such power to delegate.
In a republic, government serves the people, AT THE REQUEST OF AN INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGN who has been injured or has other business. Government statutes are regulations for government creations, to protect the individual Sovereigns from what it creates. The people are subject only to the unwritten Common Law, aka Natural Law or right and wrong. Hurt someone, government can help force justice IF needed and somebody asks them to.
None of it has anything to do with elections, but the FUNCTIONS of government and WHO CONTROLS THEM.
I am fairly neutral on the electoral college. I see the pros and cons. I am not convinced entirely of the pros. I'm not at all convinced that, without the electoral college, candidates would only campaign in California. In fact, I think that the electoral college makes it MORE likely candidates will focus on states like California where they can get all of the weighted vote by merely getting a slim minority of the popular vote in those states, meaning tipping those states in your favor has a much larger advantage WITH the electoral college since winner takes all. Without the electoral college, the most you'd get out of California is your exact share of the popular vote.
That said, I have read nothing that indicates the current REPUBLICAN emphasis on being a republic and "not a democracy" has anything to do with the electoral college. You can be a republic with or without the electoral college. The proof of that is that all states in the US function as republics, and all of them do so democratically for their own state elections, and none of them do so via a state electoral college. I see the connection to the electoral college as irrelevant. You can have (and do have) a DEMOCRATIC republic either way throughout this nation.
Good article, thanks for the image link. Will be linking as usual David @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
Great article. I came to the same conclusion about a month ago: I can’t vote for either candidate. Period. Neither offer the principles or vision that I expect from the Presidency. Crazy and comforting to see a large portion of Americans feel the same way.
It's nice to have a little company for once, isn't it! Thanks Bryan.
Happy Father’s Day, David. I hope your venture into Substack has been good for you over the past year. Your commentary has been so refreshing and profound. Thanks for your hard work. -Bryan
Thanks, Bryan!
I'm in the same camp as you Dave. I haven't cared for any of the selections for years. Good article Thanks
Seems like a reasonable explanation in light of the observable facts on the ground.