Is Democracy A Joke?
Short answer: yes.
It’s the norm for bureaucrats to “flout the spirit and, quite often, the letter of federal record law.”
A while back, I listened to an interview on YouTube between Ryan Michler, who runs the brand Order of Man, and famous, stoic and ruthless NAVY Seal Jocko Willink.
In one segment of the podcast episode, Jocko opens up in his contained demeanor about his personal investment in politics. He limits any such investment as he admits that politics is not his cup of tea, and he doesn’t want to have to tweak his public persona to have success in the political arena.
Politicians have a script to follow, and milestones to hit. It’s not as simplistic as well-lit photo-ops, kissing babies, making appearances at open houses and charity events, and saying all the right things on national television, but most politicians don’t diverge from that format.
That’s not up to Jocko’s appetite. Who could disagree? As stated, smart people don’t waste their time with politics. They dedicate their energy to improving and positively affecting his local spheres of influence, living up to his badass image and reputation. Politcs are for power-hungry narcissists and bleeding heart idealists who haven’t lost any hope in the system.
All the best to him.
Politics is a dogfight, and those who reap the highest rewards tend to find themselves in the position of Michael Vick (except they don’t spend time in prison.)
They are officials and designators that are selected, not elected. Whether it’s the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, or even the high school class classroom that’s Congress is (a Tulsi Gabbard), they control the levers of power. Democracy tap-dances to their beat and rhythm, unequivocally. They can ratify and approve of legislation that only affects the common man’s paycheck and everyday live.
As clearly observable during the pandemic, the overwhelming majority of politicians did not have to contemplate suicide, and transition their lives quickly to stave off economic destitution. In fact, politicians like the governor of California, Gavin Newsom and a politician in Illinois possessed the means to take a mini-vacation and enjoy some time, without social distancing or masks, with their friends and families.
Democracy operates under the guise of allowing full-fledged populism to thrive, but “rules for thee, not for me” is the play-call that is ran on every down.
Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud, is deemed the father of modern advertising and propaganda. All of my observations have been iterated with deeper insight by him. One of the more popular quotes attributed to him explain how the elites manipulate group psychology and retain their grasp over the masses
The calamity, globally and nationally in America, that has unfolded over the last year due to COVID-19, and over the last four years as the Age of Trump presides over political discourse, crystallized all the insanity that’s baked into the dysfunction of modern society into a dumpster fire no one can ignore.
The world came to a standstill, and all eyes were watching the news, and their social media updates, gasping at every breaking news update. Businesses destroyed, jobs lost (easily 1M+ in my home of NYC), couples’ relationships in upheaval, a generation of young people depressed, disillusioned and mused by suicidal contemplation.
Did democracy snap on its red, shiny cape and swoop in to perform miracles Jesus would have to pay a steep cost in order to get an apprenticeship at learning how to do?
No. The truth about democracy, from the beginning of the pandemic to this very day became undeniable.
Democracy is not about “looking after the little guy”, or increasing representation for certain groups.
Democracy is about the elites, the PAC donors, policy makers, political organizers, hedge fund managers and the colossal navel of big business managing public perception to protect the dumb, uneducated, less-than-worthy masses from themselves. To act as a savior that no one has paid tithes to.
From Edward Bernays:
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
The slogan of the Washington Post, owned by neo-technocratic and Machiavellian overlord Jeff Bezos is blunt and charged up, with the same vigor that Paul Revere had when he rode on horseback to warn that the British are coming.
Democracy Dies in Darkness. Ooooh.
Hyperbolic much? It gives the impression that democracy is bunkered in Guantamano Bay, as a man being accused of conspiring with the Taliban, getting interrogated night and day, getting waterboarded. When the agents assigned to “handle” him leave the site, he’s left in his thoughts with a bag clothing his head, wondering if he is in a dream or a nightmare.
It’s the American Dream, because you have to be awake to believe it, as the late great comedian George Carlin remarked.
But most outlets of the mainstream media (like CNN and Fox News, whose ratings are tanking because they haven’t adapted to the modern media landscape, dominated by streaming and podcasting) seem to specialize in hypnotism as much as they dedicate themselves to actual journalistic reporting.
A compilation or clip of a video must be available somewhere on the Internet that shows every elitist, hogwash blue checkmark on Twitter, every self-righteous, disingenuously altruistic and self-aggrandizing pundit, celebrity or politician shrieks about how something Trump does, or the Republican party does is a “threat to democracy”. What about the CHILDREN (insert crying emoji) summarizes the petulance here in one phrase.
Biden, in response to Trump’s acquittal at his dull, drawn-out and underwhelming second impeachment trail, said this:
“That violence and extremism has no place in America”.
See how violence and extremism are outlined as being dangerously reactionary towards causing a dent in THEIR democracy?
Over the last four years, hell-bent on answering the call of those who “care so much” about democracy, tossing a couple of pennies into the collection bin towards the cause, late-night comedy has become insufferable with dig after dig at the “Orange Man Fuhrer” himself.
With a lot of mainstream media outlets, everytime they shriek and squeal about what are the true values America stands for (“America is a bastion of democracy”, “We are the last line of defense of tyranny”, “We believe in equality and justice for all”), even though they’re not wrong per se, their utter hypocrisy exposes their two-faced nature, melting their credibility like the Wicked Witch of the West. Keep melting as far as I’m concerned.
On February, Molly Ball published for TIME magazine probably the most jaw-dropping and juicy exposé I’ve ever seen or read.
The emperor has no clothes. It’s walking around naked as if it’s doing a sexy photoshoot, unshaven. After he’s done, he’s going to go to work, throttling his ***** down your throat.
Needless to say, but has to be said, Trump was right. About a lot.
He’s no commander of the microphone, nor has the grace or eloquence of Obama in the area of public speaking. It doesn’t matter; he’s a businessman and he’s right on the money about a lot.
Joe Biden got around 80+ million votes from the American electorate in the popular vote. The refrain foaming from the mainstream media’s mouth to consolidate public perception on Joe Biden’s Battle of the Titans victory in 2020 has been that he is the most “popular president” in American history.
More popular than Trump in 2016, when he was the underdog, and for months on end, CNN and co. were putting their life savings on an easy sweep for Hillary. More than 2008 Obama, the Black Jesus himself? More than Theodore Roosevelt, Reagan, FDR, JFK, Lincoln, George Washington?
America is the global bastion of preserving liberty, and deMOcRacY, a source of inspiration every other country looks toward (can you see why Americans are seen as narcissistic?). Election rigging of any sorts is absolutely out of the question.
Remember the BLM protests that ravaged Summer 2020, and left almost every major metropolitan area in the U.S. in shambles?
According to Molly Ball’s exposé for TIME, those bold, defiant actions taken by “The Resistance” were orchestrated…to “fortify” the 2020 election.
Written like a trilogy of novels, the article “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election” is headlined by an illustration that looks like the poster for a new season of Stranger Things.
There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.
The forces of labor came together with the forces of capital? So socialists and capitalists, commonly and historically framed as foes in the continual battle for the means of production have found common grounds for once.
It may not seem apparent, but all of these loaded and emotionally stunted Starbucks revolutionaries who occupy the ranks of ANTIFA and other organization driven by flagrant street activism are typically well-funded — look into the American bankers on Wall Street like Jacob Schiff and Olof Aschberg that helped to fund the Bolshevik Revolution.
This article is the peak of professional tattle-telling on one’s self. An intentional self-own of gigantic proportions, one for the Guinness World Records.
Let’s just say this, once and for all: conspiracy theorists don’t need to wear tinfoil hats. More things than not they try to warn people about comes to the light as truth eventually.
Molly Ball admits that the far-reaching coalition hell-bent on “protecting democracy” and looking out for the interests of everyday people was “ranging across industries and ideologies.”
Businesses in oil, gas, media, finance, technology, etc. with divergent target demographics and creative interests all saw fit to “fortify the election” and give Orange Man Bad the boot off his throne.
Liberals of all stripes weaponize the term “fascist” without the rudimentary understanding of the applicable, fully fleshed out and historical definition of that term, that goes beyond emphasizing the authoritarian tendencies of fascist dictators.
A fascist to a liberal or progressive is a target to be neutralized. “Down with fascists” means down with the enemy, at all costs. Fortifying elections for the end goal of maintaining one’s edge in the cultural war is no different.
Mike Podhorzer was the ringleader that organized the manpower and resources to lead the charge on tampering with Trump’s chances for re-election.
According to the article, Podhorzer is known as the wizard behind some of the biggest advances in political technology in recent decades.
He brought a group of liberal strategists together to form the Analyst Institute.
Based off of the technical description provided, Podhorzer and his behavior gives off the impression of a mad scientist, in his laboratory space, notebooks and scattered across the floor, outlines and notes and diagrams disshelved and incoherent scribbled on looseleaf paper.
Potions are brewing in scientific glassware, and there’s a click clack sculpture filling up negative space in this cluttered mise-en-scene.
The primary metrics people like Podhorzer, who get paid way too much to be bureaucratic puppeteers are concerned with decoding to understand the general constituency are “data, analytics and polling.”
No wonder Facebook and Amazon are now the two biggest lobbyers for the federal government? They walk hand in hand with each other like lovers.
Taking note of all the key organizations, political action committees and political actors that work behind the scenes reaffirms every sensible person’s position that campaign finance, and the monied structures that grind the gears of politics need a tremendous haul. Politicians should serve the people who elect them, no strings attached or dollar signs.
In his apartment in the D.C. suburbs, Podhorzer began working from his laptop at his kitchen table, holding back-to-back Zoom meetings for hours a day with his network of contacts across the progressive universe: the labor movement; the institutional left, like Planned Parenthood and Greenpeace; resistance groups like Indivisible and MoveOn; progressive data geeks and strategists, representatives of donors and foundations, state-level grassroots organizers, racial-justice activists and others.
Podhorzer wasn’t on the frontline of the pandemic, and he was working harder than all the nurses and doctors who magically had enough spare time to churn out comical TikToks with choreographed dance routines, cringey in their subliminal performative wokeness, when the worst of the pandemic was only beginning to unfold.
There was four areas of attack that were established as the key vectors for which the entire left-wing coalition assembled by Podherzer and Company: “attacks on voters, attacks on election administration, attacks on Trump’s political opponents and efforts to reverse the results of the election.”
There are darker reasons why a popularly used synonym for advertising is “public relations”. Our greatest foes will often seek to become, or appear as our friends first; right before they plunge the knife into our back.
From interactions with the police to the efficacy of voting at the polling booth, African Americans are naturally cautious and apprehensive about enacting their God-given rights compared to other groups of Americans.
Podherzer and all the other organizers and activists who conspired to undermine democracy, in the name of “preserving it” exploited this un coddled fear to drive minorities to the booth, and secure the Democratic base.
Many Black voters preferred to exercise their franchise in person or didn’t trust the mail. National civil rights groups worked with local organizations to get the word out that this was the best way to ensure one’s vote was counted. In Philadelphia, for example, advocates distributed “voting safety kits” containing masks, hand sanitizer and informational brochures. “We had to get the message out that this is safe, reliable, and you can trust it,” says Hannah Fried of All Voting Is Local.
“If it Bleeds, It Leads” is mere breadcrumbs when it comes to the guidelines mainstream media outlets abide by when it comes to selectively crafting narratives and reporting certain stories.
Say what you want about Black Lives Matter (search results for the organization bombing headlines oddly peaked in 2016 and 2020, both election years) and the arduous history of race in America, but the media is masterful at stoking pent-up frustrations, vulnerable feelings of disillusionment and disenfranchisement to pit the races against one another to cash in on the backend from the implementation of the age-old divide-and-conquer strategy.
Sorry to burst so-called “normies” bubble, but George Floyd was selected. Ahmaud Arbery was selected. Brionna Taylor was selected.
Excusing deliberate negligence by the police is not a thing to do, but if systemic racism and police brutality inflicted upon marginalized groups was really a problem, we would see a new high-profile shooting of an unarmed black men EVERY SINGLE DAY. But we don’t.
On the contrary, since Biden has assumed office in the White House as #46, the rate of mass shootings has escalated to new highs.
Let it be made crystal clear: the Alphabet agencies like the CIA and FBI answer to the beck and call of Big Tech now, not the other way around.
The precedents and legislation enshrined into law and sociopolitical doctrine thanks to 9/11, which launched the Global War of Terror, now seems to add an additional layer of repression onto the totalitarian nightmare that Edward Snowden, a patriot no one thought they needed, tried to ring the alarm bell on years ago.
To see the forest beyond the trees is to have the foresight to understand that “white supremacy”, even if its existence and proliferation cannot be denied, is not the only target of the state apparatus that’s been formed via the union between Big Tech and the federal government.
Alex Jones hits the nail on the hammer when he re-iterates that there’s war on for your mind, an info war.
Every electronic device we possess and use is a tracking device and digital microwave waiting to explode. All the tasks we do on these devices, pertaining to social media or not, are recorded and that precious data is stored to mined and harvested.
The predictive programming apparent in all of these classic sci-fi films (Blade Runner, Demolition Man, The Terminator, etc.) isn’t acknowledged enough in regard to the roadmap they laid out to justify the hyper-techno surveillance state that rules over us.
The ruling elites, who offset between passive-aggressive admission of their guilt and scheming to enslave the masses in the shadows are making it transparent that democracy is as illegitimate as any such “marketplace of ideas”.
The marketplace of ideas, piecemeal and discombobulated, is no different from a bookstore. Once you could enjoy Dr. Seuss books in peace and reminiscence in peace about your quaint and idyllic childhood. Now the whole lot has to burn down.
Since Biden officially announced that he and his administration is contemplating actions to monitor the noise and chatter “extremist groups” that congregate in online spaces and forums verbalize.
In conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security, they plan on reaching out to private firms to “surveil suspected domestic terrorists online”.
Key narratives is codeword for suspicious narcotics being trafficked. Suspicious activity that “violates” and “endangers” the preservation of public safety. Someone’s up past their bedtime, and they need to be chained to their bed.
In an ostensible democracy (because that’s the best we got), everyone is within their rightful jurisdiction to dabble in free speech as much as they like, without transgressing on anyone else’s liberties or gaining an unlawful advantage that wasn’t earned.
If the marketplace of ideas is open to business, granting inside traders unrestrained permission to regulate commerce undermines any notion of a fair, open and “equal democracy.”
When organizations like Voting Rights Lab and IntoAction can create specific memes, by state and spread them all over social media to dictate how votes are counted, and that strategy actually works, Andrew Breitbart needs to be given more props for highlighting the intrinsic relationship between politics and culture.
These are the same type of organizations that have allowed Corporate America to gain absurd amounts of wealth, at the disadvantage of the bottom 90 percent of Americans.
They rig the financial system, funnel propaganda through the media and manipulate “the people’s vote” to ensure politically that the right pieces fall where they must (not may). The people’s vote is a big fat goose egg.
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
Written in ZeroHedge, the article “America is Exceptionally…Kleptomaniac” delivers a short and blunt message on how the middle class in America have been abandoned and left for squalor, the same class who still naively believe that their vote means jack shit.
Worldwide, there have been half a million corporate mergers over the last ten years. The widening gap in terms of CEO-to-worker compensation means only a select few have any sort of purchasing power. If you don’t have purchasing power, you don’t get to participate in this “democracy”. The doors are shut for you.
The elaborately plotted heist film that unfolds throughout the rest of Molly Ball’s expose contains spicy plot twists, backstabbing, deceit, secret alliances being formed and buttery popcorn entertainment.
The mainstream media has become insanely empowered by getting away with the wrongful stereotyping they’ve imprinted into the public psyche by drilling sentimental and historically aligned comparisons with Trump to the unruly dictators of the 20th century that have become hallmark names.
By doing this, they’ve been able to contort the true definition of words like “democracy”, “liberty”, “freedom” under the guise of looking after the people’s best interests, to bypass legal doctrine and the scorn of a well-informed populace who would hold them accountable for thinking that they get to play by a different set of rules.
The pro-democracy forces were up against a Trumpified Michigan GOP controlled by allies of Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chair, and Betsy DeVos, the former Education Secretary and a member of a billionaire family of GOP donors. On a call with his team on Nov. 18, Bassin vented that his side’s pressure was no match for what Trump could offer. “Of course he’s going to try to offer them something,” Bassin recalls thinking. “Head of the Space Force! Ambassador to wherever! We can’t compete with that by offering carrots. We need a stick.”
Just in the previous paragraph, Ball had the nerve to incorporate the phrase “democracy defenders” to describe the rag-tag group of politicians, wealthy donors, journalists (who also act more like activists today) and other political actors who combined their unique superpowers to save the day, and the attractive lady trapped in the clutches of King Kong’s hulking grip known as democracy.
These people are not superheroes. Not like the X-Men, or the Justice League or the Teen Titans. These people all have premium membership to the plutocratic oligarchy that actually operates the levers of power, and run society.
It is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster.
What am I watching? Independence Day? 2012? White House Down? Any cheesy and bombastic action/sci-fi flick made over the last 40 years where two mismatched characters have to put aside their differences and traumas at home to become unlikely heroes?
Think of the opening scene of the pilot episode of Mr. Robot, with a collection of silhouette figures (moreso than men) draped in black suits and ties, discussing grand ideas in an sleek conference room at one of the top floors of a high-rise building, unelected and unassuming of those below them.
The “democracy defenders” who got Biden elected are those people. And they lie to you, to your face, eight out of time.
This filthy gameplan differs not much from the rhetoric, blaring from the media’s blowhorns nowadays with officials from the medical industry and politicians galore instructing people on the critical response that has to be organized to contain the outbreak of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Labels like “anti-vaxxer”, “conspiracy theorist” and adopting the general position of being vocally “anti-science” pigeonhole specific voices who are participating in democracy and continuing its flourishment by offering an alternative viewpoint to the narrative spreading like the virus itself on what’s the matter of fact.
If you question any aspect of the narrative, from the validity of the PCR tests, to how COVID cases are counted, to the efficacy of lockdowns that disproportionately target small businesses and increase probability of more depression, anxiety and suicide, to doubting the usefulness of alternate forms of treatment like ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine or… everyday multi-vitamins like Vitamin D-3 and Zinc, you are silenced, ostracized and deplatformed.
2020 as a numerical value emanates numerous semiotic ideas past the generic colloquial expression of 20/20 vision. It’s indicative of a lot of things that the supernatural can explain, or cannot.
COVID was the rager throughout this grueling, dark winter that Joe Biden suitably warned us of, but the flu retreated into a cave, never to show its sickening, scarred, disfigured face with bumps and bruises somehow.
If you question that, or why certain established figures in the medical community keep recycling phrasing to arrive a resolution that’ll figure out what “incentives” and “carrots” the masses need in order to feel comfortable enough to get inoculated, you’re stupid and uninformed because you didn’t go to medical school, and study for a decade to become a doctor (ex: Leana Wen)
Just like all of these totally not credible doctors…
If you question why a strategic partnership, such as the Trusted News Initiative was formed between Big Tech, conglomerates like the BBC and CBC, and the top players in mainstream news to combat “misinformation” that poses criticism to the safety and quality of the vaccines sold as the magic elixir to help this pandemic end as soon as logistically possible — — you’re a kook and a threat to “liberty and democracy”.
Facebook’s Oversight Board recently just upheld the platform’s decision to indefinitely ban former President Donald Trump’s account.
If not me, then who? If them, then who’s next?
If you’re suspicious why more journalists today act as erratic activists, rather than objective defenders of the truth for the public’s sake, your lower status by default for not possessing a college degree will be targeted.
If you’re suspicious of why Kamala Harris was chosen as the running mate for Joe Biden, who he himself wasn’t a shining star on the Democrat ticket, you must be a misogynist.
Steve Bannon spoke this beautiful gem of a quote on a recent episode of his podcast the War Room. There are no conspiracies, but there are also no coincidences.
Ever since Hillary Clinton’s disappointing and unexpected loss in 2016, the prospects of a female president as Commander in Chief looked dismal.
Entering the campaign trail to battle for the Democratic nomination, Kamala was a long shot due to her ethnic identity, her nebulous past as attorney general in San Francisco and her gender.
Before that, only five percent of Democratic voters had her as their #1 candidate.
Pinned as a moderate, Kamala made attempts like many Democrats do to appeal to a broad coalition of voters by openly supporting progressive policies.
In comparison to when Harris was “chosen” as Joe Biden’s running mate, Harris throughout her bid for the nomination struggled to define her platform and preserve cash ranges to maintain the financing for her campaign.
From August 2020, a poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal, reported by NBC, over a quarter of voters (26%) could not form an opinion on her.
That set a record for vice presidential candidates ever since 1992. This same poll concluded that 39% of voters asked have a positive rating of her compared to a 35% who have a negative view.
All polls should be accepted with a grain of salt due to human and systemic errors, plus erroneous sample sizes. But these numbers do show public confidence in Kamala’s personality and ability is not as universal as the mainstream media depicts it to be.
Trump wasn’t a perfect President. By nature, he’s loud and overly condescending. He’s a sloppy and unprofessional orator. He’s reckless in his demeanor, and he pulled his trigger fingers on Twitter with reckless abandon so much so that Drake couldn’t handle the heat.
He didn’t fulfill all of his campaign promises. The ones that he did fulfill are subject to rigorous scrutiny and debate, as they should be.
But he was right about this illegitimate election going against the sacred will of the American people. He was right.
From the unparalleled calls for mail-in-voting and the unraveling of COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdowns that justified the former to the various loopholes in the process of voting to the barriers erected in his path to launch a proper audit of all votes gathered to possibly overturn the original result, Trump is proven here to not be the unhinged, delusional madman he’s been portrayed to be by the establishment, both left and right.
Don’t believe me? Do your objective, unbiased research on all of it.
Maricopa in Arizona, which was a battleground state where accusations of vote tampering and mismanaged ballots never got the proper treatment they deserved just opened the path for a new audit to be held by the Arizona Senate, examining the 2.1 million ballots posted for the 2020 election.
A judge ordered a temporary pause in proceedings, up until Democrats in Arizona were incapable of posting a million-dollar bond to cover all expenses caused by said pause. The Democrats can still appeal the ruling, but what would they want to? If there’s nothing to hide, then the audit will confirm what is believed to be true.
But don’t worry: USA Today confirmed that any and all accusations of fraud are “false claims”.
Molly Ball’s gaudy testimony to what “democracy” really is about confirms everyone to the right of Bernie Sanders of Nancy Pelosi’s suspicions on what went down leading up to November 3, 2020, the day of the election and the wall-to-wall action packed aftermath up until the infamous day in history now, January 6th and the insurrection waged on the Capitol.
Just like the manufactured outcome of the 2020 presidential election, all of those who are in charge knew about the plot to protest and “charge” the Capitol Building months in advice, and if not, weeks at the minimum.
Although ANTIFA, Black Lives Matter and their counterparts are always down for a clash in the streets, according to the TIME article, the activist left was “strenuously discouraging counter activity” to seal all cracks that could bust wide open, and give leverage to the belief that the protestors who attended D.C. were not seeking to engage in treasonous, criminal behavior.
The incident on January 6th mirrors the showdown in Charlottesville from Summer 2017.
The media rollout pounded images and footage of demonstrators in the quaint college in Virginia marching in the streets and waving American flags on everyone’s TV screens and social media feeds. Trump was torn to shreds in the “court of public opinion” for suggesting that there were “bad people on both sides”.
Trump couldn’t have said that for what went down on January 6th. For him to do that would be to expose and point the spotlight towards the elites that override the rule of law that the Constitution establishes and decrees as such whenever they feel like it.
In order to “sell the steal”, the media has been going into overdrive to present Biden as the “most popular president ever”.
Lincoln, Roosevelt, FDR, LBJ, John F. Kennedy, George Washington and the rest of the Founding Fathers can all throw their hats in the bid to contest that outrageous claim.
First of all, Biden did not blow Trump out of the waters in terms of the final results in terms of total tallied votes for the popular vote.
More than 159 million Americans voted last year. That’s the highest voter turnout in just about a century (even that number is up for an audit of its own). Out of that body of people, Biden won 51.9% of the vote, equating to 81,283,098 votes. Trump won 74,222,958 votes, or 46.8 percent of the votes cast. The mid-sized difference of 7 million votes rounds up to the size of something slightly less than New York City.
But as the Council for Foreign Relations explained, if the turnout in a specific combination of states went differently, Sleepy Joe might’ve had to start preparing to wrap up his career as a main attraction, a recurring character in the cast of people that are a mainstay in Hollywood.
By law, campaigns and political parties are entitled to have representatives in the rooms where votes are being counted to keep the process honest.
Trump, fellow Republicans and his ocean-sized legal team made a reoccurring point that their respective monitors were obligated to stand too far away a distance from the ballots being sorted and counted.
For reasons like this, it was the key battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that drew the most attention because the faith of the election was in the hands of the electorate there, notwithstanding more pivotal battleground states like Texas and Republican, some of which used to be staunchly red.
If Trump picked up the right mix of 42,921 votes in Arizona (10,457), Georgia (11,779), and Wisconsin (20,682), the Electoral College would have been tied at 269 all. The House would have then decided the election. Republicans will hold the majority of state delegations in the new Congress, and they undoubtedly would have chosen Trump. If Trump had also picked up the one electoral vote in Nebraska’s Second Congressional District, which he lost to Biden by 22,091 votes, he would have won the Electoral College outright.
Election rigging is more common than most will admit to. 2016 felt like a nick in the record player, where Hillary Clinton won 65,845,063 votes while Donald J. Trump won 62,980,160 votes. And the conspiracy theories around illegals voting, illegal ballot harvesting, dead citizens on the voter roll and so much more clogged the airwaves back then as well.
Two other women got exposed in Bucks County for filling out mail-in ballot applications for their dead mothers. The afterlife doesn’t seem that horrible after all.
Pennsylvania saw flashing red lights for its particular handling of the vote count. Akin to what many states did, citizens were given the option to submit absentee ballots and mail-in ballots. People who were ardent on finding voter fraud argued the grounds on which submitting either of these and if they float when in water.
The highest court in the state settled a case fought between Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar and Pennsylvania Democrats on extending the deadline for mail-in ballots.
Republicans stipulated that this decision override the rightful authority of the state Legislature, who should be in charge of calling the shots on that issue.
Drudging through appeal after appeal, court case after court case, nothing would budge for Trump and Co. as we all know already.
The right to deliver mail-in ballots nationwide got expanded in phases, once with the Civil War, and gradually moreso in the 1970s.
Some voters even had the opportunity to correct costly mistakes they made with their ballots, if they were incorrectly filed (termed “cured” ballots). Both parties were notified of such incidents.
Do you see why the debate on states rights vs. federalism enamored the Founders to such a highly frustrating degree?
Election fraud is plausible on both sides of the aisle, but CNN wants to gaslight you like a Bond villain and sell you the dream that duplicity only rolls one way.
Trump’s campaign in Pennsylvania to pull the cape off the voter fraud hiding in plain sight like Scooby Doo fell short, due to people in the legal infrastucture staying firm in their political bias, and ofcourse coordinated troubleshooting and interference by “pro-democracy forces.” To trigger a recount under state law, the president’s campaign would have to find enough votes to bring Trump within 0.5% of Biden’s vote count.
Rudy Giuliani was his right-hand lawyer, fighting for the cause, and now his Manhattan apartment is being raided by the FBI.
I don’t want to backtrack on my stance cowardly, but in honest assessment, election fraud and the people’s vote meet each other on a collison course in a modern, functional “democracy”.
Campaigns live and die off of funding and donations. To travel across a state or the country plus supporting the scaled-up advertising that takes cues from Hollywoodized storytelling and a college-level filmmaking course requires millions of dollars. Attention is a commodity, and in a scarce ecosystem where it’s chopped up into little pieces thanks to the innumerable avenues social media carves up.
The courtesy can’t be fully granted to Netflix, Grubhub, Amazon or whatever else pot-of-luck startup racking in millions, but people are fatter, lazier and more docile than ever in human history (in correlation, birth rates are collapsing.)
People’s attention spans are getting shorter, while the threat of tyranny from those promoting “democracy” grows in exponential size and bandwidth.
Truth of the matter: most elections are rigged. Voter fraud of some capacity is a reality in most elections, markedly in modern ones.
Just go down memory lane and re-examine the logistical nightmare that was Gore v. Bush, with the maze-shaped butterfly ballot that misallocated possibly thousands and hundreds of thousands against the count for Al Gore.
We all understand why the Electoral College was developed in the first college. Smaller states, more rural and less cosmopolitan in layout, needed political collateral that they could use to not be left helpless against the potential tyranny larger states had the potential to inflict upon them.
So if in most presidential elections, politicians only have to prioritize a handful of mid-sized states, dispersed on the outskirts or within Middle America, to concentrate their attention and resources on, what type of democracy do we really have?
If these battleground states don’t go for a specific candidate, then as long as they can secure the electoral votes in major population centers, i.e. urban areas, their chances of victory are optimistic.
The power of the people’s vote in a “democracy” is reduced to targeting certain data points and metric, while ignoring others.
Ever since he ascended to the throne of the presidency, reception on his public persona, and the decisions he’s made has been mixed, contrary to the opinion of the mainstream media.
EVERY SINGLE VIDEO posted to the White House’s YouTube channel has been downvoted and ratio’d. The trend repeats itself on his own personal channel. There are even accusations percolating that YouTube is tampering the like-to-dislike ratio to curb the downpour of disapproval that actually represents how the American people feel about Joseph R. Biden.
So when YouTube is accosted for reportedly considering eliminating the dislike button altogether, once again, the sanctity and majesty of American democracy must be put on the stand to give testimony in its defense. And it shall not be exempted by exercising the 5th amendment. Thank you Derek Chauvin.
I’m not trying to be a conspiracy theorist, but the majority of pro-Biden votes were anti-Trump votes in “disguise”.
If you observed the opinions people have shared on politics over the last year or so, and the corresponding actions they take to assert their beliefs, from ostracizing friends and family, attending BLM rallies, groveling at the mouth to be given a free donut or beer to get vaccinated, bragging about said vaccination like earning your first badge as an Eagle Scout, and being able to go a sentence talking about politics without uttering the Orange Fuhrer’s name, then this conclusion doesn’t seem as implausible.
Similar to his first press conference, the date of both were well behind the historical standards set by his predecessors.
Joe Biden was already a shoe-in to secure the nomination because of his tenure as vice president in Obama’s administration and the status he’s cemented as a career politician for about the last half century.
His resume hasn’t been squeaky clean. Sorry CNN and MSNBC, but Sleepy Joe has a lot of naked skeletons in his geriatric closet.
To this day, critics and detractors alike will not stop holding Biden accountable for his past actions in regards to the infamous 1994 crime bill, during a decade where most politicians of posterity went forth with a hard-line “tough on crime” attitude, and even for his blatant support on the bill passed in the mid 2000s that made it impossible for people to declare bankruptcy on their student loans (prior to that, he sponsored bills seeking to eliminate restrictions students and parents trying to take out loans).
If you bring any of this shortcomings in character, treacherous acts taken in the name of lobbying and playing the machine, you’re on the brink of being de-personed.
If you point out the number of things and positions Joe Biden has flip-flopped on, then you ain’t black enough, and you need to be called out for not “accepting the results” of a completely fair and impartial election. You don’t respect the democratic process, and that’s synonymous with you being black enough.
The list of public figures who’ve suffered through the tarnishing of their reputation for raging against the machine has racked up like a death count of its own.
What about any of that is democratic? None of it.
Like any president who understands the power of momentum, Biden has been aggressive in his first 100 days, making promises and moves and maneuvers to get to work on mounting a gigantic list of policy and legislation that he seeks to get passed, spanning from America’s entanglements in the Middle East to the domestic response for COVID relief. 72 hours in, and Biden’s signature sealed the deal for 30 executive orders on a range of issues.
President Biden’s cabinet and administration is the most diverse in U.S. history. Lloyd Austin, a Black man who’s spent his whole career in the military, working his way up to a four-star general, was chosen as Secretary of Defense.
Coveted spots on teams were snatched up many prominent Jews, like Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of Homeland Security and Anthony Blinken as incumbent Secretary of State.
Across the board COVID has shuffled the chess pieces, and Biden’s administration has had to be on the offensive when trying to qualm concerns, and demonstrate confident leadership through this once-in-a-lifetime struggle.
Consistency is the key to accomplishing any goal, and Biden hasn’t missed the mark when he’s set a deadline for an ambitious target to be reached for rate of vaccination. 100 million vaccinations across all 50 states was the desired amount to arrive at by April 21. That objective was crushed, and the final tally was doubled to 200 million.
Credit is owed to President Trump for authorizing the rapid execution of Operation Warp Speed, which aggregated resources and distributed funding for vaccine development last year.
For all the companies in Big Pharma that developed vaccines, all of them have gotten Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA.
Now they’re available nationwide, and the pressure and 24/7 advertising to persuade citizens to get vaccinated remains relentless. This is just my opinion, but real pandemics don’t need billion-dollar marketing campaigns, with commercials and speeches in circulation, starring athletes, actors, entertainers, etc.
Stifling the positive remnants of whatever Trump got done during his tenure is a sure-fire priority on Biden’s bucket list. And he’s taking it to his opposition.
Cancelling contracts and the construction of the Keystone Oil Pipeline, re-entering American to sign onto the Paris Climate Agreement, disbanding the 1776 commission, reversing Trump’s executive order banning foreign nations from predominantly Muslim countries and supporting DACA.
After January 2021 passed, the southern border began to bear the brunt of a surge, eclipsing the size almost of a full-frontal assault from an invading army.
The U.S. Border Patrol apprehended nearly 100,000 migrants in February, after apprehensions had fallen to about 16,000 in April 2020.
That number jumped to 172,000 for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in March.
Under Title 42, migrants are expelled to Mexico but a portion attempt to cross back into the United States despite the policy and are again expelled.
Although many migrants are being turned away, the Biden administration has said it would accept children because it would be too dangerous to turn them away. Some families were being accepted into the United States because Mexico is not accepting some families with young children.
These holding facilities made headlines for appearing to be the exact same detention facilities that Trump was debased for using in his initiative to curb border crossings during his presidency.
Mainstream media outlets went into overdrive to clarify the difference, and set the record straight that Biden cares about the children, while Trump couldn’t do anything further than that.
That’s why video footage leaked shows these facilities containing trinkets and gadgets and amenities, simulating the experience little children can enjoy at Chuck E Cheese, but with gated walls enclosing the perimeter.
It’s not a mystery as to why migrants from developing nations like Mexico, Guatemala and elsewhere in Central America like the desire to escape cumbersome gang violence and pursue greater economic opportunities.
Damage control has been activated to ease public concern. Biden is downplaying the severity of the problem, claiming “we’ve gotten control” over the situation. His administration denies responsibility, although I don’t believe the QAnon conspiracy theory that Trump is running the White House from a secret bunker. All projections indicate towards the current border surge hitting record levels high that surpass the worst of the worst during the Trump administration in 2019. Don’t worry; in a recent speech, he has the balls to advocate for granting citizenship to 11 million illegal immigrants.
Democrats and Republicans are jousting back and forth over another comprehensive proposal Biden’s put on the table, when it comes to amnesty.
Go figure.
All of this is just the beginning. Biden signed the relief bill titled the American Rescue Plan one day before my birthday on March 12th, allocating 1.9 trillion dollars for primarily all sectors that are dying for COVID relief. Good, but don’t complain the ensuing hyperinflation picking up the pace. Money printer go BRRRRR.
Also, take some time to skim through the written legislation that’s printed for this bill. If it’s anything like the relief bill Trump passed in December, there’s a lot of tea to be spilled on where and who the money is actually going towards.
Biden signed an executive order upping the minimum wage for federal workers to $15, the long-term effect leads towards the phasing out of hundreds and thousands of jobs. This policy will trickle downwards the private sector; the true power of trickle-down economics is revealed. The futurists who want automation and the singularity to be realities already score a little win here.
These are moves that send a unambiguous message: the direction America is going in, must go in is new and refreshing and progressive, and one that rejects the intolerant backwardness Trump and his allies was encouraging.
Democracy dies in daRKnESs, and Joe Biden is the savior meant to spread the light.
Reality check: Democracy is a scapegoat, backed by institutional bodies and the entire media apparatus to exert control over the masses via mass entertainment and pompous bread and circuses, to give the elites the go-ahead on any corrosive agenda they have an appetite for.
Want to destabilize nations and overthrow governments, like the CIA has routinely done over the last century? Democracy is the guise that’ll cover you ass, and wipe it for you.
Want to silence critics and dissenters who form a formidable counterculture that questions the reigning orthodoxy? Crush their resistance, standing on top of the platform that projects the objective of preserving freedom and maintaining the multi-faceted supply chain that allows democracy to flourish.
Oops. I thought freedom was something you kept and conserve, not something that is allocated to you like an allowance in a piggy bank.
Democracy is not a closeted homosexual. Democracy is not some helpless orphan or homeless person wondering where their next meal is going to come from. It’s not a little kid that’s still stumbles every now and then now that he/she has learned to walk. It’s not even the kid, 10 or 11 years of old, that’s lost in the airport.
It’s not a battered housewife struggling to apply their red lipstick.
When critiquing or giving a corroborative stamp of approval of democracy, commentators left, right, squished in the middle, professional or not personify it in ways they’re not aware of, and ways that they really shouldn’t.
Democracy is a system of governance, and organizing a population’s collective cultural, social, economic and political interests and will, like any other. It’s not horrible, but it’s also not perfect.
15th century Christian missionaries trying to pitch the glory of the Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior to some uncontacted, remote indigenous tribe would have an easier time doing than trying to close a sale like Don Draper in Mad Men.
Fanatic obsession over the Constitution or DeMOcRaCY arises from a relentless commitment to preserving “rights” and the subjective value of said rights, pertaining to whatever they do.
Rights are not immutable. They are volatile and contingent upon the right group of people agreeing to them, and agreeing to conduct themselves in certain behavior so that law and order is upheld.
The only rights anyone is entitled to are rights and privileges that they are willing to fight for, barter for, steal for, trade for, or are voluntarily donated to them. “Donated” is the key word here; it’s a synonym to loaned or borrowed. It’s conditional, and conditions can expire.
Embracing the concept of God-given rights pacifies Christians who bind their entire identity and sense of self-esteem around feeling comforted and loved by their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
“God-given rights” as it is understood are inalienable from birth. That’s a problematic idea to believe, since no one understands themselves, or their place in the world until at the minimum, their late teens or early twenties.
Suppressing myopia from diluting my opinion on this matter, “God-given rights” have as much as worth as an empty plastic bottle that can be filled up with any substance in this material world.
They only exist in Heaven or Hell.
If civilization crumbles to bricks and rocks because of Armageddon, all the wild animals that will be on an equal playing field with us will not be so kind and considerate to protect our God-given rights.
Contrary to popular belief, democracy is not two wolves and a sheep deciding on what to eat for dinner. Not exactly.
What the strained political climate over the last 4–12 years, even in age of Obama began, has revealed what democracy ultimately amounts to.
Democracy ultimately amounts to the waitress, with nice, perky breasts, square dimples and a youthful glow walking up to the table where the two wolves and a sheep are sitting, and handing all three of them one menu.
The waitress then proceeds to be a bystander and eye “innocently” as the two wolves and a sheep play tug of war with the menu, until it tears partially.
Someone will win in the end, but the aftermath of that is more often than not less than ideal.
Democracy results in the ruling elite class, who oftentime only reach out to those below them through photo-ops, charitable donations and the establishment of nonprofits and construction of schools and parks, making sure that the populace don’t pick the wrong leaders.
Democracy, whether direct or representative or otherwise, doesn’t sidestep or avoid the pitfalls a dictatorship brings. Democracies corrupt absolutely like dictatorship, but for different reasons. Democratic systems are committed to instilling absolute equality and equity into every sector it can reach.
Absolute equality everywhere, all the time is as mythical as a unicorn or Bigfoot. The rate of industrialization a society has undergone will meagerly adjust how freely democracy can prosper.
Remote villages and post-industrial cityscapes come with similar limitations; both need workers who can be productive, or acquire resources that support the greater good of everyone else.
Native Americans in their communities historically were perceived as people who were anti property rights because they believed land couldn’t be owed, and one should live in accordance with Mother Nature. This could confuse many to presume that democracy would benefit them as an underprivileged minority.
My definition of democracy is that the people’s interests and will are brought into fruition to the fullest extent, without any revisions, edits or clauses added in by an external force or source (“power to the people” essentially). By that standard, even Native Americans implicitly reject democracy because they have tribunal chiefs and councils.
There needs to be a chain of command in any system of governance and politics that’s structured like a pyramid, and not set up with the openness that bringing people to a table establishes. Power doesn’t have to become regressively scarce, but it must have a terms of service agreement attached to every new iteration.
The hostile takeover of power currently ensuing in Myanmar by the military stands as another calling card for the America First absolutists who out of undiluted vanity exalt America as this ultimate bastion of liberty and democracy that every nation is obligated to take notes from, and act accordingly.
Colloquially known as Burma, this landlocked nation in South Asia has had a tumultuous history, not too dissimilar to all developing nations and not to say the least.
For the last few decades, experimenting with democracy has led to mixed results for the geographic bridge of a nation that was seeking to forge a new future, not based around a military force being the central power running the show. “The Tiger of Asia” was the nickname bestowed upon Burma, for recognition of its once potential to be an economic powerhouse.
Military power in Burma is responsible for the multiple coup d’état’s that were imposed at several points in the nation’s history, whether to qualm the violence and tensions spurring from ethnic uprisings or communist subversion, which was getting a boost from their invasive neighbors in China to the East.
That last part doesn’t seem to make sense, as in 1962, one year before Kennedy’s assassination, the military launched a coup d’état and installed a one-party communist state, with Ne Win selected as its de-facto leader.
The Burma Socialist Programme Party assumed the role as the leading party.
Direct efforts would be pushed in the years to come to forward democracy, and establish a multi-party system. Ne Win “won the election” to be the first “president” in Burma’s history in 1981.
Resistance wasn’t futile, as protests and demonstrations to challenge the BSPP’s reign continued for an extended period of time. The most prominent of these culminated in the 8888 protests of 1988, inspired because of the economic deterioration that occurred due to the excessive debt the government contracted, letting the money printer go BRRRR longer than ideal.
A referendum was held to determine if a multi-party system should be ushered in. The majority of voters overwhelmingly said yes. But the BSPP declared that it would hold its own election, to no avail on fulfilling that promise.
When one aggregated military presence was waning in influence, there was always another one to come fill in the void (ex: SLORC)
Burma, it’s traditions, its ideals, culture, morals and virtues are embossed into Aung San Suu Kyi. She’s the daughter of Aung San, the father of Burma’s independence in the WWII era. Her mother was Burma’s ambassador to Burma.
She took a pivotal role in gauging and tempering the indignation igniting out of the 8888 protests, having gone on a self-imposed exile once the military-led coup took place.
To further along the movement to modernize Burma’s politics, Aung San Suu Kyi has taken leadership in pro-democracy organizations, like the political party the National League for Democracy that pushed for another election in 1990.
Entering the 21st century, a 2008 resolution was officially passed, signaling the political establishment’s commitment towards fully embracing democracy, thanks in part to intervention and external guidance given by organizations like the United Nations and famous American politicians (Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton.)
Ever since 2011, any official military junta that reigns 100 percent supreme in political office has been dissolved. Another rigged election in 2010 gave precedent for transfer of the military’s power into the newly established USDP.
Aung San Suu Kyi once again was at the forefront of this never-ending battle to help Myanmar move past the doldrums of dysfunctional third-world anarcho-tyranny. In 2012, the year the Mayans predicted the world would cease to exist, Aung and her side won 43 of 45 available parliamentary seats.
Last year in 2020, another election was held, for the umpteenth time. Victorious once again was the National League for Democracy. Walking lock-step with what has happened in the past, pernicious allegations of mass-scale voter fraud rose to the surface.
Controversy stuck its ugly head out of the clouds, like it did in the 2015 election where the military stubbornly interfered with the democratic process there as well. In that election, the NLD won 341 seats while the USDP won 41 seats.
Constitutional amendments added restricted Aung San Suu Kyi from claiming the chair as president of Myanmar. By law, the army in the modern area is inclined to select a quarter of representatives within parliament.
To remedy this loophole that served as a blockade, the position of State Counselor was created to allow Aung San Suu Kyi to assume head of Myanmar’s government.
Led by Min Aung Hang, this year of 2021, the military rehashed the same old script to instigate another coup d’état. Members of the NLD, Aung San Suu Kyi got apprehended and placed under house arrest. This is nothing new for her, as her track record of experiencing house arrest goes back decades, once serving a sentence between 2003 and 2010.
Protestors are filling up the streets, gathering and waving posters to express their indignation and rage towards the government.
The United Nations estimates that approximately 20,000 people have fled their homes and remain displaced within Myanmar while almost 10,000 have fled to neighboring countries.
Disintegration of civil society is accelerating courtesy of the paradigm shift COVID has caused. Tons of jobs lost, hunger among vulnerable families heightened and rising debt are symptoms flaring in severity.
Titles and accolades don’t shield anyone from criticism, scrutiny, sin or fault. She might’ve been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, but her record on deeper assessment leaves a lot to be asked of.
The ongoing genocide of the majority Muslim Rohingya minority shocked international airwaves as it is rightly seen as an tragic example of ethnic cleansing and egregious violation of human rights. Over the last decade, more than 200 of their villages in the Rakhine state have been burned.
At will, mass rape and murder wound the Rohingya, physically and spiritually. Over 727,000 members of the concentrated ethnic group have fled persecution to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. Many others have made way towards the exterior outpost of unofficial East Pakistan.
This now takes the cake for one of the largest currently active refugee crises in the word, possibly eclipsed by the one that’s ravaged the heart of Europe, starting in 2015.
There are over 130 recognized ethnic groups in Burma, and the Rohingya are not of them.
History may not always repeat itself, but it’s certainly never forgotten on the broad emotional strokes.
The greater population in the nation remembers the alliance the Rohingya made with the British during WWII to fight off the Japanese invasion at the time.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s actions towards handling this state-sanctioned genocide borderline on a repugnant mixture of vile negligence and politically convenient apathy. But undoubtedly she is the people’s champion.
The irony of dark humor shows people that the United States can have overlapping similarities with a nation, halfway across the world with a sliver of its geopolitical power or influence like Myanmar.
Either a constitutional republic or a parliamentary democracy overshadowed by the strong-arming of a autocratic military junta, the joys that can be squeezed out of democracy’s pulp oftentimes leads the people, the everyday citizens to choose between the greater of two evils, the lesser of two negative sums, buying into the devil’s bargain and getting burned on the highway to Hell.
Quoted from Ne Win himself:
“If the army shoots, it has no tradition of shooting into the air. It shoots to kill”.
DVS, and other companies like Smartmatic got hired to manage the arduous task of processing ballots nationwide, with the unprecedented tweak in procedure with the sanctioning of mail-in ballots.
The hardware and software DVS produces were disseminated across voting centers from coast to coast in America. The faithful and dutiful election workers who signed up to organize and process ballots at polling booths state-to-state hopefully lived up to the standards they swore to obey, but even that has come under scrutiny with the “dangerous conspiracy theories” that spread like wildfire in the wake of the election.
In Georgia, like all vital battleground states, a statewide audit was conducted, under the supervision of the Republican governor, Brian Kemp.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger took a lot of heat for his involvement in the affair. Raffensperger’s office ordered a full hand recount a little while after the results on Election Day. Alongside that a full machine recount was conducted, “failing to uncover” any sign of verifiable voter fraud.
An audit of the equipment in six counties in the weeks after the election by a federally-accredited Voting System Test Laboratory “found no evidence of the machines being tampered.”
A month later, Raffensperger, head of the State Election Board spearheaded a webinar meeting with Dominion Voting Systems to discuss the infrastructure and methods they utilized to process ballots during the election.
Per statement he gave, Brad Raffensperger said, “Georgia ran a historically secure, effective, and reliable election last year, and Dominion Voting Systems was a key part of that.”
The integrity and accuracy of Dominion’s systems in Georgia was confirmed by an independent data analysis released by the Mitre National Election Security Lab on February 19, 2021. No meaningful evidence of fraud, manipulation, or uncorrected error was discovered.
This jumbled and frenzied witch-hunt to search for missing votes, harvested ballots and dead voters on the voter roll traveled around to other states, other critical battleground states like Michigan and Pennsylvania. Both states held audits and/or court hearings to get to the bottom of
Trump went on the offensive to try and prove that he was deprived of another 4 years in office, firing numerous members of staff and accumulating the legal resources and contact he had as playing cards in his pocket.
As Molly Ball explained with sparking clarity, pro-democracy forces and political actors with money to spend and connections to max out lifted so many cars, and saved so many babies to successfully block all attempts at identifying a tainted final vote count in any state from getting cancelled and voided.
They were up against a “Trumpified Michigan GOP” controlled by allies of Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chair, and Betsy DeVos, the former Education Secretary and a member of a billionaire family of GOP donors —
If Trump were to offer something in exchange for a personal favor, that would likely constitute bribery, Bassin reasoned. He phoned Richard Primus, a law professor at the University of Michigan, to see if Primus agreed and would make the argument publicly. Primus said he thought the meeting itself was inappropriate, and got to work on an op-ed for Politico warning that the state attorney general–a Democrat–would have no choice but to investigate. When the piece posted on Nov. 19, the attorney general’s communications director tweeted it. Protect Democracy soon got word that the lawmakers planned to bring lawyers to the meeting with Trump the next day.
Reyes’ activists scanned flight schedules and flocked to the airports on both ends of Shirkey’s journey to D.C., to underscore that the lawmakers were being scrutinized. After the meeting, the pair announced they’d pressed the President to deliver COVID relief for their constituents and informed him they saw no role in the election process. Then they went for a drink at the Trump hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. A street artist projected their images onto the outside of the building along with the words THE WORLD IS WATCHING.
That left one last step: the state canvassing board, made up of two Democrats and two Republicans. One Republican, a Trumper employed by the DeVos family’s political nonprofit, was not expected to vote for certification. The other Republican on the board was a little-known lawyer named Aaron Van Langevelde. He sent no signals about what he planned to do, leaving everyone on edge.
When the meeting began, Reyes’s activists flooded the livestream and filled Twitter with their hashtag, #alleyesonmi. A board accustomed to attendance in the single digits suddenly faced an audience of thousands. In hours of testimony, the activists emphasized their message of respecting voters’ wishes and affirming democracy rather than scolding the officials. Van Langevelde quickly signaled he would follow precedent. The vote was 3–0 to certify; the other Republican abstained.
Once Michigan was secured, per direct quote, “the dominoes fell” with the final outcome declared for every other state tied up in a legal struggle where Republicans were contending the sanctity of the ballots counted.
The media came out on top.
And this was all years in the making, through repetition, memetic warfare and 24/7 media coverage drummed up to slander Trump as this existential threat to democracy, a fat, racist, sexist, misogynistic, gluttonous buffoon with a loud, reckless mouth who was conspiring with Russians to plunder the Republic six feet and under, to its grave.
Once you comprehend the meaning of the tweet above, you understand how and why democracy is under attack, and who that harms.
Democracy is a menacing buzzword meant to disarm truth seekers from being proactive and taking reactionary measures to protect their rights. It’s carelessly used in context, and it’s coated and dipped in saucy, flowery language to exhibit this child-like harmlessness, toying with people’s heart strings in the end so that they’ll always be asleep in the dark, fighting ghosts and chasing after every false flag, every piece of sensationalize drama.
Justification of whatever radical agenda or policy gets the perfect pretense when democracy is invited into the conversation.
Want to interfere with a nationally televised trial by putting pressure on those handling proceedings to engineer the result you want? Grab your acting gear, keep a bottle of water on standby for fake tears and lament about democracy is in danger, democracy is being raped and abUSED if insert person (Derek Chauvin) isn’t convicted. Maxine Waters, you know what you said.
Ofcourse raise money for the suffering and grieving you were dragged under the mud for, and through.
Want to maintain a grossly stacked military presence, in desert nations in the Middle East, and continue to bomb insurgents and terrorists so the pipeline you have to access that grows a substantial percentage of the world’s opium? So you can secure Greater Israel (go do your research; I’m not going to explain this)? So the U.S. petrodollar doesn’t decline in worth, and the world’s reserve currency remains centralized in the good ole US of A? All in nations we should have never invaded in the first place?
Interpretated as skillsets, the American regime has mastered the art of destabilizing whole regions better than it has ever done anything to “spread democracy.”
This is the end result. Democracy is just a pathway to normalize degeneracy.
Give a half-hearted diatribe about how “it’s our job” to spread liberal, Globohomo backed democracy so that women’s rights can prosper, and more women can climb the corporate ladder and hold positions in public office.
After all, since the world’s economy revolves around policy and axiomatic impulse dictated by American democracy (pun intended), we get to lecture everyone else when they can’t play catch-up. Condescending to the max.
On a serious note, What makes the medical establishment and the mainstream qualified to assign fact-checkers, and determine who gets to participate in these roles?
They control the narrative. Narratives direct attention, and enhance perception. Perception becomes reality.
Sean Rad, one of the founders of the popular dating app Tinder said this in a interview with the Evening Standard:
“We believe in democracy. If society just wants to hook up, who am I to judge?”
See what I’m getting at?
Democracy is codeword for divide-and-conquer, in the short term and the long term.
Paul Weyrich, a Republican strategist and a co-founder of the Heritage Foundation commented on the true nature of democracy back in 1980 at a gathering of evangelicals:
“They want everybody to vote. I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”
“Everyone’s vote matters” is bullshit. Voting should be a privilege, assigned to citizens that deserve it based upon merit, not as if it’s a scratched-up participation trophy.
The debate on whether IQ is important, if it’s a qualitative metric that should be taken seriously is wide-ranging and divisive. Either way it’s split, the average IQ, or scope of general intelligence of the average American is not high. It seems it’s just going to keep sliding downward.
For definitive evidence of that, watch the recurring segment on the Jimmy Kimmel show unofficially called “Can You Name This Country”?
A map is put on display, and random pedestrians are halted, and asked to participate in the guessing game. This is entertainment at the end of the day, so their answers could as well be scripted, and the participants themselves could’ve been paid off to seem stupid and ignorant.
That excuse can be tossed out there, but that doesn’t negate the possibility of how many people’s intellectual capacity and how well-informed people are these participants represent, or mimic.
The criteria set to determine voter eligibility should be way stricter.
Voting is a mechanism used to impose violence by proxy on other citizens. Since the average citizen can’t yield much physical power over anyone they have a disagreement, they abide by the prevailing social contract and vote on the polling booth to subject their fellow man to the beliefs, policies and legislation they deem worthy.
Voting is coercion without needing to dig up someone’s hidden past.
Voting is nothing more than you given your consent to everything the government does.
Thinking big picture, the vote of the average person who meets up to this entire criteria still wouldn’t hold much significant weight.
As per the wise words of industrialist and professional dietician Joseph Stalin:
“It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.”
What confirmed this for me was coming upon an article that chronicled all the billionaires, in industries ranging from tech to gas and energy to media that donated a monumental portion of their “earned” wealth to political campaigns, particularly in relation to the 2020 presidential election cycle.
Anyone who wants to denounce people trying to enact political change in the system via violent means are subconsciously railing against their own frustrating hypocrisy. There’s only two main ways to get what you want out of Big Daddy Government, whether at the local, state or federal level:
- Waging violent insurrection/struggle
- Donating money to the officials, pundits, journalists and politicians whose jurisdiction impacts you personally, upfront or not.
Protests and peaceful demonstrations give news outlets great footage to edit and chop up to spin a scintillating, biased narrative. They’re mini “psy-ops” that allow everyone involved to feel heard. It’s like therapy, Royal Rumble style.
But they get nothing done, unless it’s at the magnitude of something like what occurred at the Capitol Building in D.C. on January 6th, an infamous day that’ll never be forgotten.
See one of the structural inadequacies of democracy is that there are way too many checks and balances.
For Christ’s sake, in the last election, different counties in certain states were allowed to go forward with different voting procedures. And people are surprised at the inevitability of election fraud.
There are way too many checks and balances, which a lot of the time prevents necessary legislation from being ratified into law with little delay. An analogy that illustrates my point here is drawing a Venn Diagram between boxing and UFC.
The governmental infrastructure professional boxing functions upon is confusing to say the least.
There are multiple governing bodies (IBO, IBF, WBO, WBA, WBC) who each award their own distinct championship belts for every respective weight division.
Boxing is a sport notorious for corruption and ties to the Mafia as it has become modernized over the last century. Teddy Atlas in his interview with Joe Rogan delves into all of this by even outlining a potential scenario of what happens days before the night of a fight, in a dimly-lit diner close to the venue (venue). Let’s just say there aren’t pedophilic, Satan worshipping lizard people aren’t enjoying small talk over a medium-rare steak.
The promoters, managers and chairmen that push and pull the levers of boxing as a industry are capitalists to the bone. They want to maximize their bottom line of profit, and this is how they justify having a “Super” champion, a “Regular” champion, an interim champion, and various regional and international belts just for one single weight division.
Partially thanks to the egotistical persona of Floyd “Money” Mayweather, and the business operations of guys like him and Oscar De La Hoya with Golden Boy Promotions, boxing has earned the ire of fans and critics who proclaim that boxing as a sport has lost its way, and can’t compete in the modern sports market because it’s focused on all the the wrong things.
Put boxing side-to-side with UFC.
Dana White is the president of UFC. He’s seen as the head honcho, the head chef, the patriarch of the organization who makes the final calls and cuts. If the fans wants to see certain fighters fight, or there’s a mandatory challenger that is entitled to a championship match, Dana White will ensure that the fight gets made, no ifs or buts.
Like any final decision-maker, can some of White’s decisions be tyrannical (like limiting the gross revenue fighters can make, by eliminating the option for them to have paid sponsorships)? Yes.
But, when all is said and done, order is more vital than freedom. And the freedom that enthusiasts of liberal democracy hold dearly to their hearts is freedom from responsibility, and freedom from consequence. Ultimately, their infatuation with the irrational bigotry of low expectations from all parties involved disguises their true beliefs, which is to infantilize every living citizen, stunting their capacity to hold the movers and shakers accountable when democracy goes wrong.
These people are actors desire freedom from ostracization, freedom from having to make a choice that others might not like because they are extremely oversocialized.
And these oversocialized types that exist as ardent, pompous and overtly virtue-signaling left-wing ideologues are embracing their roles as shock troops to shill for these vaccines (re: Hegelian Dialectic completed), none of which have been official approved for mass distribution, sale and consumption by the Food and Drug Administration.
All American schoolchildren get bombarded with U.S. History throughout middle school and high school. I won’t persist with another elongated dissertation on the Civil War, the American Revolution or racism during Jim Crow.
To simplify, it’s well-known that the origins of the Electoral College being made a thing came out of the framers of the Constitution wanting to establish a fair republic, wanting to ensure larger states didn’t have more power over smaller states.
Public impression is hard to gauge. Consistently for many decades at various points, a plurality of Americans have expressed boldly through polls that they would like the Electoral College abolished, in favor of direct democracy. In terms of the political divide, Democrats generally skew more positively than Republicans when that question is offered to be answered.
As currently constituted, each state has two Electoral College votes regardless of population size, plus additional votes to match its number of House members. That format overrepresents small- and medium-sized states at the expense of large states.
15 percent of American counties generate 64 percent of America’s gross domestic product. Most of the country’s GDP is generated on the East Coast, West Coast, and a few metropolitan areas in between. The prosperous parts of America have 30 senators while the less prosperous areas (around 35 states) have 70 senators.
How do we count the popular votes in Maine, given that state’s adoption of ranked choice voting? What would happen if one state lowered the voting age to 16? What if there is a dispute as to who actually won the nationwide popular vote? These problems might well be solvable within the compact framework — but they require more thinking through now, before a presidential election turns on them.
Before the Civil War, the combination of the Electoral College and the Three-Fifths Clause, counting a slave as three-fifths of a person, gave the Slave Power outsize control in electing the president, with the consequence that antebellum presidents were almost always either slaveholders or at least friendly to their interests (the major exceptions were both named Adams). After the war, every person counted as a full person for apportionment purposes — but with the collapse of Reconstruction and the violent disfranchisement of African-Americans throughout the South, that increase in representation once again redounded only to the benefit of white male power-holders, a situation that was not largely rectified until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Because a state’s number of electors is based on total population, not actual voters, it gives the states no incentive to enfranchise new groups of people, or to make voting easier for those eligible. And because states want to maximize their influence in selecting the president, they also have a strong incentive to use a winner-take-all approach to awarding electors, which all but two states currently do.
The best option is a compromise between the Electoral College and the popular vote through as a proportional apportionment of the Electoral College. Each state would be divided into electoral districts with one vote and an elector would vote based on which candidate received the majority of their district’s votes, not their state’s votes. This system would also maintain the point system included with the current Electoral College and would allow every election to still have a distinct winner. Gerrymandering is still an wretched opinion on the table to re-draw certain lines, and organize geographical boundaries in a certain way.
In the wake of the controversial 2020 election, Republican politicians in several states have made a push to pass legislation that installs stricter and tighter laws on voting.
Ron DeSantis is picking up the ball where Trump left it as Governor of Florida. Not by accident, but he is viewed as Trump’s logical successor, in frame, decorum and message.
Due to his collected bluntness and no-nonsense approach, Florida is the state to go as they’ve defied all conventional suggestions and logic in regards to COVID and COVID restrictions laid out.
He signed into a voting rights bill passed by the state legislature. Like swarms of bees, lawsuits are being filed to appeal the validity of what was approved.
No different than Florida, several states are seeking to address all the loopholes that open up the possibility for voter fraud to commence, from voter ID laws to the availability of mail-in ballots to logistics on when eligible voters can vote at certain times.
Major sports leagues aren’t the only ones revolutionizing the profession of corporative activism. Just in another battleground state, Texas, multinational corporations like American Airlines and Unilever are combining resources and in unison voicing their objection to the new voting bill making the rounds in the state legislature.
“Woke Capital” exists as a term of mockery for a reason. In a maximized and optimal capitalist model, the sole and utmost important priority for corporations is maximal profit. When corporations no longer hide their meddling and involvement in political affairs, you have more to be scared of than just the word “democracy” slipping out into the ether.
It has to be asked: did these corporations even read one paragraph of the legislation they find to be so reprehensible. Most people nowadays don’t make it past the first paragraph of any article they skim through online, if that at all, so it’s understandable.
What’s also understandable is drawing attention to practices and behaviors that do lend itself to the ideal of fairness. Giving voters waiting on line water, who most likely will become thirsty eventually, shouldn’t be automatically interpreted as potential grounds for illegal solicitation or bribery. Thank God lawmakers on Georgia struck that clause down.
Those in opposition are are calling these laws “racist” and “discriminatory” towards marginalized groups, who rates of voter turnout might be low or who don’t have Internet access.
It’s undeniable that voting as a mechanism to influence the trajectory of society and to express one’s political convictions served as a convenient way to perpetuate racism and deny “inalienable rights” to specific groups of people.
But Trump made significant strides in capturing the hearts and attention with minorities in the last election. According to many exit polls, the only demographic he’s lost a disproportionate share in the final vote was straight white men.
So if the tide of racism still is stimulated through organized means like voting, what good does the Voting Rights Act do?
Arriving on a satiable solution for this divisive issue will not yield anything perfect. It’s a complex issue, with a lot of moving parts.
Either way, no one can really argue that laws pertaining to how votes are counted need to be revamped and upgraded. This is my personal opinion, but volunteers who signed up to count ballots should not be allowed to call it a wrap “for the night” at 10PM and reconvene to finish things up early in the morning, when people are more rested.
Take some Adderall, drink some coffee and get it done. A lot is at stake here.
It’s a net positive that states are reigning in careless irregularities in regards to all of this.
The outgrowth of regional politics towards its relevancy in determining federal elections substantiates and marks mighty progress that might save America, this once great republic. It might be a step in the right direction.
After all, POTUS more often than is a symbolic leader more than a leader who can exercise some will to power.
Democracy fails when the intersection between the two concepts aforementioned is dismantled, and boxed out with yellow tape telling all who come to side-step it and go around.
Without common ethics and morals, the two are detached, and both can be easily subverted.
You end up with a society, where power is contested between various warbands that barter for common people to consent to their representation by levying violence to seize control over the entire region. Ex: Somalia
Rules, ethics, hypocrisy, morality mean nothing to those who don’t even acknowledge the concept of any four of those.
Democracy, if it can work at all, is dependent upon a streamlining of consistent trust outward out of the vault of public welfare.
Everyone involved must be civil, disciplined and agree to only engage in the democratic process with the end goal of ensuring a healthy transfer of power, and power is rationed and distributed as it is deserved.
Hours before the F.B.I. revealed a plot by members of a white-supremacist militia to kidnap the governor of Michigan, possibly a false flag to aid the narrative promulgated of Trump’s disheartening and reckless attempts, burrowed out of a “angry white man” type of frustration seething out of him to want to prove he was slighted against, that he was right all along the Lugenpresse, Senator Mike Lee of Utah fired off some steam-trickling tweets on Twitter, being blunt and straightforward about the state of democracy of America.
He struck up controversy, and drew the contempt and derision of Internet trolls of all stripes and colors.
“Democracy isn’t the objective: liberty, peace, and prosperity are”
“We are not a democracy”
The New Yorker article that mentions this incident infers that unintentionally, he posed a simple two-part question that’ll get anyone who answers it correctly extra credit points on the end-of-semester test, that their successful matriculation is contingent upon:
“What kind of democracy do we live in?” and “What kind of democracy do we want to live in?”
What democracy really is, and what democracy constitutes has to be settled. Now. Or never.
Democracy is not a system that can work for all peoples. Are the American people that unique and independent of the moral arc of the universe to stand to be the courageous exception.
From FJ Turner’s The Significance of the Frontier in American History:
Political thought in the period of the French Revolution tended to treat democracy as an absolute system applicable to all times and to all peoples, a system that was to be created by the act of the people themselves on philosophical principles. Ever since that era there has been an inclination on the part of writers on democracy to emphasize the analytical and theoretical treatment to the neglect of the underlying factors of historical development.
If, however, we consider the underlying conditions and forces that create the democratic type of government, and at times contradict the external forms to which the name democracy is applied, we shall find that under this name there have appeared a multitude of political types radically unlike in fact.
To the elites, democracy disintegrates into an awkward exchange between a guy and a girl, where the girl constantly changes her mind on whether or not she wants to have sex with him. Does no mean yes, or yes mean no?
The consent of the governed is manipulated and undermined. Those who are governed find themselves with little to no consent to bargain with in the first place.
If it can’t be decided, how our democracy will function, we need a new system. NOW.
“Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate…Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.”
-H. L. Mencken
