RUTHFULLY YOURS

https://amgreatness.com/2020/12/14/never-again/

Doug Truax is founder and president of Restoration PAC/Restoration Action, a West Point graduate, successful entrepreneur and a former U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois.
Nobody quite knows what is going to happen with President Trump’s challenges to the 2020 election, but one thing is certain—America should not conduct another national election without massive reforms.

In short, we just watched a Third World-style election within the borders of the greatest country in the history of the world. People voting for weeks, mail-out and mail-in ballots flying everywhere—on trucks across states lines, through post offices populated with partisans, into drop boxes monitored by no one, onto election machines with shadowy ownership where vote tallies apparently were shipped overseas and where states took days to count ballots while others counted them in hours.

The vast majority of Republicans believe massive cheating occurred and so do nearly half of Democrats. Even the corrupt liberal media’s refusal to cover the fraud can’t completely hide it. 

We are not going to fully trace the lineage that got us where we are today except to say Democrats have scratched and clawed for change after change to erode election security over the course of several decades while Republicans have been frozen in fear refusing to oppose them.

https://issuesinsights.com/2020/12/16/evidence-of-national-fraud-during-america

(Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of posts by the Libertas Bella blog on the evidence for fraud in the 2020 presidential election. For more entries, along with charts, graphs and pictures, please click here to go to the Libertas Bella blog site.)

Regardless of where one falls politically, the sanctity of the vote is a bedrock of a functioning representative democracy. Voters have to believe their vote matters. And that the vote is free, fair, and accurate. 

The basic facts of the 2020 American Presidential election are concerning because mounting evidence indicates there’s been a concerted effort by state Democratic Parties to flip the election from President Donald Trump to former Vice President Joe Biden in a number of key swing states with the help of notoriously corrupt Democratic Party machines in at least five American cities — Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Atlanta.

Here are the basic facts of the case: On Election Night when America went to bed, President Trump had a commanding lead in virtually every swing state, as well as Virginia, which no one expected him to win. However, when America woke up the next day, we found that he’d lost these leads, largely on the basis of mail-in ballots found in the middle of the night and out from under the watchful eye of legal election monitors. 

What’s more, these massive caches of votes – almost all of which were for former Vice President Biden – came via large dumps primarily from the five aforementioned cities in states predominantly run by Democratic governors.

When one looks at the statistical likelihood of the reported turnout, the numbers are so improbable they’re more at home in a one-party state like Saddam Hussein’s Iraq or North Korea.

https://issuesinsights.com/2020/12/17/bidens-first-100-days-the-beginning-of-a-new-national-nightmare/

Joe Biden still isn’t president, and we’ve urged President Donald Trump and his team to continue the fight to ensure the election was fair. But should Biden take the oath on Jan. 20, this country will go through some changes that will scar it forever.

Barack Obama, “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean,” the black “storybook,” confirmed what many already knew, and that is this man who has such a severe deficit of self-awareness also lacks good judgment.

The former Delaware senator and two-term vice president is no lyrical “palmist.” He’s just a gaffe factory permanently operating at peak productivity. Who knows what he’ll say when dealing with the likes of Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping? Pair his history of motoring through a discourse of nonsense, with his cognitive decline, and we might have a regrettable scene in which he tells one or both to “trunalimunumaprzure” themselves, or calls them lying dog-faced pony soldiers, which in the case of Putin is close to the truth.

Biden might even tell South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott and the African-American GOP members of the House that they “ain’t black” because they didn’t vote for him. It’s a near certainty that before it turns warm again in Washington, he’ll call someone he shouldn’t a “horse’s ass” who’s “full of s—” and threaten to continue the disagreement outside as if he were settling some boozed-up frat boy argument.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/multiple-witnesses-testify-on-election-irregularities-at-senate-hearing_3621177.html

Witnesses at a U.S. Senate hearing on election “irregularities” testified about a litany of alleged instances of election fraud occurring in certain states. Some also expressed concerns over last-minute changes to election laws and other issues they argued were unconstitutional.

Republican senators said they believe fraud did occur and that taking an honest look into the growing mountain of evidence is necessary for a democracy, noting that many Americans have similar concerns. A POLITICO/Morning Consult poll taken after the election found 70 percent of Republicans didn’t believe it was free and fair. However, trust in the election actually increased for Democrats.

Democratic senators largely used their time to attack the hearing, declaring that the American people had already spoken and Republicans were spewing disinformation. Courts have struck down many of the suits contesting the results, they said. But witnesses, including politicians such as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), pointed out that the vast majority were rejected for procedural reasons, as opposed to merit-based or substantive-based rulings focused on the allegations of fraud. 

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in his opening statement that although the Electoral College awarded Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden 306 votes, “a large percentage of the American public does not believe the November election results are legitimate.”

“The fact that our last two presidential elections have not been accepted as legitimate by large percentages of the America public is a serious problem that threatens our republic,” Johnson said at the first federal hearing on the matter of election fraud.

According to officials, witnesses, whistleblowers, and data experts, some level of fraud and other irregularities occurred during the 2020 election, but the level of fraud is disputed.

The question is “whether the level of fraud would alter the outcome of the election,” Johnson said in his opening remarks.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2020/12/14/wait-a-second-who-is-that-with-dan-crenshaw-in-his-georgia-runoff-ad-n1211008

I had to do a double-take: Who is that alongside Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) in his “Georgia Reloaded” ad? Is that who I think it is?

Here’s a closer look.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s “Georgia Reloaded” video. Screenshot from YouTube.

Guys…guys.That’s Marcus freakin’ Luttrell.

The Lone Survivor. The former SEAL. The man who literally never quits.

Dan Crenshaw and Marcus Luttrell, both Texans, are banding together to save Republican control of the Senate in the upcoming Georgia runoffs. It means something, or at least it should, to have two young, bona fide American war heroes and Purple Heart recipients stepping up to campaign despite not being on the ballot.

https://pjmedia.com/election/bryan-preston/2020/12/16/republican-mackenzie-kelly-wins-austin-city-council-runoff-local-paper-declines-to-cover-it-n1215133

In a stunning upset, Republican Mackenzie Kelly defeated Democrat incumbent Jimmy Flannigan in Austin’s District 6 runoff Tuesday. Kelly ran on a platform that includes restoring police department funding and ending the city’s permissive homeless camping ordinance. She won with 52% to Flannigan’s 48%, a margin of just about 700 votes overall.

Kelly’s win, and Republican Jennifer Virden’s near-win in District 10, may signal a major shift in Austin voters’ thinking. The Democrat-dominated city was already up in arms over the homeless camping ordinance, which allows homeless people to camp just about anywhere they want all over the city (except city hall) since the council passed it unanimously in the summer of 2019. That has led to encampments under overpasses and even on the fringes of neighborhoods all over Austin. Those camps are unsanitary and unsafe; one of them recently burned.

Then the pandemic struck, and Mayor Steve Adler took an authoritarian approach that has, among other things, badly damaged the city’s once-vibrant live music scene (and his own credibility). #SaveOurStages became a force in the city because Adler and the city council’s policies are harming one of Austin’s trademarks, destroying many residents’ ability to make a living at all.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/now_is_the_time_for_all_good_men_to_come_to_the_aid_of_their_country.html

‘Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country’

The above sentence was devised by Charles E. Weller as a typing drill.  Originally the last two words were “the party” but typing books long ago changed that to “their country.”  Suddenly it seems a very important call to arms, so to speak.  The United States as founded is certainly under attack; that has been true almost from the beginning.  It began in earnest with the election of Abraham Lincoln and his intent to end slavery.  The racists hated Lincoln easily as much as our left hates Trump and for pretty much all the same reasons.  Clearly it is the left today that values skin color and sexual orientation over any and all other human characteristics.  

That Lincoln prevailed until he didn’t was a miracle.  Trump’s 2016 victory was an unexpected lightning bolt for left that assumed a Clinton victory was in the bag.  

Then there was the Woodrow Wilson administration and his “progressive” (racist) agenda.  His crowd too wanted to diminish the profundity of the Constitution.  In short, there have always been anti-freedom anarchists among our population thanks in part to the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution they want to shred because “it was written by old white men.”   They could not care less about the fact of those men’s brilliance, courage, dedication and loss that went into the writing of that singular document.

• The Democrats stole the election fair and square. Of course I don’t mean that literally; what I mean is that the election was effectively stolen months ago before any ballots were cast when legislatures (and sometimes governors and state courts such Pennsylvania) changed the voting rules to allow expanded mail-in voting, and the cascade of related vulnerabilities that followed. Republican legislatures that went along with these COVID-induced panic changes were foolish if not derelict in their duty. And the Trump campaign was negligent in not fighting against this months ago. President Trump was correct to warn about this outcome. Why wasn’t his campaign better organized to resist this months ago? (I know they did file a few lawsuits, a few of which had some effect, but it wasn’t enough.) I suspect the long-rumored campaign infighting and attention to other things distracted Trump’s senior campaign managers from paying sufficient attention to this.

• Fraud is very easy in our election system. Remember that our elections are run by part-timers, amateurs, and volunteers on the county level in America—and we have over 3,000 counties. In such a diffuse system it is easy to conjure up a few dozen votes here, a few hundred votes there. Or worse. It is at once a glory of self-government in America that we actually conduct our elections in this decentralized way involving tens of thousands of citizen volunteers. It is also astounding that we use such a vulnerable and chaotic system to choose our president.

• So the problem with vote fraud is that a remedy is difficult to apply. There aren’t good remedies. If a race is within a few hundred votes or less, a recount or ballot challenges can work to reverse the outcome, though not often. The plain fact is that once a fraudulent ballot is inside the ballot box and counted, it is very hard to get it back out of the box and un-counted. Fraudulent ballots need to be intercepted before they reach the ballot box. It is likely not possible to disqualify enough ballots to change the outcome in three states, which is what Trump would need. The statistical anomalies of this election are good circumstantial evidence of vote fraud, but exactly which ballots, or which vote totals, do you change, and how?

No court is going to overturn an election result on circumstantial evidence and affidavits of incorrect polling place procedure alone. (I reserve judgment for the time being about the Dominion computer system question.) And the thorough fact-finding necessary for judicial intervention would take time that we haven’t got. This is why both the Constitution and most state election statutes make the legislatures the arbiters of presidential election results.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/wisconsin-supreme-court-rules-state-erred-giving-blanket-exemption-voter

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Monday that state and local election officials erred when they gave blanket permission allowing voters to declare themselves homebound and skip voter ID requirements in the 2020 election, potentially opening the door for Republicans to challenge tens of thousand of ballots.

In a case challenging the practice in Dane County, one of Wisconsin’s large urban center around the city of Madison, the state’s highest court ruled only those voters whose “own age, physical illness or infirmity” makes them homebound could declare themselves “indefinitely confined” and avoid complying with a requirement for photo ID.

The mere existence of a COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown orders was not sufficient under Wisconsin law for all persons to skip the voter ID requirements to seek to vote absentee, the justices ruled.

“We conclude that both the contention that electors qualify as indefinitely confined solely as the result of the COVID19 pandemic and the declared public health emergency and the contention that Wis. Stat. § 6.86(2)(a) could be used for those who ‘have trouble presenting a valid ID’ are erroneous because those reasons do not come within the statutory criteria,” the court ruled.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/15/michigan-lawmakers-issue-subpoenas-detroit-livonia-clerks/3912147001/

Lansing — The Michigan House and Senate oversight committees voted Tuesday to issue subpoenas to clerks in Livonia and Detroit as Republican lawmakers bolstered their push to investigate the Nov. 3 election. 

Under the subpoenas, Detroit Clerk Janice Winfrey and Livonia Clerk Susan Nash will have to produce a trove of documents about how they ran their elections by 5 p.m. Jan. 12.

Detroit has been the focus of the attempt by President Donald Trump’s campaign to discredit Michigan’s election with unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. Livonia, which is also in Wayne County, had similar rates of out-of-balance precincts compared to Detroit.

That means the number of voters tracked in poll books didn’t match the number of ballots cast in precincts. The imbalances are usually due to human errors, voters moving and other administration problems.

“We’re continuing our due diligence to determine if allegations that were made are true or not,” Senate Oversight Chairman Ed McBroom, R-Vulcan, said after the meeting.

“We’ve heard a lot of explanation for how poll books get out of balance,” he added. “This level is something that we want to check into.”