“Political Realignment, Class Warfare and Regressive Costs” Sydney Williams

http://www.swtotd.blogspot.com

The single biggest change in politics in my lifetime has been the reorientation of the political parties. Historically, Democrats represented the working classes, while Republicans had the backing of the monied classes on Wall Street and the occupiers of office suites in big businesses. Labor versus capital was a simplified definition.

Things have changed. Roles have been reversed. My State of Connecticut is a proxy for wealthy blue states. It is the 5th wealthiest in terms of income and was solidly Republican when I was growing up. This year, it voted 59% for Joe Biden. The three towns in which I have lived for the past fifty years, Greenwich, Old Lyme and Essex – all in the top 12% of Connecticut’s wealthiest towns – voted between 61% and 63% for Joe Biden. November’s vote was not a one-time event. All five House members are Democrats. Connecticut’s two U.S. Senators are ranked eight (Richard Blumenthal) and sixteen (Chris Murphy) in terms of most progressive. The last Republican to serve in the House of Representatives was Chris Shays who lost re-election in 2008. The last Republican U.S. Senator from Connecticut was Lowell Weicker, who lost re-election in 1988. This Democratic Party is not your grandfather’s Party. It has become the Party of the establishment. The only two counties in Connecticut to vote for Donald Trump were Windham and Litchfield, the two most rural counties. In both counties, his margin of victory was four percentage points. Sixty years ago, Connecticut was as solidly Republican as it is solidly Democratic today.

Why has this happened? The shift took place during the 1960s and 1970s, during a period when I became registered as a Democrat. For me, in my late 20s, it was a combination of civil rights and Vietnam, and a feeling that whatever my parents were for I should be against. By the mid 1970s, when markets and the economy turned down, I realized my parents may have been smarter than I had thought – that to succeed financially, intellectually, personally and emotionally, one had to be aspirant, have a positive outlook, be self-reliant and willing to work hard.

Why Does Corporate Media Amplify John Brennan’s Never ending Lies?By Ben Weingarten

https://mailchi.mp/5c72f39888b2/tune-in-ill-be-speaking-on-american-ingrate-tuesday-night-2517929?e=a0fa704ef6

The only inadvertent benefit of Brennan’s airtime is that it exposes how unmoored our ruling class is from the public it is supposed to serve.

Former Obama administration Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan lies. He doesn’t just lie in the sense of speaking hyperbolically, spinning events, or painting in shades of gray out of purported fealty to national security considerations. Brennan tells outright falsehoods, in venues from television studios to Congress, on matters of utmost importance.

One must ask: Why does corporate media continue to give someone who has proved to be a uniquely deceptive character, whose most noteworthy activity since leaving government has been spewing invective against the president on Twitter, valuable airtime?

Brennan Lies About Russiagate

In his latest public display of dishonesty, Brennan took to “Fox News Sunday” to repeat untruths regarding the Obama administration’s actions regarding then-president-elect Donald Trump and Russia. According to Brennan, “There was no spying on Donald Trump’s campaign.” There was. Of the Steele dossier, Brennan said it “was not used in any way to undergird the judgments that came out of the intelligence community assessment about the Russian actions in the 2016 election.” It was.

America Surrenders to China By Brandon Weichert

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/12/09/america_surrenders_to_china_144805.html

The United States is mired in a succession crisis. There is much loose talk about another civil war erupting between supporters of President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump. As this occurs, America’s enemies act boldly against U.S. interests. Each precious moment wasted on deciding which septuagenarian won the White House in November is another moment that the Chinese Communist Party continues its long march to global dominance. 

China’s dominance will not come at first in the form of military conquest. Beijing is very much a 21st century power, and its program for displacing the United States will look far different from what the Soviet Union tried during the Cold War. Chinese dominance will be brought on by superior trade, industrial, and technological development practices. 

Beijing recently signed a revolutionary free trade alliance with several Asian powers—including Australia—meant to increase China’s influence over the Indo-Pacific and diminish Washington’s hard-won influence there. China announced it had achieved quantum supremacy—a lodestar for whichever country or company seeks to pioneer quantum computing. Many technologists, like Scott Amyx, have previously argued that quantum computing could be as disruptive to the world economy as the cotton gin or automobile were. Whoever dominates this new industry will write humanity’s future. 

And then there’s the new space race between the United States and China. Private launch companies, including SpaceX, have revolutionized America’s overall space sector. But the lack of political vision or leadership means that real gains for America in space will be slowly realized, if ever. President Trump was the only American leader in decades who seemed to understand the promises and challenges of space. Yet, the rest of the government never fully embraced Trump’s robust space program. Now, it may be too late. 

MORE HEADLINES DECEMBER 9, 2020

Number of Congress Members Planning to Challenge Election Results Expected to Grow Trio working to convince senators to join them
https://www.theepochtimes.com/number-of-congress-members-planning-to-challenge-election-results-expected-to-grow_3610050.html

Every Allegation in Trump Georgia Election Contest Supported by Testimony: Attorney

https://www.theepochtimes.com/every-allegation-in-trump-georgia-election-contest-supported-by-testimony-attorney_3610757.html

As Trump Fights Election Fraud, Most Republicans in Congress Remain Quiet 
https://www.theepochtimes.com/as-trump-fights-election-fraud-most-republicans-in-congress-remain-quiet_3609866.html 
The EMERGENCY APPEAL: Sidney Powell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwkVKNEs0uk&feature=emb_title

Sidney Powell to Newsmax TV: Our Case Was Prejudged https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/sidney-powell-kraken-lawsuit-scotus/2020/12/07/id/1000459/

Trump Attorney Jenna Ellis: Supreme Court Only Denied Emergency Injunctive Relief – The Pennsylvania Case Is STILL Pending Before SCOTUS https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/trump-attorney-jenna-ellis-supreme-court-denied-emergency-injunctive-relief-pennsylvania-case-still-pending-scotus/

Law Enforcement Seize Devices as Part of Probe Into Voter Data Theft https://epochtimes.today/law-enforcement-seize-devices-as-part-of-probe-into-voter-data-theft/

WATCH: Biden butchers name AND title in introducing his nominee https://www.wnd.com/2020/12/watch-biden-butchers-name-title-introducing-nominee/

Biden gaffes, stumbles and fitness for office under fire in new Trump campaign video https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-gaffes-trump-video
Rep. Swalwell Called Trump a Russian Spy, His Fundraiser was a Chinese Spy https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/12/rep-swalwell-called-trump-russian-spy-his-daniel-greenfield/
All Teachers in This One City Must Attend ‘White Privilege’ Training https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/12/07/teachers-in-this-city-were-forced-to-attend-white-privilege-training-n2581126?

Maryland University Requires Profs to Add ‘Inclusive Classroom’ Oath to Syllabi https://www.faithwire.com/2020/12/08/maryland-university-requires-profs-to-add-inclusive-classroom-oath-to-syllabi/

The Texas lawsuit in the Supreme Court is huge By Andrea Widburg

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

On Tuesday, the State of Texas filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The suit alleged that, because these states conducted elections that violated their own laws, they tainted the integrity of the vote, something that damaged not only their own citizens but also the citizens in other states. Because this is an intelligent, powerful case, it’s no surprise that eight other states have already joined the litigation.

To date, we’ve seen a multiplicity of lawsuits filed although, significantly, none has come before the Supreme Court for substantive review. Courts in various states, however, have proven resistant to these suits.

As I noted here, partisan judges are issuing what I will politely call “garbage” decisions. Judges are refusing to consider the evidence, with only one Nevada court attempting to do so. Instead, they make variations of the argument that, if courts were to consider Trump’s claims, they would run the risk of “disenfranchising” Biden voters.

That is a singularly dishonest argument. Disenfranchisement occurs when people are deprived of the right to vote. No one was deprived here. What Trump is doing, with his request that every legal vote count, is asking that courts invalidate illegal votes. You cannot disenfranchise an illegal voter, whether that “voter” is dead, a computer algorithm, or a form filled out in a Chinese print shop.

Do you know what happens when you invalidate fraudulent votes and count only legal votes? You identify the winner and loser in an election, as has happened in America since 1792. Those who voted for the losing candidate were not disenfranchised; they just voted for the losing candidate.

The Texas lawsuit argues that the four defendant states changed their mail-in voting rules without going through the constitutional, legislative process. By doing so, they assured illegal mail-in votes, meaning all votes under the new “rules” were illegal from the get-go. These invalid votes override the will of those who legitimately cast votes, tainting the national election.

Who Will Be the Fraud Deniers? By Jay Valentine

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/who_will_be_the_fraud_deniers.html

“These are just anomalies.  They happen in every election.” 

Well folks, anomalies cease to be anomalies when they all go in one direction.  When every outlier favors Biden, we enter the realm of prima facie fraud.

Fraud. It’s an ugly word. It does not have a pretty synonym.  Too bad.

Election fraud at the industrial scale perpetrated in the 2020 election is a crime most Americans will remember all their lives.  Books and movies will come out.  Retired math PhDs exiled to the basement by their spouses will continue to find statistical patterns that simply do not happen in straight data sets.

Like all great crimes, the 2020 election fraud will have a diffusion curve with early believers and early deniers, later adopters and fewer deniers and finally, only the ideologically blind will deny.

Diffusion curves happen in nature, in technology, in disease spread, in the understanding of any popular idea.  In early stages only the really committed dig in.  Over time, a realization makes its way into popular culture and eventually most have generally seen the data.  We are departing the early adopter stage of 2020 election fraud understanding.

The all-in media is double timing to convince the later adopters there is nothing to see here. 

It isn’t working.  Too much stuff is coming out from too many places and there are just too many alternative web sites publishing fraud examples on such a scale it cannot be denied by any but the willful.

Kevin McCarthy Drops a Savage Troll on Democrats By Nick Arama

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/12/09/291426-n291426

One of the good things about the 2020 election is that there was a ‘Red Wave’ in the House with 27 toss-up seats and even some “lean Democrat” seats all going to the Republicans.

Republicans cleaned Democrats’ clock in the House in a big way, gaining at least 12 seats with a couple of races still to be decided.

Indeed, that’s one of the reasons it’s so hard to accept the claim that President Donald Trump didn’t win when not only was there that wave but he had 95% approval, record primary votes, gained 11 million more votes in the general election than 2016 and greater minority vote shares than in 2016 as well.

So here’s a picture of all the Democrats who lost the seats they had in the House.

EXPERT: The Odds of Biden Overcoming Trump’s Lead in the Four Swing States Was ‘Less Than One in a Quadrillion’ By Matt Margolis

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/12/08/expert-the-odds-of-biden-overcoming-trumps-lead-in-the-four-swing-states-is-less-than-one-in-a-quadrillion-n1198438

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Tuesday evening highlighted an incredible statistic that is included in State of Texas v. Pennsylvania, et. al.

“Expert analysis using a commonly accepted statistical test further raises serious questions as to the integrity of this election,” the lawsuit reads. “The probability of former Vice President Biden winning the popular vote in the four Defendant States—Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—independently given President Trump’s early lead in those States as of 3 a.m. on November 4, 2020, is less than one in a quadrillion, or 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000.”

“The odds of Joe Biden winning all four of those states collectively is less than one in a quadrillion to the fourth power,” it continues.

The lawsuit asks the Supreme Court to block the “unlawful election results” in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

The analysis comes from Dr. Charles J. Cicchetti, Ph.D, a member of Pacific Economics Group, a senior advisor to Pacific Economics Group Research, and a professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. Though Justin Grimmer, a professor at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, says his claim “is based on an embarrassing and basic error in statistical reasoning.”

Palestinian Incitement Against Israeli Journalists by Bassam Tawil

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16832/palestinian-journalists-incitement

The Palestinian journalists’ group is angry not only because two Israeli reporters visited Ramallah. It is upset because the reporters dared to reveal an inconvenient truth: that Palestinians are enjoying themselves and that, despite the outbreak of the coronavirus, the economy in Ramallah is doing well.

This truth goes against the Palestinian leadership’s official and long-standing propaganda line: that the Palestinians are “suffering” as a result of the bad economy and therefore the world needs to continue providing them with hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

The only journalists the Palestinian leadership tolerates are those who do not question its policies and decisions and who do not ask embarrassing questions.

Will the International Federation of Journalists [the largest in the world; it represents more than 600,000 media workers from 187 organizations in 146 countries] condemn the Palestinians for threatening Israeli journalists on a regular basis? … International organizations rarely see any evil on the Palestinian side. The only culprit, for them, is Israel. The silence of the IFJ and other international media organizations and human rights groups is nothing short of a green light to Palestinians to physically attack the next Israeli reporter they see on the streets of Bethlehem or Ramallah.

At a time when Arab journalists from the Gulf are visiting Israel and saying that they are looking forward to working with their Israeli colleagues, Palestinians are continuing to incite hatred against the Israeli media and threaten Israeli journalists.

While the Arabs in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are working toward normalizing their relations with Israel, the Palestinians are continuing to threaten anyone who wants to make peace with Israelis.

Turkey: Islamist Justice at Its Best by Burak Bekdil

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16833/turkey-islamist-justice

It has been 7½ years after Elvan was killed in what appears to be a direct shot in the face. The Turkish state is still trying to make sure that not a single officer will be punished for the tragic death of a 15-year-old boy.

Worse, there is no sign of accountability within the Turkish public administration system.

The dramatic, undeniable scene was captured by a photographer, Abdurrahman Gök who later posted the photos. Gök is now facing trial for potential links with terror groups and could get up to 20 years in prison.

What about the officer who shot Kurkut?… a serious crimes court in Diyarbakır acquitted the defendant, a police officer, known only by his initials, Y.S.

Justice, apparently, is too scarce a commodity for Turkish extremists who are often busy protecting Palestinian terrorists and accusing civilized nations of modern barbarism. The Australian story could be an example of modern barbarism…. but it has a fair ending. The Turkish stories of medieval barbarism in the 21st century do not.

Barely a week after he pledged judicial and democratic reforms, Turkey’s strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, typically rediscovered his Islamist self. He reminded the world, once again, how corrupt and hypocritical his understanding of universal justice is.

“We observe that the [Israeli] state terror against Palestinians goes on,” Erdoğan said in a speech in which he complained of injustice. “Arms up, Palestinian children are being murdered.”

A few days earlier, Erdoğan’s spokesman, Ibrahim Kalın, described the killing by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) of dozens of Afghan civilians as “modern barbarism.” The findings of a four-year inquiry by ADF indeed confirm Kalın’s description as barbarism: Junior soldiers were told to get their first kill by shooting prisoners, in a practice known as “blooding”; weapons and other items were planted near Afghan bodies to cover up crimes; and an additional two incidents could constitute a war crime of “cruel treatment.”