Author: Robert

Trump’s lawsuits are good for American democracy

This past weekend I’ve asked two questions to my friends who are afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome:

  • You do realize that Biden has not yet become the President-elect, right?
  • In the Year 2000, Al Gore rightfully pursued his legal options and things weren’t decided until mid-December.  How come Donald Trump doesn’t have the same right to do so?

In many cases I received stunned silence to both of these questions.  In a few cases I was met with absolute hostility.  But the smarter ones answered ‘Yes’ to the first question and conceded the second.

Others are arguing the same point more vociferously:

For centuries, we have asked people who are unhappy with their fellow citizens or government agencies and institutions to bring their claims to court, where laws of evidence and ethical rules govern the proceedings. President Trump has not broken with these traditions; he has honored them. As long as his claims are not entirely frivolous from a factual or legal perspective, he may direct his lawyers to present and zealously advocate his claims in court.

So far, it seems the courts are doing their job. When the president went to federal court to claim that Pennsylvania should stop counting ballots as long as Republican observers were excluded, the judge asked the president’s lawyer “as a member of the bar of this court” whether any Republicans were present as ballots were counted. The lawyer responded, “There is a non-zero number of people in the room.” Lawyers, unlike politicians, are not allowed to lie, and so Trump’s lawyer was constrained, if only grudgingly, to acknowledge that Republicans had not been entirely excluded. The judge denied the petition but asked the parties to work out an agreement about how many people could observe the count and how close they ought to be.

Personal Thoughts

This past month I went on vacation and drove across America: 2 weeks actual holiday time and then one week working remotely in each of Northern Florida and Metro Houston, Texas. I visited 21 states, spoke personally to dozens of people every day, and got an on-the-ground appreciation for how Americans were coping with Covid-19 and also a strong sense for how things were politically in each area I visited.  I wanted to take a moment to share some thoughts on what I learned.

  • The Trump-Pence signs outnumbered the Biden-Harris signs by at least 10 to 1.
  • In several places there were individual vehicles or caravans of vehicles adorned with Trump 2020 flags.  Never once was there such cheering for Biden.
  • This election is not about Trump vs. Biden.  It’s Trump vs. Not Trump.  If the Democrats were running a coat rack as their presidential candidate, it would make no difference.
  • From what I saw, I simply don’t believe the polls.  Florida and Texas are up for grabs by the Democrats?  I don’t believe it.
  • The challenges for Trump this election are enormous.  Not only is he battling the Democrats, the Woke Left, and their Antifa street thugs, but it seems clear that the Deep State police & spy agencies of America have turned against him and the democratic will of the American people.  It will be fascinating to see if he can defeat these monstrous (and illegal) forces.

Who knows what will transpire today and in the coming weeks but here are some predictions depending on the outcome:

  1. If Biden wins with a small or large margin, there will be no violence.
  2. If Trump wins with a large majority, there will be violence in the “usual places” but ultimately there will be acceptance by the vast majority of Americans.
  3. If Trump wins with a narrow margin, the blue cities of the U.S. will go up in flames.

If Biden is declared President, here are some predictions about 2021:

  • The Department of Defense will surreptitiously be turned into the Department of Offense and one or more wars will be concocted by the Democrats/Media/Deep State.
  • The Woke Left will get an injection of power and money unlike we’ve never seen before.
  • Free Speech, already tamped down to a great degree, will almost disappear.
  • An institutionalized racial divide will occur stronger than ever before.
  • Covid-19 will be used to quarantine and forcibly unemploy many millions of people, making them dependent on the state.
  • China will be officially welcomed again and U.S. manufacturers and energy producers deliberately harmed.
  • Biden will last no more than 12 months as President before he is forced to resign.

Just putting this out there for debate & discussion.  Stay safe, everyone!

A Massive Earthquake in the World of Journalism

Glenn Greenwald resigns from The Intercept, which he co-founded:

Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept, the news outlet I co-founded in 2013 with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, as well as from its parent company First Look Media.

The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression.

The censored article, based on recently revealed emails and witness testimony, raised critical questions about Biden’s conduct. Not content to simply prevent publication of this article at the media outlet I co-founded, these Intercept editors also demanded that I refrain from exercising a separate contractual right to publish this article with any other publication.

Update: Tucker Carlson interview

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