Thursday, August 20, 2020

Postal Projection

Whatever they’re accusing you of, they’re doing. That’s a political axiom for our times. Whatever the Democrats, socialists, and media (but of course I’m being redundant)—whatever that side is accusing the Republicans, conservatives, Trump, or pro-liberty side of, it is because they are guilty of that thing.

There’s a term for it:

Projection, the mental process by which people attribute to others what is in their own minds.

It causes ironic situations, if you’re at a vantage where you can see clearly.

There are so many examples, several from the Democrat convention this week—not the least of which was having, ironically, Bill Clinton lecture our sitting president on respect for the Oval Office. For those of you not old enough to listen to news in the 90s, this is undisputed: As president, Bill Clinton had sex (depending on what “is is,” the sex was supposedly only oral sex, which 90s teens got defined for them as a result) with a 21-year-old White House intern. Yet this hasn’t even been brought up by the “me too” hashtag team. He may have dallied elsewhere, but in the Oval Office, possibly beneath the historic resolute desk (or possibly in an attached bathroom; who knows the details) was one location. And yet we are supposed to believe words coming out of his mouth about how President Trump is dishonoring the office—not because of any such despicable acts, but because they don’t like either his tweets or his policy disagreements with them.

Another is the tone-deafness of having Elizabeth Warren speak as a representative of Native Americans, after she lied multiple times to gain favoritism given to minorities based on their skin color-related ethnicity—when she is, we now all know from her DNA test—less Native American than most Americans and with less melanin than all but the palest whites. Yet we should listen to her about racism?

There are myriad ironic examples of projection. But today let’s just focus on one: election interference.

We are supposed to believe the projecting side, the ones who spent years and millions of dollars prosecuting our president for colluding with Russia when they knew for a fact that he had not done so because they had personally manufactured the evidence—they’re the ones now telling us he’s manipulating the US Postal Service to undermine the election.

Postal worker handling mail-in ballots
screenshot from here

Again, if they’re saying it, it’s because they’re doing it.

The new narrative is that, because of the coronavirus, it is unsafe to leave your home long enough to vote—in a location where all workers have masks, everything is sterilized, hand sanitizer is prevalent, and everything is done as safely as possible, and it was proven it could be done in multiple primary and run-off elections since the pandemic started.

And yet it’s safe to go to a grocery store. Or to certain workplaces. Just not a voting place. Even though that is denying the science that says voting is safe—as safe as going to a grocery store, according to Dr. Fauci, as he said in an interview with National Geographic.  

Ironically, protesting, like this, at the Postmaster General’s home in a misguided attempt to increase mail-in ballots, is being done by people too afraid to go stand in a socially distanced line at a polling place:

Protesters gather outside of the USPS Postmaster General's home
screenshot from here

Regardless of spending increases between now and November, there is no amount of money that could make the postal service suddenly efficient enough to meet legal timing requirements—not for the usual absentee ballot by mail, which it can handle, but the onslaught caused by mass mail-in voting—let alone guarantee the safety and security of the vote.

To be very clear, neither President Trump, nor the Republicans, nor conservatives, nor anyone who truly loves America and freedom—no one is doing anything with the postal service except trying to do the next step in a very long list of steps to drag it from the depths of insolvency. Nevertheless, in response to concerns, the Postmaster General has announced that ongoing changes will be postponed until after the November election to make it so there is no appearance of interference.

However, the pro-tyranny side, which has brought you all the other lies, is indeed attempting to undermine the election by using the US Postal Service.

Glenn Beck dedicated his Wednesday night program to this issue: "The Enemy Within: The Democrats’ Plan to Rig Election 2020." It’s behind a pay wall. But he also mentions it on radio, and has a clip here

Glenn Beck always says, do your own homework. I’ve been doing homework on the voter fraud issue for close to a decade now. But I’m adding more, and sharing enough to get you started.

Barack Obama spread the lie about removing mailboxes to tamper with the election, on a David Plouffe podcast a few days ago (audio here):

What we’ve seen in a way that is unique to modern political history is a president who is explicit in trying to discourage people from voting…. What we’ve never seen before is a president say, “I’m going to try to actively kneecap the postal service to [dis]courage voting and I will be explicit about the reason I’m doing it…. That’s sort of unheard of.

But moving mailboxes is not “unheard of.” Retiring and removing mailboxes is done routinely. Some 12,000 were move or retired during the Obama administration. It depends on where they can get the most use, to offer the most convenience to the most customers. 

So, if there isn’t—and never was—a Trump conspiracy to use the USPS to interfere with mail-in voting, why is there a story saying there is?

The simple answer is to stir up hatred and distrust of President Trump. But there’s certainly more to this.

Mail-in voting is one of the most unreliable ways of voting. If someone wanted to either cause massive voter fraud, or at the very least undermine the public trust in the outcome of a vote, encouraging massive mail-in voting is an ideal way. And we have evidence from recent trial runs:

·         Nevada Sent More Than 200K Mail-In Primary Ballots to Wrong Addresses: One-sixth of Clark County mail-in ballots were sent to outdated or undeliverable addresses/The Washington Free Beacon, August 6, 2020 

o   “The Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election integrity group, reviewed the 1.3 million mail-in ballots Nevada's Clark County sent during the June primary. It found that more than 223,000 of the ballots were sent to outdated addresses, leading the postal service to designate them as ‘undeliverable.’ The undeliverable ballots accounted for 17 percent of all ballots mailed to registered voters. Nearly 75 percent of Nevada's total population resides in the county, which includes Las Vegas.”

·         6,400 Michigan Absentee Ballots Rejected for Late Arrival/The Detroit News, August 8, 2020 

o   “More than 6,400 of Michigan's 10,600 absentee ballots rejected Aug. 4 were turned away because they arrived after Election Day, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's office said Friday.

    “Another 2,225 ballots were discarded because there was no signature on the envelope; 1,111 were rejected because the voter moved; and 846 were not accepted because the voter was dead, according to data from Benson's office.”

·         846 Ballots Rejected in Michigan “Because the Voter Was Dead”/Daily Political Newswire, August 16, 2020 

o   “On August 4th more than 6,400 of the 10,600 absentee ballots in Michigan were rejected because they arrived late, according to a report from The Detroit News.

“Then there were another 2,225 ballots that were not accepted because the envelope was not signed. There were 1,111 that were rejected because the voter moved and then here's the big one: 846 were not accepted because the voter was dead, according to data from Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's office.”

Not that this is sudden and new. It has long been known that mail-in is the most insecure way of voting.

·         Error and Fraud at Issue as Absentee Voting Rises/National Election Defense Coalition, October 20, 2012

o   “Nationwide, the use of absentee ballots and other forms of voting by mail has more than tripled since 1980 and now accounts for almost 20 percent of all votes.

“Yet votes cast by mail are less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth, statistics show. Election officials reject almost 2 percent of ballots cast by mail, double the rate for in-person voting.

 “’The more people you force to vote by mail,’ Mr. Sancho said, ‘the more invalid ballots you will generate.’”

·         USPS Improperly Enabled Workers Who Helped Clinton Campaign/CNN, July 19, 2017 

o   “A government investigation concluded that the United States Postal Service "improperly coordinated" with a postal workers union that supported Hillary Clinton's campaign.

“The investigation, as documented in a report from the Office of Special Counsel, said the USPS granted employees union leave time off, at the request of the union, to do political activity—which OSC concluded was a "systematic violation" of a law regarding the political activity of federal employees. 

“The report said the practice was longstanding, perhaps ranging as far back as the 1990s….

“According to the report, the union would provide a list of USPS employees to USPS, asking they be put on unpaid leave to participate in the political effort. Then the USPS management would disperse the lists, which were viewed lower down as "directives," to give the letter carriers time off, including telling local supervisors to do so over concerns it would affect postal operations. The union would pay the employees out of its own political fund during their time off.

“Kopp said he and others had to work overtime to keep operations going while others were off on political work.”

To those who say there’s no evidence that voter fraud exists, or that mail-in fraud is even a thing, the evidence actually says otherwise. The Heritage Foundation keeps a database on voter fraud. They have an interactive map. So I clicked on my state, Texas, which went on for six pages. Here’s one page:

Screenshot from The Heritage Foundation

I wrote about an investigation that was turned up by a friend of mine recently, which led to the resignation of Democrat County Clerk Diane Trautman, who was implicated in hiring convicted forgers to do voter harvesting.

Note that it took a year and a half after the election before a FOIA request would be granted. So we can do the digging and show there was plenty of fraud in the past, and hopefully prosecute the offenders, but we don’t have evidence of the fraud soon enough to correct a bad election when it happens.

It happened in this story from 2018, two years after the 2016 election: “Voter Fraud Ring Caught Rigging Elections for Democrats in Texas: Four women arrested over fraudulent votes for Democratic candidates in 2016 primaries”  .

When Al Franken was “elected” to the US Senate, after he had lost the vote, during a recount suddenly new votes were “found” that went in his favor.

It happened some years ago in Washington State, when, long after the election, some election worker “found” boxes accidentally left in a garage that needed to be counted and which, coincidentally, changed the outcome—again in favor of the Democrat.

Is it just coincidence that Democrats keep claiming that efforts to prevent voter fraud are “voter suppression,” and then the vast majority of voter fraud cases are committed by Democrats?

Since it is known that voter fraud happens, and is more likely to happen when there are absentee ballots, why are voters from all over the country being pushed to do mail-in? Simple answer: to make the vote uncountable.

If Trump loses, it will be because the efforts of those I consider America's enemies—their efforts at committing fraud to control the outcome have succeeded. And those of us who know this will not sit still for a “transformation” that is intent on overthrowing our Constitution and taking away our freedoms. We’re the peaceful ones, but I don’t see how we could sit still for four years in hopes there’s a shred of a chance for a free and fair election to bring back our beloved nation. Not after what we’ve seen the last few years.

But if Trump wins, it will have to be because all their efforts to commit fraud failed—so they will riot in the streets claiming Trump did all the things we know they are doing.

This looks to me like an attempt to start a civil war. Or at least to cause enough unrest that it makes the 80+ days of rioting in Portland look like a sandbox squabble.

The most secure vote is in person. If you cannot vote in person—because you’re out of the country, or you’re quarantined in a nursing home, or you’re serving in the military—then by all means request your absentee ballot. That is why we have the option, and while it isn’t as secure as an in-person vote, when you request it yourself, and you fill it out yourself, at least you know that part is legitimate.

Mass mailing to everyone on the voter rolls means every single error gets a ballot—to be handled by whoever is now living at that location, or by whoever nabs it in transit to or from the voter. Every invalid ballot disenfranchises a legitimate vote.

Who was it trying to suppress your vote, again? Oh yeah. The Democrats. Projecting what they’re actually doing onto the rest of us.

This year especially—use your hand sanitizer, put on your mask, whatever you have to do, but by all means vote in person.

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