Monday, November 30, 2020

What Is That Stuff Piling Up? Is That Evidence?

Like that tree in the forest question, is it evidence if nobody sees it? Well, it’s piling up, whatever it is.

We are beyond knowing that election fraud happened. It did. It happened in huge numbers, in multiple ways, in numbers that far surpass the difference in the outcome. There is so much information coming out to show this that it’s hard for those “fact checkers” to adequately plug the holes in their information dyke.

The only questions left are,

·         Will the facts make it through the courts in time, if that is where the truth must come out?

·         Will judges/justices at the various levels be brave enough to rule based on law rather than politics or fear?

·         Will the American people see the evidence so that they understand clearly what has been taking place and therefore rejoice that we dodged a fatal bullet? Or will they believe the lying media when it once again twists things so that Trump is called the usurper, rather than the actual usurpers? And how will the people respond to this turn of events?

·         Will the perpetrators be held accountable for the treason and other crimes they have committed?

·         Will we be able to cleanse America from the “Deep State” swamp, and thus lay out once again the path to freedom for the rest of the world?

If you’ve been tuned out from news for the holiday weekend, or have had news media that isn’t telling you these things, there are some developments you might want to get up to speed on.

 

Lawsuit in Georgia

Last Wednesday, attorney Sidney Powell filed a case in Georgia. At that point there were some thirty allegations of serious voter fraud in that state. In a Friday interview, recently pardoned Michael Flynn mentioned that there were a couple of amendments to that suit filed on Friday, so there may now be 32. You can read the original filing here.  The filing is 104 pages. The numbered summary list is provided by Petr Svab in an Epoch Times piece. [You can also hear the summary, with commentary, from Joshua Philip on his Crossroads video from Nov. 26.]


Sidney Powell, photo by Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times, found here

Number 1 allegation on the list is this:

The software used by the Dominion machines was accessed by agents of malicious actors, such as China and Iran, “in order to monitor and manipulate elections,” including the 2020 election. The allegation is based on a redacted declaration of a former electronic intelligence analyst under 305th Military Intelligence.

“By using servers and employees connected with rogue actors and hostile foreign influences combined with numerous easily discoverable leaked credentials, Dominion neglectfully allowed foreign adversaries to access data and intentionally provided access to their infrastructure in order to monitor and manipulate elections, including the most recent one in 2020,” the suit says.

In the same interview with General Flynn on Friday, retired Lt. General Thomas McInerney discussed this in more detail. He talked about the flashing red light that went up early morning November 4th, when five swing states almost simultaneously stopped counting and said they’d come back in the morning. Any such pause in counting is practically unprecedented. For multiple states to do it at the same time—and all of them swing states in which President Trump was doing surprisingly well—is extremely suspect. Then, when they came back online hours later, each of these states had a spike in Biden votes. That is, they had a large number of suddenly reported votes, all for Biden and none for Trump or any other candidate.

Each of these states had a spike of a different size. But a close look showed that each of them increased by an identical percentage. McInerney said,

This is a mathematical impossibility that this could have happened, and it means an algorithm was used. And this algorithm was designed to stay within the bounds, and when the assembled numbers were put together, it wouldn’t be obvious that these numbers of votes were inserted. And so, this is a huge, flashing red light.

That’s why there needed to be investigations. Oddly,

We haven’t seen any footprints of the DOJ, of the FBI, nor the CIA on the friendly side. They’ve been on the Deep State side.

That means there needed to be an investigation done by someone not in on what Generals Flynn and McInerney agree is a coup d’état. He does, by the way, say the trail leads all the way up to Pelosi, Schiff, and Schumer, and on up to Biden and Obama. And he’s certain the lower lackeys, who will not want to be tried for treason, will talk.

You’ll recall that Sidney Powell used the phrase “release the Kraken” a couple of weeks ago. General McInerney identified the meaning of that. Kraken is the nickname of the 305th Military Intelligence Battalion. This is the group that carried out the seizure of the server farm in Frankfurt, Germany, through which vote counts were routed.

What was news to me was that the server farm was not a Dominion company site; it was a CIA site. When the moderator, Brannon Howse, heard him say that, he asked him to repeat it, just to be clear:

Howse: But you are saying that was a CIA facility, and that where the server was taken from by these Special Forces was a CIA facility in Germany?

McInerney: That’s correct.

When asked if there were casualties, the general couldn’t verify, but he said the early report he got was that American soldiers were killed in that operation.

You might recall that, a couple of weeks ago, the President replaced the Secretary of Defense with Chris Miller. As Acting Secretary of Defense, Miller called for all Special Operations to report directly to him, rather than their previous reporting channels. The President needs people he can trust, and needs a way to circumvent the traitors. He trusts Miller, and he trusts the 305th.

Back to the lawsuit. Several of the numbered allegations refer to evidence backing up the Hammer and Scorecard/Dominion digital fraud.

Let’s add another type of allegation in the Georgia lawsuit. There’s a researcher, and former Trump campaign member, Matt Braynard, who took on the mail-in ballot discrepancies. He said his purpose was to provide evidence that was accessible, and repeatable, without having to be a tech expert. For him and his team, it was a matter of contacting people who had been sent a mail-in ballot but had not returned one, and asking them a few questions.

He goes through his report in a video (white paper to follow), and also in an interview with Epoch Times reporter Joshua Philip. Here are some of his findings:

·         Between 31,559 and 38,886 absentee ballots were returned by Republican voters, but were not counted.

·         Between 16,938 and 22,771 Republican voters received absentee ballots they didn’t request, indicating unlawful requests, according to Georgia law.

·         20,311 absentee or early voters in Georgia voted even though they had moved out of state, in violation of state law.

Braynard found similar anomalies in other states, and more investigations are underway.

The difference in votes, I believe updated to today according to EveryLegalVote.com, is 14,122.   In other words, each piece of Braynard’s research shows a decisive discrepancy. President Trump won Georgia—before you get into the digital fraud or even the illegal failures to verify ballot signatures.

 

Hearing in Pennsylvania

Last Wednesday the Pennsylvania state legislature held a hearing on the voter fraud in that state. Rudy Giuliani and the President’s legal team brought forth many of the witnesses who had provided affidavits. Some were eyewitnesses of actual fraud taking place in front of them. Some were experts in technical fields, who could show the evidence of count manipulation.

One of the technical reports came from Retired Col. Phil Waldren, a former combat officer with a background in Army information and electronic warfare. He talked about the speed of the machines to count, and the impossibility of some batches. He called them “spike anomalies.” Here’s the exchange about those spikes:

Waldren: At the very beginning of the chart, where there’s a circle that says “On Election Day,” what that indicates is there’s a spike in loaded votes. 337,000-plus-or-minus-some votes that were added in there in one big batch. So that was an anomaly in the reporting. Normally you would expect to see a smooth curve going up, not any big spikes. That’s kind of what Greg was talking about, the anomalies of loading and uploading those votes. So that big spike that occurs there is a prime indicator of fraudulent voting.

Giuliani: And that’s [a total of] 604,000 votes in 90 minutes, is that right?

Waldren: Correct, this is [shows chart] 337,000 votes in that period of time.

Giuliani: And when you look at this entire curve, with all these spikes, can you calculate how much of a vote that accounted for for Biden, and how much for Trump?

Waldren: Close to 600,000. I think our figures were about 570-some-odd-thousand that all those spikes represent over time.

Giuliani: For Biden?

Waldren: Correct.

Giuliani: And how much for Trump?

Waldren: I think it was a little over 3,200.

So, spikes that came in with numbers too high to have been counted in the time period went 99.4% for Biden. Declaring those vote spikes to be fraudulent would mean President Trump was the clear winner in Pennsylvania, even without taking into account all the other voter fraud. Trump won Pennsylvania.

Another impossibility was that there were around 1.8 million mail-in ballots sent out by the state, but around 2.5 million returned. Again, if you remove the impossible ~700,000 votes—because they weren’t mailed out—from Biden votes, Trump wins the state without even considering the other forms of voter fraud that happened there. Trump won Pennsylvania.


Sen. Doug Mastriano organized the Pennsylvania hearing
screenshot from here

The legislator who arranged it, Sen. Doug Mastriano—I believe his purpose was to demonstrate to the world the evidence they are using to declare that the Pennsylvania vote count cannot be certified, and therefore the state legislature must do it’s duty and choose other electors. He, together with other legislators, announced on Friday that they will put forth a resolution to dispute the election results, saying, 

documented irregularities and improprieties associated with mail-in balloting, pre-canvassing, and canvassing have undermined our elector process and as a result we cannot accept certification of the results in statewide races.

Mastriano was in the process of giving a final speech at the end of the near-four-hour hearing when Twitter took down his account—didn’t suspend it, didn’t block a particular post, but removed him from the platform entirely. The hearing is still available on YouTube, however. 

 

Hearing in Arizona

A similar hearing before the Arizona legislature took place today. It was around ten hours long. I haven’t heard it all yet. When I tuned in, they were almost through with testimony, so I heard the summaries.

One of the issues I hadn’t heard about was an allegation that ballots had been flown into the state—illegal votes, of course. This detail isn’t proven yet, but they’re asking for a federal investigation.

In his summary, Rudy Giuliani said that he hadn’t realized how bad things were in Arizona until he heard the testimony today. Presumably, he had read the affidavits. But there were additional details today, brought out by questioning the witnesses. There were also the mathematical proofs that have been shown in other states.

In her summary, Jenna Ellis quoted Article 2, Section 1, of the Constitution, where the state legislators are tasked with appointing electors for their state. And she defined for them “reasonable doubt,” which is the standard they should apply to the evidence of voter fraud. Has the testimony today given them reason to doubt the supposed outcome of the election? Another final word, from a legislator, said that numbers don’t lie, and he doesn’t know how anybody could certify this election.

If the courts had done their duty and allowed the evidence to be presented, these state legislature hearings would not be necessary. Unfortunately, the courts have several things that allow them to skirt their responsibility. One is the doctrine of standing, which wasn’t even a thing until less than a century ago; it is that someone has to show they have been harmed before they can file suit.

So, if you can see that the way the state is doing mail-in ballots is wrong, you can’t sue until your vote has been disenfranchised by their actions. If you’re a candidate and you see the damage coming, you can’t file until you’ve received damage.

But then, if you file suit after the act, you’re told you should have filed before it was a done deal. It’s the Laches rule. If a plaintiff seeks a form of relief that it is too late to receive, it’s too late. (There’s a good discussion of this catch-22 on the Viva and Barnes discussion Sunday night.)

But if you file suit before, during, and after the action, you’re thrown out for filing too many suits.

The AZ Chairman, who led the hearing, Mark Finchem, said they had seen the tsunami coming; they had prepared their legal briefs. Still, they were unable to make headway without the President’s legal team and what they’re doing.

When you hear the lawsuits are being thrown out, it’s not because they lack evidence; the courts have yet to hear the evidence. They’re using technicalities that put the plaintiffs in a no-win situation. However, each dismissal puts the suits into appellate courts, and eventually to the Supreme Court. And that needs to be done quickly. One good moment last week was the 11th Circuit ordering the court in Georgia to be quick about it.

We can only hope that, once the evidence is actually shown on final appeal, in the Supreme Court, the justices will rule justly.

So the hearings for now are allowing the evidence to be brought before the public—unfiltered by the media. And they put those state legislators in the position where they are encouraged to act according to their constitutional duty. They can’t certify a clearly fraudulent election. In PA and AZ, at least, it looks like the legislatures are ready to act on the evidence brought before them—which is much less than what was available in the court cases, and is far more than enough to clarify who really won the election.

 

It’s War

Remember when Obama said he was about to fundamentally transform America? Did you ask what he meant? From what to what? Because it now looks like he was being honest (if not actually forthright); he intended to do away with our constitutional republic and replace it with Marxist socialism. If Hillary had been elected in 2016, that would be a fait accompli. But they didn’t give up. They've been attempting to override that election since it happened. We're just seeing the continuation.

Several speakers in hearings mentioned that, yes, this is about President Trump’s presidency, but it’s about more than that. It’s about saving this country as a Constitutional Republic. We can’t sit back and “be nice,” and let this egregious injustice stand. We don’t have our country anymore, if we shrug off such things.

Chairman Mark Finchem of the Arizona Legislature organized the hearing
screenshot from here

Chairman Finchem ended the Arizona hearing by saying,

I hope that, out of this—besides calling for a special session, which I am doing right now—I hope even more than a special session, we see a series of grand juries convened. There is so much criminal behavior that has gone on in this state, and in states around the country, I believe that it is time for our attorney general and the US attorney to start perp walking some people.

I am glad that you are fired up, but, ladies and gentlemen, this is a skirmish. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Because when Satan wants to extinguish a light, he will stop at nothing. So be on your guard. Put on the full armor of God. And be prepared to fight.

There’s no call to take up arms. There’s certainly no call to take to the streets with torches and pitchforks. It’s the other side that does that.

But we cannot succumb to the insidious call to “unite,” “come together,” and “all just get along” with people who are at war with us and our country. What we need to do is to speak the truth, stand up to the hate and persecution, and use the Constitution, which is on our side.

An American Thinker piece by J. Robert Smith describes what we’re going through as a war.

This war is much more than disputes over fraudulent elections, though that would be cause enough. The Democratic Party is a means. The new war has been imagined, developed, and phased in over decades by the left. It’s unconventional, asymmetric, and cunning. It’s insidious, and has been about stealth and infiltration more so than outright confrontation—until this year, when state shutdowns have been imposed to test the limits of tyranny… to gauge the level of tolerance of unconstitutional centralized rule over a free people. Targeted violence has been employed in cities to engender angst, a sense of helplessness, and, consequently, to demoralize us.    

The left’s warfare—underwritten by coastal plutocrats, chiefly—is comprehensive.  The target now are our politics.  The aim is to capture our national and state governments.  Dominating the means of government nearly ensures its ends, which have nothing to do with our freedoms.  Capturing governments is an endpoint—the crowning achievement in the left’s long march.

What would follow leftist consolidation of power in the United States is the hoped-for realization of the leftist-globalist dream of a “Great Reset,” whereby the United States is subsumed in some oligarchic-Marxist transnational utopia.  As the history of the last 100 years teaches us abundantly, the left’s quests for utopia resolve in hells.  The body count reaches into the millions, thanks to leftist slaughter. 

But he ends on this hopeful note:

Consider this: Perhaps the Good Lord, in His infinite wisdom, is allowing the threat of tyranny to arise on these shores precisely because we’ve been chosen to vanquish it.

I think that may be what we’re witnessing—if we rise to the moment.

 

Sources

I’ve been listing sources lately, beyond links within the text. There’s so much information, and I can’t cover it all. So her are things linked above as well as additional resources.

·         Complaint—C. J. Pearson v. Kemp,” Georgia lawsuit, pdf. 

·         Sidney Powell Suit Makes 30 Allegations in Bid to Invalidate Georgia Election Results” by Petr Svab for The Epoch Times, Nov. 26 (updated Nov. 27), 2020. 

·         Live Q&A: 30 Allegations of Election Fraud In Sidney Powell LawsuitCrossroads with Joshua Philipp, Nov. 27, 2020. 

·         Sidney Powell Releases the 'Kraken' in Georgia with Explosive New Lawsuit” by Victoria Taft for PJ Media, Nov. 26, 2020. 

·         Lt. General Michael Flynn's First Interview Since President Trump's Pardon” Brannon Howse for WVW-TV, Nov. 28, 2020. 

·         Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney Exposes ‘Scorecard,’ the Democrats’ Voter Fraud Superweapon” by Scott Boyd for NOQ Report, Nov. 2, 2020.

·         Voter Integrity Project: Findings and Conclusions” Matt Braynard, Nov. 24, 2020. 

·         Matt Braynard: Evidence of Vote Fraud Enough to Easily Flip StatesCrossroads with Joshua Philipp, Nov. 26, 2020. 

·         Pennsylvania State Legislature Holds Public Hearing on 2020 Election” Right Side Broadcasting Network, streamed live Nov. 25, 2020. 

·         Pennsylvania Senator: ‘Mounting Evidence’ Shows Election Was Compromised” by Zachary Stieber for The Epoch Times, Nov. 28, 2020. 

·         Trump Lawyers and Members of Arizona State Legislature Hold Hearing on Election IntegrityThe Epoch Times, streamed live Nov. 30, 2020. 

·         Gary Miliefsky: How Voting Machines Are Easily HackedCrossroads with Joshua Philipp, Nov. 5, 2020. 

·         This is War” by J. Robert Smith for American Thinker, Nov. 24, 2020. 

·         WHISTLEBLOWERS: Biden Implicated in Dominion Voting Scam Connected to Serbia” by Auto on Unshackled Minds, Nov. 24, 2020.

·         Trevor Loudon: China Tied to Election Push; the Global Socialist AgendaCrossroads with Joshua Philipp, Nov. 27, 2020. 

·         I Voted Twice?” Steven Crowder, Louder with Crowder, Nov. 30, 2020. 

·         Jenna Ellis on how the Pennsylvania House and Senate will introduce resolutions to take back their right to appoint presidential electorsNewsmax, on Facebook, Nov. 27, 2020. 

·         Zuckerberg-Funded Group Comes Into Spotlight in Election-Related Court Cases” by Zachary Stieber for The Epoch Times, Nov. 28, 2020. 

·         Justice Is Coming: Carter Page Takes Comey, McCabe, Strzok to Court in $75M Obamagate Lawsuit” by Tyler O’Neil for PJ Media, Nov. 27, 2020. 

·         Ep. 36 Election Lawsuits, from PA to MI; Powell Lawsuit; SCOTUS Injunction; Flynn Pardon AND MORE!” Viva Frei law vlog, Nov. 29, 2020. 

·         Appeals Court Grants Expedited Review Over Lin Wood’s Election Lawsuit in Georgia” by Mimi Nguyen Ly for The Epoch Times, Nov. 26 (updated 27), 2020. 

 

 

Friday, November 27, 2020

Give Thanks

A week ago the President of our Church, Russell M. Nelson, spoke to the world briefly, around noon our time. He had a message of hope for us during this time of trial. And he had a suggestion for us, to use our social media as our gratitude journal for a week. Each day, for seven days, post something we are grateful for. And use the hashtag #GiveThanks, so we could see it happening.

So I did that. It was more posting than I usually do in a week, but it felt good and caused good interactions with friends. And I saw a huge amount of things to be thankful for on friends’ posts.

One friend noted that, what is hard is deciding what to mention. You can’t narrow it down. It’s like naming your favorite book, or movie, or song. Too many, in too many categories. But it is a healthful exercise, to recount at least some of the things we can give thanks for. Maybe it's something we should keep up, whether online or off, for the foreseeable future.

I’m a day late with this post—I took an actual holiday yesterday—but I thought I’d share my #GiveThanks posts, just to add some positivity here.

 

Friday, November 20

I thank Thee, O God, for this prophet. #GiveThanks


Screenshot, link is to this video


Saturday, November 21

I am thankful for these four practically perfect and always interesting grandkids. #GiveThanks



Sunday, November 22

I am grateful for music. Lilly had me count once the instruments in our music room, but there are more. At some level I play the piano, organ, mountain dulcimer, guitar, ukulele, soprano recorder, alto recorder, penny whistle, and kalimba. While my voice shows serious effects of allergies and age, when I sing I feel God's joy. The photo is me playing dulcimer with friends at a folklife festival in 2015. A week ago some of us played together, distanced, at a park. It felt good to play together once again. #GiveThanks



Monday, November 23

There's this family I made together with [Mr. Spherical Model]. Every one is smart, funny, talented, and goodand we love being around each other. Weren't we cute 25 years ago? The other photos are 4 years ago. We need to update again sometime soon; we're missing a grandchild in that one, so she's in that fourth one from this September. Just have to say, even being stuck at home together is not too much of each other. We've thrived with the together time with each other, and just miss more time with the kids and the littles. #GiveThanks







Tuesday, November 24

I am thankful for our home, which we had built for us when we moved to TX in 1998. It has been a refuge from the world. It was our school for ten years. It's not grand, but it's the nicest home I've ever lived in. I guess I don't take enough photos of just our house; I couldn't find one today. But here are some from inside rooms that I worked on. #GiveThanks






 

Wednesday, November 25

I'm thankful for books. Never too many. These images aren't mine; I've just collected them. (I collect books too, of course.) #GiveThanks [Note the images in this section are things I’ve collected from Facebook, Pinterest, and other places that I’m not currently able to track down. I do not intend to take credit for anyone else’s work, nor fail to credit them.]










Thursday, November 26

I'm thankful for food. There's a lot of food I don't get to eat, but what I eat is delicious to me. Strawberries are my favorite. And sometimes there are other goodies I enjoy making for other people, just to see them enjoy them. #GiveThanks






Monday, November 23, 2020

Believe It or Not

When you don’t yet know the truth—or don’t yet know the future—what should you believe? I’ve tried to be mainly realistic, in my life. If I’m prepared for something close to accurate, I’m better off than when something horrible hits me unawares. Pollyanna isn’t really my role model.

That’s what I thought about myself. But I’m beginning to change that assessment. I think I’m actually more open to believe in a positive outcome than I realized. I may be more open to the positive than the average person, or maybe even than most people. (My 5-traits assessment puts me as more open than 96% of the population, actually.)


image from here

Pascal’s Wager Applied to the Election

There’s what is referred to as Pascal’s Wager, concerning belief in God. In short, if you believe in God without proof and you’re wrong, you haven’t lost much, and you might be living a better life than you would have otherwise. But if you’re right, you’ve gained heaven. If you choose not to believe in God without proof and you’re wrong, you lose heaven; if you’re right, you go ahead with a meaningless life, so no gain there.

Wikipedia provides this table


Pascal's Wager summary table from Wikipedia

I’m looking at our country’s current circumstances. Mostly I’m looking at the, hopefully temporary, separation between me and a number of Constitution-loving patriots I have enjoyed following and listening to. But right now I’m tuning them out. By choice.

They are on the side of, “Well, sure there was probably some fraud, but there’s not going to be enough proof to overcome the outcome, so we might as well gear up for a Biden presidency.”

I think the people in this category are more concerned about fear of being wrong, or duped, than they are about truth. (I have a theory that fear of being duped blocks a lot of people from belief in God, and the subsequent experiences with God that follow those who believe. That’s a topic for another day.)

I could be wrong about how things are going to turn out in the next couple of months. But what do I have to lose by continuing to believe what I do? (I laid out what I think is happening here, here, here, here, and here.)

If I’m wrong but I keep holding on until all legal challenges are complete, electoral votes are cast, and a new administration is sworn in, I have been hopeful and cheerful through the holiday season before having to face inevitable misery.

If I’m wrong, but I have been honest in presenting what I know and what I believe, does that ruin my reputation? I don’t think so. Being less than honest to protect a reputation doesn’t seem logical; that would put me out of integrity.

If I’m right, I’m on track to understand what’s happening, at least a bit better, when/if the corruption in our government is taken out. If I’m right and keep holding on, I witness a great miracle—the saving of our constitutional republic.

It seems to me, if I’m right, I’m on God’s side in the great war against evil. If I’m wrong, I’m still on God’s side in that great war, just sadly at the losing end of a key battle.

 

Occam’s Razor Applied to the Election

Occam's Razor illustration found here
There’s another traditional belief that I think backs me up in my current stance on the election. Occam’s razor. It’s a problem-solving tool, which essentially says, “The simplest explanation is usually the right one.”

We could do this exercise (and many have) concerning belief in God as an explanation of why we are here, on a planet that supports life, and that complex life exists, with us humans being the ultimate example. Is it more plausible to believe that we have a divine Creator than that all such things happened by chance?

But, related to the election question today, the simplest explanation is that Joe Biden did not win a majority of legal votes.

There’s a lot you’d have to take on faith, without a decent explanation, to believe that he won.

 

The Campaign

First, there’s Biden’s lack of draw as a candidate.

·         He was a deeply flawed candidate all the previous times he ran and failed—including the plagiarism that took him out the first time—and he did nothing in his years in the Senate or as VP to overcome or compensate for those flaws.

·         He was more deeply flawed this time:

o   He has difficulty putting together a coherent sentence, leading many to assume he is in cognitive decline, based on age or some other physical/mental malady. Many voters assume he could not last long as president and would need to be replaced by his VP, who was deeply disliked during the primaries, not even staying in the race until Iowa.

o   His years as VP tie him to policies the US has soundly rejected, because of their detriment to the economy and to our international standing, and because of their divisiveness among us.

o   He is tied to corruption in Ukraine and China that, barring the media outright lying for him, would have made him both unelectable and imprisoned. Would people have changed their vote from Biden if the news media hadn’t blocked the story? Likely yes.

o   Rumors and evidence from just creepiness to outright sexual assault continue to dog him.

o   Lies that he has told resurface repeatedly, such as his lie about the truck driver being drunk when his wife and child were killed in a car crash (not true, but he gratuitously maligns that man, who was neither drunk nor at fault in the accident), or the lie about when he met his current wife (in reality, she was married, and her affair with Biden broke up the marriage).

·         He practically didn’t campaign. He rarely left his room at home and spoke words prepared for him on teleprompter, badly.

o   There was no excitement for him as a candidate. The few rallies he held were sparsely attended, without fanfare, or even people standing in excitement.

o   It’s hard to find a Biden voter who voted for Biden, rather than against President Trump. Interviews with Biden voters, before and after, show an inability to articulate a pro-Biden reason for their vote.

o   He frequently showed a lack of knowledge about where he was or what was going on in a given appearance.

o   The few media appearances were carefully controlled, giving him no challenging or voter-enlightening questions. This tactic may have been designed to avoid showing obvious flaws, but it also prevented voters from connecting with him or his message, whatever that may have been.

Meanwhile, President Trump drew tremendous, excited crowds of people. His love of America was reflected in the crowds. His record of successes in his first term converted many who didn’t support him in his first campaign (including me). His record on economics, foreign relations, and the judiciary were exemplary. Could his handling of the pandemic have been better? Maybe. But Biden’s only difference would have been more lockdowns and more mask wearing.

So you would have to believe that campaigns don’t matter.

 

The Down Ballot

There’s the down ballot. You’d have to believe that a complete sweep of contested House races, plus extras (an increase of 12 seats at this writing) meant voters went more Republican but less Trump than in 2016.

And you’d have to believe that it makes perfect sense for Biden to have earned 36% more votes than either Obama or Hillary Clinton in already highly Democrat areas. There was also evidence that blacks and Hispanics moved toward Trump in record numbers, so where did those historic numbers for Biden come from?

 

The Fraud

You’d have to believe there was no fraud even though:

·         Observers were prevented from observing the count.

·         Potentially thousands of dead people voted.

·         Thousands of ineligible voters voted.

·         In multiple states where there are questions about the counts, changes in voter rules were put in place to get more mail-in ballots while handling them less securely.

·         Mail-in ballots, which don’t have a chain of custody, which are usually rejected at a rate of 2-4% were about 25 times less likely to be rejected this year, despite their much greater prevalence.

·         Several states, and counties within states, refused to check ballot signatures on mail-in ballots.

·         Multiple swing states where Trump was leading almost simultaneously paused vote counting for hours, and when they came back online, leads shifted dramatically—mathematically impossibly—to Biden, in all of them.

·         Batches of ballots were counted multiple times, according to eyewitnesses.

·         After it was announced that all votes had arrived for counting, trucks arrived with boxes of additional ballots in the middle of the night.

·         In multiple counties in swing states, more votes were counted than there were registered voters.

·         On-screen live news broadcasts showed vote counts for Trump going down from one update to another.

·          One county found that vote switching had happened and performed a hand recount, giving back 6,000 votes to Trump that had been wrongly given to Biden. It was called a software “glitch.”

·         Some vote totals include partial votes, counts with decimals, indicating that some votes were allotted more or less than 1 vote per vote.

Rudy Giuliani has said all along that, just dealing with known voter fraud and changing of laws without legislatures is enough to change the outcome of the election.


Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis of the President's legal team
screenshot from Nov. 19, 2020, press conference

Attorney Lin Wood has a lawsuit in Georgia, where he resides and has standing, that he believes will throw out the election there. Mail-in ballots did not require proof of ID, as in-person voters were required to provide; that is a constitutional issue. And laws were changed there without the legislature, which is also unconstitutional. He also says that any in-person voter in Georgia can file a similar suit.

Attorney Sidney Powell was not fired from the Trump legal team; she was separate all along (see near the beginning of this Crossroads episode).  The team distanced itself from her, creating a larger separation between the “traditional” voter fraud issues and the technical issues related to Dominion, Scytl, and whatever other companies come up in those issues. Some people say it’s because they don’t think she can provide the proof she has said she has. I don’t have any inside information, but I think the fact that the servers were actually seized in Frankfurt, Germany, says it’s more likely that she has it than that she doesn’t.

 

My Conclusions

I find believing that voter fraud will be proven and that Donald Trump will remain as President for a second term is both logical and better on the psyche than believing otherwise.

There are people who believe there was voter fraud, maybe even in significant amounts, as I do, but they still don’t believe Donald Trump will remain as President. It’s because they have seen so much corruption go unpunished for so long, they can’t muster what it takes to get over the cynicism. I understand that. These people are not our enemies. They are just making a different belief choice than I am at this time while the future is unknown. The only way to resolve differences in belief about the near future is to wait and see how things play out.

But, in the meantime, I’m tuning them out. I don’t have energy to expend on a possible near-term future that includes evil winning out over good.

In this week’s reading for Church, we read these verses, aimed at our day, from Ether chapter 8:

24 Wherefore, the Lord commandeth you, when ye shall see these things come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation, because of this secret combination [collusion and corruption] which shall be among you….

25 For it cometh to pass that whoso buildeth it up seeketh to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries; and it bringeth to pass the destruction of all people, for it is built up by the devil, who is the father of all lies….

This warning from centuries ago certainly appears to be aimed at our time. But, if we were not going to have a chance to root it out, why warn us?

My theory is that this election was evidence that people chose good instead of evil—and evil, in a last-ditch effort to keep their plans from being thwarted, pulled out all the stops to place their puppet in the seat of power over us. I think the win for Donald Trump was so decisive that they had to take desperate measures that were bound to be discovered.

There are people with more elaborate theories. I’ve been exposed to them. I don’t yet know what to think about them. Some seem far-fetched. And yet, look at the corruption we know about already. Practically anything seems in the realm of possibility this year. So I’ll link a few of those for you at the bottom. Maybe with your sense of discernment, you’ll find what is true and what is not.

As we watch what plays out, during our upcoming holiday season, I continue to trust that, whatever happens, God is in heaven and is aware of our plight. I have prayed that the truth will be known. That every incidence of voter fraud will become visible. And, further, that all the secret combinations—all the corruption, in government, in media, in large corporations—will be revealed and rooted out, that we may return to the freedom, prosperity, and civilization this blessed nation was set up to provide as a refuge to the world.


Some Sources I Believed

·         John Zmirak Shares His Personal Knowledge of the ‘Authenticity’ Of Sidney Powell's Investigation,” Erik Metaxas Show, Nov. 20, 2020. 

·         I Know Sidney Powell. She Is Telling the Truth” by John Zmirak for The Stream, Nov 19, 2020. 

·         Follow the Money: Attorney Lin Wood Explains His Lawsuit Against Georgia’s Secretary of State” by Julie Carr for The Tennessee Star, Nov. 17, 2020.  

·         Lin Wood Outlines Case for Rampant Voter Fraud, GA Vote Corruption; GA Election will Be NullifiedJohn Fredericks Show, Nov. 16, 2020. 

·         Gohmert Talks to Charlie Kirk about Voter Fraud IssuesGohmertTX01 channel, Nov. 16, 2020. 

·         Live Q&A: Sidney Powell Removed; Trump Legal Team Prepares EvidenceCrossroads with Joshua Philipp, Nov. 22, 2020. 

 

The Possible Rabbit Holes

Some of the, um, more sensational resources I’ve encountered, that, if true, will one day make a great movie:

·         Scott McKay: Military 2020 Election Sting Leading to Trump 2nd Term LandslideForbidden Knowledge TV

·         Post Election Update #4: US Military 2020 Election Sting Operation Leading 2 Trump 2nd Term Landslide” Scott McKay for Tipping Point Radio, Nov. 19, 2020. 

·         Sidney Powell’s ‘Kraken’ Is DOD Cyber Warfare Program! We Are at War!” by Dianne Marshall, The Marshall Report, Nov. 22, 2020.  

·         Army Releases The Kraken To Protect Foreign Fire Bases; ‘I’d Like To See The Taliban Try To Attack This Place’” by David Axe for Breaking Defense, April 29, 2013. 

·         Huge Breaking News!!!! Federal Circuit Courts Have Been Reassigned Today” Jeremy Herrell, Hip Hop Patriot Here We Go Facebook Live, Nov. 21, 2020  

·         Breaking! Live From America! Trump Team WINS 3 times today!” Jeremy Herrell, Hip Hop Patriot Here We Go Facebook Live, Nov. 23, 2020.