Still Sharing My Search for Truth

On Tuesday I posted a piece on the election, and I later shared it on Facebook, where a number of friends go to find it easily. I don’t have an overtly political Facebook page. In fact, almost the only political-type pieces I post there are my blog links. I usually say something that hints of what the post is about, but I don’t put the most controversial things there. That link is for those who choose to go read my blog, not to offend the friends who do not.

My husband was not allowed to create a post
with a link to my last blog post.

So, on Tuesday I wrote, “As much as the loud voice keeps shouting, 'Resistance is futile,' I'm going to ignore that and keep doing what I'm still free to do.” And the title of the post was “Be Not Dismayed.” There is nothing there about the election. But the first photo in the piece comes up to illustrate the link, and the photo was of Sidney Powell, giving an interview that I reference in the piece.

I know several friends were able to find the piece and share it. But my husband was not allowed to share it. Facebook said no. So he got the link from my blog to make his own post; Facebook didn’t allow him to post it. They suggestion he explain why he thought my blog post didn't violate their community standards. They did not inform me of any violation. Nor did they mention what standards I was supposedly in violation of. That friend who advises that we shouldn't worry, because our lives are too boring for anyone to check up on or censor, apparently I'm nevertheless a person of interest.

Thursday in the Houston Chronicle we found yet another reason not to subscribe. (We’re down to online only, for the non-news portions of the paper, mainly.) It’s an Associated Press story, purportedly not an opinion piece, titled, “Senate hearing elevates baseless claims of election fraud.” Well. First, the writers and editors are apparently unclear on the concept of news vs. opinion, because the bias is right there in the title. In paragraph two the Democrats are portrayed as heroically pushing back “against the unfounded allegations and a former federal cybersecurity official who oversaw election security said continued attempts to undermine confidence in the process were corrosive to democracy.”

As an editor, I might point out that if Democrats “push back against unfounded allegations” and the writers don’t put a comma before going on, they give us a confusing run-on sentence leading us to believe that those Democrats pushed back against both allegations and the former federal cybersecurity official. But people write quickly these days; I wouldn’t want someone carefully editing my posts (although I try to). However, these “news” reporters don’t name the official. They say “former,” but they don’t say whether he oversaw election security “formerly” or this year. They don’t give us any actual reason to believe that this person knows anything about this particular election, only that he agrees with the “no election fraud” narrative they’re pushing on us. I'm sure Facebook wouldn't find them in violation of their standards.

In a video from last weekend, Patrick Byrne applauds NTD News, an associate of The Epoch Times, who is holding the microphone, and says,

You know, the mainstream media has had this snooty attitude for years, like, “We’re not sure you’re good enough to join us.” Well, they have so disgraced themselves by how they have handled— what they have revealed themselves to be, over recent years, but in particular in regard to this national emergency, that, from now on it ought to be the outside the mainstream, from folks like you to the alternative press. But this is where truth is to be found. And I think it’s time that we start saying to them, they have so humiliated themselves, there’s no point. It’s like a narcissistic relationship; the only way to solve it is to withdraw. And I am withdrawing. I am hereby letting— I don’t care about going on Fox, CNN, any of these things I’ve done before. I want to do the media that is honest and credible but is not with those corporate guys who are bending a knee to what is an obvious slow coup.

I’m still finding a crazy amount of news, just about every day. But it isn’t coming from mainstream sources. Since the “media” continues to see no election fraud, and finds fault only with the majority of the population who want to keep our Constitution, let’s do a bit more educating, right here on this personal opinion blog that may bring you more facts in a day than any one of those MSM propagandists.

 

Bombshells

As I write, I keep getting hit with more big news. Here are two, only tangentially related to the election, that I’ve become aware of just since late last night.

 

Lin Woods Tweet

Yesterday, attorney Lin Woods sent out a series of tweets about Chief Justice Roberts. Key is this one, saying,

In discussing @realDonaldTrump in phone conversation in 8/19, Justice John Roberts stated that he would make sure “the mother f#*ker would never be re-elected.” Roberts engaged in phone conversations with Justice Stephen Breyer discussing how to work to get Trump voted out.

Tweet image found here

According to Joshua Philipp, during his Thursday night livestream, Woods also tweeted that he has documentation placed in the hands of several third parties. The documentation is alleged to be a recorded phone conversation. Philipp points out that Woods is a defamation lawyer; he knows better than to make defamatory statements about people that he can't back up.

 

Strzok Texts

Also news is that another text of Peter Strzok was declassified, dated July 28, 2016. It mentions an open investigation into Trump. Important here is that Operation Crossfire Hurricane was opened July 31, 2016, and Strzok testified under oath that there was no investigation prior to that July 31^st date. This doesn’t say an investigation was opened July 28^th; it says there was an open investigation at that time, before a FISA warrant to spy on a US citizen. We don’t know when that investigation was opened. This was not worded as an investigation into the Trump campaign, but into Trump himself. It shows both that Strzok is guilty of perjury and that the FBI was corrupt.

 

Election-Related Stories

Peter Navarro Report

On Tuesday I referenced a documentary by Joshua Philipp of The Epoch Times. That’s an excellent source for a good list of the various incidences of fraud and the stories behind what happened. If you prefer to see a list in print, there’s a good one out today, offered by the President’s economic advisor Peter Navarro, in an unofficial capacity. His report is called The Immaculate Deception, dated December 15, 2020. You can read the entire pdf here. 

Where did Navarro get all the information that the media seems to think doesn’t exist?

Evidence used to conduct this assessment includes more than 50 lawsuits and judicial rulings, thousands of affidavits and declarations, testimony in a variety of state venues, published analyses by think tanks and legal centers, videos and photos, public comments, and extensive press coverage.

He categorizes the types of fraud into six general categories, and he identifies those in each state. 

Table 2 from the Navarro report, page 6

As Navarro summarizes, not everything happened in every state, and each state seems to have their own combination of the various types of fraud. So, while the particular type of outcome-changing fraud is different from state to state, the overall pattern of all six states is enough to imply coordination:

From the findings of this report, it is possible to infer what may well have been a coordinated strategy to effectively stack the election deck against the Trump-Pence ticket. Indeed, the patterns of election irregularities observed in this report are so consistent across the six battleground states that they suggest a coordinated strategy to, if not steal the election, then to strategically game the election process in such a way as to unfairly tilt the playing field in favor of the Biden-Harris ticket.

 

Director of National Intelligence Report

The President’s Executive Order of 2018 regarding foreign interference in US elections requires a report within 45 days of an election. That date is today. It was announced earlier this week that the report would not be ready on time. “Coordination” was needed. I don’t think we know what that means. But Director John Ratcliffe put out an earlier statement verifying that there was, indeed, foreign interference by China, Russia, and Iran. The Executive Order requires immediate sanctions on any nation or entity found to be interfering. I believe that means sanctions against those countries are now in place and do not wait for the public report.

The report itself was delayed until January. I don’t know how far into January, or how that will affect the Electoral College count on January 6^th. But so far Director Ratcliffe seems to be serious about making sure the intel gets heard and seen.

 

Dueling Electors

We mentioned Tuesday that the swing states all sent alternate electors—plus New Mexico. These may play a role on January 6, if an original slate of electors from a given state is protested. That is not unprecedented, but the widespread fraud in so many states is pretty wild.

Is there a plan underway? I hope so. I think so. People are starting to refer to “insurrection” and “martial law,” and I’m not ready to talk about either one. But I have some links below that try to explain.

I'm not the first to make this connection.
There's even a meme template for it.

 

General Corruption

Of the corruption in Washington, ties to communism, and tentacles everywhere, you might say,

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

 

Patrick Byrne Video

A video was sent to me this week of entrepreneur and Overstock.com founder Patrick Byrne speaking bluntly about collusion within the government.  The most explosive accusation is that the government knew Hillary Clinton had taken a $20 million bribe from Turkey in late 2015; they knew it but needed more proof. So they asked Byrne to help them with a sting operation, which he did, and she took another $18 million bribe. Then the FBI backed off and refused to act on it. Byrne was told it was because she was going to win the 2016 election and serve out her 8 years, but Obama would keep the bribe proof as leverage to keep her in line. It didn’t work out that way, since she lost. Byrne has been waiting 5 years to talk about it.

Patrick Byrne in interview with JM Brown
screenshot from here

The interview wasn’t the first time he has told the story. I heard parts of it more than a year ago, but not the key parts. Byrne laid out the full story in a very long blog post on October 6, 2020, ending a series titled Deep Capture. (It’s summarized in this October 21 piece.)  

As I tried to track down where the interview video originated, I learned that The Epoch Times had both a different interview with him, which I quoted above, plus an article. In that other Epoch Times interview last weekend, Byrne says this election is what China refers to as the “assassin’s mace,” quoting here in part:

It’s a reference to an old story in China. Two kingdoms were in a fight. But, instead of a war, the king of one got an assassin, just in the right place at the right time, with one stroke kills the other king. Then he’s able to take over the country, the kingdom, without needing—you don’t need a war. For a decade the Chinese have been referring to a coming “assassin’s mace” that takes out the US with one stroke….

It’s what we’re experiencing right now. This is a psy-op. And the hand of China, I believe, is behind it. But this isn’t just some random— This is a highly organized coup. They realized they did not have to steal the whole country to steal the country; they needed to steal six counties. And in those six counties they cheated like crazy. And that flips the states, the Electoral College. So it’s very sophisticated….

So, if we bend the knee to this, there will never again be a free election in America.

 

How do you find out all these things that are being hidden by mainstream sources? I suggest The Epoch Times—and all of their YouTube channels, which are also on their website and their new platform YouMaker.com; also OAN, Newsmax, plus various bloggers, vloggers, and others you might share among friends. You can’t let corporate news to decide what you should be allowed to know. Above all, pray to have the spirit of discernment.

 

Sources to Check Out for Yourselves

·         “Live Q&A: Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Working to Oust Trump?” Crossroads with Joshua Philipp, Dec. 17, 2020. 

·         “Rep Says SCOTUS Staffer Overheard Roberts “Yelling” About TX Case “I Don’t Give a F**k About Bush v Gore…” by Missy Crane for WayneDupree.com, Dec. 17, 2020. 

·         Kyle Becker tweets on why SCOTUS did not take up the Texas case, including C-SPAN video, Dec. 17, 2020. 

·         “BREAKING: More Strzok Texts Revealed” Official ACLJ, Dec. 18, 2020.   

·         “DNI Report on Foreign Interference in Election Expected Next Month” by Bowen Xiao for The Epoch Times, Dec. 17, 2020. 

·         “ODNI Says Report on Foreign Threats During 2020 Election Delayed” by Mimi Nguyen Ly for The Epoch Times, Dec. 16 (updated Dec. 17), 2020. 

·         “Navarro: Six Dimensions of Irregularities” by Miguel Moreno for The Epoch Times, Dec. 18, 2020. 

·         “‘The Emperor, In the Election, Has No Clothes,’ Navarro Says in Report” Tom Ozimek for The Epoch Times, Dec. 17, 2020. 

·         “Lin Wood: At Least 1,000 Americans Involved; Military Crime Judge Is the New Deputy AG” Beyond the Noise with David Zhang, Dec. 16, 2020. 

·         “Explosive Interview with Patrick Byrne” posted by JM Brown on Facebook, Dec. 15, 2020.   

·         “The Hillary Clinton Bribery-&-Blackmail & Maria Butina Intoxicate-Rape-&-Murder Deep State Stings Finale” by Patrick Byrne in Deep Capture, October 6, 2020.  

·         “2020 Election Fraud Is CCP ‘Assassin’s Mace’: Patrick Byrne” by Simon Veazey and Jan Jekielek for The Epoch Times, Dec. 16 (updated Dec. 18), 2020. 

·         “Patrick Byrne: The Story Behind the Clinton Bribe” by Sharon Black for UndercoverDC, Oct. 21, 2020. 

·         “Interview of Patrick Byrne, concerned citizen” NTD News, Dec. 13, 2020. 

·         “Rep. Anthony Kern: Dual Electors Could Lead to Victory” Crossroads with Joshua Philipp, Dec. 17, 2020. 

·         “FBI, Texas Rangers, and US Marshals united in action; Lin Wood: Georgia officials to be jailed?” Front Page with Scott Goulet, Dec. 17, 2020. 

·         “#2350B Impossible To Clean, Military Support Ending, [C]los[I]ng [A]ct” PINKAudioX removed from YouTube, available on Rumble (All source links to the report can be found on the x22report.com site.)

·         “Historical Moment for Trump! Will Trump Declare Martial Law?” Clear Perspective with Serene Lee, Dec. 16, 2020. 

·         “Trump's Martial Law: A New Hope For America; Barr's Special Mission From Trump To Expose The DOJ” Beyond the Noise with David Zhang, Dec. 15, 2020. 

·         “BREAKING: Georgia Absentee Ballot Cases in Federal Court Today” Official ACLJ, Dec. 17, 2020. 

·         “Endgame” Damani Bryant Felder, recorded live on Facebook around Dec. 17, 2020. 

·         “The FTC is investigating data collection at YouTube, Facebook, and seven other companies" by Makena Kelly for The Verge, Dec. 14, 2020. 

·         “The Plot to Steal America” Man in America, Dec. 3, 2020. 

·         Patriot Room Facebook group post by Laurie Fisher, Dec. 16, 2020. 

Days That Live in Infamy

This is the 79^th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which led to our entrance into World War II. It was an attack on our nation, on American soil. We still remember it, mark the day, and honor those who died there and who fought thereafter. There was a good movie last year about that attack and the months that followed, called Midway. It’s not the only movie about this event. And who knows what stories will recount the event in the future. I heard that this was the first year that survivors did not attend a memorial service in the nation’s capital. There are still a few survivors alive today, but because of the pandemic, or whatever reason, they did not travel to the event. Still, the the attack on Pearl Harbor remains clear in our collective memory. It woke us up to the threat to our freedom from those who would overthrow our country, our Constitution, and impose tyranny upon us. With God’s help, they did not win.

Images of Pearl Harbor and World Trade Center attacks are from memes found on Facebook.
Photo of mail-in ballot counting is by Rachel Wisniewski/Reuters, found here

Another day that lives in infamy is September 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center with airplanes, and also the Pentagon, and a fourth attempt taken down by heroic passengers before it could attack somewhere in the nation's capital. We responded with war beyond our shores, in the countries that supported the attackers, carrying that on until this year. This attack on American soil also woke us up to the threat to our freedom from those who would overthrow our country, our Constitution, and impose tyranny upon us. While that threat is not gone, in the past few years it has been decimated.

I think we have another day that will live in infamy—if our nation survives it: November 3, 2020. This attack on American soil ought to wake us up to the threat to our freedom from those who would overthrow our country, our Constitution, and replace it with tyranny. We don’t yet know the outcome. But I think we know what happened.

It’s hard to catalog all the cases. The Epoch Times has done a good job of distilling the various types of fraud in the various places into an infographic. (Joshua Philipp also goes through the information on this infographic on an episode of Crossroads.)

The Epoch Times Infographic on Election Fraud

Another large detail this week was the hearing in Georgia in which security footage showed that, after the observers and media were cleared out, several workers pulled out ballots from under tables and spent a couple more hours counting them, unobserved. The video corroborated testimony contained in multiple affidavits.

The complicit media followed up by saying the accusations were debunked; nothing to see here. Erick Erickson,  who was a reliable conservative until he became a never-Trumper, parroted those talking points. I guess people believe what they want to believe. Buck Sexton pointed out the various debunking claims, which don’t line up and can’t simultaneously be true.

Earlier today Mollie Hemingway put out an excellent piece going through the debunking—and destroying it. Pretty much the only thing they were able to “debunk” was that what were referred to as “suitcases” containing votes, because they had handles and wheels, as we could see on the video, were actually “containers” used to carry votes. OK. We still don’t know why they were pulled out from under tablecloth-covered tables only after all the watchers and media left the area. You can’t throw out the whole story because you prefer a different word be used for what we saw on a video. Please read the rest of her very thorough piece.

Another possibly major detail this week is that, over the weekend Trump’s legal team was allowed to do a full forensic audit of the Dominion machines in Antrim County, Michigan. They were given eight hours on Sunday of access to the machines. And they expect to be able to report their findings about 48 hours after that. So we’re looking at hearing something by Wednesday. The machines are supposedly set up so that they do not leave a trace—logs are erased after changes are made. But the digital forensic technicians seem to believe they can still find evidence of the inserted votes, switched votes, and deleted votes. If the evidence is found in the Michigan machines, that opens up the need for such a forensic audit of all such machines—at least in the contested states, and possibly others as well.

One other thing to be aware of is timing. We’ve been looking at December 14^th as something of a deadline, with the week before as a “safe harbor” date, meaning it gives Electors enough time to be prepared for the December 14^th Electoral College voting. Sidney Powell said this: 

We have at least until Dec. 14. We might file more suits. The court in Michigan or Wisconsin today just gave us a great order recognizing that. These are not pure election contests we are filing. These are massive fraud suits that can set aside the results of the election due to this fraud at any time. The states should not be certifying election results in the face of it.

Sidney Powell tweet, found here

But Electors can only vote if their state has resolved voting disputes. If they cannot, then, if they act in time, state legislatures can send their own slate of Electors. If they simply fail to certify Electors—meaning the vote in that state is still in question—and no one receives 270 valid electoral votes, then in early January, the House votes, one vote per state, as prescribed by the Constitution for such a time as this. It may be that even that is not the last date. If the forensics show without a doubt that the election was stolen, remedy must be made; a fraudulent actor cannot be installed as our President.

It’s a tough road. It requires resolve on the part of many people—including Supreme Court justices, who would rather not be put in the arbiter position.

But the alternative is dire.

In a Verdict podcast this weekend, Senator Ted Cruz was talking about what is likely to happen, not just related to the presidential election, but the Georgia senatorial races. He said, 

Here’s what I believe will happen with a Biden/Schumer/Pelosi government. I think they’ll end the filibuster, which means there is no ability of the minority to stop the most radical policy proposals they put forward. I think they will pass a massive tax increase—not just repealing the Trump tax cut, but massively increasing taxes. I think they will pass all or major components of the Green New Deal, which will be absolutely crushing to small businesses and jobs. I think they will grant amnesty to every single illegal alien in America and try to make them voters as quickly as possible….

And I think they will add two new states to the union. They will add the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, because they believe they’ll elect four Democratic senators immediately. Which means we could start January with 50 Democratic senators and end the year with 54.

And this is all about power. This is about locking in their power. And I believe, if we lose these two Georgia seats, I believe that the Democrats will pack the US Supreme Court. They’ll put on four radical judicial activists.

Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College was interviewed by Patrick Bet-David on Valuetainment, and shared his concern about the possible permanent changes: 

Patrick Bet-David (left) and Larry Arnn, screenshot from here

Patrick Bet-David: Is there the possibility of what Reagan said, many years ago, that we’re one generation away from losing our freedom? Is that really something that applies to where we are today, where we can really dramatically change the face of America in one election?

Larry Arnn: Yeah. I’ve been thinking that’s coming for a long time. I think it’s here. You know, these things that we’ve been talking about, they will change the structure of the nation and make it very difficult for ordinary people to have any influence on that.

And here’s something. You know, the intensity of the political debate is like the 1850s. Violence in the streets. Completely divergent views about the Declaration of Independence, it’s meaning, and the Constitution. But now there’s something new. And that is, all of the establishment, all of the people who are in the best and most privileged places—they’re all in agreement with each other. And it’s just breathtaking to watch how uniform and predictable are the things that are said in the media and the things that are said in the academy.

I may have used this scripture, but I’ve been thinking of it since it came up in our scripture study reading recently: Ether 8:23-24. An ancient civilization is ending. We are being told their story by the man who abridged their story while his civilization is ending nearly a millennia later, speaking to those of us in our day who will read these words. He’s warning of the “secret combinations,” the corrupt collusion, that has led to the demise of both of these civilizations. I highlighted the phrases that especially strike me today:

23 Wherefore, O ye Gentiles, it is wisdom in God that these things should be shown unto you, that thereby ye may repent of your sins, and suffer not that these murderous combinations shall get above you, which are built up to get power and gain—and the work, yea, even the work of destruction come upon you, yea, even the sword of the justice of the Eternal God shall fall upon you, to your overthrow and destruction if ye shall suffer these things to be.

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 which shall be among you; or wo be unto it, because of the blood of them who have been slain; for they cry from the dust for vengeance upon it, and also upon those who built it up.

I know that I have been awake to some of it—the injustices, the wrongness of things—for a good part of my adult life. I know I have felt the urgency of this message through more than the past decade. I have been sharing what I believe is true. Is it enough? I don’t know.

So, the question is not whether there was voter fraud; there was. The question is not whether there was enough voter fraud in enough places to change the outcome from Biden to Trump; there was. The question is whether or not we will allow such things to be among us, leading to our destruction.

What I think we’re seeing play out is a connection between the massive voter fraud of the November 3^rd election and the massive corruption that has been attempting to overthrow our government for some time. Take note of the now-proven corruption detailed in the Carter Page lawsuit and the Michael Flynn case—both of which were engineered by bad actors within our government against individual Americans for the purpose of staging a coup against our duly elected President Trump. Those who would do that collusion and corruption have not ceased.

If President Trump is successful in overcoming the election fraud, there will be a chance of uncovering the corruption and rooting it out. If he is unsuccessful, then I do not see a way back. We will be living under a full and totalitarian tyranny in a shockingly short time.

Some of the worst can be staved off temporarily if the two Senate races in Georgia go to Republicans—although, note that we already know we can’t trust the voting system in Georgia. Losses there would mean Democrat-run House, Senate, and Presidency, meaning they can go ahead unhindered. A Republican-majority Senate would mean they could stonewall some legislation. These two races need to be won even with a President Trump, to avoid more impeachment shenanigans, which would not be blocked by a Republican Senate.

I hope we are awake to our awful situation. I hope there are enough of us—because clearly a majority of us voted to retain freedom—who will stand firm against this encroaching darkness. Keep praying for the President, for his legal team, and the people’s legal teams, and for those brave individuals who have stepped up to testify to the fraud, at sometimes great personal risk. Pray for judges to have clarity and resolve to maintain the rule of law that keeps us free. 

The time is getting short. But it’s still unimaginable to me that this much injustice can be allowed in America. When a burden is too big, too heavy for me to carry, I ask God to carry it. And I’m doing that now. Pray with me that this infamous November 3rd date will live in infamy as yet another unsuccessful attempt to destroy our country.

 

Although this isn’t my normal format, while we’re working through this election business, there’s too much for me to cover. So again I’m including a list of sources I’ve referred to plus several more. Also, you can find what I’ve already written on the subject in my blog archive; most of November pertains to the election.

Sources:

·         “No, The Georgia Vote-Counting Video Was Not ‘Debunked.’ Not Even Close” by Mollie Hemingway for The Federalist, Dec. 7, 2020. 

·         “Voter Rights Group Notifies DOJ of Pakistani Link with Nevada Election Email System” by Ivan Pentchoukov for The Epoch Times, Dec. 6 (updated Dec. 7), 2020.  

·         “Whistleblower USPS Truck Driver Reveals Trailer Filled with up to 288K Ballots Disappeared” NTD News, Dec. 6, 2020. 

·         “Press Conference by Amistad Project on 'Election Whistleblowers Come Forward'” NTD News, Dec. 1, 2020. 

·         “Trump Team Begins Forensic Examination of Dominion Machines in Michigan: Ellis” by Jack Phillips for The Epoch Times, Dec. 6, 2020.   

·         “HUGE: Judge Allows Forensic Audit of Dominion Voting Machines in Michigan” by Matt Margolis for PJ Media, Dec. 6, 2020. 

·         “Sidney Powell: There’s Still Time for Trump to Overturn Election Results” by Jack Phillips for The Epoch Times, Dec. 6 (updated Dec. 7), 2020.  

·         “Voting Machine USB Drives Had Totals Altered Overnight, Witness in Nevada Election Contest Alleges” by Ivan Pentchoukov for The Epoch Times, Dec. 3 (updated Dec. 7), 2020.  

·         “Infographic: The 4-Year-Long Campaign Against Trump” The Epoch Times, Nov. 25 (updated Nov. 27), 2020. 

·         “Arizona Supreme Court Agrees to Hear GOP Election Challenge Lawsuit” by Jack Phillips for The Epoch Times, Dec. 7, 2020. 

·         “Video Shows Poll Workers Pulling out Boxes of Ballots: Georgia Election Hearing” NTD News, Dec. 3, 2020. 

·         “Trump Legal Team Presents CLEAR Evidence of Fraud Before Georgia Senate Committee” Right Side Broadcasting Network, Dec. 3, 2020. 

·         “China's Unofficial Declaration of War” The First, Buck Sexton interviews Gordon G. Chang, Dec. 4, 2020. 

·         “Revealed: How Trump Broke China's Control of America” Crossroads with Joshua Philipp, December 6, 2020. 

·         “Is America About to Lose it All?” Valuetainment with Patrick Bet-David interviews with Larry Arnn, Dec. 2, 2020. 

·         “Carter Page Lawsuit Against FBI is OUTRAGEOUS! Lawyer Explains” Viva Frei Vlawg (law video blog), Dec. 1, 2020. 

·         “2 BOMBSHELLS from Judge Sullivan’s Flynn Hearing” Viva Frei Vlawg, Oct. 1, 2020. 

·         “The Battle Over Ballots” The Verdict with Ted Cruz, Ep. 60, Dec. 5, 2020. 

·         “The Battle for Georgia Votes... They Say 'No Evidence of Fraud'?” Buck Sexton Show, Dec. 4, 2020. 

·         On Life, Liberty & Levin Mark Levin interviews Patrick Basham, Dec. 6, 2020. 

·         “A Witness Has Alleged that Voting Machine USB Drives Had Totals Altered Overnight in Nevada” by Charlie Kirk, Dec. 3, 2020. 

·         “Live Q&A: A Look at the Vote Fraud Allegations” Crossroads with Joshua Philipp, December 4, 2020. 

·         “Curtis Bowers: A Socialist Agenda Is Underway” Crossroads with Joshua Philipp, Dec. 3, 2020. 

·         “Ex-CIA Officer Alleges That Election Irregularities Could Be Part of a Big Scheme” by Allen Zhong for The Epoch Times, Dec. 3 (updated Dec. 4), 2020. 

·         “How It Started: Senate Hearing on FBI Investigation In President Trump and Russia” NewsNOW from FOX, Dec. 3, 2020. 

Citizens, Not Subjects

Back in the 1770s, American colonists had a disagreement with the King of England. The king insisted that he was to rule over them, because it was the right he was born to; and they were to be his subjects and were obligated to submit to his rule.

They believed they were born to be the same things as the king: men. They were not willing to be subject to a king the way a horse would be subject to a man.

Image found here

And they wrote clearly of their disagreements, and their intentions to defend themselves and their God-given rights. The king could have seen things their way and let them separate peacefully; he didn’t. That is why the Revolutionary War happened.

Freedom won.

Some years later the founders set up a system of limited government—so that God-given rights would be protected, and no one would have power to “rule” over another. Slavery took several more decades and a bloody civil war to eliminate—in order to align with the founding principle that all human beings are created equal before the law.

But there has been some forgetting, particularly over the past century, since around 1913.

Then-Congressman Mike Pence spoke at Hillsdale College in September 2010, which became an Imprimis publication the following month. He spoke on “The Presidency and the Constitution”:

Mike Pence
image from here

The president is not our teacher, our tutor, our guide or ruler. He does not command us; we command him. We serve neither him nor his vision. It is not his job or his prerogative to redefine custom, law, and beliefs; to appropriate industries; to seize the country, as it were, by the shoulders or by the throat so as to impose by force of theatrical charisma his justice upon 300 million others. It is neither his job nor his prerogative to shift the power of decision away from them, and to him and the acolytes of his choosing.

Is my characterization of unprecedented presumption incorrect? Listen to the words of the leader of President Obama’s transition team and perhaps his next chief-of-staff: “It’s important that President-Elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.” Or, more recently, the latest presidential appointment to avoid confirmation by the Senate—the new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—who wrote last Friday: “President Obama understands the importance of leveling the playing field again.”

“Take power. . .rule. . .leveling.” Though it is the model now, this has never been and should never again be the model of the presidency or the character of the American president. No one can say this too strongly, and no one can say it enough until it is remedied. We are not subjects; we are citizens. We fought a war so that we do not have to treat even kings like kings, and—if I may remind you—we won that war. Since then, the principle of royalty has, in this country, been inoperative. Who is better suited or more required to exemplify this conviction, in word and deed, than the President of the United States?

I’m comforted, as we come at last to the end of Obama’s rule, that we have a vice-president who understands the constitutional limits of presidential power.

A week or so ago Valarie Jarrett asserted that one thing that can be said for the Obama administration was that it was essentially scandal-free.

Andrew Napolitano takes issue with that. The subheading on his Judge Napolitano Chambers is “Making Sure Government Is Not Our Master.” He takes the opportunity to contradict Valarie Jarrett with a few reminders in this video.

Back in 2013, the list of scandals was so long it was becoming a joke. You couldn’t just refer to the Obama administration scandal; that was too vague, because there were so many. Just to review, I’ll repost a joke from that time:

Multiple Scandals

Bob: "Did you hear about the Obama administration scandal?"

Jim: "You mean the Mexican gun running?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "You mean SEAL Team 6 Extortion 17?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "You mean the State Dept. lying about Benghazi?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "You mean the voter fraud?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "You mean the military not getting their votes counted?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "You mean the president demoralizing and breaking down the military?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "You mean the Boston Bombing?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "You mean the president wanting to kill Americans with drones in our own country without the benefit of the law?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "You mean the president arming the Muslim Brotherhood?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "The IRS targeting conservatives?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "The DOJ spying on the press?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "Sebelius shaking down health insurance executives?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "The NSA monitoring our phone calls, e-mails and everything else?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "The president's ordering the release of nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants from jails and prisons and falsely blaming the sequester?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "The president's threat to impose gun control by Executive Order in order to bypass Congress?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "The president's repeated violation of the law requiring him to submit a budget no later than the first Monday in February?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "The president's unconstitutional recess appointments in an attempt to circumvent the Senate's advise-and-consent role?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "The State Department interfering with an Inspector General investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "HHS employees being given insider information on Medicare Advantage?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "Clinton, the IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "I give up! ... Oh wait, I think I got it! You mean that 65 million low-information voters stuck us again with the most corrupt administration in American history?"

Bob: "THAT'S THE ONE!"

And now we’ve had three more years.

We could add the purposeful(?) deterioration of race relations under our first black president (the timeline is offered here on The Daily Wire).

Whatever we have to look forward to, at least this administration is ending.

There is some fear and trepidation of what is to come. I share some of that; I was not a Trump supporter (and absolutely wasn’t a Hillary supporter). But much of the worry has been, not that he will be too authoritarian, but that he will be an unstable personality for a ruler.

Keith Olbermann, now a correspondent for fashion magazine GQ, offers a video of a supposed well-considered sane assessment—the irony of which ought to be striking, if you have followed his career. He says that you ought to admit that Trump is crazy and the best end for everyone is to remove him before something bad happens. The lack of self-awareness is amazing.

As I said well before the election (before the primary), we’ve had a narcissistic authoritarian; we don’t need to try that again. But here we are. And, while I still don’t like his style or personality, there is reason to rejoice that at least Trump is not anti-American and pro-socialism.

As Thomas Sowell pointed out recently, Trump has put together perhaps the best cabinet and staff, at this point in the process, of any president within memory. The thing we don’t know is what he will do as president. If he listens to these appointees, we have much reason to be hopeful; if he doesn’t listen and just does what he wants, that won’t be as good for America.

What we do know is that, whenever we hold fast to the Constitution, limiting government to its role of protecting our God-given rights to life, liberty, and property, then we maximize our freedom, and set up the best situation for prosperity and thriving civilization as well.