Don’t Give Up On Election Day

Today is a pivotal battle in our war for the survival of America. But it is a battle, not the war. That is important to remember, because although every indicator is signaling we will turn this country red, the fraud is already underway.  

20% of the ballots in Maricopa County are being rejected by the machines, and voters are being told to put their ballots in drop boxes to be counted after the polls close.

In Mercer County, New Jersey, the machines are down completely—they are not working.

In Pennsylvania, the Democrats are up to something suspicious today as voting stations have been told to let people who already voted by mail vote in person. Will they throw the earlier ballots out? Or count them twice?

As the day progresses, I am sure we will hear more outrageous reports of obvious election meddling as the Democrats try to steal their way out of a brutal beating from the American electorate.

Nevertheless, don’t let the naysayers and doomsayers get you down. None of this means that the midterms are hopeless. Voter fraud is not a new problem in our system. We have had egregious cheating for many years, yet Donald Trump won the 2016 election. He almost defeated the fraud in 2020. That’s why they had to stop the count when they did. Overwhelming and unpredictable voter turnout can defeat fraud, which is why I have been advocating for weeks that you not vote early but wait to vote in person on the day. We can overwhelm the fraud and put points on the board if everyone shows up.

When people get discouraged and throw up their hands over bad news or the uphill climb, they act as if we have already hit bottom. They go back to their regular lives—going to work, spending time with family, socializing with friends, watching their favorite tv shows on the weekends, and so forth—as if this is as bad as it will get for Americans “who have lost” their freedom. But the reality is, we still enjoy an enormous amount of freedom, and if we don’t fight to maintain what we have and reclaim what has been taken, we will sink into myriad horrors.

We no longer have to look to the past for examples of the atrocities we could face. There are plenty of modern examples. Look to Australia during COVID where the unvaccinated were confined to their homes, people were beaten and arrested for walking beyond the permitted perimeters of their blocks, and young people choked out in the streets during anti-mask protests. Look to Canada where Trudeau exercised fascist control when he seized bank accounts during the trucker protests. Look to China where even today the Chinese people live under brutal oppression. Think about what our Leftist leaders did to us here in America and would do again. We have a lot to fight for.

Despite it all, we remain the people with the most freedom on earth. It is imperative that we fight for ourselves, for our children, and for each other. No surrender.

And there are lots of good reports already today. General Flynn is in the Sarasota area and reporting presidental-level turnout down there.

The DOJ tried to send “monitors” to intimidate state elections, and Republican Secretaries of State are standing up and rejecting this federal thuggery.

Good people are working hard all across the country to secure the vote, and more people than ever have realized the peril we are in as a country and have joined our side.

Whatever fraud or misdeeds you experience or read about today, let them fuel your rage and channel it into action. First, get out to vote today, and then immediately ask how you can help to secure the vote in 2024.

Our numbers have only swelled since 2016. Although the fog of war can be disorienting and our opponents are brutal, I believe we are on the winning side. I think today will be a good day for America, and to the extent there is cheating, we just have to strengthen our resolve to continue this epic struggle. This is not a quick battle. Freedom will require the long slog, the slow grind.  The easiest part of that grind is showing up at the polls.

Whatever you do today, get out the vote for the Republican ticket!

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A lot of Americans are reeling as they watch an actual “hot” war unfold before our eyes in Ukraine. I shake my head as I scroll my Instagram and see all the “pray for Ukraine” posts from influencers who voted for Joe Biden and are confirmed adherents to the secular religion of The Climate. The obvious causal connections between their politics and the growing instability around the globe is, apparently, wholly lost on them. I am praying for Ukraine. I know everyone reading this Memo is praying for Ukraine, too. But I am also praying for America, because this war in Eurasia—which is no war of ours—could easily engulf the world in a terrible conflagration. It is imperative that we all keep our heads and support de-escalation. 

This is Eurasia’s Conflict Not Ours 

The West fundamentally misunderstands Russia (and China) because, as a society, we have bought into globalism, which disdains national sovereignty and embraces a form of “global governance” that can only work if all major powers are complacent and peaceful—i.e., it can only work in a fantasyland. Putin does not live in a fantasyland. Those of us who point this out are not idolizing Putin; we are stating a frightening reality. Nations that operate in fantasyland while their enemies operate in the real world will still face the real-world outcomes. We need to grapple with reality as quickly as possible to stop the conflict in Ukraine from spiraling the West into a kinetic world war and complete destruction.

Vladimir Putin opposes the West’s expansion east toward Russia. He does not want the countries on his periphery in the NATO alliance, which essentially makes them host-countries for the superpower he considers Russia’s rival (the United States). He also harbors expansionist dreams of his own. None of this is a secret. It is widely understood that Putin will never permit Ukraine to join NATO without war. 

Western globalists, however, baselessly and recklessly encouraged Ukraine to think it could ultimately join the West and enter NATO. Ukraine is neither an ally nor a strategic priority for the United States. We have no business in that neck of the woods, and we should have always sought to deescalate tensions between Ukraine and Russia, not stoke them as Biden did in the last several months.

In December, Biden gave Ukraine further false hope when he suggested in a call with Zelensky that Ukraine might be able to join NATO. Predictably, this was met by pushback from Putin. Biden—who months earlier telegraphed his own feebleness by pulling out of Afghanistan, leaving American citizens at the mercy of the Taliban, and senselessly ceding the strategically-located Bagram to our enemies—blustered back at Russia using the tired platitudes of the Bush era. His bluster was reckless because not only are we not prepared to meet Russia with kinetic force (nor should we even tiptoe near such activity), but we are also not prepared to truly deter or punish Russia through financial avenues. Biden’s continued saber rattling in the last weeks leading up to this conflict was irresponsible to the point of derangement. With this invasion, Putin has called Biden’s bluff and placed the United States in a very precarious position.

To sum up, Ukraine was not going to join NATO, and we were never going to commit troops or bring the muscle necessary to defend Ukraine. Not only were we never going to put boots on the ground, thanks to Leftist policies, America and Western Europe are not in a strong position to peacefully deter Russia. There is a reason Putin has moved now, and it is because Europe is already prostrate at his feet and, critically, the United States has precipitously declined in power in the short but calamitous first year of the Biden administration. 

Green Energy Has Debilitated the West

Western European countries are committed to green energy policies that are destroying them. Consumed by their obsession with climate change, they have been pursuing incredibly destructive energy policies for years and shutting down their own national energy supplies to chase after renewables. But green energy still doesn’t cut it in the real world. With eyes wide open, Europe crippled itself and now must import a significant percentage of its gas from Russia. This has enriched Russia and has handed Russia devastating leverage over the West. In 2020, 40% of natural gas imports to the EU were from Russia. As the WSJ noted, “[t]he foundation of Russian power today is the energy industry, which funds Russia’s foreign policy, including its formidable armed forces. Russia is an energy superpower in no small part because European consumers buy Russian gas.”

Germany is the prime example. It is the EU’s most powerful member-state, and yet it is also the most reliant on Russian gas. Twenty years ago, Germany determined to phase out nuclear power and in recent years axed its coal production in an effort to limit CO2. Germany is now heavily reliant on Russia for its energy and is the biggest purchaser of Russian gas in the world.

Europe’s current quandary would be laughable if it were not so serious. Again, they have structured their nations for a fantasyland that only operates successfully when all world actors are of goodwill. They have offered up their national stability at the altar of green energy. Now Russia holds the power.

Energy makes the world go ‘round. Food prices are skyrocketing in part because gas is feedstock for fertilizer. Carbon dioxide is a byproduct of fertilizer and is used for a variety of purposes from stunning animals before they are slaughtered to vacuum packs and dry ice for food storage to producing the fizz for sodas and sparkling waters. These are just a few small examples of how oil/energy permeates our lives.  

Energy independence equals global power. One of Donald Trump’s stated goals was to make America energy independent, and he accomplished that mission. That made us stronger; we had leverage at the table of global leaders and the world was safer and more stable as a result. One of President Biden’s first actions in office was to cancel Keystone XL, cutting off that energy source, decimating American jobs, and putting the Biden administration in the predicable position of begging OPEC and Russia to ramp up oil production. Biden also reversed Trump policies to reimpose the administrative hurdles that have further crippled our oil industry. Prices are now surging, enriching our enemies and subordinating the United States. 

America in Peril

[Just before I published this post, news broke that “selected Russian banks” will be removed from SWIFT. It is not clear to me yet how targeted/complete this is. I hope very much and fervently pray that my concerns below about ejecting Russia from SWIFT are wrong…]

A lot of people want the West to expel Russia from SWIFT. They believe this is a crippling sanction we can leverage against Russia. But I am very worried that expelling Russia could ultimately prove catastrophic. The chief reason I worry is because I think America’s status as the global reserve currency is far more fragile than other commentators seem to think it is. 

The United States has been the global reserve currency since 1944. We are the reserve currency because the world trusts the strength of our economy and financial markets and has made the determination that money is safest in U.S. dollars. It is a statement of confidence in the stability of the U.S. dollar. Therefore, central banks around the globe hold our money and the world does business in USD. Reserve currency status has tremendous benefits for America.  Despite our insane spending and skyrocketing inflation, we remain viable because the rest of the world still bets on us. But for our status as the reserve currency, we would be Argentina. If we lost our status as the reserve currency it would catastrophically alter life for every single American and fundamentally shift the global power 

Putin is no fool, nor is he insane. He is ambitious and strategic. Last June, Putin removed the U.S. dollar from Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, specifically to make Russia less vulnerable to U.S. sanctions. Putin invested chiefly in the euro, the Chinese yuan, gold, and other currencies. More recently, as I discussed on my podcast a few weeks ago, China and Russia used the opening of the Beijing Olympics to announce a new alliance.

China has been working to topple America as the reserve currency for some time. These are very serious and very scary movements from our primary adversaries, adversaries that do not operate in the fantasyland of globalism. They are targeting our status as the reserve currency. They are implementing strategy that will have real world consequences. 

I fear that if we kick Russia out of SWIFT, it will be painful for Russia, but that Russia will pivot to China and together they will further undermine our status as reserve currency. We are not invincible. Our economy is in a lot of trouble right now. Inflation just hit a 38-year high, we might be heading toward the worst real estate crash in American history, and most analysts agree we are careening toward a massive recession in 2023. It is not a good time for us to test our position as reserve currency. 

A Coming World War?

Despite the posts you see on social media, Ukraine is not our ally, and we have little to no strategic interest in Ukraine. My heart bleeds for the people, and I am ashamed of America’s dereliction of duty to elect good leaders and maintain a strong and independent economy, but the reality remains unchanged. We cannot get into a war over Ukraine, and everything in our power must be done to avert any action that could touch off such a calamity. However, while Russia satisfies its thirst for expansion, our larger rival is trying to decide whether to strike while America is weak. That rival is, of course, communist China, and the object of its lust is Taiwan. 

Taiwan is our ally, and unlike Ukraine, we are dependent on Taiwan. Taiwan manufactures the chips that are used in everything from cars to computers to washing machines. Both Japan and Australia have recently pledged to defend Taiwan in the event of an invasion, so we are truly looking at a potential world war if Beijing moves on Taiwan.  

Conclusion

America is weak right now, and all the bad actors out there know it. 

Although a lot of people are talking about war on mainland Europe, Ukraine is not mainland Europe. It is Eurasia, and it is not our battle to fight. If you don’t agree with that, consider the more practical issue: given the risk, it isn’t a battle that we can fight right now.

There are a lot of people out there using the tired reference of Neville Chamberlain and WWII to shame Americans into a more hawkish stance. But the reality is we are in a very delicate and uncertain zone. Ukraine could easily escalate into war between Russia and the United States; China could easily choose this moment to attack Taiwan; we could easily be facing a catastrophic conflict on multiple fronts. Now is not a good time for us to test our military strength, our cyber capabilities, or the stamina of our economy. 

We need to remain rational not emotional, pray fervently for peace, and work hard to deescalate the violence in Eurasia. We have to hold the major powers at peace for as long as possible, because the only way we survive a world war is with Donald Trump at the helm, not Joe Biden and the Davos globalists calling the shots in Washington. 

The Fifth Circuit’s OSHA Vaccine Mandate Stay + A Wrinkle

This evening, a panel of the Fifth Circuit—after an expedited briefing schedule—reaffirmed its initial stay in BST Holdings, L.L.C. v. OSHA, No. 21-60845.    

This stay stops OSHA from taking any action to enforce the mandate while the court considers the petitioners’ request for a permanent injunction against the mandate. A court’s decision to grant a stay pending briefing on the merits of an injunction is always important. It is very likely a preview of the final outcome of the case, because to determine whether or not to grant the stay in the first place, the court considers four factors, the first of which is likelihood of success on the merits. In this case, Judge Engelhardt, writing for a unanimous panel, said that the petitioners are, “for a multitude of reasons,” likely to succeed on the merits. 

In its emergency stay last week, the panel said there was reason to believe the mandate suffers from grave statutory and constitutional issues, and tonight the panel fleshed out both those points.

On the statutory front, the panel noted that this a rare government action where the rule is both over inclusive (blanket approach that does not take into account varying types of businesses and the attendant COVID risks) and underinclusive (100 is an arbitrary number to address an alleged “grave danger”).

As I have discussed on Instagram before, OSHA issued this rule under its emergency authority, and it must meet an exacting statutory standard to do so. The court analyzed the ways in which this rule fails to meet the standard. I will link to the full opinion for those who want to get in the weeds. Suffice to say, the opinion makes clear the rule is riddled with problems.

The court’s analysis of the statutory flaws is satisfying from a legal perspective, but the court’s gripe with the more fundamental constitutional infirmities presents a restatement of critical constitutional principles at a time when the sand is shifting under the very foundations of our republic. 

The court said that the mandate “likely exceeds the federal government’s authority under the Commerce Clause because it regulates noneconomic inactivity that falls squarely within the States’ police power,” and second, “separation of powers principles cast doubt over the Mandate’s assertion of virtually unlimited power to control individual conduct under the guise of a workplace regulation.” 

I talked a little about the state police power versus federal government authority in this post on The Federalisttoward the beginning of the pandemic. Maintaining the balance between the federal government and the states is critical right now as the Left attempts to consolidate power.  The states cannot cede an inch to the federal government and must, to the best of their ability, apply pressure in return. It is heartening to see a federal court defend these constitutional principles, and I hope that the grassroots takes heart at this and continues to protect and defend these principles in whatever way we can, too.   

The court breezed through the remaining factors, finding that the petitioners would suffer serious harm absent a stay, that the respondents will suffer no harm by a stay, and finally that the stay is in the public interest. This last bit had perhaps my favorite part of the opinion: 

The public interest is also served by maintaining our constitutional structure and maintaining the liberty of individuals to make intensely personal decisions according to their own convictions—even, or perhaps particularly, when those decisions frustrate government officials.

That’s really a central element to this vaccine debate. There is a large group of people in power (BigTech, etc) and government who think that they can tell other people what to do. But the Constitution is the controlling document of a counter-majoritarian form of self-government—a form of government that seeks to defend the dissenter against the mob.  Thank God the Fifth Circuit is articulating that. We all have to take up the chorus. 

Where we go from here is a little less clear to me. Normally, it would proceed to the merits, but looming in the background (or the forefront, I suppose) of this litigation is the multi-circuit lottery. The federal rules provide that in this type of challenge to an agency rule and when multiple circuits are fielding challenges, the challenge shall be assigned to a single circuit at random. This is stressful because some circuits are better for us than others. I can tell you there are a lot of federal judges out there who are comfortable with a vaccine mandate and would find their way to upholding this terrible rule if given the opportunity. 

We shall see…  

You can read the opinion here and track all the filings at Liberty Justice Center’s website here. I will update on any major developments here and on social media. 

The Federalist/Pretending COVID Is An Emergency Is Killing America

Published here at The Federalist on August 30, 2021

The entire Western world is living a massive COVID lie. That lie is strangling the life out of liberty, and it will destroy our constitutional order entirely if we do not end this horrifying charade. A recent article in The Guardian discussing France’s vaccine passport unconsciously provides the perfect example.  It describes the Great Plague that struck Marseille in 1720 (the final contortion of the Black Death), noting that it “kill[ed] more than half of the city’s population.”  “[S]truggl[ing] to find a delicate balance between halting the spread of the disease and damaging vital commerce,” the city authorities, The Guardian tells us, ordered travelers “to carry a ‘bill of health’ and ships arriving at the Mediterranean port underwent a 40-day cordon sanitaire or quarantine.” “Three hundred years on,” The Guardian seriously intones, “President Emmanuel Macron is walking an equally tricky tightrope . . .” Hopefully, you already spotted the glaring problem with this comparison. In 1720, the Great Plague in Marseille killed more than half the city’s population.   

We have gotten to the point in this “pandemic” where government leaders and a worryingly high percentage of the American people are acting like COVID is a crisis on par with Marseille’s Great Plague. We have been buried in facts, figures, mountains of data, constantly shifting information, misinformation, and more. We are relentlessly briefed by the media about rising infection rates or the current capacity of local ICUs.

But cut through it all and ask—how many Americans are dying? According to Johns Hopkins, the fatality rate of COVID in the United States is 1.7%, which means that 98.3% survive. That takes into account all deaths, including people who had underlying conditions and the elderly. Excluding those who are obviously high-risk, the survival rate is close to 100%. If COVID ever were an emergency, it is no longer one now, and it has not been for a long time. It is a nasty disease, to be sure, but it is one that we are going to have to live with and learn to treat. Instead, we have all assumed roles in a live rendition of Hans Christian Andersen’s folktale The Emperor’s New Clothes: The government plays the lying emperor, whose hubris resulted in his parading naked in public, all the while declaring that he wore clothes.  The American people play the silly subjects who disregarded reality to humor the monarch’s farce.

If we do not say the truth and end this false emergency, we will lose our liberty forever. In March of 2020, we foolishly locked down and ceded our constitutional system of government (three independent branches with checks and balances) for rule by the executive. The executives and attendant bureaucrats assumed the powers of the legislature, issuing lockdown orders, mask mandates, and now vaccine passports. Many courts have all but rubber-stamped their actions. James Madison straightforwardly warned in Federalist 47, “[t]he accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judicia[l], in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” In short, we have been living under intolerable and unjustified tyranny for close to a year and a half. 

Despite the reality, our governing class is using the pretense of an ongoing crisis (on par with the final onslaught of the bubonic plague, apparently) to maintain and exercise power outside the American constitutional order.  They have taken from us our most precious gift as Americans—our unique form of government that assures our liberty. Just as shocking, countless underinformed and careless Americans, either from ignorance or fear, see no issue with the current extra-constitutional arrangement. They berate us to “trust the [ever-changing and politicized] science,” but the death rate tells the tale. We must restore the proper allocation of power, or we will lose our freedom forever. 

It is imperative that any state or jurisdiction still operating under emergency authority terminate that state of emergency immediately. According to multistate.us, over half of the fifty states remain under emergency orders and executive rule. Even in some states, like New York, that have ended their statewide emergency orders, large jurisdictions remain in states of emergency, continuing to abuse American citizens’ freedom (e.g., New York City and its vaccine-passport program). State legislatures should pass laws that forbid any business or government entity from mandating masks; vaccine passports must be absolutely forbidden. The Alabama legislature already passed a law banning COVID vaccine passports, and North Dakota also enacted legislation that would largely block businesses from requiring proof of vaccination. Your state legislatures have enormous power in our constitutional system, power that we the people have ignored for too long. It is high time to activate grassroots influence and self-govern via our legislatures.

COVID is not an emergency. People are not dying in droves. There is no justification for the continued suspension of the American form of self-government that secures all our individual rights and liberties.  In The Emperor’s New Clothes, it was the honesty of a child that finally exposed the emperor and the people for fools when he cried out, “but he hasn’t got anything on!” It is long past time to speak the truth: there is no true COVID emergency. Enough is enough. Return America to its proper constitutional order and insist on consent of the governed.

Mandated Vaccine to Fly?

The Epoch Times ran this op-ed on November 30, 2020: ‘Common Pass’ May Open the Door to Loss of Freedom.

Last month, United Airlines tested “[t]he first transatlantic trial of Common Pass, an app that creates a standard digital format for COVID-19 test results.”  Common Pass has been developed by the Commons Project and the World Economic Forum, and the hope is that it will both facilitate travel across borders and provide confidence to passengers that it is safe to fly again. The pass right now reports on a traveler’s COVID test status, but it could easily transition to track vaccination status, and indeed the industry expects it to do just that. The acceptance of these types of apps as a condition to travel is a very slippery slope and they should not be permitted for domestic flights. 

American Mind/Big Tech Imposes European-Style Law in American Jurisdictions, Challenging the Longevity of the First Amendment

My piece below was published by the American Mind on November 29, 2020.

Big Tech has infiltrated the American homeland and is imposing speech laws that resemble those of Europe, challenging the authority and longevity of the First Amendment. Although we share common ideals with other Western nations, we pursue and defend those ideals very differently. Nowhere is this more apparent than in our approach to speech.

It is important to understand how fundamentally different our country is from the rest of the world if we want to understand why Big Tech’s speech codes should not be inflicted on American citizens in American jurisdictions. Put another way, if the would-be monarchs of Silicon Valley get their way, their speech codes will ultimately undermine our American values of free speech and the First Amendment itself.  

The rest of this article is available at The American Mind here.

My Statement on the Conclusion of the Flynn Case & Why I Will Be Stepping Back From Politics for a Time

On November 25, 2020, President Trump issued a full pardon to Michael Flynn. I am thrilled for the Flynns, who are finally free from the nightmare of a government gone rogue and the clutches of a politically motivated court. General Flynn was innocent all along; the government acknowledged it had no case in May; and the fact that the President had to issue a pardon to put an end to the ongoing charade should act as a warning to all Americans that our justice system is in crisis. But today, I want to express my gratitude for being part of the Flynn case and explain why I will be stepping away from political activity, commentary, and analysis for the next nine months.  

The American Mind/Mr. President, Attack.

Published at The American Mind on November 11, 2020.

Does Trump still have a chance? That’s the question that flooded my inbox Saturday after the media called the election for Biden. If there was massive voter fraud, as some Republicans have alleged, Trump absolutely has a path. But only aggressive action on the part of the president and unwavering determination from his supporters will make that path navigable.

Many pro-Trump, nationalist Republicans are confident that Trump has a path because they believe that the Democrats committed fraud and that Trump will prevail in the courts on that basis. Many people have analyzed the election and concluded that the Democrats committed both electronic and manual fraud. They think the turnout was more than the Democrats had planned for, and Trump support was high in demographics they didn’t anticipate. Many who have analyzed the statistics think that this forced the Democrats’ hand and they had to cheat more than they had bargained for, which in turn created both statistical anomalies and even impossibilities in some precincts. I myself have reviewed statistics reports that identify mathematically suspicious counties in swing states.

When all the litigation is said and done, Pennsylvania is almost certainly going to resolve for Trump. Arizona and Georgia, both within reach for the president, are incredibly tight. There will be recounts and lawsuits that determine into which column they ultimately land, and the hope is justice will prevail in every courtroom and case. But courts are uncertain battlegrounds, and judges alarmingly fickle.

The American people who believe that something is not right can help by vociferously demanding election integrity and accountability. The media and the Democrats rushed to proclaim Biden the winner to shift the mood of the country and settle the issue. They did it to cast Biden as the legitimate winner and frame challenges from Trump as despotic resistance or even a coup.

This mood will affect the judiciary. Courts are wary of invalidating votes in the best of times. Judges are people, too. It will be hard to hand down rulings that could result in Trump’s win and, perhaps even more daunting, the shockwaves across the country and the world that would follow. The Trump lawyers will need traction in the courts to win early steps that give them discovery. A national mood demanding answers will make it easier for judges to countenance all these varied suits. So, Americans who want to do something should speak up now, support the president, and demand election integrity.

At the end of the day, though, the only one who can settle this is the president himself. Donald Trump needs to do what he does best, what he did to win in 2016, and what made him such a successful President—he needs to do the unpredictable, the unorthodox, and the aggressive. If the statisticians are right and we are staring in the face of massive election fraud, he needs to attack on every possible front and he needs to do it now. He should launch the necessary suits or investigations that permit him to subpoena election workers; he needs to audit the counties where statisticians have identified suspicious anomalies; he needs a forensics team to examine the code; he needs an investigation of Dominion Voting Systems.

When the Democrats lost in 2016, they launched a two-year investigation into “Russian collusion” that consumed tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, diluted the Trump administration’s focus and energy, and ended in Robert Mueller’s conclusion that there was no collusion between Trump and the Russians. An allegation of an internal, rigged election is far more serious. If true, the foundation of the American Republic has been corrupted and our fundamental right to self-determination and self-government stolen from us. This allegation warrants even more than the onslaught the Democrats unleashed in 2016. If everything is aboveboard, these aggressive efforts will turn up nothing, thus re-establishing trust in our system for 71 million Americans and indeed for many of our friends and allies abroad.

But, if there is fraud, Trump’s full-force assaults should find a weak spot. Breaking through that crack will reveal a scheme that will shock the world. Any other Republican candidate would concede at this juncture—intimidated by the force of the media, the exultant mood of the Left, and the inevitable assault they will unleash if the election swings back to the Right. But Trump is a new kind of Republican.

If the Democrats have indeed committed mass voter fraud, they are in quiet fear of their precarious position. They’ve overplayed their hand and all the president needs to do is attack. The path to victory for Trump himself, to finally exposing the expansive corruption of the Left, and to the restoration of our democratic republic, requires nerve no other politician possesses. If Trump decides to do what every other Republican would flinch from, the Democrats know he will blow their scheme wide open. In this pivotal hour, Donald Trump must not flinch.

Mr. President, sir, let’s finish this.

Photo: Flickr Gage Skidmore

This Is Why Trump Shouldn’t Concede – Hillary Said Not To!

Under no circumstances should Donald Trump concede. He shouldn’t concede because he has not lost yet. Hillary Clinton gave this advice to Joe Biden just before the election:

Hillary Clinton: “Under no circumstances should Joe Biden concede the election…because I think this is going to drag out and, eventually, I do believe he will win if we don’t give an inch, and if we are as focused and as relentless as the other side.” There you go. The Democrats and the media are screaming that Trump needs to concede, but in the reverse situation, they would be doing exactly what we are doing, and frankly, they would be more aggressive. Clinton says we are focused and relentless, but that is kind of laughable. Everyone knows that the old Republican Party is neither focused nor relentless; it caves to the Democrats every time, as you can see from the many prominent “Republicans” like George W. Bush and Mitt Romney who are out prematurely congratulating Biden for his media win. 

The Democratic Party beats up on the country club Republicans all the time, but it has never really gone to war with the Nationalist Republicans—with Trump’s MAGA Party. This is our first time the Democrat Party has met the new, Nationalist MAGA Republicans in a pitched battle. I don’t know if we will have the relentless focus to match the Democrats, but if we are going to win, we have to rise to the challenge. So, again my message is be aggressive. 

Let’s run through some other very pertinent stats. 

This was no blue wave. Even if we are not right, and there was no massive fraud (there was, but for the sake of argument) Donald Trump has garnered over 70 million votes right now. In 2016, he only got 62 million. Trump expanded his support from the American people by 8 million votes this year. His support among blacks, Cubans, Hispanics, LGBTQ…all are up this second election cycle. Contrast this to Barack Obama, who garnered 69 million votes when he won in 2008 and only 65 million in 2012. Obama’s support after four years trended down; Donald Trump’s support exploded up. 

But, the fraud is the issue. Democrats spend a lot of time talking about trusting science, so let’s trust some math. According to Richard Baris (@peoples_pundit on Twitter) “we are now approaching, and in some metros will exceed, turnout levels that are comparable to nations where mandatory voting is the law.” He pointed to a BBC article from 2016 titled Vote Rigging: How to Spot the Tell-Tale Signs which said, “You never get a 98% or 99% turnout in an honest election. You just don’t.” BBC said this level of turnout triggered a presumption of fraud. Furthermore, I’ve been watching the reports on the statistics coming in, both for the Trump Team and for Sidney. These are people doing practically round the clock work crunching numbers. The numbers are showing statistical impossibilities. I might get with Wilson and pull together some stats for a post, but it’s also being widely reported on conservative outlets.

The Democrats and the media are trying to engineer this election. Consider that Fox et al called Arizona and Georgia for Biden, where only about 10,000 – 15,000 votes separate the two candidates (and both states will be going to recounts), but the media refuses to call North Carolina for Trump, where the President is up by over 75,000 votes. Can you see how we are fighting media misinformation? It’s extraordinary. The Democrats and the media have made us into a banana republic. 

We aren’t going to give in. 70 million voters are energized and want answers. The Supreme Court said in Bush v. Gore, “the right to vote as the legislature has prescribed is fundamental; and one source of its fundamental nature lies in the equal weight accorded to each vote and the equal dignity owed to each voter.” The fundamental right to vote is on the line here. Can because if illegal votes are being counted, as we think they are, then our votes no longer carry equal weight. Every American deserves full and aggressive investigation.  

That’s it for now. The key here, though, is that Trump has not conceded because he has not lost yet. He is doing exactly what Hillary Clinton counseled Biden to do if Biden found himself in the same scenario, and we can still win this election. Don’t let the Democrats get away with this level of hypocrisy and don’t let them gaslight you into defeatism. We are marching. This is the moment we will find out the mettle of the MAGA movement. I believe we have the courage and the resolve to finally measure up to the Democrats. If we choose to, we can do it.   

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