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December 2020

Joe Biden Has No Mandate Mike Lachance

https://townhall.com/columnists/mikelachance/2020/12/30/joe-biden-has-no-mandate-n2582273

If Joe Biden is sworn in as president of the United States in January, many Democrats and their friends in the liberal media will instantly claim that he has a mandate.

They will be mistaken.

Joe Biden does not have a mandate to effect change, and no amount of complaining from the professional left will change this fact.

The same people who will champion Biden’s non-existent mandate have fought President Trump for four years. They cast doubt on his 2016 victory, they investigated him and members of his team, they claimed he was mentally unfit for office, they called him an asset of Russia, and actively sought to ruin almost anyone who defended him.

These same people who cast doubt on the outcome of the 2016 election for four years now have the audacity to demand fealty. The same election interference they swore stole the 2016 election for Trump is now branded a conspiracy theory if you dare question Biden’s victory.

Democrats who enlisted Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee to declare Trump mentally unfit for the presidency, will now sneer if you question Joe Biden’s obviously frail mental state. Even Bandy Lee is suddenly no longer willing to offer a diagnosis from afar.

Contrary to popular opinion in the media, Trump actually had a mandate. He beat Hillary Clinton, one of the most powerful and well connected players in American politics of the last 50 years.

The people who elected Trump in 2016 gave him a clear mandate. They wanted him to clean up corruption in Washington, protect America’s borders, care about the abandoned middle class, reverse unfair trade policies, end the endless wars, promote the United States Constitution in the judiciary, and be a cheerleader for America.

What is Joe Biden’s supposed mandate? To further the stranglehold the D.C. establishment has on the lives of ordinary Americans? To continue the wars in the Middle East and begin new ones? To place a bigger tax burden on the middle class engine of America’s economy? To advance the left’s efforts to divide Americans by race? Who wants this?

National Security Advisor-Designate Jake Sullivan’s Record by Yoram Ettinger

Worldview and track record

Jake Sullivan’s worldview and track record (e.g., Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Dartmouth College, State Department, key advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President-Elect Joe Biden) highlight:

*Attachment to Europe’s culture, history and geo-strategic thinking;
*Multilateralism through expanded national security collaboration with Europe, the UN and international alliances and organizations, rather than unilateralism; 
*Democracy and human rights-driven foreign policy [however, in the Middle East, Arab regimes do not lend themselves to human rights and consider democracy an existential threat];
*The reassertion of the State Department worldview [despite its systematic blunders in the Middle East];
*The restructuring of the defense budget by expanding “civilian tools” and reducing “military tools” of national security [in a stormy world, which requires an enhanced, not reduced, US posture of deterrence].
*The shared worldview and track record of Antony Blinken (Secretary of State-designate) and Jake Sullivan may constitute the ideological backbone of President-elect Joe Biden’s foreign and national security policy-making.

Iran

Jake Sullivan played a key role in negotiating the 2015 Iran nuclear accord (JCPOA). He opposes a regime-change policy, believing that Iran’s Ayatollahs are amenable to negotiation and peaceful-coexistence. Therefore, he will ditch the current policy of financial and military pressure, attempting to rejoin the accord – while expanding its duration and scope – which he believes would restore trust and cooperation with the international community.  

The JCPOA was rejected by all pro-US Arab states as articulated on December 28, 2020 by the Riyadh-based Arab News: “We should focus on the original end of the nuclear deal, which is turning Iran into a normal state that does not pose a threat to the security and safety of the international community. It is impossible to accept a deal that prevents Iran from threatening global security and peace for 15 years [which is the duration of the JCPOA], and then allow it to resume the threat. There are no reformists in Iran, capable of persuading the regime to be more open to the West. The JCPOA was not sufficiently reviewed as far as its impact on Iran’s belligerence, internationally and regionally. The Ayatollahs took immediate advantage of the JCPOA to support their [rogue] proxies and allies in the region, boost their missile program, purchase weapons, and strengthen their vast domestic repressive apparatuses….”

In fact, the JCPOA (a model of multilateralism) has not diverted Iran’s Ayatollahs from their fanatic, megalomaniacal strategic goal to control the Persian Gulf, Middle East, the Muslim World and beyond.  The JCPOA has generated a financial and political tailwind to the Ayatollahs’ dominant stature in the region, unchallenged by the US, and posing an existential threat to all US Arab allies. It has bolstered Iran’s systematic subversion, terrorism and wars in the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa and Latin America, aiming to weaken the “Great US Satan,” while emerging as a nuclear power in 10-15 years, or less, following 2015.   

THE MAN WHO WILL SAVE AMERICA… “This Isn’t the Beating of a Drum, This Is the Burning of a City!” – Inventor Jovan Pulitzer DESTROYS Georgia’s Corrupted 2020 Election Results By Joe Hoft

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/isnt-beating-drum-burning-city-inventor

Inventor Jovan Hutton Pulitzer was in front of the Georgia Senate today and he totally destroyed Georgia’s 2020 election results and offered a plan where for free, he will determine the accurate results by examining the paper ballots used in the election.

Prior to today we’ve requested that President Donald J. Trump write an Executive Order mandating that the ballots and images in select states be audited and reviewed for fraud by Jovan Pulitzer.

We first learned of Inventor Jovan Pulitzer a few weeks ago and reported that he is able to audit millions of ballots in a day based on his method for reviewing ballots and images. His biography and ideas were provided in our article. He believes there was fraud in the 2020 election and that he can prove it quickly:

Today in Georgia Mr. Pulitzer gave a presentation that all of America should see and hear:

Pulitzer shared:

I have no regard for the smoking mirrors of how the machines work, the hidden stuff in the code, or how this machine is suppossed to be programmed.  If the machine worked according to programming none of us would be standing here.  We’re here because something broke.

So I’m saying ‘I don’t care about the machine’.  I don’t even care about the code that was written in the machine.  What I care about is that physical artifact. And you know what?  That physical artifact has material differences from district to district that should not be there…Why are they there?

He shared the people of the state of Georgia trusted the state to ensure the election was valid and fraud free.  The current election results are flawed:

This isn’t the beating of a drum this is the burning of a city.“

Our country was founded on a piece of paper!  Pulitzer can look at the paper and determine almost immediately if a ballot is fraudulent or not.  Pulitzer notes that he can look at 500,000 ballots in a couple hours.

A Simple Test for the extent of Vote Fraud with Absentee Ballots in the 2020 Presidential Election: Georgia and Pennsylvania Data John R. Lott, Jr., Ph.D.*

Summary Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3756988

This study provides measures of vote fraud in the 2020 presidential election. It first compares Fulton county’s precincts that are adjacent to similar precincts in neighboring counties that had no allegations of fraud to isolate the impact of Fulton county’s vote-counting process (including potential fraud).

In measuring the difference in President Trump’s vote share of the absentee ballots for these adjacent precincts, we account for the difference in his vote share of the inperson voting and the difference in registered voters’ demographics. The best estimate shows an unusual 7.81% drop in Trump’s percentage of the absentee ballots for Fulton County alone of 11,350 votes, or over 80% of Biden’s vote lead in Georgia.

The same approach is applied to Allegheny County in Pennsylvania for both absentee and provisional ballots. The estimated number of fraudulent votes from those two sources is about 55,270 votes.

Second, vote fraud can increase voter turnout rate. Increased fraud can take many forms:higher rates of filling out absentee ballots for people who hadn’t voted, dead people voting, ineligible people voting, or even payments to legally registered people for their votes.

However,the increase might not be as large as the fraud if votes for opposing candidates are either lost,
destroyed, or replaced with ballots filled out for the other candidate. The estimates here
indicate that there were 70,000 to 79,000 “excess” votes in Georgia and Pennsylvania. Adding
Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin, the total increases to up to 289,000 excess votes.

* This research purely reflects my own personal views. This research does not represent work done by or for the US
Department of Justice, and it has not been approved of by the DOJ.

MY SAY:A PERSONAL PLEA TO JOSEPH BIDEN- CONCEDE!

Come on man! Do the right thing and ensure your legacy. You know you’ve been had by the fraudsters.

You know that you were chosen as the non-Bernie and as a patsy for Obama’s third term. It’s clear. When he ran for office his fixers leaked stories about marital assaults and other dirt to clear his path to the White House.

If you and your Obama rerun Cabinet are confirmed, big knives will come out for you.

First of all, those who are convinced that the elections were stolen will keep up the fight to investigate and find evidence. There is smoke there- after Ohio and Florida were called for Trump, his victory seemed ineluctable and your minions went into high gear to change the outcome. We’ll find the fire.

By then the media will train its sights on you to implement the party’s goal of dumping you. Did you not get a taste of this when they made a kerfuffle about your wife’s doctorate? One prominent Never Trumper called her thesis “garbage.” Can you just hear Saturday Night Live reading portions of it? You can’t want that. She’s loyal to you unlike the Democrat party.

Second, a whole new round of aggrieved women will tell lurid stories of your inappropriate advances. All lies. Remember the humiliation of Justice Kavanaugh?

Then there is your involvement in the Ukraine and China and your son’s cupidity. Look out! Whistleblowers will emerge from the corrupt agencies who will give all sort of hearsay evidence of your turpitude. Trust me! The New York Times and CNN will declare that you need intervention.

There will be hurtful descriptions of your mental failings. All these insinuations will come from the very sources that made a puppet out of you. You can stop them.

Concede! Renounce and demand that fraud be investigated. That will mark your legacy as a hero who stopped the election heist of 2020 and forever damn those who cynically manipulated you in order to regain their own power.

Or would you rather be a chump?

Joe Biden admits who he believes really won the 2020 election By Andrea Widburg

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/joe_biden_admits_who_he_believes_really_won_the_2020_election.html

One of the things elderly people are famous for is losing their filter, that little auto-edit in the brain that stops them from saying inappropriate things. Many lose their filter because they just don’t care (and good for them). Others, though, lose it because nature has cruelly attacked their brain function. The problem is exceptionally bad when the person wasn’t too bright or too filtered to begin with. And that brings us to Joe Biden, who just announced that Kamala Harris is the real President-elect.

You and I know that Donald Trump really won the election. (Here’s just a short list of reasons he won. It’s from a month ago and there’s even more evidence now.) Nevertheless, Mrs. Joe Biden (aka “Dr” Jill Biden) and Joe’s other handlers have told him that he won.

Now, Joe probably isn’t so far gone that he actually believes that’s true. After all, in another filter failure before the election, he admitted that the Democrat party had put together the “most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization” in American history. Considering that always reading from TelePrompters, that was his failing brain screaming out the truth.

Still, Joe’s excited about being sworn in as President of the United States, even if it means placing his hand on a Bible and lying that he “will to the best of [his] Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” (Anyone who is dedicated to enacting the hard-leftist agenda that defines the modern Democrat party and who willingly sold his country out to Ukraine and China to make a buck for himself is not preserving, protecting, or defending the Constitution.)

As I said, Joe’s excited but there’s a little subliminal knot of anxiety gnawing away at him. He knows, of course, that Donald Trump really won the election and Joe merely appears to have won only because of that “extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization.”

Fight or surrender By Carol Brown

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/fight_or_surrender.html

There are lots of words to describe how we feel right now.  None of them is good.  It seems the left has checkmated us at every turn.

But we must shake the victim mentality.  It is the antithesis of what it means to be an American.

No matter how overwhelmed we feel and no matter how daunting or hopeless our options may seem, we must fight for this country.  We can do it en masse on January 6.

As a brief aside: For those who want to fight but only if victory is assured, I recommend disconnecting those two things.  We can only fight onward, never knowing when, or if, we will be victorious.

If we don’t fight, then we have surrendered.  Those are the options.  Pick one.

If we don’t fight because we feel tired, discouraged, and hopeless, then we don’t do justice to all who came before us — to all who risked their lives to build and protect this nation and define what it means to be an American.

Please turn down the volume in your brain that wants to say something snarky and cynical.  We don’t have the luxury of such thinking.

President Trump has been fighting for us for four years — f

DOJ Researcher Releases Study Indicating Massive Election Fraud in Georgia and Pennsylvania By Debra Heine

https://amgreatness.com/2020/12/29/doj-researcher-releases-study-indicating-massive-election-fraud-in-georgia-and-pennsylvania/

A researcher at the Department of Justice on Tuesday released a 25-page report indicating a high probability of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. World-renown economist John Lott Ph.D., examined election results from Pennsylvania and Georgia, as well as potential election fraud in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin.

“This paper’s approach allows us to quantify how large a potential problem vote fraud and other abnormalities might be in the 2020 election,” Dr. Lott wrote.

White House advisor Peter Navarro heralded Lott’s study results on Twitter:

Navarro released his own study of six contested states earlier this month, alleging “a coordinated strategy” to steal the election, “or unfairly tilt the playing field in favor of the Biden-Harris ticket.”

Lott’s study compared Fulton County Georgia’s precincts to similar precincts in neighboring counties that had no allegations of fraud. The purpose of the exercise, Lott wrote, was “to isolate the impact of Fulton county’s vote-counting process (including potential fraud).”

In 2016, there was little difference between Fulton County and its surrounding counties, according to Lott. But in 2020, with  controls for demographic and in-person voting variables, he found that President Trump’s percentage of absentee votes was 7.81 percent lower in Fulton county than precincts in neighboring counties.

In measuring the difference in President Trump’s vote share of the absentee ballots for these adjacent precincts, we account for the difference in his vote share of the in-person voting and the difference in registered voters’ demographics. The best estimate shows an unusual 7.81% drop in Trump’s percentage of the absentee ballots for Fulton County alone of 11,350 votes, or over 80% of Biden’s vote lead in Georgia.

The Virus Is Not Invincible, But It’s Exposing Who’s Irreplaceable Victor Davis Hanson

https://amgreatness.com/2020/12/29/the-virus-is-not-invincible-but-its-exposing-whos-irreplaceable-2/

When your refrigerator goes out under quarantine and your supplies begin to rot, do you really need another rant from Maxine Waters?

In all the gloom and doom, and media-driven nihilism, there is actually an array of good news. As many predicted, as testing spreads, and we get a better idea of the actual number and nature of cases, the death rate from coronavirus slowly but also seems to steadily decline.

Early estimates from the World Health Organization and the modeling of pessimists of a constant 4 percent death rate for those infected with the virus are for now proving exaggerated for the United States. More likely, as testing spreads, our fatality rates could descend to near 1 percent.

There is some evidence from Germany and to a lesser extent South Korea, that it may be possible to see the fatality rate dip below 1 percent. And with the breathing space from the lockdown, better hygiene (the degree of constant and near-obsessive cleaning at businesses that are still open is quite amazing), more knowledge and data, better medical protocols, the use of some efficacious drugs, warmer weather, and experience with the disease will, in perfect-storm fashion, begin to mitigate the effects of the virus.

Should we get the lethality rate down to German levels (currently two to three in 1,000), then we can cautiously assume that those who predicted that the coronavirus could eventually be contextualized as a bad, H1N1-like flu will no longer be demonized as nuts, and life can resume with reasonable precautions and focused quarantines and isolation.

In two or three weeks, if we can just allow most businesses to reopen, gear up to pandemic testing, track cases and contacts in the manner of past protocols that lessened polio, tuberculosis, AIDS, and measles outbreaks, and focus on the ill and elderly, then the economy will reboot.

But now the current economy is starting to resemble a patient in an induced coma, one whom no one knows whether he will recover after the respirator is disconnected. But still, there are reasons for optimism: historically low interest rates will eventually encourage bit-ticket buying.

After any war or national crisis, confidence soars with collective relief and people go out to eat, travel, buy, and consume. Airlines, and the entire commercial and private transportation sector, will receive a multi-billion-dollar subsidy in radically reduced gas and diesel prices. The same holds true for the utilities.

China Using Covid to Overtake America’s Economy by Gordon G. Chang

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16902/china-covid-economy

China’s economy is worse than it appears, and its vaccines, needed for a full recovery, are still in development, far behind America’s. In the meantime, Beijing’s response to the coronavirus, which includes the smearing of America, is resulting in China losing friends worldwide.

Government stimulus is powering much of the current growth as are net exports. Yet the current “flood of defaults” in China points to widespread weakness. Beijing’s spending spree, therefore, is not sustainable, even with the help of foreign investment.

Ultimately, the economy will recover only when China has an effective and safe vaccine. Although the Chinese have had months of head start, they are far behind America.

China is fast losing support in capitals around the world. It is not hard to figure out why. Chinese ruler Xi Jinping deliberately spread the virus beyond China’s borders — by lying about the transmissibility of the disease and, while locking down Wuhan, forcing countries to take arrivals from China — and others are now starting to understand the maliciousness of the Communist Party. Moreover, they are learning about its venality. For instance, China this spring sold Italy medical protective gear that Italians had donated to Beijing a few weeks earlier.

The U.K.-based Centre for Economics and Business Research believes that, due to China’s superior response to COVID-19, the Chinese economy will become the world’s largest by 2028, five years earlier than previously forecast.

“For some time, an overarching theme of global economics has been the economic and soft power struggle between the United States and China,” the Centre wrote in a December 26 report. “The COVID-19 pandemic and corresponding economic fallout have certainly tipped this rivalry in China’s favor.”

No, it has not. In fact, the opposite looks to be true. The Centre’s prediction, which mimics one of Beijing’s narratives, is more than just premature. It is based on fundamentally wrong assumptions.