November 21, 2020

Takin’ it to the Streets

Back in the bicentennial year of 1976, the Doobie Brothers sang:

I ain’t blind and I don’t like what I think I see
Takin’ it to the streets

In 2020, the American people ain’t blind, and they don’t like what they’re seeing from almost every one of their so-called leaders and ‘institutions’ regarding the presidential election of 2020.

The next step: the American people are going to take this to the streets. Rallies like America has never seen, growing in size and intensity (and with patriotism, not violence, as their guiding force) in probably every state in the country, and in multiple cities in every state — are going to take place until President Trump is rightly declared the winner of the election.

The American people voted in the outsider Donald Trump in 2016. And since then, they ain’t been blind. They saw:

A Russia collusion hoax, with a ruling class-organized star chamber prosecution called the Mueller investigation, engineered by America’s ruling class institutions through leaks and falsified documents and the framing of innocent people (Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, and Roger Stone) and with the MSM in obvious cahoots — all for the purpose of taking down the unwelcome outsider.
An impeachment hoax, with Obama holdovers at the Department of Defense and State Department fabricating charges against Donald Trump to accomplish the dual purpose of taking down Trump while covering up for Joe and Hunter Biden’s obvious, egregious corruption.
A pandemic that’s moving more and more toward hoax territory. With CDC-documented recovery rates at over 99+% for almost everyone besides the very aged and infirm, why is it being treated, especially by Democrat/leftist governors, as if it is the bubonic plague?

But if the pandemic is seen as vehicle to destroy a vibrant economy that would otherwise assure Trump’s re-election and a perfect tool to legitimize mail-in balloting as another tool of voting fraud to control the 2020 election, it starts to make sense, not as a public health crisis, but as the latest manufactured coup attempt.

An election campaign where President Trump could draw capacity crowds of up to 60,000 or more people to an airport in any state on 48 hours’ notice, while Joe Biden couldn’t draw 25 people to any event anywhere.
Election night behavior by the MSM and Dem-controlled swing states that simply does not pass the smell test. President Trump was running away with another solid Electoral College victory, when ‘stop-the-counting’ suddenly popped up in all the critical states. And lo and behold, in the days following November 3^rd, mail-in ballots erased Trump’s leads by just the right amount — sometimes with the great fortuity of receiving a batch of 100,000+ votes, all for Biden, and all voted onlyfor Biden (no down-ballot votes recorded).
Election results where (1) not one incumbent ‘R’ House member lost; (2) 16 out of 17 so-called ‘bellwether’ counties that have voted for the eventual presidential winner in every election for the past 36 years voted for Trump; and (3) 27 House races rated by the ‘experts’ as ‘toss ups’ went for the ‘R’ candidate — in all 27 races.

Americans by the millions are not going to ‘unsee’ any of this. And when they put it all together, they know for an absolute certainty that they, the American people, did not elect Joe Biden as President. They know Biden did not get the most votes in the history of American presidential candidates. They know President Trump won re-election.

And now they are hearing about Dominion Voting Systems (whose management is suddenly nowhere to be found?) and Smartmatic and Venezuela and Barcelona and Frankfurt, and they are hearing from Sidney Powell and Lin Wood and others, and what they sense is that the 2020 election fraud is a product of Swamp-directed or Swamp-accommodated malfeasance on a scale they can barely comprehend, with the express purpose of taking down their country and putting it under the control of leftists and globalists, aka, of rulers of men.

The American people are over-the-top irate at what is being done to them and their country in election 2020. They have been awakened, just as they were awakened after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. They are the ‘sleeping giant’ the Japanese rightly feared.

The Swamp should be afraid, too. There is no force quite like a fully awakened and righteously indignant 80 million-member swath of irate, patriotic Americans. Clever lawyers and legal arguments and political hack judges can’t put them down; the MSM and Big Tech cannot silence them or make them go away or convince them to move on. And the whole world is about to see them take to the streets until their will is implemented.

Joe Biden might achieve a measure of redemption for his colossally corrupt political career by acknowledging what the American people now see… and conceding the election.

That’s obviously not likely to happen. Joe Biden was never more than a controllable puppet to implement the ‘fundamental transformation’ that the left had designed for America but that Donald Trump interrupted and then threatened to destroy. But we can always hope — if Biden could awaken from his own puppet stupor and do the right thing, he might save the country a lot of heartache, or worse.

In the meantime, watch the streets of America in the coming weeks. We the People are not done with protecting and preserving this country.

November 21, 2020

Why the Status Quo Wants Trump Out
By Jay Latimer

I confess to having been utterly naïve. I had wondered why on Earth the business community would prefer a frail and corrupt president Biden over a pro-business president Trump. Trump has a track record of economic growth and stands for lower regulations and taxes, fairer international trade, and a stronger military. Biden wants to increase taxes and regs and put in place a number of new initiatives like the Green New Deal that might bankrupt the economy. But Wall Street, the tech industry, and many more backed Biden, while even many GOP congressmen seemed lukewarm to Trump.

The choice for Trump seemed so obvious, what was I missing?

The difference is the status quo. A lot of people make lots of money the way things are now. They constitute a powerful force that seeks to get rid of inconvenient obstacles — especially a serial disruptor like President Trump.

Let’s take Amgen, for example. A biopharmaceutical company, Amgen has annual revenues of $23 billion with profits of $7.8 billion. Much of Amgen’s sales and profitability are dictated by rules and regulations set by the U.S. government. Much of Amgen’s ability to access its consumers is through the U.S. government’s auspices, whether it be FDA drug approvals, Medicare drug pricing, or other controlling regulations.

So if you were Amgen, and you relied on the U.S. government for much of your revenue, how much would you be willing to spend each year on lobbying in Washington? Certainly $1 million would be a drop in the bucket compared to that $7.8 billion in profits. Would you spend $5 million, $10 million? What if there was important legislation underway, like another health care overhaul? Might you want to increase your lobbyist spending further into the hundreds of millions?

Amgen was picked at random. It’s only the seventh largest health care company, and every such company in the top 20 has annual profits over $2 billion. Each has its own budget for lobbyists, all likely in the many millions of dollars. That’s a lot of money allocated to lobbyists!

And this is only for health care. What about other industries, like defense contracting, that rely primarily on U.S. government purchases? General Dynamics Corp. is the sixth largest such contractor with $19.5 billion in annual sales. In 2019, it signed a $5.1-billion contract with the U.S. government to develop a prototype submarine.

What annual budget do you think General Dynamics Corp. has for lobbyists? A 5% commission of that one contract alone would amount to $255 million.

Multiply all of these numbers by the myriad other industries that seek to obtain or maintain advantages with the U.S. government, and you might come to a shocking conclusion. The amount of potential money for lobbyists in Washington, D.C. is almost limitless. And it will likely only get bigger.

It’s no wonder that the counties around Washington, D.C. have the highest per capita income in the nation!

Not all of this is necessarily nefarious; there is a reasonable and useful role for lobbyists. One of the prime roles of our government is to create regulations that control various industries. It’s only proper for those industries to seek input into the drafting of these regulations, as bureaucrats may not fully understand the industries they seek to regulate. There should be input from business into the process.

But this advisory role for lobbyists has morphed into a situation where the lobbyists are actually in control of the lawmaking process. No longer content with commenting on legislation, lobbyists are now the ones who actually write the laws passed by Congress. Not only do they control the legislative process, but they provide the funds that enable the elected lawmakers to return to office. It’s no surprise that, once elected, lawmakers keep getting elected, as, having invested in them, the status quo wants them back in. Once a congressman is paid for, his backers make sure he gets re-elected.

Joe Biden has been riding this gravy train for 47 years.

But it’s not just the lobbyists and companies that want the status quo. Perhaps the most pernicious influence is the revolving door connecting Congress, government, and industries. A relatively low-paid government apparatchik can jump to a lucrative lobbying position at five times his salary. An elected official turned lobbyist can easily command a seven-figure income. Senior bureaucrats can get huge payouts for obtaining lucrative government contracts, like FBI director James Comey, who made six million dollars in his last year at Lockheed Martin.

Major corporations have billions tied up in lobbying efforts, which in turn affects trillions in income. It’s reasonable to assume that they want some kind of return on their investment. Congressmen also like the status quo as it provides the funds to keep them in office. Washington bureaucrats like it, too, because that’s the pot of gold they seek to cash in on after years of government service.

What these powerful lobbyists, congressmen, and bureaucrats do not want is an outsider like Donald J. Trump parachuting in and disrupting the whole cozy relationship. Why spend millions and billions of dollars on lobbying if some shoot-from-the-hip self-proclaimed populist thinks he has a better idea?

Trump looks at these interconnected relationships and asks inconvenient questions, like how all this affects the average American. No one is supposed to be thinking that way.

Trump doesn’t play the game. Biden is the ultimate player. Seen that way, the choice is obvious.

Given Biden’s commitment to the status quo, it becomes clear why these powerful forces are more than willing to overlook his obvious shortcomings. One would think having Hunter Biden taking millions in apparent bribes from China, Ukraine, and Russia would immediately disqualify Biden for any higher elected office. But rather than investigate these obviously sleazy dealings, the corporate media did their best to cover them up.

In fact, in this light, Biden’s weaknesses can be seen as strengths. The more his mental health deteriorates, the easier it is to control him. Ditto for his sleazy foreign entanglements, which simultaneously show that (1) he knows how to play the game and (2) he can be compromised. Kamala Harris is an ideal nonentity as a V.P., utterly without executive or foreign policy experience, and so the perfect puppet for lobbyists and swamp-dwellers.

So let’s recap: these powerful companies don’t want a level playing field; they want the advantages they paid good money for. They don’t want fewer regulations because they wrote the regulations themselves! And the weaker the executive, the better they can control him.

When Trump says he want to drain the swamp, what he’s really saying is that he will take millions of hard-earned lobbying dollars out of the pockets of major corporations that are expecting billions of dollars of influence in return. These companies have spent decades building up this influence, and voting for Trump will negate all that.

No wonder they will stop at nothing to take Trump down.

November 21, 2020

The Trump Team’s Real Strategy

By Sally Zelikovsky

To endure the Democrat-Media Complex’s blackout of any discussion of credible allegations of voter fraud or election rigging is tough enough. But watching the conservative media grapple with the Trump team’s claims of election fraud as presented by Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and Rudi Giuliani is downright dizzying. In stark contrast to the analysis provided daily by Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, is the stultifying commentary by Tucker Carlson and, let’s say, a has-been who never was like Erick Erickson. I’m no Pollyanna and I do not have any insider information about the current state of the election, but I would like to tamp down a bit on the hysteria with my own perspective.

On November 19th, Tucker Carlson went into a Diva-style tirade about Sidney Powell’s failure to produce any evidence substantiating her claims that the election was corrupted by the Dominion voting system and whined about her refusal to go on his show and PRODUCE! THE! EVIDENCE! Trust me when I say conservatives were flipping out when Carlson went down this road. Expect his ratings to dip.

Then, Erick Erickson wrote “Nope” in which he lists Trump’s legal team failures in battleground courts — affiants walking back claims, Trump’s counsel admitting to a lack of substantiating evidence for fraud claims and walking back fraud allegations before the court, asking for recounts but not in counties that used Dominion, and failing to provide evidence in sufficient numbers to make a difference.

Further proof of Erickson’s conclusion that we aren’t dealing in the realm of fact but uncredible conspiracy theory, is Sidney Powell’s failure to provide evidence of her fanciful claims regarding Dominion, Hugo Chavez, Smartmatic, Clinton, and Soros.

At this point, I find this both deeply harmful and bordering on malicious. I would not be surprised if Dominion Voter Systems files a defamation claim against them. My suspicion is that this is payback for the Democrats’ treatment of Trump after 2016 and a whole lot of people want to be lied to and will believe it all despite zero evidence.

So, what’s really going on here? Sidney Powell is a legal force to be reckoned with and a courageous one at that. She is not only a fearless appellate expert but cut her litigation teeth in the late 70s when few women were in the field and those who were had to be light-years smarter than the brightest, most accomplished men. It took courage to throw yourself into a practice dominated by men and still retain your femininity.

Powell’s reputation is hard fought and she has a legacy of taking on unsavory characters and achieving justice for her clients. That’s a true American heroine — not someone who is incompetent, let alone reckless. Hers is not the profile of someone who would bluff her way through something that goes to the heart of our democracy and is bound to be in the history books. Moreover, there are penalties for bringing frivolous suits under both federal and state laws. She would never throw her career away on a whim with no purpose.

Moreover, lawyers do not tip their hand to a preening press or public. Revealing evidence prematurely gives the opposition opportunity to tamper with it and undermine the president’s case. No one is owed that information just because they want it. In due course, the evidence will be presented before a court so cool your jets, boys.

I, too, have been baffled by the state court misses and can understand why people might conclude that Rudy and Lin Wood may be past their prime. But we should dig a little deeper into these state court cases and look at them from the point of view of strategy.

First, let me just dismiss outright any claims that Rudy is incompetent. He may not be the guy he was in his 40s, but he certainly isn’t daft like Joe Biden. There was concern during the impeachment hearings when he did not appear to be at his best on late night news shows and rumors suggested it might have something to do with late-night appearances after dinner and a few drinks at his club. I have no idea, but it would explain why he is fine during the daytime. In fact, you can hear Rudy on 77 WABC talk radio in New York for an hour at 3 p.m. and I assure you he is quite cogent.

Assuming Rudy is not a dunderhead, I suspect the state court strategy (including all the legal maneuverings withdrawing and initiating suits) is about buying time and deflection — using the system to launch suits that knowingly do not have a high degree of success but take time.

This keeps everyone on their toes. While attention is paid to the legal maneuverings around relatively insignificant cases, the real heavy lifting is going on with Sidney Powell’s leg of the investigation. Her claims involve broad, systemic fraud that could affect tens and hundreds of thousands of votes, maybe even millions. The state cases are penny-ante dalliances that might or might not have legs but, in any event, won’t change much in terms of the vote count. They do provide Powell with the cover she needs for a deep dive into these systems and gives her time to uncover the evidence Tucker Carlson and Erick Erickson feel entitled to have yesterday.

Watch this hand, while the other hand is doing its magic. Trump is known for his three-dimensional chess tactics. This could be just that.

Assuming there is evidence, that doesn’t mean it is sufficient to turn the election or throw it to the Congress. Trump still might lose. At the very least, he will have outed the undeniable corruption in our election system and sown doubt as to the legitimacy of a Biden/Harris administration — all which helps with the Georgia run-offs, the mid-terms, and a Trump campaign in 2024.

As to the claims that this is all a bluff or a conspiracy, one must ask who gains what? Trump’s attorneys have everything to lose, including their licenses for a scam on the American public. Nor does the President have anything to gain. If all for the sake of nothing, he would certainly look the fool — even to his supporters. It would further fracture our trust in the system, destroy the GOP and our chances in the Georgia run-offs, the mid-terms, and 2024. Trump would leave office like a wrecking ball, proving that the left and #NeverTrumpers were right about him all along. No one who plays three-dimensional chess would walk headfirst into such a colossal blunder.

Let’s hold onto what our reason tells us is happening and see where we are come December 14^th which, in political years, is an eternity.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/the_trump_teams_real_strategy.html