Month: November 2020

Is Your Seatbelt Still Fastened?

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It’s the Monday after Thanksgiving. As many predicted, since November 4th what we’ve seen is a S#$% Show. I have been glued to my go-to channels trying to decipher every move being made by the adversaries in what I believe amounts to a battle for the soul of our nation.

Things are moving so fast and are so confusing it’s difficult to keep up. Take for example what happened in Georgia yesterday. Learning that election officials planned to wipe the November 3rd election data from the voting machines Team Trump filed for an emergency injunction in Federal Court to stop what would have amounted to destruction of evidence. The judge granted the injunction. The Leftist defendants went into action and within a couple of hours the judge reversed his decision on a technicality. The Parler-sphere (what used to be the Twitter-sphere) exploded crying “foul”! Late last night the judge reversed again, slapping the injunction back on. Can you imagine the frenzy of lawyers crowded around the bench in the courtroom arguing this? AND THIS IS JUST ONE STATE!

I don’t really know where this is going to end up. I said months ago that the Democrats’ strategy was to create chaos and run out the clock. That’s precisely what they did in what in retrospect looks like a truly spy-novel-worthy way. In my head and heart I cannot nor will I ever believe that Joe Biden won the election. As jubilant as the Left is that he did, I don’t even think THEY believe it, even less perhaps than we did when Trump won in 2016!

Proving Trump won and Biden lost, or at least reaching the Supreme Court with evidence that the whole election was sufficiently tainted that a so-called “contingent election” is absolutely necessary (see Article 2, Section 1 and the 12th Amendment) is a legal and political cat and mouse game played in a labyrinth. If the State legislatures don’t step up sufficiently to represent the people’s true wishes, I hope and pray SCOTUS will look beyond deadline dates and technicalities to save our nation from what would be the greatest debacle and injustice ever perpetrated on the American people.

Yesterday, I penned a letter to the Supreme Court Justices that I published on Parler. It summarizes where I am at this point.

Dear SCOTUS Justices,

The vast majority of Americans know the Nov 3rd election was fraught with irregularities and violations of state and federal statutes at least, and at worst, unprecedented fraud. We are at a huge disadvantage trying to ferret out the truth of who honestly won the election. We want justice but are ill-equipped to seek and obtain it given the complexities of our judicial system. Justice would consist of a transparent and honest audit of the results, or if that is impossible, proceeding forth with a contingent election per Article Two, Section 1, clause 3 and the 12th Amendment. Either can only happen if YOU decide they can.

Please search your hearts and minds, setting aside all legal technicalities, as to what is best for our nation. As our third branch of government, we implore you to take it upon yourselves to do what is right for our country.

Sincerely and with respect,

Grumps & The American People

Thanksgiving 2020

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It’s difficult to toss out the words “Happy Thanksgiving” today. Today, while we have much to be grateful for, we also have much to be alarmed, appalled, astonished and angry about! How many of us have turned ‘2020’ into an expletive and said something to the effect of “Can’t wait till 2021!”

On this Thanksgiving Day let’s not forget:

1) It was Lincoln, our first Republican President, who established the last Thursday in November as a holiday “for Thanksgiving and Praise”;

2) The Republican Party was founded as an ANTI-SLAVERY party, i.e. on the principle of FREEDOM for all.

Today, our freedom is blatantly under attack by bureaucrats who think they will help us by denying us freedom and making us increasingly reliant on THEM.

We have been bleeding freedom from a thousand cuts through my lifetime. Today as my wife and I sit down to dinner WITHOUT OUR FAMILY AROUND US we will try to remember the freedoms we still have, but we will mourn those we’ve lost. Tomorrow, with renewed courage, I for one will continue to do everything in my power to fight the metastatic cancer of totalitarianism, collectivism, the Nanny State, in short, LEFTISM, that is palpably rampant throughout our republic.

May freedom-loving, self-reliant, hardworking, God-fearing and charitable American patriots everywhere be thankful for what freedoms we have left and valiantly stand shoulder-to-shoulder together in this fight against against Evil, encroaching tyranny, and the “enemies foreign and domestic” trying to “fundamentally transform” our nation and society!

And may God bless America in this time of crisis!

Goodbye Wall Street Journal

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I’ve been a Wall Street Journal subscriber for over fifty (!) years. Today I cancelled my subscription. The paper has been exhibiting increasing left-wing bias for some time now, and today a straw broke the camel’s back. It was a headline that appeared on my iPhone something to the effect of, “Trump moves ahead with transition to Biden after weeks of delay.”

It was that gratuitous, sniveling, “after weeks of delay” that really angered me. Not only was the WSJ among the first to start calling Biden the President Elect, but the editorial content and articles it has published concerning the election have virtually all capitulated to the Leftist, “woke” script. I can’t take it anymore.

The Journal used to be a voice of conservatism and while I understand that the Trump phenomenon has undermined the traditional support of corporate and financial America for the Republican Party, never would I have suspected that the WSJ would abandon the vast Silent Majority in an attempt to keep in the good graces of big business.

Here’s where the GOP rift now occurs. It’s big business against the upper middle, middle and working-modest-means population, what I will call America Firsters , a HUGE swath of our country! The WSJ is betting that it can ignore them while genuflecting in front of the multinational corporations.

I know something about this. I was a multinational and merchant banker for many years. While American based multinational banks and corporations started out as AMERICAN companies stretching their business models abroad, they have become something else. They have become TRANSNATIONAL businesses, with their focus almost exclusively on the top and bottom lines.

The Wall Street Journal has followed suit.

I support big business. Without it we would never have the defense and energy capabilities we now have. But Big Tech, and Big Pharma, and Big Banking…sorry, but you’ve lost me.

I will from this point forth be getting my financial news and data from other sources: the less they are tied to Big (aka Fake News) Media and the more independent they are, the better. These include Newsmax, One America News, Zero Hedge and direct market quotes form the exchanges. I’ll still listen, for the moment, to Maria Bartiromo, Stu Varney, Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, but whether I continue to do so remains to be seen.

May God bless America!

More On the Coronavirus Hoax

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From one of our readers regarding the comments by Canadian Dr. Roger Hodkinson stating COVID-19 is the “Greatest hoax every perpetuated on an unsuspecting public.“

“Perfect example of the “silent majority” position. Funny enough, we’re not silent because we want to be anymore, we’re silent b/c we’re censored, shamed by (I like the term he used) virtue signaling, and (frankly) bullying. Intelligent people know damn well that if you buck and the left targets you – you can lose your credibility, your livelihood, your freedom and it’s extremely tough to put that at risk. The media has become the Leftist’s version of the Gestapo. You didn’t “Heil Hitler” you were suspect and could be thrown in jail or worse. You don’t wear a mask…well, how far are we from being tossed in a cell for that? And that’s just one example…

Yet, right-thinking, logical people are the “fascists”.

Dan Crenshaw is calling and he’d like me to apply for Texas residency. Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott are recruiting me too.”

“Ch Ch Ch Changes…”

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Count Me Among the Stawarts

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None, and I mean none of the cable or broadcast news media question the outcome of the election anymore. “President Elect Joe Biden continues to forge ahead with plans for his cabinet despite unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud by Trump,” is typical of the banter one hears. The tsunami of fait accompli saturating the airwaves drowns out the 70 plus million of us who are seeing with our own eyes the affidavits alleging fraud and the investigative reporting that provides further evidence of Leftist malfeasance. Add to them our intuition that there’s no way that the weak, demented and corrupt Joe Biden received 78 million legitimate votes, more than Hillary Clinton and more than any candidate in history! And finally, don’t try to convince me that Joe Biden “ran away with the election” when the down ballot results showing wins in highly competitive races and gains in the House and state legislatures were all in the Republicans’ favor.

I’ve said before, here and on Parler, that I will not concede or accept Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the President and Vice-President elect until either the House says so in a contingent election, the Supreme Court decides by rule of law, or Trump himself concedes.

So count me among the stalwarts who don’t believe the election “results” and hope, pray and in my gut believe that Trump did indeed win in a landslide only to have been declared the loser by a corrupt media and due to fraudulent voting, and that either the courts or state legislatures will do the right thing and ensure the true winner is inaugurated in January.

Count me among the citizens of this country who welcomed the reversals of Obama/Biden-era regulations, weakness, capitulation to adversaries and attempts to “fundamentally transform” our nation, and among those who, despite unease and sometimes even revulsion at Trump’s style and methods, believed and still believe his actions vastly improved our country and set us on a course back to the top of the hill and peace and prosperity for all.

Count me among those who do NOT believe there is systemic racism in our country and who are infuriated by the rioting and looting and desecration we see in our cities, as well as the physical assaults with impunity on those who support Trump.

And count me among those skeptics who look at the coronavirus data and see how it has been manipulated and exploited to achieve political ends, and among those who are sickened by the tyrannical, short-sighted diktats of state and local despots hypocritically imposing lockdowns and mask-wearing to the destruction of so many businesses and livelihoods and the detriment of our school children and their families.

Count me among those who are not so stupid as to think that if all 300 million or so guns in the United States were taken off the streets tomorrow, there would be no more gun violence. Common sense tells us that within a few days there would be hundreds if not thousands of guns back on the streets, in the hands of criminals.

Count me among those who have turned off professional sports because of its genuflection to “wokeness”. What a load of horse you know what!

Count me among those who want smaller, not larger government and who want lower, not higher taxes.

Count me among those who have seen the good our country has done around the world and who stand at attention with their hands over their hearts when the flag goes by or ‘Taps’ are played.

Count me among those who believe in God, that there is good and evil in the world, and who choose to try to do the former and eschew the latter.

And finally, count me among those who pray He will bless us in our endeavor to fight against and eradicate evil and gain back our rapidly eroding freedom.

Drama Drama Drama

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Have you noticed how low a profile President Trump is keeping, letting his lawyers and surrogates do the talking? He must be champing at the bit to get in front of the cameras and speak his mind! The fact that he isn’t to me screams that there is something very interesting going on behind the scenes. Setting aside all the posturing and incendiary headlines, my suspicion is that the Trump team is executing a strategy that is seeking to not just ensure he wins this election, but at the same time sets up the Left for a crippling and hopefully fatal defeat at all levels of government and society.

Kayleigh McEnany’s cryptic comment yesterday to the effect that Americans will hear from Trump “at the right moment”, also suggests that something is afoot. As we all know, often it’s what is not happening or being said that speaks louder than what is.

A weary friend asked me the other day, “What’s the strategy?” I have no inside information, but my reasoning is that first, the affidavits of eye-witnesses to the fraud will be collected, sworn, assembled and readied for presentation to the courts. These include affidavits of cyber-forensic experts regarding the biggest potential source of fraud, the voting machine software itself. While the Leftist media whines over and over again, “There’s no evidence of fraud,” this effort to collect the statements of eyewitnesses and affidavits is, by definition, evidence, and actionable in court! Next, presenting this evidence to the courts will trigger stays of the count, canvassing and certification processes. If not, they will be appealed while further evidence is collected.

This strategy is already working. The Pennsylvania judge who ruled that state officials exceeded their authority by extending the deadline for voters to cure their ballots by providing proof of identification was just one tiny step in a series of steps that must be taken to win the fight incrementally. Justice Alito’s order to segregate ballots in PA arriving after election day was another example.

Is there enough time? I’m no expert, but I believe there is so long as there are judges who can be awakened at night for injunctions. Can it reach the Supreme Court? I believe the step by step approach can and will be used until the time frame for action gets so small that an emergency hearing at the Court is available. God willing and the river don’t rise, the justices will say, “Hold on, there’s enough going on here we’d better look at this,” and stop everything so things can be sorted out. If the elector certifications get delayed, or the legislatures have to step in and override the contested election results to appoint the electors (see Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the Constitution), there’s a better than even probability, in my opinion, that Trump will prevail. Will the battle escalate further? Will the vilification increase to unbelievable proportions? Will threats and screams and potentially even violence ensue? Yes, but if this results in an outcome that reflects the LEGAL vote and thus the will of the people, it’ll be worth it.

Now that the number of eyewitnesses and sworn affidavits has become so large, the Left’s talking point is, “Well, it’s not widespread.” And just this morning there’s a new one, spoken by some obnoxious, belligerent & arrogant Democrat talking-head on Maria Bartiromo’s program, “The courts are rejecting Trump’s claims of fraud,” to which Maria threw the BS flag and with confidence and poise said, “That’s simply not true.” I can’t find a link to this exchange yet, but it was exemplary of the nonsense, histrionics and theater being perpetrated by the Left. The body language, shrillness of voice and faux-confidence of Maria’s guest reeked of insecurity!

Contrast this with Greg Jarrett’s cautious and measured analysis, a sampling available here. Or if you want a truly uplifting and combative while compelling argument, listen to an interview of Lin Wood by Howie Carr on Newsmax available here. Start listening to the recording at the 22 minute mark and I promise it’ll be time worth spent! Lin Wood, by the way, is an attorney working on the election fraud cases in Georgia. He’s also the lawyer defending Kyle Rittenhouse, the kid who shot those guys in Kenosha in self defense. I don’t know how much credence to place in his comments, but I hope and pray he’s right.

Finally, in his thoughtful and hopeful article on RedState entitled “If Anyone Can Win This Monumental Election Challenge, It’s Donald Trump” T. LaDuke concludes,

“This is the biggest test that Donald Trump — or any candidate for President — will have ever faced and it is one that looks somewhat insurmountable. I’m quite certain that any other GOP candidate for President would have already thrown in the towel to receive the accolades from the left on what a good boy they were. Donald Trump is not that type of person and I know that if anyone in the political world can do this it is the 45th President of the United States. I learned my lesson four years ago. This guy beats the odds and you should never bet against him.”

I’ve used the word “tsunami” many times as a sort of overstatement to describe the forces arrayed against Trump. Now, at this moment, it truly is apt and perhaps even an understatement. Do a search worded any way you like on the status of this election and you will be bombarded with the most intense gaslighting ever produced. “Done deal!” “Futile Attempt!” “Insurmountable Odds!” “Failed Challenges!” “Backlash Against Trump!” “Wild Theory!” and on and on blare the headlines.

As I’ve said before, if Trump loses in the courts, all the way up to the Supreme Court, I’ll accept the defeat. If he concedes, I’ll accept the defeat. But as long as he continues to fight, I’ll continue fighting as well!

REMAIN STEADFAST!

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Right about now the resolve of a whole lot of people who voted for Trump and GOP down- ballot candidates is waning. The propaganda bombardment to the effect that “Biden won” is starting to take its toll. Even pro Trump websites, pundits and journals are repeating the “President Elect” phrase albeit some with the caveat “if that’s how it turns out”. Repeating it at all, I submit, nonetheless contributes to the saturation. As far as I’m concerned, the title “Corrupt, Professional Politician Candidate with no Achievement, Cognitive Decline and Plainly Visible Marionette Attachment Points” is a more apt title. DON’T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN!

What will be will be.

If, as we hope, Trump emerges victorious and we’re able to further expose the Leftist cabal and agenda and what it tried to do in this election and over the last four years, then let’s “trust but verify” everything and everyone who claims to be on the Rght side and let’s not take off our “No More Mister Nice Guy” and MAGAA hats. Let’s continue to clean out the Swamp. Let’s advance the America First, patriotic, capitalist agenda and continue our slog up the slippery slope we’ve been headed down on for the past 50 years!

If, heaven forbid, we ascertain that Biden legitimately won, Trump concedes and Biden DOES become the President elect, let’s think about what an honest resistance looks and sounds like. The amount of damage Biden will do with Executive Orders, the reversal of so many good things instituted by the Trump administration, and the ceding of control to a truly radical, dangerous and anti-american element in his party will cause many of us to flirt with the concept of armed rebellion! (For the record, I’m NOT advocating this!) But we have to resist descending into the muck where bottom feeders like Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Nadler and the like, and idiot-fools like Harris, Ocasio-Cortez, Warren, and Sanders dwell, and we have to mount a counteroffensive to the cancer wrought by Big Tech and social media. We need to actively purge our educational system of the Leftist rot polluting our children’s minds…we’re seeing it now as we look over their shoulders on their school tablets.

It’s apparent to me that many of those who voted for Biden have the attention span of a gnat, are influenced not by facts and rational thinking but by sound bites and memes and heart-string pulls, appropriate music background and carefully selected, photo-shopped and edited visual aids. They are almost without exception gullible, indolent, self-absorbed, myopic and delusional people without patience and with selective memory. Or, they’re flat out arrogant, hyper-hypocritical, megalomaniacal, power-hungry totalitarians to whom the rules don’t apply and who are largely unaffected by what goes on in Washington or the halls of their state capitols.

PLEASE RESIST THE LEFTIST PROPAGANDA TSUNAMI !

PLEASE RESIST HANGING ON EVERY WORD AND MESSAGE THAT EMANATES EITHER FROM YOUR PHONE OR THE TELEVISION SCREEN !

ESCHEW BOTH EUPHORIA AND DESPAIR ! STAY FROSTY AS THIS THING PLAYS OUT !

BY ALL MEANS, SUPPRESS ANY SPIRITUAL MALAISE YOU MAY BE FEELING AS THE DAYS AND WEEKS DRAG ON WITHOUT ANY “BOMBSHELLS” OR “SILVER BULLETS” !

REMAIN STEADFAST !

What Now

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“It ain’t over till it’s over”. The fireworks and dancing on stage in front of a handful of people after Biden was “projected” to have won the election was meant to create the perception that it’s a fait accompli. The grossly premature announcements by the Biden camp of how he will assemble a COVID task force on Monday, in other words, “get right to work” to be the President of All America is meant to serve the same purpose. Virtually everything saturating the air is just another ploy to demoralize, beat and steamroll us into submission. Difficult as it may be, ignore it!

Like I said, I’m not conceding anything until Trump does. While I am sick to my stomach about how the media, including Fox, are behaving as if this is a fait accompli, I try not to pay attention to them and continue to pray, hope and argue that ultimately the Supreme Court will be called upon to settle the matter, or the House, using the rule one-state-one-vote. If the former, I’ll accept what a conservative majority Court decides. If the latter, Trump will win because red states outnumber blue states.

In my opinion, the only thing the Trump campaign is doing wrong is putting Giuliani and some of these other known commodities out front on this. We need a new spokesman, one respected (at least nominally) by both sides, one who is beyond reproach. Maybe a Jonathan Turley? David Boise also comes to mind. There may be someone better but whomever they pick, part of the strategy needs to be winning the public relations battle, and we need a fresh face to expose the fraud, conduct the recounts and audits and/or lead the petition for a redo of the election. It ain’t over yet, but the Left, including all of its components, are trying to ram this thing down our throats, and I and I’m sure countless others are not buying what they’re selling. I hope the Trump team isn’t either and in addition to the legal efforts, start to counter with statements like the one yesterday:

“We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him: they don’t want the truth to be exposed. The simple fact is this election is far from over. Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor. In Pennsylvania, for example, our legal observers were not permitted meaningful access to watch the counting process.  Legal votes decide who is president, not the news media.

“Beginning Monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the rightful winner is seated. The American People are entitled to an honest election: that means counting all legal ballots, and not counting any illegal ballots. This is the only way to ensure the public has full confidence in our election. It remains shocking that the Biden campaign refuses to agree with this basic principle and wants ballots counted even if they are fraudulent, manufactured, or cast by ineligible or deceased voters. Only a party engaged in wrongdoing would unlawfully keep observers out of the count room – and then fight in court to block their access. 

“So what is Biden hiding? I will not rest until the American People have the honest vote count they deserve and that Democracy demands.”

– President Donald J. Trump”

If we can put forth such a spokesman and Trump can stay disciplined long enough to listen to his advisors and not step on his own tongue, letting the legal beagles do their thing, there’s a strong possibility the truth will come out and if, as I believe and 70 million of our fellow citizens also believe, that when all the legal ballots are counted and the illegal ones rejected Trump won, we’ll have our answer. If after exhausting all remedies Trump has lost, he’ll concede, as graciously as Trump can, as will I, and we’ll move to our own honest (not manifestly dishonest) “resistance” against the new administration.

In either case, I from this day forth will be trying hard to figure out how to hold the media and their institutional accomplices accountable for their supreme dishonesty and lack of integrity. For starters, I personally already left social media (except for Parler) long ago, including: Facebook, Twitter and Linked In, have changed my browser to Firefox and my default search engine to BING from Google. In the coming days I will be doing everything I can to wean off Gmail. Microsoft, while still Left biased, for the moment still seems to be less so than Google. I will also be exploring ways to reduce my reliance on the internet and cable tv for information. For the moment, I still monitor Twitter using the ‘handle’ @GrumpsReport and occasionally “tweet” but I can only take it in very small doses.

I have also started to study the laws surrounding elections in general: local, state and federal to see what can be done with fighting on in THIS election, as well as joining the groundswell of those who will demand our election process be reformed. For starters, I recommend perusing the website: https://ballotpedia.org. It seems to have the least biased reporting on the election and sections on what happens in the future depending on how each domino falls. It also discusses how a REDO petition could be mounted.

Finally, I will continue to speak out on GrumpsReport. Since starting the blog last year, the number of visitors and readership has grown steadily, without any promotion. Judging from the feedback I’ve received, I hope it continues to have a positive impact and contributes something useful to the discourse.

As I’ve been saying for months, barring fraud, Trump would win in a landslide. I stand by that statement. I have to. That half of our voting public could either: a) support Biden and all that his candidacy represented or b) hate Trump so much, is distressing and saddening. If he wins, it will be because the American people will have successfully pushed back an unprecedented onslaught from the Leftist foes and addled, somnolent or deluded lemmings arrayed against us.  If he loses, I for one will ache for what could have been, Trump will have helped stall and reverse our descent down the slippery slope and the America First movement will continue, perhaps more galvanized than ever.

This country was built on traditional values of right and wrong and above-all, freedom. Occasionally, over the years, through self-examination, we corrected wrongs, injustices and mistakes, but it has still done more to lift more people up throughout the world than any other nation in history. It has been grievously wounded by all that has occurred in recent decades, including this disgrace of an election, but it will heal again.

The S#*@ Show

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I’ll try to avoid using the words fraud and steal in this post. It will be difficult. Here’s the crux of the debacle that was the election this year. Just as was trumpeted well before November 3rd, the process by which votes were solicited, collected, processed and counted was exposed to be woefully deficient. It is worthy of a banana republic, not the greatest and most technologically advanced nation in the world. What’s worse, and critical in a divided nation and close election, is an inability to verify the validity of both the voters and the votes.

It starts with voter identification. In too many places, one has only to show up with a driver’s license (or official substitute), fill out an affidavit, and be registered to vote on the spot. The voter registration form – the California form example is reproduced below as an example, has the applicant affirm he or she is a U.S. Citizen, etc.

When one fills out this form, even if a drivers license or social security card is presented, neither of which requires one to be a citizen, for identification, no positive evidence of citizenship is required. Sure, the applicant is committing perjury by signing the form, but you’d have to be truly naive to think that unqualified persons actually pay attention to that certification. If you’re here illegally, or are not a citizen, do you really fear enforcement? Of course not.

Nowhere is this flaw in our system more apparent than in the motor voter and same-day-registration. It’s no wonder the Left wants to allow illegal aliens in. Even before they are wholesale granted citizenship so they become a permanent Leftist voting block, their ability to register to vote, illegally, is facilitated by the drive-up-and-fill-out-this-form mechanism. On college campuses around the country, the registration of students with home/permanent addresses different from their temporary college dorm addresses to influence local elections is fundamentally improper. Their home address registrations are not cancelled when this happens. Temporary addresses while attending school should not be used for voter registration, yet they have been with unfair (charitably) impact. Such was the case in the election of Connecticut’s governor. His opponent led all day, by wide margins, until just before poll closing, when bags full of “votes” from New Haven (Yale) and Bridgeport (numerous schools), never questioned, miraculously appeared to tip the election in favor of the incumbent.

The second deficiency with our system and process is the fiction in voter rolls. There is not just anecdotal but  documented evidence that dead voters, illegal voters, voters who have moved away or unqualified voters appear on the rolls. These lists are used to send out absentee ballot applications which in turn, particularly in this election with the COVID canard, result in ballots being erroneously (to use a charitable term) mailed out to MANY people and addresses.

Third, while I appreciate that we have a republic which allows each state to decide how to conduct its elections, in my opinion there ought to be uniformity with regard to certain aspects of FEDERAL elections which by definition affect the entire country, such as rules concerning the timing and cutoffs of ballot presentation and the manner in which voters are qualified.

Fourth, the envelope within an envelope structure of the ballot prevents adequate validation and the elimination of the matching signature requirement invites irregularities (again, charity). Once the inner envelope, the one with the signature, is opened and the ballot separated from it, it is impossible to know whether the ballot is valid or not. Without human supervision of the process, unqualified (charity) ballots can no longer be identified and in retrospect, singled out for verification.

The whole process, therefore, invites and facilitates both errors and manipulation. While on the one hand millions upon millions of ballots are valid, qualified and submitted properly, as we now see, there can be enough with problems that the outcome can be changed and cast in doubt.

If I had a dollar for every invalid registration in this country, I would be, most certainly, a wealthy man.

We have clearly entered a post-truth era, a post-right-and-wrong era. The ability to influence perception and misperception has been magnified 1000x by the internet, social media and what I’ll call “production values” – the whole mechanism whereby reality is modified with visual, audio and timing effects using technology.

As of this writing the election results are still uncertain. The media has promoted a variety of different “realities”. I for one don’t accept ANY of them. What’s worse, I have no confidence that REAL reality will be discernible. “Perception is reality” is an oft used phrase that has multiple levels of interpretation. In the absence of TRUE truth, indelible truth, truth which is true irrespective of manipulation and production values…we have only our own perceptions and critical thinking abilities left to discern what it is.

My perception is that though now divided as a people into two nations, the majority albeit a smaller majority than I would have hoped, wanted a continuation of the policies and course set in place by the Trump administration rather than the alternative. It is not Trump who divided this country. It is the Left. It is not Trump who is racist, fascist, a puppet of special interests and foreign adversaries, it is the Left. It is not Trump who supports violence and looting and disorder in our streets. It is the Left. And it is not Trump who advocates the erasure of our history, the cancelling of our heritage. It is the Left. And so on and so forth.

I don’t believe the country really wants what the Left has put lipstick on. That’s MY reality, and I pray Right and TRUE Truth prevail in the days, weeks and months ahead.

May our country be spared and traditional values be preserved.

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