The Morning Report - 12/7/20 [J.J. Sefton]

Good morning, kids. Monday, December 7th. The 79th anniversary of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Funny how the names Arizona, Pennsylvania and Nevada have particular meaning all these many years later. May G-d bless the memory of those who were killed that day as well as the survivors, who grow fewer and fewer with each passing year, who are still with us. I cannot begin to imagine what they must think of the nation as it is today, considering what they sacrificed so much for in trying to preserve it. The irony is beyond tragic that subsequent generations of their progeny are now actively embracing essentially the same ideology which that generation fought and died to protect them against. But here we are.

Turning our attention to the situation at hand, on the plus side of the ledger, Team Trump scored a pretty important win on Friday.

A judge in Michigan is allowing a forensic investigation of 22 Dominion vote tabulation machines in rural Antrim County over claims that the votes there were compromised.

"Our team is going to be able to go in this morning at about 8:30 and will be there for about eight hours to conduct that forensic examination and we'll have the results in about 48 hours, and that'll tell us a lot about these machines," attorney Jenna Ellis said...

...Jeremy Scott, Antrim County spokesperson said forensic images will be taken from the county precinct tabulators used in the November 3rd election. The president's legal team was not responsible for the lawsuit, it was filed by a voter, William Bailey, who alleged the ballots were damaged during a recounting of ballots in a village marijuana proposal that barely passed.

Elsenheimer's order doesn't mention the presidential race but, Antrim county did experience strange voter irregularities. Initially, the ballot count in this deep red county showed that former Vice President Joe Biden won however after a recount was done results showed that President Trump won by several thousand votes.

Meanwhile, the Constitutional aspect of the case, vis a vis the state's courts interfering with the legislative branch's authority to run election, looms large in Pennsylvania. Constitutional and legal expert Mark Levin is calling for SCOTUS to intercede:

"What we see here is fraud perpetrated against the people of Pennsylvania, against the American people and the Electoral College process by politicians who violated the constitution repeatedly, who have violated the rule of law by a rogue state supreme court," Levin stated. "And unless the U.S. Supreme Court -- as it did in Bush versus Gore -- exercises legitimately its power of judicial review. We have a potential constitutional crisis in this matter. And in one way or another, Congress will have to resolve it on January 6. But the U.S. Supreme Court shouldn't just sit there and take a pass when in fact it is time for the U.S. Supreme Court to intercede, which is exactly what the petitioners are asking it to do."

At bottom, it's completely bizarre that Biden did not sweep the United States. Instead, he swept a few specific precincts. If Biden were as popular as his victory indicates, wouldn't his support have been enormous in every state in which he won? It's simply inconceivable to a logical person that every non-polling metric predicted a massive Trump victory, only to have Biden win in a handful states that had election anomalies never before seen in an American election -- but often seen in a Venezuelan one.

In Georgia, we have two varieties of anti-American crackpot vying for the Senate seats in a dual runoff election that more than likely was nearly stolen from the two iffy Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. Yes, for now we have to drag them over the finish line to preserve our hold on the Senate. That does not diminish in any way, shape or form my loathing of the GOP. That party will have to go the way of the dodo at a time when temporary emergency political expediency will no longer be a factor in having to deal with them.

Two great essays from Victor Davis Hanson (here and below) and Bruce Thornton (here and below) put this past year and all its madness in perspective. No matter who is sworn in come January 20th, the madness will no doubt continue. It's just that with Trump, we still have a chance at survival, as a nation and perhaps even individually.

THE 2020 DEMOCRAT ELECTION HEIST
• "The Amistad Project, an election fraud watchdog, released a whitepaper outlining how the December 8th Electoral College deadline for the selection of electors does not apply to states with disputed election results."
  "Safe Harbor" Deadline for Electors "Not Constitutional," "Does Not Apply to Disputed States"
  
• "The American people cannot allow fraudulent election results or even the appearance of such to stand."
  The Supreme Court and the Electoral Coup
  
• "Smartmatic is one of two companies named by attorney Sidney Powell in lawsuits, thus far unsuccessful, alleging massive voter fraud in the 2020 election, along with the Dominion voting machine company."
  George Soros Appoints Chair of Smartmatic Parent Company to Lead Open Society Foundations
  
• "Well done good and faithful servant: Soros appoints Smartmatic's Mark Malloch-Brown to chair his huge Open Society Foundations."
  Malloch-Brown Makes His Return to the Soros Mothership
  
• "The president seems no closer to being declared the winner than he was on election night."
  Where's the Kraken? Where's the Storm?
  
• Roger Kimball: "The faith in fairness has been shattered beyond recovery, and the assumption of anything like a shared consensus seems more and more like a naive pretense when it isn't just a cynical hustings gambit."
  The Burden of Proof
  
• "What we see here is fraud perpetrated against the people of Pennsylvania, against the American people and the Electoral College process by politicians who violated the constitution repeatedly, who have violated the rule of law by a rogue state supreme court."
  Mark Levin Calls for SCOTUS to Intercede in Election Fraud Investigations -- Pennsylvania "Abandoned Its Constitution"

  MICHIGAN:

• "Antrim County election officials discovered that "human error" flipped 6,000 votes from Trump to Biden after Bailey alerted them to some inconsistencies in the county's reporting of the vote."
  Trump Campaign Conducting Forensic Audit of Dominion Machines in MI's Antrim County After Court Ruling
  
• "An election witness had the courage to testify, and was held up to ridicule. Others have been ignored and stonewalled. "
  Melissa Carone, Michigan Election Witness Becomes a "Star"

  PENNSYLVANIA:

• "So what is this about? More mind-reading: It takes the 'safe harbor' issue off the table if that were an impediment to SCOTUS issuing a substantive ruling."
  Pennsylvania: Alito Moves Up Response Date on Emergency Application to 12/8
  
• "Moreover, many of my colleagues and I have petitioned the Congress of the United States to select Pennsylvania's electors for the 2020 general election."
  I'm a Legislator in Pennsylvania, and I'm Suing the Governor for Election Fraud
  
• "It's likely that the Supreme Court will overturn a critical Pennsylvania State Supreme Court ruling on account of the state court's incorrect use of the legal doctrine of laches."
  Will SCOTUS Overrule the Pennsylvania Supreme Court?

  GEORGIA:

• "The facts suggest otherwise, including a huge vote spike at the same time the secret count took place and the suspicious behavior of two of the workers."
  Democrats' Defense of Georgia Election Fraud Video Doesn't Hold Water
  
• "According to this Twitter thread today, officials in Ware County, Georgia, fed an equal number of votes for Trump and Biden into a Dominion tabulator, which then produced a 26% lead for Biden."
  Audit of the Dominion Voting Machines Found It Routinely Shifted Votes to Biden
  
• "If the other side manages to steal both [Senate] elections, we will have total one-party socialist control, and everything you care about -- your whole philosophy -- will be gone."
  Trump Urges Georgians to Vote In Senate Elections Even as He Claims Democrats Will "Rig" Them
  
• "Trump walked a perilous high wire, without a safety net."
  President Trump Went Down to Georgia
  * * * * *

• "Mark Levin interviewed Patrick Basham, who explains that the election results are completely inconsistent with the data surrounding the election."
  A Six-Minute Video Sums Up 2020's Impossible Election Paradoxes
  
• "Virginia would seem to have been solidly blue in November. But there are questions."
  More Suspicious Voting Data Arise in Virginia
  
• "As Trump voters peruse the spider veins of the internet to find information prohibited in the main arteries, each is developing his or her favorite compelling piece of evidence that proves election fraud."
  Ballot Harvesting is the Most Systematically Racist Practice in America, and it Stole This Election
  
• "Would withhold federal money from Departments of Transportation and Educatiom."
  Congressman Introduces Bill Requiring Voters to be Alive to Cast Ballots
  
• "The scope of fraud in this election is breathtaking."
  Election Fraud, Political Corruption, and its Consequences
  
• "Ballots were sent to every registered voter in the state. As San Franciscans were heading for other cities and states, what happened to their ballots?"
  Something Strange in the City by the Bay
  
• "It is important to consider who he is: a defamation lawyer. And perhaps no one is better equipped or proven at correcting a false narrative than Wood."
  Lin Wood: Consider the Source

  POLITICS

• "Dem victory in Georgia would lead to passage of constitutionally questionable plan."
  Felon Enfranchisement, National Election Overhaul Top Priority Bill if Dems Retake Senate
  
• "The GOP offers the illusion of opposition and so represents the biggest obstacle toward a better future for Americans. Perhaps it's time it all falls down."
  The Stupid Party Redux
  
• "It debases humanity through defining us by that which is not the core of our being."
  The Idolatry of Identity Politics
  
• "Trump's policies and results over the past four years have been truly great."
  President Trump Persevered

  ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

• Victor Davis Hanson: "The summer of [Chinese] COVID-19, quarantines, riot and arson, and an absence of confidence in the sanctity of voting ended with deep wounds on the body politic -- wounds we will bear from now on."
  The Scars of 2020
  
• "The [Chinese] coronavirus changed everything."
  Lockdowns and Other Madness

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST REIGN OF TERROR, WAR ON POLICE

• "The issue is currently headed to the Washington Supreme Court in January after an appeal from [Idiot] Sawant."
  Socialist Member of Seattle City Council Facing Recall for Allegedly Abusing Office
  
• He's a hero. And perhaps soon to be a martyr.
  Kyle Rittenhouse Ordered to Stand Trial on Charges of Shooting 3 Men

  CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED

• Big fucking deal.
  Rudy Giuliani Tests Positive for Chinese COVID-19
  
• "Current conditions are favorable for something ugly and regrettable to happen."
  Is America in a Civil Disobedience Mood?
  
• "Christmas is going to be a lot harder,' Joe Biden told an audience recently. Speak for yourself, Joe."
  Canceling Christmas: The Chinese COVID Straw to Break the Camel's Back?
  
• "It is time for Americans to disregard the platitudes that have been the rationale for the shutdowns."
  Dehumanizing Americans
  
• "Two federal lawsuits have been filed: one by a logging company, Great Northern Resources; and the other by a Mexican-American coffee shop owner, Maria Garcia. (For her trouble, she has been labeled by Latino 'leaders' as 'anti-Black.')"
  Oregon Defends State Chinese Coronavirus Program Giving Federal Funds to Black People Only
  
• "Compliance with health orders is a matter of personal responsibility and not a matter of law enforcement."
  Another California Sheriff Refuses to Send Deputies to Enforce Masks, "Social Gatherings or Stay-At-Home Orders"
  
• "Around 310,000 people in the United States are dead who, statistically, would still be alive in a normal year. At the very least, we are not dealing with a hoax."
  Yes, Total Deaths in the U.S. Are Up
  
• "Those were unfortunate mistakes and each of those elected officials have held themselves accountable and apologized. But I don't think that is sufficient in terms of a mixed message."
  Bass Defends Dems Who Flouted Own Chinese COVID Restrictions
  
• "Pelosi didn't care about the American people, all she cared about was winning."
  Malig-Nancy Pelosi Let Millions Suffer to "Win" an Election

  SCOTUS-PEACHMENT, SHAMPEACHMENT, CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• "The comparison of the treatment General Flynn received from Special Counsel Mueller and FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith is receiving from Special Counsel Durham is nauseating."
  FBI Lawyer Kevin Clinesmith Who Lied on Carter Page FISA Warrant May Get a Slap on the Wrist
  
• Liar. Traitor. He deserves the death penalty.
  Brennan: "There Was No Spying" on Trump -- "No Problems" with Durham Probe Continuing
  
• John Ratcliffe: "I think the American people should know what's happening in a two-year investigation into this and I hope that that report will be forthcoming."
  Intel Chief Urges John Durham to Release Interim Report in Order to Protect Investigation

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "Hank Johnson, Jon Ossoff's mentor and former boss, enjoys referring to Israelis as 'termites.'"
  Top Jewish Group: Democrat Senate Candidates Ossoff, Warnock Give "Direct Endorsement" of Anti-Semitic Rhetoric
  
• Sasse: "Nominees who can't pass basic civics tests are going to have a hard time getting confirmed."
  Biden HHS Favorite Would Revive Obama-Era Attacks on Religious Freedom
  
• "With the addition of Justice Barrett, SCOTUS now has the votes."
  On Chinese COVID Regulations, Supreme Court Sides With Religious Liberty

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "...the Trump administration can appeal the decision. The program also faces a legal challenge in a Texas federal court."
  Trump Administration Ordered to Accept New DACA Applications and Fully Restore the Program
  
• "Promising amnesty at the destination is triggering caravan migrant surges, and big concern from Mexico, the latest in a string of nations worried about a Biden presidency. The lapdog press has no intention of talking about it."
  Buried Lede: WaPo Reports Mexican Officials Are Terrified of Biden's Open Borders Amnesty Dinner Triangle
  
• "The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals... ruled that El Paso County and the nonprofit Border Network for Human Rights did not have the standing to go against the administration's plan."
  Appeals Court Approves Trump Diverting Pentagon Funds To Border Wall Construction
  
• "Our immigration policy should prioritize the dogged preservation of America's free-thinking, free-praying, free-speaking, and free-opportunity traditions as the greatest global ideal."
  Biden's Immigration Agenda
  
• "Alejandro 'Al' Mayorkas is a left-wing Democrat with a history of working to help suspected Chinese spies enter the country and convicted drug dealers get out of prison."
  Joe Biden's DHS Nominee is the Absolute Picture of DC Political Corruption
  
• "Alejandro Mayorkas, architect of DACA, picked by Biden to head DHS."
  Biden's DHS: Department of Homeland Surrender

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• "Even though [Chinese] COVID-19 currently has a survival rate of 99.6%, Stern argued that the very act of breathing in front of another human being without full protection makes 'every man, woman and child into a potential serial killer.'"USA Today Op-Ed: Chinese COVID Has Turned Us All "Into Potential Serial Killers"
  
• "An alliance between Big Tech and leftist papers to suppress dissent is a deeply sinister thing. The amount of scorn required for this already troubling work to then be outsourced to partisan college kids is incredible."
  USA Today Is Now Using College Kids To Censor Media They Dislike
  
• "The new policy, which has yet to become an official approach or be rolled out system-wide, could have vast implications for Facebook's status as a neutral platform for content."
  Report: Facebook To Start Policing Anti-Black Speech More Aggressively Than Anti-White Speech
  
• "Looks like Biden is running out of 'historic' firsts."
  Biden's All-Female Press Team? Yawn.
  
• "Santelli vehemently disagreed, disputing Sorkin's claim that shutting down certain businesses over others is the right way to combat the pandemic."
  Rick Santelli Demands CNBC Panel Defend Big Box Stores Opening While Churches, Restaurants Closed
  
• "Sharyl Attkisson walks the walk of honest journalism and has the scars to prove it. Here she unleashes on the mainstream media."
  One of the Last Honest Reporters Speaks Out
  
• "The ostensibly right-leaning Spectator magazine's Chairman has admitted his platform is 'pro-immigration' and 'pro amnesty for illegal immigrants.' Andrew Neil is supposed to launch the Fox News-style 'GB News' channel in the United Kingdom later this year."
  Spectator Mag, "GB News" Chief Andrew Neil Admits "Pro Immigration, Pro Amnesty" Ideology
  
• "The joint operation by big tech and big media to bolster former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign likely landed Democrats in the White House."
  Fraud or No Fraud, This Election Wasn't Fair
  
• "Big Tech is not forever."
  How Google Falls

  ABORTION

• " His radicalism is deeply disturbing and far outside the American mainstream."
  National Pro-Life Group: Raphael Warnock "Deeply Disturbing," "Uses Scripture to Defend Abortion"

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "The committee felt that many of the distinctive and acute signs, symptoms and observations reported by (government) employees are consistent with the effects of directed, pulsed radio frequency (RF) energy."
  American Diplomats Who Became Ill In Cuba and China May Have Been Targeted With Type of Radiation, Scientists Find
  
• "The time has come to implement the Great Reject before we experience the Great Regret."
  The Great Reset and Klaus Schwab
  
• "President Trump signs executive order stopping U.S. from subsidizing the Chinese military."
  Trump's Biggest Blow to China Yet
  
• "What his administration has done, particularly over the past one-and-a-half years, is basically throw the kitchen sink at China on these technology issues."
  Trump Executive Order Banning Investment In Firms That Aid Chinese Military Opened a "New Front" in US-China Economic Policy, Experts Say
  
• Arrival on Thursday marks the "opening phase of a plan to bring some 2,000 members of the community to Israel from Ethiopia."
  Prime Minister Netanyahu Welcomes Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, More Airlifts Planned
  
• "Unbeknownst to the CIA, Israel had burrowed deep into the Iranian government and nuclear program. And what they found shows that Iran's nuclear program was hardly peaceful."
  Report: Israel Has Recording of Late Iran Nuke Chief Discussing "Building Five Warheads"
  
• A lesson for us here in the soon-to-be Venezuelanized USA.
  Venezuelan Opposition Boycotts Election, Handing Maduro a Cheap Victory

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "Initially, in January 2012, Biden told the world that he advised Obama not to approve the bin Laden raid."
  Did Joe Biden Want Osama Bin Laden to Escape the 2011 Raid that Took Him Down?

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE

• "I'm really not focused on it."
  WATCH: "Radical Liberal" Raphael Warnock Repeatedly REFUSES To Answer If He Supports Court-Packing
  
• "There is an unmistakable dissonance between Joe Biden's calls for national unity and his party's judicial obstructionism over the past four years."
  A Short History of Democrats' Vicious Tactics for Controlling the Judiciary
  
• "California is shedding residents and businesses."
  Blue State, Red Tape

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "Grainy Zoom meetings can't compare with the luxury of flying across the world on your employer's dime."
  Why Business Travel Will Return
  
• "More spectrum is needed for U.S. to compete against China and other competitors."
  Opening Up Mid-Band Spectrum is Key for America to Win 5G Race
  
• "In fact, the unemployment rate never dropped below 7.7 percent in Obama's first term in office, and was climbing upward as that term came to an end."
  November's 6.7% Unemployment Rate Lower Than Any Month of Obama's First Term

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "The arrest was the result of a joint investigation by the state prosecutor's office called 'Operation Mile High' -- a nod to his job as CEO of Central Jet Charter, New York Attorney General Letitia James said Saturday." (must not be a high-profile Leftist - jjs)
  Charter Jet CEO Arrested for Alleged Child Sex Trafficking

  HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE

• Marxist hack with zero background in health. Or humans. Or service.
  Polident-Elect Biden Nominates California AG Xavier Becerra For Health and Human Services Secretary

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "The union offered no explanation, evidence, or any other factual support for its hot take, probably figuring that including the three magic words would just do the trick on their own."
  Chicago Teachers Union Tweets Reopening Schools Would be Racist, Sexist, AND Misogynistic - And Then Deletes It! [Updated]
  
• "Now, the university is facing criticism over its failure to live up to its own standards on 'diversity and inclusion.'"
  UW-Madison Paid Black Diversity Event Keynote Speaker Less Than "White Fragility" Author Robin DiAngelo
  
• Heather Mac Donald: "It's the achievement gap, not systemic racism, that explains demographic disparities in education and employment."
  The Bias Fallacy
  
• "To ensure lasting change we, furthermore, demand an immediate, transparent, and student-centered overhaul of McGill's Statement of Academic Freedom."
  McGill University Students Want Prof Stripped of Emeritus Status for Criticizing Social Justice, BLM, Etc.
  
• "Making taxpayers assume student debt might score short-term political points but doesn't address the underlying problem: why college costs so much while delivering so little."
  Is Student Debt Really a Crisis? These Surprising Facts Suggest It's Not
  
• "The roster of winners is no longer a testament to academic excellence but is a summation of the ludicrous intersection of identity politics and academia."
  2020's Rhodes Scholarship Recipients Exemplify the Left's Cultural Destruction

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• They probably faked the landing in a Google/YouTube TV studio.
  Chinese Communist Flag Planted on Moon by Unmanned Ship
  
• Our intrepid science reporter: "Capitalism in space: Aevum, a new entrant in the race to provide low cost reusable launch services for the emerging smallsat market, has unveiled the world's largest drone, dubbed RAVN-X, designed to take off and land at airports and then release an upper stage rocket that takes the satellite into orbit."
  World's Largest Drone Unveiled for Launching SmallSats

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, explained that 'major hurricanes don't really care whether the Gulf [of Mexico] is above average or below average in temperature.'"
  Fact Check: Hurricanes Are Not Strengthened by Our CO2 Emissions
  
• "While all eyes are riveted on the election, Democrat Senators are trying to sneak Green New Deal provisions in through racial reparations legislation."
  Democrat Senators Are Trying to Backdoor the Green New Deal

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "As prescient as George Orwell was, even he didn't have the foresight to see that a major battle would be fought over the truism that women cannot become men."
  Transgenderism Is Orwellian

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "But more work must be done to make their statement match the reality on the ground."
  Southern Baptist Seminary Presidents Announce 180 on Critical Race Theory
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "America is racist, but don't make us free our slaves."
  Woke Corps Lobby D.C. to Keep Their Slaves
  
• "In an interview, J.D. Vance says 'by necessity' the Netflix movie adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy had to reshape his memoir."
  Hillbilly Elegy Author J.D. Vance Responds to Critics of the Netflix Adaptation
  
• "Mythmaking is a double-edged sword. The stories we tell can build a people up or deconstruct them. Consider the contrast between Roots and Hillbilly Elegy."
  American Myths in Black and White
  
• Christian Toto: "The Cancel Culture offshoot makes little sense and could lead to more censorship."
  The Bitter Truths Behind Trigger Warnings
  
• "The length alone of Barack Obama's new memoir tells us a good deal about our wordy former president."
  President Prolix
  
• What a joke.
  SI's 2020 Sportsperson of the Year: The Activist Athlete
  
• "What we're after cannot be captured in statistics: some sense of how far our practical liberty extends, protected not by policemen, penal codes, or forensic criminology but by trust in our countrymen."
  Trust Across the Ages

  HITHER & YON

• "The Queen's Gambit is a compelling new miniseries that tells of an individual overcoming handicaps to achieve success."
  The Queen's Gambit: Fairy Tale and Sport
  
• "Why is the policy impact of great thinkers like Williams, who died December 2, so limited?"
  The Failure of Walter E. Williams
  
• "Walter E. Williams, 1936-2020."
  Hard-Nosed Economist, Generous Soul

  FINALLY...

• "Pearl Harbor started a chain of events that culminated with America dropping the atomic bomb, something for which I've always been grateful."
  A Personal Note About Pearl Harbor Day

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