The Morning Report - 12/8/20 [J.J. Sefton]

Good morning, kids. Tuesday and the news broke early this morning that legendary American aviator Chuck Yeager has passed away at the age of 97. For those who do not know, Yeager, a fighter pilot in World War 2, became the first man to break the sound barrier in October of 1947. As piston and then jet engine technology propelled aircraft at higher and higher speeds, the sound barrier seemed impenetrable, and attempts to break it killed many pilots, until Yeager pushed the envelope. Into the wild blue yonder goes another great American hero. Rest in peace and well done, sir.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled meshugas where a number of things are breaking in the Democrat-engineered 2020 election heist. While Sidney Powell's lawsuits in both Georgia and Michigan have been out of hand by those states' corrupt federal courts, Texas has slammed those two states plus Pennsylvania and Wisconsin with a suit at the Supreme Court.

Texas is asking the Supreme Court to order the states to allow their legislatures to appoint their electors. The lawsuit says:

Certain officials in the Defendant States presented the pandemic as the justification for ignoring state laws regarding absentee and mail-in voting. The Defendant States flooded their citizenry with tens of millions of ballot applications and ballots in derogation of statutory controls as to how they are lawfully received, evaluated, and counted. Whether well intentioned or not, these unconstitutional acts had the same uniform effect -- they made the 2020 election less secure in the Defendant States. Those changes are inconsistent with relevant state laws and were made by non-legislative entities, without any consent by the state legislatures. The acts of these officials thus directly violated the Constitution.

Texas approached the Supreme Court directly because Article III provides that it is the court of first impression on subjects where it has original jurisdiction, such as disputes between two or more states.

Along with the angles being pursued by Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, the official Trump legal team is making hay while it can in a parallel full-court press on the state legislatures themselves to recognize the massive and coordinated fraud pre-Election Day and the night of, when the counting stopped and the ballots were dumped, along with all the other evidence both solid and circumstantial as reason to invoke their Article II authority in awarding the electors.

This legislative approach represents another facet of the Trump team's push to reverse the allegedly tainted results. "We do have the parallel paths. We are continuing on in the judiciary and I do anticipate that we will get to the Supreme Court," Ellis told Fox Business's Charles Payne. The legislative approach represents an alternate path to the same result.

Ellis said she and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani have been "going to the state legislators and telling them that they actually have the constitutionally-delegated authority to make sure that they select their delegates in the manner that does not allow for corruption."

"When all of these rules and laws in these states have been ignored, it's actually their constitutional obligation, responsibility, and exclusive power to make sure that they take back their delegates and they don't allow these false certifications to move forward," the Trump lawyer argued.

Ellis predicted that the legislatures of Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan would use their authority over determining Electoral College electors in order to reverse the fraud which Ellis argued was responsible for Biden's margin in those states.

I am heartened by her confidence, and the evidence is both massive and solid, but it's arguably an extremely tough row to hoe. And with a nation that is on the verge of an actual shooting civil war, the consequences to those charged with doing their Constitutional duty are obvious. That said, there are some legislators in a few of the states that are now openly questioning the validity of the elections in their states as well as the rush to certify them, choose the electors and legitimize the steal. No doubt this ultimately is going to go to the Supreme Court but it's extremely long odds that that body is going to actually decide the case, much preferring to send it back down to the States to adjudicate the matter. Not that I'm making a prediction but if - and it's a very big if - the Court were to rule, I think the pivotal player may turn out to be Samuel Alito. It was Alito who was told go fuck yourself, twice, by Pennsylvania's Democrat machine when they were ordered to segregate the ballots that came in after election day, and then spoliated the evidence by destroying the accompanying envelopes to prevent any sort of accurate accounting. I do not think that has gone done well with the esteemed associate justice, who heads up that state's area in cases that come before the court (he's also bumped up the deadline from Wednesday to today for that state's crooks to respond to the case). While John Roberts hates Trump's guts, he's such a raving egomaniac that he might actually join the majority just so that he could write what would be one of, if not the most important opinion in US history. But this is getting WAY ahead of things.

At any rate, the clock is ticking, and we'll know soon enough. The waiting and the spinning is eating a hole in my stomach.

THE 2020 DEMOCRAT ELECTION HEIST
• "Texas argues that these states violated the Electors Clause of the Constitution because they made changes to voting rules and procedures through the courts or through executive actions, but not through the state legislatures. Additionally, Texas argues that there were differences in voting rules and procedures in different counties within the states, violating the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause."
  Texas Sues Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin at Supreme Court over Election Rules
  
• "In each case the dismissal was based on jurisdiction and pleading standards, but the judges issued dramatic made-for-media declarations such as 'The People have spoken' (Michigan) and 'They want this court to substitute its judgment for the 2.5 million voters who voted for Biden' (Georgia)."
  Georgia and Michigan Federal Courts Dismiss Sidney Powell Election Lawsuits
  
• "...it will take an exceptionally large amount of evidence to convince these legislatures to follow such a drastic path."
  Jenna Ellis: Swing-State Legislatures Will Reject "False Corrupt Results," Switch Electors to Trump
  
• "Yet another eyewitness account of potential voter fraud."
  Blowing the Whistle on Election Fraud

  MICHIGAN:

• For fuck's sake, assign your electors to Trump!
  Michigan House Committee Threatens Dominion CEO with Subpoena
  
• "Judge Linda V. Parker, who sits in a federal court in Detroit, didn't even bother to hide that she was ruling solely to preserve Biden's so-called majority."
  Judge Who Tossed Michigan Case a Stereotypical Activist Judge
  
• "[Garlin] Gilchrist, a Democrat who's held the position since 2019 and labeled President Trump's election grievances a 'house of cards,' attended the summit alongside the Governors of Kentucky and Tennessee. A Chinese Communist Party mayor, two Vice Governors, and one Governor attended the summit."
  Michigan Lt Gov. Attended Chinese Communist Party Conference With Secret Meetings, Chinese Military Ties

  PENNSYLVANIA:

• "Just yesterday, Justice Alito moved the deadline for a response from Pennsylvania officials from Wednesday to [this] morning at 9AM."
  Ted Cruz to Argue the Pennsylvania Election Case Before the Supreme Court
  
• "Evidence suggests that the Keystone State's election may have been neither free nor fair."
  Statistical Analysis of Pennsylvania Voting Data Shows Troubling Patterns

  GEORGIA:

• "Elena Parent, the Chairwoman of Georgia State Senate Democrats, slammed Dominion voting machines as 'opposed by national security experts,' suggesting the state's decision to go with the vendor 'wreaks of corruption.'"
  WATCH: Dem GA Senate Chair Insisted "Not One Reason" to Buy Dominion Systems, "Wreaks of Corruption" in 2019
  
• Mollie Hemingway: "A Big Tech-backed 'fact' 'checking' outfit claimed to debunk explosive evidence for Republicans' claims of significant election problems in Georgia. It didn't."
  No, the Georgia Vote-Counting Video Was Not "Debunked." Not Even Close
  
• "The biggest question the Georgia legislature should ask is whether a California billionaire should be allowed to waltz into the Peach State and finance aspects of their elections."
  What is Mark Zuckerberg's Election Money Doing in Georgia?
  
• "Warnock repeatedly disrupted child abuse investigation, reports say."
  Police Reports Shed Light on Warnock's 2002 Arrest for Obstruction: "Extremely Uncooperative and Disruptive"

  ARIZONA:

• "Ensuring the integrity of Arizona's 2020 election isn't just a matter of sound public policy, it is a civil rights imperative. There are few elements of our society more foundational than the right to free and fair elections and when that right is called into question it is our responsibility as leaders to ensure that confidence in the electoral process is restored."
  28 Members of Arizona Legislature Call for the Decertification of the 2020 Election
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• "Epistemology, an ancient and proven analytical tool, explains why."
  The Evidence Game Liberals are Playing is a Con

  POLITICS

• "Pelosi's fundraising for Ossoff and Warnock follows as the leading House Democrat faces a shrinking majority. Republicans managed to flip roughly net ten seats in the House."
  Report: Malig-Nancy Pelosi to Lead High-Priced Fundraiser for Democrats Raphael Warnock, Jon Ossoff
  
• "Decision comes after summer of civil unrest."
  Seattle Mayor Won't Seek Reelection
  
• "SABO cites Newsom's curfew and 'canceling' Thanksgiving and now Christmas as reasons he says he 'had to hang this crappy individual in effigy.'"
  The "Recall Gavin Newsom" Effort Just Got an Artsy Assist from SABO
  
• "Maybe Democrats *and* Republicans should look at rural communities for the answer on messaging."
  Former Candidates, Strategists Push Democrats to Focus More on Economy Instead of Healthcare
  
• "It may have outlived its usefulness -- or, worse, become counterproductive." (hello? GOP? - jjs)
  Libertarian Party: R.I.P.

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

• "If the presidential elections fraud succeeds, 74 million citizens will have their votes nullified. What would this act of disenfranchisement be other than war by other means?"
  Bring On 2021
  
• "When we came outside, we noticed the whole window, it was completely blown out, smoke coming out. I didn't know if the house was on fire or what was going on."
  Michigan Man Claims Someone Bombed House Over His Support for Trump

  OTHER BIDEN FAMILY HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS

• "Becerra and Mayorkas both lobbied the Clinton White House for clemency on behalf of Carlos Vignali, a convicted cocaine trafficker whose father was a politically-connected businessman in Los Angeles."
  Two Biden Cabinet Picks Were Reprimanded For Roles In Clinton-Era "Pardongate" Scandal

  CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED

• "The priority is to make sure we distribute these vaccines to Americans before we start shipping them around the world to get international access."
  President Trump Plans Executive Order to Administer Chinese Coronavirus Vaccine to Americans First
  
• "The CCP misreported and obfuscated information about [Chinese] COVID-19 -- and now they're profiting from it."
  China's Chinese Coronavirus Lies Confirmed
  
• Two brain dead over the hill actors?
  Angel of Death Cuomo Says He and Fauci Are "Like the Modern Day De Niro and Pacino"
  
• "Residents are fed up with officials' blatant disregard for the public interest."
  Out of Patience in California
  
• "On December 3, in a joint statement, DeSantis and Florida Surgeon General Scott A. Rivkees announced that labs must report the cycle threshold (Ct) and reference ranges on every single test."
  Florida Chinese COVID-19 Policy Leads the Nation Once Again, This Time on Testing
  
• "He's not our father. It's not his job to ensure that we're well, to make personal decisions for us, to protect us from the [Chinese] coronavirus and other diseases."
  Is the President Our Daddy Who's Supposed to Keep Us Healthy?
  
• "Lockdowns are more about faith than science."
  Pandemic Penitents
  
• Julie Kelly: "Nonetheless, political leaders of both parties continue to one-up each other with preposterous rules to restrict both indoor and outdoor dining."
  No Justifies Bans on Indoor or Outdoor Dining
  
• "Statistical data can be manipulated to conform to a variety of desired outcomes."
  The Science and Politics of Chinese COVID-19
  
• "Whether they're screaming at police during BLM protests, panicking in their cars, or getting hysterical about [Chinese] COVID, young, white women are a plague on America."
  An Oregon Teacher's Viral, Obscene Rant Against Lockdown Protesters

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

• "Rep. Tlaib's participation in this conference, coupled with her recently deleted retweet of a slogan calling for the elimination of Israel, are just the latest examples of a deeply disturbing pattern of anti-Semitism that has been on display since she was elected."
  GOP Rep. Reschenthaler Calls for Rancida Taliban to "Immediately Lose Her Committee Assignments"
  
• "I believe that persecution is still coming and it's coming quickly and it's coming soon."
  "We're Not Ready": Pastor Andrew Brunson Predicts Worsening Religious Persecution in U.S. Regardless Of Election Outcome

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "In Biden's America, goodwill will be expended on all but her citizens."
  Biden's Illegal Immigrant Gravy Train

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

• "Leaked meeting recordings expose how CNN president Jeff Zucker dictates what 'news' means for his network."
  Project Veritas Proves (Yet Again) That XiNN is Nothing More Than Democrat Propaganda.
  
• "Speculation recently arose as to whether or not Matt Drudge even sold the website, but numerous sources have confirmed to The National Pulse that Matt Drudge still controls the editorial position of the now anti-Trump site."
  Drudge Still Sinking, Sends Bizarre Celebratory Tweet
  
• "Obama veteran Jennifer Psaki claims she'll bring honesty back to the White House, but she helped orchestrate the fake news behind the Iran nuclear deal 'echo chamber.'"
  Press Secretary Jen Psaki Will Help Joe Biden Lie to America
  
• "Steve Coll is the living embodiment of the leftist habit of defining free speech in Orwellian terms as only speech with a leftist seal of approval."
  A New Yorker Author Bemoans Free Speech "Weaponized" Against Media
  
• "Facebook began censoring criticism of a fake fact-check published by an 'independent fact-checker' before it was even published on The Federalist's Facebook page."
  China-Funded Facebook Fact-Checker is Now Censoring Criticism of Its Fake Fact Checks
  
• "But a presidential election year, coupled with a healthy dose of Trump Derangement Syndrome level-eleventy in the media, had them reflexively opposing anything President Trump tried to do, even when it was clear at that the time children needed to return to school."
  WaPo Discovers That School Closures Pose Significant Problems -- After Relentlessly Advocating for Them

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "Activists hope slate of new cases can set landmark Second Amendment precedents."
  Gun Lawsuits Flood in After Barrett Supreme Court Confirmation
  
• "While November 2020 continues the year's record-breaking pace -- now standing at well over 20 million units -- this month's 49% year-over-year increase is by far the smallest such monthly increase since March this year."
  Report: 2.1 Million Gun Sales in November

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "China is our greatest threat, and it's not even close."
  DNI Ratcliffe: China is the Only Country with "Capability" and "Specific Plan" of "Taking Away the American Dream"
  
• Elliot Abrams: "I've made one very concrete statement about this: We will not accept, we will not tolerate, the placement in Venezuela of Iranian missiles that can reach the United States."
  Trump Administration Official: If Iran Sends Missiles to Venezuela, We Will Interdict It
  
• "'If Iran is serious about preserving a space for diplomacy, it must not implement these steps,' France, Germany, and the United Kingdom -- collectively known as the E3 -- said in a statement on Iran's nuclear moves."
  Iran Prepares to Expand Nuclear Program
  
• Robert Spencer: " If Donald Trump leaves the White House as expected on January 20, 2021, and Biden/Harris/Pelosi/Schumer/Obama/Soros follow through on their plan to reinstate the disastrous Iran nuclear deal, the best chance to topple the Islamic Republic, one of the world's worst human rights abusers, will be gone."
  Iranian Dissidents: With a Trump Loss, "Now Our Hope Is Gone"
  
• "An interview with Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser."
  Muslim Reformer Discusses Middle East Peace, Islamist Terror in Europe
  
• "Too early to say, but the mood is upbeat on the continent."
  An African Century?
  
• "Where is their 'right of return?'"
  The Forgotten Jewish Refugees From Arab Countries

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "Malicious foreign actors are devoting all of their energies toward conducting an all-out cyber war against the United. States. Congress has the power to stop them."
  Why Addressing the Growing Cybersecurity Threat Is Central to Our Chinese COVID-19 Response

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Robert Spencer: "Given Islam's texts, teachings and history, what else did he expect?"
  Chief Rabbi of UK Says It's 'Alarming' That 44% of Muslims Are Anti-Semitic

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE

• "It includes rapists and child molesters, human traffickers and other violent criminals in our state prisons. It is perhaps and will be the biggest fraud of taxpayer dollars in California history."
  California DAs Blast Gov. Gavin Newsom's Apathetic Response to $1 Billion Prisoner Chinese COVID Benefit Scam
  
• "The outdated conservatorship of Fannie and Freddie only serves the interests of liberal elites by funneling money to left-wing activists."
  How Trump Can Stop Biden From Funding Left-Wing Groups

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "A veteran prosecutor, who requested anonymity because they feared retaliation, told The Angeles Times that Gascon's 'policies are a slap in the face to crime victims -- both past victims and the ones to come.'"
  New Soros-Backed L.A. County D.A. Issues Directive To Not Prosecute Numerous Crimes, Eliminates Bail
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "Socialists propose a bill to free fat criminals to save them from the virus."
  Titty Caca AOC, Bro-Fo Omar/Nur, and Squad Want to Free 500,000 Fat Criminals
  
• "Descendants of the art dealers told the Court Monday that their ancestors sold the collection, called the Guelph Treasure, well below market value in 1935 because of Nazi persecution. The heirs want to sue Germany in U.S. courts, and the justices must decide whether the case can proceed."
  Supreme Court Weighs Fate of Medieval Art Collection Allegedly Extorted by Nazis
  
• "The other problem with pretending we can simply outrun crime is that the current problems plaguing our cities come from bad ideas, and those bad ideas can easily spread to your comfortable towns so far untouched by our rot. It isn't just the crime that spreads -- it's the bad policies."
  Crime is Killing USA's Cities -- If We Just Move Away, It Will Follow Us

  HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE

• "Americans' latest assessment of their mental health is worse than it has been at any point in the last two decades."
  Gallup: Mental Health Sinks to Record Low; "Undoubtedly Influenced by [Chinese] Coronavirus Pandemic"
  
• "The reason smoking is so deadly is not the nicotine. Nicotine is a relatively benign substance that, while addictive, has no worse physiological impacts than caffeine. Rather, it is the process of inhaling actual smoke -- with hundreds of associated chemicals and tar -- into your lungs."(and yet, the race to legalize pot? - jjs)
  New Administration Must Embrace Science, Not Fearmongering, on Vaping
  
• "Congress' 'democratic socialist' doesn't particularly care for socialism when it affects her health coverage. Imagine that."
  Yes, Obamacare Covered Titty Caca AOC. Like Everyone, She Just Hates It

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "...the Chinese Community Party donated $1 million to Columbia University between 2010 and 2015 as part of a plan to establish a Confucius Institute on campus."
  Report: Columbia U. Failed to Disclose $1 Million Gift from the Chinese Communist Party
  
• "It's an unremitting attack, all out ceaseless criticism of the traditions and norms of the west in order to create a new social reality."
  New Report Traces Critical Race Theory's Marxist Roots and How it Went Mainstream
  
• "Four to six months ahead of possible testing times, the test's commissioner pre-emptively canceled this only way to measure the effect of varying school shutdown regulations across state lines."
  Feds Canceling Tests Will Hide For Years How School Shutdowns Screwed Kids
  
• "100,000 reached at four prominent universities."
  Social Media Blitz Outs America-Hating Professors to Students and Alumni
  
• "'Politics is downstream from culture and maybe culture is downstream from our universities,' RealClearEducation's Nathan Harden said. "
  Banning Free Speech is the Tip od the Society-Sinking Higher Education Iceberg

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Our intrepid science reporter with more Martian geological wonders.
  Terby Crater and its Drainages into Mars' Basement

  NOTE: See the sidebar for the live feed of the first attempted high altitude test hop of SpaceX's Starship.

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

• "They'll have their climate cake and eat it, too -- and the rest of us will pay for it."
  Biden's Neoliberal Climate Cronyism
  
• "The IMF's treatment of fossil fuel subsidies is no more than a highly sophisticated hit job."
  The IMF's Net-Zero Fairy Tale

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

• Feh.
  Supreme Court Strikes Down Appeal to Restrict Transgender Students in Locker Rooms and Bathrooms

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "The show appears to be pushing propaganda on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party."
  Discovery Channel Produces Show "Under Instruction and Supervision" of Chinese Communist Party, Boasts "Development of Socialism"
  
• "I'm sure you saw it in our industry when Trump was voted in four years ago, they were in denial that was real."
  Matthew McConaughey Calls Out Hypocrisy of Hollywood Elite Mocking Trump Voters Refusing to Accept a Biden Victory
  
• "The King of Staten Island's dad was a proud fireman and a great friend of mine."
  It Hits Me Emotionally": Activist Who Knew Pete Davidson's Father Blasts Him For Mocking Staten Island Protesters
  
• "To some extent I can understand AOC; she's young; she's naive; she doesn't get it. But you've got someone like (Bernie) Sanders, who's older than us, older than me, and he still doesn't get it."
  Goya Foods CEO: Titty Caca AOC Called for Boycott. Our Sales Jumped, So We Named Her Employee of the Month
  
• Christian Toto: "The free thinker survived cancellation and gave Spotify exactly what it craved."
  Joe Rogan is Having the Last Laugh
  
• "Of the two communities that confronted each other 400 years ago in New England, it may now be the Indians who most resemble today's Americans."
  Why Americans Are More Like the Indian Tribes of the Pilgrims' Day Than We'll Admit
  
• "Investigating an assault on the foundation of America."
  Prager U Video: What's Wrong With the 1619 Project?

  HITHER & YON

• "The UFOs have asked not to publish that they are here, humanity is not ready yet. Trump was on the verge of revealing, but the aliens in the Galactic Federation are saying: Wait, let people calm down first. They don't want to start mass hysteria."
  Aliens Convinced Trump To Keep Them Secret, Claims Ex-Israeli Space Head
  
• "The only subgroup to report an increase of their mental well-being from last year were those who had attended weekly religious services."
  Survey Finds as American Psyche Reaches New Low, Frequent Churchgoers Fare Better Than the Rest

  FINALLY...

• "An incredible life well lived, America's greatest Pilot, & a legacy of strength, adventure, & patriotism will be remembered forever."
  Legendary Airman Chuck Yeager Dead at 97

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