The Morning Report - 12/30/20 [J.J. Sefton]

Good morning, kids. Wednesday and the penultimate day of 2020, which may very well go down in history as "Year Zero" depending upon what happens a week from now in Congress. More on that in a moment, but on the continuing idiocy of the kabuki/bukkake theater that is that body, Mitch McConnell has pulled one of his trademark cunning stunts by agreeing to raise the original $600 insult to the President's demand of $2,000, but only if the new bill includes the repeal of the Section 230 protections for Big Brother Tech.

Honestly, it's hard for me to get all excited about this; if Joe-Blow is/are installed and the Georgia Senate seats are also stolen (as I fear is a likely scenario), Section 230 protection for the Enemy Propaganda Complex will be reinstated as if it never went away in the first place. All this talk about 2022 and 2024 is as idiotic as the illusion of regular order, parliamentary procedure, comity and all that other rot. I mean, for fuck's sake; the judge in Georgia who blocked the purging of voter rolls in two counties is the sister of Tank Abrams. The litany of corruption in that state as well as the five others are well documented and show beyond any reasonable doubt that the 2020 election was indeed stolen. John Lott, who is the nation's foremost expert on gun crimes, 2A issues and an adviser to the DOJ just released a report that concludes up to 368,000 "excess votes" did indeed tip the scales for the Polident-Elect in the critical swing states:

"Increased fraud can take many forms: higher rates of filling out absentee ballots for people who hadn't voted, dead people voting, ineligible people voting, or even payments to legally registered people for their votes. [...] The estimates here indicate that there were 70,000 to 79,000 "excess" votes in Georgia and Pennsylvania. Adding Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin, the total increases to up to 289,000 excess votes," the summary notes.

Lott, who now serves as a Senior Adviser for Research and Statistics at the Office of Justice Programs, also adds that there are two reasons to even believe the aforementioned numbers are "underestimates":

1) the estimates using precinct level data assume that there is no fraud occurring with in-person voting and 2) the voter turnout estimates do not account for ballots for the opposing candidate that are lost, destroyed, or replaced with ballots filled out for the other candidate

Lott points to universal mail-in voting as a hotbed for fraud, remarking "unsecured absentee ballots create the potential that either fraudulent ballots will be introduced or votes to be destroyed."

This is on top of what we all saw happen in real time on election night, when the observers were kicked out of the tabulating centers, the doors and windows sealed and the pallets of ballots trucked in and, voila! As if the GOP state legislators and officials, did not see this coming. They did and yet still certified the electoral votes. Considering the character of most Republicans in the House and especially in the Senate mirrors that of the useless, spineless, corrupted jellyfish in the state legislatures in question, I am dreading next Wednesday like the plague (a real one, not the phony one foisted on us by the Chi-Coms and their Leftist agents in our own borders).

And for the third day in a row, all eyes turn to Vice President Pence. Edward Davis over at American Thinker argues that the GOPers in Congress should not contest the electors and leave the heavy lifting to the veep:

...opinion has long been divided on what the vice president is empowered to do in his vote-counting role. Ivan Raiklin is hardly alone in his argument. It should not surprise us. Constitutional law frequently is not black and white, as seen in the numerous 5-4 Supreme Court decisions by Justices applying the same law to the same facts.

In other words, Pence should go for it. He need only interpret "votes" as votes from states not in dispute, and count them accordingly. He could declare, "I will not count the Biden electors, or the competing slates of Trump electors, in disputed states where there is overwhelming credible evidence of systemic fraud." Thus would he restore the election win to President Trump, from whom it was audaciously stolen.

What would Pence have to lose? A commenter at Legal Insurrection observed:

Pence should refuse to count votes from the contested states, and dare someone to sue him in court. Then the SCOTUS can simply docket that for January 21, 2021. If the SCOTUS can't stop states from stealing elections, they damn well don't have the power to stop Pence from counting the votes any way he wants to.

One caveat: This has been a season in which everyone seems to be letting us down. Why expect Pence to be any different? The Washington Post reported, "Pence is hoping for a low-key Jan. 6 and is not planning any unnecessary drama, aides said, intending to stick to his perfunctory role. He is eyeing a trip overseas soon after."

But the Post report might be inaccurate, or this could be Trump disinformation intended to cause the opposition to let down their guard.

As for the mention of no "unnecessary drama" in Pence's plans, that doesn't rule out necessary drama. The Democratic election theft was bold and shocking. It calls for a bold, shocking correction.

As I have often stated, the more dire the situation, the more unassailable the logic, the more massive the evidence, the more clear the remedy, the more you can count on any given Republican to ignore it all and do exactly the wrong thing. So, the $62 trillion dollar question is, is Mike Pence any given Republican? With a nod towards the great Milton Friedman PBUH, will the weight of history compel the wrong man (or at best perhaps the unlikely man) to do the right thing?

The world wonders...

THE 2020 DEMOCRAT ELECTION HEIST
• "[DOJ advisor John] Lott, a noted crime and gun researcher, alleged the wide-scale vote fraud plagued the recent presidential election, potentially 'account[ing] for Biden's win in' states such as Georgia and Pennsylvania."
  REPORT: 368,000 "Fraudulent Votes" Across Swing States
  
• "Someone needs to decide to have a backbone on January 6." (Tuberville? Cotton? Hawley? Cruz? Paul? - jjs)
  Help Wanted: One GOP Senator With Guts
  
• "Any challenge attempt would tie the hands of Vice President Mike Pence."
  GOP Congressional Challenges to Electors Would be a Catastrophic Tactical Mistake

  GEORGIA:

• "We need to get relief to Americans now."
  One Week Until the Runoff: Kelly Loeffler, David Perdue Support Increasing Payments to $2,000
  
• After claiming that the difficult "existential reality" of blacks in America had debunked the notion of a "postracial America," Warnock sets out to defend Wright, whom he refers to as "a preacher in the African American prophetic tradition," while likening Wright's words to "prophetic speech."
  Raphael Warnock: Jeremiah Wright's "G-d Damn America" Sermon "Very Thoughtful, Compelling"
  
• "The Post's fact-checker said his claims about his experience were 'misleading enough' to merit one 'Pinocchio' and that he had engaged in a 'bit too much resume puffery.'"
  Washington Post: Jon Ossoff Inflated National Security Credentials in 2017 Congressional Bid
  
• "While Ossoff and Warnock both raised more than $100 million over the past two months, outraising Perdue and Loeffler, Republican outside groups are outspending Democrat groups."
  Democrats Are Right to Worry About the Georgia Runoffs
  
• "It's not just Muslims who immigrate to defeat their enemies. Socialists are doing it, too, this time in Georgia."
  Immigration in the Name of Political Jihad
  * * * * *

• "The preference here remains for the true President-Re-Elect to retain his chief executive position by leading the effort to formalize New America's separation from blue-state thieves and despots. But a Shadow Presidency is a potentially potent transitional Plan B -- and at the very least, an aggressive means of protecting a powerful legacy, keeping his team assembled, and setting the stage for 2024."
  If No Partition (Yet), What's Plan B? A "Shadow" Trump Presidency
  
• "Where we see abundant evidence that America has entered a post-legal era is in the battleground states of the 2020 federal elections."
  Tainted Electors in Post-Legal America
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "How the media tried to suppress a quote about Stalin using the media to rig elections."
  What a Stalin Quote About Rigging Elections Reveals About the 2020 Election

  ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

• "At 2020's end, Americans will begin the new year wondering where January 1 rent will come from. Food distribution lines can extend for miles in some American communities. This is happening while China's debt obligations to Americans not only go unpaid -- they are willfully rejected as debts China refuses to acknowledge."
  Politicians Are Arguing Over $600 While China Still Owes Us $2 Trillion.
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: "When your refrigerator goes out under quarantine and your supplies begin to rot, do you really need another rant from Maxine Waters?"
  The Virus Is Not Invincible, But It's Exposing Who's Irreplaceable

  POLITICS

• "The president is likely to remain a kingmaker in the GOP even after he leaves office."
  Poll: Vast Majority of Republicans Say Trump Should Be Model for GOP
  
• "When someone who isn't very bright to begin with starts losing it, the truth has a weird habit of leaking out."
  Joe Biden Admits Who He Believes Really Won the 2020 Election
  
• "'This puts us at a state of high alarm,' Jeff Hauser, who runs the Revolving Door Project, a group dedicated to limiting the appointments of lobbyists and corporate executives in government."
  Despite Progressive Objections, Officials With Corporate Ties Slide Into Incoming Biden Administration
  
• "2020 has been a banner year for Muslim extremists in American politics."
  The Islamist Election Wave
  
• "Reports suggest House Speaker [Malig-]Nancy Pelosi wants to tighten one of the few remaining procedural options Republicans have to amend legislation."
  3 of Malig-Nancy Pelosi's Power Grabs Congress Needs to End in January
  
• "Their problem isn't philosophical, but psychological."
  Anti-Trump Conservatives -- An Army of Envious Dwarfs
  
• "Unwavering in his conviction, and running an unapologetic campaign of support for the Republican president and GOP values, Van Drew proved resilient."
  2020 Man of The Year: Rep. Jeff Van Drew
  
• "Actually, there's less cause for worry than you think."
  Will Blue State Refugees Ruin Red States?
  
• RIP.
  Louisiana Congressman-Elect Luke Letlow Dead From Chinese COVID-19 at 41

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

• "The one person who is missing though, the one person who is absolutely missing from this was the person who was giving the orders for the torture."
  REPORT: Police Charge 3 People In Alleged Hotel Attack Where Ex-Texas GOP Senate Candidate Says She Was "Gagged, Bound, Tortured"
  
• "We are at war with China, the radical left, and the New World Order."
  A Call to Arms for All Patriots to Come to the Aid of Their Country

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS

• "The exchange with the controversial group -- China Association for International Friendly Contact (CAIFC) -- occurred in October of 2009, while Clinton was serving as Secretary of State. The CAIFC delegation, composed of China's former top military leaders, visited Clinton after stopping in Hawaii to meet with American generals."
  REVEALED: Hillary Clinton Met With CCP "Undercover Intel Ops" Group While Bill Floated Paid Speeches
  
• "There are two kinds of Chinese media: the actual, state-run media that answers to the Chinese Communist Party, and the U.S. and other Western media that rent themselves out to the CCP's interests. This story focuses on the former."
  Seems Legit: Chinese State-Run Media Steps Up and Defends Swalwell

  CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED

• "He's actually giving Republicans incentive to vote for the bill. And truthfully, a lot of Democrats are unhappy with Section 230 as well. It should be a win win."
  McConnell Drops New Bill to Raise Chinese COVID Checks -- And Repeal Section 230
  
• "There is a lot we don't know about this new [Chinese] COVID-19 variant, but scientists in the United Kingdom are warning the world that it is significantly more contagious." (but is it any more lethal than classic COVID? Doubt it - jjs)
  First U.S. Case of Mutated Chinese COVID-19 Strain From U.K. Emerges in Colorado
  
• "There have been ongoing talks about a $2,000 payment as proposed by President Donald Trump but Congress has yet to agree on this."
  Chinese COVID-19 Relief Checks to Hit Some Bank Accounts as Early as Tuesday
  
• "...we need to get our act together." (so we can frighten the world into permanent socialist/globalist enslavement - jjs)
  WHO Official Says Chinese Coronavirus Likely "Not the Big One"
  
• If these are actual cases, I bet the overwhelming majority are illegal aliens.
  Reports: Los Angeles Hospitals at Capacity, Turning Away Ambulances, Planning for Rationed Care as Chinese COVID Death Toll Mounts
  
• "While states such as California and New York have turned to strict lockdowns in an attempt to deal with [Chinese] COVID, Hemingway noted these restrictions have greatly harmed people and businesses."
  Mollie Hemingway: If Lockdowns Worked, California Wouldn't Have This Problem
  
• "Why the endless push for mandates and lockdowns, despite what the science shows?"
  Still More Evidence That Biden Is Wrong About Mask Mandates

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

• I agree. He should have been supported -- against a post, and shot for sedition, treason and felonious impersonation of a bearclaw.
  WATCH: Vindman Says the Military Hasn't Properly Supported Him After He Testified Against Trump
  
• "Attorney General William Barr's statement exculpating the CIA, rather than disappointing, is in fact hopeful for all who treasure equal justice for both sides of the political fence."
  Barr Points to the True Culprit -- Comey's FBI Team

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

• "Yeshiva education and the last bastion of legitimate prejudice."
  The War Against the Haredim

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

• "The lawsuit, which was filed Monday by John Paul Mac Isaac in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, alleged that Twitter defamed Isaac when they censored a story from the New York Post under their hacked materials policy."
  Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Filed By Computer Shop Owner Who Had Hunter Biden's Laptop Same Day It Was Filed
  
• "Disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, 56, is doing well, The New Yorker reports, embarking on a new post-political career making countertops."
  New Yorker Gives Anthony Weiner Glossy Profile After Suspending Jeffrey Toobin
  
• "Twitter censors President Trump, neglects Hollywood elites calling for violence."
  Cyber Big Brother: Conservatives Silenced, Trump Deranged Stars Given Pass
  
• "The New York Times' 'Caliphate' series was flawed from its beginnings in 2018, but a lack of transparency and conflicts of interest have overshadowed the publication's attempt to walk back its own failed reporting."
  NY Times Apologizes For Fake "Caliphate" Reporting With More Cover-Ups and Conflicts of Interest

  ABORTION

• "...I cannot support the sections of this proposal that expand the availability of later term abortions and permit minors age 16 and 17 to get an abortion without the consent of a parent or guardian."
  Mass. Democrats Ram Through an Abortion Bill Too Extreme for Their Pro-Choice Governor

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "Future presidents may try to couch it a little bit differently, or they may try to roll it back, but they are going to be unable to do that."
  Rick Grenell: The America First Policy is "Never Going Back in the Bottle"
  
• Michael Goodwin: "When Trump took office, just two Arab nations, Egypt and Jordan, had treaties with Israel, a situation that had existed without change since 1994. There are now six regional nations with diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. "
  Middle East Peace Deals Were Trump's Mission Impossible Made Possible
  
• "China's aggression against the territory signals its hostile intentions globally."
  The West Should Not Abandon Hong Kong
  
• "The move will decisively neutralize Ma's growing power and eliminate him as a threat to the authority of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and dictator Xi Jinping."
  Chinese Communist Party Breaks Up Jack Ma's Financial Empire
  
• "The new revelations promise to deepen consternation in Washington with Berlin and Moscow's efforts to complete the Nord Stream 2 pipeline."
  Iran-Linked Ship to Aid Construction of Contested Russian Pipeline
  
• German business weekly WiWo: "China wants to invest in European nuclear power plants and use Chinese technology in this area."
  EU, Communist China Set to Sign Major Investment Pact
  
• "Member of the WHO 'surge team' dismisses 'moonshot of eradication' as another team heads to China to investigate [Chinese] coronavirus origins."
  World Health Organization Warns of "Super Gonorrhea" and More Pandemics
  
• Michael Ledeen: "It's time for the West to start deceiving China."
  China Marches On

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "Trump originally objected to the NDAA because Congress refused to include provisions in the bill that would dismantle Section 230, the law that governs how internet companies moderate third-party content. Trump also objected to provisions in the bill seeking to rename military bases currently named after Confederate figures."
  Mitch McConnell Urges Senate To Override President Trump's NDAA Veto
  
• "The more espionage changes, the more it remains the same."
  Finding the Russian Moles

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "Executive summary: things aren't getting better."
  2020: The Year in European Islam

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "The new rules make way for the further integration of drones into our airspace by addressing safety and security concerns," FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said. "They get us closer to the day when we will more routinely see drone operations such as the delivery of packages."
  New FAA Rules Expected To Expedite Commercial Drone Delivery Operations
  
• "It turns out that China owns outright or has large interests in a surprising number of well-known 'American' brands -- and that gives President Xi a say in things."
  China Has Deep Tentacles in the American Economy

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "His administration needs to appease BLM, and the 'Biden Crime Bill' and Obama's 'reforms' provide the blueprint."
  Biden Justice Department Will Resume Reprogramming the Police
  
• "It's bad enough that an alleged knife-wielding thug who slashes neighborhood women got to gallivant out of jail. But the story becomes downright enraging when we learn that Benjamin was already facing manslaughter charges -- and the same judge let him out twice."
  Charged with Murder? Stabbing? In NYC, You're Free to Go

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "As if toppling statues of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln didn't give that game away, now they've reached back thousands of years and targeted Homer. Not Homer Simpson, but the OG Homer who lived in the 5th century B.C. and wrote The Odyssey."
  Was Ancient Greek Poet Homer a Civil War General? He Just Got Canceled in a Mass. School

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "Will their appeasement be enough to avoid Obama-esque cuts to the space program?"
  NASA's Insurance Policy Against Biden
  
• "With each mask weighing three to four grams, the situation could lead to 6,800-plus tons of plastic pollution that 'will take as long as 450 years to break down,' threatening fish and even polluting the air, according to the report."
  More Than 1.5 Billion Chinese COVID Face Masks Will Pollute the Oceans
  
• Two from our intrepid science reporter, First: "Two cool images to illustrate the strange processes on the Martian south pole icecap that happen every year with the arrival of warmer weather."
  Summer at the Martian South Pole
  
• Second, a wee bit further out in space: "...a new paper analyzing radar data from Cassini of Titan during its more than 120 fly-bys of that weird Saturn Moon."
  The Seas of Titan, Deep and Alien

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

• "The rapid development of the [Chinese] Covid vaccine is a reminder that abundant and affordable energy makes modern life possible."
  A Carbon-Powered Shot
  
• "In addition to yammering about [Chinese] COVID-19 and how we need to change the world as a result of a pandemic that was less than the Chinese Communist Party would have us believe, now Gates believes he can block out the sun -- to save the world from global warming, of course."
  Bill Gates Had a Plan to Stop Global Warming -- Until Science Got in the Way
  
• "The issue isn't science; the issue is those who hide behind science as they try to force feed us their leftist agendas."
  Science Can be Great... Scientists? That Depends

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

• "What we are seeing is an effort to deprioritize the facts of biological sex to accommodate an incredibly tiny and unrepresentative number of transgender activists."
  Medical Journal: Hide Everybody's Sex Because a Handful of Trans People Get Bottom Surgery
  
• "Utopian experiences at best end with hunger and at worst end in a welter of blood and death, but the UN Women still believe they can do it right."
  UN Women Give the World a Glimpse of Leftist Utopia
  
• I'll perform the "operation" for free. With a rusty hacksaw. On his neck. I mean, the judge. Rhetorically speaking, of course.
  Your Tax Dollars at Work: Man Convicted of Raping His Daughter Approved for Transgender Surgery

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "Before the Magna Carta was drafted, before the right to free exercise of religion was enshrined as America's first freedom in our glorious Constitution, Thomas gave his life so that, as he said, 'the Church will attain liberty and peace,'" President Trump said in his proclamation.
  Trump Honors Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, "We Ought to Obey G-d Rather Than Men"
  
• "If Americans are taught to reject America's founding principles, that leaves room for us to be defined and shaped by an alternative principle: identity politics."
  How the 1619 Project Aims to Change Middle America
  
• "Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, a Democrat said 'After engaging in a public process, it's clear that residents and visitors to Boston have been uncomfortable with this statue, and its reductive representation of the Black man's role in the abolitionist movement.'"
  Historic Lincoln Statue Removed from Downtown Boston
  
• "As the Left seeks to erase our history, here is why Douglass must be remembered."
  Prager U Video: Who Was Frederick Douglass?
  
• "The comedian's new four-part Netflix special, Schulz Saves America, is a very big deal for several reasons."
  How Andrew Schulz Might Actually Be "Saving America"
  
• Roger Kimball: "The opposite of 'conservative' is not 'liberal' but ephemeral."
  The Cultural Roots of Conservatism

  HITHER & YON

• Sports itself - its heart, soul and purpose - was murdered in cold blood by the Left.
  From Kobe to Maradona, a Year of Staggering Losses in Sports
  
• Kathy Griffin will have to encourage Anderson Cooper's ball to drop on Zoom...
  No Crowd for New Year's Eve Ball Drop in Times Square for First Time Since 1907
  
• Christian Toto: "It was a bad year for humanity as well as audiences seeking first-rate features."
  Toto : The Best Movies of 2020
  
• Salena Zito: "The journey upward will not come from a politician, nor will it come from the loudest voices, which means it will likely come from within us as a people."
  Our Hopes for 2021 Won't Be Fulfilled By a Politician, But By Us
  
• "A pioneer in the type of brand licensing that's so in vogue today, Cardin's name was embossed on thousands of products throughout the 1970s and '80s, including watches and bedsheets, and sold at more than 100,000 stores across the world."
  Pierre Cardin, Iconic Space-Age Fashion Designer, Dead at 98

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