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mark against which the current dark crisis is to be measured. ‘There is a real danger in complacency, and we are seeing the effects of that play out in real time,’ an infectious diseases specialist at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School recently told the Washington Post. ‘Across the country, we have begun to see another increase in infections and deaths after a period of time with low transmission.’ Who knew? Neither the experts nor the media let on that we were ever in a period of low transmission.
And despite today’s raging headlines, the current crisis is still largely anticipatory. Los Angeles County’s director of public health, Barbara Ferrer, has been leaning heavily on the promise of future disaster. ‘This much of an increase in cases may very well result in tremendous suffering and tragic deaths down the road,’ she told the Los Angeles Times on November 12. For now, however, the number of hospitals that are severely burdened nationally is small; at least a quarter of all cases now being labeled as coronavirus hospitalizations in the daily media count were likely admitted for other problems and only retroactively classified as coronavirus cases following a positive test. California governor Gavin Newsom has put 94 percent of the states’ residents under another stay-at-home order. But only six percent of the state’s hospital beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients, up from four percent in early November. Nationally, the case fatality rate and presumed infection fatality rate continue to drop.
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Human sacrifice
Almost all the businesses being sacrificed on the altar of coronavirus fear are as innocent as the vestal virgins of old. The public health authorities have no idea what is driving the current spread. They have no hard evidence that outdoor or indoor restaurant meals are responsible; they certainly have no evidence that shopping is responsible. And yet millions of livelihoods are being destroyed in the exercise of inebriating, limitless power. ‘We don’t want you going into restaurants and sitting and eating outside, and we don’t want you going into retail establishments either,’ Los Angeles’s ubiquitous Barbara Ferrer pronounced recently. Ferrer has no basis for stigmatizing retail establishments.
The shaming of heretics and dissenters
Neuroradiologist Stanford scientist Scott Atlas and the physician scientists who signed the Great Barrington Declaration have been denounced for challenging the efficacy of economic lockdowns, school shutdowns, and outdoor mask requirements. Their heresies have been borne out by the evidence.
False agency
The director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, a major purveyor of pandemic panic, claimed in the Wall Street Journal that the pandemic was threatening ‘jobs and
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businesses’. It is not the pandemic that is threatening jobs and businesses, however, political decisionmaking is. COVID is also ascribed a power that it does not likely have. The New York Times has dedicated a special section to ‘those we’ve lost’ from COVID (ignoring the many more people we lose each day to cancer and heart disease). One alleged COVID casualty was a 101-year-old veteran. We are to believe that without COVID, he would have lived an indefinite number of further years.
An advanced civilization builds towards the future, as the Pilgrims and other New World settlers understood. It accumulates social and economic capital to be drawn on by individual discoverers and entrepreneurs for further progress. Now, however, we are cannibalizing our economic inheritance, in the fantastical belief that government transfer payments, generated from ever increased debt, can substitute for private economic activity. Our capital, now being recklessly destroyed by arbitrary government fiat, will take generations to rebuild. We take for granted everything that hard-won prosperity has provided us — well-functioning services (compared to Third World disorder), dependable maintenance, the luxury of choice. We will miss such prosperity when it follows the fate of those millions of businesses whose loss is causing despair, substance abuse, and suicide.
A mature civilization understands that risk is part of life and that there are higher purposes — even mere sociability — than avoiding death at all costs. No great venture can be accomplished if staying safe is life’s only guiding principle. Now, however, our elites mock courage and perseverance, explicitly repudiating the virtues that built this country. President Trump, upon leaving the hospital after a coronavirus infection, admonished the country to not ‘be afraid’ of the virus, in the Washington Post’s words, and to not ‘allow it to dominate’ our lives. That imminently reasonable exhortation, once expected in a leader, is still being denounced by public health experts and the media nearly two months later. If Americans do not repudiate this ethic of fear, future Thanksgivings will be even bleaker than this year’s.
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture.
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ed ANTIFA, a domestic terrorist organization where he recorded Eric Coomer representing: “Don’t worry. Trump won’t win the election, we fixed that.” – as well as social media posts with violence threatened against President Trump.” The Georgia lawsuit was mild on attacks against Dominion. Yes, they were mentioned 58 times in the suit, but the focus was on lower-hanging fruit. Gov. Kemp, Secretary of State Raffensperger, and the election board accusing them of breaking laws, cutting deals, and trying to cover it all up.
In Michigan, the lawsuit was filed against Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was similar in nature, but the Dominion Voting Systems was the focus. There are implications that should not only cast doubt on any jurisdiction that uses the terminals or software but should also make one question the willingness of using the system in their state.
“Election workers illegally forged, added, removed or otherwise altered information on ballots, the Qualified Voter File and Other Voting Records,” Powell’s lawsuit filed late Wednesday and made public on Thanksgiving Day alleged. “Defendants’ egregious misconduct has included ignoring legislative mandates concerning mail-in ballots– including the mandate that mailin ballots be post-marked on or before Election Day -- and critically, preventing Plaintiff’s poll watchers from observing the receipt, review, opening, and tabulation of mail-in ballots.”
This week’s headlines
President Trump's campaign legal team announced Tuesday that the legislatures in Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania will soon hold electionrelated hearings. They will be held "in an effort to provide confidence that all of the legal votes have been counted and the illegal votes have not been counted in the November 3rd election," according to a press release.
President Trump's legal team on Wednesday urged the Pennsylvania legislature to hold off on certifying the state's 2020 election results amid allegations of voting irregularities and potential fraud there.
Multiple witnesses as well as Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani earlier in the hearing alleged major voting irregularities in the state, claiming that Republican vote watchers were denied access to oversee the vote-counting process during the state's presidential election.
Also, on Wednesday, the Thomas More Society's Amistad Project announced its latest battleground state litigation, claiming government data indicates that "well over 100,000 illegal votes in Georgia were improperly counted, while tens of thousands of legal votes were not counted."
The same day, it was reported that more than a thousand Georgia voters registered and voted using addresses from postal facilities or businesses that appeared to be residential addresses, according to Matt Braynard, a former Trump campaign official and his team who analyzed voting data from the state. Judge James Russell of the First Judicial District Court will hear from attorneys representing President Trump's campaign at an evidentiary hearing on Dec. 3, at which up to 15 witnesses may be deposed, Russell said.
President Trump on Wednesday fully pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, bringing to end a tumultuous four-year criminal case that felled the three-star general before prosecutors reversed course and declared they had improperly pursued his prosecution. Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general, had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about talking with a Russian diplomat during the 2016 Trump administration transition period.
Attorney General William Barr earlier this year asked a federal court in Washington, D.C., to allow the Justice Department to drop the case. However, the matter has since been tied up in legal proceedings.
A Pennsylvania data scientist, who is also a veteran of the U.S. Navy, alleged this week that 47 USB cards used in the state during the November 3 presidential election have disappeared. Accordingly, the witness believes that at least 120,000 votes in Pennsylvania should be called into question.
At a hearing on Wednesday in Gettysburg, Pa., Gregory Stenstrom testified as an expert witness on election fraud.
"I personally observed USB cards being uploaded to voting machines by the voting machine warehouse supervisor on multiple occasions. This person is not being observed, he's not a part of the process that I can see, and he is walking in with baggies of USBs," said Stenstrom.
Also, at the hearing it was revealed that with Trump leading PA by 600,000 votes on election night, 570,000 votes were found the next day for Biden, 3,200 for Trump (less than one percent).
On Friday, the Arizona State Legislature scheduled to hold an Election Integrity hearing that will include President’s lawyers Jenna Ellis and Rudy Giuliani.
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Judge Patricia McCullough, who ordered Pennsylvania to not certify the results of the 2020 election wrote in an opinion on Friday that the Republicans who filed the related lawsuit will likely win the case.
A lawsuit complaint, filed on Friday on behalf of Wisconsin voter Dean Mueller (pdf), argues that the Plaintiff’s right to a “safe, free, secure and transparent presidential election” was violated “in that his vote has been diluted by the counting of thousands of illegal votes placed in illegal ballot drop boxes across the State of Wisconsin.”
On Saturday, it was reported by the Epoch Times a group that received hundreds of millions of dollars from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is accused in post-election lawsuits of contributing to constitutional violations in key battleground states.
Voter Integrity Project leader Matt Braynard said Sunday the FBI is asking him for findings from the initiative related to possible illegal ballots in the 2020 election. On Sunday, an Emergency Order was entered by Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr. which stated, “Defendants are ordered to maintain the status quo and are temporarily enjoined from wiping or resetting any voting machines in the State of Georgia until further order of the Court.”
The freeze of the machines came after a computer forensic expert made the claims that If Georgia uses the same Within hours of Judge Batten’s decision, he reversed his course based on the claim that Georgia counties control voting machines. Machines are owned by the state.
Trump’s paths to the presidency
12th Amendment option
President Donald Trump's path to 270 is so difficult, the more likely goal for his team is to keep enough states from certifying the election results so Joe Biden falls short of 270 electoral votes Dec. 14.
The system of electing the president is very complicated. It was not designed for a democracy in which we are not. It was designed to be for the type of government which we are—a representative democracy, or also termed, a republic. Therefore, the Constitution calls for the states to choose the presidential electors who then vote for the president. Over time, states have passed laws so that their popular vote would determine their electors, but those are laws— not Constitutional obligations.
Of the six contested states, four of them have Republican legislators (Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona). If one or more decide that the election is fraudulent, they could send what they regard as the legitimate slate of electors (the four Republican led states would most likely send Republican electors). The Democrats would certainly object and file lawsuits and the states with Democrat Governors or Democrat Secretaries of State could send their own slate of electors to Washington which would then add to the confusion.
When Congress convenes on Jan. 6, 2021 to tally the electors’ votes, there would be challenges to the legitimacy of some electors.
It is possible Congressional Republicans could decide that the disputed states should simply not be counted. This could mean that neither candidate would reach the 270 electoral votes needed to win. If neither candidate gets 270 electoral votes Dec. 14, the Constitution directs the state delegations in the House of Representatives to decide the presidency. Republicans control the majority of at least 26 of the 50 state delegations in the House, even if Democrats hold a slight majority in total seats. In this scenario, Donald Trump would serve another four years as President of the United States.
Sending the presidential decision to the House would ostensibly disenfranchise half of America, but it is what the Constitution provides with an electoral college short of a majority 270 votes.
Supreme Court option
It takes the votes of four of the nine justices of the Supreme Court to agree to hear a case, and a majority to issue a decision. ways rule in favor of the president who appointed them. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, both Trump appointees, have sided against the president in the past. Ahead of the election, Trump had predicted that the race would ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court and pushed to get Justice Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to the bench ahead of time. Democrats pressed for Barrett to recuse herself from any disputes related to the race, though she declined to commit herself to doing so.
The Supreme Court weighed in on a contested presidential election in the 2000 case Bush v. Gore.
An executive order signed into existence on September 12, 2018, by President Trump, available at Whitehouse.gov, is entitled, “Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election.”
In that executive order, President Trump declared a national emergency which is still in play to this day, and the 2020 election was conducted under this state of emergency.
In the executive order, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe has 45 days to determine— in consultation with appropriate agencies—whether “a foreign government, or any person acting as an agent of or on behalf of a foreign government, has acted with the intent or purpose of interfering in any election for Federal office.” Second, within 45 days after receiving the DNI’s assessment, the attorney general and secretary of homeland security—in consultation with appropriate agencies—are to send the president and the secretaries of state, defense and the treasury a report evaluating two questions: (1) the extent to which any foreign interference that targeted election infrastructure materially affected the security or integrity of that infrastructure, the tabulation of votes, or the timely transmission of election results; and (2) if any foreign interference involved activities targeting the infrastructure of, or pertaining to, a political organization, campaign, or candidate, the extent to which such activities materially affected the security or integrity of that infrastructure, including by unauthorized access to, disclosure or threatened disclosure of, or alteration or falsification of, information or data.
The document then details the potential measures which could be imposed which include, among others, the blocking of property, restrictions on access to financial institutions, and “any other measures authorized by law.”
