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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Suffering is the Beginning of Wisdom: Part III, Voter Fraud

 The Red Tsunami Was Stopped by Massive, Widespread, Ongoing Voter Fraud - JD Rucker

By Rich Kozlovich 

Recently my friend Dr. Jay Lehr scheduled us to appear on a radio talk show dealing with the issues surrounding this election and our predictions as to what would happen. We both believed Republicans would take the House with at least 40 seats, and take at least two in the Senate and possibly more.  How could we have been so wrong?  We failed to take in to consideration covid.  

"When the scamdemic was at its peak going into the 2020 election cycle, some 17 states allowed for mail-in ballots. Now that the scamdemic is over, only nine of those 17 rolled back to the old voting methods."

This false pandemic gave the Democrats, who've been practicing voter fraud for decades, and in big numbers, now had the  opportunity to expand those fraudulent practices beyond anything they could have hoped for. 

Now, mail-in voting on a massive scale was allowed with drop boxes, ballot harvesting, and no identification needed at all. In short, there were no longer any standards for voter integrity in place, and the Democrats cheat....a lot.   Since they're not being challenged, caught, charged with a crime, and an invertebrate Republican leadership allows it to go on, why would they stop?  The Republican leadership nationally and in every state had to know this was happening and did nothing to put an end to it for two years.  As always these invertebrates were afraid of leftist accusations they would be trying to prevent people from voting and never daring to state the obvious fact the 2020 election was a total fraud.   

How do they do it?  

I think the best piece I've read on this is another brilliant analysis by Jay Valentine, in his article, How Wisconsin Streetfighters Disrupted a Democrat Ballot-Gathering System, saying: 

Ballots and votes.....These two words seem synonymous, yet they imply opposite ways to choose a government.  There is a big difference between "votes" and "ballots."  The Republicans focused on winning votes; the Democrats focused on gathering ballots.  The ballots won. When Election Day became Election Month, mail-in ballots replaced in-person voters, and the electoral world changed forever.  It is not changing back.  

Democrats, expert in anything government-related, drove states to change laws, increase voting days, loosen voter standards.  Republican leadership dozed. Democrats, leftist non-governmental organizations, Big Tech invented every conceivable way to manipulate the ballot process: collect ballots, drop into streetside bins, fill them out if the voter doesn't.......... There were innumerable addresses where no voter could possibly live.

Democrats know how many votes they need and cast them during the forever campaign time in the name of phantoms.  Their ballot inventory comes from real ballots sent to fake addresses, then collected by someone — never a Republican — and voted.need tens of thousands of phantom addresses and voters.  A few is not enough.  Without thousands of loose ballots tied to phantoms, the edifice comes crashing down.

They also need Republicans to do nothing.........

(Editor's Note:  Make sure to follow the link to Jay's articles dealing with voter fraud, which appeared in American Thinker.  RK

When you have an unaccountable amount of ballots and drop boxes you don't need verification, you need agents to carry out this criminal activity.  A name and an address, and criminals to gather these fraudulent ballots, and a number of how many "drop in ballots" are needed to win, and that's why there are all these delays, interruptions and pauses.  That gives them the time to tabulate just how many fraudulent ballots are needed.

Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters Investigates Bag Full of Ballots Found In California Mountains

By Anthony Scott November 12, 2022 

The Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters alongside the United States Postal Service is investigating a large bag full of ballots found in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The ballots were found inside a deep ravine by a woman who was riding her motorcycle.  Julie Neiman the woman who spotted the ballots told KSBW: “They were trying to make it look like people wouldn’t find them. That’s the way I saw it. They were dumped over the edge of the road down this deep ravine. It goes pretty far and it’s very steep.”............ “How? How did it get from the mailbox to Santa Cruz?”.......To Read More...

 

Elections Were Stolen: Do NOT Let Them Gaslight You Into Thinking Otherwise

 

My story and show yesterday offered a way to fight back if Arizona gets stolen.  Arizona was stolen. Now, the gaslighting begins. Don't fall for it. We must fight back.

By JD Rucker 

Never in modern history have the polls been wrong by FAVORING Republicans heavily. Polls favor Democrats by 3%-6%, so in any race that's close in the polls, Republicans have a better chance of winning it than the Democrat because real results for the GOP outperforms polling. We saw a clear example of this in Florida where polls that favored Republican candidates underestimated their victories while polls that favored Democrats, such as the race between Eric Lynn and Anna Paulina Luna, were wrong. Luna defeated Lynn by 8-points despite the final two polls showing Lynn slightly favored.

That's how things are supposed to go, but this last election was different. Very different. Inexplicably and undeniably different. Instead of close races going to Republicans, they defied every election in modern history and went to Democrats. Even candidates who were clearly winning in the final polls, such as Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake or Pennsylvania senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz, had their fortunes reversed.

But here's the catch. The red tsunami that everyone and their dog predicted was only thwarted in states where voter fraud is essentially permitted through loose voter ID laws, ubiquitous mail-in balloting, ballot harvesting, and unchecked vote counting practices. States that have stricter laws such as Florida and Ohio saw the predicted red wave. States where voter fraud is de facto legalized like Arizona and Pennsylvania saw inexplicable "wins" for corrupt Democrats.............To Read More....

We’re getting played when it comes to who’s the real 2022 winner

 By Andrea Widburg

Following the dismal midterm showing, there’s a lot of blame to go around. While I can and will sum up the issue, I want to focus more narrowly on the way in which the entire Republican machine is turning from Trump, who is now anathema, to Ron DeSantis, who is the new god. Considering that we still have a long time before the primaries and then the 2024 election, this kind of decision-making is premature and dangerous—and that’s why we’re being forced into it.

Here's a short list of leading blame topics: (1) The GOP was useless; (2) American voters (especially the young ones), after 60 years of non-stop propaganda in the media, entertainment, and schools, no longer value freedom and the Constitution; (3) brainwashed women voters believe that fulfillment lies in a career and an appointment with the abortionist; and (4) Trump anointed weak candidates in pivotal elections.

Oh, and here’s what I believe is the most significant factor: mail-in ballots. In states with mail-in ballots, the Secretary of State mails ballots to every person on the registrar’s list. It’s irrelevant that many have moved, are dead, or are manifestly fraudulent (see all of Jay Valentine’s articles on the subject). At apartment buildings, you may see dozens of ballots sitting in piles in the lobby, addressed to people who long since moved away...............To Read More..

Gingrich: GOP Got Nearly 6 Million More Votes but Lost Many Races, ‘What’s Going On?’

By Eva Fu November 11, 2022

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has been in politics for decades, and never has an election bewildered him as much as the 2022 midterms.

“I’ve never been as wrong as I was this year,” Gingrich, an Epoch Times contributor, said on Nov. 10.  “It makes me challenge every model I’m aware of, and realize that I have to really stop and spend a good bit of time thinking and trying to put it all together.”  People from both sides of the aisle were projecting substantial losses for the Democratic Party amid rising discontent over inflation, the economy, and crime. But that expected red wave didn’t happen. ​​..........To Read More.

My Take - This appeared before it was known the Senate was lost.

 

Colorado, as we knew you, goodbye

November 11, 2022 By C.S. Boddie

The 2022 midterm election results for Colorado say that the state as it was is no more.  Colorado went even bluer this election, and it will not be coming back.

"The idea that somehow Colorado is still purplish or has a red streak to it, no, I don't see it at all," said  Jon Caldara of the Independence Institute on IITV's Devil's Advocate show.  "All of that was absolutely mind-boggling, but what really got me was in the state Legislature."

Caldara interviewed Marianne Goodland, Colorado legislative reporter for Colorado Politics.  She said, "This is going to be a far more progressive Legislature than we've seen in some time."

Looking at the election overall, Caldara said that nobody saw this coming, that redistricting was thought only to help Republicans.  Senate seats were thought to be more competitive for Republicans because of redistricting, but that turned out not to be the case.........To Read More....

 

Delingpole: Bestselling Author Fired for Mocking Publisher’s Diversity Policy

James Delingpole

Publishing giant Penguin Random House has announced that its authors are no longer to be chosen on literary merit but according to a politically correct quota system “taking into account ethnicity, gender, sexuality, social mobility and disability”.

This is mad, stupid, and insulting. But not nearly as mad, stupid, and insulting as the decision by the Mslexia Short Story Prize, a literary competition for women authors, to sack one of its judges Lionel Shriver as a punishment for daring to criticise the new policy.

Shriver (who, despite her misleading first name, is a woman) is the American-born, UK-resident novelist best known for her bestseller We Need To Talk About Kevin.

She also has a column in the Spectator which this week she used to mock Penguin Random House’s new diversity policy.

It begins:

I’d been suffering under the misguided illusion that the purpose of mainstream publishers like Penguin Random House was to sell and promote fine writing. A colleague’s forwarded email has set me straight. Sent to a literary agent, presumably this letter was also fired off to the agents of the entire Penguin Random House stable. The email cites the publisher’s ‘new company-wide goal’: for ‘both our new hires and the authors we acquire to reflect UK society by 2025.’ (Gotta love that shouty boldface.) ‘This means we want our authors and new colleagues to reflect the UK population taking into account ethnicity, gender, sexuality, social mobility and disability.’ The email proudly proclaims that the company has removed ‘the need for a university degree from nearly all our jobs’ — which, if my manuscript were being copy-edited and proof-read by folks whose university-educated predecessors already exhibited horrifyingly weak grammar and punctuation, I would find alarming.

Then she really gets going:

Drunk on virtue, Penguin Random House no longer regards the company’s raison d’être as the acquisition and dissemination of good books. Rather, the organisation aims to mirror the percentages of minorities in the UK population with statistical precision. Thus from now until 2025, literary excellence will be secondary to ticking all those ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual preference and crap-education boxes. We can safely infer from that email that if an agent submits a manuscript written by a gay transgender Caribbean who dropped out of school at seven and powers around town on a mobility scooter, it will be published, whether or not said manuscript is an incoherent, tedious, meandering and insensible pile of mixed-paper recycling. Good luck with that business model. Publishers may eschew standards, but readers will still have some.

Eminently sensible stuff. But the diversity police didn’t like it.

In another blast at Shriver in the Independent (formerly a newspaper), an “LBGT screenwriter and filmmaker” called Amrou Al-Kadhi – who specialises “in avant-garde attempts to queer mainstream institutions” – explains why choosing authors on literary merit is homophobic, disablist, sexist, and racist.

How we are taught to judge “good work” is inextricably rooted in the structures of social and racial privilege. Unconscious biases sit at the heart of invisible prejudices, and when we have been fed on a culture defined by the privileged, it leads to a cultural taste of works from the privileged – and so the vicious cycle perpetuates.

Shriver seems to believe that there is some sort of abstract ideal of good-quality writing, but this is a complete and utter fallacy dripping with privilege. This “ideal” no doubt upholds writing that has benefited from a high-quality education, and with this comes the perils of class and racial privilege.

This is the kind of post-modernist, neo-Marxist gobbledegook they teach you at Cambridge (where Amrou Al-Khadi studied). It is of a piece with the campaign being conducted by woke students at Cambridge (Oxford too, unfortunately) to “decolonise” the curriculum, by replacing dead, white male philosophers, writers, historically significant talents you’ve heard of with second-, third-, and fourth-raters you haven’t heard of but who fit the right diversity profile.

One of the many problems with choosing your talent on criteria other than talent is that the people you end up with aren’t necessarily that talented.

Consider as Exhibit A, this open letter to Shriver, purportedly written by the “inaugural cohort of writers from the Penguin Random House WriteNow scheme”.

Shriver seems to view diversity and quality as mutually exclusive categories. We are compelled to ask: does she truly believe that diverse writers are incapable of penning good books? That women of colour are incapable of working editorially? That marketing is a job limited to individuals who identify as cis, white and straight? Does she believe that someone with a disability, or from a working-class background, does not have what it takes to grasp the concepts of plot, dialogue and use of language? If she truly does believe these things, we ought to be having a very different conversation.

That word “seems” is carrying an awful lot of freight.

The letter accuses Shriver of something she never actually said. Besides being sloppy, unobservant, ungenerous, and intellectually dishonest, the letter is also smug, virtue-signalling, self-righteous, pompous, worthy, hectoring, patronising, tendentious, dull, and an absolute torture to read.

If the dreary letter is in any way representative of the stuff we can expect in future from Penguin Random House’s new list of diversity-compliant authors, it doesn’t augur terribly well for their bottom line. The company is co-owned by Bertelsmann (75 percent) and Pearson (25 percent). Glad I don’t own any shares in either…

 

Democrats use Republicans’ honor against them

November 15, 2022 By M.B. Mathews

Democrats are Lucy.  Republicans are Linus.  The football is honor and decency.  Democrats are ruthless in their willingness to cheat, obfuscate, confuse, deceive, and play dirty.  This isn't news.  Republicans, having a moral code that relies upon a Judeo-Christian ethic, can be relied upon to always do what is right.  (Exceptions exist: Liz Cheney and Mitch McConnell, for example.)  Democrats take advantage of the GOP's fealty to doing what is honorable, a word far removed from a Democrat's worldview......... To Read More...


 

Can You Believe ‘Election Deniers’ Still Exist?

To borrow a favorite phrase of one sad old soul now perched in the seat of ultimate American power: "C'mon, man!" 

By Albin Sadar

We saw them after the 2020 presidential election and now they’re back. In the wake of the 2022 midterms, the election deniers have returned.    With mounds of evidence readily available revealing election fraud in 2020, and now the “slow steal” being rolled out in the 2022 midterms, people are still clinging to their election denial.     Yes, maybe some are realizing that these midterms weren’t exactly “the most secure election in American history,” but they will still vehemently deny that there was enough hanky-panky at the polls to make any real difference in the outcome. They still deny that the Left steals elections—and right out from under their very noses.

Here’s how they justify what happened on November 8: Sure, the Republicans were expected to produce a red wave like never before seen in our lifetime. But don’t you know that it was “Trump! Trump! TRUMP!” who was to blame for the red ripple?  ..........Until those of us on the Right stop being lapdogs playing the same old game thrown at us by the fraudsters, tricksters, liars, and cheaters on the Left, the destruction of our country will continue unabated—and that means right through the 2024 presidential election..............To Read More...

 

 

THE STEAL: The Number of House Seats Continues to Dwindle As GOP Leaders Again Allow This to Happen

 November 12, 2022, by Joe Hoft

 The world is watching in amazement as corrupt election directors and politicians across the country can’t seem to finalize the results of an election four days ago.  Texas and Florida can complete their election results a few hours after the election, but other states are days away, if not weeks.  The 2022 Election was supposed to be a route for the GOP.  Biden and his gang of America-destroying communists are not liked.  They are even hated for their actions in Afghanistan, with the economy, the Jan 6 communist kangaroo court, and much more.  Most Americans can’t list three things that this administration has done for the good of America.  Many can’t name one thing............To Read More...

EXCLUSIVE: Unexplained Ballot Drop in GA Senate Race Likely Prevented Herschel Walker from Winning Race

By Joe Hoft November 10, 2022 3212 Comments 

On Tuesday in the 2022 Midterms, the “Drop and Roll” occurred in the Michigan Governor race just like it happened in the 2020 Presidential Election.  It also occurred in the Minnesota Governor’s race.  We now have evidence that it also occurred in the Georgia Senate race stealing the win from Republican Herschel Walker.  The crooks and criminals are stealing US Elections in multiple ways.  One of the biggest ways they stole the 2020 Election for President was the “The Drop and Roll” method.

In the Drop and Roll incidents in the 2020 Election, we identified that at around the point where 90% of the expected ballots were returned, a large batch of ballots was “dropped” with nearly every ballot going to Joe Biden.  These batches were as large as 330,000 ballots for Biden in Virginia at one time........The drops are always in favor of Democrats.............To Read More... 

 

Abolish ‘Voting Season’ and Bring Back Election Day

November 12, 2022 By William Sullivan

“Election Night no longer exists,” writes Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness, continuing:

Returns are not counted for days. It is intolerable for a modern democracy to wait and wait for all sorts of ballots both cast and counted under radically different and sometimes dubious conditions.

The Democrats – with overwhelming media and money advantages – have mastered these arts of massive and unprecedented early, mail-in, and absentee voting. Old-fashioned Republicans count on riling up their voters to show up on Election Day.  But it is far easier to finesse and control the mail-in ballots than to ‘get out the vote.’

Until recently, mail-in ballots were largely limited to absentees, such as citizens living abroad (as remains the standard in most of the EU), or the rare instances where citizens were otherwise unable to cast a vote at the polls on Election Day.  And Democrats, just like Republicans, relied mainly on “get out the vote” efforts back in those days..........To Read More....

 

Of Course Democrats Are Cheating – and Why Wouldn’t They?

by Brad Lyles, M.D. November 12, 2022

 
Editor’s Note: The article below by Brad Lyles, M.D., from WND reiterates what I said in a recent episode of The JD Rucker Show. Unfortunately, not very many conservative or alternative news outlets are covering what we believe to be blatantly clear, that Democrats and their allies cheated heavily to win many of the races that fell their way.

It’s not sour grapes to think that, especially when we consider two important facts. First, nobody was held accountable for the 2020 election theft. Second, the “wins” by Democrats only happened in states that continued to have massive voter fraud problems that went unresolved.

Here’s my video followed by the article by Brad….........

Democrats cheated in 2020, and they’re cheating again right now – and why wouldn’t they? It does not require a Ph.D in Skinnerian Behaviorism to understand that: a) given that Democrats were rewarded handsomely for their cheating in 2020, and b) given that they suffered no punishment for their treachery, it follows that c) they cheated more in 2022 than in 2020, but this time they were two years more practiced at it...............To Read More......

 

You Can’t Have a Red Wave with a Blue Dam

November 11, 2022 By Matthew G. Andersson

Since 1979 I’ve been a registered Republican.  I was optimistic like so many other conservatives that a “Red Wave” would reflect a learning behavior from the larger public in the current voting cycle, a change in perception given the overwhelming flood of not only bad policy from the Left, such as mass illegal immigration, but outright incompetence in fiscal and monetary policy.

While I was skeptical of an actual surge among America’s largest political party -- the non-voters -- I didn’t want to be creating defeatism in my local community by pointing out some unpleasant facts: the GOP at least, is not playing the same game as the DNC, and as the rules have been changed, so will the results. ......... 

What the DNC has accomplished is to install an effective political software, or malware, that structurally alters the entire voting process, by undermining the traditional format we have used for generations, with a software “patch” that rests on secondary methods of unaccountable vote sources such as various early voting, mail ballots, run-offs, delays, concealed ballot harvesting, and opportunistic pauses and interruptions to the more regular voting process that all of us are used to. The DNC has organized a specific tactical interruption of the entire voting infrastructure..............To Read More....

 

Three Primary Factors Stopped That Red Wave

By Cassandra Smith  November 11, 2022

After watching the debacle on Tuesday night, I did my own post-mortem of what happened. I lay the blame on three major factors: The Republican elites, the American public, and early voting.

The Republican Elites 

By far the most important factor is the Republican elites. In 2020, the GOPe was almost as glad as the Dems to be rid of Donald Trump, so they ignored and denied the massive vote fraud that swept Joe Biden into office..............I haven’t seen the statistics on turnout, but I know that if I’m disgusted with the Republican party, then a lot of other people are as well.

The American Public

The American public, having been fed a steady diet of leftism and dumbed-down curricula from nursery school through graduate school, no longer understands civics or economics, and sees our form of government as somehow inferior to European socialism. ...........As a result, Americans don’t see the threat to our freedoms that vaccine and mask mandates and lockdowns were and are. They also don’t understand that someone must pay the bill for government handouts, either directly as confiscatory taxes or indirectly as rampant inflation or hyperinflation.............

Early Voting

Early voting is the sleeper contributor to last night’s losses.  It gives both parties an advance detailed picture of how many people voted, who voted, who is likely to vote but hasn’t yet, and what party voters support or belong to. With all the massive databases out there and modern computers, they have a pretty good idea of how many votes they need to produce to win an election and where to go to get them, days before election day...............To Read More.....

 

 

Commentary: America’s Fourth-World Election System Is a Global Embarrassment

by Deroy Murdock 

The whole world is laughing. “US election results: When will we know who won?” the BBC wondered.  AZCentral.com columnist Jon Gabriel wrote: “Friends in Hungary and Brazil asked how their entire nations can count votes in a few hours, while it takes Arizona a week or longer.” As of early Friday afternoon, America’s voting system has devolved from a global beacon of democracy to an international punchline. A bright neon sign warns: “Don’t try this at home.” Mechanical breakdowns, baffling “ballot dumps,” and inexplicable pauses in tabulation have buried the Arizona and Nevada senatorial and gubernatorial results in sand................To Read More.....

 

Democrats Have Mastered Mail Balloting. Republicans Will Pay if They Fail to Step Up

Salena Zito Nov 15, 2022 

PITTSBURGH -- The first thing Allegheny County Republican Chairman Sam DeMarco saw on election night after the polls closed was the more than 100,000 votes from his home county that dropped for Democrat John Fetterman through mail-in ballots. Although he wasn't sure just yet that that meant the race was lost, he also knew Republicans needed to fix something in the party's way of doing things going forward. "Those initial large dump of voters were mail-in ballots from Democrats," he said of the advance voting that began in 2020 during the pandemic. Democrats embraced it with gusto, but Republicans shied away..................To Read More.... 

 

What’s the matter with Arizona?

 

November 11, 2022 by Scott Johnson in 2022 Election 

I developed a healthy respect for attorney John A. “Jack” Clifford many years ago when we represented adverse parties in an intellectual property dispute. Jack is of counsel with Merchant & Gould. P.C. He sends us this first-hand report under the heading WHAT IS WRONG WITH MARICOPA COUNTY? PLENTY AND IT’S COMPLICATED. The AP’s latest story on the doings in Arizona is here. Jack writes:

I hope you are well. I write from Maricopa County, Arizona, where I have lived, worked and voted since 2014. I write as an individual and not on behalf of any client or my law firm.

First, Maricopa county is huge. The entire state of Arizona has only 10 or 11 counties, compared to a similar-sized Minnesota with 87 counties. You can drive an hour at 70 miles an hour in about any direction to get to the county line, or so it seems. For reasons that are not clear (I think convenience is the excuse), any registered voter can cast an in-person vote anywhere in the county. That sounds great until you realize that because of local school boards, water boards, and other local issues on the ballot this time not all voters have the same ballot...........To Read More....

Round-Up: Election Night Follies

By Robyn Dolgin November 15, 2022

Kari Lake is one of the few GOP candidates who dares to question the integrity of the electoral process. She was not holding back her invective, as a gubernatorial candidate in Arizona, against the “irregularities and gross incompetence” in her state: Her constituents shared in her concerns about the fairness of the election owing to the flood of mail-in ballots and the “operational malfunction” of electoral machines in Maricopa County.

It’s only a secret to CNN (and its media counterparts) that her constituents do not trust the electoral process in their state. “They’re the people who showed up on election day,” she said in an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News. “They’re the people, 275,000 of them… who brought their ballot to polls on election day because they don’t trust the mail and they don’t trust the drop boxes.”.......To Read More...

 

Election machines reported more votes than ballots in two Virginia precincts, nonprofit alleges

The two precincts were in Virginia's 7th and 10th Congressional Districts.

By Natalia Mittelstadt

Election machines reported more votes than physical ballots cast in two precincts in an influential Virginia county, raising concerns about election administration in the midterms after the county's former registrar was charged earlier this year with multiple election-related offenses. In Prince William County, one of Virginia's most important electoral counties, at least two precincts had more ballots reported on the machine scanners' tallies of ballots than were tabulated by election officers, according to a report by Electoral Process Education Corporation (EPEC), a nonprofit that performs election data analysis........To Read More...

 

Democrats’ Mail-In Voting Strategy Outmaneuvered Republicans in Every Pennsylvania County

By Beth Brelje November 15, 2022 
 
The Democrat strategy of using mail-in ballots to vote played a pivotal role in last week’s election results. Pennsylvania Republicans are talking amongst themselves about how to react in the next election. Republicans have two views: get rid of mail-in voting—which seems unlikely with more elected Democrats in power—or learn how Democrats got an avalanche of mail-in votes and employ the same strategy.

The Epoch Times asked the Pennsylvania GOP to discuss the 2022 results and its strategy regarding mail-in ballots in future elections, but it chose not to participate in this story. Pennsylvania Democrats were also asked to comment on their mail-in strategy but did not not respond.

In stump speeches and on social media, Pennsylvania Democrats actively encouraged voters to vote by mail in the days before the election. Often supporters would tweet at a candidate that they just mailed in their ballot.  A look at the numbers behind the election show just how much Democrats relied on mail-in voting..........To Read More...

 

 

Democrat Overturns Republican Victory in House Seat After Recount - Wins by 1 Vote

By Jack Davis, The Western Journal November 15, 2022 

The power given to every American voter was displayed in New Hampshire on Monday with a recount showing the candidate who trailed on Election Day winning her state House seat by one vote.  Before Monday’s recount, Republican Larry Gagne led Democrat Maxine Mosley by 23 votes. The recount gave the race to Mosley, 1,799 to 1,798, according to Newsweek.  “I will say strongly that this race clearly affirms that each-and-every vote does count and that our obligation to vote is foundational for our democracy,” ...............“It’s very unusual, especially in Manchester with the machines we have to make up 24 votes, we were winning by 23. ............“Clearly, there’s something wrong here. We just don’t magically both lose 22 votes like that,” Infantine said..............To Read More...



 

Not Green at All

Green energy costs are large, obvious and measurable. The climate benefits are illusory.

By ——--November 14, 2022

“Green” policies are destroying the natural environment and changing local weather. This is part of a futile UN scheme claiming to improve the climate of the world.  All green energy degrades its environment. Take wind power.  Promoting more inland desertification is not green

Wind turbines steal energy from the atmosphere and must affect local weather. Turbines are always placed on the highest ground and along ridges to catch more wind. Natural hills already affect local weather by causing more rain along the ridge, and a rain shadow further downwind. Wind turbines enhance this rain shadow effect by robbing the wind of its ability to take moisture and rain into the drier interior. 

Promoting more inland desertification is not green. 

Climatists also plan to defend Australia with offshore wind turbines – using bird slicers to protect Australia from hang gliders, cruising pelicans, sea gulls, eagles and the occasional albatross.

Solar “farms” prefer large areas of flattish ground. They steal solar energy from all plant life in their solar shadow. This deprives wild and domestic herbivores of sustenance. Neither kangaroos, cattle, emus, parrots nor sheep thrive in solar energy deserts.........To Read More....

 

Republican Warfare, Part III: National Conservatism and Massive Tax Increases

 

November 11, 2022 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty

In yesterday’s column, I explained Republicans are not credible advocates of lower tax rates if they don’t also push for spending restraint.

And, as I explained to the Adam Smith Institute, they will be de facto advocates of higher taxes if they embrace the wrong version of national conservatism.

To understand why I’m concerned, look at the most-recent edition of the Congressional Budget Office’s long-run fiscal forecast.


It shows that the burden of government spending is going to substantially increase over the next three decades – largely due to the unchecked growth of entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.

Failure to control spending will mean two bad things – either huge tax increases or staggering levels of debt. Probably both.

And if politicians add more spending (as Biden has already done), then those long-run trend lines will get even worse.

My concern is that some national conservatives are unwilling to confront this problem and/or they support policies to make matters worse.

But first, in the interest of fairness, bigger government is not an inherent part of the national conservatism platform. At least based on the statement of principles published by The American Conservative.

That document, signed by the key advocates of national conservatism, lists 10 concepts, most of which are good from a libertarian perspective and only one of which is overtly troubling.

  1. National independence (I cheer for anyone opposed to global governance)
  2. Rejection of imperialism and globalism (they’re opposed to the bad form of globalism)
  3. National government (very akin to “state capacity libertarianism“)
  4. God and public religion (not a role for government, but they’re not pushing bad ideas)
  5. The rule of law (good idea)
  6. Free enterprise (they have a few unnecessary caveats)
  7. Public research (I’m skeptical of this one)
  8. Family and children (not a role for government, but they’re not pushing bad ideas)
  9. Immigration (I’m more sympathetic than they are, but agree on the importance of assimilation)
  10. Race (they want neutrality rather than preferences)

Unfortunately, some national conservatives go beyond this statement of principles and push for bigger government.

But don’t believe me. Bill McGurn of the Wall Street Journal makes similar points.


Mr. Cass’s movement insists (rightly) that purely economic and material measures are limited. But whenever they move beyond rhetoric to specifics, their preferred solutions almost always turn out to be economic interventions, from child tax credits to industrial policy. …Even a cursory glance at the record of the past half-century shows government often doing the most harm to people precisely when it is trying to help them. Federal efforts to promote homeownership ended up encouraging banks to lend people more than they could afford and feeding a housing bubble. Federal college loans helped drive up tuition while leaving Americans $1.6 trillion in debt. As we ought to have learned from the Great Society, well-intentioned government policies can do immense damage to families and communities. Unfortunately, when it comes to getting the toothpaste back in the tube, government has shown much less success.

The bottom line is that national conservatives always seem to advocate bigger government when they develop or endorse specific policies.

And, to the best of my knowledge, none of them have put forth any agenda to deal with the spending problem that already exists.

That’s an agenda that guarantees future tax increases. And, for what it’s worth, one of the advocates already has embraced a tax-the-rich agenda to help finance the national conservative agenda.

If Republicans go down that path, it won’t end well (just as it didn’t end well when they embraced other fads such as compassionate conservatismkinder-and-gentler conservatismcommon-good capitalismreform conservatism, etc).

As I’ve previously noted, there no alternative to Reaganism.

Augmenting the Case for Spending Restraint

November 14, 2022 by Dan Mitchell

I explained last week that excessive government spending is responsible for about 97 percent of America’s fiscal deterioration in the 21st century.

 

I followed that column with two post-election pieces that explained how huge tax increases will be inevitable if there is no effort to deal with the spending problem.

Simply stated, lawmakers need to copy the fiscal restraint of the Reagan years and Clinton years.

Why? To help people enjoy better lives thanks to faster growth and more opportunity.

In the Wall Street Journal, Andy Kessler explains that smaller government is the recipe for more growth.


Winston Churchill…said: “We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” The U.S. should heed that advice… economic growth is going to come from efficient supply chains and productivity in manufacturing in the U.S. Tax and spending cuts are the cure. …Republicans must resist the urge to subsidize higher energy costs and instead help slay inflation and bring back a strong, productive economy.

Let’s look at some new academic research bolstering Kessler’s argument.

Megha Jain Aishwarya Nagpal, and Abhay Jain published a study last year in the South Asia Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance.

The key findings deal with the Armey-Rahn Curve and can be found in the abstract.


The current study attempts to examine the linkage between government (public) spending and economic growth in the broader framework of selected South Asian Nations (SANs), BRICS and other emerging nations by using two sets of empirical modelling over the period 2007–2016 by using inverted U-shaped hypothesis, propounded by Armey curve (1995). …The key findings signify the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship for the selected data set of emerging nations and, therefore, support the Armey curve hypothesis. The projected threshold (tipping) levels (as a percentage of GDP) are 24.31% for the government total expenditures (GTotExp), 12.92% for consumption spending (GConExp) and 7.11% for investment spending (GInvExp). It has been observed that a rise in the public spending (size) resulted in a substantial…decrease…in the growth rate when the public spending was…after…the optimal threshold level, indicating a non-monotonic association.

For what it’s worth, I think the study is wrong and that the growth-maximizing level of government spending is much lower than 24.3 percent of economic output.

But since total government spending in the United States now consumes about 40 percent of GDP, at least we can all agree that there will be more prosperity if America’s fiscal burden is dramatically reduced.

If we ever bring the spending burden back down to 24.3 percent of economic output, we can then figure out whether the ultimate goal is even lower (as it was for much of America’s history).

There is one point from the study that merits further attention. The authors estimated not only the growth-maximizing level of total spending, but also how much the government should spend on “consumption” and “investment” outlays (an issue I addressed last month).

Here’s a chart from the study showing that consumption outlays should be less than 13 percent of economic output.

P.S. If you want to watch videos that address the growth-maximizing size of government, click here, here, here, here, and here.

P.P.S. Ironically, the case for smaller government is bolstered by research from normally left-leaning international bureaucracies such as the OECD, World Bank, ECB, and IMF.

 

Remember When Americans Used Common Sense?

 November 14, 2022 By Mychal Massie @ Daily Rant 

Common sense is the God-given healthy nutrient needed to recognize insanity when one sees it.  I say this in no way marginalizing the Word of God, which has from the beginning spoke to the depth of demonic insanity man would devolve to accept under the guise of science and intellectuality.

I was raised in a day and age that people understood the weather was cyclical and that throughout the lifespan of people we would experience weather patterns that hadn’t been witnessed for varied periods of time.

I remember the old sayings and observations that were more accurate than the weather forecasts of today that are based upon millions of dollars of weather satellites and computers that get it wrong more often than not.  I’m not cynical; I’m a Christian with common sense.

I don’t need a Harvard or Princeton degree to know what weather patterns are developing based upon my sinuses and my joints.

I vividly remember when the environmental lunatics pretended to be concerned about the welfare of Bald Eagles and other birds that were supposedly endangered due to whatever threat they came up with at the time.  Consider how quickly the supposed threat disappeared when wind turbines became the latest craze that would supposedly benefit the planet.

The fact that wind turbines are now slaughter massive numbers of birds including the Eagle is ignored by the environmental loons as long as more wind turbines are erected.

Which brings me to the climate.  The wannabe God complex of these people is unambiguous.  A New York Times headline predicted “Everyone Will Disappear In A Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989” because of an alleged scientific consensus over impending apocalypse from environmental pollution.

In 1970, environmentalists predicted, in another newspaper headline, “America Subject To Water Rationing By 1974 And Food Rationing By 1980.”

In 1970, scientists working for NASA and the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research warned of an impending New Ice Age by the year 2000.

A 1974 Time magazine headline warned of “Another Ice Age?” and Britain’s The Guardian science reporter headlined, “Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast.” Brown University’s Department of Geology warned of an imminent New Ice Age in a letter to President Nixon.

In 1988, environmental scientists predicted disappearance of the Maldive Islands: “A gradual rise in average sea level is threatening to completely cover this Indian Ocean nation of 1196 small islands within the next 30 years.”

In 1989, U.N. environmental experts told the Associated Press: “Rising Seas Could Obliterate Nations” by the year 2000. Part of New York City was supposed to be submerged by 2019.

In 2004, climate hoaxers predicted Britain would be like Siberia by 2020.

So they resolved God’s epic record of failure to bring about their predictions by renaming their hoax “climate change.” Now every storm, snowflake, gust of wind and temperature change is identified as climate change. Never again will they be wrong, no matter how many times their prognostications don’t occur, because climate change is the villain.

It wasn’t necessary for me to read Bob Unruh’s highly informative article: ‘Climate cult’ meeting is ‘all about depopulation,’ to realize anything liars and environmental Mohocks like John Kerry scurry off to in their private jets portends negatively for you and I.  See also: There Will Be No Climate Amnesty by Jason Isaac.

It is common sense to me: these people are a far cry from being “world leaders” as they brand themselves, rather they are “world con-men and charlatans” staying at the opulent environs of Sharm El Sheikh, for COP27, the United Nations’ climate-change conference.

I submit that this isn’t a conference as the idea of a conference at one time conveyed.  This so-called climate conference was a gathering of the world’s most elite to showoff who has the most expensive toys and design a way to rob us blind.

My God-given common sense dictates that I won’t submit to their pathology of abject insanity.  I was raised to understand that ‘crazy’ wasn’t something to be modeled or emulated.  The followers of this climate madness are those who will benefit from it and those who base their self-esteem on modeling the schizophrenic bi-polar insanity of others.

Fat-Al Gore, the former vice-president who did his best work allegedly seeking the sexual gratification of masseuse, pocketed mountains of cash in his global emissions, greenhouse emissions and global warming lies.

Common sense tells me that the idea of there being food shortages is a lie from the pit of hell.  The only way we have food shortages is if they’re manipulated and created for personal gain and/or to control the population.  People who believe such foolishness haven’t drunk the proverbial Kool-Aid; they’ve drunk the liquid waste drunks leave in allies.

Fossil fuels cannot be replaced by electric.  It takes fossil fuels to produce the energy required to have electric vehicles.  As for greenhouse emissions, I submit we could make the entire west coast a cattle farm and the cattle would still not produce enough flatulence to impact the United States much less the world as the claims coming out of New Zealand claimed some years ago.

As a child watching Flash Gordon et al I knew the idea of flying vehicles back and forth from city to city and town-to-town was fantasyland regardless of what the actors claimed during commercials.  Today people pay massive amounts of money to be brainwashed in colleges and universities into believing such travel will be a reality.

The United Nations is a charade created to give the illusion of global security and global wellbeing.  In reality it is a demonic institution created for the purpose of global one world government, control of global finances and the global control of We the People.

I’ve never subscribed to being controlled by fools and liars. My lifetime alone validates that I’m right in refusing such brinkmanship.  Nowhere in scripture am I told to obey that which defiles my God and/or instructs me to subscribe to insanity.

Mychal Massie

Mychal S. Massie is an ordained minister who spent 13 years in full-time Christian Ministry. Today he serves as founder and Chairman of the Racial Policy Center (RPC), a think tank he officially founded in September 2015. RPC advocates for a colorblind society. He was founder and president of the non-profit “In His Name Ministries.” He is the former National Chairman of a conservative Capitol Hill think tank; and a former member of the think tank National Center for Public Policy Research. Read entire bio here

 

FBI Contractor Spied on GOP Congressman to Protect Muslim Brotherhood

November 14, 2022 @ Sultan Knish Blog

The death of Qatari operative Jamal Khashoggi has been the subject of front page headlines, press conferences, a documentary, and speeches by top figures including Joe Biden.

Qatar employing an ex-CIA officer who set out to spy on a Republican congressman to help protect the Muslim Brotherhood has received virtually no coverage in the media.

The Washington Post, which platformed Khashoggi and labored to turn the old friend of Osama bin Laden into a martyr, did not feel that Qatar spying on a congressman was worth more coverage than rerunning the AP’s wire story. The New York Times didn’t even do that much.

The AP’s story alleged that Qatar employed Kevin Chalker, a former CIA officer, and his company, Global Risk Advisors, to target opponents of the Islamic terror state which has ties to everything from 9/11 to Hamas to the Taliban. That included “pitching a sprawling covert influence operation to damage the reputations of U.S. officials perceived as Qatar’s enemies.”

One of those “enemies” of the Islamic terror state may have been Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart.

In 2015, the Republican congressman and Senator Ted Cruz introduced the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act. This would have been extremely inconvenient to Qatar, which hosts Muslim Brotherhood figures and backs the Islamist expansionist movement whose goal is to take over countries and impose the brutality of sharia law on their people.

Including the United States.

The bill was reintroduced again in 2017, co-sponsored by a number of House Republicans, including Rep. Louie Gohmert. While the bill never became law, Rep. Diaz-Balart’s persistence appeared to worry Qatar and the former spooks doing its dirty work.

The AP story reveals that Global Risk Advisors created “Project ENDGAME” and “boasted in internal records that it had ‘developed an approach to a close contact of the congressman’ who sponsored legislation that year to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.”

“’Developed an approach’” is intelligence jargon for seeking to recruit a potential asset.”

At least one previous GRA effort had allegedly involved a Facebook “honey pot” operation.

While GRA appears to have done a lot of work for Qatar, the AP revealed that “its affiliates have won small contracts with the FBI for a rope-training course and tech consulting work for the Democratic National Committee.”

GRA also appears to have some employees who have gone on to work for Democrats. It may be no coincidence that the two known American targets of GRA operations, Rep. Diaz-Balart and former RNC finance chair Elliot Broidy are both high-profile Republicans. And Democrat media groups and reporters were deeply involved in promoting Broidy’s hacked emails.

Qatar has cultivated Republican contacts, but through its Muslim Brotherhood groups in the United States, it has become an integral part of the Democratic political machine. Unless new names are revealed, Democrat complicity in foreign operations against American officials by an enemy nation becomes a burning question that must urgently be resolved.

The involvement of the FBI is also troubling as it’s the Bureau that is investigating possible misconduct by its former contractor. And as we’ve seen with Russiagate, its personnel have a history of covering up the sins of their contractors and informants to protect their credibility.

In echoes of the Steele Dossier, GRA had allegedly employed British ex-intel officers to spy on the American team conducting a bid for a soccer tournament and used a “fake Facebook profile of an attractive young woman to communicate with the target”.

Was this what Qatar’s assets had in mind for a congressman?

What ought to be an explosive story has instead been studiously ignored by the media because it exposes its own complicity and touches the third rail of the Muslim Brotherhood’s involvement.

The intersection between an ex-CIA figure, an FBI contractor, Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood also raises the question of Islamist infiltration of the intelligence community.

The AP story on GRA’s work for Qatar notes that the Brotherhood’s Yusuf al-Qaradawi delivered a sermon after Qatar beat out America’s bid for a soccer tournament that the intel operatives had been hired to assure in which he said “Qatar had humbled the United States.”

Qaradawi had previously predicted that, “we will conquer America” and declared that, “those killed fighting the American forces are martyrs”. Serving Qatar ultimately means serving the enablers of Qaradawi and the Muslim Brotherhood’s quest to destroy America.

The complete lack of interest in the AP’s scoop by either the media or the political class also reveals how deeply Qatar, an ally of Iran, a state sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood and the hand behind Al Jazeera, controls Washington D.C. and the journalists of the mainstream media.

It also offers a peek into how enemies of this country were able to take over Washington D.C.

Kevin Chalker, the ex-CIAer, and Global Risk Advisors came up during the hack of former Republican National Committee deputy finance chair Elliot Broidy. Broidy’s emails were passed on to media operatives which described them as being “leaked”. Broidy’s lawsuits since have alleged that Qatar hired Global Risk Advisors to “coordinate” cyberattacks which led to the hacks of his emails which were then distributed to the media by a PR firm working for Qatar.

The media, which seized on the documents to damage former President Trump, and appeared to be coordinating with operatives working for Qatar, ignored or dismissed the accusations.

And previous AP reporting suggested GRA was engaging in behavior that could be interpreted as treason, after noting that “one Global Risk Advisors document lists the United States as a ‘threat’ to Qatar”.

Despite these revelations, the Democratic National Committee has failed to issue a statement disavowing GRA, laying out GRA’s work on its behalf and committing to ending that work.

Nor has anyone in the media pursued DNC officials to push for an answer.

Global Risk Advisers, to all appearances, appear to be operating normally. And the same media outlets which cried endlessly about Russian operations are keeping quiet.

Even allegations of spying on a Republican congressman aren’t about to change that.

Meanwhile, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart introduced the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act once again in 2021. Senator Ted Cruz reintroduced the Senate version: co-sponsored by Senator Ron Johnson. After 7 years, the bill has yet to pass. Will the revelation that Qatar appears to have targeted the bill’s sponsor to protect the Muslim Brotherhood change that?

Or will Qatar, the Muslim and a band of mercenary spooks continue to terrorize Congress?

 

US Elections Are Broken, and Here’s Why

The patient is sick and in dire need of a doctor.

It’s autopsy time for the elections, and Americans would be wise to seize the moment and take stock of what just happened in the much-ballyhooed midterms. It wasn’t merely another disappointment for the Republicans because a big, beautiful Red Wave didn’t materialize. A much more critical issue surfaced that must be addressed: The two-party system has mutated into two separate, but not equal, elections.

This is not an off-the-wall theory, and many Republicans have begun to recognize the problem: Democrats gather ballots for months while Republicans take time on Election Day to go to the polls and vote. One can easily determine the more successful system by reflecting on the last two elections, in 2020 and 2022.

  Gathering ballots wins hands down. And it will win every time if Republicans don’t stop whining, get off their collective conservative behinds, and take action to level the playing field.

Since the first step to effectuate change is the ability to recognize the problem, let’s begin there.

Pamela Geller asserts in her widely read blog, “A *vote* cannot be cast by a person who is no longer alive, or no longer lives in the area. However, a *ballot* can be printed, distributed, completed, and returned regardless of the status of the initially attributed and/or registered individual. ‘Votes’ and ‘Ballots’ are two distinctly different things.”

The Conservative Treehouse reviewed the successful candidacies of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and observed, “Whitmer and Fetterman were not campaigning for votes, that is old school. Instead, the machinery behind both candidates focused on the modern path. The Democrat machines in both states focused on ballot collection and ignored the irrelevant votes as cast.”

Fox News Host Jesse Waters picked up this theme and intoned, “The longer some of these races drag out … the better it is for Democrats because they’ve created a system centered around ballots, not votes. It’s not about winning your vote anymore. It’s not about persuading you. It’s about flooding the state with as many ballots as possible and getting them filled out Democrat.”

Perhaps it’s something in the nature of conservatism that keeps Republicans playing by Marquess of Queensberry rules while the opposition has invented a system that takes much less effort but boasts a higher degree of success: Spend months gathering ballots and drop them off in boxes before Election Day.

The success of this strategy lies in its simplicity.

US Elections: Voting Has Become Outdated

It doesn’t take much to fill out a ballot and stuff it into a box. The voter has plenty of time to do it and is less likely to pay attention to the worthiness of individual candidates than simple ideology. This is how people like President Joe Biden and Fetterman – both of whom have trouble spitting out a coherent sentence — get elected.

Alternatively, it takes more motivation and dedication to go to a particular place on a specific day between selected hours and cast your vote. People who do such things often are the ones with skin in the game; they know the candidate they have chosen and why. However, this voting structure has become passé in the last two election cycles.

For some bizarre reason, Republicans seemed to believe balloting as a means of voting ended with the pandemic. Still, all they had to do was look at the voting rules in states like Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Arizona and see it wasn’t so. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that Election 2022 turned into a ghastly case of déjà vu. Here’s how the nightmare goes: A Republican takes the lead on Election Day, the counting slows to a crawl, and then the GOP sits and watches that lead dwindle to zero until the Democrat gets out in front. Then – boom – it’s all over: another checkmark in the D column.

One has to wonder why party apparatchiks didn’t grab governors like Arizona’s Doug Ducey by the lapels and get them to change the election system in their states back to voting instead of balloting.

Possible Solutions

Republicans have several ways to handle this separate but unequal election system. They can:

  • Start playing the balloting game and forget the business of electioneering to get out the vote.
  • Make certain Republican state legislatures (especially ones with GOP governors) establish a statewide election system that does not include endless balloting.
  • Limit voting to just a few days – perhaps a long weekend – which sets parameters on balloting and at the same time extends the in-person voting over that same period to balance out the system.

The Conservative Treehouse observed: “It’s time for voters to start seeing the difference between elections decided by ballots and elections decided by votes.  Perhaps the 2022 midterm election will awaken people to the two completely different electioneering systems.” Point taken.

Anyone who has listened closely to former President Donald Trump knows he’s been railing against more than just a personal loss in 2020. He found out the hard way that endless ballot gathering makes Election Day essentially moot. Republicans will need to do something to change the way Americans vote or prepare to suffer a similar fate in 2024.

 

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De Omnibus Dubitandum

By Rich Kozlovich 

 

On occasion there have been those who very graciously worked to have my articles published on sites that are by far more popular than P&D, and I was recently invited to become a regular writer for a national news site.   The bug man....imagine that.  

At any rate, while I've been willing to co-author articles with others who do write for larger and more popular sites, I've not been willing to submit pieces of my own and the reason why is all these sites reserve the option of making changes in the title and even the body of the articles.  And I don't blame them, they own the site and they want to protect themselves.  And besides that, not everything everyone writes will necessarily be in harmony with their views.  

While I don't find their position unreasonable, that doesn't work for me.  P&D is a non-profit passion.  I'm retired, I don't want a job, and I don't need the money, I do what I want, I say what I please because I do a lot of research sourcing the information on each and every topic I write about.  I do everything I can to make sure all I say is absolute fact. I don't need someone making changes without my approval. 

If people find what I have to say is meaningful for them, then I'm grateful, and they should pass it along to others.  If not, they should ignore me. In the meanwhile, I hope you will find today's offerings meaningful, and the cartoon fits in well with my commentary, the second in a four part series.  The other commentaries and links highlight the positions I've taken in my piece.  

Tyranny is the goal of power mongers, and tyranny always ends up destroying lives on a massive scale.  David Horowitz is totally correct when he says, "Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out". 

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