In 1776 56 brave patriots signed their names at the bottom of the Declaration of Independence; a document that spelled out the specifics as to why the 13 colonies were making a break with England and King George.
Signing that document was treason against the British and every single man, some with names you know, Benjamin Franklin, Sam Adams and of course John Hancock, and some you may not such as Thomas McKean, Button Gwinnett and Arthur Middleton, risked literal life, limb and property by doing so. Had the British prevailed, they very well may have ended their days in front of a firing squad or at the end of a hangman’s noose. Yet still they signed.
The interesting thing is, only about a quarter of the population actively supported the break with England at the time the Declaration was signed. Another quarter, largely those whose fortunes benefited greatly from the connection with England (which some signers did themselves) wanted to remain part of the Empire, while fully half the population were what we’d call today “undecided”.
The reality is, leaders do what these men and others did… they led, they fought, and they went home and convinced their fellow citizens about the righteousness of their cause and inspired others to join the fight. And in the end, they prevailed, and in doing so they set forth a path that changed the course of human history, much for the better.
Today America finds itself in a place not so different from that which the thirteen colonies faced 246 years ago. While the thirteen disjointed colonies faced the greatest empire the world had ever known, patriots today face the greatest propaganda machine in human history: The Democrat / Media / Tech Industrial Complex.
There are two big differences however. The first is that the thirteen colonies had the benefit of 54 men who were willing to stand up and challenge the King and Parliament in order to do what they knew to be right. Today patriots find a largely barren wasteland of leaders who are willing to stand up as the Democrats and their cabal seek to steal an election in broad daylight.
The other difference is that in 1776 war was the last option available to the patriots. In 2020 patriots still have one last option before something drastic… and the odds of it succeeding are as slim as those faced by the thirteen tiny colonies taking on the most powerful empire in the world.
As the Hill detailed earlier in the week, there is a Constitutional tactic through which the Republic can be saved… and make no mistake, that is exactly what is at stake here.
The tactic involves senators and representatives using the procedures outlined in the Constitution and the Electoral Count Act (ECA) to delay the acceptance of the electors to a point where the House would then choose the President, with each state having a single vote. Given that Republicans control a majority of the state delegations Donald Trump would be declared the winner.
This would be a long and arduous process, something like Jimmy Stewart’s character in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” spending a month reading scripture. No doubt the patriots who choose this path will be tarred and feathered in the press, have their families doxed on social media, and very likely be thrown under the bus by Mitch McConnell and other “leaders” in their own party. In a word, for a while their lives would be made miserable for the crime of standing up to those who would steal the election from the American people.
That’s what real leaders do. That is what real patriots do. In the 200 plus years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the ratification of our Constitution, millions of men and women have put everything – up to and including their lives – on the line after swearing a military oath that starts with this: “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;” Congressmen and senators take a similar oath, but it’s very rare that they risk much of anything, let alone their lives, after doing so. Most senators and congressmen leave office far richer than when they entered politics or at a minimum are able to parlay their service into lucrative lobbying positions on K Street. Can one be a politician and a leader and a patriot simultaneously?
Now is the time for patriots who serve in Washington to actually show that they take their oath seriously. While the Communist Chinese may indeed have influenced our election, the real threat to the Republic, to the Constitution, is a domestic one, and it presented itself on November 3rd when fraud changed the outcome of the presidential election. Beyond the God given rights protected by the Constitution nothing is as sacred to Americans as their right to vote. Period. Full stop.
If the integrity of our elections is lost then nothing else matters because at that point no one is accountable to voters, the rules and the Constitution ceases to be anything but a faded piece of paper. As such, now is the time for patriots in Washington to stand up and actually do that which they swore to do. No more assuming “We’ll win next time”. No more thinking the other side plays by the rules. No more assuming that everything will blow over, and we’ll be back to business as usual soon. No. This is the hill to die on because beyond this hill is a Stalinist tyranny like the one George Orwell warned us about. Tens of millions of Americans have seen the writing on the wall as written by Antifa and Black Lives Matter and AOC and other Democrats who seek to punish Trump supporters. Not sure? Think Stalinist purges can’t happen here? Think again. Look at what was done to Donald Trump over the last four years when every single Democrat involved knew that the charges were fiction. And he was (and is) a billionaire President loved by tens of millions, and they only controlled ½ the legislature for ½ his term! Once in power imagine what they will do to average Americans who just trying to make ends meet and wants to be left alone, a small businessman who just want to make a living, or senators or congressmen who stand in the way of their plans for domination…
There is nothing usual about America in 2020 and what we’ve just experienced was not just another election loss. It was a coup in the literal sense of the word and the Democrats were willing to do it right in front of us because they were pretty sure that no one would do anything about it. This is a call for Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and all ostensibly Republican senators to join Congressman Mo Brooks and his army to show Democrats that they were wrong in their calculations and that you take your oath seriously and will fight to protect the United States from these domestic enemies of freedom. It will be challenging and there will be countless people seeking to derail you, from both sides of the aisle. No doubt the media, friends and maybe even some family may seek to knock you from the path – as Benjamin Franklin’s son sought to do with him – but if you keep the faith, if you fight the good fight, we will win and when the history of the 2020 election is written you will find yourselves in the same company as those 56 intrepid men, they having birthed our nation and you having saved it.
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They had better listen to the voters or they will lose it all
Vince, perhaps the fact that Mitch isn’t going to lead this agenda is the very proof in the pudding.
If Mitch could pull it off, it would be his very dream come true as he would remain majority leader even should GA turn out 2 Dem seats.
What would that mean for him? It would mean he’d continue filling the courts with young conservative judges and quite possibly if not probably another SCOTUS justice. It would mean he would continue to control any liberal agenda of ever hitting the senate floor. It would mean executive orders from Trump would remain in place. It would mean that a Democratic president along with his pick for DOJ would allow the House full throttle investigations.
But he ain’t doing it? Why? We know he has no issues manipulating his position for any power grab whatsoever. We know from his own admission that if something is constitutionally allowed, he’d take that avenue regardless of how unprecedented or how divisive it is. He just won reelection so he’s already locked in for another 6 years. Man the next 4 years would be sweet for him if such a thing could happen.
Maybe why he isn’t is because he knows he has no case and that the rigged election scam is exactly that, another con job from our con man in chief. Maybe that’s why this isn’t going to happen. Even Trump’s hand picked judges have snubbed his scam. Even his own personal lawyer disguised as a DOJ admitted it.
Trump lost. The people rejected him, bigly.
It’s the left in this country. They are Red to the core and want the rest of us to submit.
There was lots of precedent for them to think that. Hillary got away with it. All those involved in Spygate got away with it. The Biden crime family is getting away with it. Trust in our government institutions is gone for millions of Americans and it’s not going to come back anytime soon, if ever.
@Ronald J. Ward: It would mean executive orders from Trump would remain in place. Mitch has zero control of executive orders what the hell is wrong with you? Damn inbred retard is the only answer.
@kitt:
Do FA regulars compete for a stupid prize?
First on the agenda of a newly sworn in president is to undo the EOs of the outgoing president. When a president wins reelection, he doesn’t generally undo his very own orders. Accordingly, McConnell would have control of keeping Trump’s EOs in place if he were to assist him in denying the will of the people and handing him another term.
Mitch has every reason in the world to hand a second term to Trump. There’s no reason in the world he wouldn’t do it if he could. He can’t.
@Ronald J. Ward:
Nah. You, and Comrade Greggie, took those prizes a long time ago.
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@Ronald J. Ward:
The proof is all the evidence of massive fraud to turn a US election and turn the US into a third world country.
Trump won. Fraud rejected him. Just as your brilliant, worshiped leader just stated, in response to the one tough question he ever gets, “You are a one horse pony.” Yep, that’s your genius. You can really pick em. But, then again, as you make clear, you would vote for Hitler. Or Stalin. Or Mao. ANY dictator; just not for someone that has the best interests of this nation at heart.
It’s pretty simple. The Constitution is the basis for our Laws, and our Republic. If that, and states’ own Constitutions are violated, then the citizenry are under no legal obligation to adhere to those governments if they operate outside of their mandates.
Case and point: The illegitimate and unrecognized 2020 “election”.
No citizen of the United States has any obligation to acknowledge the outcome of a fraud-filled and illegal election.
@Ronald J. Ward: Biden did not win the election, and regardless of any “installation” made or proclaimed by the low-thinking, low-information types that are willfully ignoring on-camera fraud/hundreds of witnesses of crimes, he cannot be legally placed in the Oval Office unless those doing so are opening committing treason and thus negating the Constitution of the United States.
Biden won nothing. The true colors of a desperate one-party police-state seeking Democrats is finally revealed.
The Democrats are free to succeed. All those supporting free and fair elections, and rejecting a rigged election, are actual Americans. Those who do the opposite are not.
@Nathan Blue:
The only one’s clinging to the rigged scam is a select few of his unhinged base- not Trump’s own hand picked judges, not is own personal attorney masquerading as a DOJ AG, not the mass of conservatives such as McConnell who would highly benefit from this scram. and not even conservative leaders in Republican states where he lost.
Trump’s odds of winning the election weren’t in his favor, he’s primed his rabid base for four years- admitting the only way he could lose would be that it was rigged, admitted to installing judges who would help him cry rigged in event of a loss, and has exploited you punks while raking in $millions.
Biden’s victory has been accepted by the majority of Americans as well as most of the world. The claims of rigged have been defeated soundly in court by Trump’s own judges, and if it weren’t for the damage he’s doing to the nation while grossly profiteering, he’d be a laughing stock.
All of this is unfolding in real time right before your eyes yet you refuse to see, just as you’ve for over a year while you blindly insisted he had the election in the bag.
This is another example of what I’ve been saying all along, his cultist would stand behind him and blame Democrats while Trump was standing there with blood on his hands while admitting his very own guilt. And amusingly, you asswipes have even admitted on more than one occasion that your real reasoning is saving the country from Democrats rather than the scam of saving our electoral process. Not only do you not even know it, you can’t even believe the very words you say.
@Ronald J. Ward:
Hell, China knew it before any of us did.
Ronny, don’t you get tired of carrying the water for the Communists? Seriously, don’t you? Your continuous drivel is laughable as it shows time and time again you have zero interest in this country and its basis, the Constitution and our Bill of Rights and the few freedoms we may have left, the few that you would gleefully see gone. Please don’t answer, we know it will be your normal garbage loaded with twisted lies and fractional truths as you attempt to project you misguided wishes on the sane people here.
@Boris Badenov:
No, he doesn’t. If it is against the US, he is totally for it. That’s why he is such a cheerleader for Biden, Hillary, Pelosi and Obama; everything they do is designed to weaken this country. He has lots of company.
@Boris Badenov:
I’ve noticed an advanced pace of the basket to utilize Propaganda 101, Rule # 2- accuse your opponent of which you are guilty of.
As we speak, the present and soon to be ousted leader of our country is defying his very own intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security and is downplaying documented cyber attacks from communist adversaries while at the same time, pardoning those convicted of crimes as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The basket of gullible accepts this with open arms while calling those questioning these actions as communist.
The poor gullible souls have followed Trump down the rabbit hole of mendacity and scams to the point that they can no longer rationalize for themselves and don’t even know they’re being had-again.
@Ronald J. Ward: You dont even want to compare Pardon lists hillbilly.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/oscar-lopez-commutation-barack-obama-214685
I do hope Assange gets a full pardon as he released exactly what someone stole from him, and already had circulating on the darkweb after warning the State dept. So horrible were the Emails that the DNC and Hillary never denied the were not all real. It gave them time to create a Russian hack fairy tale, found to be a fabrication by congressional testimony.
@Boris Badenov: See? He LOVES it! Hell, he even admitted he would vote for Mao over Trump. Communism over freedom.
@kitt:
To be clear and as I’ve said many times, I’m no fan of pardon powers from any party. It only invites corruption- from any party.
Trump, being the most corrupt and anti-constitution president to ever infest the White House, will continue to abuse this power to entirely new levels.
But you will likely not know and even if you do, you’ll defend him while blaming Democrats. I’ve seen this movie so many times I can lip sync your response with you.
@Ronald J. Ward:
Examples? One would argue that illegally running guns to drug cartels in a foreign country or illegally spying on an opposition party Presidential campaign might qualify, but I await your certain to follow valid examples supporting your vacuous claims.
Do you think is worse to pardon someone that committed no crimes but was nothing but a political target of Democrats than pardoning convicted killers or coke dealers?
@Ronald J. Ward: Geeze all I did is link to an article of the type of marxist terrorists that Democrats praised the release of. Can you tell me why Poppa D is a clear and present Danger to our nation or any of Trumps pardons? Any? as in one? A single example, cumon man sure you have solid proof of your accusations. Or just love calling names when you post ill informed mindless drivel and get your baseless mind farts proven by documented evidence as simple minded inane babbling.
Damn you are just to easy.
@Curt: Yeah, but terrorists and murderers are Democrat icons and heroes.
Trump should issue a pardon for Joe Biden’s extortion of Ukraine.
@Curt:
My personal opinion is that executive pardons only invites corruption and snub our judicial system, again, regardless of political affiliation.
Lopez’s release was a product of political persuasion from folks such as the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, former Puerto Rico Governer Alejandro García Padilla, and other prominent figures.
I didn’t condone it then nor do I now.
I also didn’t agree with it in 1991 when GWHB freed notorious anti-Castro terrorist Orlando Bosch for the 1976 Cubana Airlines bombing that killed 73 or when Jeb Bush as governor of Florida, released two Cuban-American terrorists convicted of attacks on a Chilean diplomat or in 2005 of GWB’s leniency of Luis Posada, another prominent terrorist involved in another Cubana Airlines.
While the soft on terrorist door swings both ways and I don’t approve of either, I do get the political influence and lobbying that rules our country. This is likely to be one of the areas that many voters were tired of and someone not of the establishment may have brought a refreshing change. As much as I recognize Trump as a charlatan, I too had hope for improvements in these areas.
But that didn’t happen under Trump. We saw it when he pardoned IL Gov Rod Blagojevich convicted of selling a Senate seat to the highest bidder, something Trump obviously approves of. We’re seeing it as he’s freeing loyalists, those convicted of perjury in order to protect him, and even convicted murders-not because of political pressure but for his own interests. And it’s highly probable if not for certain that he will pardon his entire family as well as himself for all foreseeable crimes.
Simply put, your argument of Lopez-Rivera comes up short of how the real world of politics work (as disturbing as it may be) vrs the corruption we’re witnessing in real time from the grifter soon to be convict.
I must admit the continued vocalized suffering of the right, I do find amusing
@Kurt: That’s because, as a leftist, you condone, support and promote corruption and fraud.
@Ronald J. Ward: But you would vote for Hitler.
@Ronald J. Ward:
Obviously you are to simple minded to understand, you continue making baseless accusations. You might have heard this on da radio NPR or your tv frens what evidence did they provide to back up the opinion. You say NY is going to jail the President and his family but you cant seem to say why on what charges. My bet is your only imaginary boob tube frens never splain it to you.
Now back to the thread, 6 Senators refused to sign the relief omnibus.
Maybe we should add some relief to Taiwan
@kitt:
Where have YOU been? If Democrats achieve the fraudulent power grab they are attempting, they won’t NEED charges. “Anti-State Sentiments” will be enough to jail anyone.
@kitt:
I’m not so simple minded to know that it’s “too”. not “to”.
If you don’t stay up with or have knowledge of the most blaring realities of today’s political discussions, why in the world to you foolishly try to engage in them? Trump’s expected pardons and that they don’t apply to state law and that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance is considering charges against Trump and his organization for bank and insurance fraud is among the most viral political conversations going.
@Ronald J. Ward: too is also, two is one plus one, to in the direction of.
Your direction is always simple minded like a compass.
Old tactic to become the grammar police when you are losing at the point you are trying to express.
@kitt:
Aside from you yourself being quick to jump on a typo, you missed the irony that when you challenge someone’s intellect with a childish insult such as: “Obviously you are to simple minded to understand”, well…………
@Ronald J. Ward: Awwww you just want try to copy me, can you be original, no of course not. Dish out asslickers and cultists now since we are not these things it doesnt bother us, I must hit pretty close to home with inbred and simple minded only having imaginary boob tube frens.
@Ronald J. Ward:
Cheap grammar edits are all you have, little guy.
We know.
Trump overwhelmingly won the election, and it’s a shame the Democrats actually think the low-information, low-thinking types can somehow hide blatant and well-documented fraud.
Guess those minority of Democrat “voters” are a “one-pony horse”, eh?
@kitt:
Can I buy a comma?
@Nathan Blue:
Who will occupy the Oval Office on January 22nd 2021 (meaning, the one in power to sign executive orders, etc) ?
@Ronald J. Ward:
“Occupy.”
Freudian slip.
I’m afraid you don’t understand the Constitution and the existence of a social contract.
Most Marxists don’t.
@Nathan Blue:
Your reluctance to concede reality is precisely why I emphasize who would have power to sign executive orders etc.
Call it what you like.
@Ronald J. Ward:
Occupy would be right. Biden is an invading foreign force, financed by Communist China and installed by fraud.
@Ronald J. Ward: The solution is quite simple, so you should understand.
Prove it, proper audits and forensic examinations of the machines.
Get rid of every vote that was not legal.
FFS why is it that so hard.
They refuse in AZ they keep saying they will in GA but nothing so far, in MI they terrorist threats.
One gal facing 5 years and 250K fine, threatening harm to a child of a GOP elections official. Katelyn Jones, 23, was charged with threatening violence through interstate commerce after an FBI investigation.
You dont have to wonder why so many Judges dont want to hear these cases.
@kitt:
Because if they do that… they lose.
@kitt, #37:
And “legal” would be defined by Donald Trump’s advocates rather than by the rules and procedures determined by individual state election officials. Correct? Except mailed ballots would be OK in some states, but not in others. In Florida, for example, mailing ballots was just fine. No irregularities there, obviously, as Trump encouraged his Florida supporters to vote by mail.
Here’s the reason why what Trump wants would itself be election rigging—after the fact, and with an entirely predictable result:
November 20, 2020 – The voting experience in 2020
They knew full well this would be the pattern weeks ahead of the election. More than anything else, it related to the fact that Trump’s supporters took the threat of COVID-19 far less seriously than Biden’s supporters.
December 23, 2020 – Trump issues 26 new pardons, including ones for Stone, Manafort and Charles Kushner
Donald is saving the most controversial use of his Magic Pardon Wand for last.
@Greg: All of those people were convicted of minor process crimes, caught up in a witch hunt justified by what they all knew was a lie from the very beginning. The aren’t murderers, terrorists or dope dealers, like Democrats like to pardon. Maybe Trump will pardon Hillary and Biden?
@Greg:
Incorrect. Election officials do NOT make election laws in any state, the State Legislature makes election laws. A number of states violated that U.S. Constitutional requirement. No judge, governor or election official has the Constitutional authority to make, or ignore, election laws enacted by the State Legislature.
And what is Florida’s election law pertaining to mail-in ballots? What are they in Arizona, or Pennsylvania, or Michigan? How about Wisconsin? Do you have any clue what their election laws are pertaining to mail-in ballots?
You’re an idiot.
@retire05: Democrats don’t care about laws. They don’t think they have to follow them. They believe their only purpose is to obstruct the opposition.
@Deplorable Me, #41:
There’s nothing categorically minor about process crimes—an assertion that the right is now peddling in an almost subliminal fashion, because it would instantly be recognized as false if it were directly stated. Categorically, process crimes involve a criminal attempt to evade justice.
It figures that any supporter of Donald Trump would readily buy into the idea that there’s something inherently trivial or minor about perjury, withholding evidence, obstruction of justice, or witness tampering. In fact, they’re serious crimes with serious consequences. If not treated as such, our entire court system would become totally corrupted. Trump has been pushing it in that direction because Trump and his associates have engaged in such crimes. Fortunately they won’t be getting another four years to continue.
@Greg:
You seriously dont get it.
Individual state election officials have no power to alter the election laws zero zip none, but did anyway illegally and unconstitutionally.
WEC officials told them to break the law, fill in addresses on mail in ballots, but use a red pen. The envelope used to mail in ballots with no ID to be considered the application during recount, no the application is suppose to be on file we want to look at the applications on file with the clerk. Whats wrong did they not apply you just hand out absentee ballots?
We do have clearly defined laws dealing with absentee ballot requirements.
You can read the Wisconsin Supreme Court decision on the more than 190 thousand ballots that skirted our ID for voting law.
I have zero problem with properly following the law and obtaining and using absentee ballots.
I hope Zuckerberg gets jailed for his illegal election interference. His ballot drop off boxes were illegal in Wisconsin as means to return your ballot to a clerk.Those ballots illegally mixed in with legally returned ones.
Things in PA and MI were even more of a cluster.
@kitt, #45:
Who says they altered anything “illegally and unconstitutionally”? The Attorney General of Texas? I’m unaware of any state where its own elected officials have collectively alleged such a thing. The elected officials of the individual states have defended the integrity of their own election processes and certified the results.
@Greg: I just listed them are you dense?
Election officials are there to make sure the election laws are followed not to make the rules as they see fit, or to fit their fraud.
There are only a few that walk our halls in DC that take their oath seriously.
Do you not think there might be a slight problem with throwing out ballots that were cast in person on the technicality that an absentee ballot request was not first filled out? The voters were there in person. They followed the instructions they were given.
@Greg: Which ones the ones in the Harvest in the Park or those illegally handed out without application? The clerks giving illegal instructions should be made example of and barred from public service, unfortunate for the voters yes the ballots obtained illegally should be invalidated. Its the law.
Its been 20 years since Gore the Bore tried to steal the election