Stealing Elections

For John, BLUF:  I just received an EMail from Mr Jon Rainwater, Peace Action, asking for peaceful protests tomorrow in honor of the election outcome as reported.  Mr Rainwater is apparently unaware of the fact that a lot of his fellow Citizens think there has been fraud in the vote counting.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Don't Forget LBJ's Election Theft

Here is the sub-headline:

The mainstream pro-Biden media is poking fun at Donald Trump’s suggestion that there could be fraud involved in the post-election receipt of mail-in ballots.  Apparently they’re not familiar with the election-theft case of Lyndon Johnson, who would go on to become president of the United States.

From Zero Hedge, by Mr Jacob Hornberger, 5 November 2020.

Here is the lede plus one:

The entire matter is detailed in Robert Caro’s second book in his biographical series on Johnson. The book is entitled Means of Ascent.

Johnson election theft took place in 1948, when he was running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate against Texas Governor Coke Stevenson, one of the most admired and respected governors in the history of the state.

There is little doubt that LBJ played hard ball.  Otherwise, we might not have had the Civil Rights legislation of the mid-1960s.  But, that does not justify the fact that he stole an election.

As to the 2020 Election, Mr Rainwater may well be correct, that the ballot counting was all on the up and up.  However, if it was not, and it was reasonable to expect Mr Rainwater to understand that, then it is reasonsble to dismiss Mr Rainwater as a partisan hack and a fraud.  Or, at least, suffering from a serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Regards  —  Cliff

A Frosty Four Years Ahead?

For John, BLUF:  With a sense of moral superiority, the Progressives are unable to create space for the opinions of those who are not their sycophants.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The left is again showing that it can’t stand anyone who disagrees

From The New York Post, by Professor Glenn H. Reynolds, 5 November 2020.

Here is the lede plus three:

This year’s presidential election hasn’t provided the catharsis that many on the left were awaiting.  Instead of the hoped-for “Blue Wave,” we have a still-too-close-to-call presidential election, while Republicans picked up House seats and appear to have held on to the Senate.

One response might be self-criticism: to wonder how, after four years of single-mindedly trying to get rid of Trump and marginalize his followers, things didn’t go better.  Instead, Democrats’ thinkers seem to be asking themselves variations on “How can I live in a country where half the people supported Donald Trump?”

According to the Campus Reform Web site, professors around America were expressing anger and claiming to feel “genuinely unsafe, given the sheer number of people willing to vote for Trump.”  Some canceled classes for the rest of the week, apparently because of the emotional strain.

An article in The New Republic by Andrew Cohen asks:  “What do we do with all these Trump supporters?”  (Spoiler:  “Learn to live with them and respect your differences” isn’t on the agenda.)

The author writes, on his blog, "I’VE QUIT MY REGULAR USA TODAY COLUMN, BUT I HAVE THIS IN THE NEW YORK POST".  I read this as saying that USA Today was not having any of this talk about the Progressives seeing Trump Voters as morally inferior.  But, they do.  In my exerience.

As an aside, in my humble opinion, a huge fraud is being perpetrated on the People of the United States.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff