Election Outcomes

For John, BLUF:  One of the strengths of the United States is our ability to host a wide variety of views, but not all of those views can be actuated at the same time.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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UVA instructor:  'Topple the government' if election 'worst-case scenario' happens

Here is the sub-headline:

• A University of Virginia instructor said that Americans need to "actively topple the government" if the "worst-case scenario" happens.
• The instructor previously tweeted a New York Times article favorable to the Chinese Communist Party.
• He also quoted Karl Marx while responding to the death of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

From Campus Reform, by Campus Correspondent Haley Worth, 3 November 2020.

Here is the lede plus one:

University of Virginia Postdoctoral Fellow David Walsh posted on his personal Twitter feed that Americans need to do more than protest if the "worst-case scenario" happens following Tuesday's presidential election.

“Here’s the thing: if the worst-case scenario happens next week, Americans don’t need to just 'protest.'  They need to actively try to topple the government," Walsh tweeted on October 27.

That would be a coup, in plain language.  And, a coup sounds to me like treason.  So Professor Walsh is so upset with our current form of Government and who is elected that he would commit treason to make it more like he wants it.  The result is that he would substitute his own views for those of a large percentage of our voting population, perhaps a majority of our voting population.  That seems a little arrogant, but I am not an academic.

I guess Professor Walsh is just anxious to see how the election comes out.  Aren't we all?

This does remind me of the line attributed to the late Professor Herbert Marcuse, when he was still in Germany:  "Abolish the Weimar Republic.  Whatever replaces it has to be better."

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

The Reach of the Civil Rights Law

For John, BLUF:  The Feds come to Lowell for the Election.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Mill City one of 44 U.S. jurisdictions to be monitored for voting rights compliance

From The [Lowell] Sun, by Reporter Alana Melanson, 2 November 2020.

Here is the lede plus two:

The city is one of 44 jurisdictions in 18 states the U.S. Department of Justice will monitor for compliance with federal voting rights laws on Election Day.

“Federal law entrusts the Civil Rights Division with protecting the right to vote for all Americans,” Eric Dreiband, assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, said in a Monday statement announcing the locations to be monitored.  “Our federal laws protect the right of all American citizens to vote without suffering discrimination, intimidation and harassment.  The work of the Civil Rights Division around each federal general election is a continuation of its historical mission to ensure that all of our citizens can freely exercise this most fundamental American right.”

The Civil Rights Division has regularly monitored a variety of elections since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to protect citizens’ rights to access the ballot.  The Justice Department will also take complaints from the public on possible voting rights violations through its call center.

Then the reporter goes off to discuss the lawsuit by a number of Asian-Americans and Hispanics to force the City of Lowell to change from an at large City Council to one that has Districts electing the majority of Councillors.  Then she gets back to the details of the Feds snooping around in how we conduct elections.

I know the folks in the Lowell Election Office and several on the Election Commission.  Based on my interaction with them, I am insulted that the Feds are here and not Lawrence or down in Philadelphia.  As a taxpayer, I wonder who is managing the employment of my tax dollars.

Hat tip to the MASSterList.

Regards  —  Cliff

About the Extra Money

For John, BLUF:  From the Musical Fiorello!, about the WWWI Aviator and Mayor of New York City, Fiorello H. LaGuardia.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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"A Little Tin Box"

It just seems appropriate for the Vice President from Deleware.

Regards  —  Cliff

Here is the song:

If Only

For John, BLUF:  Don't say Sweden.  As Abe Lincoln said, "Better you hold your tongue and appear ignorant than to speak and remove all doubt.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Millennial Wishes There Were Some Historical Examples Of Socialism We Could Study To Have Some Idea How It Might Turn Out

From The Babylon Bee, 5 November 2019.

Here is the tweet and the lede plus two:

The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
Millennial Wishes There Were Some Historical Examples Of Socialism We Could Study To Have Some Idea How It Might Turn Out

PORTLAND, OR—Local socialist millennial man Matthew Hatter lamented Monday that there are no concrete examples of socialism he can point to in order to have some kind of idea how it would turn out.

"If only there were other countries that have tried socialism before," Hatter said to a friend at an ethical coffee shop, Commiebrews, Monday afternoon, after he finished his paper route. "Then, we could see if there are any pitfalls."

Hatter said it'd be nice if there were books that covered things like world history and economics that we could read.  If that were the case, Hatter said, we could abandon socialism if it looked dangerous or proceed with socialism if every country that implemented it were incredibly successful.

Life is hard.  Harder if you went to one of those left wing universities where is was all indoctrination and none of that Wesstern style critical thinking, nothing about the Enlightenment.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Today's Mission

For John, BLUF:  If you haven't already.  And if you have, don't do it again.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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VOTE!

Regards  —  Cliff

The Age of Censorship

For John, BLUF:  This is an indictment of the Fourth Estate, by one of its practicioners.  In the past we have counted on the raucous Fourth Estate to protect us from the secretative tendencies of the Government.  Apparently, no more.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored By The Intercept

Here is the sub-headline:

An attempt to assess the importance of the known evidence, and a critique of media lies to protect their favored candidate, could not be published at The Intercept

From Greenwald, at Substack, by Newsman Glenn Greenwald, 29 October 2020.

Here is the Introduction:

I am posting here the most recent draft of my article about Joe and Hunter Biden — the last one seen by Intercept editors before telling me that they refuse to publish it absent major structural changes involving the removal of all sections critical of Joe Biden, leaving only a narrow article critiquing media outlets. I will also, in a separate post, publish all communications I had with Intercept editors surrounding this article so you can see the censorship in action and, given the Intercept’s denials, decide for yourselves (this is the kind of transparency responsible journalists provide, and which the Intercept refuses to this day to provide regarding their conduct in the Reality Winner story). This draft obviously would have gone through one more round of proof-reading and editing by me — to shorten it, fix typos, etc — but it’s important for the integrity of the claims to publish the draft in unchanged form that Intercept editors last saw, and announced that they would not “edit” but completely gut as a condition to publication:

I commend the article to you.

Keep in mind that Mr Greenwald was shut out by a Media organization, The Intercept, that he and two others founded, six years back.

I commend Reporter Glenn Greenwald to you as someone to help you see the third, or fourth, or fifth side of any given problem.

Regards  —  Cliff

Choosing the Future

For John, BLUF:  Tomorrow we decide our fate.  We seem to have divided into two opposing camps, one that accepts the injustice of differences in people and one that wishes for everyone to be the same in ability and outcome  Choose wisely.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Kamala Harris vs James Madison

Here is the sub-headline:

She wants to replace the free market engine of prosperity with a top-down leveling of aspiration and achievement

From The American Spectator, by Mr Roger Kimball, 2 November 2020.

Here is a three para extract (at the link is the accompanying video):

The third culprit in Joe’s loss tomorrow is his running mate, Kamala Harris.  I believe that we do not yet know the full story of how Harris, the spectacularly unpopular senator from California, was tapped to be Biden’s VP.  Perhaps we never will.  The whole process by which Biden emerged as his party’s front man is shrouded in mystery, and the mystery includes the behind-the-scenes machinations that resulted in Harris’s elevation.  I believe, though I have no proof, that the ticket resulted from the ascension of the hectoring, radical-left flank of the party.  They chose Biden as a convenient empty vessel into which they planned to instill the angry socialist agenda of Bernie Sanders, AOC, and others via the instrumentality of Harris.

Be that as it may, I cite Harris as the third culprit in Biden’s loss because she has impatiently let her mask slip. The Biden-Harris ticket was sold under the banner of ‘moderation’.  It was always a lie.  There is nothing moderate about either one of them, but the word contrasted nicely with Trump’s supposed ‘extremism’, a media confection, to be sure, but one that has been so assiduously repeated and amplified by a compliant press that it has become one of those undislodgeable bits of folklore, untrue but somehow ‘known’ by everyone.

But yesterday, Harris shattered what remained of the meme of moderation with a video posted to her Twitter feed explicitly promoting socialism and explaining that true equality means that ‘we all end up in the same place’.  Equality of outcome, that is to say, not just equal opportunity. Karl Marx couldn’t have put it more succinctly.

But you and I know that there never will be true equity, because "Bob's your uncle".

That, and the fact that we know that equality of outcome is not the same as a level playing field on which all can compete.  When we get to High School (if not before) we want our team to win.  That means we move beyond equity to measuring talent and equality to compete.

Senator Harris is cute and perky, but she comes across as a socialistMarxist.  That is a look that signals both bad economic theory, but also a willingness to hold back the overall good of society so no one suffers the ignorminity of coming in second.

Regards  —  Cliff