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  6. A #NeverTrumper on Twitter responding to someone who (rather hyperbolically, IMHO) suggested that the country wouldn’t survive a Hillary presidency, said (with not quite the same amount of enthusiasm) “Sure we will; we survived eight years of Obama.” I wish I could be so optimistic to concur with that POV, but I’m not.

    The saving grace is that Bill’s Ball & Chain may not make it to the conclusion of a four-year term, much less be around for eight years.

  7. And yet our jug-eared Historic First Low-Information pResident is still insulting Trump and insisting there is not and never was any voter fraud. I guess, despite Craig’s (well played) joke above, Obama HASN’T read about it in the papers yet (or more likely, it hasn’t been covered on ESPN Sportscenter).

  8. Do we even get to call ourselves a republic at this point?

    The ancient Romans pretended they had a republic long after the Caesars took actual political and military power from the Roman Senate.

    “Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance — table for five.”

  9. Can’t be true. CNN just this morning had an expert on voter fraud on for a long segment telling us that he has researched it extensively and there is no voter fraud going on at all. None. It is all just another example of Trump being coocoo for cocoa puffs. If you can’t trust an expert on CNN telling you that you are wrong, who can you trust?

  10. Today, you don’t have to vote the cemetery or stuff the ballot box — it’s all electronic with no paper trail. Election officials in PA have admitted that there’s no mechanism to “recount the ballot” since there’s no paper-trail to audit. And that probably true in most states. Entire precincts (4-10% depending on the source) in Philadelphia recorded not a single vote for Romney 4-yrs ago, which is statistically-improbable. No voting-block is so monolithic that NOT-ONE casts a vote for the opposing-side.

    The only thing poll inspectors can verify is the max-number of potential votes cast in a particular precinct, not whom they were cast-for. Stalin apocryphally-said “Let them have their elections, as long as I get to count the votes“. In Florida they counted chads, in most states there’s just the vote-tally in a memory-chip — with no audit-trail or verification. The only paper-trail is sometimes the absentee-ballots on paper (and maybe there are ballots mistakenly left-behind some election-workers car-trunk, or mysteriously slide behind a filing a cabinet.).

    It will be a dirty-count. and then there’s the potential for faithless Electors. Will the US electorate accept having the ENTIRE ELECTION thrown out and the Democratic Party-controlled House of Representative “select” the next President of the United Sates???

  11. When James Madison reached his old age, many scholars began writing to him for his thoughts on how the Union had progressed from 1789. On the 15th of February in 1830, Madison wrote to Nicholas P. Trist:

    The Constitution of the U. S. divides the sovereignty; the portions surrendered by the States, composing the Federal sovereignty over specified subjects; the portions retained forming the sovereignty of each over the residuary subjects within its sphere. If sovereignty cannot be thus divided, the Political System of the United States is a chimaera, mocking the vain pretensions of human wisdom. If it can be so divided, the system ought to have a fair opportunity of fulfilling the wishes & expectations which cling to the experiment.

    (…)

    What would be the condition of the State of N. Y. of Massts. or of Pena. for example, if portions containing their great commercial cities, invoking original rights as paramount to social & constitutional compacts, should erect themselves into distinct & absolute sovereignties? In so doing they would do no more, unless justified by an intolerable oppression, than would be done by an individual State as a portion of the Union, in separating itself, without a like cause, from the other portions. Nor would greater evils be inflicted by such a mutilation of a State of some of its parts, than might be felt by some of the States from a separation of its neighbours into absolute and alien sovereignties.

    In the Madisonian sense of nationalism, we are not suffering “divisiveness”; we are a divided nation. It is the age old city mouse/county mouse parable.

    I switch now to Oswald Spengler whose words are instructive to all broadminded nationalists, but also used selectively among racists. Because the race supremacists have so often quoted Spengler, his brilliant philosophy has been largely expurgated in liberal academia today.

    Oswald Spengler, was greatly affected by WWI and his philosophy was deeply influenced by what Germany was growing into after the collapse of the European monarchies. I offer some of his observations:

    “Politics and trade in developed form — the art of achieving material successes over an opponent by means of intellectual superiority — are both a replacement of war by other means.”

    “Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.”

    “Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.”

    “In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.”

    The Democrats want a dominating national government which “orders” the lives of the masses. The masses are clustered in large urban areas. The division between the peoples are mainly the urban population against the scattered population.

    Madison’s concern about the cities was prescient. In this election, how the state of Pennsylvania goes will depend largely upon the votes in and around Philadelphia.

    In Madison’s words, our “division” is largely “a separation of its neighbors into absolute and alien sovereignties.”

    In Spengler’s words, the Democrats are “a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman…”

    The Democrats are hell-bent on controlling the masses according to their ideology of enhanced governance as a great, unending war on freedom.

    In the early days of the birth of the Third Reich, Spengler wrote:

    “The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. But, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and the war aims and operating plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. There is no more appalling caricature of freedom of thought. Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom.”

    In 1816, Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Tyler:

    “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, and then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their father’s conquered … I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies … The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the Government, to whom it properly belongs.”

    We have come full circle. We are a debtor nation sinking in unsustainable unfunded entitlement deficits and a national deficit that is the 800 pound guerrilla controlling our economy. Our government prints scrip which is totally worthless and the banks pass it around and skim it along with grifters like derivatives salesmen and global “initiative” charlatans and the Clintoon Foundation.

  13. anyone wonder how the Washington post, which is a part of the Hillary campaign, did know this was going on right under their noses. jeff Bezos must be the most incompetent newsman in history or the most willfully corrupt one.

  14. Today, you don’t have to vote the cemetery or stuff the ballot box — it’s all electronic with no paper trail.

    Not quite. There are actually fewer states with electronic voting machines today than ever before. (Ohio being a notable exception—not surprising, since it is also home to vendor Diebold.) As the below article from POLITICO notes, states are finding out that less is more, with simpler methods being preferable (most Western states, including my own and most of our neighbors, use optical scan ballots). As with any highly technological process, the machines used are becoming obsolete and are plagued by hard to find hardware and software fixes. Thus, the return to “old” technology like optical scan. Of course this method can have its own issues, as anyone who has filled out an academic test bubble sheet in the past 45 years can attest, but those are usually “user error” which also plagues other methods.

    The actual ballot box “stuffing” can occur at other points, but with those states who’ve gone low tech, it’s more challenging to do and requires—ironically—more sophistication than with the high tech method.

    How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes
    http://politi.co/2aZnAsC

    Entire precincts (4-10% depending on the source) in Philadelphia recorded not a single vote for Romney 4-yrs ago, which is statistically-improbable. No voting-block is so monolithic that NOT-ONE casts a vote for the opposing-side.

    The personal story of our own Sean L. aside, this has largely been debunked as highly possible given a) the demographic of Philadelphia [ie, both heavily populated by Democrats and Blacks] and b) the fact that a popular [particularly in urban America] African-American president was on the ballot.
    The Obama campaign was particularly good at on-the-ground voter turnout (something that the HR Clinton campaign will struggle with).

  15. Having lived in Philadelphia and voted there, I still consider it “improbable”.

    During the 1988 Presidential Primary, my local polling station officials “didn’t know” that the mechanical voting booths then in-use had to have the correct political party “selected” mechanically to properly record the vote-cast. …Really? Apparently no Republican in our then-mixed Yuppie-and-“ethnic-minority” neighborhood’s votes had been correctly tallied for however-long she had been the machine-attendant that morning. Reilly??…

    I learned about that in 5th-Grade when we were taken-down to the school basement the day before the election and given a tour of our local polling station — and the mechanics of how a vote was cast and counted, including the party pull-selector. And this was in politically-questionable New Jersey.

    As long as a voting precinct or machine doesn’t tally more votes than the number of voters…there’s no methodology to otherwise verify the vote was tallied correctly. The presumption is some voters “abstained”…

    In 1981, the NJ Governor’s election was decided by a 1797 vote-difference after a 27-day recount and audit. Barely a knife’s-edge considering that nearly 26,000 votes were for 3rd-party and independent candidates. Tom Kean ultimately was declared the winner despite the TV networks declaring Jim Florio the winner on election-night.

  16. As long as a voting precinct or machine doesn’t tally more votes than the number of voters…

    Even that doesn’t mean much. My state, in order to get a waiver from the “motor voter” law, allows same-day registration and voting. So until the new registrations make their way through the system, the tallies can show that more people voted than were legally registered that day. Yet people in 2012 used such discrepancies as a clear case that the election was rigged for Obama.

    There’s also an issue with undervoting. Some academic a few years ago used the examples of under- and overvotes as an example of how “confusing” our election process is. Yet I routinely undervote and I’m not confused about the process at all. (Particularly being a one-time election judge.) I simply refuse to vote for idiots and if they are all idiots for a particular office, I will not cast a vote for that office.