Sometimes It only takes one to change everything. The Trump campaign has obtained legal authorization to do a forensic examination of 22 Dominion voting machines in Antrim Country, Michigan. The examination will take about 8 hours and it will take about 48 hours to report the results. This examination is done by experts who know exactly how these machine work. Remember that Antrim County is the place where 6,000 votes were incorrectly reported for Joe Biden. The Michigan Secretary of State blamed this on “operator error.” We will soon know the facts.

If these machines were altering votes from Trump to Biden, then that would raise questions about the results nationwide. This is easy to understand. On September 29, 1982, three people died after taking Tylenol It later developed that someone had laced the Tylenol with cyanide.

Tylenol Poison Spree 1982 Becomes Crisis Management Case Study | Time

Tylenol immediately recalled all its products nationwide. Johnson & Johnson then issued a warning urging people not to take Tylenol and established a hotline for worried customers to use. They then changed the way Tylenol was packed, providing a seal proving that the contents of the bottle had not been breached.

As far as I can tell, a total of 7 people died from Tylenol laced with cyanide. I don’t believe anyone was ever charge or convicted regarding this case. Today, virtually all medicine is put in bottle with seals verifying that the contents have not been contaminated.

If one or more of those Dominion machines were compromised, in a system designed to change votes from Donald J. Trump to Joe Biden, the results will be like the Tylenol case.  The results of every Dominion machine, nationwide, will be suspect. Even the usual suspects at CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX News will understand that.

It is possible that those machines were not compromised. We will soon know. If machines were compromised in Antrim County, they were compromised everywhere. Antrim County is a sparsely populated county located in the northern part of the Southern Peninsula of Michigan. The entire population is about 24,000 people. People in Michigan may have driven through Charlevoix or Petoskey, but the county seat is Bellaire, which has a population of about 1,200 people. This is actually a beautiful part of the country, but hardly the type of place where one would bother trying to steal an election.

If you want to check out Bellaire, here is the link:

Bellaire | Michigan

This all happened as the result of a lawsuit by William Bailey, a member of the Antrim County Planning commission. He was upset because he of the results of a proposal to allow retail marijuana shops and processors within the Central Lake village limits. Mr. Bailey is a realtor in Central Lake, and he opposed this. There were 524 votes and it ended in a tie. But when they were retabulated on November 6^th, three ballots were damaged in the process, resulting in the proposal passing by 1 vote. This was enough to get a Judge to authorize the forensic examination.

It is not disputed that the Dominion voting machines initially gave the wrong results. Here is the article from the Detroit Free Press trying to explain what happened:

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/06/antrim-county-vote-glitch-software-update/6194745002/

If you read this article, it raises a lot of concerns. In this case, it may have been an innocent mistake, but the Dominion software can be compromised. That alone should send shockwaves, if only the MSM would bother to notice.

One thing is sure, at some point we will know, but incredibly that may not be until January 6^th. That is the date congress meets in special session and decides who was elected president. Ultimately, that is the only date that really matters.

TDM

Anyone living in California knows that we have the worst governor in the nation. That would seem to be an impossible task, when considering people like Witmer in Michigan and Cuomo in New York, but Newsom pulled it off. Up until recently, he got away with it. But he has now been slapped down twice. The first time was when Kevin Kiley got a judge to issue a permanent injunction against Newsom regarding his illegal order to send out mail-in ballots to every registered voter. Think about that for a minute. That judge issued an order that basically disqualified the entire 2020 election in California. While that may not change the outcome in 2020, it absolutely prevents Newsom from doing that again in 2022 or 2024, assuming he is still governor at that time.

But more importantly, the court rejected the arbitrary decision by Newsom to limit attendance at worship services. Now that case is more significant, not just because of the Supreme Court decision, but by the way they handled it. The Supreme Court did not directly deal with the California decision by Newsom, it just remanded that decision back to the 9^th Circuit Court. Specifically, the Supreme Court vacated the Ninth Circuit ruling against California churches and sent the case back to the lower courts for reconsideration considering its opinion on the Brooklyn Diocese Case.

That is the way the Supreme Court works. It rarely makes decisions the way one would expect, instead it sends things back down the chain for review. In this case, the 9^th Circuit Court has been put on notice. “Fix this or we will fix it for you.” It would be extremely embarrassing for the 9^th Circuit Court to be overruled by the Supreme Court, particularly when the Court provided such explicit instruction on how to look at things.

That brings us to the litigation before the Supreme Court regarding the election in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign, not based on the merits, but rather on the doctrine of “laches.” In a bizarre twist of logic, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed the Trump campaign lawsuit because it was not filed until after the election. Apparently since the Trump campaign did not seek relief, before they knew the election was actually stolen, they waited too long.

Justice Alito set the date for opposition papers to be filed as of December 9^th. That is the day after the so-called safe harbor date of the state selecting electors six days prior to the meeting of the electoral college. The following article points out why this may be extremely significant:

Is There Another Scenario That Makes Justice Alito’s Dec. 9 Response Date Meaningful in Different Way? (redstate.com)

I wonder if anyone from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will bother to read this article and would be stunned if they did anything about it. What this mean is that if the Supreme Court accepts the Trump campaign appeal, it voids the results of the election, not based on the merits of the case, but rather on the fact that the lower court ruled incorrectly on the law itself. More importantly, if they do this after December 9^th, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, by definition, with not be given the opportunity to fix the ruling because it will be out of time. Talk about poetic justice.

Even if this decision only directly affected Pennsylvania, and Biden would still have enough votes, technically to win the electoral college, this would go off like a bomb. Odds would skyrocket that congress would be compelled to at least debate the legitimacy of the entire election. Remember that congress and only congress can actually choose the next president. That would require a mandatory special session of congress and the vote would be two votes per state in both the house and the senate. Republicans easily win that contest.

Currently there is already one Congressional Representative planning on rejecting the electoral college vote and calling for a debate. All that is necessary is for one senator to join him, and this is at least debated. Naïve people think such a debate would be unlikely to change the outcome, but that is not necessarily true. Particularly, if Pennsylvania electors are rejected and there are other states where the outcome is more than a little murky.

We are really talking about unchartered waters here, so any predictions are impossible. Most wise people think Biden has locked this up, unless something really big happens to change that. It would be foolish to believe that unprecedented events are about to unfold. But unprecedented events happen all the time, they just catch us by surprise because they are unprecedented.

Now throw in just a tiny thought. Democrats are promising to stack the Supreme Court if they win the Presidency and the Senate. Those Supreme Court justices must know that and even the liberal justices are likely appalled. Self-preservation is the first instinct of almost everyone and that includes Supreme Court Justices.

In the meantime, watching the California Scheming provide valuable insight on how the Supreme Court really works that provides some insight into what is at least possible.

TDM

Anyone paying attention has known about the blatant corruption in Democratic controlled cities. This dates back centuries.  The corruption in New York City is well documented. William M. “Boss” Tweed took control of the government following the 1869 election. His downfall was spectacular, all the result of a sleigh accident that happened on January 21, 1871.  James Watson, a county controller, was hit in the head by a horse during this incident and died a week later. The Tweed machine realized this was a problem, so sent someone to guard Watson’s estate. They also tried, and failed, to destroy Watson’s records. But a replacement auditor, Matthew O’Rourke got access to those records and the resulting stories in the New York Times lead to Tweed’s total collapse. He finally went to trial in January 1873 ending with a hung jury. He was retried in November 1873 and convicted. He managed to escape prison but was found in Spain and eventually arrested by U.S. Authorities and brought back to New York City on November 23, 1876. He died in jail, in 1878.

There have been numerous documented incidents of corruption in other places, but probably none more than Philadelphia. Chicago, of course, is famous for the Machine. But, up until now, it has been difficult, if not impossible, to actually break up the Tammany Hall basically ran New York from 1789 until 1934, when Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was elected. Tammany Hall was finally defeated completely in 1966, when John V. Lindsay took office. For much of that time the leadership of Tammany Hall, theoretically a benevolent organization, was identical to the Executive Committee of the Democratic Party.

However, knowing about systemic corruption and proving it are very different things. Boss Tweed was only done in by an accident and while he left, Tammany Hall remained. But we live in a very different world than that dominated by Tammany Hall. Today, we often have video of major events and information travels around the world at the speed of light. For a long time, information was controlled by major newspapers and television networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC. That is no longer the case today, and after this election, those entities are doomed to irrelevance and eventually extinction.

Social media also tried, and failed, to suppress information. They did succeed is suppressing information long enough to influence this election. But they may not have succeeded in putting Joe Biden in the Oval Office.

Everything changed yesterday when during the hearing in Georgia, a video tape was played that shows blatant corruption during the Presidential election. There were numerous reports of a fake water leak, which resulted in kicking Republicans and most Democrats out of the State Farm Arena in Fulton, County, Georgia, where votes were being counted. But what people did not know is that Republicans had obtained a copy of video footage showing what happened during the four hours while Republican poll watchers were kicked out of the building. A woman was observed pulling suitcases holding ballots from under tables and then a team of four people frantically counting ballots. Her mother, who was also in the same room, made a huge mistake by wearing a T Shirt saying, “Lady Ruby and her purse, which she left on the table, says “LaRuby.” She has now been allegedly identified as Ruby Freeman, owner of “LaRuby’s Unique Treasures. While some of the Democrats on that committee were desperately trying to unsee this video, it was literally seen ‘round the world.’  Freeman had a Facebook page and made numerous political statements in favor of Joe Biden. Apparently on November 7, 2020, she bragged about Biden’s victory declared by the MSM and even included a photo of her working during the election.

This instantly motivated two people, Brad Raffensperger, Secretary of State, and Brian Kemp, Governor of Georgia. Raffensperger, ironically a Republican, finally conceded that this was evidence of vote counting not done legally or with proper supervision. Governor Kemp has demanded the Georgia Secretary of State conduct a signature audit of ballots.

Thinks are now going to move at the speed of light, and they won’t be limited to Georgia. When you combine this with the altered ballots found during a sample audit in Arizona, don’t be surprised to see similar action in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Nevada in addition to Georgia and Arizona. We may even see some kind of audit in Virginia.

Those boxes in Georgia probably had about 24,000 ballots, but based on other testimony, those same ballots may have been counted multiple times. This is way beyond bad.

In addition, it is increasingly clear that the star witness for Rudy Giuliani, Col Phil Waldron has access to inside information. He claims that experts witnessed Dominion communication with Frankfurt on election day. He says he has a team of experts looking at the data. This is consistent with the U.S. seizing control of a server in Germany, although the details are more than a little murky.

Trump had a meeting with William Barr. After that meeting, the DOJ released a statement saying that the DOJ investigation continues. When asked about Barr’s future, Trump said he will let us know in a couple of weeks. This must have been some meeting. Trump obviously believes this election was stolen and it seems likely that he confronted Barr with evidence he was not receiving from U.S. Attorneys and the FBI.

Mr. Barr just may be a man on a mission, furious at being mislead by those who report to him. I would not underestimate him. But regardless, that video tape changes everything and at a minimum a whole lot of people are finally doing some serious investigations. The star of that video was Ruby Freeman, she is definitely a snot, that this could very well be the snot heard round the world.

TDM

Note: There are numerous sources used in this article, including History.com. There are so many reports about that video that it seemed unfair to choose only one. In addition, this video was shown on live TV during the Georgia hearings.

Sometimes little things mean a lot. A judge in Arizona ordered the audit of 100 duplicate ballots by the GOP. The result was that 2 of these ballots had been illegally altered. One was changed from Trump to Biden. The other was changed from Trump to no one. The impact of this seems small, only 2 out of 100 ballots. But what matters is that this is hard evidence of fraud. The first hard evidence that ballots were deliberately altered to help Joe Biden. The judge immediately ordered a larger audit.

Here is why that really matters. Up until now, all the evidence has been by eyewitnesses who said they saw something that looked suspicious. There has been forensic evidence that the results were mathematically impossible.  But what was missing was hard evidence that votes had actually been altered. That just changed.

The MSM immediately tried to cover this up, which is a good indication of the significance of this event. They put out another comment about election fraud being extremely rare and the lack of evidence. However, this is hard evidence of actual fraud. Not by a single person trying to vote illegally, but rather fraud that can only be explained as a deliberate coordinated effort to change the results of an election.

While the MSM will ignore this, it will set off shockwaves to the people who matter. The State legislators are understandably very reluctant to “disenfranchise” people who voted in good faith. They believe the witnesses. They believe the forensic evaluations. But they needed more if they were to take such drastic action. Now, thanks to one Judge in Arizona, they have a path to do that. A specific type of audit, on a small sample, that provided clear evidence of systemic fraud. Real evidence. Evidence that in one case a ballot was taken away from Trump and given to Biden and another where a vote was just taken away from Trump.

It is important to remember that all scientific studies start by evaluating samples. The vaccine tests only involved a few thousand people. That is the way science works. There is a very careful analysis of a representative sample and the results are used to estimate results over an entire population. Previously, election recounts were nothing more than checking the math on counts already submitted. This time was very different. They looked at specific ballots, in this case duplicate ballots, to see if they were altered. Duplicate ballots were ballots that were not read properly by the machine and hand duplicated to be processed.

The bottom line is if these ballots were deliberately altered, then there is reason to believe that there was a coordinate effort to steal an election. If Democrats were smart, they would try to find who altered these ballots and throw them under the bus as a one-off rouge actor. But if they don’t do that, it will at least appear as though this was part of a much larger scheme. It is easy, really, if you are willing to deliberately alter two ballots, you are willing to commit a crime. People who would do this would not stop after two ballots.

If they audit more ballots and find no more like this, then this goes away. But if they audit 500 ballots and find 10 that were altered, all to favor Biden, that would be huge. It would be impossible to explain that as an honest mistake. It may seem like a small amount, but it is enough to raise questions about the entire election.

One of the problems with this election is that Democrats were stunned by the size of the Trump vote. In desperation they took action to change the unacceptable results. In doing this, they made mistakes. They left an audit trail. Now, the Trump team and the other people fighting back against this fraud just got a blueprint for changing things. There are duplicate ballots processed in every state. The search is on.

This is obviously late in the game and the clock is ticking. But sometimes, the most important things are as simple as learning how to read and right.

TDM

Always remember that any story by the MSM must be considered suspect. The most recent is the alleged quote by William Barr that the DOJ has no Evidence of Fraud affecting 2020 Election outcome. That, of course, has been trumpeted in the MSM as proof that Trump’s allegations of massive fraud are based on no evidence.

However, I never judge someone by quotes in the MSM since these are so often distorted and misrepresented. So before responded to this, I went back and looked at the interview of William Barr by Wolf Blitzer. In that interview, Barr said:

“Elections that have been held with mail have found substantial fraud and coercion.”

Then I went back and read the exact quote in the AP:

Disputing Trump, Barr says no widespread election fraud (apnews.com)

U.S. attorneys and FBI agents have been working to follow up specific complaints and information they’ve received, but they’ve uncovered no evidence that would change the outcome of the election. “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,

To put this in perspective, last month Barr issued a directive to U.S. attorneys across the country allowing them to pursue any “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities, if they existed, before the 2020 presidential election was certified.

This reminds me of a serious limitation in the English language. English uses the word we to mean very different things. For example, I might talk to a client and say: “we are independent agents.” We, in that case, includes our agency associates, but does not include the person being talked to. But we can also mean everyone present. For example, if there is a fire, I might say “we need to leave now!” In that case, we means everyone there.

One of the things I noticed is that Trump did not criticize Barr. Neither did Rudy Giuliani. The statement by Giuliani said: “with all due respect to the Attorney General, there hasn’t been any semblance of a Department of Justice investigation.

So, the question is, what did Barr mean by “we.” He certainly meant the U.S. attorneys and FBI agents. He was saying that these guys did not uncover any evidence that would change the outcome of the election. But that “we” would not necessarily include other investigations, done by other people. If Barr really believed that mail-in voting would result in massive fraud, he just may have authorized someone else to investigate. A secret unit like that used to catch people like Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames. If such a unit existed, the U.S. attorneys and the FBI agents mentioned by Barr might not even know it existed. And when he says “we” have not seen fraud on a massive scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election, it really matters who he meant by “we.”

I honestly don’t know what William Barr meant by “we,” but I do know that President Trump did not criticize William Barr, he criticized the DOJ. Catherine Herridge, who is a well-connected investigative reporter tweeted:

“from a DOJ spokesperson: “Some media outlets have incorrectly reported that the Department has concluded its investigation of election fraud and announced an affirmative finding of no fraud in the election. That is not what the Associate Press report nor what the Attorney General states. The Department will continue to receive and vigorously pursue all specific and credible allegations of fraud as expeditiously as possible.”

Barr also made John Durham a Special Counsel before the election. That means if Biden is the next President, he is going to be greeting by a Special Counsel. Republicans are almost certainly going to demand that the Hunter Biden tapes be included within the scope of the Special Counsel investigation. That is inconsistent with Barr being part of the cover-up.

There is a lot happening. A lot of evidence is being presented. Whistleblowers are surfacing. More and more data is being presented that appears to document fraud. We should not discount such analysis, because there are people in jail today because of similar forensic analysis.

The point being, that it would be naïve to assume that William Barr has crossed over to the dark side. Instead we should pay attention not only to what he said, but perhaps more importantly what he did not say. I wouldn’t be surprised if we hear a lot more from William Barr before this election is finalized.

TDM

Thanksgiving was cancelled in California, because of COVID-19. The rules were no more than 6 people, no more than two families, you had to eat outdoors and if you used the restroom, it had to be sanitized after each use. So, we went to a Turkey Celebration of Life Ceremony, which has fewer restrictions.

Following is the invitation I wrote for this event:

 Celebration of Life Ceremony

Thomas P. Turkey

November 26, 2020

6:30 p.m.

Due to Covid 19 restrictions, the ceremony will be held at an undisclosed location known only to those were directly impacted by his life and subsequent death.

 Tom’s sacrifice will always be remembered, even during our sorrow, as a reminder that even tragedy can result in good as we gather together to honor his life and his great personal sacrifice.

I also provided a short eulogy:

In Loving Memory of Tom Turkey

Tom Turkey was born on a farm in Woodland, California on May 5, 2020. He led a wonderful life, well fed, and surrounded by friends.  He died on October 5, 2020 when he made the ultimate sacrifice so that others may celebrate Thanksgiving. Tom went to Turkey heaven, embraced by friends who flocked together in celebration of his life

I also found an interview between Tom Turkey and Arcangel Michael that took place when Tom arrived at Turkey Heaven:

Interview with Tom Turkey by Arcangel (AA) Michael

AA Michael: So, Tom, welcome to Turkey Heaven. Tell me a little something about your trip.

Tom: Well, I must admit, it was a bit of a shock. My whole life had been living in comfort, well fed, warm and surrounded by my friends. I am not exactly sure what happened, but at some point, I lost my head and everything after that is a blur.

AA Michael: Do you remember any of your “after life experiences?”

Tom:  I started out feeling very cold, literally freezing. But I was finally given a chance to thaw out. After that I distinctly remember being warm and toasty, and obviously my last meal was great, because I was feeling stuffed. I was surrounded by warm and friendly people who all praised my virtues. I was told I had good taste and smelled wonderful. Several people said they wanted more of me and that I had made their thanksgiving special.

AA Michael:  Do you have any advice for your fellow turkeys.

Tom: Life is short and can end unexpectly. Enjoy each day as if it is your last. Stay close to your friends and treat every meal as something special. Beware of anyone carrying an axe.

Gobble Gobble

TDM

The MSM, including FOX News has been lying to everyone. How many times have your heard that Donald Trump is accusing Democrats of stealing this election, without any evidence? They would have you believe that this is just some weird conspiracy theory by someone who cannot accept defeat.

Ironically much of this is promoted by the same people who pushed the idiotic Russian Collusion hoax for nearly four years. But facts are stubborn things, and the facts are out there no matter how hard people try to ignore them.

The hearings in Pennsylvania and Arizona were far more important than anyone realizes. The evidence supporting systemic fraud was so overwhelming that at times the audience literally gasped. Naturally, the MSM did not report on this and, so far, the courts have been unwilling to even hear the evidence. This could lead one to assume that all is lost. As President Trump said, it is hard to even get this to the Supreme Court. However, remember that in 2000 the Supreme Court did not finally decide until literally the last possible day.

But the real audience here is not the legal system or even the Supreme Court. It is not even the American People. Most people already know about the fraud. The real audience are those people in control of state legislatures and the United States congress. None of them want to be in this position. Perhaps Rudy Giuliani said it best in Arizona when he said that the U.S. constitution put this on their shoulders and history will hold them accountable if they fail to act responsibly.

The MSM did not watch those hearings in Pennsylvania and Arizona. There has been almost no reporting on this. But some people were paying attention. That includes state legislatures in other states. It also includes voters in those states. The same voters that put those legislators in power. The same people who are calling their representatives, sending them e-mails and sending text messages. If you are a legislator in a state like Michigan, or Wisconsin, or Georgia and you saw those hearings it likely made a real impact on you. Suddenly, you are confronted with the reality that the MSM has been lying to you, again. You are confronted with the reality that yes; this election was the most corrupt in U.S. history. Yes, they are trying to steal an election. Yes, if you don’t stop this now, they will do it again. Only next time they will target you, not Donald Trump.

There is currently a hearing being televised in Michigan. Rudy Giuliani was not invited nor any of his witnesses. But there are still a lot of eyewitness accounts of what sure looks like systemic fraud. One of the problems is that these people are extremely believable. One may have a difference of opinion regarding the significance of what they observed, but they certainly look and sound like real people describing real events.

But perhaps the best witness is Joe Biden. If Biden becomes president, there will instantly be about 70 million furious people who believe this election was stolen from Donald Trump. If you combine that with a President Biden who has zero communication skills and is proposing things unacceptable to almost everyone, then it becomes a perfect storm. If Biden becomes President and he mucks things up, which is almost certain, the country will become united. Not behind Biden, that will never happen, but united in holding people accountable for letting this happen on their watch. When the team loses big time, the first person fired is the coach. Usually, his entire staff goes out the door right behind him.

It would take a lot of courage for state legislatures to overturn this election. It would take even more courage for congress to refuse to accept the vote by the electoral college and vote to re-elect Donald Trump. It would take a mountain of courage for the Supreme Court to overturn this election, regardless of the evidence. But at least some of them are realizing that there is high risk for them personally, no matter what they do. That begs the question: Is it riskier to stop Joe Biden from becoming President of the United States or to fail to stop him when you know he is not up to the job?

One thing is clear to anyone watching those hearings. This election was a gigantic fraud. There is a ton of evidence already and more is on the way. History is not kind to people in power who ignore warnings like this and fail to act. Those who ignore the truth will face the consequences.

TDM

I watched the interview of Donald Trump by Maria Bartiromo yesterday, it was discouraging. Trump was expressing concern over whether the Supreme Court would even hear the case. But then I remembered that Trump is the master of misdirection. That gave me pause. So, I started reflecting on who we have not heard from during this situation.

The evidence of systemic fraud is overwhelming. Other than the MSM, which is part of the plot, this must be obvious to anyone paying attention. That begs the question, what are people like William Barr, John Ratcliff, Christopher Miller, Brig. Gen Anthony Tata, Kash Patel and Ezra Cohen-Watnick doing? The FBI has been silent and that is not necessarily because Wray is not doing anything. In addition, Durham must come up with something, eventually.

There is a strange unconfirmed story about that server in Frankfurt, Germany. At first it was reported that this was owned by Scytl and was seized by the U.S. with approval from Germany. But the latest theory is that this was a CIA operation seized by U.S. Special Forces, apparently after a major fire fight with casualties. There is no mention of this is the news, but then one wouldn’t expect that. However, if something like this happened, the changes made at the highest levels in the Pentagon shortly after the election suddenly make sense.

It is easy to imagine someone like John Brennan continuing to run an anti-Trump operation at the CIA and there have been rouge CIA operations before. Most people don’t know that the real reason the U.S. did not support the Consulate in Benghazi was the Annex, where everyone was evacuated was a secret CIA facility. We still don’t know what was going on at that Annex. Some have speculated it was a CIA prison. Others say it was an operation designed to track down and recover man-portable-air-defense systems (MANPADS) which had been taken from Qaddafi’s stockpiles. If terrorists got their hands on MANPADS, the result could be the loss of civilian airliners. The Obama Administration would have been desperate to avoid letting anyone know this happened on their watch.  Fortunately, these seem to have been used primarily to shoot down Syrian helicopters, not airliners.

There was a report that the FBI requested documents regarding voter fraud identified by Sidney Powell’s team. That does not mean the FBI will do anything with the information. They had Hunter Biden’s laptop and did nothing.

This time it is different. This time they would not be interfering with a legitimate election, but rather preventing a fraudulent result from being confirmed. As I have written before, the only real path for Trump is in the State Legislatures and Congress itself. Now the question is when does the bomb need to go off in time for anyone to do something about it. My hunch is that after this week, there won’t be enough time for anything to work.

William Barr and John Durham must know that if Biden is elected, they are done, and all their work will be covered up. For example, if Barr appoints a Special Prosecutor to investigate Biden, after he is elected President, that would be close to a worst-case scenario. The same is true for Durham.

I sense there is a silent storm on the horizon. The question is when, and where it will hit. Hopefully, sooner rather than later because the clock is definitely ticking.

TDM

In 1964, Barry Goldwater was running and losing, against LBJ. Once again, the mainstream media (MSM) was complicit in helping a Democrat get elected. Most people don’t realize that Johnson was actually in trouble during that election. Goldwater was accusing LBJ, with justification of being soft on communism. Then, on August 2, 1964, the USS Maddox reported being attacked by three North Vietnamese Torpedo boats. The USS Turner Joy joined the USS Maddox on patrol, and both reported being attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on August 4, 1964. This second encounter, much like the Battle of the Blips during WWII in Alaska, may not even have involved real North Vietnamese torpedo boats.

A later investigation by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee revealed that the USS Maddox was on an electronic intelligence mission. Hypothetically, that would have included Vietnamese linguists who may have been known among the very small community of Vietnamese linguists, like me, who fought in Vietnam.

Johnson ordered the bombing of North Vietnam and congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The country, with the support of the MSM united behind LBJ and Goldwater never had a chance.

On October 27, 1974, Ronald Reagan gave an address to the nation called “A Time for Choosing.” This was part of a pre-recorded television program, “Rendezvous with Destiny.”  This did not help Goldwater, but it launched Ronald Reagan on a path to the White House in 1980.

In the spring of 2011, Republicans were searching for a candidate to beat Barack Obama. Sadly, they landed on Mitt Romney. I have often been depressed that we gave Barack Obama a second term but have never regretted not electing Mitt Romney. In April 2011, Donald Trump was flirting with the idea of running for President. Few, if any, took him seriously. Then Trump started talking about Obama’s birth certificate. This was widely viewed as a huge mistake. However, I saw something else and wrote about it in my blog. I recently “re-discovered” this when researching another story. Here is what I wrote on April 12, 2011

https://scotshonor.com/?p=745

“Donald Trump is moving rapidly up the Republican Presidential leaderboard.    Some people watch him because they like him, some people watch him because they hate him.  But they all watch him.  This reminds me of when Ronald Reagan first started running for President.  The media constantly downplayed him as ‘just an actor.’  But they soon learned that Ronald Reagan was far more than just an actor; he was a gifted leader and a skilled politician.  Donald Trump is a very strong leader with incredible communication skills.  I believe that the people are hungry for that, and just may be willing to put up with the baggage in exchange for pure competence. “

Only a few times in our life do we get a glimpse of a special person that has the potential to become a superstar Republican candidate in the future. That happened again this week when, for the first time, we got a glimpse of an obscure State Senator from Pennsylvania. Although the Majority leader in the PA Senate and the Speaker of the House in PA had raised concerns about the obvious fraud during the 2020 election, they weren’t doing anything. But Doug Mastriano was doing something. He convinced the Chairman of the Senate Majority Policy Committee to hold a hearing to vet election issues. This is beyond amazing. The Senate Majority Policy Committee is hardly the best choice for this type of investigation. But it is the committee that Mastriano was on, so he seized the day.

Mastriano chaired that hearing.  Rudy Giuliani was finally allowed to give his full presentation displaying the evidence regarding voter fraud. That may have just changed everything.

Mastriano said the following:

“Elections are a fundamental principle of our democracy – unfortunately, Pennsylvanians have lost faith in the electoral system,” “It is unacceptable.”

“Over the past few weeks, I have heard from thousands of Pennsylvanians regarding issues experienced at the polls, irregularities with the mail-in voting system and concerns whether their vote was counted,” “We need to correct these issues to restore faith in our republic.”

Once again, we have a political leader, who is listening to his constituents and who has incredible communication skills. Mastriano also has an extremely impressive background as a former Army Colonel. I didn’t know him before this hearing, but I know him now. Soon, a lot of people will know all about him.  We haven’t seen this kind of talent and drive since, well, 2011.

While it would take a miracle, there is still a distance possibility that Donald Trump will re-elected. But, even if he does not make it, this is not the time to give up hope. Desperate times expose the future leaders.It took the Vietnam was to allow Ronald Reagan to emerge. It took the failed presidency of Barack Obama to motivate a Donald Trump. It may have taken the most fraudulent federal election in our nation’s history to alert us to the incredible force that is Doug Mastriano.

This is a reminder that no matter what happens this week, or next week or next year, there is always reason for hope. God is still in control and he is the one who holds the future. Sometimes, he gives us a glimpse of that if we are paying attention.

TDM

If you watch football, you know all about the RedZone. That is the part of the field within 20 yards of an opponent’s goal line. It is where most of the scoring takes place. It is certainly where a lot of the excitement takes place. But there is something else we all know. Victory is often achieved by the team holding the ball last. That is particularly true if your team has one of the great quarterbacks.

There was a classic example of that Sunday Night. The Las Vegas Raiders scored the go-ahead touchdown with only 93 seconds lefts in the game. The team was celebrating. Victory looked secure. But wiser and more experience people realized that the opposite was true. Patrick Mahomes is a special and dangerous quarterback.  With someone like that 93 seconds is an eternity. He didn’t even need 93 seconds. He threw the winning touchdown pass with 28 seconds to spare.

One again, everyone in the media is watching the wrong game. They saw Joe Biden run up the score with late counts. They saw state after state declare Joe the winner. Everyone in the mainstream has been referring to Joe as President Elect. Biden even has his own seal reading: “Office of the President Elect.” That is because everyone was looking at this, assuming the final decision would be made by the courts, and they would never overturn a federal election. They are probably right about that, but Donald Trump has never relied on the establishment to win. He never relied on the mainstream media. He never relied on RINO Republicans. He didn’t rely on politicians at all, he relied on the American people. He believes he understands the American people better than his opponents. He understands what they really want, and he understands the importance of keeping promises.

So, while everyone else was focused on the courts, Trump’s campaign was focused on two things. The American people and state legislatures. His campaign used the limited media available to get out the facts about this election. Those facts, to anyone paying attention, make it impossible to ignore the ugly odor of massive fraud. He was helped tremendously by victory celebrations from people like Schumer and Pelosi. They started bragging about how they were going to change everything. But they forgot something important. There is still time on the clock and Trump is playing a different game.

The Trump campaign finally got a chance to make their case, the only place it mattered, in from of the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Committee meeting in Gettysburg. The presentation by Rudy Giuliani and his witnesses was stunning. At one point, when this expert with unimpeachable credentials said that about 600,000 votes came in during a dump and Trump only got about 3,200 of those votes, there was literally a gasp. Not just from the spectators, who were all predictably pro-Trump, but also from the State Senators on that panel.

The media ignored this hearing entirely. They pretended it never happened. But the shot heard round the world was only heard by a handful of people at the time. The significance of that shot shook the world. Since then the Pennsylvania legislature has set up a vote to reject the results of the election and declare Donald Trump the winner. One state Judge has already made the only decision that really matters. Patricia A. McCullough is a Pennsylvania Appeals Court Judge ruled that the PA Governor and Secretary of State did not have the authority to extend the mail-in ballot deadline to 3 days after the election. What matters here is that she did not require the Trump administration to provide documented proof of how many votes were impacted. She simply ruled that the issues raised are found to be of statewide and national concern.

She also provided a path for Trump to win this. He does not need the courts to award him the victory, that was never going to happen. What he does need is state legislatures to become convinced that the election was stolen and to act. It is the state legislatures who have the power to turn this around.

Trump did more than that, he has convinced millions of people that this election was stolen. Despite the mainstream media shrieking about the lack of evidence, while refusing to look for evidence, Trump has clearly made his case to the American people. The latest poll showed that 63% of all voters believe the election was fraudulent.  That number is probably higher today. That means those state legislators are beginning to realize they have more to fear from all those voters than they do from the mainstream media or their Democratic opponents. They are getting inundated by phone calls and “Stop the Steal Rallies” are gearing up. Once people start believing there is a chance for Trump to win this, those rallies will explode overnight. The movement now has a voice, Doug Mastriano. We have a new leader in this country, someone with an incredible resume, but also with a unique gift for motivating people. You are going to be seeing and hearing a lot from him and it would be naïve and dangerous to underestimate this man. He is a former Army Colonel, a dangerous man on a mission with the skill set to pull it off.

His message is clear. The evidence of election fraud is overwhelming. We all know this is true. We can not longer ignore this. We can not longer pretend and look aside. This is our moment. This is our time. This is our mission.

Trump is not fighting this battle before the courts or even the Republicans in congress. He is fighting this battle the same way he fought for re-election. By going directly to the American people and confronting them with the truth. The mainstream media has tried and failed to suppress the truth. They are using meaningless lower court decision to pretend Trump has lost. He has not. He is just now getting to the Supreme Court. A very different Supreme Court. A Supreme Court that just shutdown Andrew Cuomo and John Roberts at the same time. This court, unlike the lower courts, will let the Trump team put on its case. If the same Rudy Giuliani who showed up in Gettysburg appears at the Supreme Court, this is likely to shock the world. I now believe they will rule that while there is not enough evidence for them to set aside the results of the election, there is more than enough evidence to direct the state legislatures to hold hearings and decide whether or not to certify this election.

If that happens, then we could see this election end up at congress in a tie, not because legislatures declare Trump the winner, but rather because they refuse to declare Biden the winner. Perhaps Trump said this most accurately when he says Biden needs to prove he really got 80 million votes to be President of the United States. Bingo, everyone has been demanding Trump prove the election was stolen. It is about time Biden was asked to prove there wasn’t fraud. If that becomes the focus, Biden is in deep trouble.  So far Biden and his friends in the MSM aren’t even answering the question. They are trying to run out the clock by avoiding the subject. But there is too much time on the clock and the victory celebrations may have been premature.

We are in the RedZone. This is unprecedented and unpredictable. But we are in a very different place than we were last week, and the game will be decided very soon.

TDM