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No need to pinch yourself. You’re not dreaming, or rather you’re not having a nightmare if you’re a right-leaning, honest citizen of this great land and you are shaking your head over continuing revelations of misdeeds in and around the past election.

Remember when the New York Post reported on what Hunter Biden’s laptop computer revealed about secret meetings and immediately was censored by the leftist powers of social media? Well Hunter finally came clean today that he is and has been under investigation for possible tax fraud.

To recap: The New York Post was right and the socialist tech giants were wrong.

News of this Biden investigation is safe to allow to be disseminated now because the election is over, at least that’s what leftists are confident is the case, although the Supreme Court possibly could see it differently.

Some polls have discovered that a significant percentage of Joe Biden voters – enough to swing the election – would not have voted for Joe had they known about Hunter being investigated.

This is both a sad commentary not only on the impact of lame-stream media and internet censorship, but also about the relative laziness and ignorance of the voting public.

I knew about Hunter. Many of my neighbors, friends, family and acquaintances knew about it. Yes, easy dissemination of the news was blocked, but it was far from a secret.

Remember, we’re talking about Biden’s troubled son Hunter, the guy who could land big deals to consult on topics in which he had no particular expertise.

That was widely known, too, even before files in the Biden laptop were made public. Now there is a tax-fraud investigation, but no problem. Hunter claims to have had tax pros do that work for him and he’s confident this investigation will be a non-event.

Joe Biden, predictably, has noted he’s “deeply proud” of Hunter in the wake of this latest news. As one cynic asked, is becoming the subject of an investigation a Biden family rite of passage?

So social media and internet giants, along with lame-stream media, having been successful in keeping Hunter’s misdeeds from being publicized are taking it a step further. The online guardians now will ban any content alleging election fraud.

That would be considered disinformation, no matter that videos, affidavits and statistical analysis exist that indicate rampant election shenanigans. That list of evidence of a tainted election doesn’t even include some states ignoring their constitutions or the federal constitution, to change voting standards.

But your digital demi-gods have spoken. You will not be able to read any of that truth on their platforms.

At the risk of being criticized for patting myself on the back, for many years I’ve been telling friends and acquaintances to avoid the urge to join Facebook or Twitter and use it for digital bragging, thereby furthering those oligarchs’ digital stranglehold. Similarly, don’t depend on Google for internet searches.

They are spying on you and merchandising your information. Worse, they are manipulating you with the way they censor information, or send tailored messages to targeted audiences.

It’s all out in the open now, but the sheep don’t seem to care. Baaaaaahhh. Baaaaaahhh. Baaaaaahhh.

But not all are shrinking from the challenge. Led by Texas, about one-third of the states in our union are appealing to the Supreme Court to address the unconstitutional way some states ran this presidential election.

Meanwhile, prominent Democrat Eric Swalwell, a member of the House Intelligence Committee and the pudgy face most likely to show up in front of a television camera to accuse President Trump of being a Russian agent, has been revealed to have kept close company with a young, attractive, Chinese spy.

Swalwell’s implausible rationalizations for this strange relationship range from calling the whole thing Russian disinformation (at least he’s consistent there), or labeling it Trump retribution, or just indicating it was him cooperating with the FBI to break up the Chinese intelligence ring.

None of this passes the smell test, of course. Just as ridiculous are assertions by Big Tech and Big Media that there were no widespread flaws in this most recent election.

We’ve descended so far down the rabbit hole that now people caught with their pants down – either literally or figuratively – no longer even bother to cobble up some reasonable attempt at an alibi. Rather, they spout their customary boilerplate tripe and assure us it’s now time to put the incidents behind us and move on to a better future.

Feel free to buy their half-baked rhetoric. I refuse and can only hope and pray that the majority can be persuaded to see the light before it’s extinguished.

And now it falls to the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold election laws that were so cavalierly violated in many states during the past month’s elections.

Will the justices rise to the occasion? I doubt it, but I’m hoping to be surprised.

Texas has filed a motion directly with the Supreme Court against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin citing election misconduct that the leadership of Texas deemed to be unconstitutional.

Louisiana has joined in the Texas pursuit of justice.

This happened on a day when it came to light that a prominent Democratic Congressman from California had a long-term relationship, perhaps sexual, with a Chinese spy. This would be the same guy who couldn’t pass on any opportunity to get in front of cameras to blame President Trump for being a Russian operative.

Can you say projection?

It came on a day when the incoming Los Angeles County District Attorney has announced that he will enforce only the laws he agrees with and ignore the remainder.

If you like such things, then you’re going to love a Harris-Biden administration.

Constitutional scholars realize that the Texas motion has ample merit. But will the Supreme Court actually hear the case, after it receives the responses it has ordered by Thursday from the states being cited for providing unequal treatment for voters?

Here’s where doing the right thing isn’t easy. If the justices hear the case and opt, as requested, to bar those states’ electoral voters as per the flawed election results and allow instead the constitutional process for replacing the electors to be followed, they will meet mammoth criticism from leftists, both in the media and in courts or governmental bodies.

I am expecting – fearing – the Supreme Court will borrow a page from gutless Attorney General William Barr and say the infractions don’t seem significant enough to have altered the outcome of the election.

Yes, that’s ridiculous when the margins in the swing states were so close and the lack of control on the huge numbers of mail-in ballots was so prevalent. But Barr thought he could get away with that sort of verbal whitewash, and the very next day had to water down his remarks in a release issued by his underlings at the Department of Justice.

It would not be stunning if the Supreme Court weaseled out similarly in what is a pivotal moment for this country.

If Trump is denied a second term based on widespread election misconduct, and if the Democrats can win both Senate runoff races in Georgia – where the people in charge have taken no steps to correct the problems of this most recent general election – this country as we know it is finished.

The points have been made previously, but bear repeating. Democrats, so brazen in their manipulation of the voting rules this time, would be free to put their rush toward socialism into high gear.

You will end up paying higher taxes – no matter what Democrats have told you – because all those handouts are going to cost incredible amounts of money that the federal, state and local governments simply do not have and taxing only the rich can’t provide.

But that’s just the start. Democrats will provide statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, counting on that to add four guaranteed leftist Senators and a likely permanent Senate majority.

They will pack the Supreme Court just to guarantee that somewhere down the line a group of the present number of nine justices won’t grow collective backbone and confront an issue of mammoth national significance by coming down against the political left.

Previous Supreme Courts have had no problems flying in the face of conservatives, and the population in general, by ending school prayer or allowing abortions.

This Supreme Court holds the future direction of the nation in its hands. The justices get to decide whether the Constitution must be followed, or is merely to be considered a vague suggestion that easily can be ignored if there’s enough money and corruption behind those looking to skirt its dictates.

Led by Chief Justice John Roberts, something of a master at wetting his finger and holding it in the air to see which way the political winds are blowing, this Supreme Court does not inspire confidence, no matter what the supposed conservative-liberal ratio of the justices is purported to be.

The ball now is squarely the court of the Supremes. Likely as not, they will dribble it off their feet and out of bounds.

But feel free to surprise me by doing the right thing, even if it is the hard thing.

It was during an Iowa town hall for would-be presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren back in January that the definitive argument was made against forgiving student loans.

Of course it wasn’t made by Warren, who soon was drummed out of the presidential field and has since returned to being a left-wing U.S. Senator and Native American poser. No, the penetrating insight was provided by a father, who had scrimped and saved to put his daughter through college with no student loans.

Asking Warren if forgiving the debt of the profligate meant he’d then get his money back, too, the man received the sort of dismissive answer that might be expected from Fauxcahontas.

“Of course not,” was Warren’s snide, condescending response.

Replied the man, cutting to the crux of the matter: “We did the right thing, and we get screwed.”

Welcome to the club.

There are a lot of us who did what we thought was the right thing, but it has turned out to be the wrong thing. In my particular circumstance, my wife and I paid off the bulk of our son’s college debt, with him contributing some to the effort. That was for his bachelor’s degree. He got a graduate assistant position to obtain his master’s and incurred no debt.

I guess we should have bought another vehicle, added on to the house, gone on some vacations, or just thrown money out the windows of our cars any time we drove instead of paying off that college loan.

If you think media efforts to deny cheating in the past election are disgusting exercises in propaganda, get ready for the lame-stream media’s take on forgiving student loans.

They will paint it as merely doing the right thing, and taking a burden off the youth – aka our future — and they also will portray any who would think it foolhardy to erase the debt as selfish idiots. No doubt those in opposition will be called racists, misogynists, Nazis and any other of the standard labels hung on those who would disagree with the lunatic left.

The banks or other organizations that provided those loans will be portrayed as predators preying on callow youth.

When I was young, a person had to display some academic credentials to get into college. Now it’s the ability to fog a mirror, and more importantly, the ability to pay – or get someone else to pay – that allows students to pursue something as productive as puppetry, urban studies, or, as seems to be the favorite of Pitt football players, administration of justice.

First of all, if a person attending college didn’t understand that taking out a “loan” meant the money must be repaid, then they really didn’t belong in college in the first place.

Higher education, like healthcare, housing and the stock markets, are quintessential examples of excess liquidity distorting the picture.

Colleges, which once put students in relatively spartan dorms, now compete for students by offering the equivalent of luxury apartments. Sure, it’s much more expensive, but you can just borrow more.

And colleges don’t want students to bother to complete their bachelor’s degrees in four years. Take five or six, or more. Just keep paying the schools their ever-increasing tuition and other costs.

If universities really wanted to cut students a break, they’d slim down degree requirements in terms of credits required outside the area of the students’ majors. But that would put a lot of philosophy professors on the unemployment line, so we can’t have that.

I personally knew a “non-traditional” college student – translation: someone older than average going to college. He discovered he could borrow enough money he didn’t have to get a summer job, so he maxed out his college loans and took the summer’s off to ride his motorcycle, attend any manner of celebrations selling alcohol, or take his dog to the beach in his pickup truck.

To think I’m going to pay higher taxes so his debt can be forgiven all or in part doesn’t exactly warm the cockles of my heart.

Apologists in the media will says this guy is a statistical outlier. They are wrong. His is an all-too-common story.

Similarly pathetic are stories such as one that appeared last week on zerohedge.com about a 59-year-old claiming to have borrowed $79,000 repaid $190,000, and still owe $236,000.

How can this be?

Begin with the fact he started his college career in 1980 studying philosophy and political science.

He eventually went to law school, and of course didn’t finish, but he did a great job of adding on debt. In intervening years, he just stopped paying the student loans, so penalties and interest really piled up for a guy, who in a moment of striking clarity admitted his “stupidity” was to blame.

So, again, we as taxpayers are supposed to bail out a self-described stupid 59-year-old?

Why should these handouts be limited to moronic college students? Maybe the government should step in and pay the mortgages of the people who never encountered a budget they couldn’t bust.

Uncle Sam surely could see his way clear to help all those people riding around in $50,000 SUVs who can’t manage $500 in ready cash for an unexpected expense.

How about those who got jobs in lieu of going to college? They made money instead of piling up huge debt and then often finding no work in their field.

Should we give the non-college crowd a $50,000 check to spend on whatever they want? That would help provide the inflation the Federal Reserve is seeking.

I’m 65 years old and retired, but I’m tempted to go back to school and run up some considerable college debt just so I also can dip my hands into the government till.

And that is the problem. By encouraging bad behavior, the government will get more of it.

Once you start bailing out financial illiterates, how do you stop?

Quick answer, you don’t.

If I were a Republican living in Georgia, I’d vote in the Senate runoff elections despite suggestions from some that it would be better not to vote as a protest against the rigged system.

Were I a Democrat, I probably could vote illegally from my Pennsylvania home in those runoff elections, which speaks to the problem we face in keeping this country a free representative republic.

But there is another political problem in this country, one made clear by Rudy Giuliani on the Friday night Lou Dobbs program on Fox.

To paraphrase Giuliani, Republicans can’t even be counted on to stick together as a party to do the right thing. Meanwhile, Democrats will unite around any cause, right or wrong, that their leaders tell them to support.

Giuliani said he’s heard from some Republicans who have indicated to him they just don’t have the guts to stand up for what they know is right and in so doing risk being attacked by the left-wing lunatics and their lapdog media.

Republicans are weak in their convictions, a status evidenced by the U.S. Senate, where a handful of confused members who list their affiliation as Republican can’t seem to grasp consistently what that should mean in terms of passing legislation.

Maine’s Susan Collins is a poster child for wanting to be courted and convinced to do the right thing in terms of voting for Republican causes. Yet just today she was on hand at an affair designed to feed amnesty to illegal aliens, a pet project of the Democrats.

Collins is a coin-flip on whether or not she will support a Republican proposal, so maybe she should run as an Independent.

We have a nominal Republican Senator in Pennsylvania, Pat Toomey, who has announced his retirement. Good riddance to a guy who also often forgets his alleged party affiliation.

If you stuck a truth needle in the arm of some of these Republicans of convenience, you might find they actually don’t believe the pap they are spewing, but instead, like the fortitude-challenged types to which Giuliani referred, they don’t have the stomach for being attacked for the crime of being correct on an issue.

Such has become – with apologies to Teddy Roosevelt – the big stick of the political left. They intimidate the weak with riots, threats, boycotts, harassment on social media or in person and all other manner of psychological and economic warfare.

They are petulant children who act out and get away with it because such a large segment of those in charge, and the population in general, has gone full Milquetoast. How far they will be able to push their agenda before the 74 million or so who voted for Donald Trump, and those philosophically aligned with that large group, decide to push back – hard – remains an open question.

What is more clear in the wake of this disputed election, and the unpleasant aftermath, is that the U.S. needs desperately a third major party.

I’m not talking about some splinter joke of a third party that only succeeds in siphoning off votes from one major party or the other and thereby swinging an election.

It should have been clear even before recent months that our two-party system has become something of a joke. Trump had to defeat both the Democrats and establishment Republicans on his way to the Oval Office.

Once Trump was there, he got precious little support from Republicans in Congress. Oh, they welcomed him when he showed up to headline rallies for their re-elections. But they wouldn’t go out of their way to back up his legislative agenda.

There must be millions of traditional Democrats who feel similarly abandoned in their party’s leftward lurch.

A legitimate third party could unite these alienated Republicans and Democrats, give them a presidential candidate who will work for them and not stab them in the back.

They would welcome someone who would refuse to betray their interests by working to roll back work visa limits, won’t welcome Chinese domination of markets and the resulting theft of U.S. jobs through questionable means, and absolutely won’t side with those looking to defund police, do away with any fossil fuels, or turn this into a handout nation.

Such a president would have trouble with Congress, until such time the third party could be broadened to have enough candidates to run, and win, seats in the House and Senate.

But how different would that be than what President Trump faced with Democratic opposition and gutless members of his party failing to step up to support him?

If somehow Georgia’s Republican administration, to paraphrase the popular street lingo, grows a pair, insures fair play, and the Republican candidates can win at least one of those Senate runoff elections, it can provide a delay on the left-wing takeover of this country.

But it would be nothing more than that, a brief respite. What the country needs is to find a way for the people who believe in traditional values and honest elections to express those opinions. A major third party would be a significant step in that direction, if only to remind the Democrats and Republicans they no longer are the only game in town and able to take for granted their bases.

It would beat the increasingly possible and violent alternative as expressed by the slogan on soldier-of-fortune T-shirts “Kill ’em all and let God sort ’em out.”

The American populace is being treating like it is mostly made up of idiots, and the sad truth is the strategy seems to be both appropriate and working.

Attorney General William Barr has joined those who would treat the masses like mushrooms – keep them in the dark and shovel manure on them – saying in an interview today (Dec. 1, 2020) there was not evidence of voting fraud “on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”

We were being pelted with a snowstorm that already had accumulated 6-7 inches when I first read this, but Mother Nature’s best efforts paled in comparison to this Barr snow job.

Only yesterday I was wondering aloud whatever happened to Barr and his Russiagate investigator John Durham? Today we got a reappearance of Barr, and bonus news that he’d elevated Durham’s charge back in October to make sure that investigation would survive an administration change.

But while Barr is willing to come out half-cocked after his Justice Department ostensibly had spent a few days investigating claims of voting irregularities, Durham is about a year and a half into his investigation that began in May 2019 and has announced NOTHING.

Maybe in another 500 or so more days Durham might have some sort of vague rough draft of how the FBI and Democrats and leftist bureaucrats could have conspired and fudged some things to get the fire lit under President Trump designed to produce Roast A La Impeachment.

As for Barr, how does one determine how much fraud there was without a thorough investigation, not just a few days of superficial dog and pony show? Even as Barr was giving his interview, whistleblowers were testifying in Michigan to wrongdoing they had seen personally.

One woman testified of speaking with the FBI to share this information, being cut off, dialing back, and never again being contacted by that agency. So, if the FBI gets a report of an alleged crime and ignores it, there was no crime committed, right?

These first-hand accounts of election misdeeds keep rolling in, be they from U.S. Mail contractors trucking completed mail-in ballots from New York to Pennsylvania, or local election officials arbitrarily crediting incomplete or fouled ballots to Joe Biden, or any number of other various questionable election occurrences these whistleblowers have charged in formal fashion.

Barr ignores the statistical analysis by renowned mathematicians that what happened in terms of vote counting for Biden in this election stretches the bounds of probability and also dismisses questions about the integrity of the electronic voting machines.

Barr ought to get out and about more than once every 40 days if he wants to have a true handle on the state of this republic, which rapidly is descending into banana republic status – the metaphor for political instability, not the brand name of the women’s clothing line.

Likely you remember that when the goal was to impeach President Trump we were told whistleblowers were to be believed without exception and treated like heroes, if not royalty.

Now that citizens are blowing the whistle on what they view as election theft, they are to be at best marginalized or, at worst, threatened into silence and/or ignored.

Through it all, the populace is being subjected to mind-bending verbiage. Communications about election fraud are tagged as unverified. Stories from the left-wing lapdog media outlets always characterize the allegations of fraud as unfounded.

And even when a tiny bit of electoral fraud is conceded, we are told it was “not massive” or was “insufficient to have changed the outcome.”

How do those making such pronouncements know that?

Quick answer: They don’t.

But it’s the way they want it to be and emboldened by those on both sides of the political aisle being willing to look the other way regarding this bit of unpleasantness, the media continue to disparage the whistleblowers and deny out of hand that their charges could be true when they assert that this election was stolen as surely as if those doing the counting had been wearing masks – for purposes of obscuring identity, not satisfying the COVID-19 facemask Nazis.

The media is employing the same semantic playbook it used to describe fiery, violent, destructive left-wing protests this year as “Mostly peaceful.”

Any election fraud was insignificant they continue to assure us, just before turning out the lights and reaching for their manure shovels.

Quick, give me some duct tape, the better to wrap my about-to-explode head due to the ongoing assault on common sense by political operatives, the media, and the brain-dead partisans among the general population.

• Joe Biden’s dogs apparently got some bad input from the psychic who was analyzing them remotely based on photos and one of those canines contributed to breaking one of old Joe’s feet. CNN celebrated the news as evidence of the great transparency we could expect from Biden’s administration. Were they talking about the X-rays?
• Speaking of Biden, I can only imagine how Kamala Harris must have felt her heart flutter in anticipation when first she heard that feeble and frail Joe already was injured.
• You’ve got to love the token Democratic mouthpieces who appear on cable television or network news and deny that any of the mounting evidence of election fraud is credible or meaningful. They’d have given actor John Banner a run for that Sgt. Schultz “I know nothing, nothing” role on the old Hogan’s Heroes TV sitcom.
• You could have knocked me over with a sledgehammer when I heard reports that a Dominion voting machine had been spirited away between yes-no-yes mind changes by a Georgia judge on a request to preserve the machines without having their memories wiped in order to enable forensic analysis of voting.
• Give attorney Sidney Powell credit for dogged determination and patriotism for attempting to fight, basically gratis, to expose alleged election fraud on a level she maintains goes well beyond even the typical narrative.
• Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose wild ceremonial first pitch at a Washington Nationals game this year was embarrassingly bad, is equaling that effort in his role as the nation’s most trusted COVID-19 news source. Already having flip-flopped on the effectiveness of wearing masks – first they were worthless and now they are vital – Fauci has concluded, as many laymen already had, that sending kids to school is not a problem considering their near virtual immunity to any notable complications from the virus. Formerly Fauci was in lockstep with the wild-eyed Democrats like Nancy “Botox” Pelosi who equated sending kids to school with gambling with our future. Does this have anything to do with the election being over – at least the voting portion of it – and there’s no need to throw kids under the (school) bus just to harm the image and election prospects of President Trump?
• Someone please put out an All-Points Bulletin for Attorney General William Barr, Russian collusion hoax investigator John Durham, or any current justice employees at the federal or state levels. All are missing in action as others fight the battle to determine whether or not this was a fair and honest election.
• Do yourself a favor and take the time to watch one of these Rudy Giuliani-led public hearings on voting irregularities, a polite term for fraud. You likely will need to view them on the internet since networks don’t deem coverage worthy, in keeping with them being Democratic lapdogs. If you can watch one of these hearings and still conclude there are not questions about the election that deserve further attention, you at once should schedule yourself for cognitive testing, the kind that Biden said he didn’t need during one of his campaign stops for U.S. Senate, or was that for president? Joe wasn’t sure.

Rudy Giuliani and his traveling truth show were in Arizona today, providing testimony in an open hearing that the most recent presidential election was fraught with fraud.

Meanwhile, in the parallel sporting universe, there is a bastardization going on that rivals the election chicanery.

Already we’ve seen the NBA, NHL, and Major League Baseball crown champions in playoff exercises that diverged wildly from the norm. Formats were altered in terms of length of series, locations of games and lack of travel.

And it all was accepted as necessary concessions – not the overpriced kind you buy at stadium stands, but rather to the COVID-19 reality.

Even as this is being written, the NFL and college football seasons are in full crawl, with further notable tinkering with the norm, all in the interest of getting in the seasons and playoffs despite it all

This means we’re treated to Denver being forced to play New Orleans in an NFL game the past weekend in which the Broncos’ top three quarterbacks were sidelined due to positive virus tests.

Stunningly, New Orleans won easily. Color me surprised.

College games are flat-out being called off, in the case of Florida State twice fewer than 24 hours ahead of scheduled kickoffs.

Nowhere is the state of affairs on more graphic display than in Ohio, where the state has two national title contenders in unbeaten Ohio State and similarly unsullied Cincinnati. Both teams have had games nixed due to virus outbreaks.

In the case of Ohio State, the Buckeyes are a mere 4-0. If they can’t play their next two games, and meet the Big Ten Conference minimum, they would be ineligible for the Big Ten Championship Game.

But the Buckeyes still could be in the national championship playoffs because there is no minimum game total to qualify.

Imagine a 4-0 team going into the playoffs while teams such as 8-0 Cincinnati, with more games played and more victories, sits at home.

The reality of those in charge trying to keep current sports seasons operating around the edges of the COVID-19 reality is puzzling at best.

Recall that earlier in the year, when COVID-19 hit similar levels of infections, the NCAA men’s and women’s conference basketball tournaments were halted and the national tournaments were called off. NBA and NHL seasons were put on hold, and resumed only in so-called “bubble” environments.

The Major League Baseball regular season started late and ran less than one-half of its customary length, to be followed by playoff formats cobbled together in ad hoc fashion.

Now we see the NFL rescheduling, but not canceling games. We have college football games being aborted hours before scheduled kickoffs..

We’re supposed to look the other way and accept this as normal in the interest of enabling the games to be played, and money made from television broadcasts.

Interestingly, the stands have a limited numbers of spectators in the case of football, but the small numbers are clumped together so if social distancing is the point, it’s failing.

Also failing is the competitive integrity of the games and, eventually, the champions that are crowned.

College basketball seasons have begun without fans in the arenas.

But we do have those silly cardboard cutouts of fake fans.

If this ongoing sports charade continues, it will be appropriate to have the championship trophies be cardboard fakes, too.

I took a brief hiatus from posting to this blog to enjoy Thanksgiving. And that means, yes, all you would-be government tools and snitches, I had my son, his wife, two grandchildren and my brother over to celebrate along with me and my wife. So report me.

My wife, as usual, outdid herself in cooking and decorating the house.

This activity occurred against the backdrop that my mother, who has been in a nursing home for more than a year, has tested positive for COVID-19.

So, to recap, the person isolated from her family and the public in general, has a positive test result.

My mother is in a virtual bubble, with only a couple of weekly visits last month with two family members, conducted in the lobby of the facility, all visitors being masked and socially distant. That’s been it for approximately the past eight months in terms of live in-person visits.

There have been a few video calls, but it’s been a long time since we could go in and visit her twice daily, as my brother and I had done until the virus crackdown.

Those two-person lobby visits are by the boards, too, with the latest rise in virus cases.

The staffer who supervised our window visit the past Saturday, to celebrate my mother’s 84^th birthday, remarked she was amazed how widespread the virus infections had become at the facility.

Because I am blessed (or cursed) with the willingness to speak my mind, no doubt inherited from my father, I pointed out that I wasn’t at all surprised. In the times we had been allowed inside the facility, it was evident that the staff’s familiarity with universal hygiene precautions had been largely no more than a passing acquaintance.

On the occasion when we were given the word that visitors were being banned – laughingly one staff member suggested maybe just for two weeks – I offered to bet the two giving us our marching orders $100 and I’d give 10-1 odds, that it would last much longer than two weeks, or even two months.

I even offered to let them go up and down the halls and get others involved in the wager and was willing to bet them that a staffer was more likely than a visitor to bring COVID-19 into the building based on pure numbers.

I’d have won a lot of money, not because I am Nostradamus, but because I know that once you give unfettered control to the powers that be to ban traditional freedoms, they become drunk with the power and use it to the extreme.

Look at what’s going on with schools, work, various holidays, religious services, sporting events, shopping, travel, etc., etc., etc. All are being locked down to one degree or another.

Protests by the left-wing idiots cannot be banned, however, because it would interfere with their constitutional rights.

Meanwhile, the Trump efforts to obtain relief in the courts for apparently fraudulent election results have been met with almost universal stone-walling.

Pennsylvania courts have been notably obstinate. I love that they maintain they cannot override the will of the people as evidenced by ballots. But if the issue is the legitimacy of those ballots, how then can a fraudulent decision be corrected short of taking in the streets with guns blazing?

The legal concept of the fruit of the poisonous tree holds that illegally obtained evidence is tainted and cannot be used in a case. Why wouldn’t a tainted vote be similarly invalid?

Courts have yet to make clear why they believe that any vote, fraudulent or otherwise, is equally sacred. Would it be overly cynical to look at the party affiliations of the judges?

Similarly mute in the face of hard evidence are all the leftists who scream science, science, science to insist that the world as we know it should be closed down, with fossil fuels and beef banned while all ride to work on bicycles eating tofu.

Oh, I forgot. No one will need to work. Just stay home and take the universal basic income, but still eat your tofu.

Climate change, COVID-19, they are areas where the radicals find some scientists who support their view, then act as a virtual mob to shut down and shame any SCIENTISTS who might disagree.

Scientists, of course, once thought the sun revolved around the Earth, that the Earth was flat, the Universe was static, there were canals on Mars and computers could never compete with humans in a game as complex as chess.

Mathematics and probability are every bit the realm of proof not emotions, just as sciences are supposed to be, and an increasing number of experts in mathematics, having taken a look at the presidential election results, see manipulation and collusion in key states.

Dr. Navid Keshavarz-Nia is one of these experts who is crying foul play on the election results. He’s a genius, certified as such in a New York Times story a few months back.

But now Keshavarz-Nia is an expert witness for Sidney Powell in her attempts to expose election fraud.

This means that Keshavarz-Nia is supporting the Orange Hair Bad Guy’s cause for re-election, and the left lunatics (and their lapdog media outlets) will endeavor to discredit him.

Likely they will succeed, or courts simply will ignore Keshavarz-Nia’s analysis under the blanket excuse of honoring the wishes of the electorate, whether that electorate was deceased, voted multiple times, or simply was electronically manipulated to produce the desired Harris-Biden victory.

It has been about an hour and a half since the news broke that the Trump legal team was distancing itself from Sidney Powell, the lawyer who had made the most far-ranging contentions about widespread voting irregularities in the 2020 presidential election.

The political left and its media friends can be expected to feast on the news as yet another crack in Trump’s case.

But the Sidney Powell situation, the details of which are yet to become public, actually illustrates intellectual honesty on the political right that the left lacks.

Consider that the past week Fox host Tucker Carlson had very publicly called out Powell for not being able to present evidence of her claims. Carlson immediately was lionized by some on the left, because anyone agreeing with them deserves an atta boy.

Of course, mostly the left media outlets have been and remain critical of Carlson, even when he was in the forefront of calling out attorney Michael Avenatti as a “creepy porn lawyer.”

As Carlson was doing this, Avenatti was at the time a lefty icon, appearing on CNN with great regularity to attack President Trump.

One one occasion with CNN host Brian Stelter (he of the head that looks like a Jiffy Pop popcorn tray after its date with the stove-top burner) Stelter, showing absolute tone deafness, said he was taking Avenatti seriously as a 2020 presidential contender.

Avenatti since has been in jail, and given temporary COVID-19-related release, awaiting a trial for embezzlement.

It is not clear if Stelter is taking Avenatti seriously for 2024. But Stelter’s bulbous bald head must be taken seriously if only for its visual grandeur.

Stelter does not seem to have apologized for being so wrong about Avenatti.

At the risk of repeating myself, I attempt to maintain intellectual honesty. I long ago stopped voting for Pat Toomey for U.S. Senate merely because he is listed as a Republican. Toomey didn’t walk the walk.

Predictably, of late Toomey showed up quickly to dismiss the Trump inquiry into election fraud. Toomey has said he will not run for re-election to the Senate and also will not run for the Pennsylvania governorship, although a cynic might see his rush to align against Trump as an indication of political positioning should he end up make such a gubernatorial run.

If Toomey runs for governor, I will vote for whomever his opponent might be, or simply make no choice. He will not gain my vote merely because he labels himself as a Republican.

It is fashionable to critique conservatives as incapable of making rational ballot distinctions, but I personally have voted for Democrats for offices such as U.S. House of Representatives (the late John P. Murtha several times) Ed Rendell for governor of Pennsylvania (the first term) and for various other lesser state, county or local offices.

Beyond political tags, there is the matter of ignoring self-interest for reasons of intellectual honesty. I voted against Barack Obama twice even though I knew his plans to shake up the health insurance industry would benefit me in the short run, albeit at the expense of healthcare in general.

And in Trump I voted for a guy who was determined to take out Obama’s misnamed Affordable Care Act, which would have been temporarily harmful to me monetarily, but much better for our long-term delivery of healthcare.

Too many members of the public, and the media, make the mistake of allowing their personal preferences to cloud their ability to think rationally.

The need to keep the two thought processes separate is very real.

It’s reminiscent of the Fox Mulder character in the science-fiction television series “The X-Files.” Mulder was played by self-confessed sex-addicted actor David Duchovny, who moved on later to a Showtime series “Californication.” Talk about art imitating life.

Mulder’s X-files office had a prominently displayed poster of a UFO and the words “I want to believe.” But Mulder wanted proof, too, of alien existence.

As much as one wants to believe, there is a need for proof.

Rudy Giuliani and members of the Trump defense team might yet produce their necessary proof – of voter fraud, not alien presence (at least not aliens in the extraterrestrial sense).

But time is short and Trump supporters would do well to reconcile themselves that yet another disappointment likely is on tap for them, just as Attorney General William Barr and special investigator John Durham have failed miserably to provide timely reports and disclosures on the investigation of the FBI’s Russia collusion harassment of Trump.

Wanting to believe is one thing. Having the subject of that belief justify it is something altogether different.

Despite the generally accepted Liberal dictate that the end justifies the means, it’s important to get results while staying within the rules.

Otherwise, we have anarchy, which would please Liberals for a time, until the mob came looking for them.

Democratic house organs, AKA mainstream media outlets, would have us believe Trump supporters are trapped in an alternate reality, completely removed from the truth.

They make these accusations on their many platforms, with their distortions of truth falling on the willing ears of their many sheep.

This is nothing new. Adolf Hitler wrote of The Big Lie in his book Mein Kampf and the concept was put into widespread practice by Nazi propaganda man Joseph Goebbels. He distilled it into “lie big and stick to it.”

For liberals now to accuse conservatives of ignoring reality is to practice classic psychological projection, a defense mechanism in which opponents are charged with suffering the very same shortcomings of the individual or group who are attempting to defend their position.

Having control of public school systems, most institutions of higher learning, the majority of mass media and the bulk of governmental bureaucracy makes maintaining the big lie possible.

You will find Democratic check marks for all of the above categories.

To accept the Democratic assessment of our current situation, you must be prepared to believe a lot of mis-truths.

Those mis-truths are, in no particular order:

• There were no voting irregularities in this 2020 election. To believe this you must dismiss thousands of uncounted votes showing up on separate occasions in Georgia, affidavits from workers alleging various bastardizations of the counting process in states including Michigan and Pennsylvania, and documented errors in states such as Nevada that is being ignored because it has not been proved to be significant in the outcome. This prompted one attorney to ask a judge “how much fraud it too much, your honor?” You also must ignore probability and statistical analysis from experts that the presidential vote totals are extremely unlikely to have been accurate and free from manipulation.

• That Trump’s balking at transferring power to Joe Biden is historic. That neatly ignores Biden, then the vice president, and outgoing president Barack Obama, enabling spying on the Trump campaign and transition team using federal intelligence agencies, obtaining FISA surveillance warrants based on false information, and using as a touchstone of all this a discredited Russian dossier on Trump.
• While on a much smaller scale, we are required to forget that the General Accounting Office found about $14,000 in damages to the White House was caused by Clintonistas showing infantile disdain for incoming president George W. Bush. This included stealing the letter W from keyboards, scrawling graffiti on walls and swiping a presidential seal. Feel free to call up the account of this in the June 12, 2002, New York Times, before it is purged from history by Goebbels-like Democratic operatives.
• In a complete flip-flop, Democrats attribute all the revelations regarding Hunter Biden and his cloudy business dealings, an apparent utilization of the family name for financial gain, to Russian disinformation. In the case of harassing a sitting president, Trump, Russian disinformation, even if it did come from the Clinton campaign, was the gold standard for veracity. But now a man’s personal laptop, rife with unsavory information, can be nothing other than Russian disinformation and therefore worthless
• That Democrats were bemoaning pre-election the ease with which electronic voting machines manufactured by Dominion and others could be hacked and generally were suspect. Now that those machines have spit out a favorable result to the Democrats, they are above reproach.
• That Trump and his supporters wanting a fair and accurate count of legal votes is putting the entire system in jeopardy. Since when is the pursuit of truth an ill? But that is what we must believe to accept the Democratic “reality.”
• That the streets would be filled with violent demonstration should unhappy Trump supporters have to deal with an election loss. Quite the contrary, all those boarded up stores and offices were unnecessary because, for now, Biden and his coalition of left-wing, socialist or anarchist demonstrators got the outcome they desired. Keep those boards handy, though, should this election rise to the Supreme Court level to sort out the voting chicanery and those Justices deliver a ruling in favor of Trump.