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Perhaps the best researcher in North America on “The Great Reset.”

Almost like brainless talking parrots saying what others have taught them to say, idiots in suits.

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— ivan (@ivan8848) November 4, 2019

The MSM is reporting that the recount in Georgia gives the state to Biden and calls him “president elect.”  Of course.

Meanwhile, this is Lin Wood on why none of this should matter.

So the question remains what is to be done with all of this?  The problematic thing for me is that Trump had four years to target the corrupt democratic cities, weed out the bad election software by the power of the DOJ, fire the deep state actors, and jail the deep state criminals.

He did none of that.  He spent his time tweeting.  So here we are, a banana republic with elections that mean nothing at all, a president who chose not to stop it, and a puppet of China getting ready to take office.

News from Michigan.

Things in Michigan took a dramatic turn Wednesday night when two Republican members of the Wayne County Canvassers signed sworn affidavits saying they were bullied and coerced into certifying the election. The four-member board voted to certify the election on Tuesday night. Originally, the two GOP board members voted no. Roughly two hours later, a unanimous vote came down certifying the results.

According to board chair Monica Palmer and GOP member William Hartmann, the county’s corporate counsel, Janet Anderson-Davis, advised the board members that their job was “ministerial” and any concerns they expressed were outside of the board’s authority.

“Late in the evening, I was enticed to agree to certify based on the promise that a full and independent audit would take place. I would have not have agreed to the certification but for the promise of an audit,” Hartmann said in his affidavit. “Vice-Chairman Jonathan Kinloch then assured us that if we voted to certify the election, a full, independent, and complete audit of Detroit’s election, would be undertaken. I relied on this assurance in coming to an agreement. Without this assurance, I would not have agreed to certify Wayne County on November 17th.”

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Both members stated they still believe the election results for Wayne County should not be certified.

It’s too late now, you naive, gullible little children.  You listened to lawyers, and believed communists.  You couldn’t have done anything more stupid.

Via Matt Bracken.

He has his detractors in the comments.  Those detractors are too stolid to understand what he said.  I’ve done calculations and data analysis my entire working career as a registered professional engineer.  So let me break this down for you in a method I think you’ll understand and add a few points.

In four important counties in Michigan, those areas that strongly lean republican voted for Biden when examining non-straight ticket voting.  In other words, republicans didn’t like Trump, even more so than democrats didn’t like Trump (or at least, you have to believe this in order to accept the data, an absurd proposition).  But wait!  The fun is just beginning, and there’s more.

This held true in the superlative for more heavily leaning republican precincts.  In other words, the more heavily leaning republicans didn’t like Trump even more than less heavily leaning republican precincts!  But wait, there’s more!

This trend held true monotonically.  The line graph depicting this behavior could be curve fitted with a fairly confident correlation coefficient!  But wait, there’s more.

These trend lines in various counties were virtually the same slope!  That’s right.  Virtually every republican leaning precinct had automatons who all felt exactly the same way.

This behavior held true in Michigan ONLY for the four important counties, not the other ones in Michigan.  In other words, the four counties Biden needed to win, and win big, he did, because of this deeply felt, monotonically increasing hatred of Trump in more heavily republican leaning precincts.

This is why your vote will never matter again as long as you live.  Here we are.

Via Ken, this piece.

With all due respect to those among my ancestors who fought and even died for the Union, I hereby raise my glass to my long-suffering brethren from the lands below the languid river at the bottom of my state.  You have always been on target about states’ rights, individual freedom, and resistance to becoming the minions of people who neither knew nor cared about you in Washington, D.C.  You are people of a sort I understand.  People after my own heart.  I am proud and honored to call you my countrymen.  Please accept my genuine, if a little belated, apologies.  Let us bury the hatchet for good and ever.  Long live our country and the nation of our birth.  We are all Southerners now.

Forgive me if I don’t jump up and down with glee over this apology.

I don’t really think you’re a Southerner after all, at least not without proof.  Maybe I don’t know you well enough, but here’s the thing for me.

I see Northerners come down to the South looking for more liberty and trying to escape high taxes, and yet they bring the same brand of totalitarianism with them that fouled their own nest.  Higher taxes, more government control, huge public works projects, and on and on it goes.

They foul their nest, come our way, think they’re smarter than everyone else, implement the same scorched earth policies, foul our nest, and then where do they go?  To the next gullible place that will have them?

So you’re welcome here if you want to be free, and you’ll vote that way.  That means no new taxes, no gun control, and no toll roads, among other things.  Stay out of our lives and leave us be.  If you think you’re smarter than everyone else, a pathology I’ve seen from many Northerners, stay where you are.

On a related note, some people see our slow drawl as an indication of stupidity.  You know where that idiotic notion doesn’t hold true?  Among the engineering and scientific community.

Because calculus, physics and mechanics don’t care about your accent.  You’re either right or wrong.  If you don’t believe me, go to an engineering or technical conference and watch and listen.  I’ve presented papers at many of them.  It’s all about the content, nothing about the presentation or dress.  I’ve seen engineering professors make presentations with half a shirt tail hanging out.  No one cares.  They’re looking at the math.

There is no room for bigotry in engineering and mathematics.  That mostly happens among the elitist class who were trained in the humanities.

This is a very recent video by Paul Cottrell.

Here is his Google drive.  Dominion voting very likely stole the election, and the CCP is likely involved through Akamai Technologies.

You can read the documents for yourself.  This is a conspiracy, but it’s not a theory.

Via WRSA, this bracing piece.  It’s about the nature of the Russian Bolshevik revolution, but it could have been written a day ago about America.

Anyone wearing a uniform was a candidate for a bullet to the head or sulfuric acid to the face. Country estates were burnt down (“rural illuminations”) and businesses were extorted or blown up. Bombs were tossed at random into railroad carriages, restaurants, and theaters. Far from regretting the death and maiming of innocent bystanders, terrorists boasted of killing as many as possible, either because the victims were likely bourgeois or because any murder helped bring down the old order. A group of anarcho-­communists threw bombs laced with nails into a café bustling with two hundred customers in order “to see how the foul bourgeois will squirm in death agony.”

How did educated, liberal society respond to such terrorism? What was the position of the Constitutional Democratic (Kadet) Party and its deputies in the Duma (the parliament set up in 1905)? Though Kadets advocated democratic, constitutional procedures, and did not themselves engage in ­terrorism, they aided the terrorists in any way they could. Kadets collected money for terrorists, turned their homes into safe houses, and called for total amnesty for arrested terrorists who pledged to continue the mayhem. Kadet Party central committee member N. N. Shchepkin declared that the party did not regard terrorists as criminals at all, but as saints and martyrs. The official Kadet paper, Herald of the Party of People’s Freedom, never published an article condemning political assassination. The party leader, Paul Milyukov, declared that “all means are now legitimate . . . and all means should be tried.” When asked to condemn terrorism, another liberal leader in the Duma, Ivan Petrunkevich, famously replied: “Condemn terror? That would be the moral death of the party!”

Not just lawyers, teachers, doctors, and engineers, but even industrialists and bank directors raised money for the terrorists. Doing so signaled advanced opinion and good manners. A quote attributed to Lenin—“When we are ready to kill the capitalists, they will sell us the rope”—would have been more accurately rendered as: “They will buy us the rope and hire us to use it on them.” True to their word, when the Bolsheviks gained control, their organ of terror, the Cheka, “liquidated” members of all opposing parties, beginning with the Kadets. Why didn’t the liberals and businessmen see it coming?

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In one memorable scene, the hero of ­Solzhenitsyn’s novel November 1916, Colonel Vorotyntsev, finds himself at a social gathering principally of Kadet adherents, where everyone repeats the same progressive pieties. He soon grasps that “each of them knew in advance what the others would say, but that it was imperative for them to meet and hear all over again what they collectively knew. They were all overwhelmingly certain that they were right, yet they needed these exchanges to reinforce their certainty.” To his surprise, Vorotyntsev, as if under a spell, finds himself joining in. It requires an effort to remind himself that what these progressives say about “the people,” whom they do not know at all, contradicts everything he has learned from his acquaintance with thousands of common soldiers. When Vorotyntsev ventures the slightest discordant observation, “just . . . one little thing . . . they were all on their guard. They fell silent, as they had been speaking, in unison, and their silence was aimed at the colonel.” He retreats and, as if hypnotized, repeats progressive pieties with the rest.

What is this strange political hypnosis? Vorotyntsev gives ground and holds his peace, “not because he felt he was wrong, but out of fear of saying something reactionary,” a word Solzhenitsyn italicizes to suggest that, in other cultures and periods, a different term of opprobrium will play the same role. Soldiers who are brave under fire cower before progressive opinion. For a long time, Vorotyntsev cannot bring himself to voice counterarguments, “and he despised himself for it. . . . It was a contagious disease—there was no resisting it if you came too close.”

This rehearses in stark form what we’ve discussed many times here on these pages, that is, the claim that one is going to be “Gray Man.”

Stay hidden, stay silent, amass your inventory, don’t silhouette on roofline, and when the proper time comes, you’ll oppose tyranny, whether tyranny of language, tyranny of gun control, or financial tyranny.  I humor such beliefs with the approval of nom de guerre comments, and in fact have been scolded before by readers who send articles in for publication and commentary for giving out even their first name.  So I just now say, “from a reader.”

But your free speech rights are the first to go.  When the progressives have taken the academy, the police, the military, the churches, the grade schools, the corporations and every other aspect of the culture, it’s too late to go public and defend your home and hearth against tyranny.

The founders used their real names.  They knew the stakes.  Staying “Gray Man” because you want to prepare is a recipe for failure, or better, a dangerous opioid that may dull the senses into false beliefs.

This isn’t exaggeration.  Soldiers who can brave fire often find it difficult to oppose peer pressure, because, after all, “what will people think of me?”