This comes from Kenny’s place, although I can’t locate the post now. I think it’s good to know history, and military history seems particularly salient in these times.
General Cornwallis didn’t start the campaign in the South. He began in the North, and when troop movement stalled, the British pivoted to Charleston where they intended to interdict imports coming to port.
They got bogged down in the South due to a number of things, including weather (hot and humid, leading to diseases for which they were unprepared), insurgents, and inability to rely upon loyalists.
The battle of King’s Mountain ended their hopes of turning loyalist troops into a strategy for victory. We’ve discussed King’s Mountain at length before.
The “Supreme Court” did what I predicted they would do. I was correct, though I take no joy in that fact. At Instapundit, Glenn has this post up. Most interesting to me isn’t the fact that the court rejected the argument, nor what the experts think about that. It is the comments on the article, which are currently well over 1100. A sample of them follows.
I’ve been pondering a reaction to this news. Fairly simple. It’s time to get serious.
How so? Whatcha gonna doo?
Insurgency.
It’s time to finally accept the fact that we have a corrupt Federal government that prosecutes not based upon the rule of law, but based upon politics. We cannot rely on what is right or what is legal to save us.
It’s a complete and total game changer.
Depends on how froggy Texas and the States that joined her get. If the noise about secession or Art I, Sec 10 — and war between the States — gets heavy: Expect it.
IF THE SUPREME COURT
will not uphold the Constitution, and the next administration is in office only through the open in-you-face rigging of a national election in a handful of counties in a handful of swing states, what moral responsibility do we have to follow SCT decisions and listen to the next administration?
None, I would argue.
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
SO be it. The Constitution is dead, no Constitution, no Republic. No Republic, no federal government.
Good bye all of my Instapundit/DISQUS comrades, time for war and I bid you adieu.
Civil War is the only solution now. The republic is as corrupt as 1936 Spain.
We’re in a new era. Rules are for chumps.
Welcome to dystopia.
For ideas on resisting tyranny, read Matt Bracken’s Enemies Foreign and Domestic book 1 and read up on history, such as Barbara Tuchman’s The Proud Tower.
The GOP is DEAD to me. At all levels of government.
This country is something I despise now.
This is only a smattering. It’s all very serious. The American public has been placed in an awful position.
A few urban areas controlled by democrats pulled their pants down to their ankles, mooned the rest of America, and America is going to have to decide whether to take it, and if not, exactly what to do about it.
Certain officials in the Defendant States presented the pandemic as the justification for ignoring state laws regarding absentee and mail-in voting. The Defendant States flooded their citizenry with tens of millions of ballot applications and ballots in derogation of statutory controls as to how they are lawfully received, evaluated, and counted. Whether well intentioned or not, these unconstitutional acts had the same uniform effect—they made the 2020 election less secure in the Defendant States. Those changes are inconsistent with relevant state laws and were made by non-legislative entities, without any consent by the state legislatures. The acts of these officials thus directly violated the Constitution.
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This case presents a question of law: Did the Defendant States violate the Electors Clause by taking non-legislative actions to change the election rules that would govern the appointment of presidential electors? These non-legislative changes to the Defendant States’ election laws facilitated the casting and counting of ballots in violation of state law, which, in turn, violated the Electors Clause of Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution. By these unlawful acts, the Defendant States have not only tainted the integrity of their own citizens’ vote, but their actions have also debased the votes of citizens in Plaintiff State and other States that remained loyal to the Constitution.
“The Texas motion and supporting brief are well-drafted and make a plausible case–importantly, one that, if accepted, does not require extensive fact-finding into alleged voter fraud. Reduced to its essentials, the motion alleges 1) that under the Constitution’s Electors Clause, state legislatures have plenary authority over appointment of each state’s electors; 2) that in each of the defendant states, non-legislative actors (e.g., the Secretary of State) unconstitutionally changed the rules governing this year’s election without legislative approval or ratification; 3) that these changes favored some voters over others, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause; and 4) in each state, the number of ballots that were counted pursuant to unconstitutional changes in election procedures exceeds the margin of Joe Biden’s alleged victory.”
But readers at Instapundit, and apparently Glenn Reynolds, get what this is really about.
“I wonder if the left, and the court realize this is a hail mary to prevent a civil war, not to keep trump in office. 30% of democrats and 80+% of republicans think the election was stolen. That is a loss of legitimacy of the nation’s governments from the state level through the federal.”
They are children playing with nitroglycerin, so no, they won’t realize that. At least, not in time, I’m afraid.
The controllers think this is going to go down easily. I think they may be surprised, and I still don’t think they really understand what they’ve done.
This web site is a comprehensive catalog of 2020 election fraud. Added to this you can survey my 2020 Election Fraud tag with links to videos, articles, lawsuits by Lin Wood, and other information.
Postal subcontractor Jesse Morgan on Oct. 21 moved 144,000-288,000 completed mail-in ballots from Bethpage, New York, to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where his trailer holding the ballots disappears.
Postal subcontractor Nathan Pease is told by two separate postal workers on two separate occasions that the USPS in Wisconsin was gathering over 100,000 ballots on the morning of Nov. 4 to backdate the ballots so that the ballots would be counted even if they arrived after the statutory deadline.
Computer expert Gregory Stenstrom of Pennsylvania witnessed a vendor of Dominion machines and local election officials download and update counting machines in violation of election system protocol and the comingling of machine jump drives in violation of election protocols and rendering audits impossible without direct forensic access to the machines.
Postal workers in Traverse City, Michigan; Coraopolis, Pennsylvania; Erie, Pennsylvania; and Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, indicate widespread malfeasance in the Postal Service including backdating ballots, ordering that Trump mail be interdicted to be placed in the ‘Undeliverable Bulk Business Mail’ bin, and emphasizing that Biden mail be delivered on time.
Via David Codrea, Democrat Operatives in MI & GA Changed Military Ballots. Cataloging the malfeasance and corruption is honestly rather tiresome and monotonous. Simply stated, one tends to run out of steam. This could become a regular column each day, or every other day, but I would have to rely on reader input since there is just too much information.
Here a truck driver testifies, and just below that a Dominion IT employee (or contractor) testifies before the Michigan Senate.
The question with all of this is as follows: Will it make any difference?
The DoJ won’t come to Trump’s aid, the Congress is silent and Mitch McConnell is looking forward to finding ways of working with “president elect Biden” (in his own words). Election boards and local pols in states, counties or cities continue unabated erasing evidence, certifying votes, awarding electors, and in Georgia preparing to continue with the theft in hopes of winning the Senate.
There are stories, to be sure. Gina Haspel is dead, or under arrest and being interrogated, or something. There was a fire fight between active duty SpecOps and former SpecOps (now contractors for the CIA) in Frankfurt, Germany, and our side owns the servers. We have all the evidence we need. Trump is just biding his time because he loves America and doesn’t want to see the country in civil war.
And on and on it goes. Meanwhile, a full one month after the election, Trump’s campaign doesn’t look like a winning team sitting back and waiting for the right moment to drop server evidence. One … month … after … the … election …Trump’s campaign is claiming in court that Wisconsin counted 221 thousand illegal votes, eleven times Biden’s margin (lawsuit here).
Trump and his team were profoundly unprepared for the fight. Trump’s weakness – the one that will probably be his undoing – is that he is a poor judge of character and surrounded himself with deep state actors and beltway vipers from literally day one.
Consider the roster: Reince Priebus, Kelly, Mattis, McMaster, and Sessions (this is a partial list). He left Comey and McCabe in power for far too long, and when he finally rid himself of Comey and McCabe, he appointed Chris Wray. He tried to appoint a known gun controller named Chuck Canterbury to head the ATF, and only recently nominated Chad Wolf to head the DHS, who believes that white supremacists are the most persistent threat in America.
In order to have stopped all of this, Trump would had to have started in earnest on day one of his administration rooting out the deep state and ferreting out corruption, surrounding himself with good people, and preparing for the fight sure to come in 2020.
Rather than do that, rather than study the CVs of the people he hired to fill important posts, he spent his time tweeting. Rather than rooting out the deep state, Trump may in fact prove to be its most prized victim.
My wife asked me tonight, “But who could he had surrounded himself with to avoid the affects of the deep state?” I answered, “Okay, here’s an idea. Empty the FN factory down the road in Columbia, S.C., and fill every important job in the FedGov with mechanics. Tell the mechanics to kill the deep state. Watch them work.”
Alas, it was not meant to be, and I strongly suspect that the stories of servers, gun fights, and supreme court saviors are just that. Stories. And I suspect that the black robed Druids on the supreme court will look the other way and claim that it’s a state problem.
“In the wee hours of Thanksgiving Day, the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society filed an explosive election lawsuit asking Michigan’s Supreme Court to prevent Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson from certifying the election results until the Michigan legislature can fully investigate fraud claims and to force election officials to hand over all election materials to the legislature for this purpose. The lawsuit claims that officials illegally counted or threw out no fewer than 508,016 ballots, far more than Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote margin over Donald Trump. . . . Citing state records, the lawsuit claims that Benson’s office sent out 355,392 unsolicited ballots. Northon explained that Michigan law requires two signatures for absentee voting: a signature on an application form and a signature on the security sleeve for the ballot. In this election, officials mailed out more than 300,000 ballots that no one had requested.”
They’re trying to certify the vote as quickly as possible everywhere they have a democrat governor or elections board. In Georgia, a lawsuit had to be filed to stop them from erasing all data and files from the voting machines.
Oh what a tangled we we weave, when first we practice to deceive. Lie upon lie, deception upon deception, theft upon theft.
God is watching all of this and will in no wise leave the guilty unpunished.
There is nothing now hidden from the eyes of men that will not, in time, be made manifest on the great day of judgment.
I try to take things like this with a grain of salt. William Barr was going to turn the light on the deep state and make the cockroaches scatter. As it turns out, Barr is likely part of the deep state.
Durham’s investigation was going to send the guilty to prison, and as it turns out, the entire investigation was shut down with a whimper because they fear backlash from an incoming Biden administration.
Trump was going to rid America of the deep state, and as it turns out, he might be its greatest victim.
Trump had four years to see what was happening with the voting scam, and failed to shut it down before it put him out of office. He left Comey and McCabe in charge of the FBI, and then Chris Wray (good Lord). He left Mattis in charge of the DoD, he put Jeff Sessions in charge of the DoJ, he allowed Kelly to direct the WH staff for far too long, he allowed Reince Priebus to direct affairs of the WH, and he spent his time on Twitter, empowering Jack Dorsey. Not even to mention the role of McMaster, another deep state guy.
This failure is on Trump. I hope that this goes to the SCOTUS and that Biden doesn’t take control of the executive branch, and that the servers were confiscated and turn up the full story of what happened.
But if not, the finger of blame cannot be pointed at powerless citizens to do the work of the chief executive.
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?”
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