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I’ll Believe the Jan 6th Committee Was Not Corrupt When We Stop Getting Evidence That They Were

Posted: August 9, 2023 by datechguy in elections, politics
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German Officer: [Bringing in dummy paratrooper] General this is what they dropped/ They explode when they come in contact with the earth. In the dark they look like soldiers.
Aide: Perhaps they are what General Richter saw, not real paratroopers.

General Erich Marks: No. When you create a diversion, it’s for a reason.

The Longest Day 1961

We’re heard a lot of things concerning Jan 6th from the left and we’ve seen Americans whose crime was to walk into a public building with police allowing them in treated worse that those burning down their cities because they have the same unapproved opinion on the honestly of Election 2024 as I have.

But if you really want to understand what actually happened and who is telling the truth, you can’t do better than the clue provided by this bit of breaking news.

Hotair puts it this way:

Fox News reports that the House Committee that was supposed to inherit the files from the January 6th Committee was handed a jumbled mess of unorganized files and computer records, and as they have been sorting through them they discovered that about 1/2 the records are missing.

This is illegal for a number of reasons, both due to laws demanding the preservation of records, and by the rules by which the committee was established. Many January 6th defendants have been requesting some of these records for their defense, claiming that they contain exculpatory evidence, and the House simply cannot provide them due to their absence.

To me it’s a very simple equation:

If you are doing things above board and the evidence supports your conclusions naturally you preserve all your records as required by law so that any mere blogger who questions it can be quickly shot down as a crank.

But if you destroy those records, it’s for a REASON. And the logical reason for it is that the evidence it contains contradicts and or disproves what was being presented. Which is why no republican who might object to such things or demand that such evidence be preserved was allowed on the committee.

The logical conclusion of his is the folks on the January 6th committee are corrupt bastards who should never be allowed in any office of trust and that the entire narrative we have been sold on it is and always has been a lie.

And to those on the left who still insist that all of this is above board and claim I should not say such scandalous things, I say in the same frame that Harry Truman answered the Russian ambassador: Stop acting in the scandalous way and I’ll stop calling your behavior a scandal.

A note: The reason you have both the tweet in question and the image of that tweet in this post is because for some strange reason wordpress didn’t like that tweet embedded when I tried to do it at first. A few years ago I would have automatically assumed it was a tech issue and pulled the duplicate but since being repeatedly falsely banned by twitter during November and early December of 2020 and being kicked off of youtube for suggesting the fix was in on the last election I must confess I’m a tad jaded these day so I’ll just keep the screen shot in, just in case.

My Answer to Ed Kilgore’s Question: Chain of Custody, Open Verifiable Counts

Posted: August 4, 2023 by datechguy in election 2020, election 2024, elections

At NY Mag Ed Kilgore asks: What Would a ‘Legitimate’ Biden Victory Look Like to Republicans? and attacks the very notion that an election might be questioned as bigotry:

There’s a sort of ancestral white Anglo-Saxon Protestant belief that “big-city machines” controlled by Democrats use chicanery to get their voters to the polls and then to put heavy thumbs on the scales to change the results. This mythology — which goes back to lurid tales of “bosses” buying votes from Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century — is hard to shake, closely connected as it is to racial and ethnic prejudices. And speaking of prejudices, today’s conservatives continue to embrace the idea that minority voters — including immigrants — “vote themselves government benefits” in a way that creates a corrupt bargain between liberal elites and their inner-city clientele. It was exactly what Mitt Romney was talking about when he was caught on tape in 2012 warning Republicans that “47 percent” of voters are non-taxpaying parasites in the bag for the opposition. If you feel that way, then you don’t need evidence of specific irregularities to feel that any Democratic presidency is in some respects “illegitimate.”

For all his bluster the answer is quite simple:

  1. A Clear chain of custody for the ballots to ensure they are actually being cast by the voters in question.
  2. An open, transparent and verifiable count of the ballots accepted, preferably streamed so there can be no question that it is honest.

An election under those condition would be no more questionable than the score of yesterday’s Jets Vs Browns game. Everyone who watched saw the players play, everyone who watched saw the calls made and the points being scored and everyone who didn’t watch can access both the video and the audio calls of the game that were made at the time.

Why we would insist on such openness in determining the results of sporting contests and not do so for the election of our leaders is odd.

So Ed if you want me to trust the count on election night, that’s all I need.

Closing thought: Glenn Reynolds posted this at 7:42 PM tonight:

IT CAN’T BE A FRINGE BELIEF IT THAT MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE IT: 69% of Republicans now believe Biden’s 2020 win was illegitimate: New poll released before Trump’s January 6 arraignment shows GOP supporters believe there WAS widespread fraud.

And, regardless of actual fraud, if your electoral system is that untrusted, it’s time to make it more clearly trustworthy. The failure — more like refusal — to do that is producing a constitutional crisis in this country.

emphasis mine

I left the following comment:

If the charges of fraud were specious the media and government agencies in charges of the specific counts would have happily and enthusiastically demonstrated the fact with the evidence of same.

That they never did speaks volumes

When people aren’t transparent it’s for a reason.

Ace Offers a Deal

Posted: July 30, 2023 by datechguy in blogs, election 2024, elections, politics
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Stacy McCain had a great piece noting that it’s generally a bad idea to piss off Ace of Spades.

Something I realized long ago, sort of Rule Number One for survival in the conservative blogosphere: Never piss off Ace of Spades.

Ace has very good instincts about who is or is not Down For The Agenda. If he ever starts taking shots at somebody, you can bet that sooner or later that person will prove himself to be an unprincipled quisling.

But why bring up Allahpundit at this late date, eh?

If you look at the RCP average, Trump is beating DeSantis 3-1 and, quite frankly, DeSantis is starting to look like This Year’s Scott Walker. It is therefore remarkable that Ace would take this stance just now, when Trump looks like a shoo-in for the 2024 GOP nomination.

But Ace being Ace is a person who tends to say what he thinks and de damned to what the numbers are:

Every one of Trump’s problems gets weaponized against DeSantis, and then people wonder — Gee, why aren’t DeSantis’ supporters more interested in talking about Trump’s problems?

Tell you what: If Trump issues a STRONG statement clearing him from the previous lies that DeSantis is a pedophile, gay, cheats on his wife, killed more people with Covid than Democrat governors Newsom or Cuomo, then I’ll join you in your calls for STRONG statements clearing Trump of crimes which, let’s face it, he probably did commit.

And while Ace notes the horrible double standards being applied he says the line that for some Trump supporters will be considered Crossing the Rubicon:

The argument is really about selective prosecution of crimes that The Regime has previously not charged prominent Democrats for, not for Trump’s actual innocence.
And as the DOJ was bringing more charges against Trump, it was also dropping all campaign corruption charges against the second-biggest donor to the Democrat Party in 2020.

All of this was actually avoidable by simply pushing the Trump record as president which is a pretty good one, but Stacy has one final suggestion to those who are all in on Trump:

Everything I’ve seen so far suggests to me that Trump is a lead-pipe cinch for the 2024 nomination, however much anyone may wish otherwise, or however much better DeSantis might be as a candidate in the general election.

Is there some way that could change? I don’t know, but maybe some of Trump’s more outspoken supporters should think about toning down their rhetoric just a wee bit, because they appear to be in danger of violating Rule Number One: Never piss off Ace of Spades.

All of this is good advice but while Ace’s deal is a good one and Stacy’s advice is even better none of it answers the question I have been asking for months:

If we believe that the last election was stolen and there have been no consequences for it, what steps will either a re-nominated Trump or a newly nominated DeSantis do to prevent this from happening again?

Because if neither Trump nor DeSantis have an actual workable plan to counter those tactics then neither of them have any business being nominated.

Five Thoughts Under the Fedora: Ayotte Ok, The Countdown Continues, That explains it, So does this, Channeling Lincoln in Foxborough

Posted: July 24, 2023 by datechguy in culture, election 2020, election 2024, elections, nfl, politics, Sports, under the fedora
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Kelly Ayotte is running for Governor in NH. It’s my opinion that she was one of the few victims on 2016 because the left knew they needed the same kind of “help” in NH that they later arranged in 2020 in counties from Arizona to PA.

My friends at the Grok are underwhelmed but my thought is she was an OK Senator and would certainly be a better governor than any Democrat out there, neverayotte folks not withstanding.

On a personal note Ayotte always gave me time and never ducked a question I asked, again the Grok guys know NH better than me but I’d take her for Governor like a shot over who we have in MA.

There are four days left if you want a sub from mighty subs in Needham MA as they prepare to close their door after 33 years.

My advice if you want to avoid lines and the risk of them running out of bread which happened every day this week. Get their by 7 AM or 8 at the latest. Believe me they’re worth it and you only have four more days.

Here is my video from 11 years ago

Mighty subs in year 22 of 33

Saw a tweet at instapundit that I had to answer, that tweet and my answer explains a lot.

People with power do what they do for a reason.

Speaking of explanations:

https://twitter.com/giftgab538/status/1683072436210921472

I always thought that it was interesting that the same folks who were attacking and censoring people like me who say election 2020 was rigged and stolen never had the thought of demonstrating that the counts and the ballots were on the up and up, which is what you do if you have run a clean election that someone questions.

I submit and suggest there is a reason for this.

Finally I’m really getting sick of the “Replace Bill Belichick” chorus on talk radio lately.

Now I confess I don’t know if Bill has a plan to get back to the playoffs or the superbowl or just to last long enough to get the all time wins record but I do know two things.

  1. Barring a lot of luck and major injuries all over the league nothing he could do in the next three years will get this team back to the Superbowl
  2. There is not a better coach available that has even an outside chance of achieving that goal in the time frame I just mentioned.

I’m reminded of when a newspaper editor came to Lincoln demanding the removal of General George McClellan Lincoln asked him who he thought should replace him, he received the answer “Anybody” and Lincoln replied that anybody might be OK for him but he needed SOMEBODY.

Until I get a name who can do better I think I’ll stick with Bill.

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