There was a lot of crowing on the left over the SCOTUS decision in the North Carolina case
the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that although the Constitution gives state legislatures the power to regulate federal elections, state courts can supervise the legislature’s exercise of that power. By a vote of 6-3, the court rejected the so-called “independent state legislature theory,” holding that the North Carolina Supreme Court did not violate the Constitution when it set aside a congressional map adopted by the state’s legislature.
The left is pretty happy about this, but there is a real silver lining here, and it involves one of the liberals long term plans to own this nation. It’s the National popular vote compact.
This is a deal by which a state agrees to give its electoral votes in a presidential election to the winner of the national popular vote regardless of how the population of the state actually votes in a presidential election.
It’s a great system if your goal is to disenfranchise the voters of your state on a permanent basis. My own currently deep blue state has foolishly gone along with this and I saw no remedy to it as the Constitution clearly gives the state legislature power to determine how electoral votes are cast.
However this decision opens the door to an end around through the courts. If the legislature does not have the final word in how federal elections are cast then we can petition the courts for redress and perhaps even trust the judges on SCOTUS to protect the our franchise.
Does this guarantee victory? No, but it gives a chance, a chance that didn’t exist if the independent state legislature theory was in place.
Let them cheer today, there may be a time in the future that those cheers over this ruling may turn to sobs.
Democrat Bosses in Wisconsin Michigan and Minnesota had no inkling that the election [2016] was close, that being the case there was no reason why, in an age where proof of a federal offense is a cell phone video away, Dem bosses in Detroit or elsewhere felt the need to take any risk. They figured those states were won (and they were right about Minnesota) and by election night it was too late to change it.
However that won’t be the case in 2020, I’ll wager that in 2020 the bosses in Milwaukee, Detroit, Madison and elsewhere will be ready, we’ll see plenty of mail in ballots and absentee ballots that we didn’t see before in those states and plenty of voters looking to go for the GOP will be in the same spot that Steven Kruiser was on election night.
I was going to write a piece today about a standing problem Donald Trump has with the GOP electorate for 2024 but that can wait a bit because as I was writing the piece I began with a caveat and realized that said caveat is should be the single biggest issue for any potential GOP voter who wants to stop the weaponization of the government against them before it ends as such things always do.
The question is this:
“What will you as the GOP nominee for President do to prevent the election from being illegally stolen from you either in the six key counties that were used to steal the last one or elsewhere and what will you do to counter Democrats tactics like ballot harvesting in states where it is legal to do so.”
As Salma Zito noted there are in fact lots of GOP voters who are sick of the subject and may reject the premise of the question and if a candidate prefaces any answer with something like: “I’m not going to re-litigate 2020…” but still has a credible action plan in place to address potential fraud that’s good enough for me. After all General Sherman never admitted he made a mistake in the frontal assault on the Confederate forces at Kennesaw Mountain but he never repeated it. As long as a GOP candidate doesn’t repeat the mistakes of 2020 I don’t care what he says about it.
BUT: Any potential GOP nominee who does not have a good answer to this question AND rejects the need for an action plan to address this question has absolutely no business being considered for the nomination because they are either:
An idiot too stupid to be president
OR
A false flag candidate in the employ of the left/deep state
Without the right stance on this issue any other argument for a candidate means nothing because that candidate can not win, not even against Joe Biden.
You have been warned.
I’ll leave the closing argument to Sarah Hoyt who saw all of this coming months before anyone else in 2020:
Look, they are tainted by the previous failed coups, tainted by (most if not all of them) accepting money from Xi, and FYI China ALWAYS arranges for extra compromise for security, honeypots being their favorite, tainted even by association with Epstein. A second Trump term means a good chance that they go down hard and don’t get up again.
ALL OF THEM from the left politicians to the so called “tech lords” are fighting for their lives. They’re cornered rats. There’s nothing they won’t do.
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ShotSpotter, which this year changed its name to SoundThnking, is a firm that sells gunfire-detection software, has few friends in Chicago. It is blamed, wrongly in my opinion, for setting up the chain events that led to the death of 13-year-old reputed gang member Adam Toledo in a police shooting. A Northwestern University study found that 86 percent of Chicago police deployments initiated by ShotSpotter alerts led to “dead-end deployments.”
During this year’s mayoral campaign, Johnson vowed to cancel Chicago’s contract with SoundThinking. But earlier this month, a contract with his e-signature approved a $10,184,900 payment to SoundThinking, covering a contract extension approved by his predecessor, Lori Lightfoot, last autumn.
The mayor’s senior advisor, Jason Lee, says Johnson’s e-signature was mistakenly attached to the document authorizing the hefty payment. Of the contract carelessness, Lee said, “That’s not the procedure that we will have moving forward, but that’s what was done.”
The SoundThinking snafu was a two-day story last week in Chicago. Kudos to the Chicago Sun-Times for breaking the story but had Johnson’s moderate opponent in April’s runoff election, Paul Vallas, made a similar mistake, we’d still be hearing about the $10 million e-signature debacle. And of course, the national media, which is a phalanx of the far-left, is completely ignoring this story.
Hunter Clauss, who writes the Rundown, a popular political newsletter on behalf of Chicago’s NPR affiliate, dismissed the $10 million blunder as nothing but “growing pains” for the Johnson administration.
Chicago, because of its massive unfunded public worker pension debt, is essentially bankrupt. Its former cash cow, the North Michigan Avenue retail strip, suffered another departure last week when AT&T announced it was closing its local flagship shop there. Macy’s, Disney, Banana Republic, Verizon, and the Gap have shut down their North Michigan Avenue locations since 2020. The retail strip, also known as the Magnificent Mile, was hit by two rounds of rampant looting and rioting three years ago.
Chicago cannot afford $10 million “growing pains” errors. Don’t forget, ShotSpotter has not served Chicago well as a crime fighting tool.
Prior to his election, Johnson was a Cook County commissioner while also serving as a paid organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union. He was a Chicago Public Schools teacher before being hired by his union.
Vallas was the former CEO of Chicago Public Schools. He was in charge of three other school systems.
Prior to becoming mayor, Johnson was in charge of nothing of importance. Well, he does own a large home on Chicago’s West Side. But Johnson owed over $3,000 in unpaid water bills and fines until he paid up shortly before he was elected this spring. He also recently owed over $1,000 in traffic tickets.
As Barack Obama famously said many years ago, “Elections have consequences.”
John Ruberry regularly blogs five miles north of Chicago at Marathon Pundit.
Ray Bradbury in a way predicted Disney’s latest outrageous move.
Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, is a dystopian novel that is overshadowed by two other great 20th century works about an unpleasant future, Brave New World and 1984. Fahrenheit 451’s lead character is Guy Montag, a fireman, only in Bradbury’s world, buildings are fireproof; Montag and other firemen are dispatched to homes to burn books. Nearly of them. Only comic books are permitted in that unhappy future.
Michiko Kakutani, in a New York Times career appraisal written on the day after Bradbury’s death in 2012, remarked that Fahrenheit 451 “is at once a parable about McCarthyism and Stalinism, and a kind of fable about the perils of political correctness and the dangers of television and other technology.” Yep, Kakutani said “political correctness,” the term for “woke” from that not-too-distant time. In a 1994 interview Bradbury, in very blunt language even for the 1990s, attacked that PC culture while discussing Fahrenheit 451. “Political correctness is the real enemy these days,” he said. “The black groups want to control our thinking and you can’t say certain things. The homosexual groups don’t want you to criticize them. It’s thought control and freedom of speech control.”
In a memorable passage from Fahrenheit 451, Montag’s boss explained–without government involvement mind you–how books became toxic.
The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! All the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean. Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. They did. Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwater. No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said. But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic books survive. And the three-dimensional sex-magazines, of course. There you have it, Montag. It didn’t come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade journals.
Last week, Hollwood Elsewherenoticed the omission of the “N-word” from the Gene Hackman classic police thriller The French Connection from the Criterion Channel streaming service. The use of the racial slur helps define Hackman’s character, Popeye Doyle, as a great cop but a flawed man.
Not as controversially, Doyle regularly refers to two French criminals as “Frog 1” and “Frog 2.” Those ethnic putdowns remain in the film. So does the iconic scene of Hackman gunning down Frog 2 on a set of stairs. For now, at least.
It’s widely believed that Disney, which owns the rights to The French Connection, is behind the stealth editing. To use Bradbury’s words, “It didn’t come from the Government down.”
Disney of course has gone full-blown woke in recent years, the outrage prior to this one, from last month, involved a mustachioed man wearing a dress and eye shadow, a fairy godmother’s apprentice named Nick, greeting guests, including children, at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique at Disneyland. Before that, Disney’s prior woke atrocity there was an anti-white people song performed in the Disney+ children’s series, The Proud Family.
Disney’s theme parks are supposed to be “the happiest place on earth.” That’s it? Humans are only about happiness?
Back to Bradbury and Fahrenheit 451:
You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can’t have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, what do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn’t that right?
We won’t be happy, I believe, as dumbed down dolts.
The entertainment industry, a fortress of the left, constantly reminds us, especially during award ceremonies, that they are the vanguard for free expression. Sure, a censoring of the “N” word doesn’t seem like a noble hill to die on but remember the dystopian world of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. The slippery slope began in order to placate a few people who were offended.
Why stop with the “N” word? What about the French Connection’s Frog 1 and Frog 2? Smoking in movies? And what Donald Trump’s cameo in Home Alone 2?
Viewers might get triggered.
Don’t laugh about that Trump scene. The star of Home Alone 2, Macaulay Culkin. wants the Trump bit cut. And he’s not alone.
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