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    Don Lemon: 'Had to get rid of' friends who support Trump

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    CNN anchor Don Lemon on Thursday said that he “had to get rid of” friends supporting President Trump "because they're too far gone," adding that he would be friends with them again if “they want to live in reality.”

    Don Lemon has friends? I’m shocked! Real friends?

    Lemon would take them back if ‘they would live in reality’? Whose reality, Lemon’s? Where Biden professes there are no red states, no blue states and that he will unite the country, is he also a false prophet?

    Is Lemon forecasting the ideology and party control of a Biden victory where we should all be concerned that free speech and opinion will be under duress unless we think as they do.

    In today’s world there are casual friends (acquaintances) and ‘good friends’, loyal friends who accept you for what you are during the bad and good times.

    Hopefully, Lemon is referring to acquaintances else he should be guarded in his speech. It’s hard to tell with Lemon as he is such a self-centered putz.

    Miss the good-old-days where two friends with completely differing political views would argue like hell, tell the other they were full of ****, and then head to the tavern to buy each other drinks and share comradery.

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    Dems getting a little tense, I’m shocked

    How can that be possible? In Trump you have a president that single-handedly polarized the country, is responsible for the loss of 230,000 lives, our country’s economic collapse, overall has accomplished nothing in his four years in office, and simply has no redeeming qualities to speak of. At least that is what the biased mainstream media is telling us, along with polling numbers that favors Biden to win by double-digit numbers.

    Although Biden has the support of liberal media activists, big tech, has outspent Trump significantly in campaign ads, has campaigned not to lose the election and now backtracking to point out his missteps (ban fracking, getting rid of big oil, etc.) instead of telling us what he is going to do as the centrist, anti-socialist candidate he claims to be, despite choosing as a running mate the most socialist voting Senator.

    Trump has repeatedly infuriated not only the left, but some of his own supporters. His haters have made his every nuance public and give him no credit for anything positive – especially the mainstream media, who are in bed with Biden and cover for every Biden gaff, kerfuffle and political blunder.

    Biden and the left, along with the open support of the liberal mainstream media are campaigning mostly on their perception that Trump failed to control the pandemic and where he is now even blamed solely for 220,000 COVID deaths. Others have a different perception of Trump’s pandemic management, consider the collateral damage resulting from the pandemic and see the politicization of the pandemic by the left for what it really is.

    As to Trump doing nothing in his term, others see Trump as actually cleaning up the swamp and bringing out the corruption in some of the government agencies.

    Columnist Mar Thiessen posted some of Trumps accomplishments today. Trump deserves to be recognized for:

    • The first comprehensive tax reform in three decades.

    • Removed the Obama era regulations that were smothering our economy.

    • Scrapped the Trans-Pacific Partnership that advanced China’s best interest over that of the U. S.

    • Brokered the new trade deals with Mexico, Canada, Japan, and South Korea.

    • Before the virus struck unemployment reached record lows – including for Blacks and Hispanics. Even during the pandemic over 50% of Americans say they were better off now than four years ago.

    • Signed opioid and sex-trafficking legislation, Right to Life legislation, legislation creating opportunity zones for African Americans.

    • Fostered and signed into legislation policies that made America an energy superpower – supplanting Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer.

    • He drove the Islamic State from the Caliphate and killer its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Unlike Obama, he twice launched military strikes against Syria for using chemical weapons against civilians.

    • He withdrew America from the disastrous Iran nuclear deal and imposed crippling sanctions on them.

    • He moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and brokered three Arab-Israeli peace accords.

    • He increased defense spending and made our country more secure – and through his negotiations with North Korea and Russia.

    • His tariff threats got Mexico to crack down on illegal immigration. Freed more Americans from captivity in four years that Obama did in eight.

    • First president since Ronald Reagan not to start a war.

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    We are screwed either way

    Biden is framing his race as a referendum on Trump. Trump and his supporters are framing their race to a large extent on the influence of Kamala Harris and her socialist ties. Much is written about Trump and goes unchecked. True or not true, the following bears concern.

    Kamal Harris’ Close Ties with Marxists, Communists, Maoists, and socialists

    By Capt. Joseph R. John, October 28, 2020; Op Ed # 519

    The below listed article was written by Trevor Loudon, he is a New Zealand author, filmmaker, and public speaker. For more than 30 years, Trevor Loudon has researched the Radical Left, Marxists, Communists, and Terrorists movements, and their covert influence on mainstream politics. Trevor Loudon is best known for his book “Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists, and Progressives in the US Congress” and his similarly themed documentary film “Enemies Within”.

    In the below listed article, Trevor Loudon provides compelling and irrefutable evidence of Kamala Harris’ ties with Marxists, Communists, Maoists and Socialists.


    Kamal Harris’ father was an avowed Marxist professor in the Economics Department at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Both of Harris’ parents were active in the Berkeley-based Afro-American Association; Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were the heroes of the Afro-American Association.

    The group’s leader, Donald Warden (aka Khalid al-Mansour), mentored two young Afro-American Association members, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale; they created the Maoist inspired Black Panther Party which gained strong support from Communist China; the Black Panther Party served as the model for creation of the Black Lives Matter Marxist organization. Khalid al-Mansour subsequently went on to arrange financing and facilitated for Barack Hussein Obama to be accepted as a student to matriculate at Harvard Law School.

    Following graduating from college, Harris returned to California and subsequently became the mistress of the 60-year-old married Speaker of the California Assembly, Willie Brown, Jr. Brown’s political campaigns was supported and funded by Dr. Carlton Goodlett, the owner of The Sun Reporter and other pro-Communist newspapers. Brown was elected as Mayor of San Francisco, and strongly endorsed Harris’ Marxist political philosophy; he guided Harris political rise in California politics, leading to her election as California’s Attorney General. Willie Brown, Jr. was a well-known long-time Communist sympathizer. Willie Brown, Jr. was initially elected to public office with the substantial help of the Communist Party USA. Today, Willie Brown is widely regarded as one of the Chinese Communist Party’s best friend in the San Francisco Bay Area.

    While serving as San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris mentored a young San Francisco Radical Maoist activist, Lateefah Simon, who was a member of the STORM Revolutionary Movement; Simon currently chairs the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board. Simon has always been close friends with the founder of Black Lives Matter Marxist Domestic Terrorists, Alicia Garza, as well as STORM member and avowed Communist, Van Jones. Harris has been openly and aggressively supporting Black Lives Matter Marxists; Kamala Harris is still closely associated with Maoist Lateefah Simon and Marxist Alicia Garza.

    Kamala Harris’s sister Maya Harris was a student activist at Stanford University. She was a closely associated with Steve Phillips, one of the leading Marxist-Leninists on campus and a long-time affiliate with The League of Revolutionary Struggle, a pro-Chinese Communist group. Phillips came out of the Left, and in college he studied Marx, Mao, and Lenin, and maintained close associations with fellow communists.

    Phillips married into the multi-billion dollar Sandler family of the Golden West Savings and Loan fortune. He funded many leftist political campaigns, and the voter registration drives in the Southern and South Western states in order to help his friend, Barack Hussein Obama, defeat Hillary Clinton. Phillips has been a major financial sponsor for Kamala Harris’s political campaigns for various California elective offices.

    Harris husband, husband Doug Emhoff works for the law firm DLA Piper, which “boasts nearly 30 years of experience in Communist China with over 140 lawyers dedicated to its ‘Communist China Investment Services’ branch. When she was elected to the US Senate, Kamala Harris appointed a Pro-Communist Senate Chief of Staff, Karine Jean-Pierre. When she was elected to the US Senate, Kamala Harris appointed a Pro-Communist Senate Chief of Staff, Karine Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre was active with the New York-based Haiti Support Network. The organization worked closely with the pro-Communist China/Communist North Korea Workers World Party and supported Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the far-left former president of Haiti and the radical Lavalas movement.

    Fortunately for Harris, but potentially disastrous for the Republic, elected office holders are not subject to the security clearance process. If the FBI did a Background Investigation on Kamala Harris, she never would have passed, because of her 40-year close ties with Marxists, Communists, Maoists, and Communist China. Harris would never have been approved for acceptance to any of the 5 Military Service Academies, been appointed to a US Government Sub-Cabinet position, or would have been approved to fill a sensitive position for a high security defense contractor. Yet if Joe Biden were elected, Harris would be a heartbeat away from the President.

    The US Constitutional Republic is being threatened by The People’s Republic of Communist China (PPC) externally, and by of their very active espionage operations within the United States. The People’s Republic of Communist China (PPC), with 1.4 billion people, is governed by the 90 million member Chinese Communist Party (CCP), that has been working to destroy the US Constitutional Republic for 70 years.

    The CCP operates a massive global intelligence network through its Ministry of State Security. The CCP operates a vast intelligence network in the U.S as well. It is made up, not merely of intelligence operatives working for the Ministry of State Security, but it is also made up of a myriad of business and industry officials, Chinese scholar associations, and 370,000 Chinese students attending American universities. It also operates the Confucius Institute indoctrination and intelligence gathering centers in the US on 67 University campuses and in 7 K-12 Public School Districts. The Confucius Centers are staffed by Communist Chinese intelligence operatives. (Facing Up to the China Threat Sept 2020 • Vol 49, No. 9 • Brian T. Kennedy)

    Kamal Harris is now involved with the Biden Family Business (BD), and is supporting Joe Biden, who has worked closely with Communist China for 12 years. Joe’s son, Hunter Biden, is the point of contact for developing the off-shore Biden Family Businesses (BD) in Ukraine, Russia, Communist Chin, Iraq, etc. Hunter was provided with a $5 million non-recourse loan for BD to form a partnership with the PPC, that loan was subsequently forgiven by Communist China.

    Hunter Biden was given $1.5 billion for the Biden Family Business (BD), to strategically purchase interests in companies in the US Military Industrial Complex, whose technologies would enhance and improve Communist China’s defense industry. Hunter Biden was also instructed to try to take control of US companies involved in sourcing rare earths in the United States. Hunter received $3.5 Million from the wife of the Mayor of Moscow for some carefully hidden reason.

    The Peoples Republic of Communist China has a military of two million men, including the world’s largest Navy. The United States does not have enough ships and munitions to defeat China’s Navy, absent the use of nuclear weapons. There is a famous book, Unrestricted Warfare, written in 1999 by two People’s Liberation Army colonels. It argues that war between the PRC and the U.S. is inevitable, and that when it occurs China must be prepared to use whatever means are necessary to achieve victory. (Facing Up to the China Threat Sept 2020 • Vol 49, No. 9 • Brian T. Kennedy)

    If the American voters read the below listed background information on Kamala Harris, they would never support her election as Vice President of the United States. Joe Biden is suffering from the early onset of dementia and will continue to decline in cerebral awareness; he will never be able to fill out a four-year term of office. If Biden is elected, the Socialists, Marxists, and Communist who control Kamal Harris, are planning to enact provisions of the 25th Amendment, in order to remove Joe Biden from office, so Harris can become the first Communist President of the United States.

    If Biden were elected, because Biden would not be up to it, Kamal Harris would lead the effort to appoint very dangerous anti-American Leftist, Communist, Socialists, and Marxists to fill highly sensitive positions in the Washington Deep State Bureaucracy. She would fill all appointive positions in the US Intelligence Agencies, in the Department of Homeland Security, in the Department of Defense, in The Justice Department, The Department of State, the FBI, the CIA, most Cabinet positions, the National Security Council, and in The White House Staff.

    American voters must be alert their fellow Americans that Kamala Harris is a very serious National Security threat to the very survival of the US Constitutional Republic; she has been a fellow traveler of Marxists, Communists, Maoists, Socialists, Progressives, and Chinese Communists for over 35 years. President Trump was had much more background information on Kamala Harris than we presented here, and he was correct, when he accused Kamala Harris of being a Communist.

    Copyright by Capt. Joseph R. John. All Rights Reserved. The material can only be posted on another Web site or distributed on the Internet by giving full credit to the author. It may not be published, broadcast, or rewritten without the permission from the author.

    Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62
    Capt. USN(Ret)/Former FBI


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    Had enough of the BS, I have

    Not watching any of the TV analysts continue to make fools of themselves trying to cover the numerous false election statements and asinine election predicts. And would anyone ever believe another poll again.

    Trump will most likely lose, but in a race that was never to be that close – his own worse enemy and hated so much because of it.

    What I found surprising, and encouraging, is what is taking place in the House and Senate races (equally surprising). The Dems and bias media predicting big wins in the House and overtaking the Senate. The House lost several seats, and it appears the Republicans will remain the majority in the Senate.

    What is encouraging reading about today’s Democrat caucus call and the disagreement between moderates and the progressive in placing blame for the loses.

    "We lost members who shouldn't have lost," Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a moderate who narrowly won her race in Virginia, said in a heated speech, confirmed a source on the call. "We need to not ever use the words 'socialist' or 'socialism' ever again because while people think it doesn't matter, it does matter. And we lost good members because of that."

    She specifically pointed to the defund the police movement and said it hurt her and other moderates who were in tight races. Spanberger raised her voice, telling fellow Democrats they needed to learn a lesson from this cycle or "we will be f---ing torn apart in 2022."


    Rep. Tlaib said the Progressive Wing is not to blame for the loses. I would have to disagree, believing many voters abhor the concept of America becoming a socialist country.

    One can only hope that if Biden is elected, he is the progressive ‘moderate’ he claims to be and does not staff his cabinet with the radical left he was cozying up with after the primary – Sanders, Warren, the Squad, etc.

    Hopefully, the Senate remains Republican which will pressure Biden to choose a cabinet that is more suitable for compromise, rather than conflict.

    But how does one come to trust Biden when he chose as a running mate a Senator with the most liberal voting record and with a socialist, Marist background?

    And the winner is…who cares by now, the country is screwed one way or the other!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post

    Trump will most likely lose, but in a race that was never to be that close – his own worse enemy and hated so much because of it.
    With the blatant chicanery, the only result that will instill public confidence will come from court-tested rulings on the various voting and tabulating processes. In that connection, it is time for Trump to shut his big mouth so as not to make the work of his legal team impossible.

    Welcome to post-revolutionary America.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    ...it appears the Republicans will remain the majority in the Senate.
    Under normal circumstance, I would agree.

    But in 2020 revolutionary America, with all of its the electoral "innovations" and suggested chicanery, I am growing more and more suspicious of the media's failure to call the Tuberville race in Alabama and the Tillis race in North Carolina.

    I am also losing confidence in the Georgia January run-off(s) between Loeffler-Warnock and possibly one between Ossof and Perdue.
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    Three days have passed, and most media outlets have not yet declared a winner in the Presidential election because mail-in ballots are still being counted.

    In other states, counts have remained frozen at Tuesday night's counting percentages.

    In 1860, Election Day was Tuesday, November 6. Attached below, is The New York World's headline of Wednesday, November 7, 1860, announcing that America had a new President-elect named Abraham Lincoln.

    Maybe I am unique, but I am suspicious of an election process, which in the high-tech world of 2020, can not accomplish in four days what the 1860 process of hand-counted paper ballots and the telegraph accomplished in hours.

    Something ain't right here, eh?

    Click on the attachment:


    image - 2020-11-07T000803.222.jpg
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    Would a Biden victory usher in the Age of Oligarchy?

    A farfetched opinion? Not when you give this election process some serious thought. We are being played, people - IMHO! Give some thought to the institutions that try their damnedest to divide us and spend the greatest amount of funds to accomplish their goals - media and financial institutions.

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tuck...ge-of-oligarcy

    If Joe Biden wins, the tech companies, the big banks, Beijing and the billionaire class will have won as well.

    So who's running the projector here? Well, the first thing you should know is that the people behind Joe Biden aren't liberals. We've often incorrectly called them that. A liberal believes in the right of all Americans to speak freely, to make a living, to worship their God, to defend their own families, and to do all of that regardless of what political party they belong to or what race they happen to be born into or how far from midtown Manhattan they currently live.

    Now, whatever you may think of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, they did it the traditional way. Each one of them had the support of actual voters. Living, breathing people loved them, believed in them, vested their hope in them, and, by the way, agreed with their ideas, which they articulated clearly. But corporate America hated them both. They couldn't be controlled, particularly Donald Trump, whose complete unwillingness to submit made him the greatest possible threat. That's why they hate Donald Trump, because he won't obey.

    It's insulting to say that Joseph R. Biden won this election, if that is what comes to pass. The tech companies will have won. The big banks will have won. The government of China, the media establishment, the permanent bureaucracy, the billionaire class -- they will have won, and not in the way that democracy promises. If a single person equaled a single vote, a coalition like that could never win anything. There aren't enough of them.

    But as a group, they have something that Donald Trump's voters sadly do not have, and that is power. They have lots of power and they plan to wield that power, whether you like it or not. It's all starting to look a lot like oligarchy at this point. The people who believe they should have been in charge all along now may actually be in charge.

    Those are the questions we'll be paying attention to, since we plan to stay in this country. And one other thing while we're at it, who's excited to greet our new corporate overlords? Who plans to collaborate, particularly of those on the right side, the Republican side, the side that said it was defending you? Who's happy about all of this? That seems worth keeping track of, just so we know who we're dealing with here.

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    The Left has demonized Republicans for nearly 70 years because Senator Joseph McCarthy, waving a piece of paper, told the press "I have a list of of known Communists."

    McCarthy since has been the gold standard measure of abuse of office, tyrannical tactics and paranoia.

    Yesterday, this is what AOC tweeted:

    "Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? "
    — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 6, 2020
    What in Hell does she mean about "complacency in the future?"

    Sounds like the Left plans to do to Trump supporters exactly what the Left falsely ascribed to the Trump supporters in 2016, eh?

    The Left is all about projection, projection, project in their march toward its Marxist revolution.

    Reference: https://www.republicworld.com/world-...d5wdoVSk-wbc8o
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    In 1864, the Union forces under Sherman burned Atlanta.

    In 2020, Atlanta is Georgia's hub of Democrat politics and questionable electoral tactics.

    With the majority control of the Senate, the only check against the full application of the Leftist revolutionaries' Marxist agenda hanging in the balance, perhaps Atlanta will burn the Constitutional Union?

    Karma's a bitch, eh?



    From Axios:

    Both Georgia Senate seats are heading to a runoff

    Reference: https://www.axios.com/georgia-senate...1e82758bb.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    *The tech companies will have won. The big banks will have won. The government of China, the media establishment, the permanent bureaucracy, the billionaire class -- they will have won, and not in the way that democracy promises. If a single person equaled a single vote, a coalition like that could never win anything. There aren't enough of them.
    Lee, the Globalists of the day financed the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917. When the Globalist realized that the Bolsheviks were out of control, they financed the Nazis to check the Bolsheviks.

    Benito Mussolini, the Fascist dictator of Italy is said to have been a mentor to Adolph Hitler. Mussolini once was quoted as saying that "Fascism" was an inappropriate term for the kindred policies of Fascism and Nazism. Mussolini stated that "Corporatism" was a more appropriate term.

    Kind of concerning, eh?
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    Fox News Projects Biden Wins The Presidency.



    Let The Legal Games Begin!
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    fyi...
    statement from president donald j. Trump

    press release

    “we all know why joe biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him: They don’t want the truth to be exposed. The simple fact is this election is far from over. Joe biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor. In pennsylvania, for example, our legal observers were not permitted meaningful access to watch the counting process. Legal votes decide who is president, not the news media.

    “beginning monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the rightful winner is seated. The american people are entitled to an honest election: That means counting all legal ballots, and not counting any illegal ballots. This is the only way to ensure the public has full confidence in our election. It remains shocking that the biden campaign refuses to agree with this basic principle and wants ballots counted even if they are fraudulent, manufactured, or cast by ineligible or deceased voters. Only a party engaged in wrongdoing would unlawfully keep observers out of the count room – and then fight in court to block their access.

    “so what is biden hiding? I will not rest until the american people have the honest vote count they deserve and that democracy demands.”

    - president donald j. Trump

    Note: On this post, this system for some strange reason has simply turned upper case letters into lower case letters. The text is unaltered, and it ain't my fault.
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    Unity with Trump supporters? OK, prove you mean it, Joe!: Goodwin

    By Michael Goodwin

    November 7, 2020 | 10:01pm | Updated

    The election’s not even over yet and already Joe Biden’s peace train could be headed off the rails.

    The Democrat promised repeatedly during the campaign to unite the country by governing as “an American president,” a pledge he repeated Saturday. Since the polls closed, he’s also been urging patience as the counting went on in a handful of battleground states.

    “We knew because of the unprecedented mail-in vote and the early vote that it was going to take a while,” he said Wednesday. “We have to be patient, and it’s not over until every vote is counted.”

    On Thursday he said, “Democracy sometimes is messy. It sometimes requires a little patience as well, so I ask everyone to stay calm.”

    Excellent advice then — and he should follow it himself now by slowing down the rush to spike the football.

    Equally important, he must make sure his supporters get the message that revenge was not on the ballot because some, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, apparently believe it was.

    Now that the former vice president is considered the president-elect, it is imperative that his unity message not be discarded like a faded campaign poster. It must be embedded in every decision he makes if he actually wants it to be a governing principle.

    If Biden isn’t sincere about bridging the polarization, both sides will know it and the national hatreds and violence he vowed to temper will multiply. Indeed, he will have to prove repeatedly he meant what he said with his own conduct before others in public life actually believe him and begin to act accordingly themselves.

    President Trump also has an important role to play. While he is entitled as a candidate and obligated as a sitting president to pursue challenges where he believes tallies are incorrect or illegal, it’s not in America’s interest or his to continue to lodge blanket accusations of fraud and theft. As young journalists are taught about good reporting, show, don’t tell. The president should let the evidence and his lawyers do most of the talking.

    None of this is to suggest that Biden should not celebrate his enormous personal achievement. I was shocked he got the party’s nomination, let alone could win a record-shattering 74 million popular votes and what could be 300 electoral votes.

    His running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, has also made history of her own as the first female vice-president elect.

    Enlarge ImageJoe Biden cannot ignore the more than 70 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump.
    Joe Biden cannot ignore the more than 70 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump.Lansing State Journal via AP
    Still, both would be wise to acknowledge the more than 70 million people who voted for Trump, which would have gained him a landslide in any other year. To dismiss all those voters as racists and idiots, as many on the left do, is to consign the nation to unresolvable conflict.

    Similarly, Biden and Harris should not scoff at the lawsuits and challenges in the most contested states.

    Giving legitimacy to those disputes would be unusual, but we live in unusual and dangerous times. If Biden were to shut his eyes and pretend that all Americans fully accept the outcome as untainted, he would be making a colossal mistake that could haunt him should he be formally declared the winner.

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    If he trusts the results are honest and accurate, he must do what he urged others to do — be patient and calm “until every vote is counted.”

    A prime example is Pennsylvania, the first state that put him over the magic number of 270 electoral votes. Among the hot-button issues there is whether late-arriving ballots are legal, an issue flagged Friday when Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took the highly unusual step of ordering the state to segregate those ballots and, if they are counted, to count them separately.

    It’s not clear how many exist and whether they factor into Biden’s reported victory in the state. Until those issues are settled to the court’s satisfaction, the Pennsylvania results are effectively tentative.

    Similarly, recounts are likely in Wisconsin and Georgia, and reports of computer “glitches” in Michigan, Nevada and elsewhere must be resolved if the results are to be widely believed.

    All these resolutions can happen quickly — if Democrat state officials stop hiding behind cardboard coverings taped to windows and evicting GOP observers. Actions like that suggest there is something to hide and Biden must make it clear to those state officials that he wants full transparency and doesn’t fear it.

    Another of his welcome campaign messages is one that he repeated Friday: “We may be opponents, but we are not enemies. We are Americans.”

    It’s absolutely the right tone, but some of his key supporters sound more interested in humiliation and revenge than reconciliation.

    His spokesman, Andrew Bates, also said Friday in a statement about Trump that “the United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House.”

    No doubt that played well with the deep-state haters and resistance crowd, but it smacked of juvenile bravado and Bates deserves a visit to the woodshed. By letting the public know he doesn’t approve of such talk, Biden would be affirming his unity pledge to all Americans.


    As for Ocasio-Cortez, she is supporting the reprehensible idea of having her side keep lists of Trump supporters, writing on Twitter: “Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future?”

    A group of Never Trumpers echoed the banana-republic notion, saying they aimed to punish the president’s supporters. Jennifer Rubin, the odious Washington Post columnist, wrote that Trump supporters “should never serve in office, join a corporate board, find a faculty position or be accepted into ‘polite’ society. We have a list.”

    The best response Biden could give is to say that he, too, is keeping a list — of those who continue to stir hatred and division and that he denounces them, regardless of how they voted.
    Reference: https://nypost.com/2020/11/07/unity-...t-joe-goodwin/
    LIDA Member Rinow to Member Ruda: You were a sitting Trustee on the Board. Did you help support Mr. Sweeney getting a seat on the CDC Board?"

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    Ah, the "New Normal" functioning in support of the "New World Order?"...


    Sources: Fox News Suspends ‘Justice With Judge Jeanine’ Over Trump

    Reference: https://www.wgowam.com/news/sources-...ne-over-trump/
    LIDA Member Rinow to Member Ruda: You were a sitting Trustee on the Board. Did you help support Mr. Sweeney getting a seat on the CDC Board?"

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