The election is moot!

 Or, at least it appears to be if anyone gets around to citing Foster before the Supreme Court.

“When the federal statutes speak of ‘the election’… they plainly refer to the combined actions of voters and officials meant to make a final selection of an officeholder… By establishing a particular day as ‘the day’ on which these actions must take place, the statutes simply regulate the time of the election, a matter on which the Constitution explicitly gives Congress the final say.”  Foster v. Love, 522 U.S. 67, 71-72 (1997)

We will take a closer at this binding precedent below, but in preview, please understand that it emanates from a 9-0 decision of the United States Supreme Court, wherein the entire Court joined, not just the outcome, but also the opinion on this very point.

The voters vote.  The officials count.  These combined actions form “the election,” and the election must be decided on the day.  States that failed to make a final selection of officeholder by midnight after Election Day have violated the statute, subjecting the nation at large to the very evils Congressionally mandated deadlines were drafted to prevent….

3 U.S.C. § 2 kicks the decision back to the State Legislatures after a failed election renders the previous results void.  Failed elections nullify all votes, not just some votes, not just late votes, not just illegal votes.  The election itself is void in late States. 

Which States are late?  The answer will be a question of first impression for the Supreme Court.  But the only fair answer is obvious.  If, at midnight, one candidate had enough of a lead, so that there was no mathematical possibility whatsoever of their being caught – after a review of the votes already counted, and the votes remaining – then the final selection has been made on time.  But if the outcome was uncertain at Midnight, the State violated the deadline, and its election is void….

As to Representative and Senate races, the statutes mandate subsequent elections, but as to presidential electors, 3 U.S.C. § 2 provides a deadline extension to the State Legislatures alone to determine – “in such manner as the legislature of such State may direct” – which electors shall be appointed.  This statute simply reiterates the plenary authority in the United States Constitution.

We should find out soon what the State Legislatures will do, because the United States Supreme Court is about to nullify the results of this election in every State that failed to report a clear winner before November 4th.

It seems a little hard to credit, to be sure, but the logic and the Supreme Court citation appear to be sound. And remember, ignorance of the law is no excuse, not even for District Court judges and State legislatures.

RIP Chuck Yeager

Most of my heroes have either been intellectual heroes or men that I have known and personally admired. But the legendary pilot Chuck Yeager, who died yesterday at the age of 97, not only struck me as the model of a hero, he has always represented the epitome of that which is cool to me.

Yeager enlisted in September 1941, but was initially not accepted for flight training giving his age and educational background. When the U.S. entered the war three months later, however, the Air Force changed its requirements and Yeager was accepted, thanks in part to his remarkable 20/10 vision, which once enabled him to shoot a deer at 600 yards. 

Yeager was initially a flight mechanic before being given his wings. His first posting was to Britain, where he flew P-51 Mustangs with the 363d Fighter Squadron. On his eighth mission, in March 1944, he was shot down over France. Rescued by the French Resistance, he was spirited away to Spain, and remained with the guerrillas for two months, helping them make bombs.

Yeager would be awarded the Bronze Star for his efforts in France and Spain, when he helped another crashed pilot, B-17 bombardier Omar ‘Pat’ Patterson, to cross the Pyrenees when he was suffering from hypothermia. He returned to the U.K. in May 1944.

Yeager was not supposed to fly over enemy territory again: having been shot down once, the fear was that if he was shot down again he could give away information about the Resistance. However Yeager and another ‘evader’, as the pilots who were shot down and escaped were known, pleaded their case directly before Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, and convinced him to allow them to fly again.

Four months later, in October 1944, he became the first pilot in his group to make ‘ace in a day’ – becoming an ‘ace’ by shooting down five planes, but doing it in only one day. Two of the five planes were downed without firing a single shot: Yeager maneuvered into a firing position, and the German pilot panicked, swerving his Messerschmitt Bf 109 into his wingman and the two planes crashing.

Yeager was clear-eyed about the cost of war. 

In his 1968 memoir, he wrote that ‘atrocities were committed by both sides’. He was part of a mission with orders to ‘strafe anything that moved’, an wrote: ‘I’m certainly not proud of that particular strafing mission against civilians. But it is there, on the record and in my memory.’

After the war, Yeager, as an ‘evader’ was given his choice of assignments and chose Wright Field, to be close to his West Virginia home. He became a test pilot, and was selected for the attempt to break the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 which, like all his planes, he named Glamorous Glennis after his wife. It was a risky venture, but Yeager was determined to claim the record.

Two days before the due date he fell from a horse and broke two ribs. Yeager didn’t tell his bosses.

He went to see a local doctor, rather than the military specialists, who taped him up as best he could. He only told his wife and another test pilot, who helped him rig up a way to close the X-1’s hatch with a broom handle, because he was in so much pain.

The record was broken above the Mojave Desert in October 1947, but was not announced to the public until June 1948.  

A B-29 bomber carried the X-1 26,000 feet (7,925 m) over California’s Mojave Desert and let it go. Neither Yeager nor aviation engineers knew if the plane – or the pilot – would be able to handle the unprecedented speed without breaking up. But Yeager took the 31-foot (10 meter) X-1, powered by liquid oxygen and alcohol, to Mach 1.06, about 700 mph (1,126 kph) at 43,000 feet (13,000 meters), as if it were a routine flight.

He then calmly brought the craft gliding down to a dry lake bed, 14 minutes after it had been cut loose on a flight that was a significant step toward space exploration. Yeager said he had noted a Mach 0.965 reading on his speedometer before it jumped off the scale without a bump.

‘I was thunderstruck,’ he wrote in his 1985 autobiography ‘Yeager.’ ‘After all the anxiety, breaking the sound barrier turned out to be a perfectly paved speedway.’

His exploit ranked alongside the Wright brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and Charles Lindbergh’s solo fight to Paris in 1927 as epic events in the history of aviation. 

If you haven’t read The Right Stuff, you really must.

Gen. Chuck Yeager, 1923 – 2020

Another gatekeeper

If UATV were growing this fast, even I would be suspicious of me.

I’ve been doing some more information gathering about #rumble as a platform because I couldn’t understand how Rumble went from being a small site in terms of getting 1 million site visits three months ago to getting over 60 million site visits in November, and I discovered that a lot of the same Conservative Inc/GOP establishment people who are on #parler are also on Rumble, and some of them have 500,000-800,000 subs on Rumble.

I can now definitively say that Rumble is the video-sharing site version of Parler. Rumble demands that you hand over your phone number just to be able to upload videos to their site, just like how Parler makes you hand over your phone number just to be able to use their site. Rumble’s biggest channels are members of the Conservative Inc/GOP Establishment and the subscriber accounts on their channels number in the hundreds of thousands, just like on Parler.

Time will tell if Rumble will start censoring Christians, conservatives, and trump supporters who are not part of the Conservative Inc/GOP Establishment/popular content creator crowd like Parler currently does, but so far it seems to me that Rumble is following the same path as Parler, which means that Rumble is probably a controlled opposition site like Parler is.

FFS, if you want free uploads, go to BitChute. This isn’t that hard. Stop being shepherded by the GOPe; they aren’t on your side.

Il professore doubles down

 There is no jackass like an academic jackass. Assuming, of course, that his “degree” isn’t self-awarded.

I am Italian and I have several degrees, one of which is in Italian language. I am still translating and speaking in 5 languages and I know Latin to the core. IF YOU HAD ANY IDEA OF WHAT LATIN AND ITALIAN ARE, YOU WOULD REALISE HOW IDIOTIC AND CONCEITED YOU ARE. APOLOGISE AND LEARN!!! IN IGALIAN IS “LA VOCE DEL POPOLO” AND KIN LATIN” VOX POPULI”.

Yes, this is the moron from the previous post. He has several degrees of stupidity, anyhow. 

You’re really not

 In case you weren’t certain that these foreign devil-worshippers really, really, really hate Jesus Christ.

“Let me begin by wishing you all a very Merry Christmas. Remember the word? Remember we started five years ago and I said “You’re going to be saying Christmas again,” and we say it proudly again although they’ll be trying to take that word again out of the vocabulary. We’re not going to let them do that.” – Donald Trump

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel made it clear that President Trump’s support of Christmas has triggered her greatly, as this “empowered” LGBT leader is apparently so weak-minded that she is agitated by the smallest of microaggressions.

“I remember the first time I was at a store with my son and an employee said “Merry Christmas” to us. My son looked devastated as asked “Are we the only people who don’t celebrate Christmas?” I answered “No, and we are just as American as everyone else.”

America is a Christian nation. The USA is neither a nation nor Christian. President Trump, for one, knows that there is a spiritual war underlying the political conflict over who is to rule the empire. It’s time for the rest of us to start recognizing the connection and refusing to give any ground whatsoever on that front. The Prometheans have been at war with Christmas for over a century, because they cannot stand the way it puts Jesus Christ squarely at the center of the public’s attention despite their best efforts to trivialize and secularize the holiday. 

That’s right. The Holiday Armadillo is a demon straight out of the Pit of Hell. Which shouldn’t be a surprise, given that it hails from the Eastern Hellmouth. 

And now you know why Michigan is at the forefront of the election fraud.

 

“A lot of big things”

President Trump answers a journalist:

Journalist: A week from now the electors will meet to cast their vote. There’s not a lot of time between now and then to make your case. Are you looking to change the outcome of the election or make the case to the American people that it wasn’t fair?

President Trump: If you look at the polls, it was a rigged election. You look at the different states, the election was totally rigged. It’s a disgrace to our country, it’s like a Third World country, and these ballots pouring in from everywhere and using machinery nobody knows, ownership nobody knows anything about, they have glitches, as they call them, glitches that are not glitches, they’re caught sending out thousands of votes, all against me, by the way. This was like from a Third World nation and now we find out what we can do about it. But you’ll see a lot of big things happening over the next couple of days.

Stay cool, stand back, and stand by. Meanwhile, the salient point sails high over CNN’s collective head.

There is a sense developing within Donald Trump’s legal team and what remains of his campaign staff that their efforts to overturn or delay the results of the election are coming to an end, multiple sources tell CNN, despite what the President has said publicly.

Translation: the courts had their chance. Sure, it’s always possible that we have it wrong. On the other hand, it’s going to be very easy to explain how no one saw it coming.

Why I hate midwits

Example 34,567. This was the entirety of the email, in the subject.

VOX POPULI (not popoli)

To which I responded with all my customary grace and deference for the gentle reader.

Italian, not Latin, moron.

Let this be a lesson to you: don’t ever try to correct your intellectual superiors again.

I don’t think anyone truly understands how much I despise – truly despise, not just mere antipathy – the sort of midwit who believes he has the solemn right and responsibility to correct everyone and everything he believes, rightly or wrongly, to be mistaken.

I’m not always correct. But the fact is that if you think I’m wrong, the probabilities are very seldom in your favor. And if it’s something that obviously appears to be wrong, then you can safely assume that you simply don’t understand what is going on.

It’s almost – not quite, but almost – amusing that it doesn’t even cross the minds of these would-be reference police that in the Internet Age utilizing a unique spelling is much more important than demonstrating you know how to spell a common phrase.

Time is not of the essence

 A new reader wonders about the timing of any potential Rubicon-crossing.

Vox, do you believe that this whole process needs to be finished before 14th December when the Electors meet and vote? If Joe Biden gets 270 electors but received electoral votes that are illegitimate, where would that lead the process? Does Donald Trump need to make his move and Cross the Rubicon before they vote on 14th December?

The very nature of the questions betrays a very different perspective than my own. My view, which may or may not be correct, is that President Trump is in full control of the situation and can choose to make his move at any time. And given my suspicions that he may be an elite strategist, I would expect him to do so after forcing everyone else to show their cards.

Now, just as there were probably Carthaginian officers who wanted to know why Hannibal didn’t order his cavalry to attack the Roman flanks after driving off the Roman cavalry, and who panicked when the Carthaginian center was driven back, there have been people demanding to know why, if he was able, the God-Emperor didn’t take action in 2016, in 2018, or before November 3rd this year.

But Hannibal knew, as I suspect President Trump knows, that if you’re going to successfully destroy an entire army, you have to look as if you’re being defeated and be extraordinarily patient in order to convince the enemy to enter the trap in its entirety. And if President Trump manages to accomplish what it very much looks like he is planning to do, he will rank with Hannibal, Caesar, and Napoleon among the all-time historical greats.

 So, in answer to the questions:

  1. No, this whole process does not need to be finished before 14 December. The election is not even potentially lost unless and until Joe Biden – or at this point, it would be more likely to be Kamala Harris – is sworn in on 20 January 2021.
  2. The process is all but irrelevant. The only thing the process will determine is who is standing by the Constitution and who is not. There are three paths to victory, and only the first two involve the process.
  3. No. In fact, he is unlikely to make any such move before then because he will want to see who has sold out and who has not.

Flynn team collects MI Dominion data

Even some local sheriffs are in on the steal, but they can’t stop what’s coming.

0902 EST – Local sheriff tried to prevent Flynn forensics team from entering courthouse in Antrim County – but they are now in!

0950 EST – Flynn cyber team has removed Dominion hard drive and is copying, will take 6-8 hours

1230 EST – Antrim County Administrator tries to take pictures and dox forensic team, forced to delete pictures

2300 EST – Flynn Cyber Team Successfully Collected Antrim County, MI Dominion Hard Drive Data…Analysis Tomorrow

Looks like everyone is going to learn that military intelligence is not an oxymoron after all. 

Somebody got the AZ data

But whether it was the good guys or the bad guys who have it is not yet known:

On the morning of November 5, as the 2020 election hung in the balance, Arizona federal agents raided a two-story house in Fountain Hills, Maricopa County, a county that had become a key battleground in the presidential race. The agents were looking for evidence of a cyberattack on an unnamed organization and stolen voter data. They left with eight hard drives, three computers and a bag of USB sticks. The resident of the property, a 56-year-old IT expert named Elliot Kerwin, was served the warrant. He is not yet facing charges and was unreachable for comment at the time of publication. There is no indication that anything other than voters’ information, which can be acquired for a few hundred dollars in Arizona counties, was taken from the affected office.

The warrant, discovered by Forbes this week, reveals investigators have been looking into a computer intrusion at an unnamed “victim office,” which occurred from October 21 to November 4. At the Kerwin residence, they were looking for any evidence within the seized computers that showed they’d been used to access the IT network at the office, as well as “protected voters’ information” and any indication that it had been disseminated to other people. 

Of the 15 county recorder’s offices contacted by Forbes about the investigation, only one, Maricopa County, confirmed voter data had been stolen, noting that a federal investigation was under way. The Maricopa County Recorder’s office, which is just 30 minutes’ drive south from Kerwin’s home, did not confirm whether or not the investigation was the same as that referred to in the search warrant. 

Still, the fact that it’s coming out now is probably a good sign. I don’t think anyone who is actually looking at the evidence doubts that Trump won, and won handily. Now it’s just a question of summarizing it and getting it out to the mainstream in a manner that they can not only understand, but accept.