ed note–our paid disinformation/misinformation agent is the spokesman of none other than–
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‘Republicans for the Rule of Law’.
For those who were/are unaware, this group is a NeoConservative group founded by none other than–
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This guy–
William Kristol, not only co-founder of the ‘Project for the New American Century’, but as well, one of Netanyahu’s operatives in America who sold the US on Israel’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’ aimed at destroying both the Christian and Islamic worlds for the benefit of Judea and who–working in collusion with Netanyahu and the rest of the NeoCon cabal, is out to remove DJT from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave before he can proceed any further with his planned ‘9/11 U-Turn’.
Don’t expect individuals such as Limbaugh, Hannity, Carlson or any of the others who helped steer America into the ‘never-ending wars’ demanded by Israel which DJT wants to end to point this fact out, nor any of the various ‘experts’ hailing from the ‘9/11 ‘Trooth Moovmnt’.
Chris Truax
The state of Texas filed an innovative lawsuit this week in a last-ditch effort to overturn the election and install Donald Trump as president for another four years. The U.S. Supreme Court is usually the final court of appeal, and it can sometimes take years for a case to make its way there. However, when there is a dispute between states, it has what’s called “original jurisdiction,” which means that the suit can be filed directly in the Supreme Court as if it were a trial court. So Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, on behalf of the entire state, filed suit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Unfortunately, while innovative, the Texas attorney general’s suit is also 350-plus pages of cringe-inducing nonsense worthy of Rudy Giuliani himself. I won’t give you the full details, but its legal theories are both dubious and inconsistent. To start with, it’s extremely unlikely, for all kinds of reasons, that Texas has standing to complain about another state’s election procedures. Its alleged facts are even worse. They’re mostly a rehash of various debunked allegations of sinister activity — it’s generally not a good idea to use the word “mysteriously” in a legal complaint — and yet, as is typical of Trump’s election suits, it never actually alleges fraud.
Nonsense, ignorance and mendacity
One claim in particular takes absurdity to the next level. Citing calculations from economist Charles J. Cicchetti, the lawsuit asserts: “The probability of former Vice President (Joe) Biden winning the popular vote in the four Defendant States … independently given President Trump’s early lead in those States as of 3 a.m. on November 4, 2020, is less than one in a quadrillion.”
This is complete nonsense — “Pants on Fire,” according to PolitiFact. I don’t know whether this is ignorance or mendacity on the part of the Texas attorney general, but neither has any place in a courtroom.
So this legal action, like all the rest, is going nowhere. It’s extremely unlikely that the Supreme Court will even give it a hearing before dismissing it. Even Alan Dershowitz understands this case is a loser.
And that’s the problem. It isn’t meant to be a winner. It’s simply another example of what never-Trump strategist Rick Wilson once called “performative douchiness” — ostentatiously being an obnoxious jerk for the sole purpose of impressing Donald J. Trump with your fanatical loyalty. That’s why 17 Republican attorneys general have now backed this legal embarrassment of a case. This has to stop.
In America, we have a civic religion. It’s a broad church in which the likes of Bernie Sanders and Ronald Reagan worship happily side by side. The cornerstone of that faith is respecting elections and their outcomes. We fight hard during the campaign. We sometimes even fight dirty. But when the campaign is over and the votes are counted, we openly accept the results, congratulate the winner and move on, knowing there’s another election to fight just around the corner.
When Trump lobbies state legislatures to throw out their election results and appoint him as president by fiat, when congressional Republicans — or even ordinary people — refuse to accept the now-certified election results and admit that Biden has won the election, they are denying the most basic tenet of our civic faith and placing themselves outside the bounds of civic society. By normalizing this behavior, by making it socially acceptable to simply refuse to accept an election that you don’t like, they are setting the stage for a wannabe autocrat to override the results of an American election in the all too near future.
Terrorist attacks on America are evil, and they are universally condemned. No decent person will have anything to do with someone who cheers for Osama Bin Laden. Yet, as President George W. Bush put it shortly after 9/11, “Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America.”
GOP Sen. Rob Portman:No proof of mass fraud that would change election result
Attacks on the fundamentals of our democracy are much worse. They do threaten the foundations of America and should be opposed with the same vigorous condemnation we reserve for acts of terrorism. And let’s be clear, that’s exactly what people like Trump, Giuliani and the Texas attorney general are: electoral terrorists.
I’m not suggesting legal action against these people. The First Amendment protects their right to speak. But the First Amendment protects free association as well as free speech. And no decent person should have anything to do with someone who refuses to accept the results of the election.
Don’t tolerate people who claim fraud
In particular, this applies to elected Republicans, especially congressional Republicans. In a recent Washington Post survey, only 27 congressional Republicans were willing to admit that Biden won the election while 220 of them refused to answer the question. I hope that no respectable network or journalist will give any of them the time of day until they openly accept Biden as the legitimate 46th president of the United States.
Assault on democracy:Have Republican leaders no sense of decency? When it comes to Trump, apparently not.
But it isn’t just congressional Republicans who are the problem. Electoral terrorists shouldn’t be tolerated at any level of society, from businesses to bowling leagues, any more than people who celebrate physical terrorism would be.
I don’t say this in a spirit of anger or retribution, but rather in the grim understanding that some norms cannot be transgressed and that no tent is big enough to contain people who are trying to burn the tent down. We aren’t avoiding conflict by tolerating people who claim our elections are a fraud; we’re encouraging it. Eventually, we’ll be forced to take a stand, so better sooner than later.
It’s time to stop debating whether the election was fair and transparent. It was, but this is no longer an open question. The lawsuits have been heard. The election is certified. The results are clear. It is now our civic responsibility to accept those results and move on. For some people, that may be an act of faith. But that’s what religions, even civic ones, are all about.