Trump is About to Knock the Fight Out of Them

 According to Wictor's latest, for those that need steeling of nerves.

"I'm not even following the news."

Arizona Out in the Open

 Many brave Arizonans today confronted the state leaders who have let this criminal act happen in this state. 

Team Trump no doubt got what they needed today.

The Short War

 D-DAY+21

Waiting on the Arizona hearings to start on RSBN. I'm guessing will provide a quasi-evidentiary hearing that will be part of the suit of contesting of the Arizona election. This is necessary to open the door to an appeal of the contested election to the House of Representatives, with the approval of the Supreme Court.

Big things are going on that are not seen by the public. Somehow I can feel it. A soldier's intuition. I am far behind the front lines, but my gut tells me that many big things are in the progress.

People will now realize we are at war. I predict this will be common opinion by the end of the week. Hopefully it will be a very short war.  Hopefully it will all be over by the time we even know about most of it.

"The largest cyberwarfare attack against voting in history, certainly against the United States."

Treason is a word that has a meaning.

The Root of Leftist Insanity

 Why is the left so angry? Because they are suffering from a collective mental illness. The illness, I believe, arises from their lack of belief in the existence of meaning.

Because meaning does not exist, words have no meaning. Because words have no meaning, they can used arbitrarily.

What is axiomatic on the left? Only that bad people exist. The bad people are the ones who do not share your beliefs. 

Bad people must be eliminated.

They are allowed to hate the Bad people. It is encouraged. How do they know who the bad people are, and whom to hate?

The Bad people are the ones who hate.

Thus at the bottom of all leftist ideology is a self-contradictory lie. This is what happens when you deny meaning. It can produce only insanity.

Biden as Hero

 I prayed this morning for Biden to concede as quickly as possible, graciously, and for the good of the nation. If he did so, under some deal with Trump, it could do enormous good for bringing the country out of this trauma.

People on the left, need to have path to understand the depth of the misinformation web into which they had fallen. Biden could help them do that. It could be the last great act of an otherwise substandard and grimy political career. He could be a hero.

Will he do it? Perhaps it is my fantasy that he would even consider such a thing. In any case, I am confident Donald Trump is doing what is necessary to make a Biden concession moot if he does not make it himself. The outcome is certain. What is uncertain is Joe Biden's role in it.

Pardon Biden

 If Biden fesses up, comes clean, and admits defeat, I would be in favor of a full pardon for him and his family (absent learning anything truly heinous). I think it will help the country heal.

The Day of Flynn

 "Communist China decided to move up its plans...to become the global Superpower."

Interview with Flynn on WVW-TV site. This was done on Friday evening and is the first interview Flynn has given since his pardon.

"You used the word coup..."

"10 out of 10 that Donald Trump will be President..."

"The electronic vote did not achieve the result they needed on the 3rd of November...They realized we have to stop...unheard of. They shut down five states that night. From the 4th to the 7th we see the mail in ballot fraud."

Video thread by Pat Scopelliti, who has worked with Flynn, interpreting the Flynn interview. It is a long video but well worth listening to, explaining the nature of where we are at. I've linked to the video at 2:25 because Pat spends the first part of the thread until then as roundabout intro. The last part of the video is actually the heaviest.

Were U.S. soldiers killed in Frankfurt in the server raid?

This is the Climax of the War of Meaning

 One great of irony of the assertions I just made, that we are at war against a foreign-backed coup lead by a gang of criminals that are attempting to overthrow the American Republic, is that the left has been making exactly the same accusation for the last four years. 

This is telling in many ways. The irony is not lost on me.

So as a nation we are reduced to accusing each other of the same thing? Is there no hope for resolution?

Yes, there is. In fact I know there will be a resolution between these two sides.

This is because our side ultimately believes that words have meaning. When we say that a foreign-backed coup in underway to overthrow the Republic, we are not crafting a narrative, as the left was doing. Their assertions were simply things they wanted to be true. They didn't care, and ultimately don't care, the narrative they created was true in concrete fact. This was beside the point.

To us, this the entire point, that our words having meaning.

When we say that we could in no way ever cooperate with a "Biden Administration" that came about as the result of this coup, and that we would undertake massive nationwide civil disobediance, we mean it. 

When we say that we can see that a crime was committed on election night and the days that followed in multiple states. We mean it. When we say a foreign-backed coup is underway, we mean it. We are making assertions of truth---not my truth, or your truth, but the Truth. Recognition that Truth exists is in the Declaration of Independence, our founding charter. 

We assert that our words have true meaning and that the other sides does not even assert this about their own words. We assert that this fundamental recognition of that Truth and Meaning exists is proof that our cause is the Just cause (the cause that will establish Justice). 

This is the Climax of the 9/11 War

The Good Guys:

The Trump Administration (Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, Chris Miller, William Barr and others)

Mike Flynn (Trump's military commander) and his allies

The U.S. Military (despite some rogue commanders on the side of the coup who are completely bypassed at this moment)

Allies of the Trump Administration within the U.S. government (people we will never know about)

Allied to Trump but keeping their distance:

The Israeli Government

The Saudi Government and the Gulf States

It is clear that the Saudis are taking the lead in neutralizing Iran during this period of chaos. Wictor is strong convicted of the idea that the Iranian nuclear scientist was not assassinated but defected with his family with Saudi assistance. "The Iranians are up crap creek." Few people who voted for Biden realize how massively destabilizing it would be for the U.S. to ally itself to Iran at this point, as a Biden administration would do.  The Israelis and Saudis long ago went their own way without us, realizing we were undependable. They are fully capable of taking care of Iran at this point on their own, even in opposition to us.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico

The Bad Guys:

Many elements with intelligence and law enforcement agencies within the U.S. Government (Coup plotters)

Key globalists allied to the coup plotters.

George Soros

Bill Gates

The Silicon Valley Tech Barons

The Communist Chinese Party

The Iranian Government

The Cuban Government

The Socialist Venezuelan Government

Members of both national political parties in the U.S. who had been paid off or blackmailed to support the coup, in part by allowing the penetration of the election by corrupt hardware and software designed to facilitate the coup.

The Democrats are ironically just pathetic stooges in all of this. They are just the henchmen hired by the Globalist to plunder us in the aftermath of the criminal coup.  The fact that they are keeping a low profile at the moment is telling, according to many. They know this is not going to end well for them.

Waiting for orders from the Globalists after the coup is settled:

Pierre Trudeau

Boris Johnson and the UK Government

All of the European governments except Hungary and a few allies.

Weakened by Trump over the last four years and hardly an issue at this point:

Putin and Russia

Assad

We are at War

 This is the thought that hit me as I went for a walk this morning, after reading people talking about Flynn's recent comments.

1. We are at war as a nation right this minute. There is no avoiding this brutal fact. We may not like it, but there is an attempted foreign-backed coup underway, playing out as we speak.  It is the most serious attack on the integrity of the nation and the Republic since the War of 1812.  This is a military conflict. The nationwide coordinated attempt to steal the election is the main theater of this conflict, but by no means the only one going on. Donald Trump and his allies are defending the nation from this coup using the U.S. military.. Military casualties have already been taken.

2. The legal and political levels are only dimension of what is going on. Much of the important action at the moment is invisible to the public for now, and being conducted by members of the U.S. military loyal to Trump and Flynn.

3. The coup involves a blatant insurrection by people within multiple agencies within the federal government. 

5. Mike Flynn is effectively in command of the war effort, by delegation from Trump. Flynn is now the guy to pay attention to, when he speaks. Trump has unmuzzled him to play this role at this point. Trump himself has pulled back in his Tweets and in his interview this morning with Maria Bartiromo.  His vagueness means that enemies surely think they have him on the ropes. That is probably exactly what Trump wants them to think.

6. It is not possible to know the timetable over which this will play out, but Team Trump is 100% confident of victory over some timetable that is only guessable by anyone else. At this point I am confident that any guess about the details on my part would be wildly errant. I'm resolved to being surprised at what does and does not happen according to any of my expectations over the weeks to come until Trump is sworn in for his second term.

7. Trump has indicated he is going to reveal the significant aspects of all of this to us at some point, perhaps very soon.

Downtown Las Vegas During Shutdown

I spent the last night of my road trip in the best decent hotel in downtown Las Vegas available on the booking site I always use.

Coming up out of Death Valley, I purposely lingered on the Nevada border, where there is a giant cow statue. I took a business call before catching the last hour of sunlight to connect onto the main arterial highway heading south into Las Vegas.

Normally I would avoid driving after full dark, but I went at least a half hour past civil twilight. Not only was it easier to navigate the freeways on the edge of the metropolis after dark, but downtown Las Vegas is more accessible by dark, because the buildings are simplified by the outlines in neon. I found the scummy parking garage of the Downtown Grand parked beside other nice cars in a well lit area. Then I dragged my bags down a grimy stairway to the street. I found myself popped out into the dark as a couple older buddies walked by, surprised by my sudden appearance out of the door.

I dragged my bag across Ogden Street into the well-lit but completely empty valet parking area of the hotel. The temperature stand at the door was unmanned. I found myself in the Casino, which had about a dozen people on the entire floor visible. Being a veteran of such hotels, I knew it would entail navigating a small maze to get to the hotel checkin. They'd lover for you to blow your entire wad in the machines before you even get there. There are always multiple twists and turns, designed to get you disoriented. Fortunately the maze was small and I was immediately at the desk checking in. 

It made me miss the Trump International, which is not a casino. You walk into the lobby like a normal hotel. 

But I'd figured it was necessary to experience Downtown during the shutdown, as I had the area around the strip. So I found my room. It took going up an escalator, then across a sky bridge giving a web of the Mob & Law Enforcement Museum, which I had not visited when Lars and Stefan went there during our 2017 visit to this city.

On the other side of the skybridge was a tower part of the hotel, which evidently had been acquired by purchase and grafted onto the previous hotel. I went up the elevator the 14th floor. The lobby smelled a little of garbage. But it was newer, so no cigarette smoke,  My room had a great view of the lights of downtown. I stood looking out at the neon and the  building-sized video screens on the side of other hotels, as well as a huge screen  in the nearby Fremont Street Experience showing an English soccer match.

After checking in, I walked around a bit after dark looking for a bite to eat. I walked over to Fremont Street, the covered area of downtown. There was a metal barricade. I figured it was to make sure people were wearing masks. It was. I decided to forgo going inside.  A peek was all I needed to see how mostly empty it was, even though the music was just as loud.  A group of Las Vegas police and EMTs were nearby carting away several people, one young man in handcuffs, and two older guys, one strapped on a stretcher and one in a wheel chair, ranting as they pushed him towards an ambulance.  Being that it was none of my business, I didn't turn and scrutinize them for any details.

It seemed about half the businesses were open, that might have been normally open that night in downtown. I thought about grabbing a burger at the restaurant inside the El Camino, which had been a famous mobster's first purchase in Las Vegas after World War II, but the odor of ancient smoke permeating the casino repelled me back out onto the street. I'd been there anyway. It is no great shakes. The most boring architecture in the world is the interior of casinos. Everything of interest about them is on the outside.

Finally I found myself is the downtown 7-11 buy a chicken sandwich and a coffee drink and pastry for the morning. Casino hotels don't have coffee in the rooms. They want you out of your room and in the lobby as quickly as possible. The Trump International had coffee in the room.

Flynn: This Coup Will Fail

 Great video thread on General Flynn's recent interview and tying that into other events, including the U.S. military personnel allegedly killed in the raid on the Frankfurt server farm. 

I'm beginning to realize all my speculations about timelines, court cases, appeals, Electors, legislatures, etc. are probably going to be wrong. Maybe December 14 comes and goes and this still goes on. I think only Trump and his closest allies know at this point what the plan is. 

This is far more than illegal votes being stuffed into the system. This is an organized coup attempt assisted by foreign nations. Nothing is off the table as far as actions by Trump.

Will this week still be the eye-opening week? Maybe. Maybe not. 

My Next Work Project

 I've started to research Dominion. My work project is drawing to a close. Have a small break before the next one. I just built a secure cloud system for client who needed HIPAA-level data security. I think I delivered it. I figure if anyone can understand Dominion---it's software and hardware---who is not already an expert in that, it ought to be me. 

I'm starting with the NIST White Paper from 2010.

Someone found the link online today and shared it on Twitter, hoping to get Sidney Powell's attention. Mike Flynn tweeted it out just now. 

quote: 

"...the swift rise this spring of Dominion, a little known foreign company engaged in Internet voting and with no reported income, to become the first or second largest voting machine company in the United States, after purchasing, in May 2010, voting systems made by Diebold (Diebold formerly was the second largest voting systems company in the U.S. and no longer has a U.S. voting systems business), and after purchasing, in June 2010, Sequoia Voting Systems, the voting machines of which rely on proprietary source code developed and owned by Smartmatic, a company headquartered in Venezuela with ties to the Hugo Chavez government of Venezuela"

Great video thread by an Oregon Democrat here. Highly recommended.

How Trump Sweeps the Battleground States (and More)

 Mike Flynn indicated that he is confident Trump will win all six. Why? Because more than enough illegal ballots have been located in all six states, and lawsuits are in progress, or will be initiated in the very near future, that would lead to the disqualification of enough ballots in all six of the contested states. These lawsuits will reach the Supreme Court over the next two weeks. In each the Supreme Court is going to rule correctly, by throwing out the ballots.

The Supreme Court will be presented with mountains of evidence that will make the decision easy for them. They are already involved, via Alito's order of November 6. I believe completely they will do the right thing.

Perhaps the evidence will be so strong that they will disqualify Biden from the Electoral College completely. That is certainly an option open to them, if they find nationwide fraud on behalf of the Biden campaign. This kind of decision would probably have to be a unanimous one, or near-unanimous, meaning that liberal Justices would have to be convinced. Perhaps the evidence will be as strong as that. I think it is well within the realm of possibility.

The Highs and the Lows of California

 I had a lot of time to think during the last two days of my road trip. I left Bishop in the morning after checking out of the hotel and filling up with gas, having gotten down to less than a quarter tank the night before at dusk. 

The High Sierra were beautiful in the morning sunlit. Morning is the best time for driving. The roads fill up as the day progresses is the general rule I've learned.

I stopped in Big Pine, which is barely civilization, for a homemade burrito at a roadside stand called Hugo's. I ate it at the picnic table and then walked maskless through the empty summer municipal campground, pondering the beauty of jagged ridge of the mountains, and also thinking through thoughts about the election, and my work project. 

I drove south on 395 through Lone Pine, which is also barely civilization. I craned my neck to look at the mountains, knowing that Mount Whitney is up there, but never knowing which one from that angle. Identification of peaks is often more difficult than people realize.

Then I cut east towards Death Valley and enterred the enormous national park from its backside, the California side, coming through Panamint Valley, then up over the ridge into the main valley. Signs along the road told me that a car permit was required for all visitors. The sign indicated that one should purchase one at Furnace Creek, which was the main visitor's center. There was also a station in Stovepipe Wells, which I came to first, coming from the west. I stopped there and bought the permit at the automatic kiosk in front of the shuttered station. I put my credi card in. It was thirty dollars. Resolving to be honest, I hit the purchase button. My card was authorized. The machine printed out a ticket with the "valid till" date of a week from my purchase. The instructions on the ticket said to put it on the dashboard face-up. So I did that.

About half hour later I see the great oasis of Furnace Creek and its surrounding campgrounds filling the desert floor with palm trees and other large vegetation. I parked in the parking lot and decided to walk around a bit, taking a break during what would be a long drive. 

Many people were in the parking lot. The visit center door was open but entrance was blocked by a makeshift plexiglass window behind which sat a female park ranger. She was giving out maps. I decided I wanted one, so when there was no one in line I came up the window, having put on my mask right before I did so.

"Do you have a park permit?" she said, with the tone that suggested she was sure the answer would be no, as she had seen me walk by the machine while approaching the window.

"Uh yes," I said. "It's on the dashboard of my car."

"Oh, well what kind ofpermit  did you get?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "The kind that cost thirty dollars."

With a look of resignation she handed me the map I wanted.

How Trump Wins This Week

Pennsylvania -- awesome development and momentum. court decision last night cleared the way for the Pennsylvania legislature to take control of the appointment of Electors.  Resolution put forth by Mastriano would also ask U.S. Congress to declare the election to be disputed. If Pennsylvania Legislature fails, then an appeal to the Supreme Court  in Trump's suit will be made through Samuel Alito, who issued the Nov. 6 order to state officials.

Wisconsin -- recount is resolved in two counties as requested by Trump. Biden gained 162 votes officials. Trump campaign was able to identify large tranches of ballots to be challenged for various, far more than would necessary to flip the lead back to Trump. Application of the criteria established in this Supreme Court decision from May should result in a Trump win.

Georgia -- people I follow on Twitter seem very sanguine that between the lawsuits of Lin Wood and Sidney Powell, and whatever is going on behind the scenes, enough challengeable ballots will identified that the Supreme Court would throw them out, and restore the lead for Trump.

These states, if they cast Electors for Trump, would give him the win on Dec. 14. If they fail to award them past the 8th of December, this would drag Biden below 270 and send the Election to the House with the 12th Amendment, where Trump would almost certainly win at that point.

Michigan, Arizona and Nevada are also on the table as backups of course, but the three states above are the ones that the smart people I follow have been saying are Trump's strongest and shortest path to victory.

Pennsylvania may clear itself up. In Wisconsin and Georgia it may be necessary to appeal to the Supreme Court, who will decide whether to exclude tranches of ballots identified by the Trump campaign and other private litigants as invalid. How would they rule on such a thing?

Recollections of the Election

 

(Early, with polls still open in California) Fox New Decision Desk Calls the House for the Democrats

(Within an hour of polls closing in Arizona) Fox News Decision Desk Call Arizona for Biden. The early reported returns are supposedly from mail-in ballots, and Biden has a huge lead.

Trump is way ahead in Geogia. Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, with most of the vote counted.

Counting in stopped in Georgia. I was reported this because of a water main break in the auditorium in Fulton County.

Counting is stopped in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

Large blocks of Biden-only votes numbering over a hundred thousand are received in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. For Wisconsin and Michigan, this is sufficient to catapult Biden into a small lead. For Pennsylvania, Biden still trails by hundreds of thousands of votes, but reports emerge of millions of votes yet to be counted. 

Over the next three days, Pennsylvania vote counters seal themselves off from the world as they supposedly count late-arriving mail-in ballots, which in Pennsylvania are absentee ballots. By the end of the week, Biden has finally overcome his huge deficit and overtaken Trump.

Georgia finds ballots in Fulton County to put Biden into a small lead that withstands the trickling in of outlying areas where the votes are heavily Trump.

As it customary for it, Arizona continues counting for a week, as Maricopa County and the outlying areas send in small tranches of ballots. "Maricopa Incoming!" is a trope among local election watchers here. It is not an activity for those with weak nerves. Many expect Trump will take the lead, given the source of remaining votes, but Biden hangs out with a supposed victory of around 10,000.

(within the last few days) Biden's lead in Arizona is cut to 4,000-6,000 as a tranche of Trump-only votes is found uncounted from the Dominion machines.

A Patriot Hero in Pennsylvania

 Doug Mastriano has stepped into the role of a patriot-hero for Pennsylvania, so far acting as worthily in his moment of history as many great patriots in that state before him. It is deeply satisfying seeing people come forth this way and shine with courage and conviction of justice.

He is the Republican Pennsylvania state senator who chaired the hearings in Gettysburg, at which Giuliani presented evidence, and Trump spoke remotely. He is leading the effort to pass a join resolution of the legislature to reclaim from the Governor the power of choosing Electors, which is a right granted to legislatures by the U.S. Constitution. Many state legislatures have given away this power, but they can reclaim it, as the Pennsylvania Republicans are trying to do.

Who'd of thought we'd have a patriot named Doug in the Second 1776?

The Order of the 6th of November

 Looming very large right now.

An order from the Supreme Court to the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania, Kathy Boockvar. Like the Governor, she is a corrupted Democrat. The order mandates that Pennsylvania follow its own laws in regard to the handling of absentee ballots.

Look who signed the order, and when. Samuel Alito, Associate Justice. It is an order from the entire Supreme Court, however. I've heard it means the other Justices were presented with the information necessary to issue an order from the Court. The Trump campaign got this on Friday, the 6th of November, via the Republican Party of Pennsylvania.

The Machines are Gone

 

Trump has switched the game on Biden. Now it is "prove that your supposed 80 million votes actually happened." By this we can infer that Trump can probably prove that Biden didn't get 80 million votes.

The election integrity was a matter of national security conducted under a State of Energy specifically about the election. Trump has military surveillance that proves all of his claims, and more.

The question---how does it get out to the public, in sufficient measure as to make it absolutely clear to anyone the features of the crime that was committed.

There are many ways it is coming out. 

Hillary conceded in 2016 by withdrawing from the Michigan recount, that had been initiated by Jill Stein with the backing of George Soros. She didn't want exposed, what would have been exposed, in Wayne County (Detroit). She took the L to keep that reliable urban machine intact.

Already the urban machines have been exposed. They are already a casualty of this. Right now the Democrats don't care, but they will later. No one will ever trust elections again in those cities, and those states, and others like them, until there is significant election reform.

The United States versus Social Media

 In a recent Tweet he explicitly tied abolition of Section 230 to national security. He is saying that the security of the American nation depends on stripping away the liability protections now granted to social media companies. What that would do to social media companies as they now exist, no one knows, but it would instantly be a different landscape. 

Recall who Wictor theorized were the trigger guys of this crime, the ones who made the decision on Election night to step on the gas pedal of phony Dominion-driven ballot creation, no matter how many it took, cranking it up to the point of making an outright mockery of the electoral process---all to counter the Trump tsunami they had convinced themselves was impossible.

He thinks it wasn't the Democrats themselves who make this decision.

He fingers the Silicon Valley tech barons, who are arrogant, idealistic, moralistic, and are used to getting their own way. They believe they are much smarter than Trump. At least two specific names spring to mind, each of whom is the co-founder of a large social media platform. I would not put Bezos on the list for now. This operation was way too sloppy in a technical sense for anything he would have signed onto, even in a fit of madness.

Would these individuals have been in a position of authority to make this happen? Perhaps. Are they of the character to have taken such an extraordinary step? Perhaps. Would they have needed the approval of anyone else outside this small circle? Perhaps not.  Perhaps they would have thought that this was their hour of destiny, to take charge of the reins of history, despite the caution that would have been proposed by other voices among the elite.

But don't hold your breath for the sight of these folks in orange jumpsuits, Wictor cautions. It will be enough to expose them and to possibly seize their assets. If you let go of the criminal prosecution, then we spare the nation a decade-long ordeal of trials, and better still, we can see all the evidence now, and render a collective judgment as a nation. The question I posed over Thanksgiving dinner was: would anyone, left or right, be heartbroken at the thought of these people destroyed? 

Circuit Theory

 The 11th refers to the Eleventh Circuit Court, which includes the State of Georgia. 

The decision by this Circuit Court will face immediately appeal to the Supreme Court. Each Circuit has a Supreme Court Justice assigned to it, who hears the appeals of that court before it possibly goes to the larger court. The Justice assigned to the Eleventh Circuit Court is a native son of Georgia, Clarence Thomas.

For the Circuit that includes Pennsylvania, it is Samuel Alito.

For the Circuit that includes Michigan, it is Brett Kavanaugh.

For the Circuit that includes Wisconsin, it is Amy Coney Barrett.

For the Circuit that includes Arizona and Nevada, it is Elena Kagan. One can perhaps see part of the reason why Trump is relying on state-level officials acting autonomously in these states.

Seventeen Days

 Trump has made the goal clear: that the world wakes up on the morning of Tuesday, December 15, and Joe Biden has not been elected President by the Electoral College. If we get to that point, then the advantage swings massively to Trump.

The Democrats and their backers (selected individuals among the larger Globalist community), took their best shot at overthrowing the Republic on November 3. Believing Trump to enfeebled among his public support, but knowledgable they can can pull off close wins, they set the stage for a beefed-up Dominion steal operation, a "foolproof" version of what they did in 2016. Then having seen from election day turnout that Trump was going to swamp them, they initiated panicked reactions over the next several hours, including narrative control through selected media outlets, stalling the vote count, and frantic phony ballot creation to match the Dominion numbers they needed (which were comically outrageous in size). Then over the next few days they kept this operation going while thuggishly keeping anyone from watching them. The parroting media repeated the story of Biden's victory, and that all was normal otherwise.

Now Trump gets his shot at retaliation over the next seventeen days. It is already well underway. He has spent the time between election day and today setting up the stage for what he needs---in addition to what was already set up before the election, which was no doubt enormous in scope.

We are going to wake up in a different nation on December 15. Either Joe Biden will have been elected, and we face the reality that the American Republic no longer exists, or we live with whatever awareness we will have, of things of which we do not know, but will have been exposed by Trump. Both of things could happen, actually, but I doubt it. I think only one of the two will have happened by then.

Perhaps, simply,  in Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona (as they just did) and/or Georgia ,tranches of Trump votes hidden by Dominion by uncovered in the behind-the-scenes investigations that are now happening,  or large blocks of signature-less paper ballots or votes loaded from now-missing memory sticks are disqualified sui generis, to flip two of these  to Trump, and Pennsylvania invalidates its own electoral votes, or by court decision.  Or Michigan does likewise, etc. Then Trump wins in the straight up way on December 14 and the election is over.

Even if Trump wins in this simple scenario, however, he will certainly have exposed much between now and then. At this point, he must do this, because he has promised to do so. The nation needs answers as to what happened. We know this was not normal. Guilty parties need to be identified at the very least. We will need some of that knowledge, if not all of it, to learn from this as a nation, and to make sure that it never happens again.

Wictor Thanksgiving: The Good Cataclysm

Today's video makes these valid points:

1. Stop worrying about the Public The Public is fine. The voters are not "brainwashed". They chose Trump overwhelmingly. Trump got his landslide. He got his message through the filter of the tech giants and the corrupt media.  Stop listening to anyone trying to explain Biden's "victory" any terms other than fraud.

2. Stop listening to all conservative media figures who would accept the fraudulent election. Ann Coulter and her ilk are the enemy. She wants you to accept slavery. Phony conservatives who see hopeful things in a Biden Administration must be ignored and shutdown as enemies. There is no future for America if Biden is sworn in. None. There is no possibility of using the Supreme Court and the Congress to stop Biden. The Democrats will have successfully stolen a national election. Nothing will stop them at this point. They will rule by fiat. Congress won't even matter.

3. The U.S. Armed Forces are loyal to Trump.  Trust them. Trump trusted them to expose all this. Trump was able to authorize military action because this was a foreign-domestic attack on our national security. Presenting the evidence they collected to the Supreme Court and the Public would shake up everything to point of destruction. They will not arrest anyone right now. The important part is exposure. This is bigger than any individual in orange jumps. The bad guys will all be powerless in the aftermath. Trump has the authority to confiscate assets. This is much better than having the courts tied up with trials targeted at specific individuals.

"You need to put your personal desires behind you and start thinking of the country."

"You need to recalibrate your mindset to the post-exposure world."

The Good Guys

 My earlier post had some errors regarding who is acting in what role. 

Team Trump (The Trump Campaign)

Donald Trump (plaintiff in the suit in Pennsylvania)

Rudy Giuliani (Trump's attorney)

Jenna Ellis (Campaign spokesman)

Mike Pence (his running mate)

Trump Allies in Government Not Part of his Campaign:

Mike Pompeo (Secretary of State)

William Barr (Attorney General)

His new appointees in the Defense Department

Many people in various agencies, especially military special services and intelligence.

Team Flynn, allies and confidants with Team Trump.

Mike Flynn 

Sidney Powell (his attorney, and also plaintiff in various lawsuits in the states)

Recently with Team Trump:

Ron Coleman (having him not longer on Team Trump officially is a great asset right now).

Other private citizens

Lin Wood (Georgian filing suit in his home state. Sidney Powell shares info with him I think)

The rest of us, doing our part.

RNC Chair, allied with Trump:

Ronna McDaniel

Trump's family:

Melania Trump (First Lady)

Donald Trump Jr.

Media:

RSBN

OANN

The previous confusion of Powell's role (that she was somehow on Team Trump) is the kind of fuzziness that Trump and Flynn love to use, to confuse their enemies. It worked brilliantly here. With Flynn pardoned, Powell is free to pursue the lawsuits she has filed over the use of Dominion in various states. These suits will be pursued even after the election is settled.

As far as Team Trump, it is brilliant to have just a single lawsuit. It says we only need one. We can wrap the whole enchilada of the election in it if we need to, and present it to the Supreme Court. We are confident they will decide in our favor.  

That being said, if they file more of them at this point, then I'm sure that's the right to do as well. 

Trump is fabulously empowering new allies in the states, who are leading the charge with their suits on a state level. These are:

Kelli Ward in Arizona (State GOP Party chair, who was enthusiastic for Trump and praised highly by Trump at his rallies. Compare this to Trump's treatment of Martha McSally, or "Mawtha" as Trump calls her)

Adam Laxalt in Nevada (former Nevada Attorney General, who appeared on state with Trump)

John James in Michigan (challenging his apparent loss in the U.S. Senate race, and thus keeping a wedge open in the state for Trump)T

rumpis also breathing life into the spirit of the state legislatures, who in the origin Constitution were entrusted with great powers, but which have enfeebled since the Progressive Era. The legislatures in Michigan and Pennsylvania seem especially keen to correct the reputations of their state elections.

Trump & Flynn: The Best Buddy Cop Movie Ever. Trump just got his partner back.

The Who of the Whodunnit

 Every mystery, not just murders, are whodunnits. The difference between a conspiracy theory and a theory of a crime is that the latter ultimately confronts the challenge of identifying specific individuals, ideally by name in all cases.

Like all crimes, the Attempt to Steal the U.S. National Election of 2020 was committed by a who.

So, whodunnit?

There are two levels of the crime.

1. The General Attempt to Steal 2020. This was to be an expansion on what was tried in 2016, but came up short. The Democrats got ambushed, they thought. Hillary had to take the L. The solution was to expand the use of Dominion greatly over the next four years, and as much as possible by the 2018 midterms. Their apparent success in 2018, and Trump's lack of response or retaliation, led them to believe their general strategy would work in 2020. It was to make Trump as unpopular as possible through the media. They would buttress their efforts from 2016 with Dominion, taking Georgia, Arizona, and the northern Rust Belt states from Trump---all of these were penetrated heavily by Dominion by this year's election. Even then the Democrats were not sure of victory. They prepped for a possible Biden loss on election night. They were told that the difference could be make up. They would fight in the courts. Votes for Biden would appear. This is the mindset of the top Democrats on Election eve 2020.

2. The Panicked Attempt to Stall for Time on Election Night. Something went wrong with Part 1. The early returns from Florida, especially Miami-Dade, indicated a possible Trump landslide. They didn't see it coming. They had convinced themselves it couldn't happen. But it was happening. Florida has  clean elections, believe it or not, and they count their votes quickly. As it went on, they realized that Florida was going hard for Trump.

The first phase of the panic was the realization that they would need to control the narrative for the evening, to skew it towards the story of a Biden victory, while they stalled for time. So someone  (our first who in this part of the theory of the crime) told Fox New Decision Desk to call Arizona for Biden as soon as the polls closed. Or someone told the head of Fox News, who told the Decision Desk.

They may have made the phony call for the House (Democrats hold and increase) out of the same desperation, or that might have been preplanned as someone from Part 1 above.

3. The All-out Debacle of Stuffing Phony Ballots in Plain Sight in the morning of November 4. 

Things got worse for the Democrats after Florida. The Rust Belt was going hard for Trump. He was mopping up Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin with healthy margins. In any other election they would have called it for Trump. 

Instead counting was halted in those states. This is never done.  Since 1916 at least, national elections are called on election night if humanly possible, even if people stay up all night. A moment's reflection on electoral history will confirm this. They made it sound like the normal thing to do. Only in 2020 would they have taken such an outrageous step as this. Supposedly the auditoriums with the ballots and the machines were locked. In Georgia they gave the excuse of an overflowed toilet that was not in the same building as where the count was taking place. 

Outrageous!

Then in the wee hours, when counting was supposedly stopped. huge blocks of hundreds of thousands of Biden-only votes were dumped into the system in Michigan and Wisconsin. This I witnessed happening in real time. I

The question is: who gave the order to do this frantic rigging operation? Wictor thinks it wasn't the Democrats, who would have taken the L like last time, left on their own. I tend to agree with him. Someone else was driving the decisions in this phase of the operation.  

Once they committed to it, they had to see it through. Georgia and Pennsylvania shut themselves off from the world for the next couple days while they "counted" out o the view of anyone but the inner Party. By the end of the week, Biden would achieve "victories" in those as well. In Pennsylvania it took three days of ballots. Never before has a crime of such magnitude been committed in plain sight with the media proudly broadcasting it. Finally by Saturday they had manufactured enough paper ballots, and run them through the Dominion machines, to give Biden a comfortable "win" in all the contested states.

Whoever it was gave the order to do this, they would have been the people who thought they were in charge on that night. They were knowledgable about the technical details of the operation. They were smart and believed themselves smarter than Trump. 

They are the kind of people who are used to getting their way. They were impetuous. They were sloppy.

Several small groups of people come to mind.

Whoever they are, Trump certainly knows exactly who they are, and he can prove their involvement in this crime with unimpeachable evidence. No doubt he has multiple angles of proof on them by now, including their actions and communications in the aftermath. 

"I caught them all"---Trump at all his rallies this year.

Trump Victory Comes Into Focus

 Consensus among the important voices on Twitter:

1. Pennsylvania--after yesterday, there is no way that Biden gets the 20 Electoral Votes at this point. It may go to the Supreme Court. We can begin to see how that will go, given today's 5-4 ruling on religious liberty.

2. Georgia--almost certainly will be overturned for Trump when illegal ballots are thrown out.

3. Wisconsin--very likely will be overturned for Trump when illegal ballots are thrown out. Team Trump has been challenging huge blocks of paper ballots and setting the stage for them to be thrown out. 

4. Arizona--all of a sudden 6000 votes for Trump appear from nowhere! Biden edge cut down from 10000 to 4000! People feeling sanguine that this will flip to Trump when more ballots are examined. Sidney Powell indicated that Dominion gave all the Democrats a 35,000 vote head start in Arizona. No doubt she can prove this. I've got a big smile on my face.

5. Nevada--Evidence to presented next week. People are confident about this.

6. Michigan---a huge mess but things looking good that the legislature will not stand for the fraud.

Remember Trump only needs 1-3 above to win.  Consensus seems to be that those three states are the most likely to flip for him, but at this point, Giuliani's claim to win all six looks pretty good. Arizona could literally flip to Trump at any moment giving what's been found already. 

The Miracle of a No-Parade Thanksgiving

 Confession and realization this morning: I don't miss the Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast from New York. Not one bit.  

I used to love the festive atmosphere it created on Thanksgiving norning. But the last couple years I noticed it was morphing into a celebration of Wokeness that had laid bare the attempts by the media and Pop Culture to turn Thanksgiving into mere secular starting point for a shopping frenzy of online retailers.  God forbid anyone dress an Indian. 

I used to love watching the previews of the Broadway shows that were part of the NBC Broadcast during the first hour. The last couple years the featured dance numberss were dark and almost downright satanic in theme. Halloween has conquered all other holidays in our culture.  We have year-round Zombieland. 

Hey kids (and grownups who pose as kids), it's cool to be one of the damned. Now let's segue to a bunch of sixteen-year-old girls twerking as if in a sexual frenzy. So empowering!

Funny because last year, on seeing all this in the parade, I truly thought that maybe it was time to get rid of the spectacle, but I had no idea how that could happen.

I'm glad it's gone. I don't mind if the parade never comes back. I look at all of my enthusiasm for anything in Pop Culture differently now. I see it as part of the manipulation, that was used to almost destroy the Republic. I see how all the music I liked and the television spectacles I enjoyed were part of the corruption. 

The Supreme Court threw Cuomo in the trash yesterday and restored religious liberty. A huge turning point in the country perhaps. We are getting the country back.

So Much to Be Thankful For

 Back home in Arizona. Got home last night after sundown. I stretched my usual practice of not driving past on the road the last two nights, one while coming into LasVegas from the north, and last night while coming into Phoenix from the east. Driving in the dark on an Interstate while approaching a city is actually preferable to driving into a city in the daytime. This is especially true when coming home

What a last couple days it has been. Somehow I knew that the drama of the election would reach a critical point on the day before Thanksgiving. Trump, as many have pointed out, is master showman who once wanted to be a movie director. I knew he would not let people head into Thanksgiving without something huge happening. 

Yesterday was huge. I could sense it even from the limited checks of Twitter I could make while driving back from Las Vegas. Over the weekend many people on Twitter---not folks on the ground---were peeling away from Trump. Where's the Kraken, eh? The usual weak-willed souls, afraid of having too much "hope" were reverting to their sad sack defeatist ways. They are defeated people who can only imagine a defeated Trump. It was perhaps the last cleansing of our side, to expose the strong and weak in this moment.

By mid day yesterday the sentiment had changed drastically. A confident feeling that Trump really will be victorious is now gaining traction. 

I had already marveled at the impatience of the weak defeatists. Two weeks ago, when Biden was "declared" the winner by the media, Trump was telling people that the nation would know that he was the clear winner.  That was accomplished in the following week. Everyone knows he was the real winner, even the Democrats. We now can see that the boast of Team Trump to have massive evidence of fraud was no bluff. Challenges are underway in all the critical states. 

Flynn was pardoned because it is no longer necessary, as it was, to continue his court case in order to provide the grounds for legal discovery against the coup plotters. He can step into an open role in the Trump Administration tomorrow. Democrats can pound sand and scream. This is the kind of wailing I could play on my headphones while falling asleep at night. Four years of their wailing during the upcoming Second Trump Administration will be almost as pleasurable as listening to Handel's Messiah.

This morning the Supreme Court delivered a massive rebuke to Cuomo on religious liberty. Amy Coney Barrett made the difference. Gorsuch stepped into his moment of his history to assert the Constitution's primacy even in this "pandemic." This is the buzzsaw awaiting Biden and the Democrats.

People are going to have Thanksgiving. The liberal attempt to rid us of this hated holiday of family and reverence is going to fail. 

For that, I am very thankful.

Really Rich, Really Stupid People

 Intriguing Wictor insight, based on the work of Joel Kotkin. I think it makes sense and explains some things. 

The Democrats were not in charge of the election fraud. They contracted with Dominion to win, and participated, but they are not the ones who pushed the panic button on election night, causing the ridiculous flood of phony ballots.

Who was it? Wictor points at the Silicon Valley Oligarchs, and their Globalist allies and backers. These people have tremendous hubris, Wictor said, and believed themselves smarter than Donald Trump. They are the ones who told Dominion to step on the gas and win at any cost. They have been under military surveillance by Trump the whole time. 

The Other Side of California

 Drove from Pleasanton to Bishop, California. Retraced my way over the Carquinez Strait, then along the base of the hills past the Sacramento Delta, then across the flat central valley into the industrial vineyard lands, then finally climbing up to solid ground at the little metropolis of the state capital. This time I whizzed through without stopping. It was joyful to drive up Highway 50 in the sunlight past Placerville, and into the narrowing gorge of the South fork of the American River.

I stopped at a river access in the national forest and consulting my road atlases in the sunlight under a thick organic wood picnic table half strewn with leaves, on a small bluff above the river. The sun was barely above the top of the mountains, the gorge being so narrow, and it being late in the year.

I could see I would have barely enough daylight to make my destination. I resolved to drive straight through without stopping the rest of way. This I did, coming down and seeing Tahoe again in the brilliant clear sunlight, shimmering blue amidst the mountains around it and with the sunlit snowcapped mountain ridge behind it. Traffic is heavy in Tahoe. I was surprised to see literally hundreds of people around the main lodge in South Tahoe on the California side. It looked like peak season in a normal year.

Then I came down the Kingsbury Grade from Tahoe, leaving behind the lovely snow, and descending into the lush sweet part of Nevada. Cutting through Gardnerville reaffirmed that the place is growing lby leaps of population. The traffic was intense. I barely got any relief until I was well out of town on 395, heading up into the hills.

It is a beautiful drive. Once you cross back into California the land becomes sparse and beauitful. A little hamlet of Walker, on a valley on the Upper Walker River, offers services. Bridgeport, several sparse valleys later, is a more sizeable town. 

As I drove I did a mental calculation based on the distance ahead, compared to the time of sunset in Bishop. I reckoned I might arrive in town just at the end of civil twilight, and with forty miles of fuel left int he tank. I'm happy to report I stuck the landing. The Sierra was a dark jagged edge against orange as enterred the town limits. I could still see the cows in the fields. 

Maskless in San Francisco

 Yesterday morning I left my room early on foot and walked ten minutes with my backpack to the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station. Like the hotel where I am staying, it is directly along the freeway, I chose the hotel to be close to the station. It's the furthest station out on the Blue line of the BART towards the east.

I caught the 8:25 train. I had left with ample time I thought, but I had not figured on the impossibility of buying one of the new loaded-up plastic fare cards---exactly the kind of system I worked on in Portland.  The interface in the kiosk was a disaster, No button to actually buy the card when you are using a credit card. I kept hearing the station announcement for the train while I frustratingly retried the process. I was saved from missing the train only because I had a handy twenty dollar bill and could buy one with cash.

The BART car was the classic kind that has been used since the 1970s. There were three people in the car when we started. All of us with masks, of course. Scattered throughout the car. The automatically door of the car had trouble shutting. This would cause issues as the train progressed. At one station the female BART employee hectored the phantom causing the door to remain jammed, lecturing the person to let the door close. 

Going west we went up into the hills, with the houses becoming sparser, and then crossed through a gap where one could see the Bay, as well as the sprawl of south Oakland. We down into Oakland and passed the industrial storage yards for shipping and logistics. There were grass-covered train tracks, fences of seamless graffiti, barbed wire around lots full of cable spools, trucking depots, and plain ornamented metal buildings housing all manner of things that make the world operate. I love this part of Oakland.

As we got near downtown Oakland, the names of the BART stations came back to me, from my many visits to this city over the years, going back to the spring of 1984.

By the left we got to the last stop in downtown, the seats of the car were full. By that I mean that each bank of seats, or pod of facing seats, was occupied by a person all to themselves. Two or three were standing.  A panhandler came through asking for money. 

Soon we were in the tunnel and I felt the pressure in my ears as we zoomed in the tube under the water. We came up out an Embarcadero. It was a Sunday morning, but the platform looked dark and dead. Likewise at the other stations going up from the water---it felt like I was in a much smaller city than San Francisco, even for a Sunday.

I waned to ride the train all the way to Daly City, which was the end of the Blue line. I was forced to change to another train on the way because fore some reason the one I was on stopped before the end. There was an announcement about what passengers were supposed to do, but it was mumbled by the woman over the intercom, and each time she started talking, the train picked up and the noise completely drowned out what she was saying.

I got off the train into the station not knowing what to do. Fortunately another train came by, a modern one bound for San Francisco Airport, and I hopped on that. The cars reminded me of the ones in Europe, flexed out at the sides and with ample poles to hand on to, like a gymnasium, and no wide pods of facing seats. Much closer seating.

I rode the rest of the way to Daly City, which is just over the border from San Francisco city limits. From there I could walk down to the beach, I figured. The station was the quintessence of concrete modernism. I couldn't help find the aesthetic interesting. The raised platform was so clean, empty, and bright on a Sunday morning,  and one could see out for miles to the south, but not to the ocean.

Getting down to the beach proved harder than I thought. I had looked at the map, and loaded it up on my iPhone, and figured I knew the general route, but it proved impossible to follow due to lack of pedestrian crossings over mini freeways with concrete barriers and fences around golf courses, and street blocked entirely. I cut down through the campus of San Francisco State---the wokest place in the world. There a smattering of woke banners on the lampposts. Kids were out playing soccer. 

A large park offered the opportunity to head along some trails, and I thought they might take me to the ocean, but they popped back out onto the sidewalk after short distances.

Finally after almost two hours angling, zigzagging, and picking my way along trails and sometimes doubling back, I made it in sight of the beach, at the end of Sloat Avenue. I could hear the ocean. I went down onto the beach and sat on the sand in the sun. The breeze was cold in a bracing ocean breeze way, so I kept my hat. I ate the lunch I packed in my backpack.

Coming down from Daly City, about two-thirds of the people I passed were wearing masks. On the beach many were maskless, but many not. People strolled in groups along the edge of the water, in the stiff ocean breeze, wearing masks.   But the fishermen tending the rods stuck into the sand at regular ingtervals and their families, if they brought them, were not wearing masks. Nor were the surfers, some of them not even wearing body suits. Nor were many others. Nor was I. I had taken mine off outside the Daly City station, once I saw one person not wearing it, who happened to be a young woman on a bicycle.

When We Could Use Plastic

Pleasanton. I checked in last night at the Best Western Plus and dined on a Nation's Giant hamburger, which fortunately was right next to the hotel, making for the perfect first night dinner in California. The booths inside the Nation's were blocked with stools and tapes. One had to lean over a table to insert one's card in the chip reader. This was in addition the plexiglass barrier at the counter. I could see the folks running the restaurant were under a lot of stress.  They had mixed up many to-go orders. I tried to be helpful with one customer who didn't hear the name called out.

I was glad to finally get my burger, along with a quarter of a pecan pie, because you have to buy some at Nation's too, and headed back to my room. I ate the pecan pie with the paper-wood fork they gave me. But at least they could still give me a paper sack to put all of the items in. The Asian guy at the gas station convenience store across the street had been able to give me only a paper sack. "Oh, yes, paper sack." I said, cheerfully through my mast. "I'm in California now."

"I miss plastic," the man said to me, with a tone of nostalgia.

Biden To Concede?

The vibe I'm picking up is that Trump is possibly offering a deal to the Democrats behind the scenes. They can back out. Biden can concede and save what's left of his honor. The media can say "oops!' 

The slam dunk proof that Trump possesses is more than the raw vote counts on the Dominion Server, as well as proof of the digital communications to and from the server.

This was a coordinated effort by people in both political parties. They were under surveillance by Trump with FISA warrants for a long time, probably before the 2018 election. What if he has mountains of recordings of them talking with each other about what they were going to do, including on the night of the election? What if that's the "Kraken"? What are the odds that Donald Trump doesn't possess that kind of evidence?

If Biden is directly implicated, then he could be offered a deal. "Slither away" and let the hammer fall on others.  Cooperation can do wonders. Biden could come out of this looking a mini-hero if he turned and ratted out the others.

The March of the California Trumpers

 On the other side of the gap in the metal barricade I found myself in the street that went past the front of the Capitol. It was full of Trump supporters milling around, many with flags and signs. A tent had been erected on the grass by the sideway to tell Stop the Steal flags and other merchandise. It was the only vendor. 

Some people were standing on the sidewalk. A few minutes after I arrived, someone said something about it was time to start walking, and it seemed that the movement was going forward, so I joined in the precession in stride, behind a Chinese man and his son. There were many Asians present, almost half as many as the white people. Some hand home made signs staying Stop the Steal in English and Chinese. A woman was handing out copies of the Epoch Times, which is a well-known pro-Trump newspaper published in Hong Kong and the U.S.

We came down to the end of the street. People were crowded in a small grassy area.It seems people were being forced through there by the line of Sacramento PD officers. There was enormous commotion past the bushes. Evidently a confrontation of some kind. People couldn't get through. I hung in the back of the crowd where a homeless black guy on the other side of the metal barricade chatted with some marchgoers in a friendly way.

After a few minutes the source of the commotion was made obvious. A small group of Antifa had attempted to start a skirmish. A few Proud Boys were walking around, describing the incident. One Proud Boy looked like a cop with. walking talkie on his vest, but a label clearly saying 'Proud Boy" in neat white letters. The cops were standing around frozen.  Overhearing the Proud Boy talk about what he had seen, it was clear they saw their role here as protecting the marchers from assault by the other side, who were prone to violence.

Antifa went way when some mounted officers rode up toward them. It only took about five minutes for them to arrive.. The Antifa posse scurried across the street and down the street away from us in petulant retreat.. There were maybe five of them at most. One young woman had a sign saying FUCK TRUMP written with ugly graffiti script.  They looked scrawny and insignificant, like play actors, It was a token response to our presence.

All this while the other cops were standing around, in black with black masks, saying nothing  Male and female cops plenty. I did not feel menaced by them. I could not see wha their collective feeling was towards us. If any of them were in significant, they were forbidden to show it.

I figured the crowd jammed up on the grassy part by the building would begin passing through the narrow gap. I thought that was probably not my gig today, to follow that, so having marched in the march, and seen the enemy dispersed, I drifted back in the crowd an then walked back the way I come. More and more folks were arriving. Young couples, as if on a protest date. I passed by the tent on the way back and looked at the merchandise for sale. A tall young man flaming gay in hair style and feminine of gait was chatting up some of the people staffing the booth. He was carrying a big red flag saying "Fuck Antifa".

I went back through the gap in the gate and found that the trucks with Trump flags were pouring around the corner at a constant rate. Many people were cheering them on as the cops stood by.

I walked back along the road, then cut through the California arboretum again, wishing I could linger and look at the trees and the plaques giving the species. But I had miles to drive yet today. I could hear the honking of the horns of the trucks through the trees. Now and then a dissenter was heard, in the form of someone blasting the rap song "Fuck Donald Trump" from their car stereo. But the dissent felt week, as if it were just people making trouble, rather than having any substance.

That's what it felt like---the opposition had no substance to it. It was as their were no real opposition at all.

Trend of the Day

 People on our side on Twitter retweeting mainstream media sources and woke celebrities about how easy it is to hack U.S. elections through manipulation of digital voting systems. All the originals are from before the election of course, but collectively they make quite a case for how feasible it would be to t do that.

Getting Into Sacramento

 One is of course on the edge of great metropolis there, where the houses are built up in swirls into the golden hills, and where the freeway widens to more lanes than one can count at a glance, and the traffic thickens and roars. It is the Metropolis of California. Sacramento is the edge of it, but one knows that from here forward to the coast, and south to border, it is all the same California--Continuous California, where the cities and their outliers are a web of exits on freeways that are lined by brush and bushes and tall palms that silhouette hillsides of rounded tops or crested by houses that form neat jagged lines.

I had had the notion to stop at the State Capitol and to pray on the steps, just silentl begging God to help the State and Nation at this moment. The night before in Tahoe Vista I had looked up the exit in downtown Sacramento for the capitol, and located a nearby parking garage on the map. I left the map open in a browser on my laptop to consult in my car.

The exit wfinally came. It finally appeared. I turned off on to the frontage road and headed along 10th towards the direction of the parking garage. It would take me past the front of the capitol before I got to the garage.. There was a Taiwanese Restaurant just one black along the street--a good sign---and businesses and odd-shaped little official-looking buildings on either side. 

I had choreographed the approach to the garage it in my mind, as I always do when doing a vehicle expedition into a city..  

I knew the Capitol would be closed . I wasn't interested in going inside. In my choreography anticipated finding the garage, then walking to the Capitol, and just sitting on the steps for a few moments to pray.

From a block away I saw the street up ahead opposite the traffic light was by blocked off by a meal guard rail. A uniformed cop was standing behnd  the rail, and other cops were visible behind him All traffic had to turn right on the one way street going east that went around the east side of the capitol.. As I made the turn I looked down the blocked off street and saw it was filled with people. I could see many were carrying Trump flags and US flags.

The street that I had turned onto was many lanes wide. It ran for four five blocks without allowing a left turn, because the street was south edge of the expansive wooded park to the east of statehouse.  After several blocks I realized that one of the trucks ahead of me was flying the American flags and Trump flags from its pick up bed. i

Finally I was able to turn left. But when I turned again to head west to get to the garage. I found this street too was blocked as well by another uniformed police officer. Realizing I'd need a bigger detour to get to the garage, I used my wits and circled back immediately and headed north again on the street I had been on. Luckily I saw a free parking space on the curb with no meter. I was relieved to get out of the car on solid ground. I found myself in front of a trendy Asian cuisine eatery. 

It was about 1 o'clock when I parked. I hoped the rally wasn't over already. I figured I could catch the ending of it at least.

I considered for a minute to change clothes quickly in the car into one of my red Trump shirts, to wear under by jacket, or to wear my USA Trump, the sight of which on my noggin set off my lovely sister into rage a year ago.  But I was already a Trump, and I figured I that would be the right thing to do was to be myself, so I decided to go in the clothes I was wearing.

I walked quickly along the sidewalks in the blocks until I got the the capitol park, which is an expansive arboretum of the species of California, interlaced with paved walkways in various directions. I passed people dining in restaurants outdoors in patios and under heating lamps. It strained my charity to think of them and how they probably thought about the election.

Once I got in the park, and mingled among the people on the paths . It was clear that many of the people walking around were going to and from the Trump rally. One young man was talking about a famous Black Internet personality who supports Trump. 

I navigated through the trees and found the central tree-lined alley that led me to the middle of the east side of the great buildingg. I could see the back steps. It was obvious from the barricades and the continuous line of cops standing and facing outward, one every fifty feet or so, that there would praying on the capitol steps today.

 I held my hands clasped out in front of me, fingers interlaced, and recited the Jesus Prayer as I walked in front of the line of police, my eyes half closed as I walked alone down the wide sidewalk that went along the metal barricade.. Up ahead I heard the sound of honking, including one like a semi, echoed by other horns of smaller trucks.

When I got to the corner I saw the parade of trucks was not a continuous line displaying all the flags---Stars and Stripes, Trump, MAGA,  Gadsen. There was a truck driven by a Hispanic guy with just the Trump flag and the Mexican flag. They were lined up, coming around the corner I had turned earlier, and like a road rally around the Capitol.  Trump supporters with flags stood in front of the barricade, cheering on the trucks. Six or seven Sacramento PD officers wearing black uniforms and black masks were standing around behind the metal barricade. People were going through a gap in the barricade where several cops stood close by. I lingered to appreciate the trucks, my ears watering with emotion, and then turned and went through the gap in the barricade.

Free California

 For a night in dystopia, the Firelite Lodge in Tahoe Vista is very good bargain for a clean modern place. The woman at the front desk was very friendly. She had a Hungarian accent. She said its family business. There are gas fireplaces in the rooms and a tiny balcony that looks out over the lake.

In the morning it took forever for the sun to rise. The early morning the sky was covered with a slab of clouds. 

By the time I got going, it was starting to clear up. I went around the west side of the lake, the California side, which along the north part of the shore is many private homes and cottages built over the years in different vintages.

Coming along the coast you start to climb into the mountainside. The snow was magnificent, falling from the fir trees is shimmering little bursts in the sun. 

On the south edge of the lake I cut inland on U.S. West,

going up into the Sierra until you get one last glimpse of the lake in your mirror through a gap in the mountains. On the other side of the Sierra, the road comes winding down in two lanes, sometimes with a passing lane, and the cars coming roaring down and come up in long trains. I took one opportunity to get out at a river access to climb down and hear the sound of the running water before going on.

At Placerville you finally come out of the mountains. I detoured through the historic downtown. The Main Street is narrow and finding, filled with great activity and many businesses. West from Placerville the highway becomes four lane, and gentler in its curves. It is a relief after the mountains to drive on it.

A few miles down the road one detects the oncoming presence of civilization in the form of HOV lanes with a solid lane marker and a diamond. One sees the houses newly built on the golden hillsides. One is on the edge of a metropolis of some kind. 

One sees the sign at the border of Sacramento County. All the while since coming down from Lake Tahoe I had been in El Dorado County. The sheriffs of both these counties had been among the first small group of sheriffs to announce they would not enforce the statewide curfew order by the Governor

It felt good to be in Free California.

A Message in Golden Script

 The dinner I had in honor of my Great Uncle at Lone Eagle Grill, his favorite steakhouse in Incline Village, was pleasant and relaxing. It was a lively room with a high wood lodge ceiling and a view out over the lake. I arrived early in order to watch the sunset, which was glorious, bathing the wooden deck chairs on the beach in a tangerine-golden light. For dinner I had the elk steak at the suggestion of the friendly server.

After dinner I drove back to my hotel in the dark. I had already checked in before dinner. The road took me through Incline Village and then cuts across a rocky point of land before you come to the cluster of old casinos on the border. Eight years ago when I first went to Burning Man, I came here with other Burners from Aspen I'd met. We stayed at the Cal-Neva, which was once partially owned by straddles the state line, and which is supposedly haunted by famous people.

But that was not my destination tonight. Instead I kept driving past the marquee lights and within a few seconds I saw the distinct road sign. Its three-word message in joyful yellow script is one that has greeted many Americans over the years, inspiring all manner of American-specific emotions upon seeing it. The common stereotype of its message has mostly been one of excitement and the promise of fulfillment of one's aspirations in a way that no other similar sign could inspire.

But at this moment, at this hour of history, the sign felt to me heavy with ominous implications, a twisted dystopic version of what the sign once implied. I felt no fear when I saw it, yet something in me tightened, as if I would now need to be on guard in a strange new way.

The sign said simply: Welcome to California.

What Comes Next?

 In Wictor's latest video he discusses Trump's possible plans ahead. He notes his own inability to think on Trump's level, and thus he doesn't know the exact course ahead.

As I'm watching things play out, I'm noticing there are two levels to what is going on:

1. The small-ball game. This is the strategy of getting legal and fair audits of the votes that may flip the six states without anything else happening. Trump could conceivable win this way without anything else happening, by just flipping three of the six states, or depriving Biden of the Electoral Votes. 

2. The big picture game. This is Kraken-gone-wild level. This where Trump produces not only enough evidence to verify everything in the small-ball game, but also proves nationwide coordinated election fraud that involves foreign influence,  possibly goes back several election cycles, and proves that Trump not only won the six states in question but perhaps many people, as well as the popular vote. This is the Doomsday scenario for the Democratic Party.

Note that he could seal re-election by number 1 alone. But people are hungering for number 2. Sidney Powell is outright saying something like this will revealed. 

The more I think about, it seems that if I were thinking like Trump, I would make sure that scenario number 1 is solid so that if all else fails, I would still be re-elected. But there is a bigger obligation on him now, which is to prove the "outrageous" allegations. To not do this at this point would be to waste this entire opportunity in history, and to leave the country in danger of the same thing happening again at some point.

So Trump is fighting on two levels. I would strongly bet that he will win on both levels. That is, he will be re-elected by Constitutional procedures, and he will also bust the bad guys. At this point, anything else would not seem Trumpian. 

Amazing Day

Georgia Sec. of State backs down from statewide certification. It wouldn't matter if he did certify, but the fact that he retreated for now is highly telling.

Michigan state legislators fly to Washington meet with Trump. Biden throws a bit about it.

Pennsylvania legislator begins hearings on the election and Dominion Voting System reps fail to show up.

At what point to the Democrats realize they are screwed. Actually in this amazing video thread by Duane Cates, they already do, which is why they are so quiet. It's the media still spinning the lies at full speed. I can't say if that's true, as the only media I've absorbed was while sitting in my Great Uncle Dick's living room.

I had the privilege of thinking over these things while walking along the shores of Lake Tahoe. It was a sunny day and I took off my coat in the sun as I sat on the rocks in the state park on the Nevada side. There is already snow on the peaks and enough for snowshoeing, had I brought my snowshoes.

Tonight I'm dining in Incline Village at my Great Uncle's favorite steak house up here. He can't eat out anymore, so I'm having a dinner in his honor in celebration of our visit.

Friday

 D-DAY+11 1200 EST

The big lawsuits are now being filed. Georgia is the thunderclap.  

Themes of the day:

People learning that Tucker Carlson is not a dependable patriot.

Everyone realizing Sidney Powell doesn't bluff.

Everyone realizing Sidney Powell will be among the short list of great patriots in this phase of the ongoing American Revolution. 

Meta-theme; the struggle between trial in a court of law and trial by public opinion through the media.

Meta-commentary: Batman's criminal adversaries used their showiness to dazzle people and let them walk off with the fruits of their crimes. Batman defeated them in part by having an even cooler costume. 

Add on #1:

Dominion not putting up a fight but cowering and running for cover. 

Personal commentary: I've had bad coding jobs, but none as bad as the people they hired to do this. These people, many of them foreigners who've never set foot in the U.S., are in a world of hurt. Each single one of them is probably subject to U.S. military apprehension at this point. If I were them I would rush to come clean and possibly walk free when this is done.

Add on #2:

Hunch: Wisconsin is going to an easy flip. It will happen in the recount, which will also be a real audit. Many mail-in ballots will be thrown out, far more than enough to flip the state back to Trump. How do I know? Trump tweeted out the graph of Wisconsin votes on the night of the election. This is to my recollection as well. The spike at 3:42 AM (which I witnessed at the time with many others) is grotesquely massive and was coincidentally just enough to give Biden the edge at the end. Recall this happened at a time when counting was supposedly stopped for the night (which never happens, but somehow happened in six states at once in this election). 

Bizarre hunch: at some point, the Democrats will begin openly defending election fraud as necessary.

Team Trump:

Donald Trump

Jenna Ellis

Rudy Giuliani

Sidney Powell

Recently Team Trump and still very close:

Ron Coleman. Video of Ron Coleman explaining what he does and does not know. 

Private citizen allied with Team Trump:

Lin Wood (Georgia)

State-level GOP officials allied with Team Trump:

Kelli Ward (Arizona GOP chair)

Adam Laxalt (Former AG of Nevada) 

Various party leaders and legislators in Michigan and Pennsylvania.  There is a sense that the various states will be allowed to clear up their own messes as much as possible, with the exception of Georgia, where they are going to have to use strong muscle against a corrupt Governor and state GOP.

Meta-realization #2: Trump is teaching the nation the civics of federalism, and the genius behind it. He did this during the pandemic by empowering the governors of the states as much as possible. He couldn't say enough about the importance they brought to the effort, if you watched his daily briefings as we did. The press couldn't understand the concept of it. I don't get it! Why doesn't the federal government just do everything, they whined. What a disgrace that it was people like that who are allowed the rare privilege of asking questions of the President at a time of crisis. This is the rotted fruit of the American higher education system. You had to be a throwback to care about such things. I know. 

Now Trump is teaching us the importance of state legislatures, which were once the cornerstone of American democracy. Until the Twentieth Century, Senators were almost like ambassador-negotiators from the state to the federal government, appointed by the legislatures. That way the states themselves had a direct voice in the running of the federal government. The people had a voice through the state legislatures, and also directly through the House of Representatives. 

Trump is forcing the state legislatures to step up. He is making it appealing to them to do so, because it will make them feel like patriots saving the country, which is exactly what they will be doing. It seems to be on track to working in Pennsylvania and Michigan. It's almost impossible to see Biden getting those 36 electoral votes at this point. That puts Biden at max 270. One more state gone and it goes to the House, if not Trump winning outright in the Electoral College. Hello, Wisconsin?

The Biden fantasy is coming unglued by the hour. Best appreciate the horrifying view into dystopia while it lasts.

Best of Both Worlds

Over the past couple years folks have often whimsically put forth the notion that Donald Trump has access to a time machine. The gag is supported by the fact that his uncle John Trump was a physicist who supposedly was gifted the unused esoteric patents of the famous inventor Nicola Tesla. I can't vouch for that last part, as I've never looked into it. 

Certainly it has seemed at times that Trump did indeed have such time travel powers, although I think personally it is just that he operates at such a level of genius that it seems like he has a time machine.

I thought about this idea this morning while having my free pancake breakfast in the Gold Dust West Casino in Carson City. One good thing about casino hotel breakfast rooms is that they don't have televisions blaring CNN at full volume. Casinos don't like people distracted by television. So I was able to meditate in thoughts as I drank my coffee without the evil wizard power being blared at me.

I thought about how before the election I had talked to one of my friends who formerly was a strong Trump supporter, but who somewhat lost his mind (partially through arsenic poisoining) and now hates everyone in politics. This partially because he felt betrayed that Trump had not busted the bad guys up until then. He turned and became one of the mockers of Trump for not arresting people. He asserted that he wanted Biden to win because America deserved it. We deserved Kamala Harris, AOC, etc. We deserved tyranny.

I admit that in the days after the election, I had moments of doubt, as I mentioned, looking into the abyss, where I had thoughts somewhat along the same lines. I thought: I guess America needs to see what slavery looks like. But that was before it became obvious to me and others that Trump had busted them "bang to rights" as Wictor says, and there is no doubt that all will be exposed, and that Trump will be reinaugurated on Janurary 20. This outcome has become only more obvious to me with each passing day.

Yet somehow, because of the way this is being stage managed by Trump, by letting the media and the Democrats wallow in the hollow fruit of their crime for a few weeks, we are being gifted a clear solid glimpse into the alternative future in which Biden actually did get elected President on November 3. It's not a pretty look. to say the least. We are already hearing thought-balloons coming out about "permanent lockdowns" and "lifelong mask wearing." We are seeing how Biden would surrender the nation to foreign powers. We are seeing how there will a crackdown and complete censorship on the (at least) seventy-three million who voted for Trump (the actual number is probably much higher, as we will learn). We are realizing that we would never again have fair elections. We would have lost our freedom as a nation. If I didn't know it was all going to go poof very soon, it would be very scary. It's still scary to think how close we veered to this.

All this feels a bit like a movie about time travel, or an alternative reality, where the characters jumps into a dystopia and have to find their way back to normal reality, thankful that they live in the actual timeline. 

We would never have gotten this glimpse if Trump had stopped the crime in advance and won on election night in the nationwide landslide that he apparently achieved. Everything would have just kept going on as before. We would never have known just how wretchedly evil and unAmerican the Democrats have become.

I agree with those who say this was gift to us from Trump. We got the best of both worlds---a temporary vision of the hellscape that Biden would have brought, followed by Trump victory that takes us safe and sound back to reality.

Good News for Uncle Dick

 I spent the day with my great-uncle. He lives in a section of Reno with old houses. It was a marvelous day. I told him I think of him as an older brother, that I'm the youngest member of that family he was in---because I remember them and their world, and I feel more at home in it that the present day at time. But not really. This is my day. This era is product of the defects of my generation, whom I knew would turn traitor to the U.S. at some point, because we were being conditioned away from understanding it.

He gave me small oranges---Cuties. I told him how his sister was like a second mother to me, and how I was so close both her and Don growing up, and that I felt like the luckiest person in the world.

We talked about flight and airplanes. We talked about his days in the 15th Air Force, 324th squadron 97th Bomb Group. I saw a picture of his crew on the wall. They bombed Prague once, and Vienna multiple times, as that was the principal location of the oil installations.

I told him I wasn't even sure how he had voted, although I knew his leanings, so I had broached it cautiously. He is an investor and he was watching CNBC, while he kept on in the background. 

He made money by buying land and stocks. He's very good at it. He got that from his father, my great-grandfather, who was a traveling salesman in the Middle West, and who died owning dozens of properties. He told me about land deals he'd made in various places around Reno, and the ones that were very good, and the ones where he only got his money back.

We talked about Nevada, as we had done on the phone. He mentioned other areas that he suspected were going to grow in time. We both agreed that Carson (City) is a pit.

"It's always colder and windier up there," he said. Dick thinks the Reno climate is the ideal one.

Finally the election came up.

"President-Elect" Biden came on to give a press conference on CNBC. I told him that I couldn't keep talkiing to him with Biden in the background. I made some disparaging remark that indicated my feelings.

That opened up everything. I told him what I thought. I explained that Donald Trump was going to be inaugurated for a second term on January 20. One hundred percent. He very much liked that. He said that gave him a reason to keep on living for a while.

I was shocked to learn that he wasn't aware that Clark County had thrown out 150,000 ballots of a county election because of fraud, and that those ballots were also presidential ballots. It was news to him.

"The nailed these guys and they are going to deliver justice. We will have the rule of law again in this country...and Nevada is going to have fair elections."

Wictor Solves the Crime

I very much agree with this point Wictor makes in that last video. This is slam dunk:

1. The raw votes were sent to Dominion in Frankfurt, Germany, and to Barcelona.

2. The raw votes were therefore intercepted by the U.S. military in some manner. No question about it.

"And that's all you need. The raw votes."

Don't need to seize the servers. Game over. Can't be argued. 

Also stay tuned for a nuclear level announcement by Wictor at about nineteen minutes. Something mindblowing if it works out.

And yes, the Giuliani video Wictor mentions is mindblowing too. Highly recommended. I agree with Wictor that Giuliani cannot have been told about national security issues, as he is Trump's personal lawyer. So when he says "we're looking for anomalous votes" etc., keep that in mind. Whatever Giuliani knows about the natsec aspect of this, he has to at least pretend he doesn't know about it.

He explains how Smartmatic, the subcontractor used by Dominion, cooked the vote totals.

Tectonic Change in the U.S. Military

 Brilliant Wictor video about Trump's creation of the Special Operations Command as a new branch of the military, and why that is so important. Wictor is very much is in his area of expertise in this one. Over the years he has been insistent that the Saudis and Gulf Arabs had revolutionized warfare by the introduction of strategic special services (instead of just tactical special services). The idea is that one man by himself can have the power of an entire division of conventional forces.  The U.S. lagged behind but Trump is finally catching to this idea.

"This change means Trump knows he's not going anywhere."

The Return of the Waist Gunner

 Just talked to my Great-Uncle Dick, who among other things, was a waist gunner in a B-17 in the Second World War, and who ran a successful court reporting firm in Reno for many years. He worked out of the Washoe County Courthouse, which is featured in this entertaining Traveltalks color short film from 1943. 

While I talked to him I was outside on my cellphone in the parking of the hotel in Carson City. He was just about to take his morning medications. He described the physical limitations of his body. At 95 years old, that's to be expected.

We arranged I would drop by later. He wanted to make sure I had a mask. I said I had six. You have to have to go out and about these days, I told him.

I told him about my drive up from Las Vegas. I had spoken to him there after checking out of Trump International, I had driven over to the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd where I parked.

I told him how I'd come up from Las Vegas in the desert, driving on some highways that were new to me. I told him how I had needed to cleanse my mind a bit from the heightened situation in the country and the world.

I told him how I stopped in Yerington. He perked up. "Yerington is a nice town," he said. Dick has lived in Reno since 1957.

I told him about Gardnerville and Minden, and how they had exploded in growth. He knew what I meant. "If I were young and starting out here in Nevada, that's where I would buy a house and live." 

He said, "didn't you say you had a friend here you might visit in Reno,"

I said that there were several people I might want to visit on this trip, and that the friend he mentioned was one of them, but that I wasn't planning on calling him right now. 

"It might strain charity for both of us, if politics came up, and it probably would," I said,

He jumped in. "You know, I'm surrounded by liberals, and of course I disagree with them...but we still get along."

"That's your generation," I said. "You guys can disagree. My generation, and people younger than me. We can't do that. If someone I know my own age who voted for Biden finds out that I voted for Trump...twice...then nine times out of ten they are going to lose their mind and start screaming at me."

He recognized what I meant, in regard to his own grand-daughters, who live in Southern California, and who refuse to talk to their own parents, who are staunch Republicans.

"You can't reason with them," he said. "They don't recognize facts. They don't recognize history."

"Now you see," I told him, "why I treasure your presence here on earth, and am loathe to see you go. You guys--all of you guys---I remember you and what the world was, that you lived in. And I know that we---my generation---I knew we were different. Where we are now, I've seen it coming since 1972. But you guys, all of you guys, you lived in the real world."

"I feel sorry for them," I said. "They are going to lose and they are going to be in a world of hurt. We have justice on our side, and truth, and the law"

He concurred.

Trump as Batman: Law and Honor

 In the post "The Spy Who Loved Us" on Nov. 1 I gave very brief summary encapsulating who the real Donald Trump is, in the minds of some people who have followed him.  In that I mentioned that Trump explicitly identified himself as Batman to a boy who asked him at the Iowa State Fair. That was in August 2015, five months before the first primary. Here's a video about it. 

I won't recap the points I made in that earlier post. But yesterday I was thinking the idea of Trump as Batman. It occurred to me I was missing part of the picture of that reference.

Back in the 1970s, when comic book superheroes were mostly for kids and not grownups, and when I was a boy in Iowa, we talked over such things as the differences between the super powers of various heroes. One discussion that almost every kid my age knew about---the difference between Superman and Batman. Who's more powerful?

It seems ridiculous to ask. Superman is an alien being with physical powers that no human being can match. Batman is just a normal human being, albeit. wealthy one who has used his mind and his body to craft himself into a formidable force against his enemies. How are they even in the same league (the Justice League, to be specific)?

Here's the answer. Yes, Batman has enormous wealth that allows him to build fancy weapons and gadgets to battle the bad guys. Yes, he is a skilled in martial arts and has strength to defeat them in hand-to-hand combat if necessary. But neither of those is his real super power.

What is his real super power? It is the law. Batman always has the law on his side. We especially see in the 1966 television series version of Batman starring Adam West. Batman, when he needs to, can call the cops. The bad guys can't do that. Batman is the openness of sunlight and all its disinfecting power. He brings with him the righteous justice of all of open American society against his foes. He is able to do this even more powerfully than Superman, who as an honorable man is bound by the law. The law is above all of them, and no one is more closely tied to it than Batman.

This is Trump in a nutshell, and why he truly is Batman. He has the law on his side at all times. No exceptions. Somehow early on, he realized this was the only path to success in life.  But of course he had to create the persona we call "the Donald" in order to achieve what he wanted---infiltrating the bad guys over time.

Today the 1966 version of Batman seems corny by today's audiences. The year 1966 was about the cutoff between the old classical version of America and the new postmodern version. This old Batman seemed too "square" almost right out of the gate. Within a few years of that, being square that way became the worst thing in the world. Following those kinds of rules meant you were a sucker.

We have seen the rise of the antihero to replace the hero. We are so used to it by now. People who write movies don't understand the concept of honor, which was at the heart of every classical hero. So we've gotten the dark Batman, who is compromised, because the law is corrupt. Our version of Batman is one who has to lower himself to a compromised state, because playing by the rules means you will lose. It's one reason that so many superhero movies are mostly boring garbage today---there is no conception that honor is the most important thing in the world, and that honor itself is a superpower.

We are a fallen people right now. I am just one of many of my cohort and among the generations younger than me who fell the lies. Even if you don't act on the lie, it can make you despair. This is precisely the demoralization that Communists spoke of, as the method of destroying America over time. The Communists apply this to entire generations, in order to transform a country away from its morals. 

Thank God we had one man who resisted all that, and who also happened to have the other traits of Bruce Wayne, and who was more passionately interested in justice than any one of us could possibly have suspected.

We're going to see the Law-as-Superpower aspect of Trump's Batmanness play out of the next few weeks, I think. It's going to the mother of all calls to Commissioner Gordon, and the bad guys are going to be surrounded and throw up their hands. But first we're going to have a big brawl with lots of "Pow" and "Crash" effects before the bad guys give up.