This blustering is no laughing matter
Democrats control elections; Biden may be onto something
The Friday Letter / No. 471 / Dec. 17, 2021
Sunday: Fourth Sunday of Advent
If you find yourself laughing at Joe Biden's promise that Democrats will win in 2022, pay closer attention. He isn't kidding. Let's start with a stroll down Memory Lane to the summer and fall of 2020, when President Trump was drawing 30,000 and more to his rallies, and Joe Biden was hiding in his basement. When he did come out, which wasn't often, who can forget that scene where he spoke to a “crowd” in seven or eight cars at a drive-in movie theater?
Do Biden's puppeteers know something we don't about the upcoming mid-terms? The wise among us had better believe they do.
We don't need to dwell on this just to fill space. But remember that 101 million ballots were cast in early voting – 64% of all voters. Herein lies the problem, because early voting, no-questions-asked mail-in ballots without identification, ballot harvesting and drop-boxes are the breeding ground of fraud. As facts seep from the six states that Trump won in 2016 and lost in 2020, evidence becomes more clear that the 2020 election was indeed infected with massive fraud.
Last spring Georgia passed some tepid reforms that turned out to be mostly for show, as they still allow for drop boxes, early voting, and only weak identification requirements. Now one senator, Butch Miller, understands the problem and has introduced a bill to tighten ballot security (see “Election fraud update,” below), and of course governor-pretender Stacey Abrams and other leftists are squealing like stuck pigs that this the end of free elections.
Some other states are making noise like they intend to make the 2022 election honest, but I get the feeling that Republicans in general still don't understand the gravity of this situation. They had best get hot real fast if they intend to win back the Congress in 50 weeks.
The Democrat Party is an organized crime outfit that will stop at nothing to achieve permanent one-party rule. Look around at the open borders, illegal aliens about to vote in New York, votes for imprisoned felons, governors and supreme courts in blue states that ignore the state election laws duly put in place by state legislatures, demands to pack the U.S. Supreme Court with four additional Democrats, and demands to make D.C. a state, expressly forbidden by the Constitution.
Many state legislatures are meeting in committee this month and will meet in full sessions in early 2022. This is where pressure needs to be applied. Don't waste time trying to convince Congressmen of anything. Their orders come from K Street lobbyists, Big Tech, Big Business, and billionaire Democrats, and your opinion isn't needed.
Notes from the City of Brotherly Love
One attempted robbery, two suspects, no arrests. A 14-year-old boy shot a man who was strangling the boy's mother during an attempted robbery in the pizza shop where she works. Guess which one – the boy or the robber – will be charged. Police haven't decided and so far haven't arrested anyone. We can guess, however, that Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner will unleash the full resources of his office to bring the teenage boy to justice. After all, Philadelphia is a peaceful and loving city, and guns have no place because guns commit violent crimes.
Krasner, re-elected with the help of $1.7 million from the Hungarian immigrant and America-hating George Soros, assured visitors that Philadelphia is safe, and not to worry about being mugged, raped, stabbed, or robbed. They might want to consider murder, however, as the City of Brotherly Love celebrated the year's 521st homicide Dec. 6, the most since 1960. Like 11 other U.S. cities that achieved new murder records, Philadelphia is run by Democrats.
“We don’t have a crisis of lawlessness, we don’t have a crisis of crime,” Krasner said at a recent news conference. “We don’t have a crisis of violence, and that is a category that includes gun violence, but it also includes some pretty horrible stuff — like rape committed without a weapon or like a stabbing.”
Krasner gets credit for Philadelphia's rising violent crime rate for pushing through so-named bail “reform,” which eliminated bail for certain crimes.
Fun-loving tourists “should come into the City of Philadelphia,” Krasner told a news conference reported by the local CBS affiliate. “They should enjoy every single thing this city offers in terms of shopping, in terms of slaying overnight (sorry, that should read “staying overnight,” we think), in terms of dining out, in terms of walking around with your kids, wearing your mittens. They should come and enjoy all of that. Obviously, they should always be careful.”
Good advice. You never knew when a gun might be lurking around the corner waiting for the opportunity to shoot you. It's just like those SUVs that drive around by themselves looking for people to run over in Christmas parades.
Outside the fawning media, which supports, promotes, and celebrates the Soros attack on civilization, not everyone was enamored with Krasner's behavior.
“Larry Krasner's recent remarks about whether we are experiencing a crime crisis are some of the worst, most ignorant and most insulting comments I have ever heard spoken by an elected official,” former Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter wrote in last Sunday's New York Post.
“I'd like to ask Krasner: How many more black and brown people, and others, would have to be gunned down in our streets daily to meet your definition of a crisis? How many more children and teens have to die in record numbers to capture your attention and be considered a crisis?”
Krasner, Nutter said, should commit to prosecute murderers, “rather than coddle them, make excuses, reduce or drop charges. He should commit to locking them up for carrying illegal weapons or shooting people.” If Krasner can't see what is happening to the city, he said, “he is unfit to serve the residents of Philadelphia.”
Election fraud update
Sen. Butch Miller introduced a bill in the Georgia Senate to eliminate ballot drop boxes, which may have produced enough fraudulent votes in heavily-Democrat counties like Fulton and DeKalb to flip the state from Trump to Biden in 2020. Democrats used the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse for setting up largely unsupervised drop boxes, which Miller says are too ripe for abuse and should be eliminated, Just the News reports. “Drop boxes were introduced as an emergency measure during the pandemic, but many counties did not follow the security guidelines in place, such as the requirement for camera surveillance on every drop box,” Miller said in introducing SB 325. . .
An anonymous whistle blower and party insider accuses fellow Democrats of rigging the 2020 election in Pima County, Ariz., by adding 35,000 votes to each Democrat on the ballot, American Greatness reports.
Corruption chronicles
The husband of Biden Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo holds a position called “chief people officer” at an artificial intelligence company whose venture capital investor is backed by the Chinese Communist Party, the Washington Free Beacon reports, a conflict of interest. Danhua Capital was established as part of what Reuters reported as China's “penetration of Silicon Valley.”
The D.C. Bar Association restored convicted felon Kevin Clinesmith to “good standing.” Clinesmith is the only one so far convicted of a crime in the Russian collusion hoax, for doctoring an email that persuaded the FISA Court to issue a surveillance warrant on Carter Page. He was given 12 months of probation but served no prison time. Page, who was wholly innocent, spent two weeks in jail. – from a story at Just the News.
How they voted
Dec. 13. The Supreme Court declined to block New York's law that all health-care workers must get the Chinese coronavirus vaccination, without any exemptions on religious grounds. Conservative justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissented.
Swing voters Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett joined the court's four liberals (Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Breyer) in the 6-3 opinion.
See the list of Republican Senators who voted to raise the debt limit at The Hill.
How they Voted is a separate monthly feature of The Friday Letter and More
Recommended for Christmas
Our choice for the most important book of the year is Josh Hawley's The Tyranny of Big Tech (Regnery). Not even conservative media have given this vital report its due. Our favorite story for Christmas was and remains Glenn Beck's heartwarming short novel The Snow Angel (Threshold Editions, 2011). Both are available at Thriftbooks. Our favorite charity is Angel Tree, which provides gifts for the children of prison inmates.