UPDATED: Coattails Without A Coat? How Does That Work?

Apologies in advance, on a beautiful but not so good morning. I'm a bit read and written out from yesterday, and there's plenty of excellent analysis out there. So I'll start the day briefly by linking to two Thomas Lifson articles at American Thinker.

The importance of the first one--The election coup plot, explained--is Tucker Carlson's opening monologue, which I'll embed:

The video is of the whole show, but it's the opening monologue that's so important. Tucker is making the point that, if he were Joe Biden and wanted to be accepted as the legitimate President of the United States, he would want all the transparency possible about what's going down in this election. Instead, just the opposite is happening. It's a simple point, but powerfully made. Included in that portion of the video is a short clip of Lawrence Wilkerson speaking.

Go ahead and read about Wilkerson--he's a longtime protege of Colin Powell and an absolutely quintessential member of the Deep State. In the short interview clip, responding to the question 'What if Trump refuses to leave office?' Wilkerson openly suggests that the vast gun owning Trump base may take to the streets with their guns. In that case, he says, we'll need the military to put them down, and it will only be a question of "how much blood will be shed."

Put that in the context of all of the open statements made by the Left--especially Pelosi--about the coming election that has just past and you see the truth and significance of Tucker's words:

“Democrats have been thinking about this for a long time….”

And they know that transparency is their enemy. Tucker goes into that, the censorship that will become even more prevalent as we go on. My fear is that there is far too much at stake--not just the trillions that sundance talks about but the very existence of the ruling elite endangered by revelations of their corruption. With that at stake, they will feel unable to step back from the precipice over which they intend to hurl our constitutional order. Here's Lifson's summary:

Tucker Carlson ... laid out convincingly the path ahead by which the left, principally relying on its media and social media dominance, will attempt to install as president a man who needed fraudulent votes to win. The plot, in short, is to have the TV networks, AP, and NYT/WaPo declare the race is decided. At that point the social media censors step in and suppress all efforts – even those of a sitting president -- to uncover the fraud as conspiracy theories and an attack on democracy itself.

This open talk of shooting huge numbers of Americans in the streets if that's what it takes to win, to gain power over Americans dead or alive, instills real fear in me.

The second Lifson article is where I took my subject line from. Again, the point is simple but depressingly convincing. How is it that Republican candidates up and down the ticket did remarkably well, yet Trump lost? That's like coattails without a coat. How could that happen? 

The explanation is in the Blue Wave that never happened--a flood of Dem ballots in swing states in which only the presidential box was checked. A clear indicator of fraud, of ballots being manufactured with time pressing. The result? Dem fraudsters without time to fill out complete ballots simply checked the one box that mattered most.

Without that fraud--and you can read the article for anecdotal detail--this election would have been a massive affirmation of Trump. Up and down the ticket, and a demonstration of coattails trailing behind a powerful Trumpian coat.

I shudder at the effort of repression, through censorship and canceling, that will follow a fraudulent Biden win, even given Republican gains. Pray for the country.

UPDATE: Commenter Yancey Ward has been offering some insightful comments. Just a few minutes ago, in a much longer comment, he wrote:

most states allow for a straight Republican/Democrat vote- why wouldn't people in a rush to fill out ballots at the counting office just make that selection instead? 

To clarify, I offer the following, which covers most of the affected states:

Utah - abolished STV in 2020 (HB 70).

Pennsylvania - abolished STV in 2019 (SB 421) but the law did not impact the November 2019 election. In 2020 there will not be an STV option.

Michigan – abolished STV in 2016 (SB 13). In July 2016, a U.S. District Court decision found the abolishment of STV disportionally affected African-Americans and placed a preliminary injunction on enforcing the law for the 2016 election. In September 2018 the U.S. Sixth Court of Appeals said plaintiffs were unlikely to win their appeal and ordered the ban to take effect. The plaintiffs appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court which denied a request to keep STV for the 2018 general election, so it was not an option for that election. However, voters passed Ballot Proposal 3 in November 2018 that amended the constitution allowing voters to cast a straight-ticket vote for all candidates of a particular political party when voting in a partisan general election, thus reestablishing STV in the state.

New Mexico – the legislature abolished STV in 2001. From 2002 to 2010, secretaries of state had administratively placed it on the ballot. In 2012, the secretary of state decided not to offer a straight-ticket option, noting that it had been repealed by the legislature. An attempt was made in the 2012 legislature to reinstate it, but it failed. In 2018 the secretary of state attempted to resinstate STV, but a petition to prevent its use was approved by the state supreme court.

Iowa - abolished STV in 2017 (HB 516).

Texas - abolished STV in 2017 (HB 25), effective in 2020.

Indiana - abolished STV for at-large races in 2016 (SB 61).

Rhode Island – abolished STV in 2015 as part of 2014 legislation (HB 8072).

West Virginia – abolished STV in 2015 (SB 249).

North Carolina – abolished STV in 2014 as part of 2013 legislation (HB 589).

Wisconsin – abolished STV in 2011, effective for November 2012 elections. STV will remain available for UOCAVA voters.

New Hampshire – abolished STV in 2007.

Missouri – abolished STV in 2006.

Illinois – abolished STV in 1997.  

South Dakota – abolished STV in 1996.  

Georgia – abolished STV in 1994.