For your consideration. Democracy is very messy, but Conrad Black believes he's already seeing a turning point for the Republic--a turning against the forces behind the Zhou regime. The article that Black originally published at Epoch Times has been republished at Zerohedge:
I'm offering only brief excerpts from a much longer article--the portions in which he provides his reasoning. Please note: a "turning point" doesn't mean that Black--or I, for that matter--foresees a coming constitutional paradise. That doesn't happen in history on this earth. But a turning point away from where the Zhou regime is trying to steer us would be very welcome. See what you think of his reasoning:
Approximately 90 percent of Americans believe that there should be a border and a process to entering the country; over 80 percent unconditionally oppose violent demonstrations and riots, the overwhelming majority support adequate police protection, if with more sophisticated rules in armed confrontations, and there is little enthusiasm for increased taxes or profligate spending.
The principal anti-Trump television networks seem to have lost about 50 percent of their viewers and the public clearly is not much interested in an indefinite continuation of mudslinging and defamation against the former president, either as a substitute for the new administration presenting and executing its policies, or for the national political media restoring a substantial element of professional reporting where for the previous four years it had self-righteously substituted Trump-hate.
It is of the nature of polling that unpleasant memories of former presidents recede and the prestigious fact of them having been presidents and in many cases the highlights of their presidencies remain comparatively well fixed in the public mind.
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The initial post-inaugural efforts to torment him endlessly, portray him as an advocate of insurrection and to suborn and extort evidence against him in all manner of ubiquitously alleged imminent proceedings while pretending there was some comparison to be made between Jan. 6 and 9/11, has been a complete failure.
All the headlines and television news introductions that the Trump mob had killed capitol police officer Brian Sicknick have been exposed as pure fabrication, a campaign of outright lies. All the allegations against the Trump campaign organization of incitement of the vandalism at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 have proved to be unfounded.
And throughout these three months the former president has issued press releases without hyperbole and has given relatively few interviews and only one major speech and on every occasion he has been judicious.
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But we are almost at the point where this administration’s attempt to revolutionize American elections by practically abolishing any verification process for ballots and turning election day into a weeks-long orgy of ballot-harvesting, while packing the Senate and the Supreme Court and gagging congressional minorities, will collide with public opposition to all of these measures.
In those circumstances, the Supreme Court, its attempt at appeasement of the Democrats by abdicating as head of a co-equal third branch of government having failed, might also reassert the legitimacy of the Constitution.
A turning in the road is almost at hand.
Tepid Black, very careful and solid in what he writes and nothing that can be argued with.
ReplyDeleteWhat is significant is now he agrees the election was stolen, that’s in contrast to his previous position that it was mostly on the up and up.
What I see as significant that Black did not mention:
- GOPe being more discredited and power struggle in the party for the direction.
- failure of Georgia boycott
- Covid fear exhaustion
- ratings / views of Biden on tv and Internet. I view this as more reliable than polls.
- gun sales
- pushback on critical theory
It goes without saying I hope that you and Mr. Black are right. A small fly in the ointment, though.
ReplyDeleteThe FBI/DOJ are going around like Stasi. Yet not a word from the Republicans. Citizens, the majority of them innocent of serious wrongdoing, remain locked up as a result of their being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Jan 6. Two lawyers in NY accused of tossing Molotov cocktails at a police car, actually trying to murder police officers, are out sunning themselves, while charges against them get bargained down to jaywalking.
How is the government able to get away with this?
The lives of these falsely incarcerated citizens are being destroyed, quite deliberately, by government apparatchiks possessed of infinite resources. Not a peep from Republicans in Washington.
Yet maybe Black is right. If he is, any good that happens will have nothing to do with the Republican Party, which, 100 days into Biden's phony presidency, is as pathetic a mass of enabling wretches as this Republic has ever witnessed. They're even worse than the Democrats who sold out the Vietnamese.
You're right. Things have gotten to the point--with the Left takeover of the executive branch--that only a true housecleaning will get the job done. I'm not optimistic that the public is onboard for that.
Delete"How is the government able to get away with this?"
DeleteBecause we keep consenting to it.
This piece is really quite astonishing. Black seems to have drunk his own Kool-Aid (much as he did, I might add, with his very wide-of-the-mark election predictions). Perhaps from his perch in London he just doesn’t have a sense of America nowadays? He seems unaccountably dismissive of the vast evidence of Democrat chicanery and deadly serious intent to fashion their thin margins of victory into swords and shields to finally destroy their political enemies. How could anybody miss this? How could Black credit Biden as being capable appearing to be a pleasant and reasonable man? Didn’t he hear Biden accuse America of being racist in his big, primetime teleprompter reading?
ReplyDeleteLike Mighty Casey, Black just whiffed big time with this obtuse reading of the American public’s pulse.
Wait a second, Quigs. Black was actually correct in his pre election prognosis. Trump DID win in a landslide as Black more or less predicted (as I recall). Not his fault that he failed to predict the most massive theft in electoral history and refusal of the state and federal judiciary to do a damn thing. Or Republicans for tjat matter. Otherwise i can't disagree with you.
Deletehe had me until SCOTUS; if the republic rests on their shoulders, then we will not get to keep it.
ReplyDeleteI will even venture to say that it's not entirely their fault. As noted here in the past couple of days, this madness has been brewing for decades and people have continued voting for it.
We don't deserve good government, whatever our rights may be.
I'm with you on this, esp. the ScotUS part.
DeleteIf we indeed see them "reassert the legitimacy of the Constitution", I'll grant that Black was on the right track.
Until then, smart money bets on Zhoa etc.
I'll take function over form any day of the week.
ReplyDeleteIs that a turning point ahead or a cliff? I can't make it out yet.
ReplyDeleteAs a life-long Democrat (not now) in a Deep Blue state, I am actually surprised at how much corruption by the Biden Democrat administration has been revealed since January 20th. It seems like they are deliberately undermining the rule of law in order to create chaos. That allows them to step in with tyrannical government to “solve the problems.” Even COVID vaccines look like a political tool since they have basically misled the American Public into thinking the “vaccines” are a normally approved FDA product when they are only authorized for emergency use. Add to that, government threats of a “vaccine passport” to force vaccinations when it is unlawful to mandate medical products authorized for emergency use.
ReplyDeleteReplacing the rule of law with government tyranny is not anything I am going to sign onto if I can avoid it. As some have said, “This isn’t about Democrat or Republican anymore.” It is about an attempt to force a bizzaro world on the average American who recognizes something is wrong—something which negatively impacts them in their daily life. I doubt anyone could stop this without people seeing what has actually happened since Biden took over under the guise of “Uniting America.” Too bad that he meant unity and uniformity by use of government force.
I hope some of these election audits prove the irregularities Peter Navarro reported on. That alone will say that the American people are not on board with what is going on right now. I also hope we can get rid of the voting machines. Experts have told us for decades that they are a problem. (So have a few Democrats.) If Mike Lindell’s latest video does nothing more than help rid elections of voting machines, it will be a great step forward.
I would argue that the "average American" recognized something wrong in the bizzaro world before Biden was installed - it was in the last election, and a landslide occurred as a result. But bizzaro world prevailed. So what's next for those curious Americans?
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Thought provoking:
ReplyDeletePresident Trump was not generally a quick learner in the art of public relations while he was president, but it must be said that he has played his hand skillfully these last three months.
Black in the past has written the press was hugely biased against Trump. So why write the above? Who is his audience, and what is his goal? My guess is he wants to be seen as a modern day Alexis de Tocqueville, and be firmly within the safe Overton Window on Trump. Black is usually a lot more incisive.
Trump is a builder / developer and to get anything built in NYC is near miraculous. It takes a lot of planning and actions to get through all the obstacles. Yet, the image of his Presidency was a narcissist, that picked fights. And yet look what he achieved, with all the obstacles thrown at him.
So what is Trump up to now? My guess is doing a lot of planning, thinking, researching, and foundation level work for something.
My guess is the Overton window is shifting on the politically correct narrative that is being forced / gas lighted onto us. A wave is building, and there is a lot of anger and disgust. But, everyone is afraid to say anything due to the threat of cancel culture.
And allowing his enemies to show their incompetence, un-Americanism, and corruption. While dodging the attacks they have done against him, post election. Giuliani is only the latest fishing expedition trying to “Get Trump”. I don’t see him fading away as the Bush’s did during Democratic administrations.
I expect that the the Republicans will win majorities in the House and Senate in the 2020 election.
ReplyDeleteBiden is a fool for pushing such radical policies, thus provoking big political backlash. For his own good, he should have governed, as he promised, as a centrist, unifying President.
In the long run, though, our electorate is drifting toward socialism. The portion of the electorate that values liberty and free enterprise is shrinking, largely because of old-age death. In contrast, the portion of the electorate that values government regulation and redistribution of wealth is growing.
Who's Really Running the Show at the White House? We Now Have a Name.
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I expect that the the Republicans will win majorities in the House and Senate in the 2020 election.
DeleteIn the 2022 election.
Who's Really Running the Show at the White House? We Now Have a Name.
DeleteIt would cost me $49 to read that article.
I assume that Biden's Chief of Staff is "really running the show".
This will give you some:
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The original--not sure how this works:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/whos-really-running-bidens-white-house-step-forward-president-klain-9kcdw8cm0?shareToken=be2347f8c39138b1356d4246615bedb0
What I do with articles like this one is use the "links" browser. It gets around many of these restrictions--although usually not pay to view ones. It worked for the Times, which is the one I read.
No, I'm not about to pay PJ $49.
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DeleteThis story is not worth $49. It is common knowledge that Ron Klain, Biden’s former chief of staff in his Obama days and his easy pick for chief of staff in his own administration, is the one. Progressive Klain is running things. But I’ll bet others have their fingers in the policy pie.
DeleteRead the Sarah Baxter piece and then read the intro to Stephen Green’s apparent pan of it. Not sure where he’s coming from. It is hardly a “Democrat puff piece” as Baxter is pretty skeptical of the whole Biden-Klain situation, except to say that they have been together since a young Klain was counsel to Biden’s Senate Judiciary Committee. That is when Biden really showed himself to be an evil, nasty, punishing SOB on national television. Baxter says Biden still consulted with Klain when Klain no longer worked for him. So no, I wouldn’t spend two cents on Stephen Green’s take on Baxter’s article.
DeleteFrom my best attempts to maintain being politically agnostic (work in progress) I still say full steam ahead and point the train tracks to the nearest cliff.
ReplyDeleteIn that I'm not advocating for the impending canyon crash as much as I am the aftermath and clean up.
If we can get wise enough, though the pain and overwhelming evidence that there we've derailed the concern of the governed, then we may have a chance to recover at least part a nation.
I just think it's going to take that level of massive implosion to dismiss the whimsical notions of the masses where we just simply unwind things.
I'm constantly reminded of Igor Panarin and his predictions on the US and it's future. I think he severely underestimated the effects of mutual economic globalization in his timeline but of you sit down and read through his theories on US decline his predictions on US / China issues and domestic groupings have been largely spot on.
Funny you should mention globalization and markets. Sundance has a long but provocative article that essentially argues, using corn as an example, that virtually all commodities now are controlled by global corporations that rig the prices to suit their profits
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Sundance is on of my daily reads, his work on many subjects has been pretty damn awesome over the years... Though he went a little bonkers on that one... It's long long long!! lol
DeleteSundance has only disappointed those who viewed him as a pundit. An information/opinion god. Bad idea no matter who is talking, yet we see so many who have great need for pundits to tell them what is what, to confirm their biases, and so forth. I don’t do pundits.
DeleteSundance often gets a story early and has sufficient resources to come up with backstories and details to clarify what the story is really about. CTH is a great resource. So is Mark Wauck.
Fair enough--I'm OK with being a resource. :-)
DeleteAnd have made my share of mistakes.
DeleteIn spite of it all, Mark, you are a daily Must Read…usually visited more than once. More than twice... :-)
Delete@Mark...
ReplyDeleteSometime just after the election I had posted my personal take on the data situation in Michigan and laid out a quasi hypothesis of how, if I were to consider skewing the data would go about it. (Precinct level vs county vs state)... what data could safely be touched, how, and when vs when it would become to complicated.
Ever since then I've been following the Antrim County case pretty closely because they were one of the few cases that got a judge to grant machine access.
Low and behold, one person doing simple query and scripting magic in that case. He does 7 ballots but you could do a million in the same steps and doing exactly what I described.
video here...
https://www.depernolaw.com/dominion.html
The video has been taken down on YouTube, but you can still watch it at the OAN link. My question: didn't OAN issue an apology to Dominion regarding its reporting on their machines? There is no date on the video, but Mr. Deperno's video seems to supersede any OAN apology. So it seems OAN, a small operation, may just have wanted to avoid court against a deep-pocket foe. Thoughts?
DeleteI have no doubt about the fraud--that's why Barr lost me when he said it was all BS. However, at the point that Trump left DC I had to make a decision on how to spend my time. I try to keep an eye on these things, but I have limited time. I figure, the truth will come out (in which case I write about it non-stop) or it won't. In the meantime Americans are beginning to assess where we are using a variety of factors (fraud being among them). I'm quite sure I'm not the only one to come to that decision.
DeleteTitan, I didn't look at those retractions very closely. My assumption being that, as in the case of American Thinker, the retractions didn't retract allegations of fraud--including machine fraud--but only allegations that Dominion management were actual parties to the fraud. So, for example, at AT yesterday I saw a piece that clearly discussed the fraud, but refrained from suggesting that Dominion management was involved. Plenty of other targets.
DeleteOnly the deep pocketed, or those with nothing to lose, and lots of free time would not try to avoid being in court.
DeleteYou never know what will come out in the discovery process. And being involved in court is very expensive, distracting, and takes a lot of energy.
And in our current system, it’s hard to recover legal fees and costs. And the timeline is years. The process is the punishment.
And look at how many years it took National Review to get out of the Mann hockey stick case.
And with court cases, no matter how strong your case, there is a chance of losing.
So I totally understand OAN and American Thinker attempting to not be sued by Dominion.
Which means you have to give a lot of respect to Sydney Powell for continuing to fight.
DeleteAnd Mike Lindell too.
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