If you have been following Conservative media recently on the subject of the Donald Trump/Stormy Daniels trial in New York City, you have probably heard numerous commentators express the opinion that, even though Alvin Bragg’s case against President Donald Trump is largely falling apart, the fact that he is being tried by a highly biased jury, he will be convicted nonetheless. I can only say that if you are a Democrat you should be crossing your fingers that this does not happen. Let me explain why….
It’s very clear that the initial Democrat strategy to take down Trump was to engage in a shock and awe lawfare campaign by utilizing Democrat state and federal prosecutors to file so many criminal charges against the former president that the GOP would have no choice but to abandon him. Their miscalculation however, was confusing the weak-kneed Republican ruling class with the hardcore conservative base that had long ago realized that the deep state would do anything to maintain power—the voters consequently embraced Trump, despite the multiple charges, and handed him the party’s nomination.
Now, if Alvin Bragg had charged Trump with a single felony count of [blah, blah, blah] and a jury had convicted him, the judge in the case could have sentenced Trump to probation and a substantial fine, perhaps even requiring him not to leave the state or at least having him check-in in-person with his probation officer on a regular basis, which would have allowed Democrats to significantly impede the Trump campaign. Additionally, it would allow the Democrats to run advertisements claiming that Donald Trump was a “convicted felon.”
But because TDS is real and the concept of “nuance” is completely lost on liberals, they instead charged ahead like a bull in a china shop with 34 felony indictments against the former president. This means if Trump is convicted, the judge will have no choice but to impose an incredibly harsh sentence.
Consider, if Trump is convicted of 34 felonies, offering a lenient sentence such as probation would be prima facie evidence that the case were overcharged, especially if the judge postponed sentencing pending appeal. Find me another person convicted of 34 felonies in a single trial anywhere in the U.S. who wasn’t immediately remanded to prison and…well, find that person first and we’ll discuss it further.
So if Trump is convicted, and keep in mind that the 34 indictments are carbon copies of the original charge meaning that if he is found guilty of one he will be found guilty of all of them, there would be no reason as to why he would not immediately be sent to prison. Even if he were to be given only six months per felony conviction, it would result in a sentence of 17 years, not a term that could be put off under normal court guidelines.
If Democrats think that imprisoning their primary presidential rival for two decades or more right before the election based on an eight-year-old case about how payments to an attorney were labeled is a winning strategy, they are living in an alternate reality. It’s certainly likely that the average American is tuned out to the current court proceedings, but if the leader of the Republican party were to be jailed just a few months before the election you can bet they’d start paying attention and asking questions.
The reality is that charging Trump with 34 felonies leaves the court with no wiggle room whatsoever. If he is convicted, the court will have no choice but to impose a draconian sentence on him or be exposed as a totally fraudulent entity. Either Trump engaged in an activity that was so serious it required being charged with 34 felonies eight years after the events occurred, or the “crime” of which he will be convicted of is so unthreatening to the citizenry that he can continue to be allowed to walk the streets free to potentially “re-offend.”
The reality is that the Democrats are like a dog chasing a car. They won’t know what to do if they catch it. There is literally no way the already pathetic media could spin a conviction as anything other than a massive overreach of the law. The MSM is already struggling to explain the crime that is being charged. If Trump were to be convicted and given a lengthy prison sentence right before the election there’s no plausible way they could justify his incarceration.
At this point the best outcome that Democrats could hope for would be a hung jury where they could blame some juror as a Trump supporter, whether or not that claim had any basis in reality; but if Donald Trump is convicted, they are opening a Pandora’s Box that may swallow them whole.
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Attorney
General Garland promises election lawfare
By Mike
McDaniel
Who can forget October of 2020, when Joe Biden committed a
gaffe? He certainly does that more or less constantly, but this one was a
classic, because a gaffe is properly defined as what happens when a politician accidently tells
the truth:
‘We
have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud
organization in the history of American politics,’ Biden said in the video.
It certainly worked for Biden in 2020, and his Attorney
General, Merrick Garland, arguably the most corrupt and weaponized in
history—that’s saying something with Obama’s “wingman,” Eric Holder in the running—is
working hard to keep that organization up and running:
Speaking [in March of 2024] to a predominantly
African-American crowd at a Black Selma church service, [AG Merrick Garland] said:
The right to vote is still under attack, and that is why the
Justice Department is fighting back. We are challenging efforts by states and
jurisdictions who implement discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary
restrictions on access to the ballot, including those related to mail-in
voting, the use of drop boxes and voter ID requirements.
No, AG Garland, the right to vote is NOT
under attack. Georgia, which passed its reform laws after the 2020 election and
invited a boycott of woke companies, including Major League Baseball (which
canceled the All-Star game in Atlanta), reported that more voters and more
minority voters participated in the 2022 elections than at any time in Georgia
history. Even Stacey Abrams, the losing candidate for governor in 2018, who
never conceded her defeat and became a media darling, accepted that she lost
her rematch against Brian Kemp.
How is it possible the chief law enforcement officer in
America doesn’t know drop boxes, refusing to enforce ID laws and mail-in
ballots are among the best methods of cheating? Or perhaps he does…
Is it possible AG Garland is unaware of the Supreme Court’s
2008 Crawford .v Marion County Election
Board decision? NBC
was aware, and disappointed:
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that
states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating
their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws.
[skip]
The law "is amply justified by the
valid interest in protecting 'the integrity and reliability of the electoral
process,'" Justice John Paul Stevens said in an opinion that was joined by
Chief Justice John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy.
Is it possible AG Garland, and the entire DOJ is unable to
use Internet search engines, like the engine that provided the URLs I’ve
embedded? Or is it more likely they’re simply ignoring the Supreme Court,
which they’ve proved more than willing to do? Not every state has voter
ID laws. Is Garland worried there aren’t enough states without them to
provide the necessary margin of voter fraud for 2024?
Beyond experience and common, adult, sense, there is
substantial evidence drop boxes and mail-on balloting are primary sources of
virtually untraceable vote fraud. How can it be Garland and the DOJ Voting
Rights Section don’t know that? And if that’s so, if they really are
that incompetent, that unaware of human and political nature, how is it there
are apparently no other attorneys in the entire DOJ who have not set them
straight?
Obviously, Garland and his cronies know exactly what they’re
doing. They’re enabling vote fraud, surely to ensure illegal immigrants
can vote in the millions to put over the electoral finish line a man most legal
Americans know is demented. In the process, they’re insulting
America’s poor and black citizens, branding them too stupid to obtain
identification necessary for daily life. Reasonable people might call that
racist.
Reasonable people might also think our republic is better off
if people who can’t get identification, and can’t be bothered to get to the
polls on election day, don’t vote. Obviously, people who have legitimate
reasons for being unable to be present on election day, like our military
serving overseas and the handicapped, must be allowed absentee ballots, but
with effective safeguards and verification.
Using taxpayer resources and the power of the federal
government to violate Supreme Court decisions and enable vote fraud on a never
before imagined scale is among the most un-American, anti-republican acts of a
thoroughly corrupt administration. Reasonable people might call that
tyrannical. And they’d be right, and consistent. They’re absolutely
perpetuating “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the
history of American politics.”
That’s great for “our democracy—a permanent, one-party,
Democrat/socialist/communist state, but terrible for our constitutional,
representative republic. I wonder if Garland has heard about that?
Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained
musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor,
retired police officer and high school and college English teacher. His home
blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
Graphic: X screenshot
A Government at
War with Its People
Warfare requires
deception. The federal government habitually lies to the American
people. Consider that an admission that it sees itself at war with
those it claims to serve.
You might have noticed that the word "propaganda"
has been somewhat retired from polite conversation. Occasionally,
some State-allied
news corporation will apply the term to a public statement coming
from inside Russia, but otherwise, the idea that governments promote falsehoods
cloaked as official truths has quietly disappeared.
Instead, ordinary information enjoyed
and shared among regular people is now targeted for
classification. An alliance of national governments, international
institutions, and propaganda engines disguised as disinterested
nonprofits has sprung up to toss "unacceptable" thoughts
into garbage piles for "mis-," "mal-," and "dis-"
information trash bins. As with everything else in modern society,
the cult of expertise has even given us "disinformation
experts" to decide what knowledge belongs where.
The small coterie of "disinformation
experts" recognized and promoted by governments then monitor what
the common people are saying among themselves, cast their nets around anything
"unacceptable," and stigmatize those words and thoughts as deserving
of censorship. Perhaps one day soon there will be academic
degrees in "disinformation" or special licenses distinguishing
State-approved professionals as qualified to tell the rest of us what is
real. As a rule of thumb, if you want to know what kinds of
knowledge governments fear their citizens possessing, look to the subjects that
require numerous layers of authority validation before access is granted or
titles are conferred. Now the knowledge that governments fear their
citizens possessing is simply information outside their
control.
In this way, officials have flipped
the script on propaganda. Rather than the people calling out
governments for their lies, governments pre-emptively
defame their citizens as liars. How do governments know
when their citizens are "lying"? Easy. They
just isolate anybody who contradicts publicly announced official
truths. Like a puff of smoke vanishing in the wind, government
propaganda disappears because anyone who recognizes it as such is guilty of
spreading "mis-," "mal-," or "dis-"
information.
To find out what is "true,"
good citizens are expected to respect the authority of government "disinformation
specialists" who target
what the people say but never what the government
promotes. Accordingly, government propaganda flows forcefully yet
invisibly because nobody is allowed to call it what it is. The liars
have constructed a system in which only they may identify lies.
The question is how long Americans
will silently consent to any government dedicated to public deception.
The longer I have been around to
witness how small lies can cause tremendous damage, the more convinced I have
become that there is no more precious calling than to seek, protect, and spread
truth. Finding truth is often (if not always)
difficult. Sometimes what we think is true turns out to be false,
and we are forced to adjust our understanding of the world
accordingly. Even when gold-tinted "truths" prove pyritic,
the search for truth remains priceless.
One of the most effective ways of
measuring a man's (or government's) character is not to decide whether he is
right or wrong about some matter, but rather to determine whether he is
committed to pursuing truth or eager to sacrifice it. A virtuous man
will adjust his worldview when confronted with conflicting yet convincing
evidence; an unethical man will push falsehoods, no matter how irrational or
unreasonable.
The truth-seeker understands that
the process of pursuing truth is valuable, even when it
provides an incomplete understanding of the world. In contrast,
those who push falsehoods embrace a lie that incomplete knowledge eliminates
the possibility for truth. Honest people see the pursuit of truth as
its own reward; dishonest people see its manipulation as a means for scamming
honest people. When the government empowers itself to decide what is
true and uses that authority to tell flagrant lies, it wages an information war
against its citizens.
This war directed against Americans'
minds has been raging for quite some time. What is different today
is its pace and brazenness. Lies about Russia collusion, COVID,
vaccine effectiveness, climate change, Biden family corruption, impartial
justice, biological sex, American history, border security, debt
sustainability, crime rates, gun safety, banking solvency, military
engagements, racial disparities, religious doctrine, Western civilization,
childhood development, healthy obesity, government surveillance, hydrocarbon
energy, human slavery, acclaimed literature, anthropology — no topic is off
limits for those who manipulate
the public for a living.
Increasingly, the question is not
whether the government is lying, but rather how malicious its intentions
are. Did bureaucrats mandate mRNA injections that were neither
safe nor effective because they are bad
at science? Because they needed an alarming reason to rig
the 2020 election with mail-in ballots? As a means of rewarding
pharmaceutical companies and the politicians they own with windfall
profits? As an opportunity to accelerate the World Economic Forum's
"Great
Reset"? As a way to condition
people to think of property, free speech, and personal
liberty as "selfish" and instead submit to the national
security surveillance State?
Are the climate change cultists
committed to taking
over farms and ending
hydrocarbon fuels because they are too
dumb to understand weather patterns, solar and geothermal
energies, and chemistry? Because they are committed communists who
believe in global
government and command-and-control
economies? Because they wish to induce instability and famine that
will depopulate the planet?
Do extraterrestrial UFO
stories confirm that the government has long covered up an
important truth, or are they hoaxes meant to distract the public from something
else?
Only the "disinformation
experts" know.
Government monopolies over
"truth" are evil. They elevate "narratives" over
news. They protect the politician's spin over facts. They
champion the bureaucracy's needs over the public's. They preserve
the State's power at the expense of the people's. Whenever governing
authorities articulate "official truths," it means the actual truth
is being smothered. Whenever governments claim the need to control
information, it means that they are losing control over their
citizenry. Propaganda and censorship are
tools of the weak. They are the last resort of political systems no
longer capable of successfully competing in the marketplace for ideas.
There is no kind of government immune
from corruption. All eventually tilt
toward tyranny. The best we may do to protect ourselves is
to construct safeguards against this inevitability. Separation of
powers, limited federal authority, diffuse state and local jurisdiction,
expansive personal liberties, and effective self-defense all serve to thwart
government-sanctioned injustice. Perhaps no more important safeguard
exists than a strong cultural commitment to freedom of speech — long a
centerpiece of American civic virtue precisely because it serves as an inherent
check against State-imposed religion, ideology, and propaganda.
Every one of these counterweights to
government corruption recognizes that public
officials cannot be trusted. The U.S. Constitution and Bill
of Rights are predicated on a pessimistic reality that government power
attracts cutthroats and liars who must be kept under constant scrutiny, lest
their deviant natures be let loose. No matter how principled a
nation's founders, criminals will eventually run the
government. Written constitutions restraining
those criminals' worst impulses represent humanity's best efforts at minimizing
the damage.
Government apparatchiks are therefore
the absolute last group of people in any society who should be trusted with
deciding what is true. Their vested interest in maintaining power
distorts their reasoning and their fiendish natures preclude honest
observation. In a just society, at least half would be serving time
in prison for insider trading, criminal negligence, misappropriation of funds,
or dereliction of duty. Instead, we let them print money, sell
votes, play with nukes, and lock up their political enemies.
No government at war with its people
can long endure. Make no mistake, any government that embraces lies
and deploys public deceptions is most definitely at war.
Image: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 (cropped).
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