Regardless of what happens in Georgia on January 5th, the biggest Donald Trump "REALITY TV" show will be on January 6th

 
 
It now seems likely that there will be several objections raised by several members of the newly sworn House of Representatives and at least one U.S. Senator  

Watch for  the House and Senate to adjourn from their Constitutionally mandated joint session to certify the vote of the Presidential Electors  >>> and instead, for some time, to caucus in their separate chambers to debate the objections to the selection of certain electors and/or the conduct of the 2020 election for President in several states.....

Watch it get even more interesting on the streets outside in Washington D.C.   >>>  as near to the Capitol as the demonstrators can get  ---  and wouldn't it be great if President Trump made a personal appearance..... 

Remember, as Yogi once said, "It's not over until it's over."

Everybody needs to give a look at the KCP article about --- WAIT FOR IT !!! --- "Republican Outreach in Brooklyn"

Well, I suppose, Christmastime is a time for fun and games, and high frivolity.....  In England, Christmas dinner includes wearing funny hats and crowns, and everybody getting party poppers or a ratchet- rattle

And "Once upon a time, a very long time ago,"  I would have laughed at the insiders' joke, if there was any talk about "Brooklyn GOP outreach" to the minority community  ---  but that joke played out a long, long time ago  >>>  and just like Scotland and bagpipes most of the folks never got the joke, and they still don't.....

But once in a dogs age, somebody talks about GOP outreach to the minority community like it were a real thing.  >>>  It is not. <<<   And it hasn't been since the days when Edmund Seergy was GOP Chairman, and a young Frank Voyticky joined in with people like Arthur Bramwell and his brother the judge to be the semblance of an active Republican Party in their community in parts of North, Central and Eastern Brooklyn 

In 1993 and 1994 when my political plays included real outreach into a handful of communities in North, Central and Eastern Brooklyn, I met with a group from around Ridgewood and Cypress Hills.  They were old line Vito Battista conservative Republicans, and I think they met under a tree pretty far out on Atlantic Avenue, by City Line  >>>  they had one strategy "Hold Out" until some kind of help arrived  ---  "Outreach" was not a part of their plan at all; and they thought that was just fine   ---  "...but that was once upon a time, and now the tree is gone".....

For the most part, the KCP article by Ariama C. Long is kind of benign and inoffensive, except where it seems to suggest that the Republican Party and the Conservative Party are pretty much the same thing. In fact, it called a man named Constantin Jean-Pierre "... a staunch member of the Republican and Conservative Party...";  that pretty much convinced me that she is a relative of former Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, because even though he said that wasn't so, for the longest time he pretty much acted like he ran both the Republican and Conservative Parties, in Brooklyn, and with a few exceptions, around most of the rest of the state.

More evidence of election fraud in 2020 Presidential Election in Michigan

The State of Michigan's top election official, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, says she cannot "in good conscience" appear before the Michigan State House Oversight Committee, which has been probing multiple well-documented irregularities, including fraud claims and Michigan voting law violations, involving the Nov. 3 presidential election in Michigan

It has been widely reported that Secretary Benson is a Democrat and the top statewide official in charge of the elections in Michigan;  and that she is refusing to testify about the overall process and procedures, and her own conduct in the recent election on November 3 and the count that followed in Detroit and elsewhere. 

In response to the Michigan State House Oversight Committee's request that she come in and testify, she wrote a letter to the Michigan House Oversight Chairman Matt Hall, a Republican. In it she said that she was concerned the GOP-controlled panel was "amplifying already debunked conspiracy theories";  and she added that the committee "has a responsibility to state unequivocally and publicly that the results of this election are an accurate reflection of the will of Michigan's voters." 

She has also criticized the same committee for its handling of a Dec. 2 hearing where President Donald Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, the former Mayor of New York City  had spread "false and baseless accusations against Michigan public servants...." 

For the uninformed on such matters,  when a person acts suspiciously and appears to be concealing something,  it is sufficient evidence of probable cause to proceed further and make additional inquiries  ---  in this instance, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is both refusing to answer and mischaracterizing the nature of the inquiry.

The Michigan House and Senate oversight committees have been holding hearings on the integrity of the election since early November.  Thus far, they've taken testimony from Giuliani, former Michigan elections director Chris Thomas, and several poll challengers and workers who were at TCF Center, where the absentee ballots from Detroit were counted.  Also earlier this week,  Michigan's  Senate Oversight Committee took three hours of testimony from Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos  ---  Dominion's technology is used to tabulate votes in 63 of Michigan's 83 counties.

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock --- in a slight change of metaphors --- that's the sound of time running out on a lot of the GOP in Brooklyn and Staten Island if they don't try to change things very fast

 

Without Trump, with continued  mail-in voting and with redistricting,  old style politics just won't cut it in 2022 and going forward  (forget the City-wide elections in 2021  --  holding the little we have would be a major victory, if it were to happen  ---  and Max Rose has a better shot at being NYC mayor than any Republican that has been mentioned)

At the moment, the Brooklyn GOP has two elected office holders  ---  both of those are in mostly Staten Island Districts  ---  and by the 2022 elections, both might have Manhattan parts of their districts instead of the Brooklyn parts

Trump's future plans in and for the Republican Party should play an overwhelming part in any plans that anybody has in the GOP locally, citywide and statewide ---  and does anybody really think that a Greek cabal headed by a grocer with a speech impediment, his style-challenged daughter and a newly minted congressperson from Staten Island and other places will really be anywhere but at the kiddies' table for any of  that ???  Nonetheless, anything with Trump as a big part of the answer will remain problematic  ---  as in  "questionable" and unknown every step of the way. 

Will the GOP come up with any answer to the "mail-in vote"  ---  any time soon, or ever ?????

As for redistricting  ---  well, we already have one party rule;  does anybody expect that to change  ???  Maybe we can rely on the DOJ Voting Rights subdivision, or the courts  ---  yeah, that sure looks like it will make redistricting turn out just fine for those of us in the GOP, in Brooklyn, Staten Island or any place else.....

SO, DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY IDEAS HOW TO CHANGE THINGS FAST ?????

"What happened to Donald Trump ???" needs to be etched in stone next to "Who is John Galt ???" Once the stonecutters have done that, they can start chiseling the vital dates for constitutional government in these United States

 
Bit by bit, we are watching it ALL crumble..... 

 

The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly shown that its game plan always calls for  >>> punting on third down <<<   So, regardless of its makeup,  place not your faith in those princes of pro forma and  platitudinous prudence.  ---  Believe it or not, the recent Supreme Court "Texas decision" was pretty much decided on very much the same grounds as "Dred Scott"  ---  not getting beyond the issue of "standing"  >>>  With the Court saying, more or less,  "We don't see you, so we can't hear you."   

>>>  Well, in this instance, add my "HEAR-HEAR !!!" to Dicken's character in  "Oliver Twist,"  Mr. Bumble, who had it just about right when he said,  "THE LAW IS A ASS...  A IDIOT." 

Our emergent dystopia was all predicted by the likes of H.G Wells,  and then by a latter day George Orwell,  in allegory and narrative fiction, then in Ayn Rand's magnum opus "Atlas Shrugged" and then in countless contemporary serialized novel variants and/or computer games  

---  but it was all talked about long before that by the likes of Plato and Thucydides, and the Gospel writer Matthew and the writer of the Book of Revelation, with many others along the way, including much of what's in Shakespeare  ---  and in the middle of it all, are judges and the courts

....  It's not accidental that one of the worst times in the pre-Christian history of Israel is during the times covered in the "Book of Judges."

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Note:  In a moment of ABSOLUTE FICTION, in Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead," the book's rhetorical climax is when Hoard Roark's summation in a case about who owns the product of one's mind convinces the court and Roark is vindicated.

The Texas case in the SCOTUS naming four battleground states as defendants because of how they conducted the 2020 election for POTUS picks up wide interest on all sides, including motions by many to be added as additional plaintiffs in the case

 
In addition to the original filing by the State of Texas, these are some of the other filings in that case of 'original jurisdiction" now before the U.S. Supreme Court:  

A motion by President Donald Trump  to intervene as an additional plaintiff, because his rights were negatively impacted by the unconstitutional acts of the defendants;

An amici curiae (“friends of the court”) brief in support of Texas’s case by the state of Missouri, on its own behalf, and also on behalf of the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia”;

 

An amici curiae brief filed by Carter Phillips and other “Never Trump” Republican opponents of the president, supporting Pennsylvania and the other defendant states;  

An amici curiae brief filed by Roy Moore and other “constitutional attorneys” in support of the  case brought by Texas;

 

An amicus curiae brief filed by Arizona, urging the Court to act expeditiously; 

 

Responses to the Texas filing by each of the defendant states, as requested by the Supreme Court;

  

An amici curiae brief filed by the District of Columbia and “States and territories of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Guam, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Washington” in support of Pennsylvania and the other defendant states;  

A motion by Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah to intervene as plaintiffs;

 

Two amicus curiae motions by members of the Pennsylvania house and senate, respectively, urging the Supreme Court to take up and hear the case brought by Texas;
  
An amicus curiae motion by the Christian Family Coalition in support of the Texas case; 

An amici curiae brief by the speaker and majority leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in support of the Texas case;  

A motion by “state legislators and voters” represented by the Justice Foundation and the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, seeking to intervene and join the case as plaintiffs; and their proposed complaint was also filed; 

An amici curiae brief by 105 Republican members of the House of Representatives in support of the Texas case;  
An amici curiae brief by elected officials from four states, individually in support of the Texas case;  

An amicus curiae brief by the City of Detroit in support of Pennsylvania and the other defendants;  and

  

An amicus curiae brief by the Justice and Freedom Fund in support of the case brought by the plaintiff Texas

The number of filings in just three days — including from Democrat leaning states and various groups on the left — for a case that the U.S. Supreme Court has not yet said that it will take up and  hear  ---  might increase the chances that it will do so.  If so, there will be even more filings, or applications   >>>  to be sure.....

New case goes directly to U.S. Supreme Court --- it involves a direct action by one State in the Union directly against several other States in the Union for violation of the U.S. Constitution in their conduct of the 2020 Election for President

 
As Monty Python might have said back in the day  >>> "AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT"

Breitbart News is reporting that:

Shortly before midnight on Monday evening, attorneys for the State of Texas filed a lawsuit directly with the U.S. Supreme Court  challenging the election procedures employed in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin during the 2020 Presidential Election on the grounds that those procedures violate the procedures spelled out in United States Constitution.....

 

Texas' argument is that Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin violated the "Electors Clause" of the U.S. Constitution, because those states made changes to the voting rules  and procedures in their respective states through the orders of their  state  courts, or by  state executive actions, but not through their respective state legislatures as called for under the provisions of the "Electors Clause".....

Additionally, Texas argues that there also were differences in voting rules and procedures, as applied,  among different counties within those states, violating the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause;  and lastly, that there were  significant “voting irregularities” in each of the named states as a result of the improperly adopted changes in the voting rules and procedures in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin..... 

The remedy demanded by Texas is that the SCOTUS order that no electors be selected by the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin pursuant to any certification of any popular vote in any of those states, but instead that the electors from Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin be directly appointed by the state legislators in those states pursuant to the constitution's "Electors Clause".....

More info when we get it.

Details of the Trump Election Challenge in the Wisconsin Court

 

The AP article by reporter Scott Bauer says that  >>>  "President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Wisconsin seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in the state’s two most Democratic counties, a longshot attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the battleground state he lost by nearly 20,700 votes....  Trump filed the [lawsuit on the] day after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and the chairwoman of the Wisconsin Elections Commission certified Biden as the winner of the state’s 10 Electoral College votes. Trump asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take the case directly, rather than have it start in a lower court, and order Evers to withdraw the certification...."

Here are the details of the Trump complaint as outlined by Scott Bauer in his AP report:

"....   Trump’s Wisconsin lawsuit seeks to discard 170,140 absentee ballots where there was not a written application on file and all absentee ballots cast in person during the two weeks before Election Day....   

Trump wants to toss 5,517 ballots where election clerks filled in missing address information on the certification envelope where the ballot is inserted. The state elections commission told clerks before the election that they could fill in missing information on the absentee ballot envelopes, a practice that has been in place for at least the past 11 elections....

Trump also challenges 28,395 absentee ballots where a voter declared themselves to be “indefinitely confined” under the law....  

Trump also alleges that Madison opened illegal voting sites when the city held events at parks where election workers accepted 17,271 completed absentee ballots from voters looking to avoid crowds and mail delays. City officials said the poll workers at the 220 parks served the same purpose as ballot drop boxes around the state...."