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  1. Mark
    “... this [“an orderly transition on January 20th”] represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history ...” If Trump has a surprise in store and the above is just indirection directed at his enemies, what is its purpose? I don’t like cheerleaders unless they’re smarter and more knowledgeable than I am. Who is “President Elect Joe M - @StormIsUponUs” that Lin Wood retweets him? (From a cursory glance at his work he seems like a crank.) Lin Wood himself is only a defamation lawyer. So far have any of his predictions come to pass? To repeat my usual refrain, I do hope my suspicions are wrong and Trump wins in the end. I just added this to ARI Watch: Georgia Election Credibility by Scott Adams (video excerpts), 6 January 2020
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    Joint Statement of Seven Senators and Four Senators-Elect by Marsha Blackburn, Mike Braun, Ted Cruz, Steve Daines, Ron Johnson, John Kennedy, James Lankford, et al 2 January 2020
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    Trump should be urging his supporters to write their two senators and one representative rather than urging them to waste their time attending another rally. I hope all this ends well but Trump's ceaseless promises do not inspire confidence.
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    From an editorial by Ann Coulter: --------------------------------------------- Trump warned that there would be massive fraud with mail-in ballots, but as with all his other great points, he didn’t actually do anything about it. True, Trump tweeted, “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent.” It turns out that didn’t actually accomplish anything. It was much like his “LAW & ORDER!” tweets or this (my favorite) tweet: “bring our troops back home. Stop the ENDLESS WARS!” Far from an “authoritarian,” Trump seemed to be utterly unaware that he was president. Now it’s too late. The vote fraud is baked in the cake. At least this time, one of the victims of Trump’s all-talk presidency is him. Currently, the fate of Western civilization comes down to two runoff Senate elections in Georgia. If Republicans win, they will hold the U.S. Senate. Even with a handful of Mitt Romneys, the Democrats’ most psychotic plans will be dead on arrival. That means: No Green New Deal, no District of Columbia statehood, no court packing and no mass amnesty. But if they lose, the Democrats will have the trifecta: the presidency, the House and the Senate, and welcome to hell. ---------------------------------------------
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    I spoke too soon. It used to be that if you searched for ... ayn rand iraq war or even ... "ayn rand" "iraq war" one of my Iraq War articles would be number one. No longer. It's not among the first 30 and I lost patience checking further. Ditto for lots of other subjects. Some aren't so bad. "carl barney" used to be number two, now it's six. "richard minns" used to be number two, now it's five.
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    This morning ARIwatch.com was still de-ranked. I checked just now, this afternoon, and things seem back to normal. Google de-ranked many websites over the election fraud issue. Maybe they stopped because of complaints from users.
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    If you search for "ARI Watch" using Bing or DuckDuckGo you find ARIwatch.com listed first. That used to be how it was with Google as well. No longer. ARI Watch has effectively disappeared as far as Google is concerned, ranked so low it might as well not be there. Who knows for sure why but I suspect the new articles on election fraud caught Google's attention. Imagine that. Google is going after low traffic, niche websites like ARI Watch, trying to hide discusion of election fraud from their hapless users.
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    I wrote that in Mouthpieces for Election Riggers. From footnote 2: Mr. Brook’s conversation contains much word-stuttering, false starts, extraneous you knows, I means, rights, ands, uhs and ums. Most of these have been silently omitted in our transcription. Despite that cosmetic treatment Brook still sounds like a complete fool.
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    Re the post just before Ellen's ... Trump besmirches himself, regarding Blagojevich, Esformes, and a lot of other things. MKS turns the discussion from the actions and missing actions of Trump – which are indefensible – to me, the bearer of the bad news. Re “cannon fodder”: No one sent me here, or if MSK is referring to ARIwatch.com, no one manages it besides myself. Out of the blue MSK takes on the subject of my leaving behind a body of work when I die. His technique is to complement a person – I’m “intelligent,” as if he could ... LOL – while cutting him down. He also claims to read a person’s mind, and of course he puts in his own thoughts. “Marc” or whatever is either a troll whose purpose is to make Trump’s defenders look absurd, or he is genuine, in which case he’s a character I couldn’t make up if I tried. “Worshiping” is hardly strong enough to describe his caricature of admiration.
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    It isn’t fascist or “authoritarian,” whatever that means, to put crooks in jail. Is it fascist to keep Snowden exiled and Assange in prison while letting scum like Blagojevich and Esformes run free? Trump worshipers are almost as sickening as Trump haters. Of course I hope I’m wrong and Trump pardons Snowden and Assange but we shouldn’t have illusions about Trump’s character. Support him against the likes of Biden, Kamala, AOC etc. and all the vote fraudsters but you needn’t swallow him whole. Kushner helped get Trump to commute (terminate) Esformes’ sentence. Who elected him? It looks like four more years of Trump would mean four more years of his jerk son-in-law.
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    Not to mention Philip Esformes. Trump is in large part a sleazebag. (In the current political climate I support him anyway, especially against vote fraud.)
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    Troll or fool, Had a Dagney been president in real life would she have commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich?
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    Ellen, My source didn't know. These years might be helpful: ... Boesky sang in 1986 ... Brook came to America in 1987 ... Milken was indicted in 1989. ... Brook, with another person, started BH Equity Research in 1998. Mark
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    Anthony, That ARI should make that podcast on the 21st of all days, the day of the event they had been working and pining and hankering for, the day that brought the installation of the likes of Kamala president of the United States closer to becoming reality, what can one say? Can you think of a fresh way to call them hypocrites? Ellen, Interesting question, did Brook invest with Milken. I relayed it to my best source, still waiting for a reply.
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    The Great Depression may have been the largest wealth transfer ever, from the middle class to the rich, as usual. Wyndham Lewis, a British eccentric, wrote about this somewhere (when he was in the U.S.) It’s hard to quantify the different transfers and compare. Anyway, the Covid hysteria (not that one shouldn’t take vitamin D or that the elderly or sick shouldn’t take care) has caused a huge transfer. Democrats once championed, in their own misguided if sincere way, the “working man.” Now they openly hate him, at least if he isn’t one of the favored – insert string of letters. They want him dead and some brazenly say so outright.
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    New on ARI Watch: Mouthpieces for Election Riggers Yaron Brook & Gregory Salmieri Quoting the later about claims of vote fraud: “... given my assessment of the characters of the people [Trump, Giuliani, Powell ...] involved and my assessment of the [legal] system ... I dismiss these claims without looking into them, and I think it’s perfectly valid to do that.” Just so, he goes on to say, you acknowledge that you haven't looked into them, which makes your dismissing them OK.
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    My opinion of Sarah Palin just increased by, to use a physics term, several orders of magnitude.
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    In one of Yaron Brook’s recent podcasts he refers to Giuliani’s claim of a spurious extra 156,000 votes for Biden in Michigan (though Brook mentions only the vote count not the state). Brook then says (1) Giuliani later retracted the claim. (2) The extra votes in fact went in the opposite direction, that is, at first they went to Trump when they should have gone to Biden. Brook also says that Giuliani has retracted other of his claims but he doesn’t elaborate. Is any of that true? I don’t think Giuliani made the 156,000 claim Brook says he did, and hasn’t retracted any of his allegations. Here is Brook himself: “Even Rudy’s retracting his, some of his earlier claims because it turns out, there was there’s this one example: where uh they they uh, there’s a tweet. Let me let me just find this um. There was a tweet where there were a hundred and something thousand votes right. Um hundred thousand something thousand votes that supposedly like this just flipped uh increased in in Biden’s case. So so there so there’s a tweet or a Facebook announcement saying look, here’s the picture before and then 10 minutes later you know, nothing’s changed and Biden has an extra 156,000 votes or something like that, and um. And what’s up with this and then everybody retweets it and people comment on it and everything, and then later on, it turns that, Yes, there was an adjustment made because of some clerical error and somebody had forgot a zero and they adjusted it and they made the adjustment. It also turns out that they got the two screenshots the other way around and actually the extra 156,000 votes went to Trump, not to Biden, and it turns out that everything about the story was wrong.”
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    Quoting the article: The article concludes: ”... the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling comes as [a] much needed victory for President Trump and his allies.” I don't understand the victory part.
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    Marc might not be a troll but this post certainly sounds trolly. Trump has made a lot of mistakes. Calling Trump “Winston Churchill 2.0” insults Trump. Churchill was a fraud of monumental proportions.
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    Now MSK accuses me of using a “propaganda technique” LOL. Another one no less. Stopped reading at that point. I may be wrong but I’m not trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes. The following article is worth reading and – I might be wrong – part of it articulately expresses some of MSK’s concerns: Sessions Is Not So Great The trouble is, Trump replaced him with someone even worse. Much worse.
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    I've tired of this discussion as well but I must say I don't see how Sessions took the job of AG under false pretenses. "Defend the President" is not part of the AG job description. The AG is not the President's personal lawyer.
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    What MSK leaves out are the dates. Trump’s “Wacky Nut Job” Ann Coulter was made March 9, 2019. Coulter’s “Retard” Trump was made May 24, 2020.
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    Update: Attorney General Barr Intends to Stay as Long as President Trump Needs Him A number of weeks? it looks like Trump has written off the DOJ and its FBI.
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    That “ready, simple explanation” was a reference to Occam’s razor. Again, Sessions was beholden to Trump. And therefore he was required to recuse himself. That is the ready and simple explanation. The evidence is in front of you. Then there is this from MSK: “I think Sessions recused himself because he had swamp markers he had to pay off.” (And when I ask why he thinks that, he accuses me of engaging in “peer pressure.”) Which explanation does Occam favor? I am 100% behind Trump’s battle to have his 2020 victory legally acknowledged. Probably no one in Objectivist circles – a rather small pond to be sure – has written more essays supporting Trump, polished, well structured, with lots of facts and references. But even in 2016 I had written “I am prepared to be disappointed in Trump” because of his flaky character and intelligence (not IQ but “intellectuality” for lack of a better word). As an example of the personal pettiness of the man witness this tweet lashing out at Ann Coulter, @’ing her Twitter account so she would see it, after she had criticized him for boasting about his new wall, which at the time was non-existent. This ugly tweet came after Coulter had helped him win the presidency, even writing an entire book supporting him: In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! (August 2016). And then there was Trump’s behavior at the recent Trump rally. He merely drove by on his way to play golf. A half hour out of the 24 wouldn’t have hurt him, and the people who took a great deal of trouble to show up would have loved it. (However, there may have been security concerns so I won't press this point.) Speaking of Coulter, her latest editorial is worth reading: Yes, Democrats Cheat. We Have to Win Georgia Anyway