Tea at Trianon: The Cancer of Election Fraud

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, May 29, 2022

The Cancer of Election Fraud

From American Mind:

Having failed in the aftermath of the 2020 election to put the legal and factual issues to rest, or even attempt to examine them, we are now faced with a litany of questions and a host of concerns that will, like the cancer they are, metastasize. 2000 Mules throws into sharp relief what the Courts failed to consider and, in the process, may have created a spark for a future reckoning with the disease.

This is not a secret cooked up by a cabal of Trumpists. Time magazine, acting as the Left’s mouthpiece, bragged about successful manipulation of election law and procedures in early 2021 (“The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election”).

The Time article, of course, defends the extraordinary COVID-era mutilation of our election laws. But the author’s own words give away the game:

In a way, Trump was right. There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEO’s. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans…. Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time…. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result.”

Given these rather candid admissions, even a bit of “spiking the ball” by the Left, what D’Souza found was predictable. We know, for example, based on the report of former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman as Special Counsel, that Facebook pumped no less than $10.3 million into efforts to turn the election to Biden in Wisconsin.

2000 Mules confirms that large numbers of ballots were picked up and delivered by individuals to often-unmonitored drop boxes. This certainly appears to violate Georgia law limiting ballot delivery to family members, and Wisconsin law requiring ballots be returned “in person.” But one need not even be concerned about the legality of the exercise to conclude that the mass pick-up and delivery of absentee ballots occurred. The movie verifies by cell phone data what everyone involved already suspected, but did not want to publicly acknowledge.

The unwillingness of the Left and the legacy media to simply acknowledge what happened, like the thief running away from the crime scene, suggests guilt. “Guilt” need not refer to a criminal violation. Rather, it describes a general acknowledgment that the secret mass tracking, gathering, and delivery of ballots to boxes on street corners in the middle of night has the odor of something rotten. That is why almost any person who believes in a secret ballot and open, honest, fair elections, finds the whole 2020 election unsettling. (Read more.)