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Watch This Before The Congressional Session on January 6th! Rudy W. Giuliani’s Common Sense, CS Facebook Page
It’s Not Up to VP Pence: Sebastian Gorka (video, left), Newsmax
CS Commentary: You Tube is censoring certain videos, including the one we previously had in this spot, on Trump’s Road to Victory. Gorka expresses outrage at the inaction of most Republican Senators. The road to stop Congressional certification of Biden Electors is a difficult, uphill process, not likely for Trump (apart from some type of miracle). For the process of getting to a Contingent Election, see our recent article below, Trump Must Win. Gorka puts any responsibility for accepting fraudulent electors in the correct place – on the American people, the State Legislatures, and the US Congress, especially the GOP.
More Big Questions on Election in Georgia and Pennsylvania (video, right), OAN
CS Commentary: The problem here, again, is generalities, not specifics. The general statements sound good for Trump supporters, but the specifics lead to a different conclusion – a Trump loss on Jan 6. See our article below, Trump Must Win.
What Will Happen January 6th? A Congressional Civil War Trump Must Win, Seaborn Hall, Common Sense Politics
CS Commentary: From our reading of both the US Constitution and the Electoral Count Act of 1887, this would also be our view. On the other hand, we believe – contrary to this article and others – that there is latitude for how the Congressional procedure under the 1887 Act is handled relative to the dueling sets of electors.
The pertinent question is, “Can ‘certified’ Electors be considered ‘certified’ when they are negatively tainted by legitimate questions of Voter Fraud at multiple levels in multiple states – all of those States controlled by Democratic officials or anti-Trump Republican officials?” The 1887 procedure may not call for a unanimous vote on the ‘certified’ electors – it may call for a vote between the two sets of Electors.
If the procedure is handled this way, Electors could be set aside and Trump could win. Almost no one is talking or writing about this part of the 1887 Act.
Special Update, 1/06/21: Congress Approves Rules Governing Electoral Vote Challenge on January 6, Zachary Stieber, The Epoch Times
CS Commentary: Note a quote from the article: “That will trigger a withdrawal from the joint session and a two-hour debate, followed by votes in each chamber. Only with a majority vote from both the House and the Senate would a challenge be upheld, which even supporters find unlikely, considering Democrats who control the House and Senate Republican leadership, including McConnell, have expressed disapproval with the plan to object.” – But, is this correct? According to the Electoral Count Act of 1887 when there are two sets of electors a unanimous vote of both the House and Senate is needed to choose one of the sets. The question is whether the alternate set of Trump Electors will be considered valid. That is the line of the fight. Also see, Special Update, 1/06/21 – Congress Adapts Rules Governing Jan 6 Procedure, Cheny/Zanona, Politico – Politico is notoriously liberal, so ignore the slant and focus on the good information provided. As we have been saying, there is only a small chance Trump wins Jan 6 because too many Republicans oppose him + the unclear nature of the 1887 Act procedure governing how to address dueling electors.
What Politico – and no one else we can find – addresses is the possibility that somehow Trump could pull this off because of the vague nature of the Act related to how to handle dueling electors. According to the Act, if Congress must vote to choose which electors to accept, there must be a unanimous vote to accept one set. Otherwise that state’s electors are to be ‘set aside.’
In this situation, Trump could win – if three to six State’s electors were set aside Trump could possibly have the majority of the remaining electors and win. But, only if Republicans were united in their vote and voted for the Trump electors over the Biden electors. With the Senate race in GA going to Democrats and other Trump Republicans in the House and Senate signaling they will not oppose Biden electors, this is now extremely unlikely. See our article above, What Happens? Trump Must Win for a full explanation of the options and how they may play out.
Must See – Ted Cruz and 11 Senators To Oppose Biden Electors and Propose Election Commission to Investigate Voter Fraud, CS Facebook Page
Must See – Jim Jordan and Mo Brooks Lay Out Case For Jan 6 Challenge and Proof of Massive Voter Fraud Across 6 States, CS Facebook Page
Updated 12/23/20, Trump With Only One Path to Victory Now – and it’s a ‘Hail Mary’ Pass, Seaborn Hall, Common Sense Politics
Trump Tide on Election Night ‘Suddenly Turns’ Biden Blue
Sydney Powell Sums Up Election Fraud and Trump’s ‘Landslide’ Victory (video, left), The Eric Metaxas Show
Explainer: Dueling Electors and the Upcoming Joint Session of Congress, Zachary Stieber, The Epoch Times
Quote: “Republicans have not been able to gain enough support to get the dueling electors certified by the top election official—usually the secretary of state—nor did the state legislatures exercise their constitutional right to take back the power to choose which candidate to give the electoral votes to…According to the Congressional Research Service, when dueling slates are received, members of Congress in the joint session consider the list when its from a different state authority than the certified list, and conduct a vote. Acceptance of either slate would then require a concurrent agreement in both the House and the Senate [emphasis CS].”
The Immaculate Deception: 6 Degrees of Election Irregularities, Peter Navarro, Trump Economic Advisor
CS Commentary: America has been warned. If you are a public official who has failed to show courage and do your duty you will have no excuse and should be held responsible. Every American who fails to stand up and speak and act will have no excuse. From this day forward no one can excuse themselves or offer up any excuse. If you don’t act now – today – then you are part of the future guilty that let the American Republic slip into darkness and a black abyss. If you’re reading this and you think it sounds extreme go look in the mirror and say, ‘I am part of the problem. Wake up!’ (Yell the last part several times while you duck your face in a bucket of ice repeatedly.)
Republican Electors Cast Unofficial Challenge, Setting up Congressional Clash, Deanna Paul, WSJ
CS Commentary: The WSJ, like Fox News, is not what it used to be. Note the liberal slant of this article in the viewpoint, the structure of the sentences, and the people quoted – almost all liberal university law professors. There is no mention of the Electoral Count Act of 1887, which has precedent in the handling of the 2000 election controversy in Congress between Bush and Gore. Deanna Paul, the writer, was formerly a NYC prosecutor, then worked as a reporter for the Washington Post. Right.
Attorney Lin Wood Claims VP Pence Faces Treason Charges and Execution by Firing Squad, Joel B. Pollak, Breitbart
CS Commentary: The issue is a little more subtle here…it’s Lin Wood’s opinion….not sure he’s right, honestly…though Pence is a political coward for filing his counter-suit….but the Constitution’s language is simple – it does not necessarily mean to give the power to the VP, but the States….there are good opinions on both sides of the issue. Lin Wood’s ‘opinion’ is one of them…But, if Trump wins, Pence may have just killed his chance of becoming President.
One Video Proves Election Fraud: I Can’t Say This on National TV (video, left), Rudy Giuliani’s Common Sense
Must Read – Power of Vice-President To Accept or Reject Electoral Votes Disputed, Petr Svab, The Epoch Times
CS Commentary: Good article that argues that the VP may indeed have precedent in form and function, to intercede and direct the Electoral Votes. Against him, however, is still modern day precedent and Al Gore’s supervision of the 2000 Election controversy as well as the 1876 Election and the Electoral Count Act of 1887. For more, see our coming article, Trump Will Have to Take It.
Giuliani Says Major Networks – including Fox News – Won’t Have Him On Anymore, Jack Phillips, The Epoch Times (For commentary on the facts in this article/video, see Red Box below)
Trump still has a thin route to victory with all of the direct cases and appeals either before, or headed to, The Supreme Court. This needs to take place before January 6, but probably won’t. The route to victory becomes even more thin if a decision comes after January 6 – which is where pending cases are now docked. Trump attorneys and supporters also make it appear that there is a route to victory through the State Legislatures before January 6. There is – if they could convince the State legislatures in three states, starting with just one, to meet and vote to re-certify Trump electors instead of Biden electors. This could reverse the election when Congress meets January 6. But there is very little time at this point for that to happen, and it probably will not. So far, for a variety of reasons, State legislatures have met to certify alternate electors but have not reconvened full sessions to attempt to nullify the Democrat electors and re-certify Trump electors. This action would need a majority vote in a fully convened official session of the State legislature. Why haven’t the State legislatures done this? The primary reason is probably because it is impossible. In fourteen states the Governor of the State has to approve a Special Session and many of the Governors are Democrats. In thirty-six states you either need two-thirds or three-fifths of the Legislature to approve a Special Session in a poll-vote. At present, because of the present condition of Congress – without the State legislatures re-certifying – Trump’s path on January 6 in an Electoral Challenge is weak, probably to the point of failure. In our opinion, this is due to the cowardly and corrupt nature of certain Republicans. In a Challenge Republicans do not currently have the will – it would take a majority vote in the Senate, all of the Republicans to edge out the Dems – to nullify the electoral votes of States with two sets of presenting electors. Only one thing could possibly change this when Congress meets on January 6: a compelling presentation of voter fraud evidence that has not been presented or previously seen, or that is presented in a more compelling and persuasive fashion. This likely means something major has to happen before January 6, the date the Supreme Court’s own Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2000 called the date of ‘ultimate significance.’ After Congress accepts the Biden electoral majority, the election will be almost impossible to reverse – without major revelations of paramount significance. No sitting President would want to be put in such a situation, not even President Trump. After January 6, and if Biden is confirmed by the Congress as the President-Elect, the only means Trump would have to reverse the election would be major revelations of a stunning nature – that is, news that would unite the nation in agreement around the issue of the election – and use of the Foreign Interference Executive Order + the Emergency Powers Act and/or The Insurrection Act. Use of these Executive Orders to reverse an election in the, defeated, Sitting President’s favor, would be unprecedented, controversial and would most likely result in chaos, violence, martial law and possible Civil War (Hear Steve Bannon’s comments in Video below).
Must See – Eric Presents Steve Bannon: Trump’s Current Path to Victory (video, left), The Eric Metaxas Show
Must See – What will Happen On January 6? Will VP Pence Accept Republican Electors? (video, right), Facts Matter With Roman Balmakov (Epoch Times)
CS Commentary: Part of video on election starts around 7:20. Great analysis if you omit the last 5 minutes…two isolated opinions on the 12th amendment will hold no weight with the Supreme Court.
How can that be said? Because (as we’ve written about on this site) the Electoral Count Act of 1887 addresses this very issue. The power is not given to the President of the Senate because it was recognized that he might be partisan. The 1887 Act therefore puts the weight on the States to act before Congress meets. Therefore, any question put to the Court will likely be decided in favor of the States.
VP Pence will therefore have little authority or precedent to choose non-certified Republican Electors over legally certified Democratic ones – even if it is suspected that they are not valid because of a false election (see next article below for more clarification). Suspicion is not the same as Court affirmed proof. The 2000 Election controversy was precedent. Al Gore followed the 1887 Act in his supervision of the count in Congress.
If Pence does not do the same he will be crucified by Dems and anti-Trump and wimpy moderate Republicans. It will not lead to Civil War. Why? Because the Dems would challenge the Electoral Count. For more, see our article above…What Happens? Trump Must Win.
Giuliani Witness: Shocking New Claims About Corrupt Voting Systems, Dinesh D’Souza
‘They Stole an Election’ – Giuliani Makes Ballot Fraud Case To Michigan Legislature, Alex Nitzberg, Just the News
War Between US and China is More Likely Than People Estimate (video, left), Sky News Australia
What Barr Did. What DNI Ratcliffe Should Do: Sebastian Gorka (video, right), America First
Video: The Art of the Steal: We Deserve to Have Honest, Fair Elections: Truck Driver Testifies, Donald J. Trump
Trump Loss Makes No Sense – Red Tsunami Beats Blue Wave in Every State, Newt Gingrich
Election Regularities Battleground States
The Declaration Of Independence, Full Text, USHistory.org
The U.S. Constitution, The Bill Of Rights, & All Amendments
CS Commentary: We make a practice of reading The Declaration and the U.S. Constitution at least once a year. We suggest that you do too.
Must See – The Democratic Party Playbook: Saul Alinsky’s 12 Rules For Radicals, The Bolen Report
Draft Of 2020 Democratic Party Platform, DemConvention.com (If you are Democrat, know what you are supporting)
Israel and the world
China Wants To Hurt The U.S.: Gordon Chang, (video, left) Newsmax
View from Outside the U.S. – Nigel Farage: No Doubt ‘Industrial Scale’ Voter Fraud in US Election, But It Will Be Hard To Prove (video, right), Sky New Australia
Venezuela’s Guide to Election Theft, Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ
Chinese Military Bases in the Caribbean? Lawrence A. Franklin, Gatestone Institute
Durham is Special Counsel – What Does That Mean? Chris Farrell, Gatestone Institute
Cooperate With China or WWIII: Kissinger, Gordon G. Chang, Gatestone Institute
How Venezuela Fell From The Richest Country In South America Into Crisis, Patrick J. Kiger, History
CS Commentary: Does not tell the whole story – like how open borders in the early 80’s and refuges from the drug wars led to Chavez’s rise – and seeks to lay the blame on ‘multiple factors’ when it should be laid at the feet of Socialist policies, but still hits some of the high points.
8 Reasons Why Rome Fell, Evan Andrews, History
How 5 Of History’s Worst Pandemics Finally Ended, Dave Roos, History
Common Sense Interpretation
CS Statement of Belief in the Midst of Election 2020: The Time to Stand and Fight is Now, Seaborn Hall, Common Sense Politics
Updated 12/09/20 – What Happens Now? The Routes and Obstacles to a Prophesied Trump Win (the next 2 weeks should largely determine the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election), Seaborn Hall, Common Sense Politics
The Only Peace is on the Other Side of War, Seaborn Hall, Common Sense Politics
Must Read – 2018 Executive Order on Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections, White House
CS Commentary: Seems like an investigation must be done and reported on within 45 days if we are reading this right. Could it be that some internal report is going out today, December 17, the day Dana Coverstone’s ‘Data Dream’ predicted the death of Biden’s Presidential candidacy?
Must Read – DNI Ratcliffe Confirms There Was Foreign Interference in November Elections, Masooma Haq, The Epoch Times
Must Read – Dominion Voting System Designed To Create Systemic Fraud, Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute
Quote: “We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results. The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors. The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication.” — Allied Security Operations Group, Antrim Michigan Forensics Report, Revised Preliminary Summary, v2, December 13, 2020…”Looking at their team [that analyzed the Michigan voting systems], their patents, their experience, we now have a credible analysis that, as I predicted, the Algorithms being used in the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed to create systematic fraud and influence election results and, in this case, not in the favor of President Trump.”
It’s a Coup. Just Say It! Jay Valentine, American Thinker; Also see, Coup Against President Trump Still In Progress, General Flynn Says In First Interview, Melanie Sun, The Epoch Times
Pennsylvania 2020 Voting Analysis Report, American Catholic
Quote: “…non-partisan effort by unpaid citizens and volunteer experts. Our only objective is to play a small roll in helping assure that all legal PA votes are counted, and that only legal PA votes are counted…There are some major statistical aberrations in the PA voting records, that are extremely unlikely to occur in a normal (i.e. un-manipulated) setting. The anomalies almost exclusively happened with the Biden votes [emphasis CS].”
Powell GA Lawsuit Makes 30 Allegations In Bid To Reverse Election, The Epoch Times
Lin Wood: People Are Going to Prison in GA, Populist Press
Must Read – President Trump: Explain To the American People That The Survival of the Republic is At Stake, Michael Walsh, The Epoch Times
Must Read – The Smartest Man in the Room Has Just Joined Sydney Powell’s Team, Andrea Wildburg, American Thinker; Also see, Sydney Powell Files New Michigan Lawsuit, Petr Svab, The Epoch Times
Quote: “An analysis of the Dominion software system by a former US Military Intelligence expert concludes that the system and software have been accessible and were certainly compromised by rogue actors, such as Iran and China…The failure of the Dominion software “to meet the methods and processes for national standards for managing voting system problems and should not be accepted for use in a public election under any circumstances…where he recorded [Dominion Rep] Eric Coomer representing: “Don’t worry. Trump won’t win the election, we fixed that.”…This margin of victory in the election [in Georgia] for Mr. Biden was only 12,670 and cannot withstand most of these criticisms [relative to both mail-in ballots and voting system fraud] individually and certainly not in aggregate [CS Emphasis ours].”
CS Commentary: What is the standard of proof? ‘Preponderance of the evidence’ (civil) – not ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ (criminal). “The Georgia Supreme Court has made clear that Plaintiffs need not show how the [] voters would have voted if their [absentee] ballots had been regular. [] only had to show that there were enough irregular ballots to place in doubt the result.” Conclusion? “Georgia’s November 3, 2020 General Election remains under a pall of corruption and irregularity that reflects a pattern of the absence of mistake [emphasis CS]. At best, the evidence so far shows ignorance of the truth; at worst, it proves a knowing intent to defraud.”
What is ‘absence of mistake’? In this context, what the suit is saying is that the defendants being accused in the suit – the Governor, Secretary of State, etc. did not make a mistake – circumstances and witnesses show that they had to know they were placing the election in a place where fraud could easily be committed and the outcome would be changed.
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Books:
Shroud of Turin: New Book Disputes Claims It is Not Burial Cloth of Jesus, Myra Kahn Adams, Townhall
Culture:
40% – President Trump Keep Pushing Voter Fraud; 50+% – ‘Concede’, Rasmussen/Just The News
CS Commentary: Its always been the righteous third that’s pushed history forward in the right direction – The Revolutionary War, The U.S. Civil War, and Now.
CDC: New Strain of Covid in UK Could Already Be Circulating in the U.S., Will Feuer, CNBC
China Owns Hollywood: What You Are Watching is not the Truth, Judith Bergman, Gatestone Institute
Why Can’t America Beat The Drug Cartels in Mexico? Chris Farrell, Gatestone Institute
Elon Musk Leaving CA For TX is a ‘Big Warning’ (video, left), Fox Business
Hillsong Founder Brian Houston Says NY Pastor Fired For ‘Narcissism’ and Multiple Affairs, Rachel DeSantis, People
Health/Fitness/Relationships:
Amy Grant Speaks For First Time About Her Open Heart Surgery (video, left), GMA
Experts Send Vitamin D and Covid-19 Letter to World’s Governments, Nikki Hancocks, Nutra Ingredients
US Rolls Out Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine, Sky News Australia
Mom’s Worth it – Millions Travel In Spite of Covid-Surge, Tamara Lush, AP
FDA Rolls Out At Home Covid Rapid Test, Juhie Bhatia, The Points Guy
Here is When The Covid Vaccine May Be Available At Your Neighborhood CVS/Walgreens, Kevin Stankiewicz/Melissa Repko, CNBC
Doctors Say CDC Should Warn People That Covid Vaccine Is No Easy Thing, Berkeley Lovelace, Jr., CNBC
Update: CDC Home Pages On Coronavirus; Also see here; Also see, CDC Updated Global Map On Confirmed Cases Of Coronavirus, CDC; Also see, Coronavirus Resource Center, John Hopkins University
Medicare And Coronavirus, medicare.gov
Movies:
Chris Pratt Tries To Walk the Line in Hollywood – And Fails? (video, left), THR News
CS Commentary: Chris is one of our favorite actors – but there is no truth here. Only proof that in Hollywood, there is non truth.
Crew Walk Off Second Mission Impossible Film After Cruise Goes On Covid Rant, Jeffrey Lord
Lionsgate Vice Chair Talks Big Tech Bias (video, left), Political Tensions, Newsmax
Miles Teller Says No Green Screens Were Used In Top Gun Maverick, Matthew Neale, NME
A Third Ten – More Under-rated Films For Lockdown Viewing, Seaborn Hall, Common Sense Interpretation; Also see, Ten More Under-rated Films For Lockdown Viewing, Seaborn Hall, Common Sense Interpretation; Also see, Ten Under-rated Films For Lockdown Viewing, Seaborn Hall, Common Sense Interpretation
Music:
Edge of Seventeen (Official Video) (video, left), Stevie Nicks
CS Commentary: Surprise. The song is about her Uncle and John Lennon. See link below.
Stevie Nicks performs ‘Edge of Seventeen’ at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 2019, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Edge of Seventeen, Song Lyrics and Meaning
Stay, Mikky Ekko, KCRW; Also see, Stay, Rihanna with Mikky Ekko, Rihanna
CS Commentary: Warning – Video is PG-13. But, what a great song this is.
Artists Cover Cat Stevens Classics, Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone
It Ain’t Over till it’s Over, Official Music Video, Lenny Kravitz
Sports:
ESPN Predicts New Falcon Head Coach, Deen Worley, The Falcons Wire
Falcons Future Structure to be based on Candidates, D. Orlando Ledbetter, AJC
Falcons Will Allow New GM to Part Ways With Ryan and Jones, Scott Polacek, The Bleacher Report
How Younghoe Koo’s Career Went From NFL Nightmare to the Pro Bowl, Joon Lee, ESPN; Also see, How Falcon’s Kicker Bested Seahawks with Onside Kick (video, left), 8intheboxproductions
Atlanta Falcons: Five Players Who Should Not Return in 2021, Shawn Spencer, Blogging Dirty
The Falcons Need to Start Over – Will They? Mark Bradley, AJC
Georgia Tech Football Year 2 – Not a Success, not a Failure, Mark Bradley, AJC
Tech:
Video: Apple’s iPhone 12 ‘a gamechanger,’ Sky News Australia
Travel:
Inside the Celebrity Private Suite at LAX (video, left), The Points Guy
Must Read – Family Kicked Off United Flies Again, This Time on Delta – But, Without Daughter, One Mile at a Time
Jet Blue Adds Four New Cities, Including Miami, Zach Griff, The Points Guy
A Delta Passenger Who Jumped Out of a Plane with His Dog Was Allegedly About to Lose Control, del Valle/Caldwell, CNN
Did Delta’s Skymiles Update Get Lost in the Mail? Zach Griff, The Points Guy; Also see, Delta Sky Miles Holders Can Now Earn More MQM’s for 2021, Ziggy, Traveling for Miles; Also see, Delta Finally Eliminates the Strict Redemption Cancel Penalty, Zach Griff, The Points Guy
A New Way To Travel Across the US, Stephen Starr, BBC
TV/Streaming:
The Expanse, Season 5, Official Trailer (video, left), Amazon Prime Video
The Sky is Falling on another Great Season of The Expanse, Zack Handlen, TV AV Club
The 25 Most Watched Shows on Netflix in 2020, Samuel Spencer, Newsweek
Diane Lane: ‘I Don’t Want To Join The Ranks of Quotable Hashtags’, James Mottram, Independent
10 Best Netflix Dramas Other Than Queen’s Gambit, Christine Persaud, Screen Rant
Challenger, The Final Flight, Official Trailer, Netflix
The Last Kingdom: How Much is True and Historically Accurate? Louisa Mellor, Den of Geek
Quotes Of The Month:
“If something’s wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.” — Benjamin Gates, main character, explaining what a line in the Declaration of Independence means, National Treasure, 2004
