Hemingway’s conclusion: It is clear that the Dem party has followed a pattern of cheating, inch by inch, for a long time.
By James Arlandson, AM THINKER
Mollie Hemingway has written a blockbuster book about all the strands of deception and falsehoods that converged to take down Donald Trump on Nov. 3 and 4 and beyond (and before) in her book: Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech and the Democrats Seized Our Elections (Regnery, 2021). I twice asked two Barnes and Noble stores in two weeks whether they had it in stock, and each time — no. So I finally had to order it online. It has ten chapters, plus a prologue and an epilogue. The total number of endnotes is 1,243 (I added them up), many having extensive commentaries. Only a large and excellent team of researchers could put together a book like this, and she credits them by name in her acknowledgments.
As a class, the Dem leadership and journalists have turned into liars and false prophets. However, Ms. Hemingway begins the book with this encouragement: “You are not wrong” (the Prologue). Don’t allow the media to gaslight you. You are not crazy. Hemingway thoroughly presents the end-noted evidence.
The evidence can be boiled down as follows. Trump won a fair election on Nov. 3, but lost a fraudulent one late on Nov. 3 (about 22:00) and on to Nov. 4 and beyond, in some important Electoral College states. The Dems believed their own (fake) polling data that had said Trump was far behind. But they were shocked when they saw that he was about to win by a huge margin in those states. No matter. That’s when they went to Plan B and did their dirty work, in the early hours.
Instead of calling the election for Trump, the Dems, with their allies in the lying media, unprecedentedly stopped the normal vote count “coincidentally” around the same time in some of those states, sent the monitors home, and in the late hours illegally rammed through numerous lopsided ballots (a “surge”), favoring Basement Biden, such that he “won” by 10,000 to 30,000 votes, on Nov. 4+ in the targeted Electoral College States. By video, we fortuitously saw boxes filled with votes pulled out from under tables after the observers were told to go home, in Fulton County, Atlanta (Chapter 10). (In contrast, Texas and Florida got their vote counting done on time, and their populations are larger than the selected “special states.”) Don’t let the media gaslight you. Those ballots really were fixed and unaccounted for.
Over the next decade or two, the Dems plan to flip red states blue by their methods. They have been doing this in carefully selected states already, over several election cycles. Here is the Dem’s long-range, gradual strategy, which was exposed most visibly during election “season” (not day): (1) Find dark blue vote counting centers. (2) Promote mail-in ballots and call anyone a racist who objects (huge bundles of ballots have been found at drop-boxes). (3) Ram through those fake, lopsided Dem ballots. (4) Or the vote counters in dark-blue cities will count many Dem ballots twice. (5) They may even employ questionable vote counting software. (6) Result: The Dem nominee wins!
How do journalists turn themselves into compromised liars? Ms. Hemingway details the evidence in her Chapter Five, titled “The Revenge of Fake News.” We don’t need to spend much time here because everyone who daily reads online sources knows about the false Steele dossier, the Russian collusion hoax, the journalists lying about Trump’s efforts to find a fix for COVID (Chapter Three), burying Biden’s corruption (Chapter Eight), and so on. Reading these chapters may sicken fair-minded readers because they will be plunged into the heart of darkness. We all knew the media tilted left, but now they have become rabid leftists. Trump exposed their derangement syndrome, by being, well, Trump. He punched them in the mouth every day. Very gratifying.
Another main message of the book is that the GOP in various states was caught flat-footed when Dem operatives, like Marc Elias, sued or persuaded local election officials or even a secretary of state or two to give a large amount of control to private firms (Chapter One) funded by “Zuck Bucks” and other left-wing outfits (Chapter Seven). She summarizes: “The left spent hundreds of millions of dollars on its scheme to embed operatives in government election systems that aren’t supposed to take sides. Republican voters had no idea what had been done until it was too late” (p. 329).
A major solution for the GOP is to win back the office of the secretary of state, which would counter the Dem strategy of taking over this office from the middle of the 2000s. Another solution, which is hugely popular among the voters, is to insist on voter ID. Also, mail-in ballots must be eliminated or curtailed. The Virginia legislature and the new governor, for example (and many other states), must act now to implement these changes — and not to listen to empty, overused, and false accusations of racism.
Hemingway ends her book on a cautiously optimistic note, but with a warning stinger: “In the fight to come, those men and women [noncompliant, rebellious Americans] will have the best weapon – truth — on their side. The only question is whether their leaders will have the courage to use it” (p. 332). But make no mistake: the GOP leadership is constantly lagging behind, trying to keep track of the relentless, unblinking, amoral left.
America’s future is still in the balance. Virginia was won, along with scores of smaller, lesser-known victories, because the noncompliant Americans have woken up. Now maybe they can apply the whip hand to their feckless, sleepy leaders who always want to “get along” and “reach across the aisle,” not recognizing that their colleagues across the aisle will stomp all over them to hold on to power.
Of course, buy the book. It may wake you up and cause you to fight for our beloved Republic. Hemingway and her excellent team have sounded the battle trumpet and provided us with ammunition with this heavily end-noted book. Kudos to them.
A book recommendation: The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted by Mike Lofgren
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I know your comment was to @Shipdogdan and whereas I am sure he has his own perspective, I would like to share my own regarding the Reps. The Reps were responsible for supporting the insurrection against Trump from 2016-18, recall the role played by the Reps on the U.S. House and U.S. Senate Select Committees on Intelligence. The Reps were also responsible for shelving Devin Nunez as he was making headway to reveal the Russia nonsense. They also delayed the release of the transcripts of the Special Council til after the 2018 election which were held til 2020 allowing the Dems to depict the truth as they liked for nearly 2 election seasons(2018/2020). Additionally, the Reps made up the appointees, or most of them, that betrayed the Trump White House from within the administration itself in multiple occasions. All of this was perpetrated in connection first with the Special Council and then in coordination with their Dem globalist coalitionists after the Reps lost the midterm, again, due to their own efforts of perpetuating secrecy of the Special Council interviews among other things. They gave up the presidency to get rid of Trump, even though it was clear that accepting this fraud cost them the Senate as well.
To describe the Dems and Reps as the same is probably using a broad brush to paint them but reality is not badly served by doing so. I think it is fair to suggest they each played different roles at differing stages of this coup, in which the two groups actually worked together to overthrow the POTUS – the Dems were the disloyal opposition while the Reps were simply disloyal to the public will – but they each acted to overthrow an elected president enjoying the knowledge they would all be protected from prosecution/conviction/penalty for their crimes. The fact that they have parted ways today is, likely, a move to draw daylight between the two parties, such that the globalists have some say in things no matter how things end up – a tactic that has served them well and gave rise to the term uni-party, which is supportable with established nuances between the two groups, in my opinion. Also, it is fair to suggest that each Rep should be judged for their own actions, while the Dems have always acted as a collective hive-mind. It is probably fair to suggest that some Reps played large roles in all of this, some played small roles and others, perhaps, played none, so a fair individual accounting is warranted, I think. On whole, though, the entire govt is a swamp of some very crafty corrupt characters who act outrageously to gain a desired toxic result and then rail against the dilemma that they in part made possible. Your idea of cleaning up their house is essential, but a clean house will, I believe, require a greater purge than we are likely to see, unfortunately.
As a side note, the public have a short memory, which is how we have arrived in a situation where year after year Congress has 10-15% approval, but nearly all of the incumbents leave by retiring rather than being voted out. I have never been a supporter of term limits because it infringes upon personal liberty of choice, but when the corruption displayed in the Congress is as serious as the high crimes committed in recent years (which display the silly claims brought against Bibi all the sillier by comparison) I really find my opinion on that point quite changed.
Curious of your views, and others, on these points.
@ shipdogdan, I understand your frustration with the Republicans, but to say that they are “as corrupt as the Left” is a gross overstatement. Yes, they DO need to clean up their act, and to clean up their own house, but let’s keep things in their proper prospective.
@Shipdogdan
Well stated!
The Republicans let it happen because they are as corrupt as the left . You did notice that none of them lost their jobs because of the fraud election didn’t you ? Most all of the shady attorneys in our Government are compromised by the dirt the other side has on them , making it a vicious circle of corruption that citizens pay for year after sinking year . Of the trillions of $ of debt we now owe how much of it is in these swines bank accounts ? Too much by far I wager . Our only hope is that an honest entity holds some of them to account and they start taking each other down by ratting to save their own scaly skins . Our Government needs to be purged of the criminals and obvious subversion and treason prosecuted and punished as it should be ,by rope or firing squad . We the people of America deserve a Government for us that doesn’t hate us and force us to pay for millions of illegals and other ridiculous things that rob us of our $ because we actually try to work for a living . We are trying to better ourselves and our lives not enrich thieves and other criminals. Until some drastic changes occur in our Government the current vicious circle will continue. A good start would be overturning the obvious fraud 2020 election and hanging a lot of traitors and seizing a lot of assets . Also the lying left wing media owned by foreigners should be run out of our country and the Americans connected to it prosecuted . There used to be harsh punishments for things like treason and subversion but people like Obama wrote laws so that now it’s the norm , It’s time for the true enemies of this country be revealed to all and to deal with them harshly !
Numerous commentators have noted:
Without fixing the Electoral Integrity – We have nothing.