Peloni: Not a single objection raised against Trump’s confirmation, just four years after a massive psyop was employed to validate a rigged election, the consequence of which left the nation more divided, the presidency more constrained, and thousands of Americans incarcerated, presaging the political show trials which are still ongoing against Trump. And yet, there was not a single objection to Trump’s electoral victory. Has America overnight become so centered around a Trump presidency that not a single contrary vote was raised against Trump’s return to power, not by any RINO, not by any Globalist, and not even by any of the still unhinged Dems? Such a united front emanating from the US provides for many opportunities even while it raises many questions. Greenfield believes this is due to tactical self interest. I am curious what others might attribute this inexplicable solidarity around Trump’s recent election victory.
For the first time this century.
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In the past, I have pointed out that Democrats objected to every single Republican presidential victory in this century. The Washington Times however notes that this time around,.”It was the first time congressional Democrats did not raise a challenge to a Republican winner of the presidential election since certifying George H.W. Bush’s victory in 1989.”
The obvious question is why not?
Beyond objecting to George W. Bush’s first win over hanging chads, Democrats raised objections to Bush’s second win over their claims of “voter suppression”. And everyone remembers the madness in 2016 when Democrats tried everything from recruiting faithless electors to claiming Trump conspired with Russia to win.
Here’s a little flashback to that circus.
Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts rose to object to the certificate from Alabama.
“The electors were not lawfully certified, especially given the confirmed and illegal activities engaged by the government of Russia,” McGovern said.
Rep. Barbara Lee of California brought up voting machines and Russian hacking when she objected following the counting of Michigan’s votes.
“People are horrified by the overwhelming evidence of Russian interference in our election,” Lee said.
After New York’s tally was read, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas stood up to object.
“I object on the massive voter suppression that included –” Jackson Lee began.
Hillary Clinton won New York, but Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee was the dumbest person in Congress.
Now suddenly Democrats are on their best behavior and bragging about it.
“We accept the results, even though we don’t like them, because our loyalties lie with the Constitution and with the rule of law,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, said in floor remarks ahead of the certification. “We hope what happens today, rather than what happened four years ago, stands as a shining example for future generations of how one conducts themselves in a free democracy.”
“We have to show our colleagues that you cannot turn on and turn off your fidelity to the Constitution according to whether or not it serves your party interest,” Rep. Jamie Raskin said of Republicans.
Really? Let’s go back to 2016.
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland rose to object to 10 of Florida’s 29 electoral votes.
“They violated Florida’s prohibition against dual office holders,” Raskin said.
Why did Raskin, who wouldn’t even commit to the process a few weeks ago, and who objected in 2016, go along with things now?
The short answer is that the whole thing was tactical. Democrats decided a while back that the 2016 tantrums are not advisable and no longer work. And are probably pointless anyway since Trump secured his second term. Now they’re bragging about how much they respect the constitutional process, not because they actually do, but because it serves to cover a change of strategies.
Just like they have been doing for the past 16+ years, they are following orders. This may be the only way to avoid real trouble in the coming days/weeks. It will not take long to weed out everybody that worked against the constitution in that period.
The reason possibly could be that because of Biden’s palpable ineptitude, followed by Harris’s even worse performance that they are presently “licking their wounds’ and regrouping.
Besides the victory was so sweeping they had no leg to stand on.
@Peloni Here’s another angle: Fraud, lies and half-truths, manipulated mass hysteria and election rigging in close elections is not a new thing going all the way back to the beginning of the republic. But, Can you name a single election where a candidate won both the electoral and the popular vote in a landslide which was contested?
However, quite a few Dems have said they won’t attend the inauguration, using Martin Luther King Day as an excuse. Why on earth did they make that January 20? Whose bright idea was that?
Well, here is another hypothesis:
https://franciscogilwhite.substack.com/p/part-1-is-trump-for-real-or-is-this-kayfabe-management-of-reality
@Peloni It makes sense if you look at them as a single coordinated army. The one thing Tucker Carlson contributed that was so valuable was to show that the Dem politicians and pundits were using the exact same language to enunciate their positions by juxtaposing numerous news clips. This has also been my impression from talking to Dems I know. They rarely think for themselves. Their groupthink is very similar to that of Soviet-aligned Communists in the heydey of the Comintern operating according to the Bolshevik principle of Leninist “Democratic Centralism” which says that the minority must champion the political line of the majority.
I think Obama is pulling the strings remotely or perhaps its a triumvirate of Obama, Pelosi, and Schumer as has been suggested, but I really think it’s Obama. That’s why he’s the only ex-president who never left Washington. Remember, he actually said in an interview when he was asked if he wanted a third term that, yes, but only if it would be as a hidden coordinator. Biden and Harris were the perfect puppets and their staffs were mostly Obama holdovers. If I’m right, he’s very much in the tradition of pols like Boss Tweed, Huey Long and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. Even the populism. Remember Huey Long’s slogan, “Every man a king, A chicken in every pot.” ?
@Sebastien
Good points all, but it still begs the question as to why not a single congressional enemy of Pres Trump objected, not one. Recall that the political class are not led by facts, nor propriety, nor public impressions. Indeed, this is particularly true of the radical Washington elements, and yet even these chose to not make any attempt to upset the symbol of unity around the one person who they have spent the past decade vilifying and attacking.
@Peloni Well, for one thing, they unwittingly shot themselves in the foot when they passed a law in 2022 revising the Constitutional provision that it would only require one member of each chamber to open a challenge to say that now it requires a fifth of each chamber. Moreover, affirming that the vice-president’s role is merely ceremonial.
And, for another, this is the first election in a long time that wasn’t close. It was a landslide. For decades now, the country has been split more or less down the middle with a tiny slice of the electorate that could go other way deciding the election.
Plus, the country is in trouble. Even Trump’s enemies among the elite are quietly turning to Trump to save the day as they did Nixon in 1968 but it won’t be so easy to railroad him on the way out the same way because Trump has stayed scrupulously within the law.
Somebody wrote an article comparing Trump to the character Gary Cooper plays in “High Noon.” Was it Victor Davis Hanson – who nonetheless has gone from grudgingly supportive to enthusiastic? Years ago.
“Hoist by their own Petard” as the saying goes. ?
By the way, little bit of classical music trivia. The pianist, Byron Janis is Cooper’s son-in-law.
I did read that the squad tried to make a fuss but nobody listened. Was that not the case?
I had a feeling something was afoot when I saw not one but two pro-Trump movies playing in AMC movie theaters in the months leading up to the election (the biggest theater chain in NY, certainly, they have theaters all over Manhattan, big multiplexes, though they usually seem to be empty these days.)
The Dems are leaderless and divided. Trump won his opponents in the Republican party and even some Democrats to his side.
Trump is a big fan of Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War.” Not just the title of his book which I read in 2016. I read or saw interviews with him from years ago. It was all the rage among business people like Warren Buffett, as well, as far back as the ’90s. That’s a principle mentioned in there in a couple of different ways. For one, a divided army is multiple smaller and weaker armies. And morale is important.
If one side is leaderless, listless, demoralized, and divided, without a plan, while the other is unified and inspired with a program and a competent leader, the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
Also, I suspect they are afraid of poking the bear just before the changing of the guard. I even saw a video clip of a friendly traditional political “roast” with Schumer politely clapping when Trump spoke. ?
By contrast, I can’t get the image out of my mind of Pelosi tearing up the transcript of Trump’s remarks to Congress – technically a felony – while he was still on the podium!
@Peloni Well, for one thing, they unwittingly shot themselves in the foot when they passed a law in 2022 revising the Constitutional provision that it would only require one member of each chamber to open a challenge to say that now it requires a fifth of each chamber. Moreover, affirming that the vice-president’s role is merely ceremonial.
And, for another, this is the first election in a long time that wasn’t close. It was a landslide. For decades now, the country has been split more or less down the middle with a tiny slice of the electorate that could go other way deciding the election.
Plus, the country is in trouble. Even Trump’s enemies among the elite are quietly turning to Trump to save the day as they did Nixon in 1968 but it won’t be so easy to railroad him on the way out the same way because Trump has stayed scrupulously within the law.
Somebody wrote an article comparing Trump to the character Gary Cooper plays in “High Noon.” Was it Victor Davis Hanson – who nonetheless has gone from grudgingly supportive to enthusiastic? Years ago.
“Hoist by their own Petard” as the saying goes. ?
By the way, little bit of classical music trivia. The pianist, Byron Janis is Cooper’s son-in-law.
I did read that the squad tried to make a fuss but nobody listened. Was that not the case?
I had a feeling something was afoot when I saw not one but two pro-Trump movies playing in AMC movie theaters in the months leading up to the election (the biggest theater chain in NY, certainly, they have theaters all over Manhattan, big multiplexes, though they usually seem to be empty these days.)
The Dems are leaderless and divided. Trump won his opponents in the Republican party and even some Democrats to his side.
Trump is a big fan of Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War.” Not just the title of his book which I read in 2016. I read or saw interviews with him from years ago. It was all the rage among business people like Warren Buffett, as well, as far back as the ’90s. That’s a principle mentioned in there in a couple of different ways. For one, a divided army is multiple smaller and weaker armies. And morale is important.
If one side is leaderless, listless, demoralized, and divided, without a plan, while the other is unified and inspired with a program and a competent leader, the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
(I used to be a Marxist which is SCIENTIFIC socialism, see, because it has a 150 percent track record in predicting past events with 20/20 hindsight. 😀 )
Also, I suspect they are afraid of poking the bear just before the changing of the guard. I even saw a video clip of a friendly traditional political “roast” with Schumer politely clapping when Trump spoke. 😀
Can’t get the image of Pelosi tearing up the transcript of Trump’s remarks to Congress – technically a felony – while he was still on the podium!
In the ’60s there were movies, like Billy Wilder’s “One, Two, Three” (an adaptation of a pre-war Molnar play by the same name) satirizing the fact that after the war, it was hard to find anyone in Germany who had even heard of the Nazis. 😀
(I’m a 2nd Gen survivor so “this I can do”) 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYUG0ywakOc