1. Personal Declaration of a Break with Donald Trump
I have defended President Trump against unfair and vicious attacks from the media and the Democrats relentlessly for four years. I am profoundly thankful to President Trump for his many accomplishments for our blessed nation.
2. President's accomplishments are varied and many, ranging from eviscerating ISIS, turbocharging the U.S. economy to create unprecedented levels of employment before Covid struck, criminal justice reform, restoring America's military strength, ...
3. facilitating historic peace deals in the Middle East, taking a tough stand against China, appointing the highest caliber conservative justices, and expediting the development of Covid vaccines with Operation Warp Speed, to name only a few. For all of those and more, thank you.
4. But most of all, all through these four years, my rugged and unflinching defense of your actions was predicated on something I was most proud of you about.
4. I always said that, despite verbal bluster, President Trump never colors outside the Constitutional lines. Mr. President, While I appreciate everything you have done for the nation, my ultimate loyalty is to higher ideals of this nation.
5. Over and above any politician, my loyalty is to our Constitution, Rule of Law, Due Process, and Checks and Balances that are the only guarantee American people have against government tyranny.
6. Today, by re-tweeting a heinous and despicable tweet from Lin Wood, you broke faith with the Rule of Law in my eyes, Mr. President, by threatening to jail the Governor (@BrianKempGA) and the Secretary of State (@GaSecofState) of Georgia, who have been convicted of no crime.
7. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one to dissolve the political bands which have connected one with another, a decent respect to the opinions of one's twitter followers requires that one should declare the causes which impel one to the separation.
8. So here goes a more detailed explanation.
I have analyzed Georgia election data by using Perdue as a control group for Trump and Ossoff as a control group for Biden for each voting channel (in-person vs mail-in) and for each of the 156 counties individually and collectively.
9. In other words, I have looked at every slice of data every which way to spot any glaring anomalies that would be indicative of any glaring fraud. Nothing! The whole data set is remarkably devoid of any major anomalies.
10. And if somebody tried to commit fraud through adjudications, they would have to not only switch Trump to Biden but also consistently switch Perdue to Ossoff, but not not too consistently because they will have to maintain proportionality with in-person channel voting as well.
11. Bottom line, unless a couple of Phd statisticians were hired to do adjudications and given simultaneous access to in-person voting data as well, they couldn't have pulled it off in Georgia.
12. That is not to say no fraud could have taken place in Georgia. But if any fraud was committed in Georgia it was primarily committed on the streets by registering ineligible voters or ballot harvesting, etc., not in the vote-counting centers.
13. That kind of fraud is upstream of the processes within the vote-counting centers. Considering where things are at, I cannot fathom on what basis can the Governor or the Secretary of State of Georgia be jailed simply because they are being vilified by an unscrupulous lawyer.
14. To threaten Americans by name with imprisonment, without any due process, while sitting in the White House, being incited by an unscrupulous lawyer, is beyond the pale for a sitting President of the United States.
It is one of the saddest days of my life to see this happen.
15. Mr. President, I wish you, the First Lady, and your whole family the best of holidays and Merry Christmas. While I will not be supporting you politically anymore, I will always respect you for your many great contributions.
God bless you, sir.
And God bless America!
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1. Misgivings About SCOTUS's Dismissal of the Texas Lawsuit
I am not a constitutional scholar, but allow me to dispel a few misgivings about the Texas lawsuit dismissal by SCOTUS, if you will. Read this thread at your own peril. :-)
2. First of all, let me register my disappointment at SCOTUS's summary dismissal of the lawsuit on the grounds of lack of 'standing.' I concur with Alito and Thomas that the case should have been accepted on principle alone, regardless of merit.
3. And the principle is a simple one. For every legal case in the nation, there has to be a recourse to a court of law. Now in matters of disputes between multiple States, SCOTUS has the exclusive jurisdiction, i.e. such a lawsuit can be filed with and only with SCOTUS.
Lin Wood and Sidney Powell strike me as grade A grifters. They are amassing a lot of donations. When they told Georgia Republican voters not to vote on January 5, they came across to me as possibly compromised too (wouldn't Democrats love for them to carry on with that message).
Tweets like Lin Wood's above do no good to either President Trump or to the Republican Party at this point. If anything, they may cost the Republicans the Senate on January 5.
Many of you think highly of Lin Wood and Sidney Powell. I don't. We can agree to disagree on this.
With due respect, this makes little sense, sir. Why are you not scheduled to take the vaccine first? You, Mike Pence, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Dr. Fauci should be among the first people in the country to be vaccinated, followed by all members of Congress and the SCOTUS.
1. The Biggest Real Problem with Our Voting System
Whether by design or happenstance, the U.S. has ended up in almost all the States (with rare but relatively small exceptions) with a system that rigorously defies fraud detection and correction for absentee ballots.
2. In this thread I will use the term 'absentee ballot' for all ballots that are not cast in person. It includes all mail-in ballots of course in this usage of the term.
3. By combining absentee ballots with the need to keep the ballots 'secret' has solved one problem by creating another, i.e. secrecy is implemented at the cost of making it harder to detect and almost impossible to correct fraud.
1. You Can Torture Data Until It Confesses To Anything You Want
Which is precisely what some people are doing to the Georgia vote counts from 2020 election. It certainly piqued my interest, as official data is readily available from the State's website. What does it say?
2. For starters, Georgia has some unique characteristics in this election that lend themselves to an interesting bit of analysis that is either not possible or not easily doable for any other state. In addition to the President, both State Senators were also on the ballot in GA.
3. And that allows each party's senate candidate to be used as a control data sent against that party's presidential candidate for each voting channel (in-person versus mail-in) to spot any glaring statistical anomalies/impossibilities in voting that might suggest fraud.