En Garde in the bunker…
Joseph White from the comments thread: So great a threat did Trump pose to Our Democracy that it justified electoral fraud to keep him out of office. Of course, you can’t expect the rubes in Flyover Country to understand that. I mean, most of them never even went to an Ivy League school!
The rednecks are overly attached to the superficial, quotidian, crude “democracy” that involves ballots and elections and campaigns, but when we speak of Our Democracy, we speak of the deeper democracy, the true democracy, that transcends elections and thus obviates the need for them.
It is this higher democracy that all true democrats serve, and the faithful democrat is willing to make any sacrifice, break any law, to uphold the higher laws, the higher democracy, that ensures that we as Americans can continue to fight the good fight against systemic racism, climate change, transphobia, and el diablo Trump. Down with elections! Up with democracy! BRAVO! [end]
Fox up-and-down ‘denierism news’ Secrets of tyranny & getting busted. Privilege, outrage, lies, truth …
Coincidentally, yours truly just read an article last week about a DEMOCRAT official in Pima County, Arizona that attended a county demoMarxocrat meeting where he was told every demoMarxocrat on the ticket in the county would receive 35,000 excess votes using the Dominion voting system. When he voiced concern he was told that it was okay, because “the amount of excess votes wouldn’t be more than registered voters to cause suspicion”.This hero demoMarxocrat contacted TRUMP’S DOJ led by Bill Barr on November 10, 2020, but got no reply.
Also, didn’t the documentary “2000 Mules” pretty much prove the election was stolen? Mmmm …
On a similar track, you know how a favorite anti-Trump talking point is when the likes of Bagpipes Bill Barr-the-Door declares a DOJ investigation found insufficient fraud in the 2020 election? – well Judicial Watch dropped a FOIA request for documents related to this investigation and the DOJ response was that no records exist; not “you can’t have them because…” but there just aren’t any records to hand over! Almost like there wasn’t an investigation at all… Mmmm …
Calling unbelievers “deniers” marks faith in the 2020 election as a sacred belief:
All of which reminds, by the way, if a person holds belief X and calls non-believers ‘X deniers,’ it’s a sure sign that the person regards X as a sacred belief, not to be doubted or questioned. You can think of your own examples: there are lots of them in the news. A sacred belief might be true or it might be false. What makes it sacred is the attitude of the believers, not the belief itself.”
Paul Gottfried, American Greatness: ‘Professionalism Deniers at Fox News’ …
One might hope the anti-Trump partisans at Fox News would be vetting the witnesses for their side with a bit more care. But that would require professionalism.
I have just listened, courtesy of Fox News, to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson explaining “the threat to democracy” posed by “election deniers.” Benson and her host paid special attention to the MAGA crowd who still question the results of the 2020 presidential election. Fox anchors Eric Shawn and Bret Bair have often expressed annoyance that obtuse and malicious Americans are still contesting an election that, we are assured, has been thoroughly investigated and which shows no evidence of troubling irregularities.
Although Benson is a very liberal Democrat and a confidant of Gretchen Whitmer, even she may be puzzled by the revulsion with which Shawn goes after Republican election deniers. Roger Kimball’s contention that such négationnistes are being deliberately compared to Holocaust deniers, an association that has also been attached to “vax deniers,” has become self-evident. For proof, one only has to look at how contemptuously Shawn and Bair deal with those who dispute the supposedly exemplary, hygienically pure presidential election that took place two years ago.
Unfortunately, these displays of contempt, together with the indulgent treatment accorded Benson, have not been conducive to airing certain questions—queries that would enrich this discussion. For example, why is Republican skepticism about the 2020 election more of a “threat to our democracy” than the repeated denials of unwelcome election results from leading Democrats? Did Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, or Kamala Harris threaten American democracy by contesting Donald Trump’s electoral victory in 2016? What about Democratic challenges to Republican victories in 2000 and 2004? Are Stacey Abrams and her defenders in the Democratic Party trampling on democracy by continuing to deny that she lost to Brian Kemp in the Georgia gubernatorial race in 2018? [-]
[+] … In March 2021, Judge Charles Murray of the First Michigan District Court of Appeals ruled against Benson for instructing Michigan clerks to register absentee votes without checking them against the state database. Perhaps the next time Fox anchors decide to invite the Michigan secretary of state to slam Republicans who question the integrity of elections in Democratic states, they might ask her about the charges she has had to face. It has also been revealed that Michigan, thanks to Benson, took the largest sum of money of any state from Mark Zuckerberg to set up absentee ballot stations. What exactly was the connection between Benson and Zuckerberg’s Center for Tech and Civic Life? One would have to be a fool or an NPR junkie (assuming there’s a difference) to think Zuckerberg and Benson were cooperating out of a sense of civic patriotism. Far more likely, they were collaborating to make sure Biden won Michigan, even if that required setting up special election arrangements.
Please note that I am less concerned here with Benson’s political games than I am with the anti-Trump zealots on Fox News. One might hope these partisans would be vetting the witnesses for their side with a bit more care. But perhaps I’m asking for too much professionalism. [end]
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Fox up-and-down ‘denierism news’. On who exactly is running the show. Consequences have consequences …
“Hillary Clinton: We Must Crush ‘Right Wing Extremists’ Plot to Steal 2024 Presidential Election” – aka, Hillary is also the one who dreamed up “the vast, right-wing conspiracy” as a way to deflect from Bill abusing a young female intern. This is the same Hillary that called Donald Trump supporters “deplorables“. Sure looks like she’s into consistently blaming others for what demoMarxocrats are already doing. Mmmm …
Despite everything and all else, the “election” will never be settled. The period was immediately after with a glorified J6 commission which clearly was partisan and nothing more. People can see a political sham when they see it so the questions of how a feeble old man, hiding in his basement can gather 81M votes.
It’s a question that the left doesn’t want answered, so good Americans have seen through it and have moved on! The bumper sticker “Election Denier” is being worn as a badge of courage for many reflecting free speech and independent thinking. Many Americans have moved on… Joe did this! Mmmm …
And on that note, time for today’s MAGA Pill – Warrior-President Donald John Trump – MAGA! – KAG!
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- Paul Gottfried, American Greatness: Professionalism Deniers at Fox News
