The People Who Count the Votes Decide Everything
During the campaign, Joe Biden bragged that he had put together “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” Perhaps he wasn’t exaggerating.
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I thought of taking my text today from the Gospel of Mark, 6:38-42. It is one telling of the miracle of the loaves and the fishes. Jesus finds himself in the desert attended by some 5,000 followers. They need to eat, but there are only five loaves of bread and two fish. Nevertheless, Jesus bids everyone sit down “in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.”
And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.
And they did all eat, and were filled
Just a day or two back that seemed like a good analogy for what just happened with the ballots in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina. Donald Trump was racing ahead just about everywhere. Midnight came, the polls turned into pumpkins, and lo! the miracle! Ballots by the thousands and tens of thousands suddenly appeared. And guess what? They all had Joe Biden’s name on them. According to the World’s Greatest Psephologist Nate Silver™, a tranche of 23,377 ballots suddenly appeared in Pennsylvania in the wee hours. All of them were for Joe Biden. All of them. What are the odds of that?
Well, miracles will happen. A lot of that sort of miracle happened in this election season.
The Gospel of Mark notes that, after the 5,000 dined, 12 baskets full of bread and fish fragments were collected.
It is not said whether they began to stink after a few days.
But there is no doubt that the fish story of Joe Biden’s miraculous ballots stinks to high heaven.
I know that pointing that out is a free ticket to the gallery of conspiracy theorists. Back in October 2016, Barack Obama upbraided Donald Trump for suggesting that the election might be rigged. Impossible, said Obama. “There is no serious person out there who would suggest that you could even rig America’s elections, in part because they are so decentralized. There is no evidence that that has happened in the past, or that there are instances that that could happen this time.”
Before the election, Obama said, “we recognize that there is something more important than any individual campaign, and that is making sure the integrity and trust in our institutions sustains itself.”
Afterward . . . well, we all know what happened afterward.
A Crisis of Legitimacy How are you feeling about the “integrity and trust in our institutions” now, in particular, the integrity of our elections?
I feel pretty badly about it. Many people, including many friends, have or are just about to make their peace with the idea that Joe Biden won the election. As I write, the Associated Press and other Democratic mouthpieces in the media world have just announced that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Of course, their saying it’s so has as much official standing as my saying that my Uncle Jack won, and I don’t even have an Uncle Jack. But everywhere you can see a rush to normalize a very abnormal process. Republicans, many of them, are scurrying to “find common ground,” “affirm the process,” etc.,
I am not of their company. I suspect that this election was illegitimate, that it was rigged. Indeed, I suspect that it is a good illustration of the useful rule of thumb that things are always worse than you think.
On Thursday, I wrote a column explaining why I thought Joe Biden didn’t bother to campaign, not really. I said that it was because he knew that the fix was in
I still think all that helps explain the sudden appearance of surprise ballots for Biden. Perhaps it also explains the computer “glitch” in the software used to tabulate votes in a county in Michigan that sent “at least 6,000 Republican votes to Democratic candidates.” At least.
And have you noticed how all such “glitches” operate in one direction only: to benefit Democrats? The county in question swung back to Republicans after the mistake—if it was a mistake—was discovered. Apparently, 47 counties in Michigan use the same software. Are all those results being scrutinized? They should be.
Two parting thoughts to ponder. During the campaign, Joe Biden bragged that he had put together “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” Perhaps he wasn’t exaggerating.
Finally, although apocryphal, this observation, widely attributed to Joseph Stalin, gets to the nub of our current travails. “It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” It is worth bearing that in mind. Full Article By Roger Kimball @ American Greatness
