Glitch In The Matrix
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner." ― James Bovard
Well, the unthinkable (at least, to me) has happened and the GOP is primed to control the lower House of Congress, if only narrowly. If one is of the world weary, cynical persuasion – and can still do basic maths – this outcome does not compute. The whole point of being in control of the election infrastructure and then using it to slow walk a significant number of races, is so that there is time to calculate how many ballots are needed to overcome the inevitable Democrat deficits and then deploy them in yet another miraculous, come from behind victory.
This was what was being seen earlier in the week. At that point, the Republicans were only four seats shy of victory and yet some of the usual suspects – California, Arizona, New York and Colorado – had elections still to be determined; a couple of new kids on the block (Oregon and Maine) also had one race each that was still uncalled. It was all reassuringly familiar to those of us who have done a deep dive into the last election and, sure enough, a raft of close races started to go to the Democrats. And then, the wheels came off.
Not in the Senate or gubernatorial races – the Democrats edged these, picking up a net of two governorships and, in all probability, winning an extra seat in the Senate; all completely believable, given polling that demonstrates that between 70%-80% believe the country is going in the wrong direction. In the House too, the path to a majority was clear. The delayed election counting was in states that have been bywords for chicanery in the recent past and the narrow margins between candidates were typical of what we saw in 2020. But, something went wrong and it started in Arizona, of all places.
This is the state where voting machines work just fine in the weeks of early voting, which is a predominantly Democrat habit, and then malfunction on election day when Republican voters outnumber their opponents three to one. The state where the ballots that cannot be tabulated at the time are then tossed in with the already counted ballots – accidentally, of course. The state in which, in elections other than House races, the Democrat candidates once again edged to victory; 51.4%, 50.3%, 52.4% and 50% exactly.(1) Remarkable, but transparently fake. These races were for Senator, Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General. All the Republican candidates had Trump's endorsement. However, there was one additional candidate who didn't – Kimberley Yee, running to stay in her current job as Treasurer, because when she ran for Governor in the primaries she got very little support and dropped out.(2)
Yee won her race with 55.7% of the vote – not only that, a woman that couldn't garner enough support to even contest a primary for Governor polled over 100,000 votes more than any other Republican. There’s more; she won nearly 70,000 votes more than any of the victorious Democrats, too. So, about one in fourteen Republican voters troubled themselves to cast a ballot for her and not for any other Republican candidate in the races that featured above hers. Doesn’t seem remotely likely, but this is Arizona – there are similar anomalies that happen here and nowhere else.
The two delayed House elections were in Arizona 1 and Arizona 6. In both, the Republican candidate was ahead by around 1%. According to election officials, only 86% of the vote had been counted. So far, so good. Ordinarily, the ballot drops that swing the election the other way are most likely to feature when around 90% of the ballots have been tabulated. The stage was set for yet another miraculous comeback. Moreover, the big picture dictated that these were must-wins if an even halfway credible nationwide Democrat victory was to be assured.
And yet, the Republican margins widened slightly and, all of a sudden, the news agencies that wish to be the arbiters of such matters, called both of them for the GOP. At a single stroke, any further attempt at the nationwide steal became much more difficult for the party that, up to that point, had won thirty three of the thirty four seats that had been thought to be toss-ups before the election. The margins – 50.44% to 49.56% and 50.75% - 49.25% - if favouring the blue party, are typical of Democrat steals. The actual deficits in ballots were 3,197 and 5,232 on totals of over 350,000 cast in each election. These deficits don't appear to be insurmountable, even if we don't know how many bogus ballots they had already had to burn just to get that close.
And they still had the nuclear option available – they could simply alter the vote totals without even having a fake ballot to back it; audits, be damned. As it happens, Arizona (Maricopa County, specifically) had endured an audit after the 2020 election, which uncovered much malfeasance (none of which was punished) and eight of the nine Congressional districts contain at least a part of Maricopa and for five of them – AZ06 included – their main population centers are also in the county. Yet still the two seats went red.
With this spanner firmly wedged in the works, three races in California in which Republicans were leading 52-48 or better were now essential to the Democrat cause. Especially when NY22 – 50.75% - 49.25% – also got called for the GOP, who were now only one short of a majority, which duly arrived in Oregon (51.14% - 48.86%). On the face of it, any of these elections could have gone the other way and, indeed, needed to if the blue party was to carry the House. In the mid-terms of 2018, there were a whole series of Democrat wins over incumbents, all by these sorts of margins.
It is, at present, impossible to know how many seats the progressives have stolen this time around. There are, however, one or two clues. Polling, ahead of elections, tends to lean left by at least 3%. That being the case, it's not credible that the Democrats won all but one toss-up, especially the fact that they are millions of votes behind overall – albeit, not as many millions as they were before their characteristic 'late surge'. Losing all but one would have been a much more likely outcome. In addition, in states with more secure elections, the 'red wave' was in evidence – see Florida. So, what happened?
First things first – there are still anomalies is nearly all the elections I've checked. Mathematically, it's possible to see the results of whatever ballot stuffing is being conducted. When districts give updates on their numbers, which they do erratically, they provide ballot totals and also the percentage of the count that has been accomplished thusfar. From this data, it is possible to calculate the total number of ballots cast. When an election count is delayed for days, there will be several of these updates. While the numbers of ballots counted should rise, the total number cast should remain the same, but in races where Democrats made a late charge, the ballots cast number keeps rising.
For example, in Colorado 03, after 98.95% of the ballots had allegedly been counted, the total ballots cast calculation is now 4,000 higher, with 99% counted. At present, it's 163,832 plays 163,278, with the Republican in the lead. She has claimed victory and her opponent has conceded; none of which matters, as it's heading for a recount regardless. However, it seems that ballots get added to the total very late in proceedings in a way that invariably benefits the Democrat. This pattern was also discernible in three tight California races. Conversely, in the Arizona races in question, the number given for total ballots fell in the very last stages of the count. Suddenly, there were less ballots than there had been.
I'll come back to the possible reasons for this shortly. In the interim, there does seem to be some comforting news. It seems as if the globalist, progressive elite are no longer all-conquering – their fallibility may have been exposed. I appreciate the fact that we knew that already, as we'd already witnessed their 'pandemic' running out of steam due, at least partly, to their own avoidable mistakes and their obvious unreasonableness. This feels a little different, though. It was evident from the build-up to the mid-terms that the fix was in; all Biden and co could talk about was 'ultra MAGA election deniers' who would go to any lengths to deny the legitimacy of these elections, too. They insisted that whatever the numbers, no matter what malfeasance was uncovered, the results must be respected, no matter what.
I can't imagine that they intended these strictures to be used against them and, equally, I can't imagine that they were genuinely so worried about a backlash that they only dared to attempt a half steal. For reasons I floated in my last missive, a MAGA reaction to blatant cheating would suit them down to the ground, as it would serve to validate the truth of their warnings. And blatant cheating doesn't bother them in the slightest – see 2020. So, there is the possibility (perhaps probability) that there's been a malfunction in the machine.
Bear in mind that elections in America, as elsewhere, used to be decided in a day. The changes made to state election laws (often illegally) under the guise of adjustment due to the 'pandemic' have permanently altered the dynamic. The sudden ubiquity of mail-in, no excuse balloting – illegal in 70% of the world's elections, due to its vulnerability to fraud – is the main tool by which corrupt actors put their thumb on the scale and cheat their way to victory. All the signs were there again and yet it hasn't happened. That looks like it's a big deal because, no matter how hard they spin the results, their message that they have been given a mandate by the people is compromised. There are also a myriad of other potential downsides; they ought to be definite downsides, but the Republicans may still snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, as is their wont, as there is disunity in the ranks.
This is hardly surprising, as the man who vies to be Speaker of the House is Kevin McCarthy. He and the leader of the Republicans in the Senate epitomise everything that is wrong with the party that is supposed to represent conservatives. He is an Establishment figure to his fingertips. The ongoing effort to marginalise Trump will have his full backing. It's worth noting that the Never Trumpers and the Corporate Conservatives who will bombard us with opinion pieces blaming Trump for the mid-term underperformance will give McCarthy a pass. They shouldn't. This is a man who bears more responsibility for the failure than anybody.
The correct strategy for the election, if he'd been wanting to win it, would have been threefold. On the one hand, to divert resources to teams in each state whose job it was to clean up the voter rolls. This has been done in Wisconsin, by private citizens. A two-year nationwide effort which provided Secretaries of State with incontrovertible evidence of the millions of fake electors would have made the job of staging yet another coup much more difficult for the Democrats. Secondly, capitalize on Trump's huge popularity by supporting as many America First candidates as possible, both in the primaries and in the election itself. And thirdly, be very clear about what he would do once in power, which would include investigations into Biden's son, Fauci and all others associated with the 'pandemic' response and a total ban on bi-partisanship on the grounds that continuing to indulge in Stockholm Syndrome is not the way ahead.
He did none of that. Had he left it there, it would have been bad enough. But he went further. He made it clear that he would not seek to impeach Biden, on the grounds that he wouldn't play politics with it like the Democrats had.(3) This is standard issue milquetoast Republicanism, with a side serving of straw men. Yes, the Democrats played politics with impeachment. They didn't have the grounds for meeting the bar of high crime sand misdemeanors on either occasion and they knew they didn't. Trump hadn't done what they alleged he'd done. Biden, on the other hand, is worthy of impeachment on several fronts; the withdrawal from Afghanistan which left thousands of Americans and Green Card holders behind (along with billions of dollars in materiel) and the complete abrogation of his oath of office by not securing the southern border, to name but two.
McCarthy then used money from FTX (and others), the crypto exchange that has just gone spectacularly bust due to the self confessed corruption of its CEO and others, to target not only the primary elections in a bid to select Establishment RINOs over America First candidates, but also – unforgivably – Republican candidates who made it through to the election itself.
“America First candidates and others who couldn’t be controlled by the establishment or, more importantly, couldn’t be bribed into supporting McCarthy for speaker, were sold down the river. The seats they were fighting for were surrendered to Democrats, and conservatives “in the know” spoke of a “power-sharing” agreement between McCarthy and Democrat leadership, which now appears to be materializing.”(4)
The same betrayal occurred in the Senate races. McConnell (the Senate leader) talked about unacceptable candidates (code for MAGA types) and refused to fund the campaigns of at least three candidates for Senate seats, all of whom are going to lose. One of them, Blake Masters, in ...you've guessed it....Arizona. Even Ted Cruz was unhappy about this;
“...Masters said he would vote against Mitch McConnell. And so Mitch would rather be leader than have a Republican majority. If there’s a Republican who can win who’s not going to support Mitch, the truth of the matter is he’d rather the Democrat win.”(5)
In addition, there’s a lady in Alaska (a Trump loyalist) who is now behind in her battle against a fellow Republican and ally of McConnell.(6) She wasn't behind – she has been ahead the whole way until this morning (eleven days after election day) when, with 96.92% of the ballots counted, she now suddenly trails by 1,700 votes. Nothing to see here, move along.
It appears possible that there has been some kind of back room deal done – certainly in the House. If McCarthy doesn't have the votes to be elected Speaker (because some of his own party can see him for what he is), perhaps there is another option under consideration;
“There is talk that some of the Rino Republicans are considering letting the Democrats choose a “bi-partisan” Speaker of the House. This, of course, would prevent the Republican majority from having subpoena power to investigate the many crimes associated with the Biden regime and the stolen election.”(7)
This would, of course, be a massive betrayal of Republican voters, but there are, in effect, three parties in Congress – Democrats, RINOs and America First Republicans known as the Freedom Caucus. The Speaker is an important role as he/she assigns committee roles and manages the business on the floor of the House. McCarthy was challenged for the leadership last week and thirty three of his own party voted for the other candidate, so it's not obvious what the outcome will be. If it involves Democrats voting for a Republican Speaker, the path ahead will not involve much in the way of investigation and retribution. Well, not by the Republicans, anyway.
The Democrats are a different beast. They are continually on offense. The latest ruse is, as predicted, to follow the 'advice' of the January 6th Unselect Committee (as Trump calls it) and ramp up the investigation into the former president. It'll be a grab bag of whatever they can come up with; the raid at Mar-a-Lago, the 'insurrection' at the Capitol and his effort to have the last election investigated. Just one more fishing expedition, but one that will probably lead to some sort of indictment.
After all, that's been the ambition of the progressives for six years now; to stop Trump winning another election. Apparently, funding for this farce will be needed and the House will be required to find the money. McCarthy says they won't do it.(8) We'll see. The RINOs want rid of Trump as badly as the Democrats. If they somehow surrender a measure of control of the House and with it the ability to manage the budget, we'll know what's coming.
The Left isn't waiting around, in any event. They are planning a well funded offensive to counter what they expect to be a variety of investigations into Biden's administration and the man himself.(9) They aren't alone. The misleadingly named Congressional Integrity Project,
“The political arm of the Center for American Progress, the influential progressive think tank, is planning to cast the Republican investigations as “politically motivated revenge politics,” according to its chief executive, Patrick Gaspard.”(10)
Of course, this could all be political theatre. As previously mentioned, McCarthy has already ruled out impeaching Biden. He's therefore unlikely to risk an investigation of Biden by House committees that actually want to do a proper job, as that would inevitably lead to such a outcome. Additionally, given his weak position, he is vulnerable to pressure from outside his own party, which is possibly where he will need to find the votes to be elected in the first place. Either that, or the Freedom Caucus extracts their pound of flesh in the hope that he doesn't betray them.
Given that there is already talk of a 'bi-partisan' Speaker (which sounds a lot like Liz Cheney) before all the ballots have all been counted, it's a stretch to see the Republicans suddenly morphing into revengers. It's much more likely that they will be all sound and fury and no concrete action; as usual. What they should do is behave as if the Democrats in the Senate aren't going to kill any and all legislation that a Republican House sends them and, when they do, let the voting public see what the Democrats are really about. It's not enough to be against everything the opposition is for. They have to be for some issues themselves.
I suspect that this may be too much to ask. Finding a consensus between MAGA and RINOs on anything but the blandest proposals will likely be impossible and everybody will need to be on board just to get any bill to pass. Even a rebel or two could derail legislation. And it's inevitable that the Republicans will still be wallowing in the Great Pretending. They'll have to, because drawing attention to yet another steal will not be in their interests. It'll make getting rid of Trump more difficult, for starters, and they will excoriated by the opposition and the legacy media as a 'denier'. None of them seem to have woken up to the idea that if at least 50% of the population believe that the election was fraudulent, then identifying with that view might be politically savvy.
It's possible that a shady not-yet-revealed deal between the Democrats and the Republicans will make a mockery of these words, but it appears that there are finite limits to the regime's ability to cheat in elections, whether as a practical matter of having insufficient ballots, whether it's as a result of election officials in certain states being unwilling to go beyond a certain degree of fraud, whether it's the result of a failure of co-ordination or, lastly and least likely, whether it's a failure of nerve by the machine because of the preposterous nature of some of the steals that would be necessary for overall victory. Having seen what they did in 2020, I think we can probably rule the last possibility out. So maybe, just maybe, we have just been given some encouraging news.
Citations
(1) https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/truth-kimberly-yee-arizona-election-results/
(4) https://nationalfile.com/mccarthy-used-ftx-cash-to-defeat-conservatives-in-2022/
(5) https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/blaming_trump_for_the_midterms.html
(6) https://headlineusa.com/mcconnell-faces-gop-revolt-over-refusal-to-back-maga-candidates/