Maine: The nightmare scenario we are now facing

But even if the spineless members of the GOP did in fact give in to Democrat demands and put Biden into office, this would set off a chain reaction amongst Republican voters who simply could not abide by such an abdication of duty, which would largely result in a massive restructuring of the country in a way that is not even comprehensible. 

 Timothy Jankowski - American Thinker   "Not since Gavrilo Princips assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 has the politically-motivated action of a single individual threatened to plunge an entire nation into strife and crisis like the decision by Maine’s Democrat Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, to keep Donald Trump off of the state’s primary ballot.

"Does that sound like hyperbole? Allow me to explain.

"Donald Trump’s path to re-election in 2024 is simple: Hold the red states that he won in 2020, which he should do with ease, and win back the swing states of Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia. That outcome would result with him receiving 270 electoral votes, the exact margin needed to regain the presidency.

"The push to remove Trump from state ballots is largely irrelevant. He’s not going to be removed from any red state ballots and there are no signs he will be removed from the aforementioned swing states. Even if every blue state were to keep him off the ballot, the scenario laid out above would remain not just possible, but likely… with one exception: the state of Maine. Unlike most states which apportion their electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, Maine divides its four electoral votes by Congressional districts; in 2020 Biden won three, while Trump managed to win one from the more rural, conservative region of the state.

"Now let’s assume that the election plays out in the highly likely possible manner as suggested, with the caveat that Trump is not on the ballot in Maine. This means he will lose one of the votes he held in 2020 bringing his electoral vote count to 269, one vote short of the number needed to win. The result will be an electoral college tie meaning the election will be thrown to the House of Representatives to decide." . . .

Remember the insane   . . ."As in Colorado, they throw the 14th Amendment and “insurrection” accusation at former President Trump.

"The problem is that Mr. Trump has not been convicted of an insurrection, or for that matter, even charged in a court of law.  To my knowledge no one arrested on January 6th was charged with the “I” word either.  I guess that’s what happens when a mob of people shows up without guns.

“ 'Insurrectionist” has now joined “racist” as the new “shut down all dialogue” buzz word in the Democrats’ vocabulary.  

"My guess is that Maine’s Secretary of State knows that this insane idea will be overturned by the Supreme Court.  She is only doing this to add some value to her resumé, or maybe to get a show on MSNBC.  Once the Supreme Court (hopefully) shoots this down, she will say that the justices appointed by the “insurrectionist” protected Trump.

"In the meantime, the people who burned businesses and police stations are walking free because that was definitely not an insurrection." . . .  

Lawfare Continues - Maine Democrat Secretary of State Determines, Without Judicial Hearing, Donald Trump Is Disqualified from 2024 GOP Primary Ballot

. . .The Maine decision by fiat will likely first travel through the judicial system in the state, as the determination of the Secretary of State holds no legal basis outside the authority granted to an individual office holder." . . .  But she will be a hero.

Jonathan Turley Decimates the Decision of the Maine Sec of State . . ."George Washington professor Jonathan Turley decimated her decision in a thread on X.

He said he had decided to "add her name to the ignoble list of Democratic officials claiming to defend democracy by preventing its exercise for millions of Trump supporters" and that "Maine shows why the Court needs to rule quickly, clearly, and hopefully unanimously in rejecting this pernicious theory."

"He did not think much of her reasoning." . . . 

A look inside the largest Hamas tunnel ever discovered by the Israeli military

 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

IDF destroys Hamas tunnel in Palestine Square where leaders hid during Oct. 7 attack (msn.com)   Video "The IDF blew up an extensive Hamas tunnel system hidden beneath Gaza’s Palestine Square where terrorist leaders hid during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel — as officials said the ground offensive in the north is nearing an end.

"The Israeli military released video Thursday of a huge series of explosions demolishing the tunnels in the upscale Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City that once housed Hamas’ upper echelons.

"Col. Benny Aharon, who gave a tour to reporters two days before the demolition, said the homes and offices of Hamas’ top Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar and military chief Muhammad Deif were linked to the tunnel network, The Times of Israel reports.

"Also located in the ritzy neighborhood was the home of the daughter of Hamas’ top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh.". . .

A look inside the largest Hamas tunnel ever discovered by the Israeli military (msn.com)     "As Israel says it’s almost destroyed Hamas’ brigades in northern Gaza, its forces  are preparing to blow up some of the hundreds of tunnels it says belonged to the militant group — including one large enough to drive a car through.

"NBC News was invited into Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday to take a look at what it says is the largest tunnel discovered so far. 

"The entrance is roughly a quarter-mile or a 10-minute walk from the destroyed Erez border crossing, which was breached by Hamas terrorists as they launched multipronged attacks on Israel on Oct. 7. 

"The IDF said the tunnel is roughly 2.5 miles long and extends all the way to Gaza City, the enclave’s largest city, although NBC News could not independently verify this claim." . . . 

Female Israeli soldiers who defeated 100 Hamas terrorists tell their story

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Campus Reform’s list of some of the most shocking examples of calls for Jewish genocide coming out of American colleges and universities.

  Bare Naked Islam (barenakedislam.com)

1. UPDATE: UC Davis prof ‘still employed’ after threatening Jewish journalists with death, home invasion, kidnapping   "A University of California Davis assistant professor threatened ‘zionist journalists’ in a social media post that implied threats of murder, home invasion, and kidnapping."

2. UPDATED: ‘Kill Jews’: Cornell’s kosher dining hall shuts down after death threats emerge   "A Jewish student group at Cornell cautioned students away from a kosher dining hall after students made violent anti-Semitic threats.

"The Cornell chapter of the Jewish student organization Hillel told students to stay away from 104West!, home of the kosher and multicultural dining room on campus, after students posted violent threats to a discussion forum.

3. Students walk out of class nationwide to rally against Israel. Some are getting extra credit for it.   "An image posted to social media, reportedly from New York University’s walkout, shows an individual holding a sign advocating for the eradication of Jewish people worldwide, with a drawing of the Star of David in a trashcan underneath the phrase “Please Keep the WORLD Clean.”"

A transgender bid to bully a Delta Airlines employee crashes and burns

"Now, with one man's courage to shout out his variation of Desmet’s antidote to mass formation outrage, he shows how America can survive this onslaught of this transgender bullying."  

Dorfman

 Marie Hembree - American Thinker   "During the Christmas rush, a Delta Air Lines employee at New York City’s La Guardia Airport inadvertently taught America a viral lesson on how to instantly shut down a “transgender” person claiming to be a victim of “misgendering.”

"The transgender person tried to bully the airline employee at the check-in area, using a totalitarian mob-rule tactic to force subservient pronoun-use. But the bid fizzled quickly and peacefully, as seen in this Western Journal video, just based on the employee's calm, rational demeanor.

"It can also be seen here:

. . ."This employee exemplified what clinical psychiatrist, professor, and author Dr. Mattias Desmet teaches is the antidote for diffusing the mass formation outrage that creates mob rule. The idea is to confidently, calmly, and relentlessly repeat logic until the attempt at totalitarian tyranny extinguishes itself.

"Consequently, Dorfman stopped his bullying and wisely decided not to be led out the door by the Port Authority for harassing a Delta clerk. Dorfman also took down his TikTok video after social media comments resonated respect for the airline employee’s demeanor.

"That must have been a surprise.

"Desmet’s mass formation principles were explained in several interviews including on the Tucker Carlson Show and an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience which also featured immunologist Dr. Robert Malone’s take on the COVID-era’s fascism. Malone, the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology was himself attacked by mass formation’s psychotic individuals for considering the vaccine and masks’ flaws/effectiveness and for suggesting alternative therapeutics which evidently threatened the established superior morality of the collective’s narrative." . . .

Political Activism, Institutional Failure, and Anti-Intellectualism in America

Free thought is a thing of the past now. TD

 Lars Møller - American Thinker  "The West shares an old problem with the rest of the world: the constant menace of totalitarian zealots determined to interfere in the lives of others, however they brand themselves ideologically, citing religious or political dogma.

"What sets the West apart is that it has actually been the home of free thought since the Enlightenment. However, the pressure on freedom worldwide has been growing; there is no such thing as eternal peace. Civilization depends on solidly founded institutions for its lasting protection against barbarism—and as always, the Jews are the canary in the coalmine. Totalitarianism, whether it marches under the banners of fascism, socialism, or Islamism, has the Jews and free society as its enemies." . . .

"Held back by indecision, authorities allowed a general atmosphere of anarchy to paralyze large parts of society, notably in cities like Portland, Los Angeles, and Seattle. At the time, slogans such as “defund the police” echoed in the streets. Revolution was in the air. A motley crew of self-styled “leaders,” who all had issues with the present society, mingled with the crowd and called for a fight against “capitalism,” “colonialism” (past and present), “Zionism,” and “moral traditionalism,” which included “sexual conventionalism.” The perception that the most savage attacks on social order were somehow legitimate, combined with the absence of law enforcement, emboldened every resentful maladaptee. Now was the chance to take revenge on the world.

"Like socialist agitators of the past, the leaders of Black Lives Matter (BLM) knew how to play the game—they were “trained” Marxists after all. Impatient to exploit the momentum and rally the protesters around a common cause, they leaned towards conspiratorial rhetoric. It represents a strategy well-known from the recruitment of the street mob: Blame everybody but yourself for the misfortunes of your life (e.g. “white bigots,” “capitalists,” or “Jews”—depending on the political season). Rather than having to account for anything, the terrifying brigades of covetous, envious, and maladapted souls could now, inspired by BLM, plead their victimhood." . . .Much more here.

On Claudine Gay of Harvard

 

• "Harvard President Claudine Gay prompted an uproar telling Congress that penalizing students espousing genocide depends on the context. She needs to work on her replies. Claudine Gay was informed that she's being investigated for forty cases of academic plagiarism, and she replied, copy that!" Argus Hamilton

Harvard president Claudine Gay is now accused of botching study that landed her major tenure at Stanford and refusing to share research with professors who questioned her thesis over 'logical inconsistencies' | Daily Mail Online    "Harvard's embattled president is facing yet further questions about her academic record, after a statistics expert challenged the data used in a report which helped win her tenure at Stanford.

"Claudine Gay, who took over as president in July, has been at the center of a firestorm since the October 7 Hamas attacks. She was seemingly slow to condemn students who justified the terrorist violence, and slow to speak out against antisemitism on campus.

"The harsh spotlight has spread to her academic record, with accusations of plagiarism - and on Tuesday, a data scientist challenged her analytical methods. It was then revealed that she had refused to share her data, raising eyebrows in academia." . . .

Claudine Gay Was Pretty Cagey About Her 2001 Research Paper That Got Her Tenure (townhall.com)   . . ."Yes, there’s nuance regarding free speech, and there would have been a way to thread that needle, as FIRE president Greg Lukianoff noted with Bill Maher, but the three women came off as exceedingly apathetic to the growing calls from the far left to kill all Jews. Murder isn’t an academic exercise, ladies, and neither are these situations. There was a heinous terrorist attack against Israel on October 7; people have acted on these chants. Magill lost her president’s office at UPenn over this public relations fiasco. Gay remains safely sheltered under an umbrella of Harvard’s pro-terrorist and antisemitic faculty. Yet, the plagiarism scandal that’s bubbled up from this is more damning than the antisemitism-enabling episode before lawmakers. 

"Gay has hinged her career and reputation on these words, some of which are copied word-for-word with no attribution. This unrelated incident has snowballed to the point where a new review should be initiated, not just the one previously conducted by Harvard, who admitted they found “duplicative language” in Gay’s work. Even CNN has even pointed out instances of plagiarism in her career. Now, we learn that she was cagey about sharing the data from her 2001 paper, which got her tenure tracked at Stanford (via NY Post):" . . . 

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report -

  Argus Hamilton (jewishworldreview.com)  • King Charles delivered the Christmas Day message wishing compassion and peace to all three religious faiths descended from Abraham. I concur. It's the time of year to say Merry Christmas to Christians, Happy Hanukkah to Jews, and for the purposes of inclusion, Allah Akbar to the Terrorists.

• New York began making security preparations to host one million revelers in Times Square for the televised Ball Drop ceremony bringing in the New Year on Sunday night. I need to come up a New Year's resolution I can keep. I can't believe it's been a year since I failed to become a better person.

• A N.Y. federal judge ordered the unsealing of Jeffrey Epstein's flight lists to Pedophile Island on his airliner called the Lolita Express. It's a revelation that some Senators are trying to stifle. A lot of powerful politicians are late bloomers, and many of them didn't have a high school girlfriend until they were forty.

• Harvard President Claudine Gay prompted an uproar telling Congress that penalizing students espousing genocide depends on the context. She needs to work on her replies. Claudine Gay was informed that she's being investigated for forty cases of academic plagiarism, and she replied, copy that!

• Business Insider reported Monday that Russia and China are very close to signing a mutual defense treaty to take on the United States. The president reacted quickly to reassure Americans. President Biden stated that anybody killed during World War III will have their student loans forgiven.

• President Biden spent Christmas at Camp David last weekend but not before he scolded the press before boarding the helicopter and demanded more positive coverage about the economy. The president may not grasp what inflation is doing to shopping. It now takes two Karen's to complain to the manager.

• President Biden granted all federal employees a five percent raise Thursday even though many admit they are still working from home. I now understand why these infrastructure projects aren't getting done. Nothing slows down Build Back Better like a trip to the refrigerator every twenty minutes.

• The White House posted a video of President Biden and First Lady Jill reciting The Night before Christmas Monday. It gets even more heartwarming. You can go to the White House Gift Shop website today and order a children's book illustrated by Hunter Biden called Hookers and Blow Save Christmas.

• Iran vowed revenge against Israel Monday after an Israeli missile targeted Iran's Revolutionary Guard leader Sayyed Mousavi in Damascus while he was walking down the street. Well that's show business for you. One day you're all over the newspapers, and the next day you're all over the pavement. . . .

Top 3 craziest transgender stories of 2023

 Campus Reform  "On a phone call with an unnamed university official, a citizen journalist received clarification that transgender women could be housed with biological females anonymously."  

"Transgender ideology on college campuses has led to the teaching of new material in courses, new rules, and new ridiculous rhetoric being accepted by faculty, staff, and students nationwide.

Campus Reform has compiled a list of this year’s top 3 craziest transgender stories. 

3. THE SCROLL: male ‘sorority girl’ cries with joy that he can keep ogling female members "The male sorority member who won a lawsuit against the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at the University of Wyoming cried when he found out he was allowed to stay in the sorority.

"Journalist Oli London posted a picture on Twitter of Wyoming sorority member Artemis Langford crying after a judge dismissed the sorority’s lawsuit against him. The photo itself came from a puff piece in the Washington Post detailing the circumstances of the case. 

2. Catholic school allows trans students to live in dorms associated with their perceived gender identity   "A video released on May 10 by O’Keefe Media Group reveals that the University of Saint Thomas in Minnesota allows transgender students to live in dorms associated with their perceived gender identity without the knowledge of other students.  

1. EXCLUSIVE: Flyers at Christian university compare opposing trans ideology to ‘genocide’  “How far has the anti-trans movement advanced along these stages [of genocide]?” a flyer posted to a Pepperdine University bullet board, called the “Freedom Wall,” questions. 

'Sometime between Mar. 27-28, a series of flyers addressing conservatives who object to transgender ideology were anonymously posted to a community bulletin board at the Christian university in California. The postings coincided with “Trans Week of Visibility.” 

'Every flyer featured one of the ten stages of genocide, relating each to the “anti-trans movement”; seemingly comparing the Holocaust to the conservative movement to oppose transgender ideology, irreversible surgery and hormone blockers for minors, and related ideas and practices.'

Silence In The Face Of Hamas’ Hospital Atrocities Will Ensure More Civilians Die

The Federalist

Few of the facts seem to matter as international organizations and the press ignore documented evidence of al-Shifa Hospital’s military use.

"For weeks, Hamas has denied it was using al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical complex, as a base of operations. Captured Hamas terrorists tell a different story. They admit to using hospitals for military purposes as well as hiding places for their superiors.

"Ahmed Kahlot, the arrested director of the Kamal Edwan hospital in Gaza, recently confessed to Israel’s domestic security agency, “Hamas has offices inside the hospitals. There are places for senior officials, they also brought a kidnapped soldier there. There is a designated place for investigations, internal security, and special security. They all have private phone lines inside the hospital.” Still, many in the media, and especially the United Nations and International Red Cross, supposedly designed to protect civilian lives, have yet to offer an unequivocal condemnation of the usage. When it comes to Hamas’ usage of al-Shifa and other commandeered hospitals, the international community has abdicated its responsibility. Indeed, the effective silence of the rest of the world only ensures that Hamas will continue to rely on civilian structures "Despite corporate news outlets, such as The New York Times, attempting to portray Hamas’ usage of hospitals as a contested matter, it is not. Hamas has a long and storied history of utilizing civilian facilities — such as hospitals, schools, and mosques — for its military and terrorism operations. As the military engagement continues, rife with accusatory misreporting, it is worth recalling the illustrative instance of al-Shifa Hospital in particular, a civilian medical complex that has served as the headquarters for Hamas’ operations." . . .

New! Happy Kwanzaa! The Holiday Brought to You by the FBI

Ann Coulter

"Kwanzaa emerged not from Africa, but from the FBI's COINTELPRO. It is a holiday celebrated exclusively by idiot white liberals. Black Americans celebrate Christmas."

"One of this year's major news stories is how Republicans, like Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, are trying to BAN the teaching of history -- which, as everyone knows, consists exclusively of lessons about slavery; queer studies; Lewis Latimer, the black inventor of the lightbulb ("not a white guy named Edison," as President Biden said); "mass incarceration"; Jim Crow; Emmett Till; Cleopatra, who was black (according to Netflix, over the outraged objections of the Egyptians); Garrett Morgan, traffic light inventor; Rosa Parks, and so on.

"Well, today is Kwanzaa, so here's some of that history that liberals are so red-hot for.

"Celebrated exclusively by white liberals, Kwanzaa is a fake holiday invented in 1966 by black radical/FBI stooge Ron Karenga -- aka Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder of United Slaves, the violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural gibberish that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and Karenga's United Slaves.

"In what was ultimately a foolish gambit, during the madness of the '60s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the group, the better. (It's the same function #BlackLivesMatter serves today.)

"By that criterion, Karenga's United Slaves was perfect.

"Despite modern perceptions that blend all the black activists of the '60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites. Although some of their most high-profile leaders were drug dealers and murderers, they did not seek armed revolution.

"Those were the precepts of Karenga's United Slaves. The United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, gunning down Black Panthers and adopting invented "African" names. (I will not be shooting any Black Panthers this week because I am Kwanzaa-reform, and we are not that observant.)

"It's as if David Duke invented a holiday called "Anglika," which he based on the philosophy of "Mein Kampf" -- and clueless public schoolteachers began celebrating the made-up, racist holiday." . . .

Tom Smothers Dead: Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Co-Host Was 86

  The Hollywood Reporter   Tom Smothers, the countercultural comedy icon admired for the 1960s variety program he created and hosted with his younger brother, Dick, and for the tenacity he displayed in frequent clashes with CBS censors, has died. 

"Smothers died peacefully at his home on Tuesday with his family at his side following a recent battle with cancer, according to a statement brother and co-star Dick Smothers in a statement shared with The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday by a spokesman for the National Comedy Center. 

“ 'Tom was not only the loving older brother that everyone would want in their life, he was a one-of-a-kind creative partner,” Dick said in a statement shared with The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday by a spokesman for the National Comedy Center. “I am forever grateful to have spent a lifetime together with him, on and off stage, for over 60 years. Our relationship was like a good marriage – the longer we were together, the more we loved and respected one another. We were truly blessed.' ”