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A sharp essay by David Horowitz, posted on powerlineblog.com. There's nothing there we don't already know, but he is especially caustic about the weakness of Republicans:

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FIGHTING WORDS, BY DAVID HOROWITZ
Our friend David Horowitz wrote this essay, which he titled “Fighting Words.” It is a call for freedom-loving Americans to fight back against the totalitarian Left.

By now it should be obvious – even to conservatives – that we are in a war. It is a conflict that began nearly fifty years ago when the street revolutionaries of the Sixties joined the Democrat Party. Their immediate goal was to help the Communist enemy win the war in Vietnam, but they stayed to expand their influence in the Democrat Party and create the radical force that confronts us today. The war that today’s Democrats are engaged in reflects the values and methods of those radicals. It is a war against us – against individual freedom, against America’s constitutional order, and against the capitalist engine of our prosperity.

Democrat radicals know what they want and where they are going. As a result, they are tactically and organizationally years ahead of patriotic Americans who are only beginning to realize they are in a war. The Democrats’ plan to steal the 2020 election was hatched many years ago when Democrats launched their first attacks on Voter I.D.s, and then every effort to secure the integrity of the electoral system. Those attacks metastasized into an all-out assault on Election Day itself with early- and late-voting grace periods, and a flood of 92 million mail-in ballots, hundreds of thousands of which were delivered in the middle of the night to be counted behind the backs of Republican observers after Election Day had passed.

The result of these efforts is that Election Day no longer really exists as a day when the votes are cast and counted. This is a fact that offers generous opportunities for the election saboteurs to do their work. Those saboteurs’ opportunities were greatly enhanced this year with the installation in battle ground states of voting machines specifically designed to calculate how many votes were required to steal an election and then to switch ballots already cast and deliver them to the chosen party. Mail-in ballots were indispensable to the realization of this plan.

I will not dwell at length on the years it took the Republican Party, and American patriots, to recognize what the Democrat Party had become or the threat it posed to our country as an enemy within. Suffice it to say that Republicans can still be heard referring to Democrats as “liberals” when it is obvious even to them that there is nothing liberal about their principles or methods. They are vindictive bigots who are actively destroying the First Amendment in our universities, on the Internet and in our once but no longer free press. Suffice it to note that while Democrats accuse Republicans including the President of being racists and traitors, the response of Republican leaders is this: “Oh, the Democrats are just playing politics.”

This is not “playing” people. It is war. They are trying to kill us politically, and we need to respond accordingly, to fight fire with fire. Today’s Democrat Party is a party of character assassins and racists. Republicans know this but are reluctant to say it. That is how a pathological liar and corrupt political whore like Joe Biden can accuse the choice of 73 million Americans of being a white supremacist and also murdering 220,000 corona virus patients. That’s why Biden and his gunslingers can do so with no consequences – without so much as a wrist slap – from “moderates” and independents, who know better. The Democrats’ ability to intimidate well-meaning Americans is that great.

Is this too blanket a condemnation? Where, then, is the Democrat who was outraged by the four-year Russia collusion hoax and the failed coup and impeachment attempts – all of which accused the president, without a shred of evidence, of treason? Where was the Democrat who dissented from the public lynching of an exemplary public servant, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, over an incident that never happened 37 years ago at a time when he was a high school kid? Where is the Democrat who has condemned the violent street criminals of Antifa and Black Lives Matter who got away with conducting the most destructive civic insurrection in American history, orchestrating mayhem and disrespect for the law that led to the murders of scores of people who happen to have been mainly black?

What follows is a basic vocabulary for understanding the political war that has engulfed us. When it is used by enough Americans who love their country, it will cancel the surreal universe that Democrats’ lies have imposed on us, and the war will be on its way to being won.

Democrats are not democrats; they are totalitarians. They have declared war on the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Electoral College, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the election system, and the idea of civil order. They have called for the Republican President of the United States to be de-platformed and jailed. Their obvious goal is a one-party state that criminalizes dissent. To them, support for such basic necessities as borders and law enforcement are racist. If you oppose their efforts to legalize infanticide, they will condemn you as enemies of women, and if you make videos of their confessions to selling body parts of murdered infants, they will – like Kamala Harris – throw you in jail.

Progressives are not progressive; they are reactionaries. They are out to abolish liberal value systems and create a status hierarchy where race, gender, and sexual orientation define and confine you to an unalterable place in their new social order. If you are white or male or heterosexual or religious – Justice Kavanaugh was all four – you are guilty before the fact.

But if you are a member of a designated (but increasingly imaginary) “victim” group you are innocent even when the facts show you are guilty – like the reprehensible female who lied to Congress in a calculated attempt to destroy Kavanaugh’s life and career. If you are a member of a “victim” group you have an unlimited license to persecute others. Thus, the LGBTQ lobby is currently behind a nation-wide crusade to strip Christians of their First Amendment rights and criminalize their religion. They use their victim status to leverage their hate of people who don’t embrace their agendas, and deploy it to crush them – and only Republicans seem to care.

Identity politics is a pure form of racism, yet Trump is the only Republican I’m aware of who has had the political spine to call a Democrat a racist. Identity “wokism” is a totalitarian politics because it encompasses every aspect of life, down to the pronouns one is ordered to use. The progressive police state will leave no space free.

Racists and aspiring totalitarians are what Democrats have become. The only moral principle they are guided by is the old Bolshevik saw, “the ends justify the means.” They will say anything however false and condone anything, however criminal, which advances their goal of maximum power.

Since race is the principal weapon wielded by Democrats, this is most evident in their claim that there is “systemic racism” in America, which needs to be rooted out even if it means destroying the very foundations of law and order. When two Republican canvassers refused to certify the election result in Detroit – a city once the richest in America but now mainly black and poor thanks to fifty-nine years of misrule by Democrats – they were accused of “systemic racism.” This charge and the accompanying threats by the Democrat mob were so intimidating the two withdrew their objections. But if there was in fact election fraud in Detroit, to object to it is not by any stretch of the imagination “systemic racism.” To believe otherwise is to believe that black people, due to their skin color, are incapable of committing election fraud. How racist is that?

“Systemic racism” is an assertion made reflexively by Democrats that is never accompanied by evidence. For good reason. Systemic racism has been outlawed in America since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If there were actual instances of systemic racism in 2020, there would be lawsuits – plenty of them. Even making the racist assumption, which the Identity Politics crowd does make, that all white people are white supremacists by dint of their skin color, there are tens of thousands of black lawyers, prosecutors, district attorneys, attorneys general, and elected officials who would be filing lawsuits over a practice that is illegal. You never hear of massive lawsuits over systemic racism, because “systemic racism” is a myth. The myth lives because it is an indispensable weapon wielded by Democrats to advance their anti-democratic agendas and quests for power.

But the only reason Democrats are able to do this so successfully – even going so far as to justify the arson, looting and general destruction in more than 600 American cities this summer – is because Republicans, and conservatives generally, are too cowardly to confront them. This war will continue until patriotic Americans summon the courage to call Democrats the racists, liars, character assassins and aspiring totalitarians that they actually are. And to do so in so many words. Blowback works.


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^^ which is another problem because the Dems may take the two GA seats because people are tired of the GOP.
 
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I haven't seen this here yet?

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I Was Right: Trump Team is Focusing on Constitutional Issues, Not Just Fraud, in Election Suits


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3xzO9v1BR0


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Ok, what’s up with Sidney Powell?

Hopefully there’s a strategy with this...
 
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Ramius...

I assume you are speaking of the apparent breaking of ties with Sidney Powell by the rest of the legal team for Trump?

I have no clue... but there must be a good reason that we cannot see yet.

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Let’s see if this happens tomorrow in GA. Seems plausible... Might be first bite from the kraken.

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Be on the watch for the two fisted slam that happens in GA courts tomorrow. Dominion cannon is loaded & will blow up in Judge Brann's court, as well as the newest findings of thousands early & absentee votes cast by voters whose registered addresses are actually POB's disguised


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Ok, what’s up with Sidney Powell?

Hopefully there’s a strategy with this...


What if prominent Republicans get caught for this as well? She could take a lot of people down.

And yes. I know I sound like a total crackpot. I’ll just wait and see.





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*sigh*. Some eggheads saying that there is a “probability” of manipulated results does not equate to proof of manipulated results. The courts are going to demand specific proof of fraud, and specifics of which ballots are fraudulent and how many. The problem is that there are many actual legitimate ballots, and courts aren’t just going to throw all of them out on a chance that there might be some fraudulent ballots in the mix. So far Sidney and the dream team haven’t put out much that’s gained actual traction in court, which is the only place that it really matters. I know, it’s just around the corner. Two more weeks. Whatever. Wake me when it’s over.




The democrats tried to impeach a sitting President and reject a nominee for the Supreme Court based on 2nd hand hearsay. They threw in a few biased, opinionated 'experts' with no direct knowledge.

Those 'eggheads' might be more credible.


Neither of those processes are courts of law. They are political processes.
 
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Sidney is seeming a little LeeRoy Jenkins-ish...




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Great, cut ties with Powell. That has to be good news.
 
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Well, well, well. This is interesting.

https://us.yahoo.com/news/trum...owell-224736792.html

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign issued a statement on Sunday distancing itself from Sidney Powell, a lawyer who made baseless allegations of voter fraud at a campaign press conference on Thursday.

"Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own," Trump campaign lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis said in the statement. "She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity."

So no Kraken? No biblical beatdown?
 
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Perhaps the statement is clarifying that she is separate, but still an important ally of Pres. Trump's efforts. It may be a smart strategy to not have all eggs in a single basket.

I have not heard there is any "split" or "breaking from" any efforts.

Unless I missed something.




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Perhaps the statement is clarifying that she is separate, but still an important ally of Pres. Trump's efforts. It may be a smart strategy to not have all eggs in a single basket.

I have not heard there is any "split" or "breaking from" any efforts.

Unless I missed something.


The same thought crossed my mind. I guess time will tell.
 
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Trump Legal Team Distances from Sidney Powell

President Donald Trump’s legal team distanced themselves from attorney Sidney Powell on Sunday evening, noting that she did not represent the president, either as part of the team or in his personal capacity.

In a statement attributed to Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, and Trump legal adviser Jenna Ellis, the team said: “Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own. She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity.”

A source who spoke to Breitbart News on background suggested that the team had hoped to work with her, but that Powell’s public claims had gone beyond the scope of the evidence they had seen and believed they could prove in court.

Powell had pursued a theory that Dominion voting machines, operating with Smartmatic software, were manipulable and had been responsible for switching votes from Trump to Democratic challenger Joe Biden. She also alleged that Dominion had worked with foreign governments, including Venezuela, and produced an affidavit purporting to support that allegation.

She had not yet provided evidence that votes had actually been changed, however, and has faced increasing public criticism.

Powell, an outspoken conservative, gained wide acclaim for her representation of former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.), who withdrew his guilty plea after being prosecuted for lying to the FBI.

Flynn’s previous lawyers had negotiated a plea agreement, but after new evidence emerged of conflicts of interest at the Department of Justice (DOJ), he asked Powell to take up his defense. The DOJ is trying to drop the prosecution, but the judge in the case has not agreed.

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Well, well, well. This is interesting.

https://us.yahoo.com/news/trum...owell-224736792.html

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign issued a statement on Sunday distancing itself from Sidney Powell, a lawyer who made baseless allegations of voter fraud at a campaign press conference on Thursday.

"Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own," Trump campaign lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis said in the statement. "She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity."

So no Kraken? No biblical beatdown?

Try as I might I can find no upside to this release by Guliani and Ellis. Looks like a fracture of some kind has taken place. Not welcome news. If this wasn't a parting of ways they would have been careful to make sure they conveyed that point. Often times it's what is not said that's important.


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Think EZ_B hit upon the reason as someone mentioned on Parler as well.

Sidney Powell is Flynn's Lawyer... She can't be Trump's lawyer if Trump pardons Flynn.



“We’re in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for our administration…President Obama’s administration before this. We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,”
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They were standing shoulders to shoulders just a couple days ago at the presser, laying out their case and blasting the media, and now Powell is not part of Trump's legal team? Unless there is some great strategic angle that no one has thought about, this is beginning to look like a circus.


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"Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own," Trump campaign lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis said in the statement. "She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity."

So no Kraken? No biblical beat down?

We will see. I'm still a fan of Sidney Powell. I think she's smart, tough, and brave. I also think she believes 100% in what she's saying.

However, I think what she is trying to prove is a world-wide conspiracy. If true, it's bigger than this single election cycle.

I think the Trump team is distancing from her for at least two reasons:
1. Sidney may be in over her head. Her allegations may be impossible to prove, especially in two weeks. The Electoral College meets Dec. 14 which is a real deadline. She doesn't have time for traditional discovery methods.
2. It's not necessary to Team Trump to prove the voting machines are manipulated. There's plenty of old-fashioned fraud and judicial rule changes taking control of the elections away from state legislatures. That's Team Trump's focus.

Sidney's funding is separate from the campaign, so they are just stating something that has probably been technically true all along. She has a funding organization called Defending The Republic.



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Try as I might I can find no upside to this release by Guliani and Ellis. Looks like a fracture of some kind has taken place. Not welcome news.


It's clearly welcome news by a few members of this forum. And as far as I can tell, these members only post if it is a poke in the eye to the rest of us who support Trump.


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