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What if they reopened the office and nobody came? This scenario is not as far-fetched as many believe. The office may not be dead, but its post-COVID future, particularly in big cities, may look more like a medieval-style arrangement than the buzzing, super dense science fiction vision from The Jetsons.

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Even though former vice President Joe Biden has claimed victory in the presidential election, the Trump campaign has filed lawsuits contesting the results with current litigation in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Michigan, Georgia, and Arizona.

• Arizona — 11 Electoral Votes at stake. As of the time of this writing, less than 20,000 separate the candidates. Plus, allegations of widespread voter fraud.
• Georgia — 16 votes. Close enough to trigger an automatic recount.
• Michigan — 16 votes. Biden allegedly ahead by 150,000  votes, of which 130,000 appeared suddenly in the wee hours. Also, voter machine irregularities alleged.
• Nevada — 6 votes. There are massive numbers of out of state voters voting illegally here, and many more ballots opened without two observers, which renders them invalid.
• North Carolina — 15 votes. As of the time of this writing, with 99% of countries reporting, it is mathematically impossible for Trump to lose.
• Pennsylvania — 20 votes. One of the five ongoing legal challenges in this state is whether the State Supreme Court’s overstepping their authority to rewrite the ballot laws at the last minute is constitutional. This is an open and shut case, and only blatant corruption on the part of the US Supreme Court will not find for Trump. Numberwise, removing the illegal ballots, Biden loses Pennsylvania.
• Wisconsin — 10 votes. Biden is apparently ahead by 20,000 votes. However, more ballots were counted in this state than the number of registered voters. Also, Wisconsin election clerks illegally modified thousands of ballots, which renders them invalid. Also, this is the state where, after calling an end to vote counting for the evening, some tens of thousands of ballots, 100% in favor of Biden, were somehow found at 4.00 AM.

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But how exactly is Biden going to make sure Americans, weary of following all these social distancing rules after nine months, toe the line? By doing what Europe did: Imposing onerous fines and penalties.

Security Theater for the masses!

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Amid litigation and recounts in the presidential election, significant attention is focused on a Denver-based company with strong political ties.

Dominion Voting Systems, a voting machine manufacturer founded in Canada, made equipment that is used in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

All those states have seen razor-thin margins in returns from the presidential election, which is officially undecided.

The company controls more than one-third of the voting machine market in the United States, according to multiple news reports.

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The Associated Press exit poll showed that 48% of Georgia Jews voted for President Trump and 49% for Joe Biden: a near split. While Trump’s strong record on Israel and fighting antisemitism abroad and at home no doubt helped, it’s hard to dismiss the Warnock factor.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #430

Climate Change May Have Driven Ancient Human Species to Extinction  May have!

The Guardian: Joe Biden’s $1.7 Trillion Investment Could Reduce Global Warming by 0.1C

Put More Money into Renewable Energy or We’ll Report You to Joe Biden?  Will he even remember?

43 Shot, 6 Dead In Chicago Weekend Shootings, Four Teens Struck By Gunfire

DC Mayor Traveled To ‘High Risk’ Delaware For Biden Victory Speech Despite Her Own Mandate

NY Bar Association Recommends Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccine With No Exemptions

Mika Brzezinski: ‘Traitorous’ for Republicans to Challenge Vote Counts

North Korea, Iran, China Among Countries Criticizing US Human Rights Record At UN Meeting Like being called ugly by a frog.

George Soros Gave $1M to Big Tech-Funded Super PAC Effort to Oust Trump

‘F**k You Forever’: Empathetic Feminist Demands Trump Voters Never Get Jobs

Concerned About Violent Crime, New Yorkers Are Hiring Private Security

Biden must put down the monster that is Trumpism (Washington Post)

Jared Kushner, Melania Trump advise Trump to accept election loss  According to CNN. Do you believe that? I think it’s Fake News.

Tonight Show Head Writer Quits Over Trump Jokes Supposedly Giving Him Power

Gov. Cuomo Says It Is ‘Bad News’ That Potential Virus Vaccine Comes While Donald Trump Is In Office

Top Mueller Prosecutor Suggests Trump Is Gearing Up For A Military Coup  I guess that’s what he would do.

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President Donald Trump’s reelection effort filed another lawsuit in Pennsylvania on Monday that will seek to halt Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar from “hurrying” to certify the results of the 2020 election.

The Other McCain peers into the sewer.

Professor Reynolds remarks: “My daughter has already noticed that the folks in her circle who are most into ‘activism’ of various sorts are mostly the ones whose careers and lives seem to be going the worst.” And this is certainly not a coincidence. Political “activism,” as promoted by the Left, is entirely destructive in its goals. An eternal war against an unacceptable status quo appeals to malcontents and misfits.

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Did anybody expect the riots to stop? They ignored Democrat administrations in California, Oregon, and Washington; they’re not going to pay any attention to a Democrat administration in Washington.

It was never about Trump. Now maybe the Low Information Voters will get a clue.

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

An election fraud lawsuit was filed today in Detroit. It is supported by affidavits by eyewitnesses who describe systematic voter fraud. The lawsuit seeks an order requiring preservation of evidence.

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Who didn’t see that coming?

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The amateurs are giving way to the professionals in the Democrat party.

Time to leave.

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National Review cuck Michael Brendan Dougherty takes advantage of Trump being apparently down to punch right now that it’s safe.

Waiting for Romney and Murkowsky and Collins to congratulate Biden on his win and publicly call for Trump to concede.

Wait for it….

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A most interesting thread popped up on Twitter Sunday from a data scientist who wishes to remain anonymous, regarding mail-in ballot data which strongly suggests fraud occurred in the wee hours of election night, when several swing states inexplicably stopped reporting vote counts while President Trump maintained a healthy lead over Joe Biden.

Using time series data ‘scraped’ from the New York Times website, the data – comparing several states (swing and non-swing) – clearly illustrates what fraud does and does not look like, and how several anomalies in swing states left ‘fingerprints of fraud’ as Biden pulled ahead of President Trump.

Severian is really on a roll today. Good stuff.

Continuing from below, it seems one of ideology’s most important functions is making the private public. Conservatism has often been defined as “the negation of ideology,” and when you think about ideology as the forced publication of private behavior, this makes a lot more sense. Everyone from Pickup Artists to Aristotle knows that people try hard to avoid hypocrisy. The “Game” concepts of “commitment and consistency” and “social proof” are just the old Aristotelian notions that one becomes virtuous by practicing virtue. You want to actually be what you say you are (“commitment and consistency”), and since everyone else is doing it, too (“social proof”), pretty soon the practice, whatever it is, becomes common currency.

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Ideology flips all that, and it’s a striking fact of intellectual history that you can pinpoint the exact date of the first true ideology, almost down to the day: 1536, with the publication of The Institutes of the Christian Religion. You can check out Michael Walzer’s excellent study The Revolution of the Saints if you want the details (and know a LOT about the period already), but the basic point is simple: Unlike all previous theologies or political “philosophies” (which didn’t really exist before then), Calvinism attempts to remake society, ALL of it, through politics.

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The Puritans, as English Calvinists were called, wrote difficult prose, but in translation it sounds shockingly modern. The Puritans were the SJWs of their day, obsessed with their own pwecious widdle selves. They didn’t get around to making up xzheyr own pronouns, but they did give themselves self-righteous new names — when Ben Johnson called his caricature Puritan Zeal-of-the-Land Busy he got big laughs, but he wasn’t really joking, they really did stuff like that. To be a Puritan requires two things: An obsessive focus on the tiniest micro-movements of your own soul….

….and an equally obsessive focus on forcing other people to disclose the tiniest micro-movements of their souls. There’s nothing anyone could ever do, so trivial that a Puritan could in good conscience overlook it. Calvin’s Geneva was the closest thing to a police state 16th century technology allowed, and when their turn came, Oliver Cromwell and the boys gave importing it to England the old college try. And, of course, Plymouth Bay Colony started as a Puritan police state…

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Here’s a couple of papers which establish the life saving value in early hydroxychloroquine treatment. The first is the one referred to in the op-ed.

The Other McCain is on the case.

Benford’s Law is a principle of statistics relating to the frequency with which various digits occur in random samples. It has been used in accounting as a means of detecting fraudulent bookkeeping, because people will enter fake numbers in a non-random pattern. Benford’s Law has also been used to detect vote fraud, where false tallies in precincts will follow the same principle. An article at the site GNews alleges that Benford’s Law proves cheating occurred in urban areas that went heavily for Biden. Is this true? I don’t know.

There are several reasons to suspect shenanigans in this election, but you’re supposedly a fringe kook for noticing anomalies, and social media sites are reportedly censoring mention of Benford’s Law.

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A new post-election poll from the Media Research Center, conducted by McLaughlin & Associates, shows 36 percent of Biden voters were NOT aware of the evidence linking Joe Biden to corrupt financial dealings with China through his son Hunter. Thirteen percent of these voters (or 4.6% of Biden’s total vote) say that had they known these facts, they would not have voted for the former Vice President.

Such a shift away from Biden would have meant President Trump would have won the election with 289 electoral votes. (Details below.)

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President Trump’s Nevada legal team beefed up its legal challenge to mail-in ballot signature verification in the state with startling claims of voter and ballot fraud.

Among the allegations: dead voters, votes from thousands who no longer live in Nevada, and a van marked “Biden-Harris” full of opened mail-in ballots.

Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, who is helping Trump’s legal effort in the state, detailed grievances that the campaign has with mail-in ballot signature verification in Clark County, Nevada, which accounts for the vast majority of voters in the state.

Less Than 25% Of US Adults Say They Would Get A COVID Vaccine Right Away

We’re Saved! Biden’s COVID Science Team Will Have Intersectional Pokemon Points Galore

US Reports 130,000 New Virus Cases, 4th Straight Daily Record

Clashes With Police, Cities Empty Out As Greece Plunged Into 2nd Lockdown

Why it is right to question the orthodox Covid-19 narrative

Can We Wipe Out All Coronaviruses for Good?

I made a website to guess tomorrow’s Covid-19 case count. Here’s what happened

Thousands Gather Across UK To Denounce National Lockdown 

Is The Pandemic Over? Liberals Rally To Celebrate Media Projecting Biden’s Victory  I guess Social Distancing was just for the chumps.

COVID-19 Is Not As Deadly As We Were Told… But Now What?

Ibram X. Kendi: the Term ‘Legal Vote’ Is as Racist as ‘Illegal Alien’, by Steve Sailer

Dave Chappelle On ‘SNL’: ‘Thank God For COVID, Someone Had To Lock These Murderous Whites Up’

Sen. Schumer Calls on ‘Dishonest’ Trump to Concede

‘Don’t Say That, Please’: CNN Reporter Scolds Crowd Chanting ‘F*ck Donald Trump!’

Ex-Facebook Data Experts Spent $75M on Targeted Anti-Trump Ads

The Big 10 Stopped Indiana From Wearing Special Camo Uniforms Honoring The Military Against Michigan

Google Launches App That Lets Banks Remotely Lock Your Android Device

‘Burn Down The Republican Party’: Jennifer Rubin Wants To Make Sure There Are No ‘Survivors’ I guess that’s the first installment of Biden’s Call For Unity.

Yang Slams Democrats As Party Of ‘Coastal Urban Elites’

Washington Post: “A Biden victory positions America for a 180-degree turn on climate change”

The future of nuclear: power stations could make hydrogen, heat homes and decarbonise industry

The Other McCain.

. . . Jonah Goldberg, for example.

Most days now, I don’t even realize he exists, unless Ace goes off on him, and then I’m like, “Oh, he’s still around?”

One of the things we have gained from the Trump era is the knowledge that some people were never really on our side. They were conservatism’s fair-weather friends, and when the going got tough, they jumped over to the other side. Because “principles”! Well, damn you, sir, and damn your “principles,” whatever they may be. We don’t really care.

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Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos instructed a review of the state’s election results following concerns about mail-in ballots and voter fraud, according to Wisconsin State Journal.

Wisconsin concluded an unofficial count of the 2020 election earlier this week, putting Joe Biden at only 20,000 votes in the lead, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. The Associated Press and Fox News were among several news media to call the election Saturday for Biden, but President Donald Trump has yet to concede citing recounts and ongoing litigation.

Vos constructed a team to analyze if the election was administered legally. Votes in Wisconsin must go through three different levels of certification, according to Fox6 News Milwaukee. Meanwhile, Wisconsin clerks are currently in the process of reviewing all results in the state.

Wally is my hero.

Rivers melt Arctic ice, warming air and ocean

Florida County Passes ‘Rights of Nature’ Charter Amendment You can’t make this stuff up.

MIT Technology Review Discusses Bypassing the US Senate on Climate Policy

Republicans are amplifying the president’s lies. This has never been more dangerous. (Washington Post)

Election results: Joe Biden wins presidential race, defeating Donald Trump (Vox)

Business leaders plan response if Trump disputes election results (CNN) They’d better hurry up.

Republicans who’ve tried to exist in both the MAGAverse and reality are being forced to choose (Washington Post)

Germany Says Trump Is “Pouring Oil On The Fire” Of Potential “Constitutional Crisis”

Rapper Killed by ‘Systemic Racism’ and Semiautomatic Pistol Fire, But Mainly …

Why Does The Navy Have So Few Black Admirals? Some Blame A Culture Of Discrimination (NPR)

Jemele Hill says Democrats need to ‘stop obsessing’ over White, working-class voters  They need to go back to obsessing over black, upper class voters — like her.

The racial wealth gap is not about expensive shoes. It’s about systemic racism. (Washington Post)

Spirit Airlines Flight Attendant Threatens To Have People Who Don’t Wear Mask Arrested, Put On No Fly List

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Suggests ‘Trump Sycophants’ Should Be Held Accountable ‘In The Future’

College President Offers To Reimburse Students’ Bail, Fines For ‘Peaceful Protest’

Trump Says “Election Far From Over” After Coordinated MSM Declaration As Scott Adams predicted, the DemLegHump media will attempt to drag Joe Biden across the finish line by merely declaring him the winner and shutting down all coverage of vote fraud.

AP, Fox News Declare Joe Biden President-Elect — Trump Vows To Take Results To Court On Monday

Portland Commissioner’s Home Vandalized After Refusal To Cut Police Funding

The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test: How To Mislead All Humanity Into Accepting Societal Lock-Downs

Coronavirus Mutation Concern Verified by Largest COVID-19 Viral Sequence Analysis in US

Stanford Engineers Develop Genetic Microlab That Can Detect COVID-19 in Minutes

Europe Back In Lockdown Mode

NHS Nurse Publicly Resigns, Blasts COVID Lockdown Policy

UK: Credit Checks for Covid Tests

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

Reports of voter fraud, and of barring Republicans from polling places so as to enable voter fraud, continue to pile up. In Detroit, Republican poll watchers were prevented from carrying out their duties, presumably so they would not be able to observe and document the fraud that was taking place.

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Pennsylvania has a website that shows voters Dates of Birth and voting status. It seems there are thousands of obviously dead people who voted. Don’t trust me. Look it up.

I believe that the library director’s name is Karen.

Steve Sailer.

The New York Times Opinion section explains that vote fraud is practically impossible because it would require a large number of people working together to win elections with machine-like coordination: a “political machine” if you can imagine such a thing.

But, of course, political machines don’t exist.

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Curious as to why they’re not doing this in Germany.

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Boise, Idaho, you can kiss your inclusion in March Madness next spring good-bye. The NCAA prefers a different version of inclusion for its host sites, one that doesn’t ban males from participating in female sports like Idaho does. College sports fans, trans inclusion is rolling down the tracks and little can stop it.

SB Nation Outsports reports that the NCAALGBT hasn’t yet rescinded its agreement for NCAA Tournament games in Boise, but the sport’s governing association is in the tank for transgenders.

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This afternoon, the Republican Party of Michigan held a press conference and alleged that a software “glitch” caused thousands of votes for Republican candidates to be counted for Democrats instead.

Gee, that sure sounds like vote fraud to me.

MSNBC’s Glaude: ‘Whiteness Animates the Core of this Country’  Just think of what shape we’d be in if blackness animated the core of this country. (Zimbabwe? Gabon?)

Oregon Sued For Awarding Aid Money Based on Race

REPORT: Rapper King Von Dead At 26 After Gunfight Breaks Out In Atlanta  I love that – ‘breaks out’, as if he were caught in a sudden rainstorm.

BET’s Billionaire Founder Says Black People Get “Minimal Return” By Voting For Democrats

Liberal journalists call for Democrats to move to red states to manipulate elections  And, by the way, your taxes will be lower, your cost of living cheaper, and you won’t have to worry about BLM-Antifa thugs burning down your neighborhood.

Andrew Yang: Working class sees Dems as ‘coastal urban elites’ who care about ‘policing cultural issues’  Which, of course, they are.

Loaded AR-15-style rifle among weapons seized during US protests

Restriction of Basic Rights in Germany

Affirmative Action Goes Down in Flames in Deep Blue California

CNN Already Whining About GOP Causing ‘Gridlock’ If Biden Wins

UK To Ban Protests Of Two Or More People Ahead Of National Lockdown 

British Woman Threatened With Police Visit For Not Downloading NHS COVID-Tracking App

Snap-crappy: 183 Brit local authorities operate 80,000 CCTV cams between them, says surveillance watchdog

Woman Charged With Spitting In Cop’s Face Is NYU Grad, Former Nadler Intern

Rioter Allegedly Attempts To Strangle Officer With Metal Chain As Violence Continues In New York City

‘Come Back To Haunt’: Pennsylvania Lawsuit Alleges 21,000 Dead People Still On Voter Rolls

Senate Inquiry Into Google: Only “Liberal Field Agents Received Vote Reminders” Before Election

Chinese Communist Party Propagandist Says He Can’t Wait For Biden To Be President  No surprises here.

Fact check: Trump delivers the most dishonest speech of his presidency as Biden closes in on victory (CNN) Most dishonest!

Top Republicans defend Trump on baseless voter fraud claims as concerns grow in the ranks (CNN) Baseless!

America’s friends embarrassed it still insisting Trumpism a fluke, not personality trait (Washington Post)

‘The Most Fevered Brain’: Jake Tapper Mocks Trump Speech Blaming ‘Grand Conspiracy’

Keith Olbermann Calls For The Arrests Of President Donald Trump And Tucker Carlson How about we arrest Keith Olbermann?

Van Jones, David Axelrod Suggests Trump Is A Racist For Questioning Vote Counting In Philadelphia, Detroit

Delusional CNN RAGES at ‘Obese Turtle’ Trump ‘Inciting Violence,’ Launching an ‘Attack’

NBC Demands Trump Be ‘Conciliatory’ and Concede Like Al Gore  Good luck with that.

Impatient Stephanopoulos Urges Biden to Declare Victory; Demands Trump Accept Defeat Good luck with that.

Biden Campaign Threatens To Escort Trump From The White House

Pompous Colbert DEMANDS Republicans Speak Against Trump’s ‘Fascist’ Plot to ‘Kill Democracy’  He’s not really in a position to demand anything of anybody.

Vile Vega: Trump Presidency’s ‘Biggest Moments’ Were His Racist Statements  Of which there were none.

IDMC: International Climate Refugees are a Myth

Perhaps the dumbest article title ever: “The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million years”… AEUHHH???

Comparing USCRN and nClimDiv to USCHN

Glenn Harlan Reynolds (Instapundit).

One response might be self-criticism: to wonder how, after four years of single-mindedly trying to get rid of Trump and marginalize his followers, things didn’t go better. Instead, Democrats’ thinkers seem to be asking themselves variations on “How can I live in a country where half the people supported Donald Trump?”

According to the Campus Reform Web site, professors around America were expressing anger and claiming to feel “genuinely unsafe, given the sheer number of people willing to vote for Trump.” Some canceled classes for the rest of the week, apparently because of the emotional strain.

An article in The New Republic by Andrew Cohen asks: “What do we do with all these Trump supporters?” (Spoiler: “Learn to live with them and respect your differences” isn’t on the agenda.)

Whine, little snowflake, shiver, shiver….