Yes, I’m feeling this hopeless right now.
Contrasting in gravitas and significance this week have been at least three revelations that the Axis of Unethical Conduct will try mightily to keep out of the public eye and our consciousness. Instead, we will be bombarded with Rob Reiner’s wonderful movies, “the collapse of the Trump Presidency,”and, of course, Epstein. With an ethical Fourth Estate, however, and a POTUS who wasn’t determined to destroy himself, these stories would be leading the news:
1. Fulton County admitted that approximately 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election were illegally certified, then included in the final Georgia Presidential vote tally. This obviously places Trump’s claims that the election results were corrupted in a new light, especially his controversial appeal to Georgia’s governor to “find” the votes necessary to flip the state into Trump’s column. The margin in Georgia was a whole lot less than 315, 000.
The startling admission came during a Dec. 9 hearing before the Georgia State Election Board. Before that, as we all know by now, Trump had been accused of trying to “overthrow” the election and his lawyers have been disciplined for trying to halt the certification of what they believed was an unconstitutional election. No, Georgia alone couldn’t have stolen the Presidency, but this additional information certainly undermines the five year narrative, as well as the already dead-in-the-water state prosecution of Donald Trump.
The Federalist is covering the story. I have not seen any report in the Washington Post, the networks, or the New York Times.
2. Newly-declassified documents show that President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice pressured the FBI to conduct its 2022 raid of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home while the FBI repeated warned that such a raid was not justified.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) announced in an X post, “Received shocking new docs 2day from DOJ & FBI showing FBI DID NOT BELIEVE IT HAD PROBABLE CAUSE to raid Pres Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home but Biden DOJ pushed for it anyway.” “Based on the records Mar-a-Lago raid was a miscarriage of justice. Read for yourself,” Grassley added, linking to the documents posted online.
It was not a “miscarriage of justice,” it was a deliberate political hit job using law enforcement as a means to taking a Biden political rival out of the 2024 race. Who was the threat to democracy, again?
Let’s see… that’s lawfare, trying to rig the 2020 election, we already know about the Biden open borders fiasco…what else? Oh…the DEI scourge!
3. Jacob Savage published a thorough and disturbing essay on how white males of the Millennial generation were crushed by the DEI policies that even predated the term. He writes,
As the Trump Administration takes a chainsaw to the diversity, equity, and inclusion apparatus, there’s a tendency to portray DEI as a series of well-meaning but ineffectual HR modules. “Undoubtedly, there has been ham-fisted DEI programming that is intrusive or even alienating,” explained Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in The New Yorker. “But, for the most part, it is a relatively benign practice meant to increase diversity, while also sending a message that workplaces should be fair and open to everyone.”
This may be how Boomer and Gen-X white men experienced DEI. But for white male millennials, DEI wasn’t a gentle rebalancing—it was a profound shift in how power and prestige were distributed. Yet practically none of the thousands of articles and think-pieces about diversity have considered the issue by cohort.
This isn’t a story about all white men. It’s a story about white male millennials in professional America, about those who stayed, and who (mostly) stayed quiet. The same identity, a decade apart, meant entirely different professional fates. If you were forty in 2014—born in 1974, beginning your career in the late-90s—you were already established. If you were thirty in 2014, you hit the wall.
Because the mandates to diversify didn’t fall on older white men, who in many cases still wield enormous power: They landed on us.
He backs up his case with stunning statistics, but is not moaning about being a victim of “good discrimination,” though his story shows that he was. He is objecting to the Left’s lie that white men were not and are not victims of a policy that derailed careers and lives.
All of these news items support the importance of the Trump administration’s success to the nation’s future. Were the President not such a reckless jerk with a flat learning curve, this could have been a week that strengthened the nation’s resolve and understanding of the stake every citizen has in this Presidency’s success. Instead, Trump handed his foes exactly what they needed both to bury these stories and undermine him.
I have stated here before that only a sadistic and puckish God would have chosen such a flawed vessel as Donald Trump as America’s primary bulwark against woke totalitarian rot. The nation needs a champion, yet the apparent occupant of the role lacks so many of the character traits a classic champion must possess that it engenders despair.
Especially after a week like this one.
Ethics Alarms 
I don’t disagree, Jack. But I do know that in the past you’d have dealt with this kind of thing with a fair amount of snarky humor.
For whatever it’s worth, I send up prayers that God will ease your sense of loss during this time of year. Give your wonderful dog an extra lap around the block, and a buttscratch from me.
You’ll forgive me if I don’t volunteer YOU a buttscratch, but… well, not that there’s anything wrong with that. May the upcoming new year be a time of healing and joy.
BTW – I may not be one of the “five commenters,” but I assume you’re aware that I rarely miss a post. If I don’t comment, it’s because I have nothing to add.
Sorry the holidays are bleak so far. Happy to buy you that long promised drink, although I head out of town Dec 26th-Jan 1st.
Will it cheer you up to know that the Georgia thing isn’t a thing? The mainstream media aren’t covering it because it’s not really news, and it doesn’t at all make the 3 hand recounts irrelevant. It’s a procedural error that doesn’t make the “chain of possession” or some other something invalid. It’s about the early votes, and there’s no question that these were valid. So cheer up–the media isn’t engaging in a coverup. It’s a nothing burger.
Thank you for reminding me that the dumb things that Trump says are no where near as important as the brainwashed nature of the left. I would like to cringe at the politicians on the right sometimes, but knowing that the leftwing cult is incapable of acknowledging reality stops me.
Not sure I understand your analysis. The votes were improperly counted and allowed. Technicality or not, they should not have been included. That’s how I read it. Is that wrong? Sure, they may have all been valid votes. And evidence excluded by a court as “fruit of the poisonous tree” is often valid evidence. But technicalities matter. That was how the 2000 recount spun out of control: the Florida courts kept changing the rules as they went along.
The main thrust of any judicial overview of an election is–“did the voter’s validly expressed intent get registered”? So if the VOTER makes a trivial error, on a signature, say, judges and others have sometimes upheld getting the vote excluded, and other times said “well, as long as there’s no confusion, we should try to count this vote” But if the AUTHORITIES make a technical error, but there is no question as to the validity of the votes, the strong tendency has been to count the votes. That seems to me to be what we have here. And we wouldn’t want it any other way. Think of it this way–if the law CLEARLY says that no electioneering is to take place within 100 feet of a polling place entrance BUT the authorities at two voting places allow electioneering at the door, quite aggressive stuff, too…should, after the election, all those votes be thrown out? Only the votes for the party that broke the electioneering laws? Or should sanctions be placed on the individuals who broke the law, and the elections administrator be charged with fixing the problem?
The upshot of the “hanging chad” issue in the Florida case was the same idea. If the voter’s intent can be ascertained…count the vote.
This isn’t remotely close to the fraud that Trump and his team have been talking about for 5 ridiculous years.
How do you enforce laws and rules if there is no penalty for violating them? The regulations exist for a reason, presumably election integrity. If officials get away with breaching the rules accidentally, why wouldn’t they try to do it intentionally?
In 2000, a Florida voter couldn’t figure out the ballot, so he just wrote, “I want to vote for Al Gore!” in pen on the ballot. Should that ballot have been counted? His intent was clear. But the fact is he didn’t cast a vote as vote was defined by the procedure in use. I acknowledge that this kind of problem exposes the sharp margins between liberal thought and conservative thought.
Yeah, I need that drink….
How do you enforce laws and rules if there is no penalty for violating them?
Of course you enforce them… against one side and not the other, but hey, 50% is better than none, amirite?
By the way, the so-called “J6’ers” would like a word.
Honestly, a casual perusal of the news will prove that enforcement depends entirely on who you are. If you are a prole like most of us, you can count on severe enforcement unless you commit a clearly politically-inspired crime against a conservative and you live in deep-blue enclave. Then you have a chance at jury nullification or “no true bill” regardless of evidence.
People in power, regardless of political party, usually get away with it. Governments also qualify. After all, in the instant case, what is the remedy?
The courts have repeatedly refused to disqualify counted votes that have discrepancies, and as jdkazoo123 correctly pointed, out, the judicial willingness to ignore legal requirements is strongest when the government makes the error. After all, in equity, the voter would be the victim as well as the loosing candidate if the voter did it right and the government failed to follow the law when validating the vote.
Unfortunately, there is no good remedy. The timing of election-related activities makes a re-do almost impossible, especially if ideologically motivated lower courts are willing to slow down the process for just a few days. Our current laws are simply inadequate to address the issue, so even unbiased courts are left to throw up their hands if they ever get to look at a live case and not have to throw it out as mooted by election mechanics.
“Voting laws also require poll workers to begin each day of voting by printing and signing a “zero tape” showing that voting machines are starting at zero votes. If there is no record of whether the tabulator was set at zero at the start of polling, there is no way of telling whether ballots from a previous election (or ballots from a test run) were left on the memory card and might later be counted. Notably, this happened in Montana, where officials discovered more votes than were cast and believe the votes were leftover sample data that had not been cleared.”
JD, if no-one checks to see whether the vote counts starts at zero then it is definitely not a nothingburger.