The Holiday season fast approaches.  This being the year 2020, the season is accompanied by dire warnings from various and sundry medical “experts” that we best cancel all get-togethers and celebrations, lest we risk the Wuhan plague.  Merry Christmas.  And yet we remain enmeshed in the aftermath of the presidential election.  If the results are to be believed, we must believe that Donald Trump received 11 million more votes than he got in 2016, and still lost.  We must believe that voter turnout in urban areas, not normally known for high turnout, were at historic highs, some more than 95%.  We must believe that Joe Biden, a man who couldn’t draw flies during the campaign, and who’s electric personality is such that he couldn’t lure you out of a burning building, inspired 81 million people to vote for him, and to do so in such a way that Biden under-performed Il Duce Obama’s numbers in all swing State counties, except those in cities such as Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee and Atlanta.  The election lawsuits and public hearings grind on toward the December 14th Electoral College vote, with stories of vote fraud in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada and Michigan.  I wish I could be confident.  I know that this will serve only to further depress readers who already are in a foul mood, but I am reminded of a scene from A Christmas Carol.  Scrooge implores Marley’s ghost, “Speak comfort to me, Jacob.”  But alas, like Marley’s ghost, “I have none to give,” for I fear all the Trump complaints will come to nothing.  Not that there isn’t abundant evidence of fraud.  In Michigan, a Senate committee heard witnesses who reported that with Trump ahead in the count on election night, all of a sudden they stopped counting votes.  At around 4:30 a.m. the day after Election Day, a massive ballot dump of more than 130,000 votes appeared for Joe Biden.  One GOP elections observer said all of the military ballots she saw looked like “Xerox copies” of each other.  None were registered Michigan voters, and 100% went for Joe Biden.  “They had to manually enter the names, addresses, and a false birthdate of 1/1/2020, to override the system and allow them to enter non-registered voters.  Michigan has same day registration, but not “day after the election registration.”  Michigan uses the tainted Dominion election software.  Melissa Carone, a Dominion trained contractor blew the whistle on Dominion workers, and revealed ballots were being tabulated in the Department of Elections, which is completely illegal.  Batches of ballots were being scanned 8-10 ten times over and over.  Ballots are supposed to drop into a sealed box after being scanned through the tabulating machine, but instead were accessible to the election workers after being scanned through the machine.  Boxes that were supposed to receive the scanned ballots were moved to another part of the room and used to block poll observers.  In Georgia, there’s evidence that Dominion software officials meddled with the counting systems and then destroyed evidence.  Dominion officials were videoed allegedly changing votes by using the internet and USB devices in Gwinnett County.  Trump supposedly lost Georgia by less than 10,000 votes.  In Wisconsin, a Postal subcontractor was told that over 100,000 Ballots were gathered on November 4th and backdated so that they would still be counted.  Trump supposedly lost Wisconsin by 20,000 votes.   Other whistleblower statements include potentially hundreds of thousands of completed absentee ballots being transported across three state lines, and a trailer filled with ballots disappearing in Pennsylvania.  The Amistad Project, a national constitutional litigation organization of the Thomas More Society, has sworn declarations that state over 300,000 ballots are at issue in Arizona, 548,000 in Michigan, 204,000 in Georgia, and over 121,000 in Pennsylvania.  They claim their evidence reveals multi-state illegal efforts by postal workers to influence the election in at least three of six swing states.   In Pennsylvania, Greg Stenstrom, told the legislature that in Delaware County he “witnessed unsupervised access by a vendor representing Dominion, during which the vendor violated election system certification protocols and inserted jump drives to download and update the aggregation machines counting the vote.”  Amistad has additional evidence that postal workers in Pennsylvania were instructed to place Trump mail in undeliverable bins while making sure that Biden mail was delivered in a timely fashion.  As bad as all this sounds, and it sounds terrible, don’t expect the courts to fix this mess.  There are just too many States in play for the U.S. Supreme Court to affect the outcome of the election, and in most of the States at issue, the state judges are nothing more than elected officials who aren’t going to jeopardize their phony-baloney jobs just to do what’s right.  So much for justice.  What’s left?  What’s left is the system set up by the Constitution, which provides that each State shall appoint the presidential electors, “in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.”  This means that the final decision on whose electors are certified rests with the State legislatures, which can reject electors appointed in an election so tainted by fraud that there can be no confidence in it’s results.  That would have to happen before December 14th.  Don’t get your hopes up, this is a heavy lift, and a lot to ask from elected officials who also want to protect their phony-baloney jobs (see above).  Failing this, the Congress, which meets January 6th to hear the results of the electoral votes, can, with at least one House and one Senate member challenging the results, conduct debates leading to votes on whether to accept the results.  Don’t hold your breath on this one either.  Never forget that the majority of the people voting will be either Democrats who hate Trump, or Rhino Republicans, who never supported Trump as President, and are glad to see him go.  In summary, the 2020 election is a story of electoral theft on a massive scale.  It is, however, a tragedy without a remedy.  If these sobering truths haven’t succeeded in depressing you enough, I close with yet another tragedy – Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

I fear that Donald Trump’s hour upon the stage is coming to an end.  We have enjoyed the show, but his brief candle is flickering out.