"Law professor Larry Lessig claims that at least twenty Republican
electors are considering abandoning the President-elect."
In large, green-colored ALL CAPS with a checkmark, an answer is given as
"TRUE".
It thus appears on a quick look that the answer given is to Lessig's "claim" made
in the headline, that "at least twenty Republican
electors are considering abandoning the President-elect". But SNOPES's headline is not what
is being "fact-checked". The answer is only "true" as to
another "claim", a bland, innocuous claim printed
in small type directly under the large picture (where it
looks like a caption and could be missed):
"CLAIM: A law professor is working to take Donald Trump's election win away
by appealing to electoral college voters."
SNOPES's headline and "explanation" gratuitously not only parrot Lessig's unverifiable
claim about what "twenty electors" are "considering" (which
is irrelevant to answering
SNOPES's little reworded sanitized claim that it has labelled "TRUE"), but the article
goes on to "prove" that Lessig made the claim, while expounding on how Hillary "won the popular vote by 2.8 million votes"
and
uncritically republishing Lessig's argument -- which
itself contains multiple undiscussed dubious or false statements:
"Never in our history has the argument for electors exercising their
independent judgment been as overwhelmingly strong -- because of the
concerns about foreign involvement in our election, because of Mr.
Trump's refusal to comply with constitutional limitations on foreign
assets, and because of the overwhelming popular vote margin by his
opponent."
Lessig's opinion is presented as a statement of fact,
purportedly backed up by
reasons presented themselves as statements of fact.
The argument has no relevance to the truth or falsity of the "fact" (in small type, above)
that is the actual one misleadingly being "fact-checked" by SNOPES, and moreover, it
is itself false or misleading (and un-fact-checked) political propaganda:
1. There has been no public evidence to date of any "foreign involvement in our election"
so who the hell knows whether "concerns" (of whom? how widespread?) are valid.
(More).
[But consider past involvement in our elections via the Soviet-owned
U.S. Communist Party, and recent foreign donations to progressive interests, astroturfing websites, the Clinton Foundation and
various PACs. Also compare Obama's
direct involvement in attempting to throw the Israeli election against Netanyahu. Etc.]
2. The negative insinuation that Trump has "refused" to comply with
some kind of "constitutional limitations on foreign assets" implies
illegal acts by Trump even prior to taking office. It is flat-out
false (to the extent it's not just unintelligible -- but the law professor's gibberish might sound good to a non-lawyer).
3. The assertion that Hillary overwhelmingly "won the popular vote" is specious. Trump won 83% of the counties in the U.S. and
lost mostly only those areas of the country having a lot of known voting fraud and/or illegal immigrants.
Here's a "lizcheck" on the last point. I worked as a poll
attorney in Broward County, Florida on election day. In my small area alone, I stopped
perhaps thousands of discarded ballots from being saved in readable format. These would be either "mistake"
ballots or collected "absentee" ballots whose voters came to vote in person. These ballots are supposed to be "spoiled"
so that they
cannot be machine-read. This is supposed to happen before another ballot is issued to the voter. Given the precincts
involved, I know that these ballots would have been overwhelmingly Democrat. In about half of the precincts that I monitored,
instead of being properly spoiled so that they could not be fed into a machine at a later time,
these ballots were being saved in machine-readable state. There is only one
reason for this -- unless you are naive enough to believe that experienced election workers all coincidentally
had similar misunderstandings of how to spoil discarded ballots and interestingly were keeping them
(with the exception of one precinct where they were stuffed into a
plastic bag) in neat, out of the way stacks with an ineffectual "void" lightly scribbled on them.
In multiple precincts in Detroit it now has been proved that somehow there were more votes than there were signed-in
voters. This is precisely the outcome that would have occurred in Broward County had saved discarded ballots later been fed into the
voting machines.
[Note that this same anomaly apparently happened throughout Ohio in the 2012 election
(there were reports of 100% pro-Obama precincts with more votes than even registered voters.) And remember that there also was
widespread voter fraud via ACORN in the 2008 election.]
Moreover, in California, which logged votes so overwhelmingly Democrat that this state alone could account for
more
than ALL of Clinton's "popular vote victory" margin, consider these facts: many Republicans (and there
are many in the state, albeit not a majority) didn't bother to vote because in addition
to being discouraged by fake exit polls from eastern states that closed earlier, their vote in the winner-take-all Democrat state wouldn't
have changed anything anyway. In addition, there
was no Republican candidate on the ballot for Senate, which otherwise might have brought out Republicans to vote -- weirdly,
two Dems were running against each other, so this too likely depressed potential pro-Trump turnout in California. (For these same reasons, why bother to have
any significant Republican poll watcher or poll attorney presence in the state -- it was going Democrat, no matter what.)
Lastly, throughout 2016, along with California's new law giving
illegal aliens driver licenses, there was a widespread heavy push to do "motor voter" registration, which in no way adequately
(or at all) checked citizenship. Recall that sweet interview in which, when asked what he thought about "undocumented
citizens" "afraid to vote" because of fear of being deported, Obama responded that all citizens have the right to vote and there is no cross-checking with immigrant
databases. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfgEvgVC6Qs.
(More on California voting fraud.)
Given the above, coupled with the insane, often vicious, hysterics emanating
post-election out of some of
these Democrat areas, there is not a shred of doubt in my mind of
widespread Democratic voting fraud in California and other Democrat strongholds. (In other words, we don't actually know
whether, or to what extent, Hillary actually "won the popular vote" with valid legal votes.)
[And yes: the party of corruption is Democrat. NOT Republican. Look historically and
currently at all the famous corrupt city political machines such as Tammany Hall in
NYC, Mayor Daley in Chicago. Not to mention the unions and mafia involvement in them,
bastions of nasty. Jim Crow, etc. All Democrat.]
If the foregoing isn't enough to convince you that SNOPES is politically biased, without my having to
go into many, many other examples, then take a
gander at what its article chooses to put links on -- petitions, commentary and advocacy (not "facts") -- and
its cited "sources" -- NPR plus two of the perhaps three biggest purveyors of rabid anti-Trump
headlines and "fake news" in the past election: CNN (the station which, among many other transgressions,
shared debate questions via Donna Brazile with Hillary Clinton), WaPo (which is now globalist Amazon owner Jeff Bezos's anti-Trump
blog), and the NYTimes (whose biggest shareholder is anti-Trump Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim
and which has lost much of the credibility it once had).
One final point: in each state we now vote for electors based on who those electors have pledged to support. That is how we
choose electors, according to state laws. We do not get resumes of the electors and then select them to "represent us" based on our assessment of
their analytical abilities and "judgment". That may have been Hamilton's original idea, but -- note to
Hollywood
nincompoops and lawyer Lessig -- that's not how
"the states" currently vote for president.
This is a constant condition for me: interacting with liberals and
leftists who affect a stance of bored impatience, who insist that the
answers to moral and political questions are so obvious that every
reasonable person already agrees, who then lack the ability to explain
the thinking underlying their answers to those questions in a
remotely compelling way...
Everything is obvious; all the hard work is done; only an idiot couldn't see what the
right thing to do is. And then you poke a little bit at the foundation and it just
collapses. I suppose the condescension and the fragility are related conditions, the
bluster a product of the insecurity at the heart of it all.
You act like everything is obvious precisely because you can't
articulate your position.
Read deBoer's post.
It will give you hope. Compare it with the below special comment by a forensic psychologist yesterday on the psylaw listserve
-- ironically someone who has given presentations on "confirmatory bias", who (goodgod) has done custody evaluations, and
who is a perfect example of the inarticulate mental foggery that young Dr. deBoer is starting to notice:
We were
brought up on the Milgram studies at Yale and The Stanford Prison
experiment. They inform our thinking everyday and is why we are terrified
of a Trump Administration.
Emblazon on your foreheads: "It happened here."
Dec 05, 2016:
Prager U. must-see video about anti-Semitism
that was banned by youtube as "hate speech"
(Monday, Dec. 5, 1:40pm EST): YouTube has entirely removed PragerU's new video with Kasim Hafeez,
a British Muslim who is a pro-Israel activist. In the video, Hafeez explains how he overcame the anti-Semitic
indoctrination that radicalized him from an early age. Within hours of the video's release Monday morning, YouTube flagged it
for "hate speech" and took it down. PragerU is disputing YouTube's removal of the video.
UPDATE, Tuesday, Dec. 6 a.m.: Back up:
Dec 03, 2016:
If you're still getting your "news" from the
New York Times (and WaPo, MSNBC, CNN et al.) you've become deadly ignorant.
I have a bachelor's degree in journalism. Whatever happened to "who, what, where, when, why
and how". Good grief. The major media has gone insane. Fake news? We now have American Pravda.
(By the way, anyone remember when prospective "National
Security Advisor" Susan Rice went on multiple TV shows to lie about a video being the cause of the Benghazi terrorist
attack? If you like your plan (or
Iran nuclear deal) you can keep it, and Bergdahl is your kind of hero. Fake news indeed...)
Dec 02, 2016:
Kellyanne Conway Would Be A Feminist Hero If She Were A Democrat
She's a lawyer, pollster, and business owner. She's a mom of four, and
a self-made woman. Why do feminists ignore her? Oh, that's right --
she's Republican...
If she were a Democrat, Conway would be the toast of women's groups
across the country, feted in the media, splashed across the pages of
Vogue and Cosmo. She would be touted as a future candidate herself.
Maybe even Lena Dunham would've thrown out a tweet or two after her
Election Night shower-cry...
But I suspect there's even more to this than partisan politics. After
all, you can't accuse a man of misogyny -- which literally means
"hatred of women" -- if he puts a female in charge of the riskiest,
most important endeavor of his life...
[T]he pearl clutching by the female left went into overdrive after Trump was elected,
with women weeping and fearing for their daughters -- as if Trump is a one-man Boko
Haram ready to swipe them out of their classrooms and turn them into drink cart girls.
Now that Trump is appointing women to key posts such as UN
Ambassador, Secretary of Education, and Deputy National Security Advisor, their anger
is rising rather than abating. If anything, this election has further revealed the hypocrisy of the left --
particularly modern-day feminists -- who despite all their talk of empowerment, are now exposed as a weak
and whiny sisterhood of victims.
So what do we tell our daughters? Be less like Lena and more like Kellyanne.
Nov 28, 2016:
There are 3,141 counties in the United States.
Trump won in excess of 83% of them.
New York City, Chicago, DC, Broward County Florida,
and California's west coast don't get to speak for the rest of the country.
Want to reform the Electoral College? Give each county a vote.
Signs and Symptoms: ...characterized by a persistent unwillingness to accept that
Donald Trump is going to Make America Great Again. Individual sufferers often display signs of paranoia and delusion;
in acute cases psychotic episodes have been observed...
Causes and Mechanisms: ...TARD appears to correlate closely with the following environmental and behavioral factors:
* Membership in the Democratic party
* Identifying as a Feminist
* Currently enrolled in college, and/or
* In Possession of a Liberal Arts college degree
* Cuckoldry
* Living in a densely populated metropolitan area
* Massive student debt
* Spotty or non-existent work history
* Hipsterism
Diagnosis: ...straightforward. Ask the patient if Donald Trump is
going to be the next President of the United States of America. Some patients will become agitated, and
may attempt to deflect...
Comorbidity:
...highly comorbid with Paraphilic Infantilism,
Emotional Eating, Autism Spectrum, Bush Derangement Syndrome, and adult bedwetting.
Treatment: ...only known effective treatment is exposure therapy...
requires that they be separated from their hive-mind support apparatus...
Nov 11, 2016:
Proud to be the mother of productive American citizens
... and not shit-for-brains losers who riot in the streets.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected,
and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling
our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men
were free." -- Ronald Reagan
"The price of freedom is eternal
vigilance." -- Thomas Jefferson
"A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do." -- United States Military Academy
Nov 08, 2016:
The Fat Lady is Singing:
UPDATE, encore, and best meltdown ever:
Nov 07, 2016:
About those increasing military suicides:
STAY AWAY FROM THE PSYCHS AND PSYCHOPHARMACEUTICALS!
It's finally starting to be recognized that "mental health treatment" is causing the alarming increases in suicides among
our military. It's unfortunate that so little investigative reporting on this is done by the major media because, of course,
drug companies are one of the biggest advertisers. There's a good article today, however, in the Baltimore Sun,
Stop
overmedicating our vetsPDF. Here's the
report
referenced in the article (I wish the author, biology prof Patrick D. Hahn, had linked to some of the studies.) Excerpt:
The suicide rate for those who received mental health treatment is
higher than those who did not. No surprise there: It seems reasonable
to assume that those who received mental health treatment were more
impaired.
The surprise comes when we compare users who had no diagnosis of
mental health or substance abuse issues (and who presumably were less
impaired) with those who did have a diagnosis (and were presumably
more impaired).
The suicide rate for the less impaired users who got mental health
treatment was higher than that of the more impaired users who did
not...
"The kinds of issues that people
deal with that result in their getting psychiatric drugs are not helped by psychiatric
drugs, which can only harm the brain and make it more difficult to feel your feelings
and to think clearly.
They drug the veterans, hoping basically to stupefy them and make them passive so they
won't demand services. I think it's a crime that those who are veterans, who have
survived our wars, are being killed off by the pharmaceutical empire and its
practices."
Nov 01, 2016:
Fact-checking "10 Lies You Were Told About Islam" (in three parts)
[liznote: Caution. These videos are presented solely for the copiously collected, verifiable and well-presented
facts contained in them. Facts stand on their own.
Dr. Wood is brilliant but he also is emotionally disturbed and has distorted cognition, what psychs call a
psychopath, someone who lacks emotions and empathy. In
prison in his 20s after the attempted murder of his father, he converted
to Christianity after long periods of
physical misery and apparent lifelong confusion,
both situational and self-induced. He later received a doctorate in theological philosophy. In matters not involving the recitation
of facts, his thinking remains problematic. (Ditto by the way the thinking and/or emotions of
many who once were so inculcated in or dependent upon any belief system --
religious, delusional, malignant, benign or otherwise -- which
they later fell from, sometimes after long periods of "searching", that they remain consumed with arguing
in opposition to their former beliefs, and/or
justifying their new "enlightenment". E.g. eternal "recovery" crap, scientism, etc.)]
Oct 28, 2016:
Top 100 Wikileaked Emails About Hillary
Top 100 Wikileaked Emails About Hillary
Top 100 Wikileaked Emails About Hillary
"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." -- George Orwell
[Below is a convenient list. Go to the URL at
Most Damaging Wikileaks for
numerous cites, detail, and links to documents. http://www.mostdamagingwikileaks.com/
1. Obama lied: he knew about Hillary's secret server and wrote to her
using a pseudonym, cover-up happened (intent to destroy evidence)
2. Hillary Clinton dreams of completely "open trade and open borders"
3. Hillary Clinton took money from and supported nations that she
KNEW funded ISIS and terrorists
4. Hillary has public positions on policy and her private ones
5. Paying people to incite violence and unrest at Trump rallies
6. Hillary's campaign wants "unaware" and "compliant" citizens
7. Top Hillary aides mock Catholics for their faith
8. Hillary deleted her incriminating emails. State covered it up. Asked
about using White House executive privilege to hide from Congress.
9. Bribery: King of Morocco gives Clinton Foundation $12 million
to have meeting with Hillary, 6 months later Morocco gets weapons
10. Latinos are "needy". Latino outreach is "taco bowl engagement"
11. Clinton campaign in direct communication with DOJ regarding
email case
12. Acknowledging radical Islam is a real threat and a "serious problem
for our future"
13. Admitting terrorists will infiltrate the Syrian refugee program
14. Bill Clinton receives $1 million "birthday gift" from ISIS-funding
Qatar while Hillary was SoS, Qatar receives arms flow increases of
1,482%
15. Hillary campaign prays for shooters in news stories to be white
16. Hillary is still privately against gay marriage
17. Rigging the primaries against Bernie Sanders (DNC favored Hillary)
18. Rigging the primaries against Bernie Sanders (Hillary's team)
19. State Department tried to bribe FBI to un-classify Clinton emails
(FBI docs)
20. Hillary was hateful, neglectful, above the law, "contemptuous" to
her security detail, and "blatantly disregarded" security, (FBI
docs)
21. Clinton Foundation schemed with Big Pharma to keep the price of
AIDS drugs high in America
22. CNN leaked primary debate question to Hillary through head of
DNC
23. Democrats created fake Trump "grope under the meeting table"
Craigslist employment ad in May 2016
24. Hillary's camp excited about a black teen's murder (to help her
agenda)
25. Rigging media polls through oversampling
26. Hillary sends U.S. intelligence and war plans to Podesta's hacked
email
27. Hillary took money from foreigners for campaign (illegal)
28. Hillary says climate change activists should "get a life"
29. Hillary is pro-fracking, calls it "a gift", despite what she publicly
says
30. Referring to a "Shadow Government" that protects Hillary (FBI
docs)
31. List of reporters that Hillary wined and dined, including biggest
journalists and pundits of CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, NY Times, and
a lot more. Off the record.
32. Democrats using American lobbyists to money launder foreign
donations illegally
33. The New York Times is colluding with Hillary, allowed quote edits
34. Racist remarks about Blacks and Muslims
35. Hillary's poor health (collapsing, memory loss, drug research)
36. Tipped off by the State Department regarding Benghazi emails
37. Hillary's staff admitting she is "tainted" and "really vulnerable" on
corruption and bribery
38. Hillary camp using "propaganda"
39. Hillary Clinton bragged about being invited to Putin's 'Inner
Sanctum'
40. John Podesta's password is p@ssw0rd
41. Hillary Clinton had to be told when to smile during speeches
42. Billionaire George Soros has influence over Hillary
43. Clinton campaign refuses to report sexual harassment (then
forwards complaint to harasser)
44. Admitting Hillary did not use private server for security reasons
(shows intent)
45. Hillary Clinton "doesn't seem to know what planet we are all living
in at the moment"
46. Big media collusion email, working with reporters
47. Using female senator to conjure fake sexist claims against Bernie
48. Worried that Bernie supporters and younger women "hate her so
much (they) might even vote for a Republican"
49. Hillary campaign caught partaking in insider trading (illegal)
50. Clinton Foundation did not pay for the services they received
51. Admitting Hillary failed foreign policy
52. Admitting Obamacare isn't working
53. NBC colluding with the Clinton campaign
54. Coordinating with SuperPACs, which is illegal
55. Hillary's team admitting she lies a lot
56. Avoiding the press because of tough questions
57. Plotting to attack Obama because "his father was a Muslim"
58. Colluding over withholding Benghazi emails
59. Hillary plans to support the TPP
60. Clinton camp worried that Uranium One deal is being investigated
(where Hillary sold 20% of America's uranium to Russia)
61. Entire "interview" with MSNBC's Chris Hayes is staged, reading
word-for-word
62. Hillary Clinton stole furniture from the State Department (FBI docs)
63. Hillary told Tim Kaine back in July 2015 he would be VP
64. Hillary tweaks her policies based on donors' wants
65. Hillary camp admits it doesn't support $15 minimum wage
66. Illegally coordinating with Priorities USA, a SuperPAC funded by
George Soros
67. Racist and sexist remarks: "too white and too male"
68. Podesta illegally has access to top secret information
69. Podesta connects to unsecure network where anyone could access
classified files
70. Hillary's speechwriters: "I don't mind the 'backs of dead
Americans' because we need a bit of moral outrage." (Benghazi)
71. The AP colluding with the Hillary campaign
72. Hillary's camp says she has a "character problem" and is "arrogant"
73. Staging fake anti-Trump protest, conspiring with Univision CEO
74. Meeting to go over Cheryl Mills' testimony
75. Iran nuclear deal was "greatest appeasement since Chamberlain
gave Czechoslovakia to Hitler"
76. Journalist talks strategy with Clinton staff and asks for permission
to write article
77. Bill Clinton admits Clinton Foundation has no "real projects"
78. Violating campaign finance law
79. Interfering with the 2008 Republican primary process
80. Proof that "Correct the Record" (SuperPAC) is directly coordinating
with the Hillary campaign against federal campaign law
81. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in direct contact with the
Hillary campaign
82. Hillary's team working with hundreds of MSM news pundits
83. Katy Perry is a puppet for Hillary Clinton
84. Hillary tries to hide her tiny rallies
85. Hillary had a mole working on Biden's team
86. John Oliver caught colluding with Hillary's campaign
87. Trouble with NBC so they call Chuck Todd to take care of it
88. Politico's Glenn Thrush colluding with Hillary's campaign, admits to
being a "hack"
89. Hillary finds out more debate questions
90. Hillary wants "successful business people" running for office
because "they cannot be bought"
91. "We are finishing up the next round of TV scripts"
92. Hillary doesn't write her own tweets, despite claiming "H" means
she does
93. On Hillary: "we just keep giving her poll-tested lines that don't
work"
94. Hillary extremely weak on topic of standing up to Wall Street
95. "Even a clown like Ted Cruz" could beat her
96. "The Huffington Post" colluding with Hillary
97. Clinton campaign memorizing their email cover-up script
98. Heavy press collusion over Cuba and Hillary's health
99. Employment rate -- They confirm what Trump says
100. Obama picked people in his administration from the suggestion
list of CiTi bank advisor/Wall St shill
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