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After all the debates, analysis, pseudo-analysis, charges, counter-charges, memes, counter-memes and whatnot during this election cycle … Joe Biden could still be in the White House on Jan. 21, 2025.
Yes, you read that right.
Or, Biden could resign for alleged health reasons and allow Vice President Kamala Harris to become the nation’s 47th president, regardless of what happens Nov. 5.
Or, somebody with connections to such favored establishment entities as Blackrock or Ukraine could try to assassinate President Donald Trump again.
You might think this sounds like bad political fiction. Think again.
As they did during the last presidential election, the powers that be will use any means necessary — and all means available — to maintain power and deny Trump a second term. That could mean using some sort of emergency as a justification to violate the Constitution and postpone the election.
“If they think that there’s a chance that Trump could win decisively enough in November that they can’t steal it, then I think their only option there is to in some way throw the society into chaos,” Tucker Carlson said. “It’s pretty simple. If they feel like they’re going to lose, we will have some kind of crisis.”
That crisis could involve fears of another pandemic, economic collapse and even world war.
A lawyer who works at the United Nations perfectly expresses the contempt and irrational panic Trump generates among domestic and international elites.
“I’m the definition of a globalist,” said Jorge Paoletti, associate legal officer for the Treaty Section of the UN’s Office of Legal Affairs. “Absolutely nobody wants Trump.”
Paoletti spoke while being recorded surreptitiously by a reporter for Steven Crowder’s podcast.
“I’m not sure the United Nations as an institution is going to survive a second term of Donald Trump,” Paoletti said. “I mean, we are terrified. The purpose of Donald Trump is to end the international institutions that somehow level the playing field.”
For Paoletti, leveling the playing field includes supporting the kind of international environmental agreements that embody the globalist hysteria over climate change, one justification for corporatist governance. Trump rejects both that hysteria and the ensuing agreements, which he believes disable American industry and sovereignty.
“For example, say the United Nations creates an environmental agency, and that environmental agency says that countries can only reach a certain level of pollution,” Paoletti said. “How do you think all these crazy MAGA people are going to react to that? Who are you globalists to tell me, the United States, what I can do?”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken might have signaled the United States’ future course in May while in the Ukraine for talks with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky. When Russia invaded in 2022, Zelensky declared nationwide martial law. Since Ukraine’s constitution prohibits elections during martial law, the country’s scheduled presidential election this year was postponed indefinitely.
“We’re working with the government and civil society groups to shore up Ukraine’s election infrastructure,” Blinken said. “That way, as soon as Ukranians agree that conditions allow, all Ukranians — all Ukranians — including those displaced by Russia’s aggression, can exercise their right to vote. People in Ukraine and around the world can have confidence that the voting process is free, fair and secure.” (Emphasis added)
Of course, the United States held presidential elections during World War II in 1944, and during the Civil War in 1864. The Constitution makes no provision for cancellation due to martial law. Yet a group of leaders who have less regard for the Constitution than for used wrapping paper on Christmas likely has no interest in legal or historical precedent.
So to paraphrase Blinken, we must destroy democracy in order to save democracy.
One way to destroy democracy is to introduce chaos into the electoral system, such as through mail-in voting. The procedure is so disruptive that political scientists from CalTech and MIT warned in a 2001 study about the potential for massive fraud. Yet Democrats and progressives endorse mail-in voting because they benefit from it.
The biggest benefit came during the 2020 Presidential election, when ballots mysteriously appeared overnight in key precincts nationwide, enabling Biden to defeat Trump, as FrontPage Magazine reported four years ago.
The same scenario appears likely again. The Commonwealth State Appeals Court in Pennsylvania — a pivotal state in any presidential campaign — ruled Aug. 30 that election officials violate the commonwealth’s constitution by rejecting mail-in ballots without correct dates or any dates. Four of the five judges supported that ruling.
Excluding such ballots “by otherwise eligible voters because of meaningless and inconsequential paperwork errors violates the fundamental right to vote,” wrote Appeals Court Judge Ellen Ceisler. The ruling affected two heavily Democratic counties, Allegheny and Philadelphia, home of the commonwealth’s two largest cities.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the ruling Sept. 13 but the plaintiffs could appeal. Voters aren’t fooled.
“It’s cheating plain and simple,” said KP on the Epoch Times’ comment thread. “It worked to help Democrats steal the 2020 election and they are going to do it again for the upcoming election if everybody does not get out and vote.”
Four years ago, COVID-19 provided the excuse for mail-in voting, which has since become commonplace. As warnings of more devastating pathogens escalate, public health once again could serve as an excuse to make voters use mail-in ballots or stay home. On Sept. 4, the Center for Disease Control ordered hospitals and nursing facilities to report incidents of various respiratory diseases — including COVID-19 — starting Nov. 1, four days before the election.
Meanwhile, reckless federal spending could generate an economic collapse not seen since the Great Depression of 1929.
The national debt stands at $35 trillion, an all-time high. When the fiscal year ends Sept. 30, annual interest on that debt will exceed $1 trillion for the first time. Only Social Security surpasses those interest payments in the federal budget.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 Index in the first week of September lost $2.2 trillion — the largest amount since the five-day trading week began in 1953. Analysts warn that stock prices could fall 70 percent.
Meanwhile, major American banks continue to close branches. Britain’s Daily Mail reported Sept. 23 that the nation’s largest bank, Chase, closed seven branches in one week. In the first six months of this year, American banks closed 539 branches nationwide. Bank of America led the way with 90 closures.
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, saw stagflation as a distinct possibility, he told CNBC on Sept. 10. In stagflation, a combination of inflation and economic stagnation, both unemployment and prices would escalate. Dimon cited increased spending and deficits as major reasons for stagflation.
Economist Harry Dent projects an even worse scenario.
“I think we’re going to see the S&P go down 86 percent from the top, and the NASDAQ 92 percent,” Dent told Fox Business. “Flooding the economy with extra money forever might actually enhance the overall economy long-term.
“But we’ll only see when we see this bubble burst. And this bubble has been going 14 years. Instead of most bubbles lasting five to six, it’s been stretched higher, longer. So you’d have to expect a bigger crash than we got in 2008 to ’09.”
To protect their own economies and evade American economic sanctions, five nations formed BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa; hence the initials. The group, which includes nine members, seeks to reduce reliance on the dollar as an international reserve currency and reinforce transactions with gold. Russia and China have been buying so much gold that it reached its highest price ever, $2,590.61 per ounce.
“They can read the writing on the wall,” Peter Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, told Fox Business in 2019.
That writing includes the possibility of war — even nuclear war. Ukraine could provide the spark, with NATO willing to take the fighting deep into Russia.
On Sept. 11, Andrei Chibis, the governor of Russia’s Murmansk Province in the Arctic, said three Ukranian drones flying from Scandinavia were shot down in his territory. Finland’s general staff and the Swedish Air Force denied the attack and called his claim disinformation. Finland joined NATO last year, with Sweden following in March.
Yet it appears likely such an attack occurred, not only given Ukraine’s use of drones to strike as far as Moscow but also subsequent moves by NATO’s biggest members.
Britain and France have sent Ukraine long-range ballistic missiles but limited their use to within Ukraine’s borders. Zelensky, with British support, wants to use them to attack Russia and also wants NATO to provide cruise missiles. But the United States must agree. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau publicly and enthusiastically supports both moves.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that any such attacks would mean war with NATO members — including Canada and the United States.
“Experts will confirm both here and in the West that the Ukrainian army is unable to strike with modern, high-precision, long-range weapons of Western production,” Putin said. “This is only possible with the use of satellite intelligence data which Ukraine does not have. This data only (comes) from the satellites of the European Union or the United States. Only NATO servicemen can carry out flight missions using these missile systems. Ukrainian servicemen cannot do this.”
“We are talking about … whether NATO countries will directly participate in the military conflict. If this decision is made … this will mean that NATO countries — the United States and European countries — are at war against Russia.”
Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s ambassador to the United States, even said Americans could become nuclear targets.
“There is some kind of illusion here that if there is a conflict, it will not spread to the territory of the United States of America” he told Russian television Sept. 13. “I am constantly trying to convey one thesis to them: Americans will not be able to sit it out behind the waters of the ocean. This war will affect everyone.”
Are the Russians bluffing? Consider the following:
— Between Sept. 11 and Sept. 15, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) tracked eight Russian military aircraft near Alaska. On Sept. 23, NORAD tracked four such aircraft that day.
– The United States Army also sent about 130 soldiers, accompanied by rocket launchers, to an island in the Aleutians.
– The Russian navy transferred two submarines – one carrying nuclear weapons – from the Barents Sea to the Pacific Ocean.
– Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) is proposing a Constitutional amendment that would allow state governors to appoint members to the House of Representatives in case civil disorder takes the lives of House members. The proposal is part of Congress’ attempts to plan for a “mass casualty” event.
— Switzerland is considering abandoning its geopolitical neutrality, a position it held since 1515, for increasing defense spending, allowing arms sales to nations at war and developing a “common defense capability” with NATO and the European Union.
— The Army Corps of Engineers commissioned on Sept. 10 a study to analyze the effects of nuclear war on farmland — especially in Eastern Europe and Western Russia.
Would the powers that be in Washington really risk the annihilation of millions of Americans just to satisfy their lust for power? The answer to that question takes the form of another question:
Where have you been the past four years?
I have a question: If Trump won the election would Kamala Harris as Vice=President be expected to certify the election results (the way Mike Pence did)?
No way in Hell
The deep state is deep and very powerful. It learned a most valuable lesson in 2016 and will make certain it NEVER happens again.
Do you mean they learned a valuable lesson and will be sure to repeat it again in 2024?
It would be fascinating to hear what Pence would say, if/when the cackling slut were to do that which I believe you are correct – she wouldn’t think twice about not certifying.
Pence got weak in the knees. When an election is so brazenly rigged, even if Pence was right about the legality, you still take a page from the DNC playbook and let the courts decide.
(If anything, Pence should seriously stop dressing up in biker garb. It makes him look like Rob Halford of Judas Priest.)
Didn’t the DEMOcrats PASS A LAW that bypasses that action by the VP?? I seem to recall they did that so let’s hope it comes back to bite them like a lot of their INSANE actions!! BUT, we all know that the DEMOcrats don’t really care for ANY LAWS unless they FAVOR them!
The crisis vis-à-vis Russia is one of Biden’s making (with the term “Biden” being used here as a proxy for the inner circle actually making decisions). Biden and his star chamber of leftists (the decision makers, led by Obama) signaled appeasement to Putin (very explicitly so), and Putin, being the aspiring Stalin 2.0 out to rebuild the Soviet Union, saw his opening and invaded Ukraine. The horrors inflicted on Ukraine’s population are not unlike what Hamas did to Israel on Oct 7, only on a much larger scale.
Before Biden’s appeasement there was Obama’s appeasement of Putin. Look at the response when Putin invaded and “annexed” Crimea, or when he invaded Georgia. Add to this Obama’s politically timed abrupt withdrawal from Iraq that gave the world ISIS, and Biden’s abrupt bugout from Afghanistan that handed the Taliban about $80billion in U.S. hardware and bases, left thousands of Americans stranded along with many partner Afghan soldiers and civilians who were later murdered by the Taliban, and created a new safe haven for global terrorist organizations including more than 30 new terrorist training camps in A-stan. Putin saw the obvious weakness, the appeasement bias, the astounding incompetence, the political posturing for domestic power accumulation, and the advanced mental decline of Biden (which was obvious even during the 2020 campaign). Xi and Kim have most certainly observed the same, and they have come to Putin’s aid to exploit this incredible opportunity of American collapse.
The Ukraine-Russian sh!tshow is a Obama-Biden-Harris creation, and Biden has been slow-walking some of the military aid to Ukraine in order to keep Russia from losing outright. That was a gift to Putin, who has used that time to partially rebuild. So, the Obama-Biden-Harris plan is to promote the bleeding on both sides, but they have no strategy for defeating Russia in the field despite their obvious weaknesses. Putin is doing what would be expected of a Stalinist. He is playing a game of strategic chicken (aka nuclear blackmail), counting on his reading of the incompetents in DC to produce a successful outcome for Russia. If the U.S. is stupid enough to bow to the nuclear blackmail game that Putin is playing, the result will not be peace but a further escalation that will give us a wider and perhaps global war. Know thy enemy, and act accordingly.
You are just an idiot who should be pressganged into the frontlines of the Ukraine
Everything you have just written is WRONG !
That is a threat. Just the kind of response we should expect from a Progressive Democrat who can’t make a counterargument with any facts.
Why should any American fight for Ukraine, go over there your own self.
That was never a suggestion in my post (or any other post). Reading comprehension problems? Or just trolling for the Biden-Harris regime?
The fake charges illegal and unconstitutional trial a total violation of the U.S. Constitution those responsible need to pay the price
An acquaintance of mine who is also a historian recently mentioned to me that there are many similarities between today’s democrat party and the Nazi party when they became the largest party in the German parliament in 1932.
He explained how the democrats ways, means and methods of obtaining power and control are essentially the same as the Nazis. By his reasoning, today’s democrat party has more in common with the German Nazi party of yesteryear than with communism.
Well, that would explain why they call Trump by the name of Hitler, they always accuse the opposition of doing what they are guilty of; the dirtbags!
BINGO. You are spot on regarding the parallels. The history of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) and its tactics is not a cautionary tale for the Progressive Democrats. It is an instruction manual. The parallels extend to the alliance with Islamists to exterminate the Jews (recall pictures of Hitler meeting with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, with extensive joint efforts including the formation of SS units). It is looking like we are reliving 1930’s Germany.
Further to the parallels you mention, they are remarkable and could lead to an ugly ending. Biden’s WH circle is loaded with racists and anti-Semites. The Justus Dept and the 3-letter agencies are the new Gestapo, SS, and SD (Sicherheitsdienst) all rolled into one. Their Antifa/BLM allies are the Brownshirt/ SA street thugs. The legacy MSM and the oligarchs of social media are Joseph Goebbel’s propaganda ministry. Industrialists and other corporatists are pushing Democrat-Socialist party ideology and profiting from forced and slave labor. The education and consultant industry that has formed around Critical Race Theory and anti-Semitic propaganda initiatives is reminiscent of the NSDAP support and education of the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth – boys) and Bund Deutscher Madel (League of German Girls). The push to politicize the military parallels the formation of the SS and its Waffen SS military arm (to protect the party) as well as its political commissar system Nationalsozialistischer Führungsoffiziere (National Socialist Leadership Officers) introduced in ’43-’45 which resembled Stalin’s NKVD political commissar system. Regarding events of the recent past, there are parallels there as well, particularly the events surrounding Jan 6 at the Capitol. This was their Reichstag fire, with similarities in its political exploitation. To repeat: History is not a cautionary tale for these modern-day National Socialists and Bolsheviks (two sides of the same socialist coin), its an instruction manual.
For sure the foreign leaders want Harris, as Trump puts America first. Foreign leaders from Zelensky to Putin, Xi and the Mullahs of Iran. Trying to think of a foreign leader who prefers Trump, besides Bibi. Anyone?
Harris would put America last and pay the foreigners, even as she imports millions of Third World illiterates with no 21st Century job skills.
IOW, she will rely on Biden’s playbook while she receives bribes from those same world leaders.
There are those who claim that Donald Trump is a dictator or at least a wannabe dictator.
If that’s true, he missed what would have been the perfect opportunity to actually be a dictator—COVID.
In the name of “stopping the spread,” Trump could have done some rather dictatorial things: He could have sealed the borders with military force and authorized lethal force to stop anyone crossing. He could have nationalized the health care system. He could have created quarantine camps. He could have used federal law enforcement to stop the rioting in the summer of 2020.
Most of all, he could have suspended the 2020 election in the name of a “national emergency.”
But he didn’t. What he did do was let states, counties, and cities handle most of the response, and a lot of governors, mayors, county commissioners, state legislatures, and city councils did indeed act like actual dictators.
As any scholar of history will testify that great and powerful nations have risen and fallen and likewise come on gone. So it with the United States if that Communist Kamala Harris in the Oval Office of the White House the outcome of that would be an horrendous disaster for America , for the American people and for all the civilized nation of the world. Likewise, the United States will fast decline into a third world nation, and never become great nation again.
Therefore , it’s very important for all patriotic Americas to go out and vote on election day, Just in case that November“ election isn’t rigged for Kamala Harris to win” and become the next US President.
Regardless if this coming November election of genuine or not, the point is that if she actually does become President of United States , that means the US will be finished forever as a great and good world power and will be no better than other third world counties.
This sad and tragic ,so much so that of she would actually become the next US President , then I’d glad that I’m no longer a young man and am also very sorry and have pity for the children of America.
Note to Jorge Paoletti, the UN’s definition of a globalist.
We don’t need a level playing field. We need to defeat the Israel destroying jihadists and the Jew hating a$$ kissers like you. We need to defund the UN by leaving it , and sending losers like you to Brussels. We need to tear down that eyesore on the Hudson and turn it into very expensive housing for Americans.
Yes, you are afraid of Trump because he is a threat to bone headed terrorist supporting jerks like you. Eff off, loser.
Not wanting to be overly negative and pessimistic but since that farce of an election fraud in the year 2020 that installed Joe Biden as the President , pretender in the Oval Office of the White House might probable rigged elected national election of 2024 might occur again I really hope I’m wrong.
Maybe, the United States is finished forever as a genuine Republic. I really hope I’m wrong. Nevertheless, Abraham Lincoln did have a very good point when had said, “You can’t unscramble eggs.”
This excellent summary of possible mega-October crises is long enough to induce two headaches while reading to the end. That’s my only criticism!
I would be upset, but God is in control. An evil nation deserves bad leadership.