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JANUARY 15.  2021

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

DESTINATION FLORIDA – FROM FOX:    Seniors are jetting off to Florida — but it’s not warm weather they’re seeking.  The state was one of the first to begin offering vaccines to people ages 65 and older, by executive order on Dec. 23. According to local news reports in Florida, the state is seeing an influx of "vaccine tourists," out-of-state travelers hoping to jump ahead in line for the coronavirus vaccine.  It’s not just impatient Americans scurrying to the front. Momentum Jets, a Toronto-based private airline, told the Wall Street Journal that wealthy Canadians have been willing to pay between $25,000 to $80,000 for same day, round-trip flights with the carrier.  A spokesperson for Travel Secure Inc., a travel insurance brokerage agency, added that some 30% of clientele booked flights for the Southern US during the month of November — believing those folks had gone to receive their first dose of vaccine or set an appointment for one.  Florida is governed by Republican Ron DeSantis, and is clearly one of the best-governed states in the Union.  DeSantis is prominently mentioned as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2024, assuming he isn't arrested by the Thought Police.

THE SINKING SHIP – FROM FOX:  Jimmy Fallon drew a dismal rating on Monday’s showing of "The Tonight Show."  The comedian averaged the smallest television audience ever for an original episode of the late-night show, according to early Nielsen ratings – pulling in 947,000 total viewers on Monday night.  One of Fallon’s competing programs, Stephen Colbert’s "Late Show," on CBS took the cake on Monday evening, drawing just over 2 million viewers, according to Nielsen’s Live and Same Day fast-national numbers as reported by The Wrap.  Coming in at second place was ABC’s "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" with 1.67 million total viewers.  Per the outlet, the final numbers are expected on Wednesday.   Maybe he should try funny.

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THE TRUTH EVENTUALLY COMES OUT – AT 7:30 P.M. ET:  The issue is whether the truth comes to us too late.   Lindsey Graham, who steps down this week as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee to become its ranking minority member, has released a mass of documents that prove what we've already suspected.  And he comments.  From Fox: 

EXCLUSIVE: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham on Friday released a slew of additional documents and transcripts related to his panel’s investigation into the origins and aftermath of the Trump-Russia probe, calling the original probe "one of the most incompetent and corrupt investigations in the history of the FBI and DOJ."

The first investigation – which looked into whether members of President Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with the Russians to influence the election – was called "Crossfire Hurricane" Graham, the senior Republican senator from South Carolina, released transcripts of interviews with FBI and Justice Department officials conducted by the committee, between March 3, 2020 and October 29, 2020.

"I consider the Crossfire Hurricane investigation a massive system failure by senior leadership, but not representative of the dedicated, hardworking patriots who protect our nation every day at Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice," Graham said in a statement Friday, saying his committee has released "as much material as possible," but noted that "some classified material has still been withheld."

Calling the "Crossfire Hurricane" operation "one of the most incompetent and corrupt investigations in the history of the FBI and DOJ," Graham also said he "appreciates all those who participated in the depositions and their candor. "They have charted a path to allow us to reform the system."

"The FISA court was lied to. Exculpatory information was withheld on those being investigated. The investigators, with some notable exceptions, were incredibly biased and used the powers of law enforcement for political purposes," Graham said. "The subjects of the investigation had their lives turned upside down. It is my hope that counterintelligence investigations will be reined in and this never happens again in America."

Graham slammed the leadership of the FBI under former Director James Comey and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, saying it was "either grossly incompetent" or said "they knowingly allowed tremendous misdeeds."

"There was a blind eye turned toward any explanation other than the Trump campaign was colluding with foreign powers," he continued. "At every turn the FBI and DOJ ran stop signs that were in abundance regarding exculpatory information."

COMMENT:  A corrupt press, now at the height of its powers, will ignore this.  I mean, who cares?  It's time to "move on," the slogan of the ruling generation.  It's time for Joe Biden, time finally to find out just how far to the left he'll be pushed.

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JANUARY 14.  2021

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

WILL FOREIGN LEADERS HELP SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY? – FROM AP:  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president vowed Thursday to lead an international effort to combat what he considers censorship by social media companies that have blocked or suspended the accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump.  President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration is reaching out to other governments to form a common front on the issue.  “I can tell you that at the first G20 meeting we have, I am going to make a proposal on this issue,” López Obrador said. “Yes, social media should not be used to incite violence and all that, but this cannot be used as a pretext to suspend freedom of expression.”  Amazing how we have to be lectured on freedom by a foreign leader.  Thank you, leftists.  You've done your bit in the destruction of America.

FROM BLUE TO PURPLE – FROM FOX:  The country’s blue state exodus is shaking up demographics in red states that are serving as landing spots.  States like Texas and Florida are seeing an influx of Democrats looking for more affordable, tax-friendly costs of living, turning these once Republican-strongholds into purple toss-up states.  Even before 2020, demographics in the Sunbelt began to tilt, driven by favorable financial perks and economic incentives that conservative states have to offer. However, those trends have accelerated amidst a pandemic-induced recession, and with more jobs now being able to operate via remote.  “West Coasters are going to Texas and East Coasters are going to Florida, and it’s no coincidence that Texas and Florida are red states that don’t collect state income taxes,” FOX Business’s Jackie DeAngelis told colleague Connell McShane on "After the Bell."  Clearly a danger for our side.  But what's wrong with these migrating dummies?  They leave poorly run Democratic states for much-better-run Republican states, and immediately start voting for the kind of Democrats who wrecked the states they came from.  Remarkable.

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THE FIRST STAGE IN FIGHTING BACK –AT 5:30 P.M.:   David Goldman, also known as Spengler, is a first-class conservative writer with a very strong background in economics and business.  Here he proposes a first step in conservatives fighting back against the Democratic/socialist tide that has enveloped our electoral system.  From PJ Media:

Trump made a colossal tactical blunder by telling his supporters to fight vote fraud in the streets. That led to last week’s excesses, and the biggest crackdown on conservatives in American history. David Horowitz likes to say, inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out. Is he ever right!

The suspension of President Trump’s Twitter account (denounced by Germany’s Angela Merkel and top French officials as a violation of basic rights) is an affront to democracy: Whatever Trump did or didn’t do, he is the elected president of the United States, convicted in no court of law, and the people have the right to hear from him. The suspension of the free-speech social media platform Parler is another totalitarian outrage by what France’s Finance Minister calls “the digital oligarchy.” And now CNN demands that cable companies drop Fox News and Newsmax.

The Trump campaign’s vote fraud lawsuits crashed and burned because the standard of proof required by a court to overturn an election is extremely high. Proof of some fraud, or a statistical proof that the outcome was highly improbable, do not meet that standard. It must be proven that sufficient votes were stolen or invented to change the outcome. No one can collect that kind of information in a few weeks. But it can be collected in months or years, and that’s what it will take.

Either we are in this for the duration, or we’ve lost. But we have not lost yet. There was massive fraud. Whether there was sufficient fraud to determine the outcome is beside the point. Large parts of the Democratic Party are criminal organizations and have to be held accountable. Take a cold shower and a deep breath, and prepare for a long war. Ask yourself if you want to win, or just let off steam.

COMMENT:    Read the rest.  This is the kind of thinking we need.

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