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No matter how many rallies he does. They're gonna take the votes, they're gonna steal seats, and we're gonna watch it happen because they don't have any help. We just have Trump, who's one person, and he has so many people in his own party that aren't helping. And, you know, I get text messages from the Trump team, you know, about let's, you know, vote or let's get out, you know, and rally.
Unfortunately, the American people like myself and us regular citizens aren't in any position of authority to do anything. We can take it to the streets, but ultimately these machines are programmable, and if you go and vote, they're gonna steal the seats anyway. That's my comment, and I just feel like... I know everybody is upset. We all are. I am. My family is. And Trump says, "Well, I'll run again in four years." Well, it ain't gonna matter if he runs again in four years or not.
The truth is that more and more Americans think like Angie thinks. They are despondent and without hope. They believe as we all used to believe - that talk is cheap, but voting is free, so our greatest power is taking our sentiments to the polls and voting for the representatives who will best serve us and our country. They believe that America's best days are long behind her; they believe that Donald Trump possesses the right mindset to be our president and to act in the country's best interests and the interests of all its citizens, they believe that America is quickly moving in the wrong direction, and they believe that with Democrats as a powerful political party, we have allowed the federal government and its officials to become the tyrants that prompted our founding generations to separate from England and to put their lives and property on the line to do so.
If voting is to mean anything in our system of government (that is, where citizens have a direct say in their government), we need major voter reform. We need to eliminate fraud and abuse and any possibility of such. We need manual ballots and mandatory and meaningful voter identification. We should tolerate NO machines and no flabby expansion of voting rules, such as extended early voting, Sunday voting, same-day registration and voting ("One Stop Voting"), and/or mail-in voting without strict conditions (such as, mail-in voting only for military and maybe those who are working or going to school out of the country at election time). We need voting to be that sacred right and duty that it was meant to be. Samuel Adams said it best: "Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual - or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country." (The Boston Gazette on April 16, 1781). Alexander Hamilton wrote: "A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law."
The Right to Vote is our Power. It is the way we not only have a say in government, but the way we have power over government. Too many people fought very hard to make sure all citizens of all colors, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities have their right to vote protected in the Constitution and in our laws. The civil protests and riots of the 1960's, led by men like Martin Luther King Jr., and the suffragette movement, led by women such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, are just two examples of the value human beings place on their right to vote and to have their voice heard equally as with others. The theory of democracy is that in a system based on a government of, for, and by the people, it is the vote, the basic building block, that gives people the power to control their government and to shape what policies they want and the future direction of their town, state, and country. "By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions," said Jens Stoltenberg
To secure honest and fair elections, we not only protect the right, but we protect the civic power of the Individual. Power must vest in the People and NOT a political party. Government has already zapped too much power away from the people, and so the ballot box is really all we have. Therefore, we need honesty and complete transparency. We need people dedicated to the idea and the grand experiment in individual Liberty that is America.
There is one thing we should never forget..... Voting is an individual, personal thing. Every reference to the Right to Vote in our Constitution notes that it is an individual right. It is reserved specifically to the person, the individual. The Right to Vote does NOT belong to a political party. Abraham Lincoln said: "Elections belong to the people." It belongs to the people; not to a political party!! A political party has no right to coerce (including offering money) a person to vote for that party if he /she really has no intention of exercising that right. This is misappropriation. It is nothing more than an attempt to make use of "useless idiots" for the purpose of a political power grab. We saw this clear as day in several elections over the years, but at no time more clearly than this 2020 presidential election. The Right to Vote has been, and continues to be, the main tool in the wheelhouse of the Democratic Party. It has manipulated and misappropriated votes on the one hand (ie, voter and election fraud), and on the other hand, is has denied or at the very least, diluted the votes of others. Every vote fraudulently cast cancels or nullifies the vote of a citizen who has been promised that his or her right is protected and valued. We have a crisis involving our right to vote abs involving our rightful expectation of honest, fair, and transparent elections. Abraham Lincoln once said: "The ballot is stronger than the bullet." Isn't it ironic that the Democrats not only wants to deny us our guns, deny us the right to keep and bear arms - but it also wants to deny those who don't support their party their due influence at the ballot box.
So, what do we need to fight for our country and to save it from the forces of evil and progressivism? What do we need to do to prevent election fraud and meaningless citizen participation at the ballot box? What do we need to do to fight the tyranny that reigns in Washington and especially the halls of Congress? What do we need to do to end the political entitlement that is the Democratic Party - a party so determined to hold power that it has cheated, rigged elections, taken money from those who actually earn it in order to redistribute it to others, with the intent to buy their votes at election time (making them "more comfortable in their poverty")? How do we undo the policies of progressivism that have systematically destroyed the foundations of this country? How do we end the constant attacks on our Right to exercise Free Speech, our Right of Conscience (defined in the Bill of Right as our Right to freely exercise the teachings of our religion), and our Right to Keep and Bear Arms? I mean, why do we think we need to wait for men and women in black robes to tell us what our natural and God-given rights are?
The greatest threats to our republic, and especially its democratic elements of which voting is key, are laziness, comfort, permitting oneself to be ignorant and uninformed, and apathy. Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal freedom.
We need the energy and the activism of our early revolutionary founders and patriots - patriots such as Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Madison, George Mason, and the Sons of Liberty. There are some great and brilliant activists doing all they can to illuminate the citizenry, to point out the tyranny of government, and to stir them to action, but we need so many more. After signing the Declaration of Independence, president of the Continental Congress, John Hancock proudly proclaimed: "There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!" Indeed, he was proud to sign his name to that daring declaration by the collective states to declare their independence from England and he didn't care what consequences should befall him. It was the first official step to freedom.
In 1775, in a speech to the Second Virginia Convention, Patrick Henry exclaimed: "Give me liberty, or give me death!" He meant it. His words were meant to support his resolutions to call up the militia in Virginia and train them to protect them against the actions of the British redcoats. His entire speech spoke about how bad it would be to live in fear of the government and how futile it would be to assert our rights when government has too much power over us:
"Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending-if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained-we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?"
Prior to 1775, we had the great Samuel Adams, the resounding voice for freedom and leader of the Sons of Liberty in Boston. He organized the Sons of Liberty to oppose unpopular English policies (mostly the excessive taxation without representation and the shutting down of colonial businesses) and to sanction acts of civil disobedience (such as the Boston Tea Party, hanging stamp collectors in effigy, tar and feathering agents of the King enforcing his policies, destroying the products that arrived in Boston Harbor to be forced upon the colonists by the Crown, blocking the ports, burning the houses of those doing the King's bidding, etc) and even sometimes violent actions when necessary. They were a more militant, direct-action group in contrast to the petitioning and speeches of more moderate figures like John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. [See the Reference provided below for a more comprehensive list of the more active members of the Sons of Liberty and their acts of resistance]. Some say that together with Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams' most important contribution to America's cause was that he had "the most thorough understanding of liberty." (his distant cousin John Adams' words).
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Unfortunately, the American people like myself and us regular citizens aren't in any position of authority to do anything. We can take it to the streets, but ultimately these machines are programmable, and if you go and vote, they're gonna steal the seats anyway. That's my comment, and I just feel like... I know everybody is upset. We all are. I am. My family is. And Trump says, "Well, I'll run again in four years." Well, it ain't gonna matter if he runs again in four years or not.
- ANGIE: What happened in 2016 when he won and they did not plan on that? They're never gonna let that happen again, and we're watching it. And they're gonna take this election, they're gonna take the Georgia runoff, and we will never... It will be pointless. I don't mean to be the Debbie Downer, but I feel like I'm being realistic here.
- RUSH: No, no, no. Let me put... So what are you gonna do? I mean, you basically just established a scenario where we are cooked. We're finished. It's over. And there's nothing we can do because there's no way we can ever win another election.
- ANGIE: Correct. I mean, at this point, if our president can't overturn what has happened with some of these states... If we can't even go to the Supreme Court, if we can't even go to the judges, to these courts in these states and present evidence of things that have happened, of things that have been fraudulent and nobody will listen, nobody will look, nobody will do anything?
- A president can't even do anything! He's bringing lawsuits, and he's not gaining any ground. You know. I mean, we're watching this happen. And Biden didn't even campaign. Where were his rallies, you know? A couple people here and there. He wasn't even doing rallies. Trump had the whole country just united and excited and get out and vote, and we did. And it doesn't matter because these machines are in place.
- And this was the machine that Hugo Chavez said he never wanted to lose another election. And now they're here. And if we don't get Trump in the White House, if he can't get this all overturned and we don't have him for four more years to remove this Dominion system... Biden's not gonna remove it. Nobody's gonna remove it. The virus was sent here from China - you know, on purpose, I believe. This is my belief, and then these machines are in place. They were programmed. We have witnesses. People have risked their lives to come forward.
- RUSH: Yeah, I know. We got hundreds of thousands of them.
- ANGIE: Yeah, and they've come forward with what they've seen, and we can't gain any ground. So I believe it's a takeover. I think we're watching it happen.
- RUSH: Takeover by who? You're got 25 seconds. A takeover by who?
- ANGIE: By the left. By Biden. By the left. It's not even Biden. It's people that we don't even know behind the scenes.
- ANGIE: All right. Okay. Understood. I'm glad you called, Debbie - Debbie Downer. Angie is her name. She's in Big Lake, Minnesota.
The truth is that more and more Americans think like Angie thinks. They are despondent and without hope. They believe as we all used to believe - that talk is cheap, but voting is free, so our greatest power is taking our sentiments to the polls and voting for the representatives who will best serve us and our country. They believe that America's best days are long behind her; they believe that Donald Trump possesses the right mindset to be our president and to act in the country's best interests and the interests of all its citizens, they believe that America is quickly moving in the wrong direction, and they believe that with Democrats as a powerful political party, we have allowed the federal government and its officials to become the tyrants that prompted our founding generations to separate from England and to put their lives and property on the line to do so.
If voting is to mean anything in our system of government (that is, where citizens have a direct say in their government), we need major voter reform. We need to eliminate fraud and abuse and any possibility of such. We need manual ballots and mandatory and meaningful voter identification. We should tolerate NO machines and no flabby expansion of voting rules, such as extended early voting, Sunday voting, same-day registration and voting ("One Stop Voting"), and/or mail-in voting without strict conditions (such as, mail-in voting only for military and maybe those who are working or going to school out of the country at election time). We need voting to be that sacred right and duty that it was meant to be. Samuel Adams said it best: "Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual - or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country." (The Boston Gazette on April 16, 1781). Alexander Hamilton wrote: "A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law."
The Right to Vote is our Power. It is the way we not only have a say in government, but the way we have power over government. Too many people fought very hard to make sure all citizens of all colors, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities have their right to vote protected in the Constitution and in our laws. The civil protests and riots of the 1960's, led by men like Martin Luther King Jr., and the suffragette movement, led by women such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, are just two examples of the value human beings place on their right to vote and to have their voice heard equally as with others. The theory of democracy is that in a system based on a government of, for, and by the people, it is the vote, the basic building block, that gives people the power to control their government and to shape what policies they want and the future direction of their town, state, and country. "By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions," said Jens Stoltenberg
To secure honest and fair elections, we not only protect the right, but we protect the civic power of the Individual. Power must vest in the People and NOT a political party. Government has already zapped too much power away from the people, and so the ballot box is really all we have. Therefore, we need honesty and complete transparency. We need people dedicated to the idea and the grand experiment in individual Liberty that is America.
There is one thing we should never forget..... Voting is an individual, personal thing. Every reference to the Right to Vote in our Constitution notes that it is an individual right. It is reserved specifically to the person, the individual. The Right to Vote does NOT belong to a political party. Abraham Lincoln said: "Elections belong to the people." It belongs to the people; not to a political party!! A political party has no right to coerce (including offering money) a person to vote for that party if he /she really has no intention of exercising that right. This is misappropriation. It is nothing more than an attempt to make use of "useless idiots" for the purpose of a political power grab. We saw this clear as day in several elections over the years, but at no time more clearly than this 2020 presidential election. The Right to Vote has been, and continues to be, the main tool in the wheelhouse of the Democratic Party. It has manipulated and misappropriated votes on the one hand (ie, voter and election fraud), and on the other hand, is has denied or at the very least, diluted the votes of others. Every vote fraudulently cast cancels or nullifies the vote of a citizen who has been promised that his or her right is protected and valued. We have a crisis involving our right to vote abs involving our rightful expectation of honest, fair, and transparent elections. Abraham Lincoln once said: "The ballot is stronger than the bullet." Isn't it ironic that the Democrats not only wants to deny us our guns, deny us the right to keep and bear arms - but it also wants to deny those who don't support their party their due influence at the ballot box.
So, what do we need to fight for our country and to save it from the forces of evil and progressivism? What do we need to do to prevent election fraud and meaningless citizen participation at the ballot box? What do we need to do to fight the tyranny that reigns in Washington and especially the halls of Congress? What do we need to do to end the political entitlement that is the Democratic Party - a party so determined to hold power that it has cheated, rigged elections, taken money from those who actually earn it in order to redistribute it to others, with the intent to buy their votes at election time (making them "more comfortable in their poverty")? How do we undo the policies of progressivism that have systematically destroyed the foundations of this country? How do we end the constant attacks on our Right to exercise Free Speech, our Right of Conscience (defined in the Bill of Right as our Right to freely exercise the teachings of our religion), and our Right to Keep and Bear Arms? I mean, why do we think we need to wait for men and women in black robes to tell us what our natural and God-given rights are?
The greatest threats to our republic, and especially its democratic elements of which voting is key, are laziness, comfort, permitting oneself to be ignorant and uninformed, and apathy. Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal freedom.
We need the energy and the activism of our early revolutionary founders and patriots - patriots such as Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Madison, George Mason, and the Sons of Liberty. There are some great and brilliant activists doing all they can to illuminate the citizenry, to point out the tyranny of government, and to stir them to action, but we need so many more. After signing the Declaration of Independence, president of the Continental Congress, John Hancock proudly proclaimed: "There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!" Indeed, he was proud to sign his name to that daring declaration by the collective states to declare their independence from England and he didn't care what consequences should befall him. It was the first official step to freedom.
In 1775, in a speech to the Second Virginia Convention, Patrick Henry exclaimed: "Give me liberty, or give me death!" He meant it. His words were meant to support his resolutions to call up the militia in Virginia and train them to protect them against the actions of the British redcoats. His entire speech spoke about how bad it would be to live in fear of the government and how futile it would be to assert our rights when government has too much power over us:
"Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending-if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained-we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?"
Prior to 1775, we had the great Samuel Adams, the resounding voice for freedom and leader of the Sons of Liberty in Boston. He organized the Sons of Liberty to oppose unpopular English policies (mostly the excessive taxation without representation and the shutting down of colonial businesses) and to sanction acts of civil disobedience (such as the Boston Tea Party, hanging stamp collectors in effigy, tar and feathering agents of the King enforcing his policies, destroying the products that arrived in Boston Harbor to be forced upon the colonists by the Crown, blocking the ports, burning the houses of those doing the King's bidding, etc) and even sometimes violent actions when necessary. They were a more militant, direct-action group in contrast to the petitioning and speeches of more moderate figures like John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. [See the Reference provided below for a more comprehensive list of the more active members of the Sons of Liberty and their acts of resistance]. Some say that together with Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams' most important contribution to America's cause was that he had "the most thorough understanding of liberty." (his distant cousin John Adams' words).
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