Oh wow, I didn't realize this was your bio, amazing Armand! I always learn so much from you.
"As a career military man (Judge Advocate, Lieutenant Colonel, Retired, USAF Reserves; Civilian, GS-905-15, Associate Counsel, NAVY Office of General Counsel), I have a particular beef against Senator Tommy Tuberville. And of course, the Republicans lost a good man, a solid Conservative, a responsible voice, when the Honorable Bob Corker retired, to be succeeded (not replaced!) by the Honorable Marsha Blackburn."
And that quote by Bennett is breathtakingly abhorrent.💔 But that's exactly who they are on the right.
Lorraine Evanoff: By now, you and I know each other well, and you are among my FAVORITES. The best/worst part is Bennett's attempted correction! The hole kept getting deeper and deeper, and, repenting of being found out, Bennett kept digging deeper and deeper.
I think the hatred was so instinctive that Bennett, poor guy, could not even SEE it.
There is some humor and much revulsion in that scene.
Yes Armand, we see eye to eye. I was just explaining to someone that it's a knee-jerk reaction by these people because the Reagan era indoctrination is so ingrained, they don't even realize they're using these weaponized terms like "welfare queen" "bleeding heart liberal" etc. As we evolve it truly is shocking to look back at what was acceptable in the recent past.
Ronald Reagan's malevolent influence reaches back further. I was a senior in College when the vile Kent State shootings occurred. Students wanted ONE DAY, just ONE DAY for a Memorial. Nothing doing, according to then Governor Ronald Reagan. Schools proceeded as normal.
That event showed me fully the viciousness behind the supposedly kind smile.
My loathing for Governor Reagan began in earnest during my senior year in College.
You are right.
From the time of Goldwater, through the programs executed by Governor/President Reagan, putting James G. Watt (!!) as Commissioner, Environmental Protection Agency -- the object being to destroy these agencies -- Goldwater, Reagan, "W" (Bush) with his torture program . . . These all made the degradation to Trump inevitable.
It was the next leaders outdoing the prior ones in outrage.
Do not forget: Reagan BEGAN his Presidential Campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi -- precisely where the Civil Rights leaders were murdered.
Do not forget: Reagan ELEVATED Robert Bork -- who was the sole stooge that obeyed illegal orders during the Saturday Night Massacre of Nixon.
No, you and I can keep up a whole litany on Reagan, no worries.
I NEVER, not EVER understood the admiration of anyone for Reagan.
Reagan should be at the bottom of the list along with Trump. He caused all of this. Starting with designating Ketchup as a vegetable in California schools when governor, to breaking the air traffic control union.
Those facts you mention sound like Southern Baptist Convention tactics, and SBC got him elected POTUS. Pure scum.
Do they know they get paid by the American people… not just republicans…
Civil servants that put out words that say they are not working for the people means they need to go back home. Democrats or Republicans that say this. This guy happens to be a Republican..
Deb: Absolutely right AND this is the law. The Hatch Act very strictly limits political expression of civil servants.
For 41 years, in part in uniform (8-years Active (judge advocate, Marines, and then Air Force) and 20 years Reserve (retired USAF Reserves, Lt Col, judge advocate, RETIRED). Almost 32-years civil-service (Navy Office of General Counsel, GS-905-15).
As such, I gave the annual Ethics Lecture and gave detailed ethics counseling to uniformed members and civil servant along just the very lines you are talking about.
The Hatch Act is designed to retain the public faith in the Government.
In the mid-1980s, a civil-servant at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi had run for mayor, a partisan office, and the local newspaper screamed the headline that this individual was purposely violating the Hatch Act.
He was soon convicted of a federal crime under the Hatch Act in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Mississippi.
So, you are absolutely right.
The attack by extremists against the ethical backbone of civil service is a throwback to the 19th Century, where civil service positions were a REWARD for active political support of the election-winner.
The saying then was, "To the victor belongs the spoils."
During an administration of President Grover Cleveland, the Hatch Act was passed to correct the corruption and undergird integrity and competence in civil service.
Civil service positions tend to require either tests for knowledge and skills or professional degrees and licenses to meet minimum standards of competence.
I appreciate very much your perceptive response. Thank you so very much for sharing in this dialogue.
When you are the rule of law and u can’t see that what you’re saying is in opposition to the law, how do we keep these men in power? How do they call themselves if God? ( it really doesn’t work if you’re the one in charge, honestly.
The GOP has totally gone over to what Robert Reich dubs "Thugocracy."
McConnell -- who after January 6th -- acquitted Trump in the second impeachment, but spoke passionately about how the criminal system is still there to hold Trump accountable.
And then, last week, McConnell joins the chorus to overturn the 34-Felony counts against Trump.
What is so craven is that McConnell stoops after Trump has insulted Elaine Chao, his wife. And this after they tragically lost Ms. Chao's dear sister.
Marie Drew: In 1948, I was a baby who lived through, without knowing it, Truman's Presidential campaign, where Truman ran against the Republican, "Do Nothing" Congress.
The same or worse conditions now combine, but with the other side represented by a convicted Felon, it would seem our task in November should be even easier than that of Truman.
A lot of people think that Trump will win.
Well, one of the most famous political photos ever was Truman, fresh from victory, with a smile, ear to ear, holding the Chicago Tribune, with its headline, "Dewey Defeats Truman":
"My Walloon (i.e., French-speaking) Belgian Mom (from Charleroi), who brought me into the world shortly after WWII, used to quote Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" -- the more things change, the more they stay the same."
But it is like a fascinating kaleidoscope. In the scope, one sees always the same chips. But rotating the lens brings about the most interesting, sometimes beautiful combinations.
So, throughout history, we have the same human nature. The same.
But the lens of history reflects the great variety, even beauty of the variations of the same human nature in the vicissitudes of time.
Some of my favorite readings are primary historians, such as Tacitus or Francesco Guicciardini, and the hypocrisy, human weakness reflect the same basic human nature from age to age.
Tacitus is most interesting to study, because he was a Roman Senator. One reads classical history from an elite, who trafficked with top officials and with the highly cultured and educated.
Under the reign of Domitian, opposition Senators, Stoics, were executed.
Tacitus was cautious and kept his head down.
But Tacitus admired the Stoic opposition and after their deaths helped financially support the widows and surviving families of the Stoic martyrs.
As Tacitus writes about this, I find him weak, lacking courage, but a good man, who survived, and who tried to sustain the families of those he could not help during persecution.
In other words, a great historian, a man with human integrity and human weaknesses.
Certainly, when one looks at extremist, tyrannical rhetoric today, and the partisan reactions, one is looking at conduct rooted deeply in human nature.
It is not new. It IS the same.
But I personally find human nature -- richly embodied in history, in poetry, in literature, in philosophy, to be of immense fascination.
This is truly outrageous. These idiots will not sell their souls to Trump, but willingly hand them over for free. Oh, wait, we will pay you as you rip the souls out of us.
Eileen Sembrot: I think you state it with its proper force.
The current scheme of making money off of Trump's conviction reminds me of the scam that was "Trump University."
The dynamic that Trump set up with his "University" was to lure people to take more and more and spend and spend.
The "University" milked its poor "students" dry.
My Walloon (i.e., French-speaking) Belgian Mom (from Charleroi), who brought me into the world shortly after WWII, used to quote Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" -- the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Armand, thank you for a thoughtful, cogent walk through the not-very-distant past! As many are fond of reminding us: What the former, now-convicted-felon President and his boot-licking zombies whine about is a confession. I appreciate your reminding everyone of the facts of what has been said and done, and how insane the clownshow is. It is, indeed, gaslighting and crazy-making the way fabricated nonsense is tossed out in lieu of both facts and truth.
I remember how my gut sank when Newt Gingrich started strutting like a cock-of-the-walk turning CSPAN coverage into the lowest form of behavior, speaking daily to an empty chamber to accuse Tip O'Neill and the Democrats of being corrupt. That was in 1984.
"No legislation was passed, but Gingrich got what he wanted: All the major TV networks were covering his dispute with O’Neill. Julian Zelizer ’91, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton, a CNN political analyst and a contributor to NPR’s “Here & Now,” is the author of “Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker and the Rise of the New Republican Party.”
Keep up the good fight! Truth will always out; our jobs are to mitigate the death and destruction while we help it along.
This is the ‘Tell me what to say, we don't have any evidence of election fraud, you need to tell me what to say’ guy, Dec. ‘20 before J6, now he saying ‘words are not enough'. He's consistent, I'll give him that!
"Utah Sen. Mike Lee worked on early efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, helping push legally dubious schemes to keep then-President Donald Trump in power, before he shifted course and quickly backed away."
They have the height of arrogance. Can you imagine much that is more ARROGANT than to "overturn" -- and this is the word the Republicans used at the time -- the WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
That is the HEIGHT of arrogance!
Thank you so much for the link to that interesting Public Radio article.
Thank you Armand, I think it is important, since so much time has passed, to remember those that were part of the “Kraken” in the lead up to J6 as their lies contributed to the false narrative about the results of the ‘20 election. Most voter fraud, determined by court convictions, in the “20 election was by Republicans and I think a consolidated list of names by State and Party affiliation should be released by DOJ.
As early as 2021, Jens David Ohlin, Professor of Law, Cornell University, wrote a report on prevention of election interference, focusing mainly on foreign interference, in which Professor Ohlin recommended that, beyond economic sanctions, the Justice Department should issue more indictments.
Rick Hasen is Professor of Law and Political Philosophy at the UCLA Law School, who publishes an excellent law blog here: https://electionlawblog.org/
A seemingly authoritative textbook -- in its seventh edition! -- is: Daniel Hays Lowenstein, Richard L. Hasen, Daniel P. Tokaji, Nicholas Stephanopoulos, ELECTION LAW -- CASES AND MATERIALS -- SEVENTH EDITION (2022 (with 2023 Supplement included), Carolina Academic Press) here: https://cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781531020811/Election-Law-Seventh-Edition
Goodness Armand, you provide a wealth of information, Thank you! A few weeks back I compiled a list of articles that I had seen over the past few years and the ratio of convictions of voter fraud I found were Republican 10 to Democrats 1. I did not include the pending charges of team Kraken in GA and AZ nor their counterparts in WI and MI, which were 100% Republicans.
You are inspired by great literature. You may not consider “The Magnificent Seven” a great screenplay but I’m sure you know about “The Seven Samurai” from which it is based and is considered a classic.
You brought up physics. So continuing in that “vein” before getting back to the heart to be oxygenated, from Dirac we got the prediction that came true of the positron. For all matter types there is the anti-matter.
‘
But here the numbers do not add up. We had the Magnificent Seven but now live in a time of The Toady Eight. We live in a time when roaches see themselves as the Demiurge.
We live in time when many here turn on the lights but the roaches do not scatter.
So we have our Magnificent seven:
Heather Cox Richardson
Lorraine Evanoff
Jay Kuo
Dean Obeidallah
Linda Weide
Armand Beede
Nina Burleigh
And these seven have support from many ninjas of truth working alone. Yet the roaches still do not scatter.
That’s the way the world ends
Not with a bang
But a roach infestation?
No. We the people must ALL stand up and spray for roaches by voting. Any household that doesn’t vote shows they are comfortable living with roaches. The Magnificent Seven and all the ninjas cannot save them. We must ALL spray our own homes.
I have always appreciated your posts. I became aware and few years back of the connection between the Magnificent Seven and the Seven Samurai then searched and found the movie and watched it. Loved it though bloody.
Oh wow, I didn't realize this was your bio, amazing Armand! I always learn so much from you.
"As a career military man (Judge Advocate, Lieutenant Colonel, Retired, USAF Reserves; Civilian, GS-905-15, Associate Counsel, NAVY Office of General Counsel), I have a particular beef against Senator Tommy Tuberville. And of course, the Republicans lost a good man, a solid Conservative, a responsible voice, when the Honorable Bob Corker retired, to be succeeded (not replaced!) by the Honorable Marsha Blackburn."
And that quote by Bennett is breathtakingly abhorrent.💔 But that's exactly who they are on the right.
Lorraine Evanoff: By now, you and I know each other well, and you are among my FAVORITES. The best/worst part is Bennett's attempted correction! The hole kept getting deeper and deeper, and, repenting of being found out, Bennett kept digging deeper and deeper.
I think the hatred was so instinctive that Bennett, poor guy, could not even SEE it.
There is some humor and much revulsion in that scene.
Yes Armand, we see eye to eye. I was just explaining to someone that it's a knee-jerk reaction by these people because the Reagan era indoctrination is so ingrained, they don't even realize they're using these weaponized terms like "welfare queen" "bleeding heart liberal" etc. As we evolve it truly is shocking to look back at what was acceptable in the recent past.
Lorraine Evanoff: "Bleeding heart" and all of that are harmless compared with what rages today!
Thanks to the Trump-pack, we enter Jim-Crow Revisited.
Agreed. But they were the beginning of dangerous weaponization of completely innocuous realities.
Lorraine Evanoff: YES! YES, Indeed!
Ronald Reagan's malevolent influence reaches back further. I was a senior in College when the vile Kent State shootings occurred. Students wanted ONE DAY, just ONE DAY for a Memorial. Nothing doing, according to then Governor Ronald Reagan. Schools proceeded as normal.
That event showed me fully the viciousness behind the supposedly kind smile.
My loathing for Governor Reagan began in earnest during my senior year in College.
You are right.
From the time of Goldwater, through the programs executed by Governor/President Reagan, putting James G. Watt (!!) as Commissioner, Environmental Protection Agency -- the object being to destroy these agencies -- Goldwater, Reagan, "W" (Bush) with his torture program . . . These all made the degradation to Trump inevitable.
It was the next leaders outdoing the prior ones in outrage.
Do not forget: Reagan BEGAN his Presidential Campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi -- precisely where the Civil Rights leaders were murdered.
Do not forget: Reagan ELEVATED Robert Bork -- who was the sole stooge that obeyed illegal orders during the Saturday Night Massacre of Nixon.
No, you and I can keep up a whole litany on Reagan, no worries.
I NEVER, not EVER understood the admiration of anyone for Reagan.
Reagan should be at the bottom of the list along with Trump. He caused all of this. Starting with designating Ketchup as a vegetable in California schools when governor, to breaking the air traffic control union.
Those facts you mention sound like Southern Baptist Convention tactics, and SBC got him elected POTUS. Pure scum.
"Jim-Crow Revisited" indeed! Along with 19th century health care for women. What's next, repeal the 19th Amendment?
Thank you for an excellent summary and reminders of the past. 👏👏👏
Susan Niemann: You are so gracious. You are one of the ones I LOVE to read and to admire your photography.
Brilliant post, Armand! 💙🇺🇸💙
Diane K24: Derivative from good persons like YOU!
Thanks, Armand!💙🇺🇸💙
Do they know they get paid by the American people… not just republicans…
Civil servants that put out words that say they are not working for the people means they need to go back home. Democrats or Republicans that say this. This guy happens to be a Republican..
Deb: Absolutely right AND this is the law. The Hatch Act very strictly limits political expression of civil servants.
For 41 years, in part in uniform (8-years Active (judge advocate, Marines, and then Air Force) and 20 years Reserve (retired USAF Reserves, Lt Col, judge advocate, RETIRED). Almost 32-years civil-service (Navy Office of General Counsel, GS-905-15).
As such, I gave the annual Ethics Lecture and gave detailed ethics counseling to uniformed members and civil servant along just the very lines you are talking about.
The Hatch Act is designed to retain the public faith in the Government.
In the mid-1980s, a civil-servant at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi had run for mayor, a partisan office, and the local newspaper screamed the headline that this individual was purposely violating the Hatch Act.
He was soon convicted of a federal crime under the Hatch Act in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Mississippi.
So, you are absolutely right.
The attack by extremists against the ethical backbone of civil service is a throwback to the 19th Century, where civil service positions were a REWARD for active political support of the election-winner.
The saying then was, "To the victor belongs the spoils."
During an administration of President Grover Cleveland, the Hatch Act was passed to correct the corruption and undergird integrity and competence in civil service.
Civil service positions tend to require either tests for knowledge and skills or professional degrees and licenses to meet minimum standards of competence.
I appreciate very much your perceptive response. Thank you so very much for sharing in this dialogue.
What McConnel said this week. Really?
When you are the rule of law and u can’t see that what you’re saying is in opposition to the law, how do we keep these men in power? How do they call themselves if God? ( it really doesn’t work if you’re the one in charge, honestly.
Diana Cobb: Exactly.
The GOP has totally gone over to what Robert Reich dubs "Thugocracy."
McConnell -- who after January 6th -- acquitted Trump in the second impeachment, but spoke passionately about how the criminal system is still there to hold Trump accountable.
And then, last week, McConnell joins the chorus to overturn the 34-Felony counts against Trump.
What is so craven is that McConnell stoops after Trump has insulted Elaine Chao, his wife. And this after they tragically lost Ms. Chao's dear sister.
Incomprehensible.
Thanks for your comment!
I agree
Given that they seem to need the Dems to bail them out in order to pass anything meaningful, I don’t see how this is going to work in their favor.
Marie Drew: In 1948, I was a baby who lived through, without knowing it, Truman's Presidential campaign, where Truman ran against the Republican, "Do Nothing" Congress.
The same or worse conditions now combine, but with the other side represented by a convicted Felon, it would seem our task in November should be even easier than that of Truman.
A lot of people think that Trump will win.
Well, one of the most famous political photos ever was Truman, fresh from victory, with a smile, ear to ear, holding the Chicago Tribune, with its headline, "Dewey Defeats Truman":
https://www.trumanlibraryinstitute.org/dewey-defeats-truman/
I am hopeful that most voters will not want to bring Trump back. He’s toxic.
My comment would be….what’s new? Same-o, same-o.
Diane Zander: There IS something to that.
As in my response to another respondent, below --
"My Walloon (i.e., French-speaking) Belgian Mom (from Charleroi), who brought me into the world shortly after WWII, used to quote Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" -- the more things change, the more they stay the same."
But it is like a fascinating kaleidoscope. In the scope, one sees always the same chips. But rotating the lens brings about the most interesting, sometimes beautiful combinations.
So, throughout history, we have the same human nature. The same.
But the lens of history reflects the great variety, even beauty of the variations of the same human nature in the vicissitudes of time.
Some of my favorite readings are primary historians, such as Tacitus or Francesco Guicciardini, and the hypocrisy, human weakness reflect the same basic human nature from age to age.
Tacitus is most interesting to study, because he was a Roman Senator. One reads classical history from an elite, who trafficked with top officials and with the highly cultured and educated.
Under the reign of Domitian, opposition Senators, Stoics, were executed.
Tacitus was cautious and kept his head down.
But Tacitus admired the Stoic opposition and after their deaths helped financially support the widows and surviving families of the Stoic martyrs.
As Tacitus writes about this, I find him weak, lacking courage, but a good man, who survived, and who tried to sustain the families of those he could not help during persecution.
In other words, a great historian, a man with human integrity and human weaknesses.
Certainly, when one looks at extremist, tyrannical rhetoric today, and the partisan reactions, one is looking at conduct rooted deeply in human nature.
It is not new. It IS the same.
But I personally find human nature -- richly embodied in history, in poetry, in literature, in philosophy, to be of immense fascination.
This is truly outrageous. These idiots will not sell their souls to Trump, but willingly hand them over for free. Oh, wait, we will pay you as you rip the souls out of us.
Eileen Sembrot: I think you state it with its proper force.
The current scheme of making money off of Trump's conviction reminds me of the scam that was "Trump University."
The dynamic that Trump set up with his "University" was to lure people to take more and more and spend and spend.
The "University" milked its poor "students" dry.
My Walloon (i.e., French-speaking) Belgian Mom (from Charleroi), who brought me into the world shortly after WWII, used to quote Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" -- the more things change, the more they stay the same.
More than that-treachery. They all deserve to be removed from their positions as security threats.
Like they cooperated with Democrats before this. Hypocrites, all. They need to be removed from office for insurrection.
Armand, thank you for a thoughtful, cogent walk through the not-very-distant past! As many are fond of reminding us: What the former, now-convicted-felon President and his boot-licking zombies whine about is a confession. I appreciate your reminding everyone of the facts of what has been said and done, and how insane the clownshow is. It is, indeed, gaslighting and crazy-making the way fabricated nonsense is tossed out in lieu of both facts and truth.
I remember how my gut sank when Newt Gingrich started strutting like a cock-of-the-walk turning CSPAN coverage into the lowest form of behavior, speaking daily to an empty chamber to accuse Tip O'Neill and the Democrats of being corrupt. That was in 1984.
When Partisanship Got Polarized:
https://www.brandeis.edu/magazine/2020/fall/arts-and-culture/gingrich.html
"No legislation was passed, but Gingrich got what he wanted: All the major TV networks were covering his dispute with O’Neill. Julian Zelizer ’91, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton, a CNN political analyst and a contributor to NPR’s “Here & Now,” is the author of “Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker and the Rise of the New Republican Party.”
Keep up the good fight! Truth will always out; our jobs are to mitigate the death and destruction while we help it along.
This is the ‘Tell me what to say, we don't have any evidence of election fraud, you need to tell me what to say’ guy, Dec. ‘20 before J6, now he saying ‘words are not enough'. He's consistent, I'll give him that!
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/texts-messages-reveal-utah-sen-lees-efforts-to-overturn-2020-election
Shire Jansen: Very good.
"Utah Sen. Mike Lee worked on early efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, helping push legally dubious schemes to keep then-President Donald Trump in power, before he shifted course and quickly backed away."
They have the height of arrogance. Can you imagine much that is more ARROGANT than to "overturn" -- and this is the word the Republicans used at the time -- the WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
That is the HEIGHT of arrogance!
Thank you so much for the link to that interesting Public Radio article.
Thank you Armand, I think it is important, since so much time has passed, to remember those that were part of the “Kraken” in the lead up to J6 as their lies contributed to the false narrative about the results of the ‘20 election. Most voter fraud, determined by court convictions, in the “20 election was by Republicans and I think a consolidated list of names by State and Party affiliation should be released by DOJ.
Shire Jansen: I agree such a publication would be quite useful; my initial search fails to find such a publication.
The Criminal Division of the Justice Department publishes useful information about Election Crimes here:
https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-pin/election-crimes-branch
Here DOJ/Criminal Division publishes a nearly 300 page prosecutorial guide on election crimes here:
https://www.justice.gov/criminal/file/1029066/dl?inline
That manual seems, too, to have useful statistics but is quite dated.
In light of violence at the polls as threatened by right-wing extremists, DOJ/Criminal Justice provides useful information to report such crimes:
https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-pin/file/1568966/dl?inline
The FBI provides guidance on crimes involving elections here: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/public-corruption/election-crimes
Not the issue you cited, but a useful statistical guide to correct misstatements about voter fraud is here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/2330443X.2023.2289529?needAccess=true
As early as 2021, Jens David Ohlin, Professor of Law, Cornell University, wrote a report on prevention of election interference, focusing mainly on foreign interference, in which Professor Ohlin recommended that, beyond economic sanctions, the Justice Department should issue more indictments.
See: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/7CFA77628A1FACF9DA3393942A34BEAD/S2398772320000872a.pdf/div-class-title-a-roadmap-for-fighting-election-interference-div.pdf
The Right-Wing HERITAGE FOUNDATION issues its own "database of election fraud" here: https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud
Which is rebutted by the Brookings Institution here: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/widespread-election-fraud-claims-by-republicans-dont-match-the-evidence/
Rick Hasen is Professor of Law and Political Philosophy at the UCLA Law School, who publishes an excellent law blog here: https://electionlawblog.org/
A seemingly authoritative textbook -- in its seventh edition! -- is: Daniel Hays Lowenstein, Richard L. Hasen, Daniel P. Tokaji, Nicholas Stephanopoulos, ELECTION LAW -- CASES AND MATERIALS -- SEVENTH EDITION (2022 (with 2023 Supplement included), Carolina Academic Press) here: https://cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781531020811/Election-Law-Seventh-Edition
With the textbook's table of contents here: https://cap-press.com/pdf/9781531020811.pdf
If your law library has this work, it is almost 1300 pages, and it is likely to have statistics related to your query.
Hmm. The statistics on this are not as handy as I would have expected. Individual AP reports show a number of recent indictments, but nothing comprehensive, as here: https://apnews.com/article/arizona-fake-electors-charges-2020-election-9da5a7e58814ed55ceea1ca55401af85
Sharing a post from a few weeks ago that reflects a Republican majority in voter fraud court convictions in the ‘20 election.
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/the-week-ahead-614?r=it8vk&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=56809507
Goodness Armand, you provide a wealth of information, Thank you! A few weeks back I compiled a list of articles that I had seen over the past few years and the ratio of convictions of voter fraud I found were Republican 10 to Democrats 1. I did not include the pending charges of team Kraken in GA and AZ nor their counterparts in WI and MI, which were 100% Republicans.
You are inspired by great literature. You may not consider “The Magnificent Seven” a great screenplay but I’m sure you know about “The Seven Samurai” from which it is based and is considered a classic.
You brought up physics. So continuing in that “vein” before getting back to the heart to be oxygenated, from Dirac we got the prediction that came true of the positron. For all matter types there is the anti-matter.
‘
But here the numbers do not add up. We had the Magnificent Seven but now live in a time of The Toady Eight. We live in a time when roaches see themselves as the Demiurge.
We live in time when many here turn on the lights but the roaches do not scatter.
So we have our Magnificent seven:
Heather Cox Richardson
Lorraine Evanoff
Jay Kuo
Dean Obeidallah
Linda Weide
Armand Beede
Nina Burleigh
And these seven have support from many ninjas of truth working alone. Yet the roaches still do not scatter.
That’s the way the world ends
Not with a bang
But a roach infestation?
No. We the people must ALL stand up and spray for roaches by voting. Any household that doesn’t vote shows they are comfortable living with roaches. The Magnificent Seven and all the ninjas cannot save them. We must ALL spray our own homes.
Jim Sanders: The "Seven Samurai" is magnificent and is the inspiration for the "Magnificent Seven."
Thank you for grouping me with such good people and your generous remarks.
In the spirit of your thoughts are wonderfully expressed in "People Have the Power" by Patti Smith coupled with her Daughter, Jesse Paris Smith here:
https://jesseparissmith.substack.com/p/happy-june-and-dream-of-life-anniversary
There is even a version played before youth at the UN. Very moving!
I have always appreciated your posts. I became aware and few years back of the connection between the Magnificent Seven and the Seven Samurai then searched and found the movie and watched it. Loved it though bloody.
I have one poignant message for the very Dishonorable Mike Lee: GFY.
What a surprise! I didn’t notice any change in your lack of cooperation…..
Jill Horner: I am uncertain of your frame of reference.
I apologize! This comment was intended for another spot. I should have double checked it :(
Jill Horner: Very good! I like your Substack, where you have deep exposure to Foreign Diplomacy and a penchant for political dialog.
I welcome you here!