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SKYE’S LINKS 12/31/20
Here is an outstanding year-in-review of 2020. Lots here for both investors and historians alike. It was written by a tenured 60-something conservative/libertarian chemistry professor, so the BS content is remarkably low. This is fascinating stuff from someone who works within the belly of the beast:
Dave Collum's 2020 Year In Review, Part 1: "Willfully Ignorant"
An interesting review of the past year and the shape of things to come for international investors:
The 10 Most Important Changes Of The Past Year
A 2021 wise warning for everyone:
Delingpole: Economist 'Great Reset Will Cause a Crash Worse than 1930s'
Goodbye 2020 – hello 2021!
HOW AMERICAN MYTHS WERE RAVAGED IN 2020
Thanks in large part to Democrat lockdowns, this year has left vast wreckage in its wake, with ten million jobs lost, more than 100,000 businesses and dozens of national chains bankrupted or closed.
Up to 40 million people could face eviction in the coming months for failing to pay rent, and Americans report that their mental health is at record low levels. But the casualty list for 2020 must also include many of the political myths that shape Americans’ lives.
Perhaps the biggest myth to die this year was that Americans’ constitutional rights are safeguarded by the Bill of Rights. There are many more.
WHY THE DEFEATISM?
Millions of patriots have fight in them as the country confronts the greatest threat to the Republic since the Civil War. Historic elections fraud, centered on the presidential contests, involving gross criminality make it so.
Whereas many patriots are ready to fight to restore the rule of law and our liberties, others express gloom and defeat. The fix is in, they claim. If Trump doesn’t secure a second term, then all is lost, they bemoan. The powerful cabal that Biden fronts will run the board over 48 months. A long, dark night will descend on America.
Here’s a modest proposal: Wars aren’t over until they’re fought.
A PERFECT STORM SEEKS DESTRUCTION OF THE USA
BLM/Antifa Washington DC Nov 3, 2020
As 2021 dawns, the war on our culture moves into high gear.
The opportunistic intersection of the resistance to the Trump presidency, the rise of the monopolistic tech giants, the spurious panic over the psychologically weaponized Communist Chinese Virus and its concomitant loss of personal freedom, the neo-Marxist hijacking and worsening of race relations, and the legalistic undermining of U.S. laws and institutions have all evolved into a perfect storm of destruction that not only threatens the future of the United States, but actively seeks its destruction.
And they’re just getting started.
A GOP ELECTOR CHALLENGE ON JANUARY 6 COULD BE A CATASTROPHIC MISTAKE
In his December 23 video, Dr. Steve Turley summed up two possible roads to victory for President Trump in Congress on Jan. 6, starting with a congressional challenge to disputed Biden electors:
“First, you have to have an objection filed and endorsed by at least one US senator and one US representative. And once filed and endorsed, both chambers of Congress...have to have a debate – I believe it's stated to be a two-hour debate – over the merits and demerits of the objection, and then a simple majority is enough to overturn the electors.
Or second, you've got Vice President Mike Pence poised to make the final decision as to whether to certify the electors after the debate.”
Note this is an Either/Or. Do the first prevents the second. Here’s why.THE UNSPEAKABLY DUPLICITOUS COWARDICE OF THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS
Majority Leader Turtle – Chief Coward of the Senate
While there are a few exceptions who need to be celebrated — Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Matt Gaetz, and Jim Jordan, to name the most prominent of the heroes — the rest of the Republicans in Congress are abject cowards.
So anxious to go along to get along with the establishment they were oh, so comfortable with, they have been and are willing to betray their constituents to regain their access to power and money. Forget representing the people; they represent themselves.
President Trump is the best man for the party to come along since Reagan, and they are nearly all ready to throw him under the bus. It is disgusting. No conservative should ever again donate a dime to any of the traitors who claim to hold conservative values.
WHERE DID THE DEMOCRATS’ MARXIST MADNESS COME FROM?
Bouts of extreme Leftism are frequent in history. Plato’s Apology, Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, and Vladimir Lenin’s What Is to Be Done? — all offer us insight into the mind and methods of the hard Left.
America has experienced surges of mainstream anarchism, socialism, and communism, most profoundly during the late 19th century, amid the Great Depression, during the Soviet-American alliance of World War II and afterward, and in the 1960s.
But rarely have these radical movements openly and without apologies made such inroads into and inside government and the establishment as during the past decade
Where and how did radical ideas such as the non-enforcement of laws, the Green New Deal, open borders, the -studies curricula of the university, or the political weaponization of professional sports come from?
SKYE’S LINKS 12/24/20
Delingpole: Eric Clapton Sings Anti-Lockdown Song; Trolls Mock His Dead Kid
The compliant response of state and local officials to Antifa and BLM violence and threats of violence has taught a dangerous lesson. Since politically motivated violence by the left has generally been rewarded by 'Crat politicians and elites, we can expect to see more of it, and not just from the left.
Anti-Lockdown Protesters Force Way into Oregon Capitol, Some Armed
When seven Supreme Court Justices decided to wash their hands of ruling on clearly unconstitutional state and local voting processes in Texas v. Pennsylvania, they unleashed the most obvious and immediate alternative: escalating political violence.
Here we go for the best Skye’s Links ever.
THE PENCE CARD
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esterday (12/23), President Trump played “The Pence Card” with this tweet. Attached to it is a memorandum appended below.
For the most part, Americans assume that the Vice President lacks power. The President may assign him responsibilities, but the Constitution does not. Instead, he’s the understudy, there just in case something happens to the president.
Except that, in this strange year of 2020, we may learn that the Vice President is the most powerful man in America. Ivan Raiklin, a constitutional lawyer, claims that the Constitution grants Mike Pence the power to overturn a manifestly fraudulent election.
Here is what POTUS is asking Pence to do.
WHY I WILL NOT ACCEPT A CHEAT AS PRESIDENT
[Newt speaks for me, and every patriot in America – JW]
A smart friend of mine who is a moderate liberal asked why I was not recognizing Joe Biden’s alleged victory.
The friend made the case that Mr. Biden had gotten more (electoral) votes, and historically we recognize the person with the most. Normally, we accept the outcome of elections just as we accept the outcomes of sporting events.
So, my friend asked why was 2020 different?
THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW
Yes, he’s Mike Pence. Here’s why and how.
As we all know, the President of the United States isn’t actually elected by the popular vote. He’s elected by the college of presidential electors from each US state. The important question then is: Who counts the votes cast by the presidential electors?
That is clearly specified by the 12th Amendment of the Constitution:
“The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.”
And who, then, is the President of the Senate? Article 1, Section 3, Clause 4 of the Constitution answers it clearly:
DOES HISTORY SAY AMERICA WILL SPLIT INTO SEPARATE NATIONS?
The nation’s current divide is partly geographic but mostly cultural and juridical.
The Texas-led states now stand for the rule of law and the civil rights protections of the 1868 14th Amendment. The California-led states now seek to undo over 150 years of human rights laws so that they can override the suffrage and petitions of a “suspect class” (Republicans).
Half the country believes the Nov. 3 election was illegitimate because they share Texas’s understanding of what citizen rights are and what constitutes evidence.
Half the country believes the election was legitimate because they share California’s understanding of citizen rights as framed by context and by goals, with any means being justified by the right goals, depending on the group involved.
For the first time in anyone’s living memory, we have to contend with the real possibility that the United States will split into separate nations. Looking at history, I’ve come upon the following possible precedents in history that may help us understand the potential outcomes.
STICKING WITH TRUMP TO EITHER THE BITTER OR GLORIOUS END
“To defeat Trump,” writes Victor Davis Hanson, “many of our institutions were deformed.”
Indeed, we have witnessed a flagrant burlesque of electoral procedure, including the specter of foreign interference by China, Iran and Russia via Dominion Voting Systems in gerrymandering electoral results, as Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has confirmed.
And there will be lasting consequences. The effect of installing a parodic figure like Joe Biden, straight out of the Commedia dell’Arte, as the next president of the United States will result in three extremely destabilizing factors. They are:
THE BIGGEST POLITICAL BLUNDER IN AMERICAN HISTORY
“It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder” Talleyrand on Napoleon’s ordering the murder of the Duke of Enghein, 1804
If the courts refuse to award the presidency to the rightful victor, the anti-Trump cabal, driven by a four-year single-minded obsession to defeat President Trump, will have committed the greatest political blunder in American history -- the unabashed and overt theft of the 2020 presidential election.
These conspirators smugly believed that they had successfully set up a scenario wherein Donald Trump would be defeated in such a massive landslide that a vast majority of the citizenry would never question the results. Instead, the worst-case scenario played out.
Thus, this cabal, which consists of the Democrat party establishment, Tech and Wall Street billionaires, the mainstream media and left-wing elitists, will find itself in a quagmire of being unable to govern.
WHAT NOW?
Some eighty million Trump voters (plus ten or twenty million likeminded others) have slowly woken up to a dystopic situation: People who want to raise families, do meaningful work and be left alone, have found themselves to be the playthings of lunatics.
The system they expected to support them had seen better days, to be sure, but in one short year they saw it become something they never would have imagined.
What, then, are such people – you, me, us – to do? The support system they were committed to has not only let them down but stabbed them in the back, and repeatedly.
What to do is the question of the moment. And so, having some small experience with such things, I’ll give you several points to consider. What you do will be your choice, of course, but please do something. Do not sit and hope that things will work themselves out. If that worked, we wouldn’t be in this situation.
SKYE’S LINKS 12/17/20
For investors; I hope that the wheels will stay on long enough for Biden/Harris to become the next Herbert Hoover:
BofA: Central Banks Are Buying $1.3 Billion In Assets Every Hour, Creating A "Frankenbull" Market
Biden has not been sworn in, yet the overproduced elite predators are already fighting over access to power in his administration. Expect a great deal more of such discord:
Did BLM Leak Compromising Biden Comments After Being Shunned From Race Debate?
I think that it is all too likely that China will invade Taiwan during the next 4 years. Jack Wheeler thinks it could be as soon as next year “if Cadaver cheats his way into the Oval Office”:
A 2021 Gray Swan: Could The US And China Go To War Over Taiwan?
Next up: "A Biden win is the most befitting ‘punishment’ of the anti-Trump cocktail." Read on!
COVID HYSTERIA IS NOT ABOUT HEALTH – IT’S ABOUT FASCIST POWER
We finally reached the latest peak COVID-19 madness last week, when a family was ejected from a United Airlines flight because their two-year-old girl could not tolerate a muzzle. So, on the apparent theory that you can’t be too safe or too careful, even from a two-year-old, the airline enforced its zero-tolerance policy and booted the girl and her family from the plane.
None of this is about health, of course. It’s about power- fascist power. All it takes is a manufactured hysteria, fueled by a hysterical media, and aimed at a trusting, even gullible public, and tradition dissolves in the face of fear.
As those who lived under communism and other forms of fascism know from bitter experience, the point of 2+2 = 5 is not to get you to believe it, it’s to make you afraid to say it’s not true. Rubbing our noses in our own impotence is the very hallmark of tyranny.
DETAILS ON GIGANTIC DEM VOTE FRAUD IN JUST ONE COUNTY
County officials quickly backtracked, calling it "human error," but it was too late. The computer fraud cat was out of the bag. Now, thanks to a judge pushing past the Michigan secretary of state's effort to suppress information, we can finally see the preliminary forensics report on Antrim County's Dominion systems. This post summarizes the highlights.
Russell Ramsland, of Allied Security Operations Group, LLC (ASOG), wrote the report. You may be familiar with him from videos like above. If you haven't watched the video, I recommend it, because it's a great overview of how computer systems can be used for fraudulent elections.
THE TRAGIC FAILURE OF BILL BARR
I used to be a big fan of Attorney General William Barr. No more.
Now, as of Dec. 14, 2020, he’s gone, effective Dec. 23, almost a month before the actual end of a Trump administration, assuming that happens.
Technically, Barr resigned, accompanied by the usual complimentary letter to the president, but something obviously went wrong in his relationship with Donald Trump. What was it?
THE ABJECT COWARDICE OF AMERICA’S JUDICIARY
”Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty.” General George S. PattonSeveral weeks ago, we worried that the judges and justices, state and federal, may not have the courage to take up the cases before them addressing the massive election fraud that took place November 3. Now we know they are all cowards, the Constitution be damned.
Even the three SCOTUS justices Trump fought for were too terrified to do the right thing.
The intimidation tactics of the left — Antifa, BLM, and the campus fascists — have worked. They have frightened each and every judge and justice, with the not surprising exceptions of Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito, into disregarding Articles II and III of the Constitution. They are all scaredy-cats, like little children running from bullies.
SEVEN STATE LEGISLATURES CHOOSE COMPETING ELECTORS TO ILLEGAL DEM ONES
GOP legislators blocked by police, Lansing MI 12/14/20
Yesterday (12/14), Republicans in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, New Mexico, and Nevada entered competing slates of electors for President Donald Trump on Monday as Electoral College members in six contested battleground states officially cast their ballots for Democrat Joe Biden.
And please add Michigan. Although initially blocked by state authorities, a delegation of 16 Michigan Republican Electors were eventually able to convene and cast their ballots for President Trump, bringing the tally to seven states entering competing slates.
By casting conditional votes for Trump, the GOP electors have set up an epic showdown in a joint session of Congress next month on January 6 when lawmakers convene to count the electoral votes and officially declare the winner.
THE DEPRAVITY OF THE MEDIA’S HUNTER BIDEN COVERUP
The Son of Joe
Imagine for a moment that Donald Trump had won the US election last month like he did in 2016.
Then imagine that just before the election, a major US newspaper had published an explosive story about his son Donald Trump Jr. based around the contents of his personal laptop that revealed extensive dodgy dealings with people from foreign countries, some very unfriendly to the United States, and which even suggested his father may have been involved in some of those dealings? Which the media refused to cover.
Finally, imagine waking up today to hear that rather than Hunter Biden being formally investigated by federal authorities from the Justice Department over his financial affairs, as is the case, it was Donald Trump Jr.
SKYE’S LINKS 12/10/20
We have just seen a simulated election embedded in a world of simulated economics:
Welcome To The U.S.S.A.'s Banquet Of Consequences
I can hardly believe how pathetically weak this is:
Pennsylvania to U.S. Supreme Court: Texas Guilty of 'Seditious' Behavior
I could not have made this up in my wildest dreams:
George Soros Appoints Chair of Smartmatic Parent Company to Lead Open Society Foundations
This would be a nice solution to the problem, but I don't expect us to be so lucky:
A CHICOM PROFESSOR BRAGS ABOUT CHINA OWNING DC, WALL STREET, AND JOE BIDEN
And now we have the smoking gun, revealed by Tucker Carlson above. Here’s what’s going on.
IS GA GOV KEMP ON THE TAKE FROM CHINA TO RIG THE ELECTION FOR BIDEN?
Kemp & Li in the Governor’s office 7/12/10
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp awarded a $107 million contract to Dominion Voting Systems two weeks after he met with the Houston-based Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in Atlanta.
Kemp met with Li Qiangmin, Houston Consul General of the People’s Republic of China, on July 12, 2019.
The Secretary of State’s office announced on July 29, 2019 that Dominion’s election services were procured to implement a “verified paper ballot system” in the state prior to the March 2020 presidential primaries. Cost to Georgia taxpayers for the Dominion contract? $107 million. Beyond coincidence? A lot of people think so.
TEXAS COMES TO AMERICA’S RESCUE
Last night just before midnight (12/07), the State of Texas filed a lawsuit that is far more important than all of the others surrounding the presidential election of November 3rd.
Texas brought a suit against four states that did something they cannot do: they violated the U.S. Constitution in their conduct of the presidential election.
And this violation occurred regardless of the amount of election fraud that may have resulted. The four defendant states are Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Texas filed the suit directly in the Supreme Court. Article III of the Constitution lists a small number of categories of cases in which the Supreme Court has “original jurisdiction.” One of those categories concerns “Controversies between two or more states.” Texas’s suit is exactly that.
The Texas suit is clear, and it presents a compelling case. The four offending states each violated the U.S. Constitution in two ways.
CHINA IS AMERICA’S GREATEST NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT
If I could communicate one thing to the American people from this unique vantage point, it is that the People’s Republic of China poses the greatest threat to America today, and the greatest threat to democracy and freedom world-wide since World War II.
The intelligence is clear: Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically. Here is how they are doing it.
THE AVIGNON PRESIDENCY
The late
Middle Ages were a time of great political and cultural turmoil in the West. One of the greatest upheavals occurred within the Catholic Church of that era. It was called the "Avignon Papacy" resulting in the Great Schism of the Church, lasting 108 years from 1309-1417.
History may not repeat, but it often rhymes. America is not merely divided, as many of today's political commentators claim, but it's in the midst of a Great Schism as the church was in Avignon.
If Trump is ultimately denied the presidency, he will not drift off into irrelevancy as his detractors hope. Quite the contrary:
Losing this way despite massively growing his appeal among voters compared to 2016 will only make Trump stronger in the hearts and minds of his base. He will become a living martyr — something even more powerful than a president in some ways. It may even be known as his Avignon Presidency.
SKYE’S LINKS 12/03/20
First, items on Election Megafraud:
Busting the 2020 election megafraud: This man is hiring the right type of people to perform an existentially important job:
Former Overstock CEO Paying 'Team Of Hackers And Cybersleuths' To Prove Trump Won Election
What’s that godawful smell?
20 Alleged Election "Facts" That Don't Pass The Smell Test
Spineless Barr caves to the judgement of Deep State DOJ attorneys and FBI officials - all of whom have received liberal and legal educations at left wing brain washing laundromat universities:
Barr Says DOJ Has Not Uncovered Evidence of Widespread Voter Fraud
A PANDEMIC OF DELUSIONAL PSYCHOSIS
How have we come from "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" to "Fear is virtuous...and mandatory?"
From the beginning, fear has driven the government response to the coronavirus pandemic. Americans have been told they should be afraid. More important, they have been instructed that expressing fear, through the wearing of masks and self-isolation by the healthy, is their moral duty.
For the first time in United States history, fear is no longer seen as an emotion to overcome, like jealousy or greed, but rather as one to embrace. We should be proud to be afraid, we are told, and we should call out anyone who isn't. In fact, any act of courage must be condemned as immoral as well as illegal.
As a practicing psychiatrist, I believe people are suffering from delusional psychosis — a fixed false belief contrary to reality.
WILL BADGER STATE GOP REJECT THEIR STATE’S RIGGED ELECTION?
Nearly 7 million absentee votes were cast, mostly for Joe Biden, in the three states responsible for his presumptive win; a mere 250,000 votes now separate Biden from Donald Trump in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Only 20,000 in Wisconsin.
The three pivotal Rust Belt states have something else in common: according to state election laws, mail-in ballots cannot be processed prior to 7 a.m. on Election Day. (Michigan has a slight caveat for larger cities, which allows ballot inspection to begin the day before.)
It’s clear that Pennsylvania election officials violated the law by alerting voters to correct mistakes on or “cure” their mail-in ballots days before Election Day. This means not only were election workers inspecting mail-in envelopes in advance of the legal deadline, the unlawful pre-canvassing occurred without observers present, another obvious violation.
HOW SPINELESS AND TRAITOROUS ARE GOP SURRENDER MONKEYS?
"There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy — hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny." —Frederick William Robertson
Add cowardice to Robertson's words.
By now it is abundantly clear to any American paying attention that the Biden campaign/Democrat machine set out to guarantee that Donald Trump would not, could not, win the 2020 election. They cheated seven ways to Sunday!
I hope that the truth will out, despite the Left's operatives in Congress; the courts; the state legislatures; the FBI, CIA, and DOJ; and all those weak-kneed Republicans who are terrified to rock the establishment boat.
What is so shockingly infuriating to the millions of people who voted for President Trump is the abject cowardice of most Republicans in Congress and in those state legislatures. It is as though they've been gelded.
THE BURDEN OF PROOF IS ON BIDEN, NOT TRUMP
On Friday (11/27), President Trump tweeted something important. He asserted that Biden must prove that his votes did not result from fraud.
Cynics scoffed, but as a practical matter, Trump is correct. Here is why.
THE PRESIDENT’S PROCLAMATION ON THANKSGIVING DAY 2020
On Thanksgiving Day, we thank God for the abundant blessings in our lives. As we gather with family and friends to celebrate this season of generosity, hope, and gratitude, we commemorate America’s founding traditions of faith, family, and friendship, and give thanks for the principles of freedom, liberty, and democracy that make our country exceptional in the history of the world.
This November marks 400 years since the Mayflower and its passengers faced the unknown and set sail across the Atlantic Ocean. Propelled by hope for a brighter future, these intrepid men and women endured two long months at sea, tired and hungry, to arrive in a new world full of potential.
SKYE’S LINKS 11/26/20
Neither I nor they believe in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy either:
Nolte: Only 3% of Trump Voters Believe Joe Biden Is Legitimate Winner
China's CCP already emboldened by Biden:
Watch this one; social media Section 230 case asks SCOTUS for cert:
Facebook Censorship Case Hits Supreme Court Docket
Google's thumb on the scale:
Robert Epstein: Google Shifted a 'Minimum' of 6 Million Votes in 2020
ARE WE DAVID TO THE LEFT’S GOLIATH?
We are at war with enemies of liberty, domestic and foreign. Domestic enemies are now pressing relentlessly. Why shrink from the word “enemy,” the simple definition of which is “one seeking to injure, overthrow, or confound an opponent.” Who other are these warmakers?
This war is much more than disputes over fraudulent elections, though that would be cause enough. The Democrat Party is a means. The new war has been imagined, developed, and phased in over decades by the Left. It’s unconventional, asymmetric, and cunning.
What would follow Leftist consolidation of power in the United States is the hoped-for realization of the Leftist-globalist dream of a “Great Reset,” whereby the United States is subsumed in some oligarchic-Marxist transnational utopia.
It is this Goliath of the Left against which the Davids of American Patriots are destined to fight.
PLEASE, MR PRESIDENT! EXPLAIN TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT SURVIVAL OF THE REPUBLIC IS AT STAKE
Karl Marx, the avatar of modern evil, liked to say that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. As another cliché has it, history doesn’t repeat but it sometimes rhymes. But there is nothing farcical about the American political situation at the moment, nor anything particularly lyrical.
President Donald Trump and the forces of real change in contemporary politics are now locked in a death struggle with the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party, the unholy alliance of radical Democrats and milquetoast Republicans who have profited mightily from the business-as-usual of Washington practically since Eisenhower left office in January 1961.
Very simply, if Trump wins, the American Republic survives. If he does not, it does not.
SKYE’S LINKS 11/19/20
As Senator Palpatine says: “There is no civility, only politics. The bureaucrats are in charge now.”
US Color Revolution: The Not So Phantom Menace
Never let a good crisis go to waste:
Robert Bridge: How The Democrats Weaponized A Pandemic To Beat Donald Trump
This is also my judgement:
Alan Dershowitz: 'I Do Think that Trump Will Win the Pennsylvania Lawsuit' if Enough Votes at Stake
There’s more than ever in this week’s Skye’s Links!
SPINELESS AMERICA
Thanks to the dreaded COVID-19, it’s goodbye Thanksgiving and, soon enough, farewell Christmas. And after that, who knows?
Having discovered that Americans have lost their spines and are now easily penned inside their homes like two-legged sheep, the petty potentates who rule—not govern, rule—far too many states and municipalities have concluded that we will never fight back, never resist, and never reject their latest whimsical edicts.
It’s been a monstrous disgrace, made even worse by its supine acceptance. But even more dire consequences have followed the arrival of the Chinese Communist Party Virus on our shores. In short order:
CONGRESS HAS THE ABSOLUTE RIGHT TO REJECT A STATE’S ELECTORAL VOTES
Congressman Brooks with the President
Alabama GOP Congressman Mo Brooks posted this after the election:
