Here's a real poem, by William Ernest Henley. These words will be on my mind as I join you, my brothers and sisters, in our nation's capital on the 6th. Together, we will make it The People's capital, again.

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

I've seen a couple posts talking about ferrying people into DC if roads are closed. They can shut down commercial/private ferries and water taxis, but not private boats. Where will people meet to embark, and where will they disembark? There are piers at National Harbor, Mt. Vernon, Alexandria, Potomac Yard Marina, Belle Haven Marina, Capital Cove Marina, and Fort Washington, and to disembark, the DC Wharf, Ballpark Wharf, landings along Potomac Park, Georgetown Waterfront, all around the Tidal Basin, etc.

SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP.

All the panty-pissing, petty Madonna/whore, worship/condemn switcheroo kvetching is like listening to fucking teen girls bitching about who's cool. Be grateful for great leaders. Become one. Get your own personal shit together. Speak out publicly. Prepare yourself to oppose tyrants. Stand with the principled. And stop the whinnying.

Frens, I'm getting ready to send the CO Sec State a check tomorrow to buy the Election Cycle Subscription Service (https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/info_center/fees/elections.html), unless someone tells me they already have it. If I don't hear from anyone tonight, I'll send them the check tomorrow and then make sure the data is available to everyone. On that note, not sure where to post it, so if someone has a recommendation, I'm listening.

I knew the moment that I compared voter turnout in CO and found that primary voter turnout from 2016 to 2020 increased by over 140% despite population increasing less than 5% that something was off. Now, I'm digging into all the connections, but it's a lot.

The more I dig, the more shit bothers me.

E.g.

• Colorado uses ARLO software from VotingWorks to conduct Risk-Limiting Audits (a statistical sample-based audit approach that is theoretically efficient and accurate, but as Yogi Berra said, "In theory there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is...")
• VotingWorks is a non-profit; I immediately don't fucking trust them, but they also were incubated by CDT(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-democracy-and-technology/) and funded by Google, FB, Apple, MS, and Soros' Open Society Foundation (https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/voting-works/)
• In fact, VotingWorks "product manager for Risk-limiting Audits" is Monica Childers (https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicacranechilders/), who was the "Product Consultant - Colorado Risk-limiting Audit Software" while she worked for Democracy Works, which is ALSO funded by Soros' Open Society Foundations, the Democracy Fund, Omidyar's network, etc. (https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/democracy-works/)
• VotingWorks Partners with Security Compass to secure Risk-Limiting Audit Software Arlo (https://voting.works/news/2020/11/votingworks-partners-with-security-compass-to-secure-risk-limiting-audit-software-arlo/)
• A bunch of the Security Compass staff are Iranian graduates of the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nima-dezhkam-88b499a/)(https://www.linkedin.com/in/ehsanforoughi/) with LI endorsements from other Sharif grads(https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-s-27a991b/)
• VotingWorks also helped push vote-by-mail
• CO is a member of the (again...) non-profit Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), the board members of which is a who's who of this fucking cabal, e.g. CO's Director, Division of Elections, Colorado SecState, Judd Choate (https://www.linkedin.com/in/judd-choate-068877a/), who's endorsed by Brian Hancock (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-hancock-29899148/) "Director, Infrastructure Policy and Product Development at Unisyn Voting Solutions," formerly member of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), and one of the shills that signed off on the statement that this was "the most secure election in U.S. history"
• ERIC requires that member states provide "records from the state licensing/identification agency (typically, this is the state motor vehicle agency) for all residents with active records---not just registered voters" every 60 days; I think this is where they are getting the fodder for high-tech ballot stuffing/vote padding since this provides them lists of names/addresses, without restricting them to registered voters - if they have enough states, they also know who moved, but that doesn't keep them from using those names in the states the individuals left (https://ericstates.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ERIC-Membership-Summary-v20190603.pdf)
• BallotTrax (https://ballottrax.com/), a subsidiary of i3logix(https://i3logix.com/), also in Colorado (and also, curiously, listed as a "printing" company(), tracks the ballots that are printed, mailed, and received (and where they're received, based on USPS data - which would also, BTW, include optical scans of the exterior of mailed ballots, which means it includes optical scans of the fucking signatures) and when you combine that with, e.g. Runbeck (https://runbeck.net/) which also has an office (industrial space) in Colorado, and which uses the states' database and provides all the printed ballot/envelope data/images back to the states/their designated contractors, and which provides a "print on demand" system, Sentio (https://runbeck.net/election-solutions/ballot-printing-on-demand/sentio-on-demand-ballot-printing-system/), we're seeing the unassembled pieces of a puzzle
• I'm just getting started digging into Pro V&V, in Huntsville, that supposedly certifies the voting systems (and SLI Compliance, in Colorado, that does the same, with only two of 13 employees on LI even showing that they studied computer science) - again, endorsed by fucking Hancock, and owned by Gaming Labs International (GLI, LLC), which has its Colorado headquarters at the same street address as SLI)

All of these companies' employees, BTW, donate almost exclusively to ActBlue, Biden, Warren, etc, though some hide it (e.g. Monica Childers donated and the FEC log says she said she was unemployed, but her LI profile said she was employed by Democracy Works in that same timeframe).

Anyway, could use some help.

About that Joint Statement from Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council & The Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees, that "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history."

Members:
Bob Kolasky - a journalist, entrepreneur, and management consultant. His campaign donations include "Biden for President," "ACTBLUE," and "Amy for America"

Benjamin Hovland - former Congressional staff member and the "Designated Federal Officer" for the "Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC)" which recommend voluntary guidelines for voting systems. He is an attorney, with no technical background whatsoever.

Maggie Toulouse Oliver - Democrat SOS of NM. Defendant in a lawsuit RIGHT NOW for failing to properly count votes in the June, 2020 primary.

Lori Augino - WA Director of Elections. Literally oversaw the selection and implementaton of Dominion voting systems in Washington state. The sections for system and physical security in her certification reports aren't even a full page, total.

David Stafford - His campaign donations include "Biden for President" and "ActBlue"

Brian Hancock - Director of Unisyn Voting Systems ("which are totally secure, we swear it!"). Just retired as "Director of Voting Systems Testing and Certification for the the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. He has a BA in Political Science and an MA in American government.

Sam Derheimer - Director of Government Affairs for Hart Intercivic, which sells voting systems (also "totally secure, we swear it!"). He has a BA (Cum Laude!) in Political Science, and a JD, and previously worked for Pew, which helps fund Democracy Works.

Chris Wlaschin - Vice President of Systems Security for ES&S, a voting systems company (also, you guessed it, "totally secure, we swear it!"), which Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore) said "believes they are above the law...they have not had anybody hold them accountable even on the most basic matters." ES&S' CEO told NBC in 2016 that all their parts, "including electronics and tablets" made in China and the Phillippines, came from "very secure" overseas facilities.

Erica Haas - profile says she is an actual systems engineer with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), in which case she is the only one in this entire group with technical credentials, though there's no evidence she knows anything at all about system security. ERIC, by the way, is an non-profit corp that gets states to share their voter registration info under the banner of coordinating and making sure they're accurate. But they also require outreach by member states to all "eligible" voters, which in many cases includes people long-since dead. Every single swing state w/indications of massive fraud in the voting machines is a member of ERIC.

Maria Bianchi - A leftist (read her Twitter). Employed by Democracy Works, funded by anti-Trump Democracy Fund, Luminate, et al.

If I wanted to design a group to create the most significant imaginable conflict of interest in their role to comment on whether an election was secure, I could hardly do better than this list.

Trump is going to nominate a SCOTUS justice.

The Senate is going to take up the nomination.

A COVID-19 vaccine is going to be ready before the election, but it doesn't matter because deaths plateaued well below the April peak and are trending downward, despite increased confirmed cases directly proportional to increased testing. The pandemic is done.

But the Left isn't getting their way, so they're going to riot. They're going to burn, loot, and murder. You can't re-burn what you've already burned, so it will be cities that have not yet been hit (particularly those w/Soros/leftists DAs that will let arrested rioters off the hook) and suburbs.

When that happens, and it will, Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act, using Federal LE and even military forces to suppress the violence. If leftist politicians aren't telling their police to stand-down, local and state police will also be engaged. We will be better off, from a law and order standpoint, if it's Federal and state LE, or even military, dealing with the rioters/looters, rather than unsworn citizens. But while they're on duty, their families and homes will be vulnerable to the rear-area action of these miserable little leftist cunts. We need to think about how we will conduct rear-guard to protect their families and homes so they can do their duty in a way that minimizes damage to the nation. We could, and will, if need be, deal with the burn/loot/murder crowd on our own, citizen-to-scumbag, but if we do that, we weaken law and order and invite malicious prosecution of patriots, while increasing the risk of foreign powers opportunistically moving on, e.g., Taiwan, or the DMZ in Korea, or southeast Iraq oilfields, etc., while they think we're distracted.

Amirite?

This is a letter I just sent to Small Wars Journal; not sure if they'll have the balls to publish it.

Et tu, Mattis?

Dear General Mattis, With all due respect, and then some undue respect on top of that, have you lost your mind?

Like many Americans, and even more like many uniformed Service members, I was grateful to see you appointed Secretary of Defense. I helped author work brought to you for action, and knew you would care. I was glad for your signature on the last military decoration I received at my retirement and, based on your track record and reputation, I expected and hoped for a wise and steady hand at the helm of the Department in which I had spent my entire adult life. When you resigned over policy differences with the duly-elected President of the United States, your superior, I thought it a shame, but also an honorable act, in contrast to so many of our appointed officials who’ve remained in office, but disloyal to both the President and their oaths, so clearly committed to the treasonous and treacherous corroding and undermining of the President’s administration from within.

I actually agree with much of what you wrote in The Enemy Within, with regard to paralyzing politics, contempt, and the unaddressed urgent national issues.

And, the obvious answer to “have we taught them (our children) the principles that citizens of this democracy must live by,” and “do we even remember those principles ourselves” is “no.” Clearly. A large proportion of our elites and academia, in particular, have not only not taught our children those principles and neglected the principles, themselves, they have taught and acted in a manner that conveys very clearly that they detest America, her founding, and her principles. If she cannot be broken, they would very much like her bent, like the “arc of history.”

Perhaps word of these events didn’t quite reach you in the lofty environs of the Beltway, or perhaps, by the time they reached your level, something was lost in translation, like the famous conversion of “bullshit” into “that which is powerful and makes things grow,” but out here? In flyover country? We just witnessed the most stunning, disgraceful political scandal in U.S. history, characterized by shockingly widespread treachery, aligned against candidate, President-elect, and then President Trump and his team, within our most vaunted institutions, critical to the shared trust and premise of equality under the law. And still, they persist. Equally shocking has been the nearly total adoption by our Constitutionally-protected press of the mindset of partisan activists, and their abandonment of any semblance of journalistic integrity. On a daily basis since before his election, they distort, spin, and outright lie to attack President Trump and his team, to protect his political opponents, no matter the cost. They have found common cause with everyone from the Death to America Mullahs, to cop-killers, to ISIS, to the PRC that killed Americans by the tens of thousands with Fentanyl, and now SARS-CoV-2. Do I even need to bring up the shameful “impeachment,” and the pimps and liars and frauds in our Congress who carried it out, even while COVID-19-infected carriers were arriving, as intended by the PRC, on our shores, and while those same pimps, liars, and frauds chastised President Trump’s lonely efforts to protect America?

And yet now, after years of that unbelievably, unprecedentedly treacherous conduct by so many in positions of trust, you attest that you have found the enemy, and it is Trump? It is Trump you blame for his honesty, at long last, about the incredible betrayal at the most senior echelons of American halls of power and by our press? It is Trump you blame for the vitriol which the jilted establishment, and particularly our increasingly radical, irrational Left have promoted, swung to like a compass on a magnet, promoted, celebrated, and encouraged? It is Trump you blame for the division deliberately sowed and now reaped by radicals?

I agree with you, whole-heartedly, that Americans must unite, and must sincerely embrace our American ideals, in practice, including equal justice under the law; this will be easier for some than others – as Senator Graham said, “Boy, y’all sure want power.” But your claims about President Trump do precisely the opposite. Not only have you reiterated the latest poll-tested lies that the Left/our media have trotted out about “division,” in complete ignorance or deceptive avoidance of his words to the contrary, you have vastly understated the threat to American society posed by violent individuals and organizations who mean to destroy or subvert us. Your cavalier reference to a “small number of lawbreakers” reminds me, too much, of the “small, spontaneous protest in reaction to a video” characterization with which our previous President’s administration casually lied to the American people. Hundreds of buildings on fire, including churches and public buildings within a thousand feet of the White House. Citizens and first responders attacked and murdered. National Monuments vandalized. Businesses destroyed. Lives destroyed. And America, distracted again. For “justice?” When the investigation was already under way? No. If you can’t tell the difference between the peaceable assembly of “protests,” and the lawless, coercive violence of riots, I assure you: we can.

Worse, at this moment, in the midst of pandemic and the economic crisis brought on by overreaction, with rioting, with external threats galore, you choose to thrust your dagger. Et tu, Mattis? I don’t care what books you read, how often you’re quoted, or whom you brunch with inside the feted parlors of our fetid elite, the ninth Circle of Hell is reserved for treachery. You evoke Lincoln, Sir, but you resemble McClellan: brilliant, capable, ambitious. And fickle. And Trump resembles Grant – flawed, but at long last, willing to fight, and for the preservation of the Union. By all means, Sir, run for office; whether your words are heartfelt or bromides, I’m sure you will find many supporters. But not me; I won’t forget.

Sincerely yours, Shawn Smith