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News sites are filling up with analytical pieces about Tuesday's presidential election. I've tried to read as many as I can, with plans to highlight some of the best work in upcoming posts here at Legal Schnauzer. The No. 1 article I've seen so far comes from former ESPN and MSNBC journalist Keith Olbermann. What makes Olbermann's piece stand out? He is the first writer I've seen flatly question the integrity of the 2024 presidential election. In fact, he addresses evidence that suggests Russia used bomb threats in multiple precincts to interfere on behalf of Donald Trump.
The bottom line: Olbermann believes the election was rigged, and I agree with him. In my view, this is by far the biggest story of the election, and based on my research, Olbermann is the first and only reporter to take it on -- in clear, concise, and unvarnished language. Plus, he has the kind of journalism chops that could produce a series of articles on this subject, perhaps even a book. My hope is that we will see some kind of long-form work on this subject, coming from Olbermann in the not-too-distant future. I have no doubt he is capable of uncovering facts that will make many Americans' stomachs churn. On the other hand, it might renew faith in our system for those who yearn to see Trump, and the allies who likely helped bring the election scam to fruition, held accountable.
Maybe best of all, Olbermann is fearless. He's not afraid to call Donald Trump "insane" and he's not afraid to heap criticism on Attorney General Merrick Garland for letting the Trump Train of Corruption get this far without launching an investigation.
My hope is that our readers will read, ponder,and digest the Olbermann article below. It probably will be the most important, and most revealing, work you have read in a while. We encourage you to share it with as many friends, acquaintances, and loved ones as you can. It truly is one of those stories that every American needs to read -- as our nation balances on the precipice between democracy and tyranny. I'm going to get out of the way, so you can dig in to a piece that reveals journalism to be an important and noble profession. By the way, the article originated with Olbermann's current project, a podcast that will take you back to his days as an ESPN anchor who redefined sports reporting and commentary on cable news before moving to MSNBC and helping launch Rachel Maddow into network stardom. In other words, Olbermann has talent, and he knows talent. He also knows a big story when he smells one. Let's pray that his nose for news helps bring our Republic back from the depths.
Enjoy,
Legal Schnauzer
Countdown With Keith Olbermann (Click on link for audio.)
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: "No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly." H.L. Mencken (1926).
Nice of Hispanic males to vote for the guy who will deport all their relatives and friends and namesakes and when they run out, deport them.
Also: the anti-Trump conservative who's trying to be optimistic: at least now Trump won't try another coup!
And Jeff Bezos congratulates Trump because if they're still blackmailing Bezos on Trump's behalf, this is what it would look like!
And details on the future of this podcast (yes, it has one).
B-Block (20:51) SPECIAL COMMENT TWO: My theory of The Lifeboat and how it explains who voted for Trump and why.
C-Block (34:00) GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK.
November 5, 2024
Russia has committed an act of war against this nation and our government.
We were attacked last night (11/5/24), as certainly as if they came across the borders or BOMBED polling stations - 40 or more - 32 Russian bomb threats just in Fulton county, Georgia, alone.
And what are you going to do about it, President Biden? What are you going to do about it, Merrick Garland? There is real-time evidence of Russian interference in our elections. Russians deciding who becomes president, who goes to the Senate, the House.
Thirty-two bomb threats – many already identified as coming from Russian email sources – in the most Democratic part of Georgia. A quarter of the state’s Black population subjected to a terror attack – in Fulton and DeKalb Counties. And in Pennsylvania – one that closed a county elections offense for an hour, at least 10 others. AND in Wisconsin. AND in Michigan. AND in Arizona – at least 10 in Arizona. AND when Georgia extended voting, the Republican National Committee went to court to stop it.
Regardless of the outcome of the election, this is an act of war.
Russian interference means Trump – Trump already admitted at the debate he talked to Putin AFTER he left office - and now Trump means Elon Musk, and we know Musk has been in contact with Putin frequently since 2022, and turned Twitter into a whorehouse for pro-Russian and pro-Trump indoctrination.
Remember the Wall Street Journal October 24 Elon Musk's Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin." Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a linchpin of U.S. space efforts, has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022." The discussions confirmed by several current and former U.S., European, and Russian officials touch on personal topics, business, and geopolitical tensions. In the Journal on October 24, its sources reported Putin asked Musk to not activate his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as "a favor to the Chinese dictator, Xi Jinping." That, the Journal quoted a former Russian intelligence officer as saying, happened late last year, quoting the article again later in 2022, Musk was having regular conversations with "high-level Russians," according to a person familiar with the interactions.
At the time, there was pressure from the Kremlin on Musk's businesses and "implicit threats against him", the person said, threats unless he did what? The Journal went on to say that since Musk has "a security clearance that allows him access to certain classified information, his continuing contact with Putin triggered "potential national-security concerns among some in the current administration," and the Journal reporters also said that while some on the Biden staff seem to have been aware of Musk's connection to Russia and Putin, maybe most did not. "Several White House officials said they weren't aware of them." Were they aware that Musk had taken over goodness knows what? Or for something not happening? Musk took Twitter, swung it into a position in which it was a home for every pro-Russian idiot and bot and every Nazi and every racist and every anti-Semite, and every anti-American force that had thumbs. Is Musk going to be arrested? Detained? Questioned? Are his clearances going to be removed? Is somebody going to send him an email asking if he knows what happened? Did he have any connection to it? Could he get a message through to Putin?
Is Trump going to be arrested? Detained? Questioned? Anybody connected to Trump? How about a statement from Merrick Garland? Or is that timid, useless, impotent man still working on preventing the copying of music, cassette and eight-track tapes. Trump's Supreme Court has given the president, not him, not anyone in particular, but the office of president of the United States, it has given the president blanket immunity, pre-approval to do basically anything he wants and fear no prosecution. as long as he can vaguely prove he did it as part of his official duties. I'm guessing here, but responding to an attempt unquestionably successful at least in part, to interfere with the election by a foreign country, is unquestionably part of those official presidential duties.
Have we ceded control of this country to Russia, President Biden? Does Putin get to shut down polling places and scare off what will be for all time an immeasurable number of American voters in the places where, in our history, members of minority groups have been shot at and killed for trying to vote? Do the Russians get to shut down polling places now, act as the KKK, influence the outcome of elections in the states that are key to the election? Do they get to make these decisions? Or -- it's a quaint notion -- do Americans get to make these decisions? President Biden? What are we going to do in response to this? Are we going to turn off Russia's power grid? Are we going to seize Starlink and shut it off where the Russians are using it in Ukraine? Are we going to give Ukraine all of the seized Russian oligarchs super yachts and other investments in cash? Are we giving Ukraine all it needs to obliterate the entire Russian force inside its country, while we still have a country? Are we expelling Russian diplomats? Are we voiding the electoral results in the states the Russians invaded by remote control -- or are we even thinking about how to correct this? Are we considering doing something more severe? Or are we repeating 2016, where despite overwhelming evidence that Trump got help from Russia to get elected, we shrugged.
This week, we turned our government over to a bunch of crooks who have proved themselves, time and time again, manipulated by, and instructed by, and shown how to cheat and lie and kill Americans by Vladimir Putin. Are we going to get a statement from this administration? Oh wait, wait, there was a statement from this administration. I'll quote it in full: "The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, including Georgia, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far. Election integrity is among the FBI's highest priorities. We will continue to work closely with our state and local law-enforcement partners to respond to any threats to our elections and to protect our communities as Americans exercise their right to vote." As an aside I'll note, except for last night.
As always, the FBI statement continues, but there is no signature, there is no office, there is no name connected to this. It is the FBI as an institution. "As always, we urge the public to remain vigilant . . ." it says. Again, as an aside, because Merrick Garland does not remain vigilant, "and report suspicious activity to state or local law enforcement or submit tips to the FBI at one eight hundred call FBI or online at tips dot FBI dot gov." How extraordinarily and completely and impotently pathetic. The Russians just shot our democracy in the heart, and those who are there solely to protect that democracy and the citizens of this nation, us -- those who are there solely to protect us -- have responded to this invasion-by-proxy by establishing . . . a toll-free tip line."
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