Drew Nickell, Broadcast on 24 Sept 2020, Discusses Presidential Election
Broadcast on WKQA-AM Freedom 1110 in Hampton Roads, Virginia on Thursday, 24 September 2020, I discussed the confluence of stressors and the emerging truth of this year’s presidential election.
-Drew Nickell, 24 September 2020
© 2020 by Drew Nickell, all rights reserved.
Election 2020- the Confluence of Stressors and its Emerging Truth
In the not-so-coincidental confluence of dissimilar stressors, the greater truth of the 2020 Presidential Election emerges… and the truth which emerges shows more and more clarity, with every passing day.
To wit:
Coronavirus- The culpability of the communist Chinese government in the worldwide spread of the coronavirus has long been suspected since that government took measures to silence the growing calls from doctors- connected with the government-owned and operated lab in Wuhan- that a dangerous virus had been set loose and was rapidly spreading. Almost immediately, that government shut down flights- within that nation- to and from the Wuhan, but continued to allow international flights, regardless. That government almost immediately shut down Wuhan, the largest city in the Hubei Province, while simultaneously insisting that the virus was not communicable between humans, and then lied about its very origin- blaming it instead on “wet markets” not exactly known for their sanitary nature. These lies were then echoed by the World Health Organization, which gave cover to the Chinese government while insisting that President Trump’s decision to shut down incoming flights from China was “over-reactionary,” “xenophobic,” and bordered on “racism.” Democrats, including their eventual nominee for president, Joe Biden, echoed these same sentiments, but even Biden was reluctantly forced to admit later, that the President acted wisely in his decision to stop inbound flights from China, and later Europe, but not before they had already planted the seed of mis-information that it was all Trump’s fault in the way he responded to the emerging pandemic. Throughout Trump’s actions, both during the initial and subsequent developments of this pandemic, Democrats continued to second-guess the President, yet offered no real alternatives to what the President was doing to ameliorate the effects of the pandemic. President Trump, along with his Coronavirus Task Force, unleashed all of the engines of the nation’s government and corporate entities, to quickly ramp up production of sorely-needed ventilators and the development of therapeutics aimed at combating the effects of the virus- particularly among the old and infirm. Trump launched Operation Warpspeed to dramatically accelerate the development of a vaccine to prevent coronavirus infection, by removing all of the usual regulatory and certification burdens which can slow the process of a new such launch to three years, or more. In doing so, no less than five different pharmaceutical companies are now in the third and final stages of testing, and the President has already unleashed the logistical expertise of the U.S. Army’s Transportation Corps to be at the ready to distribute the vaccine, just as soon as final approvals occur- all within the next several weeks, according to reports. So, within the space of nine months, the public and private sectors have come together to both treat coronavirus patients and protect the public from further infection with effective inoculation- a feat which knows absolutely no equal in the annals of pandemic history.
In responding to the coronavirus, President Trump did all of this, yet what do we hear from Democrats, now that a victory over coronavirus in in sight? “Oh, Trump was slow to recognize the dangers of the virus…” “oh, Trump is dangerously rushing the development and launch of the vaccine, just in time for the election, and doesn’t care about its safety or effectiveness…” and “no one should ever trust any vaccine coming from Trump…” Democrats insist that much of the economy remains shuttered, insist that schools remain closed, and insist that masks and social-distancing protocols remain in place for the foreseeable future- some even insisting that Trump be impeached, yet again, this time for his response to the coronavirus. When asked, albeit seldomly, just how they would have handled the response differently from how Trump handled it, they quickly change the subject by either suggesting a non-existent rift between Trump and the scientists and doctors on his task force, or by condemning the President for conducting campaign rallies before large audiences without requiring that they wear masks. Given the great difference in enthusiasm between the two campaigns, it’s no wonder Democrats carp about these rallies because, deep down, they know fully well that Biden could never draw such attendance nor much enthusiasm for his own candidacy.
Unrest in the Streets- While no one could have foreseen the sudden onslaught of the virus, unrest from leftist radicals- in the streets of cities where they are given such leeway by Democrat mayors and in states with Democrat governors- began to emerge in the second term of the Obama administration. First, there was Ferguson, Missouri, followed by Baltimore, Maryland- both cities in which an African-American suspect died at the hands of local law enforcement. The riots those incidents unleashed resulted in far more deaths, and millions of dollars in destruction and looting- a harbinger of what was to follow George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis six years later. Ever since Floyd’s death, many other cities have erupted in violence- some as the result of similar incidents where police officers were forced to take lethal means to subdue suspects and effect arrests. Since this latest eruption of violence, which began in June, Democrat governors have refused to seek the deployment of their state’s National Guard units to put down the riots- a deployment repeatedly offered and encouraged by President Trump- while Democrat mayors have put the kibosh on local and state law enforcement to bring their streets under control.
Yet, the Democrats seek to blame Trump for all of this unrest, while completely dismissing the feckless inaction of their own gubernatorial and mayoral administrations which have allowed this violence to continue. Police officers and civilians alike have been assaulted and even murdered in the weeks which have followed Floyd’s death. Many thousands of businesses have been looted and damaged beyond repair, while many of these same businesses which provide jobs to minorities have been forced to permanently close. How any of these actions help to end “white privilege,” or combat “endemic racism,” or even “bring justice” at the behest of the relatively few incidents where unarmed black men are actually killed by white police officers- typically not more ten or eleven each year- when tens of thousands of black Americans are killed by other black Americans each and every year, are far beyond any rational discussion. While blame for the unrest, which was originally unleashed and even encouraged by the Obama administration, was never laid at the foot of Barack Obama administration, all we hear is that the riots taking place in 2020 are the direct result of Donald Trump and the deep divisions that he purportedly sows, in his tweets and rhetoric. Never at a loss for words- words which abide criminals in the crimes they commit, words which absolve violent felons from the life-changing results of their own assaults and even murders- Democrats seek to explain the inexplicable and transfer responsibility and culpability for violence away from those who commit this violence.
In other words, never under-estimate the power of Democrats and their co-collaborators in the media to exonerate their own, while at the same time, bring condemnation on Trump as well as their own Republican counterparts. It happens again and again and again.
International Relations- While the arrival of coronavirus and the death toll that has emerged from it (over 200,000 in the United States and just under a million deaths worldwide, as of this writing) have clouded other developments on the international front, we nevertheless see a drastic change in the status quo ante.
ISIS and their infamous caliphate, which the Obama administration said “that we would have to live with for the foreseeable future” has since been destroyed with all of their “territory” reclaimed by Syria and Lebanon. Thanks, in large measure, to President Trump removing Obama’s suicidal rules of engagement, which had hampered the effectiveness of our forces to lay waste to this radical Islamist regime, we haven’t heard any more of beheadings, and other brutal acts of violence, once perpetrated by these radicals against Christians, Jews and non-adherent Muslims, alike.
The ludicrous and ill-conceived Iran deal, which Obama and his second Secretary of State John Kerry put together to appease that nation and its criminal regime, has been effectively cancelled by the Trump administration- drying up the financial resources Iran then used to foment terrorism throughout the world. Arab states throughout the Middle East are taking note of these developments and are slowly but surely isolating the Iranian regime and recognizing the disruptive influence which Iranian mullahs have, and are, subjecting the world.
In September, President Trump successfully negotiated the first peace treaty between Israel and Arab nations in more than twenty-six years. In the so-named Abrahamic Accords, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have formally recognized the State of Israel, joining Egypt (1979) and Lebanon (1994) in the formal diplomatic and trade relations with the Jewish state. As many as nine other Arab states are soon to follow suit- further isolating the Islamist regime in Iran. Trump has won worldwide recognition for this treaty and, along with the peace treaty he previously negotiated between Kosovo and Serbia, has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize- this time in recognition for all that he has accomplished to bring peace where once there was war.
Trump accomplished this latest treaty to the absolute dismay of globalists in the Obama and in former administrations, most notably John Kerry, who insisted that the only way such a treaty could happen was by first settling the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians- long promised, but perpetually short in realization… for this lifetime, anyway. So, Trump bypassed that conundrum completely, and then deployed his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, to enter into back-door negotiations between the U.A.E. and Israel. Once achieved, Bahrain quickly signed on, and thus history was made on the south lawn of the White House.
Yet, all we hear from Democrats and other globalists, as well as their co-conspirators in the media, is condemnation for an elusive peace treaty which they say excludes Palestinians- yet no one, most certainly not the Trump administration nor the Israelis, have prevented the Palestinians from signing onto the Abrahamic Accords, but then again, Trump has accomplished what all of the so-called experts in Washington and New York could not have accomplished, by thinking outside the box, and that is what bothers the living hell out of them.
“How dare he go where they were unwilling to go!”
Domestically, aside from the coronavirus and the uptick in urban unrest, Democrats are pulling out all the stops to deny Trump a second term. Where once they failed to prevent his uncanny nomination and election, and at the same time, failed to destroy his presidency with a $45 million dollar Mueller investigation followed by an impeachment attempt, they are now resorting to seize electoral victory through fraudulent voting, by means of mass distribution of unsolicited ballots via the U.S. Mail. They have even gone so far as to promise an escalation in the violence we see in our streets if Trump is re-elected- a modus operandi of voter extortion not seen in the history of these United States.
The passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsberg- regrettable, yet altogether expected given her age and commendable battle with terminal cancer- has opened up another vacancy on the nation’s highest court. Expressing absolute outrage that this president dare exercise his constitutional mandate to name Justice Bader-Ginsberg’s replacement with a constructionist (read “conservative”) justice- not to mention doing so in an election year- how dare he – they would presume to tell the American people that Trump has no right to fill her seat. After all, they say, Bader-Ginsberg’s “seat” should only be filled by a woman who shares her activist (read “liberal”) judicial philosophy, and their candidate for president insists that the woman be African-American, as well.
So, in a country governed by a Constitution, which gives a President an entire four-year term to exercise his explicit powers, and in a country which promises that all are created equal, such platitudes somehow don’t apply when it comes to President Trump, as well as the selection of a Supreme Court Justice. Trump should be proscribed from exercising his duties, while only a liberal African-American woman, nominated by a Democrat president, is qualified to replace the late Justice Bader-Ginsberg.
Democrats are even threatening to “pack” the Supreme Court, with the addition of six more justices- presumably of their own philosophical, liberal and activist bent- if Trump is allowed to select a third Supreme Court justice, just as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once tried to do in 1937, when the Supreme Court decided then that certain elements of his New Deal were unconstitutional. Ever since Trump was elected, and in the wake of Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh being appointed, Democrats have clamored for this packing, so their latest threat to pack the Court is nothing new in the passing of Ruth Bader-Ginsberg.
That aside, the increasing likelihood of a disputed presidential election ending up at the steps of the Supreme Court, just as it did so in Bush vs Gore twenty years ago, will require a full compliment of nine justices to finally settle the election. Such a contingency cannot be settled without nine justices, and therefore, a new justice must not await this year’s election, because the continuation of our nation may well hang in the balance. President Trump knows this. Republicans in both houses of Congress also know this, as well as all of their Democrat counterparts.
So, this begs the question “Why do Democrats, their nominated candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, as well as Republican Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) insist that the selection and confirmation of a new Supreme Court Justice wait until after the election? The answer is quite simple- none of them, Collins and Murkowski included, want Trump to be re-elected and it is simple as that. They would rather see the nation suspended in the uncertainty of its future, and even further divided, while being subjected to the trauma of public litigation that would surely attend to such an extended and drawn-out, contested election- the longer the better.
At this moment, in the final week of September, it looks like Republicans in the Senate will be able to proceed with the confirmation hearings which follow Trump’s selection, albeit without the help from Senators Collins and Murkowski, now that Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Cory Gardiner (R-CO) have given their assent to proceed. Trump has indicated he will announce the selection on Saturday, September 26th at 5:00 PM, EDT. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has already slated the week of October 12th for confirmation hearings, thus enabling a floor vote before Hallowe’en, and before this fall’s election takes place. Let us hope and pray that there is a fully-functional, nine-justice compliment to the Supreme Court, prior to November 3rd, because it looks like that’s where this election is headed… one way or another.
Coronavirus, urban unrest, race relations, international relations, the potential for fraudulent balloting and the Supreme Court vacancy are but six dissimilar but altogether confluent stressors from which the emerging truth of this year’s election is revealed, despite the efforts of the media to disguise this truth and camouflage the real differences between Biden and Trump.
Tuesday’s debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump will reveal even more differences between these two candidates- and show one who solves problems while the other pontificates platitudes, just as he has for forty-seven years.
Stay tuned.
-Drew Nickell, 24 September 2020
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Democrats Promise Mayhem If Trump Is Re-elected
With little more than seven weeks to go until the 2020 Presidential Election, Democrats have revealed, intentionally or not, the ultimate modus operandi of election tampering- the threat of violence if their nominee Joe Biden doesn’t win. The Democrat nominees have, themselves, so much as admitted this- again, whether intentionally or not.
Vice-Presidential nominee Kamala Harris (D-CA) said, during a televised interview a couple of months ago, that “…the level of unrest we see in the streets is a good thing, and that’s not going to end with the election… nor should it…”
Think about that… The running mate of a major party’s presidential nominee not only endorses looting, arson, assault and worse, but believes it should continue.
Then there was 2016 nominee Hillary Clinton who said, “If I were advising Joe Biden, I would tell him not to concede the election- regardless of the outcome.”
So, the most poisonous, most corrupt, and most pathologically dishonest presidential nominee in history, Hillary Clinton, is openly saying to her successor to the Democrat nomination, to essentially reject the will of the people. Remember that it was Hillary Clinton, who once wagged her finger at Donald Trump, because he refused in one of their debates, to unconditionally accept defeat at the polls, saying “…we’ll see what happens …” (Trump has also said the same regarding this year’s election). Clinton, who never accepted his election in 2016, is now advocating sheer rejection of the will of the people to determine their own destiny- essentially advocating for open revolt.
Then there’s Joe Biden himself, who just this past week said that “violence… (which only recently, Biden has condemned)… we see in the streets will only get worse if Trump is re-elected…”
You heard it. The Democrat nominee for the nation’s highest office has promised an escalation in violence if his Republican opponent is re-elected- a level of unrest that his running mate has endorsed as not only a “good thing,” but inevitable.
With feckless failure to condemn the violence taking place in Democrat-run cities across the land, cowardly Republicans are just as culpable as their Democrat counterparts in tacitly aiding and abetting this violence, through their silence… and why? …because they fear being labeled as “racist.’’ The media labels all Republicans as racist, anyway, so Republicans who stay silent on the issue are doing just as much as Democrats to encourage the unrest in these cities.
Only President Donald Trump is standing up for law and order, and he has promised to immediately end this violence, on request, from the affected state’s governors (that’s our federal system). Yet, these Democrat governors and mayors who refuse to do so are evidently fine with allowing further death and destruction, so long as Trump isn’t re-elected… rest assured, that that’s what really is at work here.
With Democrats encouraging continued mayhem in our streets, their nominees Biden and Harris advocating more violence if the election doesn’t go their way, and their party’s 2016 nominee openly advocating rejection of any result that keeps Donald Trump in office, the modus operandi of constitutional overthrow and the plan for violent coup d’état (if that’s what it takes) is therefore revealed for all to see, if they will only pay attention…
Stay tuned…
-Drew Nickell, 12 September 2020
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Drew Nickell, Broadcast on 3 Sept 2020, Discusses Presidential Election
Broadcast on WKQA-AM Freedom 1110 in Hampton Roads, Virginia on Thursday, 3 September 2020, I discussed the manufactured misery besetting this nation and how this misery impacts the upcoming presidential election, as well as other topics of the day.
-Drew Nickell, 3 September 2020
© 2020 by Drew Nickell, all rights reserved.
Following the Conventions, the Race is On for the Presidency of the United States
Now that the Democrat and Republican nominations are formalized, and their respective conventions have come to a close, Americans are starting to pay closer attention to the presidential elections which are less than nine short weeks away.
Exactly sixty days from today, Americans will be deciding who will lead this nation through the years 2021 through 2024, when we will be saddled with the next presidential election, once again. If sixty days of suffering through endless campaign commercials, the cacophony of commentators posing as journalists, and the never-ending litany of “scientific polling” which predict little more than wishful thinking on the part of pollsters- if that seems like an eternity, give a thought to sixty days before today.
Sixty days ago, it was July 4th, 2020- the two hundred forty-third Anniversary of our nation’s founding. Perhaps, you were venturing out into the world- masks at the ready- to celebrate the nation’s birthday by firing up the patio grill, placing the stars and stripes outside your doorstep and getting ready to watch the fireworks on your television. In some small towns across the fruited plains, you might have been preparing to watch or participate in the few Independence Day parades still taking place in our quasi-quarantined, semi-sequestered nation. As we listened to the sitting President give one of his most effective and beautifully-constructed speeches at the foot of Mount Rushmore, followed by a magnificent fireworks display over the enormous sculptures of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt in South Dakota, we were reminded of an America we knew before the Chinese pandemic- an America which celebrated its freedom and independence as something to be proud of, something to be cherished, something for which we owe much to those who gave their lives, so that this nation might live.
To many of us, how we spent and what we did on this most unusual July 4th, seems like it was merely a fortnight ago, and yet our calendars tell us that sixty days have passed, since.
So, the sixty days remaining in this year’s quadrennial exercise in presidential politics will pass with the same velocity that the preceding sixty days have passed, but will this passage of time put a final end to this year’s presidential campaign?
Not hardly- given the fact that the 2016 presidential campaign didn’t really end with President Trump’s election. No, the Democrats and the media saw to it that that election would be re-litigated, on a daily basis, ever since the night of November the 8th, 2016.
First, we were told that it was the Russians who interfered with our election and caused Trump to be elected against the wishes of the American people. Three sweltering years, and $40 million dollars later, we learned that there was absolutely no merit to such an outrageous claim. Then, we were told that the President tried to use the power of his office to leverage the newly-elected Ukrainian president, in terms of financial and military assistance to that government, in exchange for dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, in a July 2019 phone call. For that whopper, the Democrats moved forward with their impeachment plans- three years in the making.
Once again, the Democrats ended up being smeared by their own baseless allegations, when it was revealed that Joe Biden’s son was paid millions of dollars by a Ukrainian energy company, to serve on their board of directors, for no reason other than the identity of his father. The hefty payments continued right up until the younger Biden resigned from his lucrative position- the day before his father announced his candidacy for President.
Now, they have turned their tactics into blaming the President for arrival of a pandemic which has cost more than 180,000 American lives, despite the fact that millions of American lives were saved by the President’s early actions to shut down flights from China, and later Europe, when these very same Democrats chided such actions as racist and xenophobic.
Never doubt the ability of Democrats to revise history- both recent and not-so-recent- just as long as it serves their own partisan interests. The same goes as well for their blaming the violence and destruction taking place in cities across America on Trump, where Democrat governors and mayors aid and abet this same violence with little if any resistance, or make an effort to stop, or even quell, this violence.
Yes, it’s true- Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media will stop at nothing to end Trump’s presidency- even if doing so costs many lives, destroys businesses, and ravages communities, alike.
Truth be told, this unrest began long before George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police, long before Donald Trump’s presidency, and all the way back to the first term of Barack Obama’s presidency. It was Obama who set off the war on cops- from Black Lives Matter, whose aim is to usher in a communist insurgency, to Antifa, whose goal is to unleash widespread anarchy in the streets of our nation.
Yet, all we hear is that the nation’s unrest is what we see in “Donald Trump’s America,” as if all of this is due to the President’s divisive rhetoric, and is being stoked by Trump just to scare Americans into re-electing the nation’s forty-fifth President.
Only this week have some Democrats begun to speak out against this violence, when throughout the entirety of their own Democrat National Convention, nary a word was spoken to condemn the looting, destruction, assaults and even murder which has been unleashed on our cities, large and small. Yet, even in this condemnation, Democrats can’t resist the temptation to turn reality 180 degrees on its head- blaming all of the violence on right-wing extremists who, at the encouragement of Trump, are perpetrating the violence as a means to scare us into re-electing him.
Well there are liars, there are damned liars, and then there are Democrats, who have taken prevarication to an all-time low, and are helped by willing accomplices in the media who have made common cause with Democrats to defeat Trump in November.
They are even screwing around with how we cast ballots, with some states mailing out millions of unsolicited ballots to names and addresses, many of whom are known to be inaccurate and unreliable, and which provide no means of ensuring ballot legitimacy. This is not to be confused with absentee balloting, which must be specifically requested by duly registered voters in advance of an election, and with which voter eligibility is pre-determined before the absentee ballot is sent.
Moreover, a full third of our nation’s voters will begin casting ballots in early and mid-September, before the first presidential debate even takes place at month’s end.
Speaking of debates, the moderators for the three presidential debates, and the lone vice-presidential debate, were announced this week and they all share one common trait- they all hate President Trump and will spend their respective evenings fact-checking the President and blunting any and all criticism of Biden and his running mate.
So, Donald Trump and Mike Pence will be debating the moderators as well as their nominal opponents, and post-debate coverage will score their own respective performances as such- while exaggerating the respective performances and effectiveness of their Democrat opponents.
This isn’t so much a prediction as much as much as it is a certainty. Write it down and hold me to it, if you like, but rest assured that this cake is already baked, and frosted, too.
Hillary Clinton recently said that, under no circumstances, should Biden concede the election regardless of outcome. What a glaring admission from the ultimate DC insider! This is their plan- to cast fear, uncertainty, and doubt into our presidential election, so as to further engulf the nation into post-election discord and further division.
Prognosticators are even predicting that this year’s election will portend what they have described as a “red mirage,” where Trump appears to gain an electoral victory on election night, only to be reversed with the discovery of millions of ballots, well after the fact. Some “blue” states, like California, are even making allowances for mailed-in ballots containing postmarks weeks after November 3rd. In other words, Democrats are already planning to overturn the results of the election in ways that heretofore seemed unimaginable even four years ago.
As we said, this year’s Presidential Election won’t be over on election night.
Former Vice President and Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden even promised that violence in our streets will continue with Trump’s re-election, thereby unwittingly revealing what is really behind this unrest, and it goes part and parcel with the fact that it is the Democrats who are encouraging this unrest.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, tells us all we need to know about the real issues surrounding this election.
What is not so obvious, but nevertheless is absolutely true, is that this year’s presidential election will also be a cognitive intelligence test for America’s electorate… that is to say, “Are we stupid enough to elect Joe Biden president?”
Well, are we?
Stay tuned…
-Drew Nickell, 3 September 2020
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author of “Bending Your Ear- a Collection of Essays on the Issues of Our Times”
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