But what alternative do Americans have?

Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Dr. Brad Lyles —— Bio and Archives—December 29, 2020

In the past several days pro-Trump pundits began floating the idea that Vice-President/President of the Senate, Mike Pence, actually possesses plenary power to accept or reject Electoral votes he believes are fraudulent or fraudulently certified. 

These Trump-supporters point to the 12^th Amendment as the basis for this allegation. However, an unbiased reading of the 12^th Amendment does not at first glance support this perspective. But… recent scholarship makes a compelling case for the assertion that the 12^th Amendment indeed grants the Vice President/President of the Senate such plenary powers over acceptance of Electoral votes. 

And if this is true, and if VP Pence were to nullify sufficient slates of Electors (even if he did not endorse competing slates of Republican Electors), the 2020 election would then transition into what is called a Contingent Election in the House of Representatives – the same form of election that elected Thomas Jefferson President. And a Contingent Election will re-elect Donald Trump – because such an election assigns each State only one vote – and Republicans control the majority of the votes because they control the majority of the States. 

The ultimate preparation for a 12^th Amendment battle is what our rag-tag teams of attorneys and activists are already doing: Building, refining, and organizing the mountains of evidence for election-changing fraud in the Six Swing States. 

Since Election Night on November 3 these teams have also labored to rally support among Swing State Legislators, urging them to recall or nullify their State’s current slates of fraudulent Electors. These teams have invoked every possible mechanism to this end but have succeeded only in carrying off sparsely attended legislative informational hearings with no backing of leadership. Yet, their efforts are slowly having an effect. 

This ‘persuade the State Legislators’ tactic is ongoing and remains a pivotal element on the path to reclaiming our stolen election. To this end all readers who support Trump must continue to call and email these State Legislators every single day between now and January 6, when the Electoral votes are formally counted. 

(I would be honored to email my csv files of the email addresses of State legislators from GA, PA, WI and AZ – thus permitting you to compose your email text  and then paste the email addresses into it – and hit Send). I also have example emails available (drawn from the ones I’ve sent nearly every day since the election). My email: williamlyles@hotmail.com.

The ultimate goal of this State Legislator initiative is to accumulate as many of their voices as possible calling into question the legitimacy of their own  State’s election and communicating their allegations directly to VP Mike Pence – ASAP – and to Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate. 

The greater the number of  State legislator declarations the greater the justification for VP Pence to invalidate Electors from the Swing States. And, it must be kept in mind that VP Pence does not have to ‘replace’ the fraudulent Electors with Trump Electors – he merely needs to take the currently fraudulently certified Electors out of play. 

To the extent he can do this, if it knocks both Biden and Trump below 270 votes, the wondrous Contingent Election, described above, can begin – which we win.  

In addition to the “State Legislator initiative” described above, between now and January 6 Patriots need to overwhelm U.S. Republican House members and Senators – especially the Senators – with phone calls and emails. 

We must demand of our Republican U.S. legislators that they OBJECT to the fraudulent slates of Electors from the Six scandalous Swing States. In particular, they must take whatever action is necessary that will lead to a Contingent Election. 

Note: Phone calls are best because no U.S. Congressperson provides a direct email address – only those useless ‘form’ email boxes. 

However, to date we do not have any Senators on the record confirming they will join a House member in Objecting to slates of Electors on January 6. At least one Senator is required for each Objection. We need to warn our Senators – now – that if they fail to act – aggressively – we will initiate Primary and Recall initiatives  against them, beginning January 7, and without end. 

We come now to the the third initiative comprising the “12^th Amendment Plan” – the VP Pence initiative: VP Pence needs to be overwhelmed with emails and phone calls from Republicans, prevailing upon him to courageously refuse to accept Electoral votes from the Six Scandalous Swing States.  

Motivated (hopefully) by the raucous demands of the 74 million Patriots who voted for Trump, our Republican State and Federal politicians will be motivated – finally – to take a deep dive into the growing treasure trove of hard evidence of election-changing fraud. 

Now, in the final hours of this effort, this evidence of fraud will be sorely needed by U.S. Congresspersons to support their Objections to Electoral votes  on January 6. Mike Pence will need this information to justify his assertion of Amendment 12 powers. And, most importantly, the American public will need this information to determine whether the 12^th Amendment Plan is fully justified as a valid means for overturning the most comprehensively putrid and fraudulent election in American history. 

Patriots can hasten this process by mastering the evidence* themselves – the growing bounty of evidence of fraud – to the end of forcing it upon the legislators they contact – compelling the legislators to at least acknowledge the evidence for election-changing fraud and to cease their willful ignorance and denial. 

If Patriot Republican dreams come true, if VP Mike Pence is truly authorized by the 12^th Amendment to exert exclusive and plenary power over certification of slates of Electors (including the power to nullify fraudulent slates of Electors)  and if VP Mike Pence is prepared to save America despite his certain knowledge he will then be reviled to the ends of time by half the population – and if he indeed nullifies the invalid slates of Electors – the nation will explode into Civil War. 

When/if this transpires on January 6, the overwhelming cold Civil War already consuming us will likely  transmogrify into violence and riots orders of magnitude larger than anything brought to us heretofore by Black Lives Matter or Antifa. 

Sadly, this chilling scenario is all the more likely because current polling reveals 95% of Democrats believe Joe Biden was elected in a free and fair election. Consequently, if Republicans reclaim the election initially stolen from them –  on January 6 – and given that Democrats (mostly) comprise the only Party reliably responsible for political violence in America, the 95% of Democrats who are certain their election was legitimate will unleash hell’s own fury of fire and violence upon our nation. 

As predictably as the sun rising in the East. 

But what alternative do Americans have? It takes no great mind to understand that if the vast and consuming fraud of the 2020 election is allowed to stand, if America possesses no mechanism by which to thwart this fraud’s rectification, our electoral process, and our country, are doomed and unsalvageable. By this standard, honor demands we endure temporary conflagrations no matter how unendurable. 

Our country is worth it. 

Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Dec 30, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

One reader pointed out that this would not be the first election that led to violence because of corrupt politicians counting votes in their favor. The corruption in politics was just in your face. In Athens, Tennessee, the Cantrell-Mansfield government was not only rigging their election to stay in power, but they were also involved in bootlegging, gambling, and protection scheme shaking down local businesses and citizens along with tourists demanding big fines and fees. Because of the corruption, Athens stagnated and did not boom as other cities revived. When veterans returned home from the war and found corruption out of control, they began to confront Cantrell and Mansfield who tried to nullify the veterans’ votes and reform efforts.

The U.S. Department of Justice proved useless back then as well who supposedly investigated allegations of electoral fraud in 1940, 1942, and 1944, but never took any action. The issue was resolved by violence, which is always the case when the rule of law fails as we see once against today.  A sign marks the spot of the uprising where several hundred veterans, with some accounts claiming as many as 2,000, took up arms against the politicians who retreated to the jailhouse. They took up positions across the street and fired upon them. They finally surrendered and they appointed a new government by sheet force (see account). It was common back then as well that dead voters’ participated in elections as they always do.

Later that year during the state elections, there was fear of violence if the government played games with the vote. The check against corrupt elections was in the wind and they did not want dead people voting as was the common practice.

Posted 0riginally on The Conservative Tree House on December 29, 2020 by Sundance

Calling-in for an interview with Todd Herman, attorney Sidney Powell provides her summary of election fraud evidence as if she had a few minutes to make her pitch to the United States Supreme Court.  [LISTEN]

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 29, 2020 by Sundance

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a bipartisan effort to enlarge the COVID relief bill to $2,000.  President Trump supports the enhanced relief package.  As a consequence, in justifying his maneuver McConnell did something we are all too familiar with.  It is time to expose the Decepticon game again; this time people will accept.

[POTUS Tweet Link – Washington Post Link]

At first blush you might ask yourself why Mitch McConnell would block this bill and put the Georgia special election senate races in question.  He just handed Georgia democrats an atomic sledgehammer.  However, what most people do not understand is how McConnell works; being in the minority position is not adverse to his interests.  McConnell operates with a Machiavellian strategy, so we will explain.

Senator McConnell said the $2,000 bill would be attached to two other POTUS priorities including (1) section 230 reform, and (2) a request for congressional review of the 2020 election fraud, both have been requested by President Trump.  This is how Mitch McConnell justifies; this is how the GOP will defend his decision; the creation of a false dichotomy is how McConnell works.  But watch what he is really doing.

McConnell admits in his floor testimony the three stage bill will take time to assemble. In essence he admits publicly the $2k, 23o reform and 2020 election review committee will take longer than the January 5th Georgia runoff.  So he is admitting the toxic political issue of the $2,000 denial will exist to benefit the democrats in the race.  Accept this.

Second, McConnell knows a second bill with all three elements will not pass the House. McConnell knows it is a pure political posturing exercise that will produce nothing, yet provide more justification for his blockage.

Once you stop being a battered conservative; meaning once you accept that McConnell knows he is creating a dynamic that supports the GA democrats; then you move to the question: ‘why would McConnell take an action that would put him in the minority?’

On its face the question seems absurd; however, it only seems absurd because people don’t understand the schemes in the upper chamber, the Senate, under Leader McConnell and Leader Harry Reid before him.  The institution of the Senate requires a voter to understand the shell game.  The pea is never where you think it is.

Defenders of the Decepticon schemes rely on our inability to understand a hidden agenda; a secret agenda… However, with more eyes now open this outline will start to make sense.

First, McConnell doesn’t care about holding a majority position in the Senate. Whether he is a majority leader or a minority leader doesn’t matter to McConnell. In fact McConnell’s political skill-set does better in the minority than the majority.

The preferred political position for Mitch McConnell is where he has between 45 and 49 republican Senators, and the Democrats hold the Majority with around 55. Of course with Senator Harry Reid’s retirement, this would now imply Majority leader Chuck Schumer holding office.

Why does McConnell prefer the minority position?

The answer is where you have had to actually follow Mitch McConnell closely to see how he works. When the Majority has around 52 to 55 seats, they need McConnell to give them 8 to 9 votes to overcome the three-fifths (60 vote) threshold for their legislative needs. It is in the process of trade and payment for those 8 to 9 votes where McConnell makes more money, and holds more power, than as a sitting Majority Leader.

The 60 vote threshold, and McConnell’s incredible skillset in the minority, is where he shines. Each of the needed votes to achieve sixty is worth buckets of indulgence to the minority leader and those on K-Street who need the Senate to support their legislative constructs.  The votes to get to sixty are worth a lot of money.

This institutional dynamic is the currency of affluence and influence in the Senate; this is why Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell never changed the Senate rules for legislative passage.  This is why the filibuster was retained and why the 60 vote threshold was always beneficial to both parties.  The color of the flag atop the spire matters not.

Except for budget passage (reconciliation); and McConnell being forced by intransigence in the era of Trump resistance to change the judicial vote threshold to 51; McConnell would never consider changing the legislative threshold (60 votes) to a simple majority (51 votes) because it would be removing his favored position.

A simple majority vote is adverse to the institutional interests.  That is why McConnell retained it during his reign as majority leader; as did Harry Reid before him.

The process of selling votes to the 60-vote threshold in the Senate is where the UniParty operates; and where the status of maximum financial benefit for the minority exists.

Currently, as majority leader with 52 GOP senators, McConnell needs to purchase eight or nine votes for each legislative priority.

Mitch McConnell doesn’t like being the purchaser, he prefers being the vote seller where his skill-set as a broker really shines.  McConnell is much better at extracting terms for his vote sales, than being the purchaser for the votes of an intransigent minority wing. This is why the current Senate doesn’t pass many bills.

If Democrats were in the majority, and McConnell was the minority leader, we would see much more legislation pass because Schumer is a more well financed buyer (K-Street) and McConnell is a much better seller.  Whenever we have this minority dynamic it always leaves people confused because few really watch what McConnell is doing.

McConnell takes his favorite 18 controlled GOP senators (Decepticons) and he brokers their votes on an ‘as needed’ basis.  The eight to ten senators he selects each time get compensated in the process.  McConnell rotates the financial beneficiaries on a bill-by-bill basis.  As a consequence each of the 18 or so McConnell senators get quite wealthy over time, and McConnell gains additional power and influence.

McConnell decides who takes committee positions, those committee positions are worth money to K-Street purchasers of legislation.  That’s one aspect to his power.

McConnell also hand-selects which senators will provide the votes to the majority to reach the 60 vote threshold.  He uses a formula of favoritism, loyalty and studies the election cycles to determine who in his tribe will sell their votes and gain.  That is the second aspect to his power.

If any of the republican Senators attempt to disrupt this UniParty business model McConnell excommunicates them from the legislative process; the best reference for the ‘excommunicado’ approach is former U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC).

Additional references for how McConnell operates this scheme as the Minority Leader can be found in the Corker-Cardin amendment which allowed the Iran nuclear deal/payments under Obama; and/or the “fast track” Trade Promotion Authority deal for TPP passage, again for President Obama’s maximum benefit.

In these two examples McConnell worked with Harry Reid to flip the vote threshold from two-thirds (super-majority) need to approve, to two-thirds (super-majority)  needed to deny.  They flipped the dynamic in order to give Obama the tools he needed for the Iran deal and the Trans-Pacific-Partnership trade agreement (TPP).

[SIDEBAR – Within TPP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was again working on the priorities of U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue.   McConnell and Donohue have been working together on UniParty trade and domestic legislative issues for around twenty years. It is well established that Senate Leader Mitch McConnell has one major career alliance that has been unbroken and unchanged for well over two decades. That alliance is with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and specifically with CoC President Tom Donohue.

CoC President Tom Donohue represents Wall Street interests and supports: all multinational trade deals, open-border immigration policies, amnesty legislative constructs, and all of the issues that have generally irked common-sense GOP voters for the same period of time. [SEE HERE and SEE HERE]. Tom Donohue is the biggest lobbyist spender in DC every year, by a mile.

To remind ourselves how Minority and Majority Senator McConnell took down the threat of the Tea Party revisit these old articles:  CNN Part I and CNN Part II  both showcase how McConnell works.   Then do some research on how McConnell worked with Haley Barbour in Mississippi [SEE HERE] – END SIDEBAR].

Hopefully, now you can see how the business model within the senate is lucrative from a financial standpoint.  Selling votes from the minority position is worth a lot of money.  Additionally, the power dynamic is essentially even within this process.  The majority holds political and financial power…  and the minority holds enough political power to keep the majority in check (as well as mutually beneficial financial power).

For those who understand the dynamic the next obvious point is: what happens if Schumer takes the majority, eliminates the filibuster and takes legislative passage to a simple majority (51-votes)?  This is, after all, what the far-left has promised to do.

From McConnell’s position if the Democrats are the party that changes the precedent for Senate legislative passage, he feels it will provide him ammunition to retake control in the 2022 mid-term; and he wouldn’t be the historic figure to have changed the rules.

McConnell counts on the GOPe machinery (RNC), the purchased and allied Wall Street media, and his K-street backers to assist him in getting back in power.  The righteous donation requests from the political and financial class are always enhanced by the extremes and outrage.  If Schumer kills the filibuster and takes the senate to a simple majority McConnell will weaponize the maneuver against his “friend across the aisle”.

That’s the way the Machiavellian processes work….

Posted originally on The Conservative tree house on December 29, 2020 by Sundance

Our good friend John Spiropoulos departs today for a multi-state tour en route to Washington DC for the January 6th MAGA rally. CTH will be sharing videos of John’s travels along the way.

Prior to departing for The TrumpMarch.com rally January 6 in DC, John stopped to speak with patriots who gathered in a rain storm in Huntington Beach, California.  John files two video reports from the California event:

You can support John at his GoFundMe-Here, as he travels through Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and Virginia.  Also any CTH member who would like the opportunity to meet up with John for his video segments can contact him via his email address: Spirovideo@aol.com 

The second segment with rally attendee, Pastor Tim Thompson, is below:

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Posted originally on The Conservative Tree house on December 29, 2020 by Sundance

Steadfast doesn’t mean when it’s easy; the term has no meaning when things are working according to our own convenient interests. Steadfast means standing strong when it’s challenging, difficult and unnerving. Just as courage is not the absence of fear, rather it is taking action despite being fearful; so too is steadfast a decision.

Often when things are disconcerting, we retreat to the place where we are comfortable. However, steadfast is unwavering despite the obstacles and difficulties. When we don’t hold the words to comfort the grieved, yet we show up and sit quietly just to eliminate loneliness, that is a steadfast commitment. When we see adversity on the face of another, and we choose to engage with our time and comfort, that is a steadfast decision.

When CTH was formed, it was a small assembly of misfits who were not fearless, but brave enough to be comfortable within our discomfort; and we knew we had to look deeply at the issues which face us. We remind ourselves that ‘truth has no agenda‘ & truth exists despite our feelings of the subject matter. The core elements of CTH are based on this principle of remaining steadfast amid the face of adversity, national, political or even personal.

The CTH armory is insightful, wise and often purposeful, but this assembly is foremost a fellowship.  A steadfast decision to stand together and figure out how all of these intense subjects, issues and events interact, influence and ultimately impact our lives.

Right now our nation is facing a time of extreme trepidation. Nerves are frayed, emotions are raw and individually we find our compass spinning in a way that destabilizes us. Into this climate the originating value of our core assembly becomes critical.  CTH remains steadfast & committed to the best hopes and solutions within us.  We strive with purpose.

Each day for over a decade we begin with a simple prayer.  We host a candle for those who need prayers and support, and we engage purposefully with the intent to cherish the value, wisdom and skills that each unique person brings to the subject matter being discussed.

My personal commitment toward that end has been to remain steadfast and unwavering in defense of this little corner of the internet.  To maintain a place where facts can be discovered, truth can be unearthed and honest discussion/opinion can be afforded.

In July of this past year, it was our CTH mission to ensure that people within the institutions of our government were aware of: (a) evidence of specific corruption; and (b) our knowledge about it.  It was during one of those briefing trips to DC when I recognized a serious disconnect between what the people within those institutions of government viewed as their role, and what We The People expected of them.

It was also the first time when I realized that internal corrective action was unlikely to succeed because the scale of corrupt activity was not simply based on intent, but also present because the absence of morality was metastatic throughout the system.

I’m certain there are good people in DC, but the systems surrounding them have lost their originating purpose.  The central function of U.S. government is now so corrupt the institutions regard ‘We The People‘ as the problem the people within the system must protect themselves from.

I quickly recognized the solutions to our national issues were never going to come from our requests to those who operate within the institutions.  However, even worse was the impact we were having on each-other due to our national frustration.  It was evident within our frustration – as a nation we are losing a sense of identity, unity and fellowship.

The only people who can change that dynamic is us.

We are ‘The People’ we have been waiting for; yet, the professional political class, purposefully walled-off within this corrupt system, are also purposefully blind to our assembly.  In order for the DC politicians to continue operating corrupt levers within a corrupt machine they must ignore the will of the same people they are supposed to represent.

President Trump represents ‘We The People‘, and as a consequence those within this corrupt system viewed his appearance with the same dismissive outlook they carry toward those who voted for him.

CTH (The Last Refuge) was founded upon this acceptance long before Donald Trump became president in 2016; and the actions by both wings of the UniParty congress over the past six weeks have been clear evidence of what we always knew was present.

Our current national challenge is to figure out a way to confront this dynamic and then deal with it.  However, we must deal with it in a way that does not destroy the founding principles of our constitutional republic.  There are many disappointments around us, but we must remain strong and purposeful with any chosen direction.  Misplaced corrective action regardless of intent is neither prudent nor wise.

Above all, those who understand the larger issues must remain united and hold a sense of fellowship toward each-other if we are to overcome the challenges.  The purpose of using COVID fear as a strategic weapon to achieve division is evident.  Unilateral fiats can be an effective strategy deployed by those who benefit from division; we must counter this effort.

The fraud within the phrase “social distancing” not only creates distance between us but also creates a void of loneliness within the soul.  Into this void of isolation, fear takes hold and becomes toxic.  Thus the true value of fellowship is more important than ever.

Right now everything around us seems less focused on the pursuit of happiness and more focused on what happiness we are missing. At the heart of that anxiety is this sense of foreboding. A choking sense of fear and worry; a sense of trepidation.  Faith in a loving and purposeful God is now more important than ever, embrace it – share it.

This moment in history is where each person of strength holds a higher level of influence, and we should engage in the lives of others to show that strength. Right now people around you are looking for courage, optimism and hope.  If you do not provide that to your family, friends and community, you allow the alternative, despair, to take root.

Despair is the foreboding outcome of the same evil systems that create it.  Recognize despair when you see it, intercept it and eliminate it when you can… AND you always can.   Tend to the flickering flame of liberty & teach others, especially our youth, the skills to defend it.

Do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.  We are a nation of liberty loving independent and free-thinking people; born under a compact to allow each to live their lives according to their own purpose. Do not abdicate the duty to advocate and protect individual liberty to anyone except yourself.  Your dreams are unique to you.

Stay strong for your family…

Stay strong for your community….

Stay strong for our nation… We need each-other.

Steadfast,

~ Sundance

Dear Treehouse,

[…] I have been saying for some time that America is at a tipping point.  Regardless of who is in apparent control of the Government (Executive, Legislative or Judiciary), there are forces at work that truly do lead to the creation of a “Uni-party.”  As the underbelly of the Uni-party has been exposed, those in control have become vulnerable.

The real prospect that God-fearing, hard-working, honest Americans are beginning to see how the system has been rigged to manipulate them is upon us.  Your dogged determination to lay bare the ugliness of what Washington has become is to be greatly admired. 

We have lacked true leadership for too many years.  This of course creates a vacuum and vacuums are dangerous because they allow false prophets to arise.  People are desperate for someone to lead and say that they can restore the values that we once held dear as a nation. 

Perhaps this is why your banner with the redhead staring at the gathering storm calls to me.  The storm is just off the shore, building energy, waiting to crash over all of us.  Yet, in the gathering darkness you have provided a light.  A beacon of hope in a dismal world.  A beacon which illuminates an alternative to the false choices of the Hegelian dialectic that is forced upon us all. 

May God keep and protect you as you gather and collate the evidence to lay bare the ugliness that has become government, as it is now practiced, and reclaim all that makes America truly great.  May the Holy Spirit guide you in your words and actions.  Know that there are many that believe in what you are doing and stand ready to do their part.  Remember that the darkness is always greatest before the dawn.  I am confident that a new dawn is about to break.

~ A Patriot