![]() We anticipate lawsuits, divergent media narratives, attempts to stop the counting of ballots, and protests drawing people from both sides. A determined campaign has opportunity to contest the election into January 2021.Campaigns, parties, the press and the public must be educated to adjust expectations starting immediately. This period of uncertainty provides opportunities for an unscrupulous candidate to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the process and to set up an unprecedented assault on the outcome. The winner may not, and we assess likely will not, be known on “election night” as officials count mail-in ballots. We face a period of contestation stretching from the first day a ballot is cast in mid-September until January 20. The concept of “election night,” is no longer accurate and indeed is dangerous.Read this-"Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition" from something called the Electoral Integrity Project and weep: The Left was taken by surprise by Trump's Electoral College victory (the only kind that counts) and, starting the day after the vote, launched its plan to make sure they'd never be robbed by what they thought was a fixed fight again. Of these, the two most recent are best viewed in tandem. ![]() Bush in 2000, there have been at least three presidential votes in which the losing side has contested the outcome Bush's hanging chads, Hillary Clinton's baseless charge of "Russian collusion" against Donald Trump in 2016, and the chaos of 2020 that installed longtime hack politician Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. The electoral system? Since the election of George W. Well, that's the question, isn't it? In a battle between good and evil, with the law having gone over to the side of evil-as it had in the gangland Chicago of the 1920s and '30s-what are the good guys prepared to do? With the country-as-founded now being shot out from underneath us on a near-daily basis, how do concerned citizens fight back? ![]() Because they won't give up the fight, until one of you is dead. Ness you must be prepared to go all the way. Malone: And *then* what are you prepared to do? If you open the ball on these people Mr. Do you really wanna get him? You see what I'm saying, what are you prepared to do? Malone: You said you wanted to know how to get Capone. Ness: I want to get Capone! I don't know how to get him. THAT'S the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone."īut for our purposes here, what even more important is the exchange between Sean Connery and Kevin Costner that immediately precedes it: He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. The scene has become justly famous for this line: "He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. In the movie The Untouchables, written by David Mamet and directed by Brian De Palma, a streetwise Irish cop named Malone tries to educate a starry-eyed fed named Eliot Ness in the ways of Chicago justice when up against an implacable, deadly opponent like Al Capone.
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