Nikki Haley speaks
Blessings on you and your family from all the Huckabee team! This is the second of two newsletter emails from me today! The first can be read here: Bill Maher is absolutely right - by Mike Huckabee (substack.com)
Sincerely,
Mike Huckabee
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Breaking News:
Thursday morning, the Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote overruled a lower court’s decision that South Carolina’s voting redistricting map drawn by the GOP legislature was unconstitutional because it was racially discriminatory.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-upholds-gop-drawn-voting-map-south-carolina
Writing for the majority, Justice Alito said the lower court only paid “lip service” to the requirement to disentangle race and politics, and not assume that partisan political decisions are motivated by racism. Wait, isn’t that the entire Democratic Party platform these days?
Nikki Haley speaks
Yesterday, former GOP Presidential candidate Nikki Haley finally announced that she will be voting for Trump in November.
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-nikki-haley-caves-announces-supporting-2024-election/
Some might say it’s long overdue, considering she took the same pledge as all the other candidates to support the nominee chosen by the voters, which I thought was part of that precious “democracy” thing we hear so much about these days. At least from Democrats, who curiously keep crossing over to vote for Haley to mess up the other party’s primary and thwart the will of Republican voters (she’s still getting low double digit totals long after dropping out, but many of those votes are from Democrats and Independents just playing political games.)
Haley said Trump had to “earn her vote,” and I’m not sure what he’s done differently, but I guess he’s earned it now, chiefly by not being the disaster known as Joe Biden. Haley said she wants a candidate who will secure the border, have our allies’ backs and hold our enemies accountable, support capitalism and freedom and understand that we need less debt. That’s been Trump all along (he could’ve done better on the debt part, but he had Democrats and Never Trumpers in Congress and the pandemic to deal with.)
Haley continued, “Trump has not been perfect on these policies. I’ve made that clear many, many times. But Biden has been a catastrophe. So I will be voting for Trump.”
The liberal media who lionized Haley when she was serving their purposes of reelecting Biden immediately turned on her, but I think she summed up the choice well. Let’s face it: RFK Jr. is not going to win, and if he did, conservatives would hate all of his policies on everything except vaccines. This is a (sorry to trigger you, liberals) “binary” choice, and as Haley said, the choice is between Trump and Catastrophe. Not a hard choice when you put it that way.
And by the way, virtually every election boils down to picking the best of only two choices. Sometimes, you have to pick the lesser of two evils because he’s better than the evil of two lessers. I happen to think that Trump is a lot better than that, even though I don’t agree with him all the time on every issue. But the choices don’t include the perfect candidate who agrees with me on everything and is correct on every issue. If it did, I’d be President already!
More election results
Some more results of Tuesday’s elections have come in. Among the most important: Trump-backed Republican Vincent Fong won a special election for Kevin McCarthy’s former House seat in California. With that seat filled again, the GOP adds one more seat to their razor-thin majority of now five.
And in very welcome news for the return of sanity, voters in Portland, Oregon (!), threw out “progressive” DA Mike Schmidt, replacing him with former Republican Nathan Vasquez, who ran as a tough-on-crime moderate with the endorsement of several police groups.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/progressive-oregon-district-attorney-ousted-tough-crime-challenger
Following the ousters of similar criminal-coddling, crime wave-sparking leftist DAs in San Francisco and St. Louis, this might be a welcome sign that the brain fog that accompanied COVID is finally passing.
Hey Bill
Just this morning, I praised Bill Maher for getting a few things absolutely right. And to show why I am cautious in my praise, he followed that up by getting some things about the 2020 election and January 6th spectacularly wrong in an appearance on Megyn Kelly’s show.
Surprisingly for someone who makes a living commenting on politics, Maher admitted that he doesn’t really keep up with such things in detail. Bill, I have a suggestion, even if I know you won’t take it:
Subscribe to my newsletter. Then the next time you have to talk about these stories, you’ll know what you’re talking about.
“Justice-impacted individuals”
The next place we should pray for the fog to lift is Illinois, where voters desperately need to kick out a lot of Democrats if they want to have a state left. With crime plaguing Chicago and taxpayers fleeing the state, the Democrat legislative wrecking balls showed where their priorities lay by passing a bill that would destigmatize the poor criminals by officially changing the term used for them from “offender” to “justice-impacted individual.” Yes, in true George Carlin fashion, they’re trying to bleed all the meaning out of it by inflating it from three syllables to ten.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-politicians-aim-change-word-offender-justice-impacted-individual
Funny, I thought that what stigmatized criminals was that they are…you know…criminals! Ordering that they be called “justice-impacted individuals” will do nothing but force taxpayers to pay the cost of reprinting all the government paperwork. Besides, it’s not even accurate. If criminals are picked up by the cops, the leftist DAs and politicians release them immediately to go back out and do it again. They’re not “impacted by justice” in any way. If they want to adopt a longer name for criminals, then at least be honest and call them ““Barely-inconvenienced-by-justice individuals.”
Not on the ballot?
The Democrats’ arrogant flouting of Ohio law might keep Joe Biden off the state’s Presidential ballot. They decided to hold their convention well after the Ohio deadline for certifying candidates, assuming (I guess from prior experience) that nobody would hold them accountable. But the GOP legislature is in no mood to change the law to help Biden. If he’s not on the ballot, it won’t matter to him because he’s not going to win Ohio anyway, but it could hurt Democrat turnout all down the ticket.
I’ve said before that I don’t believe Biden won’t be on the ballot. The Republican Governor is already acting conciliatory, as expected, and I predicted that they’ll find some liberal judge to rule that election laws don’t apply to them (they always do!) I also don’t want to see Biden lose because he’s not on the ballot (that was a Democrat dirty trick on Trump to thwart democracy), which would just spark a lot of violent protests. The best case scenario would be that he is on the ballot so that everyone who wants to vote for him has that opportunity…but that every American will be smart enough not to.
Michael Flynn’s new, very personal documentary about being targeted by the Deep State
by HUCKABEE writer/researcher Laura Ainsworth
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has just wrapped up an extensive publicity tour for FLYNN, the new documentary about his fight to defend himself from the Deep State and the legal system, starting about a decade ago. His film could not be timelier, as its release coincides with President Trump’s confinement to a Manhattan courtroom as prosecutors appear to be conspiring with the judge to convict him on 34 felonies.
My HUCKABEE co-writer/spouse Pat Reeder and I were fortunate to be able to attend his next-to-last promotional screening of the film, here in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, and also to meet and speak with him briefly. I’ll have more on our conversation later, but first, the film.
The film’s full title: “FLYNN --- Deliver the Truth. No Matter the Cost.” This truly is Flynn’s story, from his perspective, as he’s the executive producer and also the director. If you’ve wondered what it’s like to endure the relentless onslaught of the government, with its unlimited resources, wonder no more.
https://www.generalflynn.com/deliver-the-truth-whatever-the-cost
The review at THE EPOCH TIMES does a great job (as does the film) of detailing Flynn’s background in military intelligence, in which he bucked the system by offering searing critiques and recommending sweeping changes. As one might imagine, this earned him some serious detractors, including, eventually, President Obama.
Our newsletter has covered in detail Flynn’s legal nightmare over the past decade. It kicked into high gear when Trump won in 2016 and named him the new National Security Adviser. Political enemies saw him as one of those “red meat” MAGA conservatives --- he dared to speak at the 2016 GOP Convention --- even though for most of his life he’s been largely apolitical, describing himself and his family as “Kennedy Democrats.” In the movie, Flynn tells the story of Obama warning Trump during the transition that there were two people he needed to be especially wary of: Kim Jong-Un and Michael Flynn (!!!).
Flynn’s troubles had started building after Russia supposedly interfered in the 2016 election by hacking into the emails of the DNC and Hillary Clinton during that summer. (Note: there’s STILL no evidence that the Russians did this, but it was the start of the entire Russia Hoax.) Flynn had a phone conversation with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak to try to head off any escalation of tensions. But since this was technically before Trump was sworn in, Obama’s team wanted to get him on a Logan Act violation, though this was surely a misapplication of that law.
We then get to the part you know very well, about then-FBI Director Comey “sending a couple of guys over” (violating protocol, but what the heck) to “casually” question him and apparently try to catch him off-guard in a lie. It later turned out that Flynn --- just as he’d told them --- had never mentioned sanctions to Kislyak, but this was the so-called “lie” that had led to perjury charges.
The movie details Flynn’s prosecution in the courtroom of Judge Emmet Sullivan, who wanted to pursue it (in the style of a rogue prosecutor, not a judge) even after the DOJ dropped the case.
The ET reviewer makes the point that this is definitely a one-sided story, from the point of view of Flynn and his family. “It’s unfortunate,” he says, “that a more independent filmmaker --- and a more strident editor (the movie is about 20 or 30 minutes too long) --- has not taken up Mr. Flynn’s case to offer an unbiased narrative of his story.” It’s kind of doubtful, though, that in Hollywood this would happen.
If you want to see Flynn’s story from the other side, FRONTLINE for PBS did a documentary on Flynn that’s a real hit piece. It derides him as a Christian nationalist and a QAnon conspiracy theorist, a total wackjob.
Ironically, Flynn himself, in the movie, talks about how the left tries to tamp him down by using such terms. It’s easy for them to label someone who is unabashedly Christian, as he is, and who puts America first, as he does, as a feared and dreaded “Christian nationalist.” THE GUARDIAN calls Flynn “one of the scariest poster boys for the irrational, anti-logical hysteria that has gripped rightwing American during (and subsequent to) the presidency of Donald Trump...he’s now a full-on Christian nationalist who embraces election denial and QAnon conspiracies.”
Goodness, I just met the man, and I promise you, he didn’t have three heads. I didn’t have time to ask about the “QAnon” allegations but will look into that. Heck, regarding “election denial,” THE GUARDIAN wouldn’t like what I had to say about the 2020 election, either, so it’s hard for me to take them seriously about anything. I think their real problem with Flynn is that he is 1) a Christian, 2) a strong patriot, and 3) signed on to work for Trump, with the goal of sweeping reform. Triple threat!
Bestselling author, DILBERT creator and professional persuader Scott Adams says he normally doesn’t watch documentaries at all, as, they typically present one side. But he did see this one and recommends it highly, as “REALLY eye-opening.”
He feels that the personal stuff about his family’s ordeal was necessary to the story. “It was important for you to see that there was a real human being at the bottom of this madness,” he says in his video review. The movie makes you think, “Really?? Did this really happen in America?”
As Scott points out, you can see in this documentary that the people who targeted Flynn “are the same people that went after Trump.” He also relates that Flynn pleaded guilty because they were targeting his son, “probably over nothing,” (Note: it would have been a FARA violation, for working with his dad) and “there really wasn’t any other choice.” You might recall that his son had just become a father.
Flynn’s story, he says, was “exactly what you thought it was.” And “Peter Navarro is still in prison. A political prisoner.”
Scott’s eight-minute review of FLYNN is a must-see…
https://rumble.com/v4vt5h3-scott-adams-review-of-flynn.html
And I think I hit the Mother Lode, because after I watched Adams’ review, this came up: Sebastian Gorka (another patriotic Christian Trump-supporter) speaking with Flynn about the Deep State. This one’s longer, about 40 minutes, but also a must-see...
It was Gen. Flynn who told me about Scott Adams’ review, after I mentioned something else Scott had done, an on-camera experiment with ChatGPT to see what AI would say about election rigging. Flynn himself has co-authored a book on AI, called HOW TO FIGHT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI).
https://www.generalflynn.com/how-to-fight-artificial-intelligence-ai
In Adams’ must-see experiment (video link below), he explores with ChatGPT the question of whether the 2020 election might have been rigged and if it would be possible to find this out. He leads “her” through questions, and as they banter, she gives him the kind of government-approved answers you’d expect, concluding that, yes, you could say it’s a “fact” that the 2020 election was not stolen.
But then, Adams completely shifts gears, asking her to help him write a fictional story --- purely hypothetical --- about upper-echelon people with government-level tech skills trying to rig an election to keep someone they sincerely view as Hitler’s equal from becoming President. Freed from the constraints of what she’s been programmed to say about real elections, ChatGPT launches into a lengthy essay worthy of Marc Elias on all the ways this steal might be accomplished, using technical backdoors that would not be detected! Scott repeatedly asks if her suggestions for his “screenplay” would seem plausible to people who know all the technical aspects of real-life elections, and she says that, yes, they are absolutely plausible.
ChatGPT, having moved on from the original questioning, never sees the contradiction between what she said about the 2020 election and this fictional scenario. This is absolutely stunning --- extremely funny, too --- and yet scary, as I hadn’t known AI was this sophisticated. After hearing “her” talk about how a hypothetical election can be rigged, I have no doubt that many if not all of these tactics were used in 2020 and will be again in 2024, if we don’t stop them.
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