On Sunday, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) led a group of Republicans in suing Vice President Mike Pence in order to empower Pence to overturn the Electoral College vote in favor of Joe Biden and give President Donald Trump a second term. Gohmert’s lawsuit asks the court to strike down the 1887 Electoral Count Act as unconstitutional, enabling Pence to select which slate of electors he will count from each state. Some Republicans in contested swing states have formed their own slates of electors and claimed to cast Electoral College votes for Trump.

On January 6, 2021, Pence will meet before Congress to count the Electoral College votes and finalize Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. While there are serious concerns about fraud and irregularities in the presidential election, team Trump’s lawsuits have failed to overturn the results and it seems unlikely that further efforts will conclusively prove that Trump won more legitimate votes than Biden in key swing states.

The lawsuit seeks to empower Pence to effectively overturn the election results by selecting alternate slates of electors and counting their votes instead of the votes cast by the state’s official electors based on the states’ certified election results.

In order to enable this switch, the lawsuit claims that the    1887 Electoral Count Act — which made the vice president’s role largely ceremonial — violates the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution (ratified in 1804). The amendment merely states that “The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.”

“Under the Twelfth Amendment, Defendant Pence alone has the exclusive authority and sole discretion to open and permit the counting of the electoral votes for a given state, and where there are competing slates of electors, or where there is objection to any single slate of electors, to determine which electors’ votes, or whether none, shall be counted,” the lawsuit argues.

The Electoral Count Act lays out the process by which Congress shall handle Electoral College disputes, should at least one member of both the House and the Senate contest the results. Gohmert’s lawsuit claims that this dispute resolution process violates the vice president’s authority to choose which set of electors to count.

The lawsuit claims that Pence will violate the Constitution if he follows the Electoral Count Act and therefore the court must explicitly judge the 1887 law unconstitutional, ruling that Pence “may exercise the exclusive authority and sole discretion in determining which electoral votes to count for a given State.” The lawsuit seeks an injunction preventing Pence from following the Electoral Count Act.

The lawsuit also asks for a declaration that “with respect to competing slates of electors from the State of Arizona or other Contested States, or with respect to objection to any single slate of electors, the Twelfth Amendment contains the exclusive dispute resolution mechanisms, that (i) Vice President Pence determines which slate of electors’ votes shall be counted, or if none be counted, for that State and (ii) if no person has a majority, then the House of Representatives (and only the House of Representatives) shall choose the President where ‘the votes [in the House of Representatives] shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote.’”

Gohmert filed the lawsuit on December 27, about a week and a half before the vote count on January 6, in the Eastern District Court of Texas. This lawsuit appears rather desperate, considering the time constraints.

While there are indeed serious concerns about the presidential election and some alternate slates of electors have declared themselves such, those alternate electors have considerably less credibility. If Pence were to choose them, or to choose not to open the electoral votes from certain disputed states, that decision would cause a constitutional crisis.

Republicans should demand election reform and states should investigate irregularities and claims of fraud, but this kind of desperate attempt to declare Trump the true winner of the 2020 election would arguably do more harm than good. While I firmly supported Trump in the 2020 election and while I fear that a Biden presidency will undermine America’s interests in important ways, I fear that a late reversal of the 2020 election in this way would exacerbate political tensions, encourage antifa street violence, and undermine Americans’ faith in elections.

https://pjmedia.com/election/tyler-o-neil/2020/12/28/louie-gohmert-lawsuit-seeks-to-give-mike-pence-power-to-overturn-electoral-college-vote-n1289433

When Sarrazin published his book “Germany is abolishing itself” a few years ago, there was great indignation in the left-green communities. The warning of the Islamisation or at least Arabisation of Germany within two generations was right-wing scaremongering. This alleged “Nazi lie”, however, has now been adopted by the former Spiegel columnist Ferda Ataman in the newspaper Tagesspiegel as a description of the current situation in order to call for a quota of migrants and blacks in German parliaments, federal, state and local authorities as well as TV and newspaper editorial offices.

Who will dare to contradict her? Certainly no allegedly decent, upright and flawlessly democratic member of civil society! Who will dare to point out that the predictions of Sarrazin and others are likely to come true after all, if the tendency continues unabated to ensure a fertile supply from Africa? A supply that is urgently needed because the biological Germans must remain as childless as possible and be available for the labour market so that the social system does not collapse.Surely no one will criticise Ataman, who is keen to keep his public office, make a career and/or perhaps one day be promoted to a public figure. Already today, the majority of children and young people come from immigrant families. That can’t be true. Such a claim is totally Nazi! Germany is not going to abolish itself! Is it? – It gets interesting when you look at who Ms Ataman calls “immigrants”. These are not only the classical guest workers, who are already living here in the fourth generation, but also all economic migrants from Africa, all asylum seekers, all people staying illegally in Germany. She adds all these up and states:

Our children will already make up the majority society in Germany in the next adult generation. Therefore, it is outrageous that in addition to quite exemplary public authorities, in which already today “a quarter of the employees have a migration background”, in numerous “ministries and offices … only white Germans work”.

Using the example of the administration of the state of Berlin, Ms Ataman shows that the ethnic Germans or Europeans still refuse to accept that they will soon be in the minority in what was once their own country: “Only three per cent of those interviewed in the managerial levels of the Berlin administration are people of colour or black people. Ninety-seven percent are white.” That’s a shame, isn’t it? Discrimination by a future white minority defending its racism in the bunker of the citizens until its last breath.”One can now see that German society is changing (once again),” Ferda Ataman triumphantly states. This is the same claptrap as: “Times are changing!” Because times never change. It always moves the same on the infinite time axis. It is people who bring about change. And that ideological minority that has been fighting for 30 years to allow everyone – and as many Muslims as possible – to come to Germany is now pretending that the change in society was something initiated by the times changing – something that cannot be controlled or influenced.But then the quota woman with a migration background finally talks about Sarrazin. Those who call this deliberate immigration of Islamic and Arab cultures and structures to Germany what it truly is, “worry that the latter will abolish itself. This last view is a nationalist view.” In other words, anyone who opposes this policy of the last decades is a Nazi.”Almost half of all under-18s in Berlin have a migration background. In Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Hanover, Bremen, Wiesbaden it is already 50 to 60 per cent and in Frankfurt am Main more than 70 per cent.” Anyone who wants to stop this development is a racist. Because only the suppression of everything Caucasian guarantees a tolerant, diverse and democratic society.For the German-born journalist with Turkish parents, the implementation of the reform of Berlin’s “Participation and Integration Law” is a signal that should soon be applied throughout Germany if the nation wants to get rid of the stigma of being a country full of racists. What is needed is a “special quota ‘for the recruitment and promotion of people affected by racism and people with a migration history, which leads to equal representation at all levels of the administration according to their share of the population in Berlin'”.As I often write in these columns: we are facing great times. The Atamans of this Republic are legion ! And they are ready to conquer the land. But who is ready to defend it? When I have a look at the political landscape, I am afraid. For it is full of lethargic Christians and atheists who will never understand the potential power and will to power that is inherent in the ideology of Islam until they themselves or their children have been degraded to dhimmis. First by quota and then by population majority!

https://philosophia-perennis.com/2020/12/28/ferda-ataman-fordert-islam-quote-fuer-parlamente-und-medien/

By Carol Brown

There are lots of words to describe how we feel right now. And none of them are good. It seems the left has checkmated us at every turn.

But we must shake the victim mentality. It is the antithesis of what it means to be an American.

No matter how overwhelmed we feel and no matter how daunting or hopeless our options may seem, we must fight for this country. And we can do it en masse on January 6th.

And as a brief aside: For those who want to fight but only if victory is assured, I recommend disconnecting those two things. We can only fight onward, never knowing when, or if, we will be victorious.

If we don’t fight, then we have surrendered. Those are the options. Pick one.

If we don’t fight because we feel tired, discouraged, and hopeless, then we don’t do justice to all who came before us – to all who risked their lives to build and protect this nation and define what it means to be an American.

Please turn down the volume in your brain that wants to say something snarky and cynical. We don’t have the luxury of such thinking.

President Trump has been fighting for us for four years – fighting the left and the right, fighting here and abroad, and often fighting alone.

How dare any of us claim to be exhausted, worn out, or too discouraged to lift a finger when this man has almost single-handedly achieved so much for this country?

And now he is calling on all of us to join him in Washington DC on January 6th and we must answer his call.

If you “stand with Trump” and want to fight but don’t know what to do, go to Washington, DC and join the President and a sea of patriots.

Don’t indulge the voice that says that another protest won’t matter and that we need the President to do this or do that, as if any of us could possibly fathom what it’s like to be in his shoes.

He has asked us to come.

And if you plan to be a bystander and stay at home, then pose this question to yourself: On January 6th, will you be following news stories about the event? Will you be eager to see crowds overflowing block after block, street after street?

I bet you will.

So be one of those people to make that powerful image come to fruition. Be one of those people who contributes to an enormous swell of patriots standing with Trump, standing for honest elections, and standing in defiance of Congress to dare cross that Rubicon.

Patriots are reaching out to every single person they know to inform them of this event, light a fire under them, and help them organize. If you’re not doing so already, please join this effort.

People will be flying in from all across the country. Some will be driving. Others are coordinating carpools and caravans making pit stops in multiple cities.

Freedom-loving Trump supporters are willing to risk harm because they know what AT commentator jasonmaratano recently wrote on a thread in reference to potential violence:

The way I see it you can either go to DC on Jan 6th and have all these things potentially happen to you, or you can wait until after Jan 20th and have these things come to wherever you are.

Here are links to organizations that are spearheading this massive protest: here,here, here (1 min video), and here (short blog).

Freedom is now an act of resistance.

Stand for freedom. Stand for America. And stand with President Trump in Washington DC on January 6th.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/fight_or_surrender.html

A creeping Islamisation of Germany is always vehemently denied; after all, Islam with its numerous mosques and the call of the muezzin supposedly belongs to Germany, so those politicians in charge consistently devote their attention to the alleged greatest danger to the country – right-wing extremism, which could threaten the internal security of the diverse republic.

Although any criticism of the religion of peace is forbidden or even punished, security authorities are busy recording and monitoring Islamists, whose number is increasing significantly. Now, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Cologne warns of “legalistic Islamists” who act inconspicuously, pretend to be law-abiding in order to secretly want to establish a theocracy according to the rules of Sharia.Responsible for this development are the established parties, churches, etc., who made the breeding ground for the spread of radical Islam possible in the first place, who for reasons of cowardice, convenience and left-wing ideological delusion ignored the risks and side effects, defamed every critic and painted them as right-wing.Now here they are, an unsurprising new breed of Islamists for the enlightened citizen, using taqiyya tactics, dissimulating and deceiving to hide their true intentions.

https://politikstube.com/taqiyya-taktik-endlich-begriffen-verfassungsschuetzer-warnen-vor-islamisten-im-schafspelz/

First there were bad words, then shots, then hundreds of refugees lost their homes in the sea of ​​flames.

After a dispute between camp residents and a local clan family, a camp for Syrian refugees in Lebanon was set on fire. According to the UN refugee organization UNHCR, a large fire broke out in the camp in the Minijeh region on Saturday evening and several residents were injured.

The flames had spread over all the tents in the camp, UNHCR spokesman Chaled Kabbara told the AFP news agency. The fire was preceded by a dispute between a local Lebanese clan and Syrian refugees in the camp, Lebanese authorities said according to local media On Sunday.

It was announced on Sunday evening that eight people had been arrested. The Lebanese army said on Sunday that there were two Lebanese and six Syrians. The arson was preceded by a dispute between locals and Syrian workers.

According to AFP, a member of the local “Mir” clan wanted to go shopping in the warehouse on Saturday night in a grocery store that had already closed. As a result, Lebanese people forced Syrian businessmen to reopen the shop so that the Mir family member could shop there.

A Syrian woman is said to have been insulted while shopping. Her relatives became angry, whereupon the Lebanese brought reinforcements. These are said to have fired several shots, some of which set the camp on fire.

According to a UN spokesman, around 75 families lived in the camp – consisting of several hundred family members. After fleeing from dictator Assad in neighboring Syria, they are now homeless again.

According to the government, around 1.5 million Syrians live in Lebanon, including one million people registered as refugees at the UN. After they fled the civil war in neighboring Syria, there are repeated conflicts between them and the Lebanese in the country, which is only around five times as many.

Since 2018, Lebanese authorities have been trying to send the refugees back to the “pacified” neighboring country Syria. But only a few thousand accepted the offer. Most would rather live on in tents in Lebanon than under the victorious one “Butcher of Damascus”, Dictator Bashar al-Assad.

https://m.bild.de/politik/ausland/politik-ausland/wegen-streit-mit-clan-libanesen-fackeln-syrisches-fluechtlingslager-ab-74634742,view=amp.bildMobile.html