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The Desperation of Sheena Bellows: What the Truth Reveals

Everyone has now heard of Sheena Bellows, the Secretary of State in Maine, who is the latest to indicate a bit of legal gymnastics to keep Trump off the primary ballot.  As I have said of all these cases, this is a clear 14th Amendment overreach that ignores due process and will quickly be overturned by the Supreme Court, if not in Maine, at the Federal level.   While many have expressed anger at the actions of the Secretary of State, Bellows, I am thrilled with her decision because it proves something I have been working on waking people up to, which is the level of radicalism that many of these high-profile political decisions have.  It shows the level of activity they are willing to participate in, which many people had difficulty understanding, even as recently as the governor races in Arizona.  Who thinks the Secretary of State didn’t count her own ballots to keep Kari Lake from becoming governor so that she could become governor instead?  When the massive election fraud occurred after the 2020 election, the biggest problem wasn’t finding the evidence; it was convincing people that the evidence they were looking at was as obvious as it was presented.  People wanted to trust their public officials.  Sure, it might have been fun to criticize them from time to time, but to admit that they were so bad that they would openly steal an election and lie about such a sacred thing, “voting,” was just a bridge too far for most people.  But the perpetrators knew that before they conducted their cheating scams.  They knew they could play the trust card once because people would always give them the benefit of the doubt, so they played it in the wake of the 2020 election and, essentially, got away with it. 

It also helped that so many other liberals were involved, Democrats who were perfectly willing to cheat in an election for what they considered, the “greater good.”  For them, institutional preservation was far more important than the truth of the matter, and in 2020, as it was in 2016, and continues to be in 2024, people value personal freedom more than institutional security built off confiscated tax money.  When preserving institutions was a matter of fairness, because they had a mother who might have been a school teacher, or had a dad who worked for the government as a mindless bureaucrat in some way, and made 40% more than the private sector because of it, people gave the big government types a bit more rope of trust to wrap around their necks.  Everyone got along so long as they could cheer for a local sports team and fire off some fireworks on the 4th of July.  Admitting to election fraud was like taking away the idea of firing off fireworks at an Independence Day celebration.  It violated the agreement that people had with society, something nobody wanted to talk about, just as parents tend to conceal sex from their children for their own preservation.  Kids don’t want to hear their parents having sex.  They’ll put up with a shut door quietly locked at 9:55 PM while they are brushing their teeth.  They do not want to hear the bellowing moans of their mother in sexual bliss.  So long as those silent rules are not violated, society functions somewhat normally, and that is how election fraud was conducted in 2020, with the quietly locked doors at 9:55 PM.  But some of us were not brushing our teeth in the bathroom; we were still in the room, able to see everything.  Under those conditions, we couldn’t avoid what we saw and told others afterward. 

What is astonishing about all the cases against Trump, most obviously the case in Maine, is how ostentatious it is in what it admits.  When it comes to Sheena Bellows, there is an arrogance to the dirty deed that is equivalent to the mother of the house dragging her kids kicking and screaming down the hall to tie them in a corner so that they have to watch her have sex not just with their father, but with all the strange men from the outside sidewalk.  Because the mom feels like the best thing for the kids is to overwhelm them with her right to have that sex, even at their expense of sanity, without any thought of what that broken trust might do to the children.  By doing what she did, Bellows is relishing the power of her position to conduct such a menace.  It’s the kind of question we all might ask ourselves.  What would be the consequences of taking off all our clothes in public places and walking about?  Sure, we could do it, but we don’t because we understand how that would wreck a sense of norms critical to a functioning society.  So, we withhold our temptations and conduct ourselves politely.  But once that trust is broken, we then would label ourselves as something disreputable, such as a whore or a streaker.  Something less trustworthy.  And before this year, at many of these Secretary of State positions, even as governor, such as the case in Georgia with Kemp, people had a trust that kept discussions of theft and dishonor in hushed corners.  But now, it’s been flaunted in front of us, and there’s no turning back.

All the cases against Trump show a severe willingness to violate the public’s trust in such audacious ways that there is no way now ever to repair the relationship.  This is why I say I’m glad because this is damaging the Democrat Party forever.  And they wouldn’t have done all this if they had thought they had absolute power.  Much of what they have been doing for all these years has been a ruse built off election fraud, especially regarding control over state houses and the balance of power in the Beltway.  People ignored the locked doors at night because those in power at least respected the public enough not to make too much noise during sex so the kids wouldn’t ask questions.  But because of the desperation to hang onto power, with so many people now listening through the door at every creak of the mattress spring, there is no hiding it now.  Those who supported Trump even casually before are not deeply solidified behind them, and the ridiculousness of the entire Democrat playbook for the 2024 election has been revealed in very public ways that we’ve never seen before.  When we have talked before about just how crazy and radical people like Sheena Bellows were, nobody wanted to believe it.  But now people know.  The forced admission will have long-standing consequences.  The gamble by Democrats is that by having sex in public and embarrassing the kids, ultimately, the family would be destroyed, which is undoubtedly one of their stated goals.  To eliminate the context of “American life” and the trust that it will always be there for them.  Such blatant displays of corruption and judicial overreach are meant to insult people into self-destruction.  This plays into Trump’s promise of “Making America Great Again.”  Who doesn’t want to be part of something great instead of something disgraceful?  Ultimately, because of the ostentatious displays of corruption and political activism, that is now what the 2024 ballot is all about.  And nothing less. 

Rich Hoffman

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Voter Integrity in Ohio with Frank LaRose: How Republicans win everywhere, and not just with swing voters

It’s not really a big secret, but it’s probably the most important thing in the world regarding elections. Yes, Ron DeSantis did wonderfully in Florida the second time around; the first time, he could barely squeak out a win. But after an excellent first term, DeSantis was awarded with re-election by a very wide margin. Yet as much as he may have deserved it, the massive voter turnout in his favor didn’t just happen. What the real cause of it was that DeSantis worked on the election laws in Florida and made it harder to cheat so that in that next election, some of the old Democrat tricks that are applied all over the country weren’t so easy to perform. And that resulted in more votes for him being counted against an essentially rigged system. Our elections have not been secure for a very long time, and the little talked-about secret is that the powerful know about it and have allowed it to continue because it keeps them in power. Yet, if elections were tightly controlled in America, unbiased, of course, Republicans would win a majority of the time everywhere, in state races, in federal races, both House and Senate, governors, and especially presidents. A lot of professional pundits will say that we are a 47 – 53 country where either Republicans or Democrats will trade those bottom and top numbers every time, that there will never be any more blowout elections because we don’t have that kind of country, we are split down the middle with independents determining election outcomes. That is hogwash; that’s what the cheaters want you to think. The reality is that election fraud makes us look like a 50/50 nation while we are a conservative-leaning nation quite dramatically. The Florida example is just one of them, and DeSantis, not through performance but through election reform, turned it from a purple state to a solid red MAGA state for Republicans. 

Ohio is another state that had been trending purple but has been heading solidly toward a bright red state. And as much as I’d like to say that candidates like President Trump and J.D. Vance were great, it’s not that they won over a bunch of swing voters to win; it’s that Ohio has a fantastic secretary of state in Frank LaRose, who has made it very hard to cheat during elections. I had a chance to listen to him directly talk about election integrity in Ohio, and I put some of the videos on this site to review. I’ve met Frank LaRose many times, but this latest time was interesting because what Ohio has been doing regarding election integrity is quickly becoming the template for the rest of the country going into the 2024 election. Republicans would be wise not to worry about the issues so much on this one because that’s not what is going to win elections. What will win elections, and give the House a supermajority in Congress, and give control back to the Republicans in the Senate and, of course, the White House, is more election security.  Frank LaRose has put his hands around this election integrity problem, and it has been showing. And he’s done it by pushing photo I.Ds on election day. Voting machines that have a paper receipt for cross verification, and by making it illegal to have any machine connected to the internet. And on early voting, which Frank LaRose has testified to in Pennsylvania, where they have had a trainwreck there, Ohio logs the entries as they come in, whereas, in places like Pennsylvania, they don’t touch them until after the election, which is why they are still counting ballots well past election day and can no longer give those results on election day. 

A great example of the difference in election integrity by having a great Secretary of State could be seen in recent supreme court elections. Wisconsin just lost a Republican seat to a Soros-backed radical. The same thing was brewing to happen in Ohio, but because of election integrity in Ohio, Sharon Kennedy was able to win as Chief Justice and avoid progressive interference on the bench the way it has now happened in Wisconsin. Because of loose election laws in Wisconsin, the extreme progressive Janet Protasiewicz was able to win, giving liberals the new majority, which many think could be dangerous in establishing better election laws for better voter integrity. That is the real game that is going on out there, and the best way to deal with it is by investing in good Secretaries of State who can do as Frank LaRose has in Ohio, and that is get control of the voting system and make it as fair as possible, and secure. And by doing that, the truth of American elections will become obvious quickly. Republicans will win almost everywhere and by a wide margin. Where election chaos is allowed, or even promoted, then, and only then, will Democrats be competitive. America is not a 50/50 country determined by swing voters. It’s more of a 60/40 country in favor of Republicans, and that becomes obvious when you force voting machines to be off the internet and have voter photo I.D. Once Frank LaRose became Secretary of State, we saw in Ohio that Ohio was no longer purple. It wasn’t just Trump; the margins were consistent for other races, with very similar results. And in Florida, it used to be that certain counties were always late in reporting, so they could see how much they had to cheat to push the Democrats over the top. But DeSantis made that action much harder; since then, we have seen better election day results. Not just because of the candidate but because it was more reflective of the vote totals of the actual demographics. Everywhere that better election laws are reformed to prevent cheating, it will quickly become evident that Republicans will perform far better everywhere than the previous national trends have indicated. And that’s the lesson for all the swing states, like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.

It should be noted that even with all the debate in Georgia between Brian Kemp and Stacy Abrams after Kemp enacted better election methods making it harder to cheat, his election against Abrams wasn’t even close. The same could be said in Texas with Beto O’Rourke. Many thought that Texas was turning from red to purple, but with some tightening of the election methods to make it more fair for voter representation and security to protect the integrity of the voter, a lot of these liberal radical challengers have fallen away. And that is a little secret that nobody has really been talking about on the nightly news. And the same trends would be seen all over the country, even in places like California and New York. People just aren’t that liberal, and Democrats have only been able to gain power because of election fraud, whether its illegal aliens voting, Democrat cities stuffing ballots without supervision, early voter tampering with Facebook manipulation, bad voter rolls where dead people are still voting, several times,  it has only been through cheating that Democrats have been able to keep election results close in their favor. But if states give themselves a great Secretary of State like we have in Ohio, like Frank LaRose, they will all see a margin swing in the Republican direction of around 12%. And by doing that simple thing, Republicans will win most of their races in head-to-head matchups with any Democrat; it doesn’t matter who it is. Voter integrity is the key, not so much the policy discussion. Before 2024, states need to follow what Frank LaRose has been doing in Ohio, and if they do, Republicans will win big everywhere. 

Rich Hoffman

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