Romney warns of "extraordinary challenge" to preserve American democracy

Romney told the crowd that he has a chart in his Senate office tracing the history of civilizations over the past 4,000 years. He said it is a reminder of how they can rise and collapse, and of how unusual American democracy is in global history.

From the Mongol Empire to the Roman Empire, Romney said, autocracy is the chart's "default setting," with authoritarian leaders at every turn.

"We are really the only significant experiment in democracy, and preserving liberal democracy is an extraordinary challenge," Romney said, according to the attendees, who gathered at the Hilton Hotel in McLean.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mitt-romney-american-democracy-extraordinary-challenge/

fuck mitt romney.

You're just propping him up because he called tulsi gabbard a putin treasonist.
 
Does that make sense to you? She has a job in the admin that has nothing to do with sex.

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Does that make sense to you? She has a job in the admin that has nothing to do with sex.

Really?

Agencies within HHS are components of the U.S. Public Health Service. A broad array of health related research is supported or completed under the HHS; secondarily under HHS, the Health Resources & Service Administration houses data warehouses and makes health data available surrounding a multitude of topics. HHS also has vast offering of health related resources and tools to help educate the public on health policies and pertinent population health information. Some examples of available resources include disease prevention, wellness, health insurance information, as well as links to healthcare providers and facilities, meaningful health related materials, public health and safety information. Some highlights include: Improving maternal and infant health, including a Nurse Home Visitation to support first-time mothers.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Health_and_Human_Services#Department_of_Health_&_Human_Services

BTW, you misspelled "he".
 
Romney told the crowd that he has a chart in his Senate office tracing the history of civilizations over the past 4,000 years. He said it is a reminder of how they can rise and collapse, and of how unusual American democracy is in global history.

From the Mongol Empire to the Roman Empire, Romney said, autocracy is the chart's "default setting," with authoritarian leaders at every turn.

"We are really the only significant experiment in democracy, and preserving liberal democracy is an extraordinary challenge," Romney said, according to the attendees, who gathered at the Hilton Hotel in McLean.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mitt-romney-american-democracy-extraordinary-challenge/

WASHINGTON (TND) — Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard didn’t sit still after Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, called her out this weekend for allegedly “parroting false Russian propaganda.”

“Her treasonous lies may well cost lives,” Romney said of Gabbard, who has been sounding the alarm about the supposed existence of U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine.



“According to the U.S. government, these biolabs are conducting research on dangerous pathogens,” Gabbard said in a video she posted to Twitter Sunday.


Gabbard pointed to the potential these pathogens could be “inadvertently or purposely breached or compromised,” causing them to quickly spread all throughout Europe and the rest of the world.

So, in order to protect the American people – the people of Europe, the people around the world – these labs need to be shutdown immediately. And the pathogens that they hold need to be destroyed.
The World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of the United Nations, reportedly advised Ukraine to take the same measures, fearing Russia’s missile bombardment and troop movements could potentially lead the pathogens stored in Ukrainian labs to escape if one of the facilities were to be damaged or compromised.

Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda," tweeted Romney. "Her treasonous lies may well cost lives.
Gabbard refused to sit back after Romney took his shot, slamming him in a lengthy Twitter thread Monday.

“Mitt Romney, you have called me a ‘treasonous liar’ for stating the fact that ‘there are 25+ US-funded biolabs in Ukraine which if breached would release & spread deadly pathogens to US/world’ and therefore must be secured in order to prevent new pandemics,” tweeted Gabbard. “Bizarrely, you claim that securing these labs (or even calling for securing these labs) is treasonous and will lead to a loss of life, when the exact opposite is obviously true. The spread of pathogens is what will cause the loss of life, not the prevention of such spread.”



There has been ongoing debate around whether such U.S.-funded chemical and biological labs in Ukraine actually exist.

Last week the State Department’s Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, acknowledged “Ukraine has biological research facilities, which, in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of.”

Nuland said nothing of U.S. involvement in those labs, but indicated the State Department was working with the Ukrainians to “prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach.”

https://wcti12.com/news/nation-worl...pathogen-propaganda-world-health-organization
 
"We are really the only significant experiment in democracy, and preserving liberal democracy is an extraordinary challenge," Romney said, according to the attendees, who gathered at the Hilton Hotel in McLean.
Yes it hopefully is.
I hope for a return to representative democracy.
 
Does that make sense to you? She has a job in the admin that has nothing to do with sex.

lefties don't understand sexual dimorphism.


they're dumb.

they shouldnt be consulted on any science related issue.

yes. Im poisoning the well. lefties drink from a poison science well.
 
How are we not a representative democracy right now?

the current president cheated his way in.

Corporate media has spent the last year arguing that Donald Trump’s claims about 2020 election integrity amount to “seditious” conspiracy theories. While maintaining that narrative despite the cognitive dissonance, Time magazine’s Feb. 15 cover story pulls back the curtain on a “conspiracy” among a “well-funded cabal of powerful people” in an “an extraordinary shadow effort” that successfully pushed Trump from office.

“In a way, Trump was right,” writes Time national political correspondent Molly Ball. “There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes.” She later describes this “conspiracy” as something that “sounds like a paranoid fever dream — a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.”

Trump was treated like he had three heads for complaining the election was “rigged.” In the infamous speech he gave as violence broke out in the U.S. Capitol the day Congress certified the Electoral College votes, Trump said, “This year they rigged the election. They rigged it like they’ve never rigged an election before.” The left and some Republicans like Rep. Liz Cheney have insisted Trump’s strong claims like this incited an “insurrection.”

Yet Ball makes exactly these kinds of claims in the Time article, and goes on to substantiate them. It’s really hard to tell if the article is just a gloating bat flip, a horrifying attempt to radicalize more people among Democrats’ political opposition, or evidence the left believes Americans are so deadened under Democrat control they will not react to such public revelations of conspiracies to betray American self-governance.

The article is above all a striking work of doublespeak. It intones the “Trump is crazy” mantra at Trump’s charges of election-rigging while telling how powerful people conspired to rig the 2020 election. Ball documents a massive election-manipulation “conspiracy” among the nation’s rich and powerful. She shows an amazing level of contempt combined with ignorance about how someone who believes in self-government, as opposed to rule by oligarchs, might take this information.

Election Tampering
The conspiracy’s “work touched every aspect of the election,” Ball writes. “They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time.”

This, she and the “dozens” of conspiracists she interviewed claim, is evidence of their efforts to “protect the election.” In fact, all of these tactics weaken election integrity.

For example, mail-in ballots are known as an unreliable voting method, even without its potential assistance to criminal fraud such as ballot-stuffing, because they create margins of error well within the margin of actual votes in a close election. That’s why labor unions, Jeff Bezos, and many foreign countries refuse to use them.

Therefore, in a mail-in election such as 2020, in which half of the total votes and most of the Biden votes were mail-in, one can control the outcome simply by controlling the poll-watchers and vote-counters. Even if they are honest, their unconscious bias or the simple mayhem of unreadable handwriting and signatures creates the conditions for untrustworthy results.

We have no way of knowing how many of the approximately 65 million 2020 election mail-in ballots were legal — meaning, how many fully complied with all applicable state laws to be validly completed by eligible voters. It could be all of them. It might not be. Nobody with power seems to care to find out. Joe Biden “won,” and the bad orange man is finally gone. That’s all that matters to them, and anyone who has any concerns or questions is simply a stupid bigot, end of story, move along, nothing to see here, shut up you white supremacist domestic terrorist or we’ll put you in jail without any bail — you’re so lucky we haven’t already.

One of the core problems with the 2020 election is that many states did not follow their voting laws, suspending them with the excuse of COVID (which the Centers for Disease Control said the day before the election, after most votes were already cast, was not necessary). States were pressured or forced to do so, not by what Ball hilariously calls Trump’s “henchmen,” but by lawyered-up leftist pressure groups that strategically undermined election protections with pre-emptive lawsuits while courts rolled over for them.

These leftist lawyers were unquestionably the aggressors in this situation, as Hans van Spakovsky and others have documented, filing as many as four times the number of lawsuits Trump or Republicans filed. Their efforts caused the very “election confusion” Ball claims her vaunted “conspiracy” was trying to avoid. What do you call people who do one thing while claiming to do the opposite? Idiots or liars. And I don’t think these people are idiots.

Control the Information, Control the People
This “conspiracy” also rigged the election by pre-emptively controlling the information voters were able to receive about the candidates. They did this by colluding with big tech companies to hide information that made Joe Biden look bad. Post-election research found that just the conspiracy’s successful information control on Hunter Biden’s alleged corruption and its potential links to his father would have been enough to tip the election.

“They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears … They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result,” Ball writes.

The article shows how these activists pushed a narrative that election results would not be known on election night as part of their campaign to box out Trump. It then openly admits to a subsequent orchestrated attempt to anoint Biden the winner before all the votes had been tallied. This is how leftists made their “fever dream” a reality.

This coalition had private polling that mirrored the Trump campaign’s internal polling, which differed from the public polling released throughout 2020 that consistently appeared to show Trump far behind. A top “conspiracy” leader “was warning everyone he knew that polls were underestimating Trump’s support,” Ball writes.

To counteract this, he sent data to corporate media networks that got them to telegraph that the election results would take time to massage — oops, be counted. The delay made way for a late “surge” of “mail-in ballots” that were just what Biden needed in every place he needed them.

“Election night began with many Democrats despairing. Trump was running ahead of pre-election polling, winning Florida, Ohio and Texas easily and keeping Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania too close to call,” Ball noted. But the “conspiracy” leader watched the results unperturbed, she says: “he could tell that as long as all the votes were counted, Trump would lose.” Amazing projection skills, right? Especially considering his “cabal” in reality pushed to declare Biden the winner before “all the votes were counted.”

https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/0...ccessful-conspiracy-to-rig-the-2020-election/
 
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