Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich [Twitter Acct Here] writes a strong letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy AG Lisa Monaco after their public threats to intervene in state election audits.
While reminding the DOJ about the 10th amendment, Brnovich writes: The DOJ seems “more interested in supporting the hysterical outcries of leftist pundits on cable television, rather than the rule of law.” … “My office is not amused by the DOJ’s posturing and will not tolerate any effort to undermine or interfere with our State Senate’s audit to reassure Arizonans of the accuracy of our elections:
That letter’s gonna leave a mark!
Show down coming! Send in the troops! Eventually the FED’s will make a mistake! I am betting on it! War? War it is!
AMMO UP!
A few felony stops might do the job if clean, legal (State of AZ) object lessons.
I’m thinking triple tap or head shots for armed, violent felons in the act.
Feds need an overhaul
In Arizona, our governor turned on us and vetoed the VOTER INTEGRITY BILL. He will be gone in a year and hopefully that veto can be reversed by the new governor .
If the nomination of Chipman to ATF is any indication, we really should not expect them to think twice about slaughtering their own citizens to make an example of their authority, and proudly thumping their chest about how justice was served.
And unless we are prepared for exactly that, the overwhelming majority will back down after seeing a few heads on pikes paraded down CNN avenue.
Oh yes . That is definitely next . Every government has to take out those that oppose .
This right here is the proper and necessary response. Take a stand. Push back the tyrannical offensive.
The state’s have to reassert and take back their power as CREATORS of the federal government. The states DELEGATED LIMITED AND DEFINED powers to the federal government, which means they gave it a temporary trust of their powers.
Moreover, the Founding Fathers EXPECTED the states to pushback and nullify any federal government action or law that acted outside its limited authorities and gave us a Constitution that allows for exactly that.
Election laws are outside of the federal government’s authority; if the Fed govt attempts to exert power in this realm, AZ and any other state is completely within its constitutional authority to throw federal agents in jail.
The patriots must realize their duty and perform it . If George washing ton did not gather an army and fight England.
Now it is our turn to gather physically in each state forming armies . To fight the enemy in DC. There are 125 million of us able to fight GW had 25000 and fought biggest army in world .
If we marched on DC we may not even get a fight . They may surrender . But go prepared . Our NG will fight for the constitution. Not the democrats . We could have our country back in a year . And clear a path for Donald J Trump to return . He needs us to do this . We are his people . And can’t expect him to do everything .
All Power comes from the barrel of a gun according to Mao Tse Tung and Herr Holder-Garland as Feral Gov Attys Gen. under the command of Obamy Mammy know this very well. So if the Ferals Act it will be with extreme prejudice by hordes of FIB descending on the AZ Election Site.
I would suggest AZ State Police on site, extremely well armed, with appropriate orders from the AZ Atty Gen.
It would have to be the people fight that battle .
No matter . There are many battles coming to 50 states that choose to keep their freedom . And choose they have an obligation to the land they love . We in Arizona will expect help from fellow patriots . In this battle as we will help others in the battle .
Sometimes heroes are unlikely and may have appeared to be cowardly or lackluster, before.
So, Bidum’s bully boy, Garland, will be outfitting his minions with Jack boots and brown shirts, next.
I see the AG letter as General McAuliffe’s reply to the Germans demand for surrender, “Nuts!”
Now all we need is a crazy general commanding the 3rd Army….
How about Lloyd Austin, Commander of the PC Cadets ?
Austin is a diversity, flaccid joke.
Another pigmentation promotion. the guy looks like he used to run a BBQ joint in Memphis.
He’d probably fail at that. Start lecturing customers that they’re systemic racists.
Dunes2021: I think we have one.
And Garland is doing this thinking that he may get a SCOTUS nomination after they take out Breyer? Boy will he be in for a SloJoe moment? His usefulness will last no longer than SloJoes and he will be tossed aside and remembered only as an opportunity to put in another Marxist radical. Sundance hit the nail squarely on the head in saying that his appointment as AG had zero to do with his qualifications nor with his ability to fit in the grand scheme of things. He was merely a “moderate” Democrat that Obama thought he could insert into the Court after taking out Scalia and tipping the scales of the Court. Why do you think the radical Marxists screamed so loudly when President Trump nominated ACB for RBG’s seat? The tables were turned on them and all they could do was scream since they had no leg on which to stand!!
We thought Obama filled his first two DOJs with radical progressives but we didn’t know anything until we have seen how he is filling his third DOJ with radical Marxists and avowed Communists. Out front. In the open. For the world (at least for those who have eyes that can see) to gaze upon and recognize.
Maybe SloJoe’s desire for the global corporate tax is a smokescreen to hide what Obama’s DOJ implants are trying to do to cover their election counting shenanigans. Everyone knows about the fraud involved in the establishment of the illegal mass mail-out ballot fiasco. Most Democrat sheeple and Republican ostriches haven’t bothered to look into the problems with the counting of the “ballots”, the chicanery of the counting machines/software, or the removal of Constitutionally guaranteed rights for citizens of these United States. AG Brnovich has, indeed, taken a shot across the bow. Just not with an “assault rifle like an AK-47”. He’s using a rather large missle and he just took dead aim on the DOJ by arming it with the Constitution!
If garland believes he is to be nominated for SCOTUS, he’s already having a slojoe moment.
Perhaps he should read Sundance’s article from yesterday about ketanji brown jackson.
No, not everyone knows about the fraudulent election, not even close. However in the next weeks and months more will be made aware, depends on if they can except the truth.
Agree. Was at an extended family gathering this weekend. Not only did my lefty relatives have no clue, the more conservative ones were unaware and not following any current news.
Precisely. How many people STILL do not know anything about Covid’s origins (despite Jon Stewart’s late night tv rant), or the side effects of the vaccines? How many people still believe Andrew Cuomo is a hero, and that Gavin Newsom has done a fine job running California?
a2n8geeol: Really good post, but if you would put a couple of spaces between your paragraphs, more people would read it. It is really difficult to read bunched together.
All true . Many will find themselves tossed aside . And that will walk right into our hands . We can always use pawns for the battle to come
The DOJ has no more right to invade Arizona than the earlier Nazis had to invade France.
Perhaps Garland has Arizona confused with Waco.
The States need to join with Arizona in telling the US AG that the elections are totally within each State’s control. The States, themselves, need to take a stand against this and other Federal plans against the Constitutional authority held by each State! Stand up and tell the current hostile regime a great big “No”!
I doubt few will back him up, Republicans do not have a backbone. .. in the last 5 years President TRUMP had to fight these hyenas by himself and Still we see few Republicans speaking out….
How many states joined the election lawsuit against Georgia filed by Texas SOS Paxton? 18? Time to speak out and unite against this fed government.
The state legislatures need to band together and buy up all the beach buckets and shovels and provide a set to each and every member of the DOJ, Congress and the judiciary who have acted in disdain of the Constitution and in violation of the rights of every citizen to have their vote counted legally and properly by that same Constitution. These people can be loaded onto military transports and flown to Omaha Beach and told to pound sand. My only regret is that this wasn’t done on June 6th, 2021. It could still be a nice belated birthday present for our real President, 45!
If by “join” you mean send some guard troops to defend AZ, I agree.
“No”. Complete with expletives and hand gestures.
Agreed, Patriot.
The states need to meet in a convention and end this corrupt regime. and throttle the federal government.
Meeting the threshold of three quarters of the states to pass amendments may see impossible, but I say you have to start somewhere. A great campaign agenda for the MAGA movement. to put.state politicians on the record .
What makes you think that these lawless fiends would obey any new law?? We already have enough laws on the books, and expose our Constitution to risk.
We must have ENFORCEMENT of existing laws, not new laws.
Why would the do that? The states abdicated on their responsibilities and turned a boatload of things over to the Feds. Remember when the states were crying about ‘unfunded mandates’? They should have been citing 9th and 10th Amendments and telling the Feds where to shove those mandates.
But they didn’t. It’s easier to shove responsibilities off to the Feds, who will gladly accept them and increase the bureaucracy and increase DC concentration of power, and reach of the Leviathan.
States shouldering the responsibility for certain programs means the states who are constrained by balancing budgets would have to raise taxes to pay for those programs.
I know that ship has sailed, and we aren’t putting the genie back in the bottle. But if the feds were held to the constraints of the 9th and 10th Amendments, probably 90% of what is done in DC would be done at state and local levels. Your combined 345 to 40% income tax rate would shift heavily to the states and Uncle Sam getting crumbs instead of the bulk of that tax revenue.
Like “infrastructure”… Most of a state/localitys infrastructure is USED BY THOSE PEOPLE, so why isn’t the state responsible for these expenses?
P. Trump made a great proposal in 2017, 20% of the cost paid by the feds, 80% by the state/locality, and the feds would help with arranging financing.
I also don’t want fed taxpayers to “guarantee” the loans/bonds that are financed.
Profligate states will therefore pay an interest rate according to its credit rating, prudent states will pay a rate appropriate to their rating.
This means that FL isn’t going to pay an extra 3% on bond rate, because it’s not paying for IL, with its massive debt and poor credit rating.
Also, the opportunity for fraud is lessened, and states may not have to comply with Davis-Bacon.
Better all around. Tell your Critter.
Good for the AZ State AG.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors should have been arrested.
Same with the corrupt Soros owned Sheriff of Maricopa County.
Everyone threatens……then nothing is carried through.
Can you imagine the number of criminals running our government? The only reason they are there is because they cheated during an election or knows another crook who appoints them. What is even more amazing are the Libtards they pull the wool over their eyes.
If only a few arrests could be made, the rest would scurry into the wind. Their offense would dissolve.
Not really. The best way to defeat the fascio communists is to irradiate them.
This was true back in 2016. Too late now.
More likely is that the others would meet with their handlers and mount an offense together.
True!
Gentle reminder: the GOPe is almost as much of a problem as the Fuaxministration and its DOJ… and the GOPe has tentacles.
The GOPe are the worse because they pull the wool over a lot of Republican eyes who are supposed to know better.
Right. The Maricopa BOS is majority GOP. Goddamned traitors.
And they can HANG with their buddies….
mr.piddles: I just put 2 forever stamps on request for money to send back to the GOP, including one for my representative Michael Guest, MS-3, who voted for an investigation of the January 6th incident. My replies were civil but unequivable. It was with the 50 cents!
Spirit lifting letter. I hope he and his family remain safe. I am still upset over Mr. Signal and the torching of the kids in GA.
About darn time from Brnovich!
Good for AZ AG standing up to the Biden thugs.
Arizonans can be proud of their AG and his comments IF he has the stones to live up to them. Be sure the IRS is being primed to give this man’s personal accounting and finances – as well as those of his department – a deep-dive examination going back 20 years. Yes, this is the way to resist. States’ rights and the 10th Amendment. No wonder the Dems wanted HR1 to become law, since it would negate the 10th Amendment (not realizing the two are in conflict and to have the one, the Dems must do away with the other which necessitates a long, messy, and VERY public fight in front of cameras).
This is sounding a great deal like the beginnings of the War Between the States, sans the slavery issue. Eliminate that issue and it all revolved around what we’re witnessing today in real time – a big, overgrown, usurping, bullying Federal government intent upon garnering all power unto itself. There are a LOT of folks who would like to see it put back into its rightful place.
“sans the slavery issue”
What makes the slavery issue go away? We lose our voice and our vote are we are truly slaves.
Immigrants are being imported en masse to serve as their slaves
We all became slaves when the income tax became law.
And we are slaves when they steal our votes, force vaccines on us, mandate masks, lockdown our country, and tell us what to think.
And we are slaves when they steal our votes, force vaccines on us, mandate masks, lockdown our country, and tell us what to think.
Admin please delete my post from “Everytrumper”. Haven’t had my caffiene yet.
Because the really big issue causing secession was the tariffs that were starving the South…Tariff of Abominations, then the Morrill Tariff, then the attempt at nullication.
Do a little reading in a good history book, its quite interesting!
Ironically, Dems would like to fight the Civil War all over again in order to free the slaves (as it were!) for a second time (or exactly how many times is it really?!) So the “slavery issue” hasn’t gone away. Of course, to hold these beliefs social justice degenerates have re-written our dictionaries to include meanings that are nothing less than an affront to the human mind and to all civilized peoples.
Democrats alway were and and always will be the party of slavery. They are not about freedom in any sense.
The dems/left never stopped fighting the civil war. They were the Klan. They enacted local ordinances to prevent black voting. They set up separate facilities for blacks and whites. They fought against all the civil rights legislation. They had leaders like Lyndon Johnson and Robert Bird. They are the masters at racism because they know it so well.
The “War Between the States” was only about slavery, and was instigated by cadres of elites who illegitimately usurped power, including with fraudulent referenda. In many states, legislatures decided to secede before putting the issue to the people. Governor Letcher in Virginia insisted on having a referendum first, but there were widespread reports of goons with rifles, and one of a noose, at polling stations. Many were told that if they voted for the Union, then they would be hanged. If they left without voting, then they and their families would be run out of the county. Their votes were given vocally to a clerk who recorded their names and votes, and the poll books were stored and could be used against voters later. Many of these poll books still exist. Counties that had come out strongly pro-Union in the presidential election of 1860 had virtually no votes for Union in the secession vote only six months later, with a huge drop in vote totals as newspapers published that a vote for Union was “treason”.
At least 100,000 men from the South joined the Union Army. Think about it. General Grant had 116 000 men when he began his celebrated Overland Campaign. Loyal Southerners were vital to his success, and those loyal Southern men risked immediate execution if captured. Their families also suffered from local persecution. There were almost as many deserters from the Confederate Army in 1864 than General Lee had to fight Grant. Many Southerners, at great risk, resisted the Confederacy.
If you read campaign statements from each of the four presidential candidates in 1860, you will soon realize that slavery was the only issue dividing the sections, North and South. Also, Gov. Letcher of Virginia gave six ultimatums in January of 1861, each of which was about slavery. It was only in the face of crushing defeat that Southern leaders devised the Lost Cause Theory, whereby the conflict was never about slavery. No, it was only about slavery.
Before the Civil War, many Southern men fled north to escape an oppressive economic system, whereby non slave owners could not obtain credit, nor compete against cheap slave labor. Their hard work was devalued by slave labor, just as today our labor is devalued by the importation of cheap labor from across the southern border.
Southern militias were formed in 1858, three years before the onset of hostilities, in an effort to stand up an army to take over Federal forts and armories, then negotiate with the North from a position of strength. If you look up who started these militias, you will soon find that they were major slave owners. In fact, these militias were not particularly popular with the locals. In the wake of the John Brown raid, Governor Letcher in Virginia claimed that Militia membership had been “pathetic” and he came out in favor of a militia law that compelled enlistment. Fines were placed on anyone who refused to enlist in their local militia.
By 1864 there were so many men camping up in the Blue Ridge Mountains in order to escape service in the Confederate Army that General Lee could have formed two divisions from their numbers. A posse from the Virginia Military Institute tried to arrest deserters hiding in the Blue Ridge but were repulsed by the superior firepower of the deserters.
The Confederacy did not recieve monolithic support, was resisted by many Southerners at great risk, was led by slave owners, for the slave owners who didn’t care how many of their inferiors were thrust into the inferno in order to retain their privileges.
This is fascinating. Where can one read more?
I have a book coming out in a few months. It probably won’t get much play since publishing houses have gone woke. We’ll see.
Could you please make sure you pass along your book info…..I would buy it! Quite fascinating…..thank you
I hope we get to know when your book comes out. I too love our history. Your writing style makes it interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Keep us posted, I want an autographed copy.
Me too!!!
Please include me.
The issue is complex, and most don’t realize that many fought for other reasons than to preserve slavery. I daresay the invasion of their land was a big one for many, who had never owned slaves. Thank You for delving into this.
The Dems have been using mobs a long, long time to intimidate. That’s actually called terrorism
” The war between the states was only about slavery” Typo?
Slavery was only a peripheral issue, at stake was how the unlimited natural resources of the recently acquired western territories shape the respective economies. Were they to be industrial or agricultural economies. That’s it in a nutshell.
Correct, Gary.
I won’t be reading that book.
So how come my penniless ancestors ponied up and VOLUNTEERED to fight for Alabama? Do tell. One was in Walker County, right next door to the “Free State of Winston” which was a Union island (CSA voter intimidation in Winston county? I think not. They seceded from the CSA!) Most of the war was partisan rangers burning each other out across county lines. Think bushwhackers and red legs.
One of my Confederate ancestors was in the 33d Alabama Infantry–and was one of six men left when Lee surrendered. One of six. And he never owned a damn thing. He fought for his state.
Your take on the War seems very one-sided and I rather doubt you have spoken to descendants who actually have real information concerning the everyday privates in the infantry or “mounted infantry” units. Given your prejudices as evidenced in your comment, no real Southerner should ever give you the time of day.
Alligator Gar, I gave you a thumbs up because you are the type of reader that I’d like to have for my book. You are right that many poor Southerners did not fight for the Confederacy, but rather for their neighbors. My ancestors were in a militia unit that was mobilized on 17 April, 1861 and marched to Harper’s Ferry where they were made members of the provisional army of Virginia. Within a month they were in the 5th Virginia Infantry, Stonewall Brigade (so called after the Battle of First Manassas.) One of their cousins deserted after that battle. These ancestors of mine deserted on 6 April, 1862 and hid in the Blue Ridge for one year. After that, they made their way to West Virginia and then Pittsburgh where they joined the US, one in the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry who went up against the Stonewall Brigade at Spotsylvania Courthouse where his unit destroyed the Stonewall Brigade almost in its entirety. There were so few left in the Stonewall Brigade after that battle that they were folded into a couple companies in a reformed 4th Virginia Infantry along with the remnants of 14 decimated regiments.
The cousin who deserted after First Manassas was captured in September of 1864, charged with desertion and sentenced to death, but was pardoned by Jeff Davis, the president of the Confederacy as a goodwill gesture before Christmas. There were so many deserters that it was just good public relations to make nice with the families of the deserters.
Another cousin injured himself with an ax in order to avoid service. He was taken to camp hospital under guard and forced to serve anyway. He continued to resist by feigning illness (dyspepsia debilitas) for most of the war. Even so, he has a nice Confederate placard commemorating his service at his gravesite.
Many opposed the Confederacy on religious grounds. Most Mennonites and Brethren refused to serve in combat roles, and German Reformed members (my ancestors) opposed slavery. There was a Dunker rebellion in 1862 that Stonewall Jackson resolved by sending artillery to bomb the resisters out of their mountain redoubts. Most made it to New Creek and went north, though a few were captured and forced to serve in the Confederate Army.
No, my ancestors were poor Whites whose pastor happened to be the postmaster general on the Underground Railroad. The existence of the Underground Railroad throughout the war gives strong testament to the presence of an organized resistance to the Confederacy within Southern states. They risked their lives to help young me go north and join the fight against the Confederacy, my ancestors included.
You are right about bushwhackers having an important role. John Daniel Imboden, a major slave owner who blew his eardrums out at First Mananas trying to impress Stonewall Jackson, permanently losing his hearing in one ear, formed a group of partisan rangers. Their destruction of private property was such an embarrassment to the Confederacy that his groups was folded into the Confederate cavalry, and he was made a warden of a prisoner of war camp, and he wrote in defense of the warden at Andersonville. He was a real lout.
Most of my ancestors family were in the Confederate Army at some point. Some even voted in favor of secession, only to desert the Confederate Army later. Even so, my ancestors, along with hundreds in the future Stonewall Brigade, did not vote in favor of secession. The poll book from the military encampment at Harper’s Ferry does not contain a single vote for Union, but there are hundreds of names not in the poll book because they feared their votes would be used against them and they would become cannon fodder. Part of the pressure to vote in favor of secession came from the fact that the colonel, the majors and other officers signed the poll book first, setting the desired example. Would you want to be the first name in the column for Union, your name right next to that of the colonel?
The poll book from Point of Rocks had initially a zero placed in the pro-Union vote, but that had to be erased and many ended up voting for Union there, much to the chagrin of John Daniel Imboden who led that group.
No, my ancestors were poor Whites, earning their $13 per month pay as members of the 5th Virginia–the standard wage for a farm laborers at the time. The largest US denomination before the war was the 50 cent piece, the value of a day’s labor.
In the end, there were precious few from the Stonewall Brigade who survived the war. You can probably count on two hands the number who marched on 17 April 1862 who were alive and present at Appomattox. Those Southern men suffered mightily. The lesson that I’d like to convey is that the idea of a monolithic South is a myth. There was a lot of resistance to the Confederacy in the South. We forget those stories because men like Robert Luke Collins who wounded his own foot with an ax was present in the Confederate Army at Appomattox. His cousin, Henry Zink, was pardoned by Jeff Davis. AJ Zink, who voted in favor of secession, deserted in 1862 and camped in the Blue Ridge. My great great grandfather joined the 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery after deserting the Stonewall Brigade, and was involved in artillery duels outside Petersburg and Richmond. His brother was in the 148th Penn and his regiment lost almost every man in 1864, fighting in every major battle of Grant’s Overland Campaign. Every man in the 148th volunteered for a suicide mission in October of 1864. By the time of the raid, they had been reduced from 722 effectives at the beginning of the year to 182. They lost 33 in the successful raid. Those in the North also fought hard, and some of them came from the South in order to fight for something they felt was truly important.
We should especially respect the lowly private soldiers on both sides, who bore the brunt of the carnage. There were even officers in the Confederate Army who opposed secession. Lt. John Willson of the 5th Virginia did not vote for secession, and was killed at First Kernstown. Many who died fighting in the Confederate Army opposed secession.
Our history is much more complex than the simple “just so” stories we have been taught. That complexity makes it much more interesting, in my estimation. There are important moral lessons that may be learned from all sides.
“Our history is much more complex than the simple “just so” stories we have been taught. That complexity makes it much more interesting, in my estimation. There are important moral lessons that may be learned from all sides.”
You and I are fully in agreement here about morally simplistic “just so” stories. You have a story to tell and the Mennonite/Brethren/German Reformed angle is unfamiliar to me and merits investigation and publication.
As one ages, one realizes that NOTHING is as simple as portrayed by media…Because human being are complex beings.
I’m worried that because we live in a soundbite world, that our people are losing the ability, nor do they see the need, of deep, critical thinking, and wide familiarity with actual history.
It makes them so easy to manipulate.
Missy: Rewriting history started a long time ago. It takes curiosity for people to learn from different sources other than what is in our history books in school.
You are right to be proud of your heritage. I have to agree with Gen though , slavery not the only issue but the primary one. I am a Southerner, but we have to face the fact that the the South was on the wrong side of this issue. Slavery was and is a horrible Un-Christian institution.
Evertrumper: Of course slavery was wrong, but how many fighting for the confederacy owned slaves and were fighting for the preservation of this evil practice? You have to go deeper than what the history books tell you.
Hm. Not sure that the war was only about slavery. Thanks for sharing this other information about the votes, militias, etc – I’ll enjoy looking this information up and learning more.
Interesting quote, attributed to Lincoln, “The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own [slaves].”
Seems we are still under the dictates of an odious and detested class…..
Truth has no agenda. This is a part of the history that has been previously overlooked. Thanks for sharing.
“No, it was only about slavery.”
You forgot to mention steep tariffs on goods imported from England in exchange for agricultural goods from the South.
“The Confederacy did not recieve (sic) monolithic support,..”
The Union had riots in response to the military draft.
Please, let’s be even-handed in our treatment of that event so as to avoid repeating the myths taught by government schools.
And a fair amount of lynchings carried out by Democrats after the Civil War were lynchings of white Republicans, not just black Republicans. Some things never change.
Or course any good Democrat will tell you “IT FLIPPED” when all the Dixiecrats become Republicans. This is a myth as exposed by Dinesh D’Souza in one of his films. Most Dixiecrats (George Wallace’s crew) became Democrats.
The Democrat Globalist Party has carried on a race war over the years- Jim Crow, segregation in the military, poll taxes etc. The modern Dem wokie has no idea that their party is racist. Currently the party leaders use poor and uneducated black people to continue their race war. They have to keep people down in order to keep their race war soldiers in the fight.
Gen. Sensibility, I believe many generational Southern Democrat families can trace there family tree right back to the Slave Owning Democrats who started the Civil War. Hell, many still own the plantations. Oh, but they are such proud Democrats fight the evil MAGA people. They are just blinded by hate.
“The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre–what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation. Under the old regime they were looked down upon by those who controlled all the affairs in the interest of slave-owners, as poor white trash who were allowed the ballot so long as they cast it according to direction.”
― Ulysses S. Grant
Thanks for the quote. I wonder how many of these poor whites became Republicans after the war.
Huh? Find me a Southern family that had any Northern sympathies and are still around to talk about it.
If the anecdote of southern deserters who joined the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and defeated the vaunted Stonewall Brigade at Spotsylvania Courthouse is any indication, their war deeds are more than ample testimony to their sympathies.
A Civil War history fanatic has shared stories about Union sympathizers in the iron- and railroad centers of the Old South: Birmingham, Atlanta, Etc. Because of tariffs
Knoxville TN was a Republican stronghold during and after the Civil War, probably for the same reasons. They now have a Democrat mayor, and some
abominable crimes.
The recent murder of Stanley Freeman Jr is one of the most recent and heinous, may he rest in peace. A high school kid on his way to work after school, gunned down while classmates filmed his murder.
Press says it was “probably a case of mistaken identity”. Barf
If the US government might shut down the Arizona audit, then the auditors should immediately release all of the information that they’ve found so far (ex: the number of missing ballots). As much as possible, they should release not just the findings, but also the proof of election cheating (ex: photographs), so that no one can claim that the election was fair.
Two reasons to immediately release the findings, and the proof/evidence:
1) It would be a lot harder for the feds to stop an audit that has proof of wrong-doing. That would make the feds look very bad.
2) If the feds do manage to stop the audit, then at least the information that the auditors release will get out to the public. We don’t want the facts suppressed forever.
I wonder if that’s why the Maricopa County auditors reported missing ballots. This was covered in the article “REPORT: Several Hundred Thousand Maricopa County Ballots Missing, Boxes Identified With Totally Blank Ballots” at
https://theconservativetreehouse.com
(slash) blog
(slash) 2021/06/14/report-several-hundred-thousand-maricopa-county-ballots-missing-boxes-identified-with-totally-blank-ballots/
Maybe the auditors made that announcement, to make it harder for the feds to stop the audit. (Stopping an audit that’s uncovered major problems would make the feds look bad). Just a guess.
Don’t let this man stand on the hill alone.
Signal support with letters to the editor of every newspaper in Arizona and to his office – and if you’re in a red state, to the AG and Gov of your state.
Let them know that the nation is watching.
Absolutely right! We the People must engage. We are at war it’s just being fought a different way.
Excellent suggestion!!
Stage 3 advances
More people are joining a majority in dissent to a corrupt illegitimate oppressive regime.
As this majority grows and ACTIONS are initiated THE WAR OF REVOLUTION proceeds
In stage 3 a transfer of power happens
Stage 3 is in progress. Not complete
This summer will be very stressful
Get ready…be prepared
Remain unafraid and be close to god and family
You will know the hour
Stay frosty
God Bless America
ouch.. that left a bruise
At the very least this letter preempts whatever false narrative the DOJ was going to push.
Who has Brnovich prosecuted for any of the election fraud so far?!?
I count ZERO.
Empty posturing on his part – apparently he wants to be the next Arizona Governor.
President Trump – DO NOT ENDORSE THIS POTATO.
Not governor…he is running for the Senate
maybe when the evidence is out he can investigate and prosecute, instead of indicting with no evidence, like mueller.
Exactly.
Individual states public officials are awake and pushing back, thank you oh Lord!
Then why didn;t they push back right after the election when POTUS was calling out Fraud NONE of these states cared they wanted the results certified ASAP.. Now we are suppose to pat them on the back for a great job AFTER THE FACT? Nope..
Because they were stupid enough to think it was a ‘one off’?
Get Rid of President Trump and things will go back to normal.
They finally realized their own political future / advancement is effected.
Now it is kind of important. ?
Guyski – give them some credit – NO ONE is THAT STUPID.
They thought it was a “one-off”. No they didn’t. They knew exactly what was going on and wanted to be rid of Trump.
They are CORRUPT. They are not the KNAVES you are insinuating.
Yes, they wanted to get rid of President Trump.
But, now how are any of these so called republican state representatives or state senators (in certain states) going to win a statewide office?
All of these state politicians have ‘delusion of grandeur’. They all want to be a governor, a senator, etc.
Massive FF coming soon? How will FS and socialist media fight back when forensic evidence hits the fan? Be ready, be prepared.
Dung Zhou Mitch and Salon Boy McCarthy are silent. Which says much very loudly.
maybe if they taught our kids about the constitution he would have known which rights are Federal and which are States rights.
Most Republicans I know are profoundly ignorant, even now.
Why are they letting the feds set policing policy? Are police not employed and paid for by LOCAL AND STATE TAXPAYERS??
Why are they looking to the feds to tell them when they can open up the schools?. Are they not paid for by local and state taxpayers?
Why are they not fighting for constitutionally authorized elections?? Is it not the states’ rights to run their own elections?
People had better wise up in the states, and set their boundaries with the feds…Vigorously.
Missy: The biggest fraud perpetuated in government is the state’s subservience to federal overreach. Thank a few governors for standing up, notably Florida’s DeSantis.
This is GREAT finally someone wtth the guts to stand up for law and order. Not to be intimidate by the Government. This was just a threat to intimidated. AG has NO RIGHTS in STATE LAWS
THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT
A great letter, but a letter non the less. What I am wondering is how he will back this up… Actions speak louder than words.
He backs it up with the AZ National Guard. Does Garland really want that image on every TV set around the world? Maybe, they seem to be pushing hard enough but they simply do not understand what that leads to.
As has been occurring for weeks, the legal, well planned, thorough election audit process continues – for the people.
Federalism. How brilliant was our founding fathers to understand this???
Tensions arise as Arizona finds hundreds of thousands of blank ballots?
I wonder why?
An honest Federal Government after Trumps victory and Biden’s victory had many questioning election accuracy, would insist on audits in Federal elections.
Much is going on here.
But the root of the problem is audits must be part of election process for public trust.
The only thing stopping it would be the media’s desire to name winners on election night.
Which is reason alone not to do it.
Cocoon: The root cause of so much of what’s wrong in this country seems to lie at the feet of our corrupt media.
Merrick Garland: “Well Attorney General Brnovich, now that you’ve written your letter, lets see you defend it.”
NOTE to AG Brnovich: It’s gonna take more than a strongly worded letter to back the feds down. They play for keeps and they don’t like uppity state AGs who resist them.
The State is in sound legal position to audit its election process – and that continues, for the people.
Totally agree on the legal soundness, but that means NOTHING to the feds. They can invent all sorts of “legal” reasons to insert themselves into the AZ audit process.
This has nothing to do with the law and everything to do with power politics.
Circus since 11/04/2020 came up to last stage… all world know who won arizona…..is up those who monitored all election on screens to ACT…..WILL THEY ??? I think so….
…some are aware of ‘ we the people…’
Seeking the whole truth for we the people…
Love thy neighbors
I agree Max, communist don’t follow the law
janjan: While true, they achieve a lot by bluffing. Scotus would uphold the state’s rights, hopefully.
A “sound legal position” is deeply irrelevant to how this plays out.
Maximus: The doj is a department in the Executive Branch of government established to enforce the laws congress passes that are constitutional. Garland and what army are going to go into Arizona to stop the audit authorized by the constitutional authority given to the state legislature?
Sure, he can tie them up in court, but eventually, he will lose. Bad Optics
Issy, I don’t want to be rude, but your naiveté is perplexing. First, the DOJ is a political organization that operates under the color of the “law” to carry out the political objectives of the regime. It is totally corrupt.
The law and the Constitution are merely artificial constructs that are manipulated whenever possible, and ignored when necessary.
As to the “army” that Garland commands……well, Garland doesn’t command any army, but his boss–the Big Guy–does. And make NO mistake, Biden (or rather his handlers or his ambitious wife) will not hesitate to smack down the AZ AG (with the blessing of Decepticon RINO Governor Doug Ducey).
Lastly, optics are the province of the Enemedia–you do realize that, right? So if Biden / Garland decided to invoke Posse Comitatus (it’s been done before) to remind AZ who the boss is, you can bet the optics would be carefully managed to the benefit of “The Big Guy”.
EVEN IF the audit PROVES ballots were pre-printed and the democrats did cheat and the truth comes out that TRUMP WON by A LANDSLIDE, the DOJ will start closing them down, they will kill ALL mention of it on social media and the MSM plus you have the ped0-John Roberts on the SCOTUS refusing to hear the cases,
WHILST the RINOS aka republicans will cower down in fear and piss themselves on piles of their CHI COM ca$h to their CCP MASTER, and that will be the END OF IT…..
****They HAVE VIDEO proof of people running through the same stacks of ballots, accessing the usb ports with jump drives, cars driving up in the middle of the night dumping off ballots and STILL THE REPUBLICANS are doing NOTHING!
THIS IS A TAKEOVER OF AMERICA.
#StandWithTrump
#JudasMikePence
I don’t know what it is about SW states like AZ and TX. Maybe it’s the combination of heat and bone dry dirt. But, whatever it is, it provides the perfect soil to grow TWO THINGS:
Patriotism, and balls.
…it’s likely not about the place of living…
If curious, keep looking…
Yeah, you’re right. New Mexico has BOTH heat and dirt, but NO PATRIOTISM.
Damn, who knew? A lawyer who actually read the Constitution.
It really is just “a personnel issue” for the States. Did the employees whom they hired to conduct a “free and fair election” actually do so? If they didn’t, of course that’s a felony, but the Legislature – a branch of government – has the plenary power to ask any legitimate question and compel an answer that is “satisfactory” … no matter what that means. Particularly when it involves a state employee’s job performance! DOJ is very simply bluffing. It hath not a leg to stand on.
communist don’t follow the law
“ DOJ is very simply bluffing. It hath not a leg to stand on.”
Much like the Black Knight himself but did his many infirmities give surcease to his vainglorious boasting?
Nay! Learn a lesson from his impious defiance and take the head shot, if it is offered.
Mike Robinson: “DOJ is very simply bluffing. It hath not a leg to stand on.”
Garland isn’t bluffing. He is a Biden toadie and enforcer. He leads a department staffed with Biden toadies and enforcers who are well experienced veterans of the lawfare war now being waged against their political enemies. They know full well what the stakes are in this contest of wills between themselves and the MAGA movement, as it is now being defended so effectively by the Republicans in the Arizona state senate.
And it doesn’t matter that Garland hasn’t got a legal leg to stand on. He and his DOJ staff will manufacture an alleged violation of civil rights law for distribution by the MSM to the public and for presentation to a friendly judge in order to obtain a search warrant targeted against the Arizona audit facility and even against individual members of the audit team.
One scenario for how initiation of the FBI’s search and seizure of the audit material begins is that Democrats in the Arizona state senate and other officials in the Arizona state government — at-risk Democrats and RINO Republicans alike — sign a letter pre-drafted by the DOJ staff alleging violations of federal civil rights laws by the audit team, including allegations that the ballots and the electronic images of the voting system databases have been tampered with by the auditors in order to produce false evidence of election irregularities.
The auditors had better be backing up all their electronic material in a secure location offsite, one which the federales can’t easily seize. Arizona senate Republicans should be prepared to defend themselves from political charges of federal civil rights law violations made by their Democratic party opponents, and even be prepared to face criminal charges if the DOJ begins asserting that it has found evidence of tampering by the audit team staff.
It goes without saying that the truthful results of the audit won’t be believed.
They want to get away with it … no matter how absurd their efforts might be. We’ve got videos from surveillance cameras (which the criminals simply forgot about) showing ballots being stuffed through scanners multiple times, as well as votes which appeared on tabulations when the counting was supposed to be stopped, and corrupt state officials in Georgia nonetheless had no problem “certifying” the election results because they reflected the outcome that they wanted. It all began and ended at the same place: “Orange Man Bad.™”
Mike, I agree, but as JanJan mentioned- the Feds, especially the group illegally in place, will stop at nothing to prevent the truth from getting out. Their whole lives (and lifestyle) depend on it.
Isn’t it sad when the State must give the feds a tutorial on our Constitution, States Rights, and the feds criminal overreach?
Fabulous and succinct letter!
If you “fire a shot across the bow” be prepared to follow it up with one on target. Idle threats can get a ship sunk.
Arizona has a rich history of things getting ‘real’, way back to the Wild West. It’s ingrained in the culture. IMO, if things go sideways, the AZAG will have plenty of backup and then things will start coming at the Feds from directions they never envisioned. Count on it.
I hope the AG has the gonads not to back off when the heat is turned on……………
The state election boards in states President Trump won, should also do forensic audits of all Dominion voting machines. Just to support Az..
YES!!! Where are my Texas leaders on this? I haven’t heard if they are going to take a peek under the hood, or if they are just going to continue to be silent. Texas, of all places, should be an example right along with AZ. None of this “We don’ need no stinkin’ audit” for Tejano’s!!!
Thank you AG Mark B. I hope you follow through with your intent and make history in AZ and provide confidence to other states to follow your lead sir. Thank you.
I hope AG Brnovich dropped the mic when he wrote the letter. It seems the Dumbass Administration is afraid, very afraid.
Now for the AZ Governor. He was/is in on the steal, he refused to help secure the audit with the NG. He would force the AZ people to take the vaccine if he could, and he isn’t interested in banning CRT or vaccine passports! He thinks he’s is going to run for the Senate against Sinema in 2022 as well. Pathetic!!!
“…writes a strong letter”
Yee Haw! After wrasslin’ in all the “mud and the blood and the beer” we have achieved moral clarity: a strongly-worded letter!
But will Attorney General Mark Brnovich live up to his “General” creds and put troops in the field to defend the sanctity of polling places against a preemptive strike?
Or will he get gangstered by fedgov and write another strong letter protesting his mistreatment?
What the letter said ^^^
What Garland read: Blah Blah Blah…
Because Constitutionality and laws are for little people.
I think the first line of defense of the Biden admin is to use the MSM to undermine the credibility of the audit. I was surprised to see Anderson Cooper last night devoting a long segment on CNN to the AZ audit, but the chyron read “FRAUDIT”, clearly indicating that they want to frame the audit as a fraud. But the fact they are beginning to cover the AZ audit at all, must mean the are worried about what will be revealed.
In thinking about it some more I have to correct myself. The first line of defense was Garland hiring a load of civil rights attorneys and that letter that from the Civil Right’s Division’s Pamela Kardan, supporting “hysterical outcries by leftist pundits”. The CNN angle is the next step up, as Garland’s moves did not manage to stop the AZ audit yet. Ignoring it altogether does no longer work.
A well placed kick in the nuts to the Agitator General Garland and his henchmen at Out-Lawfare.
AG Brnovich had me at “My office is not amused by the DOJ’s posturing…” A beautiful letter that is well written and concise. He strongly advocates for the state’s rights as they are spelled out in The Constitution.
I hope the next republican president (TRUMP) takes a strong look at him for higher office.
That was an excellent letter. He was respectful enough but left no doubt that the authority he has based on the Constitution
would not be relinquished to an AG behaving like a political hack and a bully.
BOOM!
The Federal government is a rabid dog..
Amen!
Like a boss !
The Governor should secure the audit venue with National Guard troops now to protect the ballots and the auditors! He shouldnt wait till the feds show up and it chaos. Having the national guard there sends a powerful message to both the voters in Arizona and the Federl govt to back off!
He’s the very definition of RINO. In other words, he’ll do nothing.
Backbone!!!! It’s back in style.
Matters not what is said . Weather it is rule of law or our constitution. Democrats are deaf . They have their own rules that have nothing to do with America’s or gods laws . They are their own law and rule. And want nothing more then to drag us into their garbage with them .