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After all the debates, analysis, pseudo-analysis, charges, counter-charges, memes, counter-memes and whatnot during this election cycle … Joe Biden could still be in the White House on Jan. 21, 2025.
Yes, you read that right.
Or, Biden could resign for alleged health reasons and allow Vice President Kamala Harris to become the nation’s 47th president, regardless of what happens Nov. 5.
Or, somebody with connections to such favored establishment entities as Blackrock or Ukraine could try to assassinate Trump again.
You might think this sounds like bad political fiction. Think again.
As they did during the last presidential election, the powers that be will use any means necessary — and all means available — to maintain power and deny President Donald Trump a second term. That could mean using some sort of emergency as a justification to violate the Constitution and postpone the election.
“If they think that there’s a chance that Trump could win decisively enough in November that they can’t steal it, then I think their only option there is to in some way throw the society into chaos,” Tucker Carlson said. “It’s pretty simple. If they feel like they’re going to lose, we will have some kind of crisis.”
That crisis could involve fears of another pandemic, economic collapse and even world war.
A lawyer who works at the United Nations perfectly expresses the contempt and irrational panic Trump generates among domestic and international elites.
“I’m the definition of a globalist,” said Jorge Paoletti, associate legal officer for the Treaty Section of the UN’s Office of Legal Affairs. “Absolutely nobody wants Trump.”
Paoletti spoke while being recorded surreptitiously by a reporter for Steven Crowder’s podcast.
“I’m not sure the United Nations as an institution is going to survive a second term of Donald Trump,” Paoletti said. “I mean, we are terrified. The purpose of Donald Trump is to end the international institutions that somehow level the playing field.”
For Paoletti, leveling the playing field includes supporting the kind of international environmental agreements that embody the globalist hysteria over climate change, one justification for corporatist governance. Trump rejects both that hysteria and the ensuing agreements, which he believes disable American industry and sovereignty.
“For example, say the United Nations creates an environmental agency, and that environmental agency says that countries can only reach a certain level of pollution,” Paoletti said. “How do you think all these crazy MAGA people are going to react to that? Who are you globalists to tell me, the United States, what I can do?”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken might have signaled the United States’ future course in May while in the Ukraine for talks with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky. When Russia invaded in 2022, Zelensky declared nationwide martial law. Since Ukraine’s constitution prohibits elections during martial law, the country’s scheduled presidential election this year was postponed indefinitely.
“We’re working with the government and civil society groups to shore up Ukraine’s election infrastructure,” Blinken said. “That way, as soon as Ukranians agree that conditions allow, all Ukranians — all Ukranians — including those displaced by Russia’s aggression, can exercise their right to vote. People in Ukraine and around the world can have confidence that the voting process is free, fair and secure.” (Emphasis added)
Of course, the United States held presidential elections during World War II in 1944, and during the Civil War in 1864. The Constitution makes no provision for cancellation due to martial law. Yet a group of leaders who have less regard for the Constitution than for used wrapping paper on Christmas likely has no interest in legal or historical precedent.
So to paraphrase Blinken, we must destroy democracy in order to save democracy.
One way to destroy democracy is to introduce chaos into the electoral system, such as through mail-in voting. The procedure is so disruptive that political scientists from CalTech and MIT warned in a 2001 study about the potential for massive fraud. Yet Democrats and progressives endorse mail-in voting because they benefit from it.
The biggest benefit came during the 2020 Presidential election, when ballots mysteriously appeared overnight in key precincts nationwide, enabling Biden to defeat Trump, as FrontPage Magazine reported four years ago.
The same scenario appears likely again. The Commonwealth State Appeals Court in Pennsylvania — a pivotal state in any presidential campaign — ruled Aug. 30 that election officials violate the commonwealth’s constitution by rejecting mail-in ballots without correct dates or any dates. Four of the five judges supported that ruling.
Excluding such ballots “by otherwise eligible voters because of meaningless and inconsequential paperwork errors violates the fundamental right to vote,” wrote Appeals Court Judge Ellen Ceisler. The ruling affected two heavily Democratic counties, Allegheny and Philadelphia, home of the commonwealth’s two largest cities.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the ruling Sept. 13 but the plaintiffs could appeal. Voters aren’t fooled.
“It’s cheating plain and simple,” said KP on the Epoch Times’ comment thread. “It worked to help Democrats steal the 2020 election and they are going to do it again for the upcoming election if everybody does not get out and vote.”
Four years ago, COVID-19 provided the excuse for mail-in voting, which has since become commonplace. As warnings of more devastating pathogens escalate, public health once again could serve as an excuse to make voters use mail-in ballots or stay home. On Sept. 4, the Center for Disease Control ordered hospitals and nursing facilities to report incidents of various respiratory diseases — including COVID-19 — starting Nov. 1, four days before the election.
Meanwhile, reckless federal spending could generate an economic collapse not seen since the Great Depression of 1929.
The national debt stands at $35 trillion, an all-time high. When the fiscal year ends Sept. 30, annual interest on that debt will exceed $1 trillion for the first time. Only Social Security surpasses those interest payments in the federal budget.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 Index in the first week of September lost $2.2 trillion — the largest amount since the five-day trading week began in 1953. Analysts warn that stock prices could fall 70 percent.
Meanwhile, major American banks continue to close branches. Britain’s Daily Mail reported Sept. 23 that the nation’s largest bank, Chase, closed seven branches in one week. In the first six months of this year, American banks closed 539 branches nationwide. Bank of America led the way with 90 closures.
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, saw stagflation as a distinct possibility, he told CNBC on Sept. 10. In stagflation, a combination of inflation and economic stagnation, both unemployment and prices would escalate. Dimon cited increased spending and deficits as major reasons for stagflation.
Economist Harry Dent projects an even worse scenario.
“I think we’re going to see the S&P go down 86 percent from the top, and the NASDAQ 92 percent,” Dent told Fox Business. “Flooding the economy with extra money forever might actually enhance the overall economy long-term.
“But we’ll only see when we see this bubble burst. And this bubble has been going 14 years. Instead of most bubbles lasting five to six, it’s been stretched higher, longer. So you’d have to expect a bigger crash than we got in 2008 to ’09.”
To protect their own economies and evade American economic sanctions, five nations formed BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa; hence the initials. The group, which includes nine members, seeks to reduce reliance on the dollar as an international reserve currency and reinforce transactions with gold. Russia and China have been buying so much gold that it reached its highest price ever, $2,590.61 per ounce.
“They can read the writing on the wall,” Peter Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, told Fox Business in 2019.
That writing includes the possibility of war — even nuclear war. Ukraine could provide the spark, with NATO willing to take the fighting deep into Russia.
On Sept. 11, Andrei Chibis, the governor of Russia’s Murmansk Province in the Arctic, said three Ukranian drones flying from Scandinavia were shot down in his territory. Finland’s general staff and the Swedish Air Force denied the attack and called his claim disinformation. Finland joined NATO last year, with Sweden following in March.
Yet it appears likely such an attack occurred, not only given Ukraine’s use of drones to strike as far as Moscow but also subsequent moves by NATO’s biggest members.
Britain and France have sent Ukraine long-range ballistic missiles but limited their use to within Ukraine’s borders. Zelensky, with British support, wants to use them to attack Russia and also wants NATO to provide cruise missiles. But the United States must agree. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau publicly and enthusiastically supports both moves.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that any such attacks would mean war with NATO members — including Canada and the United States.
“Experts will confirm both here and in the West that the Ukrainian army is unable to strike with modern, high-precision, long-range weapons of Western production,” Putin said. “This is only possible with the use of satellite intelligence data which Ukraine does not have. This data only (comes) from the satellites of the European Union or the United States. Only NATO servicemen can carry out flight missions using these missile systems. Ukrainian servicemen cannot do this.”
“We are talking about … whether NATO countries will directly participate in the military conflict. If this decision is made … this will mean that NATO countries — the United States and European countries — are at war against Russia.”
Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s ambassador to the United States, even said Americans could become nuclear targets.
“There is some kind of illusion here that if there is a conflict, it will not spread to the territory of the United States of America” he told Russian television Sept. 13. “I am constantly trying to convey one thesis to them: Americans will not be able to sit it out behind the waters of the ocean. This war will affect everyone.”
Are the Russians bluffing? Consider the following:
— Between Sept. 11 and Sept. 15, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) tracked eight Russian military aircraft near Alaska. On Sept. 23, NORAD tracked four such aircraft that day.
– The United States Army also sent about 130 soldiers, accompanied by rocket launchers, to an island in the Aleutians.
– The Russian navy transferred two submarines – one carrying nuclear weapons – from the Barents Sea to the Pacific Ocean.
– Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) is proposing a Constitutional amendment that would allow state governors to appoint members to the House of Representatives in case civil disorder takes the lives of House members. The proposal is part of Congress’ attempts to plan for a “mass casualty” event.
— Switzerland is considering abandoning its geopolitical neutrality, a position it held since 1515, for increasing defense spending, allowing arms sales to nations at war and developing a “common defense capability” with NATO and the European Union.
— The Army Corps of Engineers commissioned on Sept. 10 a study to analyze the effects of nuclear war on farmland — especially in Eastern Europe and Western Russia.
Would the powers that be in Washington really risk the annihilation of millions of Americans just to satisfy their lust for power? The answer to that question takes the form of another question:
Where have you been the past four years?