by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Nov. 22, 2020) — It is said that Third Reich führer Adolph Hitler once advised that “if you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” Hitler’s Third Reich Minister of Propaganda, Josef Goebbels, added: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating […]
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KDH and the 2020 Election Eligibility Roller-Coaster
“THE DE VATTEL OPTION” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Sep. 28, 2020) — Every now and then, commenters here at The P&E present an opportunity to revisit the fundamental issues surrounding the “natural born citizen” eligibility question. Such is the situation at present regarding two commenters addressing this post. That article, in turn, further draws into […]
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DeMaio Responds to Recent “natural born Citizen” Comments
“THE ONLY PRECEDENT THAT COUNTS” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Feb. 13, 2020) — [Editor’s Note: Legal scholar Joseph DeMaio offers the following in response to comments to his February 9, 2020 article, “Is Mayor Pete a Natural Born Citizen?”] The J.J. Thompson comments of 2/12/20 are, respectfully, ill-reasoned and wrong. Neither the Ankeny case (an […]
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A Proposed 2020 New Year’s Resolution
“OUST THE TERMITES” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2019 (Dec. 22, 2019) — As explained in greater detail below – this paragraph being only an executive summary – your faithful servant proposes a New Year’s Resolution for 2020. The resolution suggests that all rational American voters of any political persuasion resolve to vote out of office and […]
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Silhouettes in Courage
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Feb. 23, 2021) — Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court seems to have crept a little closer to becoming the newest member of the Deep State cabal now “governing” the Republic. Your humble servant has in the past noted that if Benjamin Franklin were alive today, he would be weeping at the […]
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The Left’s Obsessive Pogrom
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Jan. 26, 2021) — The Left’s hatred for Donald Trump continues unabated. Senator Amy (“Clean-me-a-comb-for-my-salad” Klobuchar now thinks that the Senate can proceed with a trial on the impeachment of Citizen Trump 2.0, despite the fact that he is no longer in office. As “authority” for that theory, she cites as […]
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Franklin’s Warning is Coming True
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Jan. 7, 2021) — Today may mark the beginning of the end for the constitutional Republic which has existed for 233 years. Benjamin Franklin’s fears may be soon realized. As noted here, today at approximately 3:45 AM – ironically, around the same early morning hour on Nov. 4, 2020, when massive […]
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How to Avert a Pseudo-Presidency
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Jan. 2, 2021) — Happy New Year. And, speaking of the impending festivities next Wednesday in the Joint Session of the Congress, where the “counting” of the 2020 General Election electoral votes to actually elect the next president will take place, some interesting new developments emerge. Specifically, it still appears that […]
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The Train-wreck Continues
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Dec. 23, 2020) — Q.: Why does a dog lick itself? A.: Because it can. Substitute the term “Democrat” for the word “dog” in the foregoing Q&A and you will arrive at a fairly accurate picture of that which awaits the Republic if the Harris-Bide… dang… there I go again…, my […]
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Flynn: “Conclusive Evidence of Foreign Interference in our Elections” Publicly Available, DNI to Issue Report Friday
by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 13, 2020) — On today’s “Sunday Morning Futures” hosted by Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn (Ret), who Bartiromo introduced as having “led” the Jericho March on Saturday in Washington, DC supporting President Trump’s re-election efforts, Flynn told Bartiromo that evidence exists to show “foreign interference” in the […]
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The Texas v. Pennsylvania Denial of Jurisdiction
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Dec. 13, 2020) — OK, faithful P&E readers, you and a slew of other Americans may be asking themselves: what is going on in the wake of the Supreme Court’s declination to accept jurisdiction over the Texas v. Pennsylvania original action seeking leave to file a “Bill of Complaint” in the […]
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An Amicus Curiae Proposal
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Dec. 9, 2020) — By now, faithful P&E readers, you are no doubt aware that the State of Texas has filed in the Supreme Court documents seeking leave to pursue a “Bill of Original Complaint” against the states of Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The action challenges […]
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Trump Campaign Senior Advisor: Some States to Send “Multiple Slates of Electors” to Cast Votes in Presidential Election
by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 9, 2020) — Trump 2020 campaign senior advisor Jason Miller told Sean Spicer of Newsmax’s “Spicer & Company” Wednesday evening that when the 50 states’ presidential electors meet to cast their votes for president in what is known as the Electoral College, several states will send “multiple slates of electors.” A […]
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The Faithful Patriot Elector
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Dec. 8, 2020) — INTRODUCTION Let us begin by getting one thing out of the way first. If you remember nothing else from this post, remember this: against the backdrop of the 2020 election anomalies, irregularities and apparent frauds showing up in battleground states, particularly Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania, Joe […]
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The Thing Speaks For Itself
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Nov. 25, 2020) — Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and faithful P&E readers everywhere, at the risk of stating the patently obvious: we are nearing a seminal and dangerous juncture in the history of the Republic. We are, in essence, approaching a point of no return where the real possibility […]
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Indifference and Insouciance Are Not Acceptable
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Nov. 18, 2020) — Well, it starts already. The Left – also known as the “Democrat-tech-media-Hollywood-academia-anti-American” cabal – has accelerated its assault on the Electoral College. In an editorial appearing in the comically-labeled “Democracy Dies in Darkness” Washington Post, the editorial Politbur…, oh…, sorry… my bad…, the editorial board outright calls […]
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The Other 12th Amendment Issue
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Nov. 15, 2020) — As the 2020 election and ballot fraud train-wreck continues down the track – and more power to Jenna Ellis, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell – it becomes increasingly important to review, again, the significance of the 12th Amendment. Although in the past, your faithful servant has cited […]
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The Laity Complaint and Wong Kim Ark
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Nov. 9, 2020) — Introduction The Associated Press and a large swath of the Trump Derangement Syndrome media have declared the Biden-Harris ticket the winners of the 2020 general election. As noted here, media hacks are not the final arbiters of who wins elections. If they were, there would have been no […]
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Election Malevolence
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Nov. 6, 2020) — The Founders are furious… I channeled them last night. They are enraged. They are apoplectic at the magnitude of fraud being perpetrated by unprincipled and malevolent Democrat election officials on the nation they founded in 1776. Benjamin Franklin asked: “Who the *%#@& do these jerks think they […]
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Defense Attorney Claims Kamala Harris Both “Citizen” and “natural born Citizen”
by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 2, 2020) — An attorney representing Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris in a lawsuit filed by New York State citizen Robert Laity claimed in a recent filing that Harris is both a “citizen of the United States” and a “natural born Citizen,” as is constitutionally required for the presidency and vice-presidency. […]
