By John F. Di Leo -
The Second Amendment
A former United States Senator and Vice President of the United States, currently pretending to the title of the presidency, Joe Biden said this week that “The Second Amendment is not absolute.”
Wrong, Mr. Biden. The Second Amendment is absolute. The Constitution is absolute.
It’s our political offices, such as Senator, Vice President, and President, that are not absolute. Your office is constitutionally limited. That’s the whole point. That’s what living in a constitutional republic means.
Carbon Dioxide
The climate change crowd tells us that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant.
Wrong. Carbon monoxide is a pollutant, sure. Carbon monoxide can kill you.
But every human being on this planet exhales carbon dioxide. Constantly. As do our pets, livestock, and wild animals. It’s nature.
We all exhale carbon dioxide… and thank Heaven we do, because every plant on the planet depends on it. Just as they produce oxygen for us, we produce carbon dioxide for them. It’s called science.
Anyone who tells you that carbon dioxide is an enemy – of humanity, of the planet, of anything at all – is lying to you.
Electric Cars
The environmentalist lobby insists that so-called electric cars, the vehicles that operate entirely on big rechargeable lithium batteries, are “green” – meaning, good for the planet.
Wrong. While some of them may indeed be well-made, dependable, and efficient vehicles for some specific situations (as Tesla and the few other good electric cars are), they cannot honestly be defined as “good for the planet” by any of the standards that the environmentalist lobby says they use when claiming the term.
Electric cars use more energy in their manufacture than traditional internal combustion engine (I.C.E.) vehicles do. Electric cars require infinitely more rare-earth elements (such as lithium), which (currently at least) require third world labor that no self-respecting liberal would admit to favoring. Electric cars require more energy in their day-to-day operation because they rely on the electric grid for charging, which is infinitely less efficient than the direct burning of gasoline or diesel fuel in an I.C.E. And electric cars even tend to use more petroleum in their manufacture than I.C.E. cars do, because in order to be light enough to be powered by that battery, the vehicles are about 50% plastic. And yes, those plastics are all derivatives of crude oil, just like the gasoline they claim to be avoiding.
This isn’t to say that electric cars are objectively bad – some are great; some are lousy. But anyone who tells you that they are green, under the definitions that the green lobby has championed for decades, is lying to you.
School Shootings
Every time there is a mass shooting – whether at a school, concert, park or subway – the anti-gun lobby insists that only more laws further restricting gun ownership will stop these events.
Wrong. And they know it.
It’s critical to the Left – the anti-gun lobby – that they control the narrative, since their arguments immediately collapse upon examination.
These shooters almost always obtained their weapons illegally – not always, but in the vast majority of instances. And with the sole exception of the occasions when the shooters die by suicide, these incidents are almost always ended by legal gun owners – such as on or off duty police or concealed-carry civilians.
In short, gun restrictions provably don’t stop the criminals from committing their crimes, but gun restrictions do reduce the number of "good guys with guns" who could stop the crimes earlier, and more restrictions would clearly reduce them even more.
Anybody who tells you that gun control will protect the innocent has some agenda other than the protection of the innocent.
Russia Collusion
In the run-up to the 2016 presidential campaign, the Hillary Clinton campaign paid to have some false evidence concocted that appeared to make Donald Trump look like some kind of a Russian agent, and they planted this dossier with the FBI.
Everything about it was a lie… not only the allegations themselves, but even the claim that the FBI was duped by the Clinton campaign. Investigation after investigation has proven that high-ranking members of the FBI knew it to be false from the very start, so it’s not just a campaign crime, it’s a totally partisan high crime by the totally biased Department of Justice itself. It is difficult to conceive of a definition of "treason" that would not include this particular conspiracy.
The Trump campaign has now been completely exonerated, and the Durham investigation has already proven that the Russia Collusion lie makes the Watergate scandal look like child’s play by comparison. And still the mass media routinely report these disproven allegations as if they were fact, they cover up their refutation, and they bury the massive, ongoing revelations of both political and civil service corruption in the Obama White House.
And the Biggest Lie of All
In nearly every “news” story that mentions President Donald Trump, from his ongoing consideration of another run in 2024 to his primary endorsements in 2022, the press misses no opportunity to refer to “Trump’s disproven claims of election fraud in 2020.”
It’s a lie. Virtually none of the claims of 2020 election have been disproven.
They have often been dismissed by courts on technicalities, such as denial of standing, but the allegations have not in fact been disproven at all.
That is not to say they have all been proven either. Because of the secret ballot, it is extremely difficult to prove that elections are stolen, because once a fabricated ballot is entered into the record, the chain of custody tying it to the original voter is severed. We cannot audit John Smith’s ballot by asking John Smith whether he really cast his ballot for Trump or for Biden, because we cannot get our hands on his actual ballot at all to check it that way.
While we have good reason for valuing the principle of the secret ballot in these United States, we must admit that the secret ballot unfortunately makes a perfect audit impossible.
We can, however, do what is done in criminal trials every day: look at circumstantial evidence and study the patterns; such patterns often suffice as undeniable proof of guilt.
When nursing homes full of comatose or otherwise incapacitated patients produce near-100% votes for the party supported by the administrators, you know there’s fraud there. When dozens or even hundreds of ballots are cast by voters registered to the same two bedroom house or apartment, you know there’s fraud there. And when the same 2000 mules are caught on camera, carrying hundreds of thousands of ballots from corrupt nonprofits to the same few ballot drop boxes, retracing the same steps over and over for weeks, you know there’s massive fraud there.
The fact of massive election fraud has indeed been proven, again and again, and people do go to jail for it, though always, far too few. But Dinesh D’Souza’s new blockbuster documentary, “2000 Mules,” is in itself sufficient to prove that not only the presidency was stolen in 2020, but because of the sheer numbers of tainted and fabricated ballots, it’s virtually certain that countless downballot elections were stolen as well.
As hard as it is to prove specific instances of vote fraud in court, however, it is relatively easy to prevent it from occurring in the first place. And the Left refuses – tooth and nail – to even consider election integrity measures.
If there really were no vote fraud, wouldn’t the Left jump at the chance to secure our elections just to prove themselves clean, and legitimize their many electoral victories that are now surrounded by a cloud?
There is a reason why the Left denies the existence of vote fraud to their last breath, while still blocking all efforts of reform:
Because without the crucial tool of vote fraud, the Democratic Party would be a minority party, permanently relegated to the back bench, dependent entirely upon a few big cities and college towns for their very survival.
Copyright 2022 John F. Di Leo
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based trade compliance trainer and transportation manager, writer and actor. A one-time county chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party, he has been writing regularly for Illinois Review since 2009.
A collection of John’s Illinois Review articles about vote fraud, The Tales of Little Pavel, and his 2021 political satires about current events, Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes One and Two, are available, in either paperback or eBook, only on Amazon.
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