How Much Do They Cheat? Let Me Count the Ways.

October 18, 2024

Election Day 2024 is on Tuesday, November 5, when many United States citizens who haven’t yet voted will go to their respective polling places and cast their votes for their candidate of choice. It remains to be seen what will happen at the day’s end when all the votes should be tallied. It seems in the last several elections that certain state election results have been delayed, with Florida being an exception. Florida seems to be the only state that has it together. Thank Governor Ron DeSantis for his leadership where this is concerned. But in many other states, especially swing states, for some reason vote totals just don’t seem be rendered in a timely manner.

One would think it would be pretty simple; votes are cast, officials keep a running tally and at the end of the day the totals are known and the winners announced. One would think. But that’s not how it is in every state. It’s a strange phenomenon that we as Americans can send rockets into space, land men and women on the moon and return them safely back to earth but somehow we cannot figure out the results of elections, a relatively simple task, on the same day that votes are cast.

Some states allow voting by mail prior to election day. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020, to the chagrin of Republicans, votes were accepted by placing them in designated ballot drop boxes. In another sneaky scheme, ballot harvesting, the practice of one person collecting multiple ballots from other voters and turning them in to election centers where they can then be tallied, became an acceptable form of voting.

The problem with these new unconventional methods of voting is that they open the floodgates to potential fraud in an election, as was most likely the case in 2020. With ballot drop boxes, many of which are unmanned, they can be broken into and ballots can be stolen. This is a huge problem. People in general can’t be trusted to leave drop boxes alone when so much is on the line politically. Ballot harvesting, on the other hand, is an even easier way for vote thieves to steal and cheat.

There are other ways that voter fraud is committed. Unmaintained voter rolls sometimes still contain the names of people who are deceased. Their ballots somehow get into the hands of fraudsters who then cast votes with the illegitimate ballot. Sometimes non-citizens and illegal aliens find ways to register themselves to vote in states that have very lax election laws and whose officials are more than happy to just look the other way. This is an obvious travesty and patently unfair to all those who are here legally and follow the law.

Many contend that all the above actions occurred in the presidential election of 2020. From one state to another there were reports of strange things happening at the polls and elsewhere. Here are just a few:

  • In both Philadelphia and Detroit, Republican observers were removed from, and not allowed to enter, certain Democratic-controlled voting centers
  • Nine observers in Georgia testified that they saw countless irregular ballots without creases or typical markings, which indicated that those ballots did not arrive in envelopes as required
  • A poll watcher in Fulton County, Georgia estimated that about 98 percent of the large number of unusually pristine ballots that she saw were for Joe Biden
  • Thousands of uncounted ballots were found in Floyd, Fayetteville and Walton counties weeks after the election and were mostly from Trump voters
  • In Arizona, in-person voters whose ballots produced error messages from tabulation machines were told to press a button that resulted in their votes not being counted
  • In Pennsylvania just weeks before the election, the Secretary of State and the state Supreme Court allowed for signature matching to not matter in order to make it easier for Democrats to cheat so they can steal the election, which is against state law

There are so many more instances of fraud witnessed in the 2020 election. What is so perplexing is that when the Trump team presented or tried to present facts to the court, they were rejected and/or outright dismissed. It was like it was too much of a bother for state and federal officials to dutifully investigate witness accounts of election fraud. Trump supporters were understandably appalled, wondering why those in high positions do not take this seriously. It smacked of a devious desire to push President Trump out of office when it appeared he had comfortably won the election.

Which is why this election cycle the newly structured Republican National Committee has spent a lot of time and money making sure that Republican voters play by the same rules that Democrats played by in 2020, in order to make this election “Too Big to Rig.”

Tom Folden is a political strategist, conservative thinker, and Editor of CommonSenseDictates.com, a website for common sense viewpoints. A human rights activist, he is a firm believer in the Constitution and the rule of law. He is also a singer/songwriter and recording artist. For interviews and/or appearances, please contact him at spencergroup@hotmail.com.

Why Voter ID Matters in the 2024 Election

October 17, 2024

As we find ourselves deep in another election season, the most important election of our lives, one which will determine whether we as citizens remain free to live the way our forefathers intended or one where our freedoms are seized and the Constitution of the United States discarded, never has our republic been more threatened.

Yes, our republic, not democracy, is threatened, although democracy, if it were our form of government, would also be threatened. Threatened, not by President Trump or by supposed “far right extremists” or any entity or idea the left projects onto their opponents, but by leftist politicians, the democratic establishment, the media, academia, entertainment, Hollywood and more.

It seems like hyperbole to say such a thing, but now more than ever we have seen our government inching closer and closer toward tyranny. Actually, it already exists. One need only look at what has been done to January 6 protesters who have been held in captivity since early 2021. When powers-that-be weaponize certain governmental agencies such as the Department of Justice to go after their political opponents, President Donald Trump being the most notorious one, and others who simply express disagreements or stand up for their personal beliefs, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that this action is tyrannical.

The current Biden/Harris regime wants nothing more than to stay in power. They would like nothing better than to control what Americans do, say and think. Nothing in the Constitution allows an administration that kind of power, though. But they want it and to get it they must win elections. In order to win elections they must sometimes cheat. One way of cheating is by allowing non-citizens and unregistered persons to actually vote.

The rest of us want free and fair elections that include verifying that each voter is eligible to vote. Requiring Voter ID is a very sensible step toward achieving this. So is eliminating ballot drop boxes, halting vote by mail options and outlawing ballot harvesting, to name a few. But I’ll focus on Voter ID.

The case for requiring a voter to present proper identification when voting is to ensure free and fair elections and to verify that the person casting a vote is a United States citizen and legitimately eligible to vote in a U.S. election. But that is not how democrats normally win elections.

There really is no reasonable case against requiring Voter ID. The only reason someone would be against a Voter ID law is to make it easy and possible to cheat, to have people who are not legally allowed to vote to then be able to vote. Those who want free and fair elections would not oppose this; those who don’t want to play fair but would rather cheat would oppose this. It’s really that simple.

It’s past time to pass a Voter ID law, as well as many other mandates when it comes to our elections. Here are some of the things that should be implemented in order to make our elections safe, free and fair:

  • Voter ID and fingerprint match required to vote
  • Valid birth certificate, SS# and fingerprint required to attain Voter ID
  • Paper ballots cast, counted and results submitted on day of election
  • Time off provided for citizens to vote on Election Day
  • Military/National Guard in charge of elections, no partisan counters
  • Ballot harvesting, ballot drop boxes outlawed
  • No voting by mail, absentee voting exception
  • Deadline to register, no same-day registration

Although we know that no matter what standards and requirements are put in place, some will try to find methods of cheating. Implementing these requirements, however, would go a long way toward making our elections legitimate.

Even though no reasonable person would object to requiring Voter ID laws, many still oppose it. The argument seems to be that it would disenfranchise a certain part of the population, people of color, the poor and people who live in rural areas. But everybody knows these assertions are absurd, even those making them. Identification is needed to board an airliner, buy alcohol, purchase firearms and a host of other things. It is disingenuous to insist that this puts some kind of undue hardship on anyone.

Every legal U.S. citizen has the right as well as ample time to acquire voter identification should it become a law, as it should. Having a free and fair election, a truly honest election, is necessary to have confidence that the system works and that those elected were elected in a constitutional and representative way. It’s also important that there is no cheating in electing the most powerful leader in the free world. That’s why Voter ID matters.

Tom Folden is a political strategist, conservative thinker, and Editor of CommonSenseDictates.com, a website for common sense viewpoints. A human rights activist, he is a firm believer in the Constitution and the rule of law. He is also a singer/songwriter and recording artist. For interviews and/or appearances, please contact him at spencergroup@hotmail.com.

Abortion is Not a Fundamental Right, It’s a Fundamental Wrong

June 24, 2022

Today the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision regarding Roe vs. Wade, essentially overturning the flawed “law of the land,” which originally was passed on January 22, 1973, and did what was constitutionally correct by leaving it up to individual states to decide whether or not to allow women to murder living babies inside their wombs.

Unhinged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went on a post-decision tirade saying that the “radical Supreme Court” is “eviscerating Americans’ rights and endangering their health and safety.” No, Nancy, an abortion endangers the health and safety of an unborn baby as well as the mother of that baby. She went on to refer to abortion as “health freedom” and “family planning.” Abortion is anything but family planning.

Struggling to put a coherent sentence together, Pelosi stated that “the hypocrisy is raging but the harm is endless. What this means to women is such an insult. It’s a slap in the face to women about using their own judgment, to make their own decisions about their reproductive freedom.”

We are all free to do whatever we want, it just doesn’t make it right. This is lost on her, though. Just because she wants something to be true doesn’t make it so. But that’s the unnatural thought pattern of the left.

Regime Spokesperson Joe Biden chimed in saying that the Supreme Court took away a constitutional right. Reading, from a giant teleprompter, words obviously written by someone else, he referred to abortion as a “fundamental right.” It is not, nor has it ever been, a fundamental right, but rather it is a fundamental wrong. Our rights don’t come from the Supreme Court, much less the government. They come from God. Pelosi and Biden should understand this since they both claim to be practicing Catholics. But their position on this very subject is why they have both been rejected from taking Communion, a Catholic ritual and a Christian sacrament.

Biden made the point that women are now going to be penalized by not being allowed to have abortions. Women, he says, who have been raped or have been impregnated by incest will now have to bear the babies of their rapists. Although pregnancies by rape and incest are very extreme, they also are very rare. This is not a common thing. Most women who have abortions have them because they view their pregnancy as an inconvenience. They don’t want their current lifestyle disrupted by a pregnancy, then by having to raise a child.

It’s pretty sad, however, that the United States, for some moronic reason, gives the organization Planned Parenthood a half billion of our tax dollars. While it claims to provide health services for women, you know services like mammograms, birth control, physicals and check-ups, what it primarily provides are abortions. Women’s health services are commonly provided by primary care physicians and general medical practitioners and included in most HMO or PPO plans, so why is there a need for Planned Parenthood if what it mostly does is provide women’s health services? Let’s face it, abortion is not a woman’s health service and Planned Parenthood is not primarily focused on a woman’s health.

The claim the left makes that abortion is a constitutional right is laughable and a flat out lie. Nowhere in the Constitution of the United States does it give a woman a right to terminate a pregnancy. Moreover, the Constitution endorses life. The bottom line is that this decision does not take away a right enshrined by the US Supreme Court 50 years ago. It was never a right in the first place.

Tom Folden is a political strategist, conservative thinker, and Editor of CommonSenseDictates.com, a website for common sense viewpoints. A human rights activist, he is a firm believer in the Constitution and the rule of law. He is also a singer/songwriter and recording artist. For interviews and/or appearances, please contact him at spencergroup@hotmail.com.

While I Was Busy Part 1

April 29, 2022

It’s been a while since my last post. I commonly write down my ideas and sometimes put them into article form, however one batch of article ideas remained incomplete and unpublished. With how busy I am with life and other things, a lot of content becomes non-current. So I decided to cover some of the topics I started articles with and create an article with those. This allows me to air what I didn’t share back when it was current.

Recently I heard about another conviction of a law enforcement officer for doing his/her job. I can’t remember all the details but I started writing the following when a different law enforcement officer was convicted.

There needs to be a law which protects law enforcement officers from being unfairly indicted for being involved in any given criminal interaction. They should have the protection they deserve when they’re involved in shootings, especially when suspects they shoot have failed to comply with their orders. Also, they need to be protected when a suspect dies in custody after trying to restrain the suspect who is resisting arrest. It should not be left up to a jury hell-bent on unjustly punishing law enforcement officers when they are simply doing their jobs and keeping the public safe. Any officer involved in a shooting death or other death of a suspect should have the courtesy of having the case reviewed by a special board proficient in law enforcement cases. Their fate should not be in the hands of biased and/or racist prosecutors and a confused and unknowledgeable public.

Here is something I wrote on the day California Governor Gavin Newsom should have been recalled. I’m sure there was fraud involved with this election as there was with the 2020 presidential election.

Brace Yourself

Today is the day Californians vote whether to recall a hypocritical and tyrannical governor whose actions speak louder than his words or to usher in a breath of fresh air and release the economical chokehold California has been suffering. Actually Californians have been voting for three weeks already since it is a state that allows early cheating, er, voting. How else does it become a one-party rule state without the system being rigged?

California truly is a microcosm of America right now but today is an opportunity to change that. Governor Gavin Newsom has brought his twisted and radical left wing ideology into the landscape and most Californians frankly are sick of it. Others are just oblivious to it.

They are sick and tired of him ignoring science and implementing mask wearing mandates. They are fed up with closures to our economy, largely affecting small business owners and workers. They are furious at the double standard he exhibits when he eats dinner and socializes unmasked at a posh Bay Area restaurant. It’s time for him to be removed.

Here’s one regarding a question Regime Spokesperson Joe Biden asked several months ago:

To Answer Your Question

In a recent speech 2020 candidate Joe Biden delivered inflammatory rhetoric by asking the question: Are you on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor?

Well, when it was an issue Democrats were on the side of Bull Connor. It was a Democrat, after all, who started the Ku Klux Klan, a racist group. Republicans fought fiercely against them. Democratic Party icon the late Senator Robert Byrd was a Grand Kleagle in the KKK. Biden was a good friend and spoke highly of him.

I guess that answers the question.

 Finally, here’s one I wrote about the Joe Rogan vs. Spotify controversy:

The Opinion of the Elite

By now you’ve probably heard about the controversy surrounding Joe Rogan. He has a hugely popular podcast on Spotify that attracts millions of subscribers. Apparently on his podcast he talked about his bout with COVID-19 and he rightfully questioned some of the “science” being discussed in the media. It’s his right to do so and no supposed “fact-checking” agency has any right to say otherwise. But media elitists and virtue signalers got uptight and made it an issue. And when they make it an issue they go on the attack. Apparently non-relevant musical artist India.Arie posted a compilation of video and/or audio clips of Rogan using the N-word and that’s when things got intense.

You see, Rogan has the platform that allows him to question policy and science that the elite promotes. And he has just as much right to do or say what he feels on his own podcast as those who attack him do. But the elite are threatened. It really should be fair for him to do that. If enough people hear him and begin to do their own questioning, it could be bad for the elite.

It doesn’t matter if they’re right or wrong. It’s about power, power over our lives, our ability to think for ourselves, our right to ask questions and have opinions. That is power in the wrong hands and that is dangerous and scary.

Joe Rogan is still dangerous for the elite because they know that he can out them. They know that he can just explain to his audience that it’s not about a few bad words he said several years ago that offend some people. After all, he’s a comedian who works the stand-up circuit. His job is to say bad and offensive words for laughs. No, it is about the elite wanting to control us. Their opinion is that we shouldn’t be allowed to have an opinion that counters theirs, let alone is heard by around 9 million people.

The elite that wants to control us will stop at nothing to achieve disaster in the lives of their opponents. They don’t want people to think about things because when they do they realize they’re being swindled ideologically. They don’t care about the science if the science doesn’t work for them. When tech companies are able to silence people like Joe Rogan, well they can silence just about anyone they don’t like and that kind of power has no place in the land of the free.

Stay tuned for the second installment of this article.

Tom Folden is a political strategist, conservative thinker, and Editor of CommonSenseDictates.com, a website for common sense viewpoints. A human rights activist, he is a firm believer in the Constitution and the rule of law. He is also a singer/songwriter and recording artist. For interviews and/or appearances, please contact him at spencergroup@hotmail.com.

January 6 – Ashli Babbitt Day

January 5, 2022

In memory of Air Force veteran and American patriot Ashli Babbitt, who was killed by U.S. Capitol Police officer Lt. Michael Byrd during the peaceful protest that got out of hand, January 6 should now be called Ashli Babbitt Day.

Babbitt, who unfortunately ended up inside the capitol building in Washington D.C., was the only person killed in what Democrats, the media and far left radicals call an insurrection. Although several other people who attended the rally have died since January 6, 2021, they did not die due to what occurred that day at the capitol. The media may report it as such but it simply is not true.

But this is to be expected of the biased media, who are complicit with Democrats and who will take any opportunity that is presented to them to do political and personal harm to any of their opponents and especially President Donald Trump. It isn’t surprising then that when President Trump offered to provide thousands of National Guard troops as security, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) declined. Perhaps she knew the disaster it would cause and the opportunity to make him look bad.

So as the left makes criminals like George Floyd, Daunte Wright, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and others their hero’s, it’s time we honor a real patriot and a real hero and declare January 6 as Ashli Babbitt Day.

Tom Folden is a political strategist, conservative thinker, and Editor of CommonSenseDictates.com, a website for common sense viewpoints. A human rights activist, he is a firm believer in the Constitution and the rule of law. He is also a singer/songwriter and recording artist. For interviews and/or appearances, please contact him at spencergroup@hotmail.com.

Do Republicans Really Have a Messaging Problem?

January 20, 2021

Today was the day Joe Biden was sworn into office as a faux president of the United States. Of course all sane and rational thinking people who have been paying attention the last two months know beyond a shadow of a doubt that this election was stolen and a coup d’etat was executed on Americans. The deep state got even deeper as the Supreme Court of the United States jumped in and assisted the swamp.

There are many fronts that affected the perceived 2020 election result including Democrats unconstitutionally changing the election laws in certain states to favor their party; the use of voting machines programmed to manipulate the vote count; Democrat personnel working the voting centers manipulating the vote tallies; US courts unwilling to consider evidence of obvious fraud; and powerful biased companies that set the tables to suppress information voters should have been able to access.

An election can be manipulated by companies and conglomerates that are in the business of information collection by altering the algorithms that drive, or seek to drive, web traffic. By having some amount of, or even total, control over what millions of undecided voters view online is a massive advantage to the party they’re biased toward, in this case the Democrat party.

For example, Google has been exposed for having a bias and manipulating data in the 2016 election. Google is a large company with multiple divisions, from search engine and information dissemination to Google Earth to Google Docs, it goes on and on. Google definitely enhances people’s online experiences. But what many people also use it for is to manage their social media pages for their businesses and organizations.

Social media is obviously huge for companies and Google is so widely used it’s hard to avoid using their services. Almost everyone uses Google in one form or another. But when a conservative person wants to take advantage of Google business, as anyone would because it’s a useful tool for small businesses, what impact does this have on conservatives, since Google is so biased?

The fact that search results favor the left and disadvantage the right makes it ethically and morally unfair.

This is exactly what we saw in the 2020 election with Twitter and Facebook. Both companies deliberately suppressed stories that favored President Trump and hurt Joe Biden. When the New York Post tweeted a story exposing Hunter Biden’s crimes and misdeeds, the social media giant Twitter was quick to take it down and censor free speech. Facebook and Twitter attach labels to posts they disagree with which state something to the effect of “our fact checkers found this post (or article) to be in dispute or contain disinformation.”

After the election a study by the Media Research Center found that around 17% of those who had not heard about the Hunter Biden story said they would not have voted for Joe Biden had they known.

This presents another problem. Aside from Twitter and Facebook censoring major stories, why are so many people disengaged from politics and reality? There could be multiple reasons.

One might be that many people are just lazy and can’t be bothered by it. Many simply just don’t think for themselves but rather allow others and the media to decide for them. Or it could be that Republicans have a messaging problem.

However, it could also be that Republicans are unable to get their message out because social media has hijacked the messaging vehicles by suppressing stories. Then again, many people are legitimately frightened of the repercussions they’ll experience if they show any support for anyone on the right.

Does the right really have a messaging problem or is the left so organized and invested in keeping people from hearing and reading the truth, truth which could swing the vote a certain way? I believe it’s a little of the former and a lot of the latter.

Tom Folden is a political strategist, conservative thinker, and Editor of CommonSenseDictates.com, a website for common sense viewpoints. A human rights activist, he is a firm believer in the Constitution and the rule of law. He is also a singer/songwriter and recording artist. For interviews and/or appearances, please contact him at spencergroup@hotmail.com.

Statement Regarding Capitol Building Mayhem

January 12, 2021

Last Wednesday, January 6, 2021, a half million supporters of President Trump gathered in Washington D.C. at a rally and peaceful protest to voice their disdain for the outrageous and obviously fraudulent and rigged election. During the rally a faction of protesters separated themselves from the majority of peaceful rally-goers and were able to breach security, working their way inside the Capitol building. While many of them were probably supporters of Trump, some may not have been, yet the storming of our nation’s Capitol should not have occurred.

However, let’s be clear, 99% of those attending the rally did not enter the Capitol building. A fraction of a percent of justifiably pissed off Trump supporters let their frustrations get the best of them.

Although it wasn’t right for a fringe group to storm the Capitol, the frustration had built up to a point where the disenfranchised voters of this country had had enough. What can anyone expect when for two months post-election Democrats and leftist media pundits ignored the blatant fraud that undeniably occurred while judges, justices and courts refused to consider and allow Trump’s legal team to even present its case.

To that end, it is my belief that pro-fascists in the misnamed organization known as “antifa” were there disguised as Trump supporters to deceive and cause havoc. That is in their Marxist playbook. Real Trump supporters don’t stoop to the standards of Black Lives Matter (BLM) and “antifa” and storm anything. A few broken windows and some other slight damage doesn’t compare to the billions of dollars in damage and death that BLM, “antifa” and other pro-fascist groups caused last summer all over the country, which Senator Kamala Harris publicly supported.

Joe Biden, politicians, fake journalists and other pundits should spare me and the rest of the country the condemnation with their ridiculous lectures and accusations of President Trump having incited this. He didn’t incite anything, he called for peace, and he did it quickly.

The unjustifiable hatred for our President and vitriol for those who want justice in this country is dangerous, irrational and needs to stop. Let it be known, it is the leftist media, which is most of the media today, including Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon, Joe Scarborough, Brian Stelter, Van Jones, Joy Reid, Chuck Todd and others that are inciting and dividing, not supporters of President Trump. The media and leftist, hateful politicians like Pelosi, Waters, Schumer, Schiff, Nadler and others caused this and should be ashamed.

It is now time for those who are responsible for this mayhem to take responsibility and be accountable. It starts at the top. Right now I’m calling for Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to step down from their positions in office, resign from politics altogether and allow others who are more competent and not derisive with their language to fill their seats. Although in the Democrat party it’ll be hard to find such a leader.

Tom Folden is a political strategist, conservative thinker, and Editor of CommonSenseDictates.com, a website for common sense viewpoints. A human rights activist, he is a firm believer in the Constitution and the rule of law. He is also a singer/songwriter and recording artist. For interviews and/or appearances, please contact him at spencergroup@hotmail.com.

How to Steal an Election

We live in an age of technology, which can be a good thing but can also be a very bad thing. When it comes to elections it’s a very bad thing, especially in the hands of very bad, biased people. We are witnessing this scenario right now. The 2020 election is being stolen from the American people with the help of some very bad actors.

Big Tech, which includes social media, is a huge player in driving election information. Platforms like Facebook and Twitter can easily suppress pertinent stories, making sure users aren’t given necessary information that could help in deciding whom they vote for. Twitter was caught suppressing negative stories about Hunter Biden, and Facebook also takes an authoritarian position on whether a story is posted on their site. Unfortunately, many people rely solely on these social media sites for their news.

While Twitter and Facebook along with many other social media sites are blatantly leftist, and when they undoubtedly limit information on their sites that affect elections as we saw this time around, why are they given no more than a slap on the wrist when they are caught? They need to be harshly penalized to the amount of half of their net worth. Additionally, the key people who made the decisions to suppress information should serve prison time, minimum five year sentences. Then, and only then, will this suppression cease.

Big Media is also a huge problem on this front. So called news outlets like CNN, the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS and others are willfully complicit in disseminating disinformation. A study conducted by analysts at the Media Research Center showed that over 90 percent of the coverage of President Trump during his first term was negative and 92 percent negative during the three months leading up to the election.

Fortunately there are enough people who have rejected Big Media since they have seen the blatant bias in the reporting and have developed a deep distrust for them. These are the people who voted for Trump in the 2020 election but are now being disenfranchised by the coup that is presently playing out. If the attempt to steal the election by Big Tech and Big Media isn’t bad enough, now there is Big Justice willing to help out. Legitimate challenges by the President’s legal team have been tossed out left and right by federal courts and even the United States Supreme Court with no reasonable explanation for their case dismissals.

In addition to the bad actors perpetrating election fraud, others include partisan election workers, local and state government officials, and polling companies that deliberately skew the results of their own polls.

When you can get enough corrupt people in both parties in on the scam, when you can get Big Media to ignore the evidence, even when it’s presented right in front of their faces, and when you can get the highest court in the land to dismiss key cases that would turn the election upside down, well then you can steal an election.

Tom Folden is a political strategist, conservative thinker, and Editor of CommonSenseDictates.com, a website for common sense viewpoints. A human rights activist, he is a firm believer in the Constitution and the rule of law. He is also a singer/songwriter and recording artist. For interviews and/or appearances, please contact him at spencergroup@hotmail.com.

The Teacher and the Schoolyard Bullies

Once upon a time, not really, but just to make my point through use of an analogy, there was a student in grade school named Billy. One day Billy was on the playground playing when he happened to come across another student named Joey. For reasons unknown to anyone, Joey socked Billy in the eye and gave him a shiner. Billy was noticeably shaken and immediately went to his teacher Ms. Smith. He explained to her that he was out on the playground and Joey punched him in the eye. But instead of calling Joey over to punish him, she did nothing.

Although Billy was visibly hurt, he was no pushover. He went over to all the kids that were on the playground who saw the incident happen and asked them to vouch for him, imploring Ms. Smith to take action. There were plenty of other kids willing to step forward and act as witnesses on Billy’s behalf. Some weren’t even his friends but they knew a wrong had been committed and had to do something.

Ms. Smith heard them all out but a funny thing happened, she dismissed their statements. She couldn’t be bothered to do the right thing even with all the evidence and eyewitness testimony from the kids who courageously took a stand. Billy didn’t give up, however. He pursued the matter and went to the principal who also snubbed him, telling him his injuries don’t warrant punishing Joey for what he did to him.

Meanwhile, on the playground, another boy named Jimmy was playing with a soccer ball when a group of boys came by and stole the ball from him. Jimmy went to his teacher, Mr. Jones, and told him the story, asking him to please retrieve his soccer ball from the group of kids that stole it from him. Mr. Jones, however, half-listened to him and commented that it was not that big of a deal.

Both Billy’s and Jimmy’s complaints had fallen on deaf ears. No one in an authoritative position was willing to help. They knew if they wanted anything to happen they must take their issues all the way to the school board, where a final decision would be made.

Time was running out, however, because the school year was ending. Teachers and principals had vacations planned as well as a new school year to prepare for. If something didn’t happen soon the cases would be lost forever.

By now you’ve probably figured out the analogy. Democrats are trying to steal the election from President Donald Trump while federal courts and state legislatures refuse to take it seriously.

In another analogy, this appears to be like a football game during the final two minutes of the fourth quarter. Democrats got away with cheating on a few plays. Now they’re in the lead, have possession of the ball and are doing their best to run out the clock. Even the referees, who are supposed to enforce the rules, are doing their best to bring the game to an end.

There is still time, though, and President Trump should not concede because he knows that he has evidence of voter fraud that can turn this election around. If this can get to the US Supreme Court, the truth can finally be heard and Democrat voter fraud can finally be exposed.

Tom Folden is a political strategist, conservative thinker, and Editor of CommonSenseDictates.com, a website for common sense viewpoints. A human rights activist, he is a firm believer in the Constitution and the rule of law. He is also a singer/songwriter and recording artist. For interviews and/or appearances, please contact him at spencergroup@hotmail.com.

Things Not To Be Thankful For

Amid the tumultuous political climate the United States finds itself in, due largely to Democrats trying to steal the election and subsequently imposing their unconstitutional agenda on the rest of us, there are many things to be thankful for, to be sure, namely family, faith and our great nation which allows us freedoms and liberties, well for now anyway. However, there are plenty of things not to be thankful for. Below are just some of them.

The US Supreme Court, well, mostly just Chief Justice John Roberts and the liberal justices who seem to feel that their duty on the highest court in the land is to write law instead of interpret it and properly rule on issues that affect American citizens. For example, in 2012, after the passing of the disastrous and improperly named “Affordable Care Act,” also known as Obamacare, Republican lawmakers took it to the Supreme Court to challenge the constitutionality of the individual mandate falling under the Commerce Clause. The liberal justices and fake conservative Chief Justice Roberts, determined Obamacare to be constitutional due to the individual mandate being a tax, not a penalty. This should have negated the whole thing since the argument of the case was that the individual mandate was a penalty. Since it was ruled that it was a tax, it should have been dismissed.

Tyrannical governors. Certain governors abuse their responsibility as state leaders by dictating how the citizens of their respective states will act. From mandating wearing masks to setting curfews to shutting down schools to any number of things they want, these governors overstep the boundaries of morality and civil rights. In California, Governor Gavin Newsom has enacted not guidelines but rules for celebrating Thanksgiving. These include having no more than six guests who must social distance and wear masks at all times. He did make a provision, however, in that people are allowed to pull their masks down to take bites of food, but promptly cover their mouths while chewing. Governor Andrew Cuomo has also set strict rules for celebrating the holiday season, but thankfully the US Supreme Court ruled against his stupid mandates.

Election Fraud. This election season has been a disaster for many reasons. Just when we all thought President Trump was on his way toward being re-elected, Democrat fraudsters pulled a fast one. Attempts at election fraud were blatantly obvious in Democratic-controlled districts in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin and others. Moreover, vote-counting stopped in several states on election eve but the next morning Biden somehow was ahead in votes, which is what needed to happen in order to manufacture votes for the former vice-president. Also, mail-in voting proved to be fraudulent, as anyone, whether a legal citizen or not, could simply mail in a ballot without a way it could be verified. It just gets accepted. Democrats even went to court months in advance to change the rules of the election process in order to make it easier for Democrats to cheat and steal the election. The integrity of the election has been undermined.

The dishonest and biased media. It’s no secret the media is on the side of Democrats. They are the publicity firm of the DNC. They’ve mastered the technique of getting away with lying, indoctrinating and omitting facts and stories. It’s utterly disgraceful that the institution of journalism, which was once somewhat transparent, is ominously shady. Most media outlets including CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, the AP, the New York Times, the Washington Post and others are in the tank for whatever Democrat is running against a Republican. Even Fox News now has its assortment of news anchors and correspondents that lean left, although most of its commentators like Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham are solidly on the right. What the mainstream media do is tell a story that is so devoid of reality, omitting facts and keeping people from the truth. And they hide under a shroud of journalistic privilege. It’s malfeasance and high time to change the laws protecting these media crooks.

Certain Social Media Platforms. Like the mainstream media, certain social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter use their platforms to keep their users from learning the truth. With social media, however, it’s more devious. They’ve used algorithms to silence the right and allow leftist messages to prevail. It’s common to see a post on Twitter by a right-leaning source with a tag that says something like “This post is in dispute due to its non-factual content.” What gives them the right to deem the content non-factual? Interesting that I never see anything from a left-leaning source with the same tag. Twitter brazenly banned the Hunter Biden laptop story and had to admit and apologize for it, post-election. A study came out recently that showed a significant percentage of Biden voters would not have voted for him had they known about that. This is the threat to our democracy social media poses. It’s also time that these biased social media platforms are punished.

Well, time to reflect on the good things in life. Happy Thanksgiving.

Tom Folden is a political strategist, conservative thinker, and Editor of CommonSenseDictates.com, a website for common sense viewpoints. A human rights activist, he is a firm believer in the Constitution and the rule of law. He is also a singer/songwriter and recording artist. For interviews and/or appearances, please contact him at spencergroup@hotmail.com.