Posted on 02/06/2021 5:06:30 AM PST by Kaslin
Were you among the more than a billion-plus people who watched the 2014 Super Bowl? If so, like multi-millions of viewers, you might have been disappointed afterward to learn of the cheating that occurred. The Seattle Seahawks swamped the Denver Broncos, seemingly, on play after play, as if they knew exactly what the Broncos were going to do with each snap of the football.
As it turned out, the Seahawks did know what the Broncos were going to do. As was revealed on talk shows a few days later by some of the Seahawks players themselves, they had stolen the signs of the Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning. More often than not, they knew in advance what play the Broncos were going to run and hence stayed ahead of the Broncos on one play after another.
The net result was that fans around the world were treated to a less than stellar game. Some called it the worst game they had witnessed in their Super Bowl viewing lives.
Theft on an Enormous Level
So it is in American politics, especially as practiced by the Obama-Biden administration. After the Democrats were swamped at the voting booth in the 2010 midterm elections, timeline evidence reveals that the IRS, on orders from the highest level of government, instigated tactics that should make each of us shiver.
Under the daily direction of Lois Lerner, with marching orders from above, the IRS began a comprehensive program of targeting groups that held contrary positions to that of the Obama/Biden administration: The IRS initiated a program of deliberate harassment and punishment of political opponents. Lerner is a fellow alumni of Bloomfield High School in Connecticut. She graduated one year ahead of me and today lives in comfortable retirement supported in part by her government pension, funded by our taxdollars!
Unprecedented Impact
In a research paper, Andreas Madestam of Stockholm University, Daniel Shoag and David Yanagizawa-Drott, both at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Stan Veuger at the American Enterprise Institute studied the Tea Party impact on voter turnout in the 2010 midterm elections. Extracting information from the Census Bureau, the Federal Election Commission, news reporting, and other sources, they compared geographic areas with significant levels of Tea Party activity to nearly similar geographic areas with little or no Tea Party activity.
The researchers discovered the Tea Party’s impact was enormous, and in House races, brought the GOP between 3 and 6 million additional votes, even though, combined, all Republican House candidates attained less than 45 million votes. Thus, the GOP's newly energized base proved to be instrumental to many landslide victories in key elections. Democratic strategists took note.
The Tea Party’s unprecedented success came as a result of highly involved activists nationwide, who devoted countless hours leading up to the 2010 elections rallying, donating, volunteering, and organizing, all centered upon section 501(c)4s of IRS code.
The data that the researchers uncovered illustrated that if the Tea Party advocacy and impact had continued at the 2009 and 2010 pace, they would have bolstered the Republican vote in 2012 by 5.0 million to 8.5 million, this compared to Barack Obama's margin of victory of 5 million votes.
Badgered on Cue
Harassed and delayed by the IRS, the Tea Party came to a standstill. State by state, no one realized that what was happening to them was occurring on a grand scale. Rather than delivering an estimated 5 to 8 million GOP voters in the 2012 election, the Tea Party became a non-player. Barack Obama won the popular vote by an 11 to 10 ratio, but easily won the electoral vote.
The Democrats emulated the Tea Party “playbook” and made for a blasé election season, where the outcome was already known to the handful of insiders.
Such politicizing of the IRS, and other agencies, was a stunning and direct attack on democracy. Attempts to tilt elections are nothing new in American politics, but perhaps were never executed on so massive a scale with such precision. Related tactics likely continued through 2020, when Democrat election tampering and voter fraud likely reached historic heights.
Bogus Democrat Winners Galore
If Republicans had politicized and weaponized the IRS in the ways that the Obama administration had done, and deliberately targeted, harassed, and punished liberal advocacy groups, the Left would go berserk. The New York Times, to this day, would be featuring the scandal on the front page.
Yet, for eight years and counting, the typical American, let alone Republican, doesn't give Tea Party harassment much thought. Given what we know about 2012, is it reasonable to conclude that numerous national, state, and local elections in 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020 went to bogus winners, and more of the same – much more of the same – is in the offing.
Haven’t watched in years.
FWIW - over half of the ad time was unsold as of last week and the NFL is **bleeding green** because the viewer numbers are down, impacting ad rates.
With any kind of luck, they will file for bankruptcy in the next year or two.
With any kind of luck, they will file for bankruptcy in the next year or two.>>>>>>>>>>>
Here’s hoping you are right.
They can tout their unpatriotic crap all they want.
Why should America pay them millions for it?
Let them go back to earning 50 grand a year or less for their liberal fascist behavior.
I’ll celebrate it.
AMERICA TURN YOUR BACK ON THE SUERBOWL
i do that every morning regularly...
List of Super Bowl halftime show performers
Super Bowl Year Performer(s)
I 1967 Universities of Arizona and Michigan Grambling University Bands
II 1968 “Old Man Winter Takes a Vacation in Miami” featuring seven local Miami-area high school bands
III 1969 “America Thanks” with Florida A&M University
IV 1970 Carol Channing
V 1971 Florida A&M Band
VI 1972 “Salute to Louis Armstrong” with Ella Ftizgerald, Carol Channing, Al Hirt and U.S. Marine Coprs Drill Team
VII 1973 “Happiness Is...” with University of Michigan Band and Woody Herman
VIII 1974 “A Musical America” with University of Texas Band
IX 1975 “Tribute to Duke Eillington” with Mercer Ellington and Grambling University Bands
X 1976 “200 Years and Just a Baby” Tribute to America’s Bicentennial
XI 1977 “It’s a Small World” including crowd particiption for first time with spectators waving colored placard on cue
XII 1978 “From Paris to the Paris of America” with Tyler Apache Belles, Pete Fountain and Al Hirt
XIII 1979 “Super Bowl XIII Carnival” Salute to the Caribbean with Ken Hamilton and various Caribbean bands
XIV 1980 “A Salute to the Big Band Era” with Up with People
XV 1981 “A Mardi Gras Festival”
XVI 1982 “A Salute to the 60’s and Motown”
XVII 1983 “KaleidoSUPERscope” (a kaleidoscope of color and sound)
XVIII 1984 “Super Bowl XVIII’s Salute to the Superstars of the Silver Screen”
XIX 1985 “A World of Children’s Dreams”
XX 1986 “Beat of the Future”
XXI 1987 “Salute to Hollywood’s 100th Anniversary”
XXII 1988 “Something Grand” featuring 88 grand pianos, the Rockettes and Chubby Checker
XXIII 1989 “Be Bop Bamboozled” featuring 3-D effects
XXIV 1990 “Salute to New Orleans” and 40th Anniversary of Peanuts’ characters, featuring trumpeter Pete Fountain, Doug Kershaw and Irma Thomas
XXV 1991 “A Small World Salute to 25 Years of the Super Bowl” featuring New Kids on the Block
XXVI 1992 “Winter Magic” including a salute to the winter season and the winter Olympics featuring Gloria Estefan, Brian Boitano and Dorothy Hamill
XXVII 1993 “Heal the World” featuring Michael Jackson
XXVIII 1994 “Rockin Country Sunday” featuring Clint Black, Tanya Tucker, Travis Tritt, Wynonna and Naomi Judd
XXIX 1995 “Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye” featuring Tony Bennett, Patti LaBelle, Arturo Sandoval, the Miami Sound Machine
XXX 1996 Diana Ross
XXXI 1997 “Blues Brothers Bash” featuring Dan Akroyd, John Goodman, James Belushi, James Brown and ZZ Top
XXXII 1998 “A Tribute to Motown’s 40th Anniversary” including Boyz II Men, Smokey Robinson, Queen Latifah, Martha Reeves and The Temptations
XXXIII 1999 “Celebration of Soul, Salsa and Swing” featuring Stevie Wonder, Gloria Estefan, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Savion Glover
XXXIV 2000 “A Tapestry of Nations” featuring Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias, and Toni Braxton
XXXV 2001 “The Kings of Rock and Pop” featuring Aerosmith, *N’SYNC, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige and Nelly
XXXVI 2002 U2
XXXVII 2003 Shania Twain, No Doubt and Sting
XXXVIII 2004 Janet Jackson, Kid Rock, P. Diddy, Nelly and Justin Timberlake
XXXIX 2005 Paul McCartney
XL 2006 The Rolling Stones
XLI 2007 Prince
XLII 2008 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
XLIII 2009 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
XLIV 2010 The Who
XLV 2011 The Black Eyed Peas, Usher, Slash
XLVI 2012 Madonna with guests Cee Lo Green, LMFAO, M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj
XLVII 2013 Beyoncé with guests Destiny’s Child
XLVIII 2014 Bruno Mars with guests Red Hot Chili Peppers
XLIX 2015 Katy Perry with guests Missy Elliott and Lenny Kravitz
50 2016 Coldplay with guets Beyoncé and Bruno Mars
LI 2017 Lady Gaga
LII 2018 Justin Timberlake
LIII 2019 Maroon 5 with guests Travis Scott and Big Boi
LIV 2020 Shakira and Jennifer Lopez
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People need to pull their heads out and come to terms with the fact that the *entire* professional political career construct is to ensure no politician of any party reaches any position of real power unless that politician is proven corrupt and controllable by those that buy him or her.
The entire “campaign” money system is designed to facilitate corruption.
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