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On making restitution for a stolen election, or don't take the bait, part dose, September

15th, 2021, introduction.

Somehow, some way, the results of the Maricopa election audit will become public soon.

The news is likely to make a splash, provided someone doesn't reinvade Afghanistan, to keep

the news from making a splash, and so I thought we ought to prepare ourselves for that splash.

Among other things, I would suggest that we continue to make a point of not taking the

bait.

The audit will either show that Joe Biden really did win Arizona Fair and Square, and apart

from the yelling and taunting to put up with, there really would be no dilemma about what

to do.

We could simply say, well, now we know, and go back to enduring the stupidity that the

American people imposed on us, Fair and Square, as Manken once put it, democracy is the

view that the people know what they want, and deserve to get it, good and hard.

The other option, the one I suspect will be before us, is that we will discover that

Trump actually did win Arizona.

And then the dilemma appears, what do we do?

There's no constitutional provision for this kind of situation, and there will be plenty

of opportunities for furious conservatives to take the bait, because there's no prescribed

constitutional outlet for dealing with such chicaneery.

The temptation will be to go the direct action route again, as on January 6th.

But in such an eventuality, I believe that there actually would be a measured and constitutional

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