Tuesday 19 January 2021

American Observers at Ugandan Elections

 Proverbs 20:17

Stolen bread tastes sweet, but it turns to gravel in the mouth.

Never mind, Biden’s improbable teeth are adapted to pulverising that gravel and his political gizzard is well inured.

I notice that nice respectable conservatives are sufficiently bemused to consider that the fraud can’t be proven and therefore it mightn’t have happened.  They avert their eyes from the  appalling vista and forget that which drives the discovery of truth.  I mean abduction or inference to the best explanation.  Very like a duck!

The sane conservatives laugh the bitter short bark when they read re the Ugandan elections which brought Musevani in for the 6th.term:

"Tracking the vote was further complicated by the arrests of independent monitors and the denial of accreditation to most members of the American observer mission, leading the US to call it off. The European Union said its offer to deploy electoral experts “was not taken up”.

Tibor Nagy, the top US diplomat for Africa, tweeted: “Uganda’s electoral process has been fundamentally flawed.” He called for the immediate and full restoration of internet access, and warned that that “the US response hinges on what the Ugandan government does now”.”( Irish Independent)


Note:

I have used the locution ‘appalling vista’ which other than an Irish reader drifting inexorably towards the rocks of late middle age, may not get.  It was Lord Denning’s remark:

"In 1980, Lord Denning upheld an appeal by the West Midlands Police against a civil action brought by the Birmingham Six for injuries they received in custody. He said in his judgment the consequence for the English legal system of accepting that police officers were lying was such "an appalling vista" that every sensible person would reject further legal action. (from Irish Times) 



1 comment:

George said...

Your syllogism appears to run

a. I don't like fraudulent outcomes.
b. I don't like the election of Joe Biden.
c. Ergo Joe Biden's election was fraudulent.

This is inference to the best explanation only under if best means what you care to think. Trump won in 2016 largely because Clinton neglected to work on turning out votes in Michigan, and in general neglected working on turning out voters. That was not going to happen in 2020.