"The Kraken Was Released Several Days Ago"???

Via Gateway Pundit, I see that Sidney Powell has tweeted, in response to someone urging her actually to release it, "The Kraken was released several days ago," with a quote from scripture. But a number of intelligent commentators have already been giving her the benefit of the doubt, expecting the real kraken would appear as she could release more evidence. Now, apparently what we see now is what we get.

I'm starting to lose confidence.

The video below from Robert Gruler, while again giving Powell the benefit of the doubt, is also increasingly skeptical:

At about 25:00, he makes an important point: a certain part of the Powell-Giuliani argument is that key Deep State actors in the FBI and CIA worked against Trump throughout his administration. The difficulty with this, according to Gruler, is that Trump was their boss. If he didn't like what they were doing, he could fire and replace any of them, as in fact he did sporadically. But the Trump team's argument is hinging more and more on the idea that, according to Powell, hundreds of thousands, even millions, of votes were stolen via a widespread conspiracy involving the voting machines.

And as Gruler and other commentators have pointed out, just recounts and audits simply won't be enough to reverse the results. You've got to establish a massive conspiracy, someting close to Jason Bourne level, involving CIA and FBI complicity.

As Gruler says, this isn't totally beyond the realm of possibility -- but there's a very short time to make this more credible than it currently is, and I'm losing confidence in Powell's ability to bring this off.

Sidney Powell Continues To Tease

As I've said, one of the best commentators on the surrent cycle is Robert Barnes. He appeared on the Viva Frei YouTube channel Sunday night to discuss developments, and they had a segment on Sidney Powell and the kraken:

Although Barnes has tweeted that he's now on Trump's electoral team, the indication he gives is that he's working in Georgia and hasn't spoken with Powell, and he doesn't know what the kraken specifically is. He and David, the Viva Frei host, agree that Powell is a prominent and reputable attorney who appears confident in the knowledge of circumstances she hasn't yet explanied very fully, but they also agree that time is running out.

In two appearences yesterday, Powell left me concerned that whatever legal atrategy she's following, it doesn't appear to be fully coherent. She went on Lou Dobbs to discuss an affadavit from a founder of Smartmatic that outlined a system capability of recording votes by individual voters, but changing them without an audit trail:

She went on Mark Levin to say essentially the same thing. One thing that concerns me is that she's veered away from Dominion to go into Smartmatic without explaining why she's doing this, or even if she fully understands that these are two different, and competing, products. Clearly both Dominion and Smartmatic are in crisis mode due to their portrayal in the current controversies. Smartmatic issued the following statement on its website:

• Smartmatic has never owned any shares or had any financial stake in Dominion Voting Systems. Smartmatic has never provided Dominion Voting Systems with any software, hardware or other technology. The two companies are competitors in the marketplace.
• Smartmatic does not have any ties to any governments or political parties in any country. It has never been owned, funded or backed by any government.

As David of Viva Frei has pointed out, affadavits themselves don't do much, and they can simply be contradicted by affadavits from the other side. If Powell has an affadavit from someone saying this is what Hugo Chavez wanted the product to do, that's interesting. But the question still remains of whether the product actually does that, separate from any capability of the Dominion system, and whether this function, assuming it exists, was actually employed in specific circumstances that can be proven in the US on the night of November 3-4.

This isn't a kraken, at least not yet. Since Powell is a competent attorney, she must certainly understand this. And time is running out.

Smartmatic's statement can certainly have been weasel-worded. It doesn't deny, for instance, that it has the capability to switch a voter's vote without keeping a record. And if this capability is in the system, we must assume there's at least the possibility that any totals collected by a Smartmatic system can be invalidated. This would probably be the end of both Smartmatic and Dominion as brands, so it's reasonable to see that they'd both be in crisis management mode.

(At minimum, large numbers of Dominion employees have deleted their Linkedin profiles since November 4, which should give an indication of current circumstances' impact on both companies, whether or not it's deserved. These companies may becme the next Enrons if things keep on this way, regarless of the election's outcome.)

However, Powell and the Trump election team need more than what's been disclosed, whatever happens to Dominion and Smartmatic. They implicitly recognize that to overturn the election, they will need to invalidate hundreds of thousands of votes. The only serious way to do this will be effectively to throw out large numbers of votes collected in both Dominion and Smartmatic machines.

At about 14:50 in the YouTube at the top of this post, Barnes says that unlike historical recounts, where about 1/100th of 1% of votes are changed, in 2020 Michigan recounts, 5-6% have been changed. This is better than a few hanging chads, but it's probably not enough by itself to change the overall result.