COCAINE MITCH: McConnell Will Brook ‘No Lectures’ From Dems Who ‘Spent Four Years’ Rejecting the 2016 Election.
SOMEDAY, SMOD? WHY DO YOU TEASE US THAT WAY? Apophis: the asteroid that may someday hit the Earth.
(And, btw, Behind the Black is running its seasonal fundraiser. Yeah, but… it’s the times we live in.)
MICHAEL BARONE: We’re Still Living in a 49% Nation.
In early 2001, in the wake of the closely contested 2000 presidential election, I wrote an Introduction to The Almanac of American Politics called “The 49 percent nation.” Not only was the popular vote for president 49% to 49%, but in each of the three preceding congressional elections, both parties had received either 48% or 49%, and Bill Clinton had won the preceding presidential election with 49%. We were pretty evenly divided.
As we are these days. In 2016, President Trump won his majority in the Electoral College by winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin by a total of 77,000 votes out of 137 million cast. Joe Biden won his majority in the Electoral College by — and this is an approximation, subject to change and probably upward adjustment in the final count — by winning Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin (there it is again) by a total of 49,000 votes. Those narrow margins gave each of them their 306 electoral votes in their respective victories. . . .
Why the polls were wrong is an interesting question worthy of exploration in multiple columns to come. But the results speak for themselves and make it plain that even though a large majority of Americans vote straight-party tickets, they are also closely enough divided between the parties that even a few split tickets can, and usually have, given us divided government.
This year’s Senate elections are another example. Like most pundits this fall, I said it was likely the Democrats would win a Senate majority. Polls showed multiple Republican senators trailing their Democratic challenger and only one likely Republican gain. The Senate would go from 53-47 Republican, many predicted, to 54-46 Democratic.
Didn’t happen. Last winter, before COVID-19 and the rush of polls, I predicted that voting in Senate races would resemble the 2016 presidential election and that the new Senate would look much like the old. That’s largely what happened. The one incumbent Democrat in a Trump 2016 state, Alabama, lost. So did one of two incumbent Republicans in a Clinton state, Colorado. The other, Susan Collins in Maine, who has long run ahead of party lines, won solidly, even though every poll showed her behind. But that was offset by the defeat of a Republican incumbent with a history of running behind party lines in Arizona, a narrow Trump 2016 state where Biden currently leads. In Georgia, another narrow Trump 2016 state, there will be two January runoffs in races in which no candidate got 50%.
My conclusion, in 2000 and now, is that neither party owns the future, and that, even if you believe (as I do) that both sides this year ran suboptimal campaigns, they do tend to adjust and remain competitive over time. Twenty years later, we’re still living in a 49% nation.
Sadly, we’re doing so with the worst political class in our nation’s history.
THEY SEEM SLOW TO ADAPT … DON’T THEY SEEM SLOW TO YOU? California wine country adapting to annual wildfire threat.
Or, you know, they could have proper forest management, if Emperor Gavin would let them, of course.
IF THE CDC SAYS IT IT MUST BE SO, AMIRIGHT? I WONDER WHEN THEY FIRST BEGAN TO SUSPECT THIS? PERHAPS WHEN THEY FOUND THEY COULD BE PANTS-LESS DURING ZOOM MEETINGS? Teleworking may help us beat COVID-19 , CDC finds.
WELL, IT WILL LEAD TO WAR IF POWER IS GIVEN TO BIDEN. WITH TRUMP…. WHO KNOWS. MAYBE HE CAN BRING THIS THING TO SAFE HARBOR: Leftist election theft must lead to war, if only so freedom can survive.
For Terry Pratchett’s fans: my hope of the Republic surviving and our coming out of this better is at this point pinned on the fact that 4 years ago I identified Trump’s archetype as Moist Von Lipwig. And he has lived up to it, golden head topping and all. (Not that I think Trump was ever a swindler. But I think he’s “reformed” from a lifetime of “working with” the liberal establishment, and in the same way as Lipwig facing ultimate challenge.)
While I’m aware it’s a fairly insane hope, it allows me to sleep more than 3 hours, one night in four.
I THINK THE LEFT HAS BEEN RIGGING ELECTIONS A LONG TIME. AND WHILE I CAN’T PROVE IT, THEIR BEHAVIOR HAS THE HALLMARKS OF PROVIDERS WHO HAVE CUT THEMSELVES FROM FEEDBACK IN THE ECONOMIC SENSE: When the Free Marketplace of Political Ideas Is Thwarted.
(Sorry, yes, it is behind a paywall. Should you wish to subscribe, use the discount code HOYT)
SPEAKING OF PSY-OPS, I’M SOOOOOO TIRED OF THE WINNIE THE FLU ONE: KDHE shows no interest in obtaining cycle threshold data.
YEP. BASICALLY THAT: US Elections 2020: media and Big Social peeing on our legs and telling us it’s raining.
As for Elvis and Little Richard, I’ll only believe it if Facebook “fact checks” it.
TWITTER AND FACEBOOK ARE BANNING MENTIONS OF THIS: Benford’s Law.
Like most normal Americans at this point I view anything facebook “fact checks” as probably true. And anything that facebook and twitter ban as true and also scary for the left.
…. it’s like these people never met Americans.
And no, they don’t seem to be smart enough to manipulate us by banning lies. They are very good at psyops of only of the “big lie” type.
NO FRAUD, MY SORE… FEET: Election 2020: the more fuckery update.
WELL, IT IS A TRUMP-SIZED CHALLENGE: TRUMP VS POSTMODERNISM.
AND MOST ANTI-SEMITISM IS ON THE LEFT. AND IF THE LEFT GETS CONTROL OF THE US, ISRAEL IS IN DEEP TROUBLE: Kristallnacht: Nov. 9-10, 1938; The Night The Holocaust Began.
LIFE IS INDEED PAIN. AND RIGHT NOW VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR REPUBLIC: Political Rumblings.
HOW DO YOU EVEN DEAL WITH MASS INSANITY AT THIS LEVEL? IT WOULD HELP IF SCHOOLS, MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT STOPPED INDOCTRINATING PEOPLE INTO IT, MIND YOU: She Makes Her Own, I Think.
BEHOLD. MY SHOCKED FACE: #FOXEXIT Movement Builds As Network Has Become Anti-Trump.
ROLL LEFT AND DIE! Leaked Fox News Internal Ratings Show “Catastrophic” Loss of Audience.
But, hey, diddle dumpling, they now get invited to those cocktail parties.
Also, hey, we can now taunt the liberals with “Just because you heard it on FauxNews, it doesn’t make it so.” Imagine the disorientation they’ll experience.
November 9, 2020
WHEN “PUBLIC HEALTH” IS JUST A LIE: Crowds get to celebrate Joe Biden’s victory — but no one else can gather in public?
CHECK IT OUT: Artwork from Stacy Tabb, the designer of InstaPundit.
CHANGE: Barr tells DOJ to probe election irregularities. I can’t find a public link yet, but I’m reading the Trump complaint in Pennsylvania.
UPDATE: Try this.
Summary here.
Related: Pennsylvania House Speaker Seeks ‘Full Audit’ of Election Returns Before Certification.
PUSHBACK: ON FIRE: McConnell Will Brook ‘No Lectures’ From Dems Who ‘Spent Four Years’ Rejecting the 2016 Election. Right?
Related, seen on Facebook:
Also seen on Facebook:
OLD AND BUSTED: “Defund the Police.”
The New Hotness? Minneapolis to consider bringing in outside police officers amid shortage.
AT MSNBC? WOULDN’T THAT BE CONSIDERED A PLUS? MSNBC reportedly lets Jon Meacham go as contributor after not disclosing he was a speechwriter for Biden.
DAVID THOMPSON: She Makes Her Own, I Think.
I keep seeing this meme going around that’s like, “I’ll still be your friend if you voted for Trump, I’ll still be your friend if you voted for Biden…” and it’s making me ragey.
So writes Sa’iyda Shabazz in the pages of Scary Mommy, where progressive parents display their piety to each other, and where rage and tears, even feigned or delusional rage and tears, are a currency of sorts, markers of woke status. Part of the game.
If you still support [Trump] after the last four years of his bullshit, then guess what? I don’t want to be your friend. Because if you support that monster, you can’t possibly also care about me.
A monster. Specifically, a “racist, misogynist, xenophobic monster.” I suppose we were destined to start in high gear, something approaching opera. It does seem to be the custom among Scary Mommy contributors. Having dutifully denounced Mr Trump as the Demon King, the cause of all human sorrow, Ms Shabazz then goes on to reveal, albeit inadvertently, the extent to which the wider world should in fact care about her, being as she is so lovely and not at all demented.
I know that I have friends who voted for Trump in 2016. And I know I probably have friends who did this year, too. One of them is one of my oldest and dearest friends. To say that I was horrified is an understatement.
In terms of progressive outpourings, understatement is a rare treat. Let’s take a moment to savour it.
And fisk the daylights out of it. Read the whole thing.
BUT ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME EUROPE WAS HANDLING COVID MUCH BETTER THAN US: Germany’s lockdown is already fraying. In the absence of any clear strategy, politicians have taken to blaming the public for their failings.
As German playwright Bertolt Brecht famously wrote, “Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?”
As a graduate of Karl Marx University(!), on some level Angela Merkel likely views that quote as a how-to guide.
HMMM: Internal Fox News Numbers Reveal Catastrophic Viewership Collapse.
Related: Fox News Cancels Justice With Judge Jeanine This Weekend Over Trump.
For those of you that might have tuned in and did not see Fox News’ “Justice” with Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday night, sources told Newsmax the show was suspended over a spat on the network’s coverage of President Donald Trump.
Sources close to the network tell Newsmax, because she made a very staunch defense of President Trump and wanted to expose the vote fraud that took place in the election, Fox News decided not to air her show. It had extended coverage of Democrat Joe Biden’s acceptance speech of a contested election.
The sources gave no inclination of whether the network is going to keep the show going, but we hear she was suspended at least for this weekend.
I’m not sure what’s in it for Fox News to become just another channel in the CBSCNNABCNBCMSNBC sandwich of approved DNC-MSM “news” programming. Back in 2017, after Megyn Kelly left Fox News for her brief stint at NBC, Ace of Spades wrote:
She thought she would be accepted by the liberals; like Bret Stephens, she’s finding that the liberals only cheered her when she was a saboteur operating behind enemy lines. But they damn sure don’t want Bret Stephens or MeAgain behind their own lines…You know, Benedict Arnold expected to be treated like a hero by the British he gave West Point to. Instead, he lived miserably thereafter, shunned by the people he expected to embrace him. No one ever really trusts a turncoat. Even the people the turncoat turns coat to be amongst.
Fox News seems determined to discover that as well, the hard way, on a near-network level.
Earlier: #FOXEXIT Movement Builds As Network Has Become Anti-Trump.
NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Biden’s COVID Task Force Includes Doctor who Wishes Biden Died 2 Years Ago.
FINALLY, A MAN AND HIS MOMENT COME TOGETHER. Shock: Mitt Romney May Join Hypothetical Biden Administration.
Related: Pfizer U-turns at warp speed.
TWO DUBYAS IN ONE!
● Shot: George W. Bush: Trump Has Right To Pursue Recounts And Legal Challenges Over Election.
—The Daily Wire, yesterday.
● Chaser: Bush congratulates Biden, says election was ‘fundamentally fair’ and ‘its outcome is clear.’
—CNN, today.
HMMM: Report: Google Sent Liberals, But Not Conservatives, a Vote Reminder. GOP Senators Want to Know Why.
And speaking of Google: “Eric Schmidt, the longtime former CEO of Google, is also on board the [Biden] transition team, and, per FT, ‘is being talked about to lead a new technology industry task force in the White House,’ despite reports the same day that Schmidt and his family have applied for citizenship in Cyprus. That move, per Recode, would allow Schmidt to enjoy tax benefits, and also avoid travel bans related to the European Union.”
I’m so old, I can remember when that sort of thing was considered rather unpatriotic in Biden-land. Flashback: Biden calls paying higher taxes a patriotic act.
But does Biden even remember saying that these days?
WOULD THE PARTY OF MORAL AUTHORITARIANISM CHEAT? Of course they would, all day, any day. And don’t think they aren’t deadly serious about their Trump Accountability Projects and “reconciliation” commissions.
As Issues & Insights puts it in an excellent editorial: “The belief in one’s own moral superiority eventually erases the conscience. After all, if one is morally superior to others, then no conscience is needed. All actions and behaviors are acceptable because they’re done in an effort to make the world a better place.”
I CAN’T SAY I’M SURPRISED: The 2020 Bentley Flying Spur Always Feels Confident. That’s pretty much its job.
GRIFTERS GOTTA GRIFT: The Lincoln Project Geniuses Vow to Resurrect the GOP.
SCHRODINGER’S COVID: Are We in a Pandemic or Not?
JIMMY PAGE: THE ANTHOLOGY AND HIS PREVIOUS COFFEE TABLE BOOK: NONE WILL BE REVEALED.
My latest, on what passes for “autobiographies” from one of the most notoriously tight-lipped interviewees in rock, over at Ed Driscoll.com, if you’re looking for an article that has nothing to do with elections, recounts, coronavirus, or riots.
(Bumped.)
NOT MY FAVORITE ASPECT OF THE 21ST CENTURY: A Swarm of Cyborg Cockroaches That Lives in Your House.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: The Democrats’ civil war begins.
insert obligatory Kissinger quote about the Iran-Iraq War here.
IT’S COME TO THIS: AOC says she might quit politics because the Democrat Party is not guano-crazy enough for her.
Narrator voice: Sandy has no plans to abandon her personal struggle.
WEIRD HOW THE PRESS WON’T CALL HIM ON IT: Dr. Fauci Told the Truth About COVID-19 Tests in July and Has Been Misleading the Public Ever Since.
HEROES WALK AMONG US: Idaho man in hot water after group found cooking chickens in Yellowstone hot spring.
MEET ‘HIS FRAUDULENCY,’ JOE BIDEN: Presidents sometimes get unflattering nicknames. John Adams was known to some as “His Rotundity” and John Tyler, who only succeeded to the presidency upon the death of William Henry Harrison, inevitably became “His Accidency.” I just heard “His Fraudulency” suggested for Joe Biden.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG ASIDE FROM LITERALLY EVERYTHING? Mideast heads for policy revamp under Biden. “Contrary to Donald Trump’s impulsive policies in the Middle East, Joe Biden is expected to shift back to a more conventional US stance and re-engage with Iran, redrawing regional geopolitics.”
“Impulsive.”
Me, back in August on “Trump and the Art of the Middle East Peace Deal”:
That’s not to say that peace and love and happiness will break out throughout the Middle East, or that the peace will last forever. Trump is a dealmaker, not a miracle worker.
But the theater we just witnessed — which will create genuine benefits for Arabs and Israelis alike — was a very stable genius bit of kabuki:
• Launch a peace initiative designed to induce the Palestinian leadership to indulge in their usual bad behavior
• Give Israel the backing it needed to ostensibly take dramatic action in the Jordan River Valley
• Watch as Israel and Arab governments practically fall over themselves to “give up” the land Israel never annexed in exchange for the peace the Arabs need in order to face Iran
Nobody actually gave up anything, and everybody is getting what they wanted.
Well, except for the Palestinians, but yet again, they have only themselves to blame for that.
Maybe Trump just lucked out, somehow bumbling his stupid way into peace.
Maybe the Bolshoi Ballet is just an infinite number of hyperactive spider monkeys in leotards.
Nothing this well-orchestrated happens by happenstance.
I hope you have plenty of fresh unexpectedlies ready in case Biden lets Iran back out of the box Trump put them in, as he seems inclined to do.
ALSO: Biden has been on wrong side of foreign policy issues for decades.
IS THIS GUY PRO-COVID? Gov. Cuomo Threatens to Stop Vaccine Distribution.
Cuomo tells fellow Democrat George Stephanopoulos that “it’s ‘bad news’ Pfizer’s Covid vaccine came during the Trump Admin; says he’s going to work w/ other governors to ‘stop’ distribution ‘before it does damage.’”
And of course, crickets from the DNC-MSM. Karol Markowicz has some thoughts why:
(Classical reference in headline.)
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Too many prestigious graduate degrees and not enough jobs make for bad politics. My daughter has already noticed that the folks in her circle who are most into “activism” of various sorts are mostly the ones whose careers and lives seem to be going the worst.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Biden’s Pick for Coronavirus Task Force: ‘Living Too Long Is Also a Loss.’
This morning, President-elect Biden announced that his coronavirus task force would include Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.
In a 2014 essay in The Atlantic, Emanuel, explained why he hoped to die at age 75, and why he finds the idea of living past that date to be morally problematic:
As Jim Geraghty writes, it’s curious choice by Biden, considering the virus is “particularly dangerous to the elderly.”
Later in that above Atlantic article, as PJM’s Tyler O’Neil spotted, Emanuel wrote that in his opinion, for someone over 75, “Flu shots are out:”
What about simple stuff? Flu shots are out. Certainly if there were to be a flu pandemic, a younger person who has yet to live a complete life ought to get the vaccine or any antiviral drugs. A big challenge is antibiotics for pneumonia or skin and urinary infections. Antibiotics are cheap and largely effective in curing infections. It is really hard for us to say no. Indeed, even people who are sure they don’t want life-extending treatments find it hard to refuse antibiotics. But, as Osler reminds us, unlike the decays associated with chronic conditions, death from these infections is quick and relatively painless. So, no to antibiotics.
Obviously, a do-not-resuscitate order and a complete advance directive indicating no ventilators, dialysis, surgery, antibiotics, or any other medication—nothing except palliative care even if I am conscious but not mentally competent—have been written and recorded. In short, no life-sustaining interventions. I will die when whatever comes first takes me.
Incidentally, Siri, how old is the presumptive president-elect? (No, not her, the other one.)
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Election Fraud Update for November 9, 2020.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Why does Siri say Kamala Harris is President when you ask how old the president is?
Answer: Because we’ve found the one Republican who works for Apple – and he has quite a sense of humor.
(Hey, it’s one possibility. Sadly, Apple has since corrected Siri’s response to say that “Donald Trump is 74 years old” when now you ask how old the president is.)
IN THE MAIL: Rules for a Flat World.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Suppose They Stole an Election and Nobody Noticed.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: What does it take to get the press to notice an election being stolen in broad daylight?
Answer: A new press.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- By their own rules, Democrats are a superspreader event.
- Progresive Oregon goes all fascist on the mostly peaceful protestors.
- Twitter: Where the truth goes to get murdered.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
STOCKS SURGE TO ALL-TIME HIGHS AMID COVID-19 VACCINE HOPES, JOE BIDEN VICTORY.
I’d like to say that it’s the former driving that surge much more than the (presumptive) latter, but as Kevin Williamson wrote in 2009: Losing Gordon Gekko: Wall Street has gone over to the Democrats. Should conservatives miss it?
UPDATE: Heh, indeed:
Yes, it’s satire. But sadly, this isn’t: Cuomo: It’s “bad news” that Pfizer announced these vaccine results before Biden takes office.
Exit question: “I can’t believe I’m going to say this but I think the question needs to be asked in light of his track record. Is this guy … pro-COVID?”
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: Sidney Powell claims there are 450,000 ballots that voted only for Biden, left the rest blank.
THIS IS A BOLDLY BIGOTED STATEMENT, ESPECIALLY WITH PRINCETON ALREADY BEING INVESTIGATED FOR RACISM: Princeton prof blames whiteness, sexism and patriarchy for closeness of presidential race.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Porn ban drives extraordinary spike in VPN usage. “Pornography crackdown in Thailand provokes whopping 644% increase in VPN installs.”
THAT’S FAIR, BECAUSE THE OPED WAS STUPID: Prof slams Harvard op-ed calling for profs with ‘unacceptable views’ to be fired. Harvard’s not the best university in America. It’s not even the best online university in America.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The Comrade Biden Show Is Already Kinda Creepy. “For the longest time I thought that they’d be working on an exit plan for Biden the second the election was over. Many have wondered aloud if the Democrats are going to hit their own president with the 25th Amendment. Now I’m starting to think that they will probably keep the old boy around and have a few people playing the role of Edith Wilson in the background.”
ROGER KIMBALL: Before Declaring a Victor, Investigate Allegations of Fraud. “Back in 2000, Al Gore took 37 days in Court as the votes in Florida were scrutinized. This year, there are widespread reported voting irregularities (that’s a six-syllable word for ‘fraud’) in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, and Arizona. The media is jumping up and down trying to deny this (watch Dem apparatchik George Stephanopoulos try out that assertion on South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem: she crushes him).”
Related: Thread. “But then as counting continues, the D to R ratio in mail-in ballots inexplicably begin increasing. Again, this should not happen, and it is observed almost nowhere else in the country, because all of the ballots are randomly shuffled in the mail system and should be homogeneous during counting. The only exceptions to this are other suspect states that also have anomalies.”
WELL, BIDEN HAS A RECORD OF PLAGIARISM: Biden prepares his virus response which looks awfully… familiar.
JOANNE JACOBS: Who will be Biden’s education secretary? “Biden pledged to put a ‘quick end’ to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ regulations on investigating campus sexual assault. The rules require colleges to protect the due process rights of the accused.”
SALENA ZITO: Voters stood up to the culture and declared their center-right values.
Had you spent any space of time in this northern suburb of Pittsburgh listening to voters, finding out what things mattered to them when it came to schools, community growth, economic prosperity, and the emotional impact of COVID-19 lockdowns, you would have at least been skeptical of the media narrative and the polls that claimed suburban voters here are no longer center-right.
Not Republican per se, just center-right.
Most reporters certainly didn’t take the time to do so. Instead, they relied on the scolding of our cultural curators in sports, media, and Hollywood as an indicator of how these college-educated, affluent voters would vote. Surely, they thought, these suburbs would cave under the cultural pressure, push left, and their votes would send a blue shock wave across the country.
These reporters put their faith in what they saw in polls or on Twitter, and they predicted the vilification of center-rightism would drag the country leftward — except the people who voted here, and in down-ballot races across the country, vigorously rejected that pressure.
Democrats are figuring this out, which is why AOC is suddenly on the defensive within her own party.
JOHN HINDERAKER: FACEBOOK FACT-CHECKS ME, UPDATED. “The establishment is in full protect-Joe mode. The Left’s most important propaganda theme these days is that there is no such thing as voter fraud.”
“WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?” Philadelphia Ballot Observer Criticizes Transparency of Counting Process.
FOR ONCE HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH: Chuck Schumer Says If Democrats Win Georgia Senate Races, ‘Then We Change America’.
SHOCKINGLY, NOT A BIG HIT WITH ACTUAL VOTERS: Dems Turn Away From ‘Defund the Police’ and ‘Socialism’: Ocasio-Cortez says Republicans used slogans for ‘rhetorical attacks.’ Yes, the problem wasn’t what Democrats were saying, it was that Republicans were calling attention to what Democrats were saying . . . .
ICYMI: Roger Kimball: The People Who Count the Votes Decide Everything. “During the campaign, Joe Biden bragged that he had put together ‘the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.’ Perhaps he wasn’t exaggerating.”
UPDATE: Laurence Jarvik: Why I Believe Trump Won. “If one looks at previous crises faced by the Trump Administration, a pattern emerges — initial media reports are eventually exposed as false, once the full record becomes public.”
JONATHAN TURLEY: America should welcome review for close counts.
States used rolls that are notoriously out of date and inaccurate. Some changed rules governing signature authentication or are accused of reducing the discrimination levels for machine authentication. In Nevada, the Trump campaign alleged that thousands of votes were cast from out of state and ballots were sent to dead voters. We cannot judge the merits of these claims until we see the evidence. It is difficult to see any problems without greater access to the ballots and the records of tabulation.
Just as some of us remain skeptical of such claims of fraud, it seems as implausible that this untested form of voting was used across the country without major glitches. Officials in cities like Detroit and Philadelphia with histories of election violations said the counts of mailed ballots were almost flawless, a claim difficult to rebut without review.
We need a review of counts in critical states to resolve a crisis of faith.
Indeed.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Seen on Facebook: “It’s time to listen and bow to the will of the networks.”
Also seen on Facebook:
A REMINDER THAT JOE BIDEN IS “PRESIDENT-ELECT” ONLY IN THE MEDIA SENSE OF THE TERM: There is no ‘president-elect’ until December 14th at the earliest, when the electoral college “meets.” In 2000, the Supreme Court didn’t render their decision on Florida’s decisive electoral votes until December 12.
I’M NOT GOING TO DO MY FULL POSTING TONIGHT. MOSTLY BECAUSE I’M ON 3 HOURS OF SLEEP AND UP SINCE 7 AM. BUT I WANTED YOU TO SEE THIS. THIS IS A PSYOPS OPERATION. THAT’S ALL IT IS. DON’T LET IT GET IN YOUR HEAD, DON’T ADOPT THEIR TERMS. BIDEN ISN’T ELECT FOR ANYTHING NOT EVEN G-D’S WAITING ROOM. DON’T SURRENDER HEAD SPACE: Don’t Jump Off That Ledge. This Is Just a Blue Smokescreen.
And now I’m going to bed, if I manage not to fall asleep on the stairs.
November 8, 2020
AT AMAZON, Leupold Rifle Scopes.
REASON: The 2020 Election Results Look Like a Massive Rebuke of Socialism. “Summarizing the key lessons that Democrats should take away from election results that were much less favorable than expected, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D–Va.) reportedly told fellow members of her caucus during a conference call on Thursday that they shouldn’t say the word socialism ‘ever again.’ This would be good policy advice, whether or not it’s good political advice. But as it turns out, socialism is looking like a major political loser this election cycle.”
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