November 6, 2020

WHERE’S THAT FAT LADY: Decision Desk HQ Calls the Race for Biden, But It’s Not Over Yet…

IN THE MAIL: From John Fund, Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: DOJ Looking Into Criminal Referral Alleging 3K Cases of Voter Fraud in Nevada.

MILWAUKEE OFFICIALS HAVE SOME EXPLAINING TO DO:

Wisconsin has known voter fraud before but never on this scale.  According to the MacIver Institute, a Wisconsin free-market think-tank, nearly 4,000 cases of likely voter fraud were recorded by state officials after the 2016 election, close to a thousand of which were referred to district attorneys.

The likely large-scale fraud of 2020 calls way too much attention to itself.  If the data I am looking at are correct, there are people on the hard left who may want to get caught.  For them, a Biden win overturned by the Supreme Court would offer a whole lot more opportunity for mayhem than they could hope to find with a faltering old liberal as president.

Read the whole thing.

THE MORE THEY SPEAK OF SOCIAL JUSTICE, THE LESS I TRUST THEIR MEDICAL JUDGMENT: Pitt medical students create new Hippocratic Oath to ‘fight racial injustice, misinformation.’

AS A PIONEERING SOCIALIST WAS QUOTED AS SAYING, “It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes:”

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CANCEL CULTURE HAS NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT: NJ Democrat won’t resign after tweet about Abraham Lincoln assassination, Trump.

HIGHER EDUCATION’S CULTURE OF HATE: Coffee shop bullied off campus over owner’s support for police.

I’VE QUIT MY REGULAR USA TODAY COLUMN, BUT I HAVE THIS IN THE NEW YORK POST: The left is again showing that it can’t stand anyone who disagrees. “Moral superiority is an addictive drug, and perhaps the most unfortunate legacy of the Civil Rights era is that it got people on the left dependent on moral superiority for their self-esteem.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Dems Have Turned U.S. Elections Into a Third World Embarrassment. “While I was able to muster up some interest in everything leading up to Election Day because of my swing state status, everything in the two days since is practically making me want to weep for America. One would think that after 244 years and great leaps in technology that we wouldn’t actually be regressing in the way we handle our elections. Right now we’re a laughing stock that’s devolved into what looks like a Third World hellhole that’s never conducted a free election before.”

Who is this “we,” Kemosabe? Republican-run areas did just fine.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: SpaceX launches GPS satellite from Florida, lands booster on ship.

GET YOURSELF SOME FRESH UNEXPECTEDLIES READY FOR WHAT HAPPENS NEXT: San Francisco voters approve taxes on CEOs, big businesses.

SORRY, THAT’S A NO: Michigan AG asks residents to stop telling staff to shove Sharpies up their butts.

AND THERE IS THIS:  Fulton County told our observers last night to go home because they were closing up and then continued to count ballots in secret.

I saw this go on in Colorado Springs in 2012, too, and the GOP told me to stand down. JUST FYI.  (And it was more than fifty. It was a backpack of them.)

TECH HAS TAKEN SIDES: Twitter slaps #StopTheSteal and censors leader Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Red-state attorneys general need to look into them.

COLORADO: A Message from Your New Congresswoman-Elect Lauren Boebert. “I am so thankful to everyone who supported my campaign for freedom and prosperity. This is a win for the steelworkers in Pueblo and the ranchers in Craig and the peach farmers in Palisade and it’s a win for every freedom-loving patriot who believes in the promise of America. Because of your support, I am heading to Washington to help secure our rights, drain the swamp, and make sure our children never grow up in a socialist nation. God bless you and God bless America!”

GEORGE LaNOUE:  “Critical Race Training or Civil Rights Law:  We Can’t Have Both.”

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ENTERTAINMENT POLICE: YouTube will not remove popular ‘Trump Won’ video, despite the fact he has not.

FOR PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY WON THE ELECTION, THEY DON’T SEEM ALL THAT HAPPY: Libs Go FULL MELTDOWN Over Trump’s Historic Support Among Minority Voters.

WHAT MAKES AMERICAN CORPORATIONS SO “WOKE”?:  I always assumed it’s because they get pressure from the left, but not from the right.  Whatever the reason, United Airlines decided to endorse Prop 16 on November 3rd  (just before 56% of California voters rejected this wrongheaded effort to authorize the State of California to engage in race and sex discrimination).

As a United Airlines Million Miler, I plan to express my displeasure via [email protected]  If you are so inclined, please join me.

THE KING OF SELF-BECLOWNMENT: Paul Krugman Melts Down Over Dem Losses, Accidentally Admits He Doesn’t Have a Clue.

STEPHEN L. CARTER: Democrats Counted Too Heavily on ‘Trump Fatigue:’ Attacks on the president and left-wing slogans turned a potential landslide into a nail-biter.

Politico reports that angry party centrists are blaming a combination of the leadership’s smugness in imagining that an anti-Trump message would be sufficient to win the day, as well as the inability of candidates in tough races to escape the taint of the left wing: “Moderates in Trump-leaning districts couldn’t escape their ‘socialist’ shadow.” Stephanie Murphy, head of the party’s Blue Dog caucus, was frank about the cause of the party’s difficulties: “That far-left agenda is not what wins districts and holds majorities.” . . .

In this sense, the rise of identity politics created a moral hazard of its own, leaving the party with a false sense that ethnic groups have common interests that lead their members to vote as a bloc. There’s limited truth to this contention, and this year the limits became apparent. The Democrats seemed to assume that their portrayal of Trump as irredeemably racist would suffice to win them the support they needed among non-Whites. But apparently not every voter in that group was persuaded; at the very least, many found other issues more salient. And Whiteness was less important this time around. Preliminary exit polls tell us that Trump actually lost considerable ground among White men. At the same time, he made significant gains among people of color, both those with college degrees and those without.

There’s a political awakening among voters that Democrats have taken for granted. That’s likely to continue with or without Trump.

SHOT: A GOP-Linked ‘Stop the Steal’ Facebook Group Is Gaining Thousands of Members a Minute.

CHASER: Facebook Shuts Down Massive ‘Stop the Steal’ Group.

Don’t trust Facebook. Facebook is asshole.

SHOULD WE END ECONOMIC INEQUALITY? The Colson Center’s Brook McIntire offers three solid reasons why the answer to that query is a resounding No! Instapundit readers already know why that’s the answer, but Colson’s “What Would You Say” series makes it simple and compelling, enough even for journalists, recent college graduates, and Members of Congress to understand and remember.

THIS I BELIEVE: I believe in government by the people for the people of these United States of America, a republic enshrined in the Constitution and guaranteeing its citizens equality under the law, in protection of their natural individual rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I believe that while — like all human things — not perfect, the constitution of the United States of America comes the closest that it’s possible, this side of heaven, to creating a perfect environment in which prosperity, invention and hte human spirit can flourish.  And I believe to preserve the republic is the most important pursuit of any decent and thinking American.

There is no negotiating with those who take our cities hostage. And there should be nothing but horror and contempt for those who have fouled our electoral process to this level, in the face of the world.

This I believe, and to this I pledge my honor, my fortune and my sacred honor, so help me almighty G-d.

Remember that. This is not a game.

AND I’M GLAD I’M NOT ALONE, BECAUSE I’M ALTERNATING BETWEEN RAGE AND DEPRESSION, AND THERE ARE BLOGS OUT THERE I WILL NEVER READ AGAIN: Let’s Stop Pretending Any of This IS Normal.

And no, I’m not actually a pen name for Razorfist. There would be a lot more swearing in that blog if I were. I left MOST of it in my mind.

OTHER PEOPLE ARE SOUNDING THE CALL TO BATTLE:  The Fight is Now.

THIS ONE:  President Trump is simply suing to stop the counting of bogus votes.

AND THIS ONE:  US Elections 2020: who is the biggest loser (no, it’s not Trump).

THEN THERE’S THIS ONE:  A Matter of Probabilities.

AND THIS IS HOW THEY STEAL GEORGIA:  There’s A Reason People Suspect Fraud.

BEFORE YOU DROP DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE OF REAL AND IMAGINED FRAUD, AND GET LOST IN RUMORS AND ALLEGATIONS, IF YOU READ ONE ARTICLE ON THE BLATANT, DANCING, OBSCENE FRAUD BEING COMMITTED IN FRONT OF G-D AND EVERYBODY, READ THIS ONE:  the 2020 election: fuckery is afoot.

And from now on, ANY stupidity from any Democrat should be met with the smiling inquiry: “So, when did you stop cheating on elections?”

November 5, 2020

THIS IS ALL GOING SWIMMINGLY (CONT’D): David Harsanyi: Progressivism, or Why the Culture War Is Turning in the Republicans’ Favor.

POLLS ARE OVER:

THIS IS ALL GOING SWIMMINGLY (CONT’D): Vox: The left should reconsider its commitment to intersectional politics (aka ‘the Latinx problem’).

TURN THE HOUSE RED? Owens now leads McAdams in Utah’s 4th Congressional District. “Republican Burgess Owens boosted his lead over Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams in the latest 4th Congressional District results released late Thursday as ballots cast in the largely by-mail election continue to be counted.”

That’s nice, but I still don’t like by-mail elections. How do we get rid of vote-by-mail? This is how:

NBC HEADLINE OF THE WEEK: Black men shift slightly toward Trump in record numbers, polls show. How do you “shift slightly,” even though in “record numbers?” Don’t wait for the story to explain it, because it doesn’t.

TRUMP CHALLENGES JOE BIDEN TO ADD ONE WORD TO HIS ‘VOTE-COUNTING’ RHETORIC: “He challenged Joe Biden to explicitly say he only wants legal votes. ‘They talk about votes, they want every vote counted. I want every legal vote counted,’ Trump said.”

Related: Trump Campaign Mobilizes Historic Ground Game to Make Sure Legal Ballots Count.

OPEN THREAD: How’s it goin’, eh?

STACY MCCAIN: Cop Shoots White Guy Named ‘Kevin.’

Notice that Kevin had tattoos on his neck? Always a bad sign. Tattoos are a prerequisite for membership in the White Trash Criminals Club.

Not all people with tattoos are felons, but all felons have tattoos, and getting tattoos on your neck or face? Yep — might as well get the words “violating probation” tattooed on your forehead. It’s part of a behavioral pattern, as I say, and you will probably not be surprised to learn that after the cops carted Kevin Smallman’s corpse off to the morgue, they found meth and drug paraphernalia in the stolen car. The criminal’s widow, Krystal Ehrlich was charged with possession: “Court records show Ehrlich is homeless, and is currently on probation. She also has prior convictions for DUI, burglary, trafficking, narcotics possession, and drug paraphernalia possession.” Real classy people.

There were no protests over the police shooting of Kevin Smallman. No celebrities paid attention to this incident. Smallman got no coverage on CNN. Nobody cares when cops shoot a white criminal. There is no “social justice” angle, no political advantage to be gained, and so the death of Kevin Smallman was just a local news story.

Oh, and if Joe Biden is elected president? “Black Lives Matter” will disappear from the headlines. The only purpose of calling national attention to the deaths of George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Jacob Blake, etc., was to “energize” black voters for Democrats in an election year, to dramatize the “systemic racism” issue to help Joe Biden. And once he takes office, everything will go back to business as usual for the media.

I’m not sure about that — the SJW left has far too much invested (both literally and figuratively) in that worldview to be deprogrammed, and given Biden’s weak victory — if he actually does win — little invested in him. Ferguson and the “space to destroy” Baltimore riots happened during Obama’s watch, plenty of Obama retreads will no doubt become Biden’s staffers, and the DNC-MSM are always happy for spectacular night footage of cities burning down — as long as their own condos aren’t impacted.

SPACE: U.S. military keeps sharp eyes on orbit as congestion grows.

TRUMP BROKE THE DNC-MSM: NYT Exposes Nefarious Plot Behind Trump’s Twitter Typos.

This year has been tough on everybody, but perhaps none have suffered as much as our most cherished and most vulnerable class of Americans: journalists. So far in 2020, journos have endured the pandemic and the mostly peaceful rioting and the cancellation of their favorite Netflix shows. They’ve persevered through torments most of us can’t even imagine. And through it all, one thought has kept them from plunging into the depths of despair. One shining dream: Removing Donald Trump from office.

Now they’re on the brink of achieving that dream — “Yay, 264 electoral votes for Biden! Just six more to go! Even though we just got done screaming that the Electoral College is evil and racist!” — but they still can’t celebrate. The finish line is right in front of them, but they still haven’t dragged Joe’s rapidly decomposing carcass across it.

This tension is, to put it in layman’s terms, driving these freaks completely bat$#!+. If you thought the libs were crazy as Hell before this week, and they were, now they’re frantically digging a hole in Hell’s basement.

Here, just look at this cry for help. Emily Dreyfuss, New York Times:

In the morning hours of Oct. 30, as most of the country slept, President Trump was binge tweeting again.

At 2:32 a.m., he told his 87.3 million Twitter followers: “Way ahead in Texas! Watch the Great Red Wave!”

Minutes later, he tweeted the hashtag #BidenCrimeFamiily, with a typo in the word “family.” That was it. No context, no link…

#BidenCrimeFamily, and the typo, is a crash course in how to rally supporters around a conspiracy theory — while neutering the attempts of social media companies to stop it…

And Mr. Trump’s typo? It was surely not accidental. That extra “i” circumvented Twitter’s efforts to hide the hashtag in search results. Called #typosquatting, this tactic is often used by trolls and media manipulators to get around the rules of social media platforms.

Here’s the offending missive:

That’s it. That’s the tweet.

Ahh, but two can play at the game!

Given their initial dismissive articles on Hitler’s anti-Semitism, and their early embrace of one-time Hitler partner Joseph Stalin, it’s now obvious that when it comes to being crypto-National Socialists, the Gray Lady has really been playing the long game to own conservatives.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ:

LAW ENFORCEMENT PRIORITIES: Philadelphia Sheriff Not Enforcing Court Order on Poll Observers, Trump Campaign Says.

THIS IS ALL GOING SWIMMINGLY (CONT’D): Wait, do Republicans actually have a chance of winning the House?

DID I CALL THIS? Report: Trump talking privately lately about running in 2024.

Why yes, yes I did:

Trump was big on the national stage long before he was president. Why would he go away after the election is over? He’ll still have tens of millions of (probably angry) followers, deep pockets and a huge megaphone.

There has already been some talk of Trump starting his own television network to rival Fox News, and/or his own social media platform — the latter made more plausible by the heavy censorious hands of those running Twitter and Facebook — and I suspect that Trump would regard a 2020 loss as a setback, not a defeat. Grover Cleveland came back to win a second term after losing the White House, Trump might reason. Why not me? He’ll probably hold campaign-style rallies around the country starting right after the election.

Heh. Indeed.

ROGER SIMON: A President Biden Could Wreck Trump’s Historic Middle East Peace.

Trump labeled the JPCOA the worst deal ever, and he had a point since it didn’t even allow for inspections at Iranian military sites, the very place nuclear experiments would be conducted. One wonders what it really was intended for.

Trump’s withdrawing from this deal created a realignment of forces. It reassured the Muslim Sunni countries that America had their backs against imperialist Iran and led to rapprochements and mutual recognition between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, the Sudan and, supposedly to come, the big player Saudi Arabia and a host of others.

In other words, Trump, working with Jared Kushner, then-special envoy Jason Greenblatt, Ambassador David Friedman and others, convinced the Arab world—that Sunni part anyway, already frustrated by Palestinian intransigence—that endless opposition to Israel was pointless for all parties and being good neighbors would benefit all in a host of ways from technology to tourism.

They signed on the dotted line.

Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by several people for this. He certainly deserved it, but of course he didn’t win because he was, well, Trump. The global elites would never allow it, even if he resolved every conflict on the planet for the next few centuries.

But that’s of small moment. Prizes are, in the end, mostly irrelevant. What matters is that this most contentious region of the globe, since literally time immemorial, was finally in the process of calming down.

People talk about presidential legacies. Think about that one!

Enter a potential President Joe Biden.

He claims to want to rejoin the JPCOA. If he does on anything even faintly resembling its original terms—and he well could because he always supported it—the peace will unravel, if not in the proverbial “New York minute,” at a somewhat more languid “Arabian Nights” pace, but the results will be the same.

It’s quite obvious why Saudi Arabia and several others were waiting for the election before they hopped on. They watch American politics as closely as we do. It’s a small world, after all.

Ben Rhodes’ “Blob” can’t wait to return to a destabilized Middle East.

THIS IS ALL GOING SWIMMINGLY (CONT’D): Did the Left just get “crushed” in the 2020 elections? “An abysmal showing by Democrats in state legislative races on Tuesday not only denied them victories in Sun Belt and Rust Belt states that would have positioned them to advance their policy agenda — it also put the party at a disadvantage ahead of the redistricting that will determine the balance of power for the next decade. The results could domino through politics in America, helping the GOP draw favorable congressional and state legislative maps by ensuring Democrats remain the minority party in key state legislatures. Ultimately, it could mean more Republicans in Washington — and in state capitals.”

SEE, YOU, NOT WASHINGTON, ARE THE PROBLEM: This from Politico earlier today: “We have grown so far apart from each other,” said former Trump administration staffer (and no longer “Anonymous”) Miles Taylor. “I mean, Washington, D.C., is not broken — the American people are broken.”

IT’S INCREASINGLY OBVIOUS THAT THEIR JOBS HAVE NEVER BEEN ABOUT ENSURING THAT CHILDREN LEARN: Bureaucrats Declare War on Learning Pods. They’ll Lose. “Experimentation with such alternatives has been given impetus by government schools’ widespread inability to master online learning even as teachers unions resist efforts to return kids to physical classrooms. Just this week, the union representing public teachers in Washington, D.C. added to families’ uncertainties by torpedoing the district’s plans for reopening schools.”

Plus:

That officials are motivated more by hostility to learning pods than by a bureaucratic notion of helpfulness is apparent from Oregon’s huffing that “these groups also risk leaving out students who are already underserved by our school system.”

Oregon’s phrasing echoes the Denver Board of Education’s complaint that it was “deeply concerned about the pods’ long-term negative implications for public education and social justice” and feared “that further flight will exacerbate academic and opportunity gaps among our children.”

The implication is that families dissatisfied with the floundering government schools and capable of doing better by their children should instead hold the kids back out of concerns for equity. It’s Harrison Bergeron transformed from cautionary tale into policy.

That government school officials face an uphill fight in their efforts to stop the exodus of students to alternatives is obvious from trends and from public opinion.

Good. They’re bad for kids and should be replaced. Or, better still, not replaced.

THE “PROGRESSIVE COALITION” SEEMS INCREASINGLY COMPOSED OF ANGRY WHITE PEOPLE WITH “STUDIES” DEGREES: Pro-Trump Latinos Now Being Exiled From the Progressive Coalition. Socialism: Not so popular among those who remember it well.

REMINDER: Liberal media, Big Tech and progressives pursue a relentless revolution against free speech. “This past month, America’s ‘progressives’ showed they will do anything to elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. This includes having social media, along with ‘legacy’ media, spike articles by America’s fourth largest newspaper, The New York Post.”

I predict that they’ll back off on the heavyhanded obvious stuff over the next few years, while working hard on subtler and more effective means of control to deploy next time.

BOB MCMANUS: NYC coddles the privileged, pain-in-ass anarchists who spit on cops.

The woman who spat on the cop: NYC’s “Phlegm fatale.” “Devina Singh, 24, of Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, who hangs at high-end swimming pools in Miami, gets busted at ‘peaceful protests’ in Manhattan and smugly hurls hockers at cops.”

THE LINCOLN PROJECT SET OUT TO SEPARATE SUCKERS FROM THEIR MONEY AND GET UNDESERVED MEDIA ATTENTION, SO I’D SAY IT SUCCEEDED ADMIRABLY. Lincoln Project ‘Epically Failed,’ Say Progressives as Trump Wins Bigger Share of Republican Voters Than in 2016: “Turns out there were no ‘Biden Republicans.'”

SO THIS IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:

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WHEN NARRATIVES FAIL: Trump, the ‘Racist,’ Won More Minority Votes Than Any GOP Candidate Since 1960.

NARRATIVE-BUILDING: Political Elite, Counting States, Twitter And MSM Are Silencing Vote Disputes.

THE MESSAGES ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE GALAXY: Scientists detect strange ‘fast radio burst’ from within our own Milky Way.

ANDREW MCCARTHY: No, Every Vote Does Not Count. “The Orwellian narrative is already being written: To call for the Constitution to be enforced is to ‘steal’ the election.”

REALITY BEGINS TO PENETRATE: “Could we maybe just accept that identity politics isn’t an effective political strategy? And could Democrats just stop with it, like now?” Remember, the function of identity politics isn’t to win elections, it’s to make white progressives feel good about themselves.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: ‘Antifa: Rise of the Black Flags’ Shows the Chaos, Anarchy Hatched by an ‘Idea.’ “Joe Biden may dismiss the Marxist movement, but this doc does no such thing.”

WOW, INDEED: Wow! Even CNN & MSNBC Admit That Trump Appears to Be on Track to Win Arizona.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Pandemic lockdowns made it harder to lose weight, study says. I actually lost a bit of weight during the quarantine — just a few pounds, but still, I hit my lowest weight in recent memory — and I know others like that. But for most people it was either gain or lose. My best investment was getting a doorway chinup bar and doing chinups every day. That was always a weak exercise for me, but not anymore.

SCHADENFREUDE FEVER: Dude—Where’s My Landslide? “Biden Looks Screwed Even If He Wins.”

Related: The best outcome imaginable.

In a bizarre late-night appearance, President Trump and his campaign seemed poised to challenge the results and vote-counting methods. While there may be questions to be asked of Michigan and Pennsylvania, Biden is closing the gap beyond a margin of error, making Donald Trump a one-term president, just as liberals had hoped.

So why are Democrats still acting deflated? For starters, Republicans look poised to hold the Senate, rendering any Biden agenda dead on arrival. Filibuster remains. No Green New Deal. No court packing. No statehood for Washington DC and Puerto Rico and with them four new Senate seats. No massive defunding and restructuring of police. Nothing. The activist left has been neutered for now. Thanks to a newly tilted Supreme Court, Biden’s attempts to executive-order his way around Congress have been severely crippled as well. Biden will occupy the Oval Office while the national media gives Kamala Harris the presidential treatment. This should suit the political right just fine. A Mitch McConnell-led Senate will also force a President Biden to moderate his Supreme Court choices.

And as a result: Stocks continue election rally as Wall Street anticipates gridlock.

Or not: Senate on the line: Are we heading for two runoffs in Georgia?

Mitch McConnell went into Tuesday night with a 53-seat majority, which included both Georgia seats. He lost two — Cory Gardner and Martha McSally (provisionally) — and picked up one in Alabama, where Doug Jones got clobbered by Tommy Tuberville. Susan Collins’ surprise win in Maine left many reassured that the GOP would control the Senate with a 52-seat majority no matter how the presidential race shook out.

Now, however, it looks like McConnell may be back down to 50 if Republicans can’t convert in a special election two months from today. That essentially gives Democrats full control of Washington, as Kamala Harris could cast tiebreaking votes to put Chuck Schumer in charge of the floor and pass whatever rules and legislation Democrats want. Either McConnell would need to get Joe Manchin to flip — which seems pretty unlikely — or get ready to fight for converts on every vote that takes place. And thanks to the 2013 nuclear option and the 2017 expansion of it, Biden could appoint nearly anyone he wants to any position he wants in that scenario.

At the end of his administration, Calvin Coolidge was quoted as saying that its greatest accomplishment, particularly in comparison with the disastrous Wilson administration of the previous decade, was “minding our own business.”  Cocaine Mitch needs control over the Senate to ensure that’s the de facto outcome of a potential Biden administration as well.

WORST WHITE SUPREMACIST EVER:

JOEL KOTKIN: So Much for Turning Texas Blue.

President Trump won the state easily over Joe Biden, though his margin this time was just seven points, down from nine in 2016. Demographic changes seem to be part of the reason, as Texas becomes not only more urban—more than 85 percent of the population lives in cities—but also more heavily minority. Urban areas like Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, notes demographer Wendell Cox, have become enormously attractive to the foreign-born, whose numbers have grown at twice the national average.

Yet diversity turns out to be a lot more diverse than pundits think. Hispanics now outnumber whites, and the nonwhite population, including many African-Americans, exceeds 57 percent. Yet Texas minorities tend to be less rigidly Democratic than those in places like California and New York. Indeed, Hispanic voters in Texas broke far more for Trump than expected, giving him a remarkable 40 percent of their votes, even in the longtime Democratic bastion of the Rio Grande Valley.

Texas’s Zapata County, which hasn’t voted Republican in a century, is 93.3 percent Hispanic and went for Trump 52.5 percent. Kenedy County, 76.7 percent Hispanic, went 65.5 percent for Trump; and Cameron County, 88.1 percent Hispanic, gave Trump 44.4 percent of the vote. In Starr County, a 95 percent Hispanic county and one of the nation’s poorest, Hillary Clinton won in 2016 by 60 points; Trump reduced that margin in 2020 to just 5 points. The number of voters leaving down-ballot races blank indicate that many in the county turned out just to vote for president.

This shift among Latinos comes just in time for the GOP, whose leaders fret about losses in the still largely white middle-class suburbs, with their generally well-educated voters, who have dominated growth in Texas.

Someone still needs to implement my Welcome Wagon Project.

WELL, GOOD: Heart inflammation from COVID-19 less common than thought.

CHANGE: Blue Angels to Conduct Final Flight on Legacy Hornet.

They’re upgrading to the F/A-18 Super Hornet, not the F-35C. That’s just fine because the Hornets are pretty in a way the stealthy Lightning II can’t be.

OLD AND BUSTED: E Pluribus Unum.

The New Hotness? The Gap’s Effort to Bring Red and Blue America Together Just Made Everyone Mad.

What is it about clothes that constantly brings out the 21st century left’s insanity?

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Revolt of the Deplorables: A new correlation of forces.

The 2016 loss might have been accounted a lucky punch but 2020 was a set piece maximum effort by progressives backed by money, gangs, social censorship and deep state support on a massive scale; yet it didn’t move the needle. It should have impressed, rather it showed the limits to the power of the American elite.

It was the most anticipated, polled, forecasted and analyzed US presidential election in history and yet the expensive estimates proved to be worthless, a massive intelligence failure that paralleled Neil Ferguson’s ill-fated projections of the coronavirus pandemic. The limits of elite prescience of over complex phenomena were demonstrated for all to see. The embarrassing surprise cast doubt over ambitious progressive projects based on social, biological or climate engineering since the requisite degree of “scientific” certitude simply did not exist to predict even in a mundane election.

The populist uprising is now objectively too powerful for progressives to crush. The left must live with it, negotiate with it, coexist with it because they can no longer bulldoze it away. By the same token the populists must accept that progressives are similarly too powerful to ignore.

Indeed.

I’M TEMPTED TO ANSWER, ‘STEAL IT BACK’: What Can You Do About A Stolen Election?

NEWS YOU CAN USE? Don’t Spit in a Cop’s Face, Particularly During a Pandemic. ‘F*** you fascist’: Foul-mouthed female anti-Trump protester, 24, spits in cop’s face and is tackled to the ground in New York.

GOOD AND HARD: Portland Approves Free Universal Preschool With Nation’s Highest Taxes.

IN THE MAIL: Divided we Fall: One Possible Future.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Nate Silver Addresses His Critics, ‘F*** you, we did a good job.’

Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is it OK to make fun of a hardworking statistician like Nate Silver?

Answer: From here on out, all the time. Every waking minute, in fact, if you have any to spare.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

  • If the Devil went down to Georgia, he voted Dem with a frauduent ballot.
  • Here’s spit in your eye, NYPD.
  • An insane idea for cleaining up America’s urban voting mess.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

UPDATE: Link was missing before. Sorry!

JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON: Yes, Democrats Are Trying To Steal The Election In Michigan, Wisconsin, And Pennsylvania.

It turns out, the vote dump was the result of an alleged typo, an extra zero that had been tacked onto Biden’s vote total in Shiawassee County, Michigan. It seems the error was discovered only because Davis and other Twitter users noted how insane and suspicious the vote totals looked, and demanded an investigation that uncovered what was either a typo or an incredibly clumsy attempt to boost Biden’s vote count.

There was also something suspicious about the vote reporting in Antrim County, Michigan, where Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 30 points in 2016. Initial vote totals there showed Biden ahead of Trump by 29 points, a result that can’t possibly be accurate, as plenty of journalists noted.

After the strange results caught national attention, election officials in Antrim County said they were investigating what they called “skewed” results, working with the company that provides their election software to see what went wrong. The county clerk said they plan to have an answer by Wednesday afternoon.

Then another mysterious all-Biden vote dump happened in Wisconsin. Biden miraculously overcame a 4.1-point Trump lead in the middle of the night thanks to vote dumps in which he got—you guessed it—100 percent of the votes and Trump got zero.

After complaining — wrongly — for four years that Trump was an illegitimate president, the Democrats are working furiously to illegitimately install one of their own.

SO MUCH FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM. REMEMBER THIS TECHNIQUE. Professor group offers roadmap to fire tenured professor who studies race and intelligence. “The American Association of University Professors is kind of like the ACLU: Both used to make full-throated defenses of speech regardless of viewpoint, but now they invent excuses to selectively justify censorship.”

Of course, now that minorities are starting to vote GOP, Democrats and their academic apparatchiks will probably start arguing that they’re too dumb to vote, so just give it a while.

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