AND ALL YOUR FRIENDS ARE EQUALLY ANGRY. SO ANGRY WE’RE BARELY FUNCTIONING: You are not alone, you have over 70 million friends.
If you are a praying sort, please, please, please, I beg of you, pray for us who are immigrants from socialist sh*tholes. Whatever anger and anxiety the rest of you are feeling, multiply that by a hundred. It’s reaching disability levels.
FRAUD, GRAFT AND CORRUPTION: US Elections 2020: vote count incompetence or malice?
The left is fighting for their lives, as the accounts of their malfeasance and their plans for us keep coming out. They fight like cornered rats. And remember where I come from rats often ate babies. A delight we all get to experience living with if we let the Bolshevik coup proceed. (At least until we have to eat the rats.)
AND AS WE HAVE RECENTLY BEEN REMINDED, THE STATSTICS NEVER ERR: There are 300 million planets that could support life: NASA.
APPARENTLY SOME SWAMP DWELLERS STILL HAVEN’T GRASPED THAT THEY “SERVE AT THE PLEASURE OF THE PRESIDENT” AND ARE THERE TO SUPPORT HIS AGENDA: Trump quietly fires agencies heads amid presidential race.
THIS. WE ARE ALSO NOT AT HOME TO LOYAL OPPOSITION. THE HORRORS OF THE 20TH CENTURY WERE ENOUGH. WE WON’T REPEAT THEM: GOP Beware: The Republican Party Did Not Carry 71,000,000+ Votes, President Trump Did…
DO IT. RIGHT NOW. RATTLE THEIR CAGES: Rebel Alliance Post-It Notes…
OKAY, THEN PUT ME ON THE LIST. AT THIS POINT IF YOU’RE NOT ON THEIR LISTS YOU’RE NOT AMERICAN: Support Trump? You’ll Go On The List.
HE IS NOT PRESIDENT ELECT. THE PRESS AND THE CANDIDATE DON’T GET TO DECIDE THIS. ALSO, PLEASE PEOPLE, IF YOU LET THEM GET AWAY WITH FRAUD THIS BLATANT AND NAKED, THERE IS NO MORE POINT TO PRETENDING TO VOTE: President-Elect Joe Biden Must Disavow AOC .
He must also give up on his coup. We are not at home to people who reverse a landslide through naked fraud, and then do a victory lap. Not even once.
APPARENTLY IT’S NOT JUST ISLAM’S HOLY DATES WE NEED TO BE WARY OF. OTHER CULTS ALSO ARE TRADITIONALISTS WHEN IT COMES TO DATES: Check Out The Dates, Adjusted From Julian.
— OzGayPatriot 🇦🇺 (@AusAntiLeft) November 7, 2020
FACEBOOK WON’T ALLOW THIS LINK TO BE POSTED: Joe Biden’s votes violate Benford’s Law. It didn’t work when I tried.
They won’t let the shortened bit.ly version be posted either. Maybe the story’s wrong, maybe it isn’t, but this is bullshit.
TIM KOWAL: Trump May Have Lost, But Trumpism Won.
And you can see a Trump realignment, bigly, in the fact that Trump markedly increased support among blacks, Hispanics, and Asians (not to mention the Holy Grail of Intersectionality, “Other”). And in the fact that Trump doubled his support against LGBT voters. And in the fact that Trump only seemed to lose ground among… Whites.
Trump may lose the election. The smears on Trump may have worked well enough. The media bias against him may have worked well enough. The journalistic nonfeasance to protect Biden — and to keep America from knowing anything probative about his past, present, or future — all of it may have worked just well enough.
Trump may still win — the fight is not gone out of him or his supporters. But yes, Trump may well lose this election. But that does not mean that Biden won. Because no matter what happens, the only clear winner of this election is Trumpism. Biden may beat Trump. But Biden could not beat Trumpism. Trumpism grew. Trumpism expanded.
A lot of people in this country feel disempowered and especially feel disrespected. I don’t think a Biden/Harris administration will reduce their numbers.
TRUMP WENT FOUR YEARS WITHOUT STARTING A WAR. NO OTHER PRESIDENT HAS DONE THAT IN MY ADULT LIFETIME: As Trump’s foreign policy comes to a close, beware the return of old-school intervention.
What’s your over/under on a Biden/Harris administration?
HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Asteroid Apophis is speeding up from sunlight as scientists recalculate odds of 2068 impact.
WELL, YES: Progressives Refuse to Hear What Voters Had to Say.
Some testy exchanges are taking place in public. Claire McCaskill, the former senator from Missouri, said on MSNBC that cultural issues such as abortion and guns had helped Republicans. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the socialist congresswoman from Queens, shot back on Twitter that McCaskill had lost her election in 2018 and so nobody should listen to her.
McCaskill managed to hold a Senate seat for 12 years for the Democrats in a state that has been turning more and more Republican. Her audacious intervention in the Republican primary in 2012 helped her hold a seat she had been expected to lose. Ocasio-Cortez, meanwhile, represents a district where 77% of the voters went for Hillary Clinton in 2016. If you had to pick one of them for advice on how to expand the Democrats’ appeal in parts of the country where it’s struggling, of course it ought to be McCaskill.
Ocasio-Cortez’s misreading of her record is of a piece, though, with a larger tendency among progressives to misunderstand the last few years. They thought Senator Bernie Sanders did as well as he did against Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primaries because socialism was on the march. It has gotten ever clearer that what fueled his campaign was not being her. Ocasio-Cortez and her squad of self-proclaimed socialists got the headlines in 2018, but moderate Democrats won the elections that got the Democrats their House majority.
Indeed.
GWOT SOON TO GET HOT? A Biden Presidency Would Mean Your Tax Dollars Going to the Palestinian Jihad.
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.)
SHAIDLE AT THE CINEMA: Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low.
HOW EXTREMOPHILE BACTERIA SURVIVE IN SPACE.
FASTER, PLEASE: New strategies for restoring myelin on damaged nerve cells.
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NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Importance of Seeing Your Front Sights.
PUTIN MIGHT NOT MIND THIS, BUT I SUSPECT THAT SOMEBODY’S ABOUT TO HEAR FROM MCDONALD’S ATTORNEYS:
Flashback: ‘McSleep’ Loses to Big Mc.
IS THE NEW YORK TIMES A LIBERAL NEWSPAPER? Of course it is: Lauren Boebert, Hard-Right Gun Activist, Wins in Colorado House District.
(Classical reference in headline.)
PAUL JOHNSON ON WHY WE SHOULD BEWARE OF ‘INTELLECTUALS.’
I think I detect today a certain public skepticism when intellectuals stand up to preach to us, a growing tendency among ordinary people to dispute the right of academics, writers and philosophers, eminent though they may be, to tell us how to behave and conduct our affairs. The belief seems to be spreading that intellectuals are no wiser as mentors, or worthier as exemplars, than the witch doctors or priests of old. I share that skepticism. A dozen people picked at random on the street are at least as likely to offer sensible views on moral and political matters as a cross-section of the intelligentsia. But I would go further. One of the principal lessons of our tragic century, which has seen so many millions of innocent lives sacrificed in schemes to improve the lot of humanity, is—beware intellectuals. Not merely should they be kept away from the levers of power, they should also be objects of particular suspicion when they seek to offer collective advice.
Indeed. Related:
Part of the problem is that the American distrust of intellectualism is itself not the irrational thing that those sympathetic to intellectuals would like to think. Intellectuals killed by the millions in the 20th century, and it actually takes the sophisticated training of “education” to work yourself up into a state where you refuse to count that in the books. Intellectuals routinely declared things that aren’t true; catastrophically wrong predictions about the economy, catastrophically wrong pronouncements about foreign policy, and just generally numerous times where they’ve been wrong. Again, it takes a lot of training to ignore this fact. “Scientists” collectively were witnessed by the public flipflopping at a relatively high frequency on numerous topics; how many times did eggs go back and forth between being deadly and beneficial? Sure the media gets some blame here but the scientists played into it, each time confidently pronouncing that this time they had it for sure and it is imperative that everyone live the way they are saying (until tomorrow). Scientists have failed to resist politicization across the board, and the standards of what constitutes science continues to shift from a living, vibrant, thoughtful understanding of the purposes and ways of science to a scelerotic hide-bound form-over-substance version of science where papers are too often written to either explicitly attract grants or to confirm someone’s political beliefs… and regardless of whether this is 2% or 80% of the papers written today it’s nearly 100% of the papers that people hear about.
I simplify for rhetorical effect; my point is not that this is a literal description of the current state of the world but that it is far more true than it should be. Any accounting of “anti-intellectualism” that fails to take this into account and lays all the blame on “Americans” is too incomplete to formulate an action plan that will have any chance of success. It’s not a one-sided problem.
If you want to fix anti-intellectualism, you first need to fix intellectualism and return it to its roots of dispassionate exploration, commitment to truth over all else and bending processes to find truth rather than bending truth to fit (politicized) processes.
Plus:
But more importantly, it comes out of the fact that, during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it. In places like Russia and Germany, the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkways, mores, and religion, and let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed everything up and turned the century into an abbatoir. Those wordy intellectuals used to be merely tedious; now they seem kind of dangerous as well.
Indeed. Their pronouncements should be viewed with deep suspicion, especially when — as is almost always the case — they have no skin in the game.
PJM’S BRYAN PRESTON WILL BE ON NEWSMAX TV AT 2:44 PM Central Time today, discussing the election and the media’s premature (and late) calls. Tune in on cable, the Newsmax Website, PlutoTV, SlingTV and other apps.
STOPPED CLOCK: AOC slams Lincoln Project: ‘Def in scam territory.’
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Out-of-Breath Biden Prematurely Predicts Victory, Claims ‘Mandate’ on Far-Left Agenda.
WITH REMARKABLE SYNCHONRICITY, big media organizations, including Fox, call race for Biden.
This of course has no legal standing, and the recounts and challenges will continue unless Trump concedes, but it was probably timed to step on Trump’s election fraud presser.
UPDATE: Yep.
This is what they’re distracting from:
What happened to “count all the votes?”
MORE: Trump Rejects Media Election-Call As Democrats Celebrate.
MORE ON THE AMERICAN’S LEFT’S PHLEGM FATALE: Revealed: Female anti-Trump protester, 24, who spat in a cop’s face in NYC and shouted ‘f*** you fascist’ was an intern for high-ranking Democratic Congressman Jerry Nadler.
I’m not sure why I have to go to a British paper’s Website for that detail. Oh wait, yes I am:
Earlier: NYC coddles the privileged, pain-in-ass anarchists who spit on cops.
THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Election Overtime Edition.
And speaking of election overtime:
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): And “count every vote” means “no point counting after the media call the race for our guy.”
IN THE MAIL: CIA Lock Picking Manual.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Rioters Demand A Recount. “‘I was all ready to do my Christmas shopping, and then Biden won,’ said a dejected rioter as he stood there with an unlit Molotov cocktail. ‘How am I supposed to pick up a new Xbox now that Trump lost? Ugh. And I might not have another opportunity for these kinds of deals until 2024!’”
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM ON DISPLAY: Professor defends required ethnic studies courses, say they combat ‘white fragility.’
NOW THAT THE BLACKLIST HAS ARRIVED, WILL SHOW TRIALS BE NEXT? The Left’s Post-Trump Enemies List:
“Yes, we are,” answered former Obama administration staffer Michael Simon, citing the Trump Accountability Project. “Every Administration staffer, campaign staffer, bundler, lawyer who represented them — everyone.”
This is totalitarian, straight up. It’s a freaking blacklist! I don’t know yet who specifically is behind this. A former Buttigieg staffer is claiming to be part of it:
We’re launching the Trump Accountability Project to make sure anyone who took a paycheck to help Trump undermine America is held responsible for what they did.
Join us and help spread the word.https://t.co/wtVxGIlYOK
— Emily Abrams (@emabrams) November 6, 2020
GLAAD, the well-funded gay activist group, has a something called the Trump Accountability Project. I’m not sure it’s the same exact entity, but they are doing the same thing: compiling a blacklist.
As Jim Treacher warned last year: Pete Buttigieg Wants to Free You from Freedom.
Orwell wept.
I don’t know where Pete gave this speech, but he might be breaking the law because Indiana still hasn’t legalized marijuana. For a guy who speaks so many languages, he needs to brush up on his English.
So freedom means getting things from the government? Freedom means everybody has to approve of, if not actively participate in, your personal choices? Freedom means you put responsibility for your own feelings in the hands of law-enforcement officers? Freedom means you should be able to kill as many babies as you want, for any reason or no reason at all?
“Your neighbor can make you unfree.” Sure, if he locks me up in his basement. Short of that, what in the world does this mean, Pete?
And hold on a second… your cable company can make you unfree? Since when? I know Pete was only born in 1982, but if he’s as well-read as his supporters claim he is, he must know that Americans managed to survive for hundreds of years with no cable companies at all.
Freedom doesn’t mean being free from anything bad ever happening to you. It doesn’t mean being free from fear, or need, or want. Most of the things Pete lists aren’t a loss of freedom. They’re the price of freedom.
As some old dead white guy once said: “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take away everything you have.”
Not surprisingly, AOC is onboard as well: ‘Scratch a socialist, find a fascist’: AOC threatening to archive the tweets, writings, pics of ‘Trump sycophants’ does not go well for her, like at all.
AOC had an even zanier than usual day yesterday: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants The Lincoln Project to fund Black organizers ‘who are probably short on rent this month.’
I hope the Lincoln Project enjoys discovering what their newfound “friends” on the left thinks about them, now that the election is (or soon could be) over.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. “They want a gracious concession — after the counting and litigation — but they never mention how ungracious the Democrats were when Trump won in 2016. Did they ever concede that Trump won and stand back and acknowledge that he legitimately held the power of the presidency?” No, they constantly told everyone not to “normalize” his presidency.
And who can forget Al Gore’s graceless un-concession in 2000, which injected a poison that still festers within the body politic.
THIS COULD BE THE MOST VIP SUPREME COURT CASE TO WATCH THIS TERM: Attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom representing a Nevada congregation have petitioned the Supreme Court to decide whether officials can explicitly discriminate against Christians (and, by extension, any other form of religious expression) while using public health as a justification for throwing aside the First Amendment.
AND MAYBE A BIT DISAPPOINTED: UW ‘surprised’ to find that most students aren’t racist.
FORT LEE GETS A FACE LIFT: A mortar and cannon carriage face the Hudson River from the reconstructed barbette battery at Fort Lee Historic Park, Fort Lee, N.J.
It’s 2020 — apparently CNN is doing national Voight-Kampff testing now.
WHEN PEOPLE SHOW YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM: AOC and Democrats are eager to archive records, make lists to ensure Trump allies face ‘accountability.’
They always want to treat political opposition as a crime.
UPDATE: Yep.
WHEN YOU ONLY KNOW ONE PLAY, THAT’S THE PLAY YOU RUN: Trump won record minority support — yet the left is calling it ‘racism.’
FAT LADY ISN’T SINGING YET: Trump shrinks Arizona gap to 30K votes with 173K left to count: Secretary.
GOOD QUESTION: If Trump runs in 2024, could any Republican beat him?
QUESTION ASKED: Did Hunter Biden Help Facilitate NBCUniversal’s Beijing Theme Park?
Portions of Hunter Biden’s hard drive have now been shared with TAC. On the drive is an email from president of Rosemont Seneca Eric Schwerin, a company co-founded by Hunter and John Kerry’s stepson, saying that Chinese state-owned enterprise CITIC was hoping they would make introductions with Universal employees and propose the Beijing theme park.
“They’d like an introduction to Universal (Comcast) as they’d like to open a Universal Studios China theme park outside of Beijing,” Schwerin writes. “As I said, that one should be easy via Melissa Mayfield/David Cohen [two Comcast executives].”
Flashbacks:
● Biden Sold Out America To China While Working For Hollywood.
● China’s Long Tentacles Extend Deep Into American Media. “Comcast Corporation is not only the participator of the increasingly close cultural exchanges, but also the contributor and beneficiary of deeper economic exchanges between China and the US. The NBC and the Universal Studios Theme Park in Beijing are witnesses of the in-depth development of Sino-US economic and trade relations and increasingly close cultural exchanges.”
As Jim Geraghty wrote in October, when the CCP-NBA connection exposed for millions of Americans to see: We’re Not Exporting Our Values to China — We’re Importing Theirs.
MICHAEL WALSH: Democrats and Media Collude to Steal Presidential Election.
The president’s legal team is already filing suits and exploring other legal avenues. If this actually turns out to be a way to finally convince the public of the fundamental dishonesty of Tammany-style elections, great. But the optics are terrible: “see!” the Democrats exclaim, “we told you he wouldn’t go quietly!”
Chief Justice John Roberts didn’t do his country any favors by blocking the Supreme Court from considering the legality of Pennsylvania’s arbitrary extension of the election period when his vote deadlocked the court in October. Maybe now, sometime after the next inauguration, they’ll rule on the illegality of it, with Amy Coney Barrett finally being allowed to have a say, but by then it will be too late.
Ah, but the “integrity” of the Court will have been upheld.
Also, where is Attorney General Bill Barr, the do-nothing AG who is starting to make the hapless Jeff Sessions look good? Granted, under our constitution, the states are tasked with running their own separate elections for national office.
But Barr’s flaccid leadership at Justice has been a disgrace, as has been U.S. attorney John Durham’s supposed investigation into the origins of the “Russian collusion” hoax. Where are the results? The American people had a right to know if any crimes were committed by the Deep State munchkins four years ago—but no. In the interests of “getting convictions,” Durham couldn’t bring himself either to bring indictments or dismiss speculation before the election, when it might have made a difference.
Trump should fire them both, today. If this is indeed the last three months of his administration, immediate wholesale dismissals of political appointees should be the order of the day: Christopher Wray at the FBI, who would rather investigate phantom nooses in NASCAR garages than clean his own house; Gina Haspel at the CIA, Deep State Central and an agency badly in need from top-down reformation if not actual elimination.
This, after all, was the issue upon which the president was elected. There’s still plenty of time for him to make good on that pledge. Up and down the federal government, meaningful changes can still be wrought, and a newly liberated Trump could and should finally act on his desires to drain as much of the Swamp as he can before ceding power.
Media Power
Whatever happens, one change must be wrought: the power of the media to declare outcomes must be broken. Who died and made the Associated Press and the cable networks the arbiters of the election? Who gave them the power to “call” the states for one candidate or another? There’s nothing either legal or constitutional about this.
With reporters having abandoned all pretense of fairness in covering this president, why should anyone believe a thing they say? For four years we’ve read in the New York Times—the Pravda of today—that the president “falsely,” “baselessly,” or “without evidence” made a statement with which they disagree. If the Times and other publications have unilaterally abandoned their promises of fairness and objectivity (and they have), why can’t we reciprocate?
With the first amendment already abrogated—something the journalists have cheered as long as it doesn’t apply to them—perhaps it’s time to rethink the whole “freedom of the press” thing along with freedom of speech, et al. Holding the media responsible for libel by reversing the Sullivan decision—something Justice Clarence Thomas has signaled he’d be open to—would be a good start.
In short, make the media suffer for what they’ve put the country through. Now that would be “change” the country could believe in.
Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines to understand that they’ll never learn a thing from their election coverage: Trump’s still president but The Atlantic’s already ‘laying the groundwork for ‘Worse Than Trump.’
WHAT AMAZING TIMING! Indoor concerts may be made safe from coronavirus spread, new study finds.
YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO ASK THIS, BECAUSE REASONS:
MICHAEL WALSH: Democrats and Media Collude to Steal Presidential Election.
With the corrupt and partisan media edging toward declaring Joe Biden the presumptive president-elect—you can practically hear the salivation—the Democrats’ long march through the institutions of the American electoral system is nearly complete. Scripted as carefully but as predictably as a run-of-the-mill Hollywood thriller, the Democrats played every card and sprung every trap on their way to achieve a media, if not genuine, victory over their hated enemy.
After their surprise 2016 loss, the Democrat/Media complex relearned the importance of the Electoral College, a zero-sum game in which all the winner has to do is get to 270 votes. Despite all their complaints about how Hillary Clinton “won” the popular vote—which doesn’t matter a whit—this year they went back to the maps and realized the key to victory lay exactly where it had lain for Trump: in Pennsylvania and the upper Midwest.
And so, via their control of the big-city machines in cities with large minority populations (Detroit, Milwaukee, and above all Philadelphia), that’s where they concentrated their efforts to steal this election.
Under the guise of “fairness” and “inclusivity,” the Democrats pushed the boundaries of election law, making it easier to register (motor voters), easier to vote “early,” easier to avoid the lines on Election Day (mail-in), and easier to be able to vote after the polls closed via late-arriving mail ballots, even those (as in Pennsylvania) without postmarks and with other irregularities.
Every one of these “reforms” was an opportunity—and invitation—to fraud. And once the chimera of COVID-19 struck, and the state governors, most of them Democrats, discovered how easily constitutional protections (freedom of speech, assembly, religious practice) could be dispensed with nary a demurral, the way was clear to use the CCP virus as the all-purpose excuse for the demolition of protective election laws.
It was no surprise, therefore, to have seen Trump commanding solid leads in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia on Tuesday night, only to wake up Wednesday morning to learn that hundreds of thousands of Biden votes had mysteriously materialized overnight. Nor, by the end of the week, to read media stories about how the somnolent non-entity from Delaware was “closing the gap” on Trump, like a race horse coming on at the end to nip the front-runner at the wire.
The mechanism was simple: flood the electorate with unsolicited ballots due to the “pandemic,” establish collection points from which they could be scooped up and monitored, sit back to watch the honest electorate stand socially distanced at the polls in the mistaken belief that Election Day actually meant something anymore, count into the wee hours, suddenly “suspend” the tallies while figuring out exactly how many votes would be needed to erase Trump’s lead over time, and then declare Biden the winner.
And so it has unfolded. By the time all the “votes” will have been “counted,” Trump will have lost not only Michigan and Wisconsin but Pennsylvania and – just to add insult to injury – Georgia, where the hulking shadow of Stacey Abrams will at last be avenged for her narrow loss in the gubernatorial race there two years ago.
But there’s no evidence of voter fraud, cries the Left, ignoring the manifest circumstantial evidence in plain sight: the numerical disparity between the presidential votes and the down-ballot races; the polling place closed to GOP observers; the mysterious shutdowns; the timely appearance of extra Biden votes.
There is also the reprehensible collusion of the media, which refused to call races for Trump all evening, thus always keeping him behind in the EV count, even when he was in fact well ahead. The pollsters did their part as well, consistently gaslighting the public with absurd predictions of a Biden landslide—something that they knew not to be true—in an effort to sway public opinion and discourage GOP turnout.
Indeed.
BE WATER: LET THE JOKER GO WILD.
Sarah Hoyt, but I agree with her.
HUH, THEY’RE STILL COUNTING VOTES BUT THE OUTCOME HAS BEEN DETERMINED SINCE BEFORE THE ELECTION: Philly election employee: ‘No matter how many times you ask questions’ the ‘orange guy still lost’: Philadelphia County is one of the Pennsylvania counties still in the process of counting votes.
But then, Pennsylvania officials told us Trump had lost before Election Day.
DON’T WORRY, THE DEMOCRATS HAVE A PLAN TO FIX THIS: Job growth stronger than expected in October, unemployment rate slides to 6.9%.
I LIKE HIM. HE FIGHTS.
JOHN HINDERAKER: Thoughts on where we stand now. And what comes next.
BREAKING: SCOTUS Orders Pennsylvania to Separate Ballots Arriving After Election Day. “A few hours after the Trump campaign filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court over late-arriving ballots in Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court ordered Pennsylvania election officials to separate ballots arriving after 8 p.m. on Election Day and to count the late ballots separately.”
FEMALE HYPERGAMY IS A PRIMATE THING: New male leaders cause female gelada primates to more quickly mature.
I BLAME SOCIAL MEDIA: Young adults in U.S. among world leaders in unhealthy weight, researchers say.
THE TRULY UBIQUITOUS INTERNET: Starlink beta testers are impressed with the Internet speeds on the new service. “According to some early speed tests done in different locations around the US, users are getting anywhere from 100 to 203 Mbps on downlink and around 15 to 33 Mbps on uplink. Meanwhile, the latency varies between 20 to 45 milliseconds, which is pretty much in line with SpaceX estimates. Upload speeds are still lower than the expected 50 to 150 Mbps, and one user in Idaho reported that connection drops every 2 to 3 minutes in games and video calls are common.”
That’s roughly on par with what Comcast usually delivers, except it costs a bit less — and Starlink doesn’t require me to spend $10 a month on bundled cable channels I never watch, just for the privilege of buying their internet service.
LOCKDOWN CASUALTIES: Diagnostic tests, elective procedures dropped early in COVID-19 pandemic.
THEIR BODIES, THEIR CHOICE: Michigan AG asks residents to stop telling staff to shove Sharpies up their butts.
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Is Political Polling Dead?
BY THE TIME WE STARTED LOCKDOWNS IT WAS ALREADY TOO LATE: 20% of NYC residents had COVID-19 by early March, study says.
REALIGNMENT: ‘A decade of power’: Statehouse wins position GOP to dominate redistricting. “Democrats spent big to take control of state legislatures but lost their key targets. Now they’ll be on the sidelines as new maps are drawn.”
EVERGREEN HEADLINE: The New York Times Didn’t Learn Its Lesson.
We know now that the New York Times‘s letter to its readers in the wake of President Donald Trump’s surprise 2016 victory was a non-apology apology.
Blindsided by Trump’s surprise victory, the Times pledged to examine whether it had underestimated the depth and breadth of his support, and to rededicate itself to understanding and reflecting “all political perspectives and life experiences.”
As the kids say, LOL. The paper’s coverage of the 2020 presidential election was not only as misleading as it was four years ago, it was misleading in the same way, overstating the odds of Democrats everywhere thanks, at least in part, to a belief in race and gender as the defining features of American politics. Identity politics has come to define the New York Times, but the country isn’t so monolithic.
Frankly, I was expecting much bolder reforms after Tom Cotton owned the newspaper this summer.
IT’S BECAUSE OF MAIL-IN VOTING: The Disastrous 2020 Election Will Never Be Resolved.
It all began with mail-in voting—that scandal-ready procedure that was the electoral equivalent of flying over American states in B-52s as if they were behind enemy lines and dropping ballots at random.
If one were to design a system by which a democracy could be subverted, even destroyed, universal mail-in voting (not, of course, normal absentee voting that requires the citizen to request a ballot) would be at or near the top of a list.
What could go wrong?
It’s not just the obvious—dead people voting, people who left the state voting, illegal aliens voting, signatures no one could possibly recognize being authenticated, signatures with no record, envelopes being back-dated, ballots found in gullies, ballots dumped in gullies, ballot harvesting, foreign agents voting surreptitiously en masse, deadlines that keep moving like the proverbial goal posts, and who knows what.
It’s an actual guarantee of chaos—and that’s what we had and have.
No one will ever really know what happened.
The pandemic was the excuse, but I strongly suspect it was more than that. I suspect, in fact I’m sure, that the intention of some was to utilize the pandemic to institute mail-in voting because they knew it would create this chaos, almost like an Antifa for the electoral system.
How do we know it was in some ways intentional?
There was plenty of warning. Just this June, 223,000 ballots in Nevada’s Clark County—17 percent of that county’s electorate that includes Las Vegas—were sent willy-nilly to the wrong addresses for their primary, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
No evidence has been forthcoming that this was corrected. PILF president and general legal counsel J. Christian Adams calls mail-in voting “chaos that lends itself to fraud.”
PILF has posted a rather droll video—if it weren’t so depressing—of their investigators going to some of these registration addresses that turn out to be commercial businesses, not homes, where the putative voter may or may not have once been employed (in some cases no one seems to have heard of them). These include an abandoned mine, of all things.
The world is laughing, and rightly so.
THOUGHTS FROM INSTAPUNDIT READER STEPHEN CLARK:
The handling of the votes stinks to high heaven this time and there will be no sanitizing this to the satisfaction of Trump’s electorate. Trump will, I think, pursue this to its legal end. So, with Fernandez’s thread linked above in mind, let’s suppose that Trump is declared the loser. Trump will then leave the White House without assistance: the left will be denied their imagined scene. But, does he show up on January 20 to bless the transition? After all this? Why? For the sake of the Republic…and dignity?
I would argue that he shouldn’t. This will produce an apoplectic fit among his enemies, and sadly among too many Republicans. So what? The transition will still occur. The Republic, such as it is, will still stand. Yet, it should in this event be shamed and the event itself seen to be shameful. It would be that. Certainly. The very fact that Biden now claims that he will govern as a president of “America” after serial slanders of more 60 million people is hideously laughable. The transition should not take place as if this was anything like the past. Even in the lead up to the Civil War we could at least manage an election with dignity surpassing the present and without the obvious taint of nationwide fraud. What has taken place over the last four years, and more, which has led to this denouement, was allowed to happen: allowed by Democrats and the left surely, but also by many GOP members of Congress and their supporters outside all of whom fled the field too often. They, most of all, should be denied any sense of dignity, and the fiction that the past can now be simply set aside. Too late. Much too late.
We’ve come a very long way from ages past when honor mattered. Affairs of honor are no more, and not solely for being outlawed. Even “fighting words” are now a distant memory. Many think this an improvement. Yet, I wonder whether our society would stand improved if fighting words regained their meaning and more than few, now confident in their slander, instead walked around with loosened teeth and broken noses.
Well, as I note in my chapter on dueling in the Hamilton book, dueling had many downsides, but it did ensure that people understood that things have consequences. Too many moderns seem to think otherwise.
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