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?”
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Miss. School Bans 3rd Grader’s ‘Jesus Loves Me’ Mask, Allows ‘Black Lives Matter.’
November 5, 2020
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.”
THIS IS ALL GOING SWIMMINGLY: NY Times: Cuban-American editor told readers to ‘get over’ Latinos voting for Trump and she’s being lectured for it.
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:
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.”
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.
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.
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.
SINKING FEELING: ‘Déjà blue’: Professors NOT happy after Trump once again defies polls.
The media are the schwerpunkt in the political war, but the education apparat is the schwerpunkt in the culture war.
EARLY OPEN THREAD: Talk about stuff.
Meanwhile, here’s something from a friend on Facebook: “I don’t think we should lose faith. I think we should gird ourselves to keep up the fight and the hope. There was massive fraud. Trump is a fighter and a winner and he needs his people to back him in spirit and shout from the rooftops that we won’t stand for a rigged election.”
JOHN HINDERAKER ON MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD IN WISCONSIN.
IN COMMUNIST CHINA’S FACE: India’s Malabar 2020 naval exercise is another indication the Trump Administration’s decision to challenge China economically and diplomatically strengthened regional resistance to China. My latest Creators Syndicate column.
…the Trump administration’s American domestic economic revival and its hard-nosed trade agreements with China demonstrated that the U.S. could and would counter China’s economic hegemony. Washington used legal, financial and diplomatic instruments to penalize Chinese intellectual-property theft. It also targeted Chinese spying, which penalized lucrative Chinese companies like Huawei linked to espionage.
See another recent essay for more on countering Huawei and China’s bid for global information dominance.
VERY RELATED: An Indian Navy destroyer participating in Malabar 2020 photographed from the USS John S. McCain.
A DIPLOMATIC AND ECONOMIC EXAMPLE: The Philippines defies The Dragon in the South China Sea.
The government has decided to defy Chinese threats and proceed with oil exploration off Reed Bank, which is 148 kilometers west of the Philippines (Palawan Island) and well within the Philippines’s EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) that extends 360 kilometers from the coast. Although the EEZ is recognized by international law, and a treaty that China signed and uses to defend waters off its own coast, China says that does not apply here because all the islets in the South China Sea belong to China and there is no room for negotiation on that point. Most countries in the region, except Japan, which would rather not dwell on this, note that this was how Japan behaved before World War II.
I suggest you read it.
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YES: Ottawa top doctor says people need to ‘learn to coexist’ with COVID-19. “Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced that Ottawa’s partial lockdown would come to an end on Saturday, as Ottawa’s Medical Officer of Health said that it’s time for people to learn to ‘coexist’ with the COVID-19 pandemic.”
LATE TO THE PARTY: Panic: 546% spike in post-election searches for ‘homes with bunkers’.
SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: Michigan, Wisconsin Elections Officials Refuse To Explain Sudden Biden Vote Influx.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
PROPOSITION 16 GOES DOWN IN 22 MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF FLAMES: I am happy to report that we have defeated Proposition 16 in California (56% NO/44% YES). Thank you to all Instapundit readers who helped us out by volunteering, contributing or voting!
The YES campaign supporters are now making excuses as to how they could have spent about $22 million (as against our pathetic $1.7 million) and still lost. Their claim is that voters were just confused. But that’s nonsense. Polls have been consistent for decades. Whenever the issue is stated fairly and clearly, opposition to race and sex preferences is overwhelming. All the NO campaign had to do is make sure voters knew what the issue was.
In 2003, 2006, 2013, and 2016, the Gallup has asked the following question of poll respondents:
“Which comes closer to your view about evaluating students for admission into college or university—applicants should be admitted solely on the basis of merit, even if that results in few minority students being admitted (or) an applicant’s racial or ethnic background should be considered to help promote diversity on college campuses, even if that means admitting some minority students who otherwise would not be admitted.”
The responses were consistent: The number of respondents choosing “solely on merit” is always at least twice as great as the number choosing “help promote diversity.” In 2016, it was 70% for “solely on merit” vs. 26% for considering racial or ethnic background.
Note that the question was posed so as to take account of the arguments on both sides. Respondents were alerted to the possibility that without considering race or ethnic background “few minority students” may be admitted. Note also that, if anything, the question is unfair to the “NO on 16” campaign, since most “NO” voters are willing to take into consideration things other than academic achievement (such as low income); they simply oppose using race or ethnicity as the measure of disadvantage.
In 2019, Pew Research conducted a similar poll that focused on employment instead of college admissions. Like the Gallup poll, the Pew poll gave respondents two choices:
“When it comes to decisions about hiring and promotions, companies and organizations should—
… Only take qualifications into account, even if it results in less diversity.
Or …
… Also take race and ethnicity into account in order to increase diversity.”
The results were consistent with the Gallup poll: 74% chose “only take qualifications into account,” while 24% chose “also take race and ethnicity into account.”
This was not because respondents didn’t see any value in racial and ethnic diversity in the workplace. When asked how important it is “for companies and organizations to promote racial and ethnic diversity in their workplace,” 75% said it is either “very important” or “somewhat important.” Only 24% said it was “not too important” or “not at all important.” They did not, however, believe race or ethnicity should be taken into consideration in hiring or promotions.
Pew Research also undertook a poll on the consideration of race and ethnicity in college admissions in 2019. The results were similar to those in the Gallup poll, except they were a little more critical of considering race or ethnicity than the Gallup respondents. Among adults, 73% said race and ethnicity should not be a factor. Majorities of all races and ethnicities agreed. Only 26% of adults said they should be either a major (7%) or a minor (19%) factor.
No wonder Prop 16 failed.
GRIFTING POLITICAL CONSULTANTS HAPPIEST: Dems Spend More Than Quarter Billion to Lose Longshot Senate Races.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Election Night Confirmed the Polls Were Lies.
The signs have been there for months. Trump supporters knew they were being lied to. But some Biden voters suspected it. A few true liberal holdouts began nervously grumbling about the Big Tech censorship of the Hunter Biden financial scandals. African Americans, Hispanics, LGBTQ, and blue-collar workers increasingly have resisted their typecasting. Famous rappers began giving cultural permission to vote for Trump.
Like kamikaze planes splashing harmlessly in the sea adjacent to their targets, the legacy media either lied to America or themselves as they squandered the last shreds of illusionary credibility. The polls were never meant to reflect public opinion. They were always about shaping the opinion. And as the day of reckoning approached and the real opinion failed to follow the pollster’s wishful thinking, many tried to pull out of their dives, reporting a “tightening” race.
Balderdash. The opinions have not changed that much in just a few days.
Read the whole thing.
I’d just add that most of our so-called journalists are actually narrative-peddlers, and ought to be addressed as such.
AS I’VE SAID, HIS REPUTATION HAS BEEN INFLATED ALL ALONG: Nate Silver faces wrath of Twitter after polls miss big.
BECAUSE IT DOES: Most Americans Think Social Media Has a Negative Effect on the US
PJ MEDIA LIVE BLOG: Battle for the White House.
Yes, we’re still manning the election live blog with fresh updates from the legal and political battles.
TRUE: The biggest loser of election 2020: Identity politics.
For five years, Trump has been subjected to a daily barrage of attacks branding him as a racist. Democrats ran heavily against his immigration stances, and the media tried to tie him to white supremacists. And yet, instead of seeing his share of the nonwhite vote dwindle, it increased.
Politics occurs at the margins. Trump’s improved performance with key Democratic constituencies has surely kept him competitive. In several of the key swing states, Democratic chances hinge on their ability to pile on votes from nonwhites, and they did not get the margins they wanted. And this all happened in spite of this summer’s wokeness marathon, which, in hindsight, appears to be mostly a media creation and not something sincerely felt by members of racial minorities.
Most Americans just want to get on and live their lives. Only a few shrieking neurotic upper-class White People, and those grifting off of them, take this stuff seriously.
Related: The best news from last night was Trump’s gains with minority voters.
November 4, 2020
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CHARGES OF MICHIGAN ELECTION FRAUD:
BREAKING: Michigan @USPS Whistleblower Details Directive From Superiors: Back-Date Late Mail-In-Ballots As Received November 3rd, 2020 So They Are Accepted
“Separate them from standard letter mail so they can hand stamp them with YESTERDAY'S DATE & put them through"#MailFraud pic.twitter.com/n7AcNwpq80
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) November 5, 2020
OUT: FABIAN SOCIALISM. IN: FABIAN POPULISM:
POLITICO IS NOT HAPPY: “Biden looks screwed even if he wins/At a minimum, the lackluster performance of Democratic Senate candidates would hamstring a President Biden from Day One.”
Plus: “The article doesn’t even mention the role of Trump himself. As ex-President, he’ll be liberated to speak, building some new media operation. He’ll be the Democrats’ nemesis. And won’t he be the front-runner for the GOP nomination in 2024?”
Yes, I believe I’ve said something similar myself.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
And you’ll recall that I predicted that they’d do just this, on orders from the Democrats, before the vote.
TRUMP HAS COATTAILS LIKE A WINNER: NH State Senate Flips to GOP, House Balance Still Unknown.
OLD AND BUSTED: The Blue Wave!
The New Hotness? Number of Pro-Life Women in the House of Representatives Doubles in Blow to Pelosi.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Moon patrols could be a future reality for Space Force.
SO MUCH FOR THE BLUE WAVE: House Democrats stunned that they didn’t oust a single GOP incumbent.
YEAR OF THE WOMAN: Crickets Over Republicans Adding 11 New Female Representatives in the House.
One of them was my friend Nancy Mace, who turned a seat in South Carolina red, shown below eating a celebratory post-campaign breakfast at the Waffle House where she used to be a waitress.
YOU CAN’T SAY WE WEREN’T WARNED: Biden says in video he has created ‘voter fraud organization.’ “We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
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