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The Morning Report — 11/10/22

Good morning, kids. Thursday and 24 hours later, I still don't know how to process the aftermath of what by all logic and reasoning should have been, if not the massive red tsunami that was pimped in the media, at the very least a clear victory that took back both chambers of Congress and gave us more governorships. I do not know how we fared down-ballot in state legislatures and those are proving absolutely crucial insofar as attempting to reverse course. But I am digressing and I'm not even out of the first paragraph.

Yesterday's editorial focused in on my fears of electoral shenanigans. I still stand by that assessment, but perhaps now not as the sole factor but a big factor. That's bad enough, but the big fear I have is what if my perspective as a near senior citizen raised by normal parents in a relatively sane society and culture (the madness of the 60s and 70s notwithstanding) is now completely out of phase with that of the younger generations who are now adults that were brainwashed in the propaganda mills of American academia?

Robert Spencer's analysis echoes my fears:

The establishment media was setting us all up to accept a steal, proclaiming that on Tuesday evening, there might be a “Red Mirage,” that is, the appearance of overwhelming Republican victories that would later be overturned by bogus mail-in ballots, as soon as those who fix elections knew how many they needed. As it turned out, either the shenanigans are now so baked into the system that no prolonged period of fiddling with the totals is needed, or massive numbers of Americans actually like the way things are going under the misrule of Old Joe Biden’s handlers.

Embrace the power of "and," Robert.

As Ace pointed out yesterday, abortion turned out to supposedly be a massive driver of Democrat voters, especially women. And yet, polling in the months after Dobbs consistently showed abortion as virtually a non-factor in all but the most diehard of leftists. In fact, polls have consistently shown a clear majority of Americans, over 60% IIRC, favored at least some restrictions on pre-natal infanticide. That percentage has been gradually increasing over the years, not decreasing. So, if Dobbs supposedly was a motivator for the Democrats, you would think that it would energize Republicans as much if not more. So, how are we to reconcile that? And that's just one "social" issue, in the midst of the rapid disintegration of our economy, the border and a national crime wave. It makes no sense to me.

Are we fast becoming a minority headed for extinction, naturally or otherwise? And yet, to completely ignore the fact that we no longer have an election day but an election season, whose only purpose is to give the Democrat Party enough time to produce enough phony ballots to overcome a defeat at the hands of a Republican candidate, is sticking our heads in the sand. Daniel Greenfield nails it.

We don’t have Election Day anymore. We have Election Week and Election Month.
Over 42 million early votes were cast this election. That’s not as bad as the catastrophic 2020 election of over 100 million votes where the deciding electorate seemed to be ballot harvesters, but it takes us back to 2018. And that was bad enough because it’s becoming the new normal.
In 2014, there were 21 million early votes. We’re at double that.
In presidential elections, they want to make 69% of the country voting by mail or early voting, the way it happened in 2020, into the floor. And then go up from there.
And that means we don’t have elections anymore.
What happens when you have Election Month? The dead vote and the dead get elected.
Rep. Tony DeLuca died in October at the age of 85. The longest serving representative was reelected anyway.
“We are proud to see the voters continue to show their confidence in him and his commitment to Democratic values by re-electing him posthumously,” Pennsylvania House Democrats said.
How the hell does something like that happen?
Early voting begins 4-6 weeks in Pennsylvania. That was enough time for Tony to die even as he was cruising his way to a re-election.
70% of the over 1.4 million voters requesting mail ballots came from Democrats. The majority of those flooded in from Allegheny County and Philadelphia.
When the system is so broken that a dead man can win because voters are literally voting for the walking dead, it needs change. And, speaking of the voting dead, congratulations to Senator-Elect Jon Fetterman who benefited from voters not realizing that he’s a zombie.
That’s what the new regime where half the country engages in early voting means. . .
. . . Elections are supposed to empower the people to choose the government. The Democrats have made elections into a complicated system that allows them to find votes without regard to voter turnout. The system they’ve created represents a power shift from the people to the parties in which the people who show up to vote are swamped by the garbage votes mined by activists.
Instead of the people choosing elected officials, the officials choose the voters. Election Month and ballot harvesting complete the process that began with gerrymandering. They make votes into just another commodity that can be harvested regardless of public sentiment.
Elections like these don’t turn on polls or what the public wants, but whether the resources of the leftist political machine can outweigh the voters with their voter harvesting campaigns.

Look, I am not saying that the societal dissolution that has completely fucked up the minds and souls of at least two to three generations of Americans is not a factor. Everywhere you turn, from transsexualism to the push to normalize pedophilia to the Malthusian, nihilistic desire to save the planet by wiping out millions of humans and forcing those allowed to remain alive to eat bugs and worms or tree bark (PETA vs the ELF in a steel cage match), this is the mindset of those who voted (actual real votes) for the literal ham sandwich, in the form of a goon failure of a Marxist stroke victim to be a US Senator. Worse, you have a supposed "journalist" actually claiming said Lump could be a great presidential candidate. It's only a little after 6:00AM and I need a drink.

Yet there are positive signs in the middle of this pitch black nightmare world.

Grassroots organizations, focused on parental rights in education, are celebrating key victories in school board races across the country.
Moms for Liberty, a coalition of parents working towards transparency in education, and the 1776 Project PAC, a political group that helps school board members against Critical Race Theory get elected, saw many of their endorsed candidates win seats on school boards. Their wins in states such as Florida, Maryland, Indiana and Michigan flipped several school boards, the organizations told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Last night was a disappointing night for Republicans in many parts of the country, but we’re happy to say we were very successful in key races in Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio, Maryland, which were by far the biggest places we targeted,” Aiden Buzzetti, head of coalitions and candidate recruitment for the 1776 Project PAC, told the DCNF. “We also officially flipped our 100th school board since our first election in November 2021.”

While one cannot escape the feeling that 60-plus years of Marxist indoctrination in the schools and the fading away of the collective memory of what America and a sane society is supposed to be is what did the trick, these parents and their children represent the future. They know that what's happening to them and to their children is absolutely wrong. Worse, evil. Like the state legislatures, the community boards and school boards are really where the action is, insofar as resisting the Deep State and more crucially preventing the brainwashing of yet another generation of American children.

And here's another indicator of, if not good news, then at least of a great realignment (I am loathe to use the word "reset" for obvious reasons).

"The populist GOP’s share of the Latino vote jumped by a third to almost 40 percent, compared to 2018, according to the exit polls. Eleven percent of the electorate are Latinos, so this 2018 to 2022 shift is a gain of 1 percent nationally. That 1 percent shift is more than enough to decide many close races."

No doubt perhaps more than just a handful of those races were decided on Tuesday because of this shift. Beyond elections, this is yet another indicator that politics as usual cannot and will not go on as they did pre-2020.

For sure, the Democrats will cement voter fraud wherever they can. Yet, their policies will continue to drive people away from Leftist fiefdoms and into places like Florida, without becoming as Mark Levin coined them "locusts," who flee what they voted for only to continue voting for that which they fled.

Sunshine State observers said after Tuesday saw Democratic leaders re-elected or voted in — coupled with Gov. Ron DeSantis’s landslide entrenchment — they expect the exodus to Florida will continue. “People are leaving these states for a lot of different reasons,” said Laura Gambino of Global Real Estate Advisors in Palm Beach. “Crime, quality of life, taxes. I think with the elections going the way they did, the trend is going to continue. . .
. . . “The crime, the mandates, the general insanity,” she said. “I think people are just looking at their lives and thinking there has to be a better place to raise their children.” Illinois native Robert Cowhey, who left the state for Florida a decade ago said his son, who lives in Chicago, was plotting his departure Wednesday morning after Gov. J.B. Pritzker re-election. “I talked to my son and my cousin today,” he said. “They want out. Crime is a major issue. They don’t like Pritzker, they don’t like Lori Lightfoot, they don’t like any of it. I think people are just going to continue to leave.”
Florida Atlantic University Prof. Ken Johnson, who specializes in migration trends, said he expects outside interest in the state to persist due its recent economic development and diversification. “From what I hear on the ground, people come to Florida because it’s prospering,” he said. “It used to be the sunshine. Now it’s the sunshine and the economy.”

I'm still confused about what all this really means. The only thing we can be sure of is that we are still in a period of transition. Say what you will about Donald Trump (and do not blame him for Tuesday's fizzle), but he opened up a lot of eyes and raised a lot of consciousness about what's really going on, and the possibilities for what could be. Whether he or Ron DeSantis carries the banner going forward remains to be seen. To be sure, before things get better, and please God if things get better, we are going to endure a lot of pain and suffering before our deliverance. That is the price that has to be paid for seeing things as they are and being forced to make a choice, not between Trump and DeSantis, but between living on our knees or dying on our feet.

Let's hope that last bit is rhetorical and not literal. Onward.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"It seems that the techno-leftists might have done their dirty work – again."
What on Earth Happened with Brazil's Election?

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

John Lott: "When you can’t risk admitting the truth."
Since Dobbs Decision Leak, Violence Against Pro-Lifers Was Over 22 Times That Against Pro-Choicers
"Almost half of the Jan. 6 Committee won’t be returning to the House of Representatives."
Virginia's Jen Kiggans and Florida's Cory Mills Take House Seats of J6 Committee Members
"One can only hope it doesn't take the nation decades and a descent into post-apocalyptic chaos to reach its 'tipping point' moment."
No ‘Tipping Point’ Yet. Will It Ever Come?
"Elite capture has been mastered by the Chinese communists, and it has proven far more successful in subverting America than the prior efforts by the Soviet Communists."
China, Elite Capture, and America’s Future
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Taxing the corporate-greed “bogeyman” won’t decrease prices at the pump.
On Gas Prices, Simple Economics Trumps Biden’s Partisan Agenda
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] made his bold (and likely unrealistic) pronouncement during his post-midterm election press conference on Wednesday when recalling how a congressman in the state of Pennsylvania asked if his infrastructure plan would include a high-speed rail between the two cities."
WATCH – Biden Says ‘We Can’ Build a High-Speed Rail from Scranton to New York
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Make of that what you will . . .
Stock Market Falls After Red Wave Fails To Materialize
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"The GOP underperformed despite, not because of, being tough on crime."
Public Safety Is Still a Winning Message
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"There's a lot of ways." (correct his grammar and give him a German accent and you get the idea - jjs)
Joe Biden Signals Support for Investigation of Elon Musk Acquiring Twitter
"Preserving control of the narrative."
The Paul Pelosi Saga: A Miscarriage of Journalism
"Absurdity is all the Democrats have left." (look at last Tuesday and tell me it didn't actually work - jjs)
Joy Reid Goes Even Deeper Down the Crazy Hole
Say, WHAT?: The only explanation is that she rode naked on a motorcycle and her tits knocked her brain loose.
NBC’s Tur: There Are ‘Some Variables,’ But You ‘Wonder’ about Fetterman as a POTUS Nominee
SECOND AMENDMENT
"Measure 114, often referred to as the Reduction of Gun Violence Act, will require background checks, firearm training, fingerprint collection and a permit to purchase any firearm. Alongside heightened restrictions, the National Rifle Association (NRA) believes the legislation’s ambiguous language fails to safeguard gun owner information by creating a searchable gun owner database."
Oregon Voters Narrowly Pass Highly Restrictive Gun Control Measure That Creates ‘Database’ Of Gun Owners
ABORTION
"In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade earlier this year, the decision to codify abortion went back to the states."
California, Vermont Approve Limitless Abortion Measures
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Daniel Greenfield: "At Berkeley, banning Jews is free speech, protesting anti-Semitism isn’t."
UC Berkeley Calls Cops on Protest Against “Jewish Free Zones”
2022 MIDTERMS AFTERMATH
Daniel Greenfield: "We won’t have free and fair elections until we bring back Election Day."
Bring Back ‘Election Day’, Save America
"We do not have the final results but as of now, the Republicans barely made a sound."
It’s Almost as if an Election Did Not Happen on Tuesday
Victor Davis Hanson: "The under-polled voters were not silent, wary Trump supporters, but seething upscale women and college students."
Tuesday Takeaways
"It is ridiculous that we are still waiting for results, even if we were told to expect it."
Democracy in Election Week
"The red wave washed ashore as a ripple, though Republicans did make progress."
Maybe America Hasn’t Suffered Enough
“The votes are in. In all Democrat strongholds, municipalities are reporting 100% of wards are in and counted,” Johnson said in a press release. “There is no path mathematically for Lt. Gov. Barnes to overcome his 27,374 vote deficit. This race is over.” (a fleet of Buick LeSabre trunks waiting in the wings say otherwise, sir - jjs)
Ron Johnson Slams Radical Democrat Mandingo-Berry Barnes for Refusing to Concede

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"Walker, a first time politician and former 1982 Heisman Trophy winner, campaigned as a pro-life and pro-family advocate who promotes Georgia-based companies and jobs, investments in the U.S. military, police funding and protection for American values of freedom and faith. Warnock, who defeated Republican Kelly Loeffler in a run-off in 2020, campaigned largely on healthcare and abortion rights."
Herschel Walker And Raphael Warnock Head To Runoff In Georgia Senate Race
"In the face of the great GOP Washout, he pulled off a stunning win, and turned a purple state bright scarlet."
It’s Ron DeSantis’ GOP Now
"The impact of the 18-29 vote could press the GOP to seek a candidate with a proven appeal to the age group, although DeSantis, 44, has not indicated if he intends to seek his party’s presidential nomination in 2024."
Exit Polls Show Under-30 Vote Spurned GOP In Midterms, With One Major Exception
“One of the fascinating things about our ongoing political realignment is the massive political incentive Democrats have to keep women unmarried,” tweeted political commentator Mollie Hemmingway. (more like horrifying - jjs)
Exit Poll Shows Nearly 70% Of Single Women Voted Democrat In Midterms
Democrat Anthony “Tony” DeLuca died Oct. 9 “after a brief battle with lymphoma, a disease he twice previously beat. He was 85,” the Pennsylvania House Democratic Caucus wrote.
Pennsylvania Voters Reelect Dead Democrat State Representative
"This week, the citizens of Pennsylvania stole the loving cup of stupid from the citizens of another politically calcified state, New Mexico."
Welcome to Pennsylvania, America's Capital of Stupid

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Pass the popcorn.
Titty Caca Ocasio-Cortez Blasts New York State Democrat Party Leadership as GOP Makes Gains
"Maloney trailed Lawler by roughly 3,000 votes at the time of the call. The result is a deeply embarrassing one for Democrats, given that a DCCC chair has not lost reelection since 1980, when congressman Jim Corman lost to Republican Bobbi Fiedler in California's 21st Congressional District."
MAKING HISTORY: DCCC Chairman Maloney Becomes First Dem Campaign Chief To Fall in Four Decades
"Suffering is coming."
As Usual, I Was Wrong
Robert Spencer: "Many, if not most, of the Gen Z-ers who voted overwhelmingly for the Left will, as they get older, come to realize how foolish and wrongheaded they were to support socialist internationalism and the managed decline of the United States. But others will never wake up, and will applaud that decline as retribution for centuries of alleged racism and colonialism. Even as their own cities and towns become ever more squalid, poor, dirty, and dangerous, they will continue to think of themselves as righteous for having chosen all that. That pride will be all they have left."
There WOULD Have Been a Red Wave, but One Group Saved the Left From Being Completely Obliterated
"Thoughts on Tuesday’s election."
So Much for a Red Wave
"Two years after the Kenosha riots, Wisconsin remains a competitive state."
Badger Battleground

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"The seat became available after the Democrat, who held it for 26 years, retired."
Another Republican House Flip: Derrick Van Orden Wins Wisconsin Third District
"The problem is this: communism doesn’t stop spreading. The pinkos don’t just want Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York. They want Indiana, Florida, Tennessee, and every red state in the nation. Commies are never satiated."
What Happened on Election Night? I Think I Have Some Answers
Jonathan Turley: The next two years will be anything but predictable. James Madison believed that if you want good government, “ambition must be made to counteract ambition.” If that’s true, the good news is there will be no shortage of ambition in the days ahead. But before the White House gets too “giddy” after losing one or both houses of Congress, it should contemplate the prospect of a house of Congress with very different ambitions from those of the [so-called quote-unquote "president"]. (good piece, but Turley's definition of moderates and extremism ruins it for me - jjs)
The midterms’ winners and losers — and why the ‘giddy’ White House should worry
"The midterm results point to major underlying issues for the Republican Party and the nation."
Competence, Not Chaos
"Despite Joe Biden’s deep unpopularity, GOP gubernatorial candidates backed by the former president struggled in yesterday’s election."
Trumped at the Polls

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"What kept Texas red is that it works for people, from quality of life, strong family values, and an economy that keeps attracting investors and companies."
Red Wave Hits Texas
"The populist GOP’s share of the Latino vote jumped by a third to almost 40 percent, compared to 2018, according to the exit polls. Eleven percent of the electorate are Latinos, so this 2018 to 2022 shift is a gain of 1 percent nationally. That 1 percent shift is more than enough to decide many close races."
GOP Gained Bigger Share of Latino, Black Voters
"All the fundamentals pointed to big GOP wins, but they didn’t quite materialize. That said, it’s easy to complain that we didn’t do better, but I’d like to highlight some bright spots."
Five Bright Spots From the 2022 Midterms
"Vote like a mother." (I do that, with the F-word modifier after "mother" - jjs)
Parental Rights Groups Notch Key School Board Wins Across the Country
POLITICS
Miranda Devine: ". . . if DeSantis does take on Trump and wins, he will be invincible in 2024."
Smirking Old Joe Biden’s Looming Ron DeSantis Woe
"Trump was exactly the right man for 2016. But Trump is currently devolving into more of a permanent liability than anything else."
DeSantis in 2024
"We would be giving up by not having Trump as the Republican nominee in 2024. It would be a reward to the scumbags on the January 6 Committee and all of those who are aligned against our movement. Donald Trump started this and has no intention of being a retiree. He earned our trust by keeping his promises." (Gaetz is right about the record, but he's none too convincing - jjs)
Matt Gaetz Op-Ed: America Needs Trump Back In The White House
The veteran political campaigner turned GB News host said that discussions “within the Republican party as to whether they should pick Trump or DeSantis is going to reach fever pitch, in my opinion, over the next few weeks, and I say that as a friend of Donald Trump.”
‘Titanic Clash’ Brewing Between Trump and DeSantis After Midterm Results, Predicts Brexit’s Nigel Farage
"At the press conference a reporter asked Biden: “How do you interpret last night’s results in terms of deciding whether you want to seek another term? Is it now more likely that you will run? And what is going to be your timeline for consideration?”"
So-Called Quote-Unquote "president" Biden: ‘My Intention Is That I Run Again’
"McConnell has stated he wants to remain the GOP leader, which would pave the way for his top lieutenants to remain in their positions. Sen. John Thune (R-SD) is reportedly planning to remain the Senate whip and Sen. John Barrasso (R-KY) the chair of the Senate Republican Conference." (the latter two are globalist lackeys - jjs)
Senate Republicans to Vote on Mitch McConnell’s Leadership Reelection November 16
Luntz's houseboy is useless. Sadly, he won't get ousted, assuming we do in fact actually take control of the House.
Kevin McCarthy Announces Bid For House Speaker; Some Republicans Not On Board: Report
“Crime, quality of life, taxes. I think with the elections going the way they did, the trend is going to continue."
Florida Bracing for New Influx of Residents Fleeing Blue States After Dems' Election Success
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Kherson city was the only regional capital Russia had captured since its invasion in February and the abandonment of such a strategic prize would be a major setback for what Moscow terms its "special military operation" in Ukraine.
In Major Retreat, Russia Orders Withdrawal From Ukrainian City of Kherson
"While I wish it were otherwise, the unpleasant fact is that Ukraine cannot win the war against Russia. The Biden [junta] and the leaders of the U.K. and European Union know this full well. The question is, how much longer will they persist in deceiving the public and wasting the resources of their nations on an unwinnable proxy war."
Why Are We Not Being Told the Truth About Ukraine?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The PRC, unlike the Biden regime, is making tangible investments in the United States’ backyard."
How China Stole Latin America
". . . But admits that half of crimes are committed by 'foreigners.'"
Macron Calls Migrants a ‘Fantastic Fortune’ for France (he should throw himself off a roof to feel the "fortune" firsthand, just like an elderly Parisian Jew did - jjs)
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"It’s not clear what the object is or its purpose."
US Space Force Detects Chinese Spaceplane Released Object in Orbit
"Airbus’ ongoing business in Russia is helping to prop up the Russian government."
Airbus Still Does Business With Putin’s Russia But Also Wants U.S. Defense Contracts
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Gregory Tony and his subordinates partner with those who wish us harm."
Islamist Infiltration of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
We should expect NASA and Northrop Grumman to also plan a spacewalk to not only inspect the panel to figure out what failed, but to see if it can still be deployed.
Cygnus Successfully Berthed at ISS (Butterfly McQueen mostly relieved - jjs)
"The Arizona court of appeals last month ruled that a land deal between Pima County and the high altitude balloon company World View was unconstitutional, and could not go forward."
Arizona court kills local government’s real estate deal for World View
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Unless the people attempting to change and censor this word truly believe all gay or transgender people are predators, why on Earth would this word be considered an attack on their community?"
GAYS AGAINST GROOMERS: Why 'Groomer' Is NOT an Anti-LGBTQ Slur
Kurt Schlichter: "How twisted must you be to justify cutting apart kids?"
Outlaw Mutilation
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Tuesday night’s results solidified the importance of the culture war."
The Culture War Still Wins
"The book deserves less blame than the bad ideas that have seemingly infected the prize committee."
The Booker Prize Rewards 'Diversity' Over Difference
"To ignore the routine reduction of our humanity is to devalue ourselves."
Iain McGilchrist and the Attack on Life and Understanding In Our Times
Christian Toto: "Veteran funnyman reveals shocking, behind-the-scenes tale of woke gone wild."
Airplane! Director: "They’re Destroying Comedy"

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:51 AM

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 10, 2022 07:51 AM (BRHaw)

2 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 10, 2022 07:52 AM (Do5/p)

3 I want to say that I can't believe that they're actually floating running Frankenlump for president...

...but I all too unfortunately can.

Posted by: XTC at November 10, 2022 07:52 AM (UnA8+)

4 hiya

Posted by: JT at November 10, 2022 07:52 AM (T4tVD)

5 Penis!

I see a Penis and I want to suck it dry! Mommy, may I swallow this time?!

Posted by: Paul [Kurt the penis sucker] at November 10, 2022 07:53 AM (AdUth)

6 Morning, JJ. Morning Horde

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at November 10, 2022 07:53 AM (53oGX)

7 The highest inflation in 40 years is going to get a jolt this morning, with new government numbers coming out. New mortgages just fell to a 20 year low, announced last evening. Since 1949, no recessions have started in the third year of a presidential term. That is something new coming in 2023, since Democrats smothered news of a recession pre-midterms but now have to 'fess-up.

All these economic trends are converging, and probably adds up to a coming market drop of maybe the biggish variety. Monty, if he were here, would probably say "DOOM!", and not be far-wrong, since we are basically screwed. Gooderer and harder.

The national Strategic Brawndo Reserve may be tested.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2022 07:53 AM (OIMlO)

8
There's some tooth-whitening ad in the sidebar that would give an epileptic a seizure.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 10, 2022 07:53 AM (MoZTd)

9
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 10, 2022 07:53 AM (ENBF0)

10 morning horde.

it's almost friday at least.

covfefe is ready, on to the content

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 10, 2022 07:53 AM (WhsXQ)

11
Ham and Swiss sandwich for breakfast this morning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 10, 2022 07:54 AM (MoZTd)

12 So, all the in GOP commentaries are pushing Trump out I see.. I'm sure it wasn't coordinated.
I swear I'm not what they are calling an OnlyTrump-er, but I can sure see a pattern.
I wish they pushed election integrity as hard.

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at November 10, 2022 07:54 AM (53oGX)

13 Joe has already met with Kevin and Mitch

plotting to fuck cons over

insurance is a good thing

Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 07:55 AM (us2H3)

14 With the next generation of computers it should only take weeks to months to tabulate elections.

- Herman Hollerith

Posted by: Marooned at November 10, 2022 07:55 AM (w6hJ9)

15 Good morning, you magnificent bastards!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 07:55 AM (DU+/6)

16 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Shorter: elections don't matter?

They certainly don't here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 10, 2022 07:56 AM (EZebt)

17 Are we fast becoming a minority headed for extinction, naturally or otherwise
_____________

I think we've been a minority for decades.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2022 07:57 AM (Q4IgG)

18 Great post, JJ, as ever. The fact of "delayed" elections is a Third World artifice in a Third World country. Brazil and Cameroon are much faster with this than America is. For that reason, salvation is very unlikely to come from the ballot box. Luckily, there is another box to turn to.

Posted by: trev006 at November 10, 2022 07:57 AM (igJSL)

19 (Pssstttt....today is Muldoon's birthday....pass it on....)

Posted by: JT at November 10, 2022 07:57 AM (T4tVD)

20 [voted for] ... literal ham sandwich, in the form of a goon failure of a Marxist stroke victim to be a US Senator...
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What ticks me off is that their own voters didn't punish the couple for having kept his debilitating stroke secret for three or four months so the Party couldn't replace him, whether through a new convention or defaulting to the second-place candidate, to get someone to credibly represent the state's interest and people. And with all the talk of the Dim governor appointing the wife, it's obvious they covered it up for personal, family gain and not out of hope he'd be recovered to Joe Biden stroke levels and not out-talked by Washoe the ASL ape.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at November 10, 2022 07:57 AM (yikp0)

21 Happy to see that Zinke finally got the win over Tranel. New House seat in MT. A win for us. Shocked that our proposal to protect babies that live through the abortion process isn't looking good. WTH MT!

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 10, 2022 07:57 AM (2NHgQ)

22 Mitch and the rest of the GOPe was what stifled the red wave.

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2022 07:58 AM (sn5EN)

23 From the Tech Thread...

So the consensus of the never trumpers and the Acela GOP is that the Republicans lost because too many radical republicans were on the ballot, so what's to explain all of the milk toast Republicans losing as well in states like WI, MN, CO, LA, etc?

A Donk who died over a month ago was elected in PA.

This country needs an enema!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2022 07:58 AM (up/3i)

24 Would've been first without having written an essay-question comment!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at November 10, 2022 07:58 AM (yikp0)

25 "God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding."

Job 37:5

Posted by: Marcus T at November 10, 2022 07:58 AM (eacmp)

26 As it turned out, either the shenanigans are now so baked into the system that no prolonged period of fiddling with the totals is needed, or massive numbers of Americans actually like the way things are going under the misrule of Old Joe Biden’s handlers.
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Early voting and cheat-by-mail are the bake-in.

Relative preference is the "like the way things are going." Nobody likes the way things are going, but things aren't bad enough to shift tribal preferences. Sure, I'm broke and my city is full of roving thugs, but better that than to vote for a fascist!

Power of and, folks. Power of and. Fraud is a thing and it is probably the deciding thing in some important races (especially Arizona and Pennsylvania), but it sure ain't the only thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 07:58 AM (DU+/6)

27 The push to normalize pedophilia?
You mean like Bob Menendez buying a whorehouse in the Dominican Republic?
And then having all the Democrats fly down on the Epstein/Clinton Express

You mean things like that?

Posted by: Paul [Kurt the pedophile] at November 10, 2022 07:58 AM (AdUth)

28 With about 2500 ballots to count, our local school board race result is still not known. Can you believe that?

Democrats will win, of course, and kindergartners will get drag shows instead of recess.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2022 07:58 AM (OIMlO)

29 "Senate Republicans to Vote on Mitch McConnell’s Leadership Reelection November 16"

Nov. 16th, I guess that means Hershal doesn't get a vote because Mitch wants to ram this through.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 10, 2022 07:59 AM (qH6FZ)

30 I'll take the wins. The House, Senate, and exposing the Machine. PA truly is going to be the Keystone for exposing "the most extensive voter fraud organization ever created" (thanks, Joe).

Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2022 07:59 AM (WjNQL)

31 I did not like the look on Harmeet's face last night

she's in AZ helping Kari

Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 07:59 AM (us2H3)

32 in times such as these i sometimes wish i didnt know the things i know, process things the way i process them, care about what i care about.

Posted by: phoenixgirl at November 10, 2022 08:00 AM (VEKLT)

33 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2022 08:00 AM (jjpbs)

34 J J: You can't get a red wave out of a blue voting machine. Obvious voting fraud is what happened. In Florida, where the laws are enforced, the system worked. In the rest of the US, the system broke down. It's broken for good and won't return unless we do it the hard way.

Posted by: ahem at November 10, 2022 08:00 AM (lKGzI)

35 Lived in PA for several years. PA is lost forever to conservatism, it's not quite IL but getting there. The fact that they elected Fetterman is the tell. No Oz wasn't the best candidate, but it didn't really matter. Noone was going to win against the lump of flesh.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 10, 2022 08:00 AM (2NHgQ)

36 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

This was touched on yesterday, but I'm going to say it again - the American voter is, by a yuge stretch, an idiot.

Why do I say that? Simple: according to polls (yes, I know), over 70% of people think the country is on the wrong track. They have had two solid years of Democrat treason, economic ruin and societal perversion. If you believe the polls, they hate what Stinkfinger's junta has done. And yet they still voted for the ones destroying their lives.

Within living memory of every voter were low gas prices, economic boom, record employment, peace at home and (mostly) abroad. It's not as if Trump's term happened decades ago - it was within living memory and the voters STILL refused to return to that!

(cont.)

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 10, 2022 08:01 AM (AW0uW)

37 Mornin' everybody.

Posted by: Mainah at November 10, 2022 08:01 AM (B+qrE)

38 The USA (and the World) will be very different in two years. Many Known Unknowns. And there'll still be unpredicted surprises.

In the USA we're in a fight over whether The Borg will take over. The unholy alliance of BigGov, Media, Academia and co-opted companies.

Worldwide, four hegemons are now in a steel cage. USA, EU, China and Russia. Only one, maybe two will get out.

Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 10, 2022 08:01 AM (SJsWC)

39 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's phone at November 10, 2022 08:01 AM (vnwH1)

40 Why *wouldn't* they run Fetterman for POTUS? They've already demonstrated how easy it is to install one brain-dead vegetable. How hard could it be to install another?

Plus, they know he'll only do exactly what he's told to do.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2022 08:01 AM (YIVH2)

41 "Happy to see that Zinke finally got the win over Tranel. New House seat in MT. A win for us. Shocked that our proposal to protect babies that live through the abortion process isn't looking good. WTH MT!"
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 10, 2022 07:57 AM (2NHgQ)

I don't know MT legislative process or make up but why govern through referendum, pass a law.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 10, 2022 08:02 AM (qH6FZ)

42 the dims prey upon the stoopid

and America is fertile territory

Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 08:02 AM (us2H3)

43
Accidently willowed:

I'm reading a short article about the Conservative Manifesto of 1937, authored by Sen. Josiah Bailey (D-NC). Written in response to the recession going on that year, it was a remarkably influential document which united Southern Democrats and Northern Republicans in stopping the New Deal dead.

https://tinyurl.com/ybdf45eu

Gingrich's Contract With America also catalyzed the 1994 election that brought the Republicans back into full Congressional control for the first time in 40 years.

Today? The Republican Party stands for nothing at all, likely by design. That's why it always comes up short.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 10, 2022 08:02 AM (MoZTd)

44 35 Lived in PA for several years. PA is lost forever to conservatism, it's not quite IL but getting there. The fact that they elected Fetterman is the tell. No Oz wasn't the best candidate, but it didn't really matter. Noone was going to win against the lump of flesh.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 10, 2022 08:00 AM (2NHgQ)

When the PA Supreme Court flipped to the Demoncrats, it was over.

Posted by: XTC at November 10, 2022 08:02 AM (UnA8+)

45 Wife and I decided earlier this year to move to FL later next year. From Chester County PA. Now looking to speed that up. It’s bad and can only get worse as the woke cancer spreads

Posted by: Senator Festerman at November 10, 2022 08:02 AM (o9gPs)

46 23% of the voter roles are "unverified in New York. That is, they have never shown ID and they don't really know if they are eligible.

Let that sink in. Those people are voting.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 10, 2022 08:03 AM (eacmp)

47 40 Why *wouldn't* they run Fetterman for POTUS? They've already demonstrated how easy it is to install one brain-dead vegetable. How hard could it be to install another?

Plus, they know he'll only do exactly what he's told to do.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2022 08:01 AM (YIVH2)

This is the nub of Spencer's essay.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 10, 2022 08:03 AM (x0n13)

48 Grassroots organizations, focused on parental rights in education, are celebrating key victories in school board races across the country.

This is how we take it back: start at the local level. Take back the school boards, then the city councils, then the mayor's offices. That's how you fix the election boards. But it can only be done if people have the will to to do it. . .and mostly, they won't until things get really bad.

Posted by: Bert G at November 10, 2022 08:03 AM (aCgRi)

49 Considering Pennsylvania voted for a dead guy I'm 100% sure the cheating was planned waaaaay ahead of time.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 10, 2022 08:04 AM (DcKNO)

50 Said downstairs, if had the wherewithal I would download all of Pa voter precincts as I did in 2020 on a overloaded tablet to find anomalies, and there were lots to see.

Posted by: Skip's phone at November 10, 2022 08:04 AM (vnwH1)

51 >>The establishment media was setting us all up to accept a steal, proclaiming that on Tuesday evening, there might be a “Red Mirage,” that is, the appearance of overwhelming Republican victories that would later be overturned by bogus mail-in ballots

That's why the GOP needs to adopt Blasters Grand Unification Theory of Political Power Acquisition and Maintenance, We need to get as good at cheating and fortifying elections and give up this fantasy of voting our way out of out predicament.

The answer is ballots not votes, millions upon millions of GOP ballots, millions upon millions of trunks, Buicks, Clydesdale's, sacks, valises, steamer trunks of beautiful, pristine, immaculate ballots.

And getting eveyone and their mother to particpate in early voting, mail-in voting, per-election voting, post-election voting, the dead, etc.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2022 08:04 AM (up/3i)

52 No doubt perhaps more than just a handful of those races were decided on Tuesday because of this shift. Beyond elections, this is yet another indicator that politics as usual cannot and will not go on as they did pre-2020.
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Pre-2008. Prior to 2008, voters could be moved. After 2008, the rigid polarization started to set in. That polarization is, in my opinion, the biggest single factor. Add in a dose of COVID realignment and that polarization is even deeper now.

Many, many people have done what I did: moved. The polarization is resulting sweeping, life-changing decisions. I got the hell out of CO and moved because CO was becoming unlivably expensive and distressingly filthy and violent (the Front Range, anyway, and as goes the Front Range, so goes the state). I moved out. With my departure, CO got a bit bluer and my new state got a bit redder.

The polarization and migration are making swing states fewer. Add in the fraud, and the polarization is metastasizing. It's also a huge component of identity, especially for some people. Better to have inflation and crime than pull the lever for a Republican.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 08:04 AM (DU+/6)

53 Once we get President Fetterman, the next (logical?) step will be President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2022 08:05 AM (sn5EN)

54 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2022 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)

55 David Zucker is funny, even when discussing Woke:

Punch lines were suddenly on the endangered species list thanks to the woke revolution. And Zucker wants no part of it.

"They're destroying comedy because of 9 percent of the people who don't have a sense of humor," he said.

Zucker has been screening his 1980 comedy classic "Airplane!" in recent years, events that inevitably draw the same question.

Could that bawdy romp be made in today's climate?

"Sure," Zucker says. "Just without the jokes."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2022 08:05 AM (cRKrq)

56 (cont).
My takeaway? People are idiots. Despite our crowing about the diminishing influence of the MFM, the hard, brutal truth is that they do control dialogue and will continue to do so. On taxes, crime, inflation and, yes, abortion, the MFM set the narrative and the vast majority of voters ran with it.

And no, I am not going to blame Trump. I will admit Teh Donald is a polarizing figure, but if you can look at your wallet today, remember how much fuller it was two years ago and still vote Democrat because Trump is too disgusting for your middle-class, bougie boho taste, then frankly, you deserve every bit of poverty, hunger and misery coming your way.

The problem is not Trump, nor even, to an extent, the GOP. The problem is an imbecilic, illiterate American voter (there should never have been universal franchise) and a MFM allowed to operate as a fully-funded machine of sedition. Combine the two, mix in fraud and a GOP complicit in it, and your republic cannot survive.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 10, 2022 08:06 AM (AW0uW)

57 53 Once we get President Fetterman, the next (logical?) step will be President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
Posted by: fd at November 10, 2022 08:05 AM (sn5EN)

Or John Leguizamo by another name.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 10, 2022 08:06 AM (x0n13)

58 What can be said at this stage of utter American decay that hasn't already been said? We're being undone by Democrats, who have now become communist. Communists that use every available tool they can, legal or otherwise, with violence and deceit and lies and totalitarianism and never, ever, ever stop in their quest to rule over every last American being. And who do we have? Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy. Two of the biggest losers imaginable doing and saying absolutely nothing in the wake of our complete destruction. There's nothing more I can do but pray. America is toast. Decayed, immoral, perverted, crumbling, ugly husk of what we once were.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 10, 2022 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

59 Okay, so what I don't get is that for years we've been hearing that the Democrats must have X% of the black and Y% of the Hispanic vote to survive, yet when they get

I'm beginning to think no one has any idea what they're talking about.

Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 08:06 AM (wNDOJ)

60 Ron comes in 4 years ago and cleans up the voting in Dade Co,

and the GOP wis there after losing by 30 points every year

how many times did the dims steal Dade and along with it, FL

Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 08:07 AM (us2H3)

61 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Quote for the day:

"No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ."
–St. Leo the Great

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2022 08:07 AM (LsEU/)

62 We, again, greatly underestimated the number of Socialists, and Socialist Friendly people in the country. We do that all the time. Lots of people LOVE big government, and we poked the Big Government Bear. Eh, just a theory - but I do believe that we overestimate our strength a lot of the time.

Posted by: kraken at November 10, 2022 08:07 AM (Vr12I)

63 I guess I would be ok at this point with presidential candidates wrestling for the title.

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2022 08:07 AM (sn5EN)

64 "This is how we take it back: start at the local level. Take back the school boards, then the city councils, then the mayor's offices. That's how you fix the election boards. But it can only be done if people have the will to to do it. . .and mostly, they won't until things get really bad."
Posted by: Bert G at November 10, 2022 08:03 AM (aCgRi)

I don't disagree but why do we have to rely on new 'grassroots organizations' to do this? Where is the state and local GOP? I'm telling you, this party is worse than useless.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 10, 2022 08:07 AM (qH6FZ)

65 weird, it ate part of my post... "the rest of it read less than X% and way less than Y%, they're still competitive."

Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 08:07 AM (wNDOJ)

66 "Sure," Zucker says. "Just without the jokes."
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2022 08:05 AM (cRKrq)
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Someone should do an edit of Airplane to remove the jokes just to find out how short the edited version would be. Then upload it to YouTube as a 30-second clip...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2022 08:07 AM (YIVH2)

67 Bert G. Until they get bad? They already are really bad, and will get worse based on the uni-party. Those governing us in Washington don't want change, the pubs want the status quo and the donks want communism and the donks will keep pushing ahead with very little resistance from the pubs.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 10, 2022 08:08 AM (2NHgQ)

68 "It seems that the techno-leftists might have done their dirty work – again."
What on Earth Happened with Brazil's Election?

--

It was discussed during some election threads, but apparently there are rumors of the courts stating that questioning the election is punishable by 25 year prison terms.

https://tinyurl.com/23xl2slr

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 08:08 AM (1xXOY)

69 Today? The Republican Party stands for nothing at all, likely by design. That's why it always comes up short.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 10, 2022 08:02 AM (MoZTd)

===
I'm standing right here

Posted by: Frank Luntz at November 10, 2022 08:08 AM (EZebt)

70 Downstairs Hadrian described the reading and lesson materials Noah Webster gave his pupils. Last year during a visit to Greenfield Village where Henry Ford moved Websters Connecticut house to preserve it, it was inspiring to stand in his hallway and look at the framed letters, lessons, and manuscripts for his dictionary and other reading materials.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 10, 2022 08:08 AM (m/zX3)

71 Hey, here in my Minnesocold outpost 40 miles outside of Criminalapolis our school board and city council's have flipped to hard red. NV flipped red and Lake and Masters will win in AZ(h/t to Harmeet Dillion oversight) and we came within a few points of having a republican gov in NY.

MAGA(the things republicans campaigned on for 35 years and didn't do) did not lose; abortion was used for the final time. Buck up, troops.

Posted by: Danimal28 at November 10, 2022 08:08 AM (klw0w)

72 Pretty sure Sen. John Barrasso isn't from KY, since our Senator is Rand Paul...

Posted by: American Hawkman at November 10, 2022 08:08 AM (VfMhS)

73 Hell, elections should run for half the year and the counting the other half. Results just in time to start all over again.

Posted by: Ziba at November 10, 2022 08:08 AM (4h9M3)

74 The Country Is Not Broken, The Federal Government Is. Abolish It And Let Freedom Ring!

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 10, 2022 08:08 AM (QIOpg)

75 "Brazil's defence ministry releases report highlighting flaws in electoral systems."

I haven't read a real report on the findings yet but I'm guessing the 'flaws' means "massive electoral fraud by the Communist."

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at November 10, 2022 08:09 AM (yikp0)

76 I guess I would be ok at this point with presidential candidates wrestling for the title.
Posted by: fd

Trial by Combat would be fine with me.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2022 08:09 AM (LsEU/)

77 "In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade earlier this year, the decision to codify abortion went back to the states."

California, Vermont Approve Limitless Abortion Measures

As did Michigan, if I understand the Proposal correctly. The "mental health" language is so vague that it can probably be used to justify abortion-on-demand at any time during pregnancy, nullifying the "fetal viability" language.

Proposal 3 provides for a state constitutional right to reproductive freedom. The term reproductive freedom is defined in the proposal as "the right to make and effectuate decisions about all matters relating to pregnancy, including but not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion care, miscarriage management, and infertility care."

The ballot initiative provides that the state can regulate abortion after fetal viability, except that the state could not ban the use of abortion to "protect the life or physical or mental health of the pregnant individual," as determined by an attending health care professional.

http://bit.ly/3WOK1Xd

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 10, 2022 08:09 AM (Do5/p)

78 J.R. misplaced a few decimal points. Malthusians want the population reduced by billions, not millions.

Posted by: Marooned at November 10, 2022 08:09 AM (w6hJ9)

79 Someone should do an edit of Airplane to remove the jokes just to find out how short the edited version would be. Then upload it to YouTube as a 30-second clip...

-

The crazy part?

Airplane IS based on a drama. Zero Hour IIRC

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 08:10 AM (1xXOY)

80
Trial by Combat would be fine with me.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2022 08:09 AM (LsEU/)

Pay-per-view jousting!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 10, 2022 08:10 AM (MoZTd)

81 Whoopsie, J.J. not J.R.

Posted by: Marooned at November 10, 2022 08:10 AM (w6hJ9)

82 78 J.R. misplaced a few decimal points. Malthusians want the population reduced by billions, not millions.
Posted by: Marooned at November 10, 2022 08:09 AM (w6hJ9)

Who Shot J.J.?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 10, 2022 08:10 AM (x0n13)

83 74 The Country Is Not Broken, The Federal Government Is. Abolish It And Let Freedom Ring!

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 10, 2022 08:08 AM (QIOpg)

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I will absolutely subscribe to your newsletter.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 10, 2022 08:10 AM (DcKNO)

84 Elections, the ballot box, were the proud hallmark of our Republic, our last, best and most durable "redress of grievance," seemingly incorruptible and indefeasible. So of course they had to eat it out and wear its skin, like they have everything else. And so now it appears they have.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 10, 2022 08:10 AM (H8QX8)

85 Insty is impossible to read right now. The NeverTrumpers and Only True Conservatives are busy proclaiming that abortion and Trump* are the reasons the GOP did not do well. It is a cry to return to 2002 and the policies where the GOP does nothing except taxes and open borders. I think we can write off 2024.

*My opinion on Trump running is 2024 is I will wait until the primaries and make a choice. Same thing I did in 2016.

Posted by: WiNO - Again Fortified with Fraud at November 10, 2022 08:11 AM (EpDzw)

86 Corruption, the Cancer of the Body Politic.

Every time, throughout history.

Why would now be different?

Posted by: davidt at November 10, 2022 08:11 AM (oTZbj)

87 I don't disagree but why do we have to rely on new 'grassroots organizations' to do this? Where is the state and local GOP? I'm telling you, this party is worse than useless.
Posted by: lowandslow at November 10, 2022 08:07 AM (qH6FZ)
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The state and local GOPs are, by and large, in one of three categories:
1. Absent entirely (unopposed races, etc.)
2. On Team Blue
3. Running their own corrupt local machinery for their own benefit

Of those, only the third is potentially useful but that potential is small. They will look out for their own interests, which will largely keep them from making the most terrible of possible decisions - but that ain't a recipe for ascendance.

The GOP is, by and large, malignant. Most of the non-malignant parts are useless. Some of it is decent, but that minority of parts are being dragged along kicking and screaming by enraged people (school board races come to mind) or cowed by powerful leaders like DeSantis.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 08:11 AM (DU+/6)

88 My election observation:

Nuts and bolts.
Nuts and bolts.
We got screwed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2022 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

89 Like I said earlier, at least I didn't get Mandela Barnes inflicted on me. But Ron Johnson ran a total shit campaign, and I'm actually surprised he pulled it off.
What happened in WI? Honestly, from anecdotal evidence, the abortion thing is much bigger than anyone wants to admit, and polls were dishonest due to women, especially, unwilling to fess up to how important it is to them. The propaganda from ads and MSM here wasn't as much about abortion as it was about birth control and 'women's health', it was relentless, and women bought it hook, line, and sinker.
Also, a large proportion of women here absolutely DESPISE Donald Trump. Hate his fucking guts. Hate his fucking face, his fucking hair, his fucking smirk, his fucking 'Russian' supermodel-whore trophy wife. Don't discount that part of it.
Visceral hatred of Trump and anyone and anything adjacent to him, by women, is a very real factor.

Posted by: LenNeal at November 10, 2022 08:11 AM (43xH1)

90 When did King Harv turn into Mr. Clean?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2022 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

91 I read the article on PA the Stupid State. Mentioned was the politically calcified state of New Mexico. Many drives through the state over many years, and I seldom see change for the better. Also, one should note there is never any massive illegal surge at the NM border, all the action being in AZ and TX. Maybe the illegals don't want to come there.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 10, 2022 08:12 AM (lz5hY)

92 Honestly, with PA going blue, WI and GA not far behind, I see little hope left for a Republican to ever win the WH again. I've never felt that before. I do now. I would support Trump or DeSantis in '24. But neither will be "allowed" to win. Because voting is a fool's game. The cheat is permanently with us, and if it's put in check here and there, it still won't be enough because the deep state will make sure only the preferred candidate is selected. My optimism is nil. I actually should probably stop coming here, because I'm not going to be Suzy Sunshine about any of what faces us anymore. Every drop was wrung out of me on Tuesday.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 10, 2022 08:12 AM (sVtYq)

93 LONDON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Financial messaging system SWIFT has laid out its blueprint for a global central bank digital currency (CBDC) network following an 8-month experiment on different technologies and currencies.

https://tinyurl.com/2lf8besd

Nothing to see here.

"CBDCs are being seen as a step forward as they could effectively be programmed to meet both governments' and individuals' specific needs"

(that means they can choose if you buy something or not)

It's already up and running in some countries. Ours is called FedNow. It's up and running.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 08:12 AM (1xXOY)

94 Instead of the people choosing elected officials, the officials choose the voters.

Indeed. That's the epitome of it right there. Succinct. Pithy, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 10, 2022 08:12 AM (4I/2K)

95 A few short years ago they said Florida was lost and it was going blue. It took a grassroots effort, people with courage who cared, and a lot of roll up you sleeves hard work to save it. And they did.

I'm growing a little tired of people who never put in any effort, never work for change, never put themselves on the line, then complain and try to demoralize others as they sit on their asses.

Some things in life are worth fighting for. Take a stand, hold your ground and never quit, or get out of the way.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 10, 2022 08:13 AM (eacmp)

96 BTW, don't miss the bolded part

LONDON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Financial messaging system SWIFT has laid out its blueprint for a global central bank digital currency (CBDC) network following an 8-month experiment on different technologies and currencies.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 08:13 AM (1xXOY)

97 Spacewalk? MOAR like space drones.

Gitter,
Done

Posted by: Marooned at November 10, 2022 08:13 AM (w6hJ9)

98
Insty is impossible to read right now. The NeverTrumpers and Only True Conservatives are busy proclaiming that abortion and Trump* are the reasons the GOP did not do well.

Thanks to Ed Driscoll, the NeverTrumpers Pal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 10, 2022 08:13 AM (MoZTd)

99 *My opinion on Trump running is 2024 is I will wait until the primaries and make a choice. Same thing I did in 2016.

Posted by: WiNO

Making a choice based on sober weighing of the candidates, their actions and words?

Why, tut tut my good man, this is preposterous!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2022 08:14 AM (LsEU/)

100 Filipino troops clash with Moslem guerrillas in a southern village, leaving at least 3 soldiers and 4 rebels dead.

= terrorists

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at November 10, 2022 08:14 AM (yikp0)

101 I haven't read a real report on the findings yet but I'm guessing the 'flaws' means "massive electoral fraud by the Communist."
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at November 10, 2022 08:09 AM (yikp0)
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Brazil is at a crossroads and there are two historical examples of what will happen next. It won't be the same, of course, but it will rhyme.

One example is Chile under Pinochet. The other is Venezuela under Chavez.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 08:14 AM (DU+/6)

102 Thank you, JJ.
What a horrible joke democrats have made of America.

Posted by: democrats, Kidnapping, Raping or Mutilating the Children They Cannot Kill Since 1973 at November 10, 2022 08:14 AM (jV+aN)

103 The answer is ballots not votes, millions upon millions of GOP ballots, millions upon millions of trunks, Buicks, Clydesdale's, sacks, valises, steamer trunks of beautiful, pristine, immaculate ballots.

And getting eveyone and their mother to particpate in early voting, mail-in voting, per-election voting, post-election voting, the dead, etc.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2022 08:04 AM (up/3i)

Yep. This is not a messaging or "candidate quality" problem, it's engineering and logistics.

Posted by: blaster at November 10, 2022 08:14 AM (pwExq)

104 So where the hell are all these votes I keep hearing confidently being proclaimed about to be dumped for Kari Lake and her impending landslide win any minute now?

Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 08:15 AM (wNDOJ)

105 > Hell, elections should run for half the year and the counting the other half. Results just in time to start all over again.

Posted by: Ziba

I read this and thought about those big bridges over bays and rivers.

As soon as you finish re-painting the bridge, it's time to re-paint the bridge again.

Posted by: DB at November 10, 2022 08:16 AM (geLO8)

106 I haven't read a real report on the findings yet but I'm guessing the 'flaws' means "massive electoral fraud by the Communist."
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at November 10, 2022 08:09 AM (yikp0)
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The United States told the non-communist to not raise a stink when he lost. Which is fine, except they told him that earlier this year.

We're likely pulling a color revolution there.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 08:16 AM (1xXOY)

107 RIO DE JANEIRO/WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director last year told senior Brazilian officials that President Jair Bolsonaro should stop casting doubt on his country's voting system ahead of the October election, sources told Reuters.

https://tinyurl.com/2ffvvt3z

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 08:17 AM (1xXOY)

108 How does it possibly make sense that so many people are fiercely angry at the state of the country, give rock bottom approvals of the Dunce in the WH, proclaim their disgust as parents at all the garbage slung at their children in school, 1/4th saying they can't even afford Thanksgiving this year, everything pointing to an R wave of Biblical proportions...and we get a squirt. How does that make any sense? Frankenstein has been "elected" in PA and elsewhere, it's been a down-to-the-wire struggle with nearly every race. None of this makes a damned bit of sense. I simply do not believe abortion carried that much weight with that many people, in light of everything else destroying us. I can't wrap my brain around it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 10, 2022 08:18 AM (sVtYq)

109 >>So where the hell are all these votes I keep hearing confidently being proclaimed about to be dumped for Kari Lake and her impending landslide win any minute now?

Posted by: McLurkerson

oh yeah, Arizona's 'red wave'
that's not going to happen- she won't be allowed to win
Kari, we hardly knew ye

Posted by: DB at November 10, 2022 08:18 AM (geLO8)

110 "Visceral hatred of Trump and anyone and anything adjacent to him, by women, is a very real factor.
Posted by: LenNeal"

By some men too. A lot of nevertrumpisim is over his personality. Emotion over logic. It's self-destructive behavior reinforced by the leftist propaganda.

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2022 08:18 AM (sn5EN)

111 The rest of WI is reflexive Democrat tribalism, which will never vote for a Republican. Ever. No matter what any Dem does, they will never change that vote.
And, as I said earlier, a LOT of people in WI absolutely blame the economy on Big Corporations and Fat Cats, i.e. Republicans.
They really, genuinely believe it's Big Business ripping them off, there are no shortages only 'hoarding', it's all artificial and fake, the Corporations are just colluding to rip off The Little Guy.
My take is WI results are largely due to women voting single-issue on 'birth control', as that's how it was posed, and economic ignorance of a sort that has to be experienced to be believed.
Some electoral cheating, yeah, it's baked in, but that's not what did it.
That's my opinion, based on observation and anecdotal evidence in my social/business/public sphere.

Posted by: LenNeal at November 10, 2022 08:18 AM (43xH1)

112 Pretty much what I expected. McConnel republicans are allowed to win, reformers are not. Challenging fraudulent votes won't happen, courts won't allow it, no one will be punished and in 2024 we'll have some well-coifed establishment candidate foisted on us. Said candidate will stut into stage and say, "look, I won. This is proof there is no voter fraud."

Posted by: Karen at November 10, 2022 08:19 AM (ydUvr)

113 MP4

*clinks glass*

Posted by: Infidel at November 10, 2022 08:19 AM (Ur3ox)

114 Mornin’, Y’all.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2022 08:19 AM (rVmr7)

115 @92

>>I see little hope left for a Republican to ever win the WH again.

Yeah, if the cheat is locked in now, then no GOP candidate can ever win the Presidency, but apparently the National GOP is cool with that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2022 08:19 AM (up/3i)

116 I am afraid that for a lot of people, their American Dream is to have all the personal freedom they want, and a big government security state to provide their needs and wants.

Posted by: kraken at November 10, 2022 08:19 AM (Vr12I)

117 Marcus T, AMEN!

Posted by: Ben Had at November 10, 2022 08:19 AM (knlPA)

118 Some electoral cheating, yeah, it's baked in, but that's not what did it.
That's my opinion, based on observation and anecdotal evidence in my social/business/public sphere.

LenNeal you could easily be talking about Pennsylvania.

Posted by: BlackOrchidDancingByMyself at November 10, 2022 08:20 AM (w0NJk)

119 AP - GOP nudges closer to House win; Senate could hinge on runoff

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2022 08:20 AM (u83p8)

120 Today is the 247th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps!

Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2022 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

121 We are in so much quicksand, I don't give a hot damn about arguing Trump vs. DeSantis at this point. My G*d, that's like arguing who will get that juicy drumstick when we don't even have a frigging table to eat it on. Sorry, Horde. I'm in a spleen venting mood.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 10, 2022 08:21 AM (sVtYq)

122 I see Arizona managed to get another 4% of the vote reported in the past 18 hours. Why would anybody be suspicious?

Posted by: Ripley at November 10, 2022 08:22 AM (MxEKc)

123 109. Dave in Fla has given the details of what is going on in AZ. The election officials stopped counting around 6 pm their time last night and will resume today. Nothing anyone can do about it as these pauses are not against AZ law. They have a dump from Election Day of 275000 ballots to count yet which are from Republican leaning areas.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 10, 2022 08:22 AM (m/zX3)

124 I noticed my stepdaughter's been watching some more "news-y" stuff on YT, so I decided to watch an episode of this chick she follows, since my girl's little, and might not know if she's being led astray by insidious Marxist agitprop, since that's most of YT, and this is a cute young lady, and most of them are commies.

No need to worry (I should have known, you've got to get up early to get one past my girl's BS detector). This chick she follows was talking about that meeting of the minds between Joe Biden and Dylan Mulvaney. She spent 15 mins just roasting both of them. Biden for his age and infirmity, Mulvaney for being a toxic liar and fraud who insults women and threatens kids.

It sucks we live in a world where fifth graders care about this stuff, but at least she's totally based. Get based or get disgraced.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 10, 2022 08:22 AM (oINRc)

125 "I'm not going to be Suzy Sunshine about any of what faces us anymore. Every drop was wrung out of me on Tuesday.
Posted by: Lady in Black "

Well, it's not like your nic is "Lady In Yellow" or anything.

Be thankful for another day and try to make the best of it. You only get so many.

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2022 08:22 AM (sn5EN)

126 PA resident here, the Democrat party killed thousands of seniors citizens with covid and blatantly stole the 2020 election. They were caught in both cases and in both cases received zero punishment. Why would they not steal this election?

In a legitimate election, Oz won. Even though I liked Mastriano, he didn't run a good campaign and probably lost.

Posted by: Crazy at November 10, 2022 08:22 AM (5LNp5)

127 I keep saying, before everyone jumps on the DeSantis train, let's see if he's running and secondly let's see where he stands on foreign and domestic policy. Is he a Mike Pompeo neo-con or not is the biggest unknown right now.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 10, 2022 08:22 AM (qH6FZ)

128 Honestly, with PA going blue, WI and GA not far behind, I see little hope left for a Republican to ever win the WH again. I've never felt that before. I do now. I would support Trump or DeSantis in '24. But neither will be "allowed" to win. Because voting is a fool's game. The cheat is permanently with us. . .

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 10, 2022 08:12 AM

This has been my mindset since November 2020. And has been solidified every day since then, when absolutely nothing was done about the rigged and stolen election except for people protesting it being thrown in prison and censored and smeared and called domestic terrorists.

Anyone doing post-election analysis about anything other than figuring out how fix the completely corrupt and broken voting system in this country is a fool. Polling, issues, candidates do not matter anymore. So anyone talking about that I will be ignoring from now on. The only issue that matters is getting the voting process back to good again. If no one wants to even bother doing that, then it truly is game over.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 10, 2022 08:23 AM (Do5/p)

129 Breitbart was right. War. Get that thought in your heads conservatives and Patriots. Otherwise, you're just a bunch of Schitt Rumnies.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Presidents who shower with daughters at November 10, 2022 08:23 AM (8m/Xb)

130 Welcome To Venezimbabwe!

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 10, 2022 08:23 AM (4I/2K)

131 @109

>>Kari, we hardly knew ye

And that's the rub now, once a strong conservative is vilified and cheated out of winning, they are essentially removed from the field never to return, and typically their lives and careers are ruined and their names become dirt.

See Palin and any number of strong conservatives this applies to.

And yet Donks are allowed to run the most vulgar, revolting and divisive campaigns imaginable and suffer no consequences what so ever.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2022 08:23 AM (up/3i)

132 (1/2) It's already up and running in some countries. Ours is called FedNow. It's up and running.
Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 08:12 AM (1xXOY)
++++
There are major problems to a digital currency in this country, one of which is merely political and the other two are existential (for now, and probably for at least the next five years).

The political problem is the minority population. Minorities, and especially blacks, are much more cash-dependent. The industry calls them "underbanked." A lot of them don't play in the banking system at all. It will be a political problem to take a key deep state bloc like blacks and tell them you're taking their cash away. It isn't unsolvable, but it's meaningful.

The existential problem is the global scope of the USD. Those dollars out in the world markets have to repatriate eventually. That's how the currency system works. If the currency goes digital, repatriation is harder - especially if you don't want to be seen. Moving to a digital-only currency will destroy the dollar as the basis for foreign trade. That will likely happen on its own, but this would force the issue.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 08:24 AM (DU+/6)

133 2/2) The other existential problem is the amount of cloak-and-dagger chicanery that our government engages in. A lot of politicians and other power-players move a lot of money around as they steal it and use it to subvert American interests. A digital-only currency scheme makes that fraught with peril. Anyone who needs privacy - and it ain't just drug dealers - gets screwed with a digitial currency.

Not to mention the big-scale stuff. Can't send military transport planes stuffed with cash to America's enemies if the cash is illegal. And you can't pretend to have two systems where USD cash works abroad but domestic transactions use USD digital, because - as Gresham taught us - bad money chases out good.

The power and control and the destruction of privacy that our rulers crave is offset, at least to some degree, by their own criminality and schemes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 08:24 AM (DU+/6)

134 How long until DeSantis is given the Kavanaugh treatment over his time at Yale (they were in the same Deke frat)?

How long until DeSantis is sued into oblivion?

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 10, 2022 08:24 AM (SJsWC)

135 but apparently the National GOP is cool with that.

--

They are. And guess what? I'll eat my shoes if McCarthy and McConnell aren't voted right back into their leadership roles.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 10, 2022 08:24 AM (sVtYq)

136 I haven't believed in experts in about 10 years.

That of course includes "political experts."

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 10, 2022 08:24 AM (DcKNO)

137 Illegals need to be sent to Pennsylvania.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2022 08:24 AM (NpAcC)

138 So frustrating.

I know the answer, as so many on our side have missed it. And now letting the fears and doubts consume, drawing the conclusions that the Democrats and the GOPe want you to draw.

If you want to win, you need to first understand your enemy. But everyone keeps blaming the wrong copout reasons that were never the case, and allowed two years to pass (actually 4 years), while the Democrats worked without opposition.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 08:24 AM (5p7BC)

139 What they haven't considered, and of course never do because they cannot, is that sooner or later, the Gods of the Copybook Headings will with terror and slaughter return.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 10, 2022 08:24 AM (H8QX8)

140 The Competence not Chaos article just pissed me off. Pointing to Joe Biden as a stable leader against us wild Trump supporting Republicans as a reason for catastrophic losses falls pretty flat!

Posted by: AnnaS at November 10, 2022 08:25 AM (l4l/z)

141 As did Michigan, if I understand the Proposal correctly. The "mental health" language is so vague that it can probably be used to justify abortion-on-demand at any time during pregnancy, nullifying the "fetal viability" language.
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That's what happened here. When it was legalized by Pierre Trudeau [1970?] a 3-member panel in each hospital [stand-alone clinics not legalized] would decide if an abortion was medically necessary and in big cities' downtowns, the hospital panels would just rubberstamp every request for "mental-health reasons".

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at November 10, 2022 08:25 AM (yikp0)

142 Thank you for the essay, Mr Sefton. Thought- provoking, as always, even if I don't tell you every day.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 10, 2022 08:25 AM (Rbu5d)

143 A few years back a local politician told me I should get used to seeing a Democrat as my local congressman, because it would never change. Before replying with a few things I won't repeat, I also said I've never surrendered to anyone and I'm not about to start. From that point, I tried to do my point. On Tuesday, we got a new Republican congressman who actually beat the DCCC chair. He was on Tucker last night.

Get involved and don't ever give up until your last breath. It's your country, not theirs.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 10, 2022 08:25 AM (eacmp)

144 Today is the 247th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps!
Posted by: redridinghood

God bless you Chesty, wherever you are!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2022 08:25 AM (LsEU/)

145 Who Shot J.J.?
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I thought it was all a dream I had?!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at November 10, 2022 08:26 AM (yikp0)

146 Philly having more than 100% participation the last three cycles is totes normal.

They refuse to sue the US Census bureau for the OBVIOUS undercount of their population in court as systemic racism because they are just polite that way.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 08:26 AM (Lzpvj)

147 "Almost half of the Jan. 6 Committee won’t be returning to the House of Representatives."

Who says there's no good news? 😄

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 10, 2022 08:26 AM (Rbu5d)

148 The Trump bashing has officially begun. It's all his fault! Never mind the abortion crazed populace, the crime lovers, the green goons, the feckless GOP candidates, McConnell, McCarthy, the MSM, Democrat
smears, etc. etc.

Posted by: Ziba at November 10, 2022 08:26 AM (4h9M3)

149 My G*d, that's like arguing who will get that juicy drumstick when we don't even have a frigging table to eat it on. Sorry, Horde. I'm in a spleen venting mood.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Newsletter details! if you please young lady.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2022 08:26 AM (LsEU/)

150 I'm not quite understanding if you guys get that when serious election cheating goes on you will not get the outcome the voters want.

Why point fingers other than to those who didn't fight hard enough for voter reform?

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 10, 2022 08:26 AM (DcKNO)

151 Bert G. Until they get bad? They already are really bad, and will get worse based on the uni-party.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 10, 2022 08:08 AM

Oh, they aren't really bad yet. I'm talking Depression-era bad.

Posted by: Bert G at November 10, 2022 08:26 AM (aCgRi)

152 My optimism is nil. I actually should probably stop coming here, because I'm not going to be Suzy Sunshine about any of what faces us anymore. Every drop was wrung out of me on Tuesday.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 10, 2022 08:12 AM (sVtYq)

**hugs Lady**

I know exactly how you feel. It's why I needed to take a break from the HQ for a while.

Please stick around. I enjoy your comments, because you're a kindred soul. And, frankly, this place serves as a frustration outlet for a lot of people. I, for one, would miss you. But if you felt the need to clock out for a while, I understand.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 10, 2022 08:26 AM (AW0uW)

153 The United States told the non-communist to not raise a stink when he lost. Which is fine, except they told him that earlier this year.

We're likely pulling a color revolution there.
Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 08:16 AM (1xXOY)
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I hadn't considered that and I should have. If we're pulling a color revolution to install a communist in one of the more important countries in our own hemisphere, that's a significant escalation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 08:26 AM (DU+/6)

154 134 How long until DeSantis is given the Kavanaugh treatment over his time at Yale (they were in the same Deke frat)?

How long until DeSantis is sued into oblivion?
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 10, 2022 08:24 AM (SJsWC)

It won't be the same with DeSantis. Just my gut feeling. He's a different and savvier cat.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 10, 2022 08:27 AM (H8QX8)

155 "... either the shenanigans are now so baked into the system that no prolonged period of fiddling with the totals is needed, or massive numbers of Americans actually like the way things are going under the misrule of Old Joe Biden’s handlers."

Wrong logical operator. "And" is what's needed there.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey at November 10, 2022 08:27 AM (516e+)

156 143 Posted by: Marcus T at November 10, 2022 08:25 AM (eacmp)

It is not their country it is China and the Plutocrats they work for them.

A country has to have borders and a political system that serves "its people."

We have neither.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 08:27 AM (Lzpvj)

157 131 @109

>>Kari, we hardly knew ye

And that's the rub now, once a strong conservative is vilified and cheated out of winning, they are essentially removed from the field never to return, and typically their lives and careers are ruined and their names become dirt.

See Palin and any number of strong conservatives this applies to.

And yet Donks are allowed to run the most vulgar, revolting and divisive campaigns imaginable and suffer no consequences what so ever.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2022 08:23 AM (up/3i)

John James is making his comeback, so that's now starting to no longer be true for us.

We are learning lessons - we are just slow.

Posted by: Nova local at November 10, 2022 08:27 AM (exHjb)

158 So where the hell are all these votes I keep hearing confidently being proclaimed about to be dumped for Kari Lake and her impending landslide win any minute now?
Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 08:15 AM (wNDOJ)

I don't know nuttin bout that. I delivered my trunk of ballots to the DNC....errrr...the elections office last night.

What Ya Gonna Do...

Posted by: Fat Sal, Buick LeSabre Owner Since 1976 at November 10, 2022 08:27 AM (QIOpg)

159 106 We're likely pulling a color revolution there.
Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 08:16 AM (1xXOY)

I still don't understand why they call it that. What does "color" mean in this context?

Posted by: XTC at November 10, 2022 08:27 AM (UnA8+)

160 Dave in Fla has given the details of what is going on in AZ. The election officials stopped counting around 6 pm their time last night and will resume today. Nothing anyone can do about it as these pauses are not against AZ law. They have a dump from Election Day of 275000 ballots to count yet which are from Republican leaning areas.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 10, 2022 08:22 AM (m/zX3)

__________

Not the first time I've heard super confident predictions about impending Republican wins that don't seem to materialize.

Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 08:27 AM (wNDOJ)

161 oh yeah, Arizona's 'red wave'
that's not going to happen- she won't be allowed to win
Kari, we hardly knew ye
Posted by: DB at November 10, 2022 08:18 AM (geLO

I agree. Lake will lose. The only question is, how will she deal with it?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 10, 2022 08:27 AM (AW0uW)

162 Today is the 247th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps!

My nephew just graduated from not camp. He's an excellent man.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 10, 2022 08:27 AM (Rbu5d)

163 Today is the 247th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps!
Posted by: redridinghood

God bless you Chesty, wherever you are!
Posted by: Tonypete

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at November 10, 2022 08:28 AM (T4tVD)

164 "He's a different and savvier cat."

Let us pray ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 10, 2022 08:28 AM (SJsWC)

165 162 Today is the 247th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps!

My nephew just graduated from not camp. He's an excellent man.

We look damn good for our age. And congrats to your nephew. That's a great achievement.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 10, 2022 08:28 AM (4olE8)

166 110 "Visceral hatred of Trump and anyone and anything adjacent to him, by women, is a very real factor.
Posted by: LenNeal"

By some men too. A lot of nevertrumpisim is over his personality. Emotion over logic. It's self-destructive behavior reinforced by the leftist propaganda.
Posted by: fd at November 10, 2022 08:18 AM (sn5EN)

You should only see the front page of the NY Post this morning. Hint: Podhoretz.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 10, 2022 08:28 AM (x0n13)

167 Illegals need to be sent to Pennsylvania.
Posted by: redridinghood

HEY !

Posted by: JT at November 10, 2022 08:29 AM (T4tVD)

168 Yeah, that DeSantis is invincible article is dumb and I don't even have to read it. He will never be president. He'll serve his 4 years or less if he runs for president and will never be heard from again.

Posted by: InZona (formerly InCali) at November 10, 2022 08:29 AM (bfyic)

169 143 A few years back a local politician told me I should get used to seeing a Democrat as my local congressman, because it would never change. Before replying with a few things I won't repeat, I also said I've never surrendered to anyone and I'm not about to start. From that point, I tried to do my point. On Tuesday, we got a new Republican congressman who actually beat the DCCC chair. He was on Tucker last night.

Get involved and don't ever give up until your last breath. It's your country, not theirs.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 10, 2022 08:25 AM (eacmp)

Amen. Connolly is down to +33 here...every election, he drops a few more points. It's working every day to start moving people you know rightward. It pays off, even if not in your local election, in statewide ones, and national ones...or vice versa...

Now's the time when there will likely be a LOT of buyers' remorse to keep the work up, and not to quit. Quitters always lose...

Posted by: Nova local at November 10, 2022 08:29 AM (exHjb)

170 My nephew just graduated from not camp. He's an excellent man.
Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi

When he comes home for the first time, notice how he calls all adult men "Sir". (if he didn't before)

Hilarious.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2022 08:30 AM (LsEU/)

171 John James is making his comeback, so that's now starting to no longer be true for us.
We are learning lessons - we are just slow.
Posted by: Nova local at November 10, 2022 08:27 AM (exHjb)

Gain a John James but lose a Lauren Boebert. Seems like were just treading water.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 10, 2022 08:30 AM (qH6FZ)

172 148 Posted by: Ziba at November 10, 2022 08:26 AM (4h9M3)

The media and the superstate have declared Trump the living embodiment of evil.

"Luckily" we have so much momentum we can afford the diversion of defending a guy whose only real victory was the judiciary to placate and satiate his ego when he is so toxic if the elections were at all legit the American people showed they would reward assholes who delivered the highest inflation in 40 years and the worst violent crime spike since the late 60s a return to power at best and the loss of one house by the skin of their teeth at worst.

I am not going to help the communists burn my country down as they light up one guy who is an idiot savant in a bonfire of vanities.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 08:30 AM (Lzpvj)

173 And no, I am not going to blame Trump. I will admit Teh Donald is a polarizing figure, but if you can look at your wallet today, remember how much fuller it was two years ago and still vote Democrat because Trump is too disgusting for your middle-class, bougie boho taste, then frankly, you deserve every bit of poverty, hunger and misery coming your way. - MP4
=====

^^^^^ Thank you. Very well said.

Posted by: mustbequantum at November 10, 2022 08:30 AM (MIKMs)

174 146 Philly having more than 100% participation the last three cycles is totes normal.

They refuse to sue the US Census bureau for the OBVIOUS undercount of their population in court as systemic racism because they are just polite that way.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 08:26 AM (Lzpvj)

The first thing the Obama fronted cabal did when assuming power was to take over the census.

Posted by: davidt at November 10, 2022 08:31 AM (oTZbj)

175 168 Yeah, that DeSantis is invincible article is dumb and I don't even have to read it. He will never be president. He'll serve his 4 years or less if he runs for president and will never be heard from again.
Posted by: InZona (formerly InCali) at November 10, 2022 08:29 AM (bfyic)

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Hey, look, everyone, we have another prognosticator.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 10, 2022 08:31 AM (DcKNO)

176 "The other existential problem is the amount of cloak-and-dagger chicanery that our government engages in. A lot of politicians and other power-players move a lot of money around as they steal it and use it to subvert American interests."

I've long suspected that Bitcoin was created by the CIA. I've never believed it was created by a single anonymous Japanese guy.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 10, 2022 08:31 AM (SJsWC)

177 137 Illegals need to be sent to Pennsylvania.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2022 08:24 AM (NpAcC)

Oh, THAT'LL stop Philadelphia from cheating...

(it won't)

Posted by: XTC at November 10, 2022 08:31 AM (UnA8+)

178 "The problem is this: communism doesn't stop spreading. The pinkos don't just want Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York. They want Indiana, Florida, Tennessee, and every red state in the nation. Commies are never satiated."

Yep. The Left has the exact opposite attitude of conservatives. Conservatives give up on their areas when leftists make things tough and flee their cities and states to go seek refuge in "red" cities and states. The Left plays the long game. They have mastered it over the last 50-100 years of their long march through the institutions and continue to perfect it for every institution in the nation.

While conservatives quit and just say 'let it burn', the Left says thank you very much, we will burn everything to the ground here in this city/state you fled and then we'll come after you where you flee when we're done here.

Conservatives can delude themselves into thinking they can just keep fleeing and seeking refuge somewhere else as the Left keeps taking over cities and states. Soon there will be no where left to go. Can't expect GOP politicians to choose a hill to die on if conservatives refuse to do that themselves in their own cities and states.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 10, 2022 08:31 AM (Do5/p)

179 I needed to step away for a day to reset my mind. Besides, it was hungover like the rest of me.

Ace conjectured that the abortion issue shifted a lot of women's votes as one of the causes of The Ripple. I too have a conjecture --

Daily Caller November 02, 2022 5:21 PM ET. White suburban women have shifted significantly from Democrat to Republican right before the midterm elections, according to a new poll by The Wall Street Journal. White suburban women swung by 27% toward the Republican party since July, now reflecting a 15-point lead over Democrats, according to a November WSJ poll.

This dwarfs even the Latino shift to Rs. And exit polls don't show anywhere near this big of a gain. So.

What if the pollsters gaslit us since July, to reduce our enthusiasm and boost Dem turnout? As regular poll watchers here, we know most polls underweigh R voters until election day nears. And we also know huge shifts in a demographic group JUST DON'T HAPPEN overnight.

And the reality is the same. We had gains, but not 27% gains. The pollsters reverse psychologized us.

*adjusts tinfoil hat*

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 10, 2022 08:31 AM (JOtiF)

180 I see "pray" as an action plan above.

Pretty sure God himself tapped out on this country.

Right around the time Planned Parenthood lit their "Over 50 Million Murdered" sign.

Posted by: Clark Westfield at November 10, 2022 08:31 AM (2OuzW)

181 "We have neither.
Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 08:27 AM (Lzpvj)"

If you have breath in your lungs, you can fight. Apathy and laziness are the enemy of all that is good.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 10, 2022 08:31 AM (eacmp)

182 I agree. Lake will lose. The only question is, how will she deal with it?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 10, 2022 08:27 AM (AW0uW)

Yep. And then it's drag shows and vax mandates and mask mandates as the state shuts down in December. It'll be f'n great.

Posted by: InZona (formerly InCali) at November 10, 2022 08:31 AM (bfyic)

183 Thank you, MP3. {{hugs}} I am just in a very foul mood this morning about all of this. Befuddled, astonished, dejected, and yes, hopeless in thinking there will be a Great Awakening and course correction for a country that I love and cherish so much. I don't like bringing others down, so I may need to take a break like you did for a while.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 10, 2022 08:31 AM (sVtYq)

184 Watch Nevada and their s-l-o-w counting. Reports say it's possible that Laxalt (R,) who currently leads by just under 2%, could actually lose to his dem opponent Cortez Masto.

If that happens, and Masters can't pull ahead in s-l-o-w counting Arizona, we can kiss the Senate goodbye and Walker's runoff won't be able to save us.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 10, 2022 08:32 AM (3ImbR)

185 in fairness, it is going to be necessary to do something about the insane women vote

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 08:32 AM (fqw0F)

186 Whilst reading somewhat independent account of election night, exit pola ( i know, i know) suggested that there were 2 main issues -Economy/ Inflation and abortion , second after that.

Posted by: runner at November 10, 2022 08:32 AM (bdYma)

187 sigh

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 08:32 AM (fqw0F)

188 CBDC = Charlie Brown's Dildo Credits??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at November 10, 2022 08:32 AM (yikp0)

189 in fairness, at the same time tarring the entire awfl set is not going to ge the way to go

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 08:33 AM (fqw0F)

190 159 Posted by: XTC at November 10, 2022 08:27 AM (UnA8+)

CIA and State department got cute in the 90s to the early teens and would interfere in local politics in other countries and have a cutesy "Change, Change Change" mantra set up with a color.

Psst....

"Hope, Change Hope mmmm mmmm mmm"

Sound familiar?

We have been fighting the deep state color revolution since 2008.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 08:33 AM (Lzpvj)

191 I would not give up on Arizona just yet!

Posted by: runner at November 10, 2022 08:33 AM (bdYma)

192 Conservatives are going to have to realize they are in fact a minority now. But a minority despised by the rest of the country.

It's not going to get any better.

So, either conservatives go militant and make the rest of the country uncomfortable enough to be left alone or meekly step back into the shadows.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2022 08:33 AM (Q4IgG)

193 If you have breath in your lungs, you can fight. Apathy and laziness are the enemy of all that is good.
Posted by: Marcus T

What do I think about ignorance and apathy?

"I don't know, and I don't care."
-- Much of the electorate

But that's okay. Fight where you can, when you can and with what is at hand.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2022 08:33 AM (LsEU/)

194 Gain a John James but lose a Lauren Boebert. Seems like were just treading water.
Posted by: lowandslow at November 10, 2022 08:30 AM (qH6FZ)

she's still has real shot at winning

Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 08:34 AM (us2H3)

195 I'm never going to vote for someone who supports abortion. I don't give a shit how the R's have to "adjust their thinking." If they do to appease bitter, white, women they can GFT.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 10, 2022 08:34 AM (DcKNO)

196 So the Marine Corps is only one year younger than Dianne Feinstein.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2022 08:34 AM (rVmr7)

197 I would not give up on Arizona just yet!
Posted by: runner at November 10, 2022 08:33 AM (bdYma)

If memory serves, it would be the only time extended counting went the R way. Not going to happen.

Posted by: InZona (formerly InCali) at November 10, 2022 08:34 AM (bfyic)

198 'I am not going to help the communists burn my country down as they light up one guy who is an idiot savant in a bonfire of vanities.
Posted by: sven'

Bravo sven.

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2022 08:34 AM (sn5EN)

199 J.J., small correction - I hate to acknowledge it, but Senator Barrasso is from Wyoming not KY.

Posted by: screaming in digital at November 10, 2022 08:34 AM (pkAcY)

200 Stock futures jump 600 pts. after report of ,4% vs estimate.6% CPI . First times unemployment claims 7000 higher than estimate.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 10, 2022 08:34 AM (m/zX3)

201 I'm not giving up on AZ. I'm just getting tired of all this "X is in the bag, don't worry" super confident predictions, when it's clear that no one knows WTF they're talking about anymore.

Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (wNDOJ)

202 Lessee here. Going by history, I predict-

1) The Democrats will pass a continuing resolution on the budget with the help of the Republicans ("It's the best deal we could get! We can't stop them!!!)
That will lock in Democrat funding and inflationary spending over the next year or two.
That was the purpose of meeting Senile Joe already.

2) There will be a new "Gang of..."(5? 6? 7? 38?}that will "break the deadlock and provide a third way!!!"
That will scuttle any MAGA initiatives that even stand the slightest chance of passing. BONUS! It will make sure the Reps get their graft while passing the Dims want list.

3) Weak-ass hearings that go nowhere or to Blue-Ribbon Panels for resolution 5 years later.

4) Failure Theater! Failure Theater! Failure Theater!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (KLPy8)

203 If we are so lucky as to get a Speaker who isn't a worthless eunuch, they need to do what the Democrats did during the Trump years - Congressional investigations into everything.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (MIb2C)

204 And just to add a cherry to a shit cake, I see where Pence is coming out with a book which will contain, among other vomitus, his personal recollections of J6.

Amazing how much strange new respect 30 pieces of silver can buy you.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (AW0uW)

205 Ground game. PA dems had 70% of their viote banked before election day.

Posted by: runner at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (bdYma)

206 #128 Clyde, I totally agree. I said all along (I know who cares what I said) that if the cheat in 2020 was not addressed it would return this cycle with better cover. Here we are. Some author of that article up top that says election deniers lost because they were election deniers is just BS.

Posted by: AnnaS at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (l4l/z)

207 SNL staff writers are boycotting this week's show because Dave Chappelle is hosting

-
How will we survive without the comedy genius of the SNL writers?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (FVME7)

208 Once we get President Fetterman, the next (logical?) step will be President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
Posted by: fd at November 10, 2022 08:05 AM (sn5EN)
------
That's unfair. Pres. Camacho understood his limitations, genuinely wanted what was best for the country, and was willing to take advice from someone smarter than he.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (VoNp6)

209 the kinds of raw shit the gub has in store for the country will require that the GOP is popoulated and controled by the GOPe

Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (us2H3)

210 I don't like bringing others down, so I may need to take a break like you did for a while.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Hang in there LiB. All warriors are needed to contribute all of their talents and to provide thoughtful encouragement to the others. xoxo

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2022 08:36 AM (LsEU/)

211 181 Posted by: Marcus T at November 10, 2022 08:31 AM (eacmp)

yes Marcus, I am a defeatist preaching stagnation...

well no actually but whatever you do you I am going for surgery initial consult and setting a date today.

I called this shit slope we are on out over 35 years ago....no one in the GOP had the stomach to fight the educrats when it would have been easy....

The AWFLs in alliance with the intel community, the federal law enforcement community, and the international money set will never allow this country to recover.

Just the way it is, lie back and think of America.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 08:36 AM (Lzpvj)

212 Amazing how it takes so long to finish counting these last ballots. Well, not "amazing", more like "stupid".

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2022 08:36 AM (sn5EN)

213 SNL staff writers are boycotting this week's show because Dave Chappelle is hosting

in fairness, would anybody know they were not writing

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 08:36 AM (fqw0F)

214 2 perfectly grilled strips of bacon for pre breakfast!

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 10, 2022 08:36 AM (BRHaw)

215 just one question

why does Ronna still have a job ?

she is a pathetic POS

Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 08:37 AM (us2H3)

216 Kid Rock says it well on GETTR: 'How do you vote out a government that you did not vote in?'

Posted by: Voter theater. at November 10, 2022 08:37 AM (oV95G)

217 Conservatives are going to have to realize they are in fact a minority now.

Why on Earth would you believe that?! Look at Florida. Florida is the US with election integrity.

Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2022 08:37 AM (AGhs5)

218 "That's unfair. Pres. Camacho understood his limitations, genuinely wanted what was best for the country, and was willing to take advice from someone smarter than he.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea"

Ah yes but you see, the pendulum swung back after President Fetterman.

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2022 08:37 AM (sn5EN)

219 Gain a John James but lose a Lauren Boebert. Seems like were just treading water.
Posted by: lowandslow at November 10, 2022 08:30 AM (qH6FZ)

she's still has real shot at winning

--

When dozens of votes separate the candidates, the D will win. Likewise, if AZ is balancing on the head of a pin, Lake will also lose. Close races rarely fall in the Republican's favor. Glad to see James won, so there's that.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 10, 2022 08:38 AM (sVtYq)

220 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 10, 2022 08:31 AM (Do5/p)

I look at it differently. We're on the track we're on, and it goes where it goes. I'm not hanging around in a nightmarish blue state to make some kind of stand, lol. I'll seek out somewhere better for my kids.

All you can do is ride this out the best you can. You're not fixing it or changing it. The Marxists won. Just have to let this play out to its inevitable degringolade, and hope for the best for you and yours. Staying in the Communist dystopia my former home's become wasn't on my dance card.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 10, 2022 08:38 AM (oINRc)

221 2) There will be a new "Gang of..."(5? 6? 7? 38?}that will "break the deadlock and provide a third way!!!"
That will scuttle any MAGA initiatives that even stand the slightest chance of passing. BONUS! It will make sure the Reps get their graft while passing the Dims want list.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (KLPy

Gang of "whatevers" can't work - the House Speaker has so much power, bills only come for a vote if they say so. So, the pressure in this 2 year period has to be put on McCarthy at all times...the Senate really doesn't even matter (I mean, it does, but as you said, that's where Mittens could just screw us anyway...but you can't have a Mittens in the house)...

Posted by: Nova local at November 10, 2022 08:38 AM (exHjb)

222 The vote count in NV will be accurate and timely. Many of our members have volunteered to help with the count.

Fat Louie Giancarlo
Steward
Las Vegas Culinary Workers Union

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 10, 2022 08:38 AM (lz5hY)

223 205 Posted by: runner at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (bdYma)

Yes yes they did because by any classical definition of US electoral politics they cheat their asses off.

It is election day not election year for fuck's sakes so we either need normal back or to adapt to "the new normal."

You know who is to blame for this dumpster fire clusterfuck?

The fuckheads who are more worried about legalized weed than having a functioning first world industrial base.

I am done arguing over it.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 08:38 AM (Lzpvj)

224 Conservatives are going to have to realize they are in fact a minority now.

Why on Earth would you believe that?! Look at Florida. Florida is the US with election integrity.

in fairness, everybody wants to say something interesting, not everybody does

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 08:38 AM (fqw0F)

225 Jokes for the John >>> Any Mike Pence book

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 10, 2022 08:38 AM (sVtYq)

226 3) Weak-ass hearings that go nowhere or to Blue-Ribbon Panels for resolution 5 years later.

Cruz is going to be in his glory, flapping his mouth and sending the idiots at Twitchy into orgasms with his SIC BURNZZ! and MIC DROPS!

Fucking useless, backstabing git. "Bukakke theater," as the Empress is wont to say.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 10, 2022 08:39 AM (AW0uW)

227 she's still has real shot at winning
Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 08:34 AM (us2H3)

How can anyone know that?

Posted by: lowandslow at November 10, 2022 08:39 AM (qH6FZ)

228 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 10, 2022 08:31 AM (Do5/p)
++++
Too early for Star Trek?
https://youtu.be/Ms_WY0s_1XM

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 08:39 AM (DU+/6)

229 As for the defeatism, remember when the GOP was in the minority for 40 years?

Calm down. We've been saying this is a long fight ahead. That was less than four years ago. Plenty of conservatives are doing exactly what was preached here back then - start local and work your way up.

So, other than commenting on a blog, what are you doing?

Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 08:40 AM (wNDOJ)

230 Conservatives are going to have to realize they are in fact a post election minority now.

fify

Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 08:40 AM (us2H3)

231 SNL staff writers are boycotting this week's show because Dave Chappelle is hosting

If Dave Chappelle is writing, you may all lose your jobs.

Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2022 08:40 AM (dNNCD)

232 It would seem that our master's are going to kite the mother of all rallies this morning. We live in Cartoon World.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 10, 2022 08:40 AM (ifUkZ)

233 "she's still has real shot at winning
Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 08:34 AM (us2H3)
How can anyone know that?
Posted by: lowandslow "

She's aiming for it anyway.

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2022 08:40 AM (sn5EN)

234 I like Trump, but he need to take responsibility for his missteps as well as his victories. I think a little bit of modesty is the essence of a good leader. Because if you admit your mistakes, and are honest, you learn from them and adapt. That said, he screwed the pooch in Pennsylvania. He went in heavy for Oz and Mastraino, the latter whom nobody but Trump thought would win. I get that he owed Mastraino a debt, but he shouldn't have used peoples freedom to pay for it. Face it, McCormick was a better candidate than Oz, but Trump hates anyone remotely connected to Bush and he pushed McCormick as an "establishment" candidate.

Overall Trump cites "all the people he endorsed" and what a big winner "he" was. Really? Like that was the coup de grace that put all those candidates over the line- not all the people working for them and the candidates themselves? Where does that play into his braggadocio?

Posted by: Marcus T at November 10, 2022 08:41 AM (eacmp)

235 143 A few years back a local politician told me I should get used to seeing a Democrat as my local congressman, because it would never change. Before replying with a few things I won't repeat, I also said I've never surrendered to anyone and I'm not about to start. From that point, I tried to do my point. On Tuesday, we got a new Republican congressman who actually beat the DCCC chair. He was on Tucker last night.

Get involved and don't ever give up until your last breath. It's your country, not theirs.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 10, 2022 08:25 AM (eacmp)

Here in MS, we dumped a 9 term D congresscritter during the whole Tea Party thingy; this year Bennie Thompson (D, decades) only pulled 58% in heavily black District 2. Hell, some years he didn't even have an R challenger, and usually wins by 80% or so.

Yes. Things can change.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 10, 2022 08:41 AM (JOtiF)

236 Trump and DeSantis must meet and figure out which way they will go after they have an open and frank discussion between the two of them. No handlers. Just the two principals.

Trump and DeSantis must not, no how, no way have open war until they meet and agree that the the only way to settle their egos and aspirations is for open war.
Or, hopefully, agree there is some other more constructive, winning way to settle their differences.

Posted by: Voter theater. at November 10, 2022 08:41 AM (oV95G)

237 If we are so lucky as to get a Speaker who isn't a worthless eunuch, they need to do what the Democrats did during the Trump years - Congressional investigations into everything.
Posted by: Cato

I'll wager 50 quatloos that we get a worthless eunuch.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2022 08:42 AM (jjpbs)

238 in fairness, having a big bitchfest over trump would do nothing for us and is what the never trumpers and dem want.

I am voting for desantis or trump, whoever gets the nod.

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 08:42 AM (fqw0F)

239 Even in my pissy mood this morning, I don't believe conservatives as a group are a minority. I'm not referring to people who label themselves as such. The ideals conservatives support are what the majority wants. The problem seems to be, they don't know or realize who it is they vote for and how that clashes with their own beliefs. Think many people know how their Reps and Senators vote? The vast majority don't. I know many that suffer that disconnect.

Ah well, I'll spare you guys the rest of my rants. I've got toilets to scrub and bathrooms to clean! Yay me.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 10, 2022 08:42 AM (sVtYq)

240 Needs to be said this year:

GIANT WINS:
Roe v Wade overturned

Lesser Wins:
We (almost certainly) have the House, so the Biden trifecta is cracked (which didn't happen in Carter's 1st 2 years)

We broke the social media monopoly against us - Musk, love him or hate him, has done work for us in breaking the continuous info stream against us

These are 3 big deals. It hasn't all been bad - we just don't tend to spend enough time celebrating the victories...

Posted by: Nova local at November 10, 2022 08:42 AM (exHjb)

241 227 she's still has real shot at winning
Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 08:34 AM (us2H3)

How can anyone know that?
Posted by: lowandslow at November 10, 2022 08:39 AM (qH6FZ)

she's only back by 74 votes
there are 5% left to report
she hasn't lost yet

that's how

Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 08:43 AM (us2H3)

242 I'm just getting tired of all this "X is in the bag, don't worry" super confident predictions, when it's clear that no one knows WTF they're talking about anymore.
Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (wNDOJ)

I hear you. I enjoy hearing predictions. It's a natural human tendency I am generally pleased to indulge. But I've had enough with all the pseudo-scientific polling analysis. If you cant factor in fraud -- which you cannot because it is mostly hidden and unquantifiable -- you're wasting everybody's time.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 10, 2022 08:43 AM (H8QX8)

243 SNL staff writers are boycotting this week's show because Dave Chappelle is hosting

If Dave Chappelle is writing, you may all lose your jobs.
Posted by: t-bird

Dave Chappelle could make SNL funny again.

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Posted by: Marie Smith at November 10, 2022 08:44 AM (Mnney)

245
Overall Trump cites "all the people he endorsed" and what a big winner "he" was. Really? Like that was the coup de grace that put all those candidates over the line- not all the people working for them and the candidates themselves? Where does that play into his braggadocio?
Posted by: Marcus T at November 10, 2022 08:41 AM (eacmp)

So it's fine to narrative set as a Trump defeat by Democrats and Nevertrumpers but it's not ok to try to narrative set or advertise in the opposite direction.

I do think it's fair to say this is a major difference between Trump and the old Bushie Republican party, but it's one that reflects well on Trump. It's woefully naive to think you can struggle for power by being aggressive about accepting blame and not trying to take credit where possible.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 10, 2022 08:44 AM (eYoxG)

246 This election has been a God send of data. So many questions are now answered.

The Dems didn't win by cheating, they out-hustled us.

There were able to out-hustle because GOP state parties got lazy and didn't do their jobs.

This is why you see R+6 results in some precincts and R+1 in others. Targeted districts and states were organized to get Dem leaning voters (those Gen Z ones) to vote. With VPM, that is easier now, you don't have to get them onto a bus.

This is why Florida crushed the Dems, the Dem party here is in shambles. But in PA and MI, the Dems got their voters to vote, while the GOP sat on the sidelines and did nothing.

Either learn this lesson, and get the VBM system to work for you, because it is not going away, or keep losing, even when you have the majority of the electorate on your side.

BTW, this is the 3rd election now that the Dems have done this. I'm sure that Joe Xiden is laughing his ass off that he managed to get you to chase the red herring of Dominion for 2 years.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 08:44 AM (5p7BC)

247 If we are so lucky as to get a Speaker who isn't a worthless eunuch, they need to do what the Democrats did during the Trump years - Congressional investigations into everything.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (MIb2C)
++++
That might happen. It will be ineffective. Some nice sound bites and some sick burns. Nothing real.

Congressional hearings are the last thing I want. There's no point. It's what we'll get it, but they're useless and pointless. They'll happen *because* they're useless and pointless.

What wouldn't be useless and pointless? Halting the abominable CR system and returning to normal budgetary order. Enforcing brutal, blood-letting budget cuts. Shutting down the government if needed. Start forcing it back until they can actual new bills passed to neuter these bastards beyond just the purse.

Don't bet even one thin dime on it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 08:44 AM (DU+/6)

248 And just to add a cherry to a shit cake, I see where Pence is coming out with a book which will contain, among other vomitus, his personal recollections of J6.

Amazing how much strange new respect 30 pieces of silver can buy you.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (AW0uW)
What's a secular, worthless POS.
The GOPe is every bit the enemy as the Dems.

Posted by: Voter theater. at November 10, 2022 08:44 AM (oV95G)

249 Here in MS, we dumped a 9 term D congresscritter during the whole Tea Party thingy; this year Bennie Thompson (D, decades) only pulled 58% in heavily black District 2. Hell, some years he didn't even have an R challenger, and usually wins by 80% or so.

Yes. Things can change.
Posted by: GnuBreed at November 10, 2022 08:41 AM (JOtiF)

____________

I'm going to be moving back to MS fairly soon and noticed that as well. Lots of long term Dems who usually win by obscene margins saw those margins evaporate this cycle. I'm still pissed at the results of this election, but I can't buy into this permanent gloom shit right now.

Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 08:45 AM (wNDOJ)

250
Dave Chappelle could make SNL funny again.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2022 08:43 AM (jjpbs)

It's why the writers are boycotting. They'd be proven useless hacks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2022 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

251 MSNBC’s Katy Tur suggests Fetterman could run for president: ‘Makes you wonder about his future’

MSNBC host Katy Tur speculated on Wednesday that Pennsylvania Senator-Elect John Fetterman could run for the presidency someday.

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2022 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

252 Posted by: LenNeal at November 10, 2022 08:11 AM (43xH1)

I see the NeverTrumpers are paying for trolls now.

Posted by: WiNO - Again Fortified with Fraud at November 10, 2022 08:45 AM (EpDzw)

253 I mean Jesus Christ they ran another literal sack of shit who cannot speak coherently in PA and he won based on baby butchery, vote banking before the fucking election and Trump demonization.

Yes it is unfair, yes it sucks, MY FUCKING POLITICAL BELIEFS are not subservient or worth less than Trump's salvaging and ego.

If I had to throw my best friend under the bus to stop these freak fuckers from killing America I would.

"Fuck you Sven, the media and the civil service are being unfair to Trump so we have to tie our party's identity to him forever!"

Well "no" we have to win some goddamned elections.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 08:45 AM (Lzpvj)

254 in fairness, that girl that says she mad $18,000 is not lying, I easily spent $5 grand banging her and her daughters foreheads into the headboard.

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 08:45 AM (fqw0F)

255 Lesser Wins:
We (almost certainly) have the House, so the Biden trifecta is cracked (which didn't happen in Carter's 1st 2 years)

Kevin will ruin this win

Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 08:46 AM (us2H3)

256 Hadrian,
Just saw your "Homer Smith" on the Pixy thread.
So funny.
It's a bit more ambitious than that...
Do you have any of their recordings?
I know you would appreciate them.

Posted by: sal at November 10, 2022 08:46 AM (y40tE)

257 "We have neither.
Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 08:27 AM (Lzpvj)"

If you have breath in your lungs, you can fight. Apathy and laziness are the enemy of all that is good.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 10, 2022 08:31 AM (eacmp)

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk. If you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. - MLK

Endeavor to Persevere. - Lone Watie

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. - Calvin Coolidge

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 10, 2022 08:46 AM (4I/2K)

258 SNL staff writers are boycotting this week's show because Dave Chappelle is hosting ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (FVME7)
++++
With the staff writers on strike, SNL will not be any less funny than it usually is. There is a distinct possibility that it will be far funnier.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 08:46 AM (DU+/6)

259 Funny how some people think the Democrats will allow delayed vote count results for key races to go Red (read: Kari Lake).

Democrats never intended to allow a red wave and the GOP smoothed the way to make it easier for them.

Nothing has changed. Nothing will change.

Posted by: Ziba at November 10, 2022 08:47 AM (4h9M3)

260 Too early for Star Trek?
https://youtu.be/Ms_WY0s_1XM
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 08:39 AM (DU+/6)

"This far and no farther." Reminds me of one of my favorite Columbo episodes. Go to the 9 minute point:

https://tinyurl.com/2jhmxyta

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 10, 2022 08:47 AM (AW0uW)

261 Either learn this lesson, and get the VBM system to work for you, because it is not going away, or keep losing, even when you have the majority of the electorate on your side.
________

Should do both, exploit VBM where possible AND work to change the law back to limit VBM to absentee only.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 10, 2022 08:47 AM (fs1hN)

262 President Joe Biden pledged to build a high-speed railway between Scranton, Pennsylvania, and New York City on Wednesday.

its 120 miles I can jump in my truck and be there in about 1 hour 40 minutes.

So drive to train stations 15 minutes.
Wait to buy and board train 30 minutes (generous)
Travel time at 56 mph (Amtrac ave) 2 hours 15 minutes
Depart Station to ride share 20 minutes

So a less than 2 hour trip takes over 3 and a half hours.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 10, 2022 08:47 AM (BRHaw)

263 Jesus God, DeSantis won Jews, Latino and Latinas, and expanded his coalition....

Trump is two steps ahead of indictment by the DOJ.

Trump sat across from Fauci as the cocksucker was plotting to blow up the American and global economy with COVID response and said "hell yeah this is my guiding light."

Let him go, and start winning.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 08:47 AM (Lzpvj)

264 Posted by: Marie Smith at November 10, 2022 08:44 AM (Mnney)

I have a particular set of skills......

Posted by: Sarah at November 10, 2022 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

265 It occurs to me that it may not be obvious to everyone that people who owe Trump favors or have a deal with him don't have an existing deal with DeSantis. Replacing Trump does mean dissolving the political coalition (not necessarily the base though that takes work to keep) Trump has built over the last few years. DeSantis will have to go through the same process of trying to gain allies, which takes time.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 10, 2022 08:47 AM (eYoxG)

266 Only reason I voted was because Trump fought all those years back. There’s some dark humor in seeing those who hated him everyday for 6 years, while sitting on their asses while undermine his policies, now decrying that his brand is dead.

Posted by: Corona exile-back_in_exile at November 10, 2022 08:48 AM (3wNhr)

267 258 SNL staff writers are boycotting this week's show because Dave Chappelle is hosting ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (FVME7)
++++
With the staff writers on strike, SNL will not be any less funny than it usually is. There is a distinct possibility that it will be far funnier.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 08:46 AM (DU+/6)

JJ and Mul would be funnier!

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 10, 2022 08:48 AM (BRHaw)

268 in fairness, a highspeed train to the finger laks, from ny, would be $

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 08:48 AM (fqw0F)

269 251 MSNBC’s Katy Tur suggests Fetterman could run for president: ‘Makes you wonder about his future’

MSNBC host Katy Tur speculated on Wednesday that Pennsylvania Senator-Elect John Fetterman could run for the presidency someday.
Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2022 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

He's certainly the easiest puppet for Klain, Jarrett, et al. to control.

Posted by: XTC at November 10, 2022 08:48 AM (UnA8+)

270 ... Either learn this lesson, and get the VBM system to work for you, because it is not going away, or keep losing, even when you have the majority of the electorate on your side. ...
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 08:44 AM (5p7BC)
++++
This is probably the best way to end the VBM system. If Republicans play games with it like the Democrats do - and they should, and should play hard, and cheat outrageously at every possible opportunity - it will be dead and buried within two cycles.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 08:49 AM (DU+/6)

271 Joe has already met with Kevin and Mitch

plotting to fuck cons over

insurance is a good thing
Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 07:55 AM (us2H3)

Hope springs eternal , against our most recent observed experiences , that Kevin and Mitch wil be shaken and stirred and at least one of them pushed out. The GOPe cannot ,if its life depended on it, play offense. And with no offense, we got nothing.

Posted by: Voter theater. at November 10, 2022 08:49 AM (T5bgL)

272 So, all the in GOP commentaries are pushing Trump out I see.. I'm sure it wasn't coordinated.

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at November 10, 2022 07:54 AM

Not just Trump, but they want all his voters gone as well. The effort to get rid of Trump is not about getting rid of just the man, but also everything he stands for. They want to get back to the GOPe policies of the past 20 years. Illegal alien amnesty, open borders, social liberalism and lies about doing anything about the budget or the deficit or fiscal responsibility.

The GOPe and the Left have made this absolutely clear over the past 2 years. There is no place in the new Divided States of America for anyone who supports the Trump platform. Those people either have to get on board the GOPe bandwagon or get in the boxcars to reeducation (or worse) camps.

So if the right wants to dump Trump, they better have a good strategy in place of how to explain they are only dumping the man, but not everything he stands for. That is going to be a tough sell and not many are going to believe it after decades of GOP lies before Trump came along to actually get things done.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 10, 2022 08:49 AM (Do5/p)

273 There are major problems to a digital currency in this country, one of which is merely political and the other two are existential (for now, and probably for at least the next five years).

--

The key being the people in charge don't care.

And our politicians aren't in charge. Our government is. See also: Fauci

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 08:49 AM (1xXOY)

274 12... I'm not what they are calling an OnlyTrump-er, but I can sure see a pattern.
I wish they pushed election integrity as hard.
Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at November 10, 2022 07:54 AM (53oGX)

I noticed, too.
Lots of comments are similar, out and about on different sites, too.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 10, 2022 08:49 AM (Rbu5d)

275 255 Lesser Wins:
We (almost certainly) have the House, so the Biden trifecta is cracked (which didn't happen in Carter's 1st 2 years)

Kevin will ruin this win
Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 08:46 AM (us2H3)

No, he can't ruin the win, b/c he'll shut down the da&n J6 commission, and that's one HUGE win that we should also take comfort in. That sh&t needed to end, and it will.

PS - And Liz Cheney is gone, so another HUGE win this year. I can keep them coming!

Posted by: Nova local at November 10, 2022 08:49 AM (exHjb)

276 I like Trump, but he need to take responsibility for his missteps as well as his victories.

I agree. I was a bit saddened to hear that, when General Don Bolduc lost his race in NH to the execrable abortion harridan Maggie Hassan, his reaction was to blame Bolduc for "backing off" on the statement that 2020 was stolen, and that if he had held firm, he would have won.

Really, sir? That's all you could say about someone who went up against a massively-funded Dem and who was abandoned by the goddamned GOP?

I love Trump, but a lot of times he makes me cringe.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 10, 2022 08:49 AM (AW0uW)

277 It's only a little after 6:00AM and I need a drink.

Can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning. Cheers, JJ!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 10, 2022 08:49 AM (XEl8M)

278 I don't like bringing others down, so I may need to take a break like you did for a while.
Posted by: Lady in Black

What some consideration bring them down, others consider realism. Stick around. Or take a break and focus on what's important. But come back to the fight. It's all hands on deck.

Posted by: flounder at November 10, 2022 08:50 AM (yHsuS)

279 Anyone know when we might expect some AZ news? Seems like when I went to bed it was likely we won the house and still had a real shot at 52 in the senate. Did that evaporate over night?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 10, 2022 08:50 AM (zsNoE)

280 Should do both, exploit VBM where possible AND work to change the law back to limit VBM to absentee only.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Agreed, but you won't get the 2nd without the 1st.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 08:50 AM (5p7BC)

281 Democracy is rule by the majority

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You know. The 0.02% of the population that is mentally ill and wants to lop off their appendages.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 08:50 AM (1xXOY)

282 Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 08:44 AM (5p7BC)

Exactly.

People who think the VAST, *effective* Democrat machinery hasn't been working overtime for the past two years are fooling themselves. They knew which races they were going to lose, and focused on the ones they could win.

Democrats may not know policy, but they sure as hell know politics.

We have our own echo chambers that need to be demolished.

Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 08:50 AM (wNDOJ)

283 110 By some men too. A lot of nevertrumpisim is over his personality. Emotion over logic. It's self-destructive behavior reinforced by the leftist propaganda.
Posted by: fd at November 10, 2022 08:18 AM (sn5EN)

I'd say a good bit of the onlytrumpism is over his personality, too.

Nobody else is going to throw schoolyard-bully insults at the Dems and the Media (but I repeat myself)

Posted by: XTC at November 10, 2022 08:50 AM (UnA8+)

284 There was no red wave because R's didn't get out and vote? THAT'S what we're going with?

R's weren't motivated to vote with the shittiest economy in generations, global threat of war and oncoming food and energy shortages and that wasn't enough to get our side to go out and VOTE?!?!?

THAT'S what we're going with?

No.....I'm not buying it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2022 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

285 Thinking about Evil Shrek, PA is the state that kept electing Murtha after he called them a bunch of racists...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 10, 2022 08:50 AM (ESjRY)

286 Hope springs eternal , against our most recent observed experiences , that Kevin and Mitch wil be shaken and stirred and at least one of them pushed out. The GOPe cannot ,if its life depended on it, play offense. And with no offense, we got nothing.
Posted by: Voter theater. at November 10, 2022 08:49 AM (T5bgL)
++++
Heh. No chance. If one of those two professional losers gets pushed out, it's only because an ambitious, up-and-coming loser made the right deal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 08:50 AM (DU+/6)

287 I predict pain.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 10, 2022 08:51 AM (FVME7)

288 "the GOP sat on the sidelines and did nothing."

And got nothing. Which is what they wanted.

"Nothing is what I want. A true Zen saying". - FZ

Posted by: fd at November 10, 2022 08:51 AM (sn5EN)

289 270 ... Either learn this lesson, and get the VBM system to work for you, because it is not going away, or keep losing, even when you have the majority of the electorate on your side. ...
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 08:44 AM (5p7BC)
++++
This is probably the best way to end the VBM system. If Republicans play games with it like the Democrats do - and they should, and should play hard, and cheat outrageously at every possible opportunity - it will be dead and buried within two cycles.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 08:49 AM (DU+/6)

Yup, get to the nursing homes and assisted living facilities before dems get there...

Posted by: Nova local at November 10, 2022 08:51 AM (exHjb)

290 "There WOULD Have Been a Red Wave, but One Group Saved the Left From Being Completely Obliterated (Gen-Z)"

After 50 years of wishing and hoping, the Democrats finally got a large Youth Vote for Democrats.

It appears the decades-long anti-America and anti-Republican public school and college brainwashing has finally achieved what Billy Ayres and his fellow travelers desired and worked to implement.

Smart phones and social media have been combined to create a Leftitst propaganda pipeline directly into the brains of youngsters.

Another day, another enemy identified. Always remember that the winner of a war is the winner of the last battle. Our side can win that future final battle.

Posted by: Gref at November 10, 2022 08:51 AM (AMIL/)

291 If Kari Lake doesn't win, it was most certainly stolen. The Dems did what they think they can get away with by doing the election day Rep voter suppression stunts. If that wasn't enough, they'll have backup plans. Best hope is Harmeet Dhillon and teams of lawyers, scrutinizing everything. Even so, they might need to rely on judges to be unbiased.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 10, 2022 08:51 AM (fs1hN)

292 Even in my pissy mood this morning, I don't believe conservatives as a group are a minority. I'm not referring to people who label themselves as such. The ideals conservatives support are what the majority wants. The problem seems to be, they don't know or realize who it is they vote for and how that clashes with their own beliefs. Think many people know how their Reps and Senators vote? The vast majority don't. I know many that suffer that disconnect.

Ah well, I'll spare you guys the rest of my rants. I've got toilets to scrub and bathrooms to clean! Yay me.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 10, 2022 08:42 AM (sVtYq)

Ouch! Do ya gotta scrub me quite to vigorously?? Danggone clean wore the porcelain right through!

Posted by: Lady in Black's Toilet at November 10, 2022 08:52 AM (4I/2K)

293 Not just FL, 10 years ago Ohio was kinda iffy. Now it's pretty red. I remember that not so long ago Dems thought that road to the WH LAY through FL and Ohio. They gave that up. Unfortunately now they r focused on Georgia and Arizona.

Posted by: runner at November 10, 2022 08:52 AM (bdYma)

294 SNL staff writers are boycotting this week's show because Dave Chappelle is hosting ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 10, 2022 08:35 AM (FVME7)
++++
With the staff writers on strike, SNL will not be any less funny than it usually is. There is a distinct possibility that it will be far funnier.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Fire the writers AND the actors and turn it into the Saturday Night Dave Chappelle Show.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2022 08:52 AM (ym7CX)

295 SNL staff writers are boycotting this week's show because Dave Chappelle is hosting

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How will we survive without the comedy genius of the SNL writers?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice!

If Chapelle and some of his comedy friends end up writing the sketches, SNL might actually be funny for the first time in 30 years or so.

Posted by: Biergood at November 10, 2022 08:52 AM (FQWHA)

296 284 There was no red wave because R's didn't get out and vote? THAT'S what we're going with?

R's weren't motivated to vote with the shittiest economy in generations, global threat of war and oncoming food and energy shortages and that wasn't enough to get our side to go out and VOTE?!?!?

THAT'S what we're going with?

No.....I'm not buying it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2022 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

I still haven't been able to get my hands on overall data, but I suspect it is that people who aren't normally Republican voters, call them Trump Republicans, didn't turnout in large numbers because the election isn't perceived as a Trump election. Demographically they tended not to vote much pre-Trump and particularly not during mid-terms.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 10, 2022 08:52 AM (eYoxG)

297 Agree with LiB, might need to take a month or two, or forever off, not sure this place is good for me (though I cherish the virtual friendship of many of you).

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 10, 2022 08:52 AM (zsNoE)

298 The states with the highest crime rates are all red states.
FL is #3

[FACT CHECK: This is a lie. In any case who runs the cities in red or purple states, Kurt? That would be DEMOCRATS - jjs]

Posted by: Paul [Kurt the cum guzzler] at November 10, 2022 08:52 AM (AdUth)

299 Last evening, Kari Lake reported that 650,000 votes from "Red areas" had not been counted yet.

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2022 08:53 AM (RHGPo)

300 No, he can't ruin the win, b/c he'll shut down the da&n J6 commission, and that's one HUGE win that we should also take comfort in. That sh&t needed to end, and it will.

PS - And Liz Cheney is gone, so another HUGE win this year. I can keep them coming!

Posted by: Nova local at November 10, 2022 08:49 AM (exHjb)

I agree. In the shit show that is our political theater, theses are two good outcomes.

Posted by: flounder at November 10, 2022 08:53 AM (yHsuS)

301 If Kari Lake doesn't win, it was most certainly stolen. The Dems did what they think they can get away with by doing the election day Rep voter suppression stunts. If that wasn't enough, they'll have backup plans. Best hope is Harmeet Dhillon and teams of lawyers, scrutinizing everything. Even so, they might need to rely on judges to be unbiased.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

75 vote difference SHOULD trigger an automatic recount.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2022 08:53 AM (ym7CX)

302 23...This country needs an enema!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2022 07:58 AM (up/3i)

A covfefe enema! 🤣

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 10, 2022 08:53 AM (Rbu5d)

303 246 Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 08:44 AM (5p7BC)

Dave, if you have to play "let's vote by mail for year" and your electorate in particular and the American people as a whole cannot understand that killing POL production is a bad thing well "fuck."

VBM is third world level bullshit, and donkey party has operatives whose job is to have votes that likely were not REALLY cast by inner city precinct members "ready for launch."

Furthermore VBM and the aforementioned ballot harvesting means that the American political class is now divorced from success or failure of policy being a metric because quite frankly the retards who cannot actually be bothered to understand the cause and effect of government interference with economics causing economic pain are now happily and zealously the majority of people impacting policy.

We are doomed by VBM- the GOP apathetic base is to blame not free shit army....free shit army gets their votes cast whether they want them or not.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 08:53 AM (Lzpvj)

304 As Ace pointed out yesterday, abortion turned out to supposedly be a massive driver of Democrat voters, especially women.

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A significant percentage of Dems -- especially, as you hint at, young "adults" 18-34 -- actually believed the Big Progda MDM-MSM Lazy Lie that the Supreme Court had outlawed abortion nationwide.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 10, 2022 08:53 AM (K3TEc)

305 There are more of them than there are of us.
There always will be

It is over

If, after all the unnecessary hardship and pain the Dems put
the American people through, the majority STILL vote for them, then there is ZERO hope for the Republicans ever.

It is OVER.

Posted by: Edward Timelord at November 10, 2022 08:54 AM (zPoFF)

306 > MSNBC’s Katy Tur suggests Fetterman could run for president: ‘Makes you wonder about his future’
___________

Consider the source. It's probably not the stupidest thing she's said, but there's a lot of content to choose from.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2022 08:54 AM (Q4IgG)

307 How will we survive without the comedy genius of the SNL writers?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice!

Perhaps the 'talent' at SNL could sing 'Alleluia' again. That will show us!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2022 08:54 AM (LsEU/)

308 in fairness, has anybody heard from adam kinzinger, hope he is not having a hard time with this

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 08:54 AM (fqw0F)

309 I'm thinking Fetterman was a stalking horse candidate. By which I mean the dem socialists got to test if they could get away with cheatlecting an obviously unqualified, incompetent, brain-damaged, sick, and totally unattractive candidate, then they didn't have to worry about 2024 at all!

Best part it was a win-win for them because if Fetterman still lost, they still got a social butterfly non-citizen closet liberal in Oz.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at November 10, 2022 08:54 AM (hOUT3)

310 Jesus God, DeSantis won Jews, Latino and Latinas, and expanded his coalition....

By any reasonable metric DeSantis has been the most effective Republican elected official since winning the governor's office and is a reasonable choice as the best governor in America's history

Trump deserves credit for trying to get conservative policies implemented (unlike every R president since Reagan), but he wasn't particularly successful.

Yes, the difficulty level as governor is lower. But DeSantis has done everything you could ask for before promoting him to presidential candidate.

Much like Lincoln in the civil war, if your generals don't win you replace them until you find one that can.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 10, 2022 08:55 AM (ESjRY)

311

Posted by: 18-1 at November 10, 2022 08:55 AM (ESjRY)

312 That's why the GOP needs to adopt Blasters Grand Unification Theory of Political Power Acquisition and Maintenance, We need to get as good at cheating and fortifying elections and give up this fantasy of voting our way out of out predicament.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2022 08:04 AM

In hindsight, I suspect this was what Karl Rove did for George W. Bush during his two elections. There was a massive increase in voting from the 1990s to the 2000s. And I suspect the cheating mechanisms went into place for both parties and Rove and Bush just happened to do it better in 2000, 2002 and 2004.

This is just pure cynical speculation on my part. Despite Kerry-Edwards being a horrible ticket for Democrats in 2004, I think they had a good shot to win based on anger over OEF and OIF and just typical left-wing hatred of Republicans. And wanting to correct what they thought was a stolen 2000 election. But I think Rove's cheating operation outdid the Democrat cheating operation in 2004.

More pure cynical speculation is that the GOPe brought back that cheating operation in 2020, only this time to help Democrats get rid of Trump.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 10, 2022 08:55 AM (Do5/p)

313 >>> Challenging fraudulent votes won't happen, courts won't allow it, no one will be punished and in 2024 we'll have some well-coifed establishment candidate foisted on us.
~~~~~

That's what I see happening with DeSantis. I like what I've seen of DeSantis and would vote for him if he were the republican nominee. However, it troubles me greatly that he is favored by Mitch McConnell and Karl Rove.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 10, 2022 08:55 AM (3ImbR)

314 (Just in case)

Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2022 08:56 AM (LsEU/)

315 The Dems didn't win by cheating, they out-hustled us.

====

That is good mews actually. Easier to outhustle than outcheat.

Posted by: runner at November 10, 2022 08:56 AM (bdYma)

316 Farmer Bob - It will be tonight. The election boards are slow walking the results.

There are still about 600K votes to count in Maricopa. 300Kish are election day votes (heavy GOP skew) and 290K are mail-in votes dropped off on election day (those will be a monster skew toward GOP).

They may not even count this tranche today, and are going to drop mail-in ballots that arrived on Monday today.

Lake has the lions share of the 600K outstanding votes. She will win handily once they report. Masters should win as well, but he needs to take a 60/40 split of the remaining votes. Those remaining votes should be at least that, but the final total is going to be really close and probably triggers a recount.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 08:56 AM (5p7BC)

317 “The ballot measure gives the power to each permit issuing department to annually publish ‘any additional information that it determines would be helpful’ to the process. That information includes names, addresses, and a whole host of additional personal information that would be released to the public

1. Hey Vern who we be robbing today? *Searches* ok 101 Main has a gun so lets do 104 and 108.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 10, 2022 08:56 AM (BRHaw)

318 "R's weren't motivated to vote with the shittiest economy in generations, global threat of war and oncoming food and energy shortages and that wasn't enough to get our side to go out and VOTE?!?!?

THAT'S what we're going with?

No.....I'm not buying it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden"

I'm going with the red wave of white suburban women, Hispanics and black men was mostly a mirage. We have heard some variation of this the past 20 years with various groups and it just never lives up to the hype. A lot more pain is going to have to happen to first.

Posted by: Ripley at November 10, 2022 08:56 AM (MxEKc)

319 40...Plus, they know he'll only do exactly what he's told to do.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 10, 2022 08:01 AM (YIVH2)

... by his wife. She's rabid leftist.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 10, 2022 08:56 AM (Rbu5d)

320 75 vote difference SHOULD trigger an automatic recount.
Posted by: rickb223 a

Thanks rickb223
I needed a good laugh this morning!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at November 10, 2022 08:56 AM (hOUT3)

321 @263

>>Let him go, and start winning.

Trump was the primary target of the Plandemic Op and was largely boxed in and constrained by it.

As you allude to, Trump is more than likely going to be indicted by the Junta so DeSantis will more than likely be the candidate by default.

And if you think DeSantis will have an easier go of it than Trump, you are mistaken.

He has the same platform as Trump and will have just as much hatred and vileness directed at him by the Donks and newly minted NeverDeSantis crew.

Our problem isn't our candidate our problem is the fraud machines that have metasticized beyond imagination.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2022 08:56 AM (2bh7b)

322 ... VBM is third world level bullshit, and donkey party has operatives whose job is to have votes that likely were not REALLY cast by inner city precinct members "ready for launch." ...
Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 08:53 AM (Lzpvj)
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Yup, no doubt. Vote-by-mail is a sick joke and destroys the system. Any place that does not have it needs to guard against it with full attention. Any place that does have it, though, will keep having it - it's too useful - unless it becomes non-useful.

So in those places, I agree that the Republicans should (they won't, but they should) engage fully and aggressively and play games with it, too. Cheat as much as possible. Steal the fucker back. Get rid of VBM once that's done (hahaha - even if it worked, they'd *never* repeal such a useful tool...), but game it hard until you can get there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 08:57 AM (DU+/6)

323 By which I mean the dem socialists got to test if they could get away with cheatlecting an obviously unqualified..

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsica

"Cheatlecting." I like it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 10, 2022 08:57 AM (H8QX8)

324 As abhorrent as it is, California and Vermont going themselves as abattoirs is their choice. But, do you think radicals there will be satisfied with their in border murder lust? Neither do I.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at November 10, 2022 08:57 AM (AaLDK)

325 The Dems didn't win by cheating, they out-hustled us. There were able to out-hustle because GOP state parties got lazy and didn't do their jobs....Either learn this lesson, and get the VBM system to work for you, because it is not going away, or keep losing, even when you have the majority of the electorate on your side.

Interesting perspective, DiF. Are you suggesting that R turnout was lower than it should have been or that D turnout was higher that it would normally be for a mid-term?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 10, 2022 08:57 AM (tBR6g)

326 I still don't understand why they call it that. What does "color" mean in this context?

Posted by: XTC
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It's a method for coups that usually involve embracing some color but doesn't have to.

Random grab.

https://tinyurl.com/24t66799

Color revolutions are worth reading up on. We've pulled them off in Ukraine, Venezuala, and most recently here in 2020.

Spoilers: They pretty much always involve intentional and brazen election fraud and uprisings from it. For or against doesn't matter, because either can be used. See BLM/antifa after Trump won or J6

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 08:57 AM (1xXOY)

327 317 “The ballot measure gives the power to each permit issuing department to annually publish ‘any additional information that it determines would be helpful’ to the process. That information includes names, addresses, and a whole host of additional personal information that would be released to the public

1. Hey Vern who we be robbing today? *Searches* ok 101 Main has a gun so lets do 101 Main.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 10, 2022 08:57 AM (BRHaw)

328 There are more of them than there are of us.
There always will be

It is over

If, after all the unnecessary hardship and pain the Dems put
the American people through, the majority STILL vote for them, then there is ZERO hope for the Republicans ever.

It is OVER.

Posted by: Edward Timelord at November 10, 2022 08:54 AM (zPoFF)

Excellent imitation freakout. Now, get frosty and go down fighting the bastards in a pile of empty brass.

Posted by: Private Hudson, Space Marine at November 10, 2022 08:58 AM (4I/2K)

329 No.....I'm not buying it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2022 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

Well see there was abortion. That made the ladies who were coming out to vote Democrat anyways vote harder. Meanwhile Trump supported some candidates that somehow lost in notoriously Dem cheating areas. Also, because Trump supported them, the GOPe had to pull cash from them. So see it all means we didn't vote hard enough.

Posted by: WiNO - Again Fortified with Fraud at November 10, 2022 08:58 AM (EpDzw)

330 Has anyone heard of the international baccalaureate program that charter schools are bandying about these days? Wondering if that is some WEF thing.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 10, 2022 08:58 AM (lTGtQ)

331 President Joe Biden pledged to build a high-speed railway between Scranton, Pennsylvania, and New York City on Wednesday.

Do we get a vote?

Posted by: Scranton, PA at November 10, 2022 08:58 AM (WjNQL)

332 If, after all the unnecessary hardship and pain the Dems put
the American people through, the majority STILL vote for them, then there is ZERO hope for the Republicans ever.

It is OVER.

Posted by: Edward Timelord at November 10, 2022 08:54 AM (zPoFF)

Last I checked, the Republicans actually won the popular vote of 2022...

Posted by: Nova local at November 10, 2022 08:58 AM (exHjb)

333 The states with the highest crime rates are all red states.
FL is #3

Posted by: Paul at November 10, 2022 08:52 AM (AdUth)

_______

Liar.

FL is 26th even if you believe the FBI's uniform crime statistics.

That took 10 seconds.

Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 08:59 AM (wNDOJ)

334 Thanks Dave. I'll check back in tomorrow then, it's a little gloomy in here and me and my brothers have a birthday to celebrate. Ooh rah!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 10, 2022 08:59 AM (zsNoE)

335 330 Has anyone heard of the international baccalaureate program that charter schools are bandying about these days? Wondering if that is some WEF thing.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 10, 2022 08:58 AM (lTGtQ)

That's been around for a while. It's just a collection of AP courses that get you a credential for getting into college.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 10, 2022 09:00 AM (eYoxG)

336 If, after all the unnecessary hardship and pain the Dems put
the American people through, the majority STILL vote for them

Exactly. It's how you know that they didn't.

Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2022 09:00 AM (ptElO)

337
I still haven't been able to get my hands on overall data, but I suspect it is that people who aren't normally Republican voters, call them Trump Republicans, didn't turnout in large numbers because the election isn't perceived as a Trump election. Demographically they tended not to vote much pre-Trump and particularly not during mid-terms.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 10, 2022 08:52 AM (eYoxG)

If you can't get motivated to take part in the saving of this country because you don't think Trump, one guy, is 'on the ballot,' then you aren't paying attention.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2022 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

338 "Cheatlecting." I like it.
Posted by: Ordinary American

It seemed to capture the essence of today's "election" process!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at November 10, 2022 09:00 AM (hOUT3)

339 The states with the highest crime rates are all red states.
FL is #3

Posted by: Paul

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Ah yes, the Democrat can't help but attack blacks.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:00 AM (1xXOY)

340 [snip]

VBM is third world level bullshit, and donkey party has operatives whose job is to have votes that likely were not REALLY cast by inner city precinct members "ready for launch."

[snip]

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 08:53 AM (Lzpvj)
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Sundance at CTH had a good essay on this last evening entitled "2022 Midterm Elections Highlight the Distinct Difference Between Ballots and Votes" -- and explains why Dems now can hide in their basements, avoid debates, and still win (they win by mail-in, drop-box ballot harvesting) whereas the dopey Republicans actually campaign for now virtually worthless "votes."

tinyurl.com/29z4ak2n

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 10, 2022 09:00 AM (K3TEc)

341 We are doomed by VBM- the GOP apathetic base is to blame not free shit army....free shit army gets their votes cast whether they want them or not.
Posted by: sven
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No, the data says you are wrong.

And it is attitudes like this that assure we don't win. I would strongly recommend that everyone just check their biases at the door and quit doomering the Democrats into power.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 09:00 AM (5p7BC)

342 The Trump "backlash" by the home team is amusing to me - no one liked Jeremiah either.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at November 10, 2022 09:01 AM (AaLDK)

343 I hope former UT Rep. Jason Chaffetz primaries Mitt Romney. Right now he's an FNC contributor. I think he could win Utah.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 10, 2022 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

344 President Joe Biden pledged to build a high-speed railway between Scranton, Pennsylvania, and New York City on Wednesday.

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Man, those three people who use that train sure will be happy.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:01 AM (1xXOY)

345 I'm watching a show about D.B. Cooper. It turns out a suspect was a male to female tranny who was mad that people didn't accept her.

https://bit.ly/3fR8Scc

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 10, 2022 09:01 AM (FVME7)

346 FFS, you have to watch autocucumber like a hawk.

What some consider bringing them down, others consider realism.

Posted by: flounder at November 10, 2022 09:02 AM (yHsuS)

347 the winner of a war is the winner of the last battle

“Yeah, about that…”

— Confederates after the Battle of Palmito Ranch

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 10, 2022 09:02 AM (rVmr7)

348 52...CO was becoming unlivably expensive and distressingly filthy and violent (the Front Range, anyway, and as goes the Front Range, so goes the state). ...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 08:04 AM (DU+/6)

We were in Longmont/ Boulder fur a family wedding in May. Hadn't been there since, what, 2016 I think

Longmont is a hell hole. It's awful. Used to be so pretty, pleasant. It's over-built with ugly structures, crowded with nasty, rude people.

We will never go back. We will preserve our good memories of prior visits to the once great state of Colorado.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 10, 2022 09:02 AM (Rbu5d)

349 in fairness, has anybody heard from adam kinzinger, hope he is not having a hard time with this
Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 08:54 AM (fqw0F)

Finding a silver lining in a shitstorm is welcomed. And appreciated.
Most of the R House J6 idiots will be gone.
Thanks for reminding us. And THAT fact is almost entirely due to Trump.

Posted by: Voter theater. at November 10, 2022 09:02 AM (T5bgL)

350 ... The Dems didn't win by cheating, they out-hustled us.
...
This is why you see R+6 results in some precincts and R+1 in others. Targeted districts and states were organized to get Dem leaning voters (those Gen Z ones) to vote. With VPM, that is easier now, you don't have to get them onto a bus. ...
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 08:44 AM (5p7BC)
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In many jurisdictions, that "hustling" (which yes, they do very well) is illegal. VBM doesn't mean ballot-harvesting and vote muling is legal. It is in some places like CA, but many places don't legally permit it. VBM makes harvesting inevitable because it's so easy, but it isn't legal and is a form of cheating. The "hustling" that is so effective is criminal in most of the places it's done.

It doesn't change the thrust of your point - which is that we ought to do it, too - but it also doesn't mean there isn't cheating and fraud. That kind of cheating and fraud is a fundamental part of VBM schemes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 09:02 AM (DU+/6)

351 Either learn this lesson, and get the VBM system to work for you, because it is not going away, or keep losing, even when you have the majority of the electorate on your side.

BTW, this is the 3rd election now that the Dems have done this. I'm sure that Joe Xiden is laughing his ass off that he managed to get you to chase the red herring of Dominion for 2 years.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 08:44 AM (5p7BC)

So you are saying cheat. That's what you are saying because that is what VBM is. I'm sorry that the Dems cheating messes up your prognostications. Florida cleaned up their act because the Republicans did something. Same thing happened in Ohio. You think the PA Dems are going to let it get cleaned up? I guarantee VA will revert to Dem soon enough. Tired of people thinking the system works. It doesn't and it won't at least at the Federal level.

Posted by: WiNO - Again Fortified with Fraud at November 10, 2022 09:02 AM (EpDzw)

352 333 The states with the highest crime rates are all red states.
FL is #3
Posted by: Paul at November 10, 2022 08:52 AM (AdUth)
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Liar.

FL is 26th even if you believe the FBI's uniform crime statistics.

That took 10 seconds.
Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 08:59 AM (wNDOJ)

But VA is the 8th safest, so if you want to firm up a 2024 bulwark and have spectacular seasonal (and never evacuate) weather, you could do worse than retiring here

!

We were all blue in 2010s, but not now...so states can change, and you all can help!

(Paid for Virginia - I wish)...

Posted by: Nova local at November 10, 2022 09:02 AM (exHjb)

353 Those remaining votes should be at least that, but the final total is going to be really close and probably triggers a recount.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 08:56 AM (5p7BC)

If Laxalt and Lombardi hold on in NV and Lake and Masters win in AZ - not sure all this navel gazing by the GOP is warranted. Looks like they will handily win the House back and could have a 52/48 Senate if Walker wins the run off.

This looks pretty close to your prediction this summer and one a lot of politicos on the right thought as well...

Posted by: Boswell at November 10, 2022 09:03 AM (+Cgut)

354 President Joe Biden pledged to build a high-speed railway between Scranton, Pennsylvania, and New York City on Wednesday.

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In a single day?!!! A man of steel!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 10, 2022 09:04 AM (FVME7)

355 Dems now can hide in their basements, avoid debates, and still win (they win by mail-in, drop-box ballot harvesting) whereas the dopey Republicans
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This is touching the heart of it. Dems have instituted a new form of a 1930s political machine using big tech. They don't need to campaign because they can get their voters to "the polls" through SMS.

I've been getting SMS messages from Warnock every day for the last 3 months, and I've already gotten one about the runoff.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 09:04 AM (5p7BC)

356 342 The Trump "backlash" by the home team is amusing to me - no one liked Jeremiah either.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at November 10, 2022 09:01 AM (AaLDK)

Or Isaiah, or Hosea, or ...
It's not easy nor popular being aTruth-teller.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 10, 2022 09:04 AM (Rbu5d)

357 If we had ackshewallee seen a Red Wave, instead of a Tepid Purple Pool of Barf,

I do believe that we would've seen some pretty good action by the Reps. Maybe not as much as we would like, but The Turtle and House Flunky would've been able to twist Dims arms effectively, and in certain cases over-ride vetos.

It would just depend on what they considered of primary importance. (Always the Weak-link) and whether or not The Turtle could actually keep "Gang of..." nonsense from happening.

Of course, Chinese cash might put the kibosh on everything.

One thing for certain, Trump would be perceived as a winner and could apply the lash to "his" Congress.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 10, 2022 09:04 AM (KLPy8)

358 That kind of cheating and fraud is a fundamental part of VBM schemes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 09:02 AM (DU+/6)

Same point I just made. Dave's solution is who can cheat the best.

Posted by: WiNO - Again Fortified with Fraud at November 10, 2022 09:04 AM (EpDzw)

359 " The Dems didn't win by cheating, they out-hustled us."

Not buying it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 10, 2022 09:05 AM (H8QX8)

360 "The Dems didn't win by cheating, they out-hustled us."

And

Posted by: davidt at November 10, 2022 09:05 AM (oTZbj)

361 I'm watching a show about D.B. Cooper. It turns out a suspect was a male to female tranny who was mad that people didn't accept her.

https://bit.ly/3fR8Scc
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 10, 2022 09:01 AM (FVME7)

If the Cooper case interests you, I recommend Geoffrey Gray's Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper. There are a lot of weirdos connected to the case, both suspects and investigators.

https://tinyurl.com/4a25m85v

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 10, 2022 09:05 AM (AW0uW)

362 I'm watching a show about D.B. Cooper. It turns out a suspect was a male to female tranny who was mad that people didn't accept her.

https://bit.ly/3fR8Scc

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hahahaha

So he became "she" until "she" needed to accomplish something, and then "she" switched back to being a man in order to accomplish a difficult task.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:05 AM (1xXOY)

363 Posted by: Paul

I was reading this post and then my neighbour came over and we read it together. He said that this post changed his life and touched his heart. I then went and read this post out loud to all my villagers they all said it changed their lives too. We all are so grateful.

Thank You for this post.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2022 09:05 AM (ym7CX)

364 President Joe Biden pledged to build a high-speed railway between Scranton, Pennsylvania, and New York City on Wednesday.

Will it be heated?

Posted by: NYC 'Homeless' Professionals at November 10, 2022 09:05 AM (dNNCD)

365 Guess people need some good news so I'll do a repeat of yesterdays Win Column from my beer stained napkin:

- No more Pelosi

- Abbott sent Beta packing, Kemp kicked Abrams out, both cost the Dems a shit ton of money

- No more Pelosi

- FL corruption purged and shows that there is some truths to fraud and corruption. DeSantis is Obviously going to be President at some point.

- No More Pelosi

- Even if slim, the Republicans have some say in how the money gets spent.

- No More Pelosi

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 10, 2022 09:06 AM (OLVeZ)

366 The Dems didn't win by cheating, they out-hustled us."

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I can counter that argument right now with a simple statement.

If that were the case we'd know the winners.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:06 AM (1xXOY)

367 If, after all the unnecessary hardship and pain the Dems put
the American people through, the majority STILL vote for them

Exactly. It's how you know that they didn't.

Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2022 09:00 AM (ptElO)

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That's yet another datapoint of the massive cheat: over 80% of the country believes it's heading in the wrong direction, yet that many of them vote to double-down on destruction against their own self-interest? Not buyin' it ...

Also, isn't it convenient that in all the important, close races it is virtually a 50/50 split where usually the Dem ekes out just enough votes to win? What the hell are the odds of this replaying over and over, regardless of the size of the "electorate" in each of these races, election year after year now? Not buyin' it ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 10, 2022 09:06 AM (K3TEc)

368 I'm pretty sure Kinzinger cried about the J6 committee getting broken.

Posted by: Ziba at November 10, 2022 09:06 AM (4h9M3)

369 Did moocowski win yet?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 10, 2022 09:06 AM (Wy1BU)

370 341 Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 09:00 AM (5p7BC)

They send workers into assisted living facilities with near brain dead "voters" Dave. Independent journalists have caught them doing it. The elephant in the room is that the GOP competes with "voters" who are most likely judicially incompetent being a near lock for the left.

If I had the US government's evidently "limitless credit card" I would pay to go into the twenty-five biggest "margin of victory" districts and do a forensic mapping of the votes and voters.

The GOP electorate hates politics, looks for a savior, treats their fucking vote like it is a measure of their own moral salvation, the Davey Fwench types pretend they are voting for saints not assholes in charge.

The entire right coalition is fundamentally unserious politically compared to what the leftoid mass is willing to tolerate to get their way.

Either the majority of the nation is in love with the donk agenda, or is willing to look the other way on the depravity to get their government cheese.

I have lived in this shit my whole life damn near having grown up in the projects.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 09:06 AM (Lzpvj)

371 The Trump "backlash" by the home team is amusing to me - no one liked Jeremiah either.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at November 10, 2022 09:01 AM (AaLDK)

He was a good friend of mine.
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him a-drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine

Posted by: Three Dog Night at November 10, 2022 09:07 AM (4I/2K)

372 366 Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:06 AM (1xXOY)

France had 63 million votes tallied in 14 hours.....here in America they are still fixing elections two days later.

We are an unserious country.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 09:07 AM (Lzpvj)

373 I'll also add that Republicans apparently didn't know it was an election year and just assumed voters would vote for them because food and gas were expensive.

Again, the most ripe, winnable election in decades and they didn't discuss any of the issues that the nation is boiling over about.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:08 AM (1xXOY)

374 Same point I just made. Dave's solution is who can cheat the best.
Posted by: WiNO - Again Fortified with Fraud at November 10, 2022 09:04 AM (EpDzw)
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And I agree with that. When cheating is the norm, playing by the rules ensures that you never win. In VBM jurisdictions, Republicans should be playing the same games as skillfully as they can manage. Harvest ballots and mule them to drop-boxes. Send door-knockers to go "help" people fill out those ballots. Play hard and play to win. The opponent is. Play by *his* rules, not *the* rules.

It is also probably the best way to end the VBM system.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 09:08 AM (DU+/6)

375 Posted by: Boswell at November 10, 2022 09:03 AM (+Cgut)

That +2 Senate prediction seems about right with what I've been thinking for awhile. Anyone who was predicting big gains there was a fool.

I wish DiF had a newsletter or something. I ain't got no time to listen to no podcast.

Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 09:08 AM (wNDOJ)

376 '....It's only a little after 6:00AM and I need a drink'

That late? Been a nonstop bender for some. With no end in sight.

Thought November 15 might be rallying cry for the battle ahead but the GOPe has joined forces with the media and other forces and cleverly turned Trump's 11/15 announcement into The End of Democracy.

Make that next drink a double please.

Posted by: Voter theater. at November 10, 2022 09:08 AM (oV95G)

377 More pure cynical speculation is that the GOPe brought back that cheating operation in 2020, only this time to help Democrats get rid of Trump.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 10, 2022 08:55 AM (Do5/p)
~~~~~

And in 2022 to get rid of MAGA candidates. Here's a breakdown of $$ spent in highly contested races (from @loudobbs):

AZ - Masters $9m vs Kelly $73m
GA - Walker $32m vs Warnock $76m
NV - Laxalt $12m vs Cortes $47m
NH - Bolduc $2m vs Hassan $36m

Mitch sure as hell could have helped these guys more. Instead, he funded the likes of Murkowski and even Mastriano's opponent.

If you include Parnell, that makes three veterans Mitch and Rove helped kneecap.

And people wonder why I'm skeptical of DeSantis, whom I do admire, but who was and is fully supported by Mitch and the GOPe. People here are smart and should be more acutely aware of the narrative that is being built pro-DeSantis and anti-Trump. There is a reason for everything they do. Sadly, it doesn't seem that a lot of people here are willing to see that.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 10, 2022 09:09 AM (3ImbR)

378 85 Insty is impossible to read right now. The NeverTrumpers and Only True Conservatives are busy proclaiming that abortion and Trump* are the reasons the GOP did not do well. ...

Posted by: WiNO - Again Fortified with Fraud at November 10, 2022 08:11 AM (EpDzw)

Agreed. Ace had the finest co- bloggers, Insty, not so much

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 10, 2022 09:09 AM (Rbu5d)

379 369 Did moocowski win yet?
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 10, 2022 09:06 AM (Wy1BU)

If I understand how the rank shit goes in AK, Tshibaka is going to take Moocows votes and she wins handily. She's a Trump pick. Buuuuut, this is MooCow we are talking about so won't be surprised if she pulls some shit.

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 10, 2022 09:09 AM (OLVeZ)

380 217 Conservatives are going to have to realize they are in fact a minority now.

Why on Earth would you believe that?! Look at Florida. Florida is the US with election integrity.
Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2022 08:37 AM (AGhs5)

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Yes.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 10, 2022 09:09 AM (DcKNO)

381 That's yet another datapoint of the massive cheat: over 80% of the country believes it's heading in the wrong direction, yet that many of them vote to double-down on destruction against their own self-interest? Not buyin' it ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 10, 2022 09:06 AM (K3TEc)
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Tribal identity is a factor. They aren't happy with the direction of the country, but there's no way they'll pull the lever for the fascists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 09:09 AM (DU+/6)

382 It's only a little after 6:00AM and I need a drink.

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LOL. Welcome to the party, pal ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 10, 2022 09:10 AM (K3TEc)

383 374 Same point I just made. Dave's solution is who can cheat the best.
Posted by: WiNO - Again Fortified with Fraud at November 10, 2022 09:04 AM (EpDzw)
++++
And I agree with that. When cheating is the norm, playing by the rules ensures that you never win. In VBM jurisdictions, Republicans should be playing the same games as skillfully as they can manage. Harvest ballots and mule them to drop-boxes. Send door-knockers to go "help" people fill out those ballots. Play hard and play to win. The opponent is. Play by *his* rules, not *the* rules.

It is also probably the best way to end the VBM system.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 09:08 AM (DU+/6)

No no no. Republicans can't have political machines. Trump's demands for loyalty (the basis of normal politics) is a sign of authoritarianism!

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 10, 2022 09:10 AM (eYoxG)

384 Here's a fun thing to think about:

Did you hear the Republicans plan for reducing inflation?

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:10 AM (1xXOY)

385 RNC sent me a begging for money text for Walker yesterday morning. I might be stupid, but not that stupid.

Posted by: Ziba at November 10, 2022 09:10 AM (4h9M3)

386 Vote by mail in an abomination and ripe for fraud. Remind me again, how many countries allow VBM?

Absentee ballots should only be allowed for military and those with reasonable excuses.

And early in person voting should only be for a week at most.

Posted by: Tofer732 at November 10, 2022 09:10 AM (fatpD)

387 Also, isn't it convenient that in all the important, close races it is virtually a 50/50 split where usually the Dem ekes out just enough votes to win? What the hell are the odds of this replaying over and over, regardless of the size of the "electorate" in each of these races, election year after year now? Not buyin' it ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 10, 2022 09:06 AM (K3TEc)

These election 'results' are like flipping a quarter 50 times and it lands on heads every time. Uncanny, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 10, 2022 09:10 AM (4I/2K)

388 So you are saying cheat. That's what you are saying because that is what VBM is. I'm sorry that the Dems cheating messes up your prognostications.

Yep.

If you're going to allow cheating, then both sides need to cheat. Otherwise the side that plays "by the old rules" is going to get roflstomped EVERY TIME.

Posted by: GMan at November 10, 2022 09:10 AM (GfWuY)

389 90 When did King Harv turn into Mr. Clean?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2022 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

He died a few months ago, and was regenerated into Vin Diesel.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 10, 2022 09:11 AM (Rbu5d)

390 Also, isn't it convenient that in all the important, close races it is virtually a 50/50 split where usually the Dem ekes out just enough votes to win? What the hell are the odds of this replaying over and over...

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Someone wisely pointed out that Florida gave us a control group and we can now see that there is 10-30% fraud baked into the cake in other states.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:11 AM (1xXOY)

391 Make Piss Tests By Mail Great Again!

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 10, 2022 09:12 AM (4I/2K)

392 "I see the NeverTrumpers are paying for trolls now.
Posted by: WiNO - Again Fortified"

Not a paid troll, making an observation from my corner in WI about why the people around me made the decisions they did. None of the anti-Trump feelings are rational. They're not. The people who hate Trump aren't thinking at all. It's a purely emotional reaction to a media image they've been relentlessly exposed to. And in my opinion there is nothing to be done about it. It's visceral and utterly irrational. These people don't have any intelligently formed opinions about Trump, only primal reaction, and they will not change.
The only question is how to handle this, and honestly, if these people are needed to win an election, and they likely are, or at least be effectively demotivated to mobilize with all possible prejudice against Trump and 'Trump picks', then...
I mean, ideas? whatever works, here.

Posted by: LenNeal at November 10, 2022 09:12 AM (U11/V)

393 It doesn't change the thrust of your point - which is that we ought to do it, too - but it also doesn't mean there isn't cheating and fraud. That kind of cheating and fraud is a fundamental part of VBM schemes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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I'm not saying it isn't part of it. Yes ballot harvesting is happening, but VBM is not illegal and has been expanded for the last 3 cycles, especially in 2020.

It is now a legal mechanism that the Democrats are exploiting effectively, while the GOP sits on their hands and does nothing. It is a high tech GOTV effort, while the GOP isn't even using a low tech GOTV.

So the polls end up showing a red wave is coming. But the GOP doesn't do their job, and you end up with this. Even though the voters were predisposed to vote Republican.

And the data backs this up, because you can look at precinct results and see where Democrats over performed the rest of the country, and it is in precincts where they needed to over perform to hold a seat.

The same thing happened in 2018, and everyone missed it.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 09:12 AM (5p7BC)

394 And early in person voting should only be for a week at most.
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None at all. If you want to vote you vote on election day. If that's too much trouble then you don't want to vote.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:12 AM (1xXOY)

395 Not having a political machine (which is by nature hierarchical, favor/loyalty-based, and corrupt tbh) is a serious handicap in politics. Republican politicians used to have them decades ago but the Conservative base revolt kind of de-professionalized the GOP.

Candidate quality and track record can only do so much for you. The reasons Ds can get Biden and Fetterman in office is their robust political machines. It's not because your objectively better, not-brain dead candidate was too flawed by comparison.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 10, 2022 09:12 AM (eYoxG)

396 And I agree with that. When cheating is the norm, playing by the rules ensures that you never win. In VBM jurisdictions, Republicans should be playing the same games as skillfully as they can manage. Harvest ballots and mule them to drop-boxes. Send door-knockers to go "help" people fill out those ballots. Play hard and play to win. The opponent is. Play by *his* rules, not *the* rules.

It is also probably the best way to end the VBM system.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 09:08 AM (DU+/6)

Then we might as well admit that voting at the Fed level is worthless and nuke the system. It won't result in VBM going away. It will just mean the DOJ/FBI show up to arrest the "wrong" people for cheating. Cheating like they do does not fix the problem.

Posted by: WiNO - Again Fortified with Fraud at November 10, 2022 09:12 AM (EpDzw)

397 Insty is impossible to read right now. The NeverTrumpers and Only True Conservatives are busy proclaiming that abortion and Trump* are the reasons the GOP did not do well. ...

Posted by: WiNO - Again Fortified with Fraud at November 10, 2022 08:11 AM (EpDzw)

Insty hasn't been readable in years.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 10, 2022 09:13 AM (AW0uW)

398 Brandy

Posted by: Infidel at November 10, 2022 09:13 AM (Ur3ox)

399 386...And early in person voting should only be for a week at most.
Posted by: Tofer732 at November 10, 2022 09:10 AM (fatpD)

Not at all. Should not be allowed AT ALL.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 10, 2022 09:13 AM (Rbu5d)

400 Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 10, 2022 09:06 AM (OLVeZ)

Cue the old Glenn Beck routine.

Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 09:13 AM (wNDOJ)

401 Did you hear the Republicans plan for reducing inflation?
Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:10 AM (1xXOY)

Actually, I don't remember ANY Republican talking about issues and/or solutions!
That's NOT who they are!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at November 10, 2022 09:13 AM (hOUT3)

402 Brandy
Posted by: Infidel at November 10, 2022 09:13 AM (Ur3ox)

Fine girl

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 10, 2022 09:13 AM (4I/2K)

403 330 Has anyone heard of the international baccalaureate program that charter schools are bandying about these days? Wondering if that is some WEF thing.
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No. Its been around a lot longer than WEF. Its another AP program for HSs.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 10, 2022 09:13 AM (ifUkZ)

404 Same point I just made. Dave's solution is who can cheat the best.

Posted by: WiNO - Again Fortified with Fraud at November 10, 2022 09:04 AM (EpDzw)

Short of displacing an entrenched dem majority, then effecting election reform, that is the only way you'll get reform under the Ds.

Posted by: flounder at November 10, 2022 09:14 AM (yHsuS)

405 in fairness, everybody needs to relax and wait for the tallying to finish and decide what to do then.

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 09:14 AM (fqw0F)

406
As I've said, if you don't want people to question election results, don't have a election system that leads to questions. Vote by mail, ballot harvesting, counts that take days if not weeks, early voting, count pauses and so on don't lead to a lot of confidence in the integrity of the process.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 10, 2022 09:14 AM (MoZTd)

407 in fairness, not voting in persn, the day of, is for bitches

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 09:15 AM (fqw0F)

408 DU isn't the sobbing heap I hoped for after the midterms...just the normal unhinged, emotional level I've come to expect. Instead, they're crowing about Biden beating inflation.

Inflation falls to 7.7% CPIDown from 8.2% last month. This is lower than expected and great news. Month over month it was 0.4%. 7.9% and 0.6% were expected. Would have been nice if this could have come out last week.

Interesting. Inflation falls AFTER the election. It's almost like business conspired.

DOW OPENING +765! Inflation cools! Futures soar. when the trend is 8.7 then 8.5 then 8.3 then 8.2 then 7.7, I think it's easy to see that we're through the worst of inflation!

Thank Biden and the Dems for fighting inflation, and for the American worker! Going into 2024, Biden and the Dems are going to be campaigning from a position of extreme strength.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at November 10, 2022 09:15 AM (JCZqz)

409 399 386...And early in person voting should only be for a week at most.
Posted by: Tofer732 at November 10, 2022 09:10 AM (fatpD)

Not at all. Should not be allowed AT ALL.
Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 10, 2022 09:13 AM (Rbu5d)

If the married voters are our base, they work. So giving them a week or a weekend to vote would help them both vote.

Again, we want to make our voters vote. Trashing mail in with the caveat that we can do in person for more than 1 day (but not many), gives our side the best chance at getting our people out (and making sure Dems can't get theirs out)...

I mean, my daughter had classes all election day, so we voted the Friday before, so I could make sure the Rs got 3 votes, not 2...

Posted by: Nova local at November 10, 2022 09:15 AM (exHjb)

410 The longer God allows what is happening in the US to go on the more he's going to owe an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah. If I were bargaining with the Almighty now like Abraham was I don't know that I'd be haggling over the righteous that remain since we know their destiny is secure.

Posted by: Justasheep at November 10, 2022 09:15 AM (8GJtx)

411 The incident revealed a larger cultural truth. Punch lines were suddenly on the endangered species list thanks to the woke revolution. And Zucker wants no part of it.

“They’re destroying comedy because of 9 percent of the people who don’t have a sense of humor,” he said.

More like 3 to 4%.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 10, 2022 09:15 AM (BRHaw)

412 Stacey Abrams Uses Concession Speech To Compare Her Loss To The Religious Persecution Of Saint Paul

“[W]e are troubled on every side, but not distressed. We are perplexed but not in despair, persecuted but not forsaken, stale but not destroyed.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 10, 2022 09:15 AM (FVME7)

413 Not at all. Should not be allowed AT ALL.
Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi

Only individual absentee voting with monitoring by the local registrar and true paper ballot control!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at November 10, 2022 09:16 AM (hOUT3)

414 just one question

why does Ronna still have a job ?

she is a pathetic POS
Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 08:37 AM

Ronna Romney McDaniel

to ask is to answer

establishment gotta establishment

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 10, 2022 09:16 AM (ENBF0)

415 Again, the most ripe, winnable election in decades and they didn't discuss any of the issues that the nation is boiling over about.
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This is also a component.

And I believe it was done on purpose.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 09:16 AM (5p7BC)

416 I'm not saying it isn't part of it. Yes ballot harvesting is happening, but VBM is not illegal and has been expanded for the last 3 cycles, especially in 2020.

It is now a legal mechanism that the Democrats are exploiting effectively, while the GOP sits on their hands and does nothing. It is a high tech GOTV effort, while the GOP isn't even using a low tech GOTV. ...
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 09:12 AM (5p7BC)
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I don't disagree. VBM itself is not illegal (it should be, but that is beside the point) and it makes extremely targeted GOTV activities far easier to implement, and the Dems do a better of job it.

But the adjunct pieces of VBM - the ballot harvesting and all that "assistance" that door-knocking goons can provide with filling that ballot out - aren't legal in most of the places where VBM is used. That is also a key component to the entire VBM scheme, and it's built in to the system.

On both the legal GOTV front and the illegal harvesting front, the Dems play to win.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 09:16 AM (DU+/6)

417 As I've said, if you don't want people to question election results, don't have a election system that leads to questions. Vote by mail, ballot harvesting, counts that take days if not weeks, early voting, count pauses and so on don't lead to a lot of confidence in the integrity of the process.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 10, 2022 09:14 AM (MoZTd)

We'll work out the glitches. Eventually. Trust in me.

Posted by: Harris County's Newest Elections Administrator at November 10, 2022 09:17 AM (4I/2K)

418 Victor Davis Hanson: "The under-polled voters were not silent, wary Trump supporters, but seething upscale women and college students."

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This has occurred to me as well after the polls were so far off.

Out: The Shy Trump Voter.
In: The Shy Lump Voter.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 10, 2022 09:17 AM (K3TEc)

419 As I've said, if you don't want people to question election results, don't have a election system that leads to questions. Vote by mail, ballot harvesting, counts that take days if not weeks, early voting, count pauses and so on don't lead to a lot of confidence in the integrity of the process.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh /i]

If we were a serious nation, this is the simple elegant answer!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at November 10, 2022 09:17 AM (hOUT3)

420 410 The longer God allows what is happening in the US to go on the more he's going to owe an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah. If I were bargaining with the Almighty now like Abraham was I don't know that I'd be haggling over the righteous that remain since we know their destiny is secure.
Posted by: Justasheep at November 10, 2022 09:15 AM (8GJtx)

Abraham wasn't negotiating on behalf of the righteous but the whole group. On the basis of a few, many are saved. And later on the OT narrative establishes that if the many are too far gone, a righteous remnant is still preserved.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 10, 2022 09:17 AM (eYoxG)

421 You are either going to learn how to de-certify states, or they will steal from Trump a second time.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 10, 2022 09:18 AM (44ww/)

422
I don't support absentee voting, but I do support-

absinthe voting!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 10, 2022 09:18 AM (KLPy8)

423 Then we might as well admit that voting at the Fed level is worthless and nuke the system. It won't result in VBM going away. It will just mean the DOJ/FBI show up to arrest the "wrong" people for cheating. Cheating like they do does not fix the problem.
Posted by: WiNO - Again Fortified with Fraud at November 10, 2022 09:12 AM (EpDzw)
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VBM also applies to state and local elections, and makes the vote much more predictable in the places where it's used. Competitive cheating is better than one-sided cheating and no, it does not fix the problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 09:18 AM (DU+/6)

424
If we were a serious nation, this is the simple elegant answer!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothga

in fairness, then we should repeal the 19th amendment

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 09:19 AM (fqw0F)

425 And people wonder why I'm skeptical of DeSantis, whom I do admire, but who was and is fully supported by Mitch and the GOPe. People here are smart and should be more acutely aware of the narrative that is being built pro-DeSantis and anti-Trump. There is a reason for everything they do. Sadly, it doesn't seem that a lot of people here are willing to see that.
Posted by: IrishEi at November 10, 2022 09:09 AM (3ImbR)

This is Conservative Treehouse crap. While I'll agree that DeSantis needs to be watched, ALL politicians need to be watched.

After watching DeSantis and how he's governed, I see massive victories (including electoral) in *everything* conservatives care about. Everything the GOPe is NOT doing. So while he may get GOPe support, he's actually doing something.

Results matter, and there is now no arguing against the results DeSantis has delivered.

Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 09:19 AM (wNDOJ)

426
absinthe voting!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 10, 2022 09:18 AM (KLPy8 )

That's how we got Harold Washington.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2022 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

427 ... Interesting. Inflation falls AFTER the election. It's almost like business conspired. ...
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at November 10, 2022 09:15 AM (JCZqz)
++++
It's been an intensely competitive field, but I think we found our winner for "stupidest comment of the week."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 09:19 AM (DU+/6)

428 Do you want to see how baked in leftist cheating is? Simply look at Ohio and Florida where Democrats couldn't get within 10 points statewide. Do you really think Florida has changed from purple to deep red because of immigration? There are not enough new voters to account for the shift. What did happen is both states cleaned their voter roles and clamped down on cheating.

The long count in AZ is because it is Kari Lakes' opponent who is counting the votes, and they are waiting for Al Franken's Buick to arrive with printed in China, ballots.

It is massive fraud in Democrat run cities, that is why Oz lost in PA, why Warnoc is ahead in GA. They made a deal with the RINO governor of GA, rewarding him personally for letting them rig the 2020 election.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 10, 2022 09:19 AM (CecP5)

429 Are They for Real?! Scarborough and Sharpton Compare Abrams to Moses
Nearly simultaneously, Scarborough also chimed in, “By the way, Moses… he led the Jews to the Promised Land but didn't get there himself.”
Sharpton naturally agreed, “He didn't get there himself, but God took care of Moses.” After Scarborough interjected to affirm, “Yes, He did,” Sharpton continued, “Keep reading the Bible, God said, “I will bury Moses. Y’all leave Moses alone and let Joshua keep going and Stacey will get her due. God will reward Stacey. Anytime you see Ossoff and Warnock and Biden in Washington, you’re looking at the work of Stacey Abrams.”

Viewers wanting to know where in the Bible it says that God endorses the candidate who opposes basic voter ID laws would be left disappointed.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 10, 2022 09:19 AM (FVME7)

430 Is it really now down to whichever sides cheats the most/best wins? That's disappointing. Not unexpected tho'.

Republicans better get some ballot harvesting training manuals and some election fortification toolkits ASAP.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2022 09:19 AM (Q4IgG)

431
We'll work out the glitches. Eventually. Trust in me.
Posted by: Harris County's Newest Elections Administrator at November 10, 2022 09:17 AM (4I/2K)

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Notice how the cock-ups are almost always in Democratic places?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 10, 2022 09:19 AM (MoZTd)

432 If the married voters are our base, they work. So giving them a week or a weekend to vote would help them both vote.

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I don't care. If your civic duty is important to you then you figure it out.

Giving Moeisha and L'Tray two months to harvest their ballot or get their $10 for in person early voting (that's not a joke, the Democrats were caught paying that per vote) has to end.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:20 AM (1xXOY)

433 ] Stacey Abrams Uses Concession Speech To Compare Her Loss To The Religious Persecution Of Saint Paul

“[W]e are troubled on every side, but not distressed. We are perplexed but not in despair, persecuted but not forsaken, stale but not destroyed.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 10, 2022 09:15 AM (FVME7)

And the Christians sit silently as their Lord and Savior is blasphemed into oblivion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2022 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

434 _________

Notice how the cock-ups are almost always in Democratic places?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 10, 2022 09:19 AM (MoZTd)

NOTHING that happens in government EVER benefits Republicans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2022 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

435 VDH is wrong. GOP under-performance in PA came from Trump districts, not from metro areas. Oz did very well in Philly and the collar counties.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 09:21 AM (5p7BC)

436 @416

>>On both the legal GOTV front and the illegal harvesting front, the Dems play to win.

There were numerous videos of USPS workers dropping off and dumping huge tranches of ballots into drop boxes, WTF is that about?

This sh*t is out of control.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2022 09:21 AM (2bh7b)

437 I'll wager 50 quatloos that we get a worthless eunuch.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2022 08:42 AM (jjpbs)

We're right here you know and your words are hurtful.

Posted by: Denny Hastert, Paul Ryan and Drunk Ass Boehner at November 10, 2022 09:21 AM (QIOpg)

438 Inflation falls to 7.7% CPIDown from 8.2% last month. This is lower than expected and great news. Month over month it was 0.4%. 7.9% and 0.6% were expected. Would have been nice if this could have come out last week.

It is really about 12 to 15% when you do not do substitution. Many govt rules allows the shopper to select an off brand or similar source of protein.

In the 3 or 4 household I know of THAT DOES NOT happen. 3rd shelf wine we now buy for dinner is about 15% more than 2nd shelf wine was a year or so ago!

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 10, 2022 09:21 AM (BRHaw)

439 They made a deal with the RINO governor of GA, rewarding him personally for letting them rig the 2020 election.

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I suspect blowing up that politician's kid's car after a mild side swipe impact helped as well.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:21 AM (1xXOY)

440 Notice how the cock-ups are almost always in Democratic places?
Posted by: H

in fairness. you might have omitted some detail, but that is not going to be ignored in future votes

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 09:22 AM (fqw0F)

441 Speaking of clueless, Breitbart has a great article up on Joy Behar talking about Dems' real problem...messaging lol.

“I think that the Democrats should learn from this because, with the heinous condition of the Republican Party at the time moment, we should have had a blue tsunami. It should have been a blue tsunami. And I think it’s the messenger. There is no good messaging going on the Democratic side. Remember when you had James Carville saying, ‘it’s the economy, stupid.’ Well, you need somebody like that. ‘It’s the democracy, stupid. It’s abortion rights, stupid. It’s voting rights, stupid. And sell it. Go out there and sell it!”

If she thinks the left didn't flood the zone with "muh democracy" and "muh abortion" messaging sufficiently, I shudder to imagine what she thinks would look appropriate.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at November 10, 2022 09:22 AM (JCZqz)

442 435 VDH is wrong. GOP under-performance in PA came from Trump districts, not from metro areas. Oz did very well in Philly and the collar counties.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 10, 2022 09:21 AM (5p7BC)

College educated voters (who the Rs have lost ground with) turn out more reliably than working class voters. Historically the way to get the working class to turnout was using unions, which are themselves like a political machine.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 10, 2022 09:22 AM (eYoxG)

443 So any discussion of Trump vs. DeSantis in terms of these elections must be couched around the simple fact that we cannot trust the vote in large portions of the country.

Where can we trust the vote? Florida.

In Florida, both Trump and DeSantis have crushed in the past two elections.

What does this mean? I...don't freaking know. But it is interesting.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 10, 2022 09:22 AM (KbCG3)

444 It is really about 12 to 15% when you do not do substitution. Many govt rules allows the shopper to select an off brand or similar source of protein.

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It's nowhere near that. Food has doubled since Biden took office. Even 15% is a pipe dream.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:22 AM (1xXOY)

445 But the adjunct pieces of VBM - the ballot harvesting and all that "assistance" that door-knocking goons can provide with filling that ballot out - aren't legal in most of the places where VBM is used. That is also a key component to the entire VBM scheme, and it's built in to the system.

On both the legal GOTV front and the illegal harvesting front, the Dems play to win.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 09:16 AM (DU+/6)

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This is one of the problems -- and why I called for the Death Penalty for any who participate in voter and election fraud: since when do Leftists care what is legal, and how often are the held to account and punished for said illegality?

That's why they're engaging in illegal ballot harvesting nationwide (and the couple of times some are caught and prosecuted, it's merely a slap on the wrist -- and thus no disincentive against it continuing).

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at November 10, 2022 09:22 AM (K3TEc)

446 170...
When he comes home for the first time, notice how he calls all adult men "Sir". (if he didn't before)

Hilarious.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 10, 2022 08:30 AM (LsEU/)

He was raised right, he always did.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 10, 2022 09:22 AM (Rbu5d)

447 "As I've said, if you don't want people to question election results,"

They don't care if we question the results. The whole point is to cheat so blatantly that everyone knows they live in an occupied nation.

I'm still trying to understand how anyone writing on this site is stupid enough to be surprised there was no red wave. Nothing was done about the 2020 cheating. So why would the cheating stop?

Posted by: Brian at November 10, 2022 09:23 AM (4iOYD)

448 "Inflation falls to 7.7% CPIDown from 8.2% last month. This is lower than expected and great news.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground"

They do know that gas will be going up at least $1/gallon now that the election is over and SPR ending?

Posted by: Ripley at November 10, 2022 09:23 AM (MxEKc)

449 "In late August, former Orange County Commissioner candidate Cynthia Harris filed an affidavit with the Florida Secretary of State’s office alleging that ballot harvesters showed up at her home attempting to collect her ballot when she shut them down. Harris claims they are part of an illegal ballot-harvesting operation that’s been going on for years in the black community in the Orlando area. According to Harris, ballot harvesters are paid $10 for each ballot they collect."

https://tinyurl.com/23akeruu

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:23 AM (1xXOY)

450 If the married voters are our base, they work. So giving them a week or a weekend to vote would help them both vote.

For a few hundred years they've been able to find time to decide their childrens' future. I bet they can still find time.

Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2022 09:23 AM (Sv58p)

451 They don't care if we question the results. The whole point is to cheat so blatantly that everyone knows they live in an occupied nation.

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Yep. That was Fetterman's role. Joe's too, except they weren't as blatant with Joe.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:24 AM (1xXOY)

452 330 Has anyone heard of the international baccalaureate program that charter schools are bandying about these days? Wondering if that is some WEF thing.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 10, 2022 08:58 AM (lTGtQ)

The IB is the certification awarded to university track students in European high schools. Most universities are free or cost effective for those that received these certifications, but only a few students are selected for the IB track. That's the point that gets left out when people tout the European free university stuff. In seventh grade, you go through a battery of tests to determine whether you are attending a college track or a vocation track for the rest of your schooling, and it's very, very difficult to switch upward after that as been determined. (Easy to go to vocational, though.)
Pushing the IB in US schools includes a few courses that would satisfy acceptance into European schools - not free, though. Out of country students get to pay full price.

Posted by: Moki at November 10, 2022 09:24 AM (JrN/x)

453 Where is this data about The Yutes coming out in significant numbers?

And where is the explanation about how the Donks are losing their required Hispanic vote and still remaining competitive?

Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 09:24 AM (wNDOJ)

454 Russia Reportedly Transfers Brittney Griner to Penal Colony to Serve Her 9 Year Sentence

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I don't think it'll be the Club Fed that Bernie Madoff et al. got.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 10, 2022 09:24 AM (FVME7)

455 Republicans Have Won 6M More Votes than Dems in House Races, But Gained Few Seats

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2022 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

456 Russia Reportedly Transfers Brittney Griner to Penal Colony to Serve Her 9 Year Sentence

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he / his

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:25 AM (1xXOY)

457 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 10, 2022 09:19 AM (FVME7)

That's some creative exegesis of Biblical stories. LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 10, 2022 09:25 AM (vH/6k)

458 My first post of the day shouldn't be gloomy, but saying so might be luxury-comment-coaching.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 10, 2022 09:25 AM (44ww/)

459 in fairnes, the geneva conventin says she should have been transferred to a vagal colony insteasd

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 09:25 AM (fqw0F)

460 This is Conservative Treehouse crap. While I'll agree that DeSantis needs to be watched, ALL politicians need to be watched.

Results matter, and there is now no arguing against the results DeSantis has delivered.
Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 09:19 AM

I'll keep an eye on him. And if he comes to Washington, I'll make sure to show him the ropes, and teach him how to fight for his constituents and real conservative values!

Posted by: Rep Dan Crenshaw at November 10, 2022 09:26 AM (JCZqz)

461 459 in fairnes, the geneva conventin says she should have been transferred to a vagal colony insteasd
Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 09:25 AM (fqw0F)

Well she's a guy so....

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 10, 2022 09:26 AM (eYoxG)

462 420 ...

Abraham wasn't negotiating on behalf of the righteous but the whole group. On the basis of a few, many are saved. And later on the OT narrative establishes that if the many are too far gone, a righteous remnant is still preserved.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 10, 2022 09:17 AM (eYoxG)

I can't bring myself to pray for the restoration of our nation any more- it's shown itself to be too far gone. The only thing I can still pray is "come Lord Jesus"

Posted by: Justasheep at November 10, 2022 09:26 AM (8GJtx)

463 My son was on the IB track when we lived overseas. It was very demanding, but he learned statistics, economics, hard science and several languages by the 10th grade.

Posted by: Moki at November 10, 2022 09:26 AM (JrN/x)

464 Gentlemen, I despise each and every one of you.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 10, 2022 09:26 AM (yQpMk)

465 she's a guy so....
Posted by: R

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 09:27 AM (fqw0F)

466 Florida counted the millions of votes that came in Nov 8th in one day while a hurricane (cat 1 but still) was coming onto the east coast of the state.

Arizona with a smaller population is still counting. Really?

It makes me wonder if the red counties vs Maricopa are having a standoff of sorts.

Posted by: Floridachick at November 10, 2022 09:27 AM (oajph)

467 n fairnes, the geneva conventin says she should have been transferred to a vagal colony insteasd

Penile is as penile does...

Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2022 09:27 AM (Sv58p)

468 The only thing that would fix elections would be a new Amendment that lays out the rules for all states that is based on the current rules and security as practiced currently in Florida.

In other words, elections will never be fixed. I'm sorry but I really think that's the reality.

Posted by: SamIam at November 10, 2022 09:27 AM (oasF3)

469 @453

>>And where is the explanation about how the Donks are losing their required Hispanic vote and still remaining competitive?

It's not just Hispanics, allegedly the GOP did better with every group except unmarried college aged women and yet that didn't result in massive wins for Republicans.

This sh*t smells fishier than Hillary Clinton's fart clam

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2022 09:27 AM (2bh7b)

470 the fact is the Dems are just better at getting out their base ... thru mail ins or early voting they get their base out ... we don't ... the GOP keeps saying vote on Election Day ... like that gets people out ... it doesn't ... Independents vote on election day ... everyone else should vote asa possible thru mail in or early voting ... period ... it doesn't matter if "its not the way it should be" ... it the rules of the current game and to act like its not fair is just to lose to the Dems

Posted by: The Dark Lord at November 10, 2022 09:27 AM (5cMUX)

471 That's not a joke btw.

Mr. Britney confirmed he was a man back in 2013 or so in a feel-good interview with some chick magazine.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:28 AM (1xXOY)

472 415 Again, the most ripe, winnable election in decades and they didn't discuss any of the issues that the nation is boiling over about.
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My guess is 2024 will be the most ripe and winnable election. This is merely prelude to how the game will be played. No one knows who the Dem Prez candidate will be. Gavin Newsom and Fat Pritzker are really not that easy a sell. No telling what the Supremes will do with Affirmative Action and then there is Gay Marriage. Its quite possible that Trump and DeSantis are working as a team. Trump attracts the enemies fire while DeSantis manuevers to flank them. Then there is the economy in two years.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 10, 2022 09:28 AM (ifUkZ)

473 68% of unmarried women favored democrats in the U.S. House midterm elections.

Further proof that the founders were correct to limit voting to male property owners.

Posted by: Archer at November 10, 2022 09:28 AM (gmo/4)

474 450 If the married voters are our base, they work. So giving them a week or a weekend to vote would help them both vote.

For a few hundred years they've been able to find time to decide their childrens' future. I bet they can still find time.
Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2022 09:23 AM (Sv58p)

Yeah, they'll ask for a mail-in vote, and we'll never get rid of those mail in votes b/c our side won't push hard enough. I did some of those in the past, too...but now I don't trust my vote will get counted...

Posted by: Nova local at November 10, 2022 09:28 AM (exHjb)

475 453 Where is this data about The Yutes coming out in significant numbers?

And where is the explanation about how the Donks are losing their required Hispanic vote and still remaining competitive?
Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 09:24 AM (wNDOJ)

If the GenZ and Unmarried women swings are anything, its proof they no longer have to play Identity politics. All they have to do is keep these two demographics miserable and stupid and they win forever.

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 10, 2022 09:29 AM (OLVeZ)

476 why does Ronna still have a job ?
she is a pathetic POS
Posted by: REDACTED at November 10, 2022 08:37 AM

Ronna Romney McDaniel
to ask is to answer
establishment gotta establishment
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 10, 2022 09:16 AM (ENBF0)

What really irritates me is no one besides Tucker is even talking about it. All the new, hip American First media celebs and influencers are silent. Thier narrative is all Trump, did he help, did he hurt. Like it's almost designed to deflect blame from RNC, NRSC and NRCC, or they're all just morons, hard to tell.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 10, 2022 09:29 AM (qH6FZ)

477 >>> "This is Conservative Treehouse crap."
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I'm going to put this comment of yours in the round file along with:

"Cue the old Glenn Beck routine."
and
"So, other than commenting on a blog, what are you doing?"

I get it. You like DeSantis and will defend him against any less than stellar comments with a disparaging remark.

So, other than commenting on a blog, what are you doing?

Posted by: IrishEi at November 10, 2022 09:29 AM (3ImbR)

478 Better if you make voting Sat/Sun/Tues with no absentee other than that - teachers will seethe b/c they use that week to go on vacay b/c schools close Mon/Tues...and then there's usually veteran's day or teacher work days...

Posted by: Nova local at November 10, 2022 09:29 AM (exHjb)

479 It's been an intensely competitive field, but I think we found our winner for "stupidest comment of the week."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 09:19 AM (DU+/6)
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There is still time yet, and I'm a big believer in our ability to excel!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 10, 2022 09:30 AM (OIMlO)

480 I can't emphasize this enough: there are a lot of reasons things happened as they did, here. But abortion is not why this happened. That's silly.

The fact that you're hearing the (R)enfield Party blame that is twofold. One is to distract from the actual reasons, of course. The other is that you are about to see my prediction from last year play out...

Now that the election has passed, Team (R)enfield is going to get busy as bees on "legislative solutions" in various arenas to the little setback Team (D)racula had regarding abortion last year, and it's going to be *ugly*.

(R)enfield used abortion as a cheap virtual signal and fat cash-cow for 50 years because they were secure in the knowledge they could never change it... now they're the dog who caught the car, and it's going to be up to them to fix the tire.

They're just using this election as an excuse to soften you up for that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 10, 2022 09:30 AM (oINRc)

481 472 415 Again, the most ripe, winnable election in decades and they didn't discuss any of the issues that the nation is boiling over about.
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My guess is 2024 will be the most ripe and winnable election. This is merely prelude to how the game will be played. No one knows who the Dem Prez candidate will be. Gavin Newsom and Fat Pritzker are really not that easy a sell. No telling what the Supremes will do with Affirmative Action and then there is Gay Marriage. Its quite possible that Trump and DeSantis are working as a team. Trump attracts the enemies fire while DeSantis manuevers to flank them. Then there is the economy in two years.
Posted by: Puddinhead at November 10, 2022 09:28 AM (ifUkZ)

I think 2024 will actually be fairly difficult. Incumbency, D machine is still there, and it's unlikely the economy will be in the doldrums for the next 2 years with the government gridlocked.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 10, 2022 09:30 AM (eYoxG)

482 why does Ronna still have a job ?
she is a pathetic POS
Posted by: R

in fairness, because the vax does not wrk?

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 09:30 AM (fqw0F)

483 Griner says she'll be "fine" when I ask her about the IOC rules, though she also seems to say that she's never had a testosterone test. She'd take one if asked, she tells me, tersely. And what would she do if she didn't pass?

"I don't know," she replies.

https://tinyurl.com/2h2676sc

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You know who doesn't have to worry about being mistaken for a man because of their body chemistry?

Women.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:30 AM (1xXOY)

484 They do know that gas will be going up at least $1/gallon now that the election is over and SPR ending?
Posted by: Ripley at November 10, 2022 09:23 AM (MxEKc)
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They don't, because it won't happen. This isn't knowledge, it's speculation. Now that the election is over, gas prices are going to down and they are going to go down for two major reasons.

Now that it is clear to the world that the United States is not at risk of become a fascist country next election because of the the failure of Republican ambitions in their so-called "wave election" year, the nations that snubbed us earlier this year will be more enthusiastic about cooperating with a stabilized and still powerful United States. Global energy production will increase in the near term while the world continues its transition away from carbon-based energy.

The other is the wind-down of the conflict in Ukraine. Ukraine's recently-disclosed desire to engage in negotiation is a positive development brought about by the winning team in Washington and the conflict will likely end by early winter on terms agreeable to the West. Russian energy flow will resume, further stabilizing energy prices and supply.

Posted by: Your Kid's Political Science Professor at November 10, 2022 09:30 AM (DU+/6)

485 Where is this data about The Yutes coming out in significant numbers?

The only data we have is that their ballots came out in huge numbers. If I remember right, double and triple their 2018 rates.

Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2022 09:31 AM (Sv58p)

486 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2022 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

487 The B-52 Bomber Is Getting Some Big Updates. But Is It a Waste of Money?

t gets its new engines, the latest radar, and undergoes other cosmetic changes. These upgrades are some of the most substantial modifications in decades, and they will keep the B-52 in service until at least 2050. The question remains whether it is wise to put so much effort into a bomber whose mission set might nevertheless be substantially constrained compared to the past.

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Yeah, but the Buffs are 29.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 10, 2022 09:31 AM (FVME7)

488 Results matter, and there is now no arguing against the results DeSantis has delivered.

Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 09:19 AM (wNDOJ)

I think that's a strawman. If DeathSanta is GOPe's tool to take out Trump, he's not my guy. It's Tea Party, part 2.

Posted by: flounder at November 10, 2022 09:31 AM (yHsuS)

489 in fairness, because the vax does not wrk?
Posted by: confederatefifth at November 10, 2022 09:30 AM (fqw0F)

hasn't worked yet...

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at November 10, 2022 09:32 AM (MkuC5)

490 370 The GOP electorate hates politics, looks for a savior, treats their fucking vote like it is a measure of their own moral salvation, the Davey Fwench types pretend they are voting for saints not assholes in charge.

The entire right coalition is fundamentally unserious politically compared to what the leftoid mass is willing to tolerate to get their way.

Either the majority of the nation is in love with the donk agenda, or is willing to look the other way on the depravity to get their government cheese.

I have lived in this shit my whole life damn near having grown up in the projects.

Posted by: sven at November 10, 2022 09:06 AM (Lzpvj)

"We can't lower ourselves to their level!"

OK, then prepare for Communism to win every time.

Posted by: XTC at November 10, 2022 09:33 AM (UnA8+)

491 Since there are more red states than blue, how exactly is the senate 50-50? That can only happen because the GOPe does not want to win.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 10, 2022 09:34 AM (CecP5)

492 Since there are more red states than blue, how exactly is the senate 50-50?

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Yeah, that's weird, isn't it?

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:35 AM (1xXOY)

493 249...I'm going to be moving back to MS fairly soon and noticed that as well. Lots of long term Dems who usually win by obscene margins saw those margins evaporate this cycle. I'm still pissed at the results of this election, but I can't buy into this permanent gloom shit right now.
Posted by: McLurkerson at November 10, 2022 08:45 AM (wNDOJ)

We saw that in Indiana Cong. District 1, aka Cicago East. Usually Dem is elected by WIDE margins, the Rep is a token candidate. This year, only a few percentage points. Jennifer-Ruth Green almost pulled it off .

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 10, 2022 09:36 AM (Rbu5d)

494 Abortion has always been a distraction from real issues. It was used to curry a 'womens vote' much like AA was used to curry a 'black vote.' Both women and blacks are very plastic people and can be molded very easily. These two groups were created when The Great Society hit the rocks during the 68 Race Riots.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 10, 2022 09:37 AM (ifUkZ)

495 Where is it written in stone WE must be the ones "dying on our knees" in reference to these events?

Why can this not be the fate of the left rather?

The pain, shame and oppobrium is on THEM.

Posted by: irongrampa at November 10, 2022 09:38 AM (KATBx)

496
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Power of and, folks. Power of and. Fraud is a thing and it is probably the deciding thing in some important races (especially Arizona and Pennsylvania), but it sure ain't the only thing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 10, 2022 07:58 AM (DU+/6)

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What I get out of this, is that many Democrat voters are fine with voting for a debilitated low-functioning retard (Fetterman, Biden) who is an obvious facade for a hidden committee behind them. They know they're voting for an untouchable, unreachable secret government, and they don't care.

Some Republicans as well, I suppose.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 10, 2022 09:38 AM (qOuMB)

497 The only thing funnier than Sharpton and what's his name comparing Stacy Abrams to Moses would be Stacy herself saying that, "I didn't make it to DC-(I guess that's the 'promised land? LOL) but I led others there." Yes; Democrats were in slavery. It's a miracle getting Democrats elected-just like Moses. When does Stacy release a plague of frogs or make Sharpton's rod become a snake? LOL

It was the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison who said Harriet Tubman was the "Moses of her people", not a racial grievance monger and some journalist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 10, 2022 09:39 AM (vH/6k)

498 A few takeaways -
A debate after voting has started isn’t a debate at all.

It is clear that the D side can win without real campaigns (See Arizona Gov and J Biden)

Abortion is NOT an issue (it is a 50/50 split) unless you are SILENT on your stance. I’m for state’s rights isn’t an abortion position.

The GOP is not a grassroots organization and doesn’t work between cycles. Leftists are busy making presentations in boardrooms telling executives how they will be PUNISHED if they support the other side.

The leftists market a brand. They know some people love to be part of a lifestyle. Think Starbucks vs Dunkin. If your elite - you’re a D. If you’re a working class lug or alt-whatever, yuck you’re an R. Don’t be an R. Vote D. That message is everywhere. What was the R message? We aren’t them? That feeds their message.

Posted by: JakeSpeed at November 10, 2022 09:39 AM (Vu1jV)

499 When the PA Supreme Court flipped to the Demoncrats, it was over.
Posted by: XTC at November 10, 2022 08:02 AM (UnA8+)

North Carolina voters had a bellyful with the Dem-controlled NC Supreme Court. Republicans swept all six statewide judicial contests and retook control of the NC Supreme Court and several appellate seats.

Posted by: mrp at November 10, 2022 09:39 AM (6eRlp)

500 Good morning! As I get my littlest one ready for her outside science learning day, a program for homeschoolers 1 day a week, I am thinking about this young demographic and older demographic. From my 2 older children, schools impact was huge. They both described themselves as AOC but smarter. Those were fun conversations about oxymorons. Yet my middle one voted R because of gas prices, so there is hope once reality hits. My oldest is married now to a plumber and is suddenly gung-ho union. She may be lost. My mother actually said she was so happy Fetterman won, even though she isn’t from PA. I mean, what? But she gets her news from the View. She is a well to do white woman who gets enraged when I point out her hypocrisy. Her lifestyle is courtesy of my conservative stepfather. She is very detached from reality. I don’t know we will reach these types because you can’t make people see when they don’t want to do so. They seem to vote in large numbers, and they vote stupidly.

Posted by: Piper at November 10, 2022 09:40 AM (ZdaMQ)

501 Thank You for this post.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 10, 2022 09:05 AM (ym7CX)

Ok, I LOLed.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 10, 2022 09:40 AM (ozHSw)

502 What I get out of this, is that many Democrat voters are fine with voting for a debilitated low-functioning retard (Fetterman, Biden) who is an obvious facade for a hidden committee behind them. They know they're voting for an untouchable, unreachable secret government, and they don't care.
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Once you accept third world destitution as the norm then the idea of being managed as cattle seems okay.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 10, 2022 09:40 AM (ifUkZ)

503 Better if you make voting Sat/Sun/Tues with no absentee other than that - teachers will seethe b/c they use that week to go on vacay b/c schools close Mon/Tues...and then there's usually veteran's day or teacher work days...
Posted by: Nova local at November 10, 2022 09:29 AM (exHjb)

I was looking at my kids school calendar and I think they have like two actual full weeks of school between mid October and the New Year. No no, can't have teacher workshop days during summer break.

Posted by: Mainah at November 10, 2022 09:41 AM (B+qrE)

504 Stop the. s about DeSantis, he’s bought by the globalists party, the Ryan’s, McConnell , hedge fund, Wall Street

What don’t you get

The victory’s Tuesday were because of Trump period. The RNC amd McConnell
pUlled their money amd support , they never had a plan, they haven’t even pushed against ANY of the insane Ava da of Biden. When have you heard one pop about ileagals for God sakes out of them . The jailed Jan 6 prisoners, they pass all the insane bills

The house amd likely Senate wil pass to republicans BECAUSE of Trump
And no one else.

Kari will win, Nevada is red. F-k DeSantis and all you globlist supporters. You’ve been had and are now part of the problem
Trumps candidates so far have won 219/10 loses. !

Posted by: Gonzotx at November 10, 2022 09:41 AM (t4poC)

505 If the Cooper case interests you, I recommend Geoffrey Gray's Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper. There are a lot of weirdos connected to the case, both suspects and investigators.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 10, 2022 09:05 AM (AW0uW)

It's a good but very frustrating book to read - no narrative flow. Keeps jumping around: hijacking - suspect - hijacking - another suspect - yet another suspect - hijacking - retired fbi agent, and so on...

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at November 10, 2022 09:45 AM (t4BDZ)

506 The fight between now and 2024 should be at the state level, and the main event is election reform laws with the first priority being the elimination or at least curtailment of Early Voting. NC has a two-week Early Voting schedule, and that makes a difference compared to states with one or two months devoted to ballot harvesting. Second priortiy is voter ID in states which don't require identification (like NC) at the polling place.

Posted by: mrp at November 10, 2022 09:48 AM (6eRlp)

507 North Carolina voters had a bellyful with the Dem-controlled NC Supreme Court. Republicans swept all six statewide judicial contests and retook control of the NC Supreme Court and several appellate seats.
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This is good news. I went to HS in Raleigh. Nearly half of the students attending were recent arrivals from NY and MA. In 1969 the exodus of Yankees to the South began. Hopefully, our Andy Griffith goodness has rubbed off on the invaders.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 10, 2022 09:49 AM (ifUkZ)

508 he / his

I remember Griner as a female basketball player in high school in the Houston area. As far as I know all of the other girls on the team thought she was female. Doubt she was trans back then as the surgery was very expensive and her high school was not in a ritzy area. While the WNBA is a good living it doesn't have big endorsement deals or millionaire salaries, so I don't see the financial inducement.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 10, 2022 09:50 AM (CecP5)

509 he / his

I remember Griner as a female basketball player in high school in the Houston area. As far as I know all of the other girls on the team thought she was female. Doubt she was trans back then as the surgery was very expensive and her high school was not in a ritzy area. While the WNBA is a good living it doesn't have big endorsement deals or millionaire salaries, so I don't see the financial inducement.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president

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Take it up with him.

He's the one who said he wouldn't pass a test to determine if he was a woman.

Posted by: Paul Pelosi's Gay Anal Hammer Handle Fetish Can Save Democracy at November 10, 2022 09:54 AM (1xXOY)

510 This is good news. I went to HS in Raleigh. Nearly half of the students attending were recent arrivals from NY and MA. In 1969 the exodus of Yankees to the South began. Hopefully, our Andy Griffith goodness has rubbed off on the invaders.
Posted by: Puddinhead at November 10, 2022 09:49 AM (ifUkZ)

There's more good news. NC Republicans increased their number of seats held in the General Assembly and the state Senate to the point where they are just short of having veto-proof majorities.

Posted by: mrp at November 10, 2022 09:55 AM (6eRlp)

511 There are a lot of "Trump failed in this election" articles out there. There's no "McConnell failed" because he got what he wanted for America.

I like DeSantis but he hasn't said a lot of things that Trump has to show he's ready to take on our enemies on a national scale. If he makes an enemy of McConnell I'm in.

Posted by: Minuteman at November 10, 2022 10:06 AM (LaNzR)

512 The Moms for Liberty can get fucked. They screwed over our local schoolboard (which had something crazy like 12+ nominees). So, two of the people responsible for the covid crap were re-elected when they should have been thrown off. And MFL pushed forward a fake evangelical I dubbed Preacher Man, who won, and a from-the-ether housewife with no accomplishments & no track record (fortunately she lost). I get where they're going with things and trying to flip school boards, which is commendable. But they need to better vet their candidates so the people they put up know what the hell they're doing.

Posted by: Mr. Fabulist at November 10, 2022 10:07 AM (1DlmY)

513 To be fair, Griner is an actual, real female. She's just a freak. But many pro basketball players are freaks in one way or another.

Posted by: SamIam at November 10, 2022 10:11 AM (oasF3)

514 I don’t know we will reach these types because you can’t make people see when they don’t want to do so. They seem to vote in large numbers, and they vote stupidly.

Now, how many normal people do you know? Which group has more people in it? Now you know the chances that the left actually gets more votes. It is about voter fraud, and it always has been.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 10, 2022 10:14 AM (CecP5)

515 Why does any red state have blue senators? Somebody want to explain that, please.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 10, 2022 10:18 AM (CecP5)

516
He's the one who said he wouldn't pass a test to determine if he was a woman.

I never said she wasn't an idiot, just that she is biologically female.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 10, 2022 10:21 AM (CecP5)

517 Hey man Rome wasn't destroyed in a day.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at November 10, 2022 10:24 AM (Whn33)

518 Look at DeSantis' record, not who he is meeting with. The GOP is fractured, and it is simply smart politics for DeSantis to try to unify it for 2024. That doesn't mean he is "owned" by the McConnells and Ryans of the party.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at November 10, 2022 10:27 AM (ik/65)

519 Things are going to get worse. You can't fix the broken minds of people over 30. Their brains have solidified, and neural pathways have been laid down to come to the same conclusions.

You can't fix an intentionally corrupted system by using that same system. "Weird, the rules to this game are clearly designed to allow my opponents to cheat, yet I'm never able to follow those rules to win the game. I don't understand it!"

Combine those things, and you should expect that Brandon I, Emperor for Life will handily "win" in 2024 and the squeeze will begin in earnest. Look to our founders for the solution. Assuming there are enough Americans left who possess that "vigorous and manly spirit."

Spoiler - it's not men who take a federal gibzmedat to put food on the table.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at November 10, 2022 10:29 AM (kWePN)

520 I think of Fetterlump as lumpty-dumpty

Posted by: Jerry at November 10, 2022 10:30 AM (BQQ0e)

521 Why does any red state have blue senators? Somebody want to explain that, please.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 10, 2022 10:18 AM (CecP5)

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17th amendment. Instead of the governor nominating candidates and the state legislature voting from that pool (original system under the Constitution), now they are elected by the entire state.

The population centers typically outnumber the rural areas, so Missouri gets McCaskill because of St. Louis and Kansas City.

But since so many people have fled those areas in recent years, we get more #conservative sens like Hawley and Schmitt.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at November 10, 2022 10:34 AM (kWePN)

522 I think of Fetterlump as lumpty-dumpty
Posted by: Jerry at November 10, 2022 10:30 AM (BQQ0e)
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Professor Quirrel from Harry Potter, where Voldemort shares his body on the back of Quirrel's head.

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Posted by: Marie Smith at November 10, 2022 11:28 AM (Mnney)

524 Yes, Whites are becoming a minority. But by all means, let's keep counting on Muh Conservative Hispanics and Based Blacks!!!!! to carry the GOP to victory.

Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at November 10, 2022 12:54 PM (Etc2E)

525 Thank you for this article, JJ.

Truly.

You don't know how much we needed to read this and to know we aren't being abandoned by those few free speech spaces for political expediency to a party of corporatist, grifters and liars.

Thank you for not taking the GOPe/RNC bait and blaming President Trump for losses when facts simply don't bear that out. A guy who puts his heart, energy, sweat, blood and all he has on the line to save the nation he loves, that man deserves no one's scorn.

Posted by: Tracy at November 10, 2022 01:08 PM (R8mUF)

526 DeSantis has to face some serious fire and come through it without compromising before I'd pick him over Trump. In the same way I know gravity exists, I know Trump will fight until they bury him. Though I don't dislike DeSantis, I don't know the same thing about him.

Posted by: Mozam at November 10, 2022 01:46 PM (ea+OK)

527 "and do not blame him (Trump) for Tuesday's fizzle."

Why not? Did he or did he not foist upon us some shitty candidates who ended up losing winnable races?

Everybody - even Trump - deserves some blame for what happened.

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