All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Niccolo Machiavelli
This is horribly manipulative but it sounds accurate. Good information to have if you’re on either side of the equation.
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli
What if you’ve lost both?
I’ll start out by saying straight out I’m simply stating my opinion based on what the situation seems to be to me. I have no inside info and I’m not sure anyone outside the White House knows all the facts on the ground. That being said here goes.
First assumption I make is that Robert Mueller means to persecute President Trump’s associates until he can produce enough circumstantial evidence to indict the President. My second assumption is that he already has a bunch of things that he can unleash at any time. My third assumption is that firing Rosenstein and Mueller after the new House is convened would be worse than doing it now.
Based on these assumptions, which are completely my own calculations of where things stand, I think President Trump will fire Robert Mueller in the next couple of days. He’ll probably fire Rosenstein too. But that is even less certain than the rest of this hypothesizing.
The fallout from such a course of action is much more certain. The New York Times, Washington Post and the rest of the rags and CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC and NBC will explode with leaked stories accusing President Trump and all his associates inside and outside of the administration with every atrocity since the Sack of Rome. Following this the Democratic House will begin investigations and shortly after that start the Impeachment Circus. Will they impeach him? Sure. The only question in my mind is whether any of the idiot Republicans in the Senate decide to turn on the President. Luckily, I think the great majority of them are smarter than that. So, we probably lose a whole year going through this charade.
But by my reckoning that is actually the best way to handle this whole thing. Delaying any of these steps only makes it worse. Hopefully President Trump has gone through this too and recognizes the folly of letting this get drawn out. The sooner he begins this Kabuki Theater act, the more space he puts between this farce and the 2020 election. Waiting will sink his last two years and invites Mueller to tear even more people apart. And he might as well pardon all the folks Mueller has indicted and prosecuted. And as soon as he fires Mueller he should set up Rudy Giuliani to prosecute all the Dems and Deep Staters who have been running this treasonous witch hunt for the last three years. And that should include Obama and his evil cronies and the Clintons.
So that’s my outsider, not clued in, totally uninformed opinion. Fire these sons of bitches and let the chips fly where they will. The American state is divided into two approximately equal groups. One half likes you and won’t care at all about the crap that will fly in all directions. The other half already hates you and it won’t make them hate you any more than they do. So, go for it! It will be an enormous shot in the arm for the dirt people and it will drive the moonbats right through escape velocity and headed for interstellar space. Just my two cents.
So, where are we? Well, we’ve got a comfortable margin in the Senate finally. Once Montana and Arizona count the Indian county votes we should end up with 55 – 45. The House has a thin Democrat majority but that’s still enough for Pelosi and company (or whoever they make Speaker) to annoy the President with investigations and completely stymie any legislation. Basically what we had under Paul Ryan, so no big deal.
I guess the biggest change is that Trump doesn’t have to wait any longer if he wants to fire Sessions and the rest of the Justice Department. And that’s a big question. Does he want to do it? I hope he does. That would be exciting. I think if he is going to do it it’ll be during the Lame Duck session. That’s a narrow window. We’ll know soon.
The safer margin in the Senate will also allow easier approval of not only judges but also Cabinet heads. Once Sessions, Rosenstein and Mueller are gone he can get his own guys in easily enough and maybe even put in a good special prosecutor to go after the Deep State, Obama cronies and Clinton shenanigans that have been such an outrage for the last few years.
All in all, it wasn’t a bad night. But let’s hope we can do a lot better in the coming months. First things first, fire Sessions, clean out the rat’s nest and start going after employers who ignore illegal status and start deporting large numbers of illegals.
3:30 pm Update – Jeff Sessions resigns! Well, well. Onward and upward.
The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli
I’ll be updating the election results throughout the night.
I’ll start off the action by posting my predictions. Anybody who wants can out theirs in the comments.
Senate R54 / D46
House Republicans with a majority of 2 seats.
What’s your guess?
7 am update:
The ever hedging Nate Silver has increased the Dems odds:
SILVER: 88% DEMS TAKE HOUSE… 20% SENATE…
But still says anything can happen. Now there’s confidence in your numbers.
“Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends.” Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Well here we go again. I’ve been doing the Election Night Vigil religiously every two years since 2000. And only the 2006 and 2008 were so painful that I wish I had skipped them. But I have a good feeling about tonight. Have a great day.
1pm Update
It’s still a long time until results come in so I have some fun links to while a way the time
6 pm Update
Well I voted the straight Republican slate! But this is New England so not a single one of my picks will be elected. But I’m home and I have all the resources of the internet and the MSM at my disposal, meaning there’s nothing to say yet. Stay tuned.
7pm Update
Drudge Headline
EXIT POLLS SHOW DEM WAVE BUILDING – FEW SENATE RACES CLOSE
HOUSE D85 / R 93
FLORIDA GOV
GILLUM 49.6% DESANTIS 49.2%
9pm Update
Looks like we have our first Senate pick-up for the GOP
Indiana D – Donnelly 42.0 R – Braun 53.9 Brenton 4.1 (50%) GOP Pickup
10:20 pm Update
Looks like we picked up North Dakota and held Texas (Cruz) in a close one in the Senate. The Dems have 11 pick-ups in the House. They need 10 more but the Networks (NBC and Fox) have called it for the Dems already. I’ll hang in there to see how this goes.
07NOV2018 7am Final Update
Well, the Dems took the House but by just a little more than the minimum necessary. Disappointing but not earth shattering. We picked up our 3 seats in the Senate. The world goes on. Thanks to everyone who participated. It was a fun evening even if there were no meltdowns.
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I’ve always heard that Gay Pride is good. So Pride in being gay is good. But apparently just not feeling bad about being white is bad.
https://apnews.com/549fe3bdd059488e9032f72fd255d2da
I had heard about these signs that are showing up randomly. Now if they said something about it being the best then maybe you could make a case for it being a supremacy thing. But it doesn’t even go as far as saying good. It just says okay. It must really be bad to be white it it’s not even okay to feel okay about it. Sucks being me.