Tag: 2022 elections

Don’t Panic.  Pick Up the Flamethrower

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Facebook crashes and burns, Musk guts the Twitter mafia, the Fetterman debate, Biden continues to spin his tale of a bizzarro world where inflation is low and he’s the most popular man in the world, the State Department muses about nuclear first strike over Ukraine, Chuck Schumer tells Biden the bad news about the Georgia senate race, Oregonians might elect a Republican governor.  And on and on and on.

The weirdness has metastasized.  Even Democrat voters have stopped claiming that “things are alright.”  We’ve reached the Howard Beale stage of things where almost everyone is confused, scared and angry all at the same time.  And I’m really happy about that.  I’ve been waiting for years for the rest of the idiots to catch up to where I’ve been for a decade.  And I count myself as one of the idiots.  Maybe I’m just a little less stupid than the rest of them.  Or maybe I was just a little more involved in what was playing out on the national stage.

The real reason is because I’m extremely vindictive.  I’ve taken personally all the lies I was fed twenty some odd years ago during the War on Terror and I want pay back.  I’m just as interested in seeing Mitch McConnell lose his job as I am in seeing Joe Biden go to jail.

So, it’s a great relief to see so many catatonic Americans open their eyes for the first time in their lives and realize that they’ve entrusted their country to incompetent ideologues who believe in things that don’t exist.

It’s good to see that America is getting a sense of what abandoning petroleum feels like.  It feels like poverty.  That’s a valuable lesson to learn.

So, this week I’m soaking in all of the rage, fear and panic that the Democrats are radiating around them and the confusion and lies that the media is pumping out.  I’m floating on my back in a warm ocean of schadenfreude and it’s wonderful.  There was a great video of a doofus from MSNBC interviewing Republican voters from Western Pennsylvania.  She’s trying to get them to say that January 6th is a terrible thing and any politicians who were there should be shunned.  And they’ll have none of it.  They scoff at her and compare it to the larger riots during the “George Floyd summer of love.”  The expression on the face of the woman interviewing them was a deer in the headlights look.  She couldn’t believe that they wouldn’t let themselves be shamed into condemning the protestors.  It was glorious.

I’m trying not to get too charged up by the good news that seems to come out of every poll I read.  There’s nothing worse than the let down after being subjected to a fraudulent election.  Especially when it’s brutally obvious that massive fraud is slowly being unrolled before your eyes.

But there’s no reason not to enjoy this run up to the election.  Listening to the excuses and bitterness as everything goes wrong for the Left is deeply soothing.  It puts a bounce in my step and a smile in my heart.  Just hearing Liz Cheney talk about how noble and honorable it is for her to sell her party out and support the Democrats makes me feel all the better about her failure to get re-elected and the bigger failure of her January 6th Hearings.  Very soon she’ll be carrying her box of stolen office supplies home from her cushy former office in the Capitol building.  And once the new Republican majority is in charge of the House no one will ever remember who Liz Cheney was.  And the receptionists will let her know that whichever Congressman or Senator she wants to speak to is not available but they’ll be sure to send her a fund-raiser envelope in the mail, have a nice day.

Tonight, I watched my favorite giant radioactive insect movie, Them!  Unsurprisingly James Whitmire (as Sgt. Ben Peterson) is, once again, killed by the powerful mandibles of a giant carpenter ant.  No matter how many times I yell out, “No Ben don’t try to get in the pipe.  Pick up the flame thrower, dammit man pick up the flame thrower!”  But he was too cocky.  When he heard the stridulations of the giant ant, he first lifted the second little boy into the exit pipe and then tried to exit that way himself.  Obviously, he should not have picked up the child but calmly and efficiently picked up the flame thrower that was nearby, pointed it at the murderous mega-insect and charbroiled the wretched invertebrate.  Then he could have exited with the kid at his leisure.

What is it about giant insects that makes otherwise rational public servants so erratic?  C’est la vie.

The Dominoes Seem to Be Tumbling

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In the last couple of days Pennsylvania and Georgia have flipped toward the Republican candidates.  Nevada and Ohio have gotten stronger for the Republicans and only Arizona has stayed in the Democrat column and that one is right on the edge.  Even places like New Hampshire and Connecticut are showing signs of danger in the Senate races.  Will I have to believe in this mid-term race?  It’s a nice problem to contemplate.

28OCT2022 RCP Senate Polls

28OCT2022 RCP Senate Polls

Democrats Admit the Fetterman Debate Was a Disaster

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It’s sometimes hard until later on when you look at things in perspective to tell who “won” a political debate.  But when even your opponents admit something went terribly wrong (see article attached below) you can trust your instincts when feel it was a train wreck.

And that’s what happened last night on stage to John Fetterman.  The six foot nine, heavily tattooed lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania took off his hoodie, donned a poorly fitting business suit, covered his tattoos and engaged with the moderators and his opponent “Dr. Oz.”

But to say it was bad is an understatement.  Fetterman has serious neurological damage from a stroke he suffered some months ago.  He can’t understand the sounds that he hears.  His brain can’t process the signals coming from his auditory center.  So he was provided with a closed captioning feed on his lectern to allow him to read the spoken questions and comments.

And if that were the end of his problems maybe that wouldn’t have been that bad.  But Fetterman obviously has lost some of his other faculties.  His sentences were fragmented and sometimes ungrammatical or even confusing.  And sometimes he just refused to answer the questions and just stuck to some former statement that ignored the question.  It was a terrible performance.

It is true that he was a sympathetic character.  Your heart goes out to someone struggling to communicate through a barrier.  That said, this was not the performance that would inspire confidence in Fetterman’s abilities or allow him to score points off of his opponent.  This was a resounding defeat for Fetterman on the eve of the election so to speak.

Now of course Pennsylvania is now infamous for being able to fabricate over a half million fraudulent ballots overnight back in 2020.  That kind of capability goes a long way to allow a bad candidate to overcome a lack of voting support.  So who knows?  Maybe Fetterman is destined to be the next senator from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  But if he is then it’s a stunning indictment of the post-democratic nature of our present republic.

Democrats in second-guessing mode after Fetterman-Oz Pennsylvania debate

NYS Supreme Court Reinstates All Unvaccinated State Employees With Backpay

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How sweet is this?  Should be a hell of a season for lawsuits.  This should be just the start.  Shouldn’t be long before all the other states join in and then the military gets into the act and after that the wrongful death suits over vaccine side-effects will be moving along quite nicely.

And just news of this should inject renewed anger into the mid-terms just in time for the New York and Michigan races to let people get some payback for the sadistic lockdowns those two states’ governors perpetrated.

Cuomo’s gone but his henchwoman Hochul is running and of course the evil stepmother of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer is in a dead heat with the Republican challenger.  Well it couldn’t happen to a nicer pair of witches this Halloween.

The Haunted Election

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Election Day this year is the night of the full moon and I just saw the first wolfsbane flowers in my yard.

 

Even a man who’s pure of heart

and says his prayers by night

may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms

and the moon is full and bright

The damp cool autumnal weather certainly evokes a Halloween mood in my neighborhood.  We have our share of  jack o’lanterns festooning the house and the grandkids are already imagining their trick or treat loot.  But this year even Election Day has an unreal flavor to it.  Outlandish candidates like Fetterman and that creepy old ghoul haunting the White House add an Edgar Allan Poe tinge to even the political page.

Now am I claiming that werewolf John Fetterman will be lopsidedly prowling the woods of Pennsylvania in his stretched out hoodie tearing apart innocent Republican voters in his insane lust to become a United States Senator?  Well, read the poem and do the math yourself!  I’m going to add a little extra garlic to Camera Girl’s sauce this week and hope for the best.

Easy Does it in the Last Two Weeks

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I was talking to the boys at lunchtime today.  That’s one of the good things that came out of the whole COVID mess.  We set up a Monday Zoom meeting between the guys who I used to take the coffee walk with in the morning.  It’s surprisingly normal at this point.  There are the usual jokes about keeping our hands visible and wearing pants around the home office for some of us.  But it’s good comparing notes with the boys once a week.

I guess it was no surprise that confidence in a good outcome for the elections was pretty high.  In fact, it was too high.  It was way out of proportion.  But we were having a good time.  We were comparing notes on our favorite desperate Dem excuse for the bad polls.  Mine was when some hairdo in a short dress was asking Pelosi about people rating inflation the top problem.  The old bag said that when someone mentions inflation, she immediately stops him and changes the conversation by saying it’s not inflation it’s prices associated with the strong economy that the Democrats produced to save us from COVID.  When she was telling this to the “journalist” Pelosi’s face was contorted in some combination of rage and excitement that made me think she was having a stroke.  But no such luck.

One of the other guys was laughing about Kari Lake slamming Hillary Clinton for being a 2016 election denier.  One of the other guys was talking about a DeSantis/Lake ticket.  I put in my two cents.  I said I was pretty sure Trump and DeSantis would be the ones sitting down talking about who was going to be what in 2024.  And I reminded everyone that there’s at least 10-15% of the electorate that won’t even vote if Trump’s not running in 2024.  That quieted them down a bit.  And I think that’s about true.  Some folks don’t trust anyone else.  That’s a pretty important detail.

Now, do I think Trump could pass the torch?  Maybe.  But I still think it would dilute the enthusiasm for a bunch of his people.  And as far as having DeSantis as the Veep I don’t think that would be wasting him at all.  I have no doubt he would be doing a good deal of the behind the scenes work to put together the team out of his Florida administration.  In fact, I worry that it would do some damage to Florida on that account.

I told them I’d be working at the elections this year and they all wanted to know if I needed assistants.  And I asked, “What, to eat donuts and drink coffee?”  And they all wanted to know when the dumpsters full of fake ballots show up and I said after midnight was the schedule, I saw for Philadelphia in 2020 and we all got a rueful laugh about that.  And then the Zoom ended and we got back to our days.

Yeah, all the bad news for the Dems has been like a whiff of laughing gas.  We’re all a little giddy and a little too confident.  But this is just the run-up.  Two weeks is a very long time.  Every day I hear rumors coming out of Ukraine of a false flag dirty bomb by the Ukrainians to justify a NATO incursion and I think to myself that’s just the stupid trick Biden might welcome to distract the voters from the disaster he’s turned the economy into.

So easy does it.  Take it all in stride.  Don’t get too high or too low.  Let’s see what new monstrosity Dopey Joe has in store tomorrow.  But smell the coffee, get your own work done, laugh at the dopes in the news as their poll numbers plunge and at least make sure you get your votes in on time.  Everything else will develop like a polaroid picture, a little at a time.  You just have to be patient.

Let’s Play the Best-Case Scenario Game

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All the bad news for the Dems has lifted my heart.  I haven’t let it go to my head.  I know just how bad things are.  But with a light-heart comes a playful mood.  So, I’ll spin some words and try to imagine the best-case scenario we could hope for going forward.  So, play along.

We’ll start out with November 8th.  Based on everything going right for the Republicans the wildest fantasy, the one where only Vermont and New York elect a Democrat Senator, would give us 57 seats in the Senate.  But since it’s not a filibuster proof 60 votes let’s just go along with this outrageous 57 number.  Then let’s say the Republicans win some outlandish number of seats in the House, say 60 seats.  Effectively this shuts down any more of Biden’s legislative agenda and curtails his ability to pick judges for the federal bench and means his cabinet replacements can be tortured and even denied if they’re at all egregious (which they will be).  This also means Mitt Romney and whoever is left of the Senate NeverTrumpers will be forced to shut up for the next wo years.  In fact, old Mitt is up for re-election two years and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see him walking back all his anti-Trump talk and begin groveling on his belly asking for Trump’s endorsement for his re-election.  Now that will be fun to watch.

And even with less than 57 senate votes I can see the House sending an impeachment of Biden and his lackies pretty soon after they’ve had a chance to do an investigation into the Hunter laptop.  If it wasn’t such an expensive process, I would like to see a quarterly impeachment come through the Congress until 2024 is complete.  But it could get boring.  After all we don’t have anywhere near enough votes in the Senate to convict the old liar.

Now, with a Republican Congress Joe will try to play rope-a-dope by blaming Congress for tying his hands and refusing to fund all his pet projects.  Basically, we’ll have the same stalemate where continuing resolution funding will be voted in every quarter instead of a yearly budget.  Considering that the Stupid Party is the stupid party this will be a painful process and they will take some damage.  But we’ll go through the next two years with the dance we’re used to seeing playing out.

Let’s assume Biden will try to wag the Ukrainian dog with some kind of false flag operation to try to blame the Russians for some casualties of NATO troops in Poland.  He demands a blank check to go “mano a mano” with Ivan.  Now since this is my happy-happy version let’s assume that somehow our congressional heroes manage to avoid turning themselves into villains in this little passion play.  And assume that the Russians manage to get the Ukrainians to the bargaining table and suddenly the war is over and NATO looks really stupid.

By this point we’re about a year before the 2024 election and Dopey Joe is as toast as any incumbent has been since Jimmy Carter chased that rabbit away from his canoe back in 1980.  Now with the whole country baying for Joe’s blood and the economy still mired in stagflation Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination easily and the election is a landslide in which both the House and the Senate are solidly pro-Trump, filibuster proof and primed to enact a MAGA agenda.

Their first order of business is to close down the southern border tighter than a drum.  Then enforce strictly all the existing laws to prevent illegal aliens from working in the United States.  Then re-organize the intelligence agencies and Justice Department with elimination of the Patriot Act and the FISA Courts as the centerpiece.  And for good measure they can write legislation to forbid the government from locking us in our homes ever again.  Afterwards comes reversing all the green agenda nonsense and establishing a workable energy policy that includes nuclear and fossil fuel components as the main technologies.

After all this good stuff is done, they can tackle the discriminatory practices that the tech companies have been perpetrating against conservatives.  I don’t expect the death penalty to be handed out but confiscation of the platforms sems fitting.  And hopefully in the meantime the Supreme Court will have outlawed affirmative action and declared homosexuality and all its associated activities unprotected by the Constitution.

And after accomplishing all that, Mitch McConnell will be so exhausted that he’ll have to be carted off to the old age home and younger and less crooked leadership can be appointed.  Hopefully the same will be the case for the House leadership although we don’t have to send McCarthy to an old age home.  The back benches will be good enough.

So, there’s my fantasy.  It’s absurd because we’re stuck with the Stupid Party.  They’re too stupid, dishonest and lazy to get anything as monumental as the reformation of the federal government done.  But it’s been a good week and I felt like cheering myself up.  I return you to the apocalypse already in progress.

Real Clear Politics Updates Republican Senate Projection from 52 to 53

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This is a small indicator but currently Real Clear Politics have updated their projection of the post election Senate Republican count as 53 seats.

This lists seat pic-ups in Arizona, Nevada and Georgia and holds in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and North Carolina.  What I notice is that in several of these races the poll averages favor the Democrat candidates.  This must mean that someone at RCP thinks there is either a problem with the polls artificially favoring the Dems or that the dynamics of the race are rapidly shifting away from them.

A projection like this that basically shows the Republicans running the table seems kind of over optimistic but maybe that’s just my hard knocks pessimism shining through.  So this is a little thing but it got a smile out of me today.

Plan B is Not the End of the World

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So, I had my little outburst the other day.  And I guess it was cathartic because I feel better, cheerful even.  I think it’s good to be able to resolve a dilemma.  Two years is a long time to wait for clarity.  Good.

As I said, I’ll almost be disappointed if there is a red wave.  Having to worry about all the subsequent actions and the vicissitudes of political war is exhausting and when your team is the Stupid Party it can be maddening.

So, let’s not go there today.  Let me think about the other outcome.  Suppose on Wednesday I wake up and the Democrats still control the Senate.  Maybe it’s still 50/50 or maybe they’ve padded their lead.  What does my world look like?  What is my mission?

Well, remarkably little will change right away.  I guess the first fruits will be a long post on the reality of living in post-America.  Hopefully I won’t make it too morose or vitriolic.  But it will certainly be an acknowledgement of the position of the Dissident Right’s motto, “We’re not going to vote our way out of this.”

After that I will take some time and try to formulate my own agenda in this “brave new world” of post-republican American life.  Right now, I don’t know many details but I have a sense that mostly it will be making as many separate connections with like-minded individuals and organizations as I can and try to support all the things that used to be the business of our society to support.  I think I’ll change my writing schedule to provide much more time for fiction writing.  Conservatives are grossly underrepresented in the arts and producing works that reflect our values and sensibilities might be good for morale.

Beyond that I’ll be making a minor foray into local government.  It won’t be much but it’ll keep me involved with my neighbors.  Beyond that I intend to see if I can find some like-minded people to form a social club.  Currently I’m thinking it could involve a rotating weekly poker game.  But we’ll see.  Billiards is also possible.

So, you see, it’s actually not so bad being a man without a country.  First off, you’re no longer responsible for justifying the bone-headed actions of the government to foreigners.  And if you happen to live in a deep blue state, you can pick and choose which individuals and groups you consider your community.  So, if Barack Obama says that doing something is “not who we are,” your answer would be, “What “we” are you referring to?”

One other thing that will change will be the contents of my posts.  All of the uncertainty and speculation on the political happenings of the day will sort of fade away.  I’ll restrict myself to practical considerations like how to avoid the real-world problems faced by people like me living in a dystopia.  No more discussions about Washington politics unless they have a direct bearing on day-to-day life.  Probably more attention paid to what is going on in the red states and whether any progress is being made to resist the feds encroachment of their sovereignty.

So, this is the first step at figuring out what comes after a November fail.  Maybe we’ll get lucky and it’ll go our way.  But if it doesn’t Plan B exists.  And right now, that’s good enough for me.

NY Times Election Poll Result: Democrats Suck

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Well, that’s a paraphrase.  But listen to some of the results that the NY Times survey gleaned:

“The poll shows that 49% of likely voters said they planned to vote for a Republican on Nov. 8 to represent them in Congress, compared with 45% who planned to vote for a Democrat.

The biggest shift came from women who identified as independent voters. In September, they favored Democrats by 14 points. Now, independent women backed Republicans by 18 points — a striking swing given the polarization of the American electorate and how intensely Democrats have focused on that group and on the threat Republicans pose to abortion rights.

The survey showed that the economy remained a far more potent political issue in 2022 than abortion.

“I’m shifting more towards Republican because I feel like they’re more geared towards business,” said Robin Ackerman, a 37-year-old Democrat and mortgage loan officer who lives in New Castle, Delaware, and is planning to vote Republican this fall.

Ackerman said she disagreed “1,000%” with the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and erase the national right to an abortion. “But that doesn’t really have a lot to do with my decision,” she said of her fall vote. “I’m more worried about other things.””

And other Democrats are admitting that economic problems trump partisan views.

““It’s all about cost,” said Gerard Lamoureux, a 51-year-old Democratic retiree in Newtown, Connecticut, who is planning to vote Republican this fall. “The price of gas and groceries are through the roof. And I want to eat healthy, but it’s cheaper for me to go to McDonald’s and get a little meal than it is to cook dinner.””

Apparently, the importance of abortion and gun control was exaggerated (as usual) by the Democrats and their friends in the media.

“While the share of voters focused on guns declined, those who identified abortion as the top issue remained flat, at 5%. There is a sizable gender split on the issue’s significance: 9% of women rated it as the top issue compared with just 1% of men.

In taking over the House in 2018 and winning the Senate and White House in 2020, the winning Democratic coalition during the Donald Trump presidency relied on a significant gender gap and on winning women by a wide margin.  But the poll showed that Republicans had entirely erased what had been an 11-point edge for Democrats among women last month in 2022 congressional races to a statistical tie in October.”

So, as you can see the Times is reporting that even their most reliable useful idiots are ready to throw in the towel and vote for the other side in order to avoid starving and freezing to death.

Now, I’m not saying that I take any of this as guaranteeing a Republican landslide.  Far from it.  There are all kinds of things that can make the outcome worse.  Fraud, Republican cowardice and stupidity and the unexpected.  But what this article does do is frighten and depress the Democrat readers.  They open up their copy of the paper of record and they see this article saying that women are more concerned with runaway inflation than they are about abortion on demand.  They hear that Joe Biden is considered a failed president by more than half the country.  And they hear that most probably the Democrats will be losing the Congress in January.  The idea of their anguish makes me happy.  These are the worst people in the world.  These evil people are responsible for all the pain and suffering this country has been through over the last three years.  For them to be afraid and unhappy is totally just.  I only wish it could be worse.  But for what it’s worth it’s welcome news.

As we’re getting closer to the actual election day it appears that even the most in the tank Democrat outlets are trying to prepare their readers for a nasty shock.  So, we have to ask ourselves can the Democrat election fraud machine generate enough fake ballots to overcome the majority of voters who want to kick out the Democrats.  Well, stay tuned.  There are only three weeks left until the Day of Reckoning.  Then I get to find out what’s what.