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No cities burned. No Republicans looted. No Republicans engaged in violence. No Republicans threatened others.
In other words, situation normal for Republicans. Quite obviously, the violence, threats, hatred, anger lives on the other side. I say that as a registered independent for the past 20 years.
[quote quote=3478]I could make all sorts of cheap shots, but actually that is rather reassuring. It shows that someone is paying attention. In any case, one less vote for the Peace and Freedom Party. I am sure there are irregularities all over the country. How could there not be? Tens of millions of votes cast by fallible people, and received by other fallible people. Wholesale fraud on a scale sufficient to change the outcome? Logistically impossible. I think I’ll do a pre-blog post on that.[/quote]
I’m confused, GR. My California ballot was filled out by me and only me, with choices that are largely conservative. And it was delegitimized, rejected. Please explain to me how that is reassuring? For me, it’s anything but reassuring. Or rather, it is reassuring to me that our system is not legitimate, that my vote doesn’t matter, and that we live under a government that is proto-fascist.
Do a “tweet” shadow government and run again in four years… when we are all confined remind us that you didn’t force us to stay in when unemployment is stuck at 8% remind us that it was at 5.3 pre COVID when Iran fucks with us in the gulf remind us that it never happened when you were prez.
I was thinking along the same lines. I think the next four years are going to be rough, politically. Harris and Biden (yes, in that order), now think they have a mandate because the had THE! MOST! VOTES! EVER! Well, the guy they (arguably) beat had the second most. And despite Biden’s lip service, most of what he’s saying will be to repudiate Trump, not accommodate his voters. It took Clinton a while to figure out that he didn’t have a landslide. We’ll see how long it takes Biden. And that doesn’t even factor into account Plan B-, a President Harris. A very unlikeable person…there was a reason she only got 129 votes in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, and Trump had 1,200 write-in votes and Tulsi Gabbard had nearly 10,000 votes.
And let’s not forget that the Progressives are looming, with their Dolt-In-Chief, AOC, who fundamentally repudiated the help of John Kasich and Republicans who would reach across the aisle:
AOC claims the Dems will lose big in the mid-terms in 2022 if they don’t put Progressives in top Federal seats. Oh, I hope, I hope, I hope they do. The disaster that will happen, the discarding of Biden. It’ll be great!
I looooved that Joe Biden brought Hunter Biden on stage with him, a gigantic screw you to people who were concerned about Hunter’s problems (concerns of the Dems, too, BTW). Nothing like flaunting your perfidy in front of a bamboozled American electorate.
One last thing: Despite nearly four years’ worth of invented-from-thin-air impeachment run by Clinton supporters, despite the Elites all backing Biden (and I’m talking the Tech Elite, Media Elite, Wall Street Elite, Left Elite, Right Elite), I hope the Lefties understand one set-in-stone fact: without the once-in-a-century pandemic and Trump’s historic-self-immolation and mismanagement, Trump would have won re-election in a landslide. Think about that as you install your government, Lefties.
GR is right. A wealth tax won’t happen. Too many vested interests to prevent it.
A friend of mine was once talking with the football player Lamichael James about, of all things, hair cuts. James had an off-kilter cut, and was lamenting the fact that he’d used a new stylist who was not very good. James said “That’s one thing that cuts across race, creed, gender, religion and sexual preference…sitting in that chair and knowing you’ll have to hide for a month.”
A new wealth tax that hits at the wealthy would cut across Progressives, Libertarians, moderates, Conservatives, Democrats, Greens and Republicans alike. They will all — all — be against it.
[quote quote=3467]I’ve been voting absentee in California for more than ten years. Lots of Californians do. It’s done on request. The ballot is sent to the voters’ registered address, you mark it, place it in an envelope, sign it, and that’s that. There’s no magic in polling places that immunizes them from fraud. The written, mail-in ballot is in many ways a lot safer and surer. What is happening is in some ways a lot more ominous. A lot of people who would not normally inconvenience themselves going to the polls. By and large, I think they vote Democrat. All of the counts are being observed by dozens of poll watchers of both parties. The slow switch to Biden in Wisconsin and Michigan is accounted for by the heavily urban character of the precincts being counted. I am sure there are fouled ballots and what not, because in an election with tens of millions of ballots cast, that will happen. But wholesale fraud? I doubt it. The sorest loser of all time remains Al Gore. But Trump has joined the club, big time.[/quote]
Maybe. But my absentee ballot in 2018 was discarded because of “irregularities.”
One British bettor just sunk $5 million on a Trump bet. And one of the Brit bookmakers is reporting that 93% of the bets in the last 24 hours are on Trump.
https://nypost.com/2020/11/03/mystery-brit-gambles-5m-on-trump-win-in-record-setting-bet/
There’s a reason she cut off her campaign on December 3. Donald Trump received, literally, ten times as many votes as a write in during the Democratic primary as Kamala Harris did. She was way behind the other Dems. If Biden had wanted a woman of color as his VP, he should have picked Tulsi Gabbard. Or Pocahontas.
She’s a miserable politician, and actually has a fair amount in common with Hillary Clinton, in terms of interpersonal skills. She gets the “deer in the headlights” look so familiar to Dan Quayle observers, whenever she’s asked a mildly challenging question. She’s tart, standoffish, permanently angry and quite frankly, was a somewhat conservative prosecutor.
And to share a pet peeve, Kamala Harris was the flip side of the #metoo movement. I absolutely understand the motivations behind that movement, I think men who pressure women for sex in the workplace and ruin their careers if they don’t give in are reprehensible. I think they should be buried beneath the prison, to paraphrase Bill Burr. But at the same time, there are women — like Kamala Harris — who benefit from sleeping with powerful men. She received her first two political appointee jobs from the married Willie Brown, who gleefully points out that, not only did he appoint her to two plum positions, but he also gave her a BMW. But no one was allowed to talk about that. The media weren’t allowed to write about that. Where is the feminist outrage? Fxxxing hypocrites.
And she makes sxxt up. The challenge to Joe Biden on four-decades old busing? “I was that little girl, Senator.” No you weren’t. Her statement on Lincoln and supreme court justices was complete BS.
She’s not cut out to be President. I wouldn’t elect her Mayor of a mid-sized town. And she’ll probably be the American President at some point.
[quote quote=3260]N Carolina and Philadelphia are the focus tonight with unsolicited ballot mailings despite a SCOTUS ruling that reined in N Carolina Dems. Nevada may be lost already because they have made the decision to NOT match signatures to mail in ballots after the unsolicited mailing of ballots. California has up to 17 days to count mail in ballots after the election. Your stomach may be more accurate than the truth. This election could very well be stolen unless people wake up and realize Harris is unqualified and a radical and Biden is a stalking horse for another coup which may end up being legal event of using the Constitution to destroy the Constitution. Trump may have to win big. (BTW, the highlight of my day was watching Elizabeth Warren give a speech where she said confirming ACB was unethical because Ginsberg`s last wish should have been granted. Just curious; maybe GR can point out where the last wish of Ginsberg is in the Constitution.)[/quote]
It’s funny, when people think about mail in voter fraud, they think about representatives of one political party adding votes through ballots that they unlawfully procure and fill out. My experience in the last election was exactly the opposite. I received an email about a week after the election that my mail-in ballot was not being counted because of “irregularities.”
They said my signature didn’t match. Huh. I signed it, was the same image I’ve always used. I’m left to conclude that they didn’t like my vote, and therefore it didn’t count.
I think the Dems are gaming a future loss. They want to exaggerate the polls as much as possible, ostensibly to improve Dem turnout, but also to provide evidence for being “mistreated” in the event that Biden loses. it’s why CNN publicizes that Joe Biden is 16 points ahead:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/politics/cnn-poll-biden-trump-2020-election/index.html
Fascism is coming. And I don’t doubt it, I just think that it’s coming from the left.
Plus, he’s a local guy. Serra HS, born/raised in San Mateo. Almost makes up for his attending Berkeley. He said “I became a conservative from hanging around liberals in Berkeley.”
Trump lost Chris Wallace when he compared him unfavorably to his father about a year ago. Ever since then, Wallace has had it out for Trump.
I knew the fix was in during the “Economic” section of the night when Wallace asked Trump about how much tax he’d paid in the prior year. Really? You think that is what Americans care about vis-a-vis the economy? Not the record economy, not the trade agreements, not the record numbers of African American, Latino American and female entrepreneurs and business starts, not the record low unemployment for all of those groups. Oh no, we’re not interested in those. According to Chris Wallace, it’s Trump’s personal federal income tax for two specified years. Not other years. Not business taxes. Not real estate/property taxes, excise taxes or anything else. AYFKM?
And just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, Wallace asked him the cherry-picked question of all time, new jobs during Obama’s last three years. In other words, Wallace (a) compared job growth past the end of a normal economic cycle with the prior period and (b) failed to note that interest rates were as low as possible and flat with Obama only having been increased once in eight years whereas they went up continuously during Trump’s administration.
[quote quote=2857]It is almost not possible to perform worse than Trump did tonight – petty, mean-spirited, argumentative, unable to adhere to the agreed protocol, wandering into constant irrelevancies, constantly interrupting himself. All Joe Biden had to do was appear Presidential, which he did. And which Trump did not. La commedia e finita.[/quote]
Maybe Trump wasn’t feeling so good… 😉
I heard the same thing. Trump was all-base, all the time. Biden was very much a moderate Democrat. He did his best to distance himself from the left throughout the debate. He repeatedly denounced the Green New Deal — “no, I don’t support the Green New Deal,” he said — and referred instead to his own climate plan, which includes less aggressive emission reduction targets.
Early on, Biden said he was “not opposed to” Trump Supreme Court pick Amy Coney Barrett and that she “seems like a very fine person.” Biden also went out of his way to make clear he opposes the calls from some left-wing activists to “defund the police,” and disputed a false claim from Trump that he supports Medicare For All, noting that he defeated its leading proponent, Bernie Sanders, in the primary. The remarks were reflective of Biden’s larger strategy, which is not to bet the election on turning out young and progressive voters, but rather to bring seniors and college-educated whites with more moderate views into his coalition. The question is whether Biden turned off enough progressives for it to matter during the election.
