Archive for 2020
November 4, 2020
EARLY OPEN THREAD: Share your thoughts about the election, and the aftermath.
WHERE WE STAND: 277, for now. “Unofficially, Donald Trump leads in enough states to have won the election with 277 Electoral College votes.” But expect fraud, and litigation.
Power Line: “I went to bed at 2:00 a.m. (Central) thinking President Trump had won the election. The morning after the result is in doubt. It’s too damn close.”
Plus: “The Democrats spent an ungodly sum on long-shot Senate races. In the aggregate, it appears that Republican senatorial candidates have saved us from the nightmare of a Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schemer. Democrats even appear to have lost seats in the House, including the seat held by Donna do-nothing Shalala in Miami. Michelle Fischbach flipped one long-held Democratic seat in Minnesota’s Seventh District and Tyler Kistner cme within two percent (9,000) votes of flipping Minnesota’s Second District. The deceased Legal Marijuana Now candidate remained on the ballot contrary to a state law that was invalidated in a lawsuit brought by Craig. Still on the ballot, the deceased Legal Marijuana Now candidate drew nearly 25,000 votes. I hope the impressive Mr. Kistner can take another shot at the seat in the next cycle after the smoke has cleared.”
Also: “President Trump’s strong performance in the election must come as a great surprise to citizens who get their news from the garbage media and their pollsters. Ditto the Dems’ failure to take the Senate. Ditto the Dems’ loss of seats in the House. The garbage media must be deemed one of last night’s biggest losers. Despite the media’s best efforts, in vast swaths of the United States, President Trump is an intensely appreciated figure and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not.”
UPDATE: Here’s the CBC’s call:
ANOTHER UPDATE: Trump declares VICTORY and says election process is a ‘fraud’ as votes are still being counted in key states that will decide contest: President vows to go to Supreme Court to stop late voting as Biden demands every ballot counts. Biden wants every ballot to count, even the ones with still-wet ink found in a car trunk days after the election. We’ve seen this movie before, in Minnesota with Al Franken. Trump, however, is likely to put up more of a fight.
MORE: And now the CBC has changed to put Biden ahead. Not sure what’s happened in the last half hour to account for that.
LOTS OF UPDATES AT DECISION DESK HQ. MAP HERE.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: RIP America—The Mail-In Voter Fraud Fix Is In. “Progressives are all about tearing down institutions in the United States, and introducing the potential for fraud into presidential elections is the cornerstone of their plan to render asunder the fabric of the Republic. When every election can be called into question and thrown to the courts, a power-hungry party doesn’t have to develop a sound strategy or run a viable candidate to win.”
OH, YES, BEFORE I GO TO BED:
Keep your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
Robert A. Heinlein.
… It’s the times we live in.
WITH WHAT IS GOING ON ON SOCIAL MEDIA, TONIGHT, SHOULD I NOT BE ON FACEBOOK (TWITTER IS ONLY FOR ECHOING MY BLOG POSTS) IN THE MORNING: Look for me on MeWe and Minds.
MeWe (I’m not sure about Minds) also has a group for followers of my blog (Hoyt’s Huns) and a group for followers of my fiction (Sarah’s Diner. No politics.) Now I’m going to take a sleeping tablet and hope for SOME sleep before I face the fresh hell tomorrow brings.
OKAY, I’M SICK AND TIRED OF THIS AND I WANT TO CALL IT OUT RIGHT NOW:
I don’t want to hear a word about Trump’s tone. I don’t want to hear a word about how he crossed a line.
I DON’T WANT TO HEAR A WORD.
Listen to me: On one side we have the left, who is running a barely alive candidate, and a woman with all the appeal of week-old fish and no accomplishments she can point to.
Add to this they almost didn’t run a campaign, AND went to the point of not having offices in most cities.
For months now, I’ve been looking at this and going “They have a coup planned. The fix is in.” And everyone told me oh, no, I was seeing things.
Tonight we watched states called for Biden before votes were counted, while states that Trump has a solid lead in, stop counting.
And if you need help seeing what’s before your eyes, the left has for weeks now claimed Trump was going to attempt a coup. How many years have you known they accuse you of what they’re doing? What are you? Stupid?
Look, they are tainted by the previous failed coups, tainted by (most if not all of them) accepting money from Xi, and FYI China ALWAYS arranges for extra compromise for security, honeypots being their favorite, tainted even by association with Epstein. A second Trump term means a good chance that they go down hard and don’t get up again.
ALL OF THEM from the left politicians to the so called “tech lords” are fighting for their lives.
They’re cornered rats. There’s nothing they won’t do.
And all we have against them is Trump.
Stop calling Trump names. Put on your big boy or girl pants.
They’re fighting for their lives. And we are too. Because — look at Venezuela — socialism kills.
AP CALLS MINNESOTA FOR BIDEN.
November 3, 2020
FOX FINALLY CALLS TEXAS FOR TRUMP.
DECISION DESK HQ PROJECTS TRUMP (R) HAS WON THE STATE OF OH AND ITS 18 ELECTORAL VOTES.
UPDATE: Fox calls AZ for Joe Biden.
“Congratulations Cindy McCain. You helped cost us Arizona,” Mark Levin tweets.
UPDATE (11:32 PM EST): “Mark Kelly, retired astronaut and husband of Gabby Giffords, wins U.S. Senate race in Arizona, ousting Republican Martha McSally – Fox.”
UPDATE (11:47 PM EST): “The Arizona count is … very odd. Numbers haven’t changed in 90 min. Very unlike past elections. Fox calling the state is bizarre,” AZ resident Jon Gabriel of Ricochet tweets.
IT’S ALWAYS 4:20 SOMEWHERE: Arizona Voters Approve Marijuana Legalization. The initiative makes Arizona the 13th state to allow recreational use.
UPDATE: Seeing multiple reports that Oregon has passed the ballet initiative to “decriminalize possession of personal amounts of drugs, weighing between a gram or two depending on the substance.” What could go wrong?
MORE: “DC posts preliminary results & overwhelmingly people vote to decriminalize magic mushrooms & other psychedelic plants.”
FROM THE PJ LIVEBLOG:
NETS BEMOAN TRUMP ‘DISINFORMATION’ ‘SCARED’ FLORIDA LATINOS BY CALLING DEMS ‘SOCIALISTS.’
Where could he have gotten that idea?
FOX CALLS FLORIDA FOR TRUMP.
WELL, THE LINCOLN PROJECT.
FLORIDA, MAN: Florida Votes for Job-Killing $15 Minimum Wage Hike.
MARIA ELVIRA SALAZAR DEFEATS INCUMBENT DONNA SHALALA IN RACE FOR MIAMI-DADE DISTRICT 27 CONGRESSIONAL SEAT: “Both women have been very successful throughout their respective careers. Salazar was a well-known Spanish language journalist, spending three decades as a news anchor on Telemundo, with stops at CNN Español and Univision. Shalala was the longest serving U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, appointed by President Bill Clinton. She was also the president of the University of Miami for 14 years.”
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “Fox News with Chris Wallace and Donna Brazile doing election night news is the biggest SCREW YOU to their customer base ever. Bye Felicia. Tucker Carlson is the ONLY reason I ever turn it on these days.” It’s shocking how much better CNN is tonight. And by shocking, I mean shocking.