CROCODILE TEARS, THE XINN EDITION: Wolf Blitzer Laments “Possible Unrest” Over Election.
Archive for 2020
November 3, 2020
NOTHING A GOOD EXORCISM WON’T CURE: Karl Marx Lives Loudly Through Kamala Harris.
Or maybe the angry ink blot who wrote Das Kapital would vanish, and leave Kamala as the ineffective laughing loon she is.
DON’T WANT. CONTAINS LIVE BOBCAT. WOULD NOT ORDER AGAIN: We Don’t Want Or Need Another Roosevelt.
IS THIS BAD? I VOTED BEFORE ASKING THEM FOR WHOM LATINS, IMMIGRANTS, AND MIDDLE AGED FRAZZLED WRITERS ARE ALLOWED TO VOTE FOR! OH, NOES: Democrats: Black People Are Not Allowed To Vote For Trump.
Hey, Dems, behold my middle fingers. I have a matched set!
THEY HATE US, THEY REALLY HATE US: A woman says American flags are ‘disgusting’ and a ‘public display of force’.
GUYS, THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ROUTINELY, ON THE REGULAR, SAY THEY GOT DEATH THREATS WHEN SOMEONE SAYS SOMETHING LIKE “JUST JUMP OUT THE WINDOW” ON A BLOG COMMENT. I’D SAY THEY’RE UNHINGED, BUT I’M NOT SURE THEY WERE EVER HINGED: After Texas car stunt, Biden crybabies call in the FBI.
GRANT HE KEEPS IT: Donald Trump and the Mandate of Heaven.
November 2, 2020
DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMP! The parallels between 1948’s ‘Dewey defeats Truman’ election and today.
EDWARD LUTTWAK: How Trump Survives a Coup: And how our form of government survives with him.
Each one of the crash-barriers and backstops of the American political system has been undone. Once again, therefore, I must avow error and change my verdict: yes, the American political system too does have a breaking point—and yes, the armed forces could be left as its residual legatee.
In contrast to the rigorous impartiality of the government officials of 1969, even amidst the furious national debate on Safeguard, it is now proven fact that several linked individuals within the FBI—up to the Deputy Director Andrew George McCabe—misled the FISA court to depict Donald Trump as a Russian “asset,” i.e., a Moscow-controlled individual and real-life “Manchurian candidate.”
It is also recorded fact that CIA Director John Brennan, plus his superior, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, publicly suggested that Trump may be a Russian asset operating under Putin’s direction, while simultaneously testifying in closed sessions with Congressional committees that no such evidence existed. Of Richard Helms’ rigorous impartiality there was no trace left, as McCabe, Brennan and Clapper became examples of envenomed partisanship.
As for the wider congressional picture, the scenes of 2019 and 2020 would have been unimaginable in 1969—from Nancy Pelosi contemptuously tearing her copy of the State of the Union speech before the TV cameras, to the habitual description of Trump as “subservient to Putin” by senators and congressmen. They might well believe what they say, but only if they have no understanding whatever of geopolitics—a very complicated thing to be sure, but not for its simplest and only relevant rule: do not quarrel with China and Russia at the same time. (Prime Minister of Japan Abe Shinzo visited Putin several times and invited him for a full-dress visit complete with a home stay at the family house down in Yamaguchi prefecture—not because Abe is pro-Russian or a Russian asset, but because it makes sense for a Japanese prime minister to detach Russia from China.)
Most serious, however, is the ongoing intimidation of the Supreme Court: only three Senators have publicly declared that the newly elected president should appoint more judges to overturn the moderate majority. But of the three (Gillibrand, Harris, and Warren), one is now the Democrats’ vice-presidential candidate.
That is highly relevant because it is the expressed opinion of the leaders of the Democratic establishment—enunciated by former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton—that Biden should not concede victory to Trump under any circumstances, i.e., regardless of the number of votes that he might win. Those are words which would have been simply unimaginable in the past; now they do not even arouse much furor when spoken.
With Edward Luttwak, no less, saying such things, my paper on coups is looking more and more timely. But the most likely outcome of a coup attempt is a million armed Trump supporters descending on Washington. And maybe Trump getting a Yeltsin-on-a-tank moment. Have you noticed how much practice Trump supporters have had putting together truck convoys?
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “A new study reports 100% of Americans like taking polls, answer the phone from unknown callers, and are home right now.”
Plus: “In addition, many (but not all) pollsters refuse to own up to the particular bias in the joke, because they can’t. It’s their whole standard procedure to call and talk to voters. Some feel that is the gold standard, that any web poll (even if well selected) is inferior. But the hard reality is you can only get 10% of people to talk to you on the phone. It’s super-duper hard to avoid selection biases under that but they can’t admit it because they would have to just stop polling the way they have always done.”
The friend saying this, by the way, is a lefty Democrat, but one with an interest in empirical rigor.
WELL, GOOD: Supreme Court Rejects Qualified Immunity Defense for the First Time in Years: The case doesn’t make any change in legal doctrine. But it may be intended to send a message to lower courts. “What remains to be seen is whether the Court will follow up by considering whether qualified immunity should be abolished entirely, or at least severely pared back. . . . Thomas’ previous forceful criticism of qualified immunity leads one to wonder why he dissented without opinion in this case. The answer may be that he thinks current precedent protects the officials in question, and therefore the Court cannot rule against them unless that precedent is modified or overruled (which he might well be happy to see happen).”
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “5 million first time gun owners this year. 2016 was decided by 77,000 votes in 3 states.” Yep. Not all gun owners vote GOP, of course, but that’s the way to bet. And maybe moreso this year, given Biden’s messaging on guns.
THE DEAD HAVE ARISEN — AND THEY’RE FLEEING CHICAGO! Dead people caught voting in NYC, Elections records show.
OPEN THREAD: Discuss your post-election plans.
I THINK THIS MEANS THAT INSTRUCTIONS HAVE ALREADY GONE OUT FROM THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN TO THE NETWORK ELECTION-CALLERS:
“Under no scenario.” So if Trump carries every state by 70%, still no call? That’s what this says.
PERRY DE HAVILLAND: We are seeing the second coming of new media.
THE TRUMP-ERA MEDIA SUCKS, AND THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE: “And then, this week, we got the big reveal. ‘Anonymous’ was Miles Taylor — a name that is likely literally anonymous to you to begin with.”
TAKE THAT, DIXVILLE NOTCH! Earliest Election Results Ever: PA Attorney General calls it for Biden.
Glenn asked earlier if the right can win a 2020 election street fight; Shapiro’s tweet is Exhibit A that the left won’t be playing by Marquess of Queensberry rules:
