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Archive for 2020
November 2, 2020
WHERE BAD IDEAS GO TO ACHIEVE IMMORTALITY: ‘Here’s an idea, let’s bring back racial discrimination!’ –California.
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Trump presents Biden’s greatest hits (video).
THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD MENTAL HEALTH COALITION HAS SOME CALMLY-ASSESSED THOUGHTS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT:
“Lee has previously appeared on MSNBC and CNN’s Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter to discuss Trump’s ‘instability,’ and in December 2017 she reportedly briefed members of the House and Senate on the president’s mental state. Lee has also previously found herself on panels with professionals who have made similar comparisons between Trump and murderous dictators.”
SHOP-OCALYPSE NOW: NYC businesses board up for possible election unrest.
Related question asked and answered:
—Twitchy, today.
Chaser: Insanity Wrap #79: How Many Kids Can Antifa Threaten to Rape and Murder Before CNN Notices?
—Steve Green at the PJ homepage today.
VITAMIN D UPDATE: Higher vitamin D levels in first year of life could help against obesity in adolescence.
See, people made fun of these windowbox solariums for babies from the 1920 and 1930s, but in fact they were healthful and scientifically sound, even though they look funny now.
PARTY FULLY CONFIDENT OF VICTORY NOW CRAFTING LAST-MINUTE FAILURE NARRATIVE: Clyburn: If we lose, it’s because of voter suppression.
Plus, kind of giving things away: “No.3 House Democrat tells Fox News he will ‘have to pray for’ Black Trump voters.”
HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW PICKUP TRUCK OWNERS? Lady Gaga mocked for trying to appeal to ‘rednecks’ in Biden endorsement video.
WHO? BidenWatch for November 2, 2020. “Before BidenWatch was the Clown Car Update, so I’ve been doing this for almost two years. I’m really ready for a vacation.”
We all are, partner.
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE: Why Beijing Hopes for a Biden Win.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): New polls show Biden winning nearly every province in China. It’s satire, but is it?
INEZ FLETSCHER STEPMAN: A Former NeverTrumper Casts Her Ballot.
In 2016, I voted for the deceased William F. Buckley, Jr. for president, on the assumption that if he won, he would demand a recount.
Even more than my disgust at his vulgarities about opponents and praise for authoritarian heads of state, I worried Donald Trump would govern as a New York liberal; a Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger type, if you will, whose only accomplishment would be to force the GOP to go along with left-wing policy.
On that score, and I suspect largely thanks to the hysterical and hateful response to his election from the left, I couldn’t have been more wrong. Other former NeverTrumpers have also seen the light, and now publicly pronounce his successful conservative record, from his nominees for the federal bench and war against critical race theory to his shift to a Jacksonian foreign policy, and even that Paul Ryan-est of victories, a tax cut.
Best of all, Trump stood athwart the left and shouted, with typical Queens flair, stop. And he did so, truth be told, more successfully than the sentiment’s original author and my 2016 presidential candidate.
Read the whole thing.
READY TO PUNCH A ‘NAZI’ IN THE FACE: The Federalist’ Tristan Justice attended ShutdownDC’s online training sessions for tomorrow night:
“Following the trainings, I also now fully understand that ‘law enforcement is inherently violent,’ and ‘the only way to avoid getting harmed by law enforcement is to not be out protesting.’ Even if that means I’m in the middle of burning down a black-owned business in the name of social justice, because we must ‘acknowledge we live on stolen land,'” Justice writes.
TRUMP AIMING FOR SEVEN RALLYS ON MONDAY. Donald Trump on a battleground blitz ahead of Election Day: ‘Join the red wave.’
Related: “This is fracking country. And Trump brought a literal fracking well to the rally because of course he did, he’s Donald Trump.“
MARK RIPPETOE: The Price of Panic with William Briggs.
DON’T GET COCKY: The Latest Poll Out of Iowa Foreshadows Disaster for Biden.
IN THE MAIL: The Rage of Dragons.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: How Many Kids Can Antifa Threaten to Rape and Murder Before CNN Notices?
Insanity Wrap needs to know: How are you feeling about Trump’s chances tomorrow?
Answer: We’re feeling pretty good — and hoping we didn’t just jinx things.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Democrats frighten minority kids into silence, because antiraicsm or something.
- The funniest Trump Truck you’ll see all day.
- More trunalimunumaprzure than you can shzazasilipat.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
ROGER SIMON: Sorry, America. Reconciliation Is a Long Way Off After the Election.
As you can tell from my headline, normally an optimistic person, I’m pessimistic, at least in the short run. It will be a long time before there will be “bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover” for the USA—or for the UK for that matter.
Neither side is prepared to accept defeat and reconcile, except perhaps Greg Gutfeld and, as I noted, I’m suspicious.
A monumental Trump victory, dreamed of by the right, staunching the deep wounds created by the dishonesty of the mainstream media during the Mueller investigation, is unlikely to happen, given the polls.
They can’t be THAT wrong, although of course they can and have been erroneous enough to be largely dismissible as propaganda.
A sweeping Biden victory will be looked on as fraud, given the (at best) vagaries of mail-in voting and the immense and fervent Trump crowds.
What we are likely to have is a close, or relatively close, election determined, we can only hope, in a few days. Maybe, just maybe, we will avoid a massive outbreak of violence. Some is, unfortunately, inevitable.
And, yes, a Trump win, especially a narrow one, means more trouble on our streets in the short run.
So how then to return to the halcyon days of that democratic republic of people caring about each other described eloquently so long ago by Alexis de Tocqueville?
Are there enough people who even care?
For those who do, three words of advice: Reform our schools. That’s the most important thing and where you start. And, interestingly, in his recent speeches, Trump seems to know that.
How far off is the reconciliation between left and right? This far: ‘Marx says what?’ Kamala Harris promotes communism in new video.
EAGLES ON AN ICELANDIC RUNWAY: Four USAF F-15C/D Eagles line up on the runway Keflavik Air Base, Iceland. According to the caption the F-15s are preparing for a routine NATO air policing operation. Photo taken Oct. 26, 2020. Air policing means securing sovereign air space against intruders. It’s not a new term. The F-15 interceptors based in Iceland can cover a huge area — Britain, Norway, Svalbard, Greenland and the Arctic approaches to both North America and western Europe. You will occasionally see the term NATO enhanced Air Policing missions. It has its own acronym: eAP. NATO has been flying air policing missions over the eastern Baltic Sea since 2004. At this link you’ll find a column addressing a very serious probe of Danish air space that occurred in June 2014.
GOOD NEWS FOR LAW SCHOOLS: The Booming Fall 2021 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up Over 35%, With Biggest Increases Among The Highest LSAT Bands And Applicants Of Color.
Wow, Trump has saved almost every industry.