Archive for 2020
November 9, 2020
IN THE MAIL: Rules for a Flat World.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Suppose They Stole an Election and Nobody Noticed.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: What does it take to get the press to notice an election being stolen in broad daylight?
Answer: A new press.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- By their own rules, Democrats are a superspreader event.
- Progresive Oregon goes all fascist on the mostly peaceful protestors.
- Twitter: Where the truth goes to get murdered.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
STOCKS SURGE TO ALL-TIME HIGHS AMID COVID-19 VACCINE HOPES, JOE BIDEN VICTORY.
I’d like to say that it’s the former driving that surge much more than the (presumptive) latter, but as Kevin Williamson wrote in 2009: Losing Gordon Gekko: Wall Street has gone over to the Democrats. Should conservatives miss it?
UPDATE: Heh, indeed:
Yes, it’s satire. But sadly, this isn’t: Cuomo: It’s “bad news” that Pfizer announced these vaccine results before Biden takes office.
Exit question: “I can’t believe I’m going to say this but I think the question needs to be asked in light of his track record. Is this guy … pro-COVID?”
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: Sidney Powell claims there are 450,000 ballots that voted only for Biden, left the rest blank.
THIS IS A BOLDLY BIGOTED STATEMENT, ESPECIALLY WITH PRINCETON ALREADY BEING INVESTIGATED FOR RACISM: Princeton prof blames whiteness, sexism and patriarchy for closeness of presidential race.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Porn ban drives extraordinary spike in VPN usage. “Pornography crackdown in Thailand provokes whopping 644% increase in VPN installs.”
THAT’S FAIR, BECAUSE THE OPED WAS STUPID: Prof slams Harvard op-ed calling for profs with ‘unacceptable views’ to be fired. Harvard’s not the best university in America. It’s not even the best online university in America.
EARLY OPEN THREAD: Talk about stuff.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The Comrade Biden Show Is Already Kinda Creepy. “For the longest time I thought that they’d be working on an exit plan for Biden the second the election was over. Many have wondered aloud if the Democrats are going to hit their own president with the 25th Amendment. Now I’m starting to think that they will probably keep the old boy around and have a few people playing the role of Edith Wilson in the background.”
ROGER KIMBALL: Before Declaring a Victor, Investigate Allegations of Fraud. “Back in 2000, Al Gore took 37 days in Court as the votes in Florida were scrutinized. This year, there are widespread reported voting irregularities (that’s a six-syllable word for ‘fraud’) in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, and Arizona. The media is jumping up and down trying to deny this (watch Dem apparatchik George Stephanopoulos try out that assertion on South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem: she crushes him).”
Related: Thread. “But then as counting continues, the D to R ratio in mail-in ballots inexplicably begin increasing. Again, this should not happen, and it is observed almost nowhere else in the country, because all of the ballots are randomly shuffled in the mail system and should be homogeneous during counting. The only exceptions to this are other suspect states that also have anomalies.”
WELL, BIDEN HAS A RECORD OF PLAGIARISM: Biden prepares his virus response which looks awfully… familiar.
JOANNE JACOBS: Who will be Biden’s education secretary? “Biden pledged to put a ‘quick end’ to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ regulations on investigating campus sexual assault. The rules require colleges to protect the due process rights of the accused.”
SALENA ZITO: Voters stood up to the culture and declared their center-right values.
Had you spent any space of time in this northern suburb of Pittsburgh listening to voters, finding out what things mattered to them when it came to schools, community growth, economic prosperity, and the emotional impact of COVID-19 lockdowns, you would have at least been skeptical of the media narrative and the polls that claimed suburban voters here are no longer center-right.
Not Republican per se, just center-right.
Most reporters certainly didn’t take the time to do so. Instead, they relied on the scolding of our cultural curators in sports, media, and Hollywood as an indicator of how these college-educated, affluent voters would vote. Surely, they thought, these suburbs would cave under the cultural pressure, push left, and their votes would send a blue shock wave across the country.
These reporters put their faith in what they saw in polls or on Twitter, and they predicted the vilification of center-rightism would drag the country leftward — except the people who voted here, and in down-ballot races across the country, vigorously rejected that pressure.
Democrats are figuring this out, which is why AOC is suddenly on the defensive within her own party.
JOHN HINDERAKER: FACEBOOK FACT-CHECKS ME, UPDATED. “The establishment is in full protect-Joe mode. The Left’s most important propaganda theme these days is that there is no such thing as voter fraud.”
“WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?” Philadelphia Ballot Observer Criticizes Transparency of Counting Process.
FOR ONCE HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH: Chuck Schumer Says If Democrats Win Georgia Senate Races, ‘Then We Change America’.
SHOCKINGLY, NOT A BIG HIT WITH ACTUAL VOTERS: Dems Turn Away From ‘Defund the Police’ and ‘Socialism’: Ocasio-Cortez says Republicans used slogans for ‘rhetorical attacks.’ Yes, the problem wasn’t what Democrats were saying, it was that Republicans were calling attention to what Democrats were saying . . . .
ICYMI: Roger Kimball: The People Who Count the Votes Decide Everything. “During the campaign, Joe Biden bragged that he had put together ‘the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.’ Perhaps he wasn’t exaggerating.”
UPDATE: Laurence Jarvik: Why I Believe Trump Won. “If one looks at previous crises faced by the Trump Administration, a pattern emerges — initial media reports are eventually exposed as false, once the full record becomes public.”