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November 3, 2021
THE LATEST STRATEGYTALK: Spooky Stuff On The Horizon. Jim Dunnigan and I discuss and speculate upon bad stuff happening on and around Planet Earth. Jim has a couple of surprises. If you like it, subscribe.
PART TWO: Consequences of America Losing a War to China
In July Japan’s Vice Defense Minister Yasuhide Nakayama told the Hudson Institute that China and Russia could launch a surprise “Pearl Harbor-style attack” in the Pacific. The Washington Examiner and Reuters quoted Nakayama as insisting the U.S. and Japan must demonstrate the will to deter both China and Russia because “they are doing their (military) exercises together.” They conduct exercises from “Honolulu to Japan,” which means America’s “protection line is going … backwards …”
Nakayama said China would likely target Taiwan. But that threatens Okinawa (a Japanese island with U.S. bases). Mid-Pacific exercises demonstrate targeting Hawaii and the West Coast, so he couldn’t rule out an attack on Hawaii reprising 1941 but employing 21st-century weaponry.
Read the entire essay.
RELATED: Part One (from last week).
IT WILL, ONCE MCAULIFFE CONCEDES: Glenn Youngkin’s Win Officially Ends the Clinton Era in American Politics.
Related: Larry Sabato Dejectedly Sums up Dem Failure in Virginia: ‘It’s a Bloodbath.’
UPDATE: Terry McAuliffe concedes to Glenn Youngkin in Virginia governor’s race.
(Updated and bumped.)
LASERS, IS THERE ANYTHING THEY CAN’T DO? Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers To Kill 100,000 Weeds An Hour, Saving Land And Farmers From Toxic Herbicides.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: GOP Diversity Ticket Trounces Racist CRT Dems In Virginia. “To the surprise of absolutely no one who’s been paying attention to the execrable members of the mainstream media, their response to this momentous occasion was to say that the Republicans won because of racism.”
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I THINK THEY’RE WITHIN THE MARGIN OF FRAUD, BUT WE CAN HOPE: Dem disaster: Did they lose … *New Jersey*?
To be clear, Murphy still has the advantage. New Jersey is still a blue state, and the ballots left to be counted will more likely tilt his direction — but it’s not certain, of course. Not to mention that it shouldn’t have been this close in the first place.
Commentators attempting to explain the inexplicable last night, both in New Jersey and in Virginia, which was a lot more explicable — tried to pass this off as just a natural replay of 2009. It’s true that both states have a history of flipping against newly elected presidents, but there’s a big difference in both states from twelve years ago. Both of them got a lot bluer over the last decade, Virginia especially so. Republicans hadn’t competed successfully for statewide votes in either state for the better part of a decade before last night. On top of that, Murphy was a relatively popular incumbent, or so it seemed. Democrats can excuse Virginia as being saddled with a terrible candidate in Terry McAuliffe, but that wasn’t the case in New Jersey.
Well, Biden’s terrible. And he hasn’t even been in office for a year yet.
THEY SHOULD HAVE LEARNED THIS IN 2016: Virginia takeaway: Dems gave up on rural voters and it’s a disaster for them. The problem is, the Democrats’ core donors/voters absolutely have to feel — and act — superior to rural people. It’s key to their self-image.
BIDENFLATION: Karol Markowicz: The most expensive holidays ever? This is a big deal. “We’re told, by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg that these are good problems to have. People have money to spend, allegedly, so they’re spending it and making the price of items go up. The high prices are the Biden administration’s success!”
Related: ‘Christmas dinner in a can’ promises answer to supermarket shortages.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Here’s the Latest Little Bit of Biden Administration Hypocrisy on Fossil Fuels. “The obnoxious motorcades and private jet lines are infuriating because the only people actually required to sacrifice to save Gaia are working families.”
Working families are the sacrifice.
SUSAN PAGE: Crushing defeat in Virginia could signal more bad news for Democrats ahead.
In his first bid for public office, Youngkin managed to unnerve Democrats nationwide and give Republicans a template to succeed even in places Joe Biden carried by double digits in the presidential campaign one year ago.
The outcome fortified Republican hopes of winning back control of the House and the Senate in next year’s midterms. It complicated Biden’s embattled efforts to push his ambitious agenda through a Congress that is still under Democratic control, albeit narrowly.
Joe Biden couldn’t push Terry McAuliffe over the finish line in deep-blue Virginia, where a Republican hadn’t won statewide office since 2009. Whatever clout he might still have still held with Senate holdouts Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin has evaporated.
Biden is every bit as inept and toxic as a lot of us have been saying for years, and as of this morning it looks like he’ll be the worst thing to happen to down-ticket Democrats since Barack Obama.
LUCKILY, JOE WON’T REMEMBER IT BY TOMORROW: Bad Night For Joe Biden As Republican Glenn Youngkin Wins Virginia; New Jersey Governor Wants “Every Vote” Counted In Tight Race.
Related: A bad omen for Democrats and 4 other election night takeaways.
UPDATE: From a friend:
Q. Why did the Dems lose in Virginia?
A. The fake ballots were printed in China and they’re all still stuck on a ship waiting in LA harbor!
Heh.
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OBAMA’S THIRD TERM: Iranian Oil Sales to China Skyrocket as Experts Say Biden Admin Turns Blind Eye to Sanctions Enforcement. “China imported nearly 800,000 barrels of Iranian crude per day on average during the last three months, almost double the amount it was illegally buying from Iran during the same period last year when the Trump administration was pressuring Iran with a crippling sanctions campaign. The increase comes amid an effort by China and Iran to boost diplomatic ties and force the Biden administration into removing sanctions on the Islamic Republic.”
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: House Republicans Request All Documents Concerning DOJ Targeting of Concerned Parents.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: New York City Department of Education is trying to hide the true drop in public-school enrollment.
After weeks of stonewalling, the city’s Department of Education finally had to make public the 2021 school year enrollment figures but was still shifty.
With an Oct. 31 deadline to report the numbers to the state Education Department, the DOE announced a total of 938,000 students enrolled, compared with 955,000 last year.
But that includes pre-K toddlers, even the 69,000 not in a DOE program — enrollment the city didn’t include previously. On an apples-to-apples count, the system is down to 869,000 from last year.
That’s cooking the books pretty hard. But all is proceeding as I have foreseen. “DOE flacks blame falling birth rates, but this is clearly an exodus from its schools, driven by parental dissatisfaction. Charter and private schools have rising enrollment, and even homeschooling is up. The only thing still rising at DOE schools is spending.”
WE ARE HERE: Regressing.