AUDIBLE SHOCK: MSNBC Devastated Over ‘Catastrophic’ Hispanic GOP Vote. “The devastation for the MSNBC panel set in early when national political correspondent Steve Kornacki went to the electronic board and showed that Senator Marco Rubio had an early lead in Miami-Dade County. This news received an audible shock from the panelists off-camera[.]”
Author Archive: Ed Driscoll
November 8, 2022
FOX NEWS DECISION DESK RACE CALL: Gov. Abbott wins Texas race against Beto O’Rourke.
Related: Will this election finally be the end of Betoism? A quarter billion dollars in losses later, it may be time to give up on Beto O’Rourke.
Yet that’s what today’s Democratic Party has become: if you nationalize your message, go viral often enough, and enlist journalists to praise the way you sweat through your shirts — so sexily, as opposed to Ted Cruz — you too can suck massive amounts of cash out of the pockets of idiot donors who are too busy feeling good about their rightness to analyze what kind of Democrat would actually win in Texas.
Democrats should be grateful for what Greg Abbott is about to do to Beto O’Rourke. It won’t be pretty. It won’t be nice. But it will be necessary for a political party that needs to wrestle with the truth about what they’re doing wrong. Maybe this time, they’ll learn from the pain.
Or not. Democrats set $36 million alight when Abbott beat Wendy Davis in 2014, and in 2002, “Democrat Tony Sanchez mostly self-financed a $67.2 million campaign — compared to Gov. Rick Perry, who spent nearly $28 million to win by almost 20 percentage points.”
BREAKING: Decision in on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Race.
As Greene predicted on Saturday, “Her Democratic opponent, Army veteran Marcus Flowers, has been ‘able to raise over $15 MILLION from Democrat donors all over the country that are being lied to about his ability to win in Georgia’s beautiful deep red 14th district,’ she wrote. ‘I mean it’s impossible so they might as well pile up that $15 million and pour lighter fluid on it and set it on fire.’”
TWENTY MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE:
Even before Trump won the 2016 election, we know the FBI began crafting an “insurance policy,” the Russia collusion hoax, in case he won. Recall, too, how every major Democrat denounced Trump as “illegitimate” after he won, how left-wing street thugs rioted in major cities, how elected Democrats managed to hobble Trump’s presidency through endless investigations and a frivolous impeachment. And above all, we saw how they were determined not to let the same thing happen in 2020. And it didn’t.
Keep that in mind as the midterm results roll in this week (and next). There’s a reason Democrats and the corporate media have been pushing hard the message that we won’t know the results of key races for days, maybe weeks. It’s not just about counting absentee ballots, it’s about getting the rigging in place, either to claim victory or deny the legitimacy of the vote. Whatever Democrats say they fear Republican “election deniers” might do, they themselves are preparing to do the same or worse.
A political party that has convinced itself the country faces an existential crisis if its opponents win at the ballot box, and that doesn’t even pretend to serve anyone other than its base of college-educated leftists, is a toxic combination. Such a party is of course incapable of winning a majority, but it’s also incapable of relinquishing power, which makes it by far the greatest threat to democracy our country now faces.
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes sees the possibility of a load of new GOP congressmen and governors, and decides he’s cosplaying the French Resistance: Here’s a shot/chaser from MSNBC’s Chris Hayes about a GOP victory and ‘the End of Democracy.’
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Record Numbers Of Voters Show Up To End Democracy.
Carol Roth wants specifics: “At what time is democracy scheduled to die? And will it be in darkness, because I was told it would be (probably because of ending daylight saving time or something).“
FINALLY, VINDICATION FOR HANK JOHNSON!
How it started: Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA): Guam could ‘tip over and capsize.’
—The Hill, March 31, 2010.
How it’s going: Guam Elects First Republican House Delegate Since 1993.
Guam has elected a Republican as its non-voting delegate to Congress for the first time since 1993, an encouraging development for the GOP in the first 2022 midterm race called.
Republican James Moylan, a senator in the Guam legislature, has defeated Judith Won Pat, former speaker of the Guam Legislature, according to the Pacific Daily News.
Partial, unofficial results from the Guam Election Commission showed Moylan leading with 17,075 votes to Won Pat’s 15,427.
Moylan is only the second Republican to be elected to the delegate seat since its creation in 1972, according to the report.
—NRO, today.
OLD AND BUSTED: “Safe, Legal, and Rare.”
The new hotness? Biden: If Democrats Win, I’ll Sign Bill for Abortions Up to Birth Nationwide.
Musk paid $44 billion to acquire Twitter, and all indications are that the platform isn’t worth anything close to that. Once he got access to the company’s finances, the Tesla boss realized it was losing millions of dollars every day, and that many of its employees weren’t doing much work at all. So he proceeded to do what most executives would do in this situation: He laid off some of his workers.
“Tech companies ran off the cliff long ago.”
The abrupt firing of thousands of employees solicited a new wave of outrage from Musk’s haters. But even if you remove him from the equation, Twitter couldn’t have gone much longer without massive layoffs. The same thing is happening across Silicon Valley. Last week, the online payments company Stripe announced it would cut 14% of its workforce, as did the rideshare giant Lyft; Facebook parent company Meta looks poised to do the same. Like Wile E. Coyote, tech companies ran off the cliff long ago; only now is economic gravity starting to assert itself.
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In an earlier column, I ended with the following question: “Gen. Mark Milley infamously testified before a congressional hearing that he wanted to understand ‘white rage.’ But who right now is prepared for progressive, multiracial, demisexual rage, as the core social groups driving progressivism in America are hit the hardest by layoffs and the end of Silicon Valley subsidies?” That rage is no longer coming—it’s here.
As Kristi Noem tweeted when CNN+ tanked in April:
Pop quiz:
Which of these two individuals do you find more problematic?
Kyrie Irving, a kooky basketball player who believes that the Earth is flat, that JFK was shot by bankers, that the COVID vaccines were secretly a plot to connect all Black people to a supercomputer, and that Jews worship Satan and launched the slave trade?
Or Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, who accepted $500,000 from Irving last week without even meeting or even talking to the all-star—and who was then forced to give back the donation when Irving blatantly refused to apologize?
Let’s think about it for a minute. One of these guys is a weirdo with dumb opinions he may or may not actually believe. The other is running a soulless racket which just made it clear that you can say whatever you want about the Jews and buy your indulgences at a discount price.
Don’t get me wrong: I absolutely believe that Irving’s endorsement of a Black nationalist documentary based on an obscure Jew-hating book, to say nothing of Kanye West’s meltdown, will most likely contribute to a surge in antisemitism in America, particularly in the Black community. But we Jews don’t control Kyrie Irving; in theory, we do control the ADL, and we shouldn’t want our chief defense group to behave in a way that advances antisemitic conspiracy theories about shadowy Jews trafficking in money and influence for fun and profit.
All of this leads to one sorry conclusion: It’s time to say goodbye to the ADL. It can’t be killed, so we need to just walk away from this formerly venerable organization, and weaken it before it swerves so far off the road that it takes us with it.
Read the whole thing.
JUST NBC THE CRAZINESS! Actor/Director Rob Reiner Tells Joy Reid Republicans Are ‘Literally Killing’ People To Win Midterms.
THIS IS THE WAY: DeSantis to DoJ: Pound sand. “The DeSantis administration is pushing back against President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice’s apparent effort to send in election ‘monitors’ inside state-run polling locations within several Florida counties. In a letter to John ‘Bert’ Russ, Deputy Chief & Elections Coordinator for the Department of Justice by Florida Department of State General Counsel Brad McVay, the DeSantis administration warns that under Florida statute, DOJ monitors ‘are not permitted’ inside Florida polling locations.”
OLD AND BUSTED: “Let Them Eat Cake.”
The New Hotness? What? Democrat Congressman says families should eat Chef Boyardee to cope with high inflation.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED BY JIM GERAGHTY: Who’s Moving into the Governor’s Mansions?
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH ANDREW SULLIVAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY: Why I’m voting Republican.
Over the past few years, violent crime in DC has been rising fast. Last year, the murder rate was the highest since 2003, and this year the death toll is slightly higher so far. Carjackings are up 36% and robberies are up 57%. Almost all this hideous violence is inflicted on African-Americans, including many children. It permeates outward, creating a deeper public sense of insecurity and out-of-control crime. Tent cities are now all over the city. People suffering from mental illness patrol the streets. You feel the decline in law and order, the slow fraying of the city, every day.
And yet, the Council has decided that now is the time to make it harder to prosecute and easier to defend violent criminals, partly in the name of “equity.”. Yes, it’s part of a longstanding “modernization” of the criminal code, but they had to include these provisions and now? And this isn’t new. Just before the crime explosion took off, the DC mayor had “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street in letters so large you could read them from a plane, and allowed “Defund the Police” to remain next to it. That summer, woke mobs were allowed to harass anyone in their vicinity, yelling slogans that vilified all police — and the MSM took the side of the bullies. After the summer of 2020, the DC police force dropped to its lowest level in two decades.
So guess what? I’m going to vote for the Republican and the most conservative Independent I can find tomorrow. And I can’t be the only Biden and Clinton and Obama voter who’s feeling something like this, after the past two years.
And Kerry. But then, a pundit who poses as a conservative but never votes for Republicans can make a very good living in the media.