Vote as if your life depended on it!

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

You’ve heard the phrase: make hay while the sun shines?

VOTE. Get out there and vote. Vote as if you life depended on it. If you are a regular on this blog, it probably does.

Vote if you’re in a deep red area and think your vote doesn’t count. Vote if you’re in a deep blue area and you think your vote doesn’t count. Vote if they call the election before you get out there. Vote. GET OUT THERE AND VOTE.

Yes the third box is woobly and leaky and the dereliction of duty of our journalists and educators (not to mention the invincible ignorance of both groups) means even non-fraudulent leftist votes are UNINFORMED. Which means we might not have a chance.

BUT it is NOT the fourth box. And we know what’s in the fourth. Pandora’s had nothing on it.

So vote while our flag is still there. Get your ass out there, stand in line if you have to, wear the face diaper if you have to, BUT VOTE.

According tot he suggestion of the Wallaby, this is an open thread for Election Day talk.

I probably won’t be back till tomorrow morning. Oh, who am I kidding? I tried that in 2016, and friends and kids started sending me texts around eight pm so I ended up crashing in on Steve and Melissa Green, and huddling in their living room, so I had someone to chatter nervously at.

I don’t know if history repeats itself, but if things are clear by the evening SOMEONE will text and I’ll know. Depending on the result, I might come here to chatter or just got to bed (I haven’t slept in weeks.) or to write a Don’t Jump Off the Ledge, We Need You, post. And pray not a repeat of 2012, where I was talking a friend off the ledge on my phone, another on private messaging, and two members of my own family in the house, all at the same time. This is not something you do to a depressive, btw. Force her to come up with and invent “upsides” to keep others from committing suicide.

I’m going to spend a few hours on my knees, praying to Himself the third box preserves the republic for now, and a fourth is not needed.

And then I’ll probably write a pride and prejudice variation, because it will keep me amused and doesn’t require a brain. (It’s fanfic. Not an insult to those who write it or read it, but it requires less brain than if I do the plotting and characters myself.)

And you mugs, GO VOTE. And then if you’re believers — or even if you’re not. The novelty might amuse Him into listening! — PRAY that when this election is done our flag is still there, and still stands for a Constitutional Republic devoted to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Go be Americans.

524 thoughts on “Vote as if your life depended on it!”

  3. I’ve now seen two tweets in Razorfist’s Twitter feed – one from Razor himself – referring to Arizona officials being caught in a sting only for the tweet to have evaporated by the time I click on it. Sounds like someone got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and Twitter’s desperately trying to cover for them.

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    1. Not a shock; they are allowing Biden to claim that he is “on the path to a win” while censoring Trump’s statements saying the same thing. Also, Philly stopped counting for the night and will resume tomorrow (presumably so they can manufacture enough votes to steal PA) and other states Trump is leading that have Dems running the state are apparently doing the same thing.

      This is going to get very fugly. Expect the first lawsuits to be filed in the morning and the Democratic Party paramilitary riot machine to really get into full swing.

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      1. In fairness, Biden is on a path to a win, holding several important states within the margin of fraud. Trump, OTOH, tweeted out a True But Unpalatable assertion, like “Who built the cages, joe?” and thus must be suppressed.
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  4. Fox News reporting Montana is in Trump’s column (big yawn – 3 electoral votes he was expected to claim) but: it also looks like the GOP will hold that senate seat and pick up the governorship.

    Chick Schumer is likely gnashing his teeth.
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  5. I swear, this election will be the death of me yet. It’s been a very weird year and electoral cycle. Formerly red Arizona is threatening to become yet another extension of California while Mr. Trump apparently again picks up Michigan and Wisconsin along with Pennsylvania even after the massive ballot fraud in Philadelphia? What the hell is going on with this country?

    Don’t answer that. I’m tired and need to sleep. Maybe PredictIt will be back up in the morning. It’s been crashing all night. :-(

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  7. My crazy day is over; I’m hitting the rack. The cats are already zonked out. Will see if the world is still here in the morning.

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  8. It now seems as if the GOP has gained House seats — not enough to take control but putting it closer for 2022.

    I’ve yet to see anything about whether they’ve recouped any of the California seats “harvested” in 2018.
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    1. It appears they were unable to retake any of the seats lost in Orange County, have not heard on any of the other seats. With ballot harvesting going on, I suspect that getting those seats back is a lost cause. Frankly, I expect ballot harvesting to erase the big leads for rejection of the racial quote requirements and the overturning of part of the economy gig worker law.

      California is essentially a socialist banana republic no different than Venezuela or Cuba

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    1. Doesn’t look like there’ll be any more action tonight. I’ll leave you with this:

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    2. And they closed with “The Washington Post March”. Is that kicking them when they are down or what? Bravo Mr President.

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  10. With Election Day going into overtime, this opens the window for some very entertaining possibilities – such as the Durham Report dropping or perhaps a serious investigation into the Biden Family Money Laundry – before the Electoral College results are known.

    I wonder what the DOJ poll watchers might have found.
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    3. One other thing that could happen in that interval occurred to me: approval & release of an effective WuFlu vaccine, in time for Thanksgiving and preventing Biden claiming success with it.
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  11. I saw this

    and wondered if Cubans got that idea from all the MSM reporting about “White Hispanic” George Zimmerman back in 2013.
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  12. Turns out at least part of the problem with Arizona is poll workers making Trump voters use sharpies instead of pens to mark their ballets, causing those ballots to be invalidated:

    Razorfist’s Twitter has been informative tonight.

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    1. *Whistles* That sounds like a huge problem and basis for a class action suit. The question seems to be whether the poll workers came up with that themselves or were “advised” to try it.

      Of course, the Democrats having demanded that we “Count every Vote!” will doubtless denounce this vote suppression and insist those votes be counted.

      In related news, apparently Pennsylvania Dems were caught “curing” invalid mail-in ballots received, primarily to favor Biden.

      Republicans file suit in Pa. to block mail-in voters from ‘curing’ ballots
      Nov. 3 (UPI) — Pennsylvania Republicans filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court, alleging that election workers in Montgomery County north of Philadelphia were counting mail ballots early and allowing voters to “cure” ballots with problems.

      An expedited hearing is scheduled for Wednesday at 9 a.m. in Pennsylvania Eastern District Court in the case filed by Republican U.S. congressional candidate Kathy Barnette and Clay Breece, chairman of the Republican Committee in neighboring Berks County.

      At issue are at least 1,200 “spoiled” ballots that arrived before Oct. 30 at the Montgomery County Board of Elections. The ballots had signature problems, or lacked a secrecy sleeve, which election workers could determine without opening the envelopes.

      Election workers were not allowed to start opening envelopes and canvassing mail-in ballots before 7 a.m. on Election Day.

      Election staff members were contacting voters with spoiled ballots and telling them that they needed to come to the county and either fix their ballot, or vote in person on Tuesday, the suit alleges.

      It also claims that Montgomery County is treating problem mail-in ballots differently than Berks County, where bad ballots aren’t counted.

      “Pennsylvania voters should not be treated differently based on the county where they are required to vote,” wrote Andrew Teitelman, the lawyer who filed the suit.

      The suit also complains that because of COVID-19 health protocols, poll watchers are being constrained to “a tiny holding pen at the edge of the room,” or “relegated to a remote ‘overflow room’ that has two 40-inch flat screen televisions.”

      President Donald Trump predicted in campaign stump speeches that the vote in Pennsylvania would not be completely tabulated by Tuesday night, and promised to take the fight to the courts. The Trump administration sued and lost over signature matching on mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.

      Joe Foster, chairman of the Montgomery County Democratic Committee, told the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday that staff members at polling places always have helped voters make sure they are casting their ballots correctly.
      [END EXCERPT]

      Wallaby Wemarks: n reference to Mr. Foster, I am sure they have. Even when they cannot vsit the polls themselves.
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      1. [sigh]

        And all this is probably just the beginning of what will come out by noon. Poor Sarah’s gonna blow a gasket over this stuff when she wakes up.

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  13. Last night, the New York Times tweeted the following: “The role of declaring the winner of a presidential election in the U.S.falls to the news media. The broadcast networks and cable news outlets have vowed to be prudent. Here’s how it will work. [mini-url which now leads to a completely different article on the election]”

    I didn’t think to copy and paste the whole thing, just the bits that seem to arrogate to the NYT the power of kingmaking for the benefit of character-limited social media, but here you go:

    Lede: A Federal District Court judge on Tuesday ordered an immediate sweep of 12 postal districts searching for undelivered ballots after the Postal Service said in court that some 300,000 ballots it had received had not been scanned for delivery.
    […]
    He said he was particularly concerned about ballot delivery in districts where there has been slow processing of ballots for days, including Central Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Detroit.

    Concluding paragraphs (I skipped a LOT in the middle and some of it may have been relevant):
    Mr. Trump had spent much of his last day on the campaign trail Monday attacking the Supreme Court, accusing it of putting “our country in danger” by ruling to allow Pennsylvania to continue accepting absentee ballots after Election Day, at least for the time being.

    In Kenosha, Wis., the fourth of five rallies across four states, Mr. Trump told a crowd, without basis, that the justices had made a “political” decision that would lead to cheating by his opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. His comments followed an angry tweet in which he charged — without providing any evidence — that the court’s decision would “allow rampant and unchecked cheating” and “induce violence in the streets.”

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    1. “In Kenosha, Wis., the fourth of five rallies across four states, Mr. Trump told a crowd, without basis, that the justices had made a ‘political’ decision that would lead to cheating by his opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. His comments followed an angry tweet in which he charged — without providing any evidence — that the court’s decision would ‘allow rampant and unchecked cheating’ and ‘induce violence in the streets.’”

      In other news, President Trump also claimed, without evidence, that “the sun rises in the East,” “two plus two equals four,” “Miller Lite tastes great and is less filling,” and “all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

      Independent fact checkers have been unable to verify any of those assertions.
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