On Voting

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Ladies, Gentlemen and reticulated giraffes: Tomorrow is the last day to vote in the US for the 2024 election.

At least it’s the last way to vote legally. If you’re one of those manufacturing votes by the boat load and driving boxes of shadily sourced ballots around, you’re reading the wrong blog. No one on the right does that, because we’d get whapped by the highly partisan media.

If you’re a foreigner and you came here to beg us not to “set the clock back 8 years” you should be aware you’ve been so far misinformed by your media that what you think you know about the US is an alternate reality. What you think you know about the US is roughly the equivalent of people who believed the fake War of the World’s broadcast and has no connection whatsoever to what we here know. I wouldn’t believe how much you’ve been lied to if I hadn’t just spent 10 days in Europe. Let me point out our media is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat/socialist party. And that only the very old and shut ins believe it. The whole reality they’re constructing is floridly and obviously against our “lying eyes.” (And wallets. And ability to live as we did four years ago.) What you should ask yourself is…. what the heck sense does that slogan even make? Eight years ago was the end of Obama’s presidency. Wasn’t that y’all’s beau ideal?
Or short and sweet if none of the above makes sense to you: Blow out it out your hole, go frustrate yourself and leave us the heck alone. Because you won’t like us when we’re angry.

Now, for us Americans.

Tomorrow is the last voting day for this election, and this mostly black pilled, more than half sure the fraud will carry it blogger is begging you with tears in her eyes to go out and vote for Trump.

I know some of you — I know my libertarian people! — are going to say “But I don’t like Trump.”

Fine. You are not required to like him. Who have you liked that you voted for? Because I’ve been scratching my head, and I kind of liked Steve Forbes when I voted for him on the primary. But he probably would have been a disaster if he’d won the nomination, let alone the presidency. Less or more of a disaster than W? I don’t know. Search me.

“But Trump is a bully!” — is he really? Yes, he says the unacceptable, aloud, but why is it unacceptable. Is it because he’s punching down, or because he’s saying what we’ve been conditioned to regard as forbidden? Because he is punching up while saying it. What he said about Liz Chenney was said about her father and W sometimes in sky writing or the ever popular (on the left) papier mache puppets. And yet– He’s the one called mean and having people horrified he said it. The left says a lot meaner things, and it is actual bullying, because they can cancel you, your job, your family, your family’s job, your ability to live. He’s not a bully. He’s fighting back. Which is why he has a chance at all.

“But I don’t agree with all his policies.” Oh, hell, child. I don’t agree with all the policies I would implement if I had the power. I’d probably see saw madly on things like tariffs depending on my mood. And let’s talk about the fact that I’m becoming very leery of outright all out drug legalization (While still thinking it’s sometimes better than the enforcement system we now have. Right now.) And then there’s– No. I’d be here all day.

You don’t have to agree with all his policies. If he implements everything he says he wants to it will be hilarious because the resulting train wreck will cause the federal government to implode and have to reorganize. A lot of his policies will be stopped by the people who have the actual authority. And for some of them I’m sad.

Take the pro-lifers saying he “betrayed” them because he flaps lips about six weeks being too early for restrictions. You know, if you’re secular I can see that. Particularly if you are or know women in the hookup culture. Because six weeks you barely know you’re pregnant. For others of us all abortion is unacceptable, but then again we’re not into hookup culture and never were. The point here is what Trump thinks about it or doesn’t means bupkis. He’s not going to legalize abortion till whenever by a stroke of the pen, because he can’t. Sending it back to the states means any federal interference is now impossible.

Unless, of course, Harris gets in because she intends to pack the supreme court and stop the filibuster and …. well, destroy the rule of law and the Republic.

And that, ladies and gentlemen and particularly giraffes is why I point out you should vote for Trump. You are not making the choice in mid-air, and if you write in a name, my answer is “would you please grow up?” Yes, you have a right to write in a name. You have a right to sing the blues. You have a right to rock and roll. You have a right to be a complete idiot too. For now at least. And by G-d, you’re exerting that right to be a complete idiot.

Because the choice isn’t cake or death. The choice isn’t Trump or the ideal candidate of your choice, and all your protest vote is telling your fellow Americans is “Screw you guys, I’m going home.” For values of home that include the adult fun camps that you know Commie LaWhorish is just dying to revive. (How do you know? Because she says that Trump will put you in camps.)

If you think the two choices are remotely equivalent, you haven’t looked at the choices, or you drink the ink the mainstream press sells by the bucket full.

No matter how bad Trump turns out to be — What, you think I’m thrilled about the alliance with RFK Jr? — he is not a puppet of the shadowy cabal that ran Obama, then Biden and now Commie LaWhorish. And that Cabal has a sort of corporatist communism in mind for all of us. If you think they were bad in Biden’s term, with law fare against Trump and persecution of everyone who opposed them, and attempts at censorship? You ain’t seen anything yet.

This is why I’m referring to tomorrow as the day the world ends. Though I’m being pessimistic, of course. It probably won’t be till the end of the week.

I’ll be hanging out here with Writer’s Tears and the comments, because I’m hanging on by the imaginary strength of my frayed nerves.

Because, yes, regardless of who you vote for, the fraud is going to be almost impossible to out vote. And fraud is always for the left, because no one stops them.

So, why bother voting?

MAKE THEM FIGHT FOR IT. MAKE THEM CHEAT. MAKE THEM SWEAT. And let your fellow Americans know they’re not alone.

And who knows, maybe a miracle will occur. We’ve already had a couple this cycle. Maybe we’ll have another one, and maybe Trump will win.

I’m not crazy. That doesn’t mean ice cream and cookies. It doesn’t mean everything will be wonderful.

How do I put this? We’ll be in for a massive collapse of the economy either way. That 12k jobs created last month and the fact people are struggling to make ends meet already…. it’s going to get bad. It’s going to get really bad.

The difference is if Kamala is in power they’ll mask it, so you’ll have the additional fun of being gaslit and told how wonderful everything is. Also Kamala is really hot on the whole taxing on unrealized assets, which slowly will make all of us paupers (does own nothing and be happy (no I won’t) ring a bell?

With Trump and the team he’s bringing in…. well, maybe there is no way to get us out of trouble. BUT Trump has assembled a team o people who at least have some connection to business and reality. And in his first team he did things I didn’t expect him to be able to do. There is a chance. A threadbare thin chance, but a chance.

He’ll also stem the tide over the Southern border and perhaps cut our extending of benefits to the world, so we won’t bankrupt ourselves to try to appease the unappeasable.

But most of all it will halt — if not reverse — our slide into actual communism. No, it’s not hyperbole, I’m not crazy. A lot of other people with first hand experience of hard socialism and communism (there is really no difference except at the nitpicky definitional level) have been sounding the alarm. As have survivors of fascism.

No, if it comes here it won’t endure, because there isn’t an America we can escape to, and there isn’t an America that can feed us. Even if we do what communist empires always do and conquer other countries to steal from them, no country can keep us even minimally fed.

It won’t endure. But it can hurt us very badly.

And I’m very much afraid that’s what we’re in for. Because fraud.

But maybe a miracle will occur. I’m not sure my faith is quite that strong, but I’m trying. And tomorrow’s post will be by one of you who is a man of faith and the post is more religious than I’d normally post.

And between now and then I’ll be praying.

Look, if you can force yourself to pray do so. Even if you’re an atheist. I think just the novelty of you praying might shock the Author into changing the plot. Who knows?

It’s worth a try. Because what we’re facing is horrifying.

May the Lord bless you and keep you. May He make his light to shine upon you.

And may we pass through this spot dry shod and arrive on the other side in our Constitutional Republic.

It could happen. There is a bare chance. Roll for a miracle. Prepare for the worst.

Go!

131 thoughts on “On Voting”

  1. Sarah, I vote on election day. I’m waiting to see if it’s very crowded at the polls or not. Looks like maybe 60% of registered voters have voted already. I’m prepared to wait in line for a couple of hours, but I’m voting.

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      1. We are vote by mail <del>fraud</del>. Normally wait until today, or Tuesday, to drop ballots off at a county facility drop box but this year we dropped them week ago Saturday. We expected to be home by this last weekend, but who knows what kind of blizzard we could have ran into (and Montana/Wyoming, etc. are getting hit now)?

        As far as the record early voters? How many in 2020 showed up and were told they’d “already voted”? If that was me? I’d been talking about that from then until now to everyone who would listen and those who didn’t want to listen (trust me they’d still hear about it). Then this time? I’d be in line early, with everyone I could drag with me. The democRATS should be afraid. Very, very, Afraid. People are pissed.

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        2. Folks, saying again, because essential.

          Calmly.

          No matter what, mo matter who, stay calm. Anyone shrill urging urgent action, especially anything resembling riotous assembly or other mayhem-adjacent weirdness, is likely a provocateur. And you are the intended bust.

          We have the rest of our lives to solve problems. Think, discern, and plan accordingly.

          Calmly.

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  2. Didn’t Heinlein say “If you can’t find somebody to vote For, then find somebody that you’d vote Against”?

    In Trump’s first election, I was VOTING AGAINST Hillary.

    Now (and in the last election), I’m VOTING FOR Trump.

    IE I know Trump Now and he’s much better than anybody the Dems could have put up (let allow the Idiot they did put up).

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    1. Same.

      2016 I though Trump was a democrat plant. He was a New York city businessman and worked for Hollywood. He was a figurehead. But …. Please no, not Hillary. Was I surprised Trump won? In spades. 3 AM Wednesday morning got up because dog wanted out. Turned on the TV because why not? Response when FNS called the election for Trump? “OMG! OMG! OMG! Wow! He did it!”

      During his 4 years? Never gladder to be proven wrong. 2020 voted for Trump because he’d earned it. 2024 nothing has changed my mind. He appears to be a SOB (from everything I’ve read he isn’t, he’s very personable). Doesn’t matter if he is or not. At worst he is OUR, US of America’s, SOB

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      1. I would only say this. “We cannot spare this man, he fights.” Paraphrased from another man who was a bit crude at times.

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      2. That was me in 2016, and after, to a “T.”

        He IS an SOB – to those that attack him, his family, his friends, or his country. Since I am EXACTLY that kind of SOB myself, it has never been a factor for me.

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        1. “He IS an SOB – to those that attack him, his family, his friends, or his
          country. Since I am EXACTLY that kind of SOB myself, it has never been a
          factor for me.”

          Heck. I admire him for his restraint.

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        2. he also has a very generous side. In 2016 I did a bunch of research on him. His family went to Norman Vincent Peale’s Church, author of The Power of Positive Thinking, and the Trump regularly does the sort of acts of random kindness help to individuals that Norman Vincent Peale talked about in his books, I assume his sermons were similar, and that it had a lasting impact on Trumps life.

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      3. I’ll be honest. (I don’t think I’ve ever told anyone this before.)

        In 2016 I had gone to be sure that Hillary would win. My sister woke me up in the middle of the night. I came to the base of the stairs to see what was so important. She gave me the election results. I literally dropped to my knees when she told me that Donald Trump had won and thanked The Father that it wasn’t Hillary.

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        1. I voted against her, and then was pleasantly surprised the next day that I was pleasantly surprised that he had won.

          Next two times, I voted for him.

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      4. Similar story here. I didn’t like or trust Trump in 2016 and was NEVER going to vote for Hillary Clinton; since I knew my vote wouldn’t matter in the blue swamp of this state, I voted for a third-party guy I knew wouldn’t win (Evan McMullin; and man, am I ever glad in hindsight that he didn’t get anywhere).

        Watching what Trump *actually did* and comparing it to what the legacy media said he’d done (or wanted to) was a heck of a red pill. I’d been following Second Amendment issues for a while by that point, so I didn’t trust them much, but I hadn’t considered the possibility that they’d be willing to lie about EVERYTHING.

        2020 and now 2024, I’m Trump all the way. I did what I could to get people to vote for Trump, or at least against the horror that is Harris, with me (couldn’t bring my wife and kids along…I tried…but I did convince some fence-sitters in the rest of the family). He isn’t perfect (nobody is), but he’s by far the best we’re going to get in this fallen world. He may be an SOB, but he’s OUR SOB — the only candidate I’ve ever actually been *happy* to vote for.

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      5. I remember the summer of 2016. A polling firm ran a poll giving people the choice of Trump, Clinton, and Sweet Meteor of Death.

        SMoD polled in the double-digits. Among independents, it was a dead heat between the three. We really didn’t know.

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    3. In the 2016 primary, it seems that every time $SPOUSE and I got enthusiastic about a candidate, it was time for said person to crash and burn. For me, it finally came down to a choice between Ted Cruz and DJT, and various campaign moves that Cruz was doing didn’t feel right. Trump was clear and straightforward, so even though he was my last choice, I was happy to vote for Trump. (Against Hillary, too, but mostly for DJT.)

      It didn’t hurt that at the time I listened to Hannity, and Trump’s love for America came through every time he was on the air. Gave up on Hannity before Rush died, then gave up on talk radio altogether.

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      1. I voted a week ago, and used the inside drop box next to the county clerk’s office. The county building has an outside drop box, but after the mostly peaceful crap in Portland and Vancouver, nope. Going to use what’s best protected. Flyover County is quite conservative, though overly friendly to the GOPe, though that’s steadily changing MAGA-ward.

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        1. Maybe after what happened in Portland the drop boxes will be moved inside to protected sites where cameras are on PEOPLE, not vehicles, dropping off ballots. Even better: government facilities.

          Not county courthouses, that isn’t fair to a lot of Oregon large counties. Even Lane county. Wouldn’t be fair to Springfield or Pleasant Hill, let alone Cottage Grove, Oakridge, and Florence. Heck I’m in N. Eugene, and I don’t want to go downtown Eugene to the drop box by the main county offices. The county maintenance offices off N. Delta, yes. Downtown? Heck No.

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    4. I voted for Trump, and for every non-democrat on the ballot, and against those local officials that had already shown willing to pervert justice against people like me.

      Why? Because I don’t vote for people who think I (and everyone who looks like me) am garbage, deplorable, bitterly clinging to guns and religion, a traitor to my sex – which they are trying to erase, stupid, brainwashed, responsible for all evil in the world because of my skin color, irredeemable, and deserving of being put into a camp and murdered, and – this is the important part – who are completely unafraid to say all of this publicly.

      I don’t want that kind of person to have any power to affect my life or the laws under which I live.

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  3. Swallow that black pill, Sarah, and then sh!t it out like it deserves. I’m actually feeling…good(?) about the election. It’s strange because while I’m hoping and praying it turns out for the direction we need, and I’m accepting of watching the cities burn themselves to a crisp, I can live with the fraud be so massive that even the real support is overwhelmed.. Not happy, but as Mencken said “[they] know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Am I full survivalist ready for a winter of doom? Not really, but ready enough for hard times.

    Be at peace, other than voting (and poll watching if you have one of those gigs) there’s nothing more we can do, and nothing we can do more. Tend to yourself and those around you, help others when you can, and (as YOU have admonished us before) we’ll get through this.

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  4. Just remember it is Democrats like Harris, Hochul, etc., who sent armed SWAT teams to go after people’s pets. Remember it is Harris who is on record as stating that police should be able to search people’s homes, at will, “to make sure people are being responsible”. It is Harris who is on record as believing speech that she dislikes should be banned. It is Harris who is on record as wanting to pack the Supreme Court so that it can eviscerate the Constitution and end constitutional protection of free speech, the right to bear arms and the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, while at the same time imposing communist redistribution of wealth based on racial and identity group lines.

    Even if one thinks Trump is crude, uncouth, etc., if one wants to have any chance of the Republic surviving, it is imperative to vote for Trump, and the other Republicans (yes even if its a squish, because control of each House in Congress means control of the agenda and what gets brought to the floor for a vote).

    Remember that Harris and the cabal HATE you and want to see you gone.

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  5. I’m in a similar place,but hanging in there. No early voting here, so will either go vote before going to the food bank, or afterwards. (First open day if the month, it’s going to be busy. Possibly crazy). My beloved is still recovering -I will be very glad when he’s able to eat normal food – but he’ll be voting too.

    I feel really lousy – tight chest, sinus pressure, drainage, sniffles – but no fever and no cough, so I have no idea what’s going on, other than worry. But I am praying, and will pray, and we will go through this.

    And a note to Foxfier: fans of Luce, the Vatican anime symbol, are using her to fight Amendment 4 (a pro-abortion constitutional amendment) in Florida. Kind of neat.

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  6. The Iron Dice are rolling, so add your vote to the spin. The Ravishing Wife and have done so, but being law abiding will not do so again.

    What we are being offered is a choice between being crushed under the heels of a criminal syndicate that sustains itself on human sacrifice (Ashley Babbitt, Roseanne Boyland, the J6 prisoners, the trafficked men, women and children, those economically destroyed by vindictive lawfare, etc.), under the falsely claimed legitimacy of another Potemkin election managed to a predetermined conclusion, and a bare chance to save ourselves without spilling an ocean of blood.

    Outright victory is far from assured, but exposing the lie of legitimacy *by *the *numbers undermines the demon’s lies. well, that’s the beginning of their end.

    ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.

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  7. The Iron Dice are rolling, so add your vote to the spin. The Ravishing Wife and have done so, but being law abiding will not do so again.

    What we are being offered is a choice between being crushed under the heels of a criminal syndicate that sustains itself on human sacrifice (Ashley Babbitt, Roseanne Boyland, the J6 prisoners, the trafficked men, women and children, those economically destroyed by vindictive lawfare, etc.), under the falsely claimed legitimacy of another Potemkin election managed to a predetermined conclusion, and a bare chance to save ourselves without spilling an ocean of blood.

    Outright victory is far from assured, but exposing the lie of legitimacy *by *the *numbers undermines the demon’s lies. well, that’s the beginning of their end.

    ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.

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  8. I’m voting tomorrow as I always do on election day partially due to tradition, and partially as a middle finger to all the early voting/fraud by mail/motor voter fraud propaganda.

    As usual on the night before elections, I think of the speech MacArthur broadcast to the Philippine people when he returned with a few divisions of troops, with substitution of the word vote for strike to fit the context:

    Let the indomitable spirit of Bataan and Corregidor lead on. As the lines of battle roll forward to bring you within the zone of operations, rise and strike. … For your homes and hearths, strike! For future generations of your sons and daughters, strike! In the name of your sacred dead, strike! Let no heart be faint. Let every arm be steeled. The guidance of divine God points the way. Follow in His Name to the Holy Grail of righteous victory!

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  9. I am an Englishman but live in the US. I can’t vote here but I do follow the politics. FWIW I live next to what was once a small park beside a beautiful lake – an oasis in the city. Well, it used to be, it’s now a squatter camp with nightly drama involving the police (when they turn up) and there are drug dealers on the corner. The grass is littered with needles and human waste.

    I have more or less given up trying to educate my siblings who live in the UK. They believe the BBC; supposedly neutral but, well you know. I tried to point out that they are only hearing one side of the story but I just receive pitying looks. It doesn’t help when I also point out the ludicrousness of ‘next zero’ and the probable weather event (mid-winter, no wind) which will kill a lot of people. By now they think I am a rabid, far-right, loon.

    I don’t understand why I can’t crack the boundary. These are not stupid people.

    Good luck for Tuesday.

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  11. As to Trump’s character, the man whom I consider the most moral and decent man to become president or even gain the nomination for president in my lifetime is undoubtedly Jimmy Carter, and his presidency was a disaster of absurd proportions. He managed to create the unprecedented combination of high inflation and stagnant growth simultaneously. His great moral decision to withdraw support for the brutal dictatorial Shah of Iran has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths in the Middle East and continues to do so today. John McCain was a vile, vengeful man who ran his campaign for his last reelection to Senate in Arizona on the theme of repealing Obamacare and then cast the deciding vote against repeal out of his personal anger and spite for the President who had insulted him. Romney may be a good man personally, but how would I know after the press and the Democrats claimed he was a rich, entitled bully in his school days, and that he was a heartless fiend who strapped the family dog to the top of his station wagon to head out for a family vacation? As to Barack Obama, he is Eddie Haskell, the respectful, perfectly polite boy that your parents wish you were and the scheming jerk when they’re not around.

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  12. I expect to be watching election coverage tomorrow evening and for as long as it takes to get a result. When someone asked what time on Wednesday I though the results would be clear, I said “The following Wednesday.” In reality I’m not sure it will be that soon. I voted early, six weeks ago before going in for major surgery.

    Now it’s been interesting seeing the total saturation of political ads on Youtube. Most of them have even been accurately targeted for my local State Legislative race. The Republican candidate is a young man who worked his way through undergrad earning degrees in several majors and is now working his way through law school while also running a very active campaign. He is one of the most impressive people I’ve met in recent years.

    Let’s all pray that the fraud is overwhelmed by actual votes.

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    1. I’m hoping the result is so overwhelming by this Wednesday AM, that the fraud by mail, that will accept anything posted by Tuesday, 8 PM, even if doesn’t arrive on time, and improper signed and dated, states don’t matter (at least Oregon doesn’t pull this crap).

      My view on these states? If you can’t have it tabulated by Tuesday night, election night? Too bad, your state forfeits it’s electoral votes. You failed your state. Oh and any location that suddenly finds unattended boxes? Don’t, or else. Different from the states where legal hand recount is triggered. But even they should be able by county and poling location be able to do that before the night is over. They could before. They can now.

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      2. I too briefly had that thought about states forfeiting electoral votes if they couldn’t produce their results in timely fashion. And then I thought about the waves of Democrat sabotage of counting stations in Texas and Florida.

        Too clever by half. Or maybe seventeen halves.

        Republica restituendae.

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        1. I know. Said my view.

          Notice, I did not say it was smart, practical, reasonable, or should happen.

          What can happen is the rest of the states who have their acts together, can make the late states not matter. When the late states PTB scream (given the suspects, they will). The rest can say “do better”.

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  13. Two points:

    I don’t understand the brouhaha over permitting or restricting abortion in 2024. I sincerely believe it is murder of innocents (who incidentally have more nerve endings than they would have later) and that it is likely to bring a terrible accounting on this nation.

    But- I have heard from someone in a position to know, that as of a year or two ago, the vast number of abortions were by the pill, often obtained over the internet. So, this whole thing is a commercial effort by abortionists who see their market slipping away. It is not a coincidence that Planned Parenthood is transitioning into transistioning. Leaving abortion up to the states at least gives some of them a chance to try to minimize it.

    Second point:

    For a long time now, I have thought that an economic crash that would make Weimar look like a walk in the park would be unavoidable. I still pretty much expect that. Lately, though, Trump has been talking about the US economy in the late 19th century a lot more knowledgably than I would have given him credit for. Normally I don’t think just returning to a freer market would be enough to save us. However, we have been so hobbled by over restriction and so infantilized by the Mommy State that controlled, uncompetitive markets are only part of our economic paralysis. If all those lead boots were removed and people would be able to actually produce and make money, there might be enough real wealth (not financialization snake oil) to dig our way out – if the government and the pigs at the trough would stop digging the hole deeper at the same time.

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    1. “I don’t understand the brouhaha over permitting or restricting abortion in 2024”

      That’s about the only plank left to some.

      In the district to the north of me a former Governor is running against a state prosecutor (I think). He is running on his record as Governor. Half the oppositions ad are focused on “if he wins, the other party will take control of the Senate” – horrors of horrors. Pure Party Politics, nothing else. Why, because the former state prosecutor doesn’t have a real platform and what they do have isn’t that much different from the former Governor. So instead that party hammers home how the evil people on the other side will ban all abortions.

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    2. Some brilliant (and quite possibly evil) progressive years ago created the term, “pro-choice,” to use instead of, “pro-abortion.” So to generations of young women, supporting abortion is now equated to social equality. And any “threat,” to abortion is framed as a direct attack on women’s freedom and equality. The emotional message is, “the men folk want you chained in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant! Are you going to let them do that to you? Support choice!”

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  14. All I want for my birthday is a Trump victory.

    And if it comes down to it, make them fraud so openly nobody believes them. Make show more votes than there are adults in the state.

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    2. You’re thinking too small. Make them count more votes than there are men, women, children, cats, dogs, chickens and hamsters in the US. Make them count votes from people who died before any of us were born. Make them pull millions of ballots out of their asses at 2AM like they did last time!

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  17. I voted as secure as I could like I did in 2020. (My little county in MN has all mail-in ballots). Brought my blank ballot up to the County Auditor, showed her the blank ballot, then voted privately, (I was the only person there) then she witnessed it with her signature. At least it got that far. Best I could do.

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  18. I’m remaining hopeful that all of the desperate hustle and jive from the media is a sign that they’re seeing the internal polling and realize that there is no practical way to steal the election. That short of them blatantly throwing things in the battleground states, Trump is going to win. And two of Trump’s biggest motivations is winning and revenge.

    And I know Trump isn’t perfect, but anybody that promised you a perfect world is trying to sell you something.

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  20. Voted on Monday, when I paid the property taxes. Not overly fond of some of the choices (Republicans didn’t even bother to run a candidate against our Donk Congresscritter), but did what I could.

    Saturday I bought a 100 Watt solar array to charge the solar generator that we use to run my husband’s CPAP when we’re camping, and I just received the car adapter, so I can use the 12-volt outlet instead of the inverter (power hog). Now I’m charging up battery packs like crazy, and trying to convince a couple of them to charge up properly (happens when you buy stuff off eBay — but the array was worth the price of the package deal).

    I picked snow peas and sugar snap peas on Saturday, and we’ll see if we get any more after today’s rains. Food is laid in, vehicles have gas, and we’ll see whether Grand Rapids Comic Con happens on schedule. Unless I hear otherwise, I’m loading the merchandise and store fixtures on Thursday, planning for the best.

    Now trying to focus on my writing and see if I can get some stuff finished.

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  22. *I know some of you — I know my libertarian people! — are going to say “But I don’t like Trump.”*

    Imagine Ron Paul working with Elon Musk on improving feralgov efficiency, not to mention possibly ending the Federal Reserve.

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  24. Tomorrow I vote. After that, I’ll watch some of the election coverage on Fox and then — turn off the idiot box. Like sports on TV, there’s no point in obsessively watching something when I can’t change the results. We likely won’t know for a week or more anyway.

    Either we will get a chance for a better future, or be condemned to 4 years of Hell On Earth, and there will be nothing more I can do to affect the outcome. Worst case, I will be part of the USAian Underground.

    I watched the idiot box for a while tonight. People said they were voting for Kackling Kamela. In Ghu’s name, WHY??! Can’t they SEE what a shitty job the Democrats are doing? Do they expect the same bunch of feckless incompetent buffoons to suddenly start doing things right? Especially when they’re all crowing about how they’ll do more of the same.

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        1. yep, stick figure radio on Pandora, washed the cars, worked in the shop, time for lunch, stuff we have control over, and stuff we have no control over

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    3. “condemned to 4 years of Hell On Earth”

      4 years ago I was pretty sure that we’d seen the last “free” election. My hopes are not much higher this year.

      If the DNC puppet wins, I believe that we have seen the end of our beloved Republic that so many fought and died for.

      It won’t be 4 years of hell, it will be more like 20 years. You can’t vote your way out of Socialism and it will take at least a generation growing up w/o the freedoms we take for granted before we have enough to really fight back.

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    4. According to Eric Erickson, a lot of people see Harris and Co as inept, but they’d rather have Team Inept than Team Asshole. (He has said, repeatedly, he’s voting for Trump because he sees how bad Harris is, but a lot of the not terminally online folk don’t).

      He also wrote a rather lovely message this morning reminding Christians that no matter who wins, God remains in control and His will *will* be done. So chill.

      Mind you, this is true, but given large chunks of Scripture, not terribly reassuring. As Teresa de Avila put it, “If this is how you treat your friends Lord, no wonder you have so few!”

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        1. Agreed. Erickson does not like Trump, but is voting for him because Harris is so much worse.

          He’s also a firm believer in, “Trump lost 2020 fair and square because he’s such a lousy candidate,”

          and, “Yes, Harris is bad but all you people telling me we won’t have another election if she wins are unhinged. It will just be bad for a few years and then we’ll have a good candidate again.”

          It never occurs to him that part of the reason a chunk of the populace sees Trump so negatively is the day-in, day-out barrage of hostile “news” items for the last eight years.

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  25. Shout out for the Eddie Izzard reference!
    I’ll have cake, please.
    sorry we’re all out of cake…

    He peaked at that show.

    As for the election, I keep coming back to Zuckerberg’s carefully crafted mea culpa for past censorship. Why would he do that? Because he has access to the largest database in the world, and he knows Trump is going to win.

    PS Oh man is it ever nerve wracking to comment on a writer’s blog. I keep expecting the red pen to come out.

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    1. Er…. Writer, not editor. We don’t have red pens. we have a little stamp that says STET when we want the editor to leave our stuff alone. (STET means “as it was before” basically.)

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  26. Herself and I just walked through our ballots. I’m dropping them off on my way to work tomorrow at the county clerk’s office.

    Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision. Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, “As for me, I have set my King
    on Zion, my holy hill.”

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  27. Good luck. Or break a leg, whatever you think might work better.

    And I am actually praying for you. Some of you might remember that I am not a Christian, although I respect that religion and accept some of its tenets I don’t believe in all of them, and believe in some things that are not accepted in Christian churches. But I believe there is a God who can hear prayers, and sometimes answer them. I also practice magick, as it sometimes seems to work and I do believe there is a white variety we are allowed to do, that “if it harm none” thing, as long as you really do take that part seriously. But I think that is mostly meant for the small, more personal stuff, and the big things that affect everybody are what prayers are for because that is God’s territory, not yours, and besides magick is not that strong anyway.

    So yes, I’m praying for you.

    (Okay, doing a few spells too, for luck, just because the rituals can make me feel a bit better, they can be calming)

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  28. I voted two weeks ago when early voting in Texas started. That did wonders for my level of stress, which is awful enough this election. Praying hard that I’ll never have to hear the Cackler’s voice ever again!

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  29. Pingback: Instapundit » Blog Archive » FROM A COMMENT ON MY BLOG:  As usual on the night before elections, I think of the speech MacArthur

  30. Remember, remember the fifth of November.
    the democrat’s treason and plot
    I know of no reason, why the democrat’s treason
    Should ever be forgot

    we’re all voting today, it’s NJ so it probably doesn’t matter, but all politics is local and the woman running for the house here is terrible and the town has been drifting left and it’s time to make that stop.

    The black dog has hold of me and I can’t see a way past the fraud, but I’m going to do my bit. Should what I expect happen, I suspect I’ll drop out for a while, should a miracle happen, well then God truly does look out for children, drunks, and the United States of America.

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  31. I’ll probably be going to vote about 4 this afternoon, before the get out of work crowd shows up, but late enough to make it harder for the fraudsters to have a vote count to work toward. Heaven help them if I find out someone fraudulently voted in my place, as I’ll scream loudly to the cops, NH Secretary of State, and the entire Granite State to decertify the vote for my district.

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  34. Sarah, thank you very much for saying this! It’s not mere hyperbole to state that this is the most consequential election of my 70 years, since the fate of our Republic hangs in the balance!

    It astounds me that people cannot see how Donald Trump is an existential threat to the parasites of both parties, as evidenced by endorsements from the likes of the Cheneys, as evidenced by the 51 lying intelligence operatives (Hunter’s laptop is Russian disinformation), as evidenced by the sham Robert Mueller “investigation”, as evidenced by the bogus lawfare; E. Jean Carrol, Fanni Willis & Leticia James!

    My God people open your eyes, if this doesn’t tell you that Trump is our only chance of escaping the ever increasing fascism of the left, then God help us!

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  35. Thanx for stoking both my ongoing hopes and fears, Sarah.

    Voted early (because I expect some sort of orchestrated catastrophes on Election Day. Hopefully Trump wins past the inevitable fraud AND keeps the House and gains the Senate.

    Of course, then he still has to make it through the various tricks to keep him from being certified, as well as surviving to inauguration and beyond. And that’s just for starters.

    Praying is mandatory.

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  36. The delightful Mrs. is still in rehab and can’t get out to the polls and when I checked to see if or how she could vote – the county quickly sent out a couple of people with a ballot and has a process all set up to deal with such issues. She got her vote in yesterday and today I’ll go to the actual polls and cast my vote.

    I fear it may turn out to be a ‘bad’ outcome and I think we may need a few days to see what the actual outcome is… I still hope and pray that Trump will win and down deep I think it will come to pass. Keep the faith and prepare for your future.

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  37. On the bright side, the turn out indicators are very heavy on the Republican side, even with the large turn out in R early voting.

    I got my vote in already, and am just watching the girls this morning. Apparently her school is a polling place so they’re not having class for the day. Which just means more time with the older one for me, so not complaining :)

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    1. Our local school district is closed today. I think it’s a shame.

      I remember going to the school library when I was in grade school and seeing the voting booths set up as part of a class lesson. We got to go in, pull the curtain and flip the levers. (yes, I’m that old.) These kids are being denied a chance to see how a Republic works.

      I also remember one election day coming out of the voting booth to the sound of the Pledge of Allegiance being recited. Man, that lifted my spirits that day. Now, all I hear is the clang of the door behind me echoing in the empty hallways.

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  38. Apparently RFK Jr. joined Trump because Trump had kept trying to talk to him, and had then called him right after Butler. At which point his immediate family and wife said he needed to call back.

    At which point Trump did his sales thing.

    At which point RFK called Kamala, and she didn’t want to even talk to him, much less negotiate. So RFK did his thing.

    Basically, Kamala has no political or negotiation instincts at all.

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  39. Apparently RFK Jr. joined Trump because Trump had kept trying to talk to him, and had then called him right after Butler. At which point his immediate family and wife said he needed to call back.

    At which point Trump did his sales thing.

    At which point RFK called Kamala, and she didn’t want to even talk to him, much less negotiate. So RFK did his thing.

    Basically, Kamala has no political or negotiation instincts at all.

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    1. I will add that “showing respect” by going to funerals, sickbeds, etc. is something people are supposed to do, and that is why RFK said his wife and kids said he had to call Trump.

      Whereas Kamala did not even pretend respect by putting on appearances and chatting a little. That was cold.

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    2. She was on a Muslim “influencer’s” podcast, and tried to deflect a question about Israel vs. Hamas by starting to talk about using bacon as flavoring. I … Talk about a gift for stepping on political rakes. Winces in poli-sci and comparative religions.

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  41. Voted predawn today. Straight Republican ticket. No on all ballot issues and tax levies. Yes, I sincerely consider taxation to be theft. I pray that my hopes for the future are realized — that MAGA takes over Congress. That the border is slammed shut and all illegal aliens are deported. That direct taxes levied unconstitutionally are reduced or eliminated. That government is instructed — firmly — to stay in its lane. That Vance serves well as VP and is elected Trump’s successor for two terms and continues the MAGA/ MAHA idealism into the next half-generation. That by hook or by crook, by Congress or SCOTUS, individual civil rights are enshrined and embedded in thebody politic. That the Democrat Party is outlawed as anti-constitutional, anti-American, seditious, treasonous, and flat-out WRONG. That the findings of real science are honored in the generation of public policy. That wrongdoers meet their just fate without regard for their poisitions of power and influence.

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  42. “Tomorrow is the last day to vote in the US for the 2024 election.”

    Should be the Only day – in person, with a state issues ID. Exemptions being Military personnel stationed outside their home district, people in medical facilities who cannot make it to the polls, poll workers.

    Mail in and early voting makes it too easy to commit fraud.

    Just my .02 cents worth.

    I’ll be hiding in the back of my cave until the results are in, and maybe even then. (remembering the riots of 2016 when Trump won.)

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    1. I like how Iowa does it– it actually matches the highest security, lowest risk, smallest target design that I came up with before I’d ever looked at how it’s done here.

      You can do in-person voting at, basically, the court house, for weeks ahead of the deadline, with ID, all the basic safeties other than literally getting your finger inked.

      This basically wipes out any threats of violence. You can manage to lock down a place for a day. You can’t do it for weeks.

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  43. Just saw a great comment on Twitter:

    “Vote like it’s up to you. Pray like it’s up to Him.”

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  45. Voted before lunch. No crowd, but I had card number 257, so I hope that was an actual number.

    Meanwhile, count at the food bank was considerably higher than first day the last two months. Hoping it’s not an omen.

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    1. oh its an omen allright, out here, they can barely keep up, record numbers on assistance, record homeless, record under employed and unemployed,(the official numbers lie)

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      1. IIf the commies win, everyone will be waiting on line for food; Kamala, Bernie, etc., adore Soviet style food lines as “being fair”. Needless to say the people imposing food lines won’t have to wait in line to get their Filet Mignon and Lobster while demanding people in line wait hours to get their allotment of bugs.

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    2. oh its an omen allright, out here, they can barely keep up, record numbers on assistance, record homeless, record under employed and unemployed,(the official numbers lie)

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  46. Well, just got back from the local VFD after having done my civic doody and become human garbage (tm Joe Biden). I think I was about #300ish for the day in our little precinct. No line, no issues.

    The only thing that concerns me a little is the age of the poll volunteers. I’m pretty sure the youngest of them voted for McKinley and the oldest probably for James Polk.

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    1. Well, most people under 60 have things like jobs and kids to attend to, and can’t do a 16 hour day. (I have done polls before, you’re lucky if it doesn’t end up being 18 hours or more.)

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      1. That’s fair. I’ve often wondered if they should just make Election Day a national holiday as some countries do and give people the day off so they can vote. That would go a long way toward removing the “need” for extremely-easy-to-fraud remote voting and early voting. And might get more people to work the polls. Perhaps.

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        1. One NJ district had HS students do it. They hired students ages 15-17 (who met certain qualifications), trained them, and paid them. The school district was 100% good with it, as were the parents. Yes, there were adults working as well.

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        2. National holiday would go a long way, but not all the way. Still have public servants those in emergency and police, military, etc., daycare taking care of their children, even retail (because retail takes maybe Christmas and Thanksgiving, maybe).

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    2. Bwa ha ha! Rolls on floor laughing, wipes tears away with paw. Thank you! I can easily imagine that, and I needed that today. The oldest poll worker when I voted probably started helping during T. Roosevelt’s run for election. (She was telling an associate that the new machines were faster, but she missed the loud “thunk” from the old lever machines.)

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  47. Voted this morning in Houston, TX. There was a line, though Houston’s pretty blue so you can never tell. I hope the ballots are secure, though they should be. It does use a computer console, but it prints it out and then you scan it into another machine. My ballot printout did have the choices I selected so it should be okay. I hope.

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    1. When I did my poll watcher training, the Swamp the Vote rep said that Harris County was top priority for their attorneys.

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      1. I can believe it! I use the Texas Trash Talk article about the Harris County school board election fraud as an example of how vote fraud sometimes happens.

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        1. Yeah, in 2016, James OKeefe and Lila Rose showed the limits of voter id when they went into a Harris County polling place and were allowed by an election worker to vote without it. Caught on video. They were posing as illegal immigrants.

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  49. The most remarkable thing about this most remarkable election was how one of the candidates was nearly murdered–twice–and the media just kind of forgot about it.

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