It Turned Out I couldn’t write

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Because some people, including my husband, kept giving me election updates.

So, I’m going to bed now. The post tomorrow will be late.

But there will be a post, because it’s important. There is still a plate of awful in front of us right now. There will be an economic crash. Now we just have hope of crawling back out and reaching for the stars.

And we will.

The speech from Independence Day is in my mind tonight:
We will not go down into that night, we will not surrender without a fight. Today we declare our independence day.

G-d bless you, you lunatics. Go to bed now. My cats are leading me that way, and I’m going.

89 thoughts on “It Turned Out I couldn’t write”

  1. I had to wait until Trump gave his Victory Speech!

    Oh, I’m not going to wait for Harris to acknowledge her defeat. [Crazy Grin]

    Good Night Everybody!

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    1. Since it’s daytime where I live I am going to be amusing myself reading what local media sites are writing. They kept talking how Harris was ahead and doing well until only a couple of days ago, only then we started to get stories how it might not be quite that easy for her after all, and it was going to be a tight race.

      :D

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      1. The only place Que Mala was “doing well” was in what laughably passes for her mind.

        But knowing the potential for fraud, I went to bed last night fearing the worst; I was almost afraid to look at the news when I got up. Now I think tonight might be a 2-drink celebration…and the lamentations of the leftist talking heads are wonderful to behold; Schadenfreude could easily become addictive.😉

        VICTORY!!!😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

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    2. I suspect that she nervously drank too much wine to even attempt a concession speech. Word salad is bad enough; slurred word salad is just too much to bear.

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      1. Likely. I wonder what she will do now. She can certainly get well paying job giving speeches or working in something like, was it called “The View”? Bunch of women talking nonsense? But can she handle that likely looking substance abuse issue well enough to handle even that now?

        Oh well, maybe. She has seemed like somebody who was fast losing it because she had been promoted past her abilities and was at least smart enough to know it, on some level, and was losing her control due to stress. Being worshiped on some television talk show by her fans, word salads and all, might be exactly where she is going to feel comfortable.

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          1. I doubt she is qualified. Just imagine what the answer might be if some customers asks something about the products from her.

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      1. The most believable reporting I saw said the DJT team were trying, without success, to contact Kammy’s crew to see if she was going to concede, so as to not step on her coverage. Nobody would answer, so they finally went ahead.

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  3. Anyone else remember the story about someone asking Ben Franklin if the sun carved on that chair was rising or setting?

    Tonight, even more than earlier today, it seems as if it surely must be rising after all… even after so much “all of it” for so many of us lately.

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  5. It’s 1:43am Pacific, so 4:43am Eastern, and I haven’t seen any suspicious jumps in the vote totals in the swing states reported on any of the election tracker sites.

    The various lefty accounts I follow on X seem resigned to the loss. The reaction of my lefty/progressive friends here in Seattle is extremely muted.

    I think this one really was Too Big To Rig.

    And I am so incredibly relieved. I was girding myself to accept four years of grinding awfulness, just like in 2016, and just like then we were all reprieved.

    It’s too early to tell what they’re going to do, but I’m hoping that the left will double down and push harder and doom themselves to electoral irrelevance for a decade. As my handle suggests, I’m a fan of Strauss & Howe generational theory. Hopefully, hopefully, this pushes us past the Crisis and through the Fourth Turning and into the era of social calm that’s supposed to follow. And if that’s so, then it will be a small-c conservative, liberty-minded social calm instead of the leftist oppressive social calm that I’ve been fearing for the last twenty years.

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    2. My blood pressure is erratic enough so that I elected to read a book instead of following the election results. Got up a bit after 2AM PST (5.5 hours sleep is a bit little for me, 6.0 is nominal) and after the morning gubbage, looked at the websites.

      Thank you Lord!

      $SPOUSE isn’t awake yet. She’s going to have a great morning.

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        1. I read the headlines before using the BP meter, and the results were quite good. Amazing what good news does for my heart.

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          1. I stay hyper, just happy-hyper. I am getting NOTHING done today. (All right, morning sentences. That was just about down to the wire.)

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  7. We now need to pray that God keep Trump safe, period. Also, RFK Jr. am sure will get assassination attempts, so prayers for him too and anyone Trump picks to try to clean the Swamp. The Swamp will try to stop it any way they can without showing their hand…

    Iris

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  8. May we all exhibit sufficient wisdom and courage for the tasks ahead.

    And may God protect Donald J. Trump (because you know they still want him dead).

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  9. I was woken up around 03:30 by sis with the news that DJT was ahead, and looked to be winning. I went back to bed saying that four years ago it had looked like DJ was going to win, but then the mystery votes showed up. I refused to believe it until the last state was declared.

    I woke at 05:45 to my local news stations says that DJT had been declared the winner by the AP and was the President Elect.

    Some days I like being the cynic … when I am wrong I get to be pleasantly surprised.

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  11. Went to bed last night, Trump had won. Woke up this morning and he had STILL won!

    For those who don’t know, DJT is only the 2nd president to serve 2 non consecutive terms. The first being Grover Clevland who won the popular vote in 3 consecutive elections, but missed out on the electoral win on the second one.

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    1. I knew about the non-consecutive election wins, but I didn’t know he won the popular vote in the middle one. I learn something new every day here; thanks!

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    1. True (and actually welcome, considering the alternative), but if the House stays red at least we won’t have the spurious “investigations” as in his first term. And I suspect he won’t pick the sort of jerks who sabotaged him then; his eyes have been opened.

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        1. Is that “we need 17 more”, or “we picked up 17 more”, or “17 are still in play”?

          (Request from the Department of Ambiguity Clarification. 😉)

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            1. So 17 is the difference. OK; thanks. And thanks for the reference to semi-live data; I’ve been looking, but trying to find anything current is an exercise in frustration.

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            2. At 12:45 PST, DDHQ says the Rs have 220 or more seats projected, and 210 confirmed. They give 92% odds that the Rs will have control of the house.

              I’d rather have seen a blowout, but a win is a win.

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          2. Right now, 201 of a 218 majority have been called for Republicans. So we need to pick up 17 more. It LOOKS good at the moment (the Democrats are at 186) – but until the fat lady sings, I’m not completely relieved.

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  13. Some days, you get the bear. (grin)

    Now the real fight begins. Because the Donkuloids are going to fight every yard. And the House is still up for grabs. The Donks cant -remove- Trump since the GOP took the Senate. But if they get the House, they can endlessly Impeach.

    And so on…

    Even if the GOP runs the table and gains the House, we can expect pitched battles and endless Lawfare.

    But. We now fight from the high ground. And if we gain he house, too, Trump has artillery to bring to bear on Swampcritters.

    And Popcorn. I need more popcorn. Lots of popcorn.

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  14. I’ve been breaking down the election counts. It was shocking in its way. Margins were much smaller than Biden had. The Camel underperformed across the board. It looks as though the dems insistence on keeping third party candidates on the ballot did not work out for them since e.g., she only took 51% of NJ concentrated in the Democrat machine cities and the rich wine mom towns. In NY, she only blew out in Manhattan and Brooklyn, again the machine and rich hipsters. The ethnic vote went for Trump and Hispanics look an awful lot like the old ethnics than the new ethnics that they’re supposed to be supplanting. Evil will oft doth evil mar and all that.

    .

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    1. Just look at the mostly-irrelevant total popular vote: 2020 Brandon’s final “count” was lol 81 million, and as of this morning Kammy is at 66.8 million votes.

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      1. The Camel’s popular vote count is almost exactly what Obama polled in his two elections. Zerohedge has pinned the “spot the outlier” Biden “vote” count. Still, let us go on unburdened by what has been and all that. Trump says he’s going to publish Epstein’s list and then we’ll confirm why they’re all so desperate. Tee hee,

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        1. ” Trump says he’s going to publish Epstein’s list and then we’ll confirm why they’re all so desperate. Tee hee,”

          Jan 21? Please?

          Might spur some exits to other countries. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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    2. You mean their failure to remove third party candidates, yes? They worked hard to try kicking Stein off. They did keep RFKJ on many of them – but they should have known better when he started campaigning in those States for Trump. Not that I’m convinced having him gone would have helped Harris – those who still stubbornly voted for him were still reliable Leftists, but couldn’t stomach the heavy baggage that was the Harris-Biden administration.

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      1. The Dems were going both ways, trying to keep RFK on in some spots, while kicking Stein off elsewhere. One bit of speculation with respect to RFK was that the bogus preprinted ballots were ready to be delivered, and they didn’t want to have to reprint. Take that bit with a fair amount of salt…

        IMHO, they thought RFK would split the R voters (yeah, riiight), while Stein could split the D voters.

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    3. If the Cubanos of Florida are an example, “great replacement” is going to (HONK!) the Donkuloids in the (HONK!) in a decade or so.

      LOL!

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  15. I’m being forced to watch Morning Joe right now, 9:15 AM Toronto time.

    Joe Scarborough looks like he’s taken a whole bag of Valium. Not just a win for #OrangeManBad, an HISTORIC win, bigger than 2016, bigger than Regan. Give #JoeTheLiar credit, he’s an actor. He’s acting pretty normal today for a guy who was SCREAMING that #OrangeManBad was going to DESTROY AMERIKA yesteday.

    Joe is currently trying to pretend the polls were not a tissue of lies. He’s not convincing me. Sorry, Joe.

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    1. Public-results polling has been more about the stories about the polling than the polling for a very long time.

      Given how desperate everything from Kammy’s side got the past few weeks, internal polling was accurately telling them exactly this would be happening for a while.

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  17. NOW, after a decisive win, is the time to shine a bright light on all the election fraud and corruption. Jail time for the fraudsters, sackings and impeachments for their enablers in positions of authority.

    Still waiting for all those Leftroids to start fleeing the country…

    I mean, they promised, right?

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    1. Just like last time, pick one:

      1. Nobody wants them (not even us, but we’re stuck).
      2. Not that easy. Look at Canada’s immigration requirements. Heck even the Hollywood Canadian elites will run back. (Cousin’s husband was offered an elite scientific PHd type job in the EU. $20k/person deposit against medical for him to take it and to live in the EU. Sure the elites can afford it. But that isn’t the only requirement.)
      3. Even if they can go back, most discover that socialism, even national socialism, isn’t all that it is stacked up to be. How many came back because of prenatal and infant care is better (read actually available) in the US?

      As usual financial and celebrity status just means higher percentage of “open mouth, insert foot” syndrome.

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      1. $NEPHEW took a STEM job at [redacted] in Europe. Pretty sure he’s staying (been there a few years), though Mommie Dearest has a lot of the blame for that. Separation of a few thousand miles is very wise. (I could see him shifting over to the Mars project because of her…)

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    2. Bette Midler said she’d drink Drano if Trump won. I am not going to order a gift package of Drano for her from Amazon. No. Not gonna. But I can contemplate it…

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      1. Apparently she deleted her X account, after she posted that photo there pre-election (post-its on sparkling wine bottle “if Kamala wins” and Draino bottle “if Trump wins”).

        Insty is calling for a welfare check by the Beverley Hills PD.

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  18. Pretty good win for Trump and a few Senate seats. In my area, it was pretty much just Trump. He didn’t pull anyone else over the line. My usual ballot success of around 15% seems to have held. We voted to enshrine baby killing, but also rejected ranked choice. Everything else went the Ds way.

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    1. Oregon rejected rank choice, a commission to give pay raises to TPTB, and a toxic tax on gross sales. On the last, every county in Oregon said hell no, even Portlandia. It would have clobbered a lot of businesses, not to mention a sales tax by another name.

      On offices, no particular change. Still have Donks for the state offices, and only one R in Congress.

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  19. I fell off my diet and went out with the Daughter Unit for Steak n Shake. (No shake, but a Frisco melt and cheese fries. Yum.) Then I came back here, ignored all the election stuff, and went to bed by 10 pm. Woke up at 4 am for a pee break, got back from the bathroom, jumped on the Discord and ended up staying up until 6 just basking in the good news and the light radiating from the screen like the sun off Trump’s golden hair.

    Now I have a question. I have to get back on my diet. Are liberal tears keto?

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  20. We need to consider 2026 mid term elections if we want keep doing this American Republic thing.

    First, we need to absolutely need purge the m’fing backstabbing RINOs at all levels. Name them and shame them. Support good alternatives if possible.

    The Soros DAs and such need to be removed. Soros and “dark money” funders need more than the “usual” attention.

    Weaken MSM by limiting their “Big Pharma” money. Build up more independent fact sources or figure out how fund them without billionaire patrons.

    Legally destroy the “illegal alien” importers and funders. Remove all benefits from aliens including “free” education and non-emergency healthcare. Imprision or hang the funders and supporters as traitors.

    Removing 20 million aliens should free up the housing markets and increase employment opportunities. Vegans with DEI degrees can pick veggies to earn their keep.

    And fix the election processes that need fixed so somebody can actually trust them.

    Let Elon fix Boeing and MIC.

    Deport any idiot that “promised” to leave the country if Trump got elected. Make them pay the exit tax and ban them forever. And give the one dude his car and a cliff, sell PFV tickets and use the proceeds to fund cat shelters or something constructive.

    And drop the ringleaders of “J6″ and Covid/”Vax” and Climate Change near some hungry polar bears.

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    1. The biggest issue with the RINO purge is that they saturate the state level apparatus all over, which is why we keep winding up with such bollocks Reps and Senators. Crack that nut and the rest follows…but it’s going to have to be 50 different nuts.

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  21. Meme:

    Trump, as the Warhammer 40k Emperor of Man.

    “What is best in life, is to crush your enemies, to drive them before you, and to hear the lamentations of their presstitutes.”

    “HOOAH”

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  22. Michigan has been called for Trump. 292 electoral votes now.

    Gee, I wonder in how many of those states the Democrat machine will try to put up ‘fake electors’? (Actually those are alternate electors, as spelled out in various state constitutions)

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  23. Dear Democrats,

    Could you show us how the transfer of power during the Presidential inauguration is supposed to be handled? As us deplorable flyover folks are just so confused on how the proper process is to go, it would just be really great to see an example on just what is wanted, after 4 years of being told that Jan6 was such a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day and all

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    1. Well … DC, in January, is supposedly *cold* so: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Peaceful protests everywhere. (JIC –> Major sarcasm. Replying for a barely known acquaintance. Etc., disclaimers.)

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  24. A few hours in and a promise kept:

    https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/06/2024-election-results-live-coverage-updates-analysis/trumps-jan-6-pardon-pledge-00187864

    This whole nightmare began with that stage-managed lie they’ve attempted to put over on us ever since, of a “violent insurrection”, where only two bits of violence happened – one of them being the DC police shooting an unarmed protester in the capitol lobby. The odiousness of the lie that inaugurated the regime really cannot be overstated. We had the video. We saw what happened. They tried to scrub the video from the internet and then lie about what happened.

    I’ll be glad to see the political prisoners freed.

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  25. We need to have more faith, maybe that was the whole purpose for Biden, to test our faith. Not our faith in God, but our faith in ourselves. No one ever said Life would be without trials and tribulations. Just that if we had faith all things would be possible. Trials and tribulations should be what is coming for the whore Fancy Pelosi and her sick inhuman clique of Democrats, may they all burn in hell for an eternity. May the press burn in hell for an eternity. May every leftists Marxist, burn in a socialist hell of their own making. I shall have faith, that sometimes even if I can’t see the plan, there is one. Praise the lord, and keep your powder dry.

    Oh, Post Script

    Pop some popcorn and Hope, we still have Hope and Faith, it’s that Grace thing I can’t find right now, nor forgiveness. I will forever hate the Democrat Party and the MSM including FOX and all Rino’s. Sorry you have earned it by what you have done to the American people may the chains you have forged in life suffocate you and bind you to the hell you made of your own soul.

    Paul Ryan is a whore.

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      1. I try, but it ain’t always easy. That’s why I phrased it at letting their own misdeeds take care of them.

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  26. I never liked that speech in Independence Day, since it didn’t fit with the theme of the movie (imho).

    Much prefer this speech from LOTR: Return of the King:

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  27. Hat tip to a commenter on AoS, here’s a new blog post from Joel Salatin:

    https://shorturl.at/1XwTW

    “I’ve been contacted by the Trump transition team to hold some sort of position within the USDA and have accepted one of the six ‘Advisor to the Secretary’ spots.  My favorite congressman, Thomas Massie from Kentucky, has agreed to go in as Secretary of Agriculture.”

    Worth reading the whole thing.

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