Deep Breaths

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

This feels very surreal. I’ve been home for ten days of the last thirty and frankly too physically and emotionally busy for about two months to worry too much about politics.

So it’s surreal to see friends freaking out about yesterday’s elections and reading in them some sort of grim and inevitable future.

I’m not even fully here mentally yet, as my head is spinning on a million things, but I’m here to tell you that none of this makes any sense. Right now, right this moment, I want you to take a deep breath, then spit that black pill. You know d*mn well where it’s been, and you don’t want it.

Yes, yes, my heart breaks for some of the results coming through, but the areas so far reported have democrat machines that make the Terminator look human.

So NYC is going to take a turn in the barrel, and apparently so will New Jersey. If you’re in those places, please keep your weapons and clothes where you can find them in the dark, and consider a pied a terre elsewhere if you need to relocate in a hurry. Treat it as we did in the cold war, when we lived in a place we knew would be obliterated. Have a pied a terre, a vacation home, or friends who will take you at the drop of a hat. Just in case. Knowing you have an escape will make it easier not to be on edge the whole time.

Make what arrangements you need to make, particularly if you’re in an area that is already falling apart in dangerous ways. Years ago I’d say stick it out, but I really can’t when I left Denver. Granted, it took the extra incentive of altitude trying to kill me, on top of the crazy politics. Else, I’d still be there. But I’m not very sane about places, and in many ways I still miss my mountain home. I get attached to places as others get attached to romantic relationships. However, rationally and depending on what time you are in your life, it might make sense to up stakes, or even to relocate entirely.

BUT most of you will probably not need to do that, even if you might go through some seriously uncomfortable times.

However, if they win some of these, it doesn’t mean all is lost. And it doesn’t mean they win forever. Heck, it doesn’t mean they win in the short term.

Look, remember 2020? No, seriously, think about it. You can do it. It wasn’t that long ago. They had themselves a glorious spree. They frauded themselves in. They barricaded the capital behind barbed wire. They made up an armed revolt on January sixth. they acted like total crazy people. They acted exactly as though they thought that their reign would last forever.

Except that they couldn’t hold it. They couldn’t hold it because the times aren’t with them.

I told you back then that they were trying to build the Soviet Union while the Berlin wall was falling down.

It’s still like that. They’re out of ideas. They’re out of popularity. Their preferred system can only survive with total reinforcement by every information system, and they ain’t getting that. Not anymore.

We’re in the middle of a turn away from the madness of international collectivism. (We should definitely stay away from national collectivism, so don’t go falling into that.) It’s actual world wide. And what caused it was the opening up of information and people finding out they weren’t the only ones who disagreed with the status quo.

They can’t recover from that. Every year they grow weaker. They still have part of their mechanism. They will still sometimes win one. or a few. And right now they will be pulling everything out to try to blackpill you.

Well, forget that. Don’t think about what they’re going to do to you. Concentrate on what you’re going to do to them. Clean up election rolls. Expose their malfeasance. Slap the black pill out of someone else’s mouth.

Don’t flag, don’t give up, don’t worry. Things are going our way, and they’re weaker every year.

We’re not locked in here with them; they’re locked in here with us, and we’re stronger. And smarter. And more agile.

So if your area had a bad night yesterday, you’re allowed to take twenty four hours. Do whatever you do to feel better. Have some ice cream if that’s what it takes. But tomorrow? Tomorrow put your game face on, spit out the black pill and start working.

The black pill is a lie. If you believe it you will be defeated because you won’t even fight. Instead, turn your frustration into anger and your anger into working.

Even though they are already defeated, remember most of the casualties come in the mop-up. Try not to be a casualty. And try to make the mop-up as quick as efficient as possible.

Our job is to make the end of the rotten Marxist philosophy come sooner.

So, you’re allowed to be sad, but then get mad. And be not afraid.

In the end we win they lose.

144 thoughts on “Deep Breaths”

  1.  And right now they will be pulling everything out to try to blackpill you.

    No kidding. This week the media machine is going all out to not only claim that yesterday’s results mean Trump is finished and that Americans are ready for the Glorious Revolution, but that Republicans just love Groyper-boy Fuentes. It’s all lies. Allow them their brief moment of obnoxious false triumph and get back to work beating them on every front.

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    1. As always, despair is not a strategy. It’s purely not.

      Conversely, inducing despair is a strategy. Sometimes people even go along.

      Refuse the psy-op. Go be Americans.

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      1. “It is because Trump took away SNAP benefits!” Reeeeeeeee

        No. Stupid idiots (giving idiots a bad rap). It is because the DEMOCRATS took away SNAP benefits. They’ve voted AGAINST a clean (Biden Budget Continuation) CR how many times? They specifically voted against funding SNAP benefits as a single line item at least once. They are the DEMOCRATS. It is on record.

        Yes, preaching to the choir, but it is so frustrating.

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    3. Between Groyper-boy Fuentes and Let’s-Celebrate-Prision-Rape Levine I would like a third choice:

      Can we make Saving the US and US jobs The Number One Priority?

      Very few people under 40 care about foreign policy if their job is be replaced by illegals or AI.

      AI has two meanings and the second is “Another Indian”. Outsourced abroad or by a H-1B.

      And both parties are busy stabbing the US citizens in the back on this issue for more money.

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      1. Not both parties. Yes, there are poopy heads of both parties, but in general the GOP is not out to destroy citizens. Even more so under Trump.
        “Both parties” is the left’s propaganda. When they’re so bad they have to convince you the other guys are JUST like them, it’s a sign.

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    4. Meh. I figure either we’ll pull out of this or I’ll die going down fighting in the resulting conflict. (No illusions on how much effect a small-fry like me will have.)

      I’m comfortable with either outcome

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      1. World War One kicked off because a nimcompoop with a .32ACP pocket pistol shot some nobody archduke.

        The right pebble at the right time is an avalanche.

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      1. I think they see Mamdani as their Beauregard.

        Consider: Trump has steadfastly refused to invoke the Insurrection Act, even when various “blue heavens” were semi-actively interfering with ICE and tolerating their NGOs who were actively doing so. But despite threats to arrest ICE agents, prosecute them at some undefined “later”, etc., none of them would actually pull that trigger.

        Mamdani, OTOH, is reckless to the point where old PGTB is looking out from the afterlife and advising him to slow down. First thing he said in his “victory speech” was to dare Trump to keep on enforcing immigration laws in Mamdani’s jurisdiction. I think that Mamdani just might be able to get some “sharia police” in NYPD uniform to attempt to make the arrest.

        Trump pretty much has to declare an insurrection then.

        If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, you can pretty much guarantee that the Democrats will pull out all the stops to get SCOTUS to declare it unconstitutional.

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        1. Given how many times that act has been used, and by whom, and the Constitutional wording, I would doubt SCOTUS overturning it.

          If it is invoked, best “Strike like lightning. Roll like thunder.” Don’t give the opposition time to react in an orderly fashion, nor to gather forces, nor to craft propaganda. Hammer time. Present any courts with accomplished facts.

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        2. Posting your comment over on FB, credited to “S. Nelson”. (Locked, you won’t be able to see it UNLESS you are one of my FB friends under a pseudonym. Which sounds extremely unlikely.)

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  2. The Hatred is Strong In Them.

    We will win, but I wonder how many will die. ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

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    1. This.
      When Trump overcame everything a year ago, I breathed a huge sigh of relief, and felt that we’d avoided a Civil War.

      Last night was the opposite of that. It’s clear that a large percentage of the population is hellbent on spilling our blood.

      The response to the Kirk assassination was from a vocal minority. But that minority just had over half the polity bend the knee to them in the more populated portions of the country. They’re empowered, and they’re not going to back off.

      It’s going to get spicy. And I can’t help but morn.

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      1. The problem is a secondary effect of “If America has food problem, the rest of the world starves.” Is “If America has a revolution, the rest of the world starves and BURNS.”

        Don’t have the first quote correct, but the meaning is there.

        Bottom line? Destroy the US, you destroy yourselves. It’ll be centuries before mankind claws it’s way back.

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        1. Almost none of our side want blood. Accelerationism is stupid. The question is how to build outside the blast radius of the kamikaze commies.

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          1. No kidding no one on our side wants blood. I know exactly who the first casualties will be these days. It is always the vulnerable very young, and the old. Being in the old category, I might be a bit prejudicial. But I have to stand defense of the vulnerable young and their protectors.

            Plus, we know what will happen if blood flows. We read and understand history. We do not want a repeat.

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        2. To quote a president who had his issues but could certainly turn a phrase

          We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail.

          If the USA fails then the rest of the world is in the crapper for an indeterminate time; we’ve piled all the cranky cantankerous types here for the last 200-300 years the freedom loving strain of Humanity is thin on the ground elsewhere and crippled by the intense controlling fascistic (in the sense of “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state) governments they oppose. Ultimately someone (likely on an island nation like Australia or the UK) will claw their way back but how long the dark age would be is unknown.

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      2. “…a large percentage of the population…”

        It’s a real fraction, but I’d challenge “large percentage”. Even out here in Gavin’s French Laundry Bear Flag Peoples Republic, where they sent out over 23 million mail-in ballots, the Prop 50 redistricting farce only has around 5 million votes (though the CA election results page helpfully notes they still have 37 days to “discover” more votes if they need them) vs just under 3 million against.

        And that’s in the overwhelmingly deep blue voter-id-free state where they register people to vote if they do basically anything interacting with the state (two I have hit are absolutely any DMV stuff, and again every time one goes through the state’s SoetoroCare health insurance exchange, including for a “nothing changed” annual renewal). So which all those advantages they still only got 5/23rds bothering to vote for it.

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        1. FM you are responding to Lukes

          It’s clear that a large percentage of the population is hellbent on spilling our blood.

          Probably not all the voters lean that way. But large numbers here in deep blue states DO despise us (and likely in CA too). Ciattarelli lost by over 500K votes about 13% of the votes cast. Earle-Sears lost by a similar 500k votes a nearly 15% margin in her case. And those voters ignore clear issues e.g. Sherill’s clear issues from the Naval Academy, Spanberger’s supporting Mr. Jones who fantasized about killing an opponent and his family.

          The big issue is that many of our opponents don’t see things like Mr Jone’s statement, Mr Plattner with his Totenkopf tattoo or Mr Mamdani’s insane anti capitalist rant (in a city with London that for years epitomized capitalism) as an issue. Their dislike for a particular idea out ranks general decency and rationality in their hierarchy of ideas. This extreme othering can lead down a very dark path, and they are so historically unaware that they don’t know where that path goes.

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          1. Yep.

            I just got told I was in “a cult” for posting the receipts (direct link to) and quoted what the democrats are demanding to have to open the government. Because it is “illegal” for non-citizens to get SNAP or other public benefits. Because if it is illegal it does not happen. Pull the other leg it activates the bells. I blocked them.

            Also it is the “republican’s fault” for the shutdown, because they won’t invoke the (trap) nuclear option in the senate. Blocked that one too.

            Nextdoor, and it is Eugene and Oregon. So ….

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      3. The left very much desires bloodshed; they want those who disagree with them GONE, in the fullest, deadest, sense of the word. The fact that enough Democrats are willing to vote for such radicals, whether because they share the bloodlust, or simply desire power that much, is a meaningless distinction that has the same goal” absolute single party totalitarian rule.

        The fact that a candidate for statewide AG who fantasized about the murder of political opponents, AND their families, and an outright Jew-hating communist who made it clear the desires a Judenfrei world (followed by Christians being eliminated, as after getting rid of the Saturday people the Sunday people are next on both the Jihadist and Commie “to do” lists) won election in the city with the largest Jewish population outside Israel, says everything you need to know about today’s Democratic Party. Decades of leftist indoctrination in schools and media that has created a vocal minority of fanatical useful idiots, along with an aging cadre that clings to power and their political graft and is in terror that the radicals will take it away, has resulted in a cadre that sees itself as the new Bolsheviks-revolutionaries who will “fundamentally transform America” and the world to achieve their insane vision, which they believe a utopia, but is in fact a dystopian hell.

        The sooner everyone not on board with a such a vision recognizes it and works to stop the loons, the better. The loons can, and ultimately will be beaten, but the price gets higher and higher as the loons rampage on in the meantime.

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  3. I am so damn sad about Virginia. I can’t believe that my beloved Commonwealth has just elected somebody as far left as Abigail Spanberger. Even worse? Jay Jones–somebody who literally wished violent death upon his political opponents–won Attorney General running away.

    Just carve off Virginia north of the Rappahannock and west of the mountains, combine it with the Maryland suburbs of DC, and call it the New District of Columbia. No Senators, no Congressthings, just like now. Then wall off the entire New DC area with the minefields on the INSIDE. Maybe the states can take it back after we get rid of most of the Federal government and deport the illegals.

    Between this, and finding out that my employer is opening an office in Hyderabad and expecting 1800 jobs over there within three years? Mostly in my area? I’m so mad today that my usual perpetual friend, the black dog, is cowering in the corner.

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    1. The Reader is also sad about the state of the Commonwealth going forward. He notes that it is not all NVA either. Chesterfield County, where a decade ago the then Republican House Majority Leader got primaried by a conservative, went for the Democratic ticket with larger majorities than the state numbers.

      The Reader expects to be headed for redder territory (nothing to hold him here since son passed) in the next 18 months or so. The real shock to the state economy is going to come with the repeal of right to work – a lot of corporations lured to VA by the current administration are going to find unions on their doorsteps next year.

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        2. The Reader notes that that impacted our ability to get rid of Spanberger then. The county as a whole has trended blue as it has become more densely suburban – lots more apartment complexes and townhouses. The Reader doesn’t know where all the people are coming from, but it is obvious how they vote.

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    2. Commentary I’ve been reading suggests that wasn’t so much the problem as she just didn’t run a great campaign. Tried to coast? I don’t know.

      The one that bugs me is Jones. The guy is unfit, period. And the Party is oblivious to second-order effects, as usual: they have persuaded at least some of their opponents that they want said opponents dead, or at least will stand aside as others kill them. Not a good long-term move.

      Another thread in the postmortems is that grocery prices are still going up and people will turn to the other guys the way they turned to Trump if the Republicans don’t get their act together.

      I’m down, partly this and partly things like the restaurant hasn’t broken even yet and our son’s girlfriend is resenting the hours he has to put in. That and politics are trying to serve up a nice, black pill.

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      1. Sears basically had no campaign the first couple months. No ads, no appearances. She refused to acknowledge the party’s nominee for Lt. Gov. during that period, too, because of party in-fighting. Finally, the VA GOP organization sucks. They have no GOTV plan. In areas where they have a good base, they spend all their time fighting with each other. In areas where they don’t have a good base, they’ve essentially ceded to the Dems and often don’t run any opposition. Basically this election proves that blue enclaves will always vote hard blue, and red enclaves will not turn out when the appeal is basically “Yeah but the other guys are worse.”

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      2. Energy costs and devaluation of the dollar just plain suck. And when I say energy costs, in the agricultural business, it takes at least a year to recover from fuel/energy issues. What we’re seeing now is still fallout from Herr Xiden.

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  5. Yeah, basically this was my thought last night, but I thought out of deference to the travel and stuffs, that I would just not mention it.

    In a normal set of political elections, the Democrats decide on what they spend where for how many fraudulent ballots. This one, they were not so spoiled for choice, and they are desperate for something that seems real and important to them.

    The gossip was that Schmaurs damned plan with the stoppage was these elections.

    Blue States, are places the Democrats consistently choose to pay for a majority of fraudulent ballots. People in those places are maybe very apathetic and demoralized, in practice, wrt to political engagement that is not simply bribing officials.

    Purple states are basically places where they have the contacts and insider access to buy entire elections, but do not always choose to do so.

    Red States? Some of them are also crooked, simply that the local insiders are currently alienated from the national Democratic Party.

    Electoral fraud is illegal.

    Murder is always officially illegal, and yet there is quite documented evidence of successful criminal conspiracies that include murder, other organized criminal activity, and in particular murder for hire. The illegality of an act does not have everything to do with whether the people in the formal legal system want to, and succeed in suppressing illegal conspiracies.

    And, sorry, but how the formal law profession comported itself has discredited it as being able to suppress electoral fraud conspiracies, before we outright consider the historical record, and even versions of histography mainstream politicially convenient.

    There are gonna be goodwill costs for the Democrats with the shutdown.

    Probably also, the elections will not prove to be a genius master stroke that wins them what the bastards expected it to.

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    1. Another reason for the shutdown is that all of a sudden you have a large number of “volunteers” who have nothing else to do but campaign and GOTV. Especially in NOVA.

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  6. I love the MSM trumpeting the fact that, ‘Virginia is going to have its first evah female Goobernor!’ Ummm, wouldn’t Winsome have also been that? And a black one, to boot?

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    1. They don’t actually care about any of this, of course, just trumpet it to reinforce the Democratic Diversity Defeats Republican Racism propaganda. We should not expect fair coverage, or ever bring it up ourselves – any Republican first will be ignored, dismissed as a token minority with false consciousness, the black face of white supremacy.

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  7. NYC went about as I expected. Right now I’m more worried for my friends and family there, especially the elderly ones.

    I’m actively disappointed in Virginia, but not terribly surprised. My heart goes out to my friends and family there.

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    1. Horrific as it would be to wake up in a city about to be “ruled” by a Marx-quoting Communist who’s already openly (and proudly, see last night) preparing to do things to make the Bolsheviks proud, and simultaneously a staunch (and fairly anti-American, see his roll-call of foreigners last night) Islamist — I can already begin to see the first faint fitful sparkles of a silver lining.

      He can’t do this in the dark. The whole nation (at least the sane part of it) is watching; and as his Glorious Experiment in Marxian Socialism #5,329 begins to follow its (arguably inevitable) path to, well, hellish ruin — much unlike the Bolsheviks he cannot control the information flow, or rely on vast empty distances to hide his failures (which have likely already started to quietly happen). His victims (and he intends there to be many, just listen) will have names, and faces, and voices. And more than a few of them will have computers and video cameras to speak loud and far with.

      The Russian Counter-revolution, the one that worked, used fax machines and typewriters. That was a sufficient technology, back then during glasnost. Now go “imagine” what this willl be like..!

      The “Escape From New York” (City) — and yes that’s already a memed thing — might likely be good for the country in many ways. Some things are just too well-rooted to move, but the old idea (and by now already battered some) of “New York is the nation’s center of…” is about to be further set aside and parceled out; so America will have even less of a “single point of failure” in NYC and its (gack!) “elites” and “gatekeepers” — they’ll likely still be there, only much power will slip elsewhere.

      The prospective pain and loss and betrayal are all too real; an authorized crime spree, a flood of “free” goodies and the confiscations to pay for them, an economic climate of Ice Age, a further colonization by “bad actors” and all the rest… but there is another side, even to this.

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      2. The Democrats have received hundreds of wake-up calls. What makes you think they’ll pay any more attention to this one? Democrat-ruled cities are already hell-holes and that hasn’t made any impression on them. Chicago has half a dozen random murders on an average weekend and They. Don’t. Give. A. Shit.

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        1. Saw a story that Brandon Johnson has been repeatedly taken to the hospital for anxiety attacks. Another Party member unsuited for his job.

          Also comments that young women went massively for Mamdani, leading to suggestions of, “daddy issues,” but also, it just occurred to me, to, “Oh, isn’t he dreamy!” fantasies. Another comment was the longer you’ve lived in New York City, the more likely you were to vote Cuomo.

          There’s some “It’s Sliwa’s fault!” out there because Sliwa’s voter percentage, given to Cuomo, would have given him the win. Erickson has a reasonable take: don’t blame Sliwa. Asking people to vote for, “the man who killed your grandma and sexually harassed your daughters,” just wasn’t going to happen. And besides, Cuomo made no attempt to offer Sliwa a deal in exchange for his voters; he tried bullying him instead. So this loss is on Cuomo.

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          1. No, Sliwa didn’t. We looked up the results (and note that Mandami and Sliwa are both on twice for different parties).

            Mandami got 50.39% of the votes. Just a bare majority. NYC decided (assuming not fruad) better the devil they don’t know than the one they did.

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          2. “young women went massively for Mamdani”

            Thereby proving once again that all women are irrational fools and the 19th Amendment should be repealed. /sarc

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            1. Weirdly, the folks pushing that line of thought don’t like it when you ask why, exactly, they’re suddenly believing surveys from the MSM.

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        2. Oh, the hardcore D’s won’t care, they even might enjoy it (see interview of Tim Walz’ wife, leaving her windows open at night so she could smell city blocks burning, for example). And those who are the true “red diaper babies” (h/t Sarah Hoyt there) basically cannot change their minds on it, because they’ve been “raised to the faith” in a very literal way — history has an arrow and it points their Marxist way is their catechism, and it’s world-view-shattering apostasy to think different.

          So leave off the Obamas and Harrises and Buttegiegs (his dad is a major “critical theory” = Marx evangelism expert) and so forth — now we have left the (not so small) rest of people, who may be “liberal” but are realists not quasi-theists. For them, watching Mamdani-Marx-Leninism fail big is not going to have to be ignored. And (if you’ve seen the statistics on R vs. D registrations post murder of Charlie Kirk — I should look at those again and closer now), registrations are trending more R than D even in some unexpected places. So, bad for them, nationally, cumulatively.

          Locally? Mamdani isn’t “creeping socialism” — he’s not starting from zero by any means, but his announced policies are really way far out there, and way far beyond “the usual” in your “typical big blue demi-hellhole city” as run by the D-party. So the shock will possibly be very great, unlike the typical “boiling the frog” gradual-decline D scenario in most of those familiar places. That might do a bit to shock even the comfortably-leftist — I think Mamdani is also a “Democratic Socialist” and his last-night victory speech declared he’s really going to double-down on the old Communist and Islamic and foreigner-over-American themes, even as he approaches inauguration.

          NYC is a more-or-less typical, Cuomo-esque hellhole now, by “our” standards. It bodes to become, and maybe very rapidly soon, a world-class exceptional frankly-Commie hellhole. Different. More.

          This will not be “a short victorious war” (figuratively) for us. Much as I hate to admit it, some casualties will likely be required. But it cannot be a “victorious war” for them at all. Not unless some vast Mississippi or Ob of ever-flowing money can be found to keep the Commie-rot afloat.

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        3. What would “pay attention to the wake-up call” look like, to you?

          The Dem party entirely vanishing from the face of the earth?

          That doesn’t work– folks aren’t going to be scandalized when they find out their own grift, after all.

          Extremists leaving the party? Ooozing out of their hands?

          Well…we know that is happening, what with the bog standard toxic proggies suddenly showing up to pretend to be conservatives, now.

          Folks not go for the hardest left option?

          Well, an open socialist got the nod for Dem party nomination for mayor. And.. seems to have lost, to the guy who couldn’t get the nomination. Seattle.

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      3. “Escape From New York”

        Regards what “Wheels” sez, please avoid Texas, we are full and can not absorb any more folks from NY, CA, IL, Hyderabad, or points outside the Republic. We are out of water and friendly.

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  8. The Republicans should present another clean Continuing Resolution bill, but this one with a 0.1% cut across the board, for everything.

    Then when the Democrats reject it, next day present a new bill, with a 0.2% cut across the board, on everything. Because the 0.1% cut is gone, it’s off the table.

    Then the next day, it’s a 0.3% cut across the board on everything. And the 0.2% cut is gone, it’s off the table.

    And the whole time, present their case to the American people that the government is umpteen trillion dollars in debt, and the Democrats won’t even agree to a 0.1% cut. Well, then, we’ll get them to agree to a deeper cut.

    Behave like you’re in a position of strength. Because they are. The places that voted Dem across the board yesterday… are places that routinely vote Dem across the board.

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    2. That could never work, too unconventional, it sounds like something Donald Trump might try to…

      Oh, wait a minute!

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    3. Almost correct. Started the escalation correctly, just did not follow through correctly:

      0.1%

      0.2%

      0.4%

      0.8%

      1.6%

      ….

      etc.

      The other side might, might, get a clue about 0.8%. Might. Because we know they are *math challenged. OTOH might not be a bad idea for it to be: 0.1%, 1%, 10%. Or I’d see: 1%, 2%, 4%, 8%, 16%. Not like I’m suggesting the savings of each be totaled in to each subsequent package …

      The democrats, each and everyone, would take the $30 on the math challenge of a $1/day or 1¢ today, double the amount each subsequent day (1¢, 2¢, 4¢, … to 10 ^ 30 on day 30, or is it 10 ^ 30, total? I forget.) Because $1 is > $0.01. They can only see today.

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        1. 👏

          I’m not on X.

          Steal away.

          Here is to Trump/Vance seeing your X post! Then when succeeds states “Thanks for the idea Oregon!” Wouldn’t that twist Salem and Portland’s tails?

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  9. Last night, talking with my Dad, I admitted if Mamdani didn’t win in New York, and Cuomo won instead, that, in a weird sick way, I’d be disappointed. Not sure how I feel today.

    But I do hope we get a hard demonstration of what happens when these policies are put in place (though there may also be legal limits on what Mamdani can actually do (not that laws have stopped Democrats in the past). And I don’t know how much the City Council can limit him, if they’re even inclined to do so.)

    If New York City self-destructs, well, they’ve had way too much power over the rest of the country and I won’t be sorry if that ends, though I’ll feel for anyone stuck there.

    (I do admit to being terrified of what might happen if the Democrats take power back when Trump isn’t on the ballot, but that’s a different problem.)

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      1. “Democrat women” is a scary, rather imprecise term. Evidence has shown that Democrats predominantly can’t tell what is a woman, and therefore you never know what you’re getting with them.

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    2. there may also be legal limits on what Mamdani can actually do

      This is a big point that hasn’t been heard much (yet). Mamdani is chock-full of ideas that toe the whole (“Democratic Socialists of America”) Marxian party line, but the Constitution still applies there and always and for years to come (barring serious misfortune or outright enemy action) we have friends to it in the White House and Supreme Court both.

      Cancel policing? That’s a potential Federal civil rights lawsuit (though no idea how much time or difficulty would actually be involved) on behalf of those exposed by a deliberately failed policy of failure. Let’s contemplate the hailstorm of low-level judges’ “restraining orders” against this or that Trump policy or action… only against this, and comparing one (big, for now rich) rebel city to the entire nation in strength. Federal funds are another potent, though again maybe difficult, lever.

      Confiscate from “the rich” Bolshevik style? He’ll have a lot more trouble than in 1919-ish Russia.

      What I just said is pretty half-baked. By the time Mamdani actually takes office, expect a lot of professional time spent by the Trump Administration (maybe by people like Harmeet Dhillon) to minimize the totaled-up eventual damage and limit the mad Marxy-mania, at least somewhat.

      This is a man who routinely stops wars and reins in rabid dictators. Who turns a smarmy UN sabotage-fest into a springboard for an hour-long challenge flung to the whole rotten lot. He’s limited here by enemies domestic not foreign, yes and more than a little; but still.

      Otherwise, I guess, let the lessons of FAFO and the Gods of the Copybook Headings fully begin…

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    3. I’ve been thinking along similar lines. I don’t want anyone to suffer, but I do also kind of hope Mamdani goes balls-out, because as much as it’d suck, the harder he fails, the more he discredits the evil ideologies he cleaves to. This might be a needed reminder to everyone who still is American at heart that however warm and fuzzy they might superficially appear, there are some ideas and people, up with which we cannot put (unless “up” is a rope attached to a tall object).

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  10. Sadly, folks on the Right are also prone to “It must be what the voters wanted” dismissal of the results of the “lesser” races when it’s not Presidential elections. I’m certain that at least a decent percentage of ‘blue zones gonna blue zone’ was, as usual, fraud training and testing. 2020 really removed the blindfolds for me on the extent of the prospiracy (N.B. – anyone who reads this and doesn’t know: a ‘prospiracy’ is – roughly – when it’s not formally coordinated with emails and phone calls and secret meetings, just generally part of how they do things).

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    3. I’m not so sure. There was a report on the failure of polling to accurately predict the results (win and by how much) this time, again. Which leads to the usual questions of how biased the polling was, or like 2020, just how much voting fraud contributed. We KNOW the Democrats cheated, it’s one of their fundamentals.

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  12. Proposition 50 apparently passed in California. It literally does nothing within the state, as the Dems already have a supermajority in both legislative bodies. The result is purely to try and reduce the number of Republican seats in the House.

    My hope is that it will make the Dem lead in a number of districts more brittle. Then a sudden surge of Republican support might leave the Dems losing in districts that otherwise might have stayed with their party.

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  13. I’d love to see an accurate charting of “places the young and productive have fled recently” and “places that went blue this time.”

    I’ve got suspicions that a sizable portion of folks who left also had votes registered in their name.

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  14. I’m more directly affected by these than most and I’m not really all that bothered. Sure, it would have been nice, but blue districts voted blue and the margin of fraud remains intact. Schumer is still a mamzer, so what’s the big deal. I’ll tell you what would be a big deal, if the GOP GOP’s and rolls over under the propaganda onslaught. Right now, we’re more or less where we were, should the GOP fold, then we’re back to where we started and that would. Suck.

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  16. I can’t spit out the black pill. Last night delivered it as a suppository.

    (Though, granted, it was delivered hard enough that I can taste the thing.)

    I do not despair of the fight. I do despair of it being resolved peacefully, unless by our unconditional surrender — and [HONK!] that harder than the black pill [HONK!]ed me. I do not see how the two sides can co-exist, not when their side embraces an attorney general whose policy is: double-tap to the head, then slaughter his children in front of his widow, because that’s the only way they will learn.

    I could have taken all the other defeats, but that one is far too clarifying.

    I will resist to the end. I just cannot trust that it will be a remotely clean end, or even something we would recognize as a win. I will fight, but out of sheer stubborn cussedness. I wish it could be out of faith, but sadly I missed out on that gene.

    Republica restituendae, et, je suis Charlie.

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    1. It will not be resolved peacefully, and abject surrender would not change that in the least. Those who surrender are first against the wall, followed by the useful idiots.

      We fight, or we die. Whether that is against the wall or on our feet is the only question.

      If we surrender, we WILL die. Period.

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  18. Yeah, the mass media is trying to make it look like a HUGE VICTORY for the Ds over the evil Trumpers. Looks more like they managed to fraud enough to keep blue control of some blue states. An Islamic socialist in NY, redistricting in CA to try and shut out any conservatives and showing their true selves in VA with a leftist governor and a murderous AG. They haven’t won the great victory they’re boasting about just clinging to power in areas they already had too much power already. It’s not good but it isn’t the end of the world, they are losing more and more people and if the nut in NY gets any of his policies enacted the disaster it will create will be too big to hide and drive more people toward reality.

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    1. My guess is that he intends to bring down NY in as violent a way as possible, with the assumption that the rest of the US will follow.

      He is a jihadist first and foremost. Every step and thought is aimed at taking down the Great Satan.

      To me, his campaign manager’s words to the muslims in NY were exactly that–to me it sounded like “This is jihad, this is the will of allah, and you need to think about where your loyalties lie.”

      The fact that they don’t understand the US, Americans, or New Yorkers is secondary.

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      1. At worst I think the PTB are going to discover how effective the NY gun restrictions are … As good as Chicago’s.

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        1. And in fact NYC was once known as the epicenter of the US’ (anti-)draft riots. No, not the 1960s, I’m talking about the 1860s, and not remotely kidding at all. IIRC deployed (but not ever used) countermeasures included heavy guns (the not-small-arms kind) ready to fire on crowds.

          Zohran Mamdani, you have no clue at all what a dangerous nation you’re trying to invade. Or even what “your” city has been, and partly still is. (Many of us here will remember what Staten Island said and did in the floridly-mad depths of the Covidiocy; ordinary people, not “leaders” of any kind.)

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    2. Pretty much that – they held on in areas they hold with a strangling grip – but didn’t make headway outside of those places.
      Ah, well, I’m out of all sympathy for NY. I don’t know how much luck Mamdani the Theater Kid will have in bringing NYC down to the level of Detroit at it’s worst. but it will be grimly interesting to see how much ruin there is in New York.

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    1. “Interchangeable parts, anyone?”

      (I’m actually almost sorry I said that, but really didn’t want to stop either.)

      Let’s do remember that Bernie not only honeymooned in Russia, but made lots of trips back to the Bolshevik Rodina later. Which fits with the usual (per Venona intercepts) pattern with such thus proven “assets” as Britain’s J. B. S. Haldane. So Bernie the Purple Dinosaur might (or might not) be actually also Krasnyy Red in the older sense.

      Meanwhile, in far less political (but still mildly political) news, Jared Isaacman has now (last night) been re-nominated to head NASA. Lots of space geeks are cheering.

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  20. Back in Rome’s heyday, the populace of the city could vote themselves “bread and circuses,” while the hinterlands had to pay for it. Today’s large metropolises are easy pickings for those who promise the same things, and the people who work the “real” jobs have to make up the slack. Also, the big cities are perfect targets for corruption and coercion, which is one reason why the globalists want to pack everyone into them. They hate cars, because it gives productive, independent people the ability to flee the corrupt cities. It’s too bad we can’t pass a law that makes the vote in densely-populated areas worth less than other places. I think half would be about right.

    Also, please forgive my blatant self-promotion, but I’ve been reading your pieces on Instapundit for several years now, and I’m heartened that at least someone who has been brought up in a different culture can see through all the brainwashing. Many thanks for your insights. My question is, how might I go about getting my extremely prescient, clever, and erudite blog noticed by such a wise and gifted pundit? I would especially recommend the article on “Urban Nutrition,” https://pjfiguresitout.com/maybe-its-satire-urban-nutrition/ Many thanks.

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    1. Kind of. Except we’re not Rome and no, they can’t. Also most of the people in NYC aren’t pampered elites.
      Mostly, it’s fraud. Fraud is rampant in blue enclaves. Which came first? I don’t know. But we DO know that the fraud is massive. Illegals vote in NYC, etc.

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    2. Local level, city, county/parishes, urban VS rural is difficult to overcome. Now state and national, it should be based of of the Republic of the Constitution. It is not now. Oregon’s 7 national votes for president is based off the democratic state wide vote. It shouldn’t be. It should be based off how many total state legislature representatives that each county has. The county democratically decides how the county representation goes, which means locally the county is voting stupidly regardless. Goes double for Portland metro counties. But gives some leverage to other more rural counties that feel disenfranchised now. (Yes, I know the SCOTUS has rule otherwise. They were wrong.)

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    4. The “urban folks vote for stuff that rurals are forced to support” is why the Founding Fathers created the Senate. Every state in the country had a similar setup with their bicameral legislatures until the (at the time) lefty USSC announced that such setups were unconstitutional. This was in the 70’s, iirc. Unfortunately, this is one of those things that can’t be fixed just with a new USSC ruling. Even assuming that the USSC were to overturn the old decision (and I suspect that with its current composition, it would), reverting things would require either that one of the bicameral legislative houses in each state voluntary adopt a voting method that will likely cost some of their members their seats (not happening) – particularly in blue states, or get a ballot measure past the voters who would likely be disinclined to vote for it if they live in the large population centers.

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  22. The New York Commie, as well as the governorships, don’t surprise me. Blue states gonna blue state.

    I’m a little more concerned about the Virginia AG. I was hoping that, even in Virginia, they’d recognize that this guy was an entire civil engineering department’s worth of bridges too far. But apparently we vote D no matter what, even if in any sane world the D would be held without bail while waiting for trial.

    The one that really worries me is the Maine Nazi and how much support I’m seeing for him. With the AG, I get it; as I said above, it’s D above all. But in Maine, it’s a primary. The choice isn’t between D and R, but between a D with a Nazi tattoo and a D without. I’m concerned by how many people seem to be all-in on the former. I can think of several reasons for that, and none of them are good.

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    1. Hope can be a dangerous thing; the safe way to bet was always on these places continuing to be exactly what they’ve been for the last 30+ years, however close the polls seemed. And regarding the Democrat Nazi, I’d say it’s 50/50 between mindless tribal voters and people who really are concentration camp aficionados at heart, though most of them steadfastly refuse to recognize it in themselves…which, again, is merely a continuance of what that side of the political aisle has been for many decades (heck, closing in on two centuries if you factor in its role in the Great Unpleasantness of the 1860s and its long lead-in).

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      1. Gerrymandering can explain why districts flipped in the state house races, but would it matter in statewide races?

        I grew up in VA and its degradation upsets me.

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    3. I had a funny conversation with my grandmother, some time in the late 70s or early 80s. She said she would vote for the devil if he ran as a Democrat. A little later in the conversation she said she would never vote for a woman because they can’t be trusted. I asked her what she would do if a the D’s ran a female candidate. For some reason the conversation ended abruptly…

      I suspect that she and my grandfather would be right in the middle of all this mess if they were still alive. Voting blue, no matter who.

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      1. Or maybe just the wrong clan.

        They’re very tribal.

        (I don’t know if he actually is, I wasn’t even aware of that race until earlier today.)

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    2. The mask has been off for a while.

      They’re just now twirling it above their heads to display proudly, like a stripper might with her just-removed panties.

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  26. I’m disappointed but not surprised. What does worry me is that the Congressional (D) will decide that the key to winning elections is to shut the government down for … however long it takes to get people to vote the way the (D)s want. It won’t work, but they will cause a lot of irritation or even pain in the process.

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  27. It should probably also not pass entirely without recognition that exactly one year ago today, we experienced something very like a collective miracle of national deliverance. That Election Day we laid to rest the specter of a… Kamala Harris “Administration” soon incoming and settling in to stay for four devastatingly and excruciatingly long years.

    Nationally, and due to hard work by many people, not least that brave and tireless guy who literally dodged a bullet (imperfectly but quite well enough) some weeks before — we made it onto this present timeline, and off the Deez’ ugly… highway to hellishness.

    Something to think about, not be complacent about, but yet… surely a massive helping of grace.

    For all that their “legacy” still lingers some — as George Burns liked to say, consider the alternative.

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  28. On California Proposition 50 and its actual impact, even setting aside the lawsuit that was immediately filed against it, the Supremes still haven’t issued their ruling in Louisiana v Callais which, given the oral arguments auguries, could easily make the California gerrymandermatic mail-in voter-ID-free “vote” moot.

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    1. How will a case on forcing districts drawn on racial lines affect California Dems and their ability to draw districts more or less how they choose?

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      1. The Hairgel Gerrymander, if it survives court challenge, would yield +5 D seats from California. The SCOTUS decision, if it throws out current practice, could yield as many as +19 R seats nationwide. Gavin’s expensive ballot proposition (they paid millions for an entire election for that one prop) would be all for naught, much ado about nothing, thus mooted.

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        1. So it won’t directly affect the California redraw. Instead, the California redraw will become background noise against a larger Republican surge from other states.

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  29. The fact that the media is pushing the Groyper fringe so hard, and the Groypers are celebrating the Mamdani win, really gives the game away. They won’t be able to make Fuentes the “new Charlie Kirk” anymore than they could make Kimmel into the real victim of the Kirk assassination.

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    1. This. They can’t sell us on it, but they’re deepening their own crazed illusion. Did I say they’re dangerous? Well, keep your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark, chilluns.

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    2. Didn’t Fuentes vote for Harris? If he’s who I think he is, that’s literally when I first became aware of him. Any claim that he has to being a Republican standard bearer only exists due to continued ignorance of that fact.

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  30. ”we’re in the middle of a turn away from the madness of international collectivism.”

    True that.
    Argentina finally allowed Juan and Evita to rest quietly in their graves and elected Javier Milei. And Bolivia said goodbye to Evo Morales and his party Movimiento al Socialismo [M.A.S.] and elected a capitalist.
    Best headline ever: ‘No Mas’.

    So, in the words of an early US Navy hero: “We have not yet begun to fight!”

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  31. Shaping up as a testing ground for

    “Those that the Gods wish to destroy they first make confident”

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  32. Just wait until NYC discovers that Mamdami is a jihadist first and socialism is just a front to get the dhimis on board.

    Useful idiots.

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    1. The people who care already know. The people who don’t care, won’t care. They may not even realize until sharia is imposed on them, probably by extra-legal force, maybe by terror.

      A government that is big enough to give you anything you want is big enough to take away all that you are.

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      1. Or he’s just a credulous dumbass conspiritard who looked pretty for the audience and was tightly controlled by his corporate bosses at Fox and now can’t keep it together without them.

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        1. Maybe, but we are three degrees of separation and the people who know him personally say he’s a smart and nice guy, and these are people I myself consider decent and bright.
          They are perplexed and shocked. They’re forwarding explanations like “stroke.” But this is being driven so hard by the left “Fuentes is embraced by MAGA” and it’s so patently a lie, that I wonder if he’s being blackmailed to go along. Wouldn’t be the first or the last.

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          1. “and” works for me. One of his first post Fox interviews was with Kanye West and the outtakes showed that he ignored that Kanye was already batspit crazy. Tucker just rolled along for the clicks. I had my doubts from that point. And his ‘religious experience’. He saw demons, OK fine. So he read the bible, OK fine. But he’s not going to church because he’s too smart to need to do that. Sure.

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            1. I have heard the claim that Tucker’s father was CIA.
            2. McCarthy had materials relating to Jan 6 distributed to Carlson. If we are talking internal or external pressures, that would be my most convenient bet.
            3. Even so Covid remains a plausible explanation for much insanity.

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  34. Those Were The Days …
    When Men Were Men
    And Women Were Men
    And The Sheep Were Afraid
    …Yet Verily I Say Unto Thee, “These Are The Days”

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    1. A dear friend of my beloved’s in the SCA used to use a variation of that. His Society name was, perhaps, unfortunate because for a while, everywhere he went you could hear someone saying, “MAGGGGGGG–nussssss!”

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  35. Yeah, reading some of the nobs replying to a few of your Insty links I get Glowie Fed and Stoopids vibes. The only “disappointments” I got was Pennsylvania where all those registered as Independent were struck from the rolls and had to vote Provisional (so were those close battles counting those?) and parts of Georgia where it looks like Fulton’s crooks have spread their ploys. Shocked that Minneapolis didn’t go Somali Pirate.

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