For two weeks now I’ve been driving my family and my close in fan group insane with “They’re going to steal the election. I can see all the battle space preparation signs.” And them telling me I was insane.
After last night, I don’t think a lot of them speak to me.
And yet–
“But Sarah, the right lost fair and square!” “The people want Islamic socialism!”
Maybe they do. Maybe they do indeed. Except there is no sign of it at all, except what came out of the machines last night.
Look, the numbers are — on the face of them — bloody unbelievable. The democrats had presidential-turn-out-or-better, suddenly, in a mid-term. Which, given how many of the voters were deported– Never mind. Not enough, probably, to make a big difference.
But what we saw at the polls heralds the type of sea change that goes “everyone hates the president”. And… I’m not seeing it?
Sure maybe in some super-blue enclaves this is obvious and in your face, but… even so. Opposition that strong shows. Where is their viral “Let’s go Brandon!” moment? Where is their run away success fictional series where the good guys win? Where are their massive demonstrations saying “the king is a fink?” The No Kings movement had to use photos from a year ago or two years ago. Because they couldn’t even commandeer their usual 12 people on respirators in a corner.
You know what else a big sea change movement of this kind doesn’t do? Steal signs. Across the country there was an epidemic of leftists stealing signs. Not one or two, not their petty, usual vandalism, but “I can’t keep a sign for my guy up, because it gets stolen.” That’s… battle space preparation. Not for a fair vote, but for fraud.
You know what else is funny? Well. A lot of things. But one of them that is clearly, blatantly, obviously funny is that the Democrats outperformed the polls.
“But Sarah, Republicans outperform the polls all the time.” Yes, but that’s like me saying “There is a flock of turkeys flying north” and you saying “So, geese do that all the time.”
The culture we live in, Democrats announce their preference loudly. Hell, they’ll run you down on the street to tell you what they think. They will not be phone shy. Ever. And all the polls are skewed left anyway, if you look at the internals.
Another weird thing: This time the cities reported first. Normally they report last to account for how many votes they needed. Not last night, no siree bob! They reported first. Must be because there’s no fraud in the cities any longer. Stop laughing.
“But Sarah, where’s the proof?”
And there you have me. DataRepublican exposed their talk of color revolution. Of what they’d do to secure the gains if the President tried to call them out on it. How they’d expose him as a tyrant.
What does that hinge on? No PROOF of the steal. Or no easily provable proof. Because if we can point at it and say “but they obviously stole it, this way” then the color revolution fails.
I don’t know how you voted. I mean, the mechanics of it. I voted in paper. I was such a small minority that the only wait in our polling place was for the machines. No wait at all for paper. And until five minutes ago (It’s five am, btw) I was patting myself on the back over it.
I filled a ballot, then I approached a machine. A nice poll worker helped me put it in the machine, the ballot was pulled in, and the screen lit up “Your vote has been counted!”
Very nice. Who was my vote counted for, precisely? It can’t tell me, of course, the nice poll worker would see it! And besides the ballot is right there! They can count it again. (I presume.) Sure. BUT I’m NOT THERE TO WATCH IT COUNTED. … and most people voted by machine.
You know the rule, don’t you “Don’t trust your vote to anything you wouldn’t trust your cash?”
Let me know when you’d be happy and excited if your bank account had no way to audit your deposits and withdrawals. I know I’d practically pee myself with happiness! Who wouldn’t? I put a thousand dollar check, the ATM flashes “Your deposit has been accepted” and then…
Look, I’m increasingly looking askance at AMAZON because I hadn’t looked closely at what one of my releases was doing in years, but when I looked at No Man’s Land — I also had never had an indie release that sold numbers worth watching like a hawk, to be honest — anyway, I saw it do impossible things. Like my sales numbers went backward without returns. That was… special. More than once. And I’m looking askance at it, because “what’s my control?” and “What’s my recourse?” And in both cases the answer is “none.”
Now look at your voting apparatus which just did a … if not impossible truly bloody unlikely thing. What is your control? And what is your recourse?
Yeah, yeah, enclaves of foreign workers in Texas and Islamics in Michigan and…. Are you for real? In two years? It changed that much in two years?
No bloody way. What we just saw was expert fraud preparation and then the pay off.
There AREN’T any organic, on the ground signs for this shift. And suddenly dems are poll shy? People. These critters haven’t been shy about their idiotic opinions since they emerged screaming “Marx” from their birthing person’s wombs.
Yes, yes, a lot of their candidates were smooth articles, who practically claimed to be GOP. BUT Talarico? The homunculus? Like Beto but gayer? Was that really what Texas was waiting for? And across the board, too? Not just the big profile campaign?
One thing I’ll tell you is that locally, they stopped handing out the little slip of paper that you had to hand back to show how many people voted. You see, it had been badly wrong in 20, so… People, ah ah, just forgot to hand it in. But it worked in 24. And now it was gone, without a blink.
It stinks. To high heavens it stinks. Before you start ripping into your fellow citizens, look around. The reason you’re not sleeping (Ah!) or beating your head against the wall is that none of it makes sense. A friend last night said “AI could make the hack into the voting machines smooth, without sudden hockey sticks.” But of course, that’s nonsense. These systems that are all connected to the internet are as secure as big, commercial refrigeration systems, after all. A hack would be preventable, obvious. And it’s not like, oh, open AI or Anthropic have a vested interest in getting someone in who will destroy grok! Or in getting idiots in who will “regulate AI.” Not a chance.
It’s a black box. Your vote goes in. Trust me, bro! comes out. And you trust it. Of course.
Oh, you don’t? Well, what are you going to do about it? In 2020 with the fraud blatant, in front of our eyes and in front of G-d and everybody, we couldn’t convince the vast majority that we’d been color-revolutioned. Now? Now with this smooth operation? Are you kidding me? A quarter of you are in a full out tantrum and saying I’m making up shit.
I’m not making up shit. Our election systems have gone from wobbly to fully mythomaniacal. And you know what is a bad sign? A bad sign is DataRepublican talking about ways to power around the vote system and the elected rep system. And one of the reasons it’s a ridiculously bad sign is that those don’t work. Not really.
Oh, yes, you should be fully ungovernable and make it as hard as possible for them to do onto you. No one is asking you to be good Germans.
BUT– Look, it’s obvious the left got an infusion of cash and expertise. Looks at Europe. Looks at Brazil. Hell, maybe even Israel, though every politician there is so bad one can come up with excuses. But then one can come up with excuses everywhere.
For something like sixteen years this depressive has been telling you to have hope; this hothead has been saying “don’t go hot.”
Now the ballot box has failed us. Conclusively.
Yes, I just heard, across the internet, as a hundred thousand of you dragged the ammo box across the floor.
For years now, I’ve told you “When it’s time, I’ll tell you.”
Is it time?
Not yet. Don’t stomp your foot. It’s unbecoming for a fully grown ungovernable American. I didn’t tell you never. And no, I won’t keep saying “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.”
I’m not even saying “trust the plan.” If you remember in 2020 I was the one who never trusted the plan. I was beating myself like a fly in a tarbox because I didn’t trust the plan.
I’m saying take a deep breath. Go back to bed. Sleep. Eat. Bide your time. They’re expecting resistance right now. They’re prepared right now.
What’s more, maybe some portion of the DOJ isn’t entirely taken over by the deep state. (I know. I’m so funny!) And they were supposedly ready for this, right?
Give it a month. Give it at least a month See what happens. A month isn’t so much, is it? Put that ammo box back under the sofa. And the bed. And in the closet. And — (Look, guys, someone brought her dowry in ammo in my family, and I don’t think the rest of you are so different.) — don’t forget where it is.
The program is subject to change depending on what happens. Keep your eyes peeled. (The man with an overcoat is an enemy.) And I’m praying really hard that a miracle occurs and we don’t have to shoot ourselves out of this. Right now, the most dangerous move is the premature one. Make sure you’re not getting in the way of something that obviates your need to move. The next most dangerous move is trusting the guy who’ll drive you to the criming. And the person saying you need to go hot right this minute, and they have everything to help you do so. Don’t do any of that.
I’m begging you with tears in my eyes, don’t do the dangerous. In fact, don’t do anything right now. Isn’t there a rifle — or a dozen of them — you want to clean? And you know that the price of ammo is going to go up. And wasn’t there some ruling recently making body armor legal for civilians? Go shopping this week. Figure out the money.
Do all of that. I half joke about “sell your cloak and buy a helicopter” but metaphorically speaking consider it.
Also check your canned. Check your water storage. Make sure you have the right meds stocked up. Take your pets to get their vaccines you’ve been putting off. That surgery? If you can have it done asap and be okay in a month, now is a good time. Take out cash. Better yet, buy silver, both coin and jewelry. (Gold is for the big things. How many houses do you plan on buying? Cars?) Make sure you have clothing for winter, and back up means of heating. And a good first aid kit. And make sure your family has a rendez vous in case the house is not there. Or not reachable. A bolthole might also be a good idea, if achievable. (These days, it might be hard.)
Don’t go off half cocked. And give it time. Who knows? Maybe the pig will sing. I’ll grant you it’s unlikely, but G-d looks after fools, drunkards and the United States of America. Looks up at ceiling fan: Now would be good, Lord.
You feel you just were massively cheated because — signs are — you probably were. Almost certainly. All I’m seeing is perception management and a number that defies even the perceptions.
Take a deep breath. This is not your sign. But it’s closer to your sign than it’s been in almost two decades.
G-d have mercy on us all. But in the end, we win they lose. There is no other option. Because ours is the only hope for mankind.
Be not afraid. Deep breaths. Plan, plan, plan. No, plan more than that. And give it time for a miracle first.
Stay frosty. Stay ungovernable. Stay American. Don’t give them an excuse to enact the second half of the coup.
Go count the canned again. Contemplate what we’ll lose forever if we have to act. (All I wanted to do was to write my little stories in peace and make enough to live on. And to have children and grandchildren, fat babies to hold and sing to. That’s all I ever wanted.)
Take a deep breath. Go to sleep. Give it at least a month.
I actually doubt it will hold that long. Gut feeling is it won’t. Not every one reads ATH. Not every one will go count the canned and go back to sleep. Not everyone will give it a month. And some will go off half cocked. I suspect some are being wound up to do so even as we speak. And we can’t control them.
So be prepared for that too. For when the sea tosses you and it’s all you can do to keep your head above water. That’s where your preparation comes in.
G-d have mercy on us all.
Your lives, your fortune, your sacred honor. Did you think it would be easy? Did you think it was a game?
I think you’d gone to bed last night when I posted something I found interesting about the elections here in North Carolina. I found a list showing every single state House and Senate district–170 total–with their 2024 performance and 2026 results. Every single one–that I could find anyway because it was past midnight and my eyes were crossing–was performing no less than 10% better for the D. Most 15%. Some even more. Basically, if the district was R+10 or less in 2024, the Republican lost. Incumbent or not. Every. Single. Time. R+30 districts in 2024, the Republican was winning by 10 or 15 percent at most.
Yet. At the same time, our three state Constitutional amendment votes–for photo ID to vote, limiting state income tax, and limiting what localities can do to raise property taxes–passed comfortably with 60% or more. That makes no sense.
Was there hinky stuff going on? Almost certainly. At the same time, I believe a lot of the Republican base was dispirited because of watching Congress do nothing–NOTHING–with the 2024 mandate. No SAVE America Act. No codification of Trump’s EOs. No backup for DOGE. No serious reform to speak of on immigration and visas, legal or otherwise. Everything Trump has done, he’s had to do himself via EOs and rulemaking…which can be (and will be) undone the second a D moves back into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
This election (IMO) was a combination of fraud, depressed R turnout, and increased D turnout, not all of which can be explained by fraud (but much possibly can). Also IMO this is not a warning to the Rs to moderate. It’s a warning to the Rs to go HARD RIGHT and actually do what America First and MAGA elected them to do. But now, at least in Congress, it’s too late.
The lesson is, when you’re given power, USE IT. The Ds will, and that’s why we’re scared. The Rs won’t, and that’s why we’re screwed.
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MOST of the D turn out is fraud. The signs are there. That they didn’t pass the SAVE act is a tell in itself.
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80/20? I dunno the exact percentages, but something is fucky with those results. It smells like “don’t get caught this time,” not “record voter turnout” to me.
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We KNOW they’re going to do it, why can’t we catch them in the act?
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Because too many states, including TX to some extent, don’t verify that the person casting the ballot is the person entitled to. Saw several instances where people were informed they already voted, lots of provisional ballots (while I was there and looking, that is), and lots of spoilage. 724 votes officially were counted at one polling place; 124 spoiled ballots that the scanner wouldn’t read and supposedly didn’t count, at least on the DS200 display.
Even if you only scan the ones the machine didn’t spit back, the counts will match, but you still haven’t confirmed eligibility.
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And of course, there’s always fraud by mail and ballot harvesting. Same issue.
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Yep.
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For weeks, my youtube viewing was interrupted by “If everyone sent just a dollar” ads by several of the more presentably odious Donkeyrat candidates. I wonder now if money was what they were after.
Even if nobody sent a cent, these put the people and their names in front of people more likely to accept their message.
I’m reminded of the “Man in the Chair Ads” that McGraw-Hill’s periodicals used. The format was set by the first one back in the 1950s:
A man sits in a brown business suit, in a rolling, rotating office desk chair, behind a big desk. His arms are crossed, his elbows on the desk.
“I don’t know you.
“I don’t know your company.
“I don’t know your companies products.
“I don’t know your companies customers.
“I don’t know what your company stands for.
“Now, what was it you want to sell me again?”
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I want smaller precincts, and a hand paper count, with livestreaming sourced for at least two parties, and all parties are allowed to run their own livestream. Likewise at least a poll watcher from two different parties in person during counting, and all parties are allowed a poll watcher if they have one, and if they have one they must also be present. We will probably get there eventually, though the US may Balkanize first. I plan on ending up in a part modeling itself on the Historical United States.
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Unfortunately, I suspect the message that Rs will get is “you were too far right-wing, moderate your positions to appeal to the voters”. After all, that position gets positive reinforcement from their desire to not actually have to do anything or take any responsibility.
Enough to override a Trump veto? I don’t know, but given that there are still more than a few squishy Rs out there I wouldn’t bet against it.
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If they have the votes for that, it’s realistic to wonder if they can’t just remove Trump and Vance via impeachment. I’ve been amazed they haven’t done it earlier, frankly.
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I thought about that as well, but “I voted for free stuff” (for fraudulent values of “free”, of course) seems to me to be an easier sell than removing Trump or any of his cabinet (Hegseth is definitely in the left’s sights, because coups fail without support of the military).
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They’re not that patient.
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Trump Derangement Syndrome will insure that they do attempt to impeach Trump, and they will go after everyone else in association with him and they have said they will go after the individual voters too. If a Dem promises to do something horrific expect them to be serious.
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Yeah, we’ll see a buttload of impeachment articles from the House for the next 2 years, along with a massive media blitz about how evil the President and every Republican is in this country. Senate doesn’t have enough Dems to actually convict the President of anything. However, the death by a thousand cuts, nitpicking, lying and prestidigitation will consume hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars while the Islamo-Facists continue to solidify their holds.
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:along with a massive media blitz about how evil the President and every Republican is in this country”
Like they dont do thay already?
There is literally only one way to deal with Islamo-fascists, and thays the Vald Tepes solution. Americans (and the rest of the world eventually) will wind up doing that. They leave us with no other options sooner of later.
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Frankly, I don’t think the GOP is right-wing enough. Too much RINO and embedded politeness in the party.
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Vlad Tepes to the courtesy phone, Line two.
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At this point, I’m pretty close to going all in for Tepes/Pinochet 2028.
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Toss them out of aircraft onto a field of stakes?
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Are point values assigned based on whether they hit a stake or not?
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We have invented Commie Quoits!
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Pinochet Lawn Darts
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I’m not entirely convinced. I think it more likely in Texas than in Maine. Both had horrible Donkeyrat candidates (in multiple senses of the adjective) but Talerico got good press while the Maine candidate got almost no press.
In my local school board election, the winning candidates were from a local party called Parents Who Lead. In researching this, I found them described as (paraphrasing) “MAGA-adjacent kooks who hate transexual kids.” (Best recommendation they could give me!)
So the Woke Mind Virus is still spreading. The media are doing a great deal to boost it and nothing to stop it, and our maleducation system ensures that lots of people believe that critical thinking is an abomination and unthinking criticism is a foundation virtue.
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It would definitely be interesting to see county by county or city by city vote totals for Texas and compare the turnouts and total votes to 2024 and 2022. That all the statewide offices went blue (did the legislature go blue?) argues that either some group or groups that previously had sat out or voted red showed up. Or we have screwiness in the voting system (likely in large citified areas, far easier to gin up votes there than where the little old ladies at the poll know everyone by sight). Texas has also had a massive influx of folks from California and other blue regions, as companies and their founders flee unfavorable states. Do we have the Masshole effect of people voting with their feet, going to another state (New Hampshire) and bringing their weird ideas with them? The GOP needs to look at Florida VS Texas. What differs in those environments? And don’t write off the politicians; Florida has been more aggressively red, in my perception. Texas has a lot of the old Bush related squish republicans, and they just don’t excite the base.
Collins in Maine is not too surprising; Maine is essentially two states coastal downstate (Portland and south), and inner state/downeast Maine. Coastal has LOTS of refugees from MA, CT, RI, and NY As well as some very liberal sections (Ogunquit which rivals Provincetown in the size of it’s permanent and transient gay population). Ms. Collins is almost as exciting as cold oatmeal and has annoyed her upstate supporters who though not straight up MAGA find her annoying. That she couldn’t beat the late entry Democrat who’s only good point was that he had no deaths head SS tattoos probably points to a combination of low turnout upstate AND that the Coastal Downstate types frothing at the mouth with severe TDS also have been growing in number since 2020 as although Maine is higher tax than either MA or NH it has/had far lower home costs than coastal portions of MA, NH, RI, and CT.
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I’ll buy parts of Houston (crooked going back to the 1900s, still crooked), Austin, and parts of the MetroPlex as (D), part of the Valley too. The rest … I’m not so certain. There’s a lot of puzzlement up here about the election results. The local (R) candidates did well.
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And the local R candidates doing well is one of the tells. Always is.
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Elsewhere I saw someone commenting that all of the GOP ads in Texas seemed to be focused on trans. This was in response to a TV street interview with a guy who claimed to be a GOP voter who voted D because he didn’t think his kid was going to come home trans tomorrow.
Whether or not the street interview was legit, can Texas residents confirm whether the claim about the ads is correct?
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The (R) ads I saw (and quickly muted) focused on the (D) transgender issue, because that’s what the (D) seemed to focus on themselves, and on the economy and border security. The (D) ads (also quickly muted) were about how mean and uncaring the (R)s were, and very generic “I support families and social benefits.” I didn’t see any (D) ads for governor until two weeks before the election.
Most of the commercials were sooooo stereotypical that I could have run a BINGO card based on the “This is a Generic Campaign Ad” examples I use sometimes at Day Job.
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Thanks.
It sounds as if the Rs could have used more ads touting their accomplishments, i.e. giving voters a reason to vote Republican besides “We’re not the Democrats!”
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As I said elsewhere,
I can’t believe I’m trying to be a voice of reason. Thirty years ago I would have been on the firing step, ready to go. Not now. We can beat them.
They are going to show their true colors. And true Americans aren’t going to be having any of it.
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And while there haven’t been huge top level Solve Everything Forever things done– we have been doing the work for lower level stuff, where the wheels meet the road.
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I’ve been thinking that (at least some of us) misread the signs. The huge drop in funding for foreign waste and attempted Narrative spread wasn’t JUST the fraud reduction. It was also the fraud MACHINE deciding to refocus it’s funding to the voter fraud efforts vs foreign puppet shows fer their ‘base’. While doing their best to keep us focused on ‘Oh, look how foreign waste and fraud was reduced!’ instead of ‘What are these mendacious vandals doing here at home NOW???’. Because despite the fact that much of their base is incapable of long term planning, they still focus on their long term goal of total control, and will put effort into what seems (to them) to be the best way to insure it.
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Keep your weapons near. Keep your head clear. Do nothing in anger. Ensure your network of allies (you DO have a network of allies, don’t you?) have multiple means of communication, because the phones and the internet are vulnerable not only to interruption, but now they can do false-flag operations with impunity. You have no way to know that text message was really from your friend or from the enemy spoofing the sending number. We may have to go with single use codes for message verification.
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Sit still and wait for the arm of the Lord to be revealed? Mom is convinced that the two of us will be okay, widow of Zeraphath style.
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Remember, they expect us to go all berserk because we didn’t get our way. Since that’s what they do.
Now is a good time to be wise as serpents and gentle as doves.
Well prepared doves with all the necessaries.
And pray. We need the angel armies on our side too. But take not council of your fears.
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Go count the canned. (Hard, since mine is still packed, but I have x-ray vision, I guess.)
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Sarah, thank you for your words of reason; and for something you said once long ago which made all the difference in my own life: “Despair is a sin”.
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Super Sayen Sarah.
Now that might be a cosplay I’d pay to see. /laugh
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Going to do that. Did get dentist done!
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Good woman! Hugs.
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One of the things I really need to get is a way to cook without power. You know, just in case. Any suggestions for someone leery of handling propane?
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I’m considering getting a little grill, but that’s propane….
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Solar oven?
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I’ve tried that in the past; it’s too rainy here to be reliable. But, possible.
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Are you comfortable with charcoal? Or wood? Or does it have to be more portable?
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I’ve used wood before in past places I’ve lived. Whatever I use, I have to be able to fit it on a small enclosed porch and avoid landlord scrutiny.
At one point I had a tiny camp stove – one small pot size – that you could feed with sticks, which had a battery-run fan to make it burn better. I lost it in a move, and haven’t been able to find another one like it. Not even sure what keywords I should be looking for!
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By enclosed, I presume screened? And if there’s an emergency, should landlord scrutiny be the priority?
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Screened, yes. And it needs to be at least a consideration – I can’t build something permanent they might notice before I get a chance to use.
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I’m thinking chaqrcoal hibachi, then. It only comes out when you need it.
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Oooh, a rocket stove!
Theory and photos here:
https://printable.samsung-easydrivers.com/
But I think you want the keyword of rocket stove.
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That’s it! The one I had was much tinier than the first ones that come up on Amazon, but that’s definitely it!
Noting, thank you!
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One reason I wanted this in specific is ’cause most disasters around here leave a lot of woody debris, so fuel would be viable to come by even if things get… interesting.
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And these don’t take a whole lot of fuel to cook on, too– my folks got us one for emergency cooking when propane runs out.
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Get a MSR dragonfly stove. It runs on white gas (Coleman fuel) or kerosene. It’s not cheap, but it is powerful and controllable.
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There are small solar ovens. They use reflected sunlight to cook your food, iirc.
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Learn to start and cook over wood fire.?
Propane is not that big of a deal. Parent’s camp stove used white gas … Problem with propane is it runs out. Even if you are refilling the smaller green ones from the larger propane grill tanks.
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Bottled propane availability is intermittent in my area, particularly in cold weather. We have kersosene heaters and white gas stoves as backup-backups.
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At a minimum, a fondue set.
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OH. I just need the candles. At least if I’m not making coffee. We have a massive ancient Chinese “soup making fondue set” is the best way to put it.
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Toats wood burning stove, for backpackers.
Seen them at REI and other backpacking sources. Never used one.
We have standard Colman; car camping (propane). A Pocket Rocket backpacking (propane); non-snow backpacking. MSR Wisperlite (liquid fuel, variable); snow/cold backpacking. Not that we are camping or backpacking, anymore. But we do have them for emergencies. We also have a standard propane, home, grill, we can cook on (but then we are not renting and have a yard).
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If you are worried about propane because it is heavier than air and pools (explosively), consider butane. Single-burner butane stoves are cheap, easy to use, burn hot for good times, and fuel cannisters are (at least for now) easy to find. Butane is lighter than air, doesn’t pool — I don’t hesitate to use one inside (well ventilated – CO & CO2 still come out of burning ANY fuel.)
If you are worried about propane because it only comes in pressurized containers, butane does too but the cannisters are much smaller (think big soda can size) and simple to load & unload. Our practice is to slide in the fuel can, use it, then take it out – no chance of leaks when you’re not right there to catch it.
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Note that butane is reluctant to vaporize below 31F, so use in real cold weather is tricky.
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The local restaurant supply sells a 1 burner butane stove for catering and such. Size is about 12 x 12 x 4 loaded with fuel. I’ve seen them used indoors during two kitchen remodels (think cafeterias and several of these). Might be in semi-fancy cooking supply shops if sales tax causes block to retail customers.
We got a Mr.Heater two years ago when our backup propane stove was dead for a 7 hour outage. (Controller died after 25 years.) We had some 16 oz bottles, and in a dire situation, I have the hookup for large (20 to 50 pound) tanks. Would not trust the latter setup without the handy propane probe. Awake hours only.
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I can only speak to Kansas. A democrat governor here is not all that unusual. Topeka, Lawrence, KCK metro area, and Wichita pretty much see to that. As of this morning the race is still too close to call, with less than 5,000 votes between them.
None of the US House races flipped.
The surprise (to me) is Hamilton and I think heâs a slimy bastard. The campaign ads were nothing but misinformation and outright lies. Heâs as far left as they come. The campaign devolved into âHeâs protecting pedophiles!!!111!!!â
The race Iâm watching is the Kansas Sec State. Jennifer Day (D) is in favor of bringing ranked choice voting to Kansas and loosening requirements to prove eligibility. Pat Proctor (R) ran exclusively on election security. Proctor is ahead by 10K votes this morning, but the race has not yet been called.
Iâm not aware of any huge shenanigans here. One polling location in Leavenworth County was turning away voters for a couple hours yesterday (Linwood) as they ran out of ballots. I suspect a miscalculation rather than malicious intent.
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There are no huge shenanigans obvious anywhere. It’s the whole picture that doesn’t work.
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Yes. My shenanigans comment was referring specifically to Leavenworth.
It does seem to me that the SecState race here should have had a wider margin. The amendment tightening election security passed by a huge margin. You’d think the candidate favoring election security would have had a similar one.
**************************** “A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.”–Leonard Nimoy
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Meh. As one of Kobach’s former students, I know that he has the Trump effect of people who might like what he does still dislike him enough to not vote for him.
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Someone listened to DataRepublican and spread the fraud out to make it harder to detect.
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Yep. That.
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Ugh.
Time for a news hiatus, I think, to preserve my sanity.
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Go forth and be with family and friends. Read a good book. Worry naught over trifles and the quiddities of obstreperous upstarts (the media). There’s more to life than such hyperventilating hoopla.
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Went to Gettysburg and Antietam battlefield today. Hadn’t been to Antietam before and walking the ground really adjusted my view of it. ITs actually very enclosed by the hills, as is Gettysburg in a slightly different way.
I was reminded today of a moment of clarity in my life going back bout 10 years when I was explaining enfilade to my sons at Gettysburg with the wife sitting next to me. THere was a car in front of us with two men in the front gesticulating wildly whilst there wife looked as bored as can be, there go I was my reaction.
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I wondered why so many CW battles took place in the same places. Finally I was driving through the southeast and saw how heavily forested it is. They were probably fighting on the only clear ground available.
Big armies facing off may not be completely obsolete yet, but drones and autonomous weapons are within the financial reach of many ordinary people now. And there are still a lot of people around who learned their tactics in Vietnam.
You don’t always need an army to fight a war. Clauswitz got shrill in his outrage against “francs-tireurs”. There was a reason for that…
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Aye, my concern stack is full. Will process poly-ticks later.
More issues on knee (swelling a bit worse than expected, but no red flags, plus the patella is willing to go offtrack). Ace wrap for the first & I have to cant the foot inwards doing short arc quads. I see the Ortho next week and have been told to bring this up. Inner quad may need heavier PT,
Good news, I can use a cane instead of the walker. Indoors for now.
Seen some of the news. A Q-adjacent blogger thinks w/Trump’s acceptance of the results, he’s out of the line of fire when (he thinks) the systemic fraud is revealed. Could get interesting before January.
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Q was a psyops. Always. it’s bs.
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I never figured out whose. Don’t pay attention to Q-stoff (like T-stoff but digital), but that blogger’s other stuff has been solid.
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I’d recommend reading the PDF “QAnon: Authorship Attribution in a Group of Six Suspects” from OrphAnalytics. It’s the results of a study that was done using an artificial intelligence program to compare the writing style of the Q drops to that of several people who are suspected of having been involved in creating them. The results showed that it was likely that the original Q drops were co-written by Ron Watkins and Paul Furber (both people involved with 4chan), but that around 2018, Watkins probably seized full control and the drops from that point onward were likely written entirely by him. The impression that I get of them and the other people connected with them who likely collaborated on the project (Tracy Beanz being one of them) is that their intent was not malicious (unlike the theories that Q was a government psyop like the Soviet “Operation Trust”) and they wanted to genuinely educate people about corruption within the government (they were teaching people about Epstein years before most people ever heard of him, for example) and give Trump supporters a sense of hope and optimism… and maybe make some money while they were at it.
Probably the biggest reason that the Q movement reached the amount of popularity that it did is because Dan Scavino (who met Donald Trump years ago as a golf caddy, becoming close friends with him and serving as his Director of Social Media during his first term and currently as his White House Deputy Chief of Staff and White House Presidential Personnel Office) took notice of the Q drops and deliberately released social media posts coordinated with the Q-drops and often including Q-related symbolism to help build enthusiasm among Trump supporters. He likely clued President Trump into the Q drops as well, because whenever reporters would ask Trump about Q, he was always careful never to disavow it and ocasionally gave subtle hints that there might be some truth to it. It seems that Scavino was likely very closely monitoring the Q drops, because someone, whether Scavino or Trump himself, was able to schedule certain actions as “Qproofs,” such as when someone on 4chan asked Q to have President Trump say “tip-top” in his next speech, and Trump said “tip-top” and “tippy-top” in the next speech, carefully emphasizing the words so they’d be noticed. Scavino and Trump probably saw all of this as just a fun way to drum up some enthusiasm among supporters, but many people took all of this as actual proof of Q’s legitimacy. General Michael Flynn also used Q-related symbolism for a while (such as a video in which he and some other people shouted out the “White Squall” quote, “Where we go one, we go all!,” which was heavily used by Q), but later disavowed Q and said that it was fake.
On the one hand, a lot of people have come to believe what I’m inclined to think are some phony theories due to the Q drops (or at least due to theories spun out of those drops, which themselves were often vague and open to interpretation). But at the same time, I noticed that people who believe in Q tended to accept the hardships of the Biden administration better than Trump supporters who didn’t believe in Q, because they thought that it was all part of the plan and had theories about how Trump was secretly still in control and the Biden administration was just a show put on to wake people up, etc. For many people, Q functioned a bit like the feather from “Dumbo,” and helped them keep up hope and enthusiasm while others were blackpilling.
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That was an awesome post and I enjoyed reading it. What really infuriates me about Q is how any look into Epstein was dismissed by the left as QAnon nonsense until the second Kamala lost, then it was endless shrieking about Epstein and release the files and Cheeto Pedo like a switch flipping. Now they’ll be convienently forgotten again.
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Part of the reason why Epstein attention shot up after the election was because promises were made during the campaign to release info. Then Trump won… and no information got released. And when information finally did get released, it was the exact same stuff that had already come out.
People understandably got frustrated. Of course the Dems were going to run with it.
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Remember when the AG ordered the Epstein files released right after being sworn in and the SDNY FBI sent incomplete information? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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Yup.
And when something finally did get released, it was the exact same document that we’d already seen. But Bondi apparently didn’t review it before release because she thought it was new.
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Again, she was still looking through the rose colored glasses:”the law says I’m in charge so I am.”
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I never believed in Q and I did fine under Biden. For values of fine. I don’t need pablum, thank you.
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I kept seeing people blathering about Q and wondering if he’d gotten bored with Picard.
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The only reason he got interested in Picard in the first place was because he got tired of designing gadgets for James Bond.
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007 never paid attention.
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Why should he? It wasn’t like he was going to reuse any of it……😏
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Link?
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Warning on this. The blogger has had serious interaction with gangstalking and other malicious stuff pointed at him, and a skim through may well draw you to think he’s bonkers. That and he figures the cabal at the heart of his issues is based deep in Mossad & CIA. I take a lot of that with a few tons of salt, but there are nuggets.
The preamble is boiler plate, but he gets into the fraud/reveal aspect at the start of the main briefing. Search for “Brandon Herrera to skip the preamble.
https://www.anonymousconservative.com/news-briefs-11-04-2026/
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Glad it’s going fairly well.
After spending three weeks working in dirt with rusty nails in it, I decided it was time for a tetanus shot. Turns out you have to get the Tetanus, Diptheria, Pertussis shot. Arm’s been quite sore and yesterday I was whupped by dinner. Then the bad news, meaning I spent part of the night praying for the virtue of hope (I try not to doomscroll but I got brought up on, “What’s the worst that could happen?”).
*Sigh*.
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Hugs. I wish you lived near. I really do. I miss you and your beloved spouse.
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“Mobility is the key to survival.”
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Look, the numbers are — on the face of them — bloody unbelievable. The democrats had presidential-turn-out-or-better, suddenly, in a mid-term.
(…)
Opposition that strong shows. Where is their viral “Let’s go Brandon!” moment?
This tracks my own gut-and-logical reaction very closely — the “big win” numbers just don’t add up properly with everything else: this “feels” like 2020 only more-so but less right-in-your-face.
And while it’s the exact opposite of sign-stealing, one thing I’ve been noticing “locally” (if maybe not ultra-locally) on that score is the presence of highway-side “pro” signs. And I don’t mean the usual yard signs by deep-blue-dems (“Princess Kammie the Nasty is really Rosie the Riveter reborn, go vote for her!”) — those have been almost absent by comparison to normal. No, what I mean is slick, mass-produced, heavily ad-copy-written signs and even long chains of signs (Use Burma Shave! style) that are way more numerous than any normal year, even a Presidential one.
Organization, organization, organization.
My reaction, instinctive if non-conclusive, was literally along the lines of, looks like someone’s trying to post-justify a sketchy “blue wave” outcome — they reminded me most of all of those “Biden won fair and square so let’s all unify around his agenda” signs that popped up in the weeks right after 2020’s — ah, election events. It’s more like they were trying to pre-position them for “Oh, well, I guess people were more ticked about high gas prices than I thought” self-doubts, rather than actually “sell” their platforms or candidate or party directly to any really-undecided voters.
Add to that the tax-cut referendums and the constitutional amendments and similar you-gotta-be-a-citizen-to-vote measures, etc., all sorts of places all across the country — that point in the exact opposite direction to any genuine “blue wave” theory… and there’s much fodder for doubt. Unless you believe the electorate is gone downright schizophrenic all-a-sudden, that’s very odd indeed. (“Attempted color revolution redux, likely” sort of odd.)
The only time we’ve seen such “anomalously high D turnout” like this was… 2020 (and no extra credit for guessing on that one).
So my own feeling (other than just “really, did you have to drop this radioactively-hot potato right smack in all our laps, now??”) is, stay calm-ish for now and await developments, and don’t join in the circular-firing-squad orgy of self-criticism and self-doubt, that assumes all this weirdness was genuinely on the up-and-up and “we blew it.” I most explicitly do not believe that last statement. Don’t blame America, not yet, except for her enemies foreign and domestic.
Lots of smart people will be noticing these things too. (Datarepublican apparently saw this coming, and yet didn’t want to be cast as Cassandra. Looking forward to “International Lord of Hate” Larry Correia’s analysis on this one too. Others.) Information will surface. This is not the 20th century anymore, folks. And the 2020 color-rev-psy-op only worked briefly, if much at all.
Take a deep breath. Go to sleep. Give it at least a month.
Best suggestion I’ve heard all night, and it’s been a long one. I’m even gonna try to take it.
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By the way, none of the local district GOP candidates reported any significant sign stealing, although we have a significant number of anti-sign (of any party) people in the town.
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“When the wicked sprout like grass,
and all who do evil prosper,
it is so that they can be eternally destroyed,
while you, Lord God, are exalted forever.”
Psalms 92:8-9
I’m doing my best to put it all in God’s hands.
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I’m putting it in God’s hands, too. Woke up in the middle of the night and checked how things were going, winced, and spent some time in prayer. There are silver linings, though they may not look much like that right now – persecution has a strong tendency to make stronger Christians (possibly stronger/more religious Jews, too). It also has a tendency to weed out the fakes. So there is that. I’m hoping, too, that a lot of our Jewish population will get off their backsides and move to Israel – safest place on earth for anyone who truly believes in God. Those in the big cities maybe ought to do that soonest. As in, yesterday wouldn’t have been a bad idea. It may take a while before we go full-on Krystalnacht, but it’s almost certainly coming. The Holocaust could have been a lot smaller if more people had seen what was coming and gotten out of the way of it sooner, instead of waiting until it was too late. At least Jewish people have a place to go. Christians don’t even have that – except to wait for the Rapture. Which seems likely to be closer than it seemed two days ago.
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One thing that gets me is the number of Jews in Michigan who virtue-signaled their moral superiority by not only voting for el-Sayed but endorsing him. Suicidal empathy defined.
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Yes – though I wonder how many of the Jewish people who support Democrats are secular Jews. Don’t think I’ve ever seen any statistics on where observant Jews of various flavors line up politically.
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I just dont have a lot of sympathy now for them for that. I don’t hate them, I don’t want them dead I just can’t guve them any empathy because giving empathy for stupid people is a waste of time. They consistently and solidly go left no matter how much it hurts them. If you are Jewish buy guns and ammo and emergency supplies NOW.
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Guys? The high water mark of Jews voting left — I found by reading on something else — was THIRTY SIX PERCENT and has been falling.
I beg you not to believe the loud ones are the only ones.
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I’ll add to that: the Orthodox have been reliably GOP; the Conservatives have been split, and Reform is pretty much 100% Democrat. The wild card has been Chabad, but given that they appear to be between Orthodox and Conservative, that’s still more non-Dems. My off the cuff is that the movement has been coming from Conservatives moving right.
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Uh, I heard 67% this Midterm.
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I’d need a cite on that one.
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https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-913845
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Oh. They make up a lot of stuff.
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Yeah. I don’t believe it.
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I used to frequent the JPFO site, back when it was a dial-up BBS. It was the home base for Aaron Zelman’s “Jews for Preservation of Firearms Ownership.” Zelman had a wicked sense of humor which got mixed in with news and informational articles. I think L. Neil Smith was associated with the JPFO somehow, too.
The JPFO stalled when Aaron passed away, though the name got rolled in to one of the other gun-rights outfits. SAF? Nowhere near as hard-line or funny as the Aaron days, though.
“JPFO! Where ‘never again’ has teeth!”
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Maybe being left is more important than being a Jew to them? There are plenty of Mormons like that.
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I’m deeply troubled by this election and especially by some of the “winners”. Some very questionable people with lots of issues seem to have gotten into positions of power. And there just wasn’t the kind of highly visible turnout of support that would make some of those wins likely. Certainly not time to go off the handle though that seems a real possibility down the road. Many of them have bragged about what they want to do to anyone on the other side. I suspect they will try to do just that.
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I’m sure they will try. Many of these people seem to be under the impression that elected position gives them absolute power to do whatever they like.
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Now I’m wondering if I should’ve taken the offer to provide IT work for the elections. Not that I’d be able to do anything if I’d noticed anything.
I mean, I did examine the printout when I made all my selections and they conformed with what I’d hit on the screen, but you’re right, something could’ve changed when it was scanned and the nifty flag showed up.
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That last bit is why I’ve never trusted electronic voting from the start. IIRC, I brought up the potential issue talking to someone here as far back as… just a few months before the 2020 election.
Ironically, when Dubya was in office, it was the Dems who were freaked out over the idea of electronic voting.
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Yes. You should have. If the offer happens again, take it.
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I am extremely unhappy with how things turned out in Texas. I am biding my time and working on gathering evidence. You will be seeing more of my screeds, but they will have less emotion and far more research. I resent having to do more research! (that’s a joke… I can’t help it. Research is ingrained in me.) Husband commented last night “Shit. Do we have to move again?” I don’t want to move again. We moved here to get away from the D b.s.
But, have no fear. We will be staying calm and carrying on. We will not be silenced and we will not give in. And fortunately the loudest, most annoying AWFL in my family will not be around at Christmas this year so that will be okay.
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Need to look locally. As Sarah and others have been saying, there was a split between local and national. The Democrats think that if they have national and state that everything else will fall under that. And it might.
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The year is 2026 AD, and all America is occupied. Only one small village of indomitable USaians still holds out against the invaders.
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Yeah, except the small village is scattered across a whole country.
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But it’s okay. I’ve found that I still enjoy beating socialists, metaphorically now, and I said “I’m like Obelix. Save some for me.”
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Great points, Sarah (and all!). Sampling a few areas, beginning with my own, it appears local issues and candidates went conservative while the state-level votes (including US Senate) went the opposite. Seems very unlikely, but I found it true across several localities.
I’d like to believe the shenanigans were caught on tape (as it were) but we’ll know more in a month.
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I really hope this was spied upon more to catch them in the act. But its a small hope.
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Same.
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This was their last chance and they did what they said they would do.
Texas “turning blue” (yeah right) was something I thought of only recently as a (commie) red flag, and lo and behold…
…I’m sure they have more surprises, but, perhaps they will receive some surprises as well.
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Everyone except God is subject to the law of unintended consequences.
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Sarah, if you have a direct contact to Instapundit he needs to see this:
“In a 6-3 opinion, the Supreme Court, for now, lifted a lower court order that blocked the Department of Homeland Security from expanding a 40-year-old immigration database — known as the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system — to help states screen voter records for noncitizens.
The immediate impact of the ruling is unclear, since states are prohibited by law from purging their voter rolls within 90 days of Election Day.”
We don’t HAVE to actually purge them ahead of time; instead, we know who actually shows up to vote in TX, because they have to sign in…. and if they’re on that list of ineligibles, that’s instant election challenge evidence.
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Did the Dems activate a trap card? (I mean, I’ll wait but the scenario you described reminded me of something… I’ve also been up all night so maaaaaaaaaybe my brain is a wee bit fried right now.)
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No, but the courts wouldn’t even look before the election. “Not ripe”.
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Before the election it’s ‘too early’ and after the election it’s ‘too late’. Fine catch-22 they’ve set up there. 😡
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The Judicial Branch is the real enemy here. None of the others could get away with their antics if the courts weren’t covering for them.
As with almost everything else they warned about, the Anti-Federalists’ warnings were valid.
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I just got a chance to reply to the entire Collin County poll watcher list….😇
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Being newly “retired”, I would be willing to assist with regards to Collin County.
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It also means that they can be prosecuted. So even if nothing can be done about their vote in this election, they won’t be free to vote in the next one…
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Okay, some of these things don’t show, and I can’t get to Steve’s post. Steve, can you email me? Yes, I can send it to Glenn, though email is spotty. Easier if I post something. (His email is overwhelmed, so response time is about a week.)
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I sent it to email of heat this morning.
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I’ll look in junk. Mind you two phishing emails delivered to my main inbox, per spec, but not yours.
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Nope. Nowhere. definitely protecting me from you, you suspicious character, you.
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Awww, and I shaved off the mustache too….. 🥸
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yes, but you still have the sunglasses, right? Anyway, try again?
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A *mustache*!?
You know who else had a mustache, right…?
/shiftyeyes
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And it’s not here. Can you try scifihoyt at gmail?
I don’t even know how you pissed on hotmail’s wheaties, but….
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Sarah, remember that meme I sent? Bill Gates as the Biggest Bug in Windows?? Yeah….
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Sent to the other e-mail.
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Did you get it? There wasn’t a bounceback.
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I got it, but I’d like a link, if you have one?
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Even CBS admitted it.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-save-database-voter-citizenship/
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Resent just now.
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From me, too – I keep wanting to raise your blood sugar and theobromine and flavanol levels.
For example, one subject was “Chocolate. Chocolate is seeking an outlet! But where, oh where can it go?”
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Beyond prosecution, what about calling the election they participated in, void? Require new election! If one person not entitled to vote, vote, the election is invalid. Harsh? And?
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Have to have a prosecutor; the latest is that Harmeet Dhillon will be resigning.
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And confirmed.
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/doj-civil-rights-chief-harmeet-dhillon-resigns-6118619?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy
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My guess is they’re holding her back from persecuting, and she had enough. We’ll wait for the singing.
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Another guess is she found she won’t be getting promoted inside DOJ and decided to move on
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There’s nowhere up she can go unless the current AG leaves. Why would she have had any expectations?
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Dep AG McCotter is currently ‘acting’. AAG Woodward appears settled.
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I went to bed early last night due to a stomach ache and woke up around 1 am and checked the election to see my state (Texas) had suddenly swung blue.
I’m guessing that the left really did learn from the Biden mess and realized that they need to be more subtle.
I don’t buy this for a second but I just don’t know what to do.
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Contact your county GOP, and remind them of that court decision and sign up sheets.
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So I have not been in the chat with you, and it would have been frustrating for me to have been.
I would have been wanting to tell you that you were insane.
Whatever happened, being in the chat would have been very difficult for me, these years(1) have been bad for me.
So I can understand that there could be friends and family frustrated with you over this.
But, Talarico? In Texas?
That does not feel real to me, I do not believe it. I could buy that this time that the Cartels independently coughed up enough to buy the fruad, but it does feel more like it must have been the Democrats, the IC, or the CCP.
I definitely have not checked stuff yet.
(1) My base sanity has not been good, and I have also been working on having a lower level of political dosing and on not trying to talk to people late at night.
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Yeah Talarico is Beto with 90% less testosterone and 50% less charisma. That he didn’t get hammered when he holds clearly unpopular (anti 2a, Anti parental rights, Clearly heretical christian beliefs, pro mutilation to the hilt) views in Texas shows that
or some combination of these things
But these (except for skulduggery and a population shift) don’t easily explain the governorship and other statewide offices that have been Republican since shortly after Bush the Elder swapping now. If the republican party were competent and did decent detailed post mortems we might find something. But with the Neocons blaming MAGA, and MAGA screaming at the Old line GOP that held back and the Old line GOP being happy not to have to lead anymore that seems unlikely to happen unless some crazed data manipulator like Datarepublican takes a look at things.
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Which is what I’m trying to encourage with that list of ineligibles.
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Brandon Herrera is also interesting as a datum.
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‘They’ spent enough on fraud in Texas, and the Texas GOPs tolerated a fair amount of corruption.
There are other still-corrupt Red southern states where ‘they’ did not spend enough, but maybe almost spent enough this time.
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I’ve mentioned a religious California lefty who thought Talarico was the real deal. It’s not impossible that some in Texas who ought to have known better were fooled.
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They should be lobotomized. They’d lose nothing.
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Maskirovka. That’s a word I don’t often come across in conversation.
(Totally an English word. We stole it fair and square.)
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“In two years? It changed that much in two years?
No bloody way. What we just saw was expert fraud preparation and then the pay off.”
Yes, yes it has. It has changed that much in two years. Gas prices, interest rates, rent, grocery costs, difficulty in finding a job, used/new car costs, and a host of other economic issues I’m not listing. Many of them aren’t even this administrations fault, but some are, and no matter what, the president in office gets blamed when they don’t go well.
Cost of a pound of ground beef and a gallon of gas has always – ALWAYS – been the key determinant in elections, especially the midterms. All the other great things this administration has done – and that list is very long – unfortunately get washed away by this reality.
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The vote last time, 2024, was against being exterminated.
The ‘vote’ this time was for being exterminated.
Yes, this is a big change, and the realities have not changed this much.
Decision Desk, et al are doing modeling that is sufficient only for the zero fraud hypothesis.
Whenever you have an actual statistical detection hypothesis, trying to distinguish two overlapping distributions, it gets much harder to deal with.
If you are doing fraud detection first, the statistical tools for then determining voter preference are much weaker.
If you are doing voter prefer, then considering fraud after that, likewise the statistical tools become much weaker “I cannot tell anything going on”.
We do know that there is fraud, we do not know the voter preferences.
People who act as if the accusation of fraud is entirely surprising and unwarranted are ignoring that the other side’s position is also founded in theory about fraud.
We will know that there is fraud, until we can verify the operation of the controls against fraud.
But, it is literally impossible to believe that this was an honest vote, because the Democrats were again running on mass murder targeting American citizens, and on doing terrorism here, and because I do not believe that anyone here could fail to understand how starkly alien these people are.
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>for being exterminated
No. That’s the view in our political circle. I’m not at all certain that the extra support Trump saw in 2024 had a consistent pro-freedom view.
>running on mass murder
Again, no. We can point to plenty of statements, yes. But I was getting mailers accusing the Republican candidate of raising taxes. That’s garden variety political rhetoric. Even if there’s massive fraud, most people will think it’s a normal election.
No one went broke underestimating the median voter.
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Point.
I have some admissions against interest about how extremely insular and strongly felt my perceptions are.
For all we know, however, the median voter may literally be fictional. We don’t have a really good way of establishing bounds on how many ballots can be connected to a single real human person.
Depending on how you collect humans into grouping, the mode voter may be definitely fictional.
Median of course depends on how you map voters to whatever number line. (I think the complex median may handle this by just mapping the magnitude but I really dunno. Apologies for the off-topic, but I still find complex numbers fairly confusing.)
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Like, I don’t know how someone can be an educator, and not understand that there is fraud and counterfeiting in the education system as currently implemented. I don’t understand how someone can be an academic, and not be interested enough to do all the time consuming testing that makes anti-communism the one true unified theory of correct scholarship.
This is obviously pretty wildly inconsistent with what some people in those industries purport to believe.
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In L. Neil Smith’s “The Probability Broach”, you could assign your vote to anyone you wanted. Votes were more like corporate shares than traditional votes.
In Joan D. Vinge’s “Outcasts of the Heaven Belt” they had a democratic system with online voting. Everyone was connected by something similar to the modern internet, and they voted all the time, on every separate issue.
And of course, there were Professor La Paz’s suggestions in Heinlein’s “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress”…
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Actually, most of the “Gas prices, interest rates, rent, grocery costs, difficulty in finding a job, used/new car costs, and a host of other economic issues” did NOT occur in the past 2 years, but started with the Biden Administration. What we are seeing, and the vast majority of the voters, is a continuation of those issues, even though the rate of increase has significantly slowed due to Trump’s influence.
Of course, the Iran Anti-nuclear War is a forever war to those with 10-minute attention spans; so that didn’t help either.
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Just looking at the local versus state results. My precinct had the worst preforming Republican candidate getting 82%. At the county level, about 67%. At the state, the best Republican got 45%. And there was a sudden 300,000 vote drop within an hour to swing things to the Dems.
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Barrington NH Town results were up this morning.
Record 69.98% Registered voter turnout. (4426 out of 6908) Pretty much the record since records have been kept.
New registrations: 216
Absentee ballots 408
The only Republican win was for Governor Kelly Ayotte, and she’s kind of a Rhinoceros if you get my meaning. All the other GOP office holders got turned out by over 600 vote differences. Now we could ask for a hand recount of the paper ballots, but I’m pretty sure that they’d show the machine tallies reported match. Interestingly enough, the state constitutional amendment to eliminate the Register of the Probate office, and the School Tax Cap on Admin Spending both were approved by wide margins in the town.
Pretty sure it was a fair and honest vote for our town, which leans blue anyway. Still sucks that they voted for the tax thieves and totalitarians anyway.
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On my ballot there were half a dozen county and state offices that were Democrats running unopposed. Usually there are only two or three. Always Democrats.
The local Republican Party isn’t even trying. I predict that will eventually bite them in the ass.
I think they have a mindset like traditional publishing got in the 1990s – scrape off all the little fish, and concentrate on the blockbusters. No need to nurture the Party’s political candidate pool when you can just haul any random person in and lever them into a seat, so why make any effort for the sheriffs, auditors, treasurers, or state legislators?
I read Heinlein’s “Take Back Your Government” a few years ago. Oh Bob, you sweet innocent child…
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Two things.
First, recall that Socialists are scum. Which means that they know Socialism doesn’t work, and they don’t care. They care if the rubes vote for it. And, assuming this election wasn’t freeped from hell to breakfast, it looks like they did. Way to go rubes. Enjoy poverty.
Second, the world is full of people who get their paycheck on Friday and wake up Sunday with no money and a raging hangover. FULL. It’s freaking stuffed with them. (This is why you don’t pick up chicks in bars on Friday night. Those are the -stupid- chicks.)
If you are selling broccoli, good dental hygiene and a full night’s sleep, you are gonna starve.
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I saw a short commentary that there was a major shift in writing style emphasis by news and non-fiction book writers (text books, history,, etc.) from being fact-based to emotion-based that started about 1980 and accelerated all the way up to today. And unfortunately, people have a natural bias toward emotion-based ‘decision’ making.
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That’s when the “my feelings are stronger than yours, so I must be right” stuff began wafting through the Ivory Tower and then into the activist groups.
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It made a brief excursion through K-12 academia, where they were pushing the “personal truth” scheme, and 2+2=5 was counted as correct if the ‘educator’ thought the student believed it hard enough.
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After last nights elections the power went out this morning. No rain no wind no storm. An omen if there ever was one.
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Same for me in Michigan. paper filled, insert in machine and it eats it, telling you voted.
I remind folks, Michigan and such a machine was where they found them switching votes, only because the guy operating the thing was aware his family all voted the same way, and the total for the vote was less than his family. Not heard that this time (avoided a lot last night by being too tired and falling asleep early) but have heard of voting issues in Wisconsin. Co-worker voted early, his wife after work, and she was bumped out of line several times as the machine was malfunctioning (he votes to cancel hers as she votes the opposite of him) While Marinette itself is rather purple, it has trended repub lately.
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Multiple malfunctions at polling places I was at. Net effect was to slow down voting, but the turnout wa so light it didn’t have a major impact. More impact in early voting.
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The system for the last couple of elections, the poll worker gave you a thin cardboard ballot, which you fed into a machine – I forget the brand, but it wasn’t one of the usual banking/voting machine companies – you made your selection on a touch screen, then it spat the ballot back out with your choices printed on it.
Then you took your ballot over to the trash can by the door and fed it into a shredder sitting on top, and a poll worker handed you an “I Voted!” sticker.
I am completely satisfied the system is accurate and honest. (looks upward uneasily for signs of lightning)
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I have found this verse from 1 Kings 19:18 to be a comfort when I look at the horizon and see disaster coming:
“Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.”
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Abu al Sayed took MI Senate. Tells me all I need to know.
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Welcome to Michiganistan.
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They stole it all. We can’t prove it, but we feel it in our bones.
Nothing to do but keep moving, and stay ready.
Don’t get discouraged. I’m imagining what Rush would say this morning, and it heartens me.
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To quote Sarah (again):
“Despair is a sin”
I’m at a personal low right now due to family stuff; this feels like another 2 by 4 across the back. I have no idea what to do about it yet, but curling up in a ball and waiting to die isn’t an option…
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I’m with you on this one. But I went to work, and worked, and will write some now that I’ve rehearsed the concert music. The sun rose, the cat is fussing, and life goes on.
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A sound plan. As you say, life goes on.
I forced myself to get off the couch and drive my wife and myself up the coast since she wanted to take a walk on the beach.
Sometimes it feels like the best you can do is put on a brave face for loved ones (for now – plotting revenge tomorrow?)
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I’d love to take a walk on the beach. I don’t want to move again.
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When my daughter and I buy our vacation cottage on the shore at Rockport — we will have you and Dan come to stay!
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That would be lovely.
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Mark your calendar for sometime around 2030. Rockport and the Texas gulf coast aren’t scenic or spectacular … but it’s coast! And pleasant, the water is warm, the people are nice and the seafood is delightful!
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I love seafood. And I loved shrimp cocktail. Alas! I’ll not likely ever taste another shrimp cocktail again as it would be an act of suicide with this new allergy. And good Lord, they’ve got shrimp in so many other foods it’s a constant pain identifying them all.
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I hope you get the chance to someday, mebbe on vacation?
We drove east and north to get to York beach in Maine
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Family stuff can be the worst. Hang in there. Virtual hugs and prayers sent your way.
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Thanks Kathy <3 virtual hugs and prayers back.
TBH I’ve been lurking here all day to try and soak up some encouragement from our community here…. thanks, to you and everyone else here.
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Find one small thing you can do, even if it’s “discard some no longer needed old papers”. It’ll help.
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Yeah, my desire to sleep until Jesus comes back isn’t going help matters. It’s just really difficult.
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I would accuse you of being a sore loser except that it is so weird that James God is nonbinary, my favorite drag queen is Talerico won in Texas. He ought to have lost in a landslide
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That in and of itself is deeply suspicious. On the bright side, he’ll screw up big time. Bet on it.
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There is no screwing up a Senate seat. It’s an aristocratic phony debating society; incumbency is almost a lifelong sinecure if you have the (ene)media on your side.
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Does that (ene) stand in for ‘enemy’ or ‘enema’? 😛
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Yes.
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Yes.
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How to give the Democrat Socialist Party a capsaicin enema? Let them all feel the Berne!
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Unfortunately, barring either a health issue or something so stupid that he gets impeached, he’ll be able to screw up for six long years.
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He is such a bad fit for Texas, given all his publicly stated opinions … a vegan, kinder-trans sympathetic, proggie-Christian, anti-oil industry …
How in the world did he even have a half-assed chance?
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Fraud. Massive.
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Ditto with the Stout chick. Herrera should have taken that with a half million to spare.
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Even with all of Paxton’s negatives . . . how could anyone vote for a total creepazoid?
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Y’alls’ gut feelings track with mine. Something was off in the vote totals, very off. Especially here in Texas. I had a bad night last night, so I spent it praying, ditto this morning. I’m going to avoid political news as much as I can for the next few days, get a little distance and breathe. (And get stuff done, like write, and clean gutters if the ground is dry enough for the ladder.)
At least the [rude adjective] political ads are GONE.
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When milord Ron DeSantis took Florida by the skin of his and our teeth, the first thing he did was clean up the corrupt county electoral commissions. Florida has had fast, smooth, normal election results ever since. The Texas GOP, being fat and complacent and trusting in a culture they believed could never change (much less be subverted), did not take its last opportunity to do the same. You have my sympathy, and I’ll be following your lead in consuming way less “news” for a while.
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Hello, I worked the polls in a small town in a very red state. What I saw yesterday midday were a lot of very frightened Democrats coming in to vote as if their life depended on it. In the evening I saw the genteel Republicans show up.
Fear is a passion.
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How many were on the ineligibles list? We won’t know until we’re allowed to look.
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Well, it’s not great, but I don’t think the US came all this way for nothing. I remember 6 years ago, after all.
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A couple data points from the One True Party-dominated Formerly Golden State – The Proposition 40 “Billionaire Tax” is losing at 55.6% NO, while Prop. 42, which prohibits retroactive and personal property taxes, is winning at 54.3% YES, both Props in the “Oh, No You Don’t” category during the same election and same turnout where the slow kid is winning to replace Gavin at 65% of the vote.
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What about Prop 39, voter ID? The Dimocrats seem to have tried to ignore that one to death.
I voted yesterday. No ID required, not even my name checked against a list. A raccoon could have walked in and voted.
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When I went in to vote here in LA County, they scanned the bar code on my sample ballot, pulled up my name on a screen, and asked for my DOB.
No ID (which is *banned* here in California), but there was a nod toward confirming I was who I said I was.
I don’t know what the process would have been if I’d turned up without my sample ballot and its bar code.
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It’s not just no ID is required in the Formerly Golden State, it is explicitly illegal here for anyone to ask for any ID at a polling place. In theory the signature check is there on the mail in ballots everyone gets as well as on the in-person sign-in register at actual polling locations, but it appears that only gets activated when they need to disqualify inconvenient mail-in ballots as in the LA Mayors primary.
And prop 39 , to require voter ID, is losing, NO at 58.6%
CA official results page is at https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures
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Sooprise Sooprise. That was the one they needed to have lose.
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That’s, disturbing.
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Indeed. Like, ALL of Texas turned monotonically blue? Not even ONE county stayed red?
That defies credulity.
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They flipped all the statewide offices and a bunch of State House districts, enough to have a majority. Rs still have a majority in the State Senate.
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Every last county in Texas shifted blue. ALL OF THEM.
https://x.com/ginamilan_/status/2118203219574686159
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BS. The county I live in is red, per Texaselectionresults.com. And they have the totals for each race, as well as which ones are still being tabulated. Yes, it is ONE county out of a lot, but the blue sweep wasn’t 100%.
Now, if things suddenly change in my county? Then I’m going to get very, very, very curious
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My gut tells me Trump was “allowed” to win because Jan 6 at the possibility of armed rebellion after 4 years of Biden’s terrifying incompetence scared them shitless. I always knew Trump was always just a speed bump, not a magic bullet, he’s far better than nothing.
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“Listen to me now, please: the democrats are not at the beginning of a 1000 year Reich. They’re not even at the beginning of a 70 year USSR. Or at the beginning of the decade-plus of Nazi rule.”-Sarah Hoyt
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Apropos of that third one: It’s not doing much to help me with my growing dread that an awful lot of people are going to blame the Jews. First, some normal Americans will be persuaded that their loss is the fault of Israel and its mighty <2% US voting bloc; then, when socialism starts producing the inevitable shortages and chaos (see: Europe), the Lefties will know exactly who’s responsible. I’ve never seriously considered moving to Israel, mostly because of the language barrier and my abiding dislike of humus and tahini, but can’t discount the possibility of my family and neighbors being driven out with our tails tucked and accounting ourselves lucky for it … because, as for the rest of you good folks here and elsewhere, where is there to go from here? I’m so sorry….
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Neither my Jewish wife nor I are in any shape to flee.
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There are way too many insane elements on both sides blaming the Jews for this, not to mention the prophet-monkeys, for you and your tribe to not be owning as many guns as you can.
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Oh, we own some guns (bless Florida!), but I doubt I could ever fire one at a living person. The weremate, on the other hand, is a veteran, and I’m going to hide behind him reloading his mags.
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That would be unfortunate. If my son and brand spanking new Jewish daughter-in-law are harmed by any anti-Semitics, the gloves come off and I go ice cold. There’s probably a good reason why my parents named me, Michael.
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I’m about halfway through the last volume of the “Kingmaker” trilogy, published in 2023 by Ari Mendelson, and so far it explains almost everything that has happened except for the happy ending one expects and gets in fiction. Here you go, free on Kindle+, nee Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7LB8V3R?binding=kindle_edition&searchxofy=true&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tkin&qid=1793812074&sr=8-1
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I don’t mind the struggle. I have been struggling for 68+ years. No time for a pity party here; but my story might make a great movie. I don’t give up.
But I’m not going to deny the value of Ayn Rand’s philosophy (except the ignoring Christ part) here. “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” That is where likely headed after the economy crashes.
But I will keep showing up where I’m invited, and a few places where I’m not. Even if no lunch is provided.
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Anecdote de votum: For what it’s worth, there was a dedicated person at the voting place I went to whose only job was to say “Stay in line. No, you, back in line, the line’s over there, and you- you’re next. Okay who needs a handout of the propositions on the ballot? I’ve got plenty.” Herd of cats is we. Ungovernable? I don’t think my neighbors ever heard of ‘governable’ without the un-.
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One of the estimators that predicted CCP having money to spend on the US is that the CCP had some sort of resources to spend on Brazil.
IC? EU? Fucking OpenAI and Anthropic? The CCP’s pet wealthy dudes? Someone else?
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I’m always kinda down when every candidate for whom I voted is defeated.
Except for OR Governor, I’m reasonably sure no weirdness in the vote; with Kotek’s approval numbers, it’s hard to accept a 95K vote win.
I do feel like a voice, crying in the wilderness. Someone has been bulldozing behind my meager efforts to make a path.
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People went and bought stuff today. Food, mostly.
I think people are unhappy with the results, because they do not jibe with what people were doing and the signs that were out.
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precisely that.
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Deer frenz,
Today I want to talk to you about minecraft.
The voxel based mining game, that makes several compromises to be technically feasible, and to be at all fun to deal with. (Historically, mining and also charcoal burning were not the funnest occupations.)
My understanding is that vanilla minecraft is not set up for high fidelity emulation of four things I find a little interesting in mining. 1. structural failure (collapse) 2. liquid penetration (flooding and drainage) 3. gases (gases and damps, etc) 4. Geophysics. Or, rather, high fidelity emulation of the problems that geophysics can have at lower fidelity.
Basically, I think the discretization is pretty crude, and I think that studying how to ‘do better’ could run into a lot of practical computational limits.
It feels like there are three different scales of finer discretization that could be important. GUI, bulk simulation, and fine simulation. I think a minecraft like UI could work with smaller blocks, which can be partly filled. Fourth scale blocks in one dimension are 64 times as dense, with scaling requirements on rendering and storage. My terrible problem is that I think I want finer models for some of this, as well as material properties that more approximate a continuum of values.
Anyway, maybe mods already fully solve all of these, and I simply do not know, because I do not play minecraft, nor keep up with the community.
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I’ve played Minecraft. There are higher resolution voxel mods, but nothing that simulates gases that I’ve seen. Gravity is one-dimensional, so, e.g., a block of sand will move one block lower if nothing solid beneath it, but does not flow sideways into a heap. Liquids similarly are bulk, with rain being purely cosmetic, no absorbance considered. They will flow sideways. Likewise no cave-ins, either.
If you’re gaming, you can cheat the cube scaling a little by only rendering the portion that’s in the player’s focus, at the expense of being unable to accurately simulate anything not in view.
There are some 2D games with gas, particle, and thermal mechanics – Oxygen Not Included is one.
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You may get a kick out of Noita. Roguelike where you play as a wizard in a world of pixels with individual physics simulation. You can burn things, turn things to acid, etc. with full (2D) fluid simulation, etc. I haven’t played, but it seems to have a loyal following.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/881100/Noita/
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I probably should have gone with that degree in Geology. It would have been more fun, and gotten me outside more often, although I don’t care for freezing arctic climes nor blazing hot deserts or pressure cooker tropics.
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The GOP ignored or worked against the tea party why Donkeyrats screamed it was evilfascismhitler and tried to destroy it all costs. And because all that political energy was denied we got Trump, who was way louder, ruder and more effective and then the GOP actively worked against him and the rats screamed even louder that Trump was REALLY evilfascisthitler and he really need to be destroyed this time guys for reals and did everything from lawmakers and fraud to try and destroy him. So now this political energy is being denied and dismissed again and it WILL find another outlet that is better (or worse, depending on your perspective) than Trump. Memes praising Darth Vader as the right leader we need now are all need the Internet. Mostly tongue-in-cheek now but they won’t be for long. One day fairly soon the GOP will be utterly abandoned and we will probably get an armed uprising with a Pinochet (at best). The left keeps supressing thinking they’ve won and opposition just pops up stronger and worse.
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I don’t see a way out of this now without either massive election reform OR bloodshed. I’m praying and pushing for election reform.
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Trump, ironically, was their last chance for peace and dying of old age.
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Yes. Unfortunately ours too.
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#MeToo…. but I doubt I’m deserving of that miracle.
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And yet we must pray.
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No one is deserving of a miracle. Miracles are gifts from Someone who knows you better than you know yourself, and loves you anyway.
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Though our current legislative “leadership” (cough! cough!) would probably never countenance it, one absolutely lovely possibility would be for us to stage a “Doolittle’s Raid” in the lame duck session and actually pass the SAVE Act, followed by Trump signing it into law. Like the actual “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo” raid (and that book is still worth reading), it might not do much for the direct war effort, or for our present predicament much but close the door on an empty barn. But the morale? On both sides? Any political who particpated in THAT would earn instant capital with the (possibly very many) actual-voters who are looking at the numbers and — wondering.
What the 2020 and (apparently) 2026 “vote influence operations” are doing is moving us one step by another towards a “low trust society” with regards to the very linchpin of our system. The consequences only start with much of the electorate seeing their new “leaders” as crooks in office, months before they even fill them, and evil ones to boot. There are plenty of options to exploit that utter lack of real authority beyond “going hot” (which a lot of the jackbooters would love, if perhaps only briefly). They’re incrementally opening a Pandora’s box full of what they will not like, do not know how to expect or comprehend, and quite possibly will not survive
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Yep.
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Do not discount the troubles the SAVE Act would cause for The Magic Donk Votes Machine. The whole thing is premised on motor-voter and no IDs.
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Yep. THIS.
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And mail-in. As long as they have mail-in, every Republican that shows up will have already voted.
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This is step one. There are a murthering lot of other steps that really, really need to get going to-
After we get step one.
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This is what terrifies me – that the window for fixing things peaceably may be closing fast….
I forget who it was who said “You can vote your way into socialism, but you’ll have to shoot your way out of socialism”
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in our case, we haven’t really voted for it. I wonder if most countries actually do.
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I think it’s pretty obvious that the Democrat-Socialist Party will NEVER support election reform, and will instead, add more ways to easily fraud.
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The GOP deserved to get its s**t pushed in. The legislature, in particular, failed to turn their mandate into anything meaningful. They completely fumbled so many 80/20 issues (DOGE, Election reform, etc.). The Thune wing of the party is just Democrats at 3/4 speed. The only time they call for reforms and a return to constitutional governance is when they are in the minority. Add in the strategically incompetent execution of the Iran mess, and you get what we have here today.
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Oh, yeah. Of course they did. Fortunately the democrats are stellar.
Stop covering for the fraud. The GOP will never be perfect. Our electorate will always be full of chowderheads like you.
BUT the left is objectively insane and murderous. AND frauding. The numbers don’t add up. They make no sense.
But here you are, beating on the side you allege to support. Go away. You’re a disgrace. You enable fraudster and would cheer on the loss of the republic.
I like adders better than you.
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The DNC has a will to power and the GOP (demonstrably) does not. Until that is rectified we are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Whatever degree of fraud happens, happens because they are too weak (or complicit) to stop it or even become as proficient in it as the Donks are. The latter is clearly less desirable but would at least be a sign of life.
The best outcome would be something like what is unfolding in the UK, Labour has been given miles of rope and is happily working on their noose tying skills. Despite Farage’s instinct to try and appease the staff of the Guardian, Labour’s incompetence has lead to the rise of Reform and Restore as electorally viable movements.
(I understand that the dynamics of a purely parliamentary system make make a direct analog difficult to achieve here.)
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Okay. So, you’ve listed what’s wrong. Now give us a step-by-step plan to fix it working from a position of total defeat to achieving victory.
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As El Gato Malo pointed out the pukes voted out were some of the weakest and worst. Still better than a Rat but at least the quislings are gone.
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Yeah, and we can enjoy it all the way to the reeducation camps. Stop helping them.
And this vile creature deserves no points. The left would love us to enter a purity spiral. No.
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Yes. A purity spiral, or worse, a complex of mutually-hostile purity camps playing the circular firing squad game. A sort of fractally-ramified and dynamic version of the simple “stand in a circle and exchange friendly fire” not-a-strategy. “Friendy fire isn’t” ought to be plenty simple enough to remember, just like (though I’ve never even seen one in the matter world) what the Claymore mines say: THIS SIDE TOWARDS ENEMY. (As, in, DON’T POINT IT THIS WAY YOU IDIOT SUICIDAL DOPE, though of course that’s not what it says.)
Seen enough of that stupid back in 2020+, and more than enough. Will not listen to more.
There is a place for “let’s get together and complain, complain, complain” — but as any even semi-regular here knows, that’s not often why this place exists. Quoting (as someone else already said above) Sarah Hoyt quoting Jerry Pournelle, “Despair is a sin.” And the reason it is a sin, operationally speaking, is because it cannot accomplish anything, except for the enemy.
It makes you an instant casualty, as long as you let yourself remain in its grip.
Maybe it’s my own idiosyncratic understanding of “color revolution” but the pivot point of the whole thing seems to be the “normalization” phase — “Oh, so that’s how it really is and all I can do now is get used to it, I can’t fight the entire country.” The whole psychological influence operation hinges on getting you, each individual, to do that, in victory-sufficient numbers.
“Nuts!”
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Yep. that. ALL OF THAT.
And someday I’ll see Jerry again, and even the lieutenant, and I’m not going to look them in the eye and say “I gave up and found excuses.”
NO.
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The thing is, where the nominal allies are coming from, and how that shapes them in ways that may work out okay, but are not strictly optimal modeling or planning.
So, the Christians who grew up inside the church, and well trained, do not really fully culturally understand the unchurched. They may have pretty good hearts, but they may not understand how the schools changed just a few years after they were released from imprisonment, and do not fully understand how the unchurched are growing up to understand the curriculums.
Group the second, unchurched who were trained into leftism, and left the left because they were pushed out.
The Christians may understand from the theologically sound teaching that they are to look at individuals, and maybe use fruits to help assess hearts.
Everyone else has maybe not been given a safe space from which to understand whether or not aggregate models of the behavior are where what drives the phenomena happens. It is not where the driving happens, to be clear.
Lots and lots of people just, because of how they grew up, default to thinking that king magic is valid, and to thinking that aggregate model things like racism have an inherent reality to them, and to thinking that these public theater things are definitive.
The holy spirit is arguably quite powerful, and the missing element from the consensus academic models that may explain the peace and productivty of western civilizations. You, however, do not need to have the holy spirit in your theoretical model to understand that the communists and their modeling and their planning can be defeated incidentally, basically by their own confidence and errors.
They can understand how a facist thinks, because it is how a communist thinks with a different coat of paint. Same sort of ritual and same internal weight to the same sorts of magical thinking. They can game for the instincts of facist behavior, and at times outplay the facists.
They do not understand non-fascists who make a habit of discarding weight on public theater.
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tl;dr the federal elections a bigger games that we can assume are worth more points, but this is not strictly actually more valuable than the little games of how we play our own lives.
There are very few big games, but in practice all of those really depend on millions of little games.
The Holy Spirit is a theoretical explanation of how a Christian can influence for the better without knowledge, and without understanding, as long as that Christian does not convince himself that God wants for him to do the evil things.
Communist theory of collectivism is basically a replacement holy spirit, and a replacement Church, that assumes the same sort of phenomena, but without evidence. It presumes the existence of a second but worldly Jesus, more or less.
But, without information in advance, workign solely from the sorts of theory that might be admissible to a scholarly consensus, we do not actually have full and complete knowledge about the relationship between small game play and big game play. This is not the sort of thing that purely human scholarship in a purely material world can actually solve. I think I can actually demonstrate this.
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Not saying this is a good thing its not, but the Republicans DO deserve to be smacked around. I just wish we could do it without Rats gaining seats.
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Yes, but hear me out: THE DEMOCRATS DESERVE AND NEED TO BE SMACKED AROUND MORE. You only get one hand. Smack the dems. Then we’ll talk about our own side, okay?
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Yes Ma’am.
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And if wishes were fishes…
The bottom line is who gets the votes for House Speaker and Senate Leader. If Tom Nobrain votes for the party that isn’t communist, I don’t care what other problems he has.
Purity Purges are only allowable when you’ve got a 60-40 majority (or as in the Formerly Golden State Assembly, a 75-25 majority). And even then they are a Bad Idea.
You go to legislate with the majority you have, not the majority you wish for.
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A Reddit thread (don’t look without welding glasses or something) suggested a poll to recommend Senate Leader.
I replied they should pick John Thune, as he has been doing the job for the Dems for two years already.
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Damn it John. I nearly sprayed coffee all over my keyboard when I read that.
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In as much as this has a point, the folks pushing it are the problem.
Been screaming to remove “rinos”– everyone who doesn’t agree with them, absolutely– since what, the 90s? Notably without a lot of specific details and rules to justify it, just scream and leap.
I got so much “Be Trump! Roar! Push! Do it my way, to heck with you! If you don’t agree, you’re not True Conservative, I OWN your vote!” nonsense– and it’s still not enough to cover “wow, election year turn out for the Dems, on a midterm year.”
Fix the elections first before you start trying to clean out the big tent on behalf of the newcomers the Progs decided they didn’t need, due to being able to fraud more effectively.
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This.
Big tent means if they caucus on our side, they get supported to keep committee chairs and control of the rules committee. When the majority is slim you just can’t do litmus tests and purity purges.
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The one advantage of a RINO is you can actually get some Dems and a bunch of independents to vote for them. It’s why we have Kelly Ayotte, or a Sununu, squishy as they are. If you can’t get the most votes in your race, then you lose, period. Losing isn’t an effective strategy, unless you’re playing chess and it’s a sacrificial move to put yourself in position to actually win the game. That’s partially why we have a Republican Governor in NH, but nearly all the legislature went blue. (OMG the state races were an absolute slaughter – second worst performance by the GOP in history. And the 30% who didn’t come out to vote? Almost all GOP registered. In town, the Dems had well over 80% of their registered show up.)
Some people like to say voting for the least evil is still voting for evil. They’re wrong. It’s not voting for evil if all the choices are evil ones. You’re voting to prevent a worse evil. I’d like to think the German people, had they been given a choice, would have voted to put Jews et. al. in concentration camps, and voted against killing them. Where there’s life, there’s hope. Do not despair!
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An interesting theological point I’ve seen is that it’s not “a lesser evil”. You are choosing a good.
“That big threat doesn’t get in” is A GOOD. Even if it’s not as big a good as you would like.
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I am glad that I am not the only one who immediately smelled something “off” about the results.
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The math doesn’t math. Most of it makes no sense. Plus issues passed, but candidates went left? Yeah…. no. None of this makes sense.
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Down ticket races that are consistent with up-ticket choices I’ll believe are honest votes (or “enriched” by someone with an ounce of skill). Big splits in local + ballot initiatives compared to up-ticket, plus spates of “last minute votes” that all lean one way? BS [with full apologies to Orvan T.]
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If you can’t understand the results assuming a single “Joe or Jane Voter” position, maybe it’s a composite of several, maybe very different, groups — each with its own voter position. Okay.
But if you can’t make sense of the results even then, unless you assume many voters just voted for some things and left others completely blank (to be filled in by their complementary half voters), or maybe not even then…
Do the numbers (real or metaphorical) not add up because the bookkeepers are incompetent, or because they’re crooked?
So far, it simply looks like a lot more votes than actual voters, but only on the “big picture” major races — which was indeed an observed pattern back, in 2020.
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Well they have the exact same jubilant smugness as when they frauded Biden in power, and we all know that didn’t last.
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Yes, and the lesson they took from it? They weren’t ruthless enough.
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Next they’ll get scared because they know what they deserve.
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They’ve already stated what they intend to do. We’ll see them going all out over the next two years trying to do it. And I think we all know how that will turn out. the one silver lining is that this will be 2 years, not 4. And will demonstrate to America exactly what the DSA has to offer, nothing but pain. Expect a reversal in 2028, and more fraud then that will make 2020 pale in comparison.
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I have a bit of, “Embrace the power of and,” in my opinions. I find reading multiple reviews useful. Erick Erickson, for example, is 100% conventional, but aside from being entirely too trusting of his fellow journalists (most of the time), he can say useful things.
I had forgotten, for example, that the Administration has taken actual stakes in something like 30 companies, which struck him as, “what Democrats do. Why are we doing it?” But did that matter to regular voters? I don’t know. I don’t know how many, like me, weren’t aware of it.
El Gato Malo blames it almost totally on the Republicans not listening to people and running too many useless candidates. He wants people to start working now on another Contract with America, one that addresses what most folks care about, then prove they’re serious about it. Fair enough.
We also did run some totally uesless/incompetent candidates. I offer Vivek as Exhibit No. 1. I figured he was toast after the, “Acton’s mother says don’t vote for her,” ad. And he deserved to be. Anyone who thought an attack ad using a woman who managed to lose custody of her child back when that took exceptional talent – and who did it by ignoring the way her spouse was , ahem, “sexually assaulting,” her own daughter – has lousy judgement, or a cruel/stupid streak and shouldn’t be anywhere near public office. (That doesn’t mean I expect Acton to be a good governor, only that Vivek handed her the election on a platter due to poor judgement).
But I also agree the sheer scope of the losses looks…fishy. I have trouble believing Susan Collins lost an honest race, though I did think the “he married his cousin,” thing was a really weak like of attack. And Texas, likewise.
And on a personal level, it’s a good thing I’m not physically near the “America First,” people, or I might be inclined to (metaphorically) smack them right in the chops. The, “Neocons! Neocons! Usefless Forever Wars! That’s why we lost! Iran! Neocons! Forever Wars!” mantra bugs the life out of me. Yes, the Administration did a lousy job of defending their position, and the half-assed “peace deals,” certainly haven’t helped. But it hasn’t been a “forever war,” yet, and it was a justifyable one.
Anyhow, my bit. I need more prayer, and more hopefulness. We’ll see.
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NONE of that compares to the fraud. As for Erik Erikson, his TDS blinds him. No, no one on the ground cares about the companies.
I even understand them. As with the tariffs, it’s a a bid to re-industrialize America.
And as for screaming about endless wars, it’s bullshit. We didn’t put boots on the ground. They’re insane. Also delusional.
Yes, some of the younguns might believe this, but those of us who were alive in 1970 know this needed done.
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Look, to me, the bit that I can’t digest, even more than “the cities reported first” is “The dems outperformed the polls.” That’s a rare brand of bullshit, and the clearest indicator of fraud.
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I think the ‘half-assed peace deals” were Trump trying to minimize the MSM-Left alliance attacks. They were never intended to be taken seriously, because the current Iranian government was, and never will, negotiate in good faith.
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Reaction today from JD Vance, on X
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JD is our weak link, without whom Iran would already be radioactive. He’s been the Sympathy for the Devil guy in the administration.
He might simply be wrong, or he might be pernicious.
Watch him carefully. I find it interesting he already announced he doesn’t want to run because he wants to spend more time with his family.
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As I remember, what he actually said was that his wife doesn’t like politics and doesn’t want him to run. Big difference there.
If someone can find the exact quote, I’d appreciate seeing it.
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Vance has always been an ambiguous figure — even back to his My Hillbilly Autobiography days. And he did have to “make a transition to the ‘new’ J.D. Vance” to get far-enough away from his quasi-New-Dealer past and fit into the (relatively quite large and embracing) “MAGA coalition.” His enthusiasm seems real but still lacked the typical zeal of the convert.
So at the very best he’s never been a true believer (arguably, of much of anything). And his “No, we can trust the Iranian Regime to negotiate” position has been, empirically, a dismal failure.
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Vance is adamant Iran was the cause and Trump is equally admant he would have done it again, which seems to me Trump knows something we don’t, like that he’d rather be known as the president who’s party did badly in the midterms rather than the president who let a chunk of America become a big smoking radioactive crater.
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Trump doesn’t want us hit. He loves the country….
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And the (open literature, non-secret) stuff we all have access to supports Trump’s position pretty thoroughly. To the point that, unless the President has/had access to something (decisive or important) the Vice President did/does not, I’d say opposing a war to remove the imminent nuclear-weapons capability by a “death to America!” policy rogue state is very baldly putting political gain before national security.
At a level that ought to be, at least in normal times, disqualifying.
Remember, everyone, these are the guys who opened the “this is your last chance to avoid war with the U.S.” meetings by saying, “we now have 1000 pounds of 60%-U235 enriched uranium, so there!” — at the end of literally almost half a century of our kicking this particular can down the diplomatic road, with this same extremist regime. “You think we might get The Bomb soon, so we’re telling you we’re very nearly there already!” is not a sane way to play that one.
(From a purely bomb-design standpoint, and everything I’m saying here came off the Internet, 60% might be even better than 93% (‘the usual’ since Oak Ridge was born) if what you’re doing is designing/deploying a large fission bomb — say 500 kilotons or so — which have been tested by us and Great Britain, IIRC, long ago. The problem is, you have to keep the bomb subcritical until you fire it, so you end up with a big thin shell of uranium — which is easier to handle if it can be a bit thicker, due to slightly lower enrichment. Yes, it has to be an implosion bomb, but still, already built and tested. 450 kg ~ 1000 lbs. is plenty for more than one.)
Vance’s posture assumes you can just keep kicking the can, or the live hand grenade, down the road indefinitely. Unfortunately not true; and the grenade blowing on you is not such wonderful ‘political calculation’ either.
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As far as I can tell, no atomic bomb test has ever failed. Some of them have turned out more energetic than expected, though.
It’s ancient technology now, and the physics and engineering are well-understood. The only hard part of making the kaboom is the money and time required to accumulate the required fissionables.
All of the serious research, some still classified, is in “most bang for the bucks”. When you’re building a nuclear arsenal, even unlimited funds can’t completely eliminate the time factor, so optimizing the efficiency was important. If you only need a handful of bombs for bragging rights, things are a lot simpler.
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He doesn’t like Israel. He’s claiming “the war,” is why we lost and that Trump said so ( did not say that Iran was the only factor).
I’m getting less and less happy with Vance. Some of the accusations against him have a tinge of anti-Catholicism (aren’t we over, “The Papists will sell us to Rome!” yet?) But he’s also accused of being part of a, “Americans are spoiled. They need discipline! They need to learn to be content with less,and accept the rule of stern but fair leaders,” faction. Also of wanting the dollar to be dethroned as the world’s reserve currency. Is any of it true? Don’t know but it makes me uneasy.
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I deeply distrust the attacks on Vance. It’s a vibes thing, so I can’t point to specific examples, but they have the same stench as all the other hit pieces on the Trump administration. The attacks are a little too expertly divisive, for one.
That’s not to say Vance doesn’t have problems. I’m withholding judgment on him until I bother to do my own research. But I’m convinced there’s a coordinated attack coming from someone, and I’m sure they don’t have my best interests at heart.
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Vance (who said in response to the question at an October CBS town hall on whether there’s a chance he would not run for President in 2028, “of course there’s a chance” – so by no means definitive – link https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/10/19/jd-vance-presidential-run-2028/92327043007/) is pitching that crossover GOP voters, GOP voters who were mad and so to punish the GOP voted for Donks, are the main thing in this loss, and crossover voters were all about hating the war with Iran.
My take is that he must have been on record in Cabinet meetings either opposing it from the start and Rubio didn’t, was emphatic it had to be short and fully over well before the midterms and Rubio wasn’t, or both, and so that’s going to be his primary campaign.
He also says “Changing the relationship with Israel” was another thing.
Now I am not a GOP voter traitor like those were, and I am behind enemy lines deep inside the heart of the fraud-by-mail machine here as well, so my vote did squat, so maybe my take does not matter, but my view is different.
I think The Donk Magic Votes Machine still needs help, so either GOP voters need to stay home or they need to be traitors in the booth. And I think that this election looks a lot like what an election would look like when the GOP voters hate the do-nothing-we-asked-for GOP Congress folks, but still like POTUS and the Executive Branch just fine. So they turned out, but voted against the “oh we forgot to enact the SAVE Act, and only passed one single DOGE cut, and didn’t defund the Taliban, and played effing games on the Epstein Files votes, and so on” GOP Congresscritters.
And given the two guys right now I’d pick Rubio.
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And didn’t have the two functional brain cells to realize that they handed the Democrats everything that way.
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Yep.
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Which makes me wonder who these GOP traitor voters are who would have missed that their “protest” vote to “punish” John Thune would not have national consequences.
I guess a small number of “I’ll show them!” idiots would potentially show up in JD’s polls to get blamed, and then combined with The Magic Donk Votes Machine, we get what we got.
But it’s really just those darned Israelis fault!!
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A very small number. And the polls are fraud, by and large.
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Well, this guy and his followers are a prime example.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/trump-lost-the-election-conservatism?r=6em1o&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Note: he’s prominent in the MAHA movement, largely because of his role in exposing The Clot Shot.
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And largely they’re NOT on the right. Not even vaguely. They will pinch their nose sometimes, but not always. Still not enough.
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They are not. But they are also the living definition of fair weather friends. We may need people like that. We’re foolish to rely on them. And they provide such excellent “bipartisan” fraud camouflage.
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Yep. And we’re going to find out who our friends are in exquisite detail in the next few months. Some will surprise you.
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Well, he writes in the Royal We, so he must be authoritative.
Tarrifs? Wildly popular with actual people as far as I can see, even here. Offsetting the edge in wages with offshoring places is not seen as bad in normal circles. This upper crust dude is just projecting the country club R views there. “Aren’t Tariffs horrible, Buffy? I can hardly import cheap products made by those slave Uighurs anymore!” “Yes, Thurston. Be a dear and pass the caviar.”
Ukraine is Trumps fault? Who was in office when it happened again?
And I presume the Iran complaints tie in with the Put America First and Relationship With Israel coding to mean he is too friendly with The Jooooos. More country club R stuff there.
Is this guy on The Bulwark payroll or just Bulwark-adjacent.
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The substack is a husband and wife team effort….
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No, he’s the guy who invented MRNA, and also the guy who lost his medical license over saying using it without adequate testing was a Bad Idea. In other words, he’s paid cash along the way.
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No, if your presumption was right, I wouldn’t support him, and my Jewish wife wouldn’t either.
He does believe that we had enough on our plate domestically not to go after Iran immediately. I don’t agree; I DO think that Trump should have used at least one Nuke already. When you don’t have a population that will toleate a long war, you have to be nastier than you otherwise might to have a shorter one. Trump’s plan is working, but he ran out of time.
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Unfortunately if he’d used a nuke, he would get the war crimes thing non-stop.
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And so now he’s got those AND still has Iran. Hesitant tactics always cost you once you’re comitted.
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I know, but I’m not him, and he’s still… old fashioned on some stuff.
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Also seen auggestions that since both parties have been playing the, “You know the other guy will never give up power/the world will end if you don’t vote against the Other Guy,” bit for decades, the public has decided they are all crying wolf and ignoring them.
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More precisely the (likely quite small) core of actual “snit crossover voters” who offered up themselves as the “spoonful of sugar to help the [fraud} go down” by doing the “pique vote” thing for real, instead of by AI-CGI-cartoon fake. Still, useful idiots. (Not innocents. Idiots.)
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A) I’d also pick Rubio. I’ve been looking askance at vance for a while for his comments on Israel and his closeness with Tucker.
B) No. The MAIN part of hte problem is fraud. Looking at corrupted data for good conclusions will get you nowhere. Technically at this point their fraud is infinite. Limited only by technical ability.
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Rubio’s main issue in the past was his seeming friendliness toward immigration (illegal and replacement workers). The key question imo is whether he’s come around on that.
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Don’t care. Any Tuckerbuddy is irrevocably tainted.
Perhaps JD is just angling for the Michigan vote with his triangulation on Israel. But I for one abhor all the allies we’ve abandoned, and I will not support anyone maneuvering to do it again.
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Um, to be clear, I don’t abhor those abandoned, I abhor our abandoning them. I am surprised anyone believes us at all anymore. No wonder the Ukrainians say “just send money and weapons”. Our post 1945 track record on anyplace we’ve put boots on the dirt is pretty poor.
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It doesn’t help that how we treat a given country swings wildly depending on which party holds the White House.
As for Vance, regardless of how I end up deciding on Rubio, I’m definitely not feeling good toward Vance right now. Recently he was talking about how he doesn’t think a presidential campaign is a good idea with four young kids. I hope he follows that thought to its natural conclusion.
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The WSJ loves him on Iran this morning but hates him on immigration, tariffs, etc.
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He seems to have at least to some extent.
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I like Rubio too. My only concern is who will replace him in all the jobs he’s doing?
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I’ve been skeptical of Vance for quite a bit now. This is just in his character. I don’t like the guy. He’s not reliable. But he has been effective in his job for the most part, and hasn’t directly backstabbed the guy I actually voted for, for the most part.
He has zero chance of becoming prez. He’s not dumb enough to miss this. Arrogant enough to convince himself of things that common sense militates against, sure, but not stupid.
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If the 61st amendment gets passed in time, I’d vote Hoyt.
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I think we need to go the other way. I think we need amendments barring foreign born from congress and governorships and judgeships.
Yes, unfair in my case. But not in 99% of them. They have the wrong furniture in the head.
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That it would be a toss-up between Tom Kratman and Larry Correia.
Odd, my top three choices share the same profession…
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Titanic-branded deck chairs?
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I still have that book to get out, but if you search on “Acculturation” in the posts, you’ll see what it’s actually like. You have to uninstall most of your basic head-software and install new one. Most people either don’t do it because it hurts badly (it does), it alienates you from your family abroad (it does) or they’re not self-aware enough to even attempt it.
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Even without 61st amendment, there are a lot of Hoyt’s that are available and able to be on the ballot. Now does our hostess want any of them on the ballot is a different topic (it ages people, takes certain traits and compositions to want it bad enough).
I agree. No emigrants should be in any national office, elected or not.
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Dana Loesch has a long reply to Vance on substack
https://danaloesch.substack.com/p/what-jd-vance-gets-wrong?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=84836&post_id=223535434&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=9bg2k&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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From Loesch’s article:
“Hey, that DOGE thingie where we only passed one cut from a long list of identified corrupt crap and proposed cuts was maybe important? Who knew?”
And she says something interesting about Iran: “Iran would not be a factor had we won the conflict Trump was talked into pausing.”
I wonder, given how handwavey he is being on the issue, if JD was front and center on pushing that pause?
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Well, he’s been working the anti-fraud Task Force, and has made at lleast some proress…. where the courts have allowed it.
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And it looks like my nerves are refusing to talk to my fingers. Good night all.
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JD absolutely WAS.
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It was his idea.
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1 – It is not possible to win a war when you “pause” it. Cease fires do not win wars, they extend them. Winning means striking until the other side gives up. Betcha all the “we’re out of missiles!” Came from the JD camp.
2 is just diesel, with all the downstream economic effects . Build US refineries. And nuke plants.
3 is a slogan not a prescription. The Tariffs put America first. Telling NATO to hold up their end is putting America first. Stomping Venezuela is putting America first. This is just code for “TEH JOOS made us attack the peaceful Persian mullahs!”
4 – Well, everyone knows what Tucker’s paymasters are pushing. I think tha Abraham Accords are one of the greatest achievements of modern diplomacy, and I don;t mind being allied against the Persian Mullahs with it’s neighbors, I absolutely prefer an open explicit democratic ally. Get the House of Saud to change THEIR relationship with Israel first..
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What the honorable transmission frequency said.
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NIMBY! NIMBY! NIMBY!
see also: permitting, insurance, and ‘regulatory capture’
“Dark is natural. Sit in the dark and be closer to Mother Nature!”
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Here is a question…do you believe JD Vance and his theory? Not believe IN him, because I don’t. In fact, I think he is large part of the problem. But…how many Rs voted Dem because of the four issues he brought up?
https://notthebee.com/article/jd-vance-shared-his-honest-thoughts-on-why-republicans-lost-the-midterms-and-youre-not-gonna-want-to-miss-them
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I don’t think you’ll ever be able to answer with certainty due to the FRAUD. So why bother?
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His list of Four Things Not Done That Drove GOP Voters To Treachery:
Read like a focus-grouped campaign outline for his 2028 primary run to me, and given how high profile Rubio has been I bet he’s got something against Marco on each of those.
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Loesch’s article has facts and figures. The answer seems to be, “Not nearly as many as Vance believes.”
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Presuming the “millionaire tax” really does go down in flames. The state SAVE tax actually passes. (Provided no boxes of ballots are found.) That Texas decided to suicide (go DEM, er DIM). Does this mean there is an exodus from Texas back to California? Just wondering …
Hey. Held no hope for Oregon regardless. Fix was in there. Short of a true Representation Republic, which we are suppose to be as a state (see the map of how each county voted), that is a forgone conclusion. Just have to cheat in the greater Portland to Astoria corridor and it is a done deal.
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I’m not going hot. I just think that this will become an Excellent Idea.
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Nice!
For the unaware, this was the Tau attitude toward “spurious rumors” of Imperial titans.
And then… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtsY3oHjN6c
Note that the video is mislabeled. It’s from a three episode series called ‘The Exodite’. No Exodites appear in this video. Also, you can quit watching when the space stuff shows up. It’s mostly disjointed images from that point on.
There used to be a much better snippet showing the Warlords taking out a Tau Manta. But I can’t seem to find it anymore.
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Of course, the Imperium isn’t the only race with walking giants of death. And a series called ‘The Exodite’ would be a bit odd if it didn’t have Eldar in it…
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I have enough troubles with my knees. I would not want to deal with knee joints exposed to fire on a walking tank.
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This is why I continue to not be a Republican. The RNC would rather stab the whole country in the back than give up their control of the party. Once again, they have managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Now Cheesy Chuck will be fighting for his political life — trying to prove that he’s Fascist ENOUGH that the National Socialists will let him keep his job.
If you’re wondering what’s coming, this is a good time to reread “Mao’s America” . . .
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Those objectives do not match those goals. Chuckie and the regime ancien were already on the ropes from the DSA onslaught. If one wanted to make the Dems yet more openly nut bag commie, them losing would have done for most of the old guard, leaving only the DSA side intact.
On the other hand, this is a solid object lesson on what blackpill actually delivers to the rest of us, so there’s that.
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I think it’s the other way around. Them losing hard would have sidelined the DSA et al. Because the Democrats are RUTHLESSLY practical, where republicans aren’t.
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BTW, Schemer is promising two years of “legislative razor wire” — not realizing that razor wire snags the people on BOTH SIDES . . .
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For those of us that started preparing for emergencies years ago, before 2020 (What can I say? Too many years at the end of the supply chain)… I’m going to keep writing and releasing stories.
As MCA Hogarth says, “Do your mad, beautiful thing.”
Because politics is downstream of culture, and I intend to keep growing the culture by not following any impression management, official Narrative, or pushed “everybody wants this” entertainment.
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And for that, THANK YOU, please do continue!
David Drake, in his “extra material” for the 20th(?) anniversary edition of Redliners, talked about how helpful writing the book was for him and reading it was for others (letters are included in said added-material). I wouldn’t want to compare how-much, but your books typically fall into that same sort of category; not only “Human Wave” but “we’re all humans together, seldom more so than when the bullets start flying and the bombs/shells start landing.”
I’ve mentioned elsewhere that I found one of my characters (gateway writer here) quoting:
“What are you?”
“I’m what they send in when the good men fail.”
to describe her role as a magical “fixer” doing such needful as help a Catholic exorcist out of a bad spot. That’s the sort of thing that tells you something has reached you on a visceral level.
Even more than all that, once something like “this” has happened it’s more of a necessity than some of us want to realize, to “go on as we have been doing” rather than stare screaming at the Big Thing that’s just come to pass. Such work as you (and far more than a few others “here”) do can be a big help with that. So, do keep on keepin’ on!
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Yup. Those of us in the cultural trenches have to keep doing our thing. I made myself write a few lines this afternoon, just to put words on paper instead of staring at the wall and petting the cat. (Cat was … displeased.) But I slept very poorly Tuesday night, so I have a small excuse.
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I did a chapter. Through a headache.
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Let them gloat for now. But even though they can cheat and lie their way to the appearance of popularity, it’s an illusion. In 2020 Biden was supposedly the most popular candidate ever. Six months later stadiums were full of people chanting the NSFW version of “Let’s Go Brandon”. They’ll overplay their hand. We just have to avoid the circular firing squad so we can avoid the other kind.
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Just found myself whistling The Last Post. Not good.
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Sometimes, Americans simply must burn their wabbling fingers in the fires of political stupidity.
FAFO always applies. Always.
Florida should start construction of a wall.
Not over, not by a long shot. But some very foolish people just made a spiteful choice versus strategic, and now they get to swim with the swine for a bit.
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Yeah yeah yeah. BUT mostly fraud.
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where have i heard that last paragraph before? :D
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Lonesome George may have the best prescription:
Yeah, the other night I laid sleeping
And I woke from a terrible dream
So I called up my pal Jack Daniels
And his partner Jimmy Beam
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I can’t have that since I discovered I’m gluten intolerant. Tbf I never could, I just didn’t know it, but– There goes my absolute pits drink. I wouldn’t have survived 9/11 without Jack to sleep.
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Well, there’s always something….
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I stuck a bottle of whiskey in a time traveling Delorean.
It was Jack to the Future!
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At least until dan came home.
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Is anyone else expecting another “Fee trumps hate” season to start? Probably without the safety pins.
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“*Love* trumps hate”, for Pete’s sake. I had already corrected it.
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I’ve been telling people for decades that they can’t just leave California and not expect it to follow them. I hate to be proven correct.
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Any political party willing to do what the Democrats, i.e. Communazis (global totalitarian socialists whose party dogma includes rabid hatred of Jews combining the worst of communism and Nazism) did in Alaska, will do ANYTHING to gain and keep power. Thus the “record” Democratic Party turnouts in Democratic Party run areas of Texas (voter id laws are meaningless if the people running the elections in those areas don’t enforce them), I will concede that their propaganda (the only thing the left has ever been good at) against the effort to stop the mad Mullahs of Iran and against AI Centers had an impact, but the fact that conservative ballot measures passed in many of the same states where Democrats got “shock” wins tells its own story of what happened.
Hopefully President Trump sticks to his statement about being “President Veto” the next two years. Sadly I think Democrats are going to ramp up the efforts to get both Trump and Vance murdered, so they can install a Democrat as President, via Speaker of the House. They have made it clear that they are going all in, including inciting civil war, to ensure they gain and keep power. They have utterly failed to learn the lesson as old as ancient Rome, that when you go after political opponents to the point of making them realize that if they are ousted from office they will be prosecuted, imprisoned, or executed, you eventually get Caesar crossing the Rubicon.
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Card, I don’t know what it means when we agree completely.
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For those unaware, Philadelphia area leftists are going to hold a demonstration demanding that Jewish businesses leave Philadelphia, calling Jews “disgusting people”, and they are holding it on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht. Anyone who does not think these people would happily carry out a second Holocaust, hasn’t been paying attention:
https://nypost.com/2026/11/04/us-news/philly-protest-on-kristallnacht-anniversary-demands-jewish-owned-shops-leave/
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Yeah. And as has been noted I’m Jewish enough for Hitler. So are my kids.
Fun times ahead.
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Yeah, Dan and I are both caught in that whole “one flesh” trap….. 😁
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Now that sounds like a precursor to ACW2.
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It is, pace G.K. Chesterton, a spiritual pun that I am currently midway through reading a volume of William Manchester’s biography of Winston Churchill. (One dollar at a library book sale? That’s almost a muscle-memory reflex at work.) It is from his wilderness years, 1932 to 1940, and it has been going into jaw-dropping, gob-smacking, brain-fricasseeing detail on how profoundly committed the British, and especially its leadership class, were to swerving away madly from any possible confrontation with Hitler. How committed? Downing Street trying to ditch the French and make Germany their new best friend on the Continent committed. The Times spiking its foreign correspondents’ reports on what was being done in Germany, and then Austria, and then Czechoslovakia committed. (They may have been, if such is imaginable, worse at printing gross distortions than their namesakes in New York.) It is showing me just how invested a great nation can be in ruining itself in ways it is hard for a rational human being to credit.
So last Tuesday night is rather more explicable to me now.
Do we have a Churchill who can save us?
Some of us thought we had one. Maybe we need another.
Republica restituendae.
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Also see “Darkest Hour” — not only the movie, but the book it’s based on, which came out of a pretty deep dive into British historical archives. This covers a slightly later period, just before to a bit after Churchill’s ‘sudden’ elevation to Prime Minister. And the amazing degree to which he was lobbied to find a ‘separate peace’ with Nazi Germany, almost no matter the price. And how far he went towards exploring that option, before turning back and rejecting it utterly, then (e.g.) saving the British Army in Europe with Operation Dynamo and the Dunkirk evacuation.
Even the movie succeeds very well in getting across just how say-anything-do-anything the Old School Tie Set were, back then, and even how socialist-sympathetic more than a few were.
The current top sellouts of formerly-Great Britain are visibly cut from the same bolt of cloth.
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Churchill had spent most of his political career warning people about Germany. “Go away, Winnie. You’re tiresome. Everything is fine.”
Churchill has pissed a lot of powerful people off. After Chamberlain failed, Parliament voted Churchill in as Prime Minister, to make him eat crow by making a deal with Germany. They figured they’d make him do it, then vote him back out. A beautiful political solution, really. Everyone’s hands would stay clean, and all the blame for any bad results would fall on Churchill’s head.
Churchill immediately got an audience with George VI, who gave him a note on a piece of scratch paper, telling him to fight. Churchill used that note as a sledgehammer against all opposition. Churchill was still a laughingstock at the time, but nobody wanted to get on George VI’s bad side.
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Charlie Kirk may have been on the road to being as good an orator as Churchill. Unfortunately, that candle was snuffed out and we’ll never know.
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Iran declared war on us 50 years ago, treated our people like enemy combatants, declared their intention to destroy us and were creating weapons for that stated objective. The declared war should have been mutual (and kinetic) the first time they executed our people. Trump has accomplished a great deal without putting boots on the ground.
Supporting Israel makes sense, as they are the only country in the area that even comes close to western values. We lose or fail to support Israel, the whole area dissolves within the year. I don’t support genocide, and I know too much of the legitimate history to think that “From the river to the sea” means anything else.
Tariffs have been used as a political tool for many years. The main difference is that now we’re using them rather than every country in the world using them against us. “Unfair” has to go both ways.
The war in Ukraine is two desperate enemies who can never stop. The Ukrainians remember what happened the last time Russia invaded and they will not allow another holodomor. Russia is in a demographic and economic collapse. Trump’s mistake was thinking he could end it. I do not blame him for not being able to end it.
The people who believe these things “lost the midterms” seem to be uniformly in an echochamber. They are media (and even the supposedly conservative media shares the same bubble), politicians or politics adjacent (on either side), or rich twits who consider themselves the Special People.
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I’ve been poking around, trying to find answers about this crapstorm. There’s a lot of different thoughts on the situation, as you might imagine.
Postcards From Barsoom had some interesting thoughts. He doesn’t discount the possibility of fraud and thinks it’s a likely contributing factor. He also said that young white males swung hard by about 40 points to the Dems from 2024. I can easily believe that, too, especially their reasons for doing so. Also gave a good reason for why Abbott got crushed. I’m a relatively new TX resident, so I didn’t know that Abbott was so bloody bad on immigration.
Definitely worth a read.
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-suicide-party
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I can’t believe that. The young white males, I mean. Nooope. Not the ones I know. And I know a lot because it’s sons’ age group.
I think looking at corrupted data for clues is… a fool’s game.
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There’s a lot of anger among young white males. Don’t discount it. They’ve been getting crapped on for years, being told by the Left that everything that’s wrong with society is their fault, and the Right barely helps, if at all. It’s been hard for them to find jobs because they’re being replaced with H1Bs. (I’m not “young” anymore, but I’ve personally experienced this recently)
I *can* believe this is a factor because I’ve lived it. I’m not stupid enough to vote for a lefty, EVER, but I can easily believe a lot of young guys are angry beyond words. The frustration is real.
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I KNOW there’s a lot anger, but they know where most of the crap is coming from. They’re not stupid.
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I know more than a few that are blaming Israel for everything, too. I’ve given up trying to argue with them. Otherwise intelligent people who get stuck in that stupid point of view.
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You want hard evidence that a malign hand was on the electoral scales?
One state, one, cleared out the electoral fraud machine, sacked the crone of Broward County, and rooted out the institutional fraudsters before during and after the Bidenreich.
It faced the same issues: ‘tarded RINOs, Team Trump’s ambitious failures to successfyuly juggle competing oligarchic powers, high prices… And just look how the ballots went, red vs. blue.
Fraud? We’re soaking in it.
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I’ve been shouting from the mountain tops. About 25% of what the dems claim as their vote is actually real.
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THIS.
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Agreed. The attitude “I’ll do what I please unless you will shoot me” covers a multitude of sins.
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Shooting war with the left was always inevitable. Trump just bought us time.
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I’d prefer the shooting be done by police or National Guard acting on our behalf. If we have to do it ourselves, it will be hot, long, with many mistakes, and much more nasty, with significant social wounds that will take at least a lifetime to heal.
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“Lifetime to heal”?
Try multiple lifetimes. There are still grievances from the shall-not-be-mentioned-war (on this blog). That ended over 150 years ago.
Even police and/or National Guard acting on our behalf will be bad, very, very, bad.
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THIS.
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We don’t actually have data on how long Communism takes to heal. That experiment is still ongoing. See also CCP/Xi, also Putin, also Europe.
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Yeah when you’ve had European governments say stock up.
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There’ll be some Europeans probing their potato patches and flowerbeds with metal rods, making sure the guns and ammo grandpa buried in 1946 are still there.
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And while we’re all waiting for the “GO” signal, we can all at least recon our local DildoCrat and RepubliTard offices and chief PolyTicks, and make plans.
Don’t write your plans down. Follow the KISS principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid!) But….if you need to write it down, it ain’t simple enough.
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Interesting.
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yeah. I’ve been following them.
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