Category Archives: Politics

Quote of the day—Rolf

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The first step in any recovery problem is admit you have a problem. If they don’t think the corruption is a problem and people are not going to jail, they’ll find endless excuses to not fix it.


So a plan was hatched. They watched the 2017, 2018, and 2019 off-season elections closely to determine who was involved and what methods were used.

Rolf
November 5, 2020
Election Trap
[I want to believe there was such a plan.

If it is true then I remind myself that it’s a government operation so I’m skeptical it was or will be successful.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Angelo Codevilla

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I noted that this revolution’s logic leads to no logical end. That is because “the logic that drives each turn of our revolutionary spiral is Progressive Americans’ inherently insatiable desire to exercise their superiority over those they deem inferior.” Its force, I observed, “comes not from the substance of the Progressives’ demands,” but rather “from that which moves, changes, and multiplies their demands without end. That is the Progressives’ affirmation of superior worth, to be pursued by exercising dominance: superior identity affirmed via the inferior’s humiliation.” Affirmation of one’s own superiority by punishing inferiors is an addictive pleasure. It requires ever stronger, purer doses of infliction, and is inherently beyond satisfaction.

Angelo Codevilla
September 23, 2020
Revolution 2020
[Via Kevin.

As Codevilla pointed out this is a Stalinist revolution because of the top down nature of it. And as he points out here, “Affirmation of one’s own superiority by punishing inferiors is an addictive pleasure.” There is a deadly psychology here which I have described before.—Joe]

Dead people voting in Michigan

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Via daughter Jaime:

1,300 confirmed: https://pastebin.com/XEi5Uy6t
13k being checked https://pastebin.com/zjz6nm6Q

Michigan registration website: https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/Voter/Index

The confirmed list is people who have been supposedly confirmed to be voted and/or registered to vote in this election via the Michigan Voter Information Center website (the third link above).

The second link above is a list of 14,549 names of people who were born 100 or more years ago. Of possible interest is this warning by Paste Bin for this list:

Warning – Potentially offensive content ahead!

Pastebin’s SMART filters have detected potentially offensive or questionable content ahead.

The content you are about to view has been deemed potentially offensive or questionable by our filters, because of this, you’re receiving this warning.

You can continue ahead at your own risk or go back.

Yeah, it’s offensive to the criminals committing fraud.

I sorted the confirmed list by date of birth and selected the oldest people to confirm via the Michigan registration website. Here are my results:



TERRY MATHIS  1/1900  48207 Ballot Received: 11/2/2020
JAMES BRADLEY  1/1900  48234 Ballot Received: 11/2/2020
THEODORE WILLIAMS  1/1900  48219 Registered but no absentee ballot was requested.
ROBERT BROCK  1/1900  48203 Ballot sent but not received.
JAMES JENTZ  1/1900  48224 Registered but no absentee ballot was requested.

I find it highly unlikely that people coming up on their 121st birthday actually voted. I claim fraud.

This must stop. The people committing this fraud must be sent to prison and never be allowed to vote again.

Some observations made by Jaime when she called me to discuss:

  • Maybe this is the best possible outcome. It’s so obvious that people are going to insist something be done about it.
  • Trump is not a Republican. A Republican would concede. Trump is a fighter.
  • If the lawsuits can’t be resolved by the time the electoral college votes in December then it goes to the House where a delegation, with each state equally represented, votes on the president. Republicans would have a majority in this scenario.
  • 2020 does not disappoint.

Wisconsin voters exceeded registered voters—FALSE

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I’ve seen this a couple different places now:

WiVoterNumbers

According to Wisconsin Elections Commission:

The State of Wisconsin had 3,684,726 active registered voters on November 1, 2020.

I even used the Way Back Machine for the WI web page and found it had identical numbers of November 1, 2020.

There may be good reasons to suspect fraud but this isn’t one of them for Wisconsin.

Quote of the day—TimcastFeed @TimcastFeed

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for the first time in my life i voted for a republican for president, congress, and senate leftist identitarianism and critical theory was the catalyst for me the democrats have refused to put an end to it in fact they’ve embraced it

TimcastFeed @TimcastFeed
Tooted on October 25, 2020
[We live in interesting times.—Joe]

The left can’t do numbers

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I’ve often said ant-gun people can’t do arithmetic and many times they can’t even do numbers.

Now we have someone claiming Biden won the state of Virginia with 45.4% versus Trump’s 52.9% of the vote with 96.52% of the vote in:

Biden45Trump53BidenWins

The political left can’t do numbers.

Quote of the day—David Burge @iowahawkblog

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left twitter: VOTE BIDEN OR THE RUSSKI KLANSMEN WILL MAKE YOU A HANDMAID AND SHOOT YOU WITH ASSAULT COVID BULLETS

right twitter: VOTE TRUMP OR THE CHINESE ANTIFAS WILL BURN YOUR CHILDREN ALIVE IN DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR CAMPS

me: oh boy I’m guaranteed 4 years of material

David Burge @iowahawkblog
Tweeted on October 28, 2020
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Joe Biden

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On dealing with firearms. It is irrational, with all due respect to the Governor of Texas, it is irrational what they are doing. On the very day you see a mass shooting… we are talking about loosening of access to have guns. To be able to take them into places of worship, store them in schools. I’m mean it’s absolutely irrational. It’s totally irrational.

And it’s all about special interests and it has to stop. It has to stop.

The idea that we don’t have elimination of assault type weapons, magazines that can hold multiple bullets bullets in them, is absolutely mindless. It is no violation of the Second Amendment. It’s just a bow to the special interests, the gun manufacturers, the NRA.

It’s gotta stop.

Joe Biden
September 2, 2019


[Eliminating magazines that have multiple bullets in them is not a violation of the Second Amendment? Guns for self-defense is irrational?

It’s Joe Biden that has to be stopped.

Take appropriate action.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Richard Feldman

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Money doesn’t vote – people vote.

Richard Feldman
May 14, 2016
Revered or reviled, NRA’s power is at the polls
[Note the date. The year Donald Trump surprised most of the country.

Make your intentions clear. Vote.—Joe]

Incoherent wailing

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From Becket Adams at the Washington Examiner, New York Times opinion section comes unhinged ahead of the 2020 election regarding What Have We Lost?:

Featuring all 15 New York Times opinion columnists, the collaboration asserts that its aim is to explain “what the past four years have cost America, and what’s at stake in this election.” However, rather than explore seriously and realistically the short- and long-term consequences of the Trump presidency, the project comes across more like a collective nervous breakdown, full of self-absorbed handwringing and wild-eyed proclamations about the future of the republic.

“Persuasion,” argues New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.

“The conundrum for those of us trying to change minds is that the more urgently we shout, the less we’re heard,” he writes. “The challenge for opponents of Trump like myself is that our denunciations of the president sometimes backfire and help him.”

My take from reading the same web page is that I have no clues what they are talking about when it is apparent they believe they are saying something very profound. For example, would someone please tell me what this is supposed to mean:

Hank Willis Thomas

Over the past four years, we have lost nearly everything and nothing at all. Nothing was lost but everything. Everything that is won can be lost, because winning and losing are nothing, after all.

I can sort of grasp what this guy is saying but I would have to reverse the direction of what he perceives as “forward” to believe he has a clue about what he is talking about:

Bobby C. Martin Jr.

America has lost all trust. Gone is any confidence in our institutions. Lost is our standing in the world. More divided than ever, we don’t even trust one another. Now is not the time to despair. We can’t get cynical. We can’t be afraid. Action is the only way forward. Vote. Vote. Vote.

In the end I’m inclined to agree with Adams. The New York Times people have no self awareness. This “project” of theirs, intended to be something profound, is merely an incoherent wailing:

The ahistorical lamentations featured in the New York Times’s “What have we lost?” project are neither insightful nor even particularly original. They are just the latest notes in a long, unbroken wail that began in November 2016.

If they could bottle that, like Liberal Tears, I’d used it to oil my guns.

Quote of the day—Joe Biden

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Because I’m the only one who ever got it done nationally. I beat the N.R.A. Twice. I got assault weapons banned. I got magazines that could not hold more than 10 rounds in them. I got them eliminated. Except we had a thing called an election with hanging chads in Florida and it was not reauthorized.

In addition to that, I passed the Brady Bill with waiting periods. I led that fight. But my friend to my right and others have, in fact, also given the gun manufacturers absolute immunity. Imagine if I stood here and said we would give immunity to drug companies. We would give immunity to tobacco companies.

That has caused carnage on our streets. 150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability. More than all the wars, including Vietnam, from that point on. Carnage on our streets.

And I want to tell you, if I’m elected: N.R.A., I’m coming for you, and gun manufacturers, I’m going to take you on, and I’m going to beat you. I’m the only one who has done it.

Joe Biden
February 25, 2020
Bernie Sanders, Confronted on Immunity for Gun Manufacturers, Says That Was a ‘Bad Vote’
[Is, “I got magazines that could not hold more than 10 rounds in them. I got them eliminated” a big enough lie? Maybe not.

How about “…given the gun manufacturers absolute immunity”? Is that a big enough lie? Probably. But Biden can do better.

Biden takes a another swing at the biggest lie with, “150 million people have been killed since 2007”.

Hitler and Goebbels would be proud.—Joe]

We are living in revolutionary times

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Via email from Karl B.:

Seattle City Council mulls law that could result in dismissal of many misdemeanor crimes

The Seattle City Council is considering new legislation that would create a legal loophole that would make substance addiction, mental illness or poverty a valid legal defense for nearly all misdemeanor crimes committed in the city.

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The legislation was proposed by Seattle City Councilwoman Lisa Herbold last Wednesday.

The proposal would allow for the dismissal of crimes of poverty and it would do so by revising the definition of duress as a defense against prosecution.

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If approved, the ordinance would excuse and dismiss — essentially legalizing — almost all misdemeanor crimes committed in Seattle by offenders who could show either:

  • Symptoms of addiction without being required to provide a medical diagnosis;
  • Symptoms of a mental disorder; or
  • Poverty and the crime was committed to meet an “immediate and basic need.” For example, if a defendant argued they stole merchandise to sell for cash in order to purchase food, clothes or was trying to scrape together enough money for rent. The accused could not be convicted.

It’s like during the Russian revolution. The criminals were considered allies of the revolutionaries because they stole from people with private property.

Who would attempt to have a shop in Seattle with a law like this? Or even have a home in Seattle?

One has to conclude the City Council members who vote for this are deliberately trying to destroy the city and/or are out of touch with reality.

Quote of the day—Glenn Greenwald

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American media is gripped in a polarized culture war that is forcing journalism to conform to tribal, groupthink narratives that are often divorced from the truth and cater to perspectives that are not reflective of the broader public but instead a minority of hyper-partisan elites. The need to conform to highly restrictive, artificial cultural narratives and partisan identities has created a repressive and illiberal environment in which vast swaths of news and reporting either do not happen or are presented through the most skewed and reality-detached lens.

With nearly all major media institutions captured to some degree by this dynamic, a deep need exists for media that is untethered and free to transgress the boundaries of this polarized culture war and address a demand from a public that is starved for media that doesn’t play for a side but instead pursues lines of reporting, thought, and inquiry wherever they lead, without fear of violating cultural pieties or elite orthodoxies.

Glenn Greenwald
October 29, 2020
My Resignation From The Intercept
[We are in the midst of a mass delusion about the political reality of our country. When those suffering from this delusion are confronted with the evidence their delusion they attempt to suppress that evidence and those that present it.

Greenwald is taking a courageous but difficult path. Correctly perceiving reality is an extremely tough problem yet it appears Greenwald knows the path to the truth. He is going down that path even though those suffering from the mass delusion are putting formidable obstacles in his way.

Even though the path is difficult we should remember that no matter how many people insist on the validity of a falsehood, reality always triumphs in the end.—Joe]

2nd Amendment First Responder

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Last night I attended a Zoom meeting with the “2nd Amendment First Responders” group from SAF.

The main message was to get all 2nd Amendment supporting people to vote. And it’s not just about the Presidential election. It’s the representatives in the House. It’s Senators. It’s the governors. It the state legislatures. It’s all important.

Use your social media contacts. Use your phone contacts list. Use your email contacts. Do your best to encourage and enable those eligible to vote and is likely to support candidates friendly to gun owners.

Quote of the day—Keith Olbermann

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The task is two-fold: the terrorist Trump must be defeated, must be destroyed, must be devoured at the ballot box, and then he, and his enablers, and his supporters, and his collaborators, and the Mike Lees and the William Barrs, and Sean Hannitys, and the Mike Pences, and the Rudy Gullianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has destroyed by turning it over to a virus.

Keith Olbermann
October 8, 2020
KEITH OLBERMANN: TRUMP SUPPORTERS ‘MUST BE PROSECUTED AND CONVICTED AND REMOVED FROM OUR SOCIETY
[Ahhh, yes, the party of tolerance and unity.

And the lies and projection are awesome! We have leftist terrorists burning and looting and this guy calls Trump the terrorist. It’s straight out of the book.

See also, Too many Democrats are creepily suggesting Trump voters should be jailed.

These aren’t just random trolls or Russian bots*. These are mainstream media prime-time hosts and writers.

We live in interesting times. Prepare appropriately.—Joe]

.* Well, at least that is technically true even if a good case could be made for it.

Liberal tears*

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Louder With Crowder has the TOP 5 LIBERAL MELTDOWNS OVER AMY CONEY BARRETT’S CONFIRMATION TO THE SUPREME COURT

I particularly like this one:

When I see liberals breaking down over their fear of being more free I have two reactions.

  1. I’m reminded of a story my Grandmother, born in 1895, would sometime tell. Someone she knew owned slaves. After the Civil War he could no longer keep the slaves. Many of the slaves, now free people, didn’t know how to take care of themselves and begged to remain slaves. He, of course, didn’t have any choice in the matter and, while sympathetic, could no longer keep them.
  2. I oil my guns with their tears.

Liberals Tears is now also available as bacon scented gun oil, hand sanitizer and coffee.

* If you don’t care for this technically incorrect use of the word ‘liberal’ please replace it with ‘progressive’, ‘socialist’, ‘communist’, or other more accurate word describing these pathetic people.

Quote of the day—David Hardy

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I believe it is a whole new ball game….

David Hardy
October 27, 2020
Thinking Justice Barrett over….
[Yup.

And it’s GAME ON!—Joe]

Quote of the day—Francis Wilkinson

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The asymmetry of the two major parties is driven in part by information asymmetries that feed extremism. The decades-long project of Fox News and the conservative movement to destroy shared truth has paved the way. Regular imbibers of Fox News, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute, occupy a climate more extreme than other Republicans, who tend to have more varied and less dishonest information sources.

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the assault must be made. Breaking the hold of this collective delusion is a national imperative. If there is one thing America has learned in 2020, it is that defeating a virus — whether biological or informational — requires an honest and engaged president.

Francis Wilkinson
October 22, 2020
Biden’s First War Would Have to Be Against Propaganda
[Via email from Chet.

I “love’ the guy’s referenced expert, “the Public Religion Research Institute”. Who has heard of this organization before? And why a religion research institute? Why didn’t he link to the survey? And why can’t I find the survey on their website?

This looks like a combination of projection, delusion and lying.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Frank J.

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Isn’t originalism just the Rule of Law? The law means the same thing yesterday as it does today and as it will tomorrow.

It’s originalism or judges just make stuff up whenever they feel like. I’m not really sure what the middle position is.

Frank J.
October 21, 2020
Random Thoughts: Feminism and Court Packing
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Dean Weingarten

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Purchasing or legally making a firearms silencer is one of the most effective steps a Second Amendment support can take to undermine the National Firearms Act and incrementally restore Second Amendment rights. Second Amendment supporters are well on the way to removing the NFA through an unusual tool: Overwhelming compliance.

Dean Weingarten
October 16, 2020
80% Silencers, the Political Ramifications
[Make silencers “in common use” then SAF and SCOTUS will do the rest.—Joe]