Quick & Dirty
Some miscellaneous observations in the final hours before the die is cast.
In no particular order:
My gut tells me Donald Trump is going to win the popular vote and the electoral college.
Having been on the far right my entire adult life, it’s strange to see the culture move in this direction. The vibe is definitely shifting. Dare I say that the political left is now the home of the loser?
The democratic base is mostly poorly informed, neurotic, weak, unattractive, demented, obnoxious loser platoons like this:
Meanwhile, the right is full of industrious, creative, and vibrant people, building more prosperous businesses, new technologies, deeper faiths, stronger communities, better money, healthier food, resilient men, elegant women, hardier children. Better everything.
Basically, do you want to be a nation of whiny losers or superlative winners? Your answer to that question tells me who you’ll vote for. If you think it’s a false choice, that answer also tells me who you’ll vote for. Loser.
Somehow, the democrats manage to attract people who publicly hate our country and those who still publicly pretend to love it. One of them hasn’t got the memo yet.
Today, at 2:56 pm, two F-15s flew over Knoxville. This is rare, except for flyovers when the Vols are playing. Though probably a routine training flight, it felt ominous. The regime should have considered that. Perhaps they did. Either way, it seems like a foolish decision. For the next few days (weeks? months?), shows of force - particularly military force - may be interpreted as a menace to our liberty. Best to keep those jets on the ground until January 20, eh Lloyd?
In 2020, Trump got 74 million votes. Nobody disputes that. Biden “got” 81 million votes. Half the country disputes that. The combined 155 million votes required a turnout rate of nearly 70%, the highest in more than 100 years. Such high turnout lacked “believability,” given that Biden was deeply unpopular and never left his basement to campaign.
Compared to 2020, Trump is MORE popular today, with more support from black men and Hispanics and, of course, everybody who supported him in 2020. He’s going to clear 80 million votes.
If the regime is going to cheat by juicing Harris’ numbers, they’ll have to manufacture enormous voter turnout. Anything above 70% will lack “believability.”
Is there a way for the participation rate to go down, but for the total votes to go up? Yes. Increase the “denominator” - that is, the number of eligible voters. But where oh where could we “find” several million people whose citizenship status isn’t being tracked?
The Supreme Court’s decision in Department of Commerce v. New York suddenly feels relevant. There, the Court effectively barred the Census from asking people if they are citizens.
It’s weird that the government of the United States isn’t permitted to ask if people are citizens.
What kind of country prohibits its government from asking if the people in the country are citizens?
It’s not impossible that Harris could win the electoral college while losing the popular vote. This would be ironic given that the left has spent five decades complaining about that outcome. Still, cheating this way would be more believable since it would require the regime to manufacture a smaller number of fraudulent votes in just a handful of cities like Philadelphia and Detroit. This would avoid the believability problem relating to excessively high turnout rates. See #5 and #6 above.
If Trump loses, future historians will no longer say “cross the Rubicon” to mean “the point at which the republic was finally destroyed.” They’ll say “raid the Mar-a-Lago” instead.
Speaking of Rome, the hour approaches. Soon we will roll the dice. Then, iacta alea est:
Yes, it seems like Trump is likely to win, barring widespread false ballots (or ballot destruction or deliberate miscounting).
Yes, leftists are losers. They are people who externalize their failings by bringing them into politics because they lack the courage to confront their shortcomings.
As someone who spent half my adult life on the center left, I no longer really care that much who wins (though I voted early for Trump and encourage others to do the same), all I can control is how I behave, and I am committed to being the biggest asshole I can to leftists, both online and in person.
Being "nice" is how we wound up with a bunch of incompetent girlbosses censoring speech and forcing experimental meds on the people who pay their salary.
Always remember - no matter who is in the white house - shitlibs deliberately poisoned Black Americans who couldn't afford to lose their jobs. They hate black people. No justice, no peace.
Your mouth, God's ear, Mister AR.