Shot in the Dark

Category: Campaign ’20

  • Conspiracy Theory

    Joe Doakes, ex-Como Park, emails: One of the most common ways to refute any conspiracy theory is to point out that with that many bad actors, surely someone would have talked.     https://x.com/MattForVA/status/1971575908424151298     Now let’s talk about the stolen election.   Joe Doakes Joe’s not wrong – although it did come out in only…

  • The Beautiful Reward

    Once nice thing about being a conservative these days… …is that all your “conspiracy theories” turn out to be true.

  • Let’s Stir Up Another Republic-Threatening Hornets Nest: Part II

    Since roughly the 2020 election, I’ve simultaneously: Three points. Imperfection The first point? I made that a few weeks back, when I talked about why I don’t necessairly think “a judge and jury say so” is completely invariably the dispositive last word on any issue. Long story short – judges and juries make mistakes. And…

  • What A Difference Four Years Makes

    2020: His reelection bid coming up short in the face of democrat turnout and allegations of fraud, Donald Trump claims Dominion voting machines are rigged. The establishment tut-tuts, call Trump a sore loser. Social media censor thousands of people who repeat and extend Trump’s claim about the voting machines 2024: Uh…

  • Reward

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Any cyber guys read SITD? Easy money here. Joe Doakes There’ll always be the pillows.

  • Bagman’s Groove

    Value propositions: The Ukrainian energy company that was paying President Biden’s son Hunter $1 million a year cut his monthly compensation in half two months after his father ceased to be vice president. From May 2014, Burisma Holdings Ltd. was paying Hunter $83,333 a month to sit on its board, invoices on his abandoned laptop…

  • Facts: Growing In Office

    I feel so stupid.  I completely fell for the tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory that the election was stolen.  But as this article makes clear, the election actually was SAVED.  All those unsubstantiated Republican claims that an informal alliance of left-wing activists and business titans got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of…

  • Un-Krakened

    Do you know the one thing I always hated about Joe Soucheray’s Garage Logic? For a show that constantly railed on about the need for individual responsibility, he rattled on an awful lot about “the mystery” and its attendant “mysterians”. It struck me as a little incongruous – demanding responsibility from everyone else, but blaming…

  • Just In Case

    Apparently, the Menards in the Midway was worried about rioting Trump supporters. They stacked up huge pallets of lumber in front of the doors – just like they did during the George Floyd riots / May. Apparently, those Trump supporters I’m going to riot. Any day now. Just like those waves of “white supremacist terror“…

  • Motivations

    So the pre-election polling saying the electorate was going toward Biden in landslide lots was wrong? Who could have possibly figured that out? Oh, yeah – anyone that’s been reading this blog for the past ten years. There are three possible explanations: 1. Evolution! – The pollster’s craft hasn’t caught up with the “new normal”,…

  • Straight Ticket

    I was 24th in line at Saint Paul Ward 4 Precinct 14 when the polls opened at 7AM this morning. It was brisk, but a beautiful morning. How did I vote? A straight second amendment ticket. The right to keep and bear arms is the canary in the human rights coal mine. A politician who…

  • “Julia”

    Anyone remember “Julia”? The Obama campaign’s infantiolization of the American voter? This video from Kamala Harris makes “Julia” look like John Galt: This is what Joe Biden is a delivery system for.

  • 101 Reasons

    I’ve been doing these since 2004. It’s a different list every time. More different than most, this year. So without further ado – 101 Reasons I’m Voting GOP. Because most of politics is local… …and locally, the DFL has made a hash of both cities at every level. And although I can’t vote in CD5,…

  • Fraud Watch

    I have been confidently assured there is no ballot fraud.  I’m dubious. The Minnesota Supreme Court issued an opinion in DSCC v. Simon, courtfile A20-1017.  It’s eye-opening. Minnesota law has long allowed a voter to have someone help them marktheir ballot.  It’s historically been used by the blind or disabled,given by a friend or family…

  • Hear That Garment-Rending-y Sound?

    That’s the sound of DFLers realizing they’re going to have to jam ten days worth of fraud into one evening. And they’re not happy about it. The 8th Circuit returned a decision in Carson v. Simon yesterday. The presser from the Minnesota Voters Alliance explains:  The 8th Circuit reversed a lower court decision which authorized the Minnesota…

  • For The Record

    The problem isnt that Trump hasn’t condemned racism and “white supremacy”. In fact, here we see him do it 38 times: The problem is that it isn’t literally the first and last thing out of his mouth whenever he speaks, which Democrat messaging seems to assume puts it outside the attention span of the typical…

  • Fearless Prediction

    The Star-Tribune “Minnesota” poll coming out on Sunday will show Biden with an absurdly large lead in Minnesota. 12 points? 18 points? Eleventy-Teen Points? Doesn’t matter. The poll will make Minnesota look like a dead lock for Biden and the DFL. Because as I’ve shown in the past, the closer a race actually is, the…

  • Slopping The Intellectual Hogs

    The problem with democracy today is that just about half the voters are incredulous herd cattle who believe whatever they’re told, and one party makes damn sure they take advantage of it. Biden says millions have died of covid. OK, so he’s a guy with some early onset dementia. What’s Kamala Harris’s excuse?

  • Reasons I’m Thinking Something’s Up With The “Polling”, Part XXV

    The media: “The week before the election, Mike Pence is coming to a state that our polling says is supposed to be a blowout for Biden AND HAS BEEN EXPOSED TO COVID!

  • Reconstructive History

    I have two observations about Joe Biden’s performance in last Thursday’s debate. First – his campaign is all platitudes. He has a “plan” for everything. A government “plan” and three bucks will get you a cup of Caribou. It’s all there to gull the gullible. Second – like all Democrats, he can pretty much say…

  • Expect 30 Minutes Of Tina Smith Ads Per Hour For The Next 12 Days

    Usual disclaimers about “the only poll that counts is on November 3 [1] inserted here. But pessimist that I am, I really didn’t see this coming KSTP/SURVEYUSA: Tina Smith 43%; Jason Lewis 42%; 12% undecided; 3% people other. Confidence Interval +/- 5%. Smith had 11-point lead in September and 7-point lead earlier this month. pic.twitter.com/mX91q0MI6X…

  • Amy’s Got A/Many Gun/s

    Wouldn’t it be funny to hear her say, “No, I do not own A gun. Not one single, solitary gun. I own a Mighty Shitload of guns, and have ammo for all of them! So There!” Joe Doakes As long as she drags the SCOTUS into giving strict scrutiny to gun rights cases, I don’t…

  • Where Have You Gone, Learned Foot…

    …the nation turns its lonely, topical limerick and haiku writing eyes to you. And Ryan Rhodes. But since Foot is retired and Ryan is MIA, we’ll have to fill in ourselves. There once was a fellow named Toobin(Don’t confuse him with Jennifer Rubin). His career met its doom, when he dropped trou on ZoomNow there’s…

  • Why Are The Dems Pushing “Early Voting” So Hard?

    Aaaaaah. It makes sense now.

  • Contra

    As a typical rural scandinavian by upbringing, “optimism” comes hard for me. This election is no exception. Same as the last one, really. Those who were listening to the NARN on election night 2016 may recall that when I saw Wisconsin drop in the hoop for the President, I was briefly speechless, and my head…