{"id":75928,"date":"2020-11-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75928"},"modified":"2020-11-21T08:41:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T14:41:57","slug":"the-end-of-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75928","title":{"rendered":"The End Of The Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

I believe there was massive fraud in this election. I believe President
Trump will fight it in the courts. I don’t know if he will win. But
even if he doesn’t, things are going to be okay.<\/p>

Shouting aside, it seems each state makes their own rules on who can
vote, how votes are counted, and what it takes to set aside the results
of the election. I don’t know the standards of evidence required or the
procedures to be followed. None of the Instant Experts on the internet
seem to know, either.<\/p>

Assuming the worst – that Biden is certified as the winner and sworn in
as President – what then?<\/p>

Really, not much. I’ve lived under Democrat regimes pretty much my
entire life. They’ve always been morons and the younger ones are
getting worse, but I don’t think the people behind the scenes are ready
to let them destroy the country, yet. That’s why Bernie got the axe in
the primaries and Biden became the nominee. They needed someone
moderate-looking to hoax the yokels a while longer.<\/p>

I still believe the Covid crisis was a political crisis manufactured to
justify mailed ballots to steal the election (I didn’t think it would be
so brazen). The lock-downs will continue during the Fourth Quarter to
make Trump’s economic numbers look bad. But when Biden is sworn in,
he’ll need to start generating good economic numbers to help Democrats
in the 2022 mid-terms. Covid will become just a bad flu, something we
must live with, restrictions will be lifted.<\/p>

I assume Biden\/Harris will resume meddling in foreign affairs. I’ll urge
my grandkids NOT to enlist because it’ll be too risky. Not risk of dying
in defense of our nation, that’s defensible; risk they’ll be sent to die
in some shit-hole Third World nation defending some pie-in-the-sky
notion of Utopia dreamed up by bureaucrats. At least President Trump is
trying to get us out of those places now, before he leaves office.
That’s a good start. If he can ram through a whole bunch more federal
judges before he goes, that’ll help a lot.<\/p>

I assume Biden\/Harris will be urged to raise taxes, ban guns, eliminate
cars, and endless other foolishness but I assume the adults in the
Senate will block that. As the pundit says, gridlock is the next best
thing to Constitutional government.<\/p>

All in all, I’m not despondent. I think President Trump’s super-power
was to so enrage the Left they tore off their own masks, letting
sensible people see how bat-sh*t crazy they are. I think that opened a
lot of eyes, hopefully to continue in future elections as the cultural
pendulum swings back to sanity.<\/p>

Fear not. This too shall pass.<\/p>

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I agree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also believe the natural “progressive” urge to overreach, combined with the customary crash at the polls for the President’s party in the 2022 midterms – which, given the burgeoning extremism of the left, could rival 2010 – has the potential to be epic. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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