Tuesday’s Gone
By Mr. D
Fleshing out my first thoughts on the most recent election:
In Minnesota, the age-old wisdom prevails: money talks, bullshit walks. Tim Walz is sputtering fool, but he will be governor for the next four years. Unless his A1C level approaches triple digits, it’s highly likely he’ll complete his term and step aside for another sideshow act once he passes his sell-by date, some time around 2027. The DFL has the money and the infrastructure to control this state for the foreseeable future and the GOP has nothing. The DFL proved they could elect any droolbucket with a brand name when they pushed Mark Dayton across the line in 2010 and 2014. A guy with Walz’s skillset and mien wouldn’t get beyond middle management for any respectable company in the state, but he’s won twice. We can see all see it for what it is, but it doesn’t matter in the slightest — for the fourth election running, the DFL showed Team Rocks and Cows their ass. I don’t doubt they’ll find another standard bearer who is (a) absurd and (b) likely to win in 2026.
Keith Ellison is corrupt as the day is long, a 30-year grifter. He let a $250 million fraud run without interruption for the better part of two years. He’s now won statewide office twice. We’re pretty far gone if he can’t be defeated. I don’t doubt Jim Schultz is a competent lawyer, but his affect was of a guy who doesn’t get out of the conference room nearly enough and he was too nice a guy to run against a bully. To take the AG’s office back, the Republicans need a crusading litigator type who can prosecute the prosecutor and expose the rot within. There has to be one of those out there.
On the national level, it has to be said: Donald Trump didn’t help. He was and continues to be horribly wronged by what he’s gone through at the hands of his persecutors. And since civic education in this country is essentially dead in the water, most citizens can’t recognize that Trump is living example of why the Founders were against bills of attainder. Having said that, Trump will never get a sympathetic audience. He’s an obnoxious boor and he can’t get past his own solipsism; if he had even a scintilla of self-awareness, he might understand where he is, but we’ve been watching him for well over 40 years and that’s not in his skill set. Trump fancies himself the indispensable man, the conquering hero, but if he sincerely loves his nation, he’d recognize that martyrdom is a better career move. Not a chance in hell he’ll accept his fate, though.
Aside from the utter domination of Ron DeSantis in Florida, election results did not go well as one might have expected. Even so, the Republicans could still flip the House and the Senate. Based on reports from Arizona and Nevada, the Republicans could get over the line despite the Fetterman debacle in Pennsylvania. It appears likely that Adam Laxalt will win his seat in Nevada and there’s reason to believe Blake Masters may squeak by with Kari Lake becoming the governor in Arizona. Meanwhile, Herschel Walker will be going to a runoff in Georgia and has a good chance of prevailing this time. Even if the Senate ends up 50/50 again, I can imagine Joe Manchin may try to cross the aisle to save his ass in 2024. What will be interesting is whether Mitch McConnell would want him. I am not convinced McConnell enjoys being majority leader; he has more opportunities for self-enrichment in his current position.
Meanwhile, the Donks own the next two years. And they are going to hate that. There is still an urgent need for them to ease out Biden before too long, but they aren’t going to have an easy path to removing him, unless they decide to use Hunter Biden’s depredations as the pretext. Still, they will need a plausible successor. Kamala Harris impresses no one. Gavin Newsom is an empty suit. Pete Buttigieg? I don’t think so. Maybe it will be time for President Fetterman.
November 10th, 2022 at 6:16 am
Yah, and the DFL owns both legislative arms to boot. Fasten your seatbelts, you are going to ride the Vomit Comet for at least another two years. Living proof of HL Mencken’s observation that democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. Plenty of room down here in North Carolina.
November 10th, 2022 at 6:25 am
Yesterday, I heard Amy Koch, Laverne Turner, Howard Root and Brian McDaniel spewing out the same post mortem about the MNGOP that we hear after every election; our candidates need to spend more time in the inner cities and get their messages out to establish a “this is who I am”, BEFORE the DemoCommie attack ads start running every five minutes. Of course, GOP candidates can’t do that, because there is never any money to do so. Jensen and Birk were commended for doing more campaigning in the hoods than any previous candidates, but it still wasn’t enough. They also lamented that there are qualified people within the party that, due to cancel culture, the bullying by smug pricks and the media, they are reluctant to run, especially if they have families. Until that is under better scrutiny on everyone, I fear that Minnesota is doomed to become a third world country. The bright side, IMO, the people that re-elected Commandant Klink, have ignored all of the crimes that he committed against them during the plandemic, including murders of grandmas and grandpas, many of them likely constituents that voted for him and others that were scared to go for exams or treatments, then died, the overdoses and suicides, may ultimately be one of his victims. There will probably be another plandemic, too. Sadly, these same morons will roll up their sleeves to get jabbed with more lethal juice. As we’re now seeing and learning, the WuFlu juice is killing and maiming thousands of people, thinning the ranks of constituents.
November 10th, 2022 at 6:31 am
Was 2020 election stolen
Was this one
November 10th, 2022 at 6:40 am
On a positive note, 11 traditionally DemoCommie seats in NY, flipped red. This is one reason that the GOP will probably take the House.
November 10th, 2022 at 6:50 am
BH, Minnesota twice elected a 75IQ thot from a 3rd world shithole, who everyone knows married her brother while married to another man to defraud the INS.
Minnesota reelected an AG who was outsmarted by that 75IQ thot’s 75 IQ relatives for a quarter of a billion dollars.
Minneapolis reelected a feckless twit for mayor who literally sat on his ass while the city burned down. Gangs of feral negroes continue to rape, pillage, murder and beat the White citizens and their own people to this day. On the rare occasion a negro berserker gets arrested, Minnesota’s judicial system routinely turns them loose within 24 hours.
Minnesota sent a cop to prison for 30 years for a crime everyone knows he didn’t commit.
Minnesota is a dark, freezing tundra for 1/2 the year.
Who lives in a place like that?
November 10th, 2022 at 6:55 am
To top it all off, the people of Minnesota pay some of the highest taxes in the country for the privilege of living neck deep in all that shit.
November 10th, 2022 at 7:00 am
“Plenty of room down here in North Carolina.”
Evidently you don’t have to drive through Charlotte, golfdoc. I have to make a monthly meeting in our offices in Huntersville…dread it.
November 10th, 2022 at 7:16 am
May I suggest another Berg Law concerning conspiracy theories.
Law: The likelihood of a conspiracy becoming known is directedly correlated to the number of conspirators involved — because no one knows how to shut up.
Corollary. Q: Do conspiracies matter once they are exposed? A: Only the press gets to decide.
November 10th, 2022 at 7:19 am
The soul of the Republican Party will be determined by which group within the party wins control:
Group A: Cut my taxes, it is all I care about.
Group B: All hail the ego of Trump.
Group C: Everyone else.
November 10th, 2022 at 7:43 am
when i was a kid my buddy learned to do magic tricks at first i could see him palm the coin or deal from the bottom of the deck but after a year of practice i knew he was doing it but could not catch his sleight of hand because he got better with practice
all todays post election analysis assumes the election was free and fair so the proposed strategy changes assume we had bad candidates and trump sabotaged their changes not that our candidates were cheated
in florida 2000 democrats tried to steal the election for gore but we watched on television as election judges peered at hanging chads to determine that he had lost a fact later conceded by the new york times investigation
in 2020 we watched as democrats stole the election in real time with fraudulent ballot dumps and vote switches everybody knew it happened but democrats ran out the clock and never trumpers hated the man more than the loss so the fraudulent results stood
history makes it legitimate to ask whether this was a free and fair election or whether democrats have simply gotten better at stealing elections through means we cannot easily verify such as ballot harvesting and computer jiggering
is there any evidence either way too early to tell but the fact the pre election polls and same day exit polls were so wildly at variance with the purported results raises eyebrows
the fact down ballot races like school board went strongly conservative suggests the votes matched the electoral mood
the fact arizona voting machines were off line and fetterman sued to have late ballots counted hints at systemic electoral fraud not voter dissatisfaction
in recent years the time between announcement of a conspiracy theory and proof it is correct has shortened dramatically
i would like to see a comparison of election results in states with strong election integrity laws versus weak what do you bet weak states tend blue because they are easier to steal
which suggests the correct response is not to abandon conservative principles and candidates but to strengthen election integrity laws to require paper ballots and purple fingers
November 10th, 2022 at 7:46 am
Good post, Mr D. You might find this to be of interest too.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/401793.php
November 10th, 2022 at 7:49 am
in florida 2000 democrats tried to steal the election for gore but we watched on television as election judges peered at hanging chads to determine that he had lost a fact later conceded by the new york times investigation
Yes. And Florida cleaned up its election laws and processes after that. The results are clear to see — a little over a month after a devastating hurricane, and with another hurricane on the doorstep, Florida ran an election and announced the results within hours after the polls closed.
November 10th, 2022 at 7:54 am
all todays post election analysis assumes the election was free and fair
I wrote here prior to the election that those polls indicating a so-called red wave were just messages to the “vote counters” that election night was going to be especially challenging with lots of work and lots of stress but that Nancy P and the gang had the utmost confidence that they would be successful.
November 10th, 2022 at 8:16 am
We will always have the likes of dirty trickster Marc Elias plaguing our elections. The only answer to that is to have our own.
On the hand, let’s not mistake “stealing” for:
– More money.
– Better organization.
– A dominate media
– Stronger get-out-the-vote efforts.
– A really weak, ineffective and incompetent Republican Party.
– The blustering ego of Toxic Trump.
Rather than rend our garments and gnash our teeth over “stolen elections” maybe we should get our own house in order with better organization, stronger candidates, more money, get-out-the-vote drives and sending Toxic Trump on a permeant vacation.
November 10th, 2022 at 8:51 am
Newsom is popular in California because he tells the ruling elite in Cali that they not only have the politically best ideas, but that these ideas are also morally morally the best. His brand will not travel well outside the Golden State, his political persona is designed to work in California and nowhere else.
November 10th, 2022 at 8:53 am
🤡 The squeakiest wheel always makes the most noise. Choose better candidates and get better results. Quality of candidate mattered in this election. I would like to think that I wasn’t the only one that voted against Jensen and not for Walz.
The Republicans had the worst midterm of any party not in power in 40 years. The Republicans have spent the last 2 years spreading conspiracy theories, election denying and nominating unelectable candidates. Unless they move into reality and start working for the country instead of their party 2024 will be worse for them.
Btw nice tweet yesterday about heating your house…..
November 10th, 2022 at 8:55 am
At least the DFL ran on medical freedom/body autonomy so we will never have to deal with lockdowns, masks or shot mandates (that neither prevent getting or spreading a virus) again, right?
November 10th, 2022 at 9:07 am
Mr D — my mistake, that was a MBerg’s classy tweet:
“Congratulations, Minnesota voters! Enjoy heating your houses with abortions this winter!” ~ Mitch Berg
As someone with Norwegian ancestry —I wish he’d not associate the Norwegian brand with his political nonsense.
November 10th, 2022 at 9:33 am
GOP did quite well in Wisconsin. The state legislature is largely unchanged, about 2/3 GOP in both the upper and lower houses.
November 10th, 2022 at 9:42 am
we must raise more money next time
we must build a better organization next time
we must work harder to get out the vote
we must purge the party of objectionable people such as trump
we must abandon conservative principles which offend moderates
and most importantly of all
we must vote harder than ever next time
then we will win for sure
no we wont
none of that matters if the people counting the votes in key races cheat by stuffing the ballot drop off boxes with thousands of fake ballots or programming the scanning machines to switch every 10th republican vote to democrat
did they?
until we know the vote counting process was free and fair the proposed solutions are premature
November 10th, 2022 at 9:43 am
The DFL does love abortions, don’t they? They view abortion as a positive good, otherwise why invite women nationwide to come to Minnesota to have their “inconvenience” excised?
Some women, the smarter ones, are beginning to wake up to the fact that modern capitalism is busy erasing their biological necessity. If women have no role as child bearers, they are, as Aristotle described women, merely spindly, mutilated men.
November 10th, 2022 at 9:51 am
Say 🐀? I endorse your 🤡. Please preface your drunken 🍸 twaddle with it henceforth.
ps: Have you been polishing your Oscar?
November 10th, 2022 at 10:00 am
REPUBLICANS HAVE WON 6M MORE VOTES THAN DEMS IN HOUSE RACES, BUT GAINED FEW SEATS
Sorry for caps, it is copy and paste. Math? What math?!
November 10th, 2022 at 10:02 am
“I would tell you things about him that won’t be very flattering,” Trump said of DeSantis… “I know more about him than anybody, other than, perhaps, his wife.”
I bet Trump has DeSantis’ Kenyan birth certificate in a safe!
November 10th, 2022 at 10:44 am
Okay….
Name these people.
Who are they?
First name, middle name, last name…..and hey, DOB, whynot? Convicted on what date?
I mean, really? thousands if not tens of thousands of Democrats are stuffing ballot boxes (and have been for years) and not one of them has ever been caught with enough evidence to convict them?
C’mon, just a couple of TicToc images?
Not say’n that it never happens, of course it does….but claims of industrial strength corruption require industrial strength proof.
This is a fantasy, a losing fantasy, as an excuse to keep losing and pointing the blame at mysterious forces lurking somewhere out there
November 10th, 2022 at 10:58 am
Who are they?…but claims of industrial strength corruption require industrial strength proof.
2000 Mules, Greg. 2000 Mules.
Convicted on what date?
You sound like resident trollbots: “if there is no conviction, there is no crime”. Did your logic take an Uber to unicornland?
In the meantime:
NJ County Seeks Inquiry After Dominion Scanners Reject Votes
Vote harder next time, Greg. Vote harder!
November 10th, 2022 at 11:14 am
there is never enough proof to convince the true believer
who is unwilling to consider it
instead of blaming others
purge trump
vote even harder
third times the charm
good luck with that
November 10th, 2022 at 11:16 am
jpa, next time, Greg’s voting tumescence will be legendary.
November 10th, 2022 at 11:18 am
Not say’n that it never happens, of course it does
Well, Greg’s argument is quite convincing to me. I’m just a little disappointed that that he won’t go the whole 9 yards and just declare that there wasn’t any vote fraud at all. I mean, if *no one* is or has ever been arrested for vote fraud, much less convicted, then obviously the complete and scandalous lack of electoral law enforcement is proof of there never having been electoral fraud. Well, heck, what need is there to enforce electoral laws when there’s no electoral fraud.
November 10th, 2022 at 11:26 am
About as believable as PizzaGate.
On the other hand, if the film was titled 20 Mules, I would probably believe it.
Okay.. how about an indictment? A single indictment. Name a name.
Or even an police report?
But let’s talk about real conspiracies. Ones right out in the open with no mysterious figures lurking in the shadows
The Democrats spend 53 million, traced, verified and legally reported dollars to advance a nationwide slate of “the 2020 election was stolen” morons in the primaries and the knuckle dragging, drooling, Trump supporters wrapped their loving arms around the cynical Democrat ploy and sentenced the nation to six years of the brain-dead Fetterman and two years of federal judge appointing Joe.
So here is the way it should have gone with the Trump candidate interviews.
Trump: Do you believe the 2020 election was stolen?
Candidate: Yes.
Trump: Good, now can you shut up about it?
Candidate: Sure, but can you?
November 10th, 2022 at 11:34 am
The logical response to anyone who truly believes the 2000 Mules fantasy would be…..okay, if they can do that, next time you get 3000 mules.
I mean, seriously, can only Democrats hire mules?
November 10th, 2022 at 11:37 am
You don’t need a conspiracy to steal an election in a narrowly divided democracy. You just need a little push. You identify who your voters are likely to be and you make it easier for those people to vote on the margin.
For a real election stealing conspiracy, not only do you have to make certain that everyone in the conspiracy keeps his mouth shut, you need to know ahead of time how many votes you need to win, which mean that you need to know how many people are voting for your opponent.
Also, you have to win, since the winner, not the loser, has the power to expose your ballot box stuffing.
November 10th, 2022 at 11:39 am
“We will always have the likes of dirty trickster Marc Elias plaguing our elections. The only answer to that is to have our own.”
So — by Elias winning court battles with facts, evidence and law on his side — he’s somehow bad?
November 10th, 2022 at 11:50 am
Emery flouting his ignorance again.
Elias was the orchestrator of the fraudulent Steele Dossier.
The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about President Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said.
Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research.
After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to those people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-to-russia-dossier/2017/10/24/226fabf0-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html
Never forget that Emery is a very stupid person, and the stronger that his opinion is on a topic, the less he understands it.
November 10th, 2022 at 11:51 am
Okay.. how about an indictment? A single indictment. Name a name.
Hillary Clinton admitted she erased a hard drive that was under Congressional subpoena. She testified to Congress, under oath, that she never sent or received any classified documents on her unsecured, private server; more than 3000 classified docs turned up, including a few classified “Special Access Program TS1” have been found on the recovered hard drive.
Indictment: No
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Hunter Biden purchased a handgun, and submitted an ATF document that certified he was not a user of or addicted to illegal drugs. The document is public record, as is his record of addiction. He committed a felony for which anyone would be arrested and tried.
Indictment: No
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The evidence of criminal acts by these two slobs is as tumescent as your voting, Greg. Solid as a rock. But they will never be tried for their crimes.
Tell us more about your tumescent faith in our system of justice. 🤡
November 10th, 2022 at 11:59 am
Greg, so incontrovertible 2000 mules video evidence and subsequent analytics are PIzza Gate? You offer zero logical rebuttal other than a putdown.
Okay.. how about an indictment? A single indictment. Name a name.
Mmmmm Ok… Now you are just digging a hole deeper to join bottom-dwelling logic deprived trollbots and wikibots by repeating ad-nauseum logical falacies. So according to you, since OJ was not convicted, he is not a murderer but Derek who did not murder anyone but was convicted, is? Oh, oh… and since Hunter was not arrested and convicted of lying on FFL record he did not commit a crime, right? Keep digging…
November 10th, 2022 at 12:00 pm
So — by Elias winning court battles with facts, evidence and law on his side — he’s somehow bad?
This is so true. This is exactly the same as Al Capone; he kept winning court battles with facts, evidence and law on his side right up until they put him in jail for a dumb little arithmetic error.
November 10th, 2022 at 12:02 pm
Perhaps this election will herald a return to a Republican party that accepts the result of elections.
After the usual gerrymandering and voter suppression that is.
This might just be the beginning of the end for Trump and Trumpism. The GOP can’t let him f*** things up again. No need for those sycophants in the GOP to show him fealty anymore. They might actually grow back some crown jewels to replace the ones they gave him over the past few years.
November 10th, 2022 at 12:06 pm
Blade, you just named two names: Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden, which was off topic, because the conversation was about stuffing ballots. Still looking for names on that.
Having said that, it is a start.
Hillary Clinton was not charged because James Comey claimed “criminal charges were not warranted.” A lot of people do not agree with him, but then there is wisdom in not charging a presidential candidate in the middle of an election. We have not quite arrived at Brazil, but we are getting there fast.
As for Hunter Biden. I suspect he will be indicted if the Republicans gain the house, however, he will not be indicted by the Republicans, but a Democratic flunky PA will clip him on a marked down charge and he will plead guilty, then go to rehab.
But none of this has anything to do with stuffing ballots, or election fraud.
Still waiting for names on that.
November 10th, 2022 at 12:08 pm
On Tuesday in the 2022 Midterms, the “Drop and Roll” occurred in the Michigan Governor race just like it happened in the 2020 Presidential Election. It also occurred in the Minnesota Governor’s race. We now have evidence that it also occurred in the Georgia Senate race stealing the win from Republican Herschel Walker.
Nothing to see here. Move along sheople. Greg, please do not bother replying to this, save us all the bandwidth and having to deal with an apparent trollbot-in-training whose mental faculties decided to take leave of absence.
November 10th, 2022 at 12:15 pm
My personal favorite conspiracy was the Dominion Voting Machine thing. The idiot Mike Lindell accused Dominion of all kinds of shenanigans, so Dominion sued him for $1.3 Billion (I believe). He sued them for $1.6 Billion.
The thing is, I believe Dominion – because of a little thing called Discovery. He gets to look at everything they have and he gets to look at everything he has.
I suspect it will not end well for The Pillow Guy.
Sadly, Sidney Powell jumped on the same idiocy – and here I thought she was smart. Clue, if you don’t have evidence or don’t understand the evidence you think you have….its best to shut up.
November 10th, 2022 at 12:16 pm
justplainangry,
Put up or shut up.
November 10th, 2022 at 12:23 pm
It appears Rupert Murdoch has declared total war on the former president.
Trump Is the Republican Party’s Biggest Loser
He has now flopped in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-is-the-gops-biggest-loser-midterm-elections-senate-house-congress-republicans-11668034869
Now, I have to admit, in terms of character, Trump is even worse than Clinton. Not even Clinton would disparage fellow Democrats the way this goofball is attacking Republicans. I would suggest Republican leadership get rid of this narcissist.
November 10th, 2022 at 12:28 pm
Speaking of shut up. May I add a shut the fuck up for 🐀?
You’re like that retarded kid in the store repeating “mom; mom; mom; mom; mom” until he gets a sack of candy. Fucking annoying little punk that needs a smack.
November 10th, 2022 at 12:31 pm
Put up or shut up.
Your demand for names is infantile, delusional and without merit. You KNOW we cannot give you names because guilty parties were not persecuted. We tried to appeal to whatever logic you may have left to show why, hence Hunter, Chauvin, OJ and Hillary examples are very much on topic, but it is obviously falling on a closed mind and deaf ears. So, since it is not useful to argue with idiots and I am definitely not bringing myself to your level, you now have a distinction of joining troll and wiki bots on my ignore list.
And remember, VOTE HARDER!
November 10th, 2022 at 12:40 pm
“Blade, you just named two names: Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden, which was off topic, because the conversation was about stuffing ballots. Still looking for names on that.”
Well, see, it was an allegory, Greg. An example of why one might not find names and dates for indictments, although crimes had been committed in plain sight.
Are you really this fucking dense, Greg, or just messing with us?
80IQ, leftist reprobates are fond of saying “ACkTuWELLy, the StOLeN ELecTShUN LiE lost in court 10 times!!”. They say that because they’re fucking nimrods that repeat what they’re told to repeat. The fact is, none of the cases were lost, because the evidence was never allowed to be presented in court. That happened because no judge wanted to be the guy who cornered himself into being force to invalidate a presidential election.
November 10th, 2022 at 12:58 pm
Greg and his nitwitted ilk is how we end up with feckless Uniparty grifters like Mitt, and Jeb!, and Lindsay, and Liz Cheney.
He’s an example of how public schools fuck kids up so bad…parents who say “that’s not happening in MY kids school”, and then are *shocked* when little Jane comes home and declares she’s a pansexual hermaphrodite named Xbot7576
November 10th, 2022 at 1:01 pm
Regarding the names of people convicted, agreed that this is few and far between. My take is that by and large, authorities are not terribly interested in getting convictions because it really doesn’t help them advance in their careers. So the mood we need to set is to ask “who’s been caught violating campaign/voting laws?” and then “if they’re not at least indicted, why not?”, as these things seem to be rather open & shut. Yes, not the best for one’s career advancement, but huge in terms of what we see in government today.
That noted, I think the biggest issue is not clean voting, but rather “do the Republicans have good candidates and a good platform?” All too often, they do not, and Trump is a huge contributor to the problem these days.
November 10th, 2022 at 1:26 pm
do the Republicans have good candidates and a good platform?
I keep seeing this. You wouldn’t mind defining this “good” would you?
November 10th, 2022 at 1:49 pm
Maybe claiming elections are rigged without proof isn’t a winning strategy. Speaking of election deniers, it seems like gubernatorial and secretary of state candidates who also denied or questioned the legitimacy of Biden’s win have lost in a majority of races so far..
I suspect there will be more voters rejecting Trump-backed election deniers in future races as well. He is on a downward trajectory, and even his own party knows it.