The votes are in and they have been counted. The great red wave that everyone expected never materialized. The expectation going into the election was that the Republicans would score an easy victory, picking up about forty seats in the House and enough Senate seats to gain the majority. Because America is a haplessly corrupt society, we may never know the final results, but someone will assign final numbers and it will be a slim victory for the GOP.
Of course, the flash analysis will come pouring out of the media, most likely blaming the results on Trump and the insurrectionists. You see, just as the media warned, democracy was on the ballot and this time democracy own. The Republican side of the uniparty will happily go along with it. They will expedite their plans to keep Trump off the ballot in 2024 for the good of our democracy. The whole thing is ridiculous but we are ruled by ridiculous people so this is to be expected.
The main question out of this election is about the legitimacy. Should we believe that the brain damaged hobo was the people’s choice in Pennsylvania? This is a good bellwether for this election, because John Fetterman is as close as we have come to putting a horse in a Senate. His opponent is ridiculous by normal standards, but in comparison to Fetterman he is Cicero. We are now required to pretend that a brain damaged hobo won the Pennsylvania Senate race.
The reason this particularly race is key to the legitimacy question is that there is no answer that supports the democratic system. If everything was above board and the people did vote for a brain damaged hobo, then this is proof that the public should never be trusted with such decisions. The openness to voting for a brain damaged hobo should be a disqualification to voting. On the other hand, if the vote is rigged again, then there is no reason for people to bother voting.
Of course, you can shift the question further up stream. What kind of political system produces a brain damaged hobo and a Turkish carny as the two options? Before you even get to the question of election integrity, you have to see that the system has problems far deeper than vote rigging. This turns up all over the ballot. In Georgia, the choice for Senate was between a brain damaged former football player and guy who used to hustle old black ladies for donations.
In Massachusetts, they are celebrating the first openly lesbian governor. Before Maura Healy was famously gay, she was famously stupid. Given the centrality of Massachusetts in the American empire, it is a good representation for how our democracy actually works. Politics in that state have been dominated by drunkards, perverts and degenerates for generations. The system they have imposed on the country selects for increasingly ridiculous candidates.
If we accept wholesale vote rigging is now a feature in many states, there is a limit to how much can be done. Historically, the Democratic machines used to be worth about five percent in the areas they controlled. That is enough in reasonably close elections, but not enough to overcome a wave election. All of the polling and history said this should have been a historic blowout of the Democrats, even when adjusting for the shenanigans that are now a feature of our democracy.
In other words, the results speak to something more than shenanigans. Either people skipped the election, seeing no point in it, or we are now locked into a partisan divide that makes elections pointless. Going back to Pennsylvania, either Oz lost because people thought he was just as ridiculous as Fetterman or partisanship has made elections in the state meaningless. After all, elections pivot on the ability of people to change their minds from election to election.
The current vote totals in Pennsylvania say that about five million ballots were counted in the Senate race. The governors race, which got far less attention, garnered the same number of votes. In 2020, 6.9 million votes were counted. What this says is that close to 30% of the entities that filled out ballots in the 2020 election decided that they had no reason to fill out a ballot this time. This strongly points to the conclusion that voters were given no reason to vote for either party.
Put another way, the polling shows that people are angry about the economy and the culture, but they did not see hope in either party. They were not even moved to strike out at the ruling party. Harry Truman famously said “If it’s a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time.” In this age, given the choice between a uniparty zombie and uniparty opportunist, people will choose the zombie.
The people endlessly yapping about democracy will no doubt claim that democracy won this time, but the turnout numbers suggest otherwise. The uniparty offered up a series of ridiculous choices and 30% of the voters stayed home. They refuse to follow the script because the directors showed no interest in the drama. Neither party offered a compelling reason for anyone to vote, so they were left with the partisan zombies and civic nationalist dead enders.
For the people hoping democracy lost the election, this is a good result. The exit polls show that over 75% of the vote was white. Outside of the freaks and crazies, that cohort currently has little or no representation in our democracy. The best thing they can do is boycott the process until they have a party that will represent their interests. Perhaps the midterms were the start of quiet quitting leaking into politics. Turn off, tune out and drop out of a system that has nothing to offer.
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Polling is used to gauge the number of votes required. States and locales that are controlled by the demons use a computer to count votes. At some point in the process they go in to ‘correct’ the vote total for their guy. Thus the now common vote spike. ‘Our democracy’ wins again.
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Hell, the leftard demoncraps might as well just declare “democratic” dictatorship and be done with it. If a s*** economy at the center of an otherwise circus tent freakshow can’t turn the tables, nothing evidently will. Third world status is officially cemented into place.
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In NY, I was one of the 30% who stayed home.
I’d rather spend the time trying to figure out another income stream.
Though, speaking of fraud, there are some really good fake $20s circulating here based on what the fraught young clerk at the convenience store showed me last night.
These fake $20s were so good you have to putvthem down next to one from a Chase ATM and mark both with a special pen.
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…to know which $20 bill is real and which is counterfeit.
Someone needs more coffee…
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I read Philadelphia went something line +65% Fetterman over Oz. Some of the big city machines in these states are comical in how corrupt they are.
In my home state, we have the stronghold of Detroit, but also Ann Arbor, whose residents worship black people while ensuring all of them stay out of their city and get packed into neighboring Ypsilanti. A huge percentage of whites are insulated from their own bad ideas or are so cucked they think voting against their interests is virtuous.
In the immortal words of Kent Brockman “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, democracy doesn’t work” This was a funny tongue in cheek joke when it first aired 20 years ago, now many people will nod along.
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given what all the polls were reporting as the top issues of the election, not even cnn agreed that holding the line was remotely possible. Was hopelessness the reason? The result in PA is reason enough now, Brazil was a fairly good bellwether as was the instalment of Sunak. The financial troll in canada quietly borrowed $500B (probably at ridiculous terms) to try to prop up the failing national bank AND secure her nomination to a seat in NATO.
I’d like to attribute it all to the mental deficiency of the average voter but I’m not ready to, given the other major issues currently happening on the world stage. This result was essential to keep the other (collapsing?) narratives alive.
The first hour of reporting was slightly optimistic, so, there’s that.
HONK.
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Demographic destiny continues to tighten its grip. Normies and grillers just don’t understand just how much the country has changed since 1985. Economics drives elections is old-think, true in the past but largely irrelevant now. Today, people vote their tribes. And that means most voters are not persuadable.
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As Z pointed out, Milestone, this isn’t even a case of demographics. The electorate was far whiter than the country. Our people like things as they are.
I’m not sure anyone likes things as they are. I simply think whites have been funneled into three camps. One for each wing of the uniparty and one group that is dropping out. The big drop off in voting this election is what should inspire us. Lots of people are waking up this morning wondering what was the point of voting. That is what we want to see.
Capital pike just beeped seven times, I think he needs his diaper changed. I keep saying if Karen bass wins I’m leaving LA, I’m getting old and will be preyed upon soon, if Gavin Newsom wins the big one,I’m leaving the country, I’m getting old and will be preyed upon soon. My wife smiling from the kitchen says we can always go to live with her people in Taiwan. I wash down a few relief factors with a good German beer, get under my Geezer sheets, lay my head on My Pillow and make plans to hit the range in the morning. We all know I’m not going anywhere. I wouldn’t miss this for the world. The ramzy Paul thing was entertaining last night.
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As a native Californian (fourth generation at that), I was packed up and moved out to The Great and Sovereign State of Tennessee thirty years ago. Hell, the whole extended family made the move. My mother is from Tennessee.
The old man has begged some of his based friends to bail on California, but to no avail. They could sell their home for enough money to buy a nice safe piece of land and live happily ever after, but nooooooooo, they can’t wrap their heads around leaving. The red states are getting redder, and the blue states are getting bluer. Without the Northeast and the metro hellholes on the West Coast this would be a very different country, and it may very well become a very different country. Come on in, the waters fine.
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If you are a Pennsylvania resident (such as myself), what do you do? In my opinion, you just work on making your small town or suburb better in your own way. The local politics path has been trashed on routinely, but I don’t see why. Its an important component that you actually matter in.
National politics is effectively over. State politics matters depending on which state you live in. Pennsylvania is mired by Philly’s sheer volume in vote representation, but its not hopeless. Even in New York, I was surprised at how close Zeldin got to winning.
California is the only state in the union that is post-political. There is very little that can be done to fix it.
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What must be done? Work to organize locally and publicly boycott elections. If 20% of people publicly reject the system the system will collapse if it does not go through a massive overhaul. Ruling classes only respond when they feel threatened. The current system is designed to prevent them from being threatened. That means the only option is to boycott the system.
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I don’t know exactly when, but there will be a point where parts of the US are going to have to go through a “reform”, not a massive overhaul or revival of our country, but a reform just to keep the lights on. The path we are on is not sustainable.
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Here in AZ, our Republican candidates were actually good which is why the Democraps came after them so hard. And also why Dominion decided to malfunction in the middle of these hotly contested races.
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Before the election, I thought Kari Lake vs. Katie Hobbs would be a bellwether of cheating. Lake is clearly a much more impressive candidate compared to Hobbs, plus recently held a double digit lead in the polls. No doubt a stolen election.
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I figured this would happen. The scale of it is the only thing that shocks me.
I think this “election” would disabuse normie of any notion that our elections are free and fair. In too many of these states, people can vote for days (early voting), register the same day, mail in their “ballot” and other shenanigans that ensure the usual suspects win every time. It’s rigged.
And even if the usual BS wasn’t happening, demographics and the movement of people from the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic to places like Georgia and North Carolina and from California to Arizona and Nevada are putting these states under the control of alien rulers who care not a tinker’s cuss about the majority of the population who finds their depravity and issue positions abhorrent.
But here’s something to consider: Any system that would give you the choice in Georgia (brain-damaged football player vs. whitey-hating Communist “preacher”) or Pennsylvania (Sling Blade stroke victim Frankenstein’s monster vs. carny trash Turk TV doctor) is not workable. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding on supper and 50-plus one is not a rational basis for a system of governance.
Things are about to get a LOT worse before they get better. But that’s fine. Hungry bellies drive revolution, but I think our system will collapse of its own rotting bloat before that’s even required.
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I reluctantly voted. There’s enough people where I work that are earnest YT folk who believed in civic virtue. I fell for it. I should have seen it coming from a million miles away. We originally had the police chief from Detroit throwing his hat in the ring as a Republican. Then the firm that was hired by many politicians including him, was found to be corrupt and the candidates were declared ineligible. Funny that afterwards, he disappeared like a fart in the wind and did not stump for any candidate. Then during the primaries, we had a used car salesman who although seemed goofy, had a plan and some name recognition was blown out by someone named Tudor Dixon. I had voted yesterday straight R (knowing nothing about DiPerno, and Karamo as well as Dixon) and no on all proposals in MI. All the Rs lost and all proposals passed. So am I living a Seymor Skinner moment. Am I out of touch? Is the system rigged? Or are people dumb enough to vote for Gretch? At any rate, I am done with voting…
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The Ann Arbor and Detroit political machines are unstoppable. After the flub in 2016 they put mechanisms in place to make sure it never happens again.
There are pockets of based people all over the state, far more than when I was younger, but we will never even convince a majority of people. Luckily, the little hat people have shown how effective you can be even as an extreme minority if you know how to play your cards.
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“After all, elections pivot on the ability of people to change their minds from election to election.”
This is the key point. People don’t change religions, ffs. The Democrats in my neck of the woods, and I think also nationally, are not a party but a religion. So now the election here is like an election in Iraq: screeching Shiites out-voting ululating Sunnis. And we will get similar results as Iraq……
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Yup. And our candidates for voating in that one are clear too. We can vote with our feet or our rifles. And sometimes the foot option is not viable.
As much as I hate to say it, overturning Roe really galvanized the religious fanatics on the left to vote. Doesn’t mean it was the wrong thing to do, but it made the left go nuts and your squishy right-wingers say, “well, I hate abortion, but it seems a little EXTREME to overturn a 70’s SC decision.”
Like Z said though, it’s pretty much immaterial. The problem is the system, and the system is democracy.
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I think widespread mail in voting has been an unmentioned factor in some of these races as well. As much as demographic changes matter, the Democrats have done better with low info voters for decades. They are more likely to vote if they can just send it in and not wait in line. Of course, a society would have to be suicidal insane to think these people should be voting, but that’s the one we live in today.
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The place to start with mail voting is the assumption that it is mostly fake. In cities, party workers go around and have people on the rolls sign ballots months in advance of the election. Those ballots are then filled out and mailed in over time. It is called ballot harvesting and it increasingly common. Florida was an outlier last night and they actively prohibit ballot harvesting. Go figure.
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Right, you look at areas like the Somali section of Minneapolis and the voting rates should be close to zero. The people don’t speak English and know nothing about our system of government and aren’t interested in it. They are obviously handing over ballots to Democratic operatives to be cast for them or they are getting picked up out of the trash.
Maybe the political parties could actually run on issues the public likes – for example medicare for all, ending stupid wars, anti-corruption enforcement etc..
And if one of you thinks medicare for all is not popular, you need to get out of this corner of the internet and actually go talk to people. And this includes you, Mr. Z-man.
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It is popular in your corner of the internet for sure, but it is highly unpopular with people in the Medicare system. Seniors will tolerate no threats to their healthcare system. It is one reason both parties have no interest in the issue. The other issue is that the people who promote Medicare for all give normal people the creeps. A bad salesman can kill even the bets product.
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zman: And if you don’t sign up for Medicare at 65, you will pay 10% more for the rest of your life, and will find it nearly impossible to get any other private coverage. My husband has talked with coworkers and customers who’ve told them of their travails. I’ll be 64 in a few weeks and don’t have any plans to sign up for anything – but people should know their old age panacea is as mythical as their democracy.
The shenanigans are not over, and God-willing the Ds will find a way to retain the House too. If so, even the most addled normie will come to see that the system is irrevocably broken and voting harder is a fools errand. This is the only possible “win” to be had in this election. Things have to get much worse before they can get better.
And as they get worse, everyday people will get more stressed and pushed to the limit. Expect there to be more anger outbursts in public settings, including physical altercations, and a significant increase in homicide. If you live in a big city, keep your head on a swivel and CC if you can.
Don’t allow anger to become whining, turn it into resolve and tangible action. Expect that like-minded persons will now start forming into mutual support groups (of wide-ranging motivation) and the Stasi to actively infiltrate them. A simmering war will now begin and hasten the collapse. Your main goal is the survive the collapse, assuming Brandon doesn’t start WW3 and the nukes fly.
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TomA: There is NOTHING that will ever show Joe and Jane Normal that the design of the system itself is the problem. Or that the universal franchise (and Joe and Jane Normal themselves) are not fit to vote on issues of importance. Everything rests on those two basic assumptions – magic constitution and absolute civic equality.
As far as things getting worse – of course they will. And anyone organizing will be infiltrated. The answer is separation from the system – educational, political, financial, social. Most people aren’t willing to make such dramatic changes – or they cannot afford to – or their wives wouldn’t like it. And besides, their daughter is in her senior year and she’s got a chance at multiple scholarships to great universities. Sure, the country’s a mess, but it’s always been this way and somehow things always work out.
We’re the exception to history and human nature, and don’t you forget it!
We in Canada are a few swirls ahead of you Yanks as we go down the political pooper.
I don’t doubt the presence of shenannigans in the vote… but what stunned me as a younger man were the numbers of otherwise intelligent people that lose their minds in politics. My former hive mates would look you in the eye, and patiently explain why the mentally damaged hobo is a better choice than the semi-functional clown. They’d defend the trannies in you kids’ classrooms and the perverts in their bathrooms.
I think most dissidents would be shocked at the sheer numbers of moronic stupid people that will see this election as an unexplainable statistical blip, and that the better people won in their respective areas.
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Most Whites are simply lost, Glen. I’m not shocked at all. I’m not even certain famine and deprivation will move them. The brainwashing and religious fervor is off the charts.
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“For the people hoping democracy lost the election, this is a good result. The exit polls show that over 75% of the vote was white”
The key takeaway for me is the last full sentence there. Most Whites nationally are perfectly content with how things are. They are brainwashed to the point that diminished lifestyles and prospects do not bother them. Most “see no color.” Propaganda works and idiocy helps. I think there was very little cheating this time unlike 2020. There is no need for it.
Those of us who think as we do are White Alabamans in 1961. Separate as much as possible and wait things out. Most Whites are permanently lost at this point.
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I’d like to congratulate everyone who took the time to go out and fight for Our Democracy® here in our glorious new nation and preserved it!
God Bless the North American Kosher Bodega Globalist Economic Zone™! (formerly USA)
Long may she endure as a shining beacon on a hill for what a country can look like when it is full of utter and complete retards, low IQ brown genetic mud people who pour across the border, self-hating ‘heritage’ stock who will die smiling as their brains are bashed in by a dark feral pet thinking “At least I wasn’t a racist” as their final thought, and the glorious decades long (((machine))) that made it all possible in the first place.
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Not to worry, Zman. Trump will save everyone. We’ll show them in 2024! There will be a true red wave so enormous it will overwhelm their cheating. Because the system is sound; it’s just a few bad actors who have subverted it. We the people! If we just got back to following the constitution, everything would work as intended. And we need to turn back to God and normality. Of course, my neighbor has a gay son and he and his boyfriend are just wonderful, creative people. And my other neighbors are immigrants from India – very smart and hardworking people. And my sister-in-law is from China and she’s just such a devoted wife.
We’ll vote harder than ever and show them next time!
SARCASM alert.
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In this post and on RamZPaul’s stream, Z Man expressed amazement that anyone could vote for the “brain damaged hobo,” Fetterman. Z Man said that this outcome is “proof that the public should never be trusted with such decisions.”
I guess I see the Fetterman vote the way that I see my friends who voted for Biden: they aren’t so much voting for the candidate but the team guiding the candidate. And to prevent a GOP victory, which would move us one step closer to fascism. (If only!)