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The great day is upon us. It used to be that the media would roll out some long serving geezers to give a lecture about the beauty of democracy. They would wax poetic about the wonderfulness of ordinary citizens doing their civic duty. Even though we may not like the results, we had to respect the process. That was when the results never questioned the elite consensus. These days the media rolls out conspiracy theorists telling us half the voters are actually Russian bots.
That will be the story tonight. The bad guys are expected to take it on the chin as normal people manage to outnumber the dead at the ballot box. The official line now is that the only way to preserve democracy is to have a one-party state. The Los Angeles Times makes this point in their fatwah against the Republicans. The Atlantic tells us that the Republicans will immediately implement a police state after the election, followed by the return of everyone’s favorite uncle.
From a dissident perspective, this is all encouraging. The more that the people who exclusively benefit from the system disparage the system, the sooner everyone will believe them and the whole things becomes unstable. We may be at that point already, depending upon the degree of shenanigans tonight. If we see a repeat of 2020, even the civic nationalists will have to notice. As Tucker pointed out, you will know the election is rigged if brain damaged hobo wins tonight.
Rigging a midterm is much more difficult than rigging a presidential election, so the odds of mass shenanigans tonight are low. In a presidential election, you just have to stuff one ballot box per state. In the midterms, where there are 435 congressional races and up to thirty Senate races, it is a mammoth task. It is why the Republicans gained seats in the 2020 election, despite the claim that Joe Biden was the most popular man since the dawn of time.
Given the mood of the country and the staggering incompetence of the regime the last few years, it is going to be a tough night for the regime. The benchmark for bad nights is 2010 when the regime lost 63 House seats. That is probably not what we can expect tonight, as the GOP gained seats in 2020. In other words, many of the seats the regime would have lost were lost in the prior election. On the other hand, people are unusually angry this time so it could be a wild night.
Of course, from the dissident perspective this is just theater to provide some much needed amusement in these dark times. The Republicans will do nothing useful with their victory once they take control of Congress. They will have some hearings that will produce nothing but more fog to cover up the crimes of the regime. They will sign off on more money for the war machine. There will be ceremonial votes on stupid things that have no chance of success.
The way to think of the Republican party is as punishment. When normal white people get fed up with the regime, they vote against the regime. By default, this puts the Republicans in the majority, which they hate. They return the favor by finding ways to punish the people who voted for them. It is as if the regime says, “You do not like what we are doing? Well then, let the punishment begin. The beatings will stop when you people start voting the right way.”
The fact is, the worst thing to happen to white people in America has been the Republican party, with the conservative movement a close second. It was the GOP that flung open the borders in the 1980’s. It was the conservatives who convinced white people to worship corporates America. It was the Republicans who gave us the police state in the Bush years and a maniacal war machine. Of course, it is the GOP that unleashed the virus known as neoconservatism.
Keep that in mind as you enjoy the salty tears from the maladapted mutants rending their garments and gnashing their teeth tonight. It will be a fun time watching them carry on like idiots, but their sorrow will quickly turn to a venomous rage. By the time the cock crows they will be telling the Republican leadership to have their plans for retribution ready for inspection. Even so, you have to take pleasure where you can in the world, so enjoy the sight of the wicked writhing in agony tonight.
All that said, the voting process is not entirely worthless. The game may be rigged in Washington, but it is still fairly useful locally. The lesson of Covid is that local government matters more than national government. States run by civic minded white people had a much easier time of it than the states run by crazies. Ron DeSantis won his election by a handful of votes over Andrew Gillum, who was later found using meth with a group of gay men in Miami.
The thing with the local races is the margin of error is higher. You can live with a governor who is a good government civic nationalist. In Washington, these guys are turned into weapons against common decency. Locally these guys get the potholes fixed and make sure the schools are free of perverts. They may not get the tragedy that is unfolding in America, but they take care of the small quality of life things that make the road to perdition much smoother.
The other benefit of participating in local elections is it allows our people to exercise the long atrophied muscles of self-determination. The nationalization of politics, along with the financialization of the economy and the homogenization of the culture, have turned most white people into passive actors. Choices are presented on the screen. The user selects one option and hopes what pops out is what they like. The system rewards normie, so normie proliferates.
When you get involved locally, you actually have to get involved in organizing and socializing with other humans. Those old muscles used for organizing in self-defense get some use, as well as the ability to express genuine concerns to your neighbors about the issues that matter to them. For dissidents, involvement in local elections is good practice for learning how to organize. It is those who are best organized who will prosper when the system becomes unstable.
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Choices are presented on the screen. The user selects one option and hopes what pops out is what they like.
Is there an option for “draw a penis on my ballot”?
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Here in the States they banned paper ballots, so you can’t even draw a proper penis on your ballot.
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Muh democratic rights trampled!
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Along with my right to remain ignorant, I do consider my right to deface a ballot among my most sacred of rights.
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Cook County, Illinois is still using paper ballots (if you don’t care to use the computer screen voting): ballots are two sided, you use a sharpie to fill in your bubbles and the ink bleeds through to the other side. Then the paper ballot is scanned.
I wish I was joking.
On a positive note, at least we don’t have to wait until midnight to know who wins (shhh, don’t tell anyone: it will be the Democrats).
If team red manages to pull off a big win tonight, it’ll be followed up next week with Trumpy’s YUGE announcement. Should he actually declare he’s running for El Jefe in’24, the hysteria from the leftards will know no bounds. It’ll be long popcorn futures for sure.
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….next on a Republican Congress set of agendas. “We need to send more arms and money to Ukraine to preserve democracy.” Bet on it!
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It’s already begun, with Trump’s attack on DeSantis the other day, calling him “De Sanctimonious”.
Clearly, the Donald already sees him as a threat, and is acting accordingly
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“The fact is, the worst thing to happen to white people in America has been the Republican party, with the conservative movement a close second. It was the GOP that flung open the borders in the 1980’s. It was the conservatives who convinced white people to worship corporates America. It was the Republicans who gave us the police state in the Bush years and a maniacal war machine. Of course, it is the GOP that unleashed the virus known as neoconservatism.”
And let us not forget that it was the party hack, corporate lawyer and expert bullshitter Abe Lincoln who destroyed the old Republic and replaced it with the metastasizing egalitarian cancer that, God willing, will expire relatively peacefully in the next decade.
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Walked the mutt this morning and passed by the location in my part of Houston where citizens are allowed to exercise that most sacred of duties (this is how voting used to be described). Long long line out the door, mostly of older white men and women, that is the fascist/christianist/putinist element of Our Democracy.
The local races are relevant in Houston this year; the county judge (most powerful official in Texas counties) is a Colombian-born horror named Lina Hidalgo who has presided over a huge surge in crime and the usual sort of D-city corruption. (her job before this was part-time translator at the Texas Medical Center.) I have a feeling that she may be turned out, along with a lot of other “judges” who have gone very easy on bail; there’s been a series of fairly nasty crimes in Houston perpetrated by felonious perps who were out on bail.
All that said, the local races are certainly important, which is why I will vote, but the only thing that’ll get me to the polls in 2024 is the GOP slashing funding to Zelensky. Odds of that happening? 0%. I loathe the republicans so much my head spins.
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Sorry, I can’t muster any motivation to care at all or walk a few blocks to the voting booth. Reliable information here tells me mine and tens of thousands of ballots were dumped last time here. Then again my wife is still a naive idealist civnat and Trumper so I may do it for her.
I do have to get my schadenfreude tonight so only Cenks show or Msnbc for me. Of course no guarantee it will go that red as we are led to believe but also this could take days. They already told us that, take them at their word, at least on this.
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> Then again my wife is still a naive idealist civnat and Trumper so I may do it for her.
My wife was explaining to the kids that people voted for their freedom. I gave an audible snort and she was not amused.
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” The more that the people who exclusively benefit from the system disparage the system, the sooner everyone will believe them and the whole things becomes unstable. We may be at that point already, depending upon the degree of shenanigans tonight.”
I hate to tell people, but we have already had our version of the Chenobyl Disaster that brought down that other dying empire, a.k.a. Soviet Imperial Communism.
The normies (the people you know who can’t wait to vote today!) are already talking about and wondering why so many people are dying nowadays, and the life insurance companies are screaming about how their death rate models have descended into the bowels of hades. Every now and then, if you read or watch foreign media, someone mentions that the reason there are so many cancelled flights is because the insurance companies will not insure a jet liner whose pilot got Their 3 Shots.
Yep, it’s a drip, drip, drip…….
But eventually, people will discover that our situation is far worse than a cadre of communist officials leaving out one page of instructions on how an RBMK Reactor WILL blow up if you do X, Y, and Z.They will soon find out that everything concerning their “Safe and Effective Shots” was a purposeful lie designed to cull out the herd, mainly their grandmas and grandpas, plus make a whole boatload of shekels.
When all of this comes to pass, and our Government goes plumb mad dog killing mean, publicly and enthusiastically killing anyone who knows what they have done, in order to preserve their own hides at any cost, then you will know it is here.
The United States undergoing a Soviet Union Extinction Level Event is and will be one ugly thing to behold and live through. Many of us will not live to see the other side. If you are a narcissist or any of the other category of low-life people that God can’t fix he so royally screwed up on when he made you, you will probably get what you deserve.I hope I live long enough just to see that.
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Coalclinker: Do you have a source/link for the denial of insurance for vaxxed pilots?
The original vision of America— as a Constitutional Republic of sovereign States, loosely united under a national Government *with strictly-limited duties and powers*— began to be subverted during the Reconstruction period following the War of Northern Aggression.
It may be the case that many Normies— who don’t have much of a clearly-defined sense concerning what is wrong with America— nevertheless have a vague understanding that the FedGov has grown out of control.
So yes: a return to local government— an assertion of local autonomy— could be a good first step.
Here in Colorado, the State is divided: the more-populous ‘Front Range’ area that includes Denver and Boulder is predominantly liberal; whereas the western 2/3 of the State is predominantly conservative. During the last presidential election, the Western Slope went for Trump, while the Front Range went for Biden. Because the Front Range has more people, the State went for Biden; but that fact alone is deceptive: the State is actually quite divided.
A couple years back, when the liberals in the Colorado legislature passed a ‘red flag law’— allowing judges to confiscate the firearms of law-abiding citizens, on the uncorroborated testimony of a third-party— *approximately 2/3 of the Sheriffs in the western Counties announced that they did not plan to enforce these unconstitutional laws*
> A minor rebellion, but a rebellion nonetheless.
Perhaps this is a template for a way forward? A beginning of the reassertion of local autonomy? In which Local Government entities resist the compulsion of State and Federal “authorities”, regarding issues which local citizens find compelling?
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Divides within states are maybe going to become a thing. Like Travis county, tx (Austin) gave Biden 70 percent of the vote and I could see “abortion speakeasies” becoming a thing where even if the state ag gets involved, you have the risk of jury nullification.
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Yep. I believe that nationwide, the divide is urban/rural. It’s that way in Virginia where I grew up: northern Virginia is urban and more populous, while the southern part of the state is rural and conservative.
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I wish the GOP was 1/4 as bad as their nominal enemies make them out to be. I would think that the regime adjuncts put that bunk out just to make it seem like an honest contest but for the fact that many (all?) honestly believe it.
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Martial law, jailing trannies, gutting the federal government, revoking the 19th Amendment…
The mainstream media loves to tease.
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Don’t be greedy. Ten percent would turn America into a paradise.
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The Democrats having nothing positive to run on have gone to old scare tactics, I saw an article that said Tim Ryan was on MSNBC last night drinking a Miller Lite and claiming that Ohio voters had to vote for him because JD Vance wants to privatize Social Security. With Paul Ryan gone now, I don’t think they are quite stupid enough to open with that.
I am hoping the Republican Congress at least punishes a few of the regime’s most loyal members. It is highly likely they punish Eric Swalwell and they might even have enough guts to strip Omar of her committee assignments. Expelling her from Congress, charging her with immigration fraud and then deporting her is a bridge way to far for them. Maybe I am naive but I am hopeful they will take this baby step. A lot of them were personally insulted by these people and didn’t like it.
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None of this will happen. Expecting the republicans to represent their constituents (normal white people) is like waiting for a leprechaun to come knock on your door delivering a pot of gold.
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As a tip if you hear a knocking on the door in the middle of the night its the type of leprechaun that carries a badge, has friends in swat gear and wants to talk to you about your previous thinking.
Reality check. Today’s election is a sideshow distraction and nothing more. It’s purpose is to appease normie and keep everyone dancing so they don’t notice the upcoming collapse. Fiat currencies are about to die and it will take down all Western economies. Hard times ahead, ready or not. That should be your focus, not rah rah RINO wave!
Because invisibility is the only real defense for the dissident warrior, the Deep State needs to implement a digital currency and RFID marker system as soon as possible. Both are high-tech tracking methodologies, and the latter includes biomarkers inserted under the skin and also embedded into other personal items (such as clothing). And all of this is in addition to the cell phone and auto tracking devices that currently afflict us. In order to defeat this, you will need a personal RFID scanning device. Making these for your neighbors would be a good cottage business to start in your garage.
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“From a dissident perspective, this is all encouraging. The more that the people who exclusively benefit from the system disparage the system, the sooner everyone will believe them and the whole things becomes unstable.”
Another upside is that if those who control the system in, say, Southern California get angry enough, the more likely they are to exit the current federal system or become amenable to a workable dissolution. This only ends peacefully if the Left splits first, and that is at least possible. The Left always destroys what it cannot control, so if further destruction is foreclosed, it will move on to new victims.
Additonally, I expect Pennsylvania to be the epicenter of widespread cheating and fraud tonight. Let’s hope it is so bad and blatant that even Normie has to take note before he throws a bratwurst on the grill. I think this is the first election where the Regime told its subjects not to expect “results” for as long as it takes to…count.
“The fact is, the worst thing to happen to white people in America has been the Republican party, with the conservative movement a close second. It was the GOP that flung open the borders in the 1980’s. It was the conservatives who convinced white people to worship corporates America. It was the Republicans who gave us the police state in the Bush years and a maniacal war machine. Of course, it is the GOP that unleashed the virus known as neoconservatism.”
Spot on. The GOP is a pressure relief valve that hurts its voters more than helps them. The Republican Party was established to torment Whites. It has never stopped.
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Fetterman is a textbook example of all that is wrong with what liberals/progressives want for America. The man has serious health issues and is unfit for office. It seems they deliberately champion such persons. Whether that’s a bug or a feature, I do not know. But if you want to destroy anything resembling a working republic, it’s a good method.
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“Whether that’s a bug or a feature, I do not know. ”
It is a feature, as is Biden’s dementia. I think we are in the end stage of the Evil Empire II, but apparently the Regime thinks it will go on forever and they can blatantly use completely obvious puppets.
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Ben-
Now would not be a bad time to review Spandrell’s essays on Bio-Leninism.
Masterful riff on the great James Joyce story, bravo! That said, there is one huge difference between this election and 2020..In 2020 people expected only the “normal” amount of vote fraud in big cities, or even naively expected a clean election…Now everyone, except the MSM, is talking about expected vote fraud, including the vegetable in the White House…The level of awareness has risen substantially, and Martin Armstrong is talking about whether there will even be an election in 2024..,.,
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Like Z says, this is great news for us. The system finally collapses when no one believes in it anymore. Like Z says, if the lump-headed dirt bag wins, we will know that the fix is in yet again and elections in this country will be viewed as theatrical performances by normies.
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The trouble is that collapsing the current system and Western middle classes is also one of the key goals of the WEF, CCP, BRICS+, etc.
Because of this, I feel we’re staring down the barrel of the largest Catch-22 in history.
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” and Martin Armstrong is talking about whether there will even be an election in 2024..,.,”
I watched the podcast. The host and production value were horrible, but it had some substance.
To add to what Martin said, the 2020 election was stolen precisely because a Trump re-election would have caused a national dissolution. The State knew from experience the theft could take place and Republicans and their stupid voters would do nothing. I will vote one more time in my life and that will be in 2024 for Trump, whether he is on the ballot or has to be written in. He’s a carny and liar but the Regime fears him and either will blatantly steal the election, invalidate a win if it happens, or conduct an outright military coup. Any of those starts the clock ticking. And if Trump were to win and the Regime allowed it (no chance), California at a minimum would secede.
Martin is one hundred percent correct that the United States will cease to exist in any cognizable form within about a decade. Everyone on this side of the divide just needs to sit back, watch it play out, and most of all survive. I detest the idea of living under a military government but that is what we are likely to face until that, too, becomes unsustainable. Martin is right there.
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You seem a bright guy from previous comments.
Have you not considered that Trump’s role was the judas goat for the heritage americans to usher in this madness?
You need to create an internal existential enemy to justify such rhetoric and behavior and act as a fulcrum for the people you want to demonize. Trump was needed to justify the state change, so he was ushered in stage left.
As Mao said let a thousand flowers bloom and then use it to stamp them to death.
Also Trump has not really had anything of any consequence actually happen to him. Some piddling stuff in court and censure that means nothing.
Unlike his supporters and some associates. It also goes a way to explaining why everyone is so confused that when in office he basically delivered nothing for his base.
Looks a lot like pro wrestling setup to me.
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You are thinking far too rationally here. Trump easily could have been coopted and a decision was made not to do it. In the process of his destruction, Normies were alienated and outraged. All of that was upside if you want to see this collapse. If it was all kabuki it was bad kabuki and counter-productive to those who orchestrated it. Possible but not likely.
The Regime is impulsive as hell and the totalitarianism would be even worse otherwise. Savor that.
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Can’t remember a damn thing between Araby and The Dead except for the titles.
That being said…
Man the Barrelcades: Here Comes Everybody!
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I’m a sucker for James Joyce references! One of my favorite puns from “finnagans wake” was a description of a girl who was “Jung and easily Freudened.”
Maybe today one could say of the electorate in this country: “We’re all in Oz now Biden our time.”
I vaguely recall voting for people I actually liked – Reagan in ’84 when I was 18. I know he wasn’t perfect but I liked him back then.
Seems like every vote since has been against things I hate and generally for people I hate slightly less.
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Yep. You know things have gone astray when you’re voting for a candidate— not because you really like them— but because you hate the other guy even worse.
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I think the last person I voted for in any office that I liked was Reagan. I was young, so I did not know better. I started voting third party and skipping various races soon after. By the 2016 election I was left with only spite. I voted for Trump out of spite.
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The brainwashed at Conservative Treehouse are eagerly awaiting their god to announce his run next week. I tell them why yes, I am very excited to see Trump run again. I think it will be great to get Ivanka in charge of all the personnel decisions again.
Maybe if he is lucky Trump could entice John Bolton back. Unless of course he is too busy overthrowing another country’s government. That is a lot of hard work you know.
I’ll date myself and mention that I was in preschool and grade school during the Reagan years.
I found him appealing because he had qualities that reminded me of my grandfather.
People make light of his acting career, but I think that time really improved his speaking skills and ability to present himself.
He clearly leveraged these skills throughout his political career, most notably during his wipeout of Mondale in ’84.
The blatant fraud committed during the 2020 election and the COVID scam did more for dissidents than has been done for the last 50 years. Hell, I know old Silent Generation men beginning to question the structural foundations of the country.
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Next election, troll the corporate cronies by demanding United Nations observers. While they can’t ensure an honest election, they do document the crooked ones.
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Brazil more or less enforced a total blackout on all discussion of election shenanigans. They are enforcing this by hard power as opposed to the U.S. who enforced it by soft power.
The truth is, hard or soft, by the time such measures are taken, trust in civil institutions have already eroded to the point of no return. If a large percentage of the population believes an election is of existential importance and who counts the votes is far more important than who votes, you’re already at the point where half the population does not trust the other half to play by the rules.
At that point, we already have a one party state masquerading as a democracy with no care for the actual citizen or will have one soon.
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Its more than a one party state of the same process is happening in 10s of countries at the same time.
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The proliferation of one-party states is more emergent behavior.
I haven’t voted in more than a decade. People tell me that means I have “no right to complain.” My response is that there’s no point in complaining.
My initial reason for why I stopped voting was a bit self-righteous: I would declare that I considered it authoritarian to try to impose one’s will on others through the ballot box. Yeah, I was that guy — the annoying libertarian. To this day I reject the notion that fifty percent plus one equals virtue. There is no inherent goodness in majoritarianism.
Today I have two basic reasons for not voting: 1. I wish to limit how invested I am in a system that is beyond my control. 2. I do not care to deceive myself that I have any meaningful influence on that system. The difference between where I am today and where I was eight or ten years ago is that I no longer try to convince others to join me in NOT voting. To each xer’s own. Any vote cast is an indication that one still possesses some sliver of faith in the system. By that standard, I am ineligible.
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I haven’t voted in more than a decade. People tell me that means I have “no right to complain.”
It’s the other way around. When you vote, you forfeit your right to complain because you agree to the rules when you cast your ballot.
If you wave bullhorns and placards around when the other guy wins, you don’t understand democracy. It’s like me wanting my money back after we play poker because gambling is wrong.
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You’re damn right, Felix. But try explaining that to the typical human. DOES NOT COMPUTE!
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“There is no inherent goodness in majoritarianism.”
Even the libertarians get the odd one right.
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For the record, I no longer consider myself “libertarian.” I suppose I vaguely identify as a dissident, though I increasingly see little point even in that. My opinions have essentially no impact on the larger world. It seems I might be better served refashioning myself as a detached observer.
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Wkathman: Very well said.
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This doesn’t really pertain to today’s topic, but I came across it and thought I should share. It’s an interesting inversion of things we discuss on our side.
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1589710170208481281
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An interesting peak inside the hive. There is some truth to it in that many of “our guys” will crawl on their belly to be on Twitter so they can “own the libs.” In reality, they seek approval of the libs. If they can just win one more exchange, lefty will have no choice but to concede the argument.
For the most part though, the libs exist to lecture the rest of us. If their bogeymen packed up and moved to Canada, they would follow them to Canada.
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Growing up with staunchly conservative parents who were active in republican politics, the idea of not voting would’ve been considered a mortal sin.
I did vote for Trump in 2016 and it was well worth it to wonder if perhaps I had a small part in the the rage that evil old hag Hillary felt. They can’t take that schadenfreude away. The rabid, insane cult members who shrieked at the sky in the streets was fantastic. If only he really had been Orange Man Bad.
Elections and the political process in America are not unlike the world wrestling federation. They are all highly paid actors who perform their roles, feigning everything. The brazen fraud which took place when they stole the election and inserted Biden made it all the more clear.
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Whatever happens in the election expect the regime to double down on its campaign to destroy energy and food infrastructure.
Brandon was serious about that long, dark winter promise.
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At least the Republicans will use market-based methods to facilitate starvation and exposure.
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Yes. They will accomplish it much more efficiently.
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A classic of how Americans used to look at elections is: “Somehow it Works A Candid Portrait of the 1964 Presidential Election,” published in Jan. 1965, by David Brinkley, Chet Huntley, and The Staff Of NBC News. It’s a large picture book. Look it up. Those were their two news anchors. It was the election where LBJ smeared Goldwater as a fanatical warmonger and “racist” and won with 61%. In ’65 we got Nam escalation, fanatical “Civil Rights” legislation, massive deficit spending on the Great Society, etc. Somehow it didn’t work. It’s been downhill since.
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Early this morning I was turned away from the polling place. A US Passport (wallet card) was not accepted because it lacks a signature. Go figure. Rather than lodge a formal complaint, which would have had no effect as I’m not Black nor any other oppressed minority, I returned later with a Driver License which they deigned to accept. Although a nominal Libertarian, I voted a straight R ticket under the “lesser of two evils” rule of thumb.
Voting is about the extent of my political involvement. I like DeSantis, and not just because months ago he appeared at my favorite local restaurant. I didn’t attend, as I dislike crowds.
Upon leaving the polls, I shared with a neighbor the old wisdom of Mencken, that an election is an advance auction of stolen goods. 😀
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In re: Local Voting.
What are everyone’s thoughts on “Vote to retain Judge X”?
Personally, when I voted, I just left it blank.
You could take an hour and study all their judicial decisions, and your vote would be exactly equal to someone who was high as a kite and thought he was ordering a BigMac from the voting machine. Which is why democracy at this scale is so stupid.
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Brain-damaged hobo vs Turkish TV pitchman. Spoilt for choice, aren’t they?
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I’m a sucker for James Joyce references! One of my favorite puns from “finnagans wake” was a description of a girl who was “Jung and easily Freudened.”
Maybe today one could say of the electorate in this country: “We’re all in Oz now Biden our time.”
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