The voters have spoken
The Friday Letter / No. 519 / Dec. 2, 2022
Updated at 8:50 a.m. with correction of a grammatical error in the Houston itemThe Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield once said “There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse.” Was he talking about our 2022 midterm elections? No, he said this in a 2010 TED Talk. My, how things haven't changed.
I am not much of a Sean Hannity fan. I feel certain he is a genuinely nice person, and certainly a true patriot. I just don't care for his style, which is to ask very long questions and then give his equally long opinion before hearing the guest's. He talks too much and listens too little. This is not good interview style. It's more like a sermon.
That said, here is a truism: He is the only commentator on the national stage who warned Republicans not to be so smug about their prospects for the 2022 midterm election. He was correctly skeptical of the red wave that never occurred.
Since then, it's gotten worse. As they did before the election, conservative prognosticators are talking about the improbability of Biden winning re-election, noting what appears to be his accelerating mental decline. How anyone could make such a statement is beyond me, unless something drastically changes between now and then.
We wonder what that could be. Continued inflation? Did voters not have enough of that this time? Heating oil and motor fuel shortages? OK, winter had not yet hit the Northeast, but did nobody heed the warnings? Remember the baby formula fiasco?
Millions of non-English-speaking illegal aliens pouring across our southern border, a Homeland Security Secretary who looks straight into the camera and says that isn't happening, rising violent crime, 80,000 to 100,000 Americans dying year year from drugs brought through the border from China?
Killing American energy jobs by the tens of thousands and ending drilling while grovelling before Saudi Arabian dictators and buying expensive, dirty oil from the Venezuelan communists? Utterly disregarding the First, Second, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments?
Biden's FBI secret police knocking down doors of innocent Americans in the dead of night, hauling them off in handcuffs in front of their children? Political prisoners denied habeas corpus, held without trial for challenging the regime's tyranny? Continuing to take bribes from the Chinese communists to fund the Biden crime family? Selling oil from our emergency petroleum reserves to China?
Should we go on, or do you get the picture?
Now it's true that Biden was installed as president with the help of government-media censorship, outright media lies, election incompetence and fraud, and courts that refused to uphold state election laws. With a few exceptions, state laws have improved little since 2020.
Biden barely campaigned and walked into the presidency, bringing with him no accomplishments, no executive experience, and certainly no love of our country.
In the midterms, he saw mentally defective Democrats win elections. He saw petty tyrants win governorships in New York, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A certified ignoramus won in Arizona and is now promising felony charges for any election officials who try to block certification of her win. (Katie Hobbs must have taken tyranny lessons from Gretchen Whitmer.)
Biden saw a senile 90-year-old Senator from California clinging to office, even as she appears to understand little of what's going on. He saw Pennsylvanians re-elect a dead man to the commonwealth senate. He saw angry, America-hating Islamic radicals easily win re-election to the U.S. House. If his handlers see some reason why he shouldn't seek re-election, we want to know.
It is further true that Republicans were hobbled by a corrupt, vindictive Senate Minority Leader who preferred staying in power to electing constitutional conservatives who would challenge his authority. He yanked precious campaign money from conservatives who could have won: Masters in Arizona, Bolduc in New Hampshire, Tshibaka in Alaska. Mitch McConnell spent something like $4 million to prop up liberal, anti-America First Uniparty Republican Lisa Murkowski against her conservative challenger in Alaska's indefensible ranked choice voting scheme. For that alone he should have been fired as party leader, but he was re-elected.
Any of those defeated Republicans, and Herschel Walker, could have used that money. So now we are looking at a new crowd of Republicans who want to be president. As usual, they will destroy each other in the coming campaign and debates, and Joe Biden will sleep his way into another term. End of free elections. Beginning of one-party rule.
We can blame Mitch McConnell and the Republican National Committee for reaffirming Senate control to the Democrats, and we can moan that voters are ill-informed, which they are. One thing is beyond dispute: Voters got exactly what they wanted.
Election fraud update
Four weeks after the midterm election, California still hasn't counted all the votes in two state assembly races, two senate races and one Congressional race. Inefficiency is the likely culprit, as California hasn't yet moved to the new 21st century technology of pens and paper ballots.
Georgia's election fraud-denier governor Brian Kemp joins other Republicans in campaigning for Herschel Walker in his Senate race against incumbent Raphael Warnock. Although Georgia made some tepid corrections to its election laws, its system remains a Rube Goldberg hodgepodge of widely varied practices among its 159 counties (second only to Texas in number with 254). Some Democrat-infested counties opened for early voting on Wednesday. Early voting, unattended drop boxes and no-excuse absentee voting – major sources of election fraud – are still practiced in Georgia.
Wisconsin Rep. Janel Brandtjen, Republican of Menomonee Falls, is curious to know why military voting in the midterm election fell by 83 percent from 2020, from nearly 10,000 in 2020 to less than 2,000 this year. Her curiosity was sparked when an election manager in Democrat-ruled Milwaukee sent three fake military ballots to her home, ballots she said that “created three military members out of thin air.” Reports Just the News, “Military voters in Wisconsin don’t have to actually register, and never have to show voter ID in order to get an absentee ballot in the state.”
Data base
Number of unarmed blacks killed by the police in 2021: 6.
Number of blacks killed by criminals in 2021: about 10,000
Annual increase in homicides since the George Floyd riots of 2020: 29 percent
Ratio of police officers killed by blacks to blacks killed by police officers: 400:1
Source: Heather MacDonald, Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of The War on Cops
Time the legacy networks devoted to reporting old allegations that Herschel Walker paid for abortions: 36 minutes, 21 seconds.
Time the legacy networks devoted to the Raphael Warnock child support scandal: 11 seconds.
Source: MRC News Busters.
In the news
Making the case for gun control. Or, don't mess with Teddy. Two geniuses tried to steal merchandise in broad daylight from a Tractor Supply store in Theodore, Ala. What they didn't program into their business model is the fact that practically everyone in Theodore carries a firearm. An alert customer with perfect aim shot out a tire of one of the get-away cars, rendering it inoperative. Three cheers for gun control: steady aim, use both hands. Another customer pulled the other driver from his car and held him for the police. Both men are currently residing in the Mobile Metro Jail. – from a story at WPMI-TV.
Great strides in ending world hunger. Or, coming to a country near you? The Dutch government plans to forcibly close 3,000 farms to comply with the European Union's “climate” policy to eliminate nitrogen fertilizer, The Telegraph reports. Without explaining how, the 4th-ranked of the Netherlands' 17 political parties, BoerBurgerBeweging (farmer-citizens movement), supports destroying the farms as a way to feed the hungry.
Joe Biden's America. In Houston, a man with eight prior felony convictions and out on bond was arrested for stabbing to death a man who tried to stop him from robbing motel guests. The defendant, George Albert Hodge, was driving a stolen car when arrested. A Democrat judge called Jason Luong of the 185th Criminal District Court had released Hodge on a $150,000 personal recognizance bond for a felony evading arrest charge. – from a story at The Blaze.
Recommended reading
“Google Gives Millions To Boost Leftist Disinformation Peddlers Of Legacy Media” — Evita Duffy at The Federalist.
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