Election Day!

What with all the extended voting rules Election Day is now the end of the beginning. Brookings has background on the various timetables states have adopted for processing and counting absentee ballots. Close races are likely to lead to delayed results in, eg, Pennsylvania.

Captain Ed reprises another pre-mortem on what looks like an emerging Democratic minority.

Comments

[Rocco]

We used to count all the votes on election day!

For decades, the U.S. has been able to count election votes efficiently and promptly, and then all of a sudden, Democrats feel threatened by the GOP, and all of that goes out the window.

What is more disturbing is that millions of Americans have fallen for their propaganda nonsense, which only gives the left more power to cheat and change the direction of the election to favor them.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2022/11/03/twitter-want-you-to-believe-it-takes-time-to-count-the-votes-n2615432

Thieving bastards!

[clarice]

Trafalgar is considered very reliable. Knowing the reluctance of people to disclose to callers their preference, it asks ."How do you think your neighbors will vote? Here is their final poll:https://www.thetrafalgargroup.org/

[clarice]

As an aside, here is what I think it the best response to people like Ye:https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1588502057228857346.html

[Dave (in MA)]

Oops, steppin' on a, there's a, uh, that's black! Anyway... I was able to get signed in without an error for the first time in quite a while. It must be true that democracy is at stake.

[henry]

doesn't anyone make a ballot tabulator that works? Failures in the usual places (Maricopa, PA, NJ) are suspicious until proven benign.

[clarice]

Very complicated tech, apparently, henry

[Dave (in MA)]

Maybe the vote counting machines have to go past a Typepad login.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

clarice's link@10:35;

Another point to clarify, concerning the belief that Black Americans are Semitic:
I have no problem with the belief itself, regardless of whether or not it is true.

I guess I understand the sentiment but regardless of his motives, seems to me a person should have a problem with self-evidently false beliefs.
What kind of foundation does a belief have if it's built on a crackpot lie?

[Davod]

Posted on JOM2 by JimNorCal

Fundraising.

https://i.postimg.cc/Wb84bWL9/DED0-E6-C7-17-E7-4136-B288-CFE6-DF202625.jpg

[clarice]

Not my kind of truth, but maybe you should ask elizabeth warren, Iggy

[clarice]

Dave, you genius. You figured out the puzzle.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Wasn't it the Black Israelites who were harassing the high school kids from Kentucky?

I had dinner up in LA last Saturday night right down the street from the Scientology HQ. There's a scam if ever there was one. My inner thetan was abuzz.

[Dave (in MA)]

clarice, I figured out exactly jack squat. Typepad just decided to be less crappy, for the time being.

[JM Hanes]

So worried about a repeat of Philly & Arizona, etc. happening all over again, right in front of our eyes. Has any reform at all happened while I was in political hibernation?

[clarice]

Wish I knew, jmh

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--maybe you should ask elizabeth warren, Iggy--

Me no speakum Cherokee.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Has any reform at all happened while I was in political hibernation?--

Only in red areas where the cheating doesn't occur. If the Dems get swamped today it will only mean their scams were overwhelmed and they'll just have to Build Back Better for 2024.

[bubarooni]

Heck, I even got in. Just in time for election results and insightful analysis and banter!

[Dave (in MA)]

Well, banter, at least.

[jim nj]

https://news.yahoo.com/discovery-bronzes-rewrites-italys-etruscan-115445761.html
Discovery of bronzes rewrites Italy's Etruscan-Roman history

"Italian authorities on Tuesday announced the extraordinary discovery of 2,000-year-old bronze statues in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring and said the find will “rewrite history” about the transition from the Etruscan civilization to the Roman Empire.

The discovery, in the sacred baths of the San Casciano dei Bagni archaeological dig near Siena, is one of the most significant ever in the Mediterranean and certainly the most important since the 1972 underwater discovery of the famed Riace bronze warriors, said Massimo Osanna, the Culture Ministry's director of museums."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RnR-ImtBYI

video of the find

[jim nj]

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1590129264443039744

Election Night with Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, Rich Baris, Benny Johnson, Tyler Bowyer, SavSays and MORE

[Dave (in MA)]

Cernovich: "New Yorkers want crime. It’s who they are. Stay out of cities."

[jim nj]

Looking at NJ's 12 CDs. AP has called 11 of the 12 races. All were called for the incumbent except for Robert Menendez, son of the senator, who picked up an open Dem seat.

Thomas Kean, Jr., son of the former governor, is, with 90% of the vote counted, leading Dem incumbent Thomas Malinowski.

Kean 147,310 votes 52.1%
Malinowski 135,542 votes 47.9%

The district covers parts of six counties so its hard to tell where the missing 10% is to come from.

This could be a Republican pick-up.

[jim nj]

RCP with 99% of the vote counted is calling NJ's 7th CD for Tom Kean for a Republican pick-up.

[clarice]

Was last night a bummer or what? I can't believe it.

[henry]

when do they send us to the camps?

[clarice]

Start sewing industrial diamonds in the lining of your overcoat and looking at maps of exits.

[Rocco]

75% of the country believed the country is heading in the wrong direction and then voted for the democrats, friggin thieves.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/74-of-americans-think-country-is-headed-in-the-wrong-direction-ahead-of-midterms/ar-AA13sfLz

[Narciso]

I grieve for my country they stole it again from hung cao, whose family made it out saigon on the last plain who served multiple tours in the sandbox

the dead and raped and burnt out businesses in blue cities, the ones who murdered in nursing homes, in the prog archipelago, they were just (redacted on)
their memories defiled,

the men (I use that term loosely) who sacrificed american soldiers at the bastion gate, the ones who ripped this country wide open, who put cancer stricken grandmas in prison, they are encouraged in their criminality,

they put xi's golem in the place where franklin had proclaimed liberty, like soiling a temple in blood,

[Narciso]

they have the nerve to say oz wasn't quality, and they put peter boyle in their, (well he was a commie along with fonda and sutherland, so it wasn't that big a surprise)

[Narciso]

humor is by necessity pitch black,

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-livid-brittney-griner-transferred-russian-forced-labor-camp

it turns out that they don't want polkovnik bout as much as I thought,

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Was last night a bummer or what? I can't believe it.--

This was my diagnosis at JOM2;

John Hayward;
Fraud doesn't explain nationwide results, though. Better to consider that Dems took advantage of the pandemic to loosen voter rules to an absolutely insane degree, and they are absolute masters at harvesting what we might politely refer to as the "indifferent" voter.

Me;
This is exactly right. When I used the term "manufactured votes" I didn't primarily mean fraud. I meant we have a two-tiered electoral system now. 2020 was the first tentative implementation of it as they were right in the middle of changing the rules and scaling up the urban vote harvesting machines. And these urban machines scale to any sized city and do not require an actual Chicago or Tammany Hall style machine.
The wrong conclusion to draw is that suddenly there are millions more progs. Polling is often off by a few points this way or that but in poll after poll, Biden is deeply unpopular, the populace is angry, anxious and dissatisfied, the generic ballot was strongly in the Rep's favor and race after race was polling the Rep's way and trending more that way as the election approached.
The Dems have devised a method by which they can get more of their people to the polls. Well not to the polls exactly. They have brought the polls to their voters and they have even brought harvesters who tell them how to vote. It should be self evident that a solution to this will probably not involve red states shackling themselves by adhering to the old, decrepit tier while the blue hone and perfect their new tier of collectivist supervoter.
Can the Reps adopt and adapt the same tactics to suburbs and rural areas? I'm doubtful but it only takes a few thousand votes to change the landscape bigly, so who knows? Will they? I'm even more doubtful of that.
One axiom I have learned to never doubt is 'when your enemy tells you who he is, believe him'. When progs say democracy is in peril if they don't win they are telling us very nearly plainly and explicitly they are aiming for a one party state and they believe they finally have the mechanism to achieve it.
I do not for one minute believe they will achieve it but I do believe we are in our own version of the chaos and tidal forces that prevailed in the 20s and 30s in Germany and in the oughts, tens and teens in Russia. The primary difference is the Establishment is already the former revolutionaries and insurgents and they are trying to find the path to consolidate power against what threatens to become the new insurgency. More and more they are casting their former incrementalism aside in a bold push to just take over.
I am on record many times of where I think that will lead and that I believe that is to their tidy little storming of the Winter Palace 2.0 and establishment of their Fourth Reich being strangled in its crib by an armed and raging populace of Americans disinclined to being ruled and enslaved by the dregs of society. But that remains to be seen.

[Davod]

Narciso.

The weakness of King Joe gets you the Russian penal colony.

[Rocco]

My son sent this to me.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1590336672130105344.html

[Rocco]

My son sent this to me, Iggy!

[Rocco]

It's Obvious Now: America's Voting System Is Rigged

https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/its-obvious-now-americas-voting-system

[Narciso]

sometimes you feel like a nut

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/you-cant-beat-something-with-nothing?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=323914&post_id=83499426&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email

[Neo]

New York CNN Business — Facebook parent company Meta on Wednesday said it is laying off 11,000 employees, marking the most significant job cuts in the tech giant’s history. The job cuts come as Meta confronts a range of challenges to its core business and makes an uncertain and costly bet on pivoting to the metaverse.

[JM Hanes]

What is the metaverse?

[clarice]

It's the new name for FB and includes plans for creating a virtual universe for dummies to play in.https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-the-metaverse/

[Davod]

Posted at JOM2 by MM2.

Casey DeSantis
@CaseyDeSantis
·
8h
One of the most memorable moments of the night…

Our sweet Mamie, the first baby born to a sitting Governor in 50 years, joined us on stage to celebrate.

I will forever remember this moment.

Pic below

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhIu0y9XEAEYqQv?format=jpg&name=900x900

[Davod]

Court of the Crimson King music

https://youtu.be/gvCmtHDDuu0

[Davod]

Moonscape

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/nightmoon.jpg

[Davod]

What have you done?🐈🐾🙀😂😂

https://twitter.com/i/status/1590073124753899521

[Davod]

Banana surprise

https://twitter.com/i/status/1589944571978428418

[Davod]

Otter junior being trained by Otter Pop.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1589625069940400130

[Davod]

“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.”

– Cynthia Rylant

November 1st 🍁🍂🤎

https://twitter.com/i/status/1587248578518732800

[Davod]

Just a normal day heading home from the park...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1590327659908960256

[Davod]

Grey wolf transforms into a good boy when he is visited by the people that helped raise their pack

https://twitter.com/i/status/1589729187589672960

[Davod]

The most unsuccessful sneak attack of all time.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1590068150737203201

[Davod]

There’s only one good girl here!

https://twitter.com/i/status/1590333981849169921

[Davod]

Baby elephant causes havoc at home

https://youtu.be/dZ4E2gHoz6g

[Davod]

Best bell boy..🐶🐾🔔😅

Sound On..🔊🆙

https://twitter.com/i/status/1590047962058887168

[Davod]

I'm speed

https://twitter.com/i/status/1589650382925418497

[JM Hanes]

Thanks, clarice!

And thanks, Davod, for all the wonderful links. Much laughter here!

[Davod]

Sometimes it’s the simple things in life that makes Chewbacca happy…😏🤣

https://twitter.com/i/status/1589219796217786369

[Davod]

More moonscape

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/bloodmoonempirestatebuilding.jpg

[JM Hanes]

I'n still kicking myself for missing the blood moon by about 30 minutes last night. It's the first major astrological event I'd have been able to see -- but all I got was a crystal clear view of an ordinary moon, NTTAWWT.

[Davod]

Lakescape

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/11%209%20220nt.jpg

[Davod]

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. Mark Twain

[Davod]

Ace's Gun with a good guy. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day, Part I

Armed Good Samaritan Stops Child Abduction Outside Georgia Walmart, By John Boch -November 8, 2022 52

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/armed-good-samaritan-stops-child-abduction-outside-georgia-walmart/

[Davod]

Kitten Is Obsessed with Pittie Brothers

https://youtu.be/EwCUriaBPC8

[Davod]

Cow runs off to live with Polish bison during winter.

http://disq.us/p/2rtut5n

[Davod]

Correction.

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/07ed2dfff675e9c6c7ddd209529889aae57915c72979efe4232f1dbb7a6ebf18.jpg

[sbwaters]

The cow was choosing bison, not freedom.

[Narciso]

yep

https://tinyurl.com/4f36fcxw

[Narciso]

wait thats new

https://tinyurl.com/stjpm8kb

[Narciso]

oh that explains it,

https://tinyurl.com/4w7pe2d7

[Narciso]

ok then

https://tinyurl.com/bdedavah

[Narciso]

sure thats legit
https://tinyurl.com/25tzy44p

[Narciso]

I see

https://tinyurl.com/5czsvkdy

[JM Hanes]

Well, that was fun, Narciso!

[Narciso]

isnt it, did you get my message

[Narciso]

shirley

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/arizonas-maricopa-county-wrap-vote-count-monday-93070227

[Rocco]

I hope Sundance is right?

Lauren Boebert Wins Colorado CD-03, Also Arizona and Nevada Solid GOP Wins – Delays Are Media Anti-Trump Narrative Engineering Efforts

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/10/lauren-boebert-wins-colorado-cd-03-also-arizona-and-nevada-solid-gop-wins-delays-are-media-anti-trump-narrative-engineering-efforts/#more-239635

[clarice]

BREAKING: Fifth Circuit vacates Biden student loan forgiveness program. Calls it an "unconstitutional exercise of Congress’s legislative power ..." Image

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS FORT WORTH DIVISION MYRA BROWN, ET AL., Plaintiffs, V. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, ET AL., Defendants. No. 4:22-ev-0908-P ORDER The Constitution vests "all legislative powers" in Congress. This power, however, can be delegated to the executive branch. But if the executive branch seeks to use that delegated power to create a law of vast economic and political significance, it must have clear congressional authorization. If not, the executive branch unconstitutionally exercises "legislative powers" vested in Congress. In this case, the HEROES Act-a law to provide loan assistance to military personnel defending our nation -does not provide the executive branch clear congressional authorization to create a $400 billion student loan forgiveness program. The Program is thus an unconstitutional exercise

[Davod]

I think this is a composite.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/somekindofweasel.jpg

[Davod]

Video of bigfoot..

https://youtu.be/cVi4uYtQh_o

[Davod]

This goes with the woodpecker picture.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/150303-weasels-woodpeckers-animals-science-weaselpecker-photos

[Davod]

smile

https://twitter.com/i/status/1590824406699352064

[JM Hanes]

clarice:

Good news! It's about time somebody reigned in the substitution of executive for legislative powers and authorities.

[Davod]

Couple takes in a senior shelter pittie — who's about to give birth ❤️ @ipittythebull

https://twitter.com/i/status/1590086764860870656

[Davod]

There are 2 types of dogs.. 😅

https://twitter.com/i/status/1590594665308311552

[Davod]

Dog is like: “Seriously?” 😂

https://twitter.com/i/status/1590424540760657920

[JM Hanes]

Davod,

Love the bigfoot! I've never been a fan of pit bulls, but I saw somewhere recently that they actually scored well as emotional support dogs!

[Davod]

Beethoven “Moonlight Sonata” for Old Elephant

https://youtu.be/_4AcjvsVn5k

[Davod]

We all have that friend when you try to take a picture.. 😂

https://twitter.com/i/status/1590424127713996800

[JM Hanes]

Narciso,

Let me know if my reply came through. I'm not sure it got sent because it seems to be stuck in my outbox.

[Davod]

I see you

https://twitter.com/i/status/1590405696688132096

[JM Hanes]

That one gave me a crick in the neck!

[Davod]

Taking the temperature of a sea otter

https://twitter.com/i/status/1590019029393379328

[Davod]

more propaganda..

Russia’s next target? Why the West can’t allow Putin to seize Moldova

https://thehill.com/opinion/internation ... e-moldova/

[Davod]

Animal House - Defense of America.

https://youtu.be/qQ4-ajeeFzY

[Davod]

People Are Sharing The Things The U.S. Has That Europe Lacks, And I'm Suddenly Feeling Proud To Be American

"As a European who visited the America 16 years ago, I am still thinking about it."

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahloewentheil/american-things-europe-doesnt-have

[jim nj]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/lenovo-patches-secure-boot-vulnerabilities-that-imperil-25-notebook-models/
Lenovo driver goof poses security risk for users of 25 notebook models
Hackers can exploit vulnerabilities to install malicious firmware that survives reboots.

There's a fix available.

[jim nj]

Russia has begun its withdrawal from the western portion of Kherson. Ukraine troops are pushing forward.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-army-europe-donetsk-84741ee5714b4d49d19fd772f17a61d9
Russia withdrawing, Ukrainian official fears ‘city of death’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/10/ukraine-capture-snihurivka-kherson-russia-war
Ukrainian troops approach outskirts of Kherson after taking key town

Video shows Ukraine’s forces about nine miles from city centre but Kyiv unable to confirm Russian retreat

[Rocco]

It’s The Big Ugly, and We’re Here For It

The Club’s enlistment of former TPP approving congressman Ron DeSantis as a foil against the MAGA leader is transparent. DeSantis, funded by massive contributions from the Wall Street approval committee, replaces the prior approved candidate, Jeb. As a consequence, this Big Ugly battle was always going to end up with vulgarian Trump -vs- the next Jeb. The Club has selected DeSantis.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/11/its-the-big-ugly-and-were-here-for-it/#more-239661

[Rocco]

BOMBSHELL: Election Expert Gina Swoboda gives an update on the election in Arizona

https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/1591155568588165120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1591155568588165120%7Ctwgr%5E36fd76f933750919bd439fbaae6405ce423a54d5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpatriots.win%2Fp%2F16ZDqeD13Y%2Fbombshell-election-expert-gina-s%2Fc%2F

[Narciso]

i think the desantis criticism is far afield, what has prompted this, now going after youngkin seems even more ridiculous

and the agita over truth social, is also out of sorts as well, now mcconnell and mcarthy, are most guilty for this blanc mange pudding they delivered for their collaboration on the crimean cramdown, and the gun roundup, for his deriding the senatorial slate and pulling monies from masters to murkowski,

[Narciso]

more productive

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-senate-gop-call-for-leadership-election-to-be-postponed?utm_campaign=64483