It Could Take Days To Get A Winner, But, It’s Totally Not Fraud Or Something

By William Teach November 4, 2024 – 6:45 am

The Credentialed Media has been running these pieces for a few days, and here’s the latest

Why we might not get a presidential winner on election night
Even if takes days to declare who won, it doesn’t mean there’s been fraud.

On Nov. 5, voters across the United States will head to the polls to cast their ballots in the 2024 presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. But as was the case in 2020, they might not know the results on election night.

That’s because it takes time to count the votes — record numbers of which have been cast before Election Day. And in a race that’s expected to be extraordinarily close, more votes will need to be counted before a winner can be called.

For this election, some swing states, including Nevada and Michigan, have new laws and policies designed to expedite ballot counts. But others, including the battlegrounds of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, still don’t allow the counting of absentee and mail-in ballots until Election Day — which could prolong the process of declaring a winner, especially in such a tightly contested presidential election.

“We are counting ballots faster than ever before,” David Becker, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation & Research, said on a call with reporters. “But when the margins get tighter, it takes more ballots to count until we can call a race.”

Here’s an idea: stop allowing mail-in ballots due to people being lazy. It’s fine for the disabled (though I do see them getting to curbside early voting), students out of state, people in the hospital. Stuff like that. But, because you just can’t be bothered to get your ass up and go wait in line? That’s what adults do.

“I think it’s likely towards the end of the week — Thursday, maybe Friday — we should have an idea of who won the presidency,” Becker said in response to a question from Yahoo News.

The media is simply setting the stage. Why could the U.S. count these before without problems? Why could India count in a day?

Even if it does take days to declare a winner, as it did in 2020, it doesn’t mean anything nefarious is going on. It just means the election was as close as it was expected to be.

“It’s normal that it takes a period of days to get results,” Becker said. “That’s the way it should be.”

“We want them done accurately,” he added. “And anyone who is casting doubt on that process while that process is ongoing probably thinks that they lost.”

And why does it seem that the majority of areas that take so long are battleground states, especially in the districts/counties run by Democrats? And why do all the late tallies tend to benefit Democrats? Why are there all these irregularities, counting sites being kept secret, Republicans kept out, Republican observers kept out, boxes just appearing, ballots postmarked too late or not at all?

Nothing instills confidence in the voting public like taking days to tell everyone the winner of an election! I wonder how many votes they will “find”, how many water pipes will break, and what districts will find boxes of ballots in someone’s car! Honestly, every state should be required to have the ability to process all votes in 24 hours. This is a setup to cheat. If we had an honest, non-partisan media they’d be asking questions, not playing coverup.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 3, 2024 – 1:15 pm

…is horrible carbon pollution driven rain, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Clear Science, with a post on the IPCC saying Himalayan glaciers will be gone by 2035.

It’s umbrella week

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach November 3, 2024 – 8:49 am

Patriotic Pinup I Voted

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Dodgers won the World Series. This pinup is by Robert Skemp, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. LMAO: Democrat Voters Flock To States With Same-Day Registration/Voting
  2. IOTW Report: “Officers raided my house as if I was a drug dealer.”
  3. Hot Air: Why Peanut the Squirrel Matters
  4. Jihad Watch: Islamic scholar on Israel: ‘If you manage to conquer it, you can conquer the West’
  5. Legal Insurrection: San Jose State U. Suspends Volleyball Coach Who Spoke Out About Male Player
  6. Moonbattery: Kamala Harris and Cardi B
  7. Neo-neocon: Election fraud allegations: here, there, and everywhere
  8. Outside The Beltway: Jazz Shaw, 1959-2024
  9. Pacific Pundit: Kamala the cackling clown headed to Saturday Night Live
  10. Powerline: Dems Gone Crazy
  11. Shot In The Dark: Doakes Sunday: What The Hell Is Going On…Everywhere? (at the time of me adding this to the list, there were 5 follow up posts about irregularities)
  12. Sultan Knish: Schumer’s Jewish Support Crashed After Attacking Israel
  13. The American Conservative: Harris and Walz Declare War on America
  14. The First Street Journal: And these are the people the ‘Palestinian’ supporters admire?
  15. And last, but, not least, The Gateway Pundit has Desperate New York Governor Kathy Hochul Says if You Vote for Republicans in NY You’re Anti-American (VIDEO)

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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NY Times Wonders Why Kamala Is Having Such A Hard Time Beating Trump

By William Teach November 3, 2024 – 7:00 am

Will they dink and dunk around the real reasons?

Why Are Democrats Having Such a Hard Time Beating Trump?

Whatever happens Tuesday, it’s fair to say this campaign has not gone as smoothly as Democrats expected.

In the wake of the midterms, Donald J. Trump appeared to be finished. He may still lose, of course, but he clearly wasn’t “disqualified” — as many expected — by Jan. 6, several criminal indictments or an overturning of Roe v. Wade by his Supreme Court appointees. If voters disqualified any candidate in 2024, it was the sitting president, not the felon who attempted to overturn the last election.

How is Mr. Trump still so competitive? The simplest answer is that the national political environment just isn’t as conducive to a Democratic victory as many might imagine.

Democrats clearly face headwinds in this election. In the last New York Times/Siena College poll, only 40 percent of voters approved of President Biden’s performance, and only 28 percent said the country was heading in the right direction. No party has retained control of the White House when so many Americans were dissatisfied with the country or the president.

Hmm, that’s a hell of a good reason. Then you have a guy with serious mental breakdown, who then gets replaced with Word Salad who has never had a good approval rating, did nothing but open the border and go with everything that Biden’s handler’s wanted.

The polls suggest the challenge for Democrats runs even deeper. For the first time in decades, Republicans have pulled even or ahead in nationwide party identification. Polls also find Republicans with the an edge on most key issues — with democracy and abortion standing as significant exceptions.

Could it be that Democrats who have been in the White House since 2001 and controlled the Senate have messed things up that bad?

The Democrats’ challenge appears to be part of a broader trend of political struggles for ruling parties across the developed world. Voters appear eager for change when they get the chance. The ruling parties in Britain, Germany, Italy, Australia and most recently Japan all lost power. Mr. Trump himself lost four years ago. France and Canada might well join the list.

Oh, see, it’s the same around the world, not the horrible agenda of the Democrats and how bad Kamala is, right?

On issue after issue, Democrats have responded by moving to the right. Most obviously, Ms. Harris had to back away from positions she took when the progressive cultural ascendancy was near its peak in 2019 — a ban on fracking, Medicare for all and so on. But the Democratic shift isn’t simply about backing away from positions taken during a Democratic primary. Across the board, Democrats have de-emphasized policies they preached with confidence to a general electorate only a few years ago.

Nah, they’ve lied about their positions, and Kamala and her Comrades will go right back to their real positions. Really, though, this article is mostly about Orange Man Bad and how dare people support him!

How wokeness could cost the Democrats the election

This time around, Hillary Clinton is not lamenting Republican ‘deplorables’. She has chosen instead, along with Kamala Harris, to label Donald Trump and his supporters as out-and-out fascists. Different words but the same meaning: anyone who backs the GOP candidate in next week’s US presidential election is an enabler for modern-day blackshirts or stormtroopers.

But for many Americans, the real ‘deplorables’ are to be found among Harris’s backers, such as the tech oligarchs who dominate the economy, the financiers of Wall Street or the moguls of mainstream media. Think of the likes of Bill Gates, who just forked in $50million to the Harris campaign.

Even more detested by most of the public are the ‘progressive’ activist class that has embraced Harris and shaped her past record. This group, as the author Musa al-Gharbi writes in his new book, We Have Never Been Woke, constitutes ‘a new elite’. Trained as ‘symbolic analysts’, these often flailing graduates and professionals now represent a revolutionary class pushing the Democrats towards the ideological loony bin. As long as Harris and the Democrats remain in thrall to the activists’ progressive ideology, they will be tarred with their widely unpopular views on everything from climate change to transgenderism, race quotas and immigration.

And therein lies a big problem: a small number of Elites are trying to run everything, and Fuck You Stupid Plebes for not going along with it.

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Bummer: World Still Clinging To Fossil Fuels, Despite Pledges

By William Teach November 2, 2024 – 4:27 pm

Um, who was making the pledges?

‘Waiting in vain’: year on from pledge, world clings to fossil fuels

One year after world leaders issued the landmark call for a global move away from fossil fuels, nations are failing to turn that promise into action, say climate diplomats, campaigners and policy experts.

Countries are being urged not to lose sight of that historic agreement ahead of November’s COP29 climate negotiations, where fossil fuels are not top priority.

Despite last year’s climate deal calling for the first time on countries to “transition away from fossil fuels”, major economies are still planning oil and gas expansions in the decades ahead. (snip)

Global emissions — caused mainly by fossil fuels — are at record highs, pushing concentrations of planet-warming greenhouse gases to unprecedented levels, two UN agencies reported.

Since inking the watershed COP28 pact in Dubai “leaders have been grappling with how to turn those commitments into reality”, said Katrine Petersen from E3G, a policy think tank.

Yeah, well, all those “world leaders” who inked the pact sure use a hell of a lot of fossil fuels themselves. They used a hell of a lot just to travel to Dubai and then return home. And continue to use a heck of a lot more than the average citizen, even among 1st World nations.

“When we talk about climate pledges we are talking about more than just arbitrary, empty words,” said Andreas Sieber from activist group 350.org.

Let’s start with all the “leaders” signing these pledges and all the climate cult groups and members pushing for them. Let’s see them give up their own use, rather than always telling others they must give up their own use, usually at the barrel of government force.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 2, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is carbon pollution spewing beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is If You are Left you ain’t Right, with a post on Liz Cheney being anything but principled.

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Biden-Harris Jobs Market Has Been Great For Foreigners

By William Teach November 2, 2024 – 10:30 am

For Americans? Not so much

Kamala’s Opportunity Economy: Foreign Workers Score Over 1 Million Jobs, Nearly 800K Americans Lose Jobs

Foreign workers have gained tremendously in the job market as native-born Americans continue to fall out of the workforce on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s watch, the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows.

The report details an alarming trend, chronicled for years by Breitbart News, where foreign-born workers in the Biden-Harris economy score nearly all job gains and native-born Americans are left behind, out of the labor market.

“Over the last year, native-born Americans have lost almost 800k jobs while foreign-born workers have gained over 1 million jobs; the U.S. labor market is turning into a temp agency for foreign workers and gov’t bureaucrats,” Heritage Foundation Economist E.J. Antoni writes.

At the same time, as Antoni points out, “native-born Americans still have fewer jobs today than before the pandemic (-873,000) while all net job growth has gone to foreign-born workers (+3.7 million).”

It’s not breaking down how many are here illegally, how many are migrants declaring asylum, and how many are on visas

“Many Americans aren’t happy with the economy because they’re not the ones with the jobs,” Antoni writes on X.

Americans have never been happy with companies importing workers and replacing Americans in their jobs. It’s been going on for a while, and we heard the same complaints for decades, but, it has gotten much worse under Biden-Harris, particularly with all the migrants, over 90% of whom will not qualify for asylum but won’t get that hearing for 5-8 years, if they even show up, as Democrats push for them to get work permits.

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Media Wonders Why We Aren’t Talking About Climate Doom Anymore

By William Teach November 2, 2024 – 7:00 am

I can certainly understand. Even during the 2016 and 2020 election seasons there were way more articles to pick and choose from. It was rare that I had to hunt around for something, instead of seeing the same article printed at numerous outlets. These past 8-9 months climate scam articles have nosedived except for those ones repeated everywhere. Not to say they aren’t out there, just seems less. I do not even see it mentioned in commercials, either from the Harris campaign or their surrogates who seem to be breaking IRS rules

Why aren’t we talking about climate change anymore?

climate change joke

If you’ve been following the media coverage around the election — or even caught snippets of political ads, rallies and debates online — you’re probably familiar with the major issues of this election season.

But amid the relentless chatter about abortion and immigration policies, we seem to have let a major contender slip away — climate change.

Let’s start with one of the most central events of this election season — the presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. When asked about their stances on climate change, neither candidate could help but steer the conversation away from the issue. (snip)

Each candidate treated climate change as a mere segway to an endless debate about the economy. Avoidance of this issue seems to be an unfortunate trend throughout most of the major campaign events this election season.

True, because most voters only care about ‘climate change’ in coffee house bull sessions, not in the Real World. It’s easy to bleat about it when things are going well. Not so much when the economy feels poor.

An article by Brookings claims that the economic burden amongst young voters — who make up 29% of the electorate — has been ballooning since the Covid-19 pandemic. The article states voter turnout amongst young people will depend significantly on the candidate’s commitment to a brighter economic future.

Climate change — a more gradually developing issue — simply does not feel like a pressing issue compared to public hysteria over economic crises. A professor of psychology at Harvard University told The Guardian that climate change is not occurring at a pace that is fast enough for people to give more attention to the subject.

Real world issues always beat ginned up ones.

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Surprise: Migrant In Caravan Moving Faster In Case Trump Wins Election

By William Teach November 2, 2024 – 6:45 am

I’ve been reliably told that Kamala is going to crack down on the border now

‘If Trump wins I’m never going’: The 2,000-strong migrant army rushing to the US

They had walked through the night while it was cool, their spirits – despite the odds stacked against them – still high. A ragtag army of 2,000 migrants travelling by foot and in convoy, trying to reach the United States before the possible return of Donald Trump to the White House.

As the sun came up on Thursday morning, the migrants had managed 90 miles in the five days since setting out from Tapachula, the main city on Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala. They only have another 1,000 miles to go to arrive at their promised land: Mexico’s northern border. One of the caravan’s organiser’s calls it “their exodus”; it could almost be a pilgrimage.

The prospect of a Trump presidency – and with it even tougher border restrictions – has galvanised them to start walking now.

A second convoy will set off on Nov 5, deliberately timed for election day, “so Joe Biden and Kamala Harris know we are heading their way” in an effort by human rights activists to emphasise their plight.

But, but, but, they’re supposed to be turned away as Biden-Harris instituted remain in Mexico, right?

Fed up waiting for the all-important asylum meeting date and with the election looming, Ms Meza hit the road with the convoy on Sunday trying to reach the northern border. “We were waiting for the [asylum] appointment but then with the election all these applications will be closed and we are running out of time. The applications are being paused or cancelled but the border will be open,” she says, her three-year-old daughter Taisha pulling at her for attention, “If Donald Trump gets in office again, it will be much tougher.”

I suspect if Trump wins the Biden-Harris regime will end all the border restrictions they enacted as election season hit, leaving the border open and bring in who knows how many illegals/migrants, most of whom won’t be eligible for asylum. How many gang members? How many murderers and rapists? And then most likely ship them to areas which voted Trump in the dead of night.

Rohmal Silva, 38, from Guatemala, is trying desperately to get back to the US, where he has two teenage children. He was deported in 2018 – he says for a drunk driving conviction – after a year in jail and is now on the convoy making the march north. “If Donald Trump wins I think I am never going to go back,” he says, “I am trying to get back before the inauguration. I left Guatemala two weeks ago. I could see the election was coming.”

Mr Silva, who moved to Boston aged 13, is stuck in a no-man’s land, partly of his own doing. “I make a mistake. I got deported. I am trying to go back. I really miss my children. I worry about Donald Trump because the law is going to change a lot and it is going to be more hard to go back to the United States. It is hard now but at least you can apply and apply and you can get somewhere. I need a second chance. I am a father and I don’t think it’s fair that my children are there growing up without a father.”

He knew the rules. He could bring his kids out of the Boston area and to Guatemala.

But he, like the others, is in a race. “At this point our future is not certain. I would like to arrive before Donald Trump [wins]. He will make coming into the country more complicated. That is what everybody is afraid of.”

If they do not want to be afraid of that, there’s an answer: do not come.

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Say, What Do Gen Z ClimaActivists Want Next Year?

By William Teach November 1, 2024 – 4:14 pm

Well, obviously, it’s not them practicing what they preach, but, anyhow, we’re all supposed to Listen to them with their vast worldly experience

Here’s What Gen Z Climate Activists Are Prioritizing This Coming Year

Gathering at a rooftop venue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in late October, a group of Gen Z influencers and activists hosted ZCON, a two-day meeting that aims to “channel Gen Z values into action” and reinvent the conference experience. The idea is to bring together like-minded individuals, connecting nonprofit and private sector businesses with Gen Z activists, influencers, and thought leaders. Following its debut in Los Angeles in 2023, ZCON’s goal is to highlight the ways that Gen Z is particularly affected by issues impacting the younger generation, and how they are working towards solutions.

“Reinvent the conference experience”. They always think they are doing things no one else has ever done, that they are the first to do something.

“I see ZCON as a creative classroom where different people come together to express their forms of art, whether that’s through lifestyle, education, or activism,” Isaias Hernandez, a climate activist who spoke at ZCON in 2023, tells TIME. “And to me, it also does not just bring all these young people together, it brings brands, philanthropists, different people from the private sector, to understand the ways in which stories can be molded.”

See? No one’s ever done that.

Within panels and breakout groups, ZCON creates space for young activists to commiserate and come together  For the 2024 session, the ongoing climate crisis was understandably at the center of the impact discussions, which also held a particular focus on social impact work, such as climate education and communication, as well as fundraising tactics for nonprofits. The Gen Z climate activists are aware  that they do not speak for the entire climate activist space—and admit that they may not agree on everything. Yet, they still see ZCON as a space to imagine what comes next for their community, and what might be achieved in the future.

I wonder how many took fossil fueled trips to ZCON? How many are pledging to stop using fossil fuels and reduce their carbon footprints…oh, who am I kidding, these kiddies travel a lot just to take some photos and videos.

They’re obviously very interested in “environmental justice,” meaning they think that black people aren’t capable of taking care of themselves without massive government intervention and control of their lives. Oh, and that government should spend tons of money on this stuff, because the Gen Z folks sure won’t.

And they totally want education and green jobs. Seriously, don’t they have enough access to information? And

Jorge Alvarez, a mental health advocate who recently has been working more towards addressing climate anxiety, also focused on how hard it is for Gen Z to enter into the working force right now. He’s hearing from his peers that they need more opportunities for green jobs specifically.

“We need to fund pipeline programs, specifically for young people when it comes to green jobs, and also more people of color engagement work—period,” Alvarez says.

What’s this we? If they want green jobs, they can fund them themselves. Take out loans from the bank. Solicit funds from the big green folks like Al Gore and George Clooney. But, then, we’re are talk True Gen Z living up to their reputation of being lazy and wanting everything handed to them.

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