By 48-46, Voters Say Biden Is Not Mentally Fit

By William Teach November 17, 2021 – 8:20 am

Polls about Donald Trump just generally said he was a jerk, but, that polling outfits are asking the question as to whether Biden is mentally fit is a pretty bad thing for Biden

Poll: Voters split on Biden’s mental fitness as job approval remains low

Voters have increasing doubts about the health and mental fitness of President Joe Biden, the oldest man ever sworn into the White House, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.

Only 40 percent of voters surveyed agreed with the statement that Biden “is in good health,” while 50 percent disagreed. That 10-percentage-point gap — outside the poll’s margin of error — represents a massive 29-point shift since October 2020, when Morning Consult last surveyed the question and found voters believed Biden was in good health by a 19-point margin.

Asked whether Biden is mentally fit, voters are almost evenly split, with 46 percent saying he is and 48 percent disagreeing. But that negative 2-point margin stands in stark contrast to Biden’s numbers last October, when voters believed he was mentally fit by a 21-point margin.

Consider that 44% approve of the job Let’s Go Brandon is doing, which seems a few percentage points compared to quite a few other polls of late. And the poll on mentally fit shakes down to 27% agree strongly, 19% somewhat agree, 10% somewhat disagree, 30% strongly disagree.

The most intense scrutiny of Biden’s age and his verbal miscues had previously been limited to conservative news outlets and social media, said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster who has surveyed for Biden.

“They’re running a very aggressive campaign on this, and it’s bleeding over into the mainstream a little,” Lake said. “By and large, the people who believe this are Trump supporters anyway or they’ve been exposed to the right-wing disinformation machine.”

See, it’s not watching Biden stumble through speeches, refuse to answer questions from the press, make constant mistakes, put his head down on the podium, etc, it’s all this disinformation!

To Lake’s point, the Morning Consult poll generally shows that Trump voters and Republicans generally believe Biden is neither physically nor mentally fit, and Biden voters believe the opposite. However, independents — by a margin of 23 points — don’t agree that Biden is mentally fit now.

All those Independents watching right wing CNN, you know. It is rather patronizing, since people are able to get their information from a lot of different sources across the spectrum.

The new Morning Consult poll shows 44 percent give Biden a positive job approval rating and 53 percent disapprove. Biden’s approval rating is essentially unchanged over the past two weeks — it was 46 percent last week and 45 percent the week prior — since the passage of the infrastructure bill in Congress earlier this month.

So, that big win has turned to a decline in his approval rating. Looking at the toplines for the poll, just 20% approve of Brandon’s performance, while 41% strongly disapprove.

  • 64% say the country is on the wrong track.
  • 41% say that economic issues are their top issue, the very thing Joe and his Comrades are ignoring/doing the exact wrong thing.
  • Only 17% strongly approve of the job Joe is doing on the economy, with 23% saying somewhat approve, 11% somewhat disapprove, 42% strongly disapprove
  • He’s underwater on almost every single issue.
  • Overall, 43% say he’s trustworthy (21% strongly), 51% say no (40% strongly)

And, at the end of the day, this poll is 39% Democrat, 27% Independent, 34% Republican. So, with a 5 point Dem lead, Brandon gets these numbers.

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Good News: Climate Promises Rest In The Hands Of A Handful Of Elites

By William Teach November 16, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Sounds great, a bunch of powerful people who refuse to practice what they preach, nor practice what they will force you to practice, all while being affected not the least from all the “climate action”

Climate Promises Made in Glasgow Now Rest With a Handful of Powerful Leaders

After two weeks of lofty speeches and bitter negotiations among nearly 200 nations, the question of whether the world will make significant progress to slow global warming still comes down to the actions of a handful of powerful nations that remain at odds over how best to address climate change.

The United Nations global conference on climate change closed Saturday with a hard-fought agreement that calls on countries to return next year with stronger emissions-reduction targets and promises to double the money available to help countries cope with the impacts of global warming. It also mentions by name — for the first time in a quarter-century of global climate negotiations — the main cause of climate change: fossil fuels.(snip)

A relative handful of political leaders around the world — in capital cities such as Washington, Beijing and New Delhi — hold much of the influence over whether those promises are kept and the arc of warming can be sufficiently bent away from disaster. But they face a complex combination of pressures: industry interests that stand in the way of regulations, demands from developing countries for money to help them transition away from fossil fuels, and an increasingly vocal movement among citizens to rein in emissions more quickly and deliver what they call climate justice.

Chief among the leaders facing such pressures is U.S. President Joe Biden, who is pursuing one of the biggest climate legislation efforts ever attempted in the country, but who faces heavy resistance not only from Republicans, but from key senators within his own party.

You know China and India will pay zero attention to actually doing anything. They might release plans and say the right things, but, much like the tens of thousands who took fossil fueled flights to Glasgow, they won’t actually do a darned thing.

As for the United States, last time I checked we weren’t a dictatorship, and the politicians are supposed to listen to We The People (yeah, I know, they mostly don’t). What happens when the GOP retakes the House and Senate, stymying Biden’s agenda on climate crisis scam? Will he go for the authoritarian route? If they were smart (LOL), the GOP would pass a few simple bills that deny the White House and Executive Branch political appointees from traveling in fossil fueled cars, helicopters, and planes. Force Brandon to veto them. And things like that.

What happens when a Republican wins the White House in 2024? You can kiss any pledges goodbye, and a goodly chunk of Brandon’s climate agenda goodbye. They should push for nuclear power. They should stand up and tell people what this agenda is really all about. Stop playing around. It’s like pushing back against the 9/11 Truthers: yes, those people are nuts, but, you have to spread the truth lest it fester and grow. Same with ‘climate change’. Even if the climate has warmed mostly/solely due to Mankind (it hasn’t), even if Mankind is responsible for 51%+ (we aren’t), it is simply being used, once again, to institute Modern Socialist government controls on people and private entities, taking more of their money, freedom, liberty, and choice.

Our government should not have this much power over our lives

Britain, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and one of history’s largest emitters of planet-warming greenhouse gases, has said it intends to reduce its emissions by 68% by 2030, compared with 1990 levels.

But Britain is also facing criticism for building new roads and airports — both potential sources of carbon dioxide emissions, which are among the main causes of global warming — and for continuing to extract oil and gas in the North Sea. Mikaela Loach, a young Briton who has sued the British government over an oil and gas project there, responded to the summit outcome on Twitter by dubbing it “#CopOut26.”

Nor should a 1st World nation like Britain

Courts have already begun to weigh in. Citizens in Germany, Pakistan and the Netherlands have sued to force their governments to take stronger action against climate change. In the United States, an environmental law nonprofit has sued the government on behalf of 21 young plaintiffs.

They are Fascists, wanting to require everyone to practice what most of these Warmists won’t.

Many of the youth activists who protested outside the talks said the promises didn’t go nearly far enough to address a problem that they are already living with. Mitzi Jonelle Tan, an activist from the Philippines who joined tens of thousands of activists on the streets of Glasgow to rally for “climate justice,” said the outcome felt like “a stab in the back from those who call themselves leaders.”

We’re supposed to listen to the “activists” who want to empower authoritarian government when they can’t even stop themselves from flying halfway around the world? Piss off, wanker.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 16, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Greenie Watch, with a post on the White House saying high gas prices prove we need more “green” energy.

Double shot below the post, since I totally forgot to create a post yesterday, so, check out Moonbattery, with a post on a device that sounds an alarm when a Thoughtcrime occurs.

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Good News: Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Gives Cryptocurrency To US Treasury

By William Teach November 16, 2021 – 10:30 am

There’s going to be a lot of young Democratic party and Brandon voters who do a lot with crypto and will be very surprised

Biden’s infrastructure bill hands crypto industry to US Treasury

US President Joe Biden has signed a landmark $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law which includes tax reporting provisions that apply to cryptocurrency (snip)

The legislation will be significant for the crypto industry. As part of its revenue-raising provisions, the infrastructure included new definitions for ‘broker’ among cryptocurrency network participants.

The bill is mainly meant for the IRS to have ‘well defined’ definitions but, ultimately, it risks asking network actors to behave as node operators in order to report identifying information for crypto transactions that they have no way of gathering.

Justin Banon, co-founder of Boson Protocol – a decentralised commerce protocol – stressed the need for “sensible regulation for technology in order to protect consumers and users”.

Banon claims the bill needs to be smart and informed by people who understand the threats, opportunities, and economic implications presented by the technologies themselves.

Well, good luck with that! This is the IRS we’re talking about, and the ones writing the rules will have little understanding of crypto and a whole lot of understanding of how to take people’s money. You can bet they’ll start yammering about equity and racial stuff and social justice.

Dr Amber Ghaddar, co-founder of AllianceBlock, commented that crypto was a new industry with an infrastructure quite different from traditional finance and, therefore, applying the ‘letter of antiquated laws’ and provisions to a new industry showed a lack of understanding from the government.

Still, she stressed this was partly “our fault for not ironically ‘centralising’ our efforts to not only lobby but also explain to key stakeholders how our protocols work”.

On one hand, she’s right. On the other, why is it necessary to lobby the federal government to stop involving itself in everything?

The passage of the infrastructure bill itself could potentially be messy for small investors.

If a DeFi or self custody user transfers a certain amount from their wallet to the exchange, the exchange will consider the dollar amount sent as a sale but it doesn’t know how much the client initially paid for the tokens.

The user can then end up with an overstated 1099-B, forcing them to actually hire an accountant or manually reconcile.

In other words, it will cost them even more money. Breitbart has a long piece on the lack of infrastructure in the infrastructure bill, like

and spends some time on crypto, including

The bipartisan infrastructure bill contains two regulations of cryptocurrencies that many conservatives and industry officials have criticized as threatening American liberties and could result in the offshoring of American jobs.

One regulation, proposed by Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) and the Biden White House as a $30 billion “pay for,” would require that any broker that transfers any digital currencies would need to file a tax return under a “modified information reporting regime.” (snip)

Abraham Sutherland wrote a report for the Proof of Stake Alliance that noted the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill contains a provision to amend tax code 6050I that would make it a felony if one did not report receiving digital assets, whether it be cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), or any other digital assets.

Sutherland noted, “Miners, stakers, lenders, decentralized application and marketplace users, traders, businesses and individuals are all at risk of being subject to this reporting requirement, even though in most situations the person or entity in receipt is not in the position to report the required information.”

“Congressional Democrats have a completely antiquated view of cryptocurrency and that has led them to add yet another burdensome hurdle to everyday crypto investors. The United States needs to be leading the world in the digital asset space instead of overregulating it and pushing it overseas,” Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) told Breitbart News during an exclusive interview in September.

This should turn out well, eh?

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Brandon’s Infrastructure Plan Includes A Lot Of Money For Electric Buses

By William Teach November 16, 2021 – 7:00 am

It’s a nice little reward to the unions and helps save us from the climate crisis (scam)

U.S. School Buses May Never Be The Same Thanks to Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

st greta carAssembly line workers at the Thomas Built school bus factory in High Point, North Carolina are over the moon about the new infrastructure bill—specifically Title XI, Section 71101. Buried deep in the 2,702-page document approved by the House last week, that line item allocates federal funds to help localities purchase brand-new battery-powered school buses. That’s good news for Thomas Built, a subsidiary of German auto giant Daimler that controls nearly 40% of the North American school bus market. And for Chris Pratt, president of the local United Auto Workers chapter and a 22-year veteran welder at the Thomas Built plant, the legislation means one thing: more jobs. “We’re all excited,” Pratt says. “This is something huge for us.”

The school bus provision accounts for a comparatively tiny $5 billion within the $1.2 trillion bill now awaiting the President’s signature. But for workers like those in High Point, and campaigners advocating to get rid of diesel fumes on childrens’ commutes, this new federal funding represents a turning point in a surprisingly significant industry that will affect communities across the country.

The U.S.’s approximately 500,000 school buses comprise the country’s largest public transportation network, moving 26 million children between school and home every day. That’s more than four times the New York City subway’s daily ridership ,all picked up and dropped off at farm houses, suburban developments, and city apartment blocks from Idaho to Alaska. About 95% of those buses run on diesel, accounting for more than 5 million tons of yearly greenhouse gas emissions, and exposure to their exhaust fumes have been linked to lower test scores and worse respiratory health for children, whose developing lungs are more susceptible to irritation caused by the fine particulates bus engines generate. Inside those buses, especially idling in traffic or in pickup lots, children often breathe the most polluted air they experience all day.

Look, this is not necessarily a bad idea, because, school buses are pretty polluting, and I’m not referring to CO2. You know the smell when you drive behind one, and, that gets in the bus, too. And, after some more “climate justice” stuff, we see “as far as big, gas-guzzling vehicles go, electrifying school buses would be relatively easy, since they only need limited range, and have plenty of time to charge up during the school day or at night.”

But, see, then reality hits

(NJ.com) But a major hurdle for cash strapped school districts is the high price of going electric. A full-sized 40-foot electric school bus can cost $230,000 to $400,000 per vehicle, two to almost four times the cost of a $110,000 diesel-powered school bus.

Whoops?

The Four Most Common Drawbacks of Electric School Buses and What You Can Do About Them

…. (under #1, which is high purchase price)

After the initial purchase, districts can expect to save dividends on their operating costs through the life of the bus in the form of fuel savings and lower maintenance costs. In fact, although fueling and charging costs ebb and flow, recent reports are showing electricity can be around 60 percent lower than diesel costs. And, because electric school bus motors have fewer moving parts, maintenance is dramatically reduced, with the largest maintenance expense being battery replacement. On average, an electric school bus could save schools nearly $2,000 a year in fuel and $4,400 a year in maintenance costs.

Let’s do the math: it would take over 17 years to even out when comparing a diesel bus cost to an electric one that costs twice as much. You can do the math for 3 and 4 times. And the average lifespan of a school bus is 12 years.

But, then, you also have to spend the money on the charging infrastructure (drawback #2), driver and technician training (#3), and battery range (#4), which is around 100 miles. How will that work in hot and cold areas? And, then, don’t forget, you need all new firefighting material for EV fires. If the cost for the buses was even just 50% more, it’d be worth it. Joe has some of your tax money to spread around.

BTW, where’s all the energy for the buses coming from?

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Hot Take: Acquitting Rittenhouse Would Be Legally Correct, But, Unjust Or Something

By William Teach November 16, 2021 – 6:45 am

Not sure about you, but, I’ve payed attention to the Rittenhouse trial, just, not super deep. Here’s what I see: the juvenile really shouldn’t have been there, but, it’s a free country. The government should have done their job in cracking down on the BLM/Antifa violence, rioting, looting, assault, theft, arson, etc. Three unhinged, violent BLM/Antifa supporters were looking for trouble, and went after the 17 year old. He defended himself. And the prosecution thinks they’re on a TV show, which is not real life. At this point, most people are thinking that Rittenhouse will be acquitted, so, we get stuff like

And

Acquitting Rittenhouse in Kenosha murder case would be the correct, if unjust, verdict

Lawyers are scheduled to deliver their closing arguments Monday in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, and then the case will go to the jury.

If I were a member of that jury, I expect I would reluctantly vote to acquit Rittenhouse of the most serious homicide charges based on the evidence that he was acting in self-defense when he shot three people in Kenosha in August 2020.

That’s without the benefit yet of hearing those closing arguments. Prosecutors might still be able to pull together their case in a more compelling manner than they have managed so far. (snip)

After seeing the rest of the evidence this past week, let me take it a step further. I will be shocked if he’s convicted of anything more than underage possession of a dangerous weapon.

That charge was thrown out after this was written. Whoops!

Even though I think an acquittal would be a proper verdict, I’d still come away from the Rittenhouse trial believing that to be an unjust result.

It was Rittenhouse’s reckless foolishness as a 17-year-old who chose to play volunteer lawman amidst a hostile crowd while toting an AR-15 rifle — a gun he was too young to own — that ultimately is the cause of getting those people killed.

But nobody foresaw the need to create a law covering underage vigilantism, and, as a result, an acquittal would result in his trial sending a message that his actions were OK.

Rittenhouse would then be allowed to go through the rest of his life believing exactly what he said on the witness stand: “I didn’t do anything wrong. I defended myself.”

The fact remains that Rittenhouse had no business being there that night. Without him in the equation, nobody is dead.

See? If only Kyle had just stayed away and decided not to attempt to help people protect their businesses and homes from rampaging Democratic Party voters…..we’d be talking about the three who got shot committing violent acts against other people. What Mark Brown in the Chicago Sun Times is saying is that citizens should just walk away while riots occur, businesses and homes are destroyed, people are attacked, all while the government abandons their job in stopping that stuff.

Following the letter of the law is now unjust.

Lesson learned. When riots occur in Democratic Party run cities, everyone should just walk away. Let it burn. At this point, the jury has the case, and we are awaiting their decision. Could be quick, could be long. And, let’s be honest, no matter which way it goes, the Usual Suspects will riot. It’ll be worse if (when) he is acquitted, but, there will still be riots, I’m sure, if he’s convicted on any charge. And the news media will make Excuses, and still defame Kyle.

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Your Fault: Bad Weather In Egypt Causes Scorpions To Sting Hundreds, Kill 3

By William Teach November 15, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Usually, when a story like this hits, people are like “oh, my goodness, that’s horrible!”

The Cult of Climastrology’s first though is “how can I use this to push the cult?”

As Climate Emergency Worsens, Freak Storm Sends Snow, Scorpion Plague on Egypt’s Aswan
Egyptian climate scientists have no doubt that the Aswan storm was a manifestation of human-driven climate change, and they say that the old Egypt people grew up with is being altered.

How freakish and biblical our climate emergency could become was illustrated this week in the Upper Egyptian city of Aswan, which was struck in November by rolling lightning storms, downpours, snow, and a plague of scorpions. High winds blew the deadly Egyptian black, fat-tailed scorpions from the surrounding desert into the city and into people’s homes. The scorpions killed three persons with their venom and left hundreds sickened, as Egyptian rescue crews tried to distribute the antidote.

The Egyptian fat-tailed or black scorpion is one of the deadliest of its species.

Snow and scorpions and downpours. In November. In Upper Egypt.

The average high in November in Egypt is 86°F. with an average low of 61°F. Not really what you would call snow weather. The average rainfall in November in Aswan is 0.0 millimeters. That is, none, zero, zilch, nada.

So, not only are scorpions caused by ‘climate change’, but, snow storms.

This tragedy underlines the ways in which climate change-driven superstorms and other severe weather drive wild creatures into human spaces, where they can spread exotic viruses or simply attack.

These people. And there’s more

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White House Acknowledges High Inflation, Claims Brandon’s Bills Will Bring It Down

By William Teach November 15, 2021 – 10:30 am

This is become a theme, as multiple people in the #LetsGoBrandon administration, including Joe, when he can actually read his teleprompter, make the same claim

White House economic director says ‘inflation is high,’ pledges Biden bills will bring it down

White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese acknowledged that “inflation is high and it’s affecting Americans in their pocketbook and their outlook,” but promised the administration is working to address the rise in costs in both the short and long term.

“That concern actually underscores why it’s so important to move forward on the Build Back Better bill that Congress is considering,” Deese said in an interview Sunday with George Stephanopoulos on “This Week,” making the case for President Joe Biden’s nearly $2 trillion social spending bill still being debated in Congress.

“This bill is actually going to address the core costs that American families are facing in child care, in housing, in health care,” he added.

As inflation continues to plague the U.S., a new ABC News-Washington Post poll paints a problematic picture for the president on the economy as a whole: 70% of Americans say it is in bad shape, and more than half — 55% — disapprove of Biden’s handling of the economy.

Of course, Democrat outlets want to paint a rosy picture with BBB, but, the reality is that it will increase inflation, increase taxation, and, really, not help at all. It’s an irresponsible tax and spend scheme “that will only exacerbate the supply-side issues plaguing the economy.” It will “pour roughly $200 billion of fuel on the fire in its first year alone.” It’s all about “Spend more, tax more, borrow more.”

BBB is all about far left Modern Socialist restructuring of America. Democrats know they are going to lose in 2022, hence, they’re trying to ram it through. If it was popular they wouldn’t need to try the reconciliation rout.

And, if they do ram it through, they’ll say it didn’t work because it wasn’t big enough like when they first crafted it. And if it doesn’t go through, they’ll say that things are bad because Republicans refused to allow it to pass. These people are awful.

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Agreement Reached At COP26, But, Actually Following Through Is In Doubt

By William Teach November 15, 2021 – 8:17 am

Wow, it didn’t take long for people to start talking about the new agreement failing

Nations reach climate change agreement in Glasgow but follow-through in doubt

Negotiators from nearly every country on Earth reached an agreement Saturday evening at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming and to assist developing nations coping with the effects of rising temperatures.

The final agreement, which came following contentious negotiations over issues like ending fossil fuel subsidies, the creation of a crisis response fund for developing nations and the insistence that nations return in a year with steeper targets for emissions reductions, arrived more than 24 hours after the conference officially ended. But it did not go as far as many in the scientific community have said is necessary to keep the world from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius rise over pre-industrial levels, which was the main goal of the conference itself.

What emerged from two weeks of meetings at COP26, as the conference is also known, was a series of compromises that left many of the representatives of nations already on the frontlines of climate change angered.

“We have 98 months to halve global emissions,” Aminath Shauna, environment minister of the Maldives, said as the final wording of the document was being hammered out on Saturday. “The difference between 1.5 and 2 degrees is a death sentence for us.”

Good grief, it’s like watching a horror movie where everyone is overly dramatic, eh? This happens every year around the COPs.

For the first time ever, a climate agreement includes language explicitly calling for the phaseout of a fossil fuel, coal. It also explicitly endorses the concept of “loss and damage,” meaning an expectation that rich countries like the U.S. and those comprising the European Union will provide some compensation for the damage wrought on poorer countries by climate change.

Ending fossil fuels, as pushed by people using a lot of them. And just passing around that sweet, sweet, strings-free climate cash from developed nations to nations that have been developing for 100 years but also stay crapholes.

But if Glasgow participants made progress in the fight against climate change, for many it was inadequate enough to be judged at least a partial failure. Climate policy experts note that the mid-century targets of reaching net-zero emissions are implausible if nations actually stick with their current plans to allow global emissions to actually rise in this decade, because transitioning economies entirely away from fossil fuels is a decades-long project.

They’re always going to see it as a failure unless they get everything they want, forgetting that this would negatively affect their own lives. They’re plenty cool with this messing with Other People’s lives, though.

“In a year marked by uncertainty and mistrust, COP26 affirmed the importance of collective global action to address the climate crisis,” Ani Dasgupta, president and CEO, World Resources Institute, said in a statement. “While we are not yet on track, the progress made over the last year and at the COP26 summit offers a strong foundation to build upon. The real test now is whether countries accelerate their efforts and translate their commitments into action.”

Good luck with that. You know India and China will not comply in the least. When Republicans retake the House and Senate, they will refuse to move Biden’s climate cult agenda forward. Just like after Paris in 2015, a lot of nations will talk big then do little to nothing.

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NY Times Hot Take: Republicans Leading 2022 Mid-terms From Gerrymandered Maps

By William Teach November 15, 2021 – 8:05 am

Here we go: Democrats are already setting the stage for a big loss in 2022 by blaming gerrymandered maps, forgetting that states that are run by Democrats are being gerrymandered in their favor. Outlets like the NY Times know that the Democrat voting foot soldiers are dumb enough to believe this, especially if repeated enough times. Also, the unhinged #NeverTrumpers, who keep saying they are conservatives/Republicans yet do everything possible to help Democrats

Republicans Gain Heavy House Edge in 2022 as Gerrymandered Maps Emerge

A year before the polls open in the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans are already poised to flip at least five seats in the closely divided House thanks to redrawn district maps that are more distorted, more disjointed and more gerrymandered than any since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965.

The rapidly forming congressional map, a quarter of which has taken shape as districts are redrawn this year, represents an even more extreme warping of American political architecture, with state legislators in many places moving aggressively to cement their partisan dominance.

The flood of gerrymandering, carried out by both parties but predominantly by Republicans, is likely to leave the country ever more divided by further eroding competitive elections and making representatives more beholden to their party’s base.

At the same time, Republicans’ upper hand in the redistricting process, combined with plunging approval ratings for President Biden and the Democratic Party, provides the party with what could be a nearly insurmountable advantage in the 2022 midterm elections and the next decade of House races.

Well, it’s nice that the NY Times mentions the poor approval ratings, but, they see that as secondary, as it’s all about those mean, cheating Republicans who will commit…..politics. Does anyone think California will be fair in redistricting? How about Oregon? Washington? It wouldn’t matter how this happens in Republican run states, as, at least at this time, people are extremely unhappy with the Democrats, and you just can’t see Biden getting better. His only saving grace will be if the economy gets a lot better by voting day next year.

See, though, it’s not just bad for the House

Nationalized races threaten Dem governors in ’22

The sharp swing away from Democrats last week in Virginia and New Jersey has the party newly alarmed about even more vulnerable governorships across the country next year.

President Joe Biden’s sinking approval rating in Virginia was one of the factors that helped doom former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, strategists on both sides of the aisle say, something that could materialize in 2022 if the political environment does not change.

Even in gubernatorial races — in which candidates generally do a better job at separating themselves from national party dynamics than in federal races — negative views of the president present a huge problem for a slate of Democratic incumbents up next year. That’s especially true after many tied themselves closely to Biden during his 2020 campaign and the first six months of his presidency.

It looked to me like McAuliffe lost more due to his big mouth in pissing off parents, and would have lost by more without early voting and cheat by mail. You can expect Democrats to get more squirrely over the next year, and will talk about cheating, for which they believe gerrymandering is part of that (failing to mention that in their own states, nor will the media call them on it), and push lots of fearmongering about Republicans wanting to instituted Fascism, because Fascism apparently means “less government in your life” now.

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