. . .
K “Dewey beats Truman. Again.”
J “Surreal. America gave up on itself.”
. . .
K “This was the single largest citizen jury verdict in American history rejecting and repudiating an incompetent and criminal regime in Washington. When the ‘Deplorables’ and the ‘Garbage’ unite, things happen. Things happened.”
J “He will break every one of his promises. You really think he will even propose making Social Security payments non-taxable. No way. Or making overtime payments and tips non-taxable. No way. He will abandon the citizens and jurors who will be even angrier at and more frustrated with the system.”
K “One side of me says you are right. From another perspective, we are better off if he does break many of his promises.”
J “The voters clearly wanted American money and resources to be spent by Americans for Americans in America. Trump made a more convincing pitch to the pitch fork crowd. But he will not perform.”
. . .
K “Who is seriously interested in why it happened?”
J “It is all about social media in the Age of Rage and Anger. An angry old white man bamboozled the angry men and angry women.”
K “Why are they angry?”
. . .
J “I did not necessarily support her as much as I supported those who surrounded her.”
K “That’s what terrified me about her.”
J “What about the clowns and buffoons Trump is now surrounding himself with.”
K “That’s what terrifies me about him. And in the first week. He appointed the War Pigs by or on Armistice Day.”
. . .
K “Keep one unreality in mind. One high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. Another high-ranking senior Biden official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack. The highest-ranking official stated without hesitation that Biden was sharp as a tack, until she implicitly intimated that he was not and joined the palace coup.”
J “Everything about that situation was poorly handled. Harris did not have enough time to get traction and to develop a brand. She could not run against Bidenomics and she could not run for Bidenomics. A little racism and sexism may have been thrown it to complicate things.”
. . .
K “Polls are no longer accurate measures of voter sentiment. They are weapons of election influence . . . and interference. That may be a federal criminal offense. Under the extant rules of Lawfare, a pollster could be indicted for election interference.”
. . .
K “The election was also a broader referendum on the MSM and alternative media.”
J “There is that problem. The MSM was bruised and battered and may now be buried.”
K “I am troubled by much of the alternative media, yet the enlightened alternative media provides the only promise.”
. . .
K “A few months ago, I endured listening to one smarmy Parvenu PMCer interviewing another unctuous Parvenu PMCer who agreed that ‘indeed’ the Stupid Proles do not realize there is no inflation because they are stupid. They cited the NYT. Within a few weeks, I watched a Stupid Prole in line at the grocery store prioritize the final nine food items and pay for only seven at the register and leave two items behind in the cart.”
J “The messaging was not very astute. The MSM really needs to go back to the drawing board and reflect and retool.”
K “The MSM is superfluous. The NYT posted at least six articles a day in favor of Harris and at least six articles a day against Trump. Under the NYT’s current interpretation of the law and the First Amendment, the individual authors and the newspaper itself could be subject to election interference and RICO criminal charges for openers. In desperation, they would try to avail themselves of the Assange Defense. But Assange was guilty of practicing journalism, whereas they are guilty of promoting propaganda.”
. . .
K “What if the citizens resurrected an old remedy and tarred and feathered the charlatans and the con men and the con women and ran them out of town? That is what they did albeit less ceremoniously at the voting booth.”
J “And hopefully save some tar and feathers for the Trump crowd.”
. . .
Bumper stickers of the week:
NYT: Too close to call
Nate Silver: Too close to call
J. Ann Selzer: Harris in Iowa by 3 (Someone said that Trump took Iowa by 13.2 which suggests an error of . . . 16.2, but you will not hear it on the MSM)
By Americans for Americans in America
“This Is a Collapse of the Democratic Party” Ralph Nader
e-commentary 
Post Number 1000! And Still Having Fun! Oh, And Happy Post Number 1000! (November 18, 2024)
Posted in e-commentary on November 18, 2024 by e-commentary.org. . .
K “I am regularly surprised and occasionally shocked at where I am personally and politically and legally and economically today.”
J “Me too.”
K “You too. I am plagued by self-induced self-doubt every day.”
J “I am not surprised at where I am. The consequences of unrelenting critical thinking.”
. . .
K “For an undertaking that did not have an outline or a deadline or a line or a plan or a direction or a trajectory, I am surprised and shocked to see where it has veered and ventured.”
J “It has been fun. The path sure has been rocky in the last five years.”
. . .
J “The great fork . . . the great divide . . . the great chasm . . . was Covid. Life in B.C. and in A.C. Before Covid and After Covid.”
K “Those in power are keen to get the folks with the pitch forks to turn on the folks with the burning torches. That strategy is working frighteningly well.”
. . .
K “My emerging conviction in the last five years is that the American Experiment is failing and is continuing to fail and will surely fail. The bigger and far more intriguing question is what will become of the experiment.”
J “We still agree on many things. Are two countries in our future?”
. . .
J “Boycott Red America.”
K “Thoughtfully Boycott Blue America.”
. . .
[See “The Revolution of 2024” by Jeffrey A. Tucker in the “Brownstone Institute” dated November 16, 2024.]
[See the very first piece that kicked off the journey at Boycott Red America (January 3, 2005) almost a score years ago. These weekly essays in the vein of Montaigne assaying the ideas of the time were available at “www.e-ssay.org”. Note that K’s weltanschauung has evolved over the two decades. J remains resolute and undaunted. See the summary of the prior nineteen years of e-ssays and e-commentaries at e-commentary: Approaching A Score Years Of Fun And A Mille Posts! (December 31, 2023 / January 1, 2024).]
[See the e-commentary at Friendships And Families Asunder. Brother v. Brother. And Big Brother Always Looming (November 8, 2021), Civil War II. Coming To A Country And City Near You (November 26, 2018), The Great National Dissolution: Resolving The Great Civil War (April 18, 2011), World War E / World War III Is 1 [9?] Year[s] Old This Week. Oh, And Happy Presidents’ Day! (February 20, 2023), The United States Of Polarization (November 1, 2021), On Friendship Today: Flat, Fried, Frayed, Frazzled, Frozen, Fractured, Fissured, Fatigued, Finished? Oh, And Happy Thanksgiving! (November 20, 2023), Truckers; Convoys; Politics; Race; Class; Religion; The American Effete And The PMC. Oh, And Happy Valentine’s Day! (February 14, 2022), Vaccine Vacillation And Vicissitudes (December 14, 2020), The Vaccine: The Shot Felt Round The World (November 23, 2020), What’s In A Name? Medical School Monikers In 2032 (January 17, 2022), Red State Medicine v. Blue State Medicine; Red Continent Medicine v. Blue Continent Medicine; WCH v. WHO (October 25, 2021), Narratives Competing (August 2, 2021) and The Populace Is “Dis-ed”: Discombobulated, Disequilibrated, Disquieted, Disconcerted, Dislocated, Disillusioned, Disappointed, Dismayed, Dissed And Dis-ed (February 8, 2021).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
1000 posts and counting!
Almost 20 years and counting!
Boycott Red America
Boycott Blue America
Still a lot of fun
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