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“Breaking news: Harris and Trump battle to the wire in swing states, [NY] Times/Siena polls find [November 3, 2024]” “Nearly Every Poll in 7 Battleground States Says Race Is a Tossup. [NYT. November 5, 2024]” Oh, And Happy Armistice Day! (November 11, 2024)

Posted in Elections, MSM, Presidency on November 11, 2024 by e-commentary.org

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K “Dewey beats Truman. Again.”

J “Surreal. America gave up on itself.”

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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.”

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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?”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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[See “Fight! Fight! Fight! . . . for the Truth” by Robert Gore dated November 12, 2024 in “Straight Line Logic”.]

[See the e-commentary at Is The MSM Really The WSM? (August 26, 2024); Tulsi, MSM, NYT, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, Real News, Fake News, Neo-McCarthyism. Oh, And Happy Halloween! (October 28, 2019), Truckers; Convoys; Politics; Race; Class; Religion; The American Effete And The PMC. Oh, And Happy Valentine’s Day! (February 14, 2022), Revisiting “Does Any Institution In America Function? Oh, And Happy Friday The 13th! (December 9, 2019)” Four Years Later (December 11, 2023) and Eighth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2023 (May 8, 2023).]

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

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“D” Day: Donkey v. Elephant Fight; The “D” Division Of The War And Wall Street Party v. The “R” Division Of The War And Wall Street Party; Pitch Forks v. Burning Torches (November 4, 2024)

Posted in Elections, Presidency, War and Wall Street Party on November 4, 2024 by e-commentary.org

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K “We are on final approach. Flaps down. Landing gear down.”

J “We are down to the wire.”

K “Are we on course for a CFIT?”

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K “Some Democrats are saying that the Republicans will only win if they steal it. Some Republicans are saying that the Democrats will only win if they steal it.”

J “Unity, unity at last. Everyone agrees that it is going to be a stolen election.”

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K “Those in power are keen to keep the folks with the burning torches turning on the folks with the pitch forks.”

J “Or to keep the folks with the pitch forks turning on the folks with the burning torches. We turned on each other long ago.”

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Bumper stickers of the week:

An elephant and a donkey fight in a puppet show and the crowd cheers for one or the other while thieves pick their pockets. And when the people start to notice their wallets are missing, they’re told they can stop the pickpocketing by cheering louder for their favorite puppet. Parable told by the End The Two Party System Movement.

Pat Paulsen 2024

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J: The Harris Gang!; K: Stein . . . Or Trump/Kennedy/Gabbard/Vance . . . Or Stein? (October 28, 2024)

Posted in Elections, Presidency on October 28, 2024 by e-commentary.org

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K “Both are vile.”

J “Both are vile. That is a wash.”

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K “Both are evil.”

J “Both are evil. That is a wash.”

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K “Harris is unfit. She had three and a half years on the junior varsity job to evince that she is fit. She failed miserably.”

J “Trump is unfit. He had four years on the varsity job to evince that he is fit. He failed miserably. That is a wash.”

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K “You must find some irony in concluding that someone who did the job or at least was in the actual job for four years is unfit for the job.”

J “He had a chance at center stage. He proved himself unfit.”

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K “Trump was the Symptom of a staggering Problem who has metastasized into another Problem. The election is between Systemic Problem versus Trump Problem.”

J “The original Problem is less of a problem than the new Problem.”

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K “The Harris Gang is just the fourth term of the O’Bama administration. Every single major grifter and grafter in the Biden Administration has known for years that Joey is mentally unfit and yet they have engaged in a cover up much wider and more pernicious and of longer duration than anything even Tricky Dick ever did. On some level, that is treasonous. The third term has been a complete failure. More than enough is enough.”

J “That may be the better we can do.”

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J “Trump is a rabid supporter of genocide and torture. The Harris Gang are rabid supporters of genocide and torture. Kennedy reluctantly tolerates genocide and criticizes torture. That is a wash.”

K “Agree. However, Stein is not a genocider or a torturer. She is avowedly against genocide and torture. There is that to weigh. That cannot be washed away.”

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K “Trump should ask the American people if they are better off now than they were four years ago. He would close the deal. The 3 percent in the Ruling Class and the Parvenu PMC Caste who serve them obediently are doing swimmingly while the other 97 percent are drowning.”

J “Were they better off four years ago than they were eight years ago?”

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K “The Supreme Court’s decision regarding abortion was a godsend to the Democrats. The Democratic apparatchiks are terrified that a woman’s right to an abortion might be enshrined into law. That would take the Democrat’s primary marketing ploy off the table. When the Supreme Court issued its decision, Biden did not say that he would propose legislation while he had both houses, he said he would introduce legislation in the next session when he knew or should have known that he would confront a divided legislature. There are times when hypocrisy is immoral.”

J “I saw him make that comment.”

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K “Sure would be nice to be deciding between Stevenson and Eisenhower.”

J “Sure would even be nice to be deciding between Nixon and Humphrey.”

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J “The final audited results are in. The Harris Gang: Evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil and evil. Trump: Evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil and evil.”

K “The final audited results are in. Trump: Evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil and evil. The Harris Gang: Evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil and evil.”

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K “The endorsement from the Cheney crime family moved me toward the Trump camp. The endorsement from Johnnie Bolton pushed me into the Trump camp. The endorsement from Anne Applebaum removed any scintilla of doubt. The recent babbling of Robert Kagan took the question off the table. The NYT’s endorsement of Harris was the icing on the cake. They sealed the deal. I do have all of them to thank.”

J “I never said that it is not an ugly bed that everyone is rolling and romping around in.”

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K “I would vote for Stein because she understands the problems and provides the answers and thus is blocked at each and every opportunity from saving the country. However, while Trump likely would win in a fair election, there are concerns that this one will be cooked again. I may be forced to vote Trump / Kennedy / Gabbard / Vance to provide a counterpoise. Yet when I get into the booth, I must pause and catch my breath and vote for Stein.”

J “No question. I will hold my nose and vote for the puppet herself.”

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J “Sure is revolting.”

K “Sure is. I need to wash.”

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[See “Torturers for Harris” by Shayana Kadidal in “The Nation” dated September 18, 2024.]

[See the e-commentary at Le Election: One First Street (November 2, 2020), Suffer Clinton. The Devil. We know. (November 7, 2016), Better the crook we know than the crazy man we don’t? Applying The Conservative Tie Breaker. (June 20, 2016), Cheney/Bush v. Trumpi: Crime Families Battling On The Big Stage (August 22, 2022), Johnnie Bolton: The Triumph Of the Chickenhawks And Neo-Cons. Join Fellow Patriots For The “April 14 Rally” And The Memorial Day “March For America”. Oh, And Happy April Fool’s Day! (April 2, 2018), Reinstate The Draft; Reduce The Demand For War (Somewhat). Oh, And Happy Veterans Day! (November 6, 2017), Murthy v. Missouri: AMA v. AAPS; Flaccid Amendment v. First Amendment. The Speakers’ Corner And The Public Square. (March 18, 2024) and “Supreme Court backs Biden administration in social media dispute with red states” Biden 1; People 0. Oh, And Happy Canada Day! (July 1, 2024).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

My vote cancels your vote

Vote? Why? Not?

Can we just admit we may have taken this ‘anyone can grow up to be President’ thing just a bit too far?

“How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?” Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72

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January 6: The Country Needs An Impartial And Objective Inquiry (January 8, 2024)

Posted in Collapse, Corruption, Elections on January 8, 2024 by e-commentary.org

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K “Then I had no doubt. Now I do. A more reasoned and seasoned analysis has slowly supplanted a quick emotional reaction. And I have had time to learn more, talk with many others and give it more thought.”

J “Three years later, I have no doubt. It was an insurrection.”

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K “Someone who voted and will vote for Biden and anyone else foisted on this country by the DNC pulled me aside and confessed that he is deeply troubled that his law enforcement friends on the inside told him they were expressly ordered to stand down and not call for reinforcements in the face of a disorderly group. A piece of uncontroverted evidence from his trusted old home boys shared over coffee still rattles him three years later. He is on the first step on the road to Truth, but he admits that he does not and will not take another step.”

J “No one on the inside forced them to climb the walls and break through the barriers and enter the building. Someone on the outside encouraged them to climb the walls and break through the barriers and enter the building.”

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K “I worked near Jenkins Hill fifty years ago when Washington, D.C. was a sleepy southern town with modest security and muggy summers. In 1974, a few harmless citizens started chanting for a change in our Southeast Asian war policy at the southwest base of the Hill. The area is north of Independence Avenue and just west of First Street, Southwest. I was in the Rayburn Building and saw the walls pivot open and discharge phalanxes of SWAT teams that barged through the crowd and charged outside to confront the citizens. I was asked to and did immediately leave the building and was positioned outside to chronicle the confrontation. The police presence was so overwhelming and the citizens were so well mannered that nothing came of it. The police allowed the citizens to flash signs and chant for change but not enter the building. No one was hurt. No one was arrested. The First Amendment was not bruised. Since those bucolic days, the level of security – visible and largely hidden – has mushroomed and created an impregnable fortress with fluted columns on the Hill.”

J “I vaguely recall getting drafted by someone on a blustery, nasty, rainy and chilly Saturday morning to attend a demonstration to get the country out of Iraq. We walked from the Capitol South Metro station to the same southwest side of the Hill. The police had designated an area to congregate surrounded by a circular ring of blue motor scooters, officers astride horses and two rows of officers equipped for war. A few speakers spoke to the fifty or so folks without incident and then everyone disbanded to go home and get dry and warm. The Metro was dry and warm. The police do know how to put the populace in their place.”

K “I have been charged by one of those phalanxes . . . and felt sympathy for the horses.”

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K “After the riots broke out after King was terminated in 1968, I remember the newspaper picture of members of the 82nd Airborne drilling multiple triangles of holes to bolt tripods to the top of the western wall of the Capitol. The rioters were approaching street by street from the northwest.”

J “They meant business. They need to mean business. It can be a mean business.”

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K “I believe everyone should be required to take off his or her shoes and to wear some more formal attire to enter, so you can put me down as one who does not countenance anyone breaking anything or breaching an entrance without permission.”

J “From what I saw, no one even wiped his or her shoes before entering.”

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K “If I had not been subject to a self-imposed Covid travel embargo, I would have been there in person on the Mall with my reporter’s notebook and Steve Job’s Hasselblad on January 6, 2021 to chronicle the event.”

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K “We need to include a discussion of the Tractorcade events of February 5, 1979 on the agenda. I did not have a camera then. Or a cell phone. That was quite a spectacle. The snow rained on their parade.”

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K “Keep it simple. Occam’s Razor comes into play again yet is applied differently than in your prior application. There is one rule in this situation that has no exception: No one gets into the Capitol unless allowed into the Capitol by those in the Capitol. If you knew nothing about the situation and applied only Occam’s Razor, any plausible explanation must comport with this one fundamental rule. The Capitol is Joint Base House-Senate.”

J “I restate my case. No one on the inside forced them to climb the walls and break through the barriers and enter the building. Someone on the outside encouraged them to climb the walls and break through the barriers and enter the building.”

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K “There is more to the story. For the sake of the country, the country needs to empanel an impartial committee to provide an inquiry into what went on that day. Keep in mind the people we are dealing with up there, Democrats and Republicans. On their best day, they are ruthless and amoral. Many of them could get the Devil to gag. Everything is always more complex than it initially appears.”

J “Or more simple.”

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[See the e-commentary at On Riots And Rampages (January 11, 2021).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Be skeptical

Be very skeptical

Be profoundly skeptical

The Capitol is Joint Base House-Senate

Near the end of the movie “Rancho Deluxe”, Slim Pickens said to Henry Dean Stanton: “Son, all large-scale crime is always an inside job.”

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The Elections Clause And The Independent State Legislature Theory Confront Sound Logic And Settled Practice (December 12, 2022)

Posted in Constitution, Elections, First Amendment, Sports, Supreme Court on December 12, 2022 by e-commentary.org

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J “I had the good fortune to listen to the debate from the perspective of someone who has not been inside an American law school. As I recall from inside an American high school, Federalist Paper Number 78 courtesy of Alexander Hamilton discusses the role, albeit limited, of the judiciary. Fourteen years after the drafting of the Constitution in 1789, the Supreme Court in 1803 in Marbury v. Madison advanced a doctrine of robust judicial review. The federal courts have the solemn task of determining whether acts are constitutional and what must be done if acts are contrary to the Constitution. Even a hard-core Originalist who looks only at the text of the Constitution, the Federalist Papers and possibly other then contemporary publications does not dispute that robust judicial review is part of the settled analytical framework of the Constitution. The Elections Clause language vests the decision in the state legislatures. The Petitioners argue that the analysis stops there. However, the Elections Clause language does not preclude judicial review by any court. In addition, the analytical framework of the United States Constitution includes robust judicial review as a matter of settled practice in the Republic. Nothing in the Elections Clause precludes a state supreme court from following the same analytical framework allowing for robust judicial review of the state’s legislative action. The Petitioners sought . . . judicial review by the United States Supreme Court of the North Carolina Supreme Court’s . . . judicial review of actions taken by the North Carolina legislature. Petitioners did not challenge the actual decision of the North Carolina Supreme Court, only the decision to decide. Dismiss the petition as contrary to the text, logic, structure and history of the Clause and the Constitution, I say.”

K “I had the good fortune to attend the show in person and from the perspective of someone who kept everything in perspective while in an American law school. That is also my take. The specific provision is neither incomplete nor unartfully drafted. It says what it says on the topic but need not and does not need to say anything more. John Marshall’s statue dominates the inside of the Court. Any true conservative would affirm his great contribution to the development of the American court system. The acts by state legislatures pursuant to the Clause are subject to state judicial review.”

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K “Nice to be agreeing on something again.”

J “I am pleased you see it my way.”

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[See the e-commentary involving the goal of the Beautiful Game discussed at Expanding The Goal In Soccer (July 18, 2022).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Beau jeu

The Twitter Files Are The Pentagon Papers Of Today

Moore v. Harper: Say what?

Free Assange

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L’Election (November 14, 2022)

Posted in Elections, Voting, War and Wall Street Party on November 14, 2022 by e-commentary.org

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K “Abortion concerns counterbalanced inflation fears?”

J “Climate change counterpoised creeping crime concerns?”

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K “Very little mention of World War III and its profound long term consequences.”

J “I saw some blue and yellow.”

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K “The red tsunami was more of a red rivulet. The ‘D’ Division of the ‘War and Wall Street Party’ may have held the House of Lords and the ‘R’ Division of the ‘War and Wall Street Party’ may have taken the House of Commons. At least, Biden will be able to obtain the confirmation of federal court judges for two years.”

J “I have not looked closely at any numbers on the amount spent in the race, yet the ‘D’ Division seems to have spent a bucket of money. How much did the FTX donations impact the outcome for the Democrats?”

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Bumper sticker of the week:

Vote for Nobody. Nobody cares about you. . . . But vote. For Somebody.

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RIP: 2020: Vestigial Democracy; 2021: Free Speech (March 1, 2021)

Posted in Covid / Coronavirus, Elections, First Amendment on March 1, 2021 by e-commentary.org

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K “At the end of the year, they scroll through pictures of folks we lost in the past year. In 2020, the year of the Virus, we may have lost ‘Vestigial Democracy’ and in 2021, the year of the Vaccine, we have already lost ‘Free Speech’ without recognizing either loss. We are off to a terrible start.”

J “I disagree about the lost democracy. It was clean or clean enough for me in the real world of dirty politics. Free speech is another thing. The First Amendment protects against government intrusion, but now the ‘governments’ are private sector Behemoths who are beyond regulation. However, I am not totally against bans on speech that is akin to yelling ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.”

K “These private sector bans will come to haunt us.”

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[See “YouTube Censors Senate Testimony From Doctor On Possible Covid Drug” by Jonathan Turley dated February 4, 2021.]

[See the e-commentary at “YouTube: Your University: America’s Community College (December 8, 2014)” at a time when it seemed a more benign platform.]

Bumper sticker of the week:

Did they make it Amendment One for a reason?

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On Riots And Rampages (January 11, 2021)

Posted in Collapse, Elections, On [Traits/Characteristics], Trump on January 11, 2021 by e-commentary.org

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J “Talk about your good old fashioned red, white and blue American White Privilege. Anyone other than white males would have been mowed down at the gates. The insurrection should have been stopped at the outset by force.”

K “I recall delivering one of what were then two local newspapers that featured a picture above the fold of members of the 82^nd Airborne drilling holes on the west buttress of the Capitol to mount 50 cal tripods to dissuade rioters after the King assassination. A dozen years later, I was able to finagle an excuse to slip out on the west buttress and see a few dozen trios of holes now occupied with epoxy. Both events are memorable.”

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K “I have walked those grounds on a few occasions and been to at least two anti-war demonstrations there over fifty years. The Capitol grounds have transitioned from a college campus with stately oaks into a battlefield with rising bollards and retractable tank barriers. The Capitol is a fortress on a hill. The fort is not breached unless those inside allow it to be breached.”

J “Do not forget Occam’s Razor. Always look for the simplest explanation. Everything today operates at the most grossly negligent and obscenely incompetent manner and level as humanely possible. No one knows what he, she or they are doing.”

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K “Calling it a ‘coup’ is misinformed and unavailing. Think of the coup against Sukarno as the paradigm. These rioters were a disorganized band who did not enlist the military or commandeer communications or trigger mass public support. ‘Riot’ is accurate and perhaps ‘local insurrection’ but not a ‘coup’ attempt or ‘terrorist’ activities. The rioters did not want to overthrow a politician, they wanted the current occupant to stay.”

J “I take back some of my argument that they should have used force. The Capitol Police may have done the best they could under the circumstances and should be commended for their calm and restraint.”

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J “There is no doubt that Trumpi incited the riot.”

K “No doubt.”

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[See the e-commentary discussing the coming nightmare commencing back in November of 2016 at “The E-pocalypse: My Fellow Americans, Our Long National Nightmare Is Beginning (November 14, 2016)” that continues today and some perspective on “White Privilege At Play: Born On First Base (July 13, 2020)”.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Keep it simple

It is not what you know or even who you know. It is what you know about who you know.

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Interregnum: Incredulity And Instability (November 16, 2020)

Posted in Elections, Political Parties, Wall Street, War, War and Wall Street Party on November 16, 2020 by e-commentary.org

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K “After a dubious election, the ‘D’ division of the ‘War and Wall Street Party’ is taking over from the ‘R’ Division of the ‘War and Wall Street Party’ again.”

J “The ‘D’ Division will send in more divisions overseas and create more divisions in the land betwixt the shining seas.”

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Bumper stickers of the week:

That shit don’t flush

That dog don’t hunt

Panda < Eagle > Bruin; Panda + Bruin > Eagle

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The Trumpi Referendum (November 9, 2020)

Posted in Elections, Presidency, Trump on November 9, 2020 by e-commentary.org

. . .

K “He did more than anyone else in history to get out the vote on the Great Referendum.”

J “He really was the only one on the ballot with voters voting for him or voting against him. When he didn’t get the votes, they gave it to the other guy. Good ol’ what’s-his-name . . . and the young Black Hillary.”

. . .

K “Listening to all the arguments and reviewing all the commentary, I suspect that a few extra ballots were slipped into a few ballot boxes.”

J “Back in 2004, it was so easy and simple when Karl rerouted the Ohio votes to another computer and rejiggered and reduced the vote for Kerry and . . . insured the reelection of George Bush. By 2012, the folks at Anonymous were on to Karl and did a workaround that outwitted Karl’s workaround resulting in the votes in Ohio actually being voted that . . . insured the reelection of Barack O’Bama.”

K “Clinton was earmarked to get the nod in the 2016 election, yet the signals got confused. Many were not amused. That oversight was not going to be tolerated this time.”

J “A friend contends that we should not disparage someone who steals something fair and square.”

. . .

J “Ten years ago, I advocated for making Election Day a national holiday. Working people are working on Tuesday. Now the country needs a national election process for national elections with write in ballots and far more security.”

. . .

K “The economic, social, national and international problems are beyond intractable and off their radar.”

J “Will all the problems that will only get worse result in President Harris being a one-term President?”

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See the first e-commentary (“e-ssay” at the time) at “Boycott Red America (January 3, 2005)”.

Bumper sticker of the week:

Wine The Glue Holding This 2020 Shitshow Together

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[See “Fight! Fight! Fight! . . . for the Truth” by Robert Gore dated November 12, 2024 in “Straight Line Logic”.]

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[See the e-commentary at On Riots And Rampages (January 11, 2021).]

[See the e-commentary involving the goal of the Beautiful Game discussed at Expanding The Goal In Soccer (July 18, 2022).]

See the first e-commentary (“e-ssay” at the time) at “Boycott Red America (January 3, 2005)”.

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