Election night looms before us. Four years ago, we had the Hail Mary pass of all Hail Mary passes. At the time, I thought that America had reached peak divisiveness. Years of Social Justice crusades across the Internet lost steam. Salty tears flowed from the Bluechecks like a flood of Biblical proportions. But what truly happened? Was this a fluke? Was it the last gasp of old America? Tonight is when we will learn that. All your base are belong to Trump, indeed (and this may have been my finest meme-making work):
Once is an accident. Twice is a pattern. Tonight will tell us which it really was.
Events did not deliver the change we sought in 2016. I can’t blame Trump for that, as much as I’d like to. A media and pop culture establishment fused with Woke Corportatism to become some kind of Frankenstein’s political monster. Trump’s attention span – such that it is – was spent fighting that monstrosity almost every day. Oh, we had our share of wins. We got our judges – and should we fail tonight, well, that is the last roadblock we have left. That’s not nothing.
But now we are on the verge of Civil War, or something akin to it. I’ve never seen divisiveness of this sort in my country in my entire lifetime. We’ve gone from the occasional beatdown in a protest, to burning neighborhoods and roving gun battles in the streets. Perhaps the political Rubicon has been crossed and it’s too late, no matter who wins. Political rage is everywhere.
The polls would tell us to have no hope. Even FiveThirtyEight gives Biden an 89% chance of victory, compared to 2016 where Nate at least offered a 1 in 3 chance for Trump. Are the polls completely wrong? The possibility is very strong, in my opinion. With the emotional charge of politics today, in the middle of what may be a major political realignment, how can a pollster even account for all of the variables? How can the pollster be more accurate than a flip of the coin under these circumstances? The statistical models of the past may have worked in a pre-divisive environment, but I highly suspect everything is off, now. Of course, tonight will tell us that, too.
Statespoll tries to compensate for these factors as best they can with their modeling. They believe Trump is likely to win. But it’s unclear to me that this is any more likely to be right than Nate Silver. A coin flip may be a better prognosticator than any of them.
2020 has tested the fabric of America in a way, in my opinion, even the 1960s did not. In some ways, Kurt Schlichter’s split of America scenario may be overly optimistic compared to what lies before us.
Before 2016, I had many Lefty friends – perhaps more than Rightist ones. After all, as a DJ and a software developer working in the city, my environment has been one of perpetual Leftism, to the point that I started this blog primarily as a way to express things I could no longer say to people I cared about – and still expect to keep the peace. That reason has largely evaporated. Most of them are long gone, now. Denouncing me one at a time as a hater, bigot, Nazi, or whatever. Of the few that remain, most of the time we dance around the subject entirely. They know what I am, and I know what they are, but we pretend we do not know. It’s a shallow way to live, but I take pride in the fact that I never told them to get lost, or pushed them away.
Always it comes from their side, not mine.
Will that continue? Perhaps with me. I am not built in such a way as to tell people in my life to fuck off due to their politics, and that is, in some ways, a weakness. Though of late I have stopped talking to them and kept my distance in the hopes that, perhaps, sanity will return. But will that continue with the rest? A thousand events all across the country, from Kenosha to the Biden Bus incident show that Rightists are becoming as hostile in turn as Leftists have been these last few years. I can’t fault them. One of the prevalent themes in Tom Kratman’s books is the notion that your enemy will learn from your actions. He will become like you. If you do something to him, he will learn, and do it to you in turn. I don’t like these things that are happening, just as I would not want to do some horrible thing even to an enemy. If the enemy does it first, however, you must do it, or something of equal or greater magnitude, in turn. Otherwise he will never learn.
Otherwise you become the chump hitting “Keep Faith” every time your opponent hits “Betray”. Perhaps Betraying in turn will teach him a lesson, or perhaps not, but at least you’ll be even in the latter case.
If you believe this is an American phenomenon alone – and I doubt many of my readers do – take note of the fact that Chile may need to bring back Augusto Pinochet after this business:
Chileans want a more equal society. They’re about to rewrite their constitution to have it.
Vox freely admits that Pinochet’s reforms brought prosperity and economic growth to Chile. Are they going to throw that all away for Venezuela-level equality? It’s hard to tell, I don’t trust anything the media spouts these days. But if so, I wonder if Chile has another Pinochet. If the choice is to let your country fall to Socialism and have mountains of dead bodies, or throw a couple thousand Communists out of helicopters, well, is that really a difficult choice?
I prefer freedom over any of that, this goes without saying. But if politics has taken freedom completely off the table, and the only options are your boot stomping on my face, or my boot stomping on yours, what choice do you really expect me to make? Leftists think Trump is a dictator. They wouldn’t know a dictator until he put them in front of the firing squad. Trump isn’t even remotely close. As far as I know, he has killed zero Communists. But as the old saying goes: play stupid games, win stupid prizes. If you WANT a military coup and dictatorship, scapegoating roundabout 50% of the American population – the ARMED 50% – is a pretty good way to risk ending up with one.
If Trump wins tonight, I fully expect a meltdown of near-Biblical proportions. If Biden wins, well, the news outlets saying this would be the less violent option may prove to be right in the immediate short term. In the long run, a Kamala Harris shadow presidency is, in my opinion, as likely as not to end up in a Kurt Schlichter scenario, and ultimately may prove worse on the violence and stupidity scale.
Either way, I still hope Trump pulls it out. If we can manage a few more years of relative prosperity, maybe my own family will be better insulated against the shitstorm I think is waiting for this country in the coming years. I hate that we’ve ended up here, with a country full of people denouncing their neighbors as Trump supporters, throwing away friendships, family, marriages, and careers over this. But I have no control over events. None of us do.
We’re all passengers on the Titanic. Some of us are even shouting to the crew that there’s an iceberg ahead.
Nobody seems willing to turn the wheel.
And it might be too late to do anything about it anyway, now.
May God be with you, my friends.
“May God be with you, my friends.” You too Thales. Don’t be so pessimistic.
SECOND!
For me, it’s mind boggling that, after the antifa and blm riots, the revelations of Biden’s corruption, the extreme and obvious untrustworthiness of both Biden and Harris, and the utterly psychotic antics of the dhimmicrats over these last 4 years, that there is ANYONE who would even think of voting Dhimmicrat.
The last I heard was that ballots were still being counted in a good half dozen states and the presidential race is just about tied. So we have to wait.
But if Trump loses……….I’m convinced that my life will be in danger. The left has made it clear they want bloody revenge. They’re not good people, and they’ve proven that they sure as hell aren’t fellow countrymen.
I can’t sleep.
As of 245AM Wednesday pacific, 6 states seem to have STOPPED COUNTING the votes. And it’s been like this for over 6 hours.
Arizona – 51% Biden, 47.6% Trump, but only 84% counted
Georgia – 50.5% Trump, 48.3% Biden but 94% counted
Michigan – 51.4% Trump, 47% Biden but 83% counted
North Carolina – 50% Trump, 48.7 Biden but 94% counted
Nevada – 50% Biden, 47.9% Trump but 67% counted
Pennsylvania – 55.75% Trump, 43% Biden but 64% counted
Wisconsin – 49.38% Biden, 49.14% Trump but 94% counted
Again: the above 6 stopped counting AT LEAST 6 HOURS AGO.
Sarah Hoyt thinks it’s likely a coup is underway, or at least a brazen attempt to steal the election.
I fear she is likely right.
Consider: the MSM and dhimmicrats have been saying for MONTHS that Trump was going to try to steal the election and have been claiming he would reject the election results.
A very Saul Alinsky tactic, practiced now for 2 decades by the MSM and the dhimmicrats – when you commit a crime but haven’t yet been caught, the first thing you do is loudly accuse your enemy of having committed it.
How can this possibly end well?
Even if Trump gains control and the numbers legitimately work out in his favor, the dhimmicrats and the institutionally powerful who back them aren’t going to stop.
Right now, the country breaking up into Red and Blue America is one of the BEST CASE scenarios.
OK, so – they’re stealing it.
It has to be the case. They didn’t stop counting in 7 states for no reason. And there’s no reason to stop counting unless you’re trying to orchestrate your ballot box stuffing in just the right way.
There is no way that Biden won legitimately. A total impossibility. Everyone saw that he is a dottering half senile corrupt swamp creature, and his sidekick a horrifically unappealing neomarxist fraud and amoral, un-empathetic opportunist.
Look at the differences in rally sizes. Those do NOT translate into election victory for Biden. NOT POSSIBLE.
So what’s next?
That’s obvious. The 0.1% who backed the dhimmicrats need to now get their ROI. That means keeping americans afraid, confused, dull witted and distracted. They will divide us by race, creed, color, ethnicity, class and age, and maintain a climate of antagonism and fear. Legal institutions will be thwarted and perverted even more than they are. The Deep State will extend its power without restraint. In fact, writing this is stupid of me, as this will be captured by NSA servers.
The economy will be deliberately crashed, as will the USD. We will be economically pillaged, like the Goths, Huns and Vandals raiding the Western Roman Empire. And this 0.1% will make money off that, then buy up 95% of America for pennies on the dollar (which likely won’t exist anymore, but the principle holds.)
What comes out at the end won’t be america. It will be a feudal holding of the 0.1% at the top, a 9.99% ‘managerial’ class who have what might be considered a middle class living, and a 90% serf class.
Yes, the AMerican economic ‘pie’ will be significantly smaller. But the 0.1% will be satisfied, since they’ll own just about all of it…..
In the short term, I’m fully expecting the Left to take revenge on us. We need to be killed, beaten, terrorized, subdued, chained and forced into ‘confessing our sins’ for re-education.
I don’t think I’m exaggerating in the least.
Like I said before – the BEST case scenario is a formal division of Red and Blue AMerica.
TSW the two points I disagree with is the word Feudal and the division into Red vs Blue.
I see a Carrera like Caste system as more likely than a Feudal form. In the areas away from the coasts in the states that went blue this time there are a few large cities which are surprisingly easy to control once push comes to shove so Kurt Schlicter’s Midwestern portion of the Peoples Republic won’t happen.
The good news is so far this is just thought exercise.
Rudy has indicated Trump is suiting six states that seem to be having coordinated poll observer hindrance. Maybe the coup can be stopped in the courts.
Ah, Thales – the first time I found your blog was the “Hail Mary Pass” post. Funny I had been conversing with my siblings and a handful of close friends how I thought that somehow Trump was going to pull off an upset. We were all awake till the middle of the night on IM and were all amazed. I always found Hillary insufferable, but I lived in TX when they were royalty and scandal filled during Bills days in Arkansas.
I cannot believe the amount of chicanery going on in WI, MI, PA, GA and NC. I’m hopeful that AZ comes over to the red side. Meanwhile, the Antifa types are still protesting on Portlandia even though that state and city are still on hell hole socialist. Not sure what more those whining snowflakes want. I was thinking that if we offer to let them have OR, WA, DC and NY – they can keep those places burning and a hell hole and leave the rest of us alone. Though that is not their end game. God help us all.
NOTE:
If they can resist Trump’s attempts to get a proper recount in the 7 battleground states where fake/dead/extra votes have been inserted and Biden reaches 270, they’re going to do the same in terms of keeping the House and flipping the Senate.
The only reason Antifa, BLM, AOC and her squad and the rest of the dhimmicrats and MSM have been screaming “Trump is a FASCIST!” is because he stood in the way of their implementing a Fascism (with all its very socialist trappings) of their own.
You think we can recover in the next election? Don’t make me laugh. Ballot box stuffing will be institutionalized nationwide. Any candidate for the House, Senate or Presidency who does not meet Dhimmicrat standards of corruptibility and moral malleability will be neutralized thru contrived criminal charges.
They’ll do what Richard Daley did 60 years ago in Chicago (later extended to the entire state of Illinois) and permanently entrench themselves nationwide with a dhimmicrat political machine built on bribery, influence-peddling and patronage.
Will ‘captains of industry’ in the private sector put up with this? OF COURSE. The most powerful of them will be granted junior status in governance, feeding off the largesse of government contracts while towing the party line. They’ll be the new Equites class that the Roman Patricians granted the most powerful merchants during the Imperial era, or the industrial magnates who did the bidding of Hitler.
The Dhimmicrats are poised to wipe their ass with the Constitution. Have no doubt. We are on the edge of losing it all.
Like I said – their paymasters will reduce America on an economic level to rubble, effectively shorting the American economy and making themselves insanely wealthy in the process. And then they’ll turn around and buy up the shattered remains that still have underlying value, for pennies on the dollar (which will become extinct in this process, btw.) And again like I said – the American economic pie that results after recovering from that will be significantly smaller – but they don’t care. They will be in total control of it.
And guess what?
The FIRST thing they’ll do IS COME FOR OUR GUNS.
You think the US Armed Forces will intervene?
Disabuse yourself of that fantasy. To reach general or admiral, you have to make personal choices that usually violate the spirit, if not the actual letter, of a soldier’s duty to a republic.
Most commanders at that level are, to varying extent, swamp creatures. You can expect most of them to knuckle under, either rationalizing their acquiescence or actively and eagerly embracing their newfound opportunity for greater power, status and influence.
And they’ll change the shape, spirit and form of the US Armed forces to transform it over time from an army of US citizens into an Imperial Legion.
If Biden wins, we lose it all. After all – a free republic of great strength was around in WW2 and during the Cold War to safeguard liberty. If we aren’t there, nobody will replace us, and nobody will be in a position to resist China or Russia, fascist states in their own right.
We really are confronted with an end to the forces that have driven civilization for the last 5 centuries – the Renaissance and Enlightenment – should Evil prevail. A recovery will be CENTURIES away.
(Stupid of me to type this – the NSA is recording this.)
TSW et al,
Don’t despair. Now is the time to get to work. Yes I do believe the political systems put in place and used since WWII are going away. But as in 1500 no one really knows what the future will bring. Those who view the future with certainty will be the most surprised and disappointed. All things pass.
Some have been saying if Trump loses, he’ll run again in 2024. No he won’t – he’ll either be dead in “an accident” or in jail. The dhimmicrats have been trying to pin something on him for 4 years, but that won’t stop – THEY’LL INVENT THE EVIDENCE.
Some believe Trump will fight by founding his own media empire, displacing a corrupt Fox News. Won’t happen. They’ll block him, squeeze him out, intimidate advertisers.
Think that Gab, Bitchute and other outfits will serve as free speech refuges from Youtube, FB and Twitter? Nope. The independent outfits will get intimidated, crushed, regulated.
All sorts of right wing websites will be forced to print contrary opinions or simply get forced off the internet.
Will there be justice in the courts? Forget about it.The courts will be coerced, thwarted, neutralized, or judges will be forcibly retired by one means or another.
But before all of that:
THEY.
WILL.
COME.
FOR.
OUR.
GUNS.
And with you. And with all of us.
I case you have any doubts that this is a gigantic voting fraud committed by amoral, traitorous scum:
And this:
https://thewriterinblack.com/2020/11/05/a-matter-of-probabilities/
AND
THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-does-biden-have-so-many-more-votes-democrat-senators-swing-states
……………G R O W L, SSSNNNAAARRRRLLLLL…………………..
https://monsterhunternation.com/2020/11/05/the-2020-election-fuckery-is-afoot/
TSW, Blood pressure my friend. If they come for you make them work for it. Don’t have a stroke and do the work for them. 90% voter turnout is Soviet territory or some other tyrannical hell hole. If even Fox did it’s job the whole hose of cards would collapse. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen so we go with plan B or plan 9.
@TSW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcW8VNwYvL0
BTW, the RSS feed for this blog broke a while back. Was that intentional?
Gotta be careful there, William O – that link goes to a very ‘patriarchal white male’ video. We’re one of the BAD groups that must ATONE in the new regime, OR ELSE.
A couple of things are driving up my blood pressure these days:
How easy it is to steal a national election.
How the people who have such execrable character and blackened souls are going to be able to get away with this
How so many people in places like Washington State, Calizuela, Oregon, NJ and so forth voted so enthusiastically for this fascist/neo-maoist change. Biden won by over 60% in those places.
I need to stop writing these things, since the NSA will be tracking this and will (if they haven’t already) flag my writings and opinions for further investigation by the National Ideological Purity Ministry or whatever the fuck these vermin create. Wouldn’t surprise me if they refer to Orwell’s writings for some ‘how to’ guidance.
Oh, and for those of you who are saying “Not to worry, we’ll get ’em in the next election” – let me disabuse you of your foolishness.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/left-post-trump-enemies-list-trump-accountability/
And this:
https://www.glaad.org/trump
AND THIS:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/11/06/scratch-a-socialist-find-a-fascist-aoc-threatening-to-archive-the-tweets-writings-pics-of-trump-sycophants-does-not-go-well-for-her-like-at-all/
Yo Thales, What I advised months ago about a bug out sailboat you might want to seriously consider.
TSW, I noticed there is more than one one group calling themselves the Trump Accountability Project and one at least lists Trump voters for payback also.
I’m willing to bet all the items to reload are going to become very scarce very shortly.
Agreed, Michel. One way to effectively confiscate guns is to make it impossible to get bullets or to load your own.
Soon, the biggest illegal cross border trafficking will be bullets, not cocaine or heroin.
A primer on what is headed our way:
https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2020/11/biden-victory-promises-end-tumultuous-four-years-government-under-trump/169871/
TSW, your latest link clearly demonstrates what many have feared. Who really won the election was the Deep State.
The Deep State are merely agents of the powerful people who arranged this.
One can think of them as the equivalent of the proconsuls, tribunes, and other patricians and equites appointed to political office by the Emperor.
It all depends on Trump’s success in the courts.
For him to win, he not only has to eliminate all the fake presidential votes, but all the fake votes for senate and congressional seats. I suspect that the vote tallies are being left unsettled in swing/battleground states in order to keep the remaining 4 senate seats and the 23 congressional seats ‘in play’ should Trump get the Presidential vote tallies declared illegitimate in court.
What this means is that it won’t be enough to simply verify the CORRECT presidential vote count, but also the congressional and senate counts.
If Trump can do all that, the Left will fight to the death. These are people who care NOTHING for rule of law, justice, right and wrong, the Constitution or anything else except POWER OVER US. They will stop at NOTHING to achieve it. Doesn’t matter to them if millions of people die. Do not deceive yourselves that there will be ANYTHING restraining them. There are even quite a few among them who would take tremendous joy in seeing us despair as our world is ruined & annihilated. That is what this enemy is like.
So: now it all rests on our judicial system. If they do their jobs properly, it won’t be enough. They’ll have to step outside the limits of the Constitution to set this right. After all, this situation is utterly without precedent. You can be sure that the Constitution will need some amending after this. IF Trump manages to find victory.
But if Trump or the judicial system fails, we’re well and truly fucked.
The left will know that there is nothing to stop them. No law, no regulation, no moral limitation.
They might be arrogant and move too fast. That would be a serious mistake. Look what happened to Robespierre.
But they might be smart and move slowly. Over the next 10 years, we’d see our gun rights curtailed to the level of what Chicago and NYC have. We’d be pretty much defenseless.
And, of course, people who are capable of such amoral pursuit of power will make sure to recruit minions to run the FBI, NSA, CIA and the Armed Forces who will shape those organizations over time to serve The State and only The State.
I pray to God that Trump can stop this fascist/imperial coup. If he can, he needs to EXTERMINATE the Deep State. I mean right off the bat, a 50% cut, and deep cuts for every 4 years of his term until only 10% of it is left.
However, I am expecting that the Left will win, and that relatively soon I won’t be able to buy ammunition for my firearm or even buy the materials to load my own. At that point, the cross border illegal trade in narcotics will be overshadowed by a new product to smuggle – bullets.
A gentle reminder of what happened last week:
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1326230842750898176
Need some convincing?
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1326314982909243392
They’re looking for a bloody conclusion to all this. Have no doubts.
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1326239388079071232
Again – in case you had any doubt that they won’t stop until we are all in chains or, preferably, dead:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/opinion/donald-trump-conservatives.html
I got the following UNSOLICITED in my email inbox this morning.
Consider the implications of that, as well as what is contained within the link, very carefully.
https://www.govexec.com/?oref=govexec_presidential_transition_nl