We leave for Orlando to be with our kids for Thanksgiving on Tuesday. I want to wish all the Greatest of Thanksgivings. Be safe, stay well. Me
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In general liberals and progressives used to be a tolerable lot. Their ideas generally did not work but they were not overly aggressive and offensive. Over the years they became more convinced they were a superior lot, it was their way or the highway. They began to believe if they said it, it was so and they drifted away from American values and what defined us as Americans. They were generally anti- military and in the '60's they became downright unpatriotic and of late support all kind of radical ideas. They don't believe in the sanctity of borders, favor defunding police, tolerate sanctuary cities, are passive when it comes to rioting, destroying American history by way of destroying public statutes, want to impose teaching radical ideas starting in the grade school, are less supportive of many of our constitutional rights such as free assembly and speech and are less accepting of those who profess they are religious.Politically, they have begun to practice intimidation and to engage in identity politics and willingness to embrace anyone espousing contempt for our nation, it's history and greatness. If you do not agree with what they believe they are abusive and intolerant and regarding Trump their hatred and contempt seems boundless. In view of the above, it is little wonder we have become a divided nation. That their 2016 candidate called half the nation "deplorables" cannot be dismissed. Regrettably, their discomfort with Trump may well have led them to encourage changes in state election laws that, in combination with possible fraudulent voting practices, may have led to the current circumstances.
There has never been period, in my lifetime, when our republic was in such a state of and danger of coming apart at the seams. The op eds below cannot be sloughed off as irrelevant.
And:
Trump Legal Aides to Share “Clear Path” to Re-election
This week has shown several interesting developments in the ongoing 2020 presidential election.
Americans learned that Democrats attempted to bully Wayne County, Michigan Republicans into certifying votes that contained possible irregularities and fraud.
What’s frightening is that Democrats almost got their way; however, Wayne County GOPers have since come forth and signed sworn affidavits stating that they were bullied, blackmailed, and intimidated. These Republicans are now seeking to rescind their certification votes also.
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And:
Another novel liberal idea: Google Encourages Girls To BIND THEIR CHESTS In “Trans Awareness Week”
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And, as I predicted: Top Breaking Stories
Biden Makes Bunch Of Appointees To Top Positions Who Come From Long Line Of Democratic Elite
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Hey, Trumpians, Cheer Up!
At the risk of arousing the dark side, 2020’s election results are reason for conservative optimism.
By Daniel Henninger
Pessimism is to conservative politics what pumpkin pie is to Thanksgiving: It’s always on the table. Not long ago about this time of year, liberals would post articles with titles such as, “How to talk to your Uncle Jim at Thanksgiving.” Those pieces had one valid premise—that Uncle Jim would say over his turkey that the world is going to hell, yet again. And on the evidence around some tables, Uncle Jim was right.
In that grumbling spirit, let many of us who are to the right of
the 2020 edition of Joe Biden admit that in the runup to the election, we
thought a left-wing idiocracy was about to sweep into power. More than a few
arch-pessimists believed the curtain was finally falling on Ben Franklin’s
warning that the U.S. is “a republic, if you can keep it.”
At the risk of arousing the dark side, we are here to
posit that the 2020 election results are reason for optimism. (For those who disallow optimism on principle, the
diminished election expectations of the Democratic left offer the consolation
of schadenfreude.)
Let me count the ways.
Some thought the Senate next year might have a Democratic
majority of 54-46, a wipeout. You knew something was up election night when
Maine’s “vulnerable” Susan Collins wasn’t swept into the Atlantic. Then Iowa’s
Joni Ernst won, as did North Carolina’s Thom Tillis. It will take Republican
(or presidential) malfeasance to lose the Senate deciders in Georgia Jan. 5.
After the Democrats rolled up House seats in the 2018 midterms,
they expected to ride an anti-Trump wave to a bigger majority. But their
majority narrowed, and the tides of history look likely in 2022 to push Nancy
Pelosi into retirement. Two years into Barack Obama’s first term, the Democrats
lost 63 House seats. They shed 54 seats in Bill Clinton’s first midterms. By
all means, the Democrats should push BidenCare.
Mrs. Pelosi has explained away the Republican House gains
as the result of President Trump at the top of the ticket. A more fine-grained
explanation would look at intriguing efforts such as New York GOP Rep. Elise
Stefanik’s E-PAC project to
recruit Republican women this year.
Ms. Stefanik hit it out of the park. Notable winners over
Democratic incumbents include Michelle Fischbach in Minnesota, Nancy Mace (a
Citadel graduate) in South Carolina, California’s Young Kim and New York City’s
Nicole Malliotakis.
Add to the success of these Republican women the crossover to
the GOP of black, Hispanic and Asian voters. Democrats argue these gains are
small. But the opening for the political optimism of Reaganesque (now Trumpian)
private-sector job opportunity is too big to ignore.
Conventional wisdom holds, with reason, that the Republican
Party is a dodo bird in California and New York. But Democrats lost House seats
to the dodos in both states.
The strongest evidence that the GOP won’t be spending a
generation in any post-Trumpian wilderness is the National Conference of State
Legislatures’ map of
partisan legislative control. It shows a lot of red now, notably total control
in four states where the Democrats hoped to flip at least one chamber—Texas,
Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina—as well as such important
battlegrounds as Georgia, Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida, Arizona and New Hampshire.
Many of these Republican legislatures will be drawing
congressional district maps next year. New York and California will each lose a
House seat, the latter for the first time ever.
Yes, refugees from California and New York are turning states
like Arizona and Georgia bluer, a story for another time. But speaking of
refugees, if you can find one from Eastern Europe who voted for Joe Biden, let
me know. Those I talked to from Albania and Romania (and as reported from
Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba) couldn’t fathom how anyone would vote for
“socialism.” Somehow these immigrant voters didn’t get the party’s memo that
Mr. Biden isn’t a socialist.
But then, what is he? A moderate with socialist tendencies?
It’s hard not to notice that the Democratic Party is
having an identity crisis at the precise moment “identity politics” is
ascendant. The left-wing Justice Democrats have warned the
Biden team it risks fracturing the party if it makes “corporate friendly”
appointments.
The second-biggest story of the 2016 election was socialist
Bernie Sanders’s strong primary challenge to Hillary Clinton. In defeat, Mr.
Sanders became a darling of that swath of the media committed to opening a path
to power for the progressive movement by contributing free publicity for its
economic and cultural goals.
Maybe it’s time to consider that the media’s moralistic biases
can backfire. After absorbing the progressive policies elevated during the 2020
Democratic primaries and then the content and tactics of the post-May street
protests, it looks as if America’s voters, apart from their one-off
presidential decision, decided to give the Democratic Party a timeout.
What happens next with Donald Trump is beyond human
understanding. But the 2020 election results in toto have given the party a
historic opportunity—if it can keep it.
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Georgia on Not Enough Minds
Republicans shouldn’t take the Jan. 5 runoffs, or their majority in the Senate, for granted.
By Kimberley Strassel
Republican activists remain fixated on the presidential results,
pouring heart, money and time into litigation and recounts. In doing so, they
risk losing a crucial battle—the Georgia Senate runoffs.
Donald Trump’s campaign is within its rights to question the
result, but the prospect of success is growing minimal. And if the president
does come up short, the only thing standing between Democrats and dominance of
Washington is the Peach State results Jan. 5. A Republican victory in either
Georgia seat means a Senate majority and a check on progressive insanity. A
loss of both means Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and his party’s plans to
reverse tax cuts, pack the Supreme Court, and cement a permanent Senate
majority by admitting Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia as states.
Those are alarmingly high stakes, yet many Republicans
regard the Georgia runoffs as an afterthought. This complacency has been helped
along by a media narrative that Georgia is Republicans’ to lose: The GOP has never lost a statewide runoff. Democrats
Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are poor candidates. Republicans have a better
ground game. The conservative base is motivated.
That confidence is disconnected from reality. Start with the
bizarre reliance on history. Yes, Republicans have won prior runoffs. But Joe
Biden just carried the state, the first Democrat to do so in 28 years. The Nov.
3 results prove the left has succeeded in assembling a viable coalition—a mix
of urban-gentry and minority voters. Mr. Trump’s base was energized; Georgia’s
Democratic coalition more so. A Georgia electorate that sent Mr. Biden to the
White House can easily send two Democrats to the Senate.
GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler have been unsparing in
their attacks on Messrs. Warnock and Ossoff, hitting them hard on their party’s
“defund the police” movement—an issue Republicans used successfully in other
Senate races. Mr. Warnock is also dogged by his radical sermons and a 2002
arrest on charges of obstructing a police investigation (which were later
dropped). Yet neither Republican is a seasoned or inspirational candidate. Both
got tagged earlier this year with accusations of insider trading. And while
both were cleared of wrongdoing, Democrats still claim corruption and are using
the story to highlight their opponents’ wealth—hoping to demoralize or pull
over Trump populist voters.
Ground game? Yes, the GOP was on the ground earlier than
Democrats, who initially abjured door knocking because of Covid-19. And a fat
lot of good it did Republicans on Nov. 3. The more we learn about this
election, the clearer it is that Republicans got out-hustled well before
Election Day, by Democrats who changed election rules to set up a mail-in
system that favors loose registration and ballot harvesting.
That same set of rules is in place for the Georgia runoff.
Progressive Georgia superstar Stacey Abrams got kudos after the Biden win for
her effort to register some 800,000 new voters in two years. She’s not done.
On Twitter earlier this week, she raved that 600,000 Georgians
have already requested their ballots for the runoff, and you can be sure the
Democratic machine is gearing up to target, collect and return every one.
Where’s the Republican plan to match this effort?
News outlets note that Republicans hold a $28 million ad
advantage in the race. That won’t last. This cycle overall featured Democrats
crushing Republicans on the money front—and every outside group and billionaire
behind that effort is now roaring into Georgia. Media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg
has already hosted an online fundraiser for Messrs. Warnock and Ossoff. Ms.
Abrams alone raised them $10 million in four days. ActBlue, the left’s online
fundraising platform, is soliciting money nationwide.
But the biggest risk is that Republican base. The GOP is
optimistic it can win back suburban and older voters who feel conflicted about
Mr. Trump but still want a check on progressives. None of that will matter if
GOP voters in rural and exurban areas stay home, angry or frustrated by the
presidential election.
And will Mr. Trump engage? It’s certainly in his interest, if he
plans to continue being involved in Republican politics. Win or lose recounts,
he should want to be able to claim credit for a Georgia victory. And he might
remind his supporters that he, and they, worked too hard the past four years to
implement sound conservative policy to have it reversed by the Schumer
brigades.
Mr. Perdue outpolled Mr. Ossoff by 87,000 votes and nearly hit
the 50% threshold for a victory without a runoff. Mr. Warnock underperformed
against Ms. Loeffler. But that slight GOP advantage in November doesn’t carry
over into January. In the runoffs, the game begins anew, and ground operatives
on both sides predict the races will be close.
Republicans down the ballot had a good Nov. 3. They have the opportunity to make it even better, to cement the Senate for two years, and force Democrats to climb down. But only if their priorities are straight.
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I have seen this before but thought it needed to be re-posted:
As the CEO of this organization, I have resigned myself to the fact that Joe Biden is our President and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way. To compensate for these increases, our prices would have to increase by about 10%.But, since we cannot increase our prices right now due to the dismal state of the economy, we will have to lay off sixty of our employees instead. This has really been bothering me since I believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who would have to go. So, this is what I did. I walked through our parking lots and found sixty 'Biden Harris' bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the ones to let go. I can't think of a more, fair way to approach this problem. They voted for change......I gave it to them. I will see the rest of you at the annual company picnic."
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Not good for our nation but love having her around because she is a blessing for Republicans:
- Despite Abysmal Results, Pelosi Re-Elected House Speaker…Will It Never End?
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