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In The Mailbox: 11.05.20

Posted on | November 6, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Pagan Vigil: The False Choice
357 Magnum: How’s That “Affordable Bail” Program Working Out?
Red Pilled Jew: Quick Wednesday Whittle, also, How Is This Possible?
EBL: Michigan Seems Like A Dream To Me Now (Or Maybe A Nightmare)
Twitchy: Brit Hume Sets Thomas Friedman Straight About Al Gore “Taking A Bullet For The Country” In 2000
Louder With Crowder: MSNBC – Trump On Track To Win Arizona
Vox Popoli: Why Trump Will Win Pennsylvania, also, Over The Target

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Fix Is In
American Greatness: Game On For The Coup? also, Sleepy Campaign Strategy Mystery Solved
American Thinker: Count And Recount Every “Vote” Until You Win
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Early Warfare News
Babalu Blog: Florida 2020 – The Cuban American Vote And How Democrats Continue To Blow It
BattleSwarm: What Can You Do About A Stolen Election?
Cafe Hayek: Talking Economics & Trade With Nate Wadworth
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: “A Republic If You Can Keep It” Thoughts Under My Fedora, also, My Review Of The New Reality TV Series How To Steal An Election
Don Surber: Democrat Civil War Begins
The Geller Report: Registered Democrat Observer At Philly Ballot Center – “This Is A Coup Against The President”, also, Detroit Poll Watcher – “It’s Disgusting What’s Happening”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Tactics v. Logistics
Hollywood In Toto: Antifa: Rise Of The Black Flags Shows The Chaos & anarchy Hatched By An “Idea”, also, Post-Election Hollywood – America Is Racist
JustOneMinute: Miscount Every Vote
The Lid: Political Elite, Counting States, Twitter & The MSM Are Silencing Vote Disputes, also, Nevada USPS Worker Promises To Help Provide Bogus Ballots For Biden
Legal Insurrection: Stay The Course On Election Contests & Litigation, also, “If We Run This Race Again We’ll Get F*cking Torn Apart In 2022”
Power Line: Melissa Mackenzie – Be Of Good Cheer! also, Why Shouldn’t Conservatives Be Enraged By Biden’s Win?
Shark Tank: Nikki Fried – “Florida Democrats Suffered Some Hard Losses”
Shot In The Dark: Motivations
The Political Hat: An Old But Salient Message For Everyone Post-Election, also,  An Election Musical Interlude
This Ain’t Hell: Riots In Portland
Victory Girls: The Republican Party Has Reclaimed Its Relevance
Volokh Conspiracy: Our Curious Electoral System
Weasel Zippers: A Man Dead Since 1984 Voted In The 2020 Election In Michigan, also, Trump Poll Watchers Denied Access To Watch Ballot Counting Despite Court Order
The Federalist: We’re Supposed To Believe The GOP Had A Great Election Night Except For The President? also, Reports Of Election Fraud Keep Piling Up In Michigan
Mark Steyn: Election Day Plus Two

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Post-Election Hangover Syndrome

Posted on | November 5, 2020 | Comments Off on Post-Election Hangover Syndrome

Why is it that rural counties with comparatively few resources can manage to count all their votes on Election Night, while America’s major cities still haven’t finalized their totals by Thursday?

Democrats should be asked that question, because it says an awful lot about what’s wrong with the Democratic Party, which governs all the places where they haven’t finished counting votes yet — Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, etc. If there were no other issue to divide the American people, the gross incompetence of Democrat-controlled governments would be sufficient to justify GOP opposition.

Expect this problem to get worse, not better. Oregon voters approved a referendum Tuesday to decriminalize heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, so that the lunatic carnival in Portland will likely become even crazier than it has already been. Joe Biden won Oregon by a 17-point margin because of course a brain-addled Democrat is popular in The Dopehead State. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, Kweisi Mfume was reelected to Congress with 71% of the vote, because Democrats in Baltimore are committed to challenging Detroit for the title of Worst City in America. Never imagine that Democrats have hit rock-bottom; the abyss is truly bottomless. Turning once-prosperous cities into hellholes isn’t enough; they want to ruin the whole country.

Speaking of Nate Silver, the dishonest monster who has been falsely spinning poll numbers for more than a decade is finally getting his comeuppance from Democrats who realize he utterly bamboozled them. Silver’s FiveThirdEight forecasts were so wrong that the error could not be explained by incompetence; Nate is a malicious liar, and no honest person would ever wish to be associated with him again.

After spending six hours podcasting on Election Night with John Hoge (and the lovely Dianna, joining us from Valdosta), I managed to get a few hours of sleep before cranking out a quick column:

Late Tuesday night, it appeared that Donald Trump had won reelection rather decisively. Not only had he scored a historic win in Florida (about which more later), but the results being reported at 11 p.m. Eastern showed the president with commanding leads in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. By the time I woke up Wednesday morning, however, those states had all been flipped into Joe Biden’s column, and cable TV news was claiming — contrary to evidence — that Georgia was still “too close to call.”
The Democrat I mocked as “Landslide Joe” failed to meet expectations, and Democrats also lost important down-ticket races where they squandered tens of millions of dollars trying to take Senate and House seats that the GOP won. Mitch McConnell cruised to reelection in Kentucky, and Lindsey Graham fought off a well-funded challenger in South Carolina.
Details of presidential results in the states that will decide the winner of this election are something that pundits will be chewing over all day, if not for weeks to come. What we can conclude now — without knowing the final official outcome — is that Trump wildly outperformed the results predicted by public opinion polls. . . .

Read the rest at The American Spectator. I’m still in psychological recovery mode, and am trying to avoid news for therapeutic reasons.




 

Category: Election

Sheriff Bob Wins Re-Election

Posted on | November 5, 2020 | Comments Off on Sheriff Bob Wins Re-Election

If you’re a fan of law enforcement, you know Sheriff Bob Gualtieri of Pinellas County, Florida. He is a veteran lawman who went to college and got a law degree, worked as a lawyer and then returned to the sheriff’s department as legal counsel and became chief deputy before being appointed sheriff by Gov. Rick Scott in 2011.

Pinellas County — St. Petersburg, Largo, Clearwater, across the bay from Tampa — had a serious problem with teenage car thieves. That problem got reduced slightly in 2017 when three of the juveniles died in a fiery crash in a stolen Ford Explorer:

The SUV ran through a red light — it was going 117 mph just 2½-seconds before impact, according to crash recovery data — and then collided with a 1999 Toyota Camry in the middle lane of U.S. 19 N, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
The Camry driver, Ricky Melendez Jr., was on his way to work.
The Explorer was sent airborne, crashed into five parked cars at a dealership and then struck a billboard pole 10 feet above the ground before tumbling to stop on Tampa Road.

Here is Sheriff Bob’s press conference about that incident:

 

This guy knows how to do a press conference. Anyway, some left-wing pest of a “social justice” Democrat ran against Sheriff Bob this year, and amid all the hype about high turnout, I worried that the sheriff might be in trouble, but he cruised to victory with a 25-point margin, 62%-37%. 

Y’know, I’m always looking for a dark-horse long-shot candidate, somebody with a populist “outsider” image like my late friend Herman Cain, and the current occupant of the White House. It’s kind of early to be talking about 2024, but if Sheriff Bob starts gaining a bit more of a national media profile over the next couple of years . . .

Well, never say never. Impossible things happen all the time.




 

Category: Crime, Election, Florida

In The Mailbox: 11.04.20 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | November 5, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.04.20 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Pagan Vigil: Aftermath
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1161 – Election Day
EBL: Stop The Steal – Andrew Breitbart Has A Message For The GOP
Twitchy: FiveThirtyEight Says Batch Of 23,277 Votes In Philadelphia Has Been Reported – All For Biden
Louder With Crowder: Election Updates And Exclusive Election Fraud Proof
Vox Popoli: The Key County Results, also, Trust The President
Gab News: President Trump Declares Victory – Stop The Coup!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: We Used To Burn Witches
American Conservative: Trump Is Right – It’s Time To Get Rid Of Section 230
American Greatness: A Probable & Deserved Victory, also, Michigan USPS Whistleblower Says Late Mail-In Ballots Are Being Stamped As Received November 3
American Thinker: The Nasty Street Fight Ahead For 2020 – This Is Why We Elected Trump
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: “138,000 Magic Michigan Votes Appear – And ALL For YOU!”
BattleSwarm: Liveblogging The 2020 Election, also, Morning Election Aftermath
Cafe Hayek: Seeing More Of The Unsenn
CDR Salamander: So, We Had An Election
Da Tech Guy: Sometimes I Hate Being Right
Don Surber: The Reason They Tanked The Polls, also, Trump Won’t Give Up. We Won’t Either.
The Geller Report: Watch Suitcases & Coolers Being Rolled Into Detroit Voting Center At 4 AM, Brought Into Secure Counting Area, also, Arizona AG Opens Probe Into Voter Complaints In Maricopa County
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, I’ll Wait To See
Hollywood In Toto: Wes Anderson Tome Tries Too Hard To Mimic The Man Himself, also, Let Him Go Uses, Then Discards, Two Powerhouse Performances
JustOneMinute: Interesting 2016 Vibe Developing
The Lid: Oregon Decriminalized Drugs Like Heroin, Meth, & Cocaine
Legal Insurrection: Crickets Over Republicans Adding 11 New Female Reps To The House, also,  Backlash – Left Turns On #NeverTrump Lincoln Project Grifters
Power Line: Massive Voter Fraud In Wisconsin? also, In The House, A Red Wave
Shark Tank: Trump Wins Florida, GOP Picks Up Two Key House Seats
Shot In The Dark: In a Rational Utopia
The Political Hat: Election 2020 – Predictions From The Chaos & Nevada Early Vote
This Ain’t Hell: President Trump Argues Election Fraud, also, How Did Veteran Candidates Fare Yesterday?
Victory Girls: Media Racism Front & Center On Election Night
Volokh Conspiracy: California Voters Reject Race/Sex/Ethnic Preferences In Government Employment, Education, & Contracting
Weasel Zippers: Michigan Locks Poll Watchers Out Of Polling Place, also, MSNBC – Democrats In Washington Are Waking Up To An Abject Disaster
The Federalist: Yes, Democrats Are Trying To Steal The Election In Michigan, Pennsylvania, & Wisconsin, also, CDC Data Suggest Lockdowns Could Kill As Many People As COVID
Mark Steyn: Election Day Plus One, also, Links On Tenterhooks

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In The Mailbox: 11.04.20 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | November 4, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.04.20 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Chicago’s Recipe For More Crime
EBL: Trump MAGA Dance-Off
Twitchy: Award Winning Drag Queen Wants Everyone To Stop Addressing Trump Supporters Like They’re Human Beings
Louder With Crowder: Jason Whitlock – White Liberals Want To Limit The Freedom Black People Enjoy In America
Vox Popoli: Convergence Kills, also, Four More Years

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: What Your Mask Reveals, also, He’s Not Some Sort Of God-Emperor
American Conservative: The Libertarian Case For Trump
American Greatness: Biden Plans To Assume Role Of President-Elect If Media Declares Him Winner, also, Mr. Trump Goes To Washington
American Thinker: The Cure For Pennsylvania’s Mail-In Ballots
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Election Day News
Babalu Blog: “Your Policies Will Not Empower The People, Only Extend Our Suffering”
BattleSwarm: Why Shouldn’t Black America Walk Away From The Democrats? also, Special Election Day LinkSwarm
Cafe Hayek: James Bovard On The Battering Of The Constitution
CDR Salamander: You Know The Drill
Da Tech Guy: Why I Voted For Donald Trump, also, Election 2020 – An Army Of Jim’s Squared
Don Surber: 2016 – The Final Days, also, The Biden Campaign Scrambles for 270
First Street Journal: Are We Finally Done With Amy McGrath Henderson?
The Geller Report: “It’s Going To Take Us A While To Count…Please Be Patient”, also, Voting Machines “Down, Locked, Broken” In GA, NY, & PA Districts That Voted For Trump In 2016
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, The Other Podcast – We Didn’t Get The Memo
Hollywood In Toto: Why Both Left & Right Hated Teenage Bounty Hunters, also, What Killed Michael Brown? Turns Tables On Media’s Race Narrative
JustOneMinute: Election Day!
The Lid: Lady Gaga Tries To Whip Up Crowd For Joe & Kamala – EPIC FAIL
Legal Insurrection: Frustrated Parents Flood NYC Catholic Schools With Applications, also, Judge Limits Gov. Newsom’s Power To Issue Emergency Orders During COVID Pandemic
Michelle Malkin: Beware Of Red-Diaper “Legal Observers”
Power Line: Can The Democrats Steal Pennsylvania? also, Liberal Election Night Freakout Underway (with updates)
Shark Tank: Miami-Dade State Attorney Fernandez-Rundle Audits Florida Post Offices
Shot In The Dark: Consequence
This Ain’t Hell: Whale Tail Saves Train, also, Off The Topic Of Politics
Victory Girls: Cities Brace For Riots, Liberals Wonder Why
Volokh Conspiracy: Protests, Roadways, & Liability
Weasel Zippers: Philly Councilwoman Blocks Poll Watcher, also,  Imagine Voting For This Idiot
The Federalist: Reports Of Election Interference At Philadelphia Polling Stations, also, Democrats Light $73 Million On Fire In KY Senate Race Against The Murder Turtle
Mark Steyn: Millsfield Or Dixville? also, Election Night Live

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Cop Shoots White Guy Named ‘Kevin’

Posted on | November 4, 2020 | 1 Comment

Kevin Alan Smallman, 32, was a career criminal. Notice my use of the past tense verb “was.” Kevin assumed room temperature in January, with the assistance of a police officer in Chandler, Arizona.

Smallman had served time in prison for burglary and DUI, and after being released in 2017, he did not “go legit.” On Jan. 26, a police officer spotted a white Toyota Prius reported as stolen. The vehicle fled and escaped. The next day, the officer saw the stolen Toyota again in front of a Hampton Inn hotel; two people exited the vehicle and went into the hotel. The officer followed and confronted Smallman and his wife, Krystal Denean Ehrlich, 27, in the hotel lobby. Smallman “failed to comply,” as police say, refusing to provide identification and, when told he was being detained, took off running.

The officer gave chase, and Smallman ran — where else? — to the stolen Toyota, climbing in the driver’s seat. The officer opened the door and was trying to wrestle Smallman out of the car, and meanwhile Ehrlich had gotten into the backseat of the Toyota. Smallman started the car to make his getaway, with the cop wedged between him and the seat. In a bodycam video released by the police department, you see the struggle that ensued. Smallman took off with the cop hanging out the side of the stolen car, and the officer had no choice but to shoot the car thief in self-defense. The car rammed into a wall, the officer miraculously survived, and Smallman was pronounced dead at the scene.

 

Watching police bodycam footage has become a hobby for me — a strange choice of entertainment, perhaps, but a way to distract myself from the constant noise of politics. And the case of Kevin Smallman is rather typical of what are called “officer-involved shootings” (OIS).

Bad guys don’t cooperate with law enforcement, res ipsa loquitur. If you’re a convicted felon driving a stolen car, what are you going to do when a cop shows up and starts asking questions?

The smart thing to do would be to accept the reality — you got caught, and you’re going back to jail. Criminals aren’t really good decision-makers, however, and so the police encounter tends to escalate. First, the criminal lies — “Dindu nuffin” — and then he becomes non-compliant. He resists arrest, attacks the cop or tries to run away. If you’ve watched enough of these videos, the behavioral patterns become familiar.

Notice that Kevin had tattoos on his neck? Always a bad sign. Tattoos are a prerequisite for membership in the White Trash Criminals Club.

Not all people with tattoos are felons, but all felons have tattoos, and getting tattoos on your neck or face? Yep — might as well get the words “violating probation” tattooed on your forehead. It’s part of a behavioral pattern, as I say, and you will probably not be surprised to learn that after the cops carted Kevin Smallman’s corpse off to the morgue, they found meth and drug paraphernalia in the stolen car. The criminal’s widow, Krystal Ehrlich was charged with possession: “Court records show Ehrlich is homeless, and is currently on probation. She also has prior convictions for DUI, burglary, trafficking, narcotics possession, and drug paraphernalia possession.” Real classy people.

There were no protests over the police shooting of Kevin Smallman. No celebrities paid attention to this incident. Smallman got no coverage on CNN. Nobody cares when cops shoot a white criminal. There is no “social justice” angle, no political advantage to be gained, and so the death of Kevin Smallman was just a local news story.

Oh, and if Joe Biden is elected president? “Black Lives Matter” will disappear from the headlines. The only purpose of calling national attention to the deaths of George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Jacob Blake, etc., was to “energize” black voters for Democrats in an election year, to dramatize the “systemic racism” issue to help Joe Biden. And once he takes office, everything will go back to business as usual for the media.




 

Category: Crime

Make Birthdays Great Again

Posted on | November 4, 2020 | Comments Off on Make Birthdays Great Again

Say hello to Jason, an Ohio boy who turned 12 years old yesterday. Because it was Election Day, and because Jason’s a big Trump supporter — it’s Ohio, which went for Trump by an 8-point margin — his family gave him a MAGA-themed birthday party. Instead of singing “Happy Birthday,” his family serenaded him with “Proud to Be an American.”

That video ought to go viral.




 

Category: Donald Trump, Election, Ohio

TRUMP WINS! TRUMP WINS!

Posted on | November 3, 2020 | Comments Off on TRUMP WINS! TRUMP WINS!

UPDATE 11:10 p.m. ET: I’m calling it for Trump. He’s won Florida and Georgia. North Carolina is looking like a win. He’s leading in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Michigan — MICHIGAN! — Trump now leads by double-digits. We are in Red Wave territory, folks.

* * * * *

My partner John Hoge and I will be podcasting tonight and you can click here to listen (you’ll need to download the Podbeam app).

What’s going to happen? Well, here’s a clue: I went to vote about 5 p.m. I live in a county that went for Trump in 2016 by a 30-point margin (62%-32%), and the polling place is in the reddest, most rural part of the county. The line stretched around the parking lot and the wait was an hour and 45 minutes. This lady was one of those standing in line:

So if it’s going to take a stampede of rural voters for Trump to win, maybe the “Red Wave” will actually happen. We shall see.

UPDATE 6:55 p.m. ET: Ace notes that exit polls look good for Trump.

On the side of pessimism, however, if Democrats voted early by mail, then they would be underrepresented in exit polls.

UPDATE 8:00 p.m. ET: Miami is killing liberal dreams:

UPDATE 10 p.m. ET: We’ve finished three hours of podcasting and now you can click here for ANOTHER three hours. Oh, my God, it looks like Trump is pulling off another miracle upset.

EXPECT FURTHER UPDATES . . .




 

Category: Donald Trump, Election, Joe Biden
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