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In The Mailbox: 10.23.20 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 24, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Are You Regular?
357 Magnum: I, For One, Welcome Our Self-Driving Overlords
Red Pilled Jew: A Long Read With Something Bizarre
EBL: Obama & Biden Put Kids In Cages
Twitchy: People Are Dropping @Expensify After CEO Urges Customers To Vote For Biden
Louder With Crowder: Donald Trump’s Best Thug Life Moments From The Presidential Debate
Vox Popoli: Demoralization Season Ends Early, also, The Storehouse Of Knowledge
According To Hoyt: No, You Can’t Have “Democracy”
Monster Hunter Nation: New SF Novel Gunrunner With John Brown – E-ARC Available Now

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: No Jab No Fly
American Conservative: Waco Whitewash King Vindicates Presidential Debate Commission
American Greatness: New Poll Shows Trump Taking Lead In Arizona, also, Biden’s Campaign Blew Up In A Bad Way
American Power: What We Learned From Tony Bobulinski
American Thinker: Figures Don’t Lie But Liars Figure – Unemployment Figures Drastically Favor Republican-Led States
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Barn Burner Friday
Babalu Blog: Ana Martinez Sues Netflix For Defamation Over Portrayal In Wasp Network
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For October 23
Cafe Hayek: Leave Google Alone
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Under The Fedora, also, Jews Protecting Muslims Visiting Al-Aqsa Mosque From Palestinians
Don Surber: Obama Shrank Democratic Map, also, Debate Lifted The Lid On Biden’s Fake Campaign
First Street Journal: The Libertarian Party Lies To Us, also, We Need To Stop Pretending That #BlackLivesMatter
The Geller Report: Rep. Paul Gosar Calls For Defunding NPR Over Refusal To Cover Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal, also, Trump’s Approval With Likely Black Voters Surges To 46% After Debate
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Relativity
Hollywood In Toto: Mighty Ira Explores Free Speech Rights From Skokie To Charlottesville
JustOneMinute: Debate Post-Game
The Lid: Video Proof Biden Said He’d Ban Fracking
Legal Insurrection: Another Trump Middle East Breakthrough, also, Biden’s Debate Pledge To Transition Away From Fossil Fuels Could Cost Him Pennsylvania, Other Energy States
Power Line: Biden’s Biggest Asset Is His Lie-ability, also, Nice Job By Trump
Shot In The Dark: Our Culturally-Illiterate Elite, also, It’s Your Fault, Peasants
STUMP: Mortality With Meep
The Political Hat: The Newspeak Dictionary Is Real And Woke
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Are We Back To Helping The Taliban?
Victory Girls: Biden Lied – Hunter Raked In Cash From Red China
Volokh Conspiracy: Why The Constitution Requires Including Illegals In House Reapportionment Counts
Weasel Zippers: GA State Rep Thinks “Coyotes” Are Actual Dogs, also, David Hogg Is A Student At Harvard (That’s The Joke)
The Federalist: If You Don’t Know That “Coyotes” Are Human Smugglers, Shut Up About The Border, also, Trump Secures Historic Third Middle East Peace Deal
Mark Steyn: Election Day Minus Eleven

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In The Mailbox: 10.23.20 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 23, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.23.20 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Join My 2020 Election Pool
Bleach Cocktail: National Review’s Kevin Williamson Asks, “Who Among Us…”
357 Magnum: Since They Can’t Blame The Cops
EBL: Make The Left-Wing Radicals Stop
Twitchy: Liz Harrington Leaves Christine Amanpour Speechless During Interview About Hunter Biden’s Laptop
Louder With Crowder: Ohio Sheriff Offers to help Celebrities Leave The Country If Trump Is Re-Elected
Vox Popoli: If You Didn’t Know The Polls Are Fake,  also, NPR Is Just Very, Very Busy
Stoic Observations: Taking The Test

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Is The Pope A Catholic? also, Bring Out Your Misogynists
American Conservative: Red China Shows The Weakness Of Strong-Arm Diplomacy
American Greatness: Mitt Romney Announces He Didn’t Vote For Trump, also, World Series Ratings Crash, Ratings At All-Time Low
American Power: Governor Kristi Noem Pushes Back
American Thinker: 10% Joe – From Grandfather To Godfather
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Urban Disintegration News
Babalu Blog: Catholic Priest In Havana Condemns Socialist Tyranny
BattleSwarm: Silicon Valley Billionaires Dump Tons Of Money Into Texas Senate Race
Cafe Hayek: Unreal Assumptions
CDR Salamander: Great Power Competition Is Singular, Not Plural
Da Tech Guy: The Brady Effect Comes To Tampa, also, I’m Worried That There Won’t Be A Peaceful Conclusion To This Presidential Election
Don Surber: “You Both Have Insulted 60 Minutes And Me”, also, Thirteen Trump Rallies, 167,000 Voters
First Street Journal: More Murders In Philadelphia. Ho Hum. also, Can We Have Pope Benedict XVI Back?
The Geller Report: Hunter Biden’s Laptop Contained 40-50 Pics Of Child Endangerment With Young Family Member, also, Democrats Plan “Mass Mobilization” After Election If Biden Loses – Arson, Rioting, & Violence
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, The Silicon Curtain
Hollywood In Toto: Trump Derangement Sinks Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
The Lid: Hunter Biden’s Ex-Partner Confirms Email, Cash From Red China, Says Joe Biden Was “The Big Guy”
Legal Insurrection: “I Don’t Have To Discredit You, You’re Discrediting Yourself, Lesley” also, Hunter Biden Partner Bobulinski Calls Joe Biden A Liar
Power Line: The Biden Influence Empire Is Unraveling, also, Trump Moves to Fill Judge Barrett’s Court Of Appeals Seat
Shark Tank: Palm Beach Democrats Exposed For Pushing Anti-Loomer Election Hoax
Shot In The Dark: Expect 30 Minutes Of Tina Smith Ads Every Hour For The Next 12 Days
The Political Hat: Euthanasia In The Age of Corona-Chan, Promoting Suicide As An Alternative, Suicide Via Zoom, & Suicide By Involuntary Proxy
This Ain’t Hell: Starship Troopers Off The Marine Commandant’s Reading List, also, A Dark Day For Naval Aviation
Victory Girls: Thirsty Media Chokes On Giuliani Pranks
Volokh Conspiracy: The Amazing Randi RIP
Weasel Zippers: Obama Rally For Biden Is Just Him, A Bullhorn, & Seven People, also, Harris Says Trump Killed 67% Of America With COVID
The Federalist: Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Joe Biden’s Latest Scandals, also, Big Tech Slept With Red China & Brought Venereal Censorship Back To America
Mark Steyn: Election Day Minus Twelve

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Trump Won the Debate, But …

Posted on | October 23, 2020 | 2 Comments

BERRIEN COUNTY, Michigan
“C’mon” — Joe Biden used that seven different times during Thursday night’s debate, sometimes as “c’mon man,” other times as “c’mon, folks.”

It’s a tic, a mannerism, a habit, and you could see Biden get rattled after he made the mistake of bringing up Rudy Giuliani, which opened the door for President Trump to talk about Hunter Biden’s laptop. To this, Biden replied with his canned “Russian disinformation” response, and Trump was astonished: “You mean the laptop is now another Russia, Russia, Russia hoax? You’ve gotta be kidding. Is this where you’re going?”

Of course, Biden’s biggest error was on energy policy:

“I have never said I opposed fracking,” Biden maintained. He challenged Trump to show the tape. The moment the debate ended, Trump did just that by tweeting out video of Biden pushing for a ban on fracking on numerous occasions. Biden, who boasted “my reputation is for honor and telling the truth,” did not tell the truth here. More importantly, the energy issue revealed the extent to which the Democratic nominee embraces fringe positions.
The former vice president’s shocking statements on oil raised an important question: Is the Unabomber Joe Biden’s energy adviser?
“I would transition from the oil industry, yes,” Biden, taking the president’s bait, admitted. “The oil industry pollutes.” He argued, “It has to be replaced by renewable energy.”

No honest person could argue that Biden won the debate, and the question therefore becomes, how much of a difference will Trump’s debate victory make in the election?

Consider this: More than 50 million people have already cast their ballots in early voting; that’s about 40% of the entire vote in 2016. In other words, a substantial number of votes cannot be effected by the debate, or by anything else that happens in the final 10 days of the campaign.

What we can expect, however, is that Trump’s success in Thursday’s debate will blunt the “Landslide Joe” message from the media. Texas obviously is now safe for Trump, and Pennsylvania is still within reach. While it looks like Biden might carry Wisconsin and Michigan, if Trump can win Pennsylvania, Biden’s path to 270 becomes sketchy.

A week from now, expect to see the major polls adjust their numbers toward Trump. Predictions of Biden possibly winning Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio and Iowa were always wishful thinking, and pollsters know this. Suddenly, their forecast models will get readjusted, so that they don’t end up with egg on their faces Nov. 4.




 

Category: Debates, Election

Debate Night Open Thread

Posted on | October 22, 2020 | Comments Off on Debate Night Open Thread

BERRIEN COUNTY, Michigan
Tonight is the second and final presidential debate, which I’ll be watching in the hotel lobby here. During our drive across northern Ohio and Indiana to arrive here this evening, we saw dozens of Trump signs and only one Biden sign. A quick preview of the debate:

The stakes couldn’t be higher for Thursday’s second and final presidential debate between Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Trump.
The showdown – coming with just 12 days to go until Election Day on Nov. 3 – is the last chance for both major party standard bearers to make their case in front of a massive national audience watching and listing on TV and radio and streaming online.
And it may be the last opportunity to reach out to the dwindling number of voters who’ve yet to make up their minds.
“This final debate will give each candidate a live opportunity to strengthen their core messaging and enhance their potential reach to undecided voters,” highlighted John Link, vice president at Advertising Analytics, a leading ad-tracking firm.
With so much on the line, it’s no wonder the campaigns are trading fire over numerous aspects regarding the debate, from the mute button to prevent the candidates from interrupting each other during their initial two minute responses at the top of each segment to the topics themselves.
The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) – the bipartisan group that’s been organizing and running these faceoffs for more than three decades – announced late last week that fighting COVID-19, American families, national security, leadership, climate change and race in America will be the major topics debated during six 15-minute sections at the commercial-free 90-minute showdown at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.

I’ll be updating occasionally throughout the evening.

UPDATE 9:07 p.m. ET: They open with a COVID-19 question, basically blaming Trump, which is of course the Biden campaign’s theme.

UPDATE 9:17 p.m. ET: Notice how they allow this to go on and on, back and forth. The Biden campaign wants to make COVID-19 the main theme of the campaign, and the debate opens with 15 minutes on the subject, thus validating the preferred partisan narrative.

UPDATE 9:25 p.m. ET: Now more than 20 minutes of COVID-19, as if this will be the defining issue of the next four years.

UPDATE 9:32 p.m. ET: Now Trump brings up Hunter, and Biden claims he’s never taken any money from foreign sources, ever.

UPDATE 9:42 p.m. ET: Reactions to the Hunter questions:

UPDATE 9:50 p.m. ET: More reactions to Biden:

UPDATE 9:56 p.m. ET: After endlessly lying about Hunter’s foreign business deals, now Biden lies about healthcare.

UPDATE 10:13 p.m. ET: We’re past the halfway mark, and the general feeling of conservatives on Twitter is that Trump is winning this debate, bigtime.

Maybe they’re partial, but I can’t imagine that Biden’s winning over many people with his wobbly performance tonight.

UPDATE 10:39 p.m. ET: Biden vows to end the oil industry!

Good-bye, Pennsylvania! Good-bye, Ohio!

Debate over. Watching CNN and Jake Tapper is trying very hard to spin this as a “fine performance” by Joe Biden. Whatever you say, Jake.




 

Category: Debates

Ohio Sheriff Offers Free One-Way Tickets to Celebrities Threatening to Leave U.S.

Posted on | October 22, 2020 | 1 Comment

Butler County is a suburb of Cincinnati:

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones says he will help purchase one-way plane tickets for any celebrity who wishes to leave the country if President Donald Trump is reelected.
The sheriff, who has gone viral in the past for his Facebook posts, including his comments on the tensions between communities and police across the country. “I won’t tolerate it, period. You shoot at the police expect us to shoot back,” Jones said in September.
Now, Jones is commenting on the upcoming presidential election.
“Celebrities threatening to leave the United States if the president is re-elected. This happened in 2016 and it is believed not one celebrity left then and it appears the same threats are being made this election year,” Jones wrote on Facebook.
“I hope you do leave and if there’s any way I can help — I’m not a rich person — but I would be willing to throw in $10 to a special fund to help get you a flight or whatever it takes,” Jones said in a video which now has 125,000 views. . . .
“I’ll even help them pack,” Jones wrote.
In the video, the sheriff explained how he believes the United States is the greatest country in the world, “regardless of who the president is.”
“I will help fund that trip. You just can’t come back,” Jones said.

You tell ’em, sheriff!




 

Category: Celebrities, Election, Ohio

Ohio Is Trump Country

Posted on | October 22, 2020 | Comments Off on Ohio Is Trump Country

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ohio
This morning I drove down to Mt. Gilead, county seat of Morrow County, and the route along Highway 61 was lined with Trump signs. The ratio of Trump to Biden signs was at least 10-to-1, if not higher. The county Republican Party headquarters in Mt. Gilead wasn’t yet open, but I got photos of their lobby through the window. It is difficult to explain to anyone who hasn’t been here how lopsidedly Republican this area is. In 2016, Trump got 72% of the vote in Morrow County, and 71% in neighboring Crawford County. Out of Ohio’s 88 counties, Trump won 80, with Hillary’s votes concentrated in urban areas — Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Toledo, etc. — and a few suburban areas like Lorain County (which also includes Oberlin College).

The contrast between rural and small-town Ohio and our nation’s big cities is an essential fact of the political divide in America. Folks here are not any kind of radical “right-wing,” they’re just ordinary hard-working people who enjoy the tranquil pleasures of country life, and thus have little in common with the decadent bicoastal urban elites.

Trump got 52% of the vote in Ohio against Hillary four years ago. He will almost certainly score a solid majority here for his re-election.




 

Category: Donald Trump, Election, Ohio

October in Ohio

Posted on | October 22, 2020 | Comments Off on October in Ohio

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ohio
Just a few scenes of the maple trees around my mother-in-law’s house here in rural Ohio, where polls show President Trump with a narrow lead over Joe Biden but, in fact, everybody knows Trump will carry the state by a decisive margin (he won Ohio by 8 points in 2016).




 

Category: Ohio

Ohio’s ‘Republican’ Governor

Posted on | October 22, 2020 | 1 Comment

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ohio
Republicans are the party of business, the party of free enterprise and deregulation. So why in the world is the Republican governor of Ohio dictating 10 p.m. “last call” at bars?

An Ohio state representative who led the charge to reverse Gov. Mike DeWine’s order to move last call at bars and restaurants to 10 p.m. could not be happier other lawmakers are joining the fight.
State Rep. Al Cutrona, R-Canfield, introduced a bill in early September to stop DeWine’s late July order to stop bars and restaurants from serving alcohol past 10 p.m. On Thursday, Senate President Larry Obhof, R-Medina, and President Pro Tem Bob Peterson, R-Washington Court House, co-sponsored legislation to do the same thing.
For his part, DeWine has said over the past two weeks he is reviewing the order. However, he also announced Tuesday the state passed 5,000 COVID-19 deaths and is averaging nearly 500 more cases a day than it did two weeks ago. . . .
The bill would allow alcohol sales within the time frame that already exists under Ohio law. It also prevents any disciplinary actions resulting from violations of DeWine’s order.
Cutrona’s bill removes alcohol-sales restrictions due to the COVID-19 state of emergency. It also stops the Ohio Liquor Control Commission from restricting hours of operation established before the emergency.
“I want to make sure these small businesses can push through these trying times,” Cutrona said. “The bar and restaurant industry is completely suffering right now. That 10 p.m. ban takes away their prime time of making revenue. If they can follow the guidelines before 10 p.m., then they can do it at 2 a.m.”

Do I want to be drinking in a crowded bar during a pandemic? No, but if you want to take your chances, go ahead.

The governor’s decision to move last call to 10 p.m. was arbitrary, and cannot be justified in the name of “science.” If it is safe to drink in a bar at 10 p.m., why does it suddenly become unsafe at 10:01 p.m.? All the governor’s policy is doing is depriving businesses of revenue, with no demonstrable health benefit. It is as if DeWine feels a need to compete with Gretchen Whitmer in the Lockdown Mania Derby.




 

Category: Ohio
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