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FMJRA 2.0: Folders & Holders

Posted on | November 10, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Folders & Holders

— compiled by Wombat-socho

What with all the hours I’ve been putting in on the county elections balancing board and other business, it’s a good thing Pete was feeling lenient, because it took me until yesterday to sort out my keepers list for the 1973 season. (The deadline was October 9.) Finishing as I did with the sixth worst record in the league, I got to keep 11 players, and here they are:
C Randy Hundley
2b Cookie Rojas
ss Ed Brinkman
if Vic Harris
OF Del Unser
OF John Lowenstein

P Pat Dobson
P Joe Coleman
P Reggie Cleveland
P Jim Kaat
P Carl Morton
Had to drop Ken McMullen because he’s a aprt-time player this year, and the same goes for Richie Scheinblum, who apparently had an injury that kept him from playing full-time.
The draft was going to be on the 23rd, but Pete’s got something going on, and it may get pushed back to the last week of November or maybe even into December. We’ll see.
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Meanwhile in the front office…

Election Fraud: Democrat Firm Identified as Source of Suspicious Voter Registration Forms in Four Pennsylvania Counties
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Election 2024: Be Prepared for Anything
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FMJRA 2.0: No Expansion This Year
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Rule 5 Sunday: Pre-Coffee Lounging
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In The Mailbox: 11.04.24
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Georgia: How’s ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Working?
The Daley Gator
Flappr
EBL
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Election Results 2024: Trump Wins Pennsylvania, Will Be 47th U.S. President
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In The Mailbox: 11.06.24 (Morning Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 11.06.24 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 11.08.24 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 11.08.24 (Evening Edition)
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All I Can Say Is, ‘You’re Welcome’

Posted on | November 10, 2024 | Comments Off on All I Can Say Is, ‘You’re Welcome’

Little did my great-grandfather suspect, as he sat for two years as a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware, that the cause for which he fought would be vindicated some 160 years later when a New York real estate tycoon — the grandson of a German immigrant — defeated the descendant of a Jamaican slave owner in the presidential election. Certainly great-grandpa would be mystified that a Republican victory, which included winning the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, would be denounced as a triumph of the Confederacy. And I shudder to think what my Confederate ancestor would say about Professor Carol Anderson:

President Donald Trump’s victory is the “last stand of white supremacy,” according to an Emory University African American studies professor.
Professor Carol Anderson, author of “White Rage,” also said “the Confederacy won,” during an interview on Democracy Now!
Trump “advocated” for “racism,” “xenophobia” and “hatred, all wrapped in a sense of honor and gallantry,” Anderson said. This was in “backlash to what they fear was the great replacement.”
“Misogyny” also played a role in Kamala Harris’ loss, according to Anderson.
She said:

I think part of what we’re looking at, because she was explicit about policies, and so the language that she just needs to explain her policies is hokum. It’s that it is — we’re looking at the misogyny and the racism and the fear of what it meant to have a Black Asian woman who’s married to a Jewish man sitting in the White House, that this was not the kind of vision of America that that large swath that voted for Trump believe is America. It is the fear of what a multicultural, multiracial, multilingual, diverse America could mean. It means — and so, you’re seeing the backlash to her very being.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) The important thing, when confronted by such preposterous accusations, is never to deny them. If such fools have convinced themselves that “white supremacy,” etc., have triumphed at the ballot box — and as of this morning, Donald Trump was leading by a margin of 3.7 million votes — why should we argue with them?

Victory requires no excuse. Winners do not need scapegoats.

Leave the fools in their ignorance. Don’t bother them with facts or logic.

Deo vindice.



 

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The Wile E. Coyote of Liberal Journalism

Posted on | November 9, 2024 | Comments Off on The Wile E. Coyote of Liberal Journalism

Everybody remembers Wile E. Coyote was a Super Genius, right? That old Looney Tunes character came to mind this week when I read liberal journalist Michael Tomasky’s hot take on the election:

I’ve had a lot of conversations since Tuesday revolving around the question of why Donald Trump won. The economy and inflation. Kamala Harris didn’t do this or that. Sexism and racism. The border. That trans-inmate ad that ran a jillion times. And so on.
These conversations have usually proceeded along lines where people ask incredulously how a majority of voters could have believed this or that. Weren’t they bothered that Trump is a convicted felon? An adjudicated rapist? Didn’t his invocation of violence against Liz Cheney, or 50 other examples of his disgusting imprecations, obviously disqualify him? And couldn’t they see that Harris, whatever her shortcomings, was a fundamentally smart, honest, well-meaning person who would show basic respect for the Constitution and wouldn’t do anything weird as president? . . .

(You see the set-up here? Tomasky believes every word of Democratic Party propaganda, every partisan talking point, as do all of his acquaintances, who are “incredulous” that not everyone does.)

The answer is obviously no — not enough people were able to see any of those things. At which point people throw up their hands and say, “I give up.”
But this line of analysis requires that we ask one more question. And it’s the crucial one: Why didn’t a majority of voters see these things? And understanding the answer to that question is how we start to dig out of this tragic mess.
The answer is the right-wing media. . . . .

(Obviously! Why didn’t anyone else think of this? Quick, let me log onto the Acme website and order some rocket skates!)

Today, the right-wing media — Fox News (and the entire News Corp.), Newsmax, One America News Network, the Sinclair network of radio and TV stations and newspapers, iHeart Media (formerly Clear Channel), the Bott Radio Network (Christian radio), Elon Musk’s X, the huge podcasts like Joe Rogan’s, and much more — sets the news agenda in this country. And they fed their audiences a diet of slanted and distorted information that made it possible for Trump to win. . . .

OK, I’m going to stop the italics fisking here, because there’s probably only so much of Tomasky’s implausible bullshit you can handle without giving into the urge to hurl your coffee cup across the room.

It’s like he’s demanding a place in the Not-Getting-It Hall of Fame.

Who is it that has “fed their audiences a diet of slanted and distorted information”? Is it really Fox News, Newsmax, Joe Rogan, et al.? If it were so, were there are no other media outlets to which people might turn to seek information that was not “slanted and distorted”?

Coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign by major national broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) was the most biased against Republicans since the Media Research Center began keeping track. Campaign coverage by the three networks was 78% positive for Kamala Harris and 85% negative for Donald Trump. In essence, network “news” coverage was a massive in-kind contribution to the Democratic Party. This bias has prevailed for decades in the major media, despite every effort by conservatives to call attention to the problem, to expose errors in reporting (e.g., “RatherGate”) and to counter-balance this bias.

In fact, I consider it inarguable that liberal bias in the media has actually gotten worse in the past 30 years. It seems that the success of Fox News has caused major media to become even more liberal, to the point of just blatant partisanship on behalf of Democrats. Much of the media’s “reporting” is indistinguishable from DNC press releases. It is this leftward shift of media coverage that has created an audience of people eager to find reporting and commentary that doesn’t conform to the DNC-approved Official Truth™ formula provided by major media.

Tomasky bemoans the influence of “right-wing media” without once acknowledging the reason for the existence of such a phenomenon. His obsession with “right-wing media” is a sort of conspiracy theory, as if there were some secretive cabal of GOP operatives compelling people to watch Fox News or listen to conservative podcasters, when in fact what is happening is that news consumers are “voting with their feet,” so to speak, by deserting liberal-dominated media in favor of alternatives. Tomasky is not so stupid that he can’t understand what’s happening, but he refuses to acknowledge that consumer choice — the ability of free people to exercise their own independent judgment — is the real secret of the success of “right-wing media.” And now, if you’ll put you coffee cups safely out of reach, I’ll get to the part of Tomasky’s column where he suggests action to solve the problem:

If you read me regularly, you know that I’ve written this before, but I’m going to keep writing it until people — specifically, rich liberals, who are the only people in the world who have the power to do something about this state of affairs — take some action. . . .
This is the year in which it became obvious that the right-wing media has more power than the mainstream media. It’s not just that it’s bigger. It’s that it speaks with one voice, and that voice says Democrats and liberals are treasonous elitists who hate you, and Republicans and conservatives love God and country and are your last line of defense against your son coming home from school your daughter.
And that is why Donald Trump won. Indeed, the right-wing media is why he exists in our political lives in the first place. . . .
This is a crisis. The Democratic brand is garbage in wide swaths of the country, and this is the reason. . . .
The reason? The right-wing media. And it’s only growing and growing. And I haven’t even gotten to social media and Tik Tok and the other platforms from which far more people are getting their news these days. The right is way ahead on those fronts too. Liberals must wake up and understand this and do something about it before it’s too late, which it almost is.

So “rich liberals” must “do something” to counteract “the right-wing media” which is exclusively responsible for Donald Trump’s existence.

Paranoid much, sir? Well, there is a certain amount of truth to what Tomasky says because it was our late friend Andrew Breitbart who, in 2011, got the idea of inviting Donald Trump to CPAC. Breitbart had become famous during the 2009-2010 Tea Party years and it was his idea that someone like Trump — an outsider, a celebrity, a wealthy business tycoon who wasn’t beholden to the Republcan establishment — might be the best person to lead such a populist uprising. Sadly, Breitbart died before his prescient instinct could be vindicated by events, but it was certainly no accident that Steve Bannon, a founding member of the board of Breitbart News, became a top adviser to Trump. From the first time I met Andrew Breitbart, at CPAC 2007, I recognized him as a superior mind, someone with deep insight into how the media created what he always referred to as The Narrative. I can still hear Andrew saying that word with a sinister tone: “Their precious narrative.”

The spirit of Breitbart lives on, and many people who perhaps never had the opportunity to meet him are still carrying on Andrew’s legacy. Look at the work that Eric Abbenante did this election cycle:

Eric gives big props to Maze Moore, by the way. It was a team effort that helped inform America about who Kamala Harris actually is, during those weeks when the media were hyping up the “joy” of her campaign.

Much of the most useful work done by “right-wing media” is not done by Fox News or any other corporate entity, but by individuals using social media — independently, often with no compensation except what they might get from Patreon or PayPal tips — and there is simply no way for Democrats to counteract this effectively, except through censorship, which was what they were doing on Twitter before Elon Musk bought it. There’s still censorship on Facebook and YouTube, but so long as there is any space online where people are free to spread the truth, falsehood can never prevail. This is what’s driven Michael Tomasky into a fit of helpless depression and impotent rage toward “right-wing media.” The truth is that Kamala Harris was a very bad candidate, running on a very bad agenda. It’s not surprising she lost, and also not surprising that most Americans rejected the idiotic “Trump is Hitler” nonsense that was Kamala’s last-ditch argument in her doomed campaign.

Michael Tomasky represents the Wile E. Coyote tendency of all liberal journalists, who predictably are always shocked when that anvil they bought from Acme comes crashing down atop their own heads.



 

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In The Mailbox: 11.08.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | November 9, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.08.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Ken breaks the news to Barbie.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Science is Failing
EBL: The Ten Commandments, also, Goodbye Tim Walz – You were such a gift
Twitchy: Joe Biden’s Revenge? Cutting Kamala – Joe Rogan Reveals Harris Demanded Editorial Control Over Podcast Interview, and Disaster Debacle – Whistleblowers Reveal FEMA Relief Workers Skipped Homes With Trump Signs & Banners
Louder With Crowder: These Kamala voters say no more nookie with men for four years. Also, they’re…shaving their heads?
According To Hoyt: An Update On The Health Thing, The Road Ahead, Brace, Brace, Brace, and Mene, Mene, Tekel, UPharsin by Padre
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: The Trump Coalition
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsy Princess Effie’s Diary #18 – Train To Nowhere, also, Days of Joy!
Stoic Observations: The Hybrid Homeschool Project

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Are You Tired of Losing Yet?
American Conservative: The Trump Mandate, Weltschmerz After Trump’s Triumph, and Trump’s Election Provokes Fear South of the Border
American Greatness: JD Vance for the Win, Making America Safe Again Will be Donald Trump’s Highest Priority as President, Trump Appoints Campaign Manager Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff, Dems Float Plan to Push Ailing Justice Sotomayor Off Supreme Court So Biden Can Replace Her Before Trump is Sworn In, and Was the 2024 Election Too Big to Rig?
American Thinker: The Greatest Comeback of All Time, Deconstructing the Mythology of January 6, and Has the Left Learned Anything from the Election?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Get Out the Vote News, Animal’s Daily Get Out the Vote News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five WINNING Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship reports 461 collapsed buildings in Havana and other large-scale disasters, Three members of the Cuban national baseball team defect in Mexico, Canadian Member of Parliament denounces Cuban dictatorship, calls for support of island’s dissidents, and ‘Que viene El Coco’: Mexican left spooked by Trump
BattleSwarm: Election Day LinkSwarm – Joe Rogan Endorses Donald Trump, Finally, Trump Wins Beyond The Margin Of Fraud, “Not One County?”, Post-Election LinkSwarm For November 7, and LinkSwarm For November 8
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites, Vast signs astronaut agreement with Czech government, Giant dunes in a dune sea inside a Martian crater, Sierra Space announces plans to build a second Dream Chaser cargo spaceplane, and NASA denies press reports that Sunita Williams on ISS has health issues
Cafe Hayek: Workers Lose, also, On My Siblings’ Politics
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Sis Boom Bah, also, Day Two of the Trump Administration
Da Tech Guy: My Advice to the Election Fraudsters, Stand Down! Five TRUMP WINS! Thoughts Under the Fedora, As I Said Eight Years Ago The Time to Address Election Fraud (and offer Amnesty) Is NOW, We have all been unburdened from the horrific catastrophe that could have been, and Why We Need the 2nd Amendment: Nasty Dose of Reality in Amsterdam Edition
Don Surber: Republicans learned to ballot harvest
First Street Journal: The college educated elites are at a loss to understand why the working class don’t obey Their Betters, You in a heap o’ trouble, boy, and Schadenfreude!
Gates Of Vienna: The Silencing of Dissent, Knife Jihad on the Train in Genoa, Shootout at the Kebab Shop in Berlin, It’s Time to Ban the AfD, and Pogrom in Amsterdam
The Geller Report: Israel Sending Rescue Planes To Netherlands To Save Jews Being Attacked and Beaten By Muslim Mobs, also, WINNING – The Trump Effect
Hollywood In Toto: Bette Midler Flees X After Trump Victory, Kathy Griffin Claims Trump 2.0 Puts Women, Gays in Mortal Danger, Ex-‘Man Show’ Host Kimmel Cries Over Trump Victory, How David Lynch Buckled Our Knees with The Straight Story, and Pageant Producer Puts Christ Back into Christmas Movies
The Lid: Typical Democrat: Harris Raised One BILLION for her Campaign… Ended it $20 Million In Debt
Legal Insurrection: Pogrom in Amsterdam: Middle Eastern Migrant Gangs Brutally Attack Israeli Soccer Fans, Democrats Debate Trying To Throw Justice Sotomayor Overboard Before Trump Takes Office, U. Oregon Staffer Placed on Leave After Making Video Telling Trump Supporters to Kill Themselves, FEMA Official Told Workers to ‘Avoid’ Homes With Trump Signs in Florida, and Pollster Behind Massively Botched Iowa Poll Showing Kamala Leading Deflects Blame
Nebraska Energy Observer: Most people dread Mondays, Remember, Remember the Fifth of November, True North, Scattershot Friday, and Decompressing
Outkick: Mid-Air Ruckus? Auburn Basketball Forced To Abort Trip To Houston After In-Flight Incident Between Players, Vanderbilt’s Diego Pavia Suing The NCAA For Another Year Of Eligibility, Hoping To Change JUCO Rules, Shohei Ohtani Might Be The Best Contract Ever, Has Made The Dodgers $120 Million, Kings Tanner Jeannot Gets Three-Game Suspension For Brutal Headshot, and AT&T Lily Is Upset Because The Country Looks Like A Verizon Map, CNN Melts Down & Hooters Girls Love Our Vets!
Power Line: Tim Walz is returned to sender, Mullahs Tried to Kill Trump, Jive Talking, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: FL Democrats Wanted To Gain Five State House Seats – Recount Will Decide If They Lose Two Instead
Shot In The Dark: I’m Only Human, Not Going Back, I Told You So, Burning Daylight, and Substance
STUMP: Checking On Ballot Counts – Missing Ballots From 2020? 
The Political Hat: 2024 Election From The Fog Of Uncertainty, also, Words To Remember When Voting
This Ain’t Hell: Malcolm Nance loses it, has a persecution fetish, Valor Friday, Tim Sheehy wins his Senate race, Navy Leadership and Ethics CO Fired, and Army Major alleged to have perpetrated sexual assault against at least 20 victims
Transterrestrial Musings: An Accurate Election Prediction, A New Dawn, Trump And Space, and In The Air
Victory Girls: Buh-bye To Mitch McConnell As Leader, Which Republican Is Next?
Watts Up With That: Hydrogen facility will definitely open in Bradford, President-Elect Trump’s Climate/Energy Policy: 100-Day Action Plan a Good Start, and Despite Media Panic, There Is No Reason to Think 2024’s Warming Is Disastrous
The Federalist: Thank You To All The Men Who Voted ‘For My Daughter’, Stop Crying On The Internet – It’s Embarrassing And Pathetic, Democrats Have Unleashed Donald Trump At His Best, Milwaukee Again Delivers An Election Night Debacle, and Arizona’s ‘Broken’ Election Administration Is A Habit Officials Refuse To Break
Mark Steyn: Incoming Dictatorship Watch, Beyond the Margin of Steal, Live Around the Planet – Special Gloatfest Edition, The Comeback King, and USA, USA, USA, Baby!

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In The Mailbox: 11.08.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | November 8, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.08.24 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD: Psycho Liberal Reaction Remix
Hopefully we can wrap up this business with the G*d-damned mail-in ballots tomorrow so we don’t have to come in Tuesday. I’m about ready to track down every Nevada legislator who voted to continue mail-in voting after COVID and beat them like piñatas until the candy comes out (in Minecraft).
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

M Bison explains it all

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Trump Elected – Germans Most Impacted
EBL: The Last Picture Show
Twitchy: Beginning of the End for Kamala – The Megan Thee Stallion Concert? DNC Brushes Off Winning Democrat’s Advice Like A Fly On Their $100 Sandwich, and So Many Eyerolls So Little Time
Louder With Crowder: That Dude Who Beat Women Up At The Olympics Claiming He Was A Woman? Turns Out He’s A Dude, The shrill harpies from The View whine that Trump won because Americans aren’t censored on social media enough, and “We’re entering a period of fascism and authoritarianism”
Vox Popoli: This Bodes Darkly, Arkhaven Nights, No Unity with the Wicked, The GenX Election, and 5x Mortality Risk
Upstream Reviews: The Stuff, also, The Wizard’s Way
Stoic Observations: The Peasants Win, also, My DW Framework

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: SECNAV Extends Burke, Tico Decommission Dates
Dana Loesch: Tuesday Was Gen X’s Revenge On Lefty Boomers
Don Surber: Drinking liberal tears
Glenn Reynolds: Elon Unbound
STUMP: Polymarket Prediction Post-Mortem

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In The Mailbox: 11.06.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | November 7, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.06.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Apparently they called Nevada sometime today, Kamala made a (plagiarized) concession speech, and Sam Brown is still hanging on to a slim lead in our Senate race.
I did this already, but in case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve dropped The Volokh Conspiracy from the list of blogs I’m linking to here. Finally had enough of Ilya Somin and his LOLbertarian bullshit.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

It is indeed.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: People You Know, Threats and Self-Defense, also,  Don’t Bring a Knife to a Gunfight
EBL: He’s Don It Again: Donald Trump Wins Electoral and Popular Vote, also, Too Soon To Gloat?
Twitchy: The Final Presidential Election Map, Let The Tears Flow, and Matt Walsh Gathers The Best Liberal Meltdowns
Louder With Crowder: Watch: Scott Jennings leaves CNN panel SILENT explaining what Trump’s victory means, Former Biden Voter Explains Why He Voted For Trump, “Democrats gave us no choice”, “So Many Black Men Will Be Gunned Down:” Unhinged Kamala Supporter Is Having A MAJOR Meltdown Over Losing, and “I don’t know how to weep” Non-Binary Kamala Voter Is Having A Major Meltdown
Vox Popoli: Ghost Jobs, Rogan Endorses Trump, Wild Kind of Look to the Day, Trumpslide 2024, and Just Go Away, Little Nicky
Upstream Reviews: Space Pirates of Andromeda
Stoic Observations: Trump for Pope
Ammo.com: Gun Facts 2024

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Fat Leonard & Phat Victories
Dana Loesch: Trump Wins, DOJ To Drop Trump Cases, and All Gas No Brakes
Don Surber: The election and my grandkids, also, The divine intervention election
STUMP: Movember 2024 – My Motivations & The Movember Movement

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In The Mailbox: 11.06.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | November 6, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.06.24 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Had the day off yesterday from the Balancing Board since the clerk’s office was busy doing Election Day stuff, and they called me this morning to tell me that I didn’t need to come in since they were out until 0400 wrapping up their Election Day work. So I get to play catch-up. Here In Nevada, it looks like The Donald may have dragged Sam Brown across the line, but it’s probably headed for a recount since he’s only winning by a few hundred votes. 
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

It’s okay, honey. The Donald is back. Bigly.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Nikki Haley makes the closing argument for Trump, Election Cake and other Election Day Recipes, and Joe Rogan Endorses Donald Trump
Twitchy: The Moment CNN’s Jake Tapper & John King Knew The Kamala Campaign Was Doomed, Watching Bad Orange Woman Call The Race For Trump One Of The Most Glorious Moments Of Schadenfreude Ever, and “Lawyer up!” Liz Cheney Tries Saving Face And OH HELL NO
Louder With Crowder: White Dude For Kamala Breaks Down In Literal Tears After Voting, also, Trump Trolls Kamala Harris One Last Time When Asked If He Has Any “Regrets”
Vox Popoli: The Rage is Building, AI is Innumerate, We’re Already There, They Kill Pets, and Baiting Sarah
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Remember, Remember, The Fifth Of November
Upstream Reviews: Monsters Under The Bed
Flappr: The Boolletin – What About Your Gaffes?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Why Does 2027 Keep Coming Up About The Chinese Military?
Dana Loesch: 2024 Election Shenanigans Part Deux
Don Surber: The triteness of calling Trump Hitler, 
Michele Catalano: election day
Protein Wisdom Reborn: I Didn’t Vote For Donald Trump Yesterday, And Here’s Why
STUMP: How Well Did Polymarket Do With Election Predictions?

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Election Results 2024: Trump Wins Pennsylvania, Will Be 47th U.S. President

Posted on | November 5, 2024 | Comments Off on Election Results 2024: Trump Wins Pennsylvania, Will Be 47th U.S. President

UPDATE 1:30 a.m. ET Wednesday: TRUMP JUST WON IT!

UPDATE 12:40 a.m. ET Wednesday: MSNBC just called Georgia and North Carolina for Trump who, I should mention, currently leads by 2.7 points in Pennsylvania and 3.5 points in Wisconsin.

UPDATE 11:45 p.m. ET: MSNBC just called Trump the winner in North Carolina. Trump is getting very close to a win in Georgia. With 91% counted, he leads by about 135,000 votes (a 2.7% margin, 50.9% to 48.2%) and it’s estimated that less than 500,000 votes remain to be counted. Meanwhile, in Ohio, Republican Bernie Moreno has beaten Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, which practically guarantees a GOP Senate majority. In Pennsylvania, Republican challenger Dave McCormick is is leading Democratic Sen. Bob Casey Jr. by more than 100,000 votes, while Trump continues to hold a lead of more than three points over Harris. She just got called the winner in Virginia.

UPDATE 10:55 p.m. ET: Just watched Steve Kornacki do a symphony of hard truth on MSNBC. In state after state, in county after county, tonight is looking a lot more like 2016 — a Trump win — than like 2020, when Biden “won.” MSNBC hasn’t yet called either Georgia or North Carolina for Trump, but Decision Desk HQ has.

UPDATE 10:30 p.m. ET: In Georgia, with 86% of the statewide vote now counted, it’s Trump 51.2% to Harris 48.0% — a margin of 150,000 votes (3.2%). Getting a bit close for my taste. In Wisconsin, meanwhile, Trump leads by about 6,000 votes (49.4% to 49.0%) with 48% of the vote counted.

UPDATE 10:15 p.m. ET: In Pennsylvania, Trump had been trailing in the early returns, but with 50% of the vote now counted, it’s Trump 50.4%, Harris 48.7% — a lead of nearly 60,000 votes for Trump.

UPDATE 10:10 p.m. ET: OK, we’re starting to see some Georgia counties where 99% of the vote is reported. Barrow County, where Trump got 26,804 votes (70.6%) in 2020, he now has 30,674 votes (69.9%) so that he has increased his vote total, but with a slight decrease of percentage. In Walker County, where Trump got 23,173 votes (78.9%) in 2020, he now has 25,452 (79.3%) — increasing both his vote total and percentage. The question is whether small gains like this in more rural counties will be enough to offset Kamala’s big numbers in metro Atlanta. As of now, with 79% of the statewide vote counted, Trump leads by 52% to Harris’s 47%. The Real Clear Politics poll average for Georgia was Trump +1.3. He is overperforming the polls in Georgia, so far.

UPDATE 9:45 p.m. ET: Right now, with 75% of votes counted in Georgia, Trump leads by a 5.2-point margin, about 112,000 votes. That’s a bit too close for comfort. In my next update, I’ll do some county-by-count breakdowns of Georgia. Meanwhile in Virginia, with 61% reporting, Trump leads by about 16,000 votes. He probably won’t win there, but the fact that it’s this close is a very good sign. Ohio has been called for Trump — it was never in doubt, really — and the encouraging thing there is that Trump’s margin is about 11 points, with 64% counted. Trump won by 8 points in Ohio in 2020, so expanding his margin there would bode well for Michigan and Wisconsin. We shall see . . .

UPDATE 8:50 p.m. ET: With 87% counted in Florida, Trump’s margin there is now 13 points, while in Virginia, with 43% counted, it’s a 49%-49% dead heat. These are good omens for Trump.

UPDATE 8:22 p.m. ET: Wait a minute — I heard that wrong! Hallucinations? Flashbacks from that 1979 psilocybin trip? Whatever — MSNBC still has Georgia “too early to call.” Apologies for the false alarm.

UPDATE 8:15 p.m. ET: Georgia is the first battleground state called for either candidate, and MSNBC calls it for Trump. The word for this is YUGE! Remember, the margin of victory is important here as an indicator of how other battlegrounds may go, but to be declared the winner in Georgia barely an hour after polls closed? YUGE!

*** PREVIOUSLY (6:45 p.m. ET) ***

Usually, I watch CNN (so you don’t have to), but tonight my home office TV is tuned to MSNBC, because I think it’s gonna be glorious! Trump wins this thing? They’ll be crying 96 tears on MSNBC, baby.

Anyway, earlier today, I told you about Stacey Abrams and her fantasies of “voter suppression” in Georgia, and I turned some of that material into a column at The American Spectator:

When the Georgia General Assembly enacted new election laws in 2022, the state was targeted by a dishonest propaganda campaign led by the president of the United States. The new Georgia law was “Jim Crow 2.0,” Joe Biden said — a hateful smear for which that notorious liar has never apologized. Excuse my indignation, but I was born in Atlanta and grew up in Douglas County, Georgia, and this disgusting slander outraged my sense of pride in my native state. Yet the beautiful irony is that the new law in Georgia may prevent America from suffering another one of those “too close to call” nightmares such as was inflicted on us four years ago.
Georgia has greatly increased its early voting, and the votes that have been cast early will also be counted early, so that within a couple of hours of 7 p.m. Eastern, when polls close in Georgia, we may know the winner of that state. Depending on how Georgia goes, the winner there may be almost certainly projected as the winner of 270 Electoral College votes necessary to claim the White House. . . . 

You can read the rest of that. We’re getting ready for the polls to close in Georgia now, and I’ll be back with updates on that and other numbers.

UPDATE 7:05 p.m. ET: MSNBC just projected Kentucky for Trump and Vermont for Harris, but claims that both Indiana and South Carolina are “too early to call.” LOL. However, Virginia — a state Joe Biden won by 10 points — is also “too early to call,” which could be interesting.

UPDATE 7:10 p.m. ET: OK, now MSNBC has called Indiana for Trump, and also projected Republican Jim Banks has won the Senate race in Indiana. Meanwhile, we’re starting to get results in Florida, which is not a battleground state, but which may give us an indication of whether Kamala Harris is underperforming Joe Biden. So far, with 18% reporting, it’s Trump 51.9% to Harris 47.2% — not much different from the Trump-Biden numbers four years ago. We’ll see.

UPDATE 7:25 p.m. ET: OK, I’m watching Steve Kornacki break down Georgia votes, with only 3% statewide reporting so far, but we’ve got a few GOP-leaning counties — including Gordon and Union — that are up around 80% reporting, and these seem to be on pace to hold strong for Trump. Honestly, we need Trump to get up around 52% in Georgia to feel comfortable with the other battlegrounds.

UPDATE 7:35 p.m. ET: Welcome, Instapundit readers! The polls have just closed in North Carolina, and meanwhile, MSNBC has just projected Donald Trump the winner in West Virginia (just in case anybody didn’t already know). And at this moment, with 9% of returns counted in Georgia, Trump leads 60% to 40% over Harris.

UPDATE 7:50 p.m. ET: It’s rather too early to draw any conclusions from the Florida vote — 71% counted, and polls still open in the western panhandle — but it doesn’t look bad for Trump there. To repeat, Florida is not a battleground, but we want to see if Trump does better against Harris than he did against Biden four years ago. In order to be confident that he can flip the battleground states, Trump needs to be exceeding his 2020 vote share everywhere. Right now, it’s Trump 54% to Harris 45% — a substantial improvement on the 51%-48% against Biden four years ago.

UPDATE 8:10 p.m. ET: Several states just got called by MSNBC, including Florida for Trump. Again, this was not a battleground, but Trump’s Margin of victory in Florida may be indicative of his nationwide strength compared to 2020. Right now, with 78% of the votes counted, it’s Trump 55%, Harris 44% — a substantial gain for Trump. Meanwhile, Steve Kornacki is going through Georgia county-by-county, and finding net gains of between 1 and 3 points for Trump. As I’ve said, we need to see Trump at 52% in Georgia to feel comfortable about North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Right now, with 36% reporting, he’s at 56%.

Hang on and keep praying, folks.



 

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