Indeed He is. We do not deserve His blessings, never have.
But He does hear our prayers, and my gut tells me that many, many prayers and cries of anguish and fear have gone to Him these past many months and years.
Actually, Baal sits on that kind of throne. You'll see the King sitting on the right hand of the Father at some point. You might want to think about getting ready now. :-)
And his name was Yeshua, not Jesus. That won’t bother any indoctrinated sheep, but it’s just the tip of the lie-berg you’ve accepted as truth, practicing Christ-inanity.
The Master teacher (not “king” or “savior”) Yeshua Ben Yosef came—as many others did—to illuminate the darkness, nothing more. We are all offspring of Creator God, and unless he’s a true psychopath (as your Holy Users Manual indicates) rather than an unconditionally loving papa, he obviously won’t inflict eternal torment on his children for not playing along with his silly, perverse chess game wherein he & Lucifer compete for pawns over beer.
What sheer, cosmological idiocy!
Faith is another word for SOMEONE TOLD ME AND I DECIDED ITS TRUE.
I see someone has told you something, and you decided it was true. We all have faith; it’s just a difference of focus. Don’t let your strawman arguments distract you from the reality that you do have a Creator. A Creator who did grant us a reprieve last night, for which we should be most thankful.
At the end of September, ABC News reported that "Florida is in Play." This did not age well, with R voters outpacing Ds by over one million in FL as I write this. This is not one patch on a quilt; it is the pattern itself. Election reporting has been just as fraudulent as what we were told during COVID. Let's hope this is the final degradation of any credibilty left for the MSM.
Thanks to half the country moving here to get away from the crazy in their home state, after covid, Florida is more conservative than it has ever been in the entire history of Florida. We are looking at majority-republican turnout in effing PALM BEACH and Miami right now. For non-Floridians, Miami and Palm Beach used to be the corrupt Democrat machine-owned urbs that'd lie cheat and steal so hard it screwed up the vote for the entire rest of the state in multiple elections. DeSantis DoJ did some prosecutions for fraud down there, cleaned out the rats' nests, and that seems to be functioning above-board now. It is not outside the realm of possibility that the *only* blue counties end up being Gadsden (Tallahassee), Alachua (bonkers college town), and the two counties that are the Orlando metro area. That'd be some kind of historic. Population-wise, they don't outnumber the rest of us, and for the conservative population here, this election as far from ambivalent as it is possible to get. In my parents' very conservative county, more than half the registered voters had already turned in their ballots before election day. Not gonna wait and risk a power outage or something.
I moved from Boston to Florida in early 2021 and have been curious to see voter registrations for new Florida residents in the last four years. Were they conservatives who, like me, fled communism and came to Miami? Or were they liberals who wanted to resume normal life but without acknowledging that what they were running away from was their own stupid politics? Don't come here and register to burn down Florida too! Based on your note, blessedly, it sounds like it was door #1.
You have no idea how bad it is there. My husband and I moved to a south eastern state about 2 years ago. All my family is there. It makes me so sad that I know I'll never move back.
Very true. I visited Boston last fall and it was lively again with a new bakery in Back Bay and people enjoying the city, unfettered by masks and vaccine signage. But I would never move back. I learned a lot about people from how they responded to crisis—with blind obedience to government and hostility to fellow citizens. It’s hard to believe the city was once the cradle of the American Revolution.
Agree with Yarrow - as a die-hard libertarian and now Trump voter, living in Alachua County isn’t easy. We are the “blueberry in the middle of the bowl of chili” that Rick Perry used to use to describe Austin. Doing my part to create change from within the belly of the beast.
I did live there in college. The town had its charms. Politics was never one of them.
But someday, make sure you stay up all night on a full moon, and go out to the overlook on Payne's Prarie, where you can see the moon set on one horizon and then watch the sun rise on the other. It's magic.
Love that place! There are some great outdoor escapes close-by in this town, for sure. San Felasco live oak hammock, the springs, kayaking on the Santa Fe or the Suwannee Rivers, Kanapaha Botanical Gardens… As you said, it definitely has its charms.
...and tubing down the Ichetucknee, and doing all the stairs at Devil's Millhopper, and stumbling across the wild horses on the Prarie. If you ignore the people, it's an amazing place ;)
Dang. You're right. Gadsden is their commuter suburbs. I just saw the patch of blue there on the maps this morning, and thought... that's gotta be Tally.
Reckon Leon will go red? That'd be pretty shocking.
Leon County is deepest blue, between the colleges and lobbyists and bureaucrats. It’s the only place I saw Charlie Crist signs in the last gubernatorial election.
I looked at a map, I can’t figure out why Gadsden County is blue. Unless it’s full of old school yellow dog democrats. My husband was one until Clintons second term and even he couldn’t stomach that.
https://joeisdone.github.io/florida/ - I have been following this website which keeps updating every 5 minutes on the race in Florida. So far, as of this writing, the Republicans (election day only) total percentage lead is 18.57%. This is significant even in a deep red state. That means that so far, the democrats are not catching up with the early voting totals by the republicans. It might be too early to tell since we have 4 hours to go but this percentage lead is good news.
Dana Perino made a comment in the last couple of days that Republicans are 1/16th as likely as Democrats to answer a polling call. I have no illusion that Republican strength is 16 times that of Democrats (if only it were so…), but it does portend a very strong showing.
Half of voters seem unable to distinguish between a (hypothetical) candidate genuinely focused on improving citizens’ lives using public money and an utterly vapid empty suit whose (literally) only plank in her platform is that “I’m not that other guy.”
If God is merciful, the word “half” above will turn out to be a gross overstatement.
They are running cover for the election steal they will attempt today. When Florida improbably votes blue, ABC News can point to this early prediction. See, we told you so!
Even a few days ago, I would NEVER had guessed that we would know the result this soon. Looks like we'll have it called tonight. Amazing. In the end he'll have a solid electoral victory and the popular vote.
Mr Patriot - hoping/seeming like you're experienced w these, what states' results or other early signals should we be paying close attention to as the polls close; are there key barometer states or surveys that show a likely outcome? give us some pro tips!
Only a handful of states are reporting vote receipts by party affiliation before the polls close. We can guess that the Rs are going for Trump, etc., so it's a good indicator. High Election Day turnout favors Rs by definition, so the long lines you see are a positive sign. We also shouldn't forget that a portion of registered Ds are going Trump thanks to RFK/Tulsi. Don't expect to see any R shrinkage from the party vote counts to the actual votes cast. In PA, Fox is reportring that Harris needs 700K votes (total) from Philly in order to win PA. This may be impossible: Biden got 600K in 2020 and Clinton just over 500K in 2016. Watch for NM to flip red, blowouts in NV and AZ, and some surprises (maybe MN and NH going Trump). I have not seen one piece of news that favors Ds anywhere. This should be a landslide if the poll watchers catch all the fuckery.
you may have seen the fear spread by the team promoting their software about catching improper voter registrations, they have claimed poll watchers aren't sufficient to catch the fraud 'cause is too late; that the work needed to happen much sooner to remove the registered voters that are improper/illegal -- I did poll watching a few times over past few weeks here in Ga and would agree, at the point of actual voters coming in, would be hard to impossible to catch the improper voter at that stage -- plus would only be by 1's and 2's, not massive numbers of votes; long way to ask, any take on whether the states were effective in cutting out the bad registrations?
Tough to tell. I know the Rs have trained up something like 500K precinct officials, etc., and all eyes are now on the tricks that worked last time. I think the turnout differential can't be overcome this time. The Ds are in a catch-22: they have been told that anyone cheating will be prosecuted and jailed if they do, but the Ds will be prosecuted and jailed for their crimes if they don't cheat. I think it's down to a landslide overpowering things. Should be a fun evening!
I love love love Trump. This is the only time I’ve had the opportunity to vote for the same candidate for president 3 times.
I asked my sister in Portland, OR if she wanted to hear a funny Trump joke.
She replied, “No, I’m sick of Trump and his people and all the people who joke about him. I don’t think anything about him is funny.” She’s has TDS for 9 years.
Trump is hilarious and has a fantastic sense of humor. He is definitely a stable genius.
The joke was: If Trump get sent to prison after he is elected, can he pardon everyone in the prison and have the place to himself?
Or, can he get community service and drive a garbage truck?
I knew Trump was going to win. He had the Trump Invitational and seriously smart people started signing on and campaigning hard for him. RFK Jr, Elon, Tucker, Tulsi, Joe Rogan, there’s a long, long list.
Trump is a funny guy. Once he really started having fun people said oh fuck it and jumped on the ‘ole garbage truck with him.
The contrast between Kamala yelling about how unhinged he was and the reality of his cheerful clowning around was stark.
I can’t agree with this more. I love politics, Election Day used to be my Super Bowl, but with all the media and polling nonsense going on I’m going to read a book if I have any free time.
Over here, WEF-and-friends affiliated establishment politicians such as former PM Carl Bildt (who was referred to as "the Chickenhawk" by US diplomatic personnel in the Wikileaks material) has already come out to show he knows who his feeders are, by warning that Russia will sweep all over Scandinavia and Europe all the way to the Atlantic if Trump wins.
That's about as credible as if Gavin Newsom would warn you that the Indian Navy was about to assault Detroit.
Oftentimes, the bankers and politicians are the same people or at least of the same clan. Former PM Reinfeldt went on to a sinecure at Merril-Lynch after his second term, f.e.
Yep. I know that feeling. Aforementioned Bildt was basically the candidate and PM of the bankers and the export industry, among which SAAB, Bofors and such features prominently.
Anyone that's pro-war needs to be volunteered as Sturmsoldat, is my opinion.
We're so exceptional that all our 800 foreign bases, that we borrow money to pay for, are just a humanitarian effort to keep everyone safe, free, and prosperous.
Someone thought it was good idea. I certainly do not. It works for us heritage Americans to an extent but this is definitely a case of the cost outweighs the benefits.
Hah! That's pretty much the reverse from here - some people thought it a swell idea to ape USA, even and especially on issues that we do not share or are eq. in/on, whereas most people - like me - wouldn't agree it's that great an idea at all.
Inspiration, maybe, but one must then make the idea one's own - not just ape it.
But it's weird, isn't it, that on your end you can pretty much buy guns and ammo almost as easy as you buy a car, whereas for me it's the bureaucratic Bolshoi-balet to get a license even for a .22 for plinking. On the other hand, if I want a squirrel or a badger or a fox as a pet, it's on me as long as I treat it right and no-one can say I may not.
To say nothing about petrol cans. Had a back-and-forth the other day over at Postcard from Barsoom, and learned that thanks to some stupid Safety-Karen US petrol cans now have a design requiring three hands to use. Whereas I can actually buy petrol in a bucket, technically speaking.
Weird, weird, as a certain Hollywood starlet would say.
It's also pretty much a mirror effect: Americans love to talk about how "Europeans" are, as if a sámi and an albanian gypsy are the same, and we love to talk about "America" as if you're a homogenous whole too.
At that, I'll have to say goodnight, it's after ten PM here.
[Edit: Sum it up for me, if it's not too much of a bother, please. Too quick on the keys sometimes, am I.]
I, being Swedish and well over age 50 know full well who Carl Bildt is, what he did as PM and what he has done since then, since I was an adult when he was elected for office. His credibility is pretty close to zero, and he is considered one of our worst PMs ever - even by his own party - surpassed only by Fredrik Reinfeldt, also a former PM of the same party as Bildt.
Let me tell you this instead: Russia lacks both the ships and the air forces and the manpower to get across the Baltic in force. And our defense is set up - and has been for longer than the USA has existed - to stop a Russian invasion. The combined militaries of the Baltic Nine outstrips Russia's - before Russia's invasion of Ukraine. If you are interested in deep takes on this by professionals, you can poke about here, there are articles on Russia but I don't have any titles to make a search easier, I'm afraid:
If you compare the maps of the front in Eastern Ukraine today with those of two years ago, you'll see that the only significant breakout is towards Pokrovsk - about 25 km from the starting point. Otherwise it's shifting +/- 10 km of the original line. Summing up, except near Pokrovsk, it's a static line - and it has cost Putin crazy amounts of men, materiel, and money.
Yes, the initial plan was very much a repeat of the Winter War in that Russia expected the enemy to fold rapidly and sue for peace, not having counted on their own logistical troubles and the support lavished onto Zelensky's regime from abroad.
However, the last ca 18 months has very much been Russia using its perennial fall-back option: the slow grind and the sledge-hammer, wearing down the opponent simply by being able and willing to accept losses most other nations balk at even considering. Whereas Ukraine is running out of men (which also is a repeat of the Winter War, when Finland lost over 300 000 out of a population of barely 4 000 000, while the USSR suffered between 20 to 25 casualties per finns).
Russia is betting heavily on that the West, no matter the incumbent in the White House, is not willing to mobilise and send hundreds of thousands of its own soldiers into direct open conflict with Russia. That, and that the capitalist's dismantling of industry in Europe, combined with the Green/Red feminist politicians doing the same with energy production means we lack the ability to form a credible offensive threat, defense always being the cheaper and easier option.
I think the Soviets’ history with the Finns would give Putin considerable pause, particularly since he’s contributed almost all of his front line tanks to the Ukrainian recycling industry.
On one hand, the Finns of today have been weakened by liberal-progressive globalist policies, just as all others.
On the other hand, the Russian military is just as corrupt as ever.
And on the third, the Baltic Nine states have practiced and held maneuvers together for some 20 years now, just in case of Russian aggression (back in the day there were real fears that Zhirinovsky, not Putin, would be the successor to Jeltsin).
For a real good take on the Winter War, I think Trotter's "A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War 1939-1940" is the go-to text.
In The Fourth Turning Is Here, Howe explains how local community starts to become resurgent after a period of more nationalist focus before the Fourth Turning catalyst happens. I've certainly seen that in my own small community, esp in the past 2 years, and with my mid-20 to mid-30 year old kids and their lives. I think it's a step in the right direction!
Trump wins, and we all win! Now the hard work begins. Pray for wisdom & courage for Trump & his administration. The left coast is a mess, keep fighting for sanity & for our kids.
Just want to say, thanks Chris, for creating this space. It’s been a sane, thought provoking, honest place for me to come over the past couple years. Whatever happens in the election, we fight on for open debate, integrity, family, and against the bureaucratic tyranny that is daily enslaving us.
Trying to stay off my phone. I posted some old family china for free on Nextdoor (service for 8, 1940’s era Lenox) and was pleased to meet a newly moved to San Diego, lovely woman from Russia/Ukraine (from back when it was all the Soviet Union), who was delighted to have it. Made my day. And she loved my Trump sign.
This stack is the eye in the middle of the hurricane. A few days ago, I visited another stack that was on my “reading list” and the Dems commenting on there were absolutely rabid. Discussion/debate was impossible. It was the antithesis of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s famous adage: (revamped version) Everyone is entitled to his own facts, but not his own opinion.
I'm not "cautiously optimistic" about anything. He will win. The dude was out speaking until 2AM in a packed venue. He is 78 years old and didn't look "in no ways tired." The cackling moron husk who slept and faked her way to the top will go away. Americans know what's up, and if they couldn't and didn't figure it out in the last 4 years they have Kamala's barely functional brain cells. If you haven't voted, go now. Right now.
I thought you were going to add the " but joy comes in the morning" from the talk at the church the other week. Of course the Bible quote was out of context but it didn't stop her from using it.
Good to see that they have already drug out the Russia is interfering psyop. So imaginative.
Last election that didn’t come in until late. This time it was on display well before noon.
Last election it was just cyber issues. So boring.
This time, bomb threats. So exciting.
I mean, the FBI still hasn’t solved Vegas. Or OKC. Or Pulse. To name but three. But they already know it was Russia making bomb threats before they had even cleared the polling locations.
It’s not possible to really follow what is actually occurring. But anecdotally, it sure seems to me like there are many more voting ‘issues’ being rolled out much earlier than in 2020.
God is on His throne no matter what, but I pray we get a reprieve from the outright evil and get Trump/Vance/RFK.
“God is on His Throne.”
There’s no more powerful message in the universe.
Unfortunately, He is unhappy with His children.
Indeed He is. We do not deserve His blessings, never have.
But He does hear our prayers, and my gut tells me that many, many prayers and cries of anguish and fear have gone to Him these past many months and years.
Time will tell if they were enough.
Amen, and amen! 🙏✝️🙏✝️🙏✝️
In that vein: https://simplechristianity.substack.com/p/whoever-wins-jesus-is-still-king
I gave that to my civics students (some of whose parents are at risk of turning politics into a religion) this morning.
She doth indeed speak truth.
Preach it sister.
God's on the throne? That's way TMI.
The question is, will he flush, when He's done.
Your deity uses the toilet?
Actually, Baal sits on that kind of throne. You'll see the King sitting on the right hand of the Father at some point. You might want to think about getting ready now. :-)
Sounds like a threat.
Color me fearless, Monsieur Devotee.
And his name was Yeshua, not Jesus. That won’t bother any indoctrinated sheep, but it’s just the tip of the lie-berg you’ve accepted as truth, practicing Christ-inanity.
The Master teacher (not “king” or “savior”) Yeshua Ben Yosef came—as many others did—to illuminate the darkness, nothing more. We are all offspring of Creator God, and unless he’s a true psychopath (as your Holy Users Manual indicates) rather than an unconditionally loving papa, he obviously won’t inflict eternal torment on his children for not playing along with his silly, perverse chess game wherein he & Lucifer compete for pawns over beer.
What sheer, cosmological idiocy!
Faith is another word for SOMEONE TOLD ME AND I DECIDED ITS TRUE.
And Christ was NOT a Christian mon ami.
I see someone has told you something, and you decided it was true. We all have faith; it’s just a difference of focus. Don’t let your strawman arguments distract you from the reality that you do have a Creator. A Creator who did grant us a reprieve last night, for which we should be most thankful.
At the end of September, ABC News reported that "Florida is in Play." This did not age well, with R voters outpacing Ds by over one million in FL as I write this. This is not one patch on a quilt; it is the pattern itself. Election reporting has been just as fraudulent as what we were told during COVID. Let's hope this is the final degradation of any credibilty left for the MSM.
Source: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/after-long-touting-states-competitiveness-democrats-put-money/story?id=114256902
Hahaaaahaha.
Seriously. No.
Thanks to half the country moving here to get away from the crazy in their home state, after covid, Florida is more conservative than it has ever been in the entire history of Florida. We are looking at majority-republican turnout in effing PALM BEACH and Miami right now. For non-Floridians, Miami and Palm Beach used to be the corrupt Democrat machine-owned urbs that'd lie cheat and steal so hard it screwed up the vote for the entire rest of the state in multiple elections. DeSantis DoJ did some prosecutions for fraud down there, cleaned out the rats' nests, and that seems to be functioning above-board now. It is not outside the realm of possibility that the *only* blue counties end up being Gadsden (Tallahassee), Alachua (bonkers college town), and the two counties that are the Orlando metro area. That'd be some kind of historic. Population-wise, they don't outnumber the rest of us, and for the conservative population here, this election as far from ambivalent as it is possible to get. In my parents' very conservative county, more than half the registered voters had already turned in their ballots before election day. Not gonna wait and risk a power outage or something.
I moved from Boston to Florida in early 2021 and have been curious to see voter registrations for new Florida residents in the last four years. Were they conservatives who, like me, fled communism and came to Miami? Or were they liberals who wanted to resume normal life but without acknowledging that what they were running away from was their own stupid politics? Don't come here and register to burn down Florida too! Based on your note, blessedly, it sounds like it was door #1.
Boston is SUCH A BEAUTIFUL CITY. What a thing it has been to destroy so much beauty with asinine ideology.
You have no idea how bad it is there. My husband and I moved to a south eastern state about 2 years ago. All my family is there. It makes me so sad that I know I'll never move back.
Very true. I visited Boston last fall and it was lively again with a new bakery in Back Bay and people enjoying the city, unfettered by masks and vaccine signage. But I would never move back. I learned a lot about people from how they responded to crisis—with blind obedience to government and hostility to fellow citizens. It’s hard to believe the city was once the cradle of the American Revolution.
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Anyway...coming up
It is. I moved in May of 20' to escape c19 totalitarianism.
In the 4 years since, it has absolutely changed. For example Tampa used to be solid purple, now it's red.
bring it
To be fair, I live in a very conservative part of the state, so that's just what it looks like from here. I'd bet all the liberals moved to Orlando...
Still. A ray of light.
Agree with Yarrow - as a die-hard libertarian and now Trump voter, living in Alachua County isn’t easy. We are the “blueberry in the middle of the bowl of chili” that Rick Perry used to use to describe Austin. Doing my part to create change from within the belly of the beast.
I did live there in college. The town had its charms. Politics was never one of them.
But someday, make sure you stay up all night on a full moon, and go out to the overlook on Payne's Prarie, where you can see the moon set on one horizon and then watch the sun rise on the other. It's magic.
Love that place! There are some great outdoor escapes close-by in this town, for sure. San Felasco live oak hammock, the springs, kayaking on the Santa Fe or the Suwannee Rivers, Kanapaha Botanical Gardens… As you said, it definitely has its charms.
...and tubing down the Ichetucknee, and doing all the stairs at Devil's Millhopper, and stumbling across the wild horses on the Prarie. If you ignore the people, it's an amazing place ;)
https://alachuachronicle.com/ is a conservative, independent, but fairly objectively reported news site for your county.
University towns are nearly all lost causes, but some may listen to reason and recover from the lost years of university.
troy, alabama looks enticing. bill rice just started a new substack there https://thetroycitizen.substack.com/
I'd go along with that. Large military presence and a generally conservative region.
Ha ha ha, I voted Thursday. We just had a power surge here in Sarasota County that knocked me off line for 30 min!
At least the poll booth didn't run out of ink, or paper, or some other third thing.
My polling station ran out of those cute privacy folders.
Oh noes! Someone might've seen how I voted!
Just kidding. I had my kid with me and he asked approximately 1,000 questions about the ballot, so probably everyone in the room knows how I voted.
What a beautiful thing! I was never one for the "never discuss politics or religion" meme.
Me neither! That’s where civil debate should occur. Should…🤪
(Tallahassee is Leon County.)
Dang. You're right. Gadsden is their commuter suburbs. I just saw the patch of blue there on the maps this morning, and thought... that's gotta be Tally.
Reckon Leon will go red? That'd be pretty shocking.
Here's the map:
https://x.com/GrageDustin/status/1853797161646821657
Granted, it's early hours, and Leon is one of the counties not reporting in yet. It'll go blue because it always does, like Alachua.
Leon County is deepest blue, between the colleges and lobbyists and bureaucrats. It’s the only place I saw Charlie Crist signs in the last gubernatorial election.
Crist... guy only a bureaucrat could like.
I liked Christ when he was governor. Not sure when his train went off the rails.
I looked at a map, I can’t figure out why Gadsden County is blue. Unless it’s full of old school yellow dog democrats. My husband was one until Clintons second term and even he couldn’t stomach that.
Or a “software glitch,” or a traffic accident that destroyed the memory chips…
Vote totals (Election Day only)
1,540,892
See @DataRepublican pinned post on explanation
Advantage: Trump by 18.73%
Advantage is calculated against 2016 vote totals
Details
16.36% of 2016 total turnout
16.11% of 2016 early turnout
D-R gap (raw): -298487
https://joeisdone.github.io/florida/
Results update every 5 minutes.
GOP is performing today.
Great minds...
Mr Tanto!!! thanks for link to joeisdone - got any others for the other swing states? advice for links/sites to watch
Go to Turning Point USA website or Charlie Kirk’s twitter feed.
thank you!
Charlie Kirk is on rumble live feed
I've settled on real americas voice w Steve Gannon they are doing a strong job
That's the funniest thing I've read all day.
ABC: "Florida Is In Play. We are so back!"
Also ABC: "It was a misread, shut up shut up shut up"
https://joeisdone.github.io/florida/ - I have been following this website which keeps updating every 5 minutes on the race in Florida. So far, as of this writing, the Republicans (election day only) total percentage lead is 18.57%. This is significant even in a deep red state. That means that so far, the democrats are not catching up with the early voting totals by the republicans. It might be too early to tell since we have 4 hours to go but this percentage lead is good news.
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1854015622335594953
Of concern? Late night shenanigans?
Definitely of concern.
Dana Perino made a comment in the last couple of days that Republicans are 1/16th as likely as Democrats to answer a polling call. I have no illusion that Republican strength is 16 times that of Democrats (if only it were so…), but it does portend a very strong showing.
Half of voters seem unable to distinguish between a (hypothetical) candidate genuinely focused on improving citizens’ lives using public money and an utterly vapid empty suit whose (literally) only plank in her platform is that “I’m not that other guy.”
If God is merciful, the word “half” above will turn out to be a gross overstatement.
They are running cover for the election steal they will attempt today. When Florida improbably votes blue, ABC News can point to this early prediction. See, we told you so!
Bingo
Just called PA first Trump. He’s gonna do it…awesome! 👊🏻🇺🇸MAGA
YES! Looks like he'll sweep all 7 battleground states!
Trump is doing it. NY Times now 87% chance for winning ejection and also to win popular vote.
Even a few days ago, I would NEVER had guessed that we would know the result this soon. Looks like we'll have it called tonight. Amazing. In the end he'll have a solid electoral victory and the popular vote.
Well let’s see. It’s not over till the fat lady with blue hair and a septal piercing screams in despair:
But is the fat lady with blue hair and a septal piercing ever not screaming in despair?
Chris, let a man dream.
Trumps numbers match up well with numbers earlier today.
I’m going to require the occasional adult beverage this evening.
Mr Patriot - hoping/seeming like you're experienced w these, what states' results or other early signals should we be paying close attention to as the polls close; are there key barometer states or surveys that show a likely outcome? give us some pro tips!
Only a handful of states are reporting vote receipts by party affiliation before the polls close. We can guess that the Rs are going for Trump, etc., so it's a good indicator. High Election Day turnout favors Rs by definition, so the long lines you see are a positive sign. We also shouldn't forget that a portion of registered Ds are going Trump thanks to RFK/Tulsi. Don't expect to see any R shrinkage from the party vote counts to the actual votes cast. In PA, Fox is reportring that Harris needs 700K votes (total) from Philly in order to win PA. This may be impossible: Biden got 600K in 2020 and Clinton just over 500K in 2016. Watch for NM to flip red, blowouts in NV and AZ, and some surprises (maybe MN and NH going Trump). I have not seen one piece of news that favors Ds anywhere. This should be a landslide if the poll watchers catch all the fuckery.
you may have seen the fear spread by the team promoting their software about catching improper voter registrations, they have claimed poll watchers aren't sufficient to catch the fraud 'cause is too late; that the work needed to happen much sooner to remove the registered voters that are improper/illegal -- I did poll watching a few times over past few weeks here in Ga and would agree, at the point of actual voters coming in, would be hard to impossible to catch the improper voter at that stage -- plus would only be by 1's and 2's, not massive numbers of votes; long way to ask, any take on whether the states were effective in cutting out the bad registrations?
Tough to tell. I know the Rs have trained up something like 500K precinct officials, etc., and all eyes are now on the tricks that worked last time. I think the turnout differential can't be overcome this time. The Ds are in a catch-22: they have been told that anyone cheating will be prosecuted and jailed if they do, but the Ds will be prosecuted and jailed for their crimes if they don't cheat. I think it's down to a landslide overpowering things. Should be a fun evening!
are you in Gibraltar?
Currently in Northern Michigan, but business is based in Gib (Europe)
"Welcome to Chappaqua, Ms. Harris, what kind of house were you looking for?"
I love love love Trump. This is the only time I’ve had the opportunity to vote for the same candidate for president 3 times.
I asked my sister in Portland, OR if she wanted to hear a funny Trump joke.
She replied, “No, I’m sick of Trump and his people and all the people who joke about him. I don’t think anything about him is funny.” She’s has TDS for 9 years.
Trump is hilarious and has a fantastic sense of humor. He is definitely a stable genius.
The joke was: If Trump get sent to prison after he is elected, can he pardon everyone in the prison and have the place to himself?
Or, can he get community service and drive a garbage truck?
Did you see the interview with the garbage truck driver?
I saw Trump drive the truck, priceless. Was there another garbage man interview?
He said that Trump got in the truck and said, "Can we stop by McDonald's? I used to work there."
That’s hilarious.
Yeah, they talked to the guy who drove the truck Trump was riding in. He said PDT was a funny guy. Just a man talking to a man. He was impressed.
I knew Trump was going to win. He had the Trump Invitational and seriously smart people started signing on and campaigning hard for him. RFK Jr, Elon, Tucker, Tulsi, Joe Rogan, there’s a long, long list.
Trump is a funny guy. Once he really started having fun people said oh fuck it and jumped on the ‘ole garbage truck with him.
The contrast between Kamala yelling about how unhinged he was and the reality of his cheerful clowning around was stark.
If Trump was lucky enough to get sent to the J6 DC gulag he could pardon everyone there and organize a prison riot. I’m sure they’d be up for it.
There is a recording of J6 prisoners singing the Star Spangled Banner with Trump interspersed saying the Pledge of Allegiance
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DvDd6H5t-sM
Free all Political Prisoners!
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Thank-you for the laughs!!!
Your sister is probably my neighbor. TDS here is *next level.*
Avoid news/propaganda. Make this a read a good book, watch a movie, go for a long walk day.
Also vote. Don’t forget to do that. And stay in line and make sure your vote counted.
I can’t agree with this more. I love politics, Election Day used to be my Super Bowl, but with all the media and polling nonsense going on I’m going to read a book if I have any free time.
Voted today (I'm in a village-no early voting). Will NOT watch or fret about it.
A rocking chair will not help your worries, but will keep you busy.
Over here, WEF-and-friends affiliated establishment politicians such as former PM Carl Bildt (who was referred to as "the Chickenhawk" by US diplomatic personnel in the Wikileaks material) has already come out to show he knows who his feeders are, by warning that Russia will sweep all over Scandinavia and Europe all the way to the Atlantic if Trump wins.
That's about as credible as if Gavin Newsom would warn you that the Indian Navy was about to assault Detroit.
Maybe he'd clear out the immigrants for you! Riding shirtless on a horse.
Your comments bring a smile to my face, Rikard. We both know the bankers are the only winners in all of the conflict.
Well, that's reassuring?
Oftentimes, the bankers and politicians are the same people or at least of the same clan. Former PM Reinfeldt went on to a sinecure at Merril-Lynch after his second term, f.e.
I find it amusing that someone who has never lived in the crazy US often has a poignant perspective on the crazy doings of us Americans.
That's the price you pay for projecting yourself everywhere, and thinking of yourself as different from all other nations, I'm afraid.
Hey, it’s not us? Citizens mind their own business but we are hostages of the military industrial complex. Hope this election can change our course.🤞
Yep. I know that feeling. Aforementioned Bildt was basically the candidate and PM of the bankers and the export industry, among which SAAB, Bofors and such features prominently.
Anyone that's pro-war needs to be volunteered as Sturmsoldat, is my opinion.
We're so exceptional that all our 800 foreign bases, that we borrow money to pay for, are just a humanitarian effort to keep everyone safe, free, and prosperous.
Someone thought it was good idea. I certainly do not. It works for us heritage Americans to an extent but this is definitely a case of the cost outweighs the benefits.
Hah! That's pretty much the reverse from here - some people thought it a swell idea to ape USA, even and especially on issues that we do not share or are eq. in/on, whereas most people - like me - wouldn't agree it's that great an idea at all.
Inspiration, maybe, but one must then make the idea one's own - not just ape it.
But it's weird, isn't it, that on your end you can pretty much buy guns and ammo almost as easy as you buy a car, whereas for me it's the bureaucratic Bolshoi-balet to get a license even for a .22 for plinking. On the other hand, if I want a squirrel or a badger or a fox as a pet, it's on me as long as I treat it right and no-one can say I may not.
To say nothing about petrol cans. Had a back-and-forth the other day over at Postcard from Barsoom, and learned that thanks to some stupid Safety-Karen US petrol cans now have a design requiring three hands to use. Whereas I can actually buy petrol in a bucket, technically speaking.
Weird, weird, as a certain Hollywood starlet would say.
It's also pretty much a mirror effect: Americans love to talk about how "Europeans" are, as if a sámi and an albanian gypsy are the same, and we love to talk about "America" as if you're a homogenous whole too.
At that, I'll have to say goodnight, it's after ten PM here.
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All you have to do is to look at a map to see how credible Bildt is - https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-november-4-2024
Sum it up for me.
[Edit: Sum it up for me, if it's not too much of a bother, please. Too quick on the keys sometimes, am I.]
I, being Swedish and well over age 50 know full well who Carl Bildt is, what he did as PM and what he has done since then, since I was an adult when he was elected for office. His credibility is pretty close to zero, and he is considered one of our worst PMs ever - even by his own party - surpassed only by Fredrik Reinfeldt, also a former PM of the same party as Bildt.
Let me tell you this instead: Russia lacks both the ships and the air forces and the manpower to get across the Baltic in force. And our defense is set up - and has been for longer than the USA has existed - to stop a Russian invasion. The combined militaries of the Baltic Nine outstrips Russia's - before Russia's invasion of Ukraine. If you are interested in deep takes on this by professionals, you can poke about here, there are articles on Russia but I don't have any titles to make a search easier, I'm afraid:
https://kkrva.se/en/
If you compare the maps of the front in Eastern Ukraine today with those of two years ago, you'll see that the only significant breakout is towards Pokrovsk - about 25 km from the starting point. Otherwise it's shifting +/- 10 km of the original line. Summing up, except near Pokrovsk, it's a static line - and it has cost Putin crazy amounts of men, materiel, and money.
Much obliged! Thank you.
Yes, the initial plan was very much a repeat of the Winter War in that Russia expected the enemy to fold rapidly and sue for peace, not having counted on their own logistical troubles and the support lavished onto Zelensky's regime from abroad.
However, the last ca 18 months has very much been Russia using its perennial fall-back option: the slow grind and the sledge-hammer, wearing down the opponent simply by being able and willing to accept losses most other nations balk at even considering. Whereas Ukraine is running out of men (which also is a repeat of the Winter War, when Finland lost over 300 000 out of a population of barely 4 000 000, while the USSR suffered between 20 to 25 casualties per finns).
Russia is betting heavily on that the West, no matter the incumbent in the White House, is not willing to mobilise and send hundreds of thousands of its own soldiers into direct open conflict with Russia. That, and that the capitalist's dismantling of industry in Europe, combined with the Green/Red feminist politicians doing the same with energy production means we lack the ability to form a credible offensive threat, defense always being the cheaper and easier option.
I think the Soviets’ history with the Finns would give Putin considerable pause, particularly since he’s contributed almost all of his front line tanks to the Ukrainian recycling industry.
On one hand, the Finns of today have been weakened by liberal-progressive globalist policies, just as all others.
On the other hand, the Russian military is just as corrupt as ever.
And on the third, the Baltic Nine states have practiced and held maneuvers together for some 20 years now, just in case of Russian aggression (back in the day there were real fears that Zhirinovsky, not Putin, would be the successor to Jeltsin).
For a real good take on the Winter War, I think Trotter's "A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War 1939-1940" is the go-to text.
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In the end, no matter who wins, we have to make our own circles of existence sane again.
If we want someone else to fix everything for us, then we have already submitted.
Make the world around you what you want it to be and work outward from there.
Well, then again, that’s why i don't travel often 🫠
Well said
Exactly FT. Individually we have to do what is right and that work is never done til we’re dead and gone.
In The Fourth Turning Is Here, Howe explains how local community starts to become resurgent after a period of more nationalist focus before the Fourth Turning catalyst happens. I've certainly seen that in my own small community, esp in the past 2 years, and with my mid-20 to mid-30 year old kids and their lives. I think it's a step in the right direction!
yes. it starts with each of us--pursuing beauty, truth and the good. everything else is error.
Trump wins, and we all win! Now the hard work begins. Pray for wisdom & courage for Trump & his administration. The left coast is a mess, keep fighting for sanity & for our kids.
This is our last chance to save the country from the communists. Vote!
We loved your comment on X about Putin commanding the first roundup of handmaids :)
I was in Twitter jail for about thirty minutes after that, but they let me out.
You’re like a MS-13 immigrant.
RU kidding me
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Don't bend over for soap in the jail shower. Just sayin...
Just want to say, thanks Chris, for creating this space. It’s been a sane, thought provoking, honest place for me to come over the past couple years. Whatever happens in the election, we fight on for open debate, integrity, family, and against the bureaucratic tyranny that is daily enslaving us.
Thanks! Glad so many interesting people are speaking here.
Trying to stay off my phone. I posted some old family china for free on Nextdoor (service for 8, 1940’s era Lenox) and was pleased to meet a newly moved to San Diego, lovely woman from Russia/Ukraine (from back when it was all the Soviet Union), who was delighted to have it. Made my day. And she loved my Trump sign.
Greetings from a fellow San Diegan!
Stay off social media on Election Day.
Although if you are on social media, it’s a good day to find out who the enemy is so you can unfriend them later
Is this considered social media? I’m avoiding bc I have to work but it’s not easy!
This stack is the eye in the middle of the hurricane. A few days ago, I visited another stack that was on my “reading list” and the Dems commenting on there were absolutely rabid. Discussion/debate was impossible. It was the antithesis of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s famous adage: (revamped version) Everyone is entitled to his own facts, but not his own opinion.
I had the same experience with the "reading list." I am guessing we got the same one.
been off all of it since 2015! crazy how much free time it released
Been off it since 1958.
Does Substack count 😳
Substack is antisocial media, so you're good
I should have said "Traditional" Social Media. Facebook and Instagram are brutal. Substack has been pretty good today.
Certain stacks are read by those with terminal TDS.
But that’s where all the funny memes are!
I'm not "cautiously optimistic" about anything. He will win. The dude was out speaking until 2AM in a packed venue. He is 78 years old and didn't look "in no ways tired." The cackling moron husk who slept and faked her way to the top will go away. Americans know what's up, and if they couldn't and didn't figure it out in the last 4 years they have Kamala's barely functional brain cells. If you haven't voted, go now. Right now.
Also I hear he was chatting with everyone and playing Elvis on his flight home to Florida! He wasn’t even tired!
Love the reference to "no ways tired."
I couldn't help myself. You could even say I Am Deplorable.
I thought you were going to add the " but joy comes in the morning" from the talk at the church the other week. Of course the Bible quote was out of context but it didn't stop her from using it.
Good to see that they have already drug out the Russia is interfering psyop. So imaginative.
Last election that didn’t come in until late. This time it was on display well before noon.
Last election it was just cyber issues. So boring.
This time, bomb threats. So exciting.
I mean, the FBI still hasn’t solved Vegas. Or OKC. Or Pulse. To name but three. But they already know it was Russia making bomb threats before they had even cleared the polling locations.
It’s not possible to really follow what is actually occurring. But anecdotally, it sure seems to me like there are many more voting ‘issues’ being rolled out much earlier than in 2020.
I’ve assumed all along they would steal it again.
At least the State of Michigan prosecuted an honest Chinese kid who turned himself in because he voted. There’s that.
Whee, straight GOP vote and pretty much "no" to the local stuff.
Today, I think Trump pulls off something that hasn’t been done in 84 years—wins his third presidential election in a row.