Election Day Shrapnel

Political thoughts from a guy you didn’t ask to share them with you

1. Current GOP political alignment:

   Trump: Sonny

   DeSantis: Michael

   NeverTrumpers: Fredo

   The Bulwark, The Dispatch, the Lincoln Project: It was Barzini all along.

   Fight me.

2. Voting for John Fetterman after hearing him “debate” — or after Biden warned over the weekend he’ll be shutting down both the coal and petroleum industries, which account for nearly 80% of US energy use and would cost Pennsylvanians untold numbers of jobs — is an unmistakable sign that you care more about projecting leftist virtue than you do the health, safety, and solvency of your fellow Pennsylvanians. Also, you’re voting for a functional retard. So there’s that.

3. Kari Lake was the candidate Democrats backed in the AZ Gubernatorial R primary because they considered her “too extreme” and so easy to beat. I think that strategy comes back to bite them in a number of races across the US tonight, but with Lake, Dem strategists are soon going to come to realize just how badly they fucked up.

4. Kathy Hochul is a horrific candidate. Nearly as unlikable as Bill DeBlasio. But too many urban New Yorkers would rather live in filth and be pushed in front of trains than admit that their lifestyle liberalism is a disaster that they’ve long pretended was a stepping stone toward Utopia. So they’ll convince themselves Lee Zeldin is practically Hitler. Then, when things go even more to shit, those same lifestyle liberals will like locusts relocate to Florida, and the leftist Hipsters will view being bumrushed by a vagrant or raped by a meth addict the best leftist street cred ever! And powerless New Yorkers who can’t escape one-party rule will suffer.

5. Tudor Dixon may not beat the Lockdown Lady. But she really, really should.

6. Why would anyone in Ohio vote for Tim Ryan? That’s not a rhetorical question, either. I honestly can’t understand his appeal on any level.

7. Nancy Pelosi is a horrrible House Speaker from the perspective of most Republicans. Kevin McCarthy will be a horrible House Speaker from the perspective of most conservatives AND most liberals. That’s the DC ruling elite in a nutshell.

8. If voting isn’t “fortified,” the GOP should take control of both houses. But our elections are fortified. So if Senate control comes down to a single Senate seat, there’s literally nothing leftists won’t do to keep that last seat.

   Nothing.

9. Will Arizonans finally realize that being an astronaut doesn’t mean you must be “moderate”? Because the only thing moderate about Mark Kelly is his hair growth.

10. If Laxalt wins in Nevada, a political realignment has officially taken hold, with Hispanics and the working class moving toward the GOP. That momentum won’t waver and will carry forward into 2024 and beyond. Also? Stacey Abrams losing her re-election bid — remember, she’s Georgia’s rightful current governor, per Abrams herself and Karine Jean-Pierre, among others — means that Blacks are easily duped and lack the sophistication to vote without being explicitly directed by Democrats how to think and what to believe. That’s not me talking. That’s Abrams, who this weekend bemoaned the ignorance of black men, as only ignorance can explain their having stepped off the plantation. I mean, how dare they? So uppity!

Have any predictions? Let me know in the comments. In a fair world, the GOP would have 53 Senate votes after these midterms minimum. They’d also pick up a minimum of 37 House seats

But when the White House is making a point to normalize vote counting that takes days or weeks beyond Election Day, you have every right to think that those who have decided what opinions you can have will similarly have no compunction about deciding what representation you are saddled with. For the Greater Good. And DEMOCRACY!

But what do I know? I’m just a humble insurrectionist with a tiny voice trying to make a go at freedom.

A sucker, in other words. And so it goes.

Update: They found a way. We live in a a farce.