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How it started: US election: Joe Biden vows to ‘unify’ country in victory speech. —The BBC, November 8th, 2020. How it’s ending: Biden calls Trump supporters ‘garbage’ during Harris campaign call as VP calls for unity at Ellipse rally. —Joseph Wulfsohn, Fox News, today. https://instapundit.com/680923/

The Coming Storm October 29, 2024 We are on the precipice of a disaster. There are several reasons for my belief. The first is our voting system. Our system with the proliferation of mail-in balloting and lack of auditable controls seems purpose-designed to breed mistrust and corruption. Also while we talk about how voting now occurs before Election Day, we do not discuss the implications that in many jurisdictions it takes days if not weeks to count the ballots, which presents opportunities for mischief. The second is the level of rhetoric from the Left over the past week, call it the “Hitler Gambit.” There has been a lot of criticism from the Right regarding Jeffrey Goldberg’s article in The Atlantic “revealing” Trump’s affinity for Hitler. The critics says that the revelations are old and thinly sourced. The critics miss the point, which is that Goldberg’s article wasn’t so much meant to be an “October Surprise” as it was to give the Democrats the news hook they needed to launch their final argument that Trump is a fascist. The Goldberg article was merely the starter’s gun for that final argument. Keep in mind that the owner of The Atlantic is Kamala’s “first friend.” On the same day that Goldberg’s article dropped, as if it was a coincidence, we had both the White House confirming that Biden believes Trump is a fascist, and Kamala remarking that Trump was a fascist and, given that and his affinity for Hitler, could not ever be trusted to return to the White House. Just in case anyone missed the point, Kamala delivered her remarks not as a presidential candidate with an off-the-cuff comment, but in her official capacity with a prepared statement in front of the Vice President’s Residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory. {snip} The third is the Democrats’ declining belief in our Constitution. Take a step back and you see that every warning light is flashing red. Each of my three reasons has the potential to interact with the other ones synergistically. Not only will there be a delay in declaring a winner in those jurisdictions that will take many days to count ballots, but the vague and sloppy system of mail-in balloting almost guarantees lengthy court battles by one party or another. If you think things are testy now, wait until you get to a post-Election Day environment where all of that energy is focused on specific operational and legal issues stemming from the flawed system I described above. There’s been a lot of head scratching on the Right concerning what the Democrats are trying to accomplish with their “Hitler Talk.” In reality the Right is missing the point of the exercise: it isn’t to convince the undecided but rather to set the framework for the post-Election Day battle. While Republicans and the Right in general see an election as being composed of discrete phases of before and after, the Democrats and the Left see it as an integrated whole and their communications strategy now reflects that view. That’s not to say there aren’t immediate benefits for the Democrats with their “Hitler Talk.” It could strengthen their base and prevent defections. But the primary target is the post-election. Given the existing conditions of the undecided nature of the post-election environment, a narrowing of the stakes for victory and scope onto a select number of actions, and the apocalyptic rhetoric of the Democrats, you will have the potential for a catastrophe. If you can claim that you are trying to stop Hitler, then you have permission to let your freak flag fly, and there will be plenty of opportunities to do it. The third reason acts as the removal of a boundary for action. If the electoral system provides the terrain, the Hitler talk provides the motive. Then, the third reason — the decline of belief among Democrats in the Constitution — increases the scope of possible action by the Democrats. When I state this situation to friends, their primary objection to it is that it is too fantastic; what course of action would the Democrats actually take that would amount to more of a Jamie Raskin-led hissy fit? I find this objection to be a weak reed, and state that the experience of the past 40 years — from the sudden collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, to the various color revolutions — has shown that my friends’ sentiments lack a certain degree of imagination given underlying realities. Post-election uncertainty, propaganda of the threat of a dark fascist night by an illegitimate insurrectionist and convicted felon, and the lack of belief in the Constitution. You have the predicate for action. Nothing is certain. This particular result could be avoided. The Democrats may simply be bluffing playing the “Trump overturning democracy card.” The Democrats may collapse over the next week. The post-election environment, while uncertain, may tilt too strongly in Trump’s favor with, say, wins in places like Virginia and New Hampshire. Accordingly the Democrats may not be able to pull off a 2024-version of “Game 3.” We’ll get some rioting, a bunch of Jamie Raskin-led no votes on Jan. 6, but in general the lines will hold. However that seems to be more than a wish and prayer. Sometimes you’ve just got to take what people are telling you as the gospel truth. https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/72176.html

So THIS is your excuse for blaming "right-wing" extremists. You COULD have waited until you knew. Funny how THAT works. .

Of course Roundy was wrong, we'd expect nothing less from him. ‘Free Gaza’ message linked to ballot box attacks in Washington and Oregon: source Ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington may have been set on fire by an anti-Israel protester, as investigators found a note that said “ALL DROP BOXES WILL BURN. FREE GAZA,” The Post has learned. Between 3 and 4 a.m. on Monday, fires caused by incendiary devices were discovered in ballot boxes in Vancouver, Wash. and neighboring Portland, Oregon. A built-in fire suppressant stopped most of the flames at the Portland location, but hundreds of ballots were destroyed at the drop box at Fisher’s Landing Transit Center in Vancouver. But according to an election official with knowledge but not authorized to speak on record, a political letter was discovered in a ballot box at the Vancouver Mall Parking lot location just a few hours after the fires were put out. According to the source, a white piece of paper folded in half had been deposited in the box. It is not confirmed if the message came from the suspect involved in the arson fires, but the New York Times reports that all three incendiary devices themselves had the message “Free Gaza” written on them https://nypost.com/2024/10/29/us-news/free-gaza-message-linked-to-ballot-box-attacks-in-washington-and-oregon-source/ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/us/ballot-box-fires-oregon-washington-gaza.html

‘Zero change’ among Pennsylvania Hispanics over Puerto Rico ‘joke’ ByPaul Bedard A flippant “joke” about Puerto Rico told by a crude comedian at former President Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally has not changed any votes in the battleground of Pennsylvania despite hours of anti-Trump media and Harris campaign attacks. Pollster Brent Buchanan said that his outfit’s polling of Pennsylvania since the Sunday event showed no change in the Hispanic vote. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3207870/zero-change-pennsylvania-hispanics-puerto-rico-joke/ .

GARBAGE. .

Profiles in Courage. A GOOD politician would have just disavowed it and moved on. . . . . . . . . but not Kamala. .

CNN yesterday? No, Joe didn’t call all Trump supporters “Garbage!” How dare you think that he did!

What a great pick.

Except that they play the NY Giants on Nov. 3rd.

NY Times Proves That It Really Is ‘Pravda on the Hudson.’ “The Democrats have spent the last ten days or so shrieking about Donald Trump’s trip to a McDonald’s and one line uttered by a comedian at a rally that went on for hours. This is one of the most important elections in the history of the Republic and their closing argument is a temper tantrum.” https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2024/10/30/the-morning-briefing-ny-times-proves-that-it-really-is-pravda-on-the-hudson-n4933767

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Nearly all looters nabbed in Pinellas County, FL, after recent hurricanes were in US illegally. According to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office at a press conference Thursday, 41 of the 45 alleged looters out of more than 100 people rounded up on a variety of other charges, including armed robbery, burglary, loitering, grant theft, vandalism and trespassing charges following the two deadly storms are in the U.S. illegally, Fox News said in a report. Another 58 people have been scamming hurricane victims out of about $250 million for repairs that never got done, and were likely never intended to be done. Sheriff Bob Gualtieri’s office added that another 196 people were caught under suspicious circumstances, questioned by deputies but then released for lack of probable cause. Of those people, 163 were found to be in the U.S. illegally. https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/nearly-all-looters-nabbed-pinellas-county-fl-after-recent-hurricanes-were-us-illegally I had been assured by all the best people that illegal aliens were less likely to break the law than citizens — after discounting illegal entry, of course.

Oh we are "leaning into" the democrat president's comment. Rest assured. .

Back to the thread. Biden and WH Desperately Try - and Fail - to Clarify His Comments Calling Trump Supporters Garbage by Nick Arama Joe Biden might just have formally ended Kamala Harris' campaign on Tuesday night. The Democrats were trying to go all in attacking the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden, demonizing it as a "Nazi rally" and criticizing what a comedian said there about Puerto Rico. But then Biden blew all that away in his criticism by calling Trump supporters "garbage," as we reported earlier. Politico then tried to spin what he actually said but was caught because video was released showing what he actually said. https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/10/29/biden-desperately-tries-to-issue-clarification-for-calling-trump-supporters-garbage-it-does-not-go-well-n2181271#google_vignette

Biden calls Trump supporters 'garbage' in shock moment evoking Hillary Clinton's 'deplorables' insult by Wills Robinson President Joe Biden overshadowed his vice president Kamala Harris' big 'closing' campaign speech by calling Donald Trump's supporters 'garbage' in an astonishing outburst. The 81-year-old commander-in-chief's bombshell gaffe evoked memories of Hillary Clinton's infamous dismissal of Trump voters as 'deplorables' in 2016, which contributed to her shock loss. However, Biden, on a separate Zoom call with supporters, stepped on her moment by appearing to lash out at Trump supporters in what Republicans lambasted as a 'disgusting' attack. The president was weighing in after a comedian at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday compared Puerto Rico to a 'floating island of garbage'. Biden said: 'The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14017665/Biden-calls-Trump-supporters-garbage.html

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It's called enthusiasm. .