“No thank you, Delmar. A third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without beddin’ ‘er back down.” – O Brother, Where Art Thou?
How many Russians does it take for Hillary Clinton to lose an election? None.
Front Matter: I will start liveblogging (in the comments of this post) the election results when they come in. I expect this will be about 8pm Eastern Standard Time. I’ll stop when the mood strikes me – there isn’t a set end time. I will say this – Standard Time Rules, and I really, really hate Daylight Savings Time.
2020 marks the most momentous election of our lifetimes. Why?
Trump 2020?
No.
Wilder 2020. Yes, I am an official candidate. I can explain.
I’m a skilled professional.
During the state primary season in Modern Mayberry, in Upper-Lower Midwestia, I got a text message from The Boy.
“I put you in as a write-in candidate for NAMELESS OFFICE.”
Immediately I texted The Mrs. “Hey, honey, please vote for me for NAMELESS OFFICE.” She didn’t respond. That’s normal.
I made my own way to the polls, and proudly wrote “John Wilder” in for NAMELESS OFFICE. It turns out that The Mrs. did, too.
I had three votes.
What does one do with three votes in an insurgent write-in candidacy for NAMELESS OFFICE? You call the County Clerk the day after to see if you won.
I did that.
“A write in? Umm, call us next week, sweetie.”
I forgot to call them back. But then a few weeks later when The Boy was down from State College, he got the mail one Saturday, and brought it into the living room.
I sent a guitar back to the factory once. I marked it “return to Fender®.”
“Hey, Pop, it’s a letter from the County. Are you still burning tires and diesel fuel in the backyard?” The Boy handed me a big letter – one that might have held the x-ray of bigfoot’s prostate exam.
I opened it. Nope – not a prostate exam. It was an official certificate saying that I was an official candidate for election in the 2020 election. How many of those do you have?
I am running unopposed in the general election. Since I was running unopposed, I decided on a sneaky campaign: not let anyone know I was running. The idea I had was simple – if anyone knew I was running, they would have time to oppose me. Ha! I’m too sneaky for that.
But now it’s too late. There will be one name to vote for: mine. I think my chances are good, since I’m sure I’ll get more than the three votes that propelled me on this political odyssey. I’m hoping for at least a solid dozen votes.
If your refrigerator is running? I know some people in New Mexico that would vote for it.
You may ask, what does the elected office require me to do? I won’t give you most of the specifics. But I did check online and researched the state statutes that describe what I’m being elected to do. In one, very old book (1883?) I found that I was responsible for the control of underground burrowing rodents. In none of the modern laws does it mention that I’m responsible for that, but, hey:
The law is the law.
I think I’ll make that the signature of my administration. I’ll become John Wilder, licensed to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. A man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit.
Ever.
If A is for Apple, and B is for Banana, what is C for? Explosives.
I’m pretty sure that this will entitle me to a badge and unlimited access to fully automatic weapons, rocket propelled grenades, and plastic explosives. Okay, maybe not. But I’m also sure that there are absolutely zero laws in my state that prohibit me from making my own badge. I think I might design my badge to be a big “W” with lightning bolts hitting an underground rodent.
Maybe it will all be over the top of a nuclear mushroom cloud?
Does my badge allow me to do anything special, like turn into a werewolf and roam the countryside naked in the cool autumn nights looking for a safe spaceship flight. Well, no. But thankfully it doesn’t prohibit that, either.
Does my badge allow me to requisition nuclear weapons from the Federal government to control subterranean rodents? Well, no. But it does make the requisition request for fully automatic weapons, an old M-60 Patton tank, three F-16 fighters and 53,000 pounds of Compound C seem reasonable.
I mean, how else would you deal with gophers? You wouldn’t. That’s why you need a cold-blooded rodent killer like me. Badgers? You don’t need no stinking badgers!
My son said he got awarded the Leslie Neilson badge at school. I asked him, “What’s that?” He said it’s a big building filled with kids.
Here’s my campaign slogan:
“Wilder 2020, because you want John Wilder to have access to a badge and enough weapons to overthrow Brazil, even though he only got three primary votes.”
See you in the comments tonight!
For the first time in my adult life, I have no expectation of anything approaching a “fair” election. Let the games begin!
Speaking of games…
Today reminds me of the opening season of Hunger Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT7iKN5lEao
Seems apropos.
It begins…
I just finished watching that with the kid. To amuse myself, I’m teaching the parakeet to whistle the Mockingjay 4 note tune. If Biden ‘wins’ it will become the song of our people.
Agreed. Some of the early indicators have been pretty bad as far as illegal conduct.
There is no clear winner. There will be no clear winner until certain Democrat states count, recount, and “find” votes until Biden wins.
My evidence: “Senator” Al Franken , Minnesota, 2008.
You have been proven 100% correct.
Does anybody need a reason to vote?
This might help:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu0vlSWdWig
Vlogger ‘Laura Farms’ describes destroyed farm equipment including harvesters and semi trucks.
Apparently, this was arson resulting from the equipment flying America flags.
Her follow-up videos show the community pitching–in to harvest the time-sensitive food on the family farm.
After marxists destroy farmers, what are they eating?
Time’s I just cannot click the “like” button. But the link is appreciated.
Ouch. Marxists don’t want to reform society, they want to destroy it.
Each other.
Why do you always plan the live-blog events on the nights I plan to drink?
And no, I don’t have a problem.
Heh! Come on in! Beer don’t cost nothin’.
I’m ready, I’ve got the corn pop um you know the the come on man, oh ya the popcorn all set to go….
Well, The Day is finally here. It’s been nice knowing you guys. 🙂
You know the thing!
Well, The Day is finally here. It’s been nice knowing you guys!!! 🙂
Something to read while we wait for the kickoff tonight…
https://tessa.substack.com/p/great-reset-dummies
And the coin toss is over, the kicking team is on the field . . .
I saw somewhere that Trump’s October surprise was a presidential pardon for Corn Pop. Maybe it was this site – getting old and forgetful is troublesome, just ask the Democrat guy . . . Joe, joe uh something. You know. C’mon man
I saw somewhere that Trump’s October surprise was to pardon Corn Pop. That will set off the left.
I heard a similar thing.
Okay, so I’ve got your rodent (a gopher) experiencing a violent electric shot from giant lightning bolt striking him in his burrow with a giant flaming mushoom cloud in the background pierced by a giant W.
Onna badge.
Do you want it clean and modern or all old-fashioned & wood-cut-y?
One of my final Ninktober prompts was “electric” after all. Gotta head out. Back in a few,
Ohhhhh, clean and modern! That sounds so awesome!!!!
Roger – “painting” the mushroom cloud now.
Yay!!!!
Love the gallows humor! (seems appropriate for the season) Let the drinking, err, games begin! Or drinking games. Results may vary.
Indeed! I’m taking tomorrow off . . .
Hope Trump smashes it. Best of luck to all my American cousins.
I’m heading out to vote now. I’ll be home soon with a bottle of Wild Turkey in hand. I need to join in tonight’s reindeer games. Looking forward to a YUGE night…MAGA!
Excellent! I’ve yet to crack our booze. Soon.
Sadly no drinks tonight – we haven’t found our Mayberry yet so I’m still in some uh… colorful territory. If things get extra spicy in my metro area we’ll have to boogie and the last thing I want is a DUI on a night of chaos, y’know?
Looking forward to the liveblog though! I’ll have to keep count of the shots and catch it up another night.
Good idea. Find a good place – I think it will be important.
C,mon man, why Brazil ?!?!
For the after dinner mints. Why else?
And the capihrinos. And the pudim… and the coffee…. Mmmmm….
Okay, now I’m hungry.
Dangit.
I’m ready with the turkey in hand. Neat of course.
Excellent!
“What truly matters is not which Party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.” Donald Trump, Inaugural Address 2016
Bingo. We’ll see how that goes tonight.
Reporting for duty!
JOHN!!!! What channel are we watching?
I’m watching OAN right now. It seems like a channel done by a bright High School AV club. Suggestions?
I’m watching The First at the moment
Swapped to Fox.
According to Fox News, VA & VT are blue, KY is red.
Gotcha, now on Fox. Trey Gowdy looks like at least one of his parents was an alien.
This is the link to the results without the garbage commentary. I think CTH will put up a link to the data without following on a live feed. https://youtu.be/MmrGeWxd87Y
Nice.
May god have mercy on our livers.
Agreed.
Ohio . . . still inconclusive.
West Virginia . . . Trump.
CNN just said Indiana is red.
I’ll drink to that!
Me too! I’ll drink to that.
Well, I’ll drink to you drinking to that.
They’re being cagey about Georgia.
Yep. They’ll hold off calling too many red states until the west close closes at 11 ET.
Maine and NH should have been insta-blues, like VA. Since they haven’t called those, the D’s could be in for a very long night!
Could be!
Sundance just posted the 7:00 pm election thread at https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/03/thread-1-700pm-election-results-and-discussion-2/
Great data!
KY just went red. Normally, you’d take this as a sign that maybe you should stop, but I’m living dangerously tonight.
Yup. And I’m sleeping in.
Bourbon is made in Kentucky! Drink American!
About 20 minutes to some important states . . . . especially Texas.
NC will keep some polls open until 8:15, so about a half hour from now
The big disappointment for me? My results aren’t even on the County website. Regardless, I am claiming victory!
I was hoping to see your election results on Fox tonight! Ha!
Well, I probably did get an extra vote. I saw someone I knew going into the polls.
Quick call for blue VA, but I’m going to hold off on that until more than 50% is in.
VA has been infected by D.C. The Swamp, it grows.
Fairfax is closer than I thought it would be, but there’s some weird downstate early blue leads, too. I’m not holding my breath, but I’m not slamming the table with 6% in, either.
Nope, too early.
Cocaine Mitch – returning to D.C.
Ug… I’m out for 90 mins. Have to go pick up the car that was in for maintenance today.
We’ll keep the liquor cold for you!
Biden’s early FL lead now down to less than 100K with ~85% reporting. 2000 redux?
I think Florida should be solid Trump.
Most of the panhandle is Central time – polls close an hour later there.
And early returns from the panhandle just turned it into a Trump lead.
Hurrah!
The state of Florida is a geographic anomaly:
the farther north you go the more southern it gets.
Florida . . . looking good.
For Trump:
Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma . . .
Any of the ones called so far, a surprise?
To me, that Georgia isn’t called for Trump is a surprise. Also, there are several states that should be gimmes for Trump that haven’t been called.
GA is still only at ~5% reporting, and one of the counties is Cobb. I’m thinking they’re going to wait to see how the other Atlanta metros go and then make the call.
The last time Northerners fought over Atlanta this hard, Sherman marched to the sea.
Florida just went Trump
Drink for the swing state!
Tucker 2024.
Just sayin’
Tucker for prez and John Wilder for VP!!
I will happily be Costello to his Abbott.
Trump jumps ahead in GA. Trailing significantly in NC with ~50% reporting.
I’m still thinking NC is a lock . . .
Lead has shrunk to Biden +330K with ~70% reporting. Was at a cool half-mil earlier.
NC is important – it’s key.
Biden +210K with ~77% reporting. Odd reporting pattern, though – many rural counties showing blue, but with unreasonable Biden leads and apparently slow reporting. If it does end up being key, expect to see some lawsuits.
I dont seeFlorida going Biden…Guns baby
And with out guns? What would happen to Florida Man?
Anything! Anything at all! Thus is the magic of Florida
The confluence of beer, guns, trucks, and gators?
Magic.
Don’t forget the bikinis…
Yes. Bikini post is best post.
Very early (~15% reporting) results from RI are making it look like a battleground. Providence just recently had a taste of 2020-style peaceful protests, and Providence County is at 52-45 Biden with 20% reporting.
Wow – would never have guessed that!!!
All counties now red with 33% reporting.
Arkansas . . . stays red.
“NYT needle has shifted to Trump in NC. Was 67% Biden not long ago, now 56% Trump. ” https://twitter.com/EdWhelanEPPC/status/1323798665727791105
Moments later:
“On NYT needle, make that 66% Trump in NC and 84% Trump in GA.”
https://twitter.com/EdWhelanEPPC/status/1323800839518068736
Thank God. NYT is not a big Trump fan (no duh), so I’m optimistic.
Good news. Very good news, especially from the NYT, where I regularly read:
World Ends Tomorrow!
Women And Minorities Hit Hardest
Rust belt plus Arizona next . . .
Sadly I expect AZ to go blue this time around. Lived here my whole life and I’ll miss the weather, but we have too many college kids who come for the indoctrination and stay because of air conditioning.
That’s scary . . . AZ is fairly important . . . plus I heard that when a guy from Arizona died and went to Hell, he asked Satan for a blanket.
Northern Maine is a red area, and the electoral votes are not winner take all, they will probably split again. NH is a toss-up. Outside the cities, ballots are paper and pencil
I would have thought NH would have been a slam dunk.
Northern Maine is a red area, and the electoral votes are not winner take all, they will probably split again. NH is a toss-up. Outside the cities, ballots are paper and pencil
Everything quiet before the 9pm hour . . . .
Notice they call obvious states for Biden, but not for Trump. Hmmm.
Agreed….odd
Trump will win Texas.
Called Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska (mostly), Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota . . . Drink!
Hope you’re right about Texas.
I’m watching RSBN and they say Texas isn’t going well.
Hopefully they are high.
Okay now I see it’s light red, make up your mind guys…
No, it’s going well. Democrat cities were early reporters.
I’m confused about the time stamp at the head of the posts. It indicates that you are 8 hours ahead of me and I’m in, unfortunately, CA. Help me out, please. Is it the servers? In Europe?
Never mind. I saw the time stamp on my own post and it also indicates 8 hours ahead of me. I suppose it must be the servers location, not the location of the individual posters.
GMT is the only Internet time zone.
Zulu . . . which has another meaning if you played Rugby.
Server. Europe. At least I know what time it is in London, right?
And here I thought you lived in the future.
No, that’s Australia. I knew a guy who was in IT from Australia. He came from a LAN down under.
Just got back, opened our Trumpslide wrapped Adult Beverage… Q got me my favorite sippin’ Bourbon!
Reading through the comments I had to drink three times. Keep it up!
In other news I finished the nuclear explosion & am starting on the electrocuted rodent.
Yay!!!!
Now I have to write a themesong. It may or may not be exactly like Thunderstruck.
Got the daughter product working on the Latin passive future (imperative) “Murae” Delendere (???) est! And yes, I want a theme song!
Ohhhh . . . I have an idea!!! Now I have to write myself a note to remember.
Ah, the stall. It’s like the Election Night TV timeout.
And all too much Juan Williams.
North Carolina: tightening. Ohio: tightening. Texas? Trump. Georgia? Trump.
If that holds (plus Arizona), win one of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, or Minnesota to win.
Whew!
Yeah, Trump is pulling away in GA – Dekalb only expected major blue county yet to report. NC Biden +110K, ~90% reporting. OH close, PA too early to tell. TX – all major blue areas reporting, most reds not yet, and Trump within easy striking distance.
Yup.
From your lips, err, fingers, to . . .
okay, I almost spit out booze.
You got me.
I just got back… did Collins lose in Maine?
She’s up, but nothing, and I mean NOTHING happens quickly in Maine.
Someone reported on another thread that Fox just retracted Virginia for Biden. Anyone confirm?
Wow. Just looked at raw totals. Trump is WAY ahead. Can’t confirm, though.
Trump still leading 57-40 with ~40% reporting. I wouldn’t have called it.
Yeah. Embarassing to have to retract that . . .
A media organ? Making an outlandish claim? At the risk to their credibility?
How does such a thing happen in 2020?!?
And yet? They’ll have jobs on Monday.
If Biden only wins Milwaukee and Dane in WI, this election is officially over.
Yeah, I just looked at those results. But what I love most about Wisconsin is that they told me I get great cellphone reception there. They said that even the smallest town has four bars.
If you get this involved in all your comment sections, I’ve been missing out on some fantastic humor all this time.
🙂
I even do request posts. There has never once been a request for a post on a subject that I haven’t done.
But you have to email the request.
Perfesser,
I would like your insights on:
* Bug-Out Boats
* Hoof care for mules
* An easy yet direct route to me at 18
As posts? Or here?
Collect, edit, and update your TEOWIKI stories.
Then sell it as a book on Amazon.com. Or wherever. As the Mountain Who Writes says, the goal is : Author gets paid.
NC now Biden +46K – rural counties are being heard from finally.
Betting odds on the whole election just flipped.
Big time.
Every MSM channel is talking about the suburban [white] women…. Come on man!
c’mon man, you know, you know the thing.
HOLY COW!
BETTING ODDS FLIPPED!
DRINK!
Early MI returns looking very good for Trump.
Outstanding. Eaton Rapids Joe is pulling it all together for us!
Loved his Home-field Advantage series. I was checking his site like Hunter hitting the pipe
Joe is amazing. A great writer, and certainly a better man than I am.
My only saving grace is I’m funnier.
Virginia looks to be back in play.
“2346 precincts of 2585 reporting”
Joe Biden 40.49%
Donald Trump 57.32%
https://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2020%20November%20General/Site/Presidential.html
*Bing*
Thus? The voting odds flipped.
This is bigly.
Does anyone know who is winning in the Ginger/Mary Ann Election?
Ginger claims to have won, and Mary Ann is too polite to say. The vote total is 4-3, though.
I wrote in Mrs Howell because I felt sorry for her. Mary Ann will win. Can you picture Ginger making a sandwich?
(Well, Mrs. Howell was the 3)
Weeellll, I can picture Ginger AND Mary Ann making a sandwich, but to further elaborate on said sandwich, this comment may not be approved.
I want to start a group where we use three slices of bread for a sandwich. We could call it a club?
For some reason I can’t reply to the next comment in. I’ll join that club! We’ll start with a celebratory toast!
Huzzah!!!!
BOOM!
OHIO FLIPPED.
DRINK!!!!
North Carolina?
Trump.
Biden +9K on my map. That’s an amazing feat of reporting, truly. Lost 98% of his lead in 90 minutes.
Biden is toast in the Tarheel state. I heard, though, that in North Carolina, Alcholics Anonymous is known as NCAA.
As a North Carolinian I can confirm most of this statement to be true! Cheers!
I’ma gonna fix that spelling.
Yuan is dropping
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1323818894977462272
The pretty picture begins with a Biden bump and then a Trump drop
Excellent!
Confirmation.
Is anyone else having severe withdrawal symptoms now that the endless campaign commercials have stopped?
I need more bourbon…
You’re allowed.
same here. HA!
I am going to make an early call:
Trump is going to win. Investing advice? Sell salt futures. There will be too much salt to mine from Leftist tears – it will crash the market.
John – – Think you are spot on.
Pez for all, arriving copiously & pronto !!!
And he’s winning the popular vote . . .
I suspect marijuana stocks are gonna do very well tomorrow.
Good. Let’s sprinkle the excess on the grounds where the Marxist poison is growing thickest.
Agreed!
I think they’ll identify themselves, thankfully.
If 2016 was “In the Hall of the Mountain King”, 2020 is starting to look like “O Fortuna”
Oh, yeah. Amazing choice. I still remember that from Excaliber.
Still listening to O Fortuna.
Heh heh heh heh.
Nice call.
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad….
Well, it is my job, right?
“Once we know the results from all 50 states, we’ll have to wait for the votes from Russia, France, Belgium, The Congo, and Argentina to be counted. Only *then* will we be able to Tweet the winner of the election.” – some desperate CNN natterburbler
Waiting for this to become inevitable, and then going to turn to MSNBC to mine the salt.
Glorious.
Holy shi….about 1/4 of the map just went red all at once. Trumpslide is on.
Well, there is an upside.
Joe will never know he lost.
But, but, that’s HIS senate seat! Hunter’s got all the receipts to prove it! And Beau will back him!
Can he get out of the basement without his stair-elevator?
Trump is catching up in IL. I repeat, Trump is narrowing the lead in IL. Significantly.
Wow. Big.
Biden grabbed a big chunk in the past 10 minutes, and Cook County is still only about 50% counted, but for it to look even close with the Chicago counties all having reported *somewhat* had to be a sobering moment for at least one DNC quant.
Someone needs to remind the pollsters that they said, “If we get this wrong, we will never be taken seriously again.”
pollster are equivalent to influencers. toss them into a volcano
Like economists, they can be violently wrong again and again, yet still be employed.
Trafalgar being the exception.
Yeah, the guys they were mocking.
I think every time they look at their non-paid retweets and follows, they’ll be reminded. Lots of folks already weren’t taking them seriously.
Yup. Wonder how Nate, well, not Silver. Not even Bronze. Tin? Wonder how Nate Aluminum will cope?
If you want to mine salt? Here’s a great place:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64GvIfUd9Zo
It’s The Young Turks. Melting down. Read the comments.
conan! what is best in life?
To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their various gender identifications.
I’m calling OH for Trump – looks to be all over but the shouting there.
My favorite part about Election Night coverage is hearing from experts about counties I’ve never been to, will never visit, and will never hear about again.
Ha! Yes!
Now an idiot is on Fox talking about Climate Injustice being related to (lost interest).
Noah, get the boat.
My favorite is hearing about counties where I’ve actually *lived* and still seeing how wrong they are about the situation on the ground there. And I been everywhere, man.
You’ve been everywhere, man?
You’ve been everywhere, man?
Crossed the desert’s bare, man?
Breathed the mountain air, man?
(sorry)
I have literally been to 75% of the places Johnny lists off in that song. Not to live, but I’ve been there.
“Devil’s Lake for Pete’s sake”
Excellent number. I’m at about 53%.
Costa Rica? Nope.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H. L. Mencken
I’m of the mind that this election will give us something good and hard, whether it’s socialism via Biden and the Green New Deal, or Deep State payback by a Trump with nothing more to lose. I could be wrong, and I’ve had a couple beers, so…
Bahahaha! Donna Shalala (D) was defeated in Miami. She has been in congress FOREVER.
YES! I remember Rush riffing off of her.
Mis, ter, Jones, and me~
DRINK!
In! Draining my cup!
Good Heavens. We’ve consumed all of the wine in the house except for my homemade wine (not good) and strawberry Moscato. Nothing to drink.
Except for the case of beer. And the liquor.
Sorry, following 3 or 4 different sites and starting to feel the bourbon, so don’t know who put the link to The Young Turks: Thank You! Glorious!
https://youtu.be/64GvIfUd9Zo
Me.
Mining the Salt
Mining the Salt
Mining the Salt
Mining the Salt
(to the tune of Breaking the Law)
RI election officials apparently don’t want to see any more. Been stuck at 40% reporting for a good long time now, and with all counties still red. It’s only 4 EC votes, but that they’ve stopped sending in results is probably noteworthy.
Same in my county. And?
I CANNOT SEE NUMERICAL PROOF OF MY OWN ELECTORAL VICTORY!!!!
I show 90% reporting (417 of 460 precincts) in Rhode Island
Donald J. Trump (REP) 103486 52.3%
Joseph R. Biden (DEM) 89461 45.2%
https://www.ri.gov/election/results/2020/general_election/
Time to do the RI dance . . . ?
Ha!
Y’see? Riots work, people.
Unless they’re quiet riots. Then they might impact your Metal Health.
And we need those stinkin’ badges! The vote for Wilder is a vote to crush the rodents! With epic fire!
https://tempestinateardrop.com/2020/10/30/saturday-miscellany-final-ninktober/
All we need now is the motto!
Ohhhh! Thank you! Let me think. My first idea is Sic Semper Rodentus.
Glyph has Rodentes Delendi Sunt. But it’s yours to decide. Consult the missus and let us know.
OHHHHH! Excellent! But I have to defer to Cato the Elder.
Delenda Est.
“Romanes…eunt…domus?”
What? The Romans go to the house?
Romani ite domum.
Also, THAT’S AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 190% better than expected, and you had a high bar already!
Wait… how is it that you saw it first before I did? I’m literally sitting less than 20 feet from her!
“Modern technology” – bonus points if you can name the movie.
I’m 5 fingers in… what’s a movie?
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
Complete line is, “Modern technology, William.”
Awesome!
Did you see the badge? It’s SO COOL.
The AP called Virginia early this evening, but the latest results that the AP reports from Virginia shows Trump ahead of Biden by 6 points. Is Virginia possibly still in play?
I think so. Amazing, right?
It’s like, “Hey, Democrat bros, let’s take the guns. What could go wrong?”
Workin’ in the salt mine
Goin’ down, down, down
Workin’ in a salt mine
Oops, about to slip down
Workin’ in a salt mine
Goin’ down down, down
Workin’ in a salt mine
Oops, about to slip down
Five o’clock in the evenin’
I’m already up and gone
I’d have gone with “Wokin’ in a salt mine” but you do you.
LOVE IT!!!!!!
The blue collar vote is shouting in PA
Yup. Coming in, loud and clear.
Are you not entertained?
Ha!
Movie is ‘Gladiator’
We got our money’s worth tonight, right?
Trump is well ahead in Ohio as well, but the AP hasn’t called it for him. The news commentators on CBS don’t seem particularly upset even though Trump is not doing as badly as the polls were telling us. I’m guessing that they really are holding out hope for the mail-in ballets.
It’s magical belief. The Leftist Internet forums The Mrs. stalks are melting down. And they’re talking about breaking out of the Union.
Smart Mrs! The lib blogs are a great place to confirm and measure conservative successes. DailyKos is my go-to – I imagine the comments there coming from a padded room somewhere on the Internet. The downside, she’ll have to do a Silkwood shower afterwards…
She bathes in their angst. Nothing drives her further Right than reading the Left.
Maybe they know something we don’t….Biden ballot printer go brrrrrrrr…..
Nah, they’re avoiding crying. Trump’s lead in Florida is greater than the uncounted ballots.
(sigh)
A Sea of Red is about to be unleashed with the West Coast closing in 2 minutes.
Time to cordon off the cities?
Two years ago… but better late than never.
Well, you’re 100% right.
Cut the water. The power. The roads.
Oh, wait, we saw this. Escape From New York.
“How the he….ck is Iowa still leaning blue?” *checks* “Oh, 50% reporting – got it.”
Yup. Red counties come in late.
Florida!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES!
Be prepared to get tired of winning.
WA, OR, CA all stay blue. Bummer.
We have to fix that.
Too much of God’s country. Can you guys do an eject button?
I pray to St. Andreas every night.
Well, it was his fault.
Loads of Crazyfornians are for Trump. We had a 3 hour Trump train go through town last week, only 1 hour away from Silicon Valley. When Obozo ran there were stickers and yard signs all over. Biden, meh, I’ve seen 4.
Enthusiam matters. It means you go to vote rather than go home and hit the vidya games.
Biden has all of the charisma of a damp dishrag. Voters only voted against Trump.
Phooey. (Editing: Quizzer’s comment.)
Mr. Wilder’s comment quaked me up.
Hennepin County, MN breaking 70-27 Biden. “Thank you sir! May I have another?”
Yeah.
Alabama senate seat finally called for the R. Fox *finally* calling Florida for Trump.
Right? They just want him to never be leading . . . .
Seems that way to me too. Split screening multiple sites and FOX and they never let the gap close even with states reporting over 90% Trump. All a little odd.
Yup. 95% in Florida, but 70% in Arizona?
Dear Satan,
Can you please turn up the heat on Sen. McCain a few more degrees?
And leave his family a little reminder that they sold their souls and you have a nice, comfy place awaiting them in the afterlife.
Sincerely,
America
Channeling Donald Trump:
John McCain, sitting in the Senate with his huge tumor brain bump. Very disrespectful.
and I spit out a very nice scotch with that remark.
Fox apparently just called AZ blue.
Yup.
Well if it was any other network I’d be concerned…
CBS is putting Biden at 168 electoral votes versus 111 or so for Trump because they won’t give him Florida or Texas.
It doesn’t count unless we say it counts!
-NYT earlier. Seriously.
I know! That’s gonna be part of Monday’s post.
So typical of them.
Yup.
Yup. Fox commentators are frustrated about that.
“Dems spent $104M losing to Lindsey Graham in SC” – Breitbart. Pity.
They had hundreds of millions of dollars to try to change the will of the American people.
WI, MI, PA all say results will be out later in the week. They are obviously *very* upset that Trump is leading so I guess we are going to have a second election where lawyers and judges get a voting round.
OH called for Trump… which we knew a couple of hours ago.
This is done. But to give the “resistance” legitimacy? You have to question the victory.
Sad.
I wish, but judges and lawyers. They’re votes count at 10x what our votes do. This is 2000 all over but without the humor of hanging chads. Will more pics of Hunter Biden’s whiddlydoo prevent a civil war?
Trump still leading in VA, VA still somehow called for Biden.
Devil’s advocate: They think they can use the mail-in ballots to tip the balance.
Thankfully they have a printer, right?
I’ve also been following Decision Desk HQ, and it has electoral votes distributed as follows: 206 for Biden and 162 to Trump. But the majority of the states that are still disputed (which includes Pennsylvania) are leaning toward Trump. It looks like Biden could pick up another 32 or 35, based on the current numbers, with the rest to Trump. The mail-in ballots may very well be where this winds up.
Well, the good news?
It won’t be decided in Florida this time.
Call it, you jags. Just call it. You lost! You ran a dementia patient and he still took 200+ EC votes – take heart! But you still lost. Just eat crow for another 4 years and try to not be such complete ***holes next time.
Well, for the record (wrong or right) I called it hours ago.
Trump will win this.
The CBS on-air mouth-breathers keep emphasizing the large number of mail-in ballots. The “red mirage” is their strategy for winning.
So you’re saying the huge Biden leads reported early in every single large state Trump has won or is winning *weren’t* the mail-in votes being counted ahead of the in-person votes?
I guess so 🙂
Cope.
They’re coping with loss. It’s easier than crying.
Trump is ahead by 14 points in Pennsylvania, but they still won’t call it for Trump.
Because they can’t allow Trump to lead at any point in the night.
TX and GA called red. What took them so long? Well…
You simply cannot let Trump have a lead at any, I mean ANY point at night.
Trump wins GA by ~7-11 points but it takes 4 hours to call it. We have the most honest propaganda parrots the world has ever seen.
Nah, China is the only place that has propaganda.
Right?
Propaganda and organ harvesting. Good thing, too; I think I need a replacement liver.
Or, in my case, a basement full.
Trump will win VA. Calling it here, after listening to more sober pundits put how far Trump is leading into perspective.
Eh – down to +55K with 80% reporting. Not sure how far I want to dig into it, but just knowing that it’s purplish is heartening.
It really is.
I’m hoping – the raw totals seem rough? Have a good data source?
War Room – link is – https://youtu.be/ZVWvZFWBE9Y
They seem sober, quanty, and based.
Oh, yeah, Bannon.
I like him.
Trump takes TX. “Officially”
Kills me that it took that long. But . . . we can’t have Trump in the lead.
checking MSNBC,,,cringe,,,poor ole Carville talking about how the lawyers will take care of the Dems and that the numbers give them a good start. Sure a different perspective from earlier in the night,
Na na na na
na na na na
hey hey
Good bye.
I’m in desperate need of a hair cut. Should I brave riots or just ask Codex to shave it on the back porch tomorrow?
Buzz cut
Yes! Now go to https://tempestinateardrop.com/2020/11/02/missing-shoes/ and leave a comment for Codex and say “Hair trimmer level 5 all over, level 3 on the sides and back. Trust Me.” I even made it easy for you; just cut-n-paste!
Poor man. He forgets that I am the only person in the history of my biology department to break a Bausch and Lomb spectrometer, But no one knows how I managed do it.
Sweet! I’m thinking it was related to potassium?
Easy answer. Back porch. But put the hair under the porch so that if you ever sell the house, there are bundles of hair under the porch. Then the new owner would wonder,
“Where did ALL THIS HAIR COME FROM????”
This actually happened to me (bought a house with porch hair).
Why not just do it out on the lawn? Like the neighbors are going to say “Oh, there they go again, just puttin’ all that hair out where it can blow onto the house. Why can’t they be decent folks and shave it on the porch?”
No. The mower would chop it up.
Yuck. Are you sure it wasn’t skunk or raccoon hair? Ya’know, something less gross than serial-killer trophy manes?
Serial killer was one of my choices.
But have you ever seen a blonde skunk, I mean outside of Looney Tunes?
Wait a minute… wasn’t the ex-wife blond?
Maybeeeee
Porch hair-!!!😂
Yeah. Like a trash bag full. There wasn’t a trash bag, but there was an amazing (really amazing) quanity of hair.
I even used it to help fill a depression in the back yard.
The CBS mouth-breathers are now talking about Michigan and Wisconsin, even though Trump is leading in both, that no one even knows how many ballots have been cast because they are still coming in. However, there is a lot more talk from them that is trying to softly break the news that Trump is going to win. Funny enough is that after Ohio was called, one of the pundits started saying that “we predicted that earlier” even though they were calling it wide open all evening.
Yup. No more tears.
80% of the votes have been counted in Georgia, but not enough to call the election; even though traditionally they can tell after just a few percentage have been counted.
yup. Why? Trump has won.
Why not just do it out on the lawn? Like the neighbors are going to say “Oh, there they go again, just puttin’ all that hair out where it can blow onto the house. Why can’t they be decent folks and shave it on the porch?”
Michigan? Amazing! Go guys!
Iowa? Thank you. Sorry about the deer. (google Chuck Jean Deer)
Hahaha. Iowa called red. Fox News is the biiiiiigggggg loser tonight.
I’ve been there. There was a corn maze. It’s called Iowa.
OMG! I just found 7000 PA ballots marked for Biden on my lawn! I’m in WA. Can anyone tell me how to make sure the Dems in PA can pick them up in the next 9 days? Can I use UPS?
Put them under the deck.
With the hair. Imagine the archaeologists in 2341.
Not with my luck. The bear raiding my garbage (I hope I spiced it *just right* tonight to keep the little s&(*)cker away will probably file a ‘hostile workplace’ form and state apparatchiks would conduct a full raid. The missing ballots will be found and they’ll deport me to Canada.
And not the good parts of Canada, either.
Oh, my. She’s gonna call HR on you.
Left wing media has been shifting to “what Biden has to say coming up in 30 minutes, ” Is he going to be bold enough to (prematurely/wrongly) call a win?
No, they’re pulling back (I think).
Past Joe’s bedtime.
I would hope, but wouldn’t put it past the handlers. Maybe something recorded? Need something to energize the rioters
OMG! He’s getting ready to talk!
Not quite a declaration of Victory, but still first to put out a message. That alone may be a small victory, at least in the court of public opinion. I also realize if Trump made the same statement at the same time the headline on 99% of the outlets would be about the apocalypse.
Yup. Anything Trump does? Divisive.
Anything a Leftist does? Calm and measured.
Fox news *rumored* to have *withdrawn* AZ call for blue…
Well, they called Minnesota. Looks like Northern Somalia will stay blue.
What can Africa do for you?
“There may be as many as 35,760 to 150,000 Somalis living in Minnesota with 80% residing in Minneapolis”
https://iimn.org/publication/finding-common-ground/minnesotas-refugees/africa/somalis/
Catapults.
https://youtu.be/PSXOeqwbrEo
Montana for Trump.
As it should be.
Pretty sure Virginia is going to Biden
2563 precincts of 2585 reporting
Biden 51.81%
Trump 46.28%
Rhode Island stuck at 95% with 2000 vote advantage for Biden
Really neat that some of these states like Wisconsin have called a lid on their vote counting. Not like both sides aren’t baring fangs at each other or anything.
Yeah. Because we haven’t had riots or anything this year.
Is that what the porch hair smelled like?
Is that what the porch hair smelled like?
It was just . . . piles and piles of hair. Like headfulls.
Right… worse than “An Officer and a Gentleman” but not as bad as any “Saw” movie.
It was a LOT of hair. A lot of LONG hair. And we met the previous owners. She wasn’t blonde.
Where did the blonde hair come from?
Family blog so… carpet didn’t match the drapes?
Not unless she was a bigfoot.
HUGE AMOUNTS OF HAIR. Imagine, buying a house with HUGE AMOUNTS OF HAIR.
It was all consistently the same color.
For a while, I wondered if there was a body buried there. Then?
I guess I decided I didn’t care. Meh. She’s not haunting us.
It could have been a bigfoot. You don’t know. I don’t know. But bigfoot’s exist! Or bigfeet. The grammar nazi’s don’t even know.
Was it curly on one end? Could it have been Ginger’s hair? Why was Ginger named Ginger when she had blonde hair? Or has the Mandela effect hit me again?
Nope. Long, straight blonde hair.
Seriously – imagine your porch had a pit that was filled with an absurdly large amount of hair, regardless of length or color.
And, yes, I really did fill a depression in my yard with some of the piles and piles of hair.
Apparently Fox is standing by their call for AZ. Twitter is all aflutter.
Yup. I did not expect that. (Either)
Joe Biden is about to speak and declare himself 1) leading and 2) he’s calling a lid on election day.
and 3) requesting that someone get him some more Depends.
MSNBC finally calling Florida for Trump…of course they say no Dem felt that Biden was really going to win, it was on the “wish list”
(sigh)
Masterful manipulation.
More clown world: NYT and AP has finally called FL for Trump. I’m taking my pants off.
Of course. Because they couldn’t not call it.
I didn’t realize pants were required at this lil shin-dig, now I feel foolish
Pants? Pants?
We don’t need no stinking pants.
We’re the federales.
No worries. The only reason I had mine on was that I had to get the Mrs. down to pick up the ol’ vehicle in the shop about 5 hours ago.
It’s officially better than 2016 when Hillary was too drunk to make a statement.
I would give a million dollars to have a copy of the video from that night in her hotel.
Biden being a nice guy and telling his supporters that they’re not going to get a no-show concession at 2AM again. What a swell guy.
Yup.
Amazing that we can’t count ballots in 2020 that we could easily do 40 years ago.
(channelling Trump)
Sad.
I blame Common Core
It is really really sad
It really is.
And we wonder why only Elon Musk can send a rocket into space.
Pretty sure it is because of all the Hidden Figures he uses in his equations…
Yes. That’s the most important thing about sending rockets into space.
Trump is about to make a statement, according to the Twitter. I’m shocked they didn’t block it.
“Trump has made the unverified claim that he can talk.”
Kanye West has officially conceded. Bummer. Maybe try again in 2024.
I liked his campaign slogan.
“Yes.”
GA deep dive: you’re not going to find +200K Biden votes in half of Dekalb County. Call it Trump.
Won’t do a NC deep dive – that really is a close one. I’m not sure what it would take to call it either way. Trump up 70K after trailing by 500K still strikes me as weird, but I’m not going to try to quantify it.
PA: Allegheny and Philadelphia Counties slow-walking it, and I’m starting to wonder if they understand that it doesn’t matter. They need to get Biden +600K and given their current reporting, it’s not possible. Count every single vote and still come up 200K short.
MI: Trump +260K. Don’t even think about it – that’s a red state this time around.
WI: Dane’s votes are in and Milwaukee’s are half-in, and there’s no way you’re wringing +100K Biden votes anywhere. Also a red state this time around.
MN: I mean, you still root for the Vikings. Sure – give your EC votes to Biden.
MT: Trump.
AK: Trump.
Given that, I’ll just grant Biden AZ + NV’s 17 EC votes. Hell give him NC and a the squiggly parts of NE and ME. Good job getting 249, guy.
Agreed. I’m not thinking he has to pack anytime soon . . . .
Also, excellent analysis.
That was a strange election night – another first.
Several states pending and the vote counters simply turn off the lights and grab a beer.
Union rules…
Or, as we are now finding, just keep counting after the poll watchers leave.
Okay, heading to bed – this won’t be solved tonight. More fun tomorrow!
And the referee just called a foul on the home team before the kickoff. The signals say… Unsportsmanlike conduct?
Ouch. You’re on the money.
Here’s my spreadsheet take on the morning after….Trump still has a shot at this. Counts are in thousands.
https://i.imgur.com/bEQ66nH.jpg
Ack!!! Spreadsheet formula error – I am just too bleary to be doing this, sorry. Here’s the correct numbers…it’s even closer than I thought.
https://i.imgur.com/Xi543Zj.jpg
But, where did those votes come from . . .
Good morning everyone. At least I’m hoping it will be. I fell asleep (passed out) around 1 AM. I’m nursing a mild hangover. Are we looking okay?
I fell asleep, too. But you’re up to speed now.
It’s ugly.
Biden just took the lead in MI. Trump trails by 20K votes in both MI and WI. He’s gotta win one or the other or it’s all over.
Hmmmm. So many moving parts.
I think I’m going to be sick. Is Nevada still in play?
We hope?
I show Trump 231, Biden 244 with Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in play.
Wisconsin doesn’t have a state-level election reporting service. What?!? We have to use AP (least offensive election news service?) for the unofficial results.
California 2020 had a lot less voters for Biden and Trump versus 2016 Clinton v Trump.
2020
Biden 7,717,469
Trump 3,895,847
2016
Clinton 8,753,788
Trump 4,483,310
Disappointed by the Trump showing in California. There was a lot more enthusiasm in 2020 for Trump than in 2016. No parades, no demonstrations in 2016. Lots of that in 2020.
What happened to all the voters? This election was as exciting as it can get, so apathy shouldn’t be the cause.
My guess is they got tired of living in apartments in the cities. Maybe some got infuriated with the government leftism and bailed. So 1M Dems + 0.6M Reps chose houses in cities in nearby states like Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Colorado. Throw in a little Texas and Idaho for good measure. And they took their voting habits with them.
My gut is telling me Biden is gonna win both WI and MI as the mail in ballots are counted. You know what Porky Pig used to say – Tttthhhaaattttsss all, folks!
Overall, despite a very close Biden win, a very bad day for Dems. They failed to get the Senate by three seats and lost 20 seats in the House. Not at all what was expected, zero blue wave.
And Trump has nobody to blame but himself. If he wasn’t standing on bloody stumps knee deep in spent brass that’s piled up over the last four years, he’d have won this race easily with winged feet.
Yeah, I expect the barest of Biden victories when this is over. Unfortunately. And I expect it to be a drawn-out contested process involving the courts.
You are right. There was no blue wave, the pollsters were kidding themselves. And lying to ourselves is so easy to do. The Senate is retained. House seats by the Dems were lost.
Even in my lefty state, there were a lot of victories: increasing business property taxes, restoring affirmative action, voting at age 17 in primaries, additional rent control, burdening of dialysis clinics, and elimination of cash bail all failed!
And Uber and Lyft approved to bypass AB5.
We also had local House and State Assembly victories.
Yes. Fewer voters in California, record numbers in Wisconsin?
Not sure I’m buying it.
Oops. This mail-in business means California is not anywhere near complete.
So mass exodus is not the reason why the CA 2016 v 2020 numbers were so different.
As of this typing, there are ~4.5M ballots to go -> https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2020-general/unprocessed-ballots-report.pdf
and the 2020 CA Presidential results now look like this which are closer to the 2016 CA results.
Biden: 8,243,337
Trump: 4,172,938
Solution: Biden can be president of California.
You’ll need a singular rodent then.. and it’s one of those weird adjectives that get turned into nouns. Literally “gnawing” (ones). I’ll check back with Glyph. You could do Mus* (or Rattus) delenda est (the mouse must be destroyed) but that lets the gophers off the hook. We’ll go with whatever you decide.
*there’s a little hat over that “u”.
Gotcha! Rattus Delenda Est!!!!! So perfect. And, I’m nearly certain I won, as I had 353.33 times the the vote count of my nearest opponent.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-us-election-results
I show Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania in play. Arizona was un-called for Biden by ABC and since they are not Trump fans, we’ll go with it and put Arizona back in the bucket.
But at Trump: 232 v Biden: 259, Trump has to run the rest of the table perfectly, and Biden only needs one more state.
This election is so 2020: never-ending, painful, sudden twists like the Sharpie markers (so like the Murder Hornets), perpetual inaccurate analysis by the talking heads, spreading across the US with agonizing slowness, and funded by China.
Where Sharpies ain’t supposed to go. Dang but I love this headline:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/not-onion-michigan-attorney-general-pleads-public-stop-telling-staff-shove-sharpies-butts/
Whoa. Looks like they want to elect another people, too.
2020: One Star. Would not recommend.
There is no law, only Zuul.
There will be war.
I think you may be right.
Trump won the election. The Democrats are winning the cheating. Like they always do.
There is no law, only Zuul.
There will be war.
100% Trump won based on real, valid votes.
The election has been stolen.
There is plenty of information out there explaining how the marxists were finally able to pull this off:
https://davejanda.com/general-tom-mcinerney-hammers-the-deep-state-voter-fraud-operation/
This link explains in more detail how this Cyber Weapon is used. This interview was the day before the election.
This names names, Brennan, Comey, Mueller….funded by Soros…war room that Obama organized has making this happen.
Many names involved that you will recognize.
The algorithms will be meant to look like foreign interference if found.
This is really happening and we will no longer have the USA as we know it.
This is why they could run the aging Biden and the marxist Kamala.
They are only the pawns, the game is fixed.
First report on Monday:
https://noqreport.com/2020/11/02/democrats-colluding-with-cia-to-launch-intelligence-operation-that-alters-voting-machine-results-report/
And yesterday:
https://noqreport.com/2020/11/04/hammer-and-scorecard-lt-gen-mcinerney-explains-the-election-hack-by-democrats/
They have been fine tuning these methods since 2012.
I have verified all this with someone I know at the top of the government food chain. I know that doesn’t mean much to anyone, but this will all come out and the truth will be seen.
Be safe everyone, we’ve entered the next phase.
We have. This is more brazen than I ever expected.
I gues s im a little slow on the uptake, but how is it that all the down ballot elections have been decided, but we are still finding and counting presidential ballots. In my rural back water allthe ballots were on th e same page.
Well, they didn’t bother to fill in the senator votes. Not enough time!