“Equal, but not even.” – Die Another Day
What did the Frenchman yell as he went down the slide? “YES!”
On Wednesday after the election, I consciously decided to sleep in – I had taken a vacation day from work. I slept in. It was luxurious. Like a Roman soldier, I really enjoy resting on my pila-case. At a time that was later than I’ll admit to, I rolled over in bed and picked up my phone.
Substantial leads for Trump from the night before had evaporated. For whatever reason, this reminded me of the story of the Fox and the Scorpion.
Fox and the Scorpion both wanted to cross a river. Why? Probably a decent discount on quality unpainted furniture on the other side. Scorpion wants to ride on the back of Fox. Fox, not being stupid, says, “Dude, you’re a scorpion, you’re going to sting and kill me!”
Scorpion, logically, responds, “C’mon, man! Let me tell you what my dead son Beau would say. You know the thing. But if I sting you while we’re crossing the river, I’ll die, too.” Scorpion paused, ”Just like I died when I fought Corn Pop.”
Fox, remembering his mandatory training on systematic speciesism, agrees and apologizes for his microagression and his foxist privilege. Fox says, “Hop on.”
Fox begins swimming through the river. Halfway to the other side, Scorpion stings Fox.
Fox, through the haze of pain and spreading paralysis as Scorpion’s neurotoxin spreads through his system says, “Scorpion! You’ve killed us both!”
Scorpion responds, “C’mon man! You knew I was a scorpion when I got on your back.”
I pushed the fable out of my mind as I slowly scrolled through all the data. I then turned off my phone. I went into the front room and sat down to read for a while. Pugsley and The Mrs. were off at school and work, respectively. It has been as rare as late-night TV show hosts with a sense of humor since 2016 that I’ve had the opportunity to just sit in silence without any work or a blog deadline hanging over my head. I decided to grab a burger and a beer.
How many vegans does it take to eat a Double Quarter Pounder® with cheese? One, if no one is watching.
In Modern Mayberry, we have five fast-food restaurants. The day was perfect in temperature, which means it was on the cold side for most people. I got to the speaker and ordered. I then drove home, grabbed a beer out of the fridge, and ate my burger. I tried to remember what my doctor said. I think it was “Don’t eat anything fatty.”
It was good – cheesy and greasy and just the right amount of pickles. I then remembered what my doctor had really said, “Don’t eat anything, fatty.”
For me, Wednesday was about balance. It’s easy enough to fall into the trap of getting so wound up about politics that you lose perspective. Honestly, one of the nicest things about living in Alaska was that Lower 48 politics was thousands of miles away. You could nearly ignore it. I’ve found that turning off my phone works almost as well.
On Thursday, it was back to work, and back to writing. Of course, I have thoughts about the election, and you can probably guess what many of them are. But the big thing that comes to mind with the 2020 election is fraud. It’s easy enough to look for fraud, heck, when that psychic told me she’d take my check I knew she was a fraud.
These ballots are from Seattle, so they definitely got mac n’ cheese.
Honestly, if you look at nearly any election, you can find things that look like fraud if you look hard enough. The exception, of course, is my election to LOCAL OFFICE, where I estimate I had 335.33% more votes than the nearest competitor.
Hmmm, that sounds suspicious. 33533 is the same backwards as forward. And it’s all 3’s with one five. Normal numbers never look that way . . . except . . . I was running unopposed for a job that no one else seemed to want.
You can confirm your bias that I stole the election – that 335.33% just looks too perfect.
From an ideological perspective, stealing an election is the last thing I’d do. What ideology says that? The ideology of the Right
The ideology of the Right is very different than that of the Left. The Right is focused on Equality. The Left is focused on Equity. It’s really the fight between Equality and Equity that best defines the split between thinking on the Right and thinking on the Left.
A Marine with a salt and pepper beard is likely a seasoned veteran.
Western Civilization has always been a civilization of Equality and the philosophy of the Right. You are born. If you make your peace with God? You can go to Heaven. It’s up to you. No one will drag you across the line. If you want to create a business? Be a glorious hero? Sure, class may have come into it, but there was always room for the barbarian to make it to king.
The Right is Equality.
Equality is a 100 yard (3450 meters) dash. I line up on the same line with my opponent. When the starter pistol goes off, we start running. If I’m running against a moderately athletic high school-aged boy who doesn’t have tularemia, tuberculosis, typhus, and tetanus, he’s going to make it to the finish line first. If it’s a fat kid? Okay, I might dust him.
As long as he has typhus.
Equality is about having the same opportunities. The opportunity, in this case, is the open track. It’s the same for both of us. The opportunity includes the starter pistol. We’ll hear it at the same time. Each of us have the same conditions.
I have had many of the same opportunities in my life as Elon Musk. I’m thrilled that he’s doing so well. We had an equal shot at the world, and he ended up with billions. I’m good with that. He ran the race very, very well. His running allows us to win, and in the end, makes us all wealthier.
If Musk flew his Tesla® through a black hole, because of tidal gravity forces, he’d be Elon-gated.
Equality is obsessed with fairness. One person, one vote. In Modern Mayberry, I think that getting the local officials to bend the rules during voting would have a penalty worse than speaking loudly in the local library.
The rules matter, and we follow them. When The Mrs. had to get her license when we moved to Modern Mayberry, you could see the gleam in the DMV clerk’s eye as she ticked off the things The Mrs. had to produce to get her license.
- Birth certificate?
- Proof of address?
- Current electrocardiogram?
- Head of John the Baptist?
- Marriage certificate?
Yup. She was denied because she couldn’t prove that I’d married her. Ha! You can bet that The Mrs. wasn’t very happy when I drove her home singing, “Guess you are my property, doo-dah, doo-dah; my wife’s my chattel property all the doo-dah day.” Of course, as I said this I had a brand-new Upper-Lower-Midwestia license in my wallet.
The Mrs. was not amused.
But the DMV clerk was 100% being fair. The rules are the rules, no matter how stupid they might be. The rules are the rules, no matter who you are. And DMV clerks should follow them.
To the letter.
That’s Equality. No matter who you are, when you walk into the DMV office, you’re all equally dirt in their eyes. I think the DMV clerk even shed a tear when I had every single document she requested. Getting through on the first time was like cheating to her.
Never get behind the Devil at the DMV if you need to do paperwork – the Devil can take many forms.
Believing in Equality is why people on the Right don’t steal votes. They want to see the race run fairly. If you don’t have the right paperwork?
No license for you. I will say that when I got my license, the DMV clerk tried to get me to be an organ donor. That was a girl after my own heart.
The DMV, at least here, is Equal. Equity is different.
Equity is the belief that fairness isn’t measured on the starting conditions but on the outcome. If a 100 yard (.31 centimeter) race was run on Equity measures, I would only have to run, say, 50 yards if I was running against someone twice as fast as me. The goal of Equity isn’t to see who is fastest, it’s to structure the race so that people finish the way you want them to finish.
Given that Leftists are focused on Equity, or the outcome of the race, does it make sense that they’d try to steal an election?
Certainly.
Leftist focus only on the outcomes. If a process like the 100 yard (34 milliKelvins) dash produces results where someone is faster, it’s the process that’s wrong. If the process consistently produces a race where the fastest person wins?
To a Leftist, that’s unfair.
Not mine. Second time I’ve used this recently. The main problem is that the Equity in Reality panel is missing the pile of skulls that Leftism always, inevitably produces. And the Easter Bunny doesn’t exist, either.
Equity, in the mind of the Leftist, isn’t in the casting of ballots. Equity is in the counting of them. Your favored candidate is losing? What’s a few hundred thousand extra ballots? They can punch them with a hammer or a sickle.
Why do Leftists cheat?
C’mon man, it’s because they’re Leftists. What did you expect?
What the Democrats taught us all this election:
There is no law, only Zuul.
There will be war.
There will be.
Most Americans entered this election thinking it was about voting for a President and that the system would work but they also didn’t realize that for a small but powerful group this election was an existential crisis, a literal battle of Good vs Orange Man Bad And His White Supremacist followers. They are cheating for the same reason people in medieval times burned other people alive for not believing in the Prince of Peace who told them to love their enemies: sometimes you have to kill people for their own good and sometimes you have to subvert the democratic process to save democracy.
For the people who read blogs like this, we knew this was coming. They said, heck they bragged, that they would cheat and sure enough they did.
I wonder how many people on “our side” are going to learn the important lessons beyond who won?
“They are cheating for the same reason people in medieval times burned other people alive for not believing in the Prince of Peace who told them to love their enemies: sometimes you have to kill people for their own good” ….perfectly stated.
Ah… Perfection. Let me try this:
For the same reason people in midevil times executed convicted murders by rending them limb from limb even though the promised Messiah told them “Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
Hmmm. No. I do not think this is why so many Democrats cheat at elections.
They are cheating because they have gotten away with cheating an thousand times before, so it works for them.
And because a Millennial generation raised to believe in Humpty Dumpty vocabulary knows, in their bones, that words mean whatever you want them to mean this week. Including man, woman, true, justice, cheating and democracy.
I do not know why the Word disturbs you so. I hope you will figure it out. Godspeed.
Well said.
They will all learn the lessons. Will there be time?
That astute political scientist Carl Sagan always said “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
There’s obviously something extraordinary going on…
In MI over 2.5% of the Biden ballots are not voting for the Dem Senator…
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/e1a.jpg?itok=eANIjQG4
…and GA is jaw-dropping…
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/GA2_0.png?itok=2Bu5f7QK
…but so far I don’t see extraordinary evidence of actual fraud. As in warehouses in five states with people hunched over tables filling in tens of thousands of dead people’s names. The closest I’ve heard of something like that is NV having lots of ballots from people that have moved out of state. Maybe so…should be easy to find evidence of that. Show me the printout full of examples, not the twitter rumor.
Instead of dead people, I think this is a zombie apocalypse. A shower of paper mail-in ballots floated from heaven into the hands of who couldn’t care less about the civic duty part in democracy, but sure, make it easy enough and they’ll make a single pencil mark against Orange Man Bad and stick it in a mailbox.
To me, that’s literally tragic but it ain’t illegal and it ain’t fraud. It’s superior tactics to make use of The Existing System. The RNC coulda made exactly the same paper chase mail-in push for their own constituency but chose not to do so just like they don’t wear masks and still think flip phones are cool. As far as I can tell, their bad.
Whine and mutter all you want, the bottom line reality is that Trump coulda EASILY won this thing if he had just ACTED PRESIDENTIAL over the past four years instead of ACTING LIKE THE BOOR HE IS. As I alluded to previously, over the past four years he hasn’t just shot himself in the foot, he has blown both feet off into bloody stumps with an M-60 machine gun. Wanna win AZ? Don’t dis McCain. Wanna win MI? Don’t get in a pissing match with Whitmer. Etc Etc Etc.
The only good thing about this is that the Dems realize what an absolute disaster this has been for them and may back off a little.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/04/dems-post-mortem-election-2020-434044
Not that it matters, we’re too far gone.
It’s all about the purple. The DNC focused on reaching the upper-rightmost purple block in this chart via mail-in ballots, and won. The RNC ignored sending mail-in ballots to the lower-rightmost purple block in this chart, and lost. Simple as that.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/non-voters-poll-2020-election/images/NONVOTERS-1026-1.png?v=411f25ea
I agree with your conclusion, but if the only proof of fraud you’ll accept is certified videos of goons filling in fraudulent forms, that’s pretty easy for the perps to avoid. The perps are quite savvy in the best ways to get what they want without being caught, or at least being charged with it. While the MSM and SM are arms of the DImocrat party, they are pretty much free to do as they wish, as at least half of the population will believe whatever is promulgated in those media.
Mostly agree.
I don’t like how USPS apparently handled mail-in ballots within Pennsylvania according to Veritas -> https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1324529112506081280. Hopefully someone on the Trump campaign is assessing whether that is lawsuit worthy.
But I also think we don’t take voting or many other responsibilities as seriously as we should. I also think too many people are not taking the long view around saving capitalism and freedom and why we should be against socialism. I happen to like a full grocery store.
We’re too busy thinking about presentation or style instead of policy outcomes. Orange man bad instead of our successes like those of the hundreds of Federal judiciary appointments.
I wish I knew more about election fraud in the US than I do.
I do know that committed leftists often don’t tell the truth, and are capable of anything to maintain power. And it also seems to me that the party of JFK and Harry Truman died of heart failure on the morning of November 9, 2016.
Having said that, was the election stolen, or was it lost?
I think the odds the PA state results were messed with are pretty good. Basis is this -> https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1324529112506081280.
I don’t like how the counting room windows were boarded up in Michigan, or how poll watchers were kicked out in Michigan -> https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/04/poll-challengers-converge-detroit-amid-close-election-results/6161484002/
A lot of people cannot get past the President’s presentation or style, and don’t look at policy accomplishments such as the hundreds of judges appointed to the Federal Judiciary. In a culture where appearance or style seems to be everything, it seems entirely plausible the President lost the election.
But it’s so close, I think the courts need to closely examine PA, GA and MI as we are unlikely to take the state’s word for it on their certification statements.
We are too far gone. But what comes after?
There’s a great old Peanuts comic strip in which Lucy is at bat and strike three is called after she whiffs for a third time. In the next frame, she is seen insisting that she deserves a 4th chance because “I was sick recently”. After whiffing on #4 she insists that she deserves a 5th chance because “I’m a girl”. And after whiffing, predictably, on opportunity #5 she tries to argue that she deserves a 6th chance because “I’m so cute”. She is then seen stalking away, finally denied, grumbling, “What kind of game is this where you only get five strikes?!?”
Lefty Lucy epitomizes the infantile equity-enforcers who STILL can’t make that silk purse out of a sow’s ear no matter how much they pervert the rules. There are always going to be different outcomes for different people because NO ONE is truly ‘equal’ to anyone else. And it sure does get dicey when it is observed that entire demographic groups exhibit collective differences, one to another.
Water seeks its own level, naturally, and so do humans. Trying to enforce equity in outcomes among people makes as much sense as legislating the requirement that gravity grant short guys a pass that they might rise to NBA height.
And that’s the problem with Leftism – its own internal contradictions always cause it to fail, even if it takes 80 years . . . .
Well John what do you think is next? Will we continue to swallow our bile and hope for better results next time? If the lefties get in, I’m not convinced there will be a next time other thaan the standard USSR style.
I’m looking at the “near term” in Monday’s post. Long term? We win. But maybe not in our lifetimes.
For some reason I am not quite as fatalistic about all this as I maybe should be. I have done all that I know to do as a citizen and if the SHTF I am prepared for that as well. Honestly, we are all “comfortable enough” with our current situations and not at all desirous of an armed revolt in which we have to distinguish which fellow-Americans to kill. Who would be our leader in such a revolt anyway? Twitter wars don’t count as leadership in the trenches. Only guerrilla tactics would work in this environment, so I’m gonna call bullshit on this “revolution” before it even starts. I could be wrong but like I said…I’m prepared.
Also, Ricky was right when he said that a modicum of decorum would have gone a long way towards a 2nd Trump term. Nevertheless every detractor had to be punished by presidential verbal flagellation. We all know in our own lives that this type of behavior is a futile practice.
An aside that shouldn’t be an aside – how come Alaska interm results and totals aren’t being reported? They’re a State!
Then there’s this. A sting op is underway? Start the video at 2:30…
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-11-05/intelligence-insider-president-trump-setup-democrats-sting-operation-catch-them
As I alluded to above, THIS. We need THIS type of evidence and we need it fast.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1324522476320264192
I really, really hope the sting rumors are true. That would be AWESOME.
Pretty convincing argument that Trump will “claw back” PA in any subsequent court battle should Biden win that state. SCOTUS should rule 9-0 on this.
https://macris.substack.com/p/why-trump-will-triumph-in-pa-litigation
Of course, the left and the public in general will most likely ignore the factual legal details, scream fraud even in the face of a 9-0 SCOTUS decision, and just start CW.
Law, logic and reality have little to do with SCOTUS decisions. It will be decided 5-4, or possibly 6-3.
Yup.
I don’t think so . . . .
Should be a slam-dunk, too. We listen to those commercials . . .
Pretty convincing argument that smoke is in the air from a fire somewhere.
https://monsterhunternation.com/2020/11/05/the-2020-election-fuckery-is-afoot/
It’s surreal looking at the list on Fox news of the razor sharp battleground state candidate vote leads. Such tight margins in five separate states defies belief as a random happenstance.
But still…find that Evidence. Forget Zuul, gotta appease Gil Grissom.
If I was freshly-minted American president harris, I would scribble Executive Orders like crazy:
* Number One nationalizes all farms and ranches, all food production!
* Number Two forgives student debt after five years of work in food production!
* Number Three establishes a National Wage of us$15 per hour for everybody — surgeons, street-sweepers, prostitutes, airline pilots, preachers on televisionprogramming, etcetera!
* Number Four establishes a National Treasury of wacky WorldWideWeb columnists with a for-life stipend of drive-through hamburgers!
* Number Five establishes a ‘reserve fund’ of food/housing/perks for the heroic work of security personnel for officials high in the government…
Yay! Burgers!
But really, Biden is rich – “I want to be president of all Americans” plus “I want to take ALL the guns I don’t like.”
Not even trying.
Yeah, baby! The recount war is ON!!!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gop-analyst-raises-170k-purchase-data-conduct-deep-dive-voter-fraud
CONTRIBUTE HERE:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/voter-fraud-detection-az-ga-mi-nc-nv-pa-wi
And . . . GOFUNDLEFTISTS censored/pulled the campaign.
Michigan is back under the microscope!
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/04/michigan-antrim-county-election-results-trump-biden-blue/6162541002/
This is gonna get ugly fast.
I figure we have until January to sort this out. Considering the parties involved, if it gets real ugly, finding food in the large cities will be a difficult task. This will be good, since it will just like living in a Socialist country and that’s what many are asking for..
In third world countries, democracy means “My side wins forever, and we really stick it to those other people.” Import the third world, become the third world. Democrats have been championing “immigrants” over Americans our entire lives.
2016 was the final free and fair election in the USA.
Your last sentence is exactly true.
Something that really heartened me – at this point President Trump got at least 1.5 million more votes for re-election, than Obama did in 2008 at the height of his hype. And that’s after five years of the most negative coverage anyone’s ever gotten. I’m not even sure AOC can count that high, to put them all on one list.
I understand.
The President has received 4,650,187 votes in a very blue state, roughy 200,000 more than 2016, and 3.57M votes remain to be counted.
Correct. But Trump isn’t the cause, he’s the symptom of a system gone sideways.