Help!
I hope the Supreme Court steps in and makes some sensible rulings, so we can all get back to making fun of Democrats.
I thought the run-up to the election was bad, but the aftermath is worse. Not just for the country, which could probably even survive a Biden/Harris administration, but for me. I have been the recipient of every conspiracy theory that is floating out there. I find myself longing for the innocent days of hanging chads. People who can barely add up a small column of numbers are now tossing around statistics the way the East Berlin women used to toss around shot puts at the Olympics.
I hope the Supreme Court steps in and makes some sensible rulings, so we can all get back to making fun of Democrats.
Perhaps the most depressing thing about the election isn’t the wholesale cheating that’s been taking place, but the fact that not a single House or Senate Democrat is speaking out against it. When a politician is so willing for his party to benefit that he or she is willing to turn a blind eye to obvious chicanery, things don’t bode well for the Republic.
On occasion, politicians move beyond partisanship in order to do the right thing. An early example was when Rep. Edmund Gibson Ross broke with the Republican Party to vote against impeaching Andrew Johnson, a Democrat.
Although it was less a matter of courage than of pragmatism, not every Republican had the gumption or the moral authority to go, as Barry Goldwater did, to the White House in 1976 and tell Richard Nixon to vacate the premises because his party wouldn’t support him if he decided to fight impeachment.
I keep hearing about impossible numbers, where 300,000 votes suddenly roll in and they’re all for Biden or where the votes out-number the population in various congressional districts.
Frankly, if there are going to be phony elections, I prefer that they be forced on us by a dictator, by someone like Joseph Stalin, than by the media’s working in tandem with Silicon Valley billionaires. It was, by the way, Stalin who famously said: “Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”
The difference, as I see it, is that people can revolt against a tyrant. It’s more difficult when the cheaters and those who support the cheaters are friends, neighbors and relatives.
I think Donald Trump is the greatest president of my lifetime, but if he could only win by stuffing ballot boxes with fraudulent votes, I’d be against him. That’s because an honest system is more important than who the president happens to be for the next four years.
While tracking the numbers a couple of days after the election, I noticed at one point that Biden allegedly held a 21,000 vote lead over Trump in Wisconsin. Just for the heck of it, I decided to find out how many votes Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen had sucked off. It turns out that 38,414 cheeseheads had thrown in their lot with her.
As a rule, Libertarians, who favor less government intervention in their lives, tend to be more in step with Republicans than with Democrats. So if these twerps hadn’t decided to throw away their votes, but had broken 30,000 for Trump, 8,414 for Biden, that would have given Trump a lead of 586 votes in the state.
I realize the Democrats could have found 600 ballots in the trunk of a ‘97 Chevy if they needed them, but I have to wonder if any of those 38,414 people woke up the next day and asked themselves if feeling special is worth the risk of looking like blockheads.
Something else that has been piquing my curiosity is why when we were being told for months and months that we should expect a blue tidal wave of votes for Democrats that would increase their numbers in the House, give them the majority in the Senate and put Joe Biden in the Oval Office, did the Democrats have all these cheating plans in the works?
Why bother? I mean, when the fix was in, boxers didn’t put in a lot of time training for a fight.
Is it possible that they knew all along that the polls were phony and that if they didn’t cheat, they had no shot at defeating Trump?
If anything good comes out of this mess it’s that the next time some TV pundit cites a poll, he will be greeted with a nation-wide horse laugh.
As for the pollsters themselves, I expect to see swarms of them showing up at freeway exits holding up signs reading: “99.7% of pollsters will work for food.”
I don’t think people make enough of a distinction between people who wind up addicted to drugs because they decided it would be cool to try crack or heroin and those who become addicted because they took pills to deal with the pain after an accident or an operation and then found they couldn’t get the monkey off their back.
The second group are innocent victims of unfortunate circumstances. The first group made rotten decisions and should not be allowed to say they’re suffering from a disease. Stupidity is not officially a disease.
Speaking of which, sometimes while watching Fox News, I think of Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly and wonder how they view their downfall. Are they capable of taking responsibility for their boorish behavior or do they blame the women for blowing the whistle on them?
Does it ever occur to them that they could have simply walked out the front door of Fox in New York, walked a block in any direction and hired a hooker?
But because the two morons were into power trips more than they were sex, they destroyed their careers by harassing their underlings.
Maybe there is a God, after all.
For me, the main takeaway from the election is that it is time to Balkanize the nation. There is simply no way that a country as divided as we are can continue to survive. It’s unfortunate that blue nations are interspersed among red ones, so there is no way to sever the neatly country in half. But let us at least consider separating before the shooting begins.
The result needn’t be 50 separate nations. There’s no need to have more than half a dozen or so. California, Oregon and Washington make a nice fit. So does New England, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia. The rustbelt states could connect, as could the wide swath of the country that starts with Montana and North Dakota and runs down to Texas. The South, after 160 years, could finally have sovereignty without slavery.
Some of these new nations would preserve the U.S. Constitution in its entirety, the others could get rid of religious freedom and gun rights. Or they could adopt someone else’s constitution altogether, the way that Ruth Bader Ginsburg advised. She seemed very fond of South Africa’s, but Russia’s, Cuba’s and China’s, are also out there for the taking.
Some countries would very likely decide to fully fund the police, whereas the others would be free to use social workers and community organizers to keep the peace.
There would be a certain amount of resettling, but people are accustomed to moving for their jobs or to get closer to or further away from relatives, so that’s not such a big deal.
One of the phoniest aspects of the response to the virus is the way that Democratic mayors and governors have dealt with social distancing. When it came to law-abiding people wanting to get together in churches, ballparks, beaches, restaurants, bars and homes, the rules were strict and fines were imposed.
However, when it came to mobs of black looters and white thugs, the politicians let them run loose. Suddenly, the virus was no longer a threat to the general population. When it came to the anti-social crowd, social distancing was of no concern.
The scary thing is that all these petty tyrants will be re-elected in Oregon, Washington, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Jersey Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, California and New York.
Let the Balkanization begin.
As it appears that a party at which you all attend and I finally get to meet you is not to take place, I will request that you send me photos of yourselves. You know what I look like. You even know what my dog looks like. I’d like to know what you folks, who constitute my extended family, look like.
Remember to address them to [email protected].
