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"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”

― John Wayne "The Shootist"

Wayne's last film. If you have not seen it, it's well worth a look. Not your typical Western.

 

I might be mistaken and it's already done, but I think Cawthorn will be a one and done. He ran for Meadow's gerrymandered district as is. In 2022, Asheville will be back in, and it turns back blue.

 

LOL

 

You could erase student debt with what we've paid out to soybean farmers since Trump took office. About which no one anywhere said anything.



Government-subsidized crop insurance covered some of the losses from flooding. Other payments were unprecedented. The U.S. Department of Agriculture simply sent him a check to compensate him for the low prices resulting from the trade war.

" 'Trump money' is what we call it," Henry said. "It helped a lot. And it's my understanding, they're going to do it again."

 

So the Cook Political Report is keeping a running tally of the presidential vote as the slow counters in California and especially New York plod on. You can't read those numbers without noticing two huge facts. 1. A lot more people voted. 2. The shift in votes was, in percentage terms, very very small. If someone had put up a fake poll the morning before election day showing Biden 48-Trump 46, the margin of Clinton-Trump, they would've been far more accurate than the real polls, as the current result, Biden 51-Trump 47, is well within polling error range. In fact, it's a dead ringer for the Obama-Romney score. Nevada is the perfect symbol of this odd stasis. It's vote total increased by 25 percent, but Biden's percentage margin of victory, 2.4 percent, was identical to Clinton's in 2016.
What this all means I dunno, but I see it in context of the 2018 midterm sweep of the House by the Democrats and the GOP House gains this year. It's almost as if the public, recognizing it's hopelessly and narrowly divided, has voted to insure both parties are too weak to impose their agendas on the country.
Alternative theory: Voters would not be that unhappy with the state of the country if it weren't for the virus, and they know Trump has botched the virus response. So a decisive group of ticket-splitters voted for as much of the status quo as they could.

 

Shhhh. It's the libtards making wrong, dontcha know?

 

The Democrats had takeout. The Republicans held an abbreviated cocktail hour in which the 90 guests were seated at 45 well spaced two-person tables. So at least their guys got a free drink out of it.

 

You might want to ascertain the election on your way out the door

Trump bureaucrat blocking Biden transition team is job hunting

 

Something struck me last night about a post I made concerning Trump wanting to start a war.
I understand he knows more than all the generals, but that's a heck of a strategy to withdraw troops from literally both sides of the country you are about to attack.
1. You mustn't strategically surround your enemy. - Sun SUE, The Art of War

 

"What would you say is your greatest weakness, Ms. Murphy?"
"I, uh, have a tendency to cravenly follow the juvenile whims of a deranged, klepto-bigot even when those whims lead to death and harm national security."
"Thanks for coming in."

 

Sun Tzu.

 

Re-read the "quote" there, you might be missing something