Tuesday, November 05, 2024

Stories, polls, and predictions will be wild today; Set your Bogusity Meters to super-high-maximum-plus

It turns out that our ol' friend, Damian Bennett, has not and will not be voting early as he is a vote-on-the-day guy

Forty-eight hour madness commences. Stories, polls, and predictions will be wild today. Set your Bogusity* Meters to super-high-maximum-plus. [These emails post a day behind. Will sync up homestretch countdown by tomorrow.]
* bo•gus•it•y, (bō'gŏs'ĭ-tē), n. = 1. Contemptuous discordance with the truth or facts; 2. A lie or lies supporting another lie or lies; 3. Utter bogusness; 4. Political discourse and discursus.
Finger-licking “Trunalimunumaprzure!”
Nice.
Nicer.
More Nicer.
You can enjoy it, but you can't bank it. Yet.

[Keeping in mind that we are past October tidy-up month, are the squishy pollsters trying to look brave and accurate two days out? It only hurts to believe if DJT loses, so Bogusity Meter: 1¼]
The Fix.
  • Biden-Harris Admin Disenfranchises Overseas Military November 2, 2024
    Reps. Brian Mast (FL-R), Bill Huizenga (MI-R), and Mike Waltz (FL-R) have sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, expressing “grave concern”...that the stockpile of absentee ballots has reportedly been “depleted and not replenished,” likely having a negative impact upon service members’ ability to vote.
    [DOD can't plan and execute for a reoccuring event known years in advance, yet is spoiling for a fight with Russia. Bogusity Meter: 10]
  • BIG TECH KNEW BIDEN LAPTOP SUPPRESSION WOULD INFLUENCE 2020 ELECTION, Wanted Big Guy's Favor November 3, 2024
    Big Tech platforms had shockingly frank internal conversations about their efforts to sway the 2020 presidential election, even stating explicitly they wanted to be on the good side of a Biden-Harris administration, according to communications released by the House Judiciary Committee days before an election in which mainstream media are promoting censorship of conservative voices.
    The Republican-led Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee published an 82- interim staff report Wednesday on how the FBI "prebunked" allegations about Biden family "corruption," and 641-page version with the full communications    , providing the clearest evidence yet that tech platforms understood their role inevitably paved the way for the Democratic ticket.
    [Bogusity Meter: 0]
  • Trans Activist's Organization Sent Thousands Of Texts Falsely Telling Pennsylvanians They Had Already Voted November 2, 2024
    AllVote spokesperson Charlotte Clymer told CNN the organization estimates 'several thousand registered voters were affected by our error' - referring to the text messages received by Pennsylvania voters over the weekend.
    [They will do anything and everything.     Bogusity Meter: hard 10; GFY Meter: 10 again]
  • “We’re Not Going To Allow Them To Steal It”: Rep. Raskin (MD-D) Repeats Trump-like Reservation On Accepting Election Results (Johathan Turley) November 2, 2024
    On Bill Maher’s HBO Show on Friday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) appeared to repeat his reservation about accepting a Trump win in the presidential election. Raskin said that Democrats will only support a “free and fair election.” Trump was widely criticized for the same position when he said “If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results.”
    Raskin previously said that he would not guarantee certifying Trump and that, if he wins, he may be declared as disqualified by Congress: “It’s going to be up to us on January 6th, 2025 to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he’s disqualified. And then we need bodyguards for everybody and civil war conditions.”
    [Raskin and Schiff are the twin snakes of the Democrat caduceus, entwining the wand of lies. How do these people get elected? Are CA CD30 and MD CD8 moron repositories? Bogusity Meter: 10+; GFY Meter: a hard 13]
  • Left-wing Firm Tied To Voter Registration 'Scheme' Goes Dark And Then Defunct November 3, 2024
    “Where there’s fire, there’s fire,” said Hogan Gidley, of the Center for Election Integrity. “Thousands of instances of reported voter registration fraud have now been confirmed throughout Pennsylvania.”
    [We are being set up for a 2020 replay. Bogusity Meter: 0]
They Got Nothing.
  • Rattled Kamala Harris Turns On Nevada Rally Hecklers With Rambling Scold November 1, 2024
    A clearly flustered Vice President Kamala Harris turned on protesters who heckled her during a Nevada rally Thursday (Video):  [Protests.] “You know what? Let me say something about this. We are here because we are fighting for a democracy. Fighting for a democracy. And understand the difference here. Understand the difference here, moving forward. Moving forward, understand the difference here. What we are looking at is a difference in this election – let’s move forward and see where we are because on the issue, for example, freedom of choice.” [Protests.] “That’s OK. That’s alright. That’s OK” 
    [This seems biased reportage. KA-mala is trying to recover her message and repetition is just a rhetorical tool here to pull the audience back and refocus herself. Bogusity Meter: 8⅜]
  • Prominent White Supremacist Richard Spencer Endorses Kamala Harris November 2, 2024
    Richard Spencer, an avowed racist, antisemite and admirer of Nazism who coined the term “alt-right” and was a featured speaker when he took part in the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Va., called Harris the “best manager of the American empire.”
    [This is a 'taint' endorsement. Spencer wants to elevate his own visibility with a sensational nod to KA-mala, not bring any benefit to H-W. Spencer also knows his endorsement is never sought because with it comes instant political discord. Unlike the Cheneys, who bring an imaginary something to H-W, it is doubtful KA-mala will embrace Spencer. Bogusity Meter: Solid 9]
  • Leftists Predict Hysterical Dystopian Future Ruled By JD Vance And An Immortal Elon Musk November 2, 2024
    The secret to understanding the average progressive mind is to first realize that everything they do revolves around a deeply ingrained fantasy world in which they are rebels; righteous underdogs fighting against "the system" or "the patriarchy."  Leftists cannot function within their collectivist ideology without first creating a fascist bogeyman to revolt against.  If they were to ever realize that they are, in fact, the establishment and the authoritarians, their entire world view would collapse.
    [Cellophane-blue-haired girl VO: "We had a beautiful life. The best parties. The most beautiful friends." ... "Many of us even voted for them." 'Them' is DJT, JDV, and Musk and Thiel. Although H-W and its affiliate PACs ads have been consistently off-target, this seems more a Jill Stein ad. Bogusity Meter: Solid 10]
  • Poll: Nearly 6 In 10 Americans Aren't Convinced Kamala Harris Worked At McDonald's November 2, 2024
    The NYT dubbed claims that Harris never toiled under the Golden Arches 'burgerism'
  • Kamala Harris SNL Appearance November 2, 2024
Hilarious! Everything rhymes with KA-mala!

[I wasn't going to post on this, but DH sent me the clip and now you must suffer with me. It's not funny as intended, but it is funny as meta-reality. The skit is like a cut & paste from the H-W campaign itself: it's banal word-spin that says nothing. SNL cannot successfully parody the H-W campaign, because the campaign is a parody of the Democrats' parody of 'saving democracy'. KA-mala is the matryoshka doll of politics, surfaces nested in surfaces but with no actual core, just endless lesser and lesser surfaces nested in lesser and lesser surfaces.
KA-mala nesting doll. No surprises inside!
Bogusity Meter: Solid Unfunny 10]
Selling KA-mala.
Lizzie, Get Your Gun!
Before leaving the 48-hour craziness, a look at Liz Cheney spanked by DJT, and the ensuant hysteria. Ensuant? The hysteria jumped right out the gate. Here is the entirety of what DJT said at the campaign event in Glendale, Arizona: 

“I don’t blame [Dick Cheney] for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter is a very dumb individual. Very dumb, she’s a radical war hawk. Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. They're all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let's send 10,000 troops into the mouths of the enemies,’ but she’s a stupid person and I used to have meetings with a lot of people and she always wanted to go to war with people.” 

The offending bit, highlighted in yellow, that bit is what was reported on and embroidered by ‘journalism’ . Below a sampling of the headlines it inspired. (🏴 = partial or mangled quote used.)
Now the great walkbacks and correx.

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RIF's Paul Reen Crosses Swords on France 24's Debate Show


One day before America's 2024 election, RIF's Paul Reen was invited to participate on France24's The Debate:

On Election Day eve, “The Debate” focuses in on the presidential candidates’ final messages and the state of the vote. Charli James is joined in studio by Paul Reen, President of "Republicans in France," Donna Ghosh, delegate for Democrats Abroad, and US Historian Olivier Burtin, to break down the biggest issues on the minds of voters and when American may know the results.

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The Best Summary of Trump's MAGA Campaign — in 4 Snapshots

Best summary of Donald J Trump's campaign
 (Meilleur résumé de la campagne de Donald J Trump)

Highlighting No Pasarán piece on Philippe Karsenty's TRUMP2024 X post, "neatly epitomized in four snaps" (via Damian Bennett).

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Monday, November 04, 2024

36 Hours Left to Go: Anxiously Waiting

It turns out that our ol' friend, Damian Bennett, has not and will not be voting early as he is a vote-on-the-day guy

Less than [24] hours. If you have voted early, civic congrats, but you must now anxiously wait. Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick. Not me. I am a vote-on-the day guy. I am not waiting, I am champing on the bit. I am not anxious, I am excited. My vote can be Zeno's single millet seed that makes the hope a heap, makes the heap a win. 

Let us begin at ¡No Pasarán! with Philippe Karsenty's TRUMP2024 neatly epitomized in four snaps.
Meilleur résumé de la campagne de Donald J Trump
(Best summary of Donald J Trump's campaign)
Nice.
Nicer.
More Nicer.
The Fix.
They Got Nothing.
“I'm stupid. What are you?”
[When it comes to DJTDS, Mystal is the undisputed King Of Pure Stupid in a crowded field of competitive stupids. Feel free to read whatever it is he's arguing at the link but there are no refunds for the abuse of your time. Come Trump47, NOT ONE of these nutjobs will EVER be back-checked; they will never be shamed as stupid; they will move on to being ever stupider and stupider. If stupidity were to collapse in a singularity, that singularity will no doubt locate in the brainpan, caped by the massive shock-Afro, of Mystal.]
Selling KA-mala.
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One of this blog's pivotal posts (on Trump's alleged "baseless claims" about the 2020 election) appears in French: Cessons de dire « Trump a tenté de renverser les élections de 2020 »


It is easier for the world to accept
a simple lie than a complex truth
— Alexis de Tocqueville

Il n’y a, en général, que les conceptions simples
qui s’emparent de l’esprit du peuple. Une idée fausse,
mais claire et précise, aura toujours plus de puissance
dans le monde qu’une idée vraie mais complexe.
— Alexis de Tocqueville

Over the past 10 months, I have been translating, or having translated, one of this blog's most important posts of the past 4 years, into some of the languages I know — indeed of the past 20 years, since the post addresses one of the biggest scams of the 21st century.

Namely, Let's Stop Using the Words "Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election" (It's Unprofessional Journalism), which appeared on American Thinker on the second day of 2024, just in time for the January 6th anniversary (merci beaucoup pour le lien Instapundit)

After appearing in Portuguese or in Brazilian, and before appearing in Danish, the post was printed in French. Actually, it is a far lengthier version thereof, as I have been adding important issues to the article in the following months. 

And the up-to-date English version will appear tomorrow, on election day, possibly (hopefully) again on American Thinker.

Ils ne passeront pas! Without further ado, here is a longer version of my January 2 post in French:

• Cessons de dire « Trump a tenté de renverser les élections de 2020 »

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Peanut: the authorites will murder an illegal squirrel but won't check on the health problems of illegal migrants (not to mention their crime status) or indeed even prevent them from crossing the border


What is amazing about the left's double standards is how quick they are willing to insist that it was normal for the authorities to send half a dozen policemen to show up to check on Peanut the Squirrel and Fred the Raccoon (but the rabies! it was for the rabies!), while having no compunction about letting in millions of illegal aliens on the Southern border — without ever monitoring the latter for tuberculosis, Covid (which got American citizens demonized and fired), and other types of diseases such as those that have been eradicated in the First World (the plague?!), not to mention for being criminals, rapists, and murderers let alone belonging to vicious Latin American gangs.

Win It For Peanut and Fred writes David Strom:

This story is viral--it has taken over Twitter/X in fact--because you either see the evil or you don't. It is about bureaucratic indifference, government overreach, setting priorities, determining what "helps" or hurts society be better. If you think killing a pet squirrel and a pet raccoon whom people love makes things better, then look in the mirror and ask why murderers are set free but squirrels raising money for animal rescue get killed. 

 … Peanut was not "just" a squirrel, and Fred was not "just" a raccoon. They were companions. And bureaucrats killed them. 

The outpouring of grief from MAGA is partly for their saviors, but equally it is driven by rage at the faceless of a government that doesn't care about people and instead worships power. Many liberals shrug and say "this is the law" and they killers were just doing their jobs.

A day earlier, David Strom explained Why Peanut the Squirrel Matters: 

In the midst of the decisive election campaign of our lifetimes, why talk about Peanut the Squirrel? Aren't there more important issues like the polls, turnout, shenanigans, and all the day's news?

Yes, all those things matter. But the story of Peanut matters because it is a microcosm of what we are facing. A nameless, faceless, and merciless bureaucracy with no sense of proportion or empathy can, at a whim, upend people's lives over what amounts to nothing. It can seize a beloved family pet, the mascot of an organization that does enormous good, just because some nanny-stater decides they don't approve. 

 … Peanut and Fred died over paperwork.

The streets of New York City are filled with criminals and migrants, billions are spent on hotel rooms for illegals, drugs are ravaging our communities, and lawlessness is spreading in ways that degrade our civilization. Those are big problems that are difficult to deal with, so the government turns its Sauron eye to Peanut because it can overwhelm the little guy with no problem. 

Improving people's lives is hard. Killing a squirrel is easy. 

 … It's like organizing a manhunt for a jaywalker or executing a search warrant for tearing the tag off the mattress. Going after dangerous criminals is hard; instead, go after the low hanging fruit of good people who won't resist. 


As Elon Musk retweeted a meme saying "If they will raid a house for a squirrel, they're sure as shit going to come after you", John Carter jumps to the conclusion:

The obvious line to take on this is that the government can’t seem to prevent illegal migrants from pouring across our various borders (indeed, it subsidizes them), while it will go all hands on deck to assassinate an illegal squirrel and his raccoon friend, but this is just anarchotyranny for you. This story isn’t really about the prefix of that portmanteau. It’s about the suffix.

We live in a society in which a vengeful busybody on the other side of the country can anonymously harness the implacable machinery of the state to ruin the lives of people they’ve never met, who are generally powerless to do anything to obtain satisfaction from the faceless bullies hiding within the miasma of the permanent bureaucracy.

We live in this kind of society because we have allowed our natural liberties to be nibbled away at, a little bit here and a little bit there, until there is practically nothing left of them. Like Gulliver, we are held down by thousands of tiny threads, a net of laws and regulations, all of them enacted ‘for our safety’.

We have put Safety First, and if safety comes first, it necessarily follows that everything else comes after safety. There is no price too high for safety, and so we pay everything for it.

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Back in TV's LCI Arena for RIF's Vice-President


Au programme : Washington se barricade face au risque de violence. Ingérence/Election USA, le FBI signale un réseau russe. Et Poutine et ses alliés, peut-on les arrêter ?

As TF1's Marie-Aline Meliyi claims falsely that "Washington is barricading and Americans are buying ammunition out of fear of a new January 6" (0:11, except it's not the GOP's Trump supporters that most citizens fear as much as the Leftist terror tactics of Antifa and BLM — see below), Republicans in France is back in action, with RIF's Anntoinette Danskin appearing on a LCI Club Meliyi debate at 40:35 and, more specifically, at 43:15 and 44:55.


As Chuck Ross puts it, "Amazing to see a 90% Democrat city so worried about what Democratic voters might do if Democrats lose"

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On French Radio Station, GOP's ROF Member Does His Best to Conquer Nonsense-Spewing Democrat


On Sud Radio (South Radio), a French member of Republicans Overseas France (ROF, with moustache in gray vest) with a great last name, Nicolas Conquer, lets loose after he can no longer take the nonsense and the fairy tales of Fred Hoffmann (glasses), member of Democrats Abroad France.

Avec Nicolas Conquer, Porte-parole des Republicans Overseas & Fred Hoffman, Porte-parole des Democrats Abroad en France
 

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