HALF-FULL REPORT 11/18/22
Just as the motto on the New York Times masthead – “All the news that’s fit to print” – is mendacious, so is WaPo’s. That’s why the sardonic meme above best describes the 2022 midterms farce.
Democracy in America really did die in darkness as election results have trickled in since Nov 8. How this happened is simple – the 2022 Midterms were The Voldemort Elections.
J.K. Rowling’s character of Voldemort, as Harry Potter’s arch-nemesis, strikes such fear within the wizard world that his name cannot be spoken, only referred to as He Who Cannot Be Named.
It is the same phenomenon the GOP world, in fear of being cursed as Election Deniers – an absolutely brilliant locution tainting all those who claim the 2020 presidency was rigged and stolen from Trump as on a despicable moral level as Holocaust Deniers. So brilliant that it worked like a black magic charm in 2022.
Try this… name one GOP candidate, save for possibly Kari Lake in Arizona, who, in losing via endless late ballot-counting, has publicly said his or her election was stolen through Democrat cheat-by-mail.
Not even Trump mentioned this in his 2024 announcement as to why the Red Wave flat-lined.
Marco Rubio asked the question that no losing GOPer seems willing to answer:
Democrats epitomize hypocrisy because they get away with calling any opponent they cheated to win against an “election denier” when the Democrat Party has loudly claimed every presidential election won by the GOP since 2020 was illegitimate: Bush v Gore, Bush v Kerry, and of course Trump.
Kudos to Breitbart for running this story yesterday (11/17): Meet Election Denier Hakeem Jeffries, Front-Runner for House Democrat Leader.
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So that’s the dishearteningly bad news — there was no Red Wave, primarily albeit for other reasons as pointed out by Andrea Widburg on Tuesday (11/15) in TTP, because of Dem cheat-by-mail. 2020 taught the Dems they could get away with the same in 2022 and they did.
And here’s the worse news: Exactly the same cheat-by-mail scheme will work for the Dems to steal the House, Senate, and White House in 2024. Unless, that is, the national GOP working with GOP-controlled state legislatures, starts right now on Election Integrity legislation to stop it.
Helping them would be some major conservative think tank to do the following analysis on the 2022 midterms: Compare polling results to voter results as to the time it took for counting all the ballots.
If this analysis shows the more time for ballot-counting the more disparity, the less time for ballot-counting the less the disparity between polling and results, and the more the disparity the more a D wins, it would b strong evidence of the need for real reform in mail-in voting.
There is no silver bullet to stop Dem cheating, no one piece of legislation. It has to be salami election reform, one slice at a time. For example:
*Ban on mass-mailing a mail-in ballot to everyone on the voter rolls. Send a letter with a tracking bar code to them first asking if they want a mail-in ballot which they must sign and return. Only Yes signed replies get mailed a ballot.
*Voter roll clean-up laws removing dead, out-of-state, etc. modeled on Florida law that allowed winning Miami Dade. Voter registration data base made public online.
*Require open observation of ballot counting, that must include recording of the envelope signature matching that of the ballot.
*All ballots must be counted on Election Day, no counting of ballots received post-election.
*Require Photo ID to vote same as Indiana Voter-Photo Identification Law upheld by the Supreme Court.
*Carefully pick red state district courts with conservative Trump-appointed judges in which to file election integrity lawsuits. The lawfare over election reform has got to reach at least Appeals Court-level upholding of the above reforms so they can be in effect by Nov 2024.
Better than anyone else, Ron DeSantis knows how to get such reforms passed and enacted so that Florida has the most honest elections in America. The RNC should send him across America explaining to legislators and voters how to achieve election integrity in their state.
Again, the quicker this is done the less daylight is burned before 2024.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL15o58Sj_Q
Speaking of RDS, he was incredibly impressive in his response when asked on Wednesday about Trump’s attack on him. Total class, level-headed factual – easy to see why latest polls show him ahead of PDJT.
This week I was a speaker at an international investment conference, and was asked about Trump vs. DeSantis. I began my answer with noting I was a huge fan of both men, and that a duke-out between them tearing the GOP apart is what the Dems are praying for.
So much so that the Dems will do everything they can to sabotage any rapprochement between them. Fake news is their specialty, so they’ll spread invented rumors that “sources say” RDS “overheard” using four-letter insults of Trump or suchlike, in the same manner they made up the pee dossier/Russia collusion tripe.
Hopefully, Trump will not be suckered into this, with the two of them reacting by cooperating to work for America’s salvation from Death By Democrat. POTUS’ smartest move would be to ask RDS to work with his fellow governors on how to reignite their state’s economies, enact real election reform, and end Dem woke insanities like he’s done in Florida.
That and note that RDS will only be 50 on Election Day 2028 (he just turned 44 in September), and will make a fabulous 48th US President after he tees America up for him as the 47th. Or offer RDS to be his VP running mate, saying he’ll change his state residence to do so (per the 12th Amendment).
On the other hand, I noted that there was in fact a Red Wave, but it got smothered by 30-and-under young voters bribed by Dem gimmies. It may prove impossible to get them to go for someone who’ll turn 80 midway into his second term (June 2026), while RDS stands a far better chance with them.
These are just considerations for it’s far too soon for choices. One thing you can be completely sure of, however, is that when Mike Pence says “It’s time for new leadership” in 2024 (meaning not PDJT), 99% of conservatives are responding, “Well, that sure as Hell isn’t you, Mike!”
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Here’s a headline to love. Yesterday (11/17): Goodbye, Nancy! Pelosi Steps Aside: Will Not Seek Reelection as Democrat House Leader.
Here’s another. This afternoon (11/18): Colorado: Boebert Opponent Frisch Concedes Race Ahead Of Likely Recount.
So that leaves the House now at 219R/213D with 3 CA races still “counting.” Presently, R’s are thinly ahead in all 3 with Dems hard at work forging phony mail-ins to win. However they turn out, the GOP ends this wave with a smaller majority than the Dems had coming in.
So at least the Pubs will run the House committees – until the Dems bribe enough RINOs to switch parties.
Here are headlines not to love. Monday (11/14): Schumer: I’m Meeting with McConnell to Push for Ditching ‘MAGA Republicans’. Wednesday (11/16): McConnell Blames Midterm Failures On MAGA Candidates Who ‘Frightened Voters’ With Chaos.
And this on Wednesday: 12 Senate Republicans Vote With Democrats for Far-Left ‘Respect for Marriage Act’.
Frankly, it is disgusting that McConnell Re-Elected Senate GOP Leader, Defeating Challenger Rick Scott by secret ballot 37-10-1.
So the Senate is worse than useless, especially with – exactly and precisely as predicted in last week’s HFR — Dems stole both Senate seats in Arizona and Nevada to keep their majority.
The only way the GOP can keep its tiny majority in the House and do anything useful like blocking Buck Fiden’s woke agenda is for McCarthy to keep a total unanimity in votes like Pelosi. How probable is that? A rhetorical question, that.
Sorry, but no even half-full glass as things stand at this moment.
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So if you want optimism, we have to look elsewhere. It happens that I spoke about that in my talk earlier this week at the international investment conference mentioned above.
It was a geopolitical talk about what countries would fail or thrive. The coming collapse of Russia was clearly accelerated by the liberation of Kherson a week ago and Zelensky triumphantly being there on Monday (11/14):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKh03Qx3BYA
But more important than congratulations are what this portends on the battlefield.
The Russians are retreating all the way to Henichesk on the Sea of Azov (red pinpointed above). With the Kerch Strait Bridge still inoperative they cannot be resupplied save by trucks from the east that can be HIMARed – and winter is at the door. Ukrainians are well-fed and warm, Russians ill-fed and freezing. By Spring, they will have to retreat from Crimea as they have from Kherson. It is the same in the Donbas.
As the Russian independent news source Noyava Gazeta reports on Monday (11/14): Lose Kherson, Lose It All.
With defeat in Ukraine, the disintegration of Russia similar to that of the Soviet Union begins. With the threat of Russia gone, all of Eastern Europe will have a Renaissance from the Baltics to Bulgaria, suffused with infectious optimism. By next summer, Ukraine will be the best place in the world to invest, as the whole place has to be rebuilt, starting with the $300 billion in seized Russian assets.
If you’re an investor, big or small, start thinking of how you can participate.
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Meanwhile… you need a break from all the demented craziness enveloping the US. Join your fellow TTPers on my breathtakingly spectacular Patagonia Wonderland exploration in mid-January. You can luxuriate and exhilarate safely and serenely in one of the world’s most magical places. The rest of the world will be far, far away – which you know is what you need.
And you’ll bond with life-long friendships having life-memorable experiences with your fellow TTPers – I’ve seen it happen so many times. So please, peruse my Patagonia Wonderland – at the least I guarantee you’ll enjoy the jaw-dropping photos.
I can only take two more couples. I hope you’ll be one of them. Carpe diem! Life lasts but the snap of a finger, and then it’s gone forever here on this Earth. More than ever, the time with a wonderful adventure with your fellow TTPers is now.