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Pesky Facts

November 12, 2020 Kim du Toit Elections

From I&I:

The facts are, as of Monday, a full week after election day, Biden is behind President Donald Trump in the undisputed electoral count — Biden’s 226 to Trump’s 232 (assuming Trump wins North Carolina) — with a full 80 outstanding electoral votes in seven states still in a legal fog and unlikely to be determined much before the December 14 state deadlines to report the count to Congress.

Only the candidate with at least 270 actual electoral votes reported to Congress on that date will be declared the winner. Nothing more and nothing less. And it certainly won’t be “declared” by CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

So what can we say at this point about the outstanding 80 electoral votes in those seven states? What are the states in play and what are the ultimate likely outcomes?

The seven states still counting votes, or with recounts ordered, or audits forecast, or credible evidence of fraud or system “glitches” include:

- - Georgia’s 16 electoral votes under a scheduled recount.
  - Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes under a scheduled audit and a Supreme Court order.
  - Michigan’s 16 electoral votes with statehouse subpoenas for election officials.
  - Wisconsin’s 10 votes under a scheduled recount and statewide canvas.
  - Nevada’s 6 votes chasing legal challenges for fraud and a Bill Barr DOJ investigation.
  - Arizona’s 11 votes still counting and under scrutiny for voter irregularities.
  - And Nebraska’s 1 electoral vote in their District 2 under investigation.

That’s 80 outstanding Electoral College votes for which no one can at this point reliably predict a final resolution. How can anyone possibly know the results of any investigation, audit or recount before they have begun?

This is even more interesting than Bush/Gore 2000, where only Floriduh’s votes were in dispute, and that only by Democrats (remember, in all subsequent recounts, even those sponsored by Lefty orgs like the New York Times, Bush still won Florida handily).

Read the rest of the article.

Quote Of The Day

November 12, 2020 Kim du Toit QOTD, Two-Minute Hate

Couldn’t have put it better myself:

And just like that the rioting and looting has ceased overnight. And now the half of the country that pummeled America like a battered wife is telling her to put on sunglasses, hide her black eye, be a good girl, and “come together as one.” Her answer? “Go fuck yourself.”
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) November 8, 2020

And that goes double if you come for my guns, BidenHarrisBeto.

Sic Transit

November 12, 2020 Kim du Toit The Gun Thing

Herschel Smith has some bad things to say about the NRA, and can’t say that I disagree with a single one. Here’s the killer part, though:

The NRA rating system can’t be trusted to mean anything at all, they haven’t won a real fight in God knows how long, they’re in court defending themselves, the best and brightest hopes have left the board of directors, they jettisoned the ones who didn’t (like Lt. Col. Allen West), and they’re eaten up with bitterness and internal politics and squabbles.
They were completely absent this last national election (did you hear anything from them?), and they’re trying at the moment just to survive.
What a wasted opportunity. And all of this – every bit of it – was self inflicted.

Yup. When you have an organization that nominally holds over five million members and you can’t do diddly with it, you deserve to pass into oblivion.

And for those who ask “Who else?”, may I suggest the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), which actually, you know, takes the anti-2A assholes to court and stuff. Over the past ten years, SAF has done more for our gun rights than the NRA managed in twenty.

Remembering

November 11, 2020 Kim du Toit Heroism

As always, for my Oupa Charles, who somehow survived the Somme in 1916.

Finally, to bring things a little more up to date:

Seen In My Inbox:

November 11, 2020 Kim du Toit The Gun Thing

This offering (no link):

Thanks, but the one on the left would do me quite well. (No gripes about the wussy Europellet thing: the P210 is a competition pistol, not a carry piece.)

Post-Worthy

November 11, 2020 Kim du Toit Deep Thoughts

From Comments comes this thoughtful piece by Lo-o-o-ngtime Reader GMC70:

So – we have to consider how to live in a nation where, at least at this point, national politics is rigged and, if the Senate falls Democratic, is possibly rigged in perpetuity. One way is to ignore national politics, live in your local area, and get on with life. In a society where individual freedom used to be valued, it is going to be hard to get used to the idea that ideas can lawfully be suppressed. But we’re rapidly entering that age.
Another possible consideration, depending on the state you live in, is simply secession. If you’d asked me a decade ago, or even less, about that, I’d have laughed.

I’m no longer laughing.

Finally we all have to consider where our individual red lines are. What is the red line which will change you from law-abiding citizen to outlaw? I know where a couple of mine are: I will not register firearms (if, of course, I actually had any). At that point I will be an outlaw. I will not comply.
I will not give up my religious practices. Period. Nor will I tolerate any regulation on my church’s practices, decisions, or doctrine. And yes, that one’s coming, too.
If our red line is crossed, what will we do? I’m getting older, and the older I get, the less the threat of prison means to me. I have no desire to go to prison, but I will not compromise or give in certain areas.
And I will not go quietly into the cattle cars some on the left have planned for me and those like me.

What he said. Only with more cursing.