Category: Elections
Quote Of The Day
From the comments to this article:
Beverly Hills business owners have been told to board up their windows by the local police department, as officials expect rioting throughout Los Angeles following the presidential election results
And the comment:
“So what happened to all the pontificating about accepting the results of the election, or does that only play one way?”
When it comes to the Left, things only go one way: the way they want them to go.
Everything else is “fascist”, everyone else is “Hitler”.
Slim Pickings
Reader ChetP writes:
“I notice that your blogging seems to have fallen off recently. Is everything okay?”
Thankee for asking, Chet, and yes, everything’s just fine. The reasons that this back porch has been somewhat lacking in content recently are manifold.
I am sick to death of writing about the fucking Chinkvirus, probably as sick as everyone is getting about reading about said Chinkvirus. Take Chinkvirus reports out of news coverage, and total content would drop by about half.
I am also sick to death of writing about the fucking election. Personally, I can’t wait for the thing to be over, Trump reelected to a second term and the Communist Hysteria be dialed up to 25 (on a 10-point scale) so that I might finally get to test those New ‘N Improved hollowpoints on something other than paper.
Alert Readers will note that I have refrained from writing about Biden’s wastrel son and their familial corruption. This is mostly like complaining about the flies buzzing around a dead horse: the horse is dead and the flies are therefore irrelevant to his condition. Biden’s going to lose (bigly) and all this other shit is just pointless.
If you skim through any online newspaper and subtract the above three topics and articles related thereto, your read will be a short one. (“Bette Midler turns to Jesus for help in getting rid of Trump” may be ironically funny, coming from someone whose previous behavior has, to put it mildly, been somewhat devoid of Christian principle, but it’s hardly worth writing about, is it?)
So the rest of today’s posts will all be about manly stuff like guns and cars, because that’s the primary reason why most of my Readers stop by here anyway.
As Usual
Following on from yesterday’s news about Chile voting to “change” their constitution — really, overturning the one passed into law by Augusto Pinochet and putting in a new, “progressive” (Marxist) one — the Left in Chile did the usual:
Violence, looting, and disorder erupted in Chile on Sunday evening after an overwhelming majority of people voted in favor of destroying the country’s constitution, replacing it with a new document more favorable to the nation’s left wing.
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On the night of the elections, local media reported that police arrested at least 19 people for looting a pharmacy and a supermarket. In the commune of Melipilla outside Santiago, rioters attacked a police station, injuring eight officers, while also installing barricades on a carriageway to prevent the movement of traffic.
No doubt, this was all part of the “wild celebrations” that followed the vote result.
So just to be clear: if the Left loses, they riot and loot; and if they win, they riot and loot.
Something we can probably expect in the U.S. when Trump cleans their clock next week. See the next post for details.
I think I’ll head off to the range as soon as it opens in a couple hours. Handgun practice this time? I think so.
Planning
In the above post, I pointed out that whether the Left wins or loses, they riot and loot regardless. So here’s a little preview on how they’re planning to respond to a Trump victory:
Under the guise of seeking to “prevent a constitutional crisis,” a massive network of well funded left-wing activists and progressive groups are training, organizing, and planning to mobilize millions of Americans should President Trump “contest the election results,” refuse to concede, or claim an early victory.
More than 80 advocacy groups and grassroots organizations have joined in a broad coalition calling itself “Protect the Results” and proclaiming that “we cannot ignore the threat that Trump poses to our democracy and a peaceful transition of power.”
The coalition is a joint project of Indivisible and Stand Up America, two left-wing groups founded in response to President Trump’s 2016 election and whose goals are “to organize and resist Trump’s dangerous agenda” and “to defeat Trump and his enablers.”
Seeking to “protect” election results by use of its millions of members, the coalition calls to “take coordinated action” and “prepare for a potential post-election crisis.”
Note that even if Trump wins by an overwhelming majority, they’re still going to “mobilize”, because of the “the threat that Trump poses to our democracy and a peaceful transition of power.” (See the Chilean example above.) As Roger Kimball puts it, channeling Commiespeak:
But what if Trump, you know, actually wins the election?
He can’t. And if he does, it won’t count. Listen to this statement gathered by Pullman: “At some point in the days following the election Trump will almost certainly either attempt to declare outright victory or attempt to invalidate the results of the election. That is the start of the coup.”
So what happens next? “We need to show that we’re ungovernable under a continued Trump administration. … That can mean blocking traffic at major intersections and bridges, shutting down government office buildings … or blockading the White House.”
Nice. So the plan is to create instability and sow fear and discord, and then… what, exactly?
See how clever that is? If Trump wins and they start their bullshit, and Trump responds with some kind of police action like calling in the National Guard, then he’s the one opposing a “peaceful transition of power”? I, for one, am curious to see what will happen if their “coordinated action” is met with resistance from either police action or “counter-revolutionaries” (that, in case anyone is wondering, is us — people like you and me).
In the above article, Kimball is quite optimistic, by the way, ending with:
But if, as I expect, he wins, there will be much wailing and gnashing of liberal teeth, but widespread peace and prosperity will dull the pain and transform the anguish into the guilty pleasure of histrionic self-indulgence.
Me? Not so much.
Which reminds me: I need to go and pick up my ammo order. The Communists aren’t the only ones who can make plans.
Goodbye Chile, Hello Venezuela
And another one bites the dust:
Wild celebrations have been seen across Chile after the country voted to rid itself of its dictatorship-era constitution left behind by Augusto Pinochet’s regime.
Chileans voted overwhelmingly in a landmark referendum on Sunday to replace the constitution, long seen as underpinning the nation’s glaring economic and social inequalities.
Thousands of people flocked onto the streets of Santiago amid a cacophony of horn-blaring to celebrate a crushing victory for the ‘Approve’ campaign – by 78.28 percent to 21.72 percent, with over 99 percent of the votes counted.
And its replacement?
People hope a new constitution would expand the role of the state in providing a welfare safety net, ensuring basic rights to health, education, water distribution and pensions.
Ah yes, an expanded state… [sigh]
And why not? After all, they voted for it, despite the dismal track record of an “expanded state” failing everywhere it’s been implemented.
My post title says it all.