Remember this?
The Nevada Supreme Court ruled Monday the state can count mailed ballots that arrive without a postmark up to three days after Election Day on Nov. 5.
…and no checks on the validity of said ballots, either.
…and similar measures.
Tag: Politics
Probably Not
Donald Trump will ‘unleash all-out war’ on Keir Starmer if he wins US Presidential race after row over Labour helping out his rival Kamala Harris
Errrr I hate to break it to you Brits, but you’re just not that important. Trump has bigger things to worry about when he walks back into the Oval Office — e.g. gutting (sadly, not literally) the Department of Justice and its sub-departments (FBI). “All-out war”? Prolly not; he’ll be looking at various Cabinet departments (e.g. Energy, Education and Defense, to name but some) if he wants to go nuclear.
That said, however: the next time Sir Keir asks us for a favor — e.g. helping Britain hold on to the Falklands — he’ll probably find that DJT has better things to do, e.g. washing his famous hair, so it might take him a while to return the phone call.
Caught Fiddling
About that “foreign interference in U.S. elections” thing: not Russia, this time, but… Britain’s Labour Party? Even the Brits are appalled:
There are some basic rules in foreign policy obvious even to the most half-witted politician.
One is that you can never be seen to interfere in any way in the elections of a democratic country. You don’t state preferences about any of the candidates, and you don’t try to influence the outcome.
This cardinal rule has been spectacularly broken by the Labour Party, which has enraged Donald Trump by apparently lending support to his rival, Kamala Harris, in the presidential campaign.
Of course, having fucked around and been found out, the denials quickly followed:
Labour denies it has done any such thing, pointing out that its activists have often travelled at their own expense to help Democratic Party candidates in previous elections.
Uh huh.
Maybe. But the Trump camp has unearthed a LinkedIn post from Sofia Patel, Labour’s head of operations, encouraging ‘party staff’ to ‘help our friends across the pond elect their first female President’. Activists were invited to send Ms Patel an email. She added that she would be going to America for the final two weeks of the campaign.
What is this if not a call to Labour activists to roll up their sleeves on behalf of Kamala Harris? It would matter less if the post – which has been deleted as Labour desperately tries to cover its tracks – had come from an obscure underling.
But the head of operations is an important figure. She represents Labour. Ms Patel’s message is that activists should do whatever they can to defeat Donald Trump. This looks like a blatant attempt by the governing party to influence the election.
And it is. Glover points out:
Donald Trump won’t be [forgiving]. He is vengeful, and likes to bear a grudge. He also has a low opinion of Labour, which his aides describe in a formal complaint to the U.S. Federal Election Commission as being ‘far-Left’. This is a characteristic exaggeration.
Except, of course, that it’s no exaggeration. Compared to the U.S. political spectrum — which is the milieu in which Trump is active — Labour IS about as far Left as any Socialist party could be.
Doesn’t matter, one way or the other. As Glover points out:
Of course, if Trump isn’t elected on November 5, Labour’s injudicious meddling won’t matter. But if he becomes America’s next President – an increasingly likely eventuality, which I regard with foreboding – he could bear a grievance against the British Government. That would affect us all.
Trump already knows that the Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, has variously described him in the past as a ‘neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath’, a ‘dangerous clown’, and ‘a tyrant in a toupee’.
And then Glover panders to his readers by adding:
At least partly true.
Which part, Stephen? The “neo-Nazi”, “sociopath”, “dangerous”, “clown” or “tyrant”?
Lest we forget, Trump has already been President once before, during which time he exhibited none of those traits that the Left tried to smear him with (and continues, like Glover, to do so). And I hate to spoil your fun, you Lefty assholes, but he’s not going to do it during his next term, either.
Just don’t expect any special favors from him, Britishland — Trump’s not the only one who bears a grudge, and if nothing else, he’s keenly aware of what his supporters expect from him.
Newcomer
So young Tulsi has decided to come over to the not-so-Dark Side:
“And it is because of my love for our country, and specifically because of the leadership that President Trump has brought to transform the Republican party and bring it back to the party of the people and the party of peace, that I’m proud to stand here with you today, President Trump, and announce that I’m joining the Republican Party,” she said at Trump’s rally in North Carolina. “I’m joining the party of the people, the party of equality, the party that was founded to fight against and end slavery in this country. It is the party of commonsense, and the party that is led by a president who has the courage and strength to fight for peace.”
My guess is that about 30 seconds after Trump is sworn in, she’ll be dropped from the TSA surveillance list.
to: 
Welcome aboard, sweetie. Just don’t fall back into your old bad habits.
Oh Stop It
Donald Trump said he would enlist Elon Musk to run a “government efficiency commission” if he wins a second term as US president. Speaking to the Economic Club of New York on Thursday, Trump said the X owner had agreed to head a task force to conduct a “complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government” and make “recommendations for drastic reforms.”
Could it be?
Or, if we’re going to be more traditional about it:
The Other Side MIA
The Divine Sarah has just returned from her native Portugal, and reports as follows:
One of the scariest things about the trip to Portugal was talking to people and realizing they’re living in an alternate reality.
You know, all the things that the Junta has tried to sell, and push? From “We’re in a booming economy” to “Biden is a patriot who stepped down to save the nation” to “Trump is a criminal” to “The refugee crisis is the result of global warming” ALL OF IT is being bought wholesale in Europe.
Now as a caveat to this, actually two of them: My family is now very much what would be considered “laptop class”, i.e. they are all credentialed professionals of some description, who therefore pride themselves on being “well informed” a lot of which consists of following our MSM (NYT, CNN, etc) and the Portuguese translations thereof. And I was mostly associating with them, save for listening in when we were in public, as I pretty much do all the time out of habit and because I like to know what people “really” think.
However, as far as I can tell even if not uniform, Portugal — which probably means most of Europe — at least as far as its educated classes go, is taking the pap our MSM spews as the gospel truth. You literally can’t tell them the truth without their thinking you’re a complete lunatic. I.e. the reality on the ground here in the US seems to them like something out of the left field that we’re just saying for shock value.
Keep that in mind when you hear of all the European love for Kamala-rama-lama-ding-dong.
The thing is that Europeans (including Brits) have been accustomed to people telling them what to do (and to read, and to think, and to say) for so long that now, when it really counts, there is no “counter-culture” such as we have Over Here: no equivalent of PJMedia, RedState or Breitbart News, no conservative radio (e.g. as practiced by the much-missed Rush Limbaugh or even the still-living Sean Hannity), or fearless “alternative” bloggers with an enormous following such as Instapundit, and precious few independnet small blogs such as this one.
So in the absence of all that, all they have is state-controlled electronic media and leftwing-sponsored newspapers like Le Matin, Der Spiegel and so on. (I was amazed at how Lefty even Austrian newspapers were, the last time I was there, and Austria is easily one of the more conservative Euro countries.)
Small wonder that they believe the bullshit thrown at them about Glueball Wormening, Ev Inevitability and untrammeled Third World immigration as a benefit.
So of course, when confronted by the New Counter-Culture (as espoused by leaders such as Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán, Geert Wilders and Giorgia Meloni), they are utterly bewildered by such strange concepts because they have never been exposed to them before — and strangeness, as we all know, leads to fear, opposition and resistance, if not outright rejection for no other reason other than strangeness.
And as Sarah so correctly points out,the funny thing is that while European society is living in an alternate reality, they are convinced that it is we who are.
The prognosis for Europe is not heartening, just as it will not be happy for us if the upcoming vote is fixed to provide another four years of BidenHarrisObamaClinton policies.