Open Thread

We do have a problem with young voters and have to find a way to appeal to them. The first step I think we should take is annulling all student loans in default and then change the law to allow student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy after five years – with a proviso that 25% of the discharged amount is charged back to the institutions they attended. As I’ve said for years, the student loan system is a mere scam – a subsidy for the far left. And, no, I’m not interested in making kids suffer the burden of it. They were conned. So, let’s unburden them and start to gain their trust and support…and with the charge back, start to punish our enemies in the academic left.

We lost in Arizona – and while I’m sure the Democrats did commit voter fraud in Arizona (as they do everywhere they can) the bottom line is that McSally lost. The Republican governor of Arizona got hundreds of thousands more votes than McSally did…so, she was misfiring somewhere.

That said, voter fraud is a huge problem. It looks like we stepped up in time in FL and GA to prevent the most brazen theft in history. Usually, voter fraud works around the small margins. You know – Democrat behind 400 votes on election day, and then finds just enough to win. The reason for this is that manufacturing tens of thousands of votes is a risky business. But, the Democrats seem to have tried just that in FL and GA. It just shows how completely lawless they have become – how absolutely certain they are that the laws simply don’t apply to them. One of the reasons why is neatly shown by Jeb Bush’s statement about it – he wants the Broward official in charge removed, but only after the vote is certified. In other words, old line Republican that he is, he’s ok with the theft and then merely wants the crook to quit. So it has always been – and Democrats have expected it will always be. But the new GOP has a bit of backbone…and all the Democrats may really have done here is put the issue of voter fraud on the front burner.

Latest from the incoming House Democrats is that they’re going to drop the program of impeaching Kavanaugh (maybe Schumer pointed out that this would be an insanely stupid thing to do?), but they are still saying they’ll take on Trump, even if Mueller doesn’t show any criminal behavior (and, he won’t). No one can read the future – I guess we’ll find out if the American people in 2020 will reward or punish such behavior. My view is that Trump holds the advantage here because most casual observers simply don’t care about such inside baseball stuff. And if the Democrats shut down the government over it (and they are de-facto threatening that), then it could end badly for them. But, in the event, we’ll have to see. Maybe Democrat insanity is what the American people crave? Time will tell.

If, as I expect, we do prevail in FL, it means we will have taken down four sitting Democrat Senators in 2018. Not a bad bit of work – in fact, I don’t think the out party has lost that many Senators in a midterm since the 1930’s. Democrats are, rightly, pleased at their House victory…but getting back to 51 in the Senate is going to be a difficult prospect for them. Now, if the GOP gets crushed under a landslide in 2020, lots of GOP Senators will go down with it. But if its a GOP victory or even a narrow loss, then the only GOPer really at risk is in CO. Meanwhile, the GOP has an excellent chance of recapturing Alabama that year and can at least take a shot at New Hampshire and Michigan. Moving on to 2022, the GOP will have a shot at NV, CO and NH while the Democrats really only have hope in Wisconsin. On balance, absent a meltdown by either party, the 53 Seats we’ll hold in January should be pretty tough to take from us over the next two cycles, meaning that if Trump is re-elected, he’s going to have a GOP Senate (at least) through his whole term of office. That will simply be devastating to the Democrats in the judiciary.

And now you know why the Democrats are suddenly talking up abolishing the Senate.

12 thoughts on “Open Thread

  1. Cluster November 13, 2018 / 8:12 am

    Democrats are currently in the process of meddling in elections and determining the outcomes. It’s absolutely criminal yet everyone sits back and let’s it happen. The Snipes lady in Florida is a convicted criminal and yet she is allowed to remain in her position and continue the count.

    Meanwhile most of our “press” and “journalists” ignore what is going on and continue to frame our president as a racist.

    Our transformation into a banana republic is nearly complete.

    • fieldingclaymore November 13, 2018 / 10:47 am

      I guess you were wrong about AZ senate.

      • Retired Spook November 13, 2018 / 10:56 am

        Excellent piece today at Town Hall outlining why McSally lost.

      • Cluster November 13, 2018 / 10:58 am

        I was only wrong about how corrupt Democrats are.

        Emergency voting centers were open in Phoenix the weekend before the election which is contrary to AZ law which stipulates that early voting stops the Friday before the election. On top of that, it was advertised that “no ID was required” at those “emergency voting centers” and that only invites corruption.

        So my only mistake was underestimating how corrupt the Democrat party is ……

      • Cluster November 13, 2018 / 12:28 pm

        Hahaha really? Identifying and not being happy with blatant corruption is now “being a crybaby”

        It’s a bizarre third world shit hole that people like you are turning this country into Fielding.

      • Amazona November 13, 2018 / 9:54 pm

        Cluster, you just said some things that Lib Fielding didn’t like. He couldn’t argue with it but he didn’t like hearing it, and just felt that he should say SOMETHING—-and a playground sneer was all he had.

        It’s gotta be tough to be a Dem these days.

      • Cluster November 14, 2018 / 8:47 am

        I still have ballots in my trunk. Why did we stop counting?

      • M. Noonan November 14, 2018 / 7:43 pm

        Count all votes!*

        *until the Democrat wins. Then stop.

  2. Cluster November 13, 2018 / 8:22 am

    Here’s our lady Snipes in FL:

    Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes, who has a disturbing history of election shenanigans, including illegally destroying ballots, accusations of ballot stuffing, and posting results before the polls even closed. This time around, she was caught “accidentally” (according to the Miami Herold) mixing invalid provisional ballots in with valid ones and hiding the number of ballots that still needed to be counted while she kept ‘discovering’ new ballots.

    Remember now, this lady has been convicted of election crimes yet while I listen to MSNBC defend he credibility, this is what the reporter with CBS said:

    “Broward County’s Supervisor of Elections, Brenda Snipes, who has been faulted by Republicans for not initially following vote reporting procedure, defended her process today,”

    She has been “faulted by Republicans”. We are in the process of losing the country even with Trump at the helm. Can you imagine the accelerated rate of our decline had Hillary or Jeb won?

  3. Cluster November 14, 2018 / 9:00 am

    Oh she’s going to be a fun one:

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Joins Climate Protest in Pelosi’s Office

    “I just want to let you all know how proud I am of each and every single one of you. For putting yourselves and your bodies and everything on the line to make sure we save our planet,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

    They really have “put everything on the line” haven’t they? In fact I heard they skipped lunch.

    • Retired Spook November 14, 2018 / 9:16 am

      LOL! But what do you expect when this is what they learn in school? I have a grandson who is a junior in college who buys into the religion of climate change hook, line and sinker. And yet he lives with his parents in a 3,000 square foot house that is heated by fossil fuel (natural gas), has his own car, and makes zero personal sacrifice to the AGW gods. But he caaaaaaares!!

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