23 thoughts on “The Biggest Blunder”

  1. No. The blunder was back in 2016 when the Democratics ran a candidate so bad that their chosen clown opponent, who was supposed to lose bigly, ended up winning instead. So instead of helping their own creation “grow in office” for the next few years while they made sure he lost in 2020 for that growth (think Bush the Elder), they went full “resistance”. And here we are…

    The GOP may be the Stupid Party, but the Democratics are the Idiot Party.

  2. A pox on both parties. I support the Republicans only to the extent that they oppose the deep state by their actions, not their words.

  3. But did it happen? I recall there were many dozens of lawsuits about that, but none of them survived – almost all being thrown out of court with only one overturned on appeal.

    And if it really happened in 2020, then why didn’t it happen again in 2024? My take is that successful criminals don’t just do a crime once. If they profit from a crime once, then they do it again and again.

    1. My understanding is that most all cases were not permitted to have their day in court, being thrown out before they could be properly examined.

      1. No case pertaining to any sort of election shenanigans had so much as an evidentiary hearing. Every court refused to hear every case brought to them. So while the Left and the MSM (but I repeat myself) claim that all challenges to the 2020 election lost in court, the truth is that none was ever heard in court – and that isn’t the same as losing.

      2. Cameron, my understanding is that these cases didn’t deserve a day in court. I see cognitive dissonance here: the idea that whoever allegedly threw the election in 2020 had the power not only to do that, but to shut Trump and his allies out of the court system even in situations where Trump judges presided.

        So why didn’t they just repeat that? Throw the 2024 election and shut Trump out of the courts again? What changed? As I see it, there’s a couple of possibilities. First, that the alleged electoral cheating didn’t happen in 2020 – which is what I favor. Or second, that Trump has reached some sort of accommodation with these sinister forces.

        1. Third: his win was so big he beat the margin of fraud. Even at that it was a close thing. They tried the same ballot dump stunt in Wisconsin again, but this time it wasn’t enough.

          1. Yes. Thought I saw a graph showing it clearly (vote totals over time) but can’t find it now, did anyone else see it?

          2. Third: his win was so big he beat the margin of fraud.

            My point here is that if you have such iron control of the court system in these swing states, then you have plenty of margin for fraud.

            And if the margin was so great that Trump’s win couldn’t be hidden, then why was it so close? If we restrict our attention to the six swing states (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin), we find that he won by just over 600k votes. That would require a shift of only 300k votes for Harris to sweep those states (which is a little over 1% for the votes of these six states). Of you could drop the state strongest for Trump, Arizona, and do it with a bit over 200k shift in votes which is under 1% of the remaining five states’ overall votes.

            So did they commit fraud, but fall short by a mere 1%? Or was that small amount somehow a bridge too far?

          3. Or 4th: the pre-election prep done by the GOP to thwart cheating was effective – including jumping right on perceived infractions the moment they happened.

        2. Democrats have been cheating in elections for over 150 years. Every cycle some of them get arrested, often for cheating in their own primaries.

          Bernie lost because they rigged the primary against him and this cycle they rigged it for Biden knowing he would be replaced after the voting. This prevented a candidate, like RFK, from winning the nomination because while he was a superstar, he is not part of the Obama faction.

    2. Why do you claim it isn’t happening in 2024? Explain Bucks County violating a court ruling to not count disqualified ballots.

      1. Leland, in 2016 the Trump campaign filed lawsuits in six states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Swing those to Harris and she wins. So why didn’t she win?

        In the Bucks County, Pennsylvania case, we have two things: first, a court ruling in favor of the Trump campaign. And second, the violation of law is brazen:

        “Every voter’s ballot is sacred,” Montgomery County Commissioner Neil Makhija, a Democrat, said on X, formerly Twitter. “When we know when a ballot is sent and received through barcodes [on] our envelopes, the dating requirement is immaterial. We can’t throw out constitutional rights over technicalities.”

        Diane Ellis-Marseglia, one of the Democrats on the Bucks County board, voted to count the ballots, saying that “if I violate this law, it’s because I want a court to pay attention to it.”

        This isn’t like the 2020 scenarios where covert fraud elected Biden and obstructive courts blocked justice. The court made a good decision here and some low level, loony politicians are showboating by deliberately flouting that decision. It won’t have any consequence, if only because courts view deliberate lawbreaking and violation of court orders poorly.

      2. I think this time, Democrats realized they couldn’t conduct the fraud for the top office. As Wodun describes below, Republicans did a good job making that difficult. However, I think they are clearly doing this and Republicans just barely did enough to retain the House. As we are seeing with Sen. Casey; Democrats are trying to get everything they can from any means they can. I think it is why California still hasn’t finished the counting. I suspect at least one other senator seat (generally, not intending to name one) and about a handful of House seats were likely stolen by counting fraudulent ballots.

        I doubt anyone will make a fuss of this, since the House was retained and the Senate gained. I just can’t explain why the capable states of California and Pennsylvania are unable to count ballots in under a week, unless I assume they intentionally don’t want to do so.

    3. Republicans spent the last four years litigating election laws, cleaning voter roles, and had an army of lawyers for the election.

      Democrats tried to cheat again but we’re for the most part countered. But look at Bucks county where they are counting illegals votes, CA where they are manufacturing votes, or Maricopa county.

      In 2020, there was a lot of cheating. They kicked observers out, which should tell you what you need to know even if you can’t prove any single ballot was fraudulent.

  4. I would like a new party – the LMA party. LEAVE ME ALONE.

    Quit treating me like an idiot
    Quit treating me like an ATM
    Quit demanding that I accept your ideas about morality and decency

  5. I would like a new party – the LMA party. LEAVE ME ALONE.

    I thought that was what the Libertarians of last century were supposed to be, until they were overwhelmed by Democrats who turned it into the “Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n Roll” party. (Sorta like how Colorado got turned into Colofornica thanks in large part to legalization. Don’t underestimate people’s political support for their recreational vices.)

    For now, the Stupid Party’s excesses will be well publicized by the Democratic media organs, which will put some limits on them. What will be interesting is when the Stupid Party figures out that no matter what they do, they’re gonna be called the same names, so just ignore those organs. I think it will take the dying off of geezers like McConnell and Thune, who are still afraid of bad press from cable TV talking heads.

    1. Don’t underestimate people’s political support for their recreational vices.

      Indeed. I never knew how many men like dressing like pop tart girls and hanging out in the girl’s locker room. For that matter, stealing lady’s luggage off airport carousels and parading on social media wearing the illegally obtained garments.

  6. The Dems now trying to form a “shadow cabinet” in contradiction to Trump’s, and the RINOs already saying they won’t approve some (or many) of Trump’s picks. It’s clear that Trump must go nuclear and use recess appointments for all of them or he will get stalled right out of the gate.

      1. Hence recess appointments for all. Since that isn’t a paid position I’m hoping most of these are well off enough to do it unpaid.

        We won one battle, the election, but the war is not over by any stretch.

  7. You can’t blackmail someone into doing what they wanted to do in the first place. The author misplaces blame in the rascally activists as if the views they hold are not the majority views in the party.

    Can’t blame a “fringe” when it is the establishment with the full power of the party behind it.

  8. Shadow cabinets are a normal part of parliament in Australia and New Zealand. The opposition party(ies) appoint them routinely. The people concerned become the opposition spokespersons for that portfolio.
    Not saying it is good just pointing out a fact.

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