Election Data Shows Lots Of Republicans Flipped For Certain Races

By William Teach December 9, 2022 – 10:30 am

Surprisingly, the NY Times doesn’t seem to connect the dots on all these Republican losses in what should have been easily winnable races

Turnout by Republicans Was Great. It’s Just That Many of Them Didn’t Vote for Republicans.

After yet another disappointing showing for Republicans in Georgia’s Senate runoff on Tuesday, some conservatives — like Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich and Kevin McCarthy — have begun to point to a surprising culprit: a failure to take advantage of early voting.

The theory seems to be that Republicans are losing because early voting is giving Democrats a turnout edge. It follows a similar conversation after the midterm elections, when a chorus of conservatives said Republicans needed to start encouraging mail voting.

But as more data becomes available on turnout in this year’s election, it is quite clear that turnout was not the main problem facing Republicans.

In state after state, the final turnout data shows that registered Republicans turned out at a higher rate — and in some places a much higher rate — than registered Democrats, including in many of the states where Republicans were dealt some of their most embarrassing losses.

Instead, high-profile Republicans like Herschel Walker in Georgia or Blake Masters in Arizona lost because Republican-leaning voters decided to cast ballots for Democrats, even as they voted for Republican candidates for U.S. House or other down-ballot races in their states.

Kemp won the Governor’s race by 8 points over Abrams, while Walker lost the runoff by 2.8. So, so, so many polls showed Republicans with comfortable leads in certain races, yet, still lost. It can’t all be blamed on cheating by Democrats, can it?

Take Maricopa County in Arizona. It’s home to Phoenix and around 70% of the state’s voters. Some Republicans say — without any clear evidence — they faltered in Arizona because some Maricopa voters were unable to cast ballots at the polls on Election Day, but the final turnout data shows that 75% of registered Republicans turned out, compared with 69% of Democrats. That was enough to yield an electorate in which registered Republicans outnumbered Democrats by 9 percentage points. Yet Republicans like Masters and Kari Lake lost their races for Senate and governor.

Or consider Clark County in Nevada. There, 67% of Republicans voted, compared with 57% of Democrats, implying that Republicans probably outnumbered Democrats statewide. Yet the Democrat — Catherine Cortez Masto — prevailed in the Senate while Republicans won the governorship and also won the most votes for the House.

In the key Senate states mentioned in this article, Republican House candidates received more votes than Democratic ones. The final Times/Siena polls showed that voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada preferred Republican control of the Senate.

It’s fair to say voters in these key states probably preferred Republican control of government, in no small part because more Republicans showed up to vote. They just didn’t find Republican candidates they wanted to support at the top of the ticket.

In other words, most of these are ones that Trump was pushing hard, making those candidates toxic, even if those candidates supported positions which those squishy Republicans, and #NeverTrump Republicans, supported, because these people are investing too much emotion into their choices, rather than thought. They’re forgetting that most politicians are really not the best of people. You wouldn’t trust them around your favorite stuff. Some of the candidates were not great, like Walker and Ozz. Some where. But, some Republican voters either flipped to vote Democrat, voted for someone else, or just left that part of the ballot blank. This will not end well if Trump wins the primaries. Again, this is not me being #NeverTrump, not Trump Derangement Syndrome, it’s about electability.

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IOC Holds Off On Naming 2030 Winter Olympics Site Due To ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach December 9, 2022 – 7:15 am

Well, maybe stop picking places that aren’t necessarily the best spots for winter sports. But, hey, everything is climate cult related these days

Host city for 2030 Winter Olympics hasn’t yet been named. Why? It may not be cold enough.

Concern over warmer temperatures and vanishing snow in some of the world’s winter playgrounds has put the selection of a host city for the 2030 Winter Olympics on hold.

The International Olympic Committee said this week it no longer plans to target host selection during its 2023 meeting. Instead the committee will give its Future Host Commission for the Olympic Winter Games more time to address its challenges.

Sports competitions around the world are increasingly affected by warmer temperatures, the Olympics included. Winter and summer venues have struggled with warmer than normal temperatures that lead to a range of issues, including lack of snow, rain instead of snow, and heat waves.

The winter host commission gave the Olympic committee’s executive board a presentation Tuesday, prompting a “wider discussion on climate change” and sustainable winter sport. One proposal floated would require future Winter Olympic hosts to prove their average minimum temperatures in February over 10 years were below freezing at potential snow competition venues.

Well, of course the climate changes. It always has. We’re deep into a typical Holocene warm period. These moonbats think it is all the fault of humans, so, yeah, hey, let’s hold a competition where tens of thousands take fossil fueled trips to attend, watch, and compete.

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Brandon Is Super Sick Of Scary Looking Guns Being Sold

By William Teach December 9, 2022 – 7:00 am

Say, how many actual assault rifles, ones that are fully automatic, many of which are suppressed, are owned by the Executive Branch, excluding the Department of Defense? How many by the US Secret Service? Disarm them first

Biden speaks at vigil honoring victims of gun violence

President Joe Biden called again Wednesday for a ban on so-called assault weapons as he spoke at a vigil honoring victims of gun violence, an event taking place nearly 10 years since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, that spurred a new generation of advocacy for tougher firearms restrictions.

“It’s just common sense. It’s simple common sense,” Biden said at the National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence, at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. (snip)

“The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick. Just sick,” Biden said on Thanksgiving. He mentioned then that he would start counting votes in Congress for such a ban, although the White House declined to answer Wednesday whether Biden has done so.

Huh. This was Biden on Thursday

https://twitter.com/SonofHas/status/1600892582225235970

So, yeah, call for a ban on scary looking rifles (after calling for a ban on all sem-autos at Thanksgiving), then release this guy

(Breitbart) Viktor Bout was arrested in 2010 and sentenced to 25 years in prison for arms trafficking, aiding terrorist organizations, and conspiring to kill Americans. A notorious arms dealer with a lengthy career of aiding international terrorists, Bout was arrested in a sting operation in which American DEA officials posed as potential buyers tied to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist terrorist organization. The DEA officials explicitly stated they wanted to weapons to kill Americans, to which Bout allegedly replied, “we have the same enemy.”

So, release a horrible arms dealer and call for gun control. Meanwhile, Biden left retired US Marine Paul Whelan behind in Russia.

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Climate Cult Super Excited To Use International Court

By William Teach December 8, 2022 – 3:20 pm

I’m still hopeful that a court will tell Warmists “this court will be happy to process your claim once you’ve proven that all plaintiffs have made their lives carbon neutral and are practicing what they preach”. Anyhow, here’s Amnesty International, which notes on it’s about page

In 1961, British lawyer Peter Benenson was outraged when two Portuguese students were jailed just for raising a toast to freedom. He wrote an article in The Observer newspaper and launched a campaign that provoked an incredible response. Reprinted in newspapers across the world, his call to action sparked the idea that people everywhere can unite in solidarity for justice and freedom.

So, freedom and justice, while pushing to use government courts to force people to comply

Climate Crisis: International court should play key role in delivering climate justice

Amnesty International is backing a call for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an opinion on states’ responsibilities and obligations surrounding the climate crisis.

A group of 18 countries, led by Vanuatu, is formally presenting a resolution to the UN General Assembly on 9 December asking that the UN Court issue an advisory opinion on the rights and obligations of countries under international law in relation to climate change. The resolution is due to be voted on in coming weeks, with a majority required to pass it.

Marta Schaaf, Amnesty International’s Director of Climate, Economic and Social Justice, and Corporate Accountability Programme said:

“The initiative to request an International Court of Justice advisory opinion on state obligations regarding climate change will clarify and strengthen the international legal framework and foster the ambitious action required to match the urgency and gravity of the climate crisis. The past year has been wracked by extreme weather events made much more likely by climate change, and reports from the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and others show immediate action is imperative.

“A robust advisory opinion from the ICJ can guide this action. The court will not make new legislation but will examine existing international law, particularly environmental law and human rights law, in the light of the scientific consensus on the causes and consequences of climate change.

You know what this is really all about? Money. These small nations want lots of money given to them with no strings attached, all while relying on lots of fossil fuels to bring goods and tourists. There are 30 airports in Vanuatu. They just built another international one a few years ago, and spent a lot of money to upgrade a few others. Well, a lot of money from Australia and a few other nations, not really their own. Tourism accounts for about 40% of their GDP. That only happens with fossil fuels. Same with agricultural exports, which accounts for about 20% of GDP.

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Biden Has More Important Things To Do Than Visit Border

By William Teach December 8, 2022 – 10:30 am

I’m sure the residents in the border towns are thrilled that their concerns are not important

Biden says ‘more important things’ than border visit, despite 59 trips to Delaware, 8 stops for ice cream

President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he hasn’t visited the U.S.-Mexico border because “there are more important things going on,” despite traveling to Delaware 59 times and stopping for ice cream eight times since taking office.

Biden defended his decision to skip visiting the border while in Arizona, telling Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy, “There are more important things going on.”

Biden made the defense while boarding Marine One to travel to Phoenix ahead of semiconductor manufacturer TSMC’s announcement to increase its chip investment in the state to $40 billion.

When Donald Trump was president, Biden described “horrifying scenes” at the U.S. southern border of “kids being kept in cages” and federal agents “ripping children from their mothers’ arms.” But nearly two years into his presidency, Biden has never visited the border despite thousands of illegal immigrants flooding into the country every day.

To Biden, “more important things” than visiting the border apparently include 59 trips to his home state and eight separate stops for his favorite dessert.

I stopped counting a few weeks ago, but, I was up to 28 weekend trips to Delaware, 8 trips to Camp David, and 9 trips somewhere else or stayed in D.C. for this year. Meanwhile,

(NY Post) A US Border Patrol agent was killed in an accident while chasing a group of illegal immigrants, according to a Texas congresswoman.

The agent, Raul Gonzalez, was involved in a chase near Mission, Texas, Wednesday when he crashed his all-terrain vehicle, the chief of Border Patrol tweeted.

The 38-year-old agent was traveling at high speed when he crashed into a gate, according to Fox News. The father of two was taken by fellow agents to the hospital, where he later died.

The Border Patrol is undermanned because no one wants to work for a department in which their top head, Joe Biden, along with many others above the agents, hates them and restricts them in doing their sworn duty, as record numbers come to the border. What’s the over/under that he goes to Delaware Friday for the weekend?

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Climate Cult Wants To Reign In Big Tech To Help Stop Climate Doom

By William Teach December 8, 2022 – 7:15 am

Say, I wonder how they’re going to do this? If Big Tech doesn’t voluntarily do this, then what? Unsurprisingly, the screed doesn’t say. Don’t want to spook people, right?

Society Can’t Slow Climate Change Without Reining in Big Tech, New Report Warns

Any effort to curb global greenhouse gas emissions and stave off catastrophic warming is doomed to fail unless far more is done to address the “foundational” role Big Tech companies now play in exacerbating the climate crisis. That’s the conclusion of a new report released last week by the international environmental nonprofit Global Action Plan.

From amplifying conspiracy theories and misinformation to their increasingly massive energy footprint, the world’s biggest tech companies aren’t only making global warming worse, the report said, but pose “a systemic digital roadblock to effective climate action” by driving unsustainable consumerism, increasing political division and pushing society further away from democracy.

It’s certainly not the first time Big Tech has been thrust into the spotlight over its climate impacts. Just five companies—Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Meta—use as much electricity as the entire country of New Zealand, according to reporting from the Financial Times. And research shows that climate disinformation continues to flourish on the biggest social media platforms, including Twitter and TikTok, which experts say makes finding global consensus on climate policy a nearly impossible task.

In fact, experts warned that a blitz of disinformation during the COP27 global climate talks last month undermined the summit’s progress. And many climate activists were outraged after the U.N. conference ended without any official commitments to phase out, or even phase down, fossil fuels—something experts say must begin immediately to fulfill the Paris Agreement targets.

If you don’t like the arguments people are putting forward, then put forth better ones that support your assertion. Shutting down opposition just causes people to wonder why, and research it more. Of course, it’s tough to defend your position when the majority of people in the Climate Cult are utter hypocrites. Will these Warmists enlist the government to force tech companies to only allow one point of view? That sounds rather Fascistic, eh?

Further, a big part of the massive footprint is people streaming shows, movies, and videos. You can bet the youngsters will utterly refuse to cut their streaming down: will the hardcore cultists attempt to get government to limit streaming? How about reducing ads, interfering with economies?

“If Big Tech’s business model entirely relies on continued advertising growth, how can we collectively challenge over-consumption?” Hayes said. “And if that ad growth is delivered by an algorithmic design that systemically promotes divisive, conspiratorial, hateful content, how can we as a society possibly hope to unite to confront the climate crisis?”

Who stops the companies from advertising? Overall, though, the Cultists are Very Upset that people with Wrongthink are allowed to have their say. They just do not cotton to that, and want it stopped. That is their primary message. Their primary concern. Everything else is secondary.

“Since Musk’s takeover I have ramped down my own use of Twitter,” climate scientist Twila Moon told The Guardian. “Folks noticing a rise in climate denialism and disinformation is particularly worrying and I am concerned that it could slow climate action in ways that are devastating to economies, communities and health.”

So, make better arguments. I’m not familiar with her, so, I perused her Twitter feed, and, not seeing much of any arguments. And lots of fossil fueled travel. Cultists are authoritarians at heart.

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Nothingburger? Trump Hosts Conspiracy Theorist Liz Crokin

By William Teach December 8, 2022 – 7:00 am

I have absolutely no idea who Liz Crokin is, and, until it was explained in the story, what Pizzagate is. The question here is “is this something that could hurt Trump, or a big nothingburger?”

Trump hosts event featuring QAnon, ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy theorist at Mar-a-Lago

A prominent adherent of the QAnon and “Pizzagate” conspiracy theories posed for photos with former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort Tuesday night after speaking at an event hosted at the club, according to photos and videos posted to social media.

The event came two weeks after Trump had dinner at Mar-a Lago with rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, who recently spoke positively about Hitler, and far-right YouTuber Nick Fuentes, who the Department of Justice has labeled a white supremacist. The meeting sparked outrage despite Trump’s claim he did not know who Fuentes was.

Videos and photos posted to social media appear to show Liz Crokin, a prominent promoter of QAnon and pro-Trump conspiracy theories, speaking at an event at Mar-a-Lago and later posing for photos with Trump. In one photo, the duo make a “thumbs up” sign together.

Does anyone remember Obama yammering with an unhinged lunatic who eats cereal in a bathtub of milk? Or Biden constantly consorting with a guy who likes to do hard drugs and hang with hookers, and screw around with his dead brother’s wife? Oh, right, that’s Hunter.

According to social media posts, the event was billed as a fundraiser in support of a “documentary” on sex trafficking — one of the pillars of the QAnon conspiracy theory. The website for the film, which includes multiple falsehoods and claims of mass sex-trafficking in Hollywood, boasts that it is “Banned by YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and PayPal.”

Mar-a-Lago often hosts events for outside groups.

“You are incredible people, you are doing unbelievable work, and we just appreciate you being here and we hope you’re going to be back,” Trump said in remarks to the crowd, according to a video of his speech.

The wild thing is that, since this is being posited by a Republican, the media wants nothing to do with investigating sex trafficing. What if they’re right? I have no idea, haven’t read a thing about it.

That said, is this another unforced error which comes back to bite Trump in the 2024 general election, provided he wins the primaries? He really, really, really should be doing everything possible to position himself as sane, rational, a guy with a plan to actually help, and much better choice than Biden or someone else the Dems put up. Someone in the comments writes

Just my opinion but I think he knows exactly what he is doing. He’s cultivating as much of a hard core fringe following as he can. The people most likely to go to extremes for him. If he wants to do a 3rd party run if the republican party rejects him then he’ll destroy any chance of a conservative winning the presidency because his base will follow him wherever he wants them to go. Trump not only gets mad but he gets even if he can.

He could have a point. Anyhow, remember, these posts are not about being anti-Trump, they’re about electability. He’s making himself unelectable. And little things like this will always be magnified by the Credentialed Media.

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Your Fault: Rice And Coffee Will Be Mostly Gone In 30 Years

By William Teach December 7, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Coffee and rice have pretty much survived multiple warm and cool periods through the Holocene. While coffee beans go back much further, the first use of them as modern coffee goes back to the 1400s. Rice goes back at least 10,000 years. But, because you refuse to put yourself in debt to get an EV, send your money to government to redistribute, and surrender your freedom, they could maybe possibly be gone

Former White House Chef Sam Kass Says Products Like Coffee, Rice Will Be ‘Largely Unavailable’ in 30 Years

Worsening climate change threatens the future of our food, according to former White House chef Sam Kass.

Kass not only served as the Obama family’s primary chef in the White House, but he also took on policy work while in D.C., serving as the executive director of former first lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move initiative and becoming the White House’s first-ever senior adviser on nutrition. Now, he is turning his attention on creating a discussion about sustainable food and agriculture practices.

“A number of foods that we hold very dear to our hearts and largely take for granted are under a real threat,” Kass tells PEOPLE. “And you’re seeing in the future, we’re on track for a lot of those to become quite scarce and some really to be largely unavailable to most people and others just significantly increased in cost.”

Such products include everything from wine and chocolate to coffee, shellfish and rice, he says.

He adds: “Food and agriculture is the number two driver of greenhouse gas emissions globally and uses about 70% of the world’s waters. It’s the number one driver of deforestation, land use change. It’s really at the center of a lot of these environmental issues.”

So, what’s his solution? The article doesn’t really say.

Kass emphasized this sentiment at the “$500 Dinner” last week in New York City. The name of the Knorr-sponsored dinner was not based on diners’ bills; instead, the “$500 Dinner” was an event where Kass served a meal that cost $72 per person to make today — but in 30 years, the same dinner would cost $566.

mule fritter sherman potter

What happens if this doesn’t happen? Will anyone even remember his prognostication of doom and call him on it? These same types of people have been predicting environmental food doom for 50 years. In past centuries they blamed it on witches. Just a scam.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 7, 2022 – 1:00 pm

….is horrible carbon pollution Bad Weather fog, you might might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on the ACLU threatening to sue a hospital if they don’t perform gender confused surgeries.

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Christian Group Denied Service At Restaurant, Media Seems OK With This

By William Teach December 7, 2022 – 10:30 am

These are the same Credentialed Media outlets who get upset over bakers refusing to make cakes for gay marriages, biological men told they can’t be on women’s teams, that crossdressers shouldn’t be reading to children, and that drag shows should not allow kids to attend, and they want to get government to force people to accept these things. But, if it a Christian group gets denied? I’m not finding any outlet that says it’s wrong

Restaurant refuses service to Christian group, citing staff ‘dignity’

A restaurant in Richmond last week canceled a reservation for a private event being held by a conservative Christian organization, citing the group’s opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion rights.

“We have always refused service to anyone for making our staff uncomfortable or unsafe and this was the driving force behind our decision,” read an Instagram post from Metzger Bar and Butchery, a German-influenced restaurant in the Union Hill neighborhood whose kitchen is helmed by co-owner Brittanny Anderson, a veteran of TV cooking shows including “Top Chef” and “Chopped.” “Many of our staff are women and/or members of the LGBTQ+ community. All of our staff are people with rights who deserve dignity and a safe work environment. We respect our staff’s established rights as humans and strive to create a work environment where they can do their jobs with dignity, comfort and safety.”

The group, the Family Foundation, was set to host a dessert reception for supporters on Nov. 30, the group’s president, Victoria Cobb, wrote in a blog post describing the incident. About an hour and a half before it was slated to start, one of the restaurant’s owners called to cancel it, she wrote. “As our VP of Operations explained that guests were arriving at their restaurant shortly, she asked for an explanation,” Cobb wrote. “Sure enough, an employee looked up our organization, and their wait staff refused to serve us.”

Now, if this was a pro-abortion or pro-gender confused group, the media would be freaking out, attempting to cancel the restaurant. Since it was a Christian group? Crickets. Because, apparently, there is dignity in supporting irresponsible, unprotected sex resulting in an unwanted pregnancy, using abortion as birth control. And it’s “unsafe” to…..serve people food who have different views on the subject of gay marriage and abortion on demand.

In an interview, Cobb said that since she posted about it, she has heard from people alarmed by the story and from other dining establishments making it clear they would be welcome. “A lot of people are outraged that a restaurant wants to make a litmus test at the door,” she said. “Everyone should be concerned that people are being denied service based on their politics.”

It’s pretty dumb, and, really, highlights that Americans, especially Democrats, have made politics the central point of their lives. Democrats are very, very Outraged and un-accomodating to those who do not toe the Leftist line. But, really, a business does have the right to refuse service, do they not? And then they can deal with the fallout.

Restaurants have made news for taking issue with their patrons’ politics. Sarah Sanders, then the White House press secretary and now the governor-elect of Arkansas, was asked to leave the Red Hen in Lexington, Va., in 2018. The owner of the restaurant, Stephanie Wilkinson, wrote that she thought Sanders was “a person whose actions in the service of our country we felt violated basic standards of humanity.” And a judge in 2018 sided with a New York bar that ejected a customer for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat in support of President Donald Trump.

Notice that it’s almost always Leftist run places doing this. They’re just a bit unhinged.

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