THIS IS your Democrat party.

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE they can't reproduce.

PEACE, LOVE, ... and slush funds.

SOMEONE IN THE BLOGOSPHERE linked to this post of mine from way back in 2014. It's worth rereading today.

IMPRIMIS: the economic disaster of the pandemic response.

No forgiveness. None. They must pay.

THERE ARE MAGIC CARS, and then there's math and physics.

I'll put my money on math and physics....

YOU'RE FIRED: Twitter employees learn the consequences of insubordination:

I would like to apologize for firing these geniuses. Their immense talent
will no doubt be of great use elsewhere.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 15, 2022

After Hubris comes Nemesis....

WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, everyone understands zero.

Usually too late....

IMPRIMIS: Complications of the Ukraine War.

It's never as simple as it looks at first glance.

THIS IS SURPRISING? Biden and Canada's Trudeau beclown themselves by parading around in Mao jackets.

THE NEA [NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION] tweets that teachers know better than anyone else when students need "to learn and to thrive."

Rep. Eric Swalwell [D(umb)-CA] agrees. I pity his kids.

FROM THE MIDTERMS, rays of hope.

SHOWING REAL CLASS: Kentucky basketball treats a hard-working coal mining family to a VIP experience.

HEH: "[I]t would almost appear as if people are hungry for a free and open arena of ideas [on Twitter] without the oppressive sword of censorship looming from on high."

AND THEY DIDN'T: The GOP consultant class has a choice to make.

PULLING BACK THE MASK: the battle for a 100% hand count of votes.

Can you ask for more proof that Democrats cheat?

FINALLY TWITTER IS BECOMING USEFUL: Twitter fact-checks Sen. Warren's student debt claims.

RANDOM THOUGHT: I've wondered what it would be like to live in a third-world shithole; it looks like I'm about to find out.

'MASKS REDUCE RACISM' STUDY is the latest sign that the medical establishment is periously woke insane.

THEY CAN ALWAYS LEARN TO MINE COAL: Elon Musk is planning to starve the few remaining employees he didn't already lay off.

No sympathy here.

GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE: These counties experiencing election issues have one thing in common.

Ron DeSantis told them to get out -- and stay out -- of Florida and guess what? Florida counted the votes and published the results in one day.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The longer it takes to count the ballots the more likely it is that the Democrat will win.

DeSANTIS 2024? Think again.

Food for thought.

OREGON'S NEW GUN CONTROL LAW punishes poor people.

Every law Oregon progressives pass punishes poor people (and everyone else).

HOLY SMOKES! You've never met a "perk" 'til you've met a Meta perk.

The 'Woke' are finally feeling the effects of a recession.

THAT SHOULD BE COMPLETELY OBVIOUS TO ANYONE WITH TWO WORKING BRAIN CELLS: Global COVID-19 infection rates may far exceed reported cases.

POWERLINE'S 'PINK RIPPLE' EDITION of its Week in Pictures. My favorite is obvious:

Now go see the rest.

AMMO GRRRLL has a few thoughts about last Tuesday. They're not kind.

WELL, KATIE HOBBS IS SECRETARY OF STATE: What’s the matter with Arizona?

It's long been known in my world that 'to err is human; to really screw things up requires a computer". Technology enthusiasts take note, because it works with cheating as well....

REPUBLICANS NEED TO FIGURE OUT MAIL-IN VOTING: It’s being used by Democrats to influence the course of elections.

The answer, of course, is to ban it. Election day only; Absentee only with proof of disability or absence on election day.

HE'S RIGHT, OF COURSE, but I'm the one who has to suffer with them....

[N]o “red wave.” For that, you need more than a couple of years of a disastrous Democratic presidency. You need millions of Democrats who’ve actually seen the light, who’ve snapped out of the brainwashing, who’ve come to realize that abortion is still legal and that Trump isn’t the devil and that what happened on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, wasn’t anything close to an insurrection. You need a big chunk of the American population to experience a road-to-Damascus moment. And I’m afraid that until that great awakening occurs, expecting a “red wave” at the polls is, alas, sheer folly.

Read the whole thing.

NO. DEMOCRACY DIES IN DEMOCRATS. Democracy dies in climate panic.

THE DIPLOMAD WRITES ON THE MIDTERMS: looking back and ahead.

NO EFFING WAY. Lockdowns and masks didn't work and mistakes were made; now the scolds want forgiveness.

They must be made to pay and be forever banned from any form af bureaucratic power.

ASSUMING THE DEMOCRAT CHEATING ISN'T SUFFICIENT TO KEEP THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, whoever takes the gavel from Nancy Pelosi should have some disinfectant close at hand.

THAT COULD HAVE GONE BETTER: Kurt Schlichter has thoughts on the midterm aftermath.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Tuesday takeaways.

IF YOU CAN'T LIMIT SUFFRAGE TO MARRIED COUPLES WITH CHILDREN, at least raise the minimum age for voting to 25.

"YOU HAVE OUR PERMISSION TO FREEZE AND STARVE IN THE DARK." Northeast faces winter energy crisis as Biden promises ‘no more drilling.’

Lede is from the comments. Read them.

"FLORIDA IS WHERE WOKE GOES TO DIE." Ron DeSantis shows he’s future of the GOP.

"I KNOW I’M AN IDIOT. I’M SORRY.” What every Leftist should say after looking at himself /
herself / itself in the mirror every morning.

WE ASKED FOR FOSSIL FUELS; instead we got fossil fools.

RANDOM THOUGHT: So looking forward to 2024....

On this one I'm hoping to be wrong.

TOLDJA SO. Seventy percent of unmarried women voted for Democrats.

Limit suffrage to married couples with children. Even Swallwell.

ERIC SWALWELL LAMENTS: [I]t’s ‘so stupid’ for parents to control their kids’ education.

Obviously his parents didn't....

WE DON'T HAVE A PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM; we have a public indoctrination system.

And until it's fixed, nothing much will change. Privatize public education. Let the parents choose.

THADDEUS G. McCOTTER: A Veterans Day reflection.

Read it all.

VETERANS DAY:

It's a cool, overcast, depressing rainy day as I watch the Democrats cheating their way to midterm victory, but I console myself knowing this flag don't run.

VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN WINS ELECTIONS: This explains the lack of a red wave more than anything else.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Republican Party staves off red wave.

INCLUDING ITSELF: If Disney can kill Indiana Jones, Disney can kill anything.

AND ALL SWIRLING DOWN THE TOILET BOWL: Democrats won full government control in these states.

AS THE TOILET BOWL FILLS: Will the Left coast turn right?

Not until it's flushed....

ANOTHER RANDOM THOUGHT. Earlier I proposed that the vote be limited to married couples with children.

Here's (at least partly) why.

THE RETURN OF "FAKE BUT ACCURATE": The New York Times' weird DeSantis hit piece.

UNDER SOCIALISM YOU DON’T HAVE ANY ELECTRICITY, but you have all the “equity” you can stand.

IF ONLY: Whoopi Goldberg quitting Twitter.

THANK ELON MUSK: Twitter claims user growth at 'all-time highs' after purchase.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Vonnegut doesn't howl.

SO THEY'RE ACTUALLY TELLING YOU where the Democrats are planning to cheat?

That's confidence.

INSTAPUNDIT: The worst of all White Supremacies.

KURT SCHLICHTER: GOP governor grrrl power owning the liberals.

I liked the subtle homage to Ammo Grrrll (Susan Vass).

MORE DEMOCRAT BATTLESPACE PREPARATION: Report claims California election results are expected to be delayed for days or weeks in some Los Angeles-area races.

LET THE CHEATING BEGIN: Arizona, New Jersey electronic voting machines already causing problems.

And where the cheating hasn't (yet) begun, some battlefield preparation....

ILLINOIS SHERIFF warns prosecutors not to be ‘overzealous’ targeting victims stopping criminals: "Citizens could be driven to use [preferably lawful] force to stop criminals."

My response is "toldja so."

PRESIDENT(ISH) BIDEN: Coal plants “All Across America” will be shut down and replaced by solar and wind.

After the Texas ice storm in 2021, somehow I don't think so....

CARRY ON and ignore the din.

The most effective approach is to ignore them until they violate the law, then punish them.

Harshly.

SARAH HOYT: A friendly letter to the foes of the Republic.

They won't can't listen.

NO MORE:

[O]ne way of looking at America’s current disaster is that we, the American people, were lab rats. And since 2021, the Left were the mad scientists, eager to try out their crackpot leftist experiments on us.

Read it all. It's Victor Davis Hanson.

HEH: Elon Musk just pulled the plug on Twitter censors.

SALENA ZITO: How the Democrats lost their way.

SO JOE BIDEN TAKES CREDIT for his inflation causing Social Security payments to increase.

Oops. Elon Musk intervenes: The tweet was accompanied by a note from Twitter that states "readers added context" that "Seniors will receive a large Social Security benefit due to the annual cost of living adjustment, which is based on the inflation rate."

THE DIPLOMAD comments on tomorrow's election.

TO SAVE AMERICA, repeal the 18th Amendment (again).

ELON MUSK MOCKS TWITTER'S HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT for sending 'mandatory' course on how to manage a company.

I hope he had the sense to include the entire HR department in the 50% of employees he fired.

RANDOM THOUGHT ON ELECTION EVE: one family, one vote. You must be married, with children, to exercise the right to vote.

At least families have a stake in the future of the Republic....

ON NOV. 7, honor those killed fighting for us in Vietnam.

That, and new Gov. Glenn Youngkin, are the only reasons I'd consider moving back to Virginia.

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF STUPID: The Occam’s Razor election.

KURT SCHLICHTER: How twisted must you be to justify cutting apart kids?

TOMORROW WILL TELL, but it's beginning to look like a Republican blowout. Or so I hope.

One thing still bothers me, though -- the thought that the Republicans will fade on doing the things they ran on when challenged by the extremist Left. In some sense the GOP is its own worst enemy.

Here are six must-do's for the incoming GOP majority. (Governors and local officials included.)

[T]HE DEPRESSING BUT UNDENIABLE FACT [is] that the gravest danger to our republican government is that too many idiots vote....

Tomorrow we'll find out how many idiots there are.

FALLING LEAVES 2022 WEEK 8.

Despite the fact that we're having an unusually warm couple of days, this has been a colder-than-normal fall (at least initially) and leaf fall is about 2 weeks ahead of schedule. Here's the usual pond view:

The brown leaves that were there last week are gone; so is the little remaining ground cover.

The same is true along the usual fire pit view. Except for that stubborn tree in the foreground, all the leaves are gone. We do have the grass beginning to show in the newly seeded area behind the barn.

Our road is now mostly clear (where you can actually see the road; this section has had the leaves blown off) as the leaves are all gone from the trees.

Here's how it looked outside this morning with the new lawn having had it's first 'haircut'.

Finally, a picture taken a day or so ago showing the last remaining color in our neighborhood.

Next week, a recap of this year's series. (Also, apologies for being a day late; I forgot to upload the post last evening.)

WHILE SLEEPING OR FOR SLEEPING? Twitter employee says he was fired 'while sleeping' as Elon Musk halves company workforce.

Either way doesn't sound good....

EMBRACE THE HEALING POWER OF 'BOTH':

Linked from here.

GOOD FOR YOU, ELON. Elon Musk says what's next for Twitter advertisers if they bow to activists demands and leave the platform.

I will be watching, and those who choose boycott will not be seeing much of my business. Keep in mind boycotters that you all have competitors....

DOESN'T HE HAVE MIRRORS IN HIS HOUSE? Bill Maher says this American value will 'lose' in the midterms.

SO IT'S NOT [YET] BEYOND THE MARGIN OF CHEATING? Pennsylvania Republicans voice concerns about midterm ballot counting in letter to secretary of state.

DON'T WORRY IT WON'T HURT FOR LONG. The quaint customs of our innocent, loving indigenous people.

AS SIMPLE AS ABC: Why suburban women are flocking to the GOP.

ROUND AND ROUND IT GOES, AND WHERE IT STOPS NOBODY KNOWS: the 'intersectionality roundabout' has become competitive.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Everyone is laughing at the ridiculous Pelosi big lie.

THE DIPLOMAD comments on the mid-term election in two posts.

Read them both.

ACCORDING TO OBAMA Herschel Walker is a celebrity who wants to be a politician.
Walker responded:

President Obama was here last night. He said I’m a celebrity. He got that one wrong, didn’t he? I’m not a celebrity, I’m a warrior for God. He got something else wrong, too. Remember two years ago he told us to vote for Joe Biden, didn’t he? He got that one wrong, did he not? He’s lost twice in Georgia already, hasn’t he, so I think he probably needs to sit this one out.

I would have responded by noting that Obama is a politician who wants to be a celebrity.
But Walker did better....

A REMINDER from Instapundit: "You are the carbon they [the Democrats] want to reduce."

RANDOM THOUGHT: 'Our democracy' is progressive-speak' for 'our control'.