Election 2022 Issues
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PJay
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Not just her
Yes, Western MD is bright red. We hill monkeys do not consider MoCo (which was added to MD-06) as part of Western MD. Hell, even Frederick Co is questionable now.
Just like lifeline Southern Marylanders do not consider PG as SoMD.
We’re getting played when it comes to who’s the real 2022 winner
However, the entire GOP has swung against Trump. For example, the editorial board at the New York Post (a paper I consider mostly excellent), announced “Don’t believe Trump — this midterm miss is all because of him.” Wow! That’s harsh, but it’s also consistent with what we’re seeing all over the Republican side of the aisle.
At the same time, we’re told that DeSantis is the new savior. Indeed, that very enthusiasm for DeSantis has die-hard Trump supporters believing that DeSantis is nothing but a Trojan RINO—and that’s even though DeSantis was one of the original freedom caucus members. Sundance, who is always an interesting read, routinely writes about this concern.
However, it’s just as likely that DeSantis’s support from the GOP crowd has very little to do with him and everything to do with the GOP/NeverTrump determination to destroy the man who threatened to upset the Republican establishment’s cozy relationship with Democrats in D.C.: All of the perks and money; none of the responsibility for governing.
If I’m correct, the moment the GOP/NeverTrump team manages to take out Trump, it will turn on DeSantis as well. Given DeSantis’s focus on freedom, he’s just as dangerous to the establishment as Trump was. If we conservatives aren’t careful, the RINO/NeverTrumps will play us so well that all of the conservatives are knocked out in the primaries, and we end up with Evan McMullin at the top of the 2024 Republican ticket.
Mean Girl Liz Cheney Disses Kari Lake, Laps up Adulation From Twitter Bottom Feeders
All this started when Liz — determined to prove she’s just like the Lincoln Project, but with a sassy, Dolores Umbridge hairstyle — bought a $500,000 ad buy against Lake; weirdly, Liz starred in the ad. Lake took to Twitter to thank Liz for her efforts and the resulting deluge of donations her disparaging ad brought in for the Lake campaign.
As intended, and right on cue, the most toxic elements of Twitter — also known as leftists and Democrats — tripped over themselves to congratulate Liz on her oh-so-clever tweet. We really need Trump back on Twitter, stat, if this is what passes for a mic drop moment. Elon, please get on that.
This is exactly the kind of reaction Liz was looking for; yes, the mean girl in her enjoyed mocking a rising star like Kari Lake, but she also knew it would garner slavish praise from the left. Liz thinks these people are her friends. Liz is wrong, and will likely find that out the hard way.
Bi-Partisan Establishment Turned a Red Wave into a Puddle
In the last hour of RedState’s election night coverage live stream, I congratulated the Washington establishment on successfully defending the status quo from the so-called Red Wave. The message of Tuesday night is that little has changed about the political culture of America. The country remains deeply divided.
Unfortunately for America, this has a policy meaning that will affect the lives of ordinary folk. There was no strong message to shift away from the lackluster policies driving the United States into an economic recession. Washington’s elites were assured that they have no fear there are Americans with pitchforks waiting outside the Beltway to threaten that members of Congress might need to again hide in their offices lest they be held accountable to their constituencies. The election was a puddle of tears of lost opportunity.
It was lost in part because the Democrats perfectly executed a defense of the establishment. But they also had help from the Republicans. I believe a series of strategic flaws in how the election was approached by the GOP had a lot to do with turning what was a strong sentiment in Florida into a lackluster performance in the rest of the country.
“First we need to make sure that those who want to lead us are genuinely committed to fighting for the priorities & values of the working Americans (of every background) who gave us big wins in states like #Florida,” wrote newly reelected senator Marco Rubio, urging that today’s leadership vote be postponed.
Missouri senator Josh Hawley declared the midterm elections the “funeral for the Republican Party as we know it,” calling the party “dead.” Presumably, he did so while holding a bloody knife. It was Hawley, after all, who was last seen cheering on a mob of Trump supporters who may not have seen him because they were busy trying to hang Vice President Mike Pence. It was Hawley who chose to feed Trump’s conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, leading voters such as those who stormed the Capitol to believe that the election had been stolen — and almost certainly helping to cost the GOP control of the Senate. So naturally, it is Hawley who’s now playing the child who murders his parents and expects sympathy from the court because he’s an orphan.
Finally, on Tuesday, Florida senator Rick Scott announced a long-shot bid to replace McConnell as Senate Republican leader — the first challenge McConnell had faced since assuming his perch atop the caucus in 2007. “I believe it’s time for the Senate Republican Conference to be far more bold and resolute than we have been in the past,” Scott wrote in a letter to his colleagues. “We must start saying what we are for, not just what we are against.”
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Missouri senator Josh Hawley declared the midterm elections the “funeral for the Republican Party as we know it,” calling the party “dead.” Presumably, he did so while holding a bloody knife. It was Hawley, after all, who was last seen cheering on a mob of Trump supporters who may not have seen him because they were busy trying to hang Vice President Mike Pence. It was Hawley who chose to feed Trump’s conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, leading voters such as those who stormed the Capitol to believe that the election had been stolen — and almost certainly helping to cost the GOP control of the Senate. So naturally, it is Hawley who’s now playing the child who murders his parents and expects sympathy from the court because he’s an orphan.
Finally, on Tuesday, Florida senator Rick Scott announced a long-shot bid to replace McConnell as Senate Republican leader — the first challenge McConnell had faced since assuming his perch atop the caucus in 2007. “I believe it’s time for the Senate Republican Conference to be far more bold and resolute than we have been in the past,” Scott wrote in a letter to his colleagues. “We must start saying what we are for, not just what we are against.”
The Shamelessness of the Failed Senate Rebellion against Mitch McConnell | National Review
The same Republican senators who tried to defenestrate McConnell today are responsible for the fact that he is not majority leader.
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Why Did Gen Z Turn Out To Vote For Democrats And Against Their Own Interests?
Why did these young people feel motivated enough to go and vote against their interests and keep the country on a downward trajectory? Do they like rising crime, high inflation, mass illegal immigration, homeless encampments, high gas prices, and a shrinking economy? Did they really think Biden would pay off their student loans? Are they just brainwashed zombies who comply with the narratives of TikTok?
Based on my extensive experience as an English teacher, I would say that yes, the average Gen Z American is largely indifferent to important issues that affect the country, even ones that affect their general quality of life. Every day, I witness their lack of reasoning skills and personal drive. This in turn causes them to be disturbingly introverted and handle most of their interactions with people through social media. Many have no real community or deep-seated beliefs and act more on feelings than principle.
Instead, they spend most of their waking life on the internet, consuming mindless content and dreaming up fake personas for themselves. And as a result, they are largely immature, lonely, and neurotic.
This much is argued by writer and former English professor Mark Bauerlein, who writes that Gen Z, “will be the most conformist cohort in American history, already favoring cancellation more than any other age group, and politics will be a primary mode of grouping.” This generation is told what to think by various online influencers, and they passively comply. Because of screen addiction, they will never learn to think or act for themselves, nor will they ever really want to.
The propagandizing effect of heavy social media usage cannot be overstated. For young people, nearly every narrative and social phenomenon now originate from the internet. This means that it’s the dumb and disturbed “influencers” online, not parents or teachers, informing this next generation about politics, economics, and culture. And the algorithms of popular social media sites are designed to curate and amplify this same defective messaging a million times over. The subversive effect on people with still-developing frontal cortexes is not all that different from the “Ludivico technique” in “A Clockwork Orange” in which criminals are forcibly bombarded with images and music in order to condition them against misconduct.
Democrats Abused Gen Z With Covid Insanity For Years And GOP Leaders Refused To Campaign on It
What is most upsetting about the Democrats’ triumph — with youths preferring that party over Republicans by a whopping 28-point margin, according to exit polls — is that unique from most cycles, Republicans had one important advantage with young, particularly college-aged, voters: Democrats had spent the last two years uniquely torturing Gen Z with ineffective and abusive Covid policies.
Unfortunately, neither McConnell nor McCarthy did anything to capitalize on the incredible circumstances. They had zero plan for recruiting Gen Z voters, opting essentially to hand 10 percent of eligible voters to Democrats, which the left took full advantage of.
In the lead-up to the midterms, Democrats did weekly college campus door-knocking events at dorms and apartments. Democrat candidates visited and spoke to students. Democrat grassroots organizations publicized mail-in-balloting (which is very attractive to the convenience-driven generation). Most importantly, savvy leftist consultant groups taught Democrat candidates how to effectively campaign to young voters via social media and particularly TikTok.
This election cycle was a lost opportunity for Republicans who had a chance to remind young voters that Democrats violated their bodily autonomy and mentally enslaved them for two years. Covid posed virtually no threat to young people. Yet Democrat leaders pressured left-wing university bureaucrats into forcing healthy students to take experimental Covid shots that were not only ineffectual but caused now-verified cases of vaccine injuries, such as heart issues and irregular menstrual cycles.
Students who did not comply with the Covid shot mandates were punished in a whole host of ways, including campus officials disabling their university WiFi, barring them from campus, restricting them from attending in-person learning, and preventing them from registering for classes. Some were even expelled.
Gen Z Can Do Everything From Home. If That Becomes The Voting Norm, There’s No Going Back
Research in 2020 by The New York Times analyzed the all-mail voting system in Colorado, in which all potential voters were mailed their ballots and could simply mail their completed ballots back, leave them in a drop box, or show up at the polls to cast them in person. The Times found that all-mail voting increased turnout overall, but particularly among young voters, where “turnout increases by 16 percentage points.”
That turnout increase is not a surprise, as having a ballot mailed to you eliminates a lot of the already-minimal initiative and ownership required for an able-bodied American to get himself to the polls on Election Day. If the state mails you a ballot unprompted, a Democrat ballot chaser calls you or knocks on your door, hounds you to fill it out, and offers to drop it off for you (and even offers you a voting guide!), then suddenly your ownership of your own ballot is close to zero — you’re a cog in Democrats’ voting machine, and they like it that way.
Suddenly, also, Democrats — who have long capitalized on massive, month-long “get out the vote” operations while Republicans are still trying to win on Election Day alone — have a cushy surplus of votes. While the prevailing corporate media narrative insists that young voters turned out in the midterms because of abortion, it’s also obvious that Democrats are targeting young voters far more heavily — and these targeting operations include “get out the vote” drives bolstered by mail-in voting.
Democrats know that no-excuse mail-in voting enables their ballot-harvesting operations, and they will not easily give up the “new normal” they pushed on state election offices under the guise of Covid because it works to their advantage. But Republicans should understand that if they let Democrats’ “election month” shenanigans go on long enough, a generation of voters will grow up without knowing anything else. And if you’ve always been able to cast your ballot from your couch (maybe even with help from your local Democrat operatives), chances are you’re not going to be interested in going back to a system that requires more personal responsibility and ownership from you.
Kari Lake Announces Formation of Legal Team, Vows to Contest Election Results
Maricopa County election officials have also pushed back against Lake and her campaign’s claims that thousands of Arizona voters didn’t get a fair shake on Election Day. The county’s official Twitter account posted several snarky messages about Lake’s claims.
“CANDIDATES: All legal votes will be counted, including votes for you. If you have the most votes in the final tally, you will be elected. If you do not have the most votes, you will have lost your election,” one tweet read.
Another tweet read, “DISINFORMATION SUPER SPREADERS: Please read Arizona election law & the elections procedures manual before asking leading questions about how something seems suspicious. There are processes + checks and balances in place to make sure every legal vote is only counted once.”
Kari Lake Gives an Update on Voter Disenfranchisement in Arizona
Over the weekend, Arizona Republicans officially accused Maricopa County officials of disenfranchising voters.
"The Republican Party of Arizona has partnered with Big Data Polling to conduct exit polling on Arizona voters following the 2022 Midterms General Election. Data from November 1st, 2022, through November 8th, 2022, indicates that Republican voters were disproportionately and negatively impacted while voting in Arizona’s GOP strongholds," the Republican Party of Arizona released in a statement. "Exit polling shows that a low of 10 percent to a high of 17 percent of total turnout is Election Day Drop Offs. To be clear, that is defined as a voter who physically delivered their mail-in ballot to a polling station on Election Day. While historic, the publicly reported information showing a 13% drop-off rate correlates with our exit poll data."
"Of those who reported problems casting a ballot on Election Day, 28% live and vote in the 1st Congressional District (REP), 14% in the 4th Congressional District (DEM), 30% in the 5th Congressional District (REP), 14% in the 6th Congressional District (DEM) and 13% in the 8th Congressional District (REP)," the statement continues. "It was no secret that Republicans intended to vote on Election Day. The RPAZ and others publicly urged Maricopa County to prepare for a historic day of turnout. Sadly, that fell on deaf ears. The officials should have known better after an unprecedented number of Election Day voters during the Primary Election in August. While Democrats are more likely to vote by mail and thus were disproportionately less likely to be harmed by problems with tabulators and printers that arose on Election Day."
