Random Thoughts: Election Results and Classical Liberalism

White Democrats love fighting racism but they don’t really care much for minorities and that’s starting to catch up with them.

I think it might help some people to worry less about overthrowing “white supremacy” and more about overthrowing being hateful, race-obsessed idiots.

Thanks, Twitter, for all the warnings anytime someone thinks something hinky is going on with vote counts. That’s really convincing everyone there is no collusion going on to steal an election. Super useful.

“Seems a little hinky that 120k votes were added and they all went to Biden.”
TWITTER: “LeArN aBoUt 2020 eLeCtIoN sEcUrItY EfFoRtS”

I think the only lesson learned from this election is the same one we learned in 2018: Everyone loves Republicans in the Senate controlling who gets to join the Supreme Court.

You know what this looks like? Voter fraud. Or mail-in ballots getting counted late and being heavily for Biden as expected. Or a combination of the two.

Does anyone think that Twitter’s heavy-handed crackdown on just one side is anything other than counterproductive?

Why can’t everyone be like me, Cool Dude Frank, who keeps everything in proper perspective? I never let politics bend me out of shape. And I’ll never let go of how terrible The Last Jedi was.

So far, over 70 million people have voted for Trump. If you really think voting for Trump is this unforgivable thing and you can’t deal with people who would do that, I guess you’re going to need some sort of massive civil war.

It seems like for both 2018 and 2020, the Republican Senate helped itself by filling a SCOTUS seat right before the election. The horrible treatment of Kavanaugh helped them in 2018 and the talk of court packing helped them now.

I don’t really care who channels I don’t even watch hire, but doesn’t Joy Reid have about as much credibility as Jacob Wohl?

Not that it’s relevant anymore, but did Biden ever tell us his position on packing the courts?

Remember NBC Thursday nights when you had 30 Rock, The Office, Community, and Parks and Rec all in a row? Didn’t know how good we had it.
A scientific study I would love to do would be to take all the best comedies and do graphs about their joke frequency. Is there a sweet spot? Or is there no correlation (a few build up to big gags while others throw out lots of smaller ones)?
BTW, rewatching 30 Rock as there just isn’t enough good new comedies I have to keep going back to old ones. I hope those black face episodes society is being protected from don’t have important plot points.
30 Rock is very joke dense. Kimmy Schmidt, which comes from the same people, is even more so where you could often miss gags because you’re still laughing at the previous.

I was writing this morning, and I realized the term “reentry” doesn’t work with scifi when a ship enters the atmosphere, because sometimes you’re going to a planet for the first time. There’s no “re.”

I have to imagine many Republicans will be happy with this result if Biden wins. They get to move on from Trump without being completely decimated — most likely adding to the Senate and House in the midterms.

If the left wants a commission to hunt down and punish all Trump supporters, they’ll have to get that through a Republican Senate.

There would be a lot more faith in the system if all the counts were as fast as Florida. More time just seems like more opportunity for malfeasance.

Election Day should be a double work day where you have to complete twice as much work before you can leave to vote. And the only polling place should be on top of a high mountain. Only the most dedicated get to vote.

No one is urgently waiting for journalists to tell us what is a lie and what isn’t. No one is that dumb.

When Trump is out of office, will people stop pretending to be surprised and outraged every time Trump acts like Trump?

I think this election was a loud message to Trump that’s he just slightly not what the country is looking for.

The Democrats message of “Yes, voter fraud is trivially easy but it’s pure science fiction to think anyone would ever do it despite us claiming millions will die if the Republicans gets elected” could be more persuasive.

Joe Rogan is in Austin now? Well, if he ever wants a really interesting guy from The Babylon Bee on his show… well, I’m sure Kyle can catch a flight.

Man, this election just isn’t going to be a simple narrative. Huge huge turnout with both Biden and Trump getting more votes than Obama ever got, and Republicans making gains in the House and (probably) keeping the Senate.
With it looking like Biden won, you could call it a rejection of Trump, but a lot of people (more than in 2016) like Trump. And apparently people like Republicans in general even more than Trump — he didn’t drag them down.
If people were expecting a huge repudiation of Trump and the Republicans, it more like “you could do better” to Trump and a “but we don’t blame you guys” to Republicans.

The Lincoln project turning on Republican senators along with trying to get Trump out of office made absolutely no sense if they held any actual conservative principles but made perfect sense for grifting money from the left.
If you’re a conservative who despised Trump, getting Trump out of office but having a Republican majority in the Senate is a great outcome. But trying to get Biden a senate majority to help him court pack — you can’t call yourself a conservative and coherently support that.

I finally have an electoral map prediction if anyone wants to hear it.

I would think Republicans will easily win those Georgia runoffs if Trump helps rally people for a repudiation of the Biden win. They’ll just be much more motivated.
But if Trump had won, it would be looking bad now for a Republican Senate.

The polls were essentially correct give or take being completely wrong.

We need to make a list of all the people who want to make lists of people.

Little Winchester always claps for himself whenever he accomplishes anything. You’d think he was a Millennial.

Used peanut butter as bait, and somehow four times the mouse ate some of the peanut butter without setting off the trap. Finally, I switched to the classic cheese bait and got it.

With only 8 episodes per season, you’d expect The Mandalorian to spend more time on its central plot and be less episodic. Still, it’s really cool to spend time in so many corners of the Star Wars universe.

Finally, we can get back to the normality that was so bad people said, “Eh, might as well give Trump a chance.”

If the Trump presidency actually affected your mental health, I’m sorry to inform you that your main problems are not Trump.

I thought Biden was the Democrats’ best chance to beat Trump, but neither Biden winning nor losing proves or disproves that.
Though I was probably right.

I really admire how The Mandalorian integrates CGI with practical effects such that most of the time I can’t tell when it’s CGI. Like in the latest episode, I assume the frog lady jumping had to be done with CGI, but it still looked like a person in a cheesy costume.

Whenever I get too excited about current events, I like to think about how if I were alive during the FDR administration, I would have thought the government expansion under him would have been the end of the country. I might have been right, but not right away.
The things that can destroy this country are less like a gun shot to the head and more like smoking. It will take many many years, but eventually we’ll look back and say, “Yeah, that’s what did it.”
I guess one thing I’m not happy about the election is that I hate the two-party system but we came out of that election with both parties looking pretty solid. Back to the same old same old.

So how many votes did Trump get for himself by locking mailboxes in Oregon?

It was kind of surreal when I saw an ad for insurance for people in the military, and when they listed the branches they supported, they included Space Force.
Trump will have a legacy, and some of it is awesome.

Anytime my older son is whiny: “With an attitude like that, you’ll never be in Space Force.”

Kamala Harris has her pronouns in her bio if you were wondering what they were.
Is the idea that all 7 billion people worldwide need to announce their pronouns even though for 99.9% of them, no one was ever going to get them wrong? Seems… inefficient.
My guess is determining someone’s gender is one of those areas where the human brain could beat computers in both speed and accuracy as it’s specially designed for the task.

I’ve never once had anyone say anything negative to me on Twitter. My secret: good tweets.

They say it’s privilege to not care about politics, but the people who seem the most emotionally invested in politics are affluent white people.

I don’t know of any evidence of voter fraud, but at the same time, it’s hard to imagine the people making all these excuses for burning down businesses would draw the line at that.

I guess Timothy Oily Elephant is just going to play marshalls from now on. I have no problem with that.

A national mask mandate? Biden better run that by Amy Coney Barrett.

“The thing about Kamala Harris is that…”
quickly checks Kamala’s Twitter bio to find what Kamala’s pronouns are
“…shelher comes into office breaking a number of barriers.”

This “return to normalcy” with politics is basically the Joker putting on flesh-colored makeup and a regular suit and everyone saying, “See! He’s not destructive anymore!”

Neither Biden narrowly winning (or even Trump winning) would disprove 538 giving a 90% chance to Biden winning.
But if you reran the election 100 times and Trump won 47 of those elections, then Nate Silver would have something to answer for.

So is a political party ever going to really rally behind classical liberalism again? Or did we just get a little bit of that at the country’s founding and that will just have to sustain us until the end?

Classical liberalism: I believe in radical ideas about liberty — really old radical ideas about liberty.

I have to say: “Four Seasons” actually makes more sense as the name of a landscaping company versus a hotel.

Got a notification that I got a bunch of new Parler followers.
What’s Parler?

“As we all know, 538 is the first three digits of the phone number for Nate Silver’s pharmacist which he kept forgetting so he named his site after it. What this tells us about healthcare is…”

The left are a lot of people with very bad ideas who hate large segments of the population and want to control what people are allowed to know. This is not optimal.
People need to accept that our liberties — like freedom of speech — aren’t just to protect you but also to protect others from you because all of us have bad ideas and it would be horrible if any of us had too much power.

The Bill of Rights and the Supreme Court are supposed to protect us from the excesses of democracy.

If everyone is as skeptical of Biden as they were of Trump, it doesn’t have to be a bad four years.

So did Giuliani ever attempt to explain why he gave a press conference in front of a landscaping company?

It’s never okay for a man to cry. Testosterone is always trying to escape through your tear ducts. Cry for even a few seconds and you’re now basically a woman.

Yeah, I’ll believe punching up and punching down is a thing if you give me examples of a groups you despise but won’t make fun of them because it’s “punching down” and people you would never make fun of but it’s okay for others because it’s “punching up.”

I have to say, there’s at least a 10% chance Trump won’t win this.

3 Comments

  1. So far, over 70 million people have voted for Trump. If you really think voting for Trump is this unforgivable thing and you can’t deal with people who would do that, I guess you’re going to need some sort of massive civil war.

    Nonsense, the Truth and Reconciliation commission will suffice.

  2. The Lincoln project turning on Republican senators along with trying to get Trump out of office made absolutely no sense if they held any actual conservative principles but made perfect sense for grifting money from the left.

    The Lincoln Project is to Conservatism as Tommy Wiseau is to Comedy.

  3. “No one is urgently waiting for journalists to tell us what is a lie and what isn’t. No one is that dumb.”

    Never underestimate how dumb people can be. You’d be surprised.

    “I’ve never once had anyone say anything negative to me on Twitter. My secret: good tweets.”

    Also never had any negative comments on Twitter. My secret: No Twitter account. Pretty worthless.

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