Take-aways From The Election

I’m going to attempt to take a fresh look at this year’s election season, and not resort to tired cliches. And yes, I have enough self-awareness to realize that the term “take a fresh look” is a very tired cliche. Of course, this was an American election, so… yeah.

Your humble author in his usual state of resigned irritation.

This election yielded one or two surprises, and unsurprisingly, The Globalist Left found yet another line to cross. Here are my main take-aways:

1. Swifties For Trump Were Really A Thing

This is by far the most refreshing variable from this election cycle.  It demonstrated that many of our young girls and women (I’m sixty-one, so that’s a large demographic) can hold paradoxical views.  One can attend a Taylor Swift event (my understanding is that they’re not really “concerts”), go along with, or eye-roll her “down with the Patriarchy” nonsense, and still cast a vote for Trump.  Respect.

Many of our women demonstrated the ability to think for themselves rather than go along with the hivemind.  This gives me hope.  

2. Men And Boys Are Not Suicidal.

Are we simply passing the common sense test here?  Ronald Reagan wisely used the metaphor of bold and bright colors opposed to pastels to emphasize the differences between the belief systems of Right and Left.  Relentlessly screaming at men would be a bad idea in any context.  In an election? You get the idea. Telling men how much you hate them, and promising to hate them just a little less if they vote your way, was a losing strategy.  This isn’t clever, this isn’t well thought out.  It’s (attempted) hostage-taking.  And it’s laughably ineffective.

And it doesn’t matter if you are a 300-lbs blue haired land whale, or a marginally cute college girl who has never been told “no.”  You can rage on Tic-Tok and threaten to withhold sex all you want.  The response is and remains, “we accept your terms.”

3. For The Left, Marriage Is Fair Game

By far, the most toxic political add I have ever seen was put out by the Harris Campaign during this election season.  I will not link to it.  

Two couples enter the poling location to cast their votes.  The couples are in early middle age, the wives are tall, good-looking.  The subtle message is that the women are just a little out of their husband’s league.  

One of the men, portrayed as not quite at the Homer Simpson level of cluelessness, urges the wife to “vote the right way.”

The voice-over isn’t nearly as nuanced as the producers would have you believe. To paraphrase: ‘your vote is sovereign (duh) and this election is important; you don’t have to vote like your (loser) husband.’  

In Advertising, EVERYTHING Has A Meaning

The women both symbolically and physically step away from their husbands. They approach their separate stand-up voting booths, and settle in behind their privacy shields.  There is a moment of apprehension.  They make eye contact and nod at each other.  With virtuous determination, they fill out their ballots.  

The women cast their ballots and rejoin their husbands. The first husband, once again somewhere between not-quite Homer Simpson and not-quite Deliverance asked his wife if she voted “the right way.”

All smiles, she replies, “I sure did.”  As the couple exit the poling location, the two women tap their ‘I voted stickers,’ and exchange knowing glances like a couple of masonic lodge brothers who’ve just hatched a plot to take down James Bond once and for all.  Curtain.

Did It Work?

No, and the stats bear that out.  

Here are dry, boring numbers. Power through it. In 2020, 56% of married men and 52% of married women voted for Donald Trump.  In 2024 60% of married men voted for Trump, while 51% of married women voted accordingly.  Trump increased his margin among married men by 8 points while losing a point among married women.  This tells us that Democrats failed to peel wives away from their Trump-voting husbands, while also failing to hold onto a significant handful of blue-voting husbands.  To be fair, this plurality of new Trump-voting husbands failed to bring along their wives.  So make of that what you will.

A Viceral Hatred For The Family In And Out Of Election Season

Back in the 90’s I remember a caller to Bob Grant’s radio show asserting that Socialism is the separation of the parent from the child so that both can stand helpless before the power of The State.   Even the casual observer will conclude that The Family at large seems to represent something hatful to the Leftist-Globalist mind.  Including those of the Left who have established families for themselves.  What such a paradox indicates, beyond the obvious mental illness infecting those on The Left, isn’t something with which I care to grapple.

Socialism is the separation of the parent from the child so that both can stand helpless before the power of The State.

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Back in the nineties, there was a reported phenomena of households splitting their vote between Clinton and Bush 41. I’m certain that this has been going on since the 1920s, and during the Clinton-Bush campaign, it was treated as an amusing human-interest story. Almost cute. Any efforts to drive a wedge between husbands and wives were nuanced, and not taken seriously. Twenty-plus years later, the mask has clearly come off. Stay vigilant.

Selah.

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Election Reform – If You’re Interested.

Any nation where mail-in ballots exist cannot be taken seriously.  The United States is in desperate need of election reform.

You can read my 2-part essay on the current state of our elections here and here.  This post will deal with pragmatic, real world solutions.  Sadly, I don’t think we have the political will for true election reform in the current political climate.  To summarize my two-part essay, those with the power to make changes have a vested interest in preventing the very changes required to reform the system.  Instead, those in power work to “fortify” our elections.

I’m convinced the “elites” find the idea of a free-wheeling electorate openly debating and exchanging ideas horrifying.  To them, when the citizens vote beyond the margin of fraud, things like the icky Donald Trump tend to happen.  The solution for them isn’t to present better ideas.  Their ideas are just fine – it’s the Great Unwashed who are just too stupid.  Their solution is to simply increase the margin of fraud.

We have our work cut out for us.

Get Rid of Mail-in Ballots. 

The very existence of Mail-in Ballots is proof of election fraud on a massive scale.  I am choosing my words very carefully here.  You may have thought you just read something to the effect of “Mail-in Ballots open up the elections for massive fraud.”  That’s not what I wrote.  I will repeat myself.  The very existence of Mail-in Ballots is proof of election fraud.  It means that fraud is occurring on a massive scale.  It is baked into the cake as surely as the grift goes though Nancy Pelosi’s front door.  There is not an accounting firm in the world that would sign off on the gaps in the chain of custody that are systemic to mail-in voting.

A sound election system requires a pro-active electorate.  IOW – you need to show up.

Get Rid of Drop-Boxes.

Same reasons.  A chain of custody system for which you would summarily fire your bookkeeper just for suggesting it.

Get Rid of All Electronic Systems.

For reasons no one can explain to me, we now have to wait days, and sometimes weeks for election results.  This insistence upon automation has ironically slowed down the process.  For decades, the use of paper ballots served this nation adequately.

Every state, every precinct converts to an analog system.  Everyone gets a paper ballot with either a fill-in-the-blank, or a punch card option.  It worked well for close to two centuries.

Partisan Observers Up and Down the Process.

Every side gets to audit.  If one is truly interested in “fortifying” the election process, then this should not be an issue. Kick observers out? You go to prison.

Purge The Rolls.

Do election boards ever purge the voter rolls?  People move, people change voting precincts.  Ever hear of anyone sending an affidavit to the election board to the effect of ‘this is my new address, please take me off the rolls.’  Neither have I.  New rule: You get to skip two election cycles.  If you go six years without voting, you need to re-register. Not perfect, simply better than allowing people to vote from the grave.

Mandatory Voter I.D. 

If voting is so precious, then bring your driver’s license.  Don’t have one?  Get yourself over to the Department of Motor Vehicles and obtain a state non-driver I.D.  Yes, that’s a thing.  Don’t give me excuses.  If you are too stupid to figure this out, then you have zero skin in the game and you have no business going anywhere near the voting booth.  Like mail-in ballots, the absence of Mandatory Voter I.D. is proof of fraud. Bonus reform: eliminate motor-voter registration. Again, if one has skin in the game, then one should be proactive and register as a pro-active process.

The Ballot Box Get Locked at Some Point.

No more inexplicably “found” caches of ballots in the trunks of Buick LeSabres.  Once a ballot makes it into the ballot box, it’s in sanctuary.  Concurrently, that ballot has to make its way into the box by a fixed deadline.  Otherwise, it’s not counted.  Recounts are fine.  You simply can’t add to the existing trove of ballots.

Can We Still “Vote” Out Way Out of This?

In a sane world, none of this would be the least bit controversial.  That is decidedly not the world in which we live.  We live in a world of “preferred” pronouns and empowered deviants.  Bob Hope of blessed memory once quipped, “California just made homosexuality legal.  I decided to leave before they made it mandatory.”  Prophetic.  In a single generation we went from the deviants claiming ‘we just want to be left alone,’ to ‘you will participate with us enthusiastically.’

Selah.

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Do Elections Still Matter?  Part II.

The System Crashes.

Continuing my reflections on our election system.  You can read part one here. Elections have consequences. For Statists/Marxists, that means taking the process out of the hands of the voter.

Ever since the 2000 elections, there has been this hue and cry for “election reform.”  During election night, the situation was ambiguous to say the least.  Most of the news media outlets called Florida for Al Gore, though thousands of residents were still on their way home from work in the Central Time Zone of the state’s panhandle, a known Republican stronghold.  

As the night wore on, one by one, all the major news outlets withdrew their earlier projections and correctly called Florida for George W. Bush, then governor of Texas.  

Nationwide, Gore was ahead in the popular vote and would finish with a half million vote margin.  At the same time, he was clearly on his way to losing the Electoral College.  Gore had gone so far as to privately concede to Bush via phone.   

The Democrat Machine was unable to redistribute its still unknown cache of fraudulent votes cast in California to other states.  It would be twenty years before they perfected this system.  

Then things started to get messy.

In a move which I’m pretty sure was unprecedented, Gore rescinded his concession.  Bush naturally questioned this, to which Gore famously replied, “you don’t have to be snippy about it.”

From there, the Democrats subjected the nation to one recount after another.  Each recount confirmed a Bush win in Florida.  At one point, Democrat operatives attempted to shut out partisan observers.  A move they would successfully and famously execute during the 2000 election.

There were hearings, editorials, and lots and lots of whining from The Left.

Mercifully for the nation, The Supreme Court put an end to the drama.  Subsequent recounts, some taking place well after Bush’s inauguration and insisted on by the Marxists in charge of the process, continued to confirm that Bush won Florida, full stop.

The Long March Is Never Over. Elections Notwithstanding.

The Left is nothing, if not patient.  It took over a hundred years to pollute our educational system beyond repair.  What’s another 20 years to completely subvert our elections?  If the voters would not cooperate, then they would take matters into their own hands.

“Finding” votes in the trunk of a Buick LeSabre was only the beginning.  The Left has gotten way more sophisticated.  The use of printers, electronics, search engines, algorithms, ballot harvesting, and drop boxes are just what they allow us to see.  Like an iceberg, my guess is there so much below the surface.  

It’s useful to note that 90% of the internet is inaccessible to the most commonly used search engines (the so-called “dark web”).  Does that apply here? At some point, conspiracy theory becomes conspiracy fact, and the term “debunked” loses all meaning.

Selah.  

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Do Elections Still Matter? Part I.

Yes. Not For The Reasons You Think.

I still believe in voting.  It’s just that I’ve changed my motives since 2020.  I used to get a little self-righteous with some members of my family.  “This is why I wear ‘the uniform.'”  Yeah, I don’t say that anymore. Voting, yes. It’s elections that have me vexed.

Why I continue voting has noting to do with idealism.  The nation has undergone an appalling transformation since the mid-eighties when I first put on the uniform as a ROTC Cadet.  Even, then the cracks were showing.  Yes, the nation quite sensibly swept Reagan into office, and just as sensibly re-elected him.  Inexplicably, the nation also kept the same reprobates in Congress with their drunken-sailor spending habits.

Ratchet forward a few decades plus.  The United States is inextricably in debt to the tune of 31.5 trillion dollars.  That’s trillion with a “T.”  Future obligations now approach $200T.  It doesn’t even seem real.  I don’t think there is an actuary on Earth who can calculate the man-hours in labor required to pay that off.

Elections and Institutions

The long march through our institutions is complete.  There are a few islands of sanity in the higher education system.  Hillsdale College, Liberty University.  Maybe a few others.

For the most part, the Statist (or Marxists, if you prefer) are dug in deep.  The Federal and State civil service finance the the Statists through their union dues.  In return the Statists in power reward them through salary and perks. That loop is here to stay.

The school boards across the nation are owned and populated by the Statists.  Parents protesting the anti-science agenda of “Climate Change” or Transgenderism are branded terrorists and harassed by federal law enforcement.

To secure all this, the Statists have taken firm control of the election process with ballot harvesting, drop boxes, and if all else fails outright fraud.

I have lost all trust in elections.  And with good and multiple reasons.  I still believe in voting.  If for no other reason then to just make it more difficult for “them.”  Yes, I’m skeptical that we can vote our way out of this.  We are still obligated to try.  I once wrote that in order to win the 2020 elections, the good guys needed to win past the margin of fraud. That would require sane Americans to show up at the ballot box in such numbers as to overwhelm the baked in fraud. So, I still believe in voting. For the time being, I just don’t believe in elections.

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National Debt and America’s Self Immolation

National Debt As A Symptom.

Here’s my analogy for the National Debt and the situation in which we find ourselves.  The America taxpayer is the Simp in the Friendzone.  His Congressmen is the Hot Girl. 

The rising debt of the Unites States is unsustainable.  No one disputes this.  I’ve been writing and talking about this for years.  During the Obama years, The Powers within The Republican Party promised to take care of this if the voters only gave them the House of Representatives.  The American voter complied.  Then they reminded the voters that there are two houses in the legislature.  We were told that these problems would be handled if we only gave them the Senate.  Done. Well, then we were reminded that we would need veto-proof majorities in both houses because the Marxists still held the Whitehouse. Well, that would be impossible. How about if we just vote you into the White House, then?  

Remember, it’s a NOTE. Not a Treasury Certificate.
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First World Problem I

The wall map in our library is damaged, and I am attempting to be philosophical about it.

Last night, to my utter horror resignation, I noticed the damage to the sheet-rock wall.  OK first a few things – yes we have a room in our house we call “the library.”  Is it pretentious?  You bet.  As pretentious as the Bronze Star hanging over my desk which my relatives ignore.  Given the success of Lois’ business, the “library” is now office space.  Mostly hers.   

The Christensen Library. A Tragic Story of Epic Proportions.
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The Improbable Success of The Mayor of Kingstown

And Why It Will Ultimately Fail.

The Mayor of Kingstown is a Paramount streaming product also available on Amazon.  It’s gritty, grabs the viewer’s attention, and engages completely with its audience.  It also insults the audience, and I will get to that.

Kingstown and The Improbable Premise

Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye from the Marvel movies) plays Mike McLusky, the unofficial ‘Mayor’ of Kingstown.

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Depression Is Real and Curable – In Most Cases

First off, I am not a mental health professional.  Just a man of modest achievements who pays attention.  I like to read contrary theories, and weigh them against each other.  Depression seems to be one of those variables that hold a lot of people back.

There is actual depression in that humans can and do suffer from imbalances in our brain chemistry.  About 12.5% of new mothers experience post-partum depression, and no wonder.  Birth can wreak havoc on a woman’s biochemistry.  This is real depression.

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Re-Defining Words – The Left’s War on English.

During the last two weeks, I entered an online debate over the issue of Raphael Warnock and Christian Nationalism.  Yes, I know. Debating a Leftist on any topic risks the loss of brain cells by virtue of exposure.  In this case, I decided to poke the mouse concerning The Left’s penchant for re-defining words – particularly words which formed shortly after the Norman Conquest. For those who are not familiar, Warnock currently represents the state of Georgia in the United States Senate.  In this last election cycle, he fended off a challenge from Hershel Walker.

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A Non-Commissioned Officer walks into a Lieutenant Colonel’s Office…

I will not give the time nor the place, save that it was somewhere on Planet Earth, and within the last decade.  He (yes, ‘he.’  ‘He’ was not in the least bit confused about this nor was I) sat down with an exasperated sign, and for a minute, said not a word.  Then, “All this talk about gender – what do think about all this, Sir?”

I remained silent for the space of one or two heartbeats.  It was a pause.  Not a hesitation.  “I think there are three genders,” I responded.  “Male, female, and mental illness.” Continue reading

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