Episode 244 – We’re in Overtime!

The election last night was a disaster. We still do not know who won the election and there are several discrepancies found in several states. This is the worst nightmare for our democracy.

Let’s talk about it.

 

What Happened on Election Night

The election started right on time. At 5:00 PST, results began to pour in. Things were going pretty much like we thought. But at 6:00 PM, right when the polls closed in Arizona, Fox News decided to project that Arizona was going to Sleepy Joe. Which was weird because 0.0% of the ballots were counted. This was the first of many concerns, which we will talk about later.

At this point, I went to dinner with my father and went to an election party with my parents. It was a great party. There is nothing like drinking wine with a bunch or right wing conservatives. Let me tell you if you don’t know, but we can party.

The night was going great. Trump was ahead in all the including Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida (which he ended up winning). So feeling good about things and being pretty drunk, we decided to go home because we were tired. When we got home, this is when things appeared to go south.

For some strange reason and something I have never seen before, vote counts stopped for the night. They stopped in Pennsylvania (Philly specifically), Wisconsin and Arizona. None of us could believe it. It was 1:00 AM and we were not going to find out who won the election (which wasn’t much of a surprise) because the ballot counters didn’t want to stay up all night (that was a surprise).

My dad simply said, “They are going to steal this one.”

We just went to bed. We were all really pissed off.

 

What Happened the Next Morning

Our worst nightmares were realized the next morning.

I woke up and immediately looked to my phone.

Trump was losing in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada and Biden had won Arizona and Virginia, which Trump thought he might be able to flip. Trump still had substantial leads in Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania but the leads were narrowing. At least he did win Florida. Trump gained very little ground.

Twitter was on fire. People were screaming that the election was stolen. Trump was Tweeting throughout the day. And Twitter does what it does: suspending conservatives for having hope the election would turn toward Trump. Trump got Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire because he re-tweeted a scenario when Trump had the election stolen from him because Walsh has violated the “policy on disseminating false information.” The funny thing is they never suspended Biden’s account when he put up a meme that said he was going to win. The double standard lives well on Twitter.

But that’s when things started getting really weird with the elections and legitimate question were being asked.

 

It Ain’t Over

You know, we have been doing this voting thing for 244 years. You’d think we’d have it down by now. Well we don’t. Or, maybe we do and people are just cheating. And the media is a conspirator.

Fox News reported that Biden won Arizona without any ballots were counted.

Arizona reported that they had counted 95% of the ballots. That was wrong. They had only counted 84% of the ballots and those that were not counted were heavily populated by red districts.

There are several districts, including in California and Wisconsin, that are rumored to have more votes than ballots. In California, I’m not surprised by this. This has happened before in California but no one reported it. This is part of the evil that is mail-in balloting and ballot harvesting. Take a look at this:

There is a graph going around that shows the votes for the candidates by hour. The source is an Internet journalist named Derek Duck (that is his name) and, apparently, his information is accurate enough that Twitter suspended him for posting it. What the graphs show is the vote totals per hour. What is curious is, in the middle of the night, votes in Michigan and Wisconsin spiked at around 4 AM on Wednesday. That is odd because a lot of vote counters stopped counting at around that time. Weird, huh?

Donald Trump’s team, as of this writing, has already requested recounts in several states and have will challenge the results in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. The legal challenges are based on votes counted that have no business being counted. That includes votes that did not get in before November 3. If the above graphs are correct, expect them to be used in court.

I don’t think court battles are going to lead to much and I don’t think recounts, especially when down 10 thousand votes are going to make too much of a difference. The reality that any court challenges may get some movement but, like in the 2000 Bush-Gore election, I doubt anything much will come from the Supreme Court.

In certain areas, 100% of the vote went to Joe Biden. That’s weird. That’s not me being a conspiracy theorist pulling stuff out of my ass. The Trump legal team has said that happened.

Republican representatives have not been allowed to watch the counting in votes. In Philly, security actually put up partitions to hide what the vote counters were doing. Doesn’t that make you go “hmm…”

Finally, the election is not over but Trump has some heavy lifting over the next couple of days. Nevada, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina are still up for grabs. Even Arizona, which has been declared already, is still up in the air. If Trump wins all four states, Trump will win.

So it’s not over and will not be for a few weeks.

 

The Good News

So far, all I have been focusing on is the bad news. But, in reality, there is some good news. Lots of good news.

  • Republicans are going to win the Senate. Races that were suppose to be close weren’t close. More on that later.
  • Republicans gained seats in the House. Polls said we were suppose to lose seats.
  • Trump was suppose to get blown out, both in the popular vote and in the state vote. That didn’t happen. Trump is down a point and a half in the popular vote and won states he wasn’t suppose to win including Florida.

 

The most important is the woke crowd got skinned. The black vote went from 7% in 2016 to 15% in 2020. Hispanics voted for Trump at close to 40%. In fact, minorities have voted for Trump in droves. This shows the rejection of intersectionality and identity politics. The term “racist” has been so overused, no one thinks anything of it anymore. So people are going to vote for whoever they want and not care what people think. This is the biggest tell for this election. Even the Left was thinking this was an important point of the election.

 

 

Lessons Learned

Here’s what we have learned from this absolute disaster:

  • There must be bipartisan oversight of voting in each state.
  • There must be a standardization of voting procedures throughout every state if they want to participate in a federal election. Not how the states delegate their electors.
  • Mail-in balloting and ballot harvesting are disasters. They must be banned. This has nothing to do with absentee ballots.
  • Voting is a privilege.
  • The polling sucked in every way.
    • They screwed up the Presidential election, both in the popular vote and the state-by-state vote.
    • They screwed up the Senate vote. The Republicans will probably take the Senate.
    • They screwed up the House votes. Republicans gained seats in the House.
  • We have to make a Constitutional amendment that deems the election is on the first Tuesday in November and no votes shall be cast after 8:00 PM local time unless there are unforeseen issues.