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Two Weeks to Go
Townhall.com ^ | October 22, 2020 | Emmett Tyrrell

Posted on 10/22/2020 8:30:46 AM PDT by Kaslin

Washington -- Two weeks from today, we shall know who is to be our next president. Or perhaps we will not know who is to be our next president two weeks from today. It might take three or four weeks. It might take the laborious workings of the courts all the way up to the Supreme Court. Actually, we may never know who won the 2020 election. We might have a runoff in 2021. You think not? Well, look how screwed up the 2016 election became. The Democrats were holding out for Hillary for months. Some were holding out for years. Come to think of it, look how screwed up the 2000 election was. Our elections are increasingly decided by lawyers and judges, not by voters. Possibly, the progressives' next innovation will be to leave the election count to be decided upon by the readers of chickens' entrails. Or perhaps by a flip of the coin. Frankly, based on the evidence at hand, our nation's leaders are increasingly inept. Bring back President Warren G. Harding.

How could the land of the free and the home of the brave have fallen on such hard times? At least up until 2000, it seemed like a simple, straightforward matter to hold an election, especially when you only had two major parties competing. Actually, in places such as Nebraska, South Dakota and my own dear Indiana, an election is a straightforward matter. How much would you like to bet that two weeks from today, in the aforementioned states and others like them, we will know who won the election? We should be able to celebrate, and by late in the week, we will all be back to normal - at least in the civilized states.

In the states where politics are a matter of life or death, chaos will prevail until some wise authority figure devises a way to end the election. Possibly, the presence of Judge Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court will now make a difference. Her demeanor and grasp of the law over the past two weeks were very reassuring. Yet she will probably have to deal with Sen. Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Moreover, there remains in the House of Representatives Congressgirl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and "the Squad," as she calls them. Incidentally, does the word "squad" bring to mind images of the Fascisti lurking in the shadows? Possibly, it is all for best that the Congressgirl's mother still will not allow her out after 9 p.m. without the benefit of a chaperone.

There is a magic number out there, even now. The polls tell us that 56% of those intending to vote believe that they are better off today than they were last election at this time -- and today we are in the midst of a pandemic. Another 79% of those intending to vote believe that the economy is a very important issue in this election. Those numbers suggest to me that the fellow who has been in charge of the economy for the past four years will be reelected. That is to say that President Donald Trump will, when all the storm and stress subsides, be our president for four more years.

Yet hold on. This past July, Sleepy Joe Biden roused himself from the slumbers of his basement and took to Twitter. He declaimed: "We're going to beat Donald Trump. And when we do, we won't just rebuild this nation -- we'll transform it." Does anyone other than Congressgirl Cortez, her Squad, antifa and a few thousand cranks on the extreme left want to live in a "transformed" America? America does not need a transformed America. Fifty-six percent have said it.

There has been talk in this election of packing the Supreme Court. There has been talk of bringing in two more states, effectively to end democratic elections for the presidency. There has been talk of reparations for slavery and for other injustices committed by Americans who died long ago. There has been more extreme talk in this election than in any election during my lifetime. Now there is talk of tampering with ballot boxes and a stolen election after a rather blatant attempt at stealing the last election by the intelligence community.

Frankly, though I want President Donald Trump to win, I shall not be saddened if Sleepy Joe walks away with the vote. Let the buffoonery continue.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; biden; election2020; electionday; elections; joebiden; presidenttrump; trump
Sorry, but I will not accept that Idiot as my president.
1 posted on 10/22/2020 8:30:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Frankly, though I want President Donald Trump to win, I shall not be saddened if Sleepy Joe walks away with the vote. Let the buffoonery continue.


What am I missing? Someone who wants Trump to win, states he will not be saddened if Joe wins??? And it’s because Joe and his people are buffoons????

I don’t disagree there is buffoonery on the Democrat side, but, don’t want to see those buffoons in power.


2 posted on 10/22/2020 8:36:56 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Kaslin

I predict we won’t know in two weeks unless it is a clear sweep like Reagan in 1980.

Democrats haven’t conceded a loss on election night since the 80s.

Richard Nixon refused to put this nation through what Al Gore Junior did in 2000.

We’ve seen “senator” Al Franken and others manufacture victories after elections.

That’s where we are headed if Trump doesn’t have a landslide victory.


3 posted on 10/22/2020 8:38:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Kaslin

“Possibly, the presence of Judge Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court will now make a difference. Her demeanor and grasp of the law over the past two weeks were very reassuring. Yet she will probably have to deal with Sen. Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Moreover, there remains in the House of Representatives Congressgirl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and “the Squad,” as she calls them.”

I don’t see how any of those lunatic scumbags can create problems for a Supreme Court Justice...unless they try to impeach her, an effort that would certainly fail.


4 posted on 10/22/2020 8:42:33 AM PDT by be-baw
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To: Dilbert San Diego

See my reply in post #1


5 posted on 10/22/2020 8:49:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
“I shall not be saddened if Sleepy Joe walks away with the vote. “

Emmett needs to lay off what ever he has been smoking. If China Joe was to prevail this great country will plummet straight into the abyss. Everyone should be saddened by that prospect.

6 posted on 10/22/2020 8:51:48 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: Kaslin

Let’s see here Donald Trump has rallies and tens of thousands of people show up and love the guy

Joe corrupt Biden is just staying in his basement and avoiding the ass-kissing press because he knows he can’t handle

Who in their right mind thinks that I November 3 the second guys going to get more votes than the first


7 posted on 10/22/2020 8:56:50 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again)
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To: Truthoverpower
Joe corrupt Biden is just staying in his basement and avoiding the ass-kissing press because he knows he can’t handle

Come on, man! You think it's easy to answer questions about ice cream?

8 posted on 10/22/2020 9:03:44 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (WWG1WGA)
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To: Truthoverpower
Joe corrupt Biden is just staying in his basement and avoiding the ass-kissing press because he knows he can’t handle

Come on, man! You think it's easy to answer questions about ice cream?

9 posted on 10/22/2020 9:03:44 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (WWG1WGA)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I don’t disagree there is buffoonery on the Democrat side, but, don’t want to see those buffoons in power.

You said it. Democrats are downright evil. I've cut people who support Biden out of my life. They're either too stupid to recognize reality, or they're part of the evil.

10 posted on 10/22/2020 9:08:50 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (WWG1WGA)
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To: Richard Kimball
There was this guy we called "Rich two times," cause he always said everything twice.


11 posted on 10/22/2020 9:11:21 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (WWG1WGA)
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bump


12 posted on 10/22/2020 9:25:45 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: a fool in paradise
Predictions are that Republicans will be likelier to vote on election day (vs. early voting or mail-in ballots) than Democrats. That means on Nov. 4 the Democrats will know how many votes they need to manufacture in the swing states.

I wonder if local police forces are bracing for the possibility of widespread Antifa/BLM violence on Nov. 3 to make it hard for people to vote in person.

13 posted on 10/22/2020 11:44:55 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Voter intimidation is real and Democrat activists have slashed the tires of Republican “get out the vote” vehicles on election day in earlier presidential elections. They’ve also cut power to GOP campaign offices on election day.

They will pull out all stops this year.


14 posted on 10/22/2020 12:58:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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