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In NY-22, counting continues (these Democrats are slow), and Anthony Brindisi, the Democrat, leads with a margin of -29 votes (note negative sign), but Claudia Tenny, the Republican, stubbornly refuses to concede despite her obvious loss to the exalted incumbent with possibly thousands of ballots yet uncounted.

In LA-5, Luke Letlow, a Republican, recently elected for a first term in Congress, died of the Wuhan coronavirus, but the sluggish Louisiana election system has not named a Democrat to replace him.

So that makes two vacant seats. The following other representatives failed to vote “present” on command earlier in the day:

Kevin Brady (R-TX-8)
Rodney Davis (R-IL-13)
Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA-11)
Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL-20)
Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL-27)
David G. Valadao (R-CA-21)

Those who failed to vote for speaker include the two vacant offices and reportedly four others, probably but not certainly from this list.

Full cooperation in balancing the federal budget immediately through reducing unnecessary spending, especially on lobbyists and persons other than citizens of these United States of America, and in eliminating any funding for killing babies anywhere in the world, and in recognizing the reelection of Donald John Trump as president and of Michael Richard Pence as vice president of these United States of America.

If that’s the deal, I’m in full support.

Donald John Trump will give the traditional inaugural address, and, barring the conditions that confronted Ronald Wilson Reagan in 1985 or perhaps William Henry Harrison in 1841, he will not struggle.

Some of these last names are legitimate voters. My grandmother, who once voted reliably Republican but probably now votes illegally for Democrats, had a unique last name. Her husband came of America from a small ethnic group in Europe with the types of names that usually got misspelled at Ellis Island. He died in the war; of their three daughters, two married and moved away, and a drug addict killed the third. They had no sons. So she had no family on her late husband’s side who lived in the state.

My grandmother recently deceased, which means that she should cease to vote. But when she lived on this earth, she voted with her “one-of-a-kind” last name. And those votes should count. After she deceased, she perhaps moved in spirit posthumously to Pennsylvania, even though her body is still interred in a cemetery in a different state, registered to vote, and voted Democrat from the grave. If she accomplished that feat, then her votes should not count.

Trump holds the trump card here. He can hold the legislation for ten days (excluding Sundays) while deciding whether to sign it or to veto it. Because this Congress expires on 3 January, the legislation dies automatically on that day unless Trump signs it. Even if he does veto it, and Congress attempts an override, the distinguished members of Congress cannot feign ignorance believably about the actual contents of the bill, especially since the President explained it so plainly before the American people.

Update: a quick scan of the text of the act, including the authorization clause, which describes the use of appropriations, suggests that the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act of 2018 acts as a vehicle for a wide variety of vague spending programs in and near Asia, ostensibly diplomatic efforts to advance the interests and foreign policies of the United States of America. In other words, this money probably will go to someone in or near Asia for some undisclosed purpose. I cannot determine whether this money is just general freewheeling excessive spending on just any account to pay bureaucrats, a purely corrupt initiative that some Congressperson will reveal in secret to some bureaucrat in the Department of State, or something else entirely, benign or nefarious.

You can find federal statutes at

https://uscode.house.gov/browse.xhtml

A search for the “Asia Reassurance Initiative Act” (Pub. L. 115-409, Dec. 31, 2018, 132 Stat. 5387) leads ultimately here:

https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=132&page=5387

You can page through its 24 pages, which end at page 5411.

I’m not sure what it is or does.

Trump should sign a veto message and demand that Congress pass a balanced budget, legalize free enterprise, forbid mask mandates, open churches, drastically reduce regulations, and defund the regulatory deep state.

I must be really stupid. I cannot understand how spending $10 million for “gender programs” in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is so essential for relieving the American people of the coronavirus menace. Then again, I also never understood how sending $3.7 million to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for research into the epidemiological properties of coronaviruses in bats stimulate the deeply recessed economy of the United States of America. I just find such Congressional logic simply incomprehensible.

It sounds like a badly garbled complaint, perhaps better phrased thus:

“Seattle public schools deprive children of God and rob them of their patrimony, denying them the opportunity to study the great artistic works of Christendom or even proper English grammar.”

The steal is now so obvious and uncontroversial that I fully expect every even partially honest Democrat in Congress on 6 January 2021 to insist on counting enough electoral votes for Donald John Trump to reveal his clear victory. Joseph Robinette Biden plainly lost the contest and should concede soon.

Actual help requires that Congress pass a balanced budget, legalize private enterprise, forbid mask requirements, restrict trade with the unfree enemy People’s Republic of China, and repeal federal regulatory laws until spending matches revenue. Such a package of legislation would result in enormous economic prosperity in the United States of America.

The problem is that it sounds terrible in both English and Spanish. In Spanish, essentially all nouns are either male or female. Male nouns typically take the article “el” and usually end in “-o.” Female nouns typically take the article “la” and usually end in “-a.”

In Spanish and English, the letter “x” is a consonant, whereas the letters “a” and “o” are vowels. In both languages, the masculine technically includes the feminine, so that when a Latino joins a group of Latinas, the new group consists of Latinos. If we insist on a gender-neutral alternative in English, then the word “Latin” already can serve this purpose without an “x” as a vowel. Substituting consonants for vowels typically creates ugly, unpronounceable strings of letters, not valid words.

Moreover, in Spanish, the non-word “latinx,” if used as a real noun, must have a gender and take an article and therefore does not escape association with one gender or the other. English works differently. During the shift from Anglo-Saxon (Old English) to Middle English, most English nouns and corresponding modifiers shifted to neuter gender. Nouns that reference or imply biological sex, however, retain the corresponding grammatical gender. And we sometimes refer to ships, countries, the Church, and even machines poetically (or theologically in the case of the Church) in the feminine.

So, if “Latinx” makes no sense in either language, why did the term enter the lexicon? The only answer that I can find involves a very small group of politically influential insane persons, whose exposure to academia rendered them so unnaturally stupid that they lack the intelligence of the most profoundly retarded idiots. These individuals lost their capacity to recognize themselves as either male or female. They also lost the capacity to recognize the difference between vowels and consonants. And they identify as Democrats and unfortunately vote accordingly. Lamentably, most of these individuals, having annihilated their mental function to the extent that they cannot find refuge in homes for the intellectually disabled, work as university professors or administrators.

Her math is not erroneous. Clearly, her class has an implicit rule, according to which any African American student surrenders his or her seat to any student of Asian descent or non-resident alien. Unfortunately, this anti-black discrimination persists into 2006, when she wrote this dissertation. A half-century after Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and thus precipitated a boycott that forced the municipal bus system to treat Caucasians and African Americans equally, Jill Biden still enforces the old discriminatory rule so casually that she doesn’t even mention it.

Moreover, the non-resident aliens and students of Asian descent merely fill seats in the classroom, but she excludes them from the class. I suppose that she denies them the right to participate and receive grades and credits.

And if you decry the position of African Americans, students of Asian descent, and non-resident aliens in her classroom, consider that she excludes Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, non-Caucasian resident aliens, Hispanics of neither African nor Asian descent (except nonresident aliens), and persons of other racial and immigration categories entirely and forbids them entrance.

In conclusion, Doctor Jill Biden may wish to consider admitting all students to her classroom and into her class and even allowing them to fill seats on an equal basis without regard to race, continent of origin, or immigration status.

Actually, black Americans should increase their vote share via the following three-point plan:

(1) Quit killing your babies. Dead people cannot vote, and abortions kill most Americans of African descent today. So get married and then procreate and rear and educate your children.

(2) Stop the gangs. Gangs of black boys, mostly without fathers, terrorize black communities and kill, maim, and injure other black persons. In many terrible black neighborhoods, gang violence cuts life expectancy severely.
Fathers, love your sons, and rear them in the way of God.
And teach them the meaning of the commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.”

(3) Quit committing felonies and stay off drugs. Go to church instead. Many states forbid the incarcerated, those on probation, and those convicted of felonies to vote. If you value your political influence, then just don’t do the crime. And drugs contribute to felonious crime and make you too stupid to think straight in the voting booth if somehow you remember to go thither.

In reality, despite these problems, black Americans usually vote in high numbers, proportionally more than those of other racial demographics. But they could double their vote share if they only refused Planned Parenthood and its fellow killers of preborn babies.

They voted within the normal voting period. Because of horrific anti-black racial discrimination (among black gangsters and Black Lives Matter terrorists), however, those neighborhoods suffer from terrible road conditions (principally, drive-by shootings, mobs blocking the streets, carjackings, makeshift barricades, and broken glass and dropped loot littering the street). Therefore, despite the best efforts of the vote drivers (to navigate around these pervasive road hazards), the ballot boxes arrived in the counting centers only several hours after votes closed. Terrible weather (specifically, comfortably warm temperatures and mostly clear skies, ideal weather for criminal and partisan terrorist activities) contributed to the delays.

The foreknowledge that an impenetrable wall separates them from their only real intended destination discourages the potential caravan members from forming in the first place. Although many people in Central America face severe violence and desperately need help and protection, few of these persons ever joined the caravans.

Remember how a certain presidential candidate, Donald John Trump, promised that Mexico would pay for the wall? Well, Mexico built a rudimentary semi-effective border-security system and paid for it; that wall faces Guatemala. That accomplishment required time and money, but it works far better now than it ever did in the past. Of course, our media don’t report on such things; otherwise, they might credit the President with accomplishing a goal that they lampooned for years.

If the Daily Mail has a correct summary of the trip plans of our vice-president, then this sounds like VERY GOOD news. He may make some extra stops and announce some more Abraham Accord members. Nobody wants to speak to the outgoing vice president, who has no authority and will be an unemployed civilian a couple weeks thence. So this trip either concerns something far bigger than the Trump administration (think of a treaty between Israel and ____ [Tunisia? Oman? Mali? Mauritania? Indonesia? Kuwait?
Bangladesh?]) or it celebrates his reelection to the office of vice-president or both.

Well, given the frailty of Joseph Biden, Doctor Jill Biden wants to take after Doctor Woodrow Wilson, the most overrated and (some friends say) the worst president in American history and the only one with a doctoral degree.

Obama is absolutely correct. The Republican party is the minority party in this country.

First, Republicans represent the interests of ethnic minorities in this country, and those minorities should vote Republican. Their other alternative, the Maoist party, mislabeled Democrat, wants to turn the country into a totalitarian prison camp and to crush the economy. Its racist terrorist organizations target blacks and Hispanics particularly for extermination. The Ku Klux Klan has fallen from favor, but Planned Parenthood and its affiliates and fellow abortionists kill most black babies across America before they ever get a chance at drawing a first breath. Black Lives Matter empowers criminal gangs to terrorize the neighborhoods of the poor and especially black communities. Antifa routinely destroys honorable enterprises, especially those in minority communities or with minority owners or employees. Moreover, Democrats conspire to crush black churches and black families, destroying lives here and hereafter. Republicans want to crush these terrorist organizations and give all Americans, even those of non-European heritage, the dignity of work and the right to life.

Second, Republicans generally act like the minority party. They put up episodic whimpering but capitulate to all sorts of bad ideas from the left, even when they hold numerical majorities. They rarely advance a program of action of their own. Donald Trump marks a rare and partial exception, but even he faced vigorous, sustained, vicious, and often insurmountable opposition from Democrats in the bureaucracy. As a majority party, the Republicans failed to prevent legions of thousands of ineligible deceased Democrats from voting twice or thrice in contravention of applicable law. They couldn’t even ensure an accurate count of votes or inhibit excessive election fraud. That performance suggests that Republicans constitute a marginalized minority in American politics.