I saw this the other day and something struck me. Can you tell what it is?
Category: Elections
Lottery Odds
No, not the lottery; the odds against this happening by pure coincidence:
Several candidates for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) have died in the lead-up to this month’s local elections in the country’s most populous state.
According to the German paper of record Die Welt, at least seven AfD candidates have died ahead of the September 14th elections in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Germany’s Deutsche Presse-Agentur wire service noted that a total of 16 candidates have died before the upcoming vote. Yet, no other party besides the Eurosceptic right-wing party has suffered more than one death..
And then this:
Authorities have stressed that there is so far no evidence of foul play in any of the deaths.
Considering that there’s a non-zero chance that the “authorities” may have been behind at least some of these deaths… well, okay.
Let’s look at it more closely:
Police have already confirmed natural causes in four of the AfD candidate deaths and said there are so far no indications of foul play in the others.
So (counting on fingers) that leaves a dozen or so “non-natural” causes.
Then there’s the “it happens all the time” rationale:
A North Rhine-Westphalia election commission spokesman told the DPA that the number of deaths was “not significantly higher” than in past elections, with tens of thousands of people running for seats in the state.
Speaking as a one-time analyst of data, though, I’d love to see a per-thousand number of deaths by party affiliation.
I’m not by nature a conspiracy theorist, but when I’m confronted by a low-probability / massively-coincidental series of events, I do become suspicious. The scale of untimely pre-election and party-specific deaths here is positively Clintonian.
Let me go out on a limb and suggest that the high mortality of AfD candidates is extremely suspicious.
Back To Basics
I always like it when a sports team has completely screwed up and lost the plot — Dallas Cowboys and Manchester United, take a bow — and then when the new coach/manager joins the organization, the statement is pretty much always the same: “We’re going to go back to the basics”, as in the wisdom in the words of the old manager in baseball’s Bull Durham: “You hit the ball, you catch the ball, you throw the ball.”
So given that our current method of voting in the United States is a hopelessly corrupted process, completely open to fake voters, system hacking and the outright fraud made so easy in “mail-in voting”, anyone with a brain should welcome this pronouncement from POTUS:
“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!! Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military. USE PAPER BALLOTS ONLY!!!”
So who could possibly object to so simple, basic and open system? Don’t be silly.
Critics of Trump’s election plans (take a wild guess who they are – K.) argue that such decisions should be left up to the states.
Yes of course. By all means let’s leave federal elections in the hands of such honest and decent states like Illinois, Michigan and all the Usual Suspects.
I find it interesting that when the United States sets up a system in foreign countries to ensure that the process is free, open and not easy to corrupt, it involves such artifacts as paper ballots and dyed fingers (to prevent repeat voting) in one-day elections conducted only in official, supervised polling places for registered and verified voters only, with ballots tabulated by hand and all results published by the following morning.
Yet when it comes to the United States itself… oh no, let’s use vulnerable and corruptible machines to collate and tabulate votes electronically, let’s allow the process to take place over weeks and months, and let’s likewise drag out the actual reporting of results over weeks and months, with no controls as to who was qualified to vote, and no guarantee of the integrity of the ballot papers trickling in from unprotected collection boxes.
Let’s just ask ourselves: who could possibly object to simplifying and protecting the integrity of the voting process for the most consequential elections in the whole world? Silly rabbit:
To ask the question is to answer it: it would be those groups and parties whose policies are unpopular, clearly destructive (to the country, its economy and its institutions) and cannot pass even the most simple and casual scrutiny for efficacy and common sense.
By the way, the only thing I don’t like about DJT’s announcement (apart from all those stupid exclamation marks) is that he made no mention of dyed fingers.
We need them too. And I don’t care how “primitive” it looks.
As with sports teams, the basics are critical — and none so critical as our elections.
Close Escape
Man, did we ever dodge a bullet back in 2016:
The report indicates that Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) possessed “DNC communications that Clinton was suffering from ‘intensified psycho-emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness,’” and that Hillary “was placed on a daily regimen of ‘heavy tranquilizers’ and while afraid of losing, she remained ‘obsessed with a thirst for power.’ ”
Yup… that sounds like Our Hillary, ferrrr shirrr.
Worse still (in the linked article) is the role the loathsome Obama Administration played in the whole matter.
Read it, and rage.
Righting A Wrong
I read some libtard moaning SOTI about Trump’s “obession” with the 2020 election result (for those of short memory, that was the one where 81 million people suddenly came out of nowhere to vote for Vice-President Braindead).
Let’s be clear about this: it was a stolen election, and Trump is perfectly within his rights to be pissed off about it. (That it has turned out to be a blessing in disguise in that Trump 47 is working out better than Trump 46 would have, is just one of life’s lovely little ironies.)
So of course Trump is going after a special prosecutor to investigate the thing, and the reason he must do that is to identify both the methodology that enabled the steal, and the agents who executed it, for the benefit of future elections that the Left may want to steal.
Have at it, guys.
Not Failing
Like most conservatives, I was astonished to see that in the coming Fall [sic] NYfC will be electing a raging Marxist (again) to be their mayor.
I mean, seriously? Did they not learn their lesson with De Blasio?
Then a parallel issue emerged when looking at who voted for whom. (Another side issue: it says a lot when that little shit disgraced ex-NYGov Andrew Cuomo is seen as the “moderate” choice.)
Actually, “our higher education system” is not failing at all, when you consider that the function of our college system is to further the spread of Marxism. In fact, in light of the above election result, their performance is a remarkable success.
Hence:
