This won’t be a post mortem, but instead we’ll try to provide some perspective on what we can learn from the results and what might be the shape of things going forward.Thanks for reading Meaning In History!
This all seems like re-arranging deckchairs on the Titanic. We're now going to face two years of exhausting and ultimately sterile circumlocutions about who will be the feckless GOP's 2024 pick. Yet I still see no evidence that even the most rock-solid conservative choice for the WH will be able to change the trajectory America is barreling down. The only chance of this happening would be a very strong character entering the Oval Office with the complete backing of a MAGA GOP led Congress with a mandate to destroy 90% of the current bureaucratic DS apparatus and put droves of Dem traitors in prison. This won't happen. So what's the answer? It has to come from the States. DeSantis and some of the red state governors won big on Tuesday because they showed voters how our leaders should be handling the main issues facing us: the insane Covid crap, illegal immigration, voting reform, etc. And the divides outlined above on abortion and the generational outlooks only further emphasise the need for some kind of break up of the country. We cannot live together and no election will change this.
Wait a minute. I can't find any good data on the 2022 electorate's demographics, but I thought I heard that the youth vote was large this cycle. Also, the young vote ostensibly went early and heavily Dem due to abortion and student loan forgiveness. 70% of unmarried females (presumably skewing younger) voted Dem. This doesn't seem to reconcile with abortion being a non-issue. Has anybody seen any trustworthy exit polling & analysis?
Analysis from Just The News. The GOP outvoted the Dems by 6 million votes (so far) according to Cook. It just didn't translate to the electoral wins projected by many:
Basically lots of money due to low interest rates desperately looking for returns, creating lots of bubbles. With higher interest rates, there will be a blood bath.
I hope that I am wrong, but my suspicion is that whoever is elected as President in 2024 - whether fraudulently or legitimately - will face an impossible task, with the decline (and fall?) of the US dollar and petrodollar, the final recognition that the West is indebted far beyond any ability to ever repay or refinance, the collapse of Western economies as their green energy fantasies crash on the shores of reality, the eventual realization that Western militaries are overpriced paper tigers, and the exposure of the massive corruption in Western civilization.
I am more optimistic for 2024. We hit rock bottom before then, so either we stay there for the foreseeable future or we maybe get Trump back, if he is still interested, and we recover lost ground.
Miracles do happen. A strong conservative Potus might make an impact. But he would have to ensure that the changes he makes - if he is allowed to - are lasting and profound. No historical example fits exactly, but it would have to be someone like Diocletian, who restored some efficiency and normality to the Roman Empire after a catastrophic era of anarchy and debauchery. I don't see anyone who fits that bill at present (Sorry, Donald!)
Apropos of your comments regarding the political impact of single women and the likelihood that marriage will make a comeback in our coming dark age, I just watched an amusing, provocative and insightful rant by Milo Yiannopolous on just this topic. Check it out:
The problem is it doesn't explain how it got that way. I think you can trace this back to Dubya and Mueller. This transformation was driven from the top. None of the agents were complaining, We need more analysts, we need more intel. That said, the demonization of conservatives has roots going back to Freeh and Ruby Ridge. But again, that was driven from the top--including by Bill Barr.
Mark, I forgot that Louis Freeh actually existed until you mentioned him, then I recalled that G. Gordon Liddy always referred to him as "the hapless Louis Freeh" .
Yes, one would think that the guy whose whole life has been making deals could.
Only his being in office stopped the neocon deep state and the incompetent, less than useless neocon diplomatic corps from fomenting wars for a few years.
Yep. Despite the irritating way he is behaving right now, Americans owe him a massive debt of thanks for holding off some of the globalists' worst designs for a few years.
That CTH piece is awesome. Also explains how the dead man got elected in PA. People getting paid to fill in ballots bubbles - straight ticket no doubt - or machines filling in the Dem bubbles on ballots, don't pay much attention. They just fill em in paying no heed to who's actually on there - dead or alive.
This all seems like re-arranging deckchairs on the Titanic. We're now going to face two years of exhausting and ultimately sterile circumlocutions about who will be the feckless GOP's 2024 pick. Yet I still see no evidence that even the most rock-solid conservative choice for the WH will be able to change the trajectory America is barreling down. The only chance of this happening would be a very strong character entering the Oval Office with the complete backing of a MAGA GOP led Congress with a mandate to destroy 90% of the current bureaucratic DS apparatus and put droves of Dem traitors in prison. This won't happen. So what's the answer? It has to come from the States. DeSantis and some of the red state governors won big on Tuesday because they showed voters how our leaders should be handling the main issues facing us: the insane Covid crap, illegal immigration, voting reform, etc. And the divides outlined above on abortion and the generational outlooks only further emphasise the need for some kind of break up of the country. We cannot live together and no election will change this.
Hmm on Ga…
Warnock's campaign has spent $135.8 million, while Walker's campaign has spent $32.4 million, according to data from the Federal Election Commission.
https://news.yahoo.com/runoff-election-georgia-may-decide-141409864.html
And in NY Hochul spent 7X her opponent.
Oz is super pro Vax, that may have also impacted gop turnout.
Wait a minute. I can't find any good data on the 2022 electorate's demographics, but I thought I heard that the youth vote was large this cycle. Also, the young vote ostensibly went early and heavily Dem due to abortion and student loan forgiveness. 70% of unmarried females (presumably skewing younger) voted Dem. This doesn't seem to reconcile with abortion being a non-issue. Has anybody seen any trustworthy exit polling & analysis?
Analysis from Just The News. The GOP outvoted the Dems by 6 million votes (so far) according to Cook. It just didn't translate to the electoral wins projected by many:
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/red-wave-after-all-gop-winning-popular-vote-wide-margin-despite
And Kherson, Fallujah.
https://twitter.com/JonErlichman/status/1590385789589868544
Some recent layoffs (% of workforce):
Seagate: 8%
Docusign: 9%
Shopify: 10%
Twilio: 11%
GoFundMe: 12%
Chime: 12%
Meta: 13%
Redfin: 13%
Lyft: 13%
Stripe: 14%
Patreon: 17%
Coinbase: 18%
Opendoor: 18%
Flipboard: 21%
Intel: 20%
Snap: 20%
Dapper: 22%
Robinhood: 23%
Twitter: 40-50%
All woke poster children, with the possible exception of seagate
They can always learn to mine coal.
Interesting read on FTX’s collapse:
https://nypost.com/2022/11/11/how-the-crypto-collapse-of-ftx-hurt-tom-brady-steph-curry/
A comment in the article was it set back Crypto 10 years.
Analysis of investment vs revenue for Patreon: $450 million in investment with lifetime revenue since 2013 of $60 million.
https://voxday.net/2022/11/11/twitter-flirts-with-bankruptcy/
Basically lots of money due to low interest rates desperately looking for returns, creating lots of bubbles. With higher interest rates, there will be a blood bath.
I hope that I am wrong, but my suspicion is that whoever is elected as President in 2024 - whether fraudulently or legitimately - will face an impossible task, with the decline (and fall?) of the US dollar and petrodollar, the final recognition that the West is indebted far beyond any ability to ever repay or refinance, the collapse of Western economies as their green energy fantasies crash on the shores of reality, the eventual realization that Western militaries are overpriced paper tigers, and the exposure of the massive corruption in Western civilization.
Other than that I am pretty optimistic!
I am more optimistic for 2024. We hit rock bottom before then, so either we stay there for the foreseeable future or we maybe get Trump back, if he is still interested, and we recover lost ground.
Miracles do happen. A strong conservative Potus might make an impact. But he would have to ensure that the changes he makes - if he is allowed to - are lasting and profound. No historical example fits exactly, but it would have to be someone like Diocletian, who restored some efficiency and normality to the Roman Empire after a catastrophic era of anarchy and debauchery. I don't see anyone who fits that bill at present (Sorry, Donald!)
Apropos of your comments regarding the political impact of single women and the likelihood that marriage will make a comeback in our coming dark age, I just watched an amusing, provocative and insightful rant by Milo Yiannopolous on just this topic. Check it out:
https://youtu.be/0Yut997fqRo
Rascal, Europe is there already:
Ursula (president of EC)
Elisabeth (Fr)
Jacinda (NZ)
Nicola (Scotland)
Liz (GB) - opps! gone
Sanna (Finland)
Ingrida (Lithuania)
Kaja (Estonia)
Magdalena (Sweden)
Mette (Denmark)
(allowing for a tad more married than in US - but just as unhinged)
They are all identikit leaders too. Vacuous, untalented, never done a real job. Oh, and all groupies of Schwab.
Right, otherwise we have metrosexual simps:
Trudeau (Canada)
Macron (France)
Sunak (Britain)
Rutte (Netherlands)
Good point!
Courtney, Page, Rainforest...
The problem is it doesn't explain how it got that way. I think you can trace this back to Dubya and Mueller. This transformation was driven from the top. None of the agents were complaining, We need more analysts, we need more intel. That said, the demonization of conservatives has roots going back to Freeh and Ruby Ridge. But again, that was driven from the top--including by Bill Barr.
Mark, I forgot that Louis Freeh actually existed until you mentioned him, then I recalled that G. Gordon Liddy always referred to him as "the hapless Louis Freeh" .
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-fbis-transformation-from-national
Yes, one would think that the guy whose whole life has been making deals could.
Only his being in office stopped the neocon deep state and the incompetent, less than useless neocon diplomatic corps from fomenting wars for a few years.
Yep. Despite the irritating way he is behaving right now, Americans owe him a massive debt of thanks for holding off some of the globalists' worst designs for a few years.
yes, quite right, but also guaranteed his ouster!
Yup.
"We can't have someone in there not serving perpetual war!"
It's the former. Guaranteed.
That CTH piece is awesome. Also explains how the dead man got elected in PA. People getting paid to fill in ballots bubbles - straight ticket no doubt - or machines filling in the Dem bubbles on ballots, don't pay much attention. They just fill em in paying no heed to who's actually on there - dead or alive.