The Nastiest, Strangest Presidential Elections in US History

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(If, like me, you are discouraged by the current political rhetoric, you might be surprised to learn the last few elections have not been the weirdest or nastiest in our history. I stumbled upon this article by Stephanie Pappas that details what were 5 of the nastiest elections in our history in her opinion.  Keep in mind when you read this, it’s dated 2012, so her list may have changed.)

Reading the political news, you’d think this election is the nastiest, most contentious and most important our nation has ever faced. No doubt the outcome matters, but in the annals of American elections, this one barely registers for sheer strangeness.

In fact, electoral politics have always been a down-and-dirty business, starting at least as early as 1800, when our founding fathers proved themselves adept at bitter battles. Other elections have featured nasty accusations, bizarre happenstance and even the death of one of the candidates.

Read on for five of the strangest presidential elections in U.S. history.

1. The very first one, 1788-1789

The first presidential election in our nation’s history was one-of-a-kind in that it was literally no contest. Organized political parties had yet to form, and George Washington ran unopposed. His victory is the only one in the nation’s history to feature 100 percent of the Electoral College vote.

The real question in 1788 was who would become vice president. At the time, this office was awarded to the runner-up in the electoral vote (each elector cast two votes to ensure there would be a runner-up.) Eleven candidates made a play for the vice-presidency, but John Adams came out on top.

2. It’s a tie, 1800

Electoral politics got serious in 1800. Forget the hand-holding peace of George Washington’s first run — political parties were in full swing by this time, and they battled over high-stakes issues (taxes, states’ rights and foreign policy alignments). Thomas Jefferson ran as the Democratic-Republican candidate and John Adams as the Federalist.

At the time, states got to pick their own election days, so voting ran from April to October (and you thought waiting for the West Coast polls to close was frustrating). Because of the complicated “pick two” voting structure in the Electoral College, the election ended up a tie between Jefferson and his vice-presidential pick, Aaron Burr. One South Carolina delegate was supposed to give one of his votes to another candidate, so as to arrange for Jefferson to win and Burr to come in second. The plan somehow went wrong, and both men ended up with 73 electoral votes.

That sent the tie-breaking vote to the House of Representatives, not all of whom were on board with a Jefferson presidency and Burr vice-presidency. Seven tense days of voting followed, but Jefferson finally pulled ahead of Burr. The drama triggered the passage of the 12th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which stipulates that the Electoral College pick the president and vice-president separately, doing away with the runner-up complications.

3. Things get nasty, 1828

Anything involving dueling war veteran Andrew Jackson was liable to get dirty, but the 1828 electoral battle between Jackson and John Quincy Adams took the cake for mudslinging. Jackson had lost out to Adams in 1824 after Speaker of the House Henry Clay cast a tie-breaking vote. When Adams chose Clay as his Secretary of State, Jackson was furious and accused the two of a “corrupt bargain.”

And that was before the 1828 election even got started, when Adams was accused of pimping out an American girl to a Russian Czar. Jackson’s wife, Rachel, was called a “convicted adulteress,” because she had, years earlier, married Jackson before finalizing her divorce to her previous husband. Rachel died after Jackson won the election, but before his inauguration; at her funeral, Jackson blamed his opponents’ bigamy accusations. “May God Almighty forgiver her murderers, as I know she forgave them,” Jackson said. “I never can.”

To round out a rough election, Jackson’s inauguration party (open to the public) turned into a mob scene, with thousands of well-wishers crowding into the White House.

“Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses, and such a scene of confusion took place as is impossible to describe,” wrote Margaret Smith, a Washington socialite who attended the party.

4. Running against a corpse, 1872

In 1872, incumbent Ulysses S. Grant had an easy run for a second term — because his opponent died before the final votes were cast.

Grant had the election in the bag even before his opponent, Horace Greeley, died, however. The incumbent won 286 electoral votes compared with Greeley’s 66 after election day. But on Nov. 29, 1872, before the Electoral College votes were in, Greeley died and his electoral votes were split among other candidates. Greeley remains the only presidential candidate to die before the election was finalized.

5. The hanging chads, 2000

Democrat Al Gore beat Republican George W. Bush in the popular vote in the 2000 election, but the electoral vote was a close, and controversial, call. As election night drew to a close, New Mexico, Oregon and Florida remained too close to call.

It would be Florida that determined the winner, but not until the Supreme Court weighed in. For a month, the outcome of the election remained in recount limbo, as Gore’s campaign contested the vote count in several close counties and the Florida and U.S. Supreme Courts engaged in a tug-of-war over whether to halt the recounts or extend their deadlines. Among the challenges faced by the hand counts: determining whether semi-attached scraps of paper, or “hanging chads,” on punch-card ballots should count as votes.

Ultimately, on Dec. 12, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that a statewide recount was unconstitutional, alongside a further decision that the smaller recounts could not go forward. The decision meant the original vote counts stood, giving the election to Bush.

Source: Stephanie Pappas

published November 02, 2012

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  8. this has got to burn…

    A whistleblower has come forward in Orlando to validate and confirm the claims of “2000 Mules” and, guess what? She’s a black Democrat. pic.twitter.com/n13yAy634D
    — Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) November 5, 2022

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  11. from tcth

    Citizen817
    Citizen817
    November 8, 2022 12:24 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    12h
    The Democrats that run Pennsylvania have just stated that Pennsylvania may not have a final Vote Count for MANY days, and yet they use these very expensive “machines,” for SPEED. Go to PAPER BALLOTS, SAME DAY VOTING, MUST HAVE VOTER I.D., PROBLEM SOLVED. Also, big money saved!!!

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  13. yup…the steal is on…SOS trying to get county election bureaus to “pre canvas” mail in ballots to determine the party on possible defective mail in ballots–which is ILLEGAL

    entire article
    Election officials in Lehigh County and elsewhere balked at a weekend request from the state for a party-by-party count of undated and wrongly dated mail ballots, shying away from making such counts before Election Day.

    Al Gricoski, director of the Schuylkill County Election Bureau, referenced state law’s prohibition on counting mail ballots before 7 a.m. Election Day.

    “I am not sending them anything,” Gricoski said. “I am not giving anyone any numbers about anything. That would be me pre-canvassing.”

    The request to counties was made Saturday — three days before Election Day —in the form of a survey, and it gave counties a deadline of Monday to respond.

    Tim Benyo, election board chief clerk in Lehigh County, said Monday afternoon his office had not responded and, if it did, it would not include ballot totals by political party.

    The party affiliation tied to undated or wrongly dated ballots might be relevant after vote-counting starts, Benyo said, but not before.

    “I have reservations on the request, by party,” he said. “As you know, we are nonpartisan in this office.”

    Northampton County did not respond to requests for its position.

    Mail ballots that arrive at county offices with undated or wrongly dated outer envelopes have been the focus of multiple lawsuits. A state Supreme Court order issued last week said they were to be set aside, but not counted.

    They could be a factor in close races when processing of mail ballots begins at 7 a.m. Tuesday.

    Acting Secretary of State Leigh Chapman said Monday the survey was sent out because the state does not have the undated ballot information by party.

    “We know that we will be asked this question if there is litigation, so it is our way to be proactive,” she said of the survey.

    She could not say how many counties provided the information as of Monday morning.

    In a statement late Sunday, Gov. Tom Wolf did not specifically mention undated or wrongly dated ballots, but said “no voter should be disenfranchised simply because they made a minor error in filling out their ballot.”

    He encouraged counties to reach out to voters “who have submitted ballots with minor but potentially disqualifying errors as soon as possible and allow them to address those errors,” a process known as curing ballots.

    Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons said his county would not respond to the survey.

    He said there was no reason the state would need counts before an election. To get those figures, he said, counties would have to use the Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors system to obtain party affiliations voter by voter.

    “It is crossing a line that has not been crossed before in asking for party affiliation in an election before counting the ballots,” Parsons said.

    Get top headlines from The Morning Call delivered weekday afternoons.

    A spokesperson for Berks County, Stephanie Weaver, said Berks received the request from the state but had not decided how to respond.

    York County Republican Rep. Dawn Keefer said her county’s election office was “not complying” with the state request.
    Court clarification issued

    In a separate matter related to those ballots, the state sent counties a supplemental order issued Saturday by the state Supreme Court.

    It clarified phrasing the court used last week, when it referred to mail ballots with undated or “incorrectly dated” envelopes.

    The lack of explanation of the phrase “incorrectly dated” caused confusion at county election offices.

    The Saturday supplemental order defined it as meaning dates on mail ballot outer envelopes that fall outside the range of Sept. 19 through Nov. 8, and dates on absentee ballot outer envelopes outside of Aug. 30 through Nov. 8.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20221108000314/https://www.mcall.com/news/elections/mc-nws-election-undated-party-affiliation-20221107-je2bentoefb7dmpiwgnbemyeta-story.html

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  16. EXCERPT: “The fundamental problem for the Democrats is that they have quite simply gotten very bad at politics. If that sounds like a sweeping statement, that’s because it is.

    But how else to explain the fact that as voters consistently tell pollsters they care most about crime, inflation, the economy, and immigration, the Democrats obstinately refuse to abandon their dog-eared playbook of pro-abortion maximalism, ‘Orange Man Bad’-style January 6 fearmongering, and trite warnings about the purported threats to ‘our democracy’ if the opposition party wins a free and fair election.

    The Democratic Party is, at this point, best described as a wounded dog wagged by an intersectional, woke-besotted tail. It seems that the voters have finally had enough. In fact, Americans just can’t take it anymore.

    The red wave did not materialize out of nowhere – it’s been building for months. And if the terminally out-of-touch Democrats hadn’t been no deaf, dumb and blind to the pleas of their own constituents, maybe they could have headed off the disaster.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11396809/Out-touch-Dems-limping-Tuesday-like-wounded-dog-wagged-woke-tail-JOSH-HAMMER.html

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  18. from tcth…a rothschild has passed

    Alex1689
    Alex1689
    November 8, 2022 9:26 am

    November 8th. A blood moon rises and Evelyn de Rothschild dies.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-08/evelyn-de-rothschild-london-head-of-banking-dynasty-dies-at-91

    Friend of Bill’s, financial adviser to the Queen of England, Chairman of the globalist publication The Economist, and that is just the start.

    I think he was also the husband of Lynn de Rothschild, who is American and who has been a busy bee these last 6 years in election interference operations, most recently in Georgia.

    Timing.

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  19. EXCERPT: “None of this is happening by accident, of course. Someone is priming this behavior. People in high places understand quite well that polarization is power, and they’re applying that principle to manipulate you, and me, with the aim of consolidating their power even further. They want us to hate each other.

    The con goes like this: “I’ll help you. It’s those people that are causing all your problems. Give me your money, your vote, and enough control, and I’ll protect you. Stick with me, do what I say, and together we’ll defeat them.”

    The perpetrators of this narrative will do everything they can to amp up the fear and loathing. In marketing, there is a name for this: it’s called “fear appeal advertising.” It can be very powerful, and unscrupulous people use it with scientific precision.

    The problem is that sooner or later, everyone lands on the wrong side of the us/them line. When Joe Biden and mainstream media outlets launched their “pandemic of the unvaccinated” campaign, their aim was to polarize us. They sought to isolate, target, and cast blame on anyone who objected to being shot up with an experimental drug that had dubious benefits and potentially dangerous side-effects.

    Unfortunately for the people peddling this narrative, a large portion of the targeted group were actually members of their own tribe, moderate independents and left-of-center Democrats. Suddenly, millions of Americans were confronted by cognitive dissonance. They unexpectedly found themselves in the designated “them” group. Virtually overnight, they became the outsiders who were to be blamed for ongoing disease, death, and mortal fear.

    These people were faced with a choice: subordinate their deeply-felt beliefs and defer to the collective, or acknowledge that their own tribe was betraying them. Throughout their lives, they had seen the world through a predominantly collectivist lens. That impulse was still present, of course, — but now it came with a hefty price tag. Risk your life, your health, and your children, — or face the consequences.”

    https://brownstone.org/articles/they-want-us-to-hate-each-other/

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  24. Entire Article @ BasedPolitics: “Six years ago, a plucky new nonprofit called The White Coat Waste Project (where I serve as a Fellow) launched its first investigation exposing the US government’s numerous, tortuous, testing programs on puppies.

    One of the worst that they discovered was at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) where they were using taxpayer dollars to drill holes into beagles’ skulls, collapse the lungs of “friendly” dogs, inject latex into the puppies’ arteries, cut out the hearts of living dogs, inject dobermans with methamphetamines, and force hound dogs to run on treadmills for heart attack tests. They did all this without administering any pain medicines or anesthesia.

    All in all, 216 dogs were abused annually across VA labs, including 111 in the government’s most painful experiments.

    But in a historic victory, the VA just announced it has shut down the last of its gross puppy experiments, which were taking place in their Richmond, VA lab. While this development should absolutely be applauded, it’s worth noting that it came as a result of six years’ worth of lawsuits, whistleblowers, media coverage, investigations, and campaigns carried out by WCW to raise awareness on the issue.

    In the process, the campaign gained the attention of the National Academies of Sciences, which—after looking into the matter—stated that many of the VA’s puppy experiments were unnecessary, wasteful, cruel, and in need of reform. That’s a significant development that could impact policies around animal testing even more broadly as the National Academies of Science holds a lot of sway around DC.

    Anthony Belloti, the President of WCW, said the following in response to the news. “Our campaign spared countless dogs and cut millions in government waste as we enacted precedent-setting state and federal bipartisan legislation to defund the VA’s dog experiments, secured a historic National Academies of Sciences report criticizing VA dog tests, won free speech lawsuits, launched explosive national front page media, supported brave government whistleblowers, rallied Republicans and Democrats in Congress, united liberty-lovers and animal-lovers from coast to coast, and fired up a grassroots army to wage the most effective campaign to end dog experiments in American history.”

    As Belloti pointed out later in his statement, WCW is the only organization to have achieved something of this magnitude in over 20 years. “We’re proud to be the only organization in nearly two decades to shut down government dog labs, and now we are the only group to have shuttered dog experiments across an entire federal agency. Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to bankroll beagle abuse by bureaucrats in white lab coats. Today’s news confirms the solution: Stop the money. Stop the madness!”

    Animal abuse, and especially its funding with taxpayer dollars, is an issue just about every American can stand against. Unfortunately, old establishment animal rights groups spend their time throwing red paint on people instead of cutting red tape in Washington and going after the top culprit of animal abuse in this country: the US government.

    In fact, since 2007, no other group has shut down a single government dog lab (for contrast, this is the third WCW has shut down in 2022 alone). These advocacy efforts have laid the groundwork and can easily be replicated and extended to apply towards other governmental departments. But we have to keep the pressure on and continue raising awareness about these practices.”

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  25. Entire Article from EricPetersAutos:

    “The Left insists that if people don’t vote for the Left on Tuesday, it constitutes what the Left styles a “threat to our Democracy.” But what if they do? Then it is all-but-certain there will be as much “democracy” in this country as there was in countries such as the German Democratic Republic – the former East Germany – or is, in the current Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea.

    Also National Socialist Germany, where “democracy” voted in the National Socialists. After which there was no more voting. Leftists love that kind of “democracy.” Which, to be fair, is the only kind of “democracy” there can be. In a country where “the people” are said to rule, only a few people actually rule. They are the people who claim to speak for the people. They are the people who tell the people what they’ll do. Americans got a taste of that kind of rule in early 2020 and for the ensuing several years.

    The people were told to stop working. To stop visiting. To put distance between themselves and other people. To wear garments the people had never voted must be worn. Then told by the people – the ones in charge of “our democracy” – that they must submit themselves to being injected with drugs “the people” were never given the opportunity to vote nay or yay on.

    The CDC is very “democratic.” So also Dr. Fauci. And Governors Whitmer and Cuomo, too. That is what “democracy” always is in fact, in practice – as opposed to rhetoric.

    It is that inevitably, because it is an impossibility for “the people” to rule, for “the people’ exist only as a rhetorical device. But the people are fooled into accepting rulership over themselves by the people because it sounds as if they – rather than the people are in charge. The people mostly do not examine the proposition closely and for that reason do not see (perhaps do not want to see) that only a few people – the people – give the orders “the people” are expected to obey.

    So it must be in any “democracy” – which is a collective. And when there is a collective, someone (or a few of them) must run it because in a collective, someone (or a few someones) must decide. Because the actual people – as in the population – constitutes millions of people, each with their own opinions and set of priorities. These must be subordinated to the authority of a handful of people.

    And it is these people who have operational control of every “democracy.” And that is why the Left is very much in favor of “democracy.” Especially “ours.” By which, of course, the Left means theirs.

    It is also why the Left never speaks of “our Republic.” That being the form of government specifically and repeatedly mentioned in the documents that formed the ideological as well the legal basis of . . . our Republic. As opposed to “our Democracy,” which the men who wrote the founding documents did all they could to prevent from ever coming into being.

    A Republic is a form of government in which “the people” do not rule. Rather, the people’s rights are respected – by limiting what the people can do to the people. Rights are defined as individual rather than collective – the latter being an etymological absurdity (as well as a moral atrocity) since collectives have no life and to speak of non-living things as having “rights” is absurd – while insisting these fatuous collective “rights” supersede those of the individual is evil.


    The Left likes “democracy,” alright . . . so long as it serves to eliminate what many people think they’re in favor of when the Left uses the term. Just the same as “free speech,” which the Left says it favors so long as it serves to gain them the power to eliminate it. The common thread being whatever serves the interests of the Left. And the Left is fundamentally interested in one thing only.

    Power. Until that is achieved – until that is cemented in place – the Left will speak in gentle bromides about “our democracy,” hoping people will fail to understand until it is too late for dawning realization to matter much. People understood – too late – in the “democracies” of Eastern Europe. They understand all-too-well in the “democratic” People’s Republic of North Korea.

    Here’s to hoping enough Americans understand what is meant by “our democracy” when the Left talks about “threats” to it. Such as democratically voting it out – before it is no longer possible to do that or anything else about it.”

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  26. “Voting Machines Stop Working Across America! It’s 10am EST and America’s 2022 midterm elections are already being stolen….”
    Emerald Robinson
    16 min ago

    Let’s see how those “secure and reliable” electronic voting machines are working in Arizona!

    How’s Texas doing?

    Looks like Harris County, Texas has a failed election system this morning!

    Let’s check in on the great state of New York — shall we?

    Every machine malfunctioned.

    And don’t forget the garden state — New Jersey.

    All of the machines are not working in Mercer County!

    How about Ohio?

    Let’s see how the election is going in Georgia too!

    Do you remember when Democrats told you that Mike Lindell was crazy for saying that all electronic voting machines should be eliminated? Do you remember when all the corrupt media outlets told you that I was a “conspiracy theorist” for promising in 2020 that this would happen again?

    We were right.”

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      1. “The jurisdictions named in the release included five counties in Arizona (Maricopa, Navajo, Pima, Pinal and Yavapai), three in Georgia (Cobb, Fulton and Gwinnett County) and five in Pennsylvania (Berks, Centre, Lehigh, Luzerne County and Philadelphia).”

        Here are the jurisdictions the DOJ said it will monitor:

        City of Bethel, Alaska;
        Dillingham Census Area, Alaska;
        Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska;
        Sitka City-Borough, Alaska;
        Maricopa County, Arizona;
        Navajo County, Arizona;
        Pima County, Arizona;
        Pinal County, Arizona;
        Yavapai County, Arizona;
        Newton County, Arkansas;
        Los Angeles County, California;
        Sonoma County, California;
        Broward County, Florida;
        Miami-Dade County, Florida;
        Palm Beach County, Florida;
        Cobb County, Georgia;
        Fulton County, Georgia;
        Gwinnett County, Georgia;
        Town of Clinton, Massachusetts;
        City of Everett, Massachusetts;
        City of Fitchburg, Massachusetts;
        City of Leominster, Massachusetts;
        City of Malden, Massachusetts;
        City of Methuen, Massachusetts;
        City of Randolph, Massachusetts;
        City of Salem, Massachusetts;
        Prince George’s County, Maryland;
        City of Detroit, Michigan;
        City of Flint, Michigan;
        City of Grand Rapids, Michigan;
        City of Pontiac, Michigan;
        City of Southfield, Michigan;
        City of Minneapolis, Minnesota;
        Hennepin County, Minnesota;
        Ramsey County, Minnesota;
        Cole County, Missouri;
        Alamance County, North Carolina;
        Columbus County, North Carolina;
        Harnett County, North Carolina;
        Mecklenburg County, North Carolina;
        Wayne County, North Carolina;
        Middlesex County, New Jersey;
        Bernalillo County, New Mexico;
        San Juan County, New Mexico;
        Clark County, Nevada;
        Washoe County, Nevada;
        Queens County, New York;
        Cuyahoga County, Ohio;
        Berks County, Pennsylvania;
        Centre County, Pennsylvania;
        Lehigh County, Pennsylvania;
        Luzerne County, Pennsylvania;
        Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania;
        City of Pawtucket, Rhode Island;
        Horry County, South Carolina;
        Dallas County, Texas;
        Harris County, Texas;
        Waller County, Texas;
        San Juan County, Utah;
        City of Manassas, Virginia;
        City of Manassas Park, Virginia;
        Prince William County, Virginia;
        City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and,
        City of Racine, Wisconsin.

        https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-doj-announces-list-64-jurisdictions-will-monitor-polling-places-compliance/

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  27. the dems are already cheating in pa…they are not supposed to pre canvass mail in ballots—but dem strongholds have–AND they published lists of names of those whose ballots may not be counted so they could CURE their ballots. curing is allowed–BUT only after the ballots have been counted and mail ins are not allowed to be counted until 7:00am election day–so these dems are already cheating!!!!!!!!!!!
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pennsylvania-voters-scramble-to-cast-new-ballots-after-gop-lawsuit/ar-AA13Qt35

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  28. EXCERPT: “What If We Vote the Zombies Out?”

    “I’m trying to manage my expectations of the upcoming midterm elections. If you asked me what I think the most likely outcome tomorrow, I’d say the following:

    – The Democrats win in every race, 99% to 1%.

    – Military vehicles fill the streets of the capitals of red states.

    – Fox News gets another “facelift” as it did on Election Night 2020. Tucker Carlson disappears into some CIA “black site,” and gets replaced without explanation by a sneering Chris Wallace.

    – The Fox news anchor blondes give way to stodgy men in brown paramilitary uniforms, who report the results in Romanian.

    But call me a sunny optimist. Because if the Democrats were to reveal their final intentions that obviously, the average American might do something wild and rebellious, before it’s too late.
    ——————-
    Let’s say it happens, though. Let’s say that the Former Joe Biden’s senile bungling hands Republicans too many votes for the Democrats to plausibly steal this election. That exasperated voters rebel against the fetid choices offered them by the left, bloodstained tyrants like Gretchen Whitmer, vapid ditzes like Kathy Hochul, or shambling undead zombies like John Fetterman.

    That timid souls in the FBI and IRS won’t greenlight mass arrests of poll-watchers. That the wretched kept generals who’ve clawed their way to the top of our broken Woke military don’t trust their subordinates to obey illegal orders. (Not enough tranny colonels in place for that, yet … .) That Elon Musk’s conquest of Twitter gums up their plan to filter out all Wrongthink and Crimethink.

    What then? Let’s say we capture both the House and the Senate, and place a few governors and secretaries of state in a few major blue states. What should our goals and strategy then be?

    First Comes the Purge
    Should we simply try to limit the damage inflicted on Americans during the past two years of criminal government? Should we wipe a few noses, dry some eyes, and try to restore the “normalcy” of America in 2016, before the Left decided that the voters had stabbed it in the back, and resolved to stuff leftist autocracy down our throats and into our veins?

    Oh no. We’re way past that. There are two words that must define our approach going forward: Purge and Retribution.

    We must throw all our energy into purging our own side of traitors, of two-faced, compromised sellouts who’d rather see the left wield power forever than let the “wrong sort” of Republicans win. The Mitch McConnells, the Mike Pences, the Kevin McCarthys of this world are our most serious enemies. They are the ones who wish to deprive us of any voice at all, who demand that we accept as our political representatives elitists who despise us — who’ll take our money and votes, while holding their noses and rolling their eyes. They won’t protect us or help us. Their loyalty is with their classmates from New England boarding schools, whom they meet at the country club.

    If we can’t topple these people, or batter them into submission, the war is already over. The French realized this in 1944, which is why they hunted collaborators much more eagerly than Germans. I’m not saying that we should shave Liz Cheney’s head in the street, mind you. Because that just sounds disgusting.

    But insurgent Republicans who win this year despite the best efforts of the RINOs must refuse to play nice with our betrayers. Instead, they need to see that seizing control of the party is the first, second, and third order of business. Forget AOC and Ilhan Omar. To get to them you’ll first have to claw your way through McConnell, Scalise, and their minions. So sharpen up those talons.

    Lock Them Up
    If we can accomplish that, can purge or cow into submission our enemies within, our long-term goal must be to do the opposite of what Donald Trump did in 2017. Remember when he abandoned his campaign pledge to “Lock Her Up”? I think that even he now realizes what criminal folly that was.

    We must seek to lock them up. Or (if literally doing that proves impossible for now) at least to expose and humiliate them, make their very names bywords for “shame” and “disgrace.” We need public, forensic hearings aimed at uncovering the crimes, malfeasance, corruption, and abuses of freedom committed by the likes of the following (a very incomplete list):”

    https://stream.org/if-we-ever-get-power-again-we-need-to-hold-nuremburg-trials-then-let-the-healing-begin/

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  29. You might enjoy this, Pat, and it touches on what I’ve been saying for years about organized religion. What “churches” are doing today can, indeed, be compared to the behavior of the churches in Germany.

    “Stream Senior Editor John Zmirak joined his old friend Eric Metaxas to talk about Metaxas’ new book, Letter to the American Church. At a time when panicked pastors are warning their congregations to stay away from politics, Metaxas is calling that a counsel of cowardice. He’s raising the unwelcome comparison of the German churches in the early 1930s. They too avoided “politics” and focused on “preaching the Gospel,” while innocents got shipped to camps all around them.”

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  30. Ok, now, this would be about the coolest thing ever for me!!!

    Entire Article: “MESA, Ariz. – Imagine strolling through the bookstore looking to pick up something to read and stumbling upon the personal journals of a couple from the late 1800s. That’s exactly what happened to two friends in the nostalgia section of Half Price Books in Mesa. They found the journals and purchased them almost a month ago, and they’ve spent the last few weeks trying to learn as much as they can about the authors.

    The friends are missing a few journals from the collection, so they’re asking the public, if anyone purchased one of them, they’d like to see them and even buy them. “We bought every single one of them. There are about 77 of them, and they’re just pocket-sized journals, all written from 1898-1963,” said Cat Ziman. She and Bella Rabago stumbled upon these books. They tell the stories of a couple – Eve and Lawrence.

    “It is this really tight script, so it’s hard to read, but it is incredible. It’s just kind of daily stuff about their daily lives. They do start to mention a little bit about a secret society they’re in,” Ziman said. The women have spent a great deal of time reading these pages, trying to figure out who Eve and Lawrence were and how the couple, seemingly from New England, ended up in Arizona.

    “Seeing a different aspect of history, we just really wanted to figure out where exactly they came from and where these journals came from,” Rabago said. The collection is missing a few journals, so they’re on the hunt to find them, fill in the blanks of the couple’s life story, and figure out why of all places, they ended up in Mesa.

    “How someone’s entire life basically ended up at a bookstore,” Rabago said. Each of the diaries were sold in small clear plastic bags and they were written in cursive and freehand English. They would have a day and year noted.”

    Video: https://www.fox5dc.com/news/friends-in-arizona-find-diaries-of-1800s-era-couple-and-need-help-finding-more-of-the-collection

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  31. If you take your kids/grandkids to Chic-fil-a…..be aware!

    EXCERPT: “Chick-fil-a has partnered with MVP Kids to bring a new series of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) books and resources to families and children through their kid’s meals. SEL is basically a psychological model of training and teaching children to embrace the agenda of the woke, social justice movement and has been described as the new “trojan horse” in woke education.

    “Possibly the most important topic happening in education, at least if you care about the well-being, health and safety of children and the future of this country, is Social-Emotional Learning (SEL),” says James Lindsay, an expert in the infiltration of Marxist ideology in our nation’s institutions. “Social Emotional Learning is the psychologizing of schooling, and, as one might expect, it comes in a variety of forms. The most contemporary and relevant form is the most Marxist form because the Marxist educators have completely hijacked any legitimacy the program ever had and turned it into a Maoist nightmare to ruin the children so they can achieve their revolution.”

    Essentially, SEL is a way to smuggle in Marxist doctrines such as equity (not to be confused with equality) and transform the way children think about social justice issues. According to a teacher’s guide released by CASEL:”

    https://thedissenter.substack.com/p/warning-to-parents-chick-fil-as-new

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  32. Very interesting – from Tucker last night: “Some pollsters have turned out to be pretty accurate. Craig Keshishian, a pollster from a different time, he was Reagan’s pollster, so he’s seen a lot of elections come and go and has the kind of perspective that you value on the eve of an election.

    “Thanks so much for coming on – I’m not going to embarrass you by asking how many elections you’ve seen or polled on, but a lot! Given that perspective, where do you really think we are right now?”

    Craig: “Thank you for having me, Tucker. I think we’re in the midst of a red surge – maybe not a wave – but certainly a surge that will punish democrats in power and reward republicans. But there is a caveat: there is a sacred covenant between the great middle class and our government, and that is that, if you keep our streets safe, keep our schools open and our way of life intact, we will send our children to far-off battlefields to fight for you. Democrats broke that covenant and they’re going to pay a price for it. Let’s hope the republicans do a lot better than that.”

    Tucker: “What a really interesting observation – so you’re watching these recruitment goals fall far short across the armed services, for the first time, really, since post-Vietnam. And you’re saying that’s the result of this broken covenant?”

    Craig: “I think so – the middle class…President Trump gave the republican party an everlasting gift. He inverted the party from an elite, country-club/wall-street type orientation to a great middle class/entrepreneurial/mainstream party. And those folks look to republicans for solace and for comfort and for protection; they have seen democrats disappoint them time and time again. That’s why you see a paradigm shit of latino voters, the asian voters, black americans, coming our way for the first time in…forever…so it’s a true monumental shift, and I hope the republicans don’t blow it. But, unfortunately, they always miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”

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  36. can you believe this bullshit?

    from tcth
    Woodward
    November 8, 2022 1:24 pm

    Noon on election day, and ABC (the All Bulls**t Channel) is showing that usurper Biden and his policies that have crashed the economy are so popular that Democrats will actually gain seats in the House with 222 seats, while Republicans are projected to get only 213 seats.

    In the Senate race ABC showed 35 seats in play with the Democrats increasing from 12 to 14 seats (including Arizona and Georgia) and the Republicans with 21 seats, a loss of 2 seats.

    So the experts are showing that usurper Biden and his corrupt party will maintain control of both the House and Senate. MAGA and the red wave are going away like the Tea Party.

    Now when the Democrats steal the election (just like in 2020) people will think that the pollsters got it right and there was no election fraud again. Pray tell, how much fraud does it take to stop the red wave?? How many voting jurisdictions will count more votes than registered voters?
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  48. Citizen817
    November 8, 2022 2:42 pm

    @realDonaldTrump

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    48m
    Reports are coming in from Arizona that the Voting Machines are not properly working in predominantly Republican/Conservative areas. Can this possibly be true when a vast majority of Republicans waited for today to Vote? Here we go again? The people will not stand for it!!!

    27m
    Another big voter tabulation problem in Arizona. Sound familiar???

    12m
    The Absentee Ballot situation in Detroit is REALLY BAD. People are showing up to Vote only to be told, “sorry, you have already voted.” This is happening in large numbers, elsewhere as well. Protest, Protest, Protest!

    4m
    Maricopa County in Arizona looks like a complete Voter Integrity DISASTER. Likewise Detroit (of course!), Pennsylvania, and other places. Not being covered by the Fake News Media!

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  49. Holy cow! I’ve lived here for almost 10 years now and never once were there more than 2 people voting at one time – ever! They have 6 small tables set up with the cardboard shields. Three were in use when I got there and a BUNCH of people arrived as I was filling out my paper ballot! I also heard them saying it has been busy like that all day! Highly unusual, let me tell you!!!

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