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They Need Extra Time to ‘Count the Votes,’ if You Know What I Mean
The White House has released a pre-emptive statement, telling American citizens not to expect the results of the election until they have time to, um, count the ballots. If you know what I mean.
The midterm election results will not be clear on Election Day and final results won’t arrive for “a few days,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday.
Jean-Pierre made the statement during a press conference at the White House on the eve of Election Day. She argued that many states use mail-in ballots and other forms of early voting that often won’t be counted until after the ballots cast in-person on Tuesday.
“We may not know all the winners of elections for a few days. It takes time to count all legitimate ballots in a legal and orderly manner. That’s how this is supposed to work,” Jean-Pierre told reporters.
Voting is managed by local election commissions – run by local elected officials, in towns that The White House has never heard of. The White House does not play any role in counting votes.
At least, I didn’t think that The White House played any role in counting votes. So presuming that they don’t, then why are they releasing this statement? How is this their concern? And how do they know how votes are counted, or when? And why does The White House feel the need to explain how local election commissions do their jobs?
It was not long ago that America was capable of getting election results as quickly as third-world countries – on the same day. Just over the past few elections, all of a sudden it takes days or weeks, instead of hours.
After all, they need time to “count the votes.” If you know what I mean.
Thank goodness The White House cleared that up. That really sets my mind at ease.
Are red lights flashing in anyone else’s head right now?
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I need to get a time machine and go back and slap myself in 2001 or so. I could say:
The Republican candidate is a nobody with no cash to spend and zero name recognition. I’d bet you 4 out of 5 Californians couldn’t even name him. Heck, I couldn’t name him if I hadn’t just looked up the vote totals!
You can believe half the country are unremorseful Marxists who hate you or you can believe many in the other party cheat. Pick your poison.
Joe Biden got 14 million more votes than Hillary Clinton.
Easy. Half the the nation hates me.
I blame the American people hands down.
This is Ricochet. Embrace the power of “And.”
Seriously, people? You really believe that if someone votes differently than you that means they hate you? Do you hate people who vote Democratic?
Well, they are kind of voting that way, aren’t?
Not really, but they sure do annoy me. And they deserve something. Not hate. Tolkien teaches pity.
No. I do not think most people – left or right – are voting because they seek to punish other people. People have different values and priorities. Many people have foolish (or even astoundingly stupid) ideas about what will and won’t work.
To give one example, think about the minimum wage. I think most people on Ricochet would agree it’s a bad idea, especially at the federal level. But in even conservative states, when there is a ballot measure to increase the minimum wage it passes practically every single time. Are people voting that way because they want to hurt businesses and low-skill employees? Unlikely. They think this will help low-skill employees. They are wrong, but they are not motivated out of spite.
How many millennial Dem voters this year had as one of their top three motivations a detestation of people who support Trump or who or who are transphobes?
I think it was probably around 70%, but I’m only guessing.
I guess that needs to be part of future exit polling. “Do you hate people who vote differently than you?”
Few would answer that affirmatively.
But do you really not think the propaganda that painted me as some sort of a monster for not supporting same-sex marriage and and the transgenderism revolution, the same propaganda that swayed millions of millennials into casting another foolish vote, did not also persuade them that I am indeed a monster?
Dems are constantly telling their voters that we are evil Fascists who want to take away their rights. Their goal is to make them hate us so they will vote for anything that breathes to keep a Republican from being elected. It works every time. People are as you believe not naturally prone to hate their fellow Americans but they will hate evil. They own the language and use words and phrases that disavow any possibility of good intentions on our part. So, in answer to your first question, yes. In answer to your second question, no, not yet, because I know they are being duped. I just don’t see a compatible path forward.