Category: Uncle Joe
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The Bernie bois got burned
A victory for tear gas! America repudiates progressivism Pretty much sums it up: “Orange man gone and succeeded by a moribund cypher with an unprincipled naïf waiting for the desk in the Oval Office; opposition holds Senate and gains in House.” — “a The Nation magazine subscriber comment. The big loser this week was John Nichols/Bernie Sanders/Mayor Satya-style…
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Winners and losers, Election 2020
Biting into that shame sandwich ‘What the hell happened?’ Why the long face, as someone asked John Kerry after his defeat in 2004. Our liberal-progressive-socialist acquaintances are feeling blue today despite the apparent Biden/Harris victory because their poll-predicted great blue wave turned out to be a small brown puddle. The result: their President — a…
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About last night
Two cheers for divided government! One takes solace where he can find it. Wisconsin, as the Werkes predicted, narrowly fell to Joe Biden, who looks to be the next President, as we also predicted. Not that this thing doesn’t have weeks to play out, courts to convene, and commentators to comment. Donald Trump fought like…
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Ol’ Sparky predicts 2020 election results!
or next year’s, as the case may be. Well before today, Blaska Policy Werkes intended to forecast Tuesday’s election results or, at least, to postmark them by midnight. As we were moving to our temporary rural retreat, Ol’ Sparky (our Eisenhower-era mainframe computer) blew off the roof rack of the pickup truck and tumbled down…
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Shaming doesn’t seem to work at the Werkes
Dang me, dang methey ought to take a rope and hang me After voting for Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush I and II, Bob Dole, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and (in 2016) some guy named Evan McMullen — we are now evil incarnate! According to our enlightened betters in academia, entertainment, and the mainstream news…
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No kumbaya for the irascibles!
We are not only sore losers — we’re sore winners! People see what they want to see. It’s called confirmation bias. Blaska thinks he retains some vestigial sense of objectivity from his misspent youth as a daily newspaper scribbler but he can’t be certain. The head groundskeeper wants Trump to win but does not think he…